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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1945)
Earl B. Day brought to the tax , commission - a line maturity ol Judgment couDled with a broad ; knowledge of Oregon. govern ment, especially, county govern- ment, and of Oregon taxation. It - Is regretted that he is leaving the . commission to return to his for- ; mer home in Medford. Day s was . a steadying influence exerted , quietly but none the less effect ively. Since the tax commission has - ben a hot spot in Oregon govern ment for the past four years, fill ing this vacancy will call for more than ordinary reflection by the - three elective officials who do the appointing: the governor, the sec- : retary of state and the state treas- : urer. Incidentally while these i three are the appointing group - we j uu not uu au as uic mxuu wx control, which they , constitute. The law granting them the auth- ority of appointing members of the tax commission refers to these elective officials by title and not as a board. i v The tax commission divides its - work into three sections, with one ' commissioner heading each. Gal- ' lowav handles nrorertv taxation and review of assessments; Visher I handles income and corporation excise taxes; Day , has handled utility assessment. Presumably his successor will handle the same ; division, since the other members are veterans in their own depart ments. ; - - However, the tax commission by law and by practice is called on to advise with reference to Oregon's system of taxation. It is f ex officio given membership in ' ; the new interim commission to ' study our tax structure. This is a fact the appointing officials must keep in mind in selecting Day s successor. ' .-The field of choice is narrow. Taxation is such a complicated (Continued on Editorial page) Push 31 Miles Along Coastline CHUNGKING, June 12 Chinese troops . have swept 31 miles up China's east coast, smash ing within 24 miles "of the big former treaty port of Wenchow in a mounting drive to clear Japa nese forces from mainland de fenses opposite Okinawa, Chinese front reports said today. . Chinese sources in Chungking believed the Japanese might be planning to abandon Wenchow and withdraw 225 miles north ward along China's invasion-vul nerable coast to Shanghai. Pursuing Japanese forces which have abandoned virtually all coastal Fuklen province, Chinese troops battered into Chekiang province and captured Pingyang, In a southern threat to Wenchow, 440 miles west of Okinawa, the Central News Agency, reported. In the last three weeks, Japa nese forces have fallen back along the east coast 135 miles from a band on ed Foochow. The Chinese stormed into Pingyang, an out er defense stronghold of Wen chow, after a 31-mile advance in four days from Futing, 55 miles south of Wenchow. Dennis Must Pay With Life . Andrew W. Dennis, Portland shipyard worker, must die in the State's lethal gas chamber for the murder of Anna' Bell McNallen, his mother-in-law. The state su preme court so ruled Tuesday, up holding an earlier conviction by a Jury in Multnomah county circuit court , 51 Dennis has maintained his inno cence, claiming circumstantial evi dence had convicted him. The state alleged he had accused Mrs. McNallen of breaking up his. mar riage. Jutice Percy R. Kelley dissented from the decision written by Jus tice James T. Brand, but did not write a separate opinion. Judge Martin W. Hawkins is to resentence Dennis, whose only re maining hope would be clemency by Gov. Earl Snelt House Passes Anti-PoUTax WASHINGTON, June 12-VPh Overriding objections of southern . .. . . . . i aemocrais, ujc uuu rt"-7 and sent to the senate legislation tn abolish the poll tax as a re - Chinese Troop quirement for voting for federal urday bond show also given at officers. - : " victory Center. The program will It was the third time In , sue- ,tart promptly aj 12 o'clock, ac cess! ve congresses the house has cordina to County Chairman Doug- approved the measure, and as in the past foes predicted it would die in the senate. - . v Passage came on a Z5l to iuo ... roll all -vote, after hours- of sharp debate before a crowded house. Spirits ran high during the argu ment and at one time the chair had to admonish spectators not to pplauL - - - resisting .Vj ifm Bitterly 7. '" ' m'-- tounp" f51 m : J : - - I . 1 ' . NTNETY-FIFTH YE ATI . 