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"While WPB did raise the limit for home building and '". repairing which would not re i quire a permit, that did not put the lumber in the retailers yards. ;What lumber the retailers can get is still gobbled up by those who hold priorities for lumber. In the first place, most of the lumber is going from the mills to government depots for govern- ment use or to box factories for manufacture of crating for war shipments. Priorities are issued by WPB or FHA for industrial, commercial 'or residential construction or al- teration and repair where the ap plicant can convince the issuing agency that the purpose fits into ' the war effort. And that is not easy. , v;, ." , f But 'one may ask, how come ' we see some new houses going up , about town or in other towns? 1 The answer is that FHA is issuing some permits to build. Also a builder may get started, using non-essential materials like ce ment, brick, gypsum board. He may be able to pick up (Continued on Editorial page) X Polish Dispute To Be Settled; Estates Divided By Alex Singleton LONDON, June ll.-)-Hope mounted in . diplomatic . quarters here for an early., solution 0f the deadlocked Polish dispute as Har ry Hopkins, White House trouble shooter, spedl toimewaroVtaCTiir tonight . amid unofficial. . reports that his Moscow visit had . won a compromise from Premier Stal in. r i . Outside of the Polish refugee - government here considerable was placed in unconfirmed reports ; that Hopkins had succeeded in obtaining the release of most of the 17 Poles arrested -by the Rus sians and accused of subversive ac tivities. ' While there! was no official con firmation of these reports, it was regarded here as almost certain that such a concession would pre cede a resumption of the discus sions broken off abruptly at San Francisco last month.'. The Lubin radio said last (Mon) night the Soviet-recognized Polish government at Warsaw distributed property from 8.000 estates to Po lish settlers In the Opole district In western Poland as part of a ""repatriation scheme." ; "The broadcast, reported by the ECC, said that about 60,090 re patriated Poles had settled in the west Polish district of Silesia- Dabrowa and that more than 20,- 000 Poles had settled in the Lucz- borek district L. V. Crane, Stayton Man, .Dies in Action rtaytoN.. June ll.-Pvt. Law ' v rraiw was killed in ac- ;tion on Cebu, March SO. His wife is -the former Jean Meng oi wei-; Tferson; .there- are two children, ; Lana S andXarry 10 months I - Crane was born June 11, 1919 ' in - West Stay ton and attended . school there. He was home on : furloueh last November. , ' .His. mother is Mrs. 'Virginia ' Crane of Portland. Mrs. Florence Wodzewoda of Salem is a twin sister and Mrs. Olive Sacre of Sa lm and MrsT Irma Koonz of Port land also are sisters; -Merle of Turner, Clem of Salem and Keith with the 15th air force in Italy ' are brothers. A nephew. Qell Crane of Stayton, 'was killed in action in Europe last ueeemoer. Cpl. Derrill Fox of Amity Dies in Action . Cpl. Derrill L. Fox, US marine " corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Derrill . IL Fox of Amity, has been killed tin action, the navy departmen f has announced. ". The most serious shortage of volunteers in months faced the ' Bed Cross mobile blood bank at the First Methodist church day. It's life-savin day and the need is urgent. Last -night registra Jewmwilty ; tion were nearly 130 short. 1 " i Nips Are Trapped On Island Ultimatum Given 15,000 as Yanks Tighten Pocket ; GUAM, Tuesday, June 12.-(JP- Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr., demanded yesterday that the Japanese commander on Okinawa unconditionally surrender surviv ing remnants of his garrison force as American troops made substan tial gains all along the southern front despite fanatical resistance. The commanding general of Jap anese forces ignored the precedent setting offer to negotiate a sur render and prevent annihilation, however. Dropped By Plane Three copies of the offer sealed in official envelopes and addressed personally to the Japanese leader, were dropped yesterday morning from two airplanes near a cave believed to be the enemy general's headquarters. - Buckner, commander of the 17. S. Tenth army, pointed out that the Japanese were trapped in two pockets-one only about two square miles . in Size, the other of 13 square miles or less and that an nihilation was certain unless they capitulated. ; j;; v :. ': There are about 13,000 Japanese still on Okinawa survivors of an original garrison of perhaps 85, Q00. Pamphlets Ineffective - (This possibly was the first time in the Pacific war that an Ameri can commander had called directly upon a Japanese general to sur render. Previously, surrender pam phlets had been dropped from air planes behind enemy lines and captured Japanese infrequently had been taken near the front and broadcast surrender appeals to their former buddies. Neither of these i methods had brought in many prisoners. It was disclosed' today for the first time that the Japanese have resorted to use of painfully-lethal phosphorous shells which are used as an anti-personnel weapon, and cause burns which quickly pro duce death.. Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley's 96th division fought off numerous small counterattacks by Nippo nese entrenched in caves. Best Crops Ever -Expected in U. S. WASH! NGTON, June 11 -Uf) The largest United States wheat crop ever produced approxi mately 1,085,000,000 bushels is indicated for 1945 on the basis of June 1 reports, the agriculture department said today. In spite of one of the coldest Mays on record, the total volume ox all crops is expected to be well above average." Total fruit production is ex pected to be nearly equal to the record output last year despite frost damage. Apples may make a record low. . Silverton and Salem Carry Away - Honors at Jersey Jubilee ' By IJIUe L. Madsen Farm and Garden Editor . Dr. M. E. DeGuire, Silverton, and Nelson & Welsh, Salem, won grand champion honors on their cattle in Marion County's 27th an nual Jersey , Jubilee held a at the State fair grounds Monday.'; O. K. Beals, chief of dairy food divi sion of the state department of agriculture, "Judged , the 118 head exhibited. . Mrs. I. F. Buyserie Marion county club secretary, clerked the show. Over 200 ring siders took part, in the picnic din ner served at noon . by the club members. : - ' ' DeGuire took his grand cham pionship on BuHseye Queen Marie, which had placed-first over nine other entries in the aged cow class. Junior champion ' was Lemonition Bright Rinda, owned by O. E. Beaty, Salem. Nelson & Welsh won the purple ribbon on Lemon ition Double Aim, winning first in two-year old bulls. Junior cham- l Los Angeles Cheers Patton I yy fx- S sJv , t I v." At i f 11 - " 1 - - f -i; ff .i - - 4 fc, ... i hmm I"' IIITtiilllir id Gen. George S. Patton, Jr4 acknowledges the cheers of thousands who greeted the famed commander of the Third army daring a parade through downtown Los Antrelea upon his return to his native California with Lt Gen, James IL DoolitUe. DoolitUe rode in another Jeep. (AP Wirephoto) ' German Torch Singer in Nightclub: Sounds Theme: IBerlin WiU Rise Again' Army's et Cut: 6 Billion After V-E Day : WASHINGTON, June 11-JP- Tne army proposes to spend $39, 019,790,474 fighting Japan alone in the year beginning July 1, one fourth less than it required in fis cal 1943 for war in both Europe and the Pacific. . . S President Truman pointed out that the figure represented a cut from the preliminary estimate of $45,500,000,000 made when the late President Roosevelt submitted the regular budget hi January. That figure was based on contin ued fighting against Germany. The i president Estimated that ihe artnyV strength will total 8,- 320.0OQ on June 30 1945, and will be cut to a maximum of 6,868,000 during; the succeeding 12 months. j The budget recommendation in cludes .only $21,963,093,400 of ac tual new money. The remainder of the total is expected to come from $8,818,195,574 jin unobligated balances of earlier appropriations and $8,238,501,500 estimated from Contract terminations. "The? budge V Me. Truman said, "not only contemplates financing the war.; against Japan throughout the figcal year but it provides funds for munitions and. equip ment to be delivered through Dec. 31, 194$; v I PFC Willard Hall Dies in Los. Angeles PFCiwillard Hall, a naUve Of Salem and a member of the 41st division, died In the Veterans' hospital) at Los 'Angeles, accord ing to Mrord received in Salem on Monday. He contracted malaria in the j south Pacific. His parents moved to Tillamook several years ago. His wife Is the former Mar garet Mary Thompson of Salem. pion was Aim Sybil - Volunteer, owned by Welsh & Beaty. The f 4-H , senior r cup went to tTed Klein . with the . Junior cup going to Betty Jean Vogt Nine 4-H club members exhibited. Get lof Lemonition Aim, shown by Otto Beaty, Welsh & Nelson, and Welsh & Beaty, won get of sire blae ribbon. Dr DeGuire plac ed first in produce of . dam. 1 Senior heifer class with 15 en tries was the largest group! Ex hibitors were Bill Poole, Ray Gir odj Donna Lee Klein, Betty Jean Vogt, Victor Barnickv Billy Don Prultt, Wallace, Riches, Bob Barnes,' Ronald . E.! Barnick, Mil dred Baily, Fred Klein, Vern Per kins, Don Potter, John Ericson, Orville, Nelson, Bob Clark, Harlan Wilson,' M. E. DeGuire, Norman Nash, Lewis Judson, O. L. Brown, Vernon Jette. Welsh St Beaty, Ot to E. Beaty,vBeaty & Brock, John Owen,; William Vogt, D. C. Brock, Ivera - Hiskey, Nelson it Welsh, Floyd Bailey and Erwin Pierce. Budg Restoration of Every iking But Hitler Pre dicted in New Lyrica r By Eddy Gilmore , BERLIN, June lO.