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U r 7ealnerl a rraaelae ft&lcnt i Ml SUla M At 49 M Portua Seattle -41 M WiUametM rtrer iftlll. , FORECAST: (frm V. rwetbr -rraa, MeNry Meld, galem) Partly clMdy, scatsaMO-slMwen today wtu llrhUy varnrr temperatBres. , Mix- at am Umprntuf exycto wmx 1$ POUNDDD 1651 - f H t-' inliijTM I - IfT- .- -. -. . . j - 4 , ' - It is easy to blame! the desecra tion of the Jewish synagogue at Eugene on . hoodlums, ' for only persons of that , type would mo lest: a religious sanctuary. What was done there reveals venom and not merely destructiveness-. to property. For swastikas, the emb lem most hateful to Jews, were marked on the walls.! The city council of Eugene authorized a re ward for arrest of those, who did the damage; and protests against the offense were I immediate among those in official position in the city. ""--! f What we need to Irealize is that hoodlumism like thii is the end product "of prejudice which is of ten freely uttered nj higher cir cles. If we arej honest with our selves we will admit that the virus of , anti-Semitism has v affected many people. In part it is the relic of ancient prejudice of re ligion; in part it is economic, the fruit of business or j professional competition; in part it is the seep age of nazi doctrine so persist ently drained into the public con sciousness over a term of years. Most people who- entertain such feelings would not indulge in or approve of mutilation of feligious symbols or doing any physical violence to Jews." Their prejudice is expressed in more! subtle ways barring of association in hotels or in private clubs, j or. in other forms of discrimination. The root of the American idea of liberty (and we fought a long and bitter war within our ' own country to sustain j it) is that there should be no discrimination based on race, color or creed. We have been participating in a great global war to sustain that philoso phy on world basis. We cannot consistently fight f ot that prin ciple and as individuals exercise prejudices that go counter to it. We must learn to appraise per sons as individuals for their own worth and not to bundle them for treatment as a race; or group, whether Jews or Methodists or negroes or Missouriaris or Catho lics or Swedes. And, responsible citizens of a community should avoid the venting of personal prejudice against racial or relig ious, groups because out of such endorsement the irresponsible ele ment resorts to malicious deeds, as at Eugene, which bring dis credit on a whole community. More Cigarets Three Months NEW YOKKMayllS-W-Ci-aret manufacturers said today an improvement in the civilian sup ply can be expected within three months. - .- - j ' . The most bearish comment came from the National Associa tion of Tobacco Distributors: "The situation will ease duiing the rest of 1945 but civilians still will have to stand in line." h In Washington the army and navy announced that' the armed forces, will ration cigarets, cigars and smoking tobacco) at military and naval establishments and prisoner of war catops in the United States, starting June 3. - Ration cards will enable mili tary personnel, - their j dependents and authorized civilian employes to receive six packages of cig arets or 24 cigars or j four ounces of smoking tobacco weekly. War prisoners will get only tobacco. U. S. to Be Responsible for A IimppiUC ijccmuj . WASHINGTON, May 18 -(ff) Secretary Forrestal said today that the United State "will con tinue to bear responsibility for the security, of the Philippines and will have to have bases and stra tegic areas supporting those bases to carry out that responsibility." At a news conference he said negotiations "are now under way to that end. ! Tito May Have jOrdered Troops From Trieste . i NEW YQRX, May 16 -V The American broadcasting station in Europe said tonight In a broad cast reported by the National Broadcasting company that Mar shal Tito had ordered all his Yugoslav troops to withdraw from Trieste and Coritza. - The Tito order, the radio said, provides that ? bis troops are to retire east of the Isonza river. , Trieste and Foritxa are jwest of ' the Isonza.