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NINETY-FIFTH YEAR
SMDQB
,You know how it is: you can't
be a member of an organization
and escape all of its chores. The
time comes when you have to
entertain the ladies aid, or take
a dish (meat balls?) to the club's
covered dish supper,! or chivvy up
four bits for a wedding present
or funeral wreath for a member.
Now I have been a member of
the Salem Chemeketans since the
year I came to Salem, which is
nearly as long a time as the or
ganization has been1 in existence
But in later years I have been
mostly ;an indoors member of an
outdoors club. My annual "local
walk" was to the banquet where
it is ojuite easy to shoulder youf
alDenstock and tell how snow
peaks were won. paving - some
time or other recommended the
climb of House mountain above
Mehama as a convenient jaunt in
these days when gasoline restric
tions limit the range of travel,
the local walks committee hung
the wether bell around my neck
and made me leader for such a
climb; So, like the lady who
hadn't entertained her club for
two years, I felt I had to perform.
: House mountain is really just a
rocking chair assignment. It is,
: as mountains go, just a pimple on
a relief map of the Cascades. But
it has other compensations than
accessibility and loW altitude. Its
face is a sheer escarpment sev
eral hundred feet high, making it
a familiar spot on the mountain
scape. From its summit one gets
I a 'wonderful view of the moun
tains of the North San tiam region,
especially of the line: of the "old'!
Cascades which. lie ; westerly of
the snow peaks like Jefferson and
Hood. Below lies the; FJkhorn flat
and the valley of the Little North
Fork rising to the sharp ridge of
Battle-axe mountain, i
The hike was set! for May 13.
I had gotten it deferred ; to be
sure of better weather in late
spring, but the guess was wrong.
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France Will Be
5 - ! ;
Given Role of
Great Power
I SAN FRANCISCO,; May 14.-vP)
France was virtually assured to
night of a. place as a great power
within the United Nations. : ;
! A .United Nations conference
committee voted to make that
war-ravaged cation a permanent
member of the inner security
council of the world peace-keep-inf
organization being charted
here. ' i
i It did this by eliminating the
phrase "in due course" which
previously had qualified France's
admission to the select group as
apcmanent member along with
the United States, Russia, China
and Britain. ; M
i The action is still subject to
approval of & conference commis
sion and the full conference itself.
f Howover, officials said there ap
peared no possibility that could
fail to come. (Additional details on
page 2).
Sub Gives Up
To Americans
i AT SEA OFF CAPE MAY, K. J.
May 14-OF)-Tbe German tubma
xine U-858 today became the first
to surrender to American forces
in the Atlantic since the capitula
tion of Germany.
Escorted to a rendezvous - ap
proximately 45 miles off Cape May
br two destroyers, 'the 240-foot
submarine which claimed 16 Al
lied vessels was quickly boarded
by marines, naval submarine ex
pert and an anti-sabogate detail.
; Speaking through an interpreter,
the 27-year-old commander, Capt
Lt. Thilo Bode, surrendered to
Comdr. . J. P. HorOeet of Bertie
county. North Carolina, command-
in officer. Delaware group, east
ern sea frontier. i i
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Okinawa
Advance
Stored
46 Jap Planes
Downed in Blow
On Fleet Groups
I By Al Dopking
GUAM, Tuesday, May 15-Jfy-Infantrymen
of Maj. Gen. James
L. Bradley's 96th division captured
the Yonabaru airdrome in a 2400
ward surge down the east coast of
Okinawa yesterday and overran a
key Ihill nearby to form the jaw
of a pincers on the fortress city of
Shuri.
On the west flank, Maj. Gen.
Lemuel Shepherd, jr's Sixth ma
rine division still was held on the
north bank of the Asato river in
the northern section of Naha, but
patrols presumably were operat
ing well within the shattered ruins
of the Okinawa capital. .
The Japanese were resisting bit
terly all along the line with artil
lery, mortar and small-arms fire.