10 PACIES Salom. fWrrm. WodnJrr- Momfnrr. Tun 13. ' . Prfe Sc. . N 67 I ' i ' . Americans Use Ropes to Scale Sheer Rock Cliff By Lelf Erickson GUAM, Wednesday, June 13.- (PV-Using ropes for scaling and p re-dawn darkness for cover, US 10th army forces seized vital heights at both ends of the Yaeju escarpment on southern Okinawa Tuesday and held on grimly " in daylight against heavy counterat tacks of the no-surrender Japan ese. " The two separated and fast dwindling forces of the enemy on the island brought every weapon to bear, even ripping machine- guns from the wrecked airplanes as they elected to die with a typi cal flourish of defiance. Japanese navy men, trained or iginally as a landing force, held out grimly in a small pocket on Oroku peninsula'. Climb With Ropes On the east flank of4he escarp ment line, the 17th regiment of Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's Seventh infantry division pulled their way witn ropes up a sneer face of the escarpment northwest of the- town of Hanagusuku. They reached the top of a cliff fronting the plateau. Southwest of Hanagusuku, oth er Seventh division elements pushed down the south slope of Hill 95 from captured heights. Gains of the division ranged up to 500 yards. On the west flank, Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del Valle's First marine division opened an attack at 3:30 a. m. which won advances up to 1000 yards. The leathernecks reached the crest of Kunishi ridge by their surprise move and moved forward against light resistance until daylight. Then the Nippon ese struck back but the marines hung on and were reinforced un der heavy fire. 96th Takes Tew n M. In the center, the -383rd regi ment of Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley's 96th infantry division captured all of the town of Yuza after a rough, seesaw battle. The 383rd beat off a small enemy counterattack, then pushed for ward about 200 yards. This ad vance reached high ground south of Yuza on the approaches of the irregular escarpment. Japanese planes renewed their assaults Monday on Okinawa shipping and hit a light vessel. the 54th American ship damaged by such attacks. (The navy in Washington has announced, addi- tionally, that 25 ships have been sunk.) Ten raiders were shot down. Service Years Will Count in . Teachers' Pay The 17 men and women now on military leave from Salem public school faculties will fit back into the system's salary schedule as if their years in the service of their country had been spent in ' the schoolroom, directors decided at their regular meeting Tuesday night. In addition to establishing a pol icy for returning teachers, the board accepted resignations from five and hired 10 faculty members, authorized calling for bids for ac coustical treatment of the Salem high school auditorium and upper hallway ceilings and a new fur nace for the McKinley building, approved a plan for continuation of night machine shop classes and extended for another three years the contract of Supt. Frank B. Bennett (More about school teachers and adminstration, page 2.) Flag Celebration Stated Thursday Noon To Help Boost - A Flag day celebration at Vic tory Center on Thursday has been arranged by the Marion county committee to help push the Sev enth War Loan drive toward the $4,320,000 goal to be reached be fore the Fourth of July. The Thursday noon bond rally, which will be broadcast over KSlM at the usual 12:45 hour, will 1 t uffM thA miUr Kat ja$ Yeater, but details will not be announced until later. l Arrangements for another bond I 4 -1 raiiy.nexi wee a; ouvenoa &i are being worked on by the county committee with the assistance of Chairman Ed Clough and Captain Mclntyre, advance man for the "This is Your Infantry.?: Flame throwers and other spectacular ef NINETY-FIFTH .. YEAR 10 PAGES hom&n wildly Greets i By Beery B. Jameson -- '' LONDON, June 12,-(-:Amid all the pomp-and pageantry of the centuries iold - English court, r the city of London today bestowed its highest honor of "freeman" on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ust 30 years ago today was gra duated from West Point as a sec ond lieutenant. !, Later, at an informal tea at Buckingham palace, King George VI invested the victorious allied Commandej-in-chief with .the or der of merit, second only to the ordec of ftjhe Bath, first class, Travel j By Train Due 1' f ... K" . For S WASHINGTON, June Fifty per cent less Pullman space and 10 to il2 per cenl? fewer rail road coaches