fit r eOOSHB leather Max. Via. 12 81 Bala ! J 1 "' 4; J San Francisco Eugene . ,. Salem . Portland i SS -63 .61 4 Seatue Willamette river 5 ft. 7 la. ; TORECAST: rffrom- V. S. gather k reau. McNarr . SaJem).-Occasional' showers today with temperatures about the same.. .Maximum ol M degree ex pected. , - - ! . ' : fyCzz'!fZl Gag-writing ought to be a highly paid branch of the literary profes sion, for the comedians who . use the gags are high up in the salary brackets. - Perhaps they: get most of the compensation, keeping the gag-writers as underpaid slovens, though this is hardly apt to be the case in the lush circles of Holly- wood and Broadway where most of the tribe flourish. At least this is true, the performers get all the applause, whoever heard of an i audience calling for the authors of the gags pulled by the radio stars? i These tailors of synthetic mirth i live in blank obscurity in spite of the fact that their contribution to a radio program's success is funtfa- i mental. One might think, from the re- currence of the same brand of hu- : mor in current programs, that ra , dio stars patronize the same joke- mills. Not so: the jokesmiths fol- low the same groove because they try to keep their line up? to the I minute in news-timing. Thus they 1 11 ! J .... W .kniniia Wa. nra. is uie pom. jysxra tor w SJ??:. foodstuffs. This has given them : fresh material to try their wit on : so we have point-jokes in abund t ance now, some of which have ; point too (pardon the pun) Besides the smiths that hammer out the gags (and few of the ra dio performers hack out all their own) : another group which con tributes much to the success of a program is the audience. For the response of the living audience af- f ects the performers and affects the unseen audience of listeners . also. 1 If one has a mood to, he can get quite a kick out of concentrating his attention during a radio com ;edy program by observing the au- dience, through his ears, of course. :One can visualize the scene in the studio theatre, the performers, the orchestra and the auditors, with out much effort. The first thing ; which is obvious is the mood of the audience. They have come knowing some famed radio, per tsonage is to be funny; so they an- J iticipate humor; they seem to sit on the edges of their seats, with jtitilating diaphragms, ready to gig gle and laugh at the funny man's gags and wisecracks. The smart comedian sets a fast pace, with his - gags properly spaced to give well timed release to those poised dia phragms; If he lets his patter drag the crowd lets its collective ) - 1 (Continued on Editorial page) Civilian Goods To Be Turned Out This Fall ( By Sterling F. Green WASHINGTON, May 15 - (JP) The war production board put damper on hopes for quickly soar ing civilian goods manufacture 'to-i day,' declaring materials will be Insufficient for "anything like mass production" until after Sep tember. Chairman J. A. Krug. at his first .news conference since j V-E ; day, said WPB "will stay in business as long as need1 be to safeguard - the Japanese war program and the Krug also: ! (1) Suggested a one-week va cation for war workers this sum mer to let them "relax and pre pare for-the tasks that lie ahead before the allies have attained complete victory." j 7 , ; ' (2) Reported that more than 200 B-29 bombers are being built iV- iV.l flflrtA deHvered, and that Japan can ex- 500-plane assault on wagoya. Cut-Backs Not Numerous - Reporting, that armament , cut- backs have been less man anuci- pated, Krug gave this lorecast: I Manufacturmg controls to be l-evoked before July 1, permitting "substantial manufacture" in July, August, and September: vacuum cleaners, washing machines, sew- ing machines, electric toasters, and other household appliances. . Manufacturing controls to De re - tained alter Jiuy i; reirigeraiors, stoves, furniture, radios ana Duiia- log activity.' . , .1. . The ,WFB cnairman teii we Question of passenger . cars unsei tied, but indicated Detroit would not get Its "go ahead" until after mid-year. ' .i : Basle Controls t Be Kept .!