46 Planes Downed
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced this progress today in a
communique which reported 46
Japanese planes shot down in at
tacks on American fleet groups.
One major fleet vessel and two
light; units were damaged.
Japanese aircraft again pounced
on the American invasion fleet off
Okinawa Sunday evening, causing
some damage, to Jtwo light surface
units. Twenty-five enemy planes
were shot down, eight of them by
destroyers' guns.-
Enemy aircraft bombed installa
tions ashore on Okinawa on Mon
day but failed to cause material
damage.
One Ship Damaged
U.$. carrier task forces were at
tacked by Japanese planes on Mon
day, and one ship was reported
damaged. Twenty-one Japanese
planes were shot down in this
raid. -
Yonabaru airfield was the third
major 'drome on the Okinawa
mainland seized by the Yank3.
They took the Katena and Yontan
fields shortly after the April 1 in
vasion. Later a large airdrome
on Ie island nearby was secured.
A prime objective of the south
ward push is the Naha airdrome,
about two miles south of Naha.
This is the largest airdrome in'- the
enure Ryukyu chain.
Navy May Be
Reduced 30
After V j Day
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WASHINGTON, May 14-(ff)
The navy contemplates a cut of
at least 30 per cent" in the size
of the fleet, once Japan is de
feated.
The senate appropriations com
mittee disclosed today that it re
ceived this estimate from Fleet
Adm. Ernest J. King during closed
hearings on a $23,603,775,000 na
val supply bill. V
This recommended appropria
tion I represented an increase of
$203,273,735 above the amount ap
proved by the house.- Most of the
increase was $180,000,000 for ord
nance to be spent before July 1.
No details were given on this par
ticular item, but it is known the
navy has greatly stepped up ' pro
duction of rockets.
German Civilians Tortured
Killed
LONDON, May 14-(3)-Gennan
civilians tortured and killed some ;
American airmen forced down in
Germany, one of a large group of
liberated American prisoners - of
war said today upon returning by
air from a German camp at Barth
on the Baltic.
Included among the 9200 pris
oners freed from the camp, Stalag
Luft No. 1, north of Berlin, were
several famed UJS. flying aces, in
cluding Lt CoL Francis S. Gabres
ki of OU City, Pa and CoL Hubert
Zemke of Missoula, Mont
Gabreskl, as a Thunderbolt pilot,
set the present; eighth air force
record of 28 enemy planes shot
down in the air and also destroy
ed three on the ground. Zemke,
a 'Mustang group commander, is
Salem, Orerv Tuesday Morning, May l, 1945
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Eisenhower Craclts Down
On Officers for Friendly
Treatment
r ;!: (By uie Associatea ;ess) , ;
LONDON, May 14-(55)-3eneral Eisenhower cracked down
sharply on senior American "officers lor their reported friendly
treatment of high German war prisoners today after the British
press, had expressed hot indignation at the "sheer impertinJ nce"
of Nazi leaders and German officers pince Germany's surrender.
"We have to watch these Germans," the London Evening
Blood Volunteers ;
Are Needed Now ,
To Meet Quota J
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The Red Cross blood bank was
90 registrants short today and vol
unteers by the scores were need
ed to assure the maximum of 200
pints for the mabuVunit which
will be at the First Methodist
church fat 11 a.' m. Registrants
were asked to telephone 9277 this
morning. Leaders in blood bank
are stressing that a tremendous
Increase in demand for plasma jb
anticipated with the acceleration
of the Pacific war and that V-E
day in Salem means a re-dedication
to the unfinished Usk. t '
50 Per Cent
Increase of
Tires Okehed
WASHINGTON, May 14.-P)-A
50 per cent increase in rations of
passenger tires for civilians Ithis
month was authorized today, but
a slackening in the pace of re-
i: t ?;
conversion became apparent
The war production board re
leased 500,000 more tires for ra
tioning y OPA in May, bringing
total distribution to 1500,000.
