Not, many groups have failed ,to share in the prosperity in duced by war expenditures. There is one group, however, which Is licking its wounds, and that is the insurance companies, both fire insurance companies and auto insurance companies. ' The former have taken their licking -from ; heavier fire losses which Increase in; building values and costs of repair also nick them. But the ! auto insurance com panies are taking the real beat ing. . . '; "!!! '. " -. . Remember two years ago when the financial responsibility law went into effect and insurance agencies were worn down writing policies for automobile owners? That business looked good to them and to the. companies, but the companies borrowed a lot of trouble when they took on that business. Where they are getting nicked is in the increased cost of auto mobile repairs. Where once it might cost three or four dollars to iron out, a fender or replace a damaged nart! now the bill may ' run to eight or ten dollars. And with nearly every car insured that means that every time there is an auto collision one or per haM two cars are repaired at insurance company expense. That is why, in two short years the faces of insurance executives are not wreathed in the smiles of two vears ami. The companies added to their own grief when they scaled down rates on automobile insurance after tire and gas rationing cut ..down mileage and supposedly re duced soeeds at which cars would income on the eve qi tne neavier outgo. Because of , (Continued on editorial page) Chinese Within 14 Miles of Wenchow Port CHUNGKING, June 1ZHP)- Chinese troops forced the broad Feiyun river barrier and reoccu- pied the small port of Juian on China's east coast today in a fast- moving drive on Wenchow, only 14 miles north, the Chinese high command reported; ' Closely supported by armed Chi nese guerrillas emerging from coastal hills, Chinese regufars poured into Juian after a 10-mile advance from captured Pingyang, 24 miles south of the big former treaty port -which l;es 440 miles west of Okinawa. The Japanese were falling back cn Wenchow, with Its population of 80,000, with the Chinese close on their heels and battling to clear the entire invasion-threatened Chi nese coastline northwest of the Japanese island of Formosa. There were signs that the Jap anese were going to pull out of Wenchow with the same lack o; resistance that marked their aban donment I of Foochow, 160 miles southwest three weeks ago. Service Clubs Could Help .in Child Guidance Financial assistance to aid Sa lem or . Salem and Marion county public schools to take greater ad vantage of the state child guid ance clinic would be a welcome contribution from organized serv ice women'i clubs of the commu nity, a trio of speakers who ad dressed representatives of the or ganizations at chamber of ' com merce ' rooms Wednesday night agreedr i ' . '. ' Such assistance could be as low as $200. Five hundred dollars would bring results which could be tallied and $2500 a year would be considered a great assistance, Dr. W. J. Stone, county health officer, declared r Dr. Lawrence A. Rig, profes ' eor of education at Willamette university, spoke of the" methods and the result of .various clinics, tt.. .nut tH magnitude of anv itaOx. undertaking. Approximately IS per cent of the nation's public . mi4i come ctecial J -". - . guidance, he I declared. Supt Frank H. Bennett of Sa lem public schools sketched the -history of the child guidance movement fromlihe days of the dunce stool to today's modern edu cational reauirements. Schools, he said, are faced with the need to make studies interesting to boys and girls who a generation or two mrn would have Quit classes be cause of boredom. He emphasized that children in need of clinical guidance are sometimes geniuses, seldom sub-par mentally. Yanks Take Sherman Tanks from Japanese MANILA, Thursday, June 14-(-MaJ. Gen. Robert S. Beight lers Buckeye division (37th) captured five Japanese tanks In the Cagayan valley, north Luzon, today. Three of these were m-k (General Grants). ; Vndoubtedl; they were taken by the enemi t Bataan in 1942. .. t , ' 1 SlOTBUi I- Big Port City May Fall Soon ; By Spencer Davis MANILA, Thursday, June 14 (JP) Australian forces seized 3600 foot Brunei air field, two miles north of the British North Borneo capital, and the capture of anoth er field, on Labuan island, off Brunei bay, is imminent, head quarters announced today. Fall of the port city of Brunei, perhaps without a fight, may come at any time. The landings Sunday in Brunei