- ; Silver Falls Timber Company Won't Close SILVERTON, May 1 Silver Falls Timber company' is not to be shut down, Myron C Woodard, president-manager, told a repre sentative of The Statesman here today. ' , T. : - Reports published elsewhere in the valley of cessation of opera tions in the face of the best mar ket Jhe . lumber industry has known in many years; were pooh poohed by Woodard, who termed the rumors "poppycock", - Slated Within Krirrr-nrrH yeah nn o uvu escirDlbedl As , only - By James PARIS, May 16-(j!P)-A program of sweat and discipline un der which Germany will have to earn her way back into the com munity of nations under strict military control was laid down by the Allies today. , , The so-called German government-of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz was declaredofficially "fully controlled" by the Allies while it fulfills a useful purpose. A supreme headquarters state ment said Doenitz "and certain other selected German officers" were being used only temporarily as an instrument for facilitating the surrender and disarmament of German forces and were acting under complete Allied control. i The formal statement made clear that there was no thought of recognizing . Doenitz and his "Flensburg group" as a German government So far as the allies are concerned. Count Ludwig Schwerin Von Krosigk "does not exist" as Doenitz foreign min ister. Military Government This was underscored by Lt Gen. Lucius D. Clay, General Eisenhower's deputy for the occu pation of Germany, "The allied government of Germany is going to be military, and the Germans are going to know it is military," declared Clay. Asked specifically whether Doe nitz and Hermann Goering were prisoners of war, Clay replied "they are," He did not specify what had been done with Doenitz if anything, yet but he said a special place or places of con finement for prisoners of this sort -r Germany's military, government party (six words censored) had been prepared and indicated some prisoners already had been taken there. In London, Prime Minister Churchill told commons that it was the allied aim that "the Ger mans should administer their country in obedience to allied di rections." The British leader add ed that "we have no intention of Undertaking the burden of admin istering Germany ourselves." Pattern Not Complete It was not immediately clear how these statements fitted into the pattern of the yet to be de4 termined future of Germany, but Clay declared that all that is left of Germany's potential to make war would be smashed. ; The hard boiled commander, who was said, to have been picked by President Roosevelt to handle the job, also declared that all ves tiges of nazlism would be de stroyed; all war criminals caught and punished. First Billion Of 7th Loan Goal in Vault WASHINGTON, May 18.-VP)- The first billion dollars in the 7th war loan drive is in the vault Ted R. Gamble, national war finance director, said "this is ap proximately what we were ex pecting at this stage of the drive but as in all the drives the first billion is the easiest" He announced these sales fig ures: To individuals, $1,264,000,000 about 18 per cent of the individ uals' goal of $7,000,000,000. ; " In series 3 bonds, $1,021,000,000, more than 29 per cent of the E bond quota of $4,000,000,000. This is included in the individuals' cat Controls Lifted on Production Of Array of Civilian Goods WASHINGTON, MayU6 -ff) WPB today revoked its controls on an array of civilian products ranging, from golf dubs and Juke boxes to house trailers, but gave manufacturers no metal to make them. ; ' One sweeping action expunged controls on 1200 of the commonest civilian items, while the juke box revocation also released pinball machines, coin-operated amuse ment devices and the so-called "one-armed bandits" slot ma chines for gaming. , . " The war production board sim ultaneously predicted manufacture of 200,000 passenger cars late this year with output rising to 400,000 in the first three months of 1948 and reaching an annual rate of 2.CC0.CCO. ' . .The automobile is Jastry advis- 12 PAGES rn M. Long to be only a temporary stop-gap, 500 Superforts Again Shower FireinNagoya GUAM, Thursday, May 17-(P) Striking again with more than 500 Superfoi-ts, 21st bomber ; command squadrons showered 3500 tons of fire bombs on the Japanese ar senal city of Nagoya shortly after midnight today, adding more dev astation to fires kindled in a raid Monday. The big planes, carrying more than a Tnillioa six-pound gasoline Jelly bombs,; Hew low over the target area harboring the giant Mitsubishi aircraft assembly plant the Atsuta factory of the Nagoya arsenal and other war