-(Delayed) (IPJ-A honey-voiced German torch singer in a . flashy Berlin night club has given the country its first post-war: theme song, a slight- ly Dixieland ditty called Berlin Will Rise Again. The lyrics predict the resurrec tion of practically everything ex cept Adolf Hitler. I The song had Its premier at the swank cafe Leon and Kabaret der Xomiker on a streex far from the heart of bomb-levelled Berlin, and was received with almost bobby-soxer enthusiasm. Members of the audience sat starry-eyed during the 'performance. Some cried. Teel Good Again" A heavily-madeup young woman sitting near me gushed: "It's won derful. It carries so much hope. It makes us feel good again." I A sample verse: I "Berlin will rise again; I "There'll be Unter den Linden, I "And flowers will bloom again 1 there, top. " 1 "Yes, Berlin will rise again.1 i Numerous'! other verses assert that the city will be just about like it was except der fuehrer. I We went to the -night spot at the suggestion of a Russian officer who was conducting; correspon dents through the shattered re mains of Berlin. A doorman dress ed in a long orange coat was turning customers away although it was only 5 p. ml and still broad daylight. K ; - ; isoote and Saddles" : 1 The cabaret consisted of a the ater-like auditorium, a bar and tf bles. When, we entered a male crooner was going through his act, but nobody paid 'any attention to him. They watched us. Other . Mdks included a young German who with the aid of a guitar sang "Boots and Saddles." A German lady next to me said that he had not been permitted to sing this song before,' because it Was a negro spiritual. I told her it was a cowboy song. ' "Oh weU," she shrugged, "Hitler was against cowboys, too. , Auto Rationing To Be Lifted in '46, Says Nelson I CHICAGO' June " ll.-VRa-tioning of new automobiles prob ably can be lifted "some time next year" and production; should reach 100,000 a month next Jan uary, Henry P. Nelson,' WPB re conversion coordinator for the au tomotive industry, said tonight Car production Twill not get fully under way- until October," although the green light will be given July 1, the Washington offi cial said in an address at the an nual meeting cf the Chicago Au tomobile Trade association. Cure Fori Economic -Ills Eyed i. Peace Meet Unit Votes to Widen Scope of Power By Douglas B. Cornell SAN FRANCISCO, June 11.- (JP)A United Nations conference commission voted by acclamation' today to bulwark a world league with powers ' to attack economic and social ills which have helped generate war in the past . Amid predictions that it will carry a message of hope to scores of millions of people," the com mission adopted a pattern for! an international 'social and economic council - - the first section of a world charter to be drafted in ; fi nal form. 1 j . Measures Specified Another commission assembles tomorrow to "set in place" in a committee's words, "the keystone of the peace; structure which we are in the process of building." That is the ; section of a world charter setting up the -measures which a security council will take to halt conflict in the future by persuasion, economic or diploma tic sanctions,' or even the use of armed force.! -' This second commission session of the week Will be asked to ap prove' a report from netfi its committees drafted by Joseph Paul-Boncour of France." This re port, it was learned today, says the peace-enforcement median ism of the new United Nations or ganizatlon ' will be a "definite" improvement: over that of the old League of Nations. Armed Aid "Obligation" "Military assistance, in case, of aggression," the report declares, "ceases to be a 'recommendation made ot member states; it be comes for us an 'obligation' which none can shirk. "If these proposals are adopt ed, the International organization will cease to be unarmed in the face of violence; a collective force the size, the degree of prepared ness, the composition,, and the general location of which will be determined beforehand, will have been placed at the disposal of the council to carry out these deci sions." A ; Progress on another front was reported in the completion of committee work on regional ar rangement for keeping the peace. The committee is now ready! to report to its Commission, its work having demonstrated, In the words of Senator Vandenberg and the US delegation "what can be done when men of good will are determined to cooperate." ! 2 Others Lost Near Okinawa ..--.