wil be available for civilian travel in August and thereafter',! Transportation Direc tor J. Monroe Johnston said to day. IS Y The critical shortage will last through next March" as battle bound trojops from Europe move from ejfstrn ports tojwestern em barkation ipoints, Johnson said. The office of defense transpor tation, will seek to layoid travel rationing? I or train priorities, he told a news "conferebce, "but if necessary,; well ration."" " - "We'll do whatever is necessary to keep the business bf the nation going," the ODT director asserted in a plea for less civilian travel. fTravel liationing wuld be one one the most cuxiicult uungs ever attempted, but if driven to it we'll have to act" I Stringpnt tightening of air trav el was jalso predicted, especially west-bound. I l s "I understand that in another two or three weeks you might as well stay! home unless you hold a No. 2 airplane prlorfty," jonnson said. ii L. Al Simington Die inNiivy Bomber (trash Lawrence A. Simington, AMM 3c. ' of iSalem, was killed in a navy boftiber crash dff San Diego last Wednesday night. Two other men lost their lives when the plane Dlouehed into the sea on a rou tine fligoi from Long! Beach, Calif. Siminiton's widow, Anne B. Simington, and four children, Robert, S Lorraine, arbara and Martin, fall of Salera; his father, Walter Simington of ' Vancouver; Wash.; his mother, Rachael Sun Ington, Wisconsin; three brothers, Les, Leyis and Leonard Siming ton. all overseas witn me u. a. army; sfaters Mrs. Harris Boyer of Swisshbme, ; Ore, and Mrs. John Jaukuebfc of Vancouver, all sur vive. il ... . ! Y. " Funeral services Thursday at 1:30 p. na. from the w. T. Rigdon chapel ill be -under auspices of Capital jPost No. 9, American Le gion, the; Rev. S. Raynor Smith officiating. V-12 meh from Will amette tmiversity will be pall bearers. lash Marion's 7ih War Loan Drive I LI "I " 't ' ' fects ofijhe regular army opera- tions wil be demonstrated at the Silverton ball park Friday night, June 22 Fighting equipment used by the soldiers in Rapturing . the Japanese; pillbox positions will be shown on the street! of Silverton during the day. Rex ' Kimmel of Salem will give the! bond talk at the ball park. ' Bond ales slowed! down yester day despite the stimulus given E bonds tlirough the plsinore pre miere, -4jV alley of Decision, on June 21.! Tickets are being given with all bonds purchased at the regular issuing agencies. .;-Totalf sale were j reported by Treasurer ; Lawrence Fisher as $2,362,000 but bonds still were not much past the half way mark reached Monday. . " - ' . With a' million dpllars goal . to work on, Industrial Chairman Dent 8 B .; amopg the honors by which Brit ain Rewards its heroes. General Ike was acclaimed by the ank and file of Londoners on a triumphant drive , through the streets, and ' then at the ancient bomb scarred guildhall by a throng of cheering dignitaries, to whom he was introduced as .the "genius" who steered the allied armies to victory over fascism. As a token of recognition of his great leadership, the soldier from Abilene, Kans., was presented withj the gold-decorated sword carried by the Duke of Welling- . -.. .... . Stilicell in Okinawa Mud- 9 v up- fc,j.jjLi Gen. Joseph Silwell (left); braved mod and raia to see his eld ommand, the 7th division, la action a Okinawa. He wu aeeem aaled by MaL Gen. Arch V. Arnold (right), eensnanding reerml e the 7th.v This phaU was transmitted front Gum via nary radio. (AP Wirepboto) S ' Provisions of Charter for Security Council Approved By Conference Committee By DOUGLAS B. CORNELlJ SAN FRANCISCO, June ,12; - charter provisions for a security council to enforce peace and bak up its decisions with armed might was approved unani mously late today by a United Accepted by diplomats of in; San Francisco's opera house ustrian Head Seeks Support By th Associated JPress ; jr. Karl Kenner, cnanceuor ana foreign minister of the provisional Austrian regime, said today In a broadcast address that his d- tration .included absolutely parties in the country with the gle exception of the fascists." He said he hoped it would be ad mitted to the "community of na tians that the victorious powers have 'undertaken. to establish."' Reed reported total purchases of $66,40O of which $15200 was in E )ondar Firms over the" top in-, elude Keith Brown, Chemical Con struction, Portland Gen. Electric, Blake, Moffitt & Towne, City Ice, Rosebraueh ' Furniture, Interstate Tractor, Valley Fruit & Produce, western per at uonverung. way Heating. Kay Woolen Mills, Rein- holdt-Lewis,- Associated Oil, Bel crest Memorial, Casper & Cutler. ith' reports already well past the halfway mark but E bonds lagging, women workers were pre paring to clean mp their territories before a big. luncheon gathering next Tuesday,' June 19, at the Golden Pheasant, according to Mrs. James T. ' Brand, women s chairman. - Both -downtown and residential districts assigned to more' than 300 bond saleswomen wis be thoroughly canvassed this week, U was said. Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning, June 13. 7 UU U ton at the battle of Waterloo. Aft er the colorful peremony it was returned to the hniseum where it rested for nearly ,'100 years, and in its ' stead Eisenhower will receive a sword being specially forged with , his - name engraved on the blade. - j The general was visibly touch ed by the applause which greeted him as he strodd into the historic x ai th. "The Battle Hyirjn of the Repub lic." Standing aljj the center of the huge rostrum, he was flanked on three sides by knembers of the i (P) - The heart of, a new world Nations conference commission. 50 nations at a public session was a committee report which termed these provisions "a great historic development" and the key stone of a peace structure. . - s t They empower a tightly-knit council of 113 members to take over for . all fee United Nations the responsibility for stepping into any situation I or dispute which threatens to embroil the world in conflict in the future. . Council membership ' is restricted to the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China permanently, plus six smaller powers on a ro tating basis, i The council! could take what ever measures jjit considered neces sary to erase the threat of war. It could, make ' recommendations, draft terms for peaceful concilia tion'of quarrels, and apply mili tary .and economic sanctions. If it takes bailitary , persuasion to prevent war, the council will have at its call some of the air. sea and land forces of great and small powers. Directing them will be great power chiefs of staff the experts who engineered the defeat of Germany. " ' " Still to be decided, however, Is the voting procedure by which the council will make its decisions and. the question of whether each of the big five will have the rlgh they. .demand to veto peace- en forcement action. A - conference committee ' was working toward a critical ballot on the issue to night , :. ' ; - . r. British delegation chief Lord Halifax told pbe committee the result would jjshow whether we shall or shall pot have a charter. The commission action on en forcement arrangements is sub ject to final approval of the en tire - conference, but that will be more or less E routine. . n , ' 1 V 1945 . :-:! Y; M I cabinet and scores of notable fig ures, including . Prime . Minister Churchill, Air Chief .Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder and Am erican Ambassador John G. Win ant . . . :-V-rf-.. Following presentation of - the sword by the lord mayor; Eisen hower: spoke with emotion when he said he was so overcome he "might' well lose complete confi dence did I not know I was among friends." ' ' : i : ". j - "The high sense of distinction I feel in receiving this great honor from the city of London is ines Army Tells Details Of Its New Lethal I . - t. Flame Thrower 1 j ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Pa cific Ocean Areas, Honolulu, June 12-(JP)-The army disclosed today details, of its new lethal flame thrower tanks with extension hoses capable of operating with deadly effect more than 500 feet from the tanks themselves. 3 The new weapon is being used extensively in the' Okinawa cam paign to burn out Japanese hidden in steep, cave-studded ridges. Heretofore, details were classified as a military secret ! Hopkins Back; Polish Problem To Be Viewed) WASHINGTON, June U-m- Harry L. Hopkins flew home to day from his latest mission; to Moscow, and soon afterward! the capitals of the Big Tree nations announced a step toward settle ment of the tangled Polish i re organization question. J Hopkins reported immediately to President Truman, who had dispatched him to Russia to pis cuss several problems vexing Russo - American relations, and made no public comment on the results of his trip. ! A few hours after his return, it