Spokesmen for both agencies in
dicated another increase about as
large may be 'expected for June. -'
However, even the June1 in
crease, if it is approved, would be
insufficient to provide new tires
for A card motorists officials said,
in view of the big back log of un
satisfied demand from more es
sential users. HI 5 ,
The action; was accompanied by
the lifting of production restraints
on alarm clocks and galvanized
ware, but WPB said no substantial
increase in supplies of those house
increase in supplies of those
household items l ean occur until
the, military reduced its demand
upon factories and material sup
plies. ... i :- II
Nazis Tried !
To Bomb U. S. !
t- - E - I " i ' ' s T"
Says Paper ; I
LONDON, May 14-WP)-The ar
my newspaper Stars and Stripes,
quoting what it : called "sources
considered reliable," said tonight
the Germans; had attempted to
bomb New York last election day,
November 7. -T!f;:'.i: i,':
i The bomb, presumably a Jet or
rocket propelled i projectile, Swas
reported! to have ; been launched
from the deck of a German sub
marine lying off the Atlantic coast.
The attempted ; bombing failed
when the V-bomb either fell short
of New York or was shot down by
fighter pilots alerted to watch for
such projectiles." i - S
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A
rican Airmen
credited With 19 i in the air and
11 on the ground, j -1 A
Evacuation of; the prisoners
from Barth was completed today
by heavy bombers of the Eighth
air force. One of those returned.
Lt. John C (Red) Morgan of Am-
arillo, Texas, holder of the con
gressional medal of honor, told of
the torture of American fliers by
GerrAancivilian&:l 'iAAA':' ' j '
A Morgan, whose parents now live
in ; New fYork City, was captured
when his; Flying Fortress exploded
after being struck by flak in an
attack' on Berlin March 8, 1944.'
"I was lucky to be picked up by
German flak gunners as soon as I
parachuted down,! he said. "Some
of the other fellows who were
captured by civilians were ' tor
tured and killed. ";
, t t A si
of Higli Nazis
News warned, "unless w
are
very! careful, they are going
o get
away with it again.
Eisenhower said:
"My attention has been called to
press reports of instances o sen
ior United States officers treating
captured Nazi and high German
officials on a 'friendly enemy ba
sis. Any such incident has been in
direct violation of my express and
long standing orders. J
"Drastic measures have been set
in motion to assure termination of
these errors forthwith.
"Moreover, Eisenhower contin
ued, j "any past instances' a this
nature are by now means indica
tive of the attitude of this army,
but are results of faulty judgment
of individuals concerned, wh wfll
be personally acquainted with ex
pressions of my definite disap
proval. , :
MTn th nanit rt this ffrast atm
and on my own, I regret thee oc
currences. i
While Eisenhower did not single
out any officer for public censure,
it was recalled that when Raichs
marshal Herman Goering surren
dered to the UJS. Seventh larniy
last week at Kitzbuehl in Aus-
a ; i. a a. . tit '
ma. uc was ireaiea wun consiaer
able deference. ; !
An Associated Press field dis
patch said the former head of th
luztwaue was given a lunch of
chicken and peas in a hotel parlor
after; "brief greetings and a hand
shake' and later posed for pictures
With Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist,
commander of the 36th division.
and With Brig. Gen. Robert - J.
Stack, assistant division com
mander, ill
Doolittle Ends
i . si
European Job
Eyes Pacific
LONDON, May 14-(P)-Lt jGen.
James H. Doolittle, who led the
war's; first bombing blow at Tokyo
and then directed the U. S. Eighth
air force in its victorious blasting
of Germany, turned over his Eu
ropean command to a colleague
today amid immediate specul
tion that he would return to the
Pacific conflict ;
An j official announcement jfrbm
the TJ.'S. strategic air force in
Europe . said only that Doolittle
would return i to Washington
headquarters of the U. S. irmy
air forces "for a new assignment
but in his final press conference
here i Friday the famous . speed
flier showed his thought jwere
centered now on the Japanese, i
"So far as Japan is concerned,
our basic strategy will be weak
ening the enemy from the air. to
enable occupation of the land by
ground forces, he explained, add
ing that the burden of bombing
Nippon would be carried by the
B-29 Superforts with B-17 fort
resses and a-2 Liberators
ployed as medium bombers.