bay, a spokesman said, caught the Japanese by surprise. It is evi dent the enemy expected an allied landing at Jesselton, 60 miles to the northwest. Advance 14 Miles Digger! columns advanced 14 miles from Brooketon in 48 hours to seize the Brunei air field. Only a few disorganized Nipponese were encountered. The occupation gives the allied forces not only command of the strip but also some of the finest rubber plantations in Borneo, within the immediate vicinity. On Labuan Island, off Brunei bay, Australian cavalry comman dos mechanized forces who landed at Point Hamilton "moved over easy rotting coconut" ' and rubber plantation country' to with in two miles of Tambalai airstrip the third air field of import ance in the invaded area. Overran Quickly The first captured air field, on Labuan island, was overrun with in a few hours of the Australian Ninth division's landing. .Japanese demolition teams working in frantic haste in ad vance of the swiftly advancing allied forces, put the torch j to the great Seria and Miri oil fields to the southwest of Brunei arid pre sumably dynamited the wells. In addition to the prize-package seizure of Brunei air field, the Australian Ninth made a success ful daylight landing two miles east of Brunei town without op position. j Allied Nations Will Discuss Food Problem LONDON, June 13-flP)-Repre sentatives of at least nine allied nations will meet tomorrow to tac kle the threat of European starva tion while Britain's National Farmers' union predicts a win ter of "the most frugal rations In living memory." British Food Minister Col. J. J. Llewcllin, expected to direct dis cussions of the allied food con ference opening in London, today told commons that some .100,000, 000 people in liberated Europe were looking for food. "It will not be a good founda tion for peace if they ... have to go hungry," Llewellin warned. Food experts from the United States, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Lux embourg and France are expect ed to attend the conference. Rus sia, Yugoslavia, and 'Czechslova kia also have been invited but there la no Indication they will attend. NINETY-FIFTH YEAR C of C. Will Seek Increased Sugar Rations Increased sugar rations for home canning to help save the Willam ette valleys fruit crop and priori ties to permit erection of another 100 new residences here to meet needs of returning veterans will be actively sought by - Salem Chamber of Commerce. ; A fair portion - of tha fruit grown In this valley in abundance annually goes into home canning kettles, directors declared at their meeting .Wednesday night The recent five pound slash in can ning sugar allotments will mean that tons . of .- fruit particularly that tag , ends , of the crop not profitably harvested for commer cial procession, will : rot on the ground, they said. nire s- ti- . ' ' 5' ---'- . i s- - : t Battle Over Power lof Veto Ends in Defeatlfor Smdll Nations; Will Speed Windup By DOUGLAS SAN IftANCISCO June bitterestyb?ittle of the! United Nation conference ended today in: defeat for small powers and the f sealing of big five veto control ovf r , peace-enf orcement league. II - 'J - Little countries, with Australia in the van, fought hard to - keep Bruain, Russia, unina, France and Hie United States from having a veto over peaceful set tlement of disputes. But they lost. Many conceded in advance they would. IS The big sowers had put it squarely up;' to them to accept a complete veil or run the risk that the great nations wouldn't ratify the charter tor a new United Na tions organization. : On the final showdown in a conference committee the opposi tion mustered a skimpy two votes against the 1 1 veto-voting -f formula SAN FRANCISCO, June U (F)- A United Nations confer ence commission voted tonlfht to harness jregional defense ar ranrement : with a world se curity system and use both to help keep peace in the future. It approved unanimously a committee report setting op a plan to let reflonal associations of nations, like the Pan-American, fend off aggressors until a' new world f league takes ever i tj :. worked out at a Roos evelt-Church- ill-Stalin meeting at Yalta this spring. 