industries. Flier; returning today said they observed fires still burning in the northern section of the city hit in the big daylight attack Monday. Today's attack was centered in the area adjoining the city's inner harbor and estuary docks. Nagoya, with a pre-war -population of 1, 500,000, also is a big port on Ja pan's inland sea, ' ank Capture Dr. Robert Ley, Arch Criminal BERCHTESGADEN, Germany, May 16P)-Dr.: Robert Ley, 55-year-old arch Nazi and the reich's labor minister was captured to night' by the 101st airborne divi sion acting upon a tip from the German underground. ! He wis identified beyond doubt by two high Nazi parry i leaders who alsd are American prisoners and by ;an American' counter In telligence officer who said, "This capture ; may be even more im portant than' ; the surrender of Goering : because we have proved indisputably that Ley is the mastermind-; behind the werewolf movement" l , ; . x , Dull-eyed' and sullen, perhaps from fatigue and terror, the man who goaded German workers into their all-out effort for Hitler, first tried tog deny his identity when captured at a mountain hideaway 45 miles south of Brechtesgaden. Allies Confer ; Over Trieste LONDON, May 16.Hff)-In an attempt to settle the Italian-Yugoslav dispute over the Adriatic port of Trieste the British and Ameri can governments are now con ferring with .Yugoslav represen tatives, foreign affairs under-sec-retary George Hall told commons today..' ! , 'i . -rU' In Rome the allied naval com mand in an official statement said British and American naval units were operating in the Trieste area "in the course of their normal du ties.", The composition or strength of the units were not given.' - ' ory committee, meeting here to day, -recommended the 200,000 figure for this year, and Henry P. Nelson, coordinator of reconver sion for the industry, said it look ed like "a pretty good approach." The omnibus order dropped from the WPB books has been a keynote of its controls for almost exactly - three : years. It forbade the use of iron and steel and thus in most cases ended produc tion f, of 400' types of goods em bracing jome 1200 individual pro duction.! ; , ; . . It . covered .- coat hangers, ; bath tubs, compacts, : flashlight tubes, laundry ;trays, ice cream freezers, house numbers, . parking . meters, automatic pencils, match , boxes, mop wringers, pie plates, shower stalls, Ice and .roller skates,' and a host of other familiar things, ' Stopgap -r Solera, Oregonj Fresh ' 'f. i r;? -, ' I- ' ' ' -y ' v. i- . Japs threw in fresh reserves!; and laid down a thunderous artillery barrage In an effort to halt a power ful American offensive that had reached Nana, capita of strategic Okinawa Island. Naha Is a shell blasted and heavily mined Wty. Enemy defense was reported growing- more desperate hourly. Pic tured is a . section of Naha; showing marines advancing cautiously lodge Jap snipers, (international) Committee Votes to Stand Pat on Big-Power Plan of Compact Security Cpuiicil Br Douglas I SAN FRANCISCO, May ence committee voted today to stand pat on a big-power ii plan for enforcing peace through! a compact security! council of eleven member nations;'- I Ii In the process, it hammered of small and middle power proposals for more authority for theroi selves in this all-powerful agency of a proposed world organization. But as the conference entered its fourth week, big and little countries were in substantial ac cord on most points, and the Ajnet ican delegation decided it ! Was time to press for a speedy wind up of the job of drafting a world charter. - .,.!. y ,!?-,-.. .. , i I Some progress was achieved on the biggest issue still beforej the conference trusteeships -4 al though whatever is decided about establishing guardianships foe de pendent or strategic areas 'of; the world may turn ;out to be some what meaningless in individual cases. I The reason is that under pres ent plans a country having a man date left over from, the last War, or one assigned a mandate atji the peace table after this world con flict, would have the right toil say whether - the area should I be brought under supervision , of a new league. ! , ; 1 Nevertheless, a conference com mittee accepted, as something on which it could go to workj an American-drafted combination of all the trusteeship ideas of the big five France, Britain, China, Rus sia and the United States. i I Any country that wants to! in