em-
ar
Fault ofCCC
WASHINGTON, May 14-Hh
Federal ; agencies must prevent a
sugar shortage in 1946 and 1947
or congress must step into protect
the public, a republican commit
tee asserted today. . ;
The group, composed of house
members making a food study' de
dared the current sugar crisis is
the fault of the commodity credit
corporation for "failure to encour
age production in Puerto Ricq and
Cuba,!. Where 60 per cent of our
supply Js grown." - It charged the
OPA handling of rationing' had
"accentuated . tne shortage.'
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Month of 3Iourning 1) j. f
For lFDR Ends Monda
WASHINGTON, May U-(j$-M
sundown today the month's period
of mourning for .the late Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt came
to aniend. " " . ' - i ' i
Flags on government buildings
and at military and naval estab
lishments and elsewhere I will
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, Mr., Roosevelt died April 12.
The month of mourning was pro
claimed by President Truman. ' ;
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No. 42
Two B-29s
Lost ; In
. ill -
Big Raid
Superforts Hurl
Heaviest Attack
On Nip Islands
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GUAM, Tuesday, May l5.-JPyr
The fury of America s aerial , as
sault on Japan mounted tola new
pinnacle of violence Monday as
a record pack of 500 mighty Su
perfortresses , dumped , 7,000,000
pounds of fire bombs on the great
industrial city of Nagoya.
"Contrast with the , enemy s
claim of shooting down eight Su
perfortresses, 20th air force head
quarters at Washington reported
that only "two-ol our planes were
lost to enemy action This was a
minute, percentage of the number
engaged in the attack).
The devastating attack, directed
against some of Japan's most im
portant war industries, was of
ficially reported! by 9-29 head
quarters only a few hours 'before
Tokyo said waves of allied car
rier planes were; hammering Nip
pon's southern airdromes for the
second day in a row. j . '
Some of the 5500 Yank airmen
who took part in the Nagoya mis
sions, hardest aerial blow ever
thrown against Japan, said on
their return to ! ! Marianas j bases
they believed the 3500 tons of fire
bombs dropped destroyed the sec
tions of the city not devastated in
previous raids They; agree(l that
Japanese interceptors were not
anxious to challenge and that ack
ack fire was weak and inaccurate.
Smoke columns shot up some
17,000 feet over; the target: areas
and could be seen by returning
fliers when 80 miles at seaj .
Nagoya, 150 miles west by south
of Tokyo on Japan's main Honshu
island, is the third city of the em
pire. The B-29's, j carrying some
1,165,000 new type six - pound
jelly gasoline fire bombs, came
pretty close to unloading a bomb
for every one of the city's Sj.SOO,
000 inhabitants. f
Ed Kennedy!
DisaccreditecL
Ordered Home
PARIS, May 14 -(ff)- Supreme
headquarters disaccredited Ed
ward Kennedy of j the Associated
Press today on a charge of breach
of confidence in breaking prema
turely the story of Germany sign
ing terms of unconditional sur
render and ordered him tof leave
May 17 for the United States. "
Morton P. Gudebrod of the As
sociated Press also; was disaccred
ited for taking "an active part in
the premature release of a: news
story and ordered to return to
the United States, but was grant
ed an. extension beyond May 17
by Brig. Gen. Frank Allen, jr,
chief, of' public relations. - f j .
..Gudebrod is HI. with pneumonia
and is not expected to be dis
charged from a hospital for two
weeks... f, -;; -y.r
Robert Bunnelle, managing exe
cutive for the United Kingdom
for the Associated Press, was re
instated.