- Some SO manufacturing controls already .revoked include office machinery, cameras ana pnoio - graphic equipment, and food man- ufacturing machinery. But controls over the flow of basic materials steel, copper and T , Tr,aI3 aluminum will be retained i isit i- -it Krug said, to prevent the possibil ity that an up surge of civilian manufacturing might divert need ed-metals from war production. Smashes Fuehrer, Then Buys War Boxi ' TOPEKA, Ras., I May 15-W- Plants." -Mrs.' R. Norman Jordan smashed The float is made up largely of Hitler's head on V-E day and got a war bond as a reward. , ) - - The head, in this case, was a penny bank containing 1872 pen- nies. - She added the necessary three. .. NINETY-FIFTH YEAR DM Nips In. Flight At Davao Yanks Control 90 Per Cent of Mindanao Isle MANnjL Wednesday, May It -Wj-Fighttag a savage that Am. ericans attacked Japanese with bayonets, knives and their fists, with at least two Yanks drown ing enemy troops by holding their heads below the surface of a riv er, raged west of Davao City on Mindanao island today. - The Japanese had fled west ward from Davao toward rugged mountains inland but their retreat was slowed by two rivers, the Tal amo and Davao, between which Maj. Gen. Roscoe B. Woodruffs famous 24th division trapped them. Meantime, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur announced SO per cent lib eration of Mindanao which with 36,906 square miles, is the second largest island in the Philippines. Driven to Interior MacArthur said Japanese re maining on Mindanao have "been largely reduced to the hill masses along the central interior." On Luzon, the 43rd division captured positions on the Angat river overlooking Ipo dam, source of Manila's diminishing water supply. Closing the pincer on Ipo from the south, were elements of the 14th army corps. Australian and Dutch forces on oil-rich Tarakan, Borneo, attack ed Japanese entrenched above a road east of the Pamoesian oil fields. Aircraft attacked airfields. bivouac and supply areas at San dakan, Tawao and Brunei bay in supporting operations. Other planes swept Borneo coastlines, sinking five freighters, two lug gers and several small craft ' ; WPBAshs Cut In Aluminum From Canada WASHINGTON, May. 15.-)- The war production board recom mended today a drastic cut in pur chases . of aluminum from the Aluminum company of Canada's Quebec plants. WPB recommended that the government reduce 1945 purch- 250'000'000 V6' to , Interior Secretary Ickes told the senate small business committee only yesterday that the contract should be cancelled. The controversial Shipshaw power , plant was built with a $68,000,000 loan from this coun try. -"OV Ickes contended that the Cana dian plan limit development of US industry. Civil Air Patrol lO jlV at Albany Using planes provided by the armv. the Salem sauadron of the civji air patrol win commence fly mg from the Albany airport at 2 o'clock this afternoon. 5 Only CAP members in uniform wm participate in the flights. Ca det members of the patrol will go up with pilot members but may not make the flights without aim j authorization from parents or guardian, Lt J. E. Cannon," com 1 mander of the Salem squadron. wid Tuesday. galem CAP aviators have not Iflown from western Oregon fields since December, 1941. Finding of High Grade Bauxite Spurs Interest in Salem Area I 1 caim to wq. rHn r. newed interest from geologists and aluminum company officials today following a disclosure by tt state 'department of geology . wv -, bauxite I w float "of large area distribution" had been found both north and south of this city. ! - The . department said' "reserves may be extensive, and that "if. it (float) is proved to occur In large enough quantity it will be highly important as source of alumina to supply , northwest aluminum gibbsite, a widely-known bauxite mineral, -and occurs "as nodules distributed in the overburden at places in the southern part of Eola hills and in several -localities in the Salem hills.' - - 12 PAGES 0(1: .Mi '$nr&S te-?ns UJ lJ !'-' ll - -i Xfa-S :.V l-J li - - i J. - L-i .vw Hoti? Bloody Numbers locate points where the Mats at KWATOK , I y S ' Tokyo mi , W Chungking a yOShH :t V i; ' V y y K0NG . i 6 TiSC Jmaihah'. : Pacific Ocean i "'A A tioNeo lr-Ar'Mw'":":i" " Indian Ocean ' Darwin-gfef '' fAl cific war. The heaviest fire bomb raid of the war (1) hit Naroys, Americans gained In their , south ward drive on Okinawa (2), Chinese took Singchang (3) and were on the outskirts of Foochow, British (4) had cleared Rangoon and were preparing to drive east, and sooth, in the Philippines (5) Americans drove toward a junction northwest of Davao, Allies were completing mop ap of Tarakan (S) and Australian troops captured Wewakx(7). (AP Wirephoto). ; 1 . "Mighty Seventh yf ar Loan i Oflf :-Tot-Well:Oiled ;tart Nation's