cluding the big five, can propose changes in it . England May Let 750,000 j Out of Arm v I i LONDON, May j lMPJ-Reallo- cation of Britain's manpower may permit release j of 750,000 men from the armed forces before;-'the end of the year,! Labor Minister Ernest Devin .told the house of commons today.' , ' Announcing inaguration ; of ; the program, which he cautioned was not a "demobilization" . scheme, Bevin said the country no longer will call men over 30 for military service and women wiu r pe called for the auxiliary services. Job centers will, continue! to hold all covered workers to their tasks and. transfers can be. made only with 'government permission unless the worker is a man over 5 or a woman over I 60." Bevin said, -however,-that only. In rare cases would: women who have reached the - age of CO forced to continue working..' , - 'i- America May Sponsor '! Region Security -Alone SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 HJP The possibility developed at a Big Five meeting today that the Unit ed States alone may sponsor a regional security proposal if Rus sia fails to state her position; by tomorrow. I Andrei Gromyko, ebairman. of the, Russian delegation to the United Nations conference, .re portedly told ; other members of the Big Five powers he has not yet received instructions from Moscow on a plan which, would permit regional organizations such as the inter-American group; to move immediately in self defense when, they "are attacked. I Thuridcry Marnlag, May. 17. 1945 JapWnits Battle i " -' n ; B. Cornell 16 - JP) - A United Nations confer I I down in rapid-fire order a host Smith Says : War Loan Barometer . ; -- .i Of War Support ,ASn?NGTON, May l-j(P-'Here Is a" war bond statenent by Lieut. Gen. Holland! MV Smith, USMC, commanding ' gen-1 erai, neet ma- rine force. Pa- cine: ; 4 "Every w a r& loan is a bare-? meter ef war, support Whether indiv-r ldual Amtrl- L cans ' bat one extra 1100 war bond or many H. Bf. Smith more war bonds is important only to the extent that the! amount loaned to the rovern- ment represents his or her. max imum effort'' ! . Meeting oh Nazi Griiiies Opens May 31 1 " it LONDON, May ; 16.-(P-Amid rising criticism; of the "coddling" of German prisoners of war! and demands for a speedy trial for flight nazi war criminals the V: ed Nations war crimes comr sion announced j today j that ah terhational conference! on Gen war crimes would begin in Lon don May j , f "; , -!: .- ' The commission also announced that it had arranged for "certain governments" to senJ investigat ing officers into- Germany to; help: military authorities gather evi dence of war crmes there. J-.' In Paris supreme headquarters said 10-man teams from the! war crime branch j of the European theatre judge d advocate section! were conducting widesprea4 in-: vestigation of crimes . committed by the nazis against allied mili tary personnel as well as civilians. Salem Wettest ; Spot inV alley Salem recorded more rainfall than any other? spot . In the ' Wil lamette valley -this week, when a total f 3J2S inches wis registered at the U.-S. weather. bureau Mc-! Nary fleldfor the period May. - 15. This brings the total rainiau for May to 3.44 inches and for 1943 to" 2456 inches, t , K 4 t .The occasional downpours were somewhat dampening , to the ; spir its of the townspeople but were proving a boon to farmers for ;their early spring crops.' !j ' - .. " V"- - . .i- ' srnr noxons cusjiawa I PORTLAND, Ore.; May 15 TmrMng of the l600-ton tank er Chemawa at Swan Island ship yard Thursday wCl honor the In dian 'school north of Salem.; . ' j. top riit- nan rn hi Ndlia 5. I'- toward a building set afire to dis 15,000 Vets Will Head for unel . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, May 16.-;p)-The first group of American yeterans-1-more than 15,000 strong with scores above the U5 critical dis charge points to their credit will head for the United States June U supreme headquarters announc ed today. Composed ; almost entirely of men with combat experience, the group will include 12,000 from the 12th army group (U. S. first, Third . and Ninth armies), . 