11 But 15 nations abstained from voting. IS Not all the delay on the .veto question was caused by small- power opposition. When they ask ed for an interpretation ofiiow the vote would Jwork, Russia was at odds with the! United States, Brit ain, France ' and China, - and got in line only after the United States appealed to jfremier Stalin. delegates reported the first pro vision was approved unanimously, that Cuba alhne.voted against the second, and, that the ballot oh the third was 30 for, 15 abstaining, 3 absent, and Cuba and Colombia voting in the; negative, f With the veto issue settled ex cept 'or the formality of ratifica tion in a commission and in a full plehary session of the conference, delegates saw the path , of their deliberations smoothing out. 500,000 Japs Die iri Tokyo FUdd Belief ; TTNIAN, June 13-flVCol. Al fred F. Klaberer, veteran , of 20 B-29 missions over ' Japan, - esti mated today that 500,000 Japanese "perhaps 1,500,000" have been killed in Tokyo alone by Super fort bombings. .. -i Klaberer, commander of the 58th bombardment wing group of the ; 21st - bomber command, had 2000 combat Hours with the "Hell Birds' outfit." veterans of the In dia-China theatre recently trans- ferred to the- Marianas. s "The Japanese should be con vinced in three months of the use- lessness of continuing the war he said. "If we cannot convince them by that time, we will have to put them- though our meat; grinder ' for Canning Home canners in this area have not! utilized all. their, blue ration points and a survey would show that they have left much of the commercially: canned fruits for military use and for consumers in parts of the j nation where less food is produced, they maintain. Reactivation of Camp Adair Jusft as veterans return home has already been felt in housing short ages, directors said. They agreed to seek priorities for ; private builders similar to those for 100 homes granted here earlier this year. 3:, :! . . $ - Directors again went oh record in favor of the Bush pasture park purchase, to be voted upon at the June 22 special election. -i Salem, Oregon, .1 B. CORNELL s nrn?nv jyutflM; l.-KHThe longest and perhaps mechanism 01 a new world t ' mes May Provide Sukar For U. S. Y : , YAKIMA, Wash, June 13-(y- Chairman Anderson (D-NM) dis closed: today that the bouse food shortage investigating committee has high hopes that tills country's very i short sugar supply can be supplemented by Philippine pro duction yet this year. Government officials had vir tually eliminated these islands as a possible source of supply before next year, due to war conditions in the Pacific. The ; committee's hopes are bas ed,, he! told a food hearing here, upon information which he said he was not at. liberty to disclose, because of its military nature. The committee is checking to ascertain whether this Information is cor rect V ' -:, ''.'-: f . Anderson indicated that he will make every effort possible to ob tain supplies from the Philippines, if it is at all possible, when he becomes secretary .of agriculture and war food administrator next month; (Additional details on page 2.) England Hurt In Influence By Election 1 LONDON, June 13-y!P)-Prime Minister Churchill said tonight that Great Britain's world influ ence has been diminished at a critical time by the bitter general election campaign. He alluded; to President Tru man as "a strong president with three and a half years tenure and purpose before him." In his second radio address of the campaign for the July 5 elec tion, Churchill asked the voters to elect a government which would be a "powerful, organized and in tegrated force." He said many nations failed to comprehend "the way we manage our affairs,' adding: "Until the election has been decided,' we are bound to be weakened In the world for all purposes." ; He fsaid relations between parties! had worsened in the last 10 dayjt and warned they "could not afford to ;disparage and be little each other while we aspire to be I the heart-center of the British! empire and common wealth;! and thus walk side by side with mighty entities like the United jl States and soviet Russia. Truman Raps Cost-Pius Plan WASHINGTON, June 1S.-MV Presideht Truman took; a hand today in the fight over wartime price control, personally opposing and apparently; dooming the sen ate's cost-plus : plan for pricing farm products.! f The plan, sponsored by Senator Wherry!; (R-Neb) was attached as an amendment to a bfll extend ing the office f of price adminis tration's powers for a year. The bin recently passed the senate. A second , sizzling controversy popped! up today as house repub licans launched a drive to limit the OPA continuation to six monthsJ .. j - , MONTGOMERY HONORED . LONDON, June 13 -ffH Held Marshal Sir Cemard L. Mont gomery: was named a Knight of the i Grand Cross Order of. , the Bath in the birthday i honor list of King George VL announced today, s i:v r T1 ll rluliDP 1 1 1 Thursday Morning; June 14, IS 45 DiraasCiKsdl FlanksOf ese By IJef Erlckson GUAM, Thursday, June 14.