Payroll Deductions Bring In Almost Billion WASHINGTON, May 15.;pj- The treasury announced, today thrt $991,000,000 in series E bond mon ey is already tucked away in the vaults ' in the Seventh! war loaa drive which; started Monday. p, , It was the first sales1 figure in the mighty. Seventh." But it does not include i Monday's! sales be cause of the time . it takes to ; get bond money, into the federal re serve banks and credited to the treasury's account 1 ; This money reflects for the most part sales' by payroll deductions in the advance payroll savings phase of, the drive in thousands of industrial plants. The payroll per iod started April 8. More than $3,000,000,000 re mains to be borrowed from the public : through sales of E bonds, the quota for E bonds being $4,- ooo.ooq.ooo. j ; No sales figure for individuals' participation in the drive :Were available today. Treasury officials expect the first "individual- re sults' tomorrow. Corporation sales will begin to be announced June 19. Securities will not be issued to corporations in ' this drive until June: 18..V':i:",'-;.i,L; v..-i The Seventh war loan dates are May 14 through June 30The over all quota is $14,000,000,000, f of which the individual goal is $?, 000,000,000 ' and the corporation quota the same amount. . PORTLAND, May 15.--This state's Seventh war , loan, dfive purchases stood at $14,704,636 of a $110 million quota at . the end of the first day,- the federal"reserve bank said today. . r Chemical analyses of the float show from 50 to 60 per cent alum ina, 1 to 13 per cent iron, and 2 to 9 per cent silica. The Salem low-grade ferruginous bauxite con tains about 33 per cent alumina, 20 per cent iron and 10 per cent silica, i The department said insuf ficient sampling had been done to determine the average. It was declared that "the large amount of high-grade gibbsite found as float may be significant,' since it. is "much more common in the Salem .area than in Washing- ton-and Columbia counties" where the Alcoa gaining company is now making an extensive investigation. The geology department said it "plans further field work in the Salem- area with particular: atten tion to commercial possibilities of the high-grade mater iai.' Pacific Combat XT Allies are biting pieces from Japan's Hodge Believes Bonds Important as Bullets WASHINGTON, May lfrAV Here Is a Seventh War Loan statement from Gen. Courtney- f , i n. ueages. e mm aiming general of the First army: i "We can more win this war without the he lip of j Hodces war bonds than without ballets. The bond buyer Is : an Indispensable! part of the fighting front". U. S. Veterans Agency to Be 1 Opened Here 'the veterans' administration will establish a contact office in Salem as soon as desirable space can ; be obtained and personnel procured and trained, Sen Guy Cordon notified Salem Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. : A contact representative - and clerk stenographer will staff the office, which will be expanded by assignment of additional person nel 1 as need develops, Cordon's wire declared. . ;.. i; Similar offices are to be estab lished in Medford and Bend. .One arlier was authorized for Klamath Falls. r ? I- ;-. - tS; h " : : . 1 !'" Work of such an office will be similar to that . undertaken here now; under' sponsorship of jvete; ans' organizations, a service to a military men returning to civilian life to learn and obtain veterans' fontfita far which thcr ar! eligi ble and to assist them in obtain ing other information,' jobs, train ing, etc. .;);. -- - - t i Initial task to be undertaken by such a unit here might be obtain ing of housing .for returning vet erans,! Loyal Warner,' Salem Chamber of Commerce president. said. The chamber and veterans organizations are undertaking that task now and may "have the pro blem partially solved before the new office is opened, he indicated, but pointed out that no permanent and easy , solution should be ex pected until the entire population movement anticipated at the close of the war in the Pacific has been charted." , ' " ' ! ' L Salem Girl Honored By University Group EUGENE, May lS-(-Virginia Harris, Salem, will be installed to morrow, as vice president of Gam ma Alpha Chi, women's, advertis ing honorary at University of Ore gon, ' i i Scdamj Orgcm. Wdnday Morning. May Stacking Up empire Tblack kress) In the Pa Retailf Special And Industrial Divisions Work . ! . ... i - Industrial, retail and special so