3,000 from the Sixth army group (U. S. First Third and Ninth armies), 3,000 from the Sixth army group (U. S. Seventh army and French First), and .500 from the air forc es. Less than two per cent of the total will be officers. "The number is restricted this month because of a transportation shortage but will be increased substantially next month, the an nouncement said. Men of the army service forces and more men from the air forces will be included in the next month's quota. j ; ' ! , 1 Headquarters said each division was assigned its proportionate share of this month's quota. The divisions deepest in Germany will fly their men to the processing centers if necessary. 1 ' i DeValera Has mment on urchill Talk DUBLIN, May 15 -P)- Prime Minister : DeValera, commenting on Churchill's criticism of : Eire's stfind during the war, said in a speech tonight that the ; British leader "had "advanced the cause of j international morality1 by re sisting a temptation to break southern Ireland's neutrality. Churchill, in a world-wide broadcast Sunday, said that be cause of northern Ireland's friend ship to Britain the empire had re frained from violence on Eire and "left the DeValera government to frolic with German and later With Japanese representatives to their hearts content" - ... '' "It is indeed fortunate that Brit ain's necessity did not reach the point when Mr. Churchill would hate acted,, DeValera said in a broadcast Home Fjrst Bond Premiere of 7th War Loan Set for May 28 The first bond premiere of the Seventh War Loan drive was yes terday set for: Monday, May 23, at the State theatre. The picture will be "The Enchanted Cottage starring Robert Young and Doro thy! McGuire. ;' 1 .r4r5 r ' State employes only will be en titled to tickets to the Initial pre miere, according to Leo Hender son, Salem manager for Foreman Brothers, who operate -the State theatre and are making' arrange ments for the occasion. i . . John Hodgkins of the state war finance organization - and Douglas Yeater, chairman of 'the Marion county Icronimittee, ; will y be the speakers for 'the premiere. -Other special events are being planned. Orgy those state ; employes, pur chasing their full quota of -bonds and then some will receive tickets, which are to be distributed under direction of Roy Mills, statchouse chairman. ; -.'-' Prlct 3c rn By LEIF .",bst?j p)Pii : Uo Sn GasoflsilSDes GUAM, Thursday, Itfay 17 (AP) Marine patrols crossed Asato river estuary, and entered Okinawa's capital city, Naha, today as Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz -reported the island campaign had cost the lives of 3781 American troops and total VS. ground casualties of 20,950. j Associated Press Correspondent Vera Haugland radioed from Okinawa that a. patrol of the Sixth marine dirision entered the mairTpart of Naha after bitter fighting-. Leather necks had been battling savagely counterattacking Japanese in the suburbs our days. U ' --.j- - "'"-"V"'' -:. -; - Haugland also reported that the 96th infantry division's 382nd regiment maneuvered slowly to within a few hundred yards of Shuri's northeast boun dary. This placed the . regiment closer to that fortress city, key of the southern defense line, than the 77th infantry division, which was about one mile north of Shuri. 34,009 Japs Left j An estimated 34,000 Japanese troops remain on Okinawa, Haug land said. Japanese losses on Okinawa were 46,50 killed and 1038 j cap tured through Tuesday's fighting. Total UJS. casualties on that far western Japanese bastion, only 325 miles south 'of the enemy's home land,' exceed American losses on Iwo Jima tl9,9?S) by 1012. How ever, more Americans were killed on Iwo, 4189, than so. far have fallen on Okinawa. The Okinawa battle is far from ended. America's Okinawa' casualty re port through Monday, was for 45 days of, savage battling on an island of some 300 square miles. Iwo figures- were for the 28, days it required to capture that volcanic heap of only eight square miles. -Japanese Losses Hlh 1 1 Japanese casualties on Okinawa are nearly double their losses on Iwo, where 23,244 were killed and 1038 taken prisoner. These "fig ures include some 2000 killed since victory-day on that island, j .UJS. casualties for the Okinawa Ryukyus campaign, including car rier plane raids on Japanese home islands, are 27,803, including 6853 navy officers and men dead, wounded or missing. . Navy, fig ures, march 13 through May 9, wer 1283 killed, 3498 wounded and 2072 missing. Nimitz has not es timated Japanese casualties' re sulting from naval" strikes", includ ing sinking of the super-battleship Yamato and other ships. n junve On U. S. Base Fully Smashed CHUNGKING, lXay6-ffj-The high command announced tonight that the Japanese drive on the. UJ5. 