- The sixth marine division smashed the Japanese Oroku peninsula pocket on Qkinawa yesterday af ter a fierce; nine-day battle while the First marine and Seventh in fantry divisions pressed back both flanks of the precipitous Yaeju escarpment! f Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shapherd, jrs Sixth j division killed 3500 Japanese on the peninsula, rais ing to more! than 70,000 the num ber of enemy troops killed on Okinawa in the 75-day old cam paign, j Shepherd's marines overran an enemy hospital on Oroku and found 150 Japanese dead Inside. The bodies presumably were those of wounded: who were killed by the Japanese before they with drew from the area. : It Is a matter of policy for Jap anese not to permit wounded to fall Into, American hands. Maj. den.lArchibald V. Arnold's Seventh division doughboys ad vanced up to 400 yards on the east flank of the Yaeju line to gain control of most of the es carpment rim in their area. . , With. ;control of that rim, the division is in a position to de velop a pincer arm around the eastern side of the escarpment There are some roads and . draws in this area and some small vil lages through which tanks and self-propelled guns can be brought up. ' On the west flank, Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del Valle's First di vision marines carried troop rein forcements j forward on tanks through heavy Japanese fire - to strengthen their positions oh the Kunishi ridge. The reinforcements had to move across open rice pad dies before the ridge. House Votes - ! Government Pay Increase WASHINGTON, June 13 - (P) The house today passed, by a vote 'of 317 to 36, legislation granting pay increases and "true overtime- to some 1,200,000 government em ployes. j The bill now goes to the senate, Which earlier had passed a bill with different overtime provi sions. The senate also has pend ing a house-passed bill providing similar pay raises for postal work ers. : I - f I Today's measure grants the 15 per cent increase authorized un der the little steel formula to many federal workers who have had' no classification raises since 1923. In addition, it provides a time and one-half rate, or 30 per cent more pay, for overtime over 40 hours a week on salaries up to $2980. The senate measure con tinues the present one and one twelfth rate for overtime. It was expected the senate would send the bill to conference for settle ment of differences. ! Transport Flies 4330 j Miles All; Over Water j I CASABLANCA, Air Transport Command Base, June 11 -(Delay- ed)-UPR In the first non-stop flight from Natal to Casablanca; an army air! transport command crew brought a Douglas C-54 4330 miles to challenge records for the longest over-water flight I The flight pioneered a program io speed up the transfer of Amer ican troops j from the European theatre to the Pacific by way of the United States.';" v ; 17 American Soldiers ) ICilled in Plane Crash ' LONDON, June 13 Sven teen American soldiers were killed and three others injured to day when a Liberator plane crash ed in the hills of South Ayrshire on a : flight from Lancashire to Prestwkk,( Scotland. Details of the crash and the names of the victims were, not immediately available, v - . v Japan Pressed M Ships Lost .6066 Seamen, 3604 Soldiers Are Casualties By Sterling F. Green WASHINGTON, June 13-iH The war has cost the United States 1334 merchant ships and 6068 merchant seamen . .dead missing or captured, the maritime commission reported tonight j Together, the united ' nations and neutral countries expended a vast fleet of 4770 ships of 21,4 140,000 gross tons btween the out-j break of warfare in Europe on Sept 1, 1939, and May 8, 1945, At the same time the army dis4 closed that 3604 American sc-14 diers were lost in the sinking or! damage of troopships in! the 41 months of war against Germany; and Italy a loss of four men for, each 10,000 embarked. The army said the loss rate for world war I was 72 per 10,000 or nearly twice as large. Bulk of the American merchant tonnage destroyed 570 ships of 5,431,456 tons by deadweight measurement was sent to the bottom by mines, submarines and air attack. j The other 984 American flag vessels, mostly small ships and totaling only 845.621 tons dead weight, were lost in marine acd-i dents resulting from convoy op-t erations, blackouts, reduced navi-j gation aids and other wartime In tonnage, the