licitation divisions of the Marion county war bond committee swung into action Tuesday as the sev enth war loan campaign finished its second ,. day j with dozens of workers combing the downtown and industrial areas. f ' Under the leadership of Chair man Dent B. Reed, the industrial committee of 19 members organ ized for enlistment of all employes in the new pay roll savings plan. Allotments of the various . plants were discussed and - solicitation kits distributed. Committee mem bers ' are: John Stark, Edward Majek, . Bob Minton, AT; Brant, Stearns Cushing; Henry Kropp, E. B. Miller Marion Curry, William Braun, William Dolf, Royj Houck, Barney Van Osenoord,: Arthur Bone, Russell Frost, Ralph John son,- Kenneth Torgeson, I Russell Mef ford, Fred B. McKinney and Ed Rostein.. J , f ? With S. L. Stevens as chair man, the following retail commit tee has organized to contaqt down town stores and employes: Jim Beard, Ralph Bent, Stanley Keith, Fred McKinney, Al Ramseyer, Roy Harland, Russell; Bonesteele, Max Williams.. Walter Zosel, ; William Phillips, Al Morris, Tinkham Gil bert, lief Bergsvik, Charles Mc- Elhiney, Grant Murphy, Leo Rei mann, W. W. Chadwick, Lloyd Hill, Kenneth Wilson, Carl Hal- vorson, Carl Gels, Henry i Kropp, Henry Morris, Wes Stuart, Paul Wilson, Pat Johnson. Special solicitation., for large in dividual subscriptions will be han dled by a committee headed by Arthur Smither and George Riches with following members; Jake Fuhrer Arthur Bates, Fred Mc Kinney, 'Frank Spears, Paul Wal lace, Harry Collins and E. J. Scel- lars. i - ArcliMiJerman Dies at Tucson Arch M. Jerman, long ' one of this area's most . extensive , hop growers died Monday , at Tucson, Ariz where he had been for some time because of ill health. Mrs. Jerman, who notified friends and relatives here , of her husband's death, is en route to Salem, bring ing the body here f of burial Their son, John Merton J erman, AAF, who was on leave in Tucson with his ; parents, - arrived here Tues day. Jerman is also survived by a daughter, Wilda, -Jean Plympton now in Louisiana,- and a brother, Herbert Jerman; Salenv (More on page 9). ' 16. 1345 Carrier? Hit Jap ainlahd Planes Raid Airfields to Help Okinawa GUAM, Wednesday, May Carrier planes hammered 18 Nip ponese homeland airfields and de stroyers, damaged or strafed 357 enemy planes in a sweep begin ning Saturday night and continu ing through Monday. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, an nouncing the carrier raids on the fields from which Japan has been staging aerial t onslaughts on the American forces at Okinawa,' said fierce ground fighting continued there today. A strong Japanese counterat-i tack on the west flank was beaten back by the 22nd marine regi ment of the sixth divisions, vet- i erans of Eniwetok and Orote pen insula, .while 77th divisions troops captured ; "chocolate drop" hill about 1,800 yards northeast of for tress ShurjL after five days of bit ter fighting. i first Strike In 2 Months The three day attack on Kyushu and Skikoku was the first Ameri can carrier strike in force since the inland sea raid of March 19. Radio Tokyo previously had re ported 900 planes were involved. : It started with a torpedo plane strike on Kyushu Saturday night. A preliminary check revealed that 10 UJS. planes were lost. Railroad installations in Kyushu were heavily hit. An oil train,' four locomotives, a railroad sta tion, a chemical plant and, a num ber of ' large, buildings were de stroyed ot seriously damaged. i-Planes t8Jsostruck-buildings, barracks and aviation installations at airdromes in Saeki, Oita, and other points on Kyushu; and at airfields on Shikoku. : Fortresses Drop Fire Bombs The 'carrier strikes ' occurred while a great fleet of more than 500 Marianas-based Superfortress es fire-bombed Nagoya, on ' Hon shu, third largest city in Japan, and its chief aircraft production center.