was announced here and in Lon don and Moscow that represen tatives of the United States,' Brit ain and Russia will meet in Mos cow Friday with Polish provision al government and other Polish leaders to seek a solution of) the Polish government reorganization agreed upon at Yalta. ' J ; Mr. Truman is scheduled to dis cuss Russo-American relations at his news conference tomorrow. FEPC Request Turned Down WASHINGTON, Junei 12. President Truman's request for permanent FEPC was turned down flatly today by the house rules committee, with a democrat from the president's home State casting the deciding vote. By a six-to-six count the mittee at a closed . door session refused to send to the floor: for a vote legislation to make perman ent the fair employment practices committee created by the jlate President Roosevelt to prevent em ployment ; discrimination becjause of race, creed or color. 3 The action virtually killed, the legislation, since it will stand as long as none of the six committee opponents changes his mind,! and there was no .indication that this would nappen. . . , Bonus Bonds of World War I Mature June 15 L Bonus bonds, or 'adjusted com pensation" certificates issued to veterans of the first world war, mature June 15 next .The certifi cates may now be deposited with the ; post office - for" payment,! ad vises- Henry; R.- Crawford, post master." While most of the bonus certificates -were cashed 10 "years ago, some veterans held theirjeer tificates which now are maturing. Weather Mia. Kl saa rrancuco " 51 Eugene . CI . 49 trrnce S-lem - M " 4S trac Portland ' 3 SO trc Willamette rtvar 1 inch. i. I , 'FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem) : Fartly cloudy, today -witn little- farmer temperatures. lUxlmum today about U asrs No. 17 capably mingled-with feelings of profound sadness," he said.! "All 1 of us must always regret that your country end mine were ever faced .with the -tragic situation that compelled .the appointment of an allied commander-in-chief. '.. Eisenhower was the fourth' Am erican to receive the freedom "of the city. The others were j Gen. John J. Pershing, Gen, Ulysses S. Grant and . Theodore -Roosevelt He was the first American soldier to receive the' "order i of meritj wnicn was instituted by King xm ward VII in 1902 as a personal honor from the king. . , Nurses9 Honors The highest award of the U. S, office of civilian defense, the Cita tion of Merit has been granted to the Salem Red Cross nurses aide corps. The corps, with more than 300 members performing services in tate and general hospital here is one of the largest in the country, State CD Administrator Jack Hayes, who announced the award, said. 1 Only 40 of the awards have been granted and this is the second to come to Oregon. The first went to the Multnomah county . Red Cross blood bank. s , Specifically, the award is in rec ognition of the nurses aides "as sistance when 30 cases of infan tile paralysis were under j treat ment in Marion county, j, They learned and practiced newest methods of treatment Hayes said. Adair to Get Old Divisions Only Rumor Humors that the 70th and 104th divisions, which trained at Camp Adair, would return to .the Wil lamette valley's cantonment to prepare for assignments as re placements in the Pacific theatre were quashed here Tuesday night by Lt Cot Eugene I. Foster, camp commander. I ; No information which might serve as basis for such a rumor has been received by him, he de clared, "although ; we'd like to have them." I t J The colonel's statement followed by a few hours the departure of an army ground forces general staff party which had spent the weekend conferring with him on plans for re-opening' the camp. r . In the "group, which left Salem by plane Tuesday morning: were Maj. Gen. F. B. Mallon, Col. A. L. Harding, Lt Col. B. P. Carden, Lt, Cot J. A. Logan, Lt CoL A. R. Flemming of Ninth service conn mand headquarters. Fort Doug las, Utah; Maj. A. B. Simonson and Capt S. J. Hamshaw, aide to the general, with Capt A. K. Thompson as pilot and First Lt A. L. Cornier as co-pilot All except Flemming were from Washington or Fort George Meade, Md.v : Maj. Clyde Baum, Ninth service command, Fort Douglas, .Utah,' al so has been conferring with Colo nel Foster. Fraternization By Daniel De Laee FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOM ERY'S HDQTS, . BAD OEYEN HAUSEN, Germany, June li-ff) Fraternization is widespread and