Lend-Lease 4
Criterion Set
, WASHINGTON, i May 14-(V-
The state department said today
that the test for future lend-lease
of Russia is "adequate Information
regarding the essential nature of
Soviet military supply require
ments" and .their importance as
compared with i competing, de
mands. - i: , r v
A statement by Acting Secretary
Joseph C. Grew predicted Insub
stantial reductions in current de
liveries, but made' it clear that de
liveries meeting the test will con
tinue to go forward. j
; The criterion, he emphasizes, ,1s
the same as for other lend-lease
countries.' 1 , - f ,
MOLOTOV BACK IV MOSCOW
LONDON, Tuesday, May l5-(ff)
Soviet foreign commissar Molotov
has arrived in Moscow from the
San Francisco , conference . the
Moscow '- radio announced in - a
broadcast heard here early today.
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This snapshot, taken by a Japanese onlooker, shows a. Japanese
flier with his Samurai sword. Note the grinning Japanese soldiers looking on In the background. The
picture was made somewhere In Japanese-occupied territory. There is no elue te the nationality 1
ta victim. This picture is a shockinr warning- of what allied fixrhtinr men asay expect at the hands
f their foe in the Pacific (International news photo from Life Magazine)- ' i
Chinese Close
On Paochin
Nip Stronghold
CHUNGKING, May 14 - MP)
Two Chinese columns closed today
on Faoching, Hunan province
stronghold from which the enemy
marched last month on the road
to defeat and disaster in the battle
for Chlhkiang air base.'
On the eastern seaboard, Chi
nese troops fought on through the
streets of Foochow after entering
the old treaty port opposite For
mosa Friday.
In the Hunan counteroff ensive,
the Chinese high command said
one column Sunday reached a
point 15 Vx miles northwest of Pat
ching, while another was pounding
down the main highway 19 miles
west of the city. ;
Trieste Will
Be Controlled
LONDON, Tuesday, May 15-UP)
A British spokesman said today
the United States and Britain had
informed Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia that Trieste would remain
under allied control until its sta
tus was settled by the peace Con
ference, i , .
This view has been communi
cated to the! Yugoslav government
in Belgrade in an atmosphere of
frankness and '' friendship, - this
source said,: adding that the soviet
government had been kept in
formed. : . 1 . ''.
Reports published in- London
concerning peremptory orders' to
Tito and . hints . of force are ex
aggerated 'and; the .discussions
with the Yugoslav leader are on a
friendly ' plane, . the spokesman
said. ; -
7ih War Loan to Be Tough But
Vitall Task. Summons Declares
If Oregon uses but one out of
every 12. dollars in bank depos-
ists to buy a bond in the Seventh
War Loan campaign, the state, will
top its quota. This was the state
ment of Edward C Sammons,
state Seventh War Loan chairman,
In an impressive
opening- of the
bond sale In Sa
lem Monday at
the chamber of
commerce
luncheon.
Oregon has
the best record
of any state in
the union for E
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tMrBHsMBsBMMBMrMBsl (
bond sales i and has been : given
the largest quota" ever for a war
bond - campaign, . Sammons said.
The Seventh bond sale probably
will be the! toughest yet because
of the let-down among "the people
following the victory in. Europe, he
addeLW:, . , ". s" "
Oregon in addition faces the
sale with a reduced payroll be
cause of more than 16,000 "volun
tary Quits" among defense workers
since the first of the year, he add
ed. a. , 'lAAPi-1 A
- The . money to buy bonds must
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.'. Production
WASHINGTON, May 14-P-Interior SeUry Ickes charg-
ed today that JEovernment officials bungled aluminum producing
early in the waj and that one result is a Canadian plant built "with
UJS. funds competing with UJS. industry. 1 . ." I. ; "
Testifying to the senate small business committee, Ickcs
urged:. . j . -.j' -''-' ... .-.v-j-. . ,r s ! '-
President of
Mormons Dies
In SaltLakd
SALT LAKE CITY, May U.-JP)
President Heber J. Grant, 88-year
old president of the . Latter-Day
Saints (Mormon church) died to
night - . 'I -
Death came at 6:33 p. m. MWT)
at the family home where the
white-haired church leader had
been under treatment j several
weeks. That he was seriously ill
was disclosed by church authori
ties only today, j 't
Death was attributed to? causes
incident to age. i
Grant, a native of Salt Lake
City, was elevated to the Mormon
presidency in 1918, the first Utah
born man to be chosen leader of
the church which was organized
in 1830 in New York state. ! v
Puppet Czech President
Is Captured by Allies j
LONDON. Tuesday, Mayj 15-(ff)
The allied controlled Luxembourg
radio said Jtoday that ; Dr. s. Emll
Hacha, puppet president of
Czechoslovakia, and other officials
who collaborated with me Ger
mans, had been captured There
was no official allied confirma
tion. - - ' - - - t - . I
come from the savings accounts
which are unusually, high, the
speaker said quoting figures from
the national treasury. j - n
Sammons, president of the U.S.