U. S. losses; represent less than one third the deadweight production of Ameri-j can shipyards in the single fiscal year of 1944. "An overwhelming percentage of the merchant vessels were de-i stroyed by German or Italian submarines, air attacks and! mines with 68 lost In Japanese; areas," said the special report by Vice Admiral Emory S. Land.; maritime chairman. Bush Pasture Purchase Will Not Be Fought The Hollywood Lions club, which headed the only organized opposition to the Bush pasture park purchase when it was pre-! sen ted to the voters early this year, will not fight the measure on the June 22 special election ballot Members attending Wed nesday noon's luncheon meeting of the active Hollywood' service club indicated this during a dis cussion at the close of the session. Not as a club endorsing the pur chase, members declared their ob jections to price and terms of the sale had been largely removed in intervening negotiations. Inclu sion in the 1943-46 city budget of funds for improvement of parks already owned by Salem did away with the other' cause for opposi tion, they said. .. Arthur Selander, prominent artist was speaker at the meeting. See page 2. . Sidney -Talbot, Reports Boost Sidney-Talbot and Mill City sent in good reports yesterday to boost the Seventh War Loan cam paign past the $2,400,000 mark, but the goal of $420,000 still was far off with less than three weeks tO gO. ":A: -U--!:;;v,- Sidney-Talbot became the third outside community over the top with purchases of over $40,000, while Mill City reported a total of over $26,000 with the $35,000 quo ta almost In sight Chairman D. B. Hill "expected to go over the top by next week. Mrs. E. B. Hen ningsen and Mrs. Nellie : Wider kehr, co-chairmen at Sidney-Talbot expected that community to come up to previous high marks before the curtain rings down July 4. More than $25,000 of the Sidney-Talbot sales were In E bonds, a welcome addition to the county total lagging around the S3 per cent mark.;. ;;. :, Announcements by both banks that savings accounts would be credited with full interest to July 1 on all withdrawals made this month to buy E bonds was ex pected to result in thousands of erchant Big Powers Will Try to Wind Up Meet by June 23 SAN FRANCISCO, June 13-P) The big five powers agreed today to do everything "humanly possi ble" to wind up the United Na tions conference by June 23. To that end, they supported a proposal that next Sunday be part of a "working weekend." Sunday commission meetings, or even a plenary session of the full con ference, are planned if the sched ule of work indicates the need. London Poles Planned Meet . ! LONDON, June 13-(P)-Poland's government-in -exile here refused today to recognize the authority of the three major powers to super vise, the formation of a new Pol ish national unity administration at a conference set to open Friday in Moscow. ! , " I London's Poles assailed the pro posed meeting as an outright con cession to Russia and clung i te naciously to the hope that the Moscow negotiations would break down. ; - " . i In a tense and troubled atmos phere they planned tentatively to hold an emergency cabinet ses sion to place before the world and particularly before American Poles a formal protest against the latest development in their re lations with Russia. 1 I "Never, never will, our people recognize this agreement said a spokesman for the group. "Nev er, never will they recognize a so called government formed in 'this manner. i 300 Japanese Try to Retake Hill, All Jmed WITH II. S. 10TH ARMY, Okinawa, June 13 -iff)- Yelling and screaming, 300 Japanese at tacked a company of the seventh Infantry division before dawn to day in a wild attempt to retake Hill 95. All were killed. j The attack, described as well coordinated despite the blood curdling cries, came even as other troops of the 10th army tightened their grip on the outer rim; of the Yaeju-Dake -plateau, last de fense position for Japanese rem nants on southern Okinawa. At 3 i.,e, the Japanese be gan an intense machinegun and mortar attack on Hill 95, the southeastern anchor of the Yaeju escarpment Through the dim light of v their , flares, a company commanded by Capt , Dallas I D. Thomas, Shawnee, Okla and Torrington, Wyo, could see three Japanese creeping forward and using boulders for cover. Then the Japanese, loaded with grenades and satchel charges, hit all along the first battalion front with Thomas and his men catch ing the brunt j Two hundred fifty Japanese were killed before dawn. By noon the other