increasing in western Germany, regardless of all allied military edicts.. , It ranges from open comraderie in rural villages t to - bootlegged friendships in big towns. ; c J It's a case of boy meets girl, and the ranks of allied armies are in favor of it whatever the home fronts may think. On : a 600-mile trip from the Saar to the Danish border, this correspondent was uhable to dis cover any ' difference of opinion among, American, British and Ca nadian troops concerning frateml zation. . . :7:J -izJ-r- In each army . tone,. X found abundant vioiaUons et least t9 Price 5c Aides Win Increasing mg On Brunei Occupation of Isles Offshore Nearly Complete By Spencer Davis MANILA, Wednesday, June 13.- (flVAustraliari invaders of north west Borneo, switching from hel mets to broadbrims under "the broiling sun after Japanese re sistance' continued' light hav pushed in ' force 'four miles from the coast tS within 1Q airline miles of Brunei. , ' . urns anve toward me capital city of the British protectorate. vital because it leads toward rich BRUNEI BAT, Borneo, Jane lS.-iAV-Tbe Japanese have set the torch ' te vast stores of oil In' the Serla field, seutheast ef invading Australian forces ad vancing toward Brunei. Last nlghtl the resultant orange flow In .the sky eold be seen $ miles 'away; ; The oil stores being burned must ran Into the hundreds ef thousands of gallons. oil fields, drew the personal at tention of Geif. Douglas MacArth ur who visited the front 'with rear Adm. Forrest Bretton, royal Aus tralian assault group commander. Official headquarters reports to day listed new. gains on Brunei from demolished ..Brooketon vil lage, j Island Occupied An important staging point for supplies to sipport the mainland push was -assured when the "dig gers" completely occupied four-mile-long Muara island, lying ath wart Brooketon. The narrow chan nel does not permit direct unload ing of supplies- on the mainland. . On Labuaiji island, which Gen eral MacArthnr visited on O-day, Sunday, hundreds of .troops and supplies were ; poured ' ashore by the supporting U. S. Seventh fleet The Aussies veterans of Cghtjipg in Africa"" against the Germans, cleared tthe Nipponese from dense ly wooded hills to a point two miles north of the airfield. Labuan commands the entrance to Brunei bay, an excellent fleet anchorage. Swamps lie Ahead Although xhe push on Brunei was lightly pposed, ahead of the rats of TQbruk are crocodile- infested swamps and rattan jung les, forested with ironwood and rubber trees, Royal Australian and 13th air force fighter-bombers supported operations with 163 more sorties, dropping 170 tons of general pur pose and deadly, fire bombs ca pinpointed enemy targets. Seventh fleet patrol -, torpedo boats strafed Sipitang, east of Brunei placed a stranglehold on at tempted enemy barge movements. While work was pressed toward preparing a 'great new allied bas within 800 miles of Singapore, a navy privateer sank a freights and left another smoking at Ruck ing, capital of Sarawak, on the west coast of Borneo, y- Civil Service Group Meets The new I state civil service commissionj created . by the 1945 legislature to administer the civ il service law for state employee which became effective July 1, met here in its first session Tues day, j -.; V One of the first tasks facing it is the naming of a provisional di- rccwr py wuiy i ana seiecuon Ol a permanent director by September 30. Gov. Earl Snell said he had received several applications for the position Members of the com mission are? J. N. Chambers, Sa lem; A. Ci Cammack, Portland, and Mrs. Effie Turneaure, Hood River. j " ' - Is Widespread, in West Germany per cent official unreported ct supreme headquarters policy of non-fraternization. I have yet : to meet a soldier whether he comes from London, the Mississippi, val ley, or the! Alberta wheat fields, who wants the ban continued. ; "How are we punishing the German people by living ourselves as if we were in prison?', is the commonest ;qursuuu. : As a correspondent I have re ceived confidences from enlisted men whichji their officers rarely enjoy. At one motor service depot, the commanding captain told me the non-fraternization policy : was being observed strictly but that he hoped for the benefit of all that it would be relaxed soon. His sergeant clerk quietly admitted later that every man in the unil had been fenieramea a German homes in, the past month. 1 . - 'I t : i