National bank In Portland, was in
troduced by Gov. Earl SneU; Doug
las . Yeater, Marion - county war
bond chairman, was In general
charge of the program and intro
duced members of the committee.
The program was presented to a
large crowd and. was broadcast
over KSLM and the Mutual . net
work. Music was provided, by the
band from Leonards Supper club.
J Theme rof Sammon's talk was
based on his, assertion that We,
the people," must form k solid
financial front for winning the
war. which "is ourwar x
Marion county quota is $4,320,
000, Including $270,000 in; Indi
vidual JE bonds. Polk countys to
tal is $785,000, including: $450,000
in E bonds; Linn's total is $1,881,
000, including $1,163,000 f in - E
bonds; Benton's total is $1,$17,CC0,
induding $836,000; YamhillV total
is 11,(532,000, including $942,000 in
E bonds. . L . I ,
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officer abont te behead an allied
1. That independent operators
be encouraged to acquire and ope
rate government-owned alumi
num plants in competition with
the Aluminum Corporation of
America. . i -,
2. The contract with Aluminum'
Corporation of Canada be can
celled or negotiated to termina
tion. This was for ; 250,000,000
pounds of aluminum at the Ship
saw, Can power plant.
Ickes said the Shipsaw plant
was built with a $68,000,000 loan,
interest free. Its existence was a ;
"surprise" to him and to Presi
dent Roosevelt until 1943, he said.
Northwest Ignored
Ickes contended it never should
have been built while the -great
power , developments of the Pa
cific northwest and the bauxite
producing areas of Arkansas were
available. j
Dr. Paul Raver, Bonneville
power administrator; declared
that war agencies never gave him
a chance to know the power needs
and always looked on Bonneville
and Grand Coulee as more or less
"incidental'
. Ickes said the Shipsaw contract
was made by Metals Reserve Cor
poration, : a subsidiary; of Recon-
struction Finance . Corporation,
when Jesse Jones was 'chairman.
OTPM Draws Blame '
He said "bungling" of the early
aluminum requirements came
from the OPM (office" of produc
tion management), and its suc
cessor,! the war production board.
Dollar-a-year men, Ickes said, de
clared there was enough - alumi
num to go around in on breath,
and in another would call it :
critically short -r- j .
"Senator Morse (R-Ore) praised '
Ickes summary of the aluminum
power situation and said that the
handling . of the job through the
critical war years "just stinks.. ,r
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Dragnet Out
For Himmler
i FLENSBURG, Germany, May
l4-(ff)-A dragnet is out for Ges
tapo Chief Heinrich Himmler in
this area, wKh British security,
police and . mtelligence officers '
leading the search. ; j ... -.
Danish underground orginztrs
who have submitted important in
formation : to the Allies through
out the war insist that the arch
Nazi is in this territory. Germans
as well as Allies have been alert .
ed to watch for him as well. - -l
There is considerable talk that
Himmler .recently got in touch
with vGrand Adm. Karl , Doenitz
and asked his protection, but was
told that if the Germans found him
he would be turned over to the
Allies. , ' . -
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