-. r - "i -- - On Okinawa, at the suburbs of Naha, the 22nd regiment , of the Sixth marine division, hurled back an enemy assault in hand to hand fighting. The attackers .were fin ally driven back -into the interior of Kakamotoji town with heavy losses. " .. , ' An attempt to land small craft bebincl the marine lines in the bitterly gained Machinato airfield sector ' was broken up by naval gunfire. . ' ' Snow, Hail and Frost Hit West By the Associated Press A post-season cold spell, accom panied by snow, frigid rain and suggestion of frost, nipped west ern states Tuesday. : The snowfall varied from light flurries to a maximum of 10 inch es at Ruxton Park, midway up Colorado's; famed : Pikes peak. Temperatures plummeted as low as 26. ; A mass of cold air moving south ward from Canada brewed a mix ture of snow and rain in Wyom ing, New .Mexico and western Ne braska. Utah reported up to an inch of snow. T -J t5 . ' Hail thumped down on parts of Oklahoma,' which also had wide spread rains, high winds and chill mg temperatures. J At Leflore, a flash flood swept away three miles of Frisco railway trackage and in undated .hundred, of acres of bot tomland, t . ' .T M Congressmen Indict Germany For Mass Murder After Tour j WASHINGTON, May lS.-ifl- In shocked silence, congress heard from its own eyewitnesses today the gruesome story of Germany's torture camps where thousands of slaves lived like cattle and died like beasts. . . - . the report of six senators and six - representatives who visited three notorious - concentration camps was read simultaneously in the two chambers by Senator Har tley (D-Ky) and Rep. Thomason (D-Tex). j ' - ? . It was a bitter denunciation of theGerman government an in dictment on the hl2h charge of -nass murder. It did not spare the German public ; : ; -v'-.Vw. Senator' Barkley did not spare Price Gen.' Ike Finally ! Finds Time to Celebrate Victory LONDONMay 15. --W- Gen. Eisenhower came back to London today for a personal belated vic tory celebration and was given a heros welcome by cheering throngs which surged about his car, crowd ed up to shake his hand and ap plauded his appearance at a the ater and night club. - - . j "This Is the general's own pri vate V-E day celebration, a mem ber of the party said at a night club where the general went after seeing a musical comedy, "Strike It Again. - j "It's his first night out since before the war," the-aide said. Eisenhower, Bradley and sev eral aides flew here this morning and were joined by a few friends for an evening of relaxation. With the group was the general's son, Lt. John Eisenhower. . i Chinese Fight lit Streets of j s eaport Town JL - ; - . ; 'v- i - CHUNGKING, May IHff)-The Cinese high command said tonight that fierce street fighting was con tinuing in the east coast seaport of Foochow which the Chinese enter ed Friday and both sides were suf fering heavy casualties. -, - ' The communique said Chinese troops had recaptured Chenghsien, communications center . in Chek iang province north of " Fukien province and 120 miles southwest of Shanghai The communique said the Japanese, offered Only slight resistance. r ; - The reoccupation of Chenghsien followed earlier recapture bythe Chinese - of "Sinchang, 10 miles southeasV'i'.-5rt1''i ;- -X f " ' In Hunan- province where f the Chinese stopped a Japanese drive oh the American air base at Chih kiang the high command said: en emy units were surrounded In the vicinity of Kaosha, 50 miles west of Paochmg, main base of Japanese Hunan offensive. the Eugene 'Nazis? Show 'It Can n Here9 EUGENE, Ore., ) May 15.-(ff)-Search was under way here today for vandals whose desecration of Lane county's only Jewish syna gogue resembled nazi terrorism. Swastikas were scratched i on walls, the servicemen's honor roll defaced, arid the American flag knocked down. Crayon marks in four rooms were so high, inves tigators said, that a small child could not have made them. Altar velvet was half ripped away, and the flag staffs gold eagle broken. City council offered a $100 re ward for information leading to the vandals arrest. Police Chief L. L. Pittinger said the damage followed "a pattern of religious persecution of the worst kind." A member of the congregation, entering the synagogue for the first time since last Friday's serv ices, discovered the vandalism last night. A side door bolt had been forced and inside the building lay a ten-inch knife, apparently used in the defacement , ' ! ; t PFC Kendall Helgerson Dies of Battle Wounds ; DALLAS May 15 PFC Ken dall Helgerson, 20,' died in Eng land of wounds received April 8 in Germany, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford P. Helgerson, have been notified. Besides his parents, he is survived by a sister, Pvt. Elogene - Helgerson,' WAC, sta tioned at Dale Mabry field, Talla hassee, Fla.; v ' ' 5 the German army either. He said it was inconceivable that the gen eral staff would not have known about the savage practices of the SS and gestapo. " j : "It is the opinion of your com