14th air base at Chihkiang in Hu nan province had been completely smashed in one of the most impor tant Chinese victories of the 'war and that a considerable force of enemy had been trapped, r j j Heavy street fighting was con tinuing in the east coast treaty port of Foochowj with severe cas ualties on both sides. The Chinese broke into the town last Friday and bitter fighting has raged since. The high commjnd gave not fur ther details. - :.A4'. - A large force of enemy, troops cut off from their main base at Poaching from which the abortive Hunan offensive started April was reported by the Chinese com bat command to be attempting to escape through the Chinese lines. ' The number of merchants' prizes to be distributed at the con clusion of the seventh campaign July ; 4 reached 71 - yesterdayi Chairman John Stark announced, while . their value now is nearly $2800. Twenty of the awards cost more than 150, lie"iikL-''-?.r'K-:- INew prizes include the follow ing: Sick's Brewery, $100 " War bond; B. T.n Goodrich' Tire I Co, two recaps 118; Hollywood. Clean ers, 110 credit; Schreder's Four Star Market, $18.73 , in groceries; Tindall Pharmacy, $5 sun glasses; Berg's Grocery, $10 credit; Moot ry's Pharmacy,; $10 perfume. :' Ariointment , of Mrs. Bessie Kayser, 2430 North Fourth st, as co-chairman in charge of "second story workers" for the downtown solicitation . was announced by Mrs. . James . T. Brand, ' women's chairman. Mrs. . Kayser helpers will te selected soon. 3 , r(Adcj;tional details on cae 4) -v Ta.T mppo Ifo. U rui ERICKSON tui'es Huge Nazi Sub; Japan-Bound WASHINGTON, May lL(P)-A huge German submarine' Japan bound with three luftwaffe gen erals, surrendered Sunday to a VS. destroyer escort, the navy disclosed today in a stirring ac count of the long and victorious battle of the Atlantic. , , Capture of the big craft 500 miles east of Newfoundland, was' announced simultaneously with a disclosure that Japanese subs have been prowling the Atlantic and that one was sunk off Iceland last summer. ' - - ' ; . , j . Adm.; Jonas '. Ingram, Atlantic fleet commander, made the an nouncement at Jk "lipw it ;can be told, news' cenferenceT!X'lV In addition to the luftwaffe ma jor generals aboard the 1600-ton German submarine Ingram said, the boarding party found the bodies of two Japanese who had committed hari kari just before the surrender. The submarine also, carried German aviation plans and equipment, Admiral Ingram said. Battery Firms argedjWitli iracy ! NEW YORlC May lJH'Py-Two of the country's largest storage battery manufacturers were charge ed by the department of Justice to day with conspiring with foreign firms to withhold from the Ameri can market a long-life battery. The purported action, the government said, substantially affected opera tion of United States war equip ment. v j - ' The charge was made in an anti-' trust civil suit filed in federil. court against the Electric Storage Battery. Co, Philadelphia, da scribed by the government as thf world's largest maker of electric storage batteries, and its wholly- owned subsidiary, the Willard Stor age Battery Co of Cleveland. I The justice department said the two firms and alleged co-conspira tors prevented manufactinre in this country or the importation of , the nickel-cadmium battery, used by German, French and Rng'ish arm ed forces.. .'; t ' ! . : 12 Spanish Air Officers Believed Dead in Crash I MADRID, May 10.-(flV-A milU tary transporf plane reported l r- I V navy tap Coiisp o carrying i onicers or tne S p a ni s h air force crashed hv, ' flames today while taking off from the Maestranza air field tm the outskirts of Leon. All the ocoi-' pants -sere believed to have per' ished. . .. , j , r ..: . , Allied Moscow Sourees Say Jleeting Indefinite MOSCOW, May 11 -OP1- in formed allied sources in Moscow v said today that while -a rneetin between : Marshal Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill and President Truman might well take: place ' some time in the future, nothing oenmte had been decided about such a gathering yet . - i Iwo Jima Casualties Reach Adair Hospital j CORVALLIS, M,a y li-Ji second group of Iwo Jima casual ties has arrived at the US naval hospital here, Capt Paul W. Wil son,, commanding officer, said ic- day.' i -r-" , -'.The 51$ men 'are mostly ma. rines.-:.: The ' first 230 Jwo. Jima veterans arrived Easter Sunday,