-...V -; . WASHINGTON, - June 11 The navy announced tonight the loss of two JestayV a auxil iary transport and a landing hip off . Okinawa,! with a total of 469 killed, missing or . wounded. . i " The destroyers were the Long' Shaw, with 179 casualties, and the Drexler, with 209 casualties, h ; -' The Batesj the auxiliary high speed -transport, suffered .60 cas ualties, and the LSM-135, a med ium landing ship, suffered 21 cas ualtiesv-'"' r i ' : ! . The destroyers normally carry a crew of 250, to 350, the auxiliary transport a compliment of. 150 to 190", and a medium landing ship 55. The " destroyer Longshaw, a 2050-ton craft, was commissioned in December, 1943, at Seattle. Bomber Wreckage NotlferVerilled T VANCOUVER, B." C," June t II (CP) - ' Officials at' westerTn .air command ; said tonight they did not believe wreckage spotted earlier today by an RCAF search plane was that of the Liberator bomber which disappeared June 1 with its 11 -man crew while on a routine trip from its lower main land base. They said the wreck age may 1 be -that of 'another crashed plane. . Officials will continue their air search for the missing bomber. Destroyers Nazi Arrogance Gone Forever, Is -Gen, 'Ike' Promise LONDON, June 11 -( 4 Gen eral Eisenhower, here to receive the honorary freedom of London tomorrow in a ceremony steeped in historic tradition, said tonight he believed "Russia, Britain and the United States intend to make t impossible for Germany to wage war again. The supreme allied commander declared Germany never would return to what was considered normal before the war. ! "Many Germans, want to be friendly," Eisenhower said, j "But they should -have wanted to be friendly before.- Our experience has been that the German is arro-' gant in victory and polite in de feat" Bretton Woods Plans Hit by WASHINGTON, June 11 4 (P)- Bretton Woods International fi nancial plans will Jeopardize American forestry industries and resources more than the war. Rep resentative Ellsworth (R.-Ore.) declared here. ' H "With all its noble phrases in international cooperation and sta bilization, the Bretton Woods plih leaves in the hands, of each coun try the most powerful factor : in its own trading Dosition. namely. fiott Vtliejr5. camxnfe, f Ells the value of lt currency inv rela- worth ' said during house debate on the agreement i "The effects of the war will dis appear in a few years ot increas ing growth from our-vast forest lands," Ellsworth said. "I am much concerned over the effects on American forestry in the long run of the new commercial policy of the United States." 1 Oregon Has I More Farms I f Than in 1940 The 1945 federal farm census for Oregon shows an increased acre age and from 5 to 7 per cent in crease in the number of farms, as compared with five years ago, it was disclosed today. i John Kallak, area supervisor for the farm census, said the exact in crease in farm acreage had not yet been made known. He at tributed the increased number of farms to the use of additional mar ginal land, made profitable by greater demands and prices for foods. Detailed statistics , in . all coun ties have not been announced, but for Lane county the preliminary count showed 5351 farms, as 'com pared to 4454 in 1940 and 4949 in 1935. Acreage in Lane increased from 509,058 In 1940 to 512,949 this year, but still was below the 523,713 acres of 1935. .Average farm size In Lane was 95.9 acres, compared to 114.3 in 1940 and 112.7 In 1935. . Rep. Ellsworth Marion Co. Gains in E Botidl Race to Launch Victory Shin -: Skimming , past - the halfway mark In E bond sales yesterday, Marion county advanced into; sixth place in the contest-to name the Victory ship that will be launched by the winning county during the "Mighty Seventh" war loan; cam paign. I Last .week Marion county slip ped back Into ninth place in the race among the ten leading ; coun ties, but news of the advance; came Monday to revive lagging spirits at bond headquarters on Court street. The ship win be launched at ' Oregon Shipyards , when- the first "big county goes over the top on E bonds. ;, ; - - , l"We have a fine chance to win out yet- if: everyone just gets be hind this drive as in the past," declared Chairman Douglas iYeat-er;- "We've always come through in the last week In previous cam paigns, but this time the steam must be put on right away if we are to bring borne this honor. . . Entering the fifth week of the mmm mm Four landings Unopposed, and Troops Move Steadilyj Inland; Daring Naval Units Pave Way MANILA, Tuesday, June 12- (AP) Sweating Aus tralian troops plunged steadily neo against negligible resistance today-after tour unopposed landings in the Brunei bay area Sunday as Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur bid boldly for the oil and rubber of the world's third largest island. j Already the invasion had Brunei bay, one of the southwest Pacific's finest anchorages only 800 miles Irom Singapore; swept through the ruined town of Brooketon, where hew Japanese oil machinery lay ready to be tak en to the wells, and secured the town of Victoria and Labuan air field on Labuan island. Beaches Hit Sunday ' ' .The Australians., famed "Des ert Rats" of Tobruk- and 13 Ala mein, hit the deserted beaches Sunday at 9:15 a. m. (5:45 p. m., Saturday, PWT). Advances, were general on all fronts,"" anti Vithin two hours aft er the initial landings MacArthur himself went ashore with his air forces commander, Gen. George C Kenney I and other top officers. Correspondent " credited the smoothness