mittee : that thes practice consti tuted no less than organized crime against civilization and humanity,' the report said, "and those who were responsible for them should have meted out to them swift, cer tain and adequate punishment,' ' The : twelve concluded that .the contrast pointed, to "a calculated and diabolical program of planned torture and extermination, on the part of those who were in control . of the German government," j: These Jcialni in the report Ja eluded Rep. Mott (R-Ore). . Happe No. 43 Frown On Regional Pact Must Yield to World System By Douglas B. Cornell SAN FRANCISCO, May lJ-tt- Great powers appeared tonight to be clinching control of a project ed world organization for peace when small nations lost three 'sig nificant test voles in the UnSted Nations " conference. S ! Along the way, the"Big-Five na tions China; France, Britain, Rus sia and the United States made few conciliatory gestures . toward small nation views in shaping the pattern of the post-war world. 1 " These were the key decision. taken in various conference com mittees! v 1. A Mexican proposal to lift an all-nation general assembly to the levelt of a proposed 11 -member security council in approving action involving military or eco- s nomic sanctions was defeated 23 to 7. Assembly Gives Way ! . -2. A New Zealand amendment to require a concurring vote or a review by the assembly except in case of extreme urgency in in stances in which the council would apply force, was rejected. It mus tered only four. votes. : j, 3. Also1 turned down was tho question whether the assembly should be able, on its own initia tive to make recommendations on any matter relating to manten ance of peace being dealt'with the counciL i I Dozens 'of other small-nation amendments still are" up-fortrrr- ment, but today's ballots evidenced the ability of the great powers to play the. dominant roles in a new world league, v - i Stettinius used the interval for another consultation with Latin- American foreign ministers on tho question of blending a Pan-American security plan into a world peace-keeping organization. Stettinius expressed confidence to reporters , thas this can be ac complished successfully, but ho made it clear that if it comes to m choice between the inter-American and world systems, the world plan is paramount in our minds. "The United States delegation ia in San Francisco,' he said "to write a charter for a world organ ;. ization, and as precious as is that' inter-American organization to us we pursue that wider objective." Stettinius asserted that an American plan ' would: ' . l.y Recognize . the paramount authority of the world organize in au enforcement . action. F "2. - Recognize that the inher ent right of . self defense, either' individual or collective. , remains unimpaired in case the security council does not maintain Inter national peace and security and an - armed attack against a mem ber state occurs. . , The secretary's statement on self-government pointed up Anglo American opposition to a Russian -. demand for guarantees of full, ul timate Independence for depen dent areas. LThe Soviets have rais ed it in connection with the trus- teeship ; problem. - ' , In a mid-day news conference. Stettinius proposed that once tho world organization is set up, its first job should be drafting an in ternational bill of rights based on the four freedoms. :. The Big Five pulled a surprise" maneuver in one committee meet- -ing by bringing in an entirely new redraft of? a portion of the Dum- barton. Oaks blueprint for a world organization. . i - : It would expand to some extent - the powers of the general assem bly, in line with some small; na tion ideas.;; Delegates suggested in corridor conversations at confer-! ence headquarters 'that these con- ' cessions probably were intended to fend off small nations bids for even greater authority for the as sembly. -.-.; Four Soldiers From : ; This Area Killed Pvt Harry C Rhoads, r whose wife, Evelyn G. Rhoads, la a Sa lem resident, and CpL. Doyle O. Mullilrin, whose wife, . Mary J. Mullikin,- operates the . Mullikin beauty shop in McMinnville, have been killed in the European thea tre of operations, the war depart ment, announced tndiy "- :Pvt Darwin, V. 11 j-',-nd of Evelyn Noyes, juu .i Cvt.Ie mier ; SW , Wood burn, and I FC Frank XL Mark, son. of : Frank Mark, route 12, r Mllwaukie, are listed as kUJed ia. action ia the Pacific ' - 5c iRicr .PivA!. j - i ' Proposals 1