SO were wiped, out be hind crags where they sought! to hide.. ,:;,' y American casualties were light Mitt City Bond Marion9 s Totals dollars being added to the. totals in the next week or two. Marlon county residents must purchase more than a million dollars worth of E bonds If the drive Is to be successful. Chairman Douglas Ye ter reminded workers. f -Holland Bakery and the county courthouse were added to the groups over the top yesterday by Retail Chairman Sid Stevens, who also is working on plans for the victory Center programs ' for Thursday and Saturday noons. Big crowds are expected on the court house lawn and I. some unusual stunts are promised those are on hand for the noon rallies. - I 'A decorated red-white-and-blue truck advertising war bonds will appear in Salem on Saturday for week-end appearances, according to J. E. Skofstad, northern district manager for the Pacific Motor Trucking company. The truck is touring coast states in support; of the Seventh War Loan, participat ing in community parades and show. The truck will be at the Victory rally Saturday noon, j Prtci 5c. Wo. e? 11 Settling Of Polish Issue Due Truman Pleased With Results of Two Missions By Eraest B. Vaccare WASHINGTON, June 13 -P)- President Truman jubilantly dis closed today the definite setting of an early "big three" meeting and said there 'are prospects for a complete . settlement of the Polish issue. I tial reports froin Harry Hopkins and Joseph E. pavies, his special emissaries, the ' president an nounced to a news conference: 1. While he cannot divulge the time or place,! upon which l have agreed, he will meet soon with Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill to iron out any remaining difference among the big three. ; j Missions Successful 2. The result of the Hopkins and Da vies missions have been completely "satisfactory and grat ifying" and very pleasant yield ing by Russia on some points has clarified three power relation ships substantially. 3. He has every hope a free and democratic- election among the Polish people will grow out of a conference June 15 to seek a compromise basis for the reorgan ization of the provisional Polish government ' i I " ; -! 4. James F. Byrnes, former war mobilization, director, ' will, ac company hun to. the "big three" meeting along vith Secretary of State Stettiriiusj Hopkins; paviest Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, presidential chief of staff, and Charles G." Rosi Denmark Said Site Meanwhile the British radio said it was reported from Copen hagen without confirmation that the Danish i capital would be the site of the "big three" meeting. There was no White House com ment Si Asserting thef j Polish problem which long has disturbed rela tions among the big three is on the road to a settlement the president pleaded that nothing be done on this side of the At lantic to muddy the waters by raising question) as to final ac quiescence by present . members of the London Polish government The ; Russians; the . president said pointedly, are just as anxious to get along with the Americans as the American! are to get along with them. 1 Solon Charges eon Lower Tariff WASHINGTON, June 13 - UP Senator Tobey (R-NH) angrily told the senate today that "five fat lobbyists" and one of his own party leaders were employing pressure xo oeieax reciprocal traae legislation. I Tobey Is backing extension of. the trade program, including au thorization for 50 per cent cuts In tariff rates. ) Springing to his feet after Sena tor Wiley (R-Wis.) commented that he hadn't "counted noses" on the outcome of 1 the bOL Tobey shouted: "I know who is counting the noses. It is fivefat lobbyists sit ting out here in the corridor. They are calling senators out and they sit there with a leader of the re publican party, kn&king notes on how the senators are going to vote." .; S. .;-:--' Miss Durbiii Marriecfto Film Producer LAS VEGAS, llev, June 13 -ffl Film Singer Deanna Durbin, car rying pale pink froees, was mar ried in a simple ceremony in the Little Church of the West today to Felix Jacksoty her film pro ducer.,.:: " ' ; ,The actress, attired in a grey chiffon frock ' with hat and gloves of pale pink, was attended by her sister, Mrs. Clarence D. Heckman. - - ".-! : '- i 'Vi;--r Miss Durbin, 23, divorced Film Producer .Vaughn Paul last De cember after nearly five years of marriage. It was the fourth mar riage for JacksonJ 43, who obtain ed a final decree from his third rressui wife last January. - Deanaa and Jackson met in W37. - i- - 1