of the Job to daring nival forces' - which i penetrated Brunei bay three days ahead- of "D-day," removed 70 Japanese mines from the channel, set up buoys and charted the waters right-up to shore Under sporadic Japanese fire. ' Bombs Level Tewas . Ten days of continual bombing by. the US 13th and Royal; Aus tralian air forces had leveled the bayside towns "and 'driven the Japanese inland, while American cruisers and destroyers, aided by an Australian cruiser, destroyer and other vessels, laid down a heavy curtain of gunfire Just ahead ot the invasion. Watching the bombardment, MacArthur predicted that not a man would be lost in the land ings. Actually, two were killed by an accidental fire aboard one landing craft, but the troops had advanced 2,000 yards inland be fore the first man was even wounded by enemy action, j Skirmishing Light l Artillery, tanks and bulldozers followed the troops ashore and soon were moving directly to Brooketon. j The Japanese have been esti mated to number 2,000 to 5,900 in the landing area, but only the veriest handful were met at first in light skirmishing. : - Borneo, of 309,900 square miles and an annual oil production of some 20,000,000 barrels, has been an objective of allied Pacific for ces since MacArthur started on the long northward trail ! from Australia. The Island, "controlled by - the . British ' and Netherlands governments, also produces rub ber, some coal and many tropical products. '. , , j - Most of the populace, estima ted at 3,200,000, lives along the coast. '. ' j " "" drive, E bond sales hit $1,147,000 or slightly over, half of the $2,- 270,000 quota assigned this county. Individual bond purchases, how ever passed the two-million mark, well over 60 per cent of the goal, and the total reached $2,315,000. Tickets to the "Valley of De, clslon" premiere at the Elsinore theatre June 21 being distrfbvlled through issuing agencies i were stimulating sales greatly. Officials warned that the tickets might not last too. long and that potential purchasers should not delay ac tion... -'.".p. Posters .showing the 100 prizes valued at $4,600 were on display all over "town. Ticket stubs' given with each E bond purchases were rapidly filling . the big glass Jar on view at headquarters. P Lester Shields of the Jefferson Review , was named bond j chair man for the Jefferson community and will enlist his helpers soon. An Intensive campaign was prom ised at once for this district. Odd sippsiD go inland in British North Bor f secured for the allied navies Liberals Win In Canada as G.C.F. Gains , OTTAWA, June 11 -Wi- Prime Minister MacKenzie King's liberal government, which was under tpry fire for its failure to adopt total conscription, was ; returned to power tyday in a general elec- . tion which, brought; solid, support from the large French-speaking; anti-conscijlptionist . province it Quebeev-rH':.f?-- , jr i The progressive conservatives' ran a relatively weak second and the socialist CCT a poor third in the first three-way nationwide election in the dominion sine 1921. King in a radio address attrib uted his party's victory to it postwar plans, while M. J. Cold- well, a CCF leader, said defect was attributable to '"confusion' created by ."communists in tfc guise of labor-progressives.'' Cold well was defeated in a close raca with Kingj A late count showed the liberals had won or were leading in 130X of ihe 243 constituencies repre sented in the house of commons. The progressive - conservative were leading in 59 seats, the CO in 21 and the social credit party In 14, the latter from Alberta. The CCF! more than doubled it previous strength but gained lef than its leaders had hoped. t I. Tourist Meet For Postwar Plans June 15 Gov. Earl Snell announced Mon day "an all-day state-wide tourist development meeting , would b held at the capitol at 10 a. vx. Friday,' Jupe 15; with all persons and : organizations interested in tourist travel invited. . . The tourist Industry is an It. dustry, the income from which was estimated at' 150,000,000 fa normal - years. It can easily b doubled and perhaps should , b trebled," tie governor said.' V ,- We still have a war to win a major onebut the time .to lay the ground work is now. It i my opinion we should develop m well-coordinated state-wide pro. gram of tourist promotion.' ":: - ' . Ma jl Withdraw Outside Anns it BEYROTjTH, June ll-()-The British proposed today that French and British forces be withdraw! from yria -and Lebanon f simul taneously -as step toward ; a . speedy settlement , of the Levant states crisis. . " ' l Sir Edwird Grigg, British resi dent minister, made a new .bid for American participation In settling the problem. ; (In Park" authorized quarters said more- notes dm Deen e-. changed between France and Brit-. ain as a result of further attack on French civilians and soldiers by Syrians, and the situation was de- ; scribed as ."worse instead, of bet- ter.- ' . . I si