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Captured fvvQ - ' 8-'- - : TC itf :-":0--"''l:i'--'--;:r Big Secret Disclosed , Hamburg 1 '; ll "'lll -t vvr"::r T----royp ji .".-f A 4N w , NlNETt-nFTH YEAR 12 PAGES Salem, Oregon. Srturdar Morning. Tun 16. 194 Price 5cJ , No. 70 J ' U'-J" QUARTERS, Germany, June 15- jj . . ' j .- . ; j - j . j j . it Joachim Von Bibbentrop Off S3SE0QS TKD Congressman Cannon (D.nMo.) JjjO is auite m nower in congress be-mg cause he it chairman Of the ap- propria tions committee. Cannon Is the man who took a poke at Representative Taber (R.-NY) because the latter criticised the bill to raid the treasury for $2,- 500 apiece for expense money. While Cannon is a power when i it comes to passing out the dough I to . government agencies, he should not be regarded as a mill tary expert Certainly the high command would .'not make him its mouthpiece. This comment is offered re- specting Cannon's remarks in- the house Thursday to the effect that "either; Japan "will surrender within the next 90 days or the war will be of long duration a matter of attrition." He supple mented . this : remark jvith the statement that in place of a front al assault the .military author! ties were inclining to plan of isolating the . enemy, starving them out, bombing them, in order to spare lives. All, ol these are possibilities, to be sure. Japan may get its belly The 37th Ohio division, in a spec full from the steady diet of tacular smash out of the moun bombs. (The daily average to be tains of northern Luzon, rolled 22 a .11! M V !11 aumpea on aues oi japan wm soon go to M80 tons, or two mil- lion a Tear). But there IS not the I slightest sign of any cracking in vasion of Borneo cleared Labuan anything 1 hfard on European bat Japan. On the other hand the re- island and cantured Timhalal tlefronts." 1 f i ports are that the Japs are brae- ing themselves for a frontal as- ault on the home islands, and are enlisting women and children to ucip ienu n uxi. wiu men me American mgn 1 tviiiiiwiiu uuiu waviw ao yuuui l " - I the mainland?; And wiU such i tiHrZ reaU7 UVCS? L:,.,t Gandhi Plans AU olcF asiuc handas K. Gandhi said today that the time has come when he must gtep aside as the leader of In dia's independence movement. In a statement issued after the British freed the eight impris- inM mmr nf th National I Congress' working committee, the 78-year-old leader said: "Vn. aovntl year. I acted as advisor to the congress whenever J required. Now that the members I of the working committee are free. I can only give them my ad-1 vices and it is they who have to shape the policy of the .congress and to speak and act with au thority.' .'Allied Fleet Reported Nearing Balikpapan SAN- FRANCISCO, Jane 15-(py-Th ABierieaa Broadcasting company (Else network) mter- eepted a Tokyo report tonight that an allied fleet Is approach ing the rich oil refinery center Of Balikpapan ea the east coast of Borneo. The enemy radio said three . battleships,. seaplane carrier. 18 destroyers and "other war ships' comprised the armada. -. Invasion forces of Australians, backed by the V. S. Seventh fleet, already have secured Ta rakan Island off the northeast ' coast above Balikpapan and a tegment of the Brunei bay area en the northwest side. : - Weather fan Fraaciseo Salem j PorUaad gesttle 44 -. .m Willamette river -t la. ,t.u. McNarV Viri-T 8ai)l or in eontinned warmtoUy wt ma-i-iiiM . om. . m a.l.. ttl. I Max. Mln. Rain n 8 .04 it . 4 aa i H i - 78 i: 4 77 M 171 MONTGOMERY'S HEAD QUARTERS, Germany, June 15- (yp) - Long - hunted German For eign Minister Joachim Von Rib- bentrop, who knew thousands of nazi secrets, was being question ed tonight by allied military ex- perts as his captors recounted the details of his arrest. . The silver-haired former cham pagne , salesman, whose capture j resulted from a tip by the son of a Hamburg wine merchant who refused him haven, was taken yesterday in the Hamburg apart- ment of an attractive landlady, ares sea in a pair or pins ana white pajamas and wnn a pmai of poison on his body. D An oiucer saia Kibbentrop spent the night at Hamburg and was moved today to Luneberg air field for a destination "some- where In Europe." He -. was re- ported to have been taken to ueneral Eisenhower s headquar- ters at Frankfurt on the Main, for questioning by the most skill ful examiners in the allied su preme command. The once-dapper foreign , min- ister, generally credited with hav "sold" Hitler on the idea that he could invade Poland with- oul xnierierence irum Diiiain, was Identified to British author! ties by his sister, Frau Doctor Marie Jenke, also taken into cus tody. Several dtys ago Ribben trop's son, Rudolf, was discovered in an American prisoner-of-war caee Ribbentrop told his captors he was on "a mission from the dead fuehrer," it was said officially. When asked whether Hitler was really dead, Ribbentrop is said to hive replied, "I am certain he is but, of course, I might be wrong." Americans Roll 22 Miles Into Cagayan Valley MANILA. Katurdav. Jun 18-JP miles deep into the broad Caga yan valley in a single day, while Australian trnnm nrcci'nir 4h tn. airstrip. - tjta,, w.J-- disclosed the sudden thrust of the n..A.. t,,, .i-.J lieht of successes on all th ac. tiv southwest Pacific fronts . . . . . . . Mnfinu rT Vtohnrav XT C lf.l 2r BefgfM divi -day Ifoon anda; night and liberated the important u tdkCU mm WUC9 UriWCtU TY CU valley towns of Santiago and Echague, as 1200 Japanese dead if m Jt r ni inroi .arfnan m at -. i a m- mw AT-tmrnmm r arw i aw a were added to the casualty list on tain's long-lived wartime parUa all Luzon fronts. I ment wound up its 10-year ses Triimn 0TC L Kpci CTTintinnC -AgliaiXUU WASHINGTON, June 15-tfV President Truman accepted the resignations today of two high u uuuiiuon - oiuciaiS who had ferved to he government smce, eany new aeai days. Abner H. Ferguson gave up his Pst head of the federal hous- te administration, effective, June u w urn to private law prac- tc in Washington. Laughlin Cur- gave "urgent personal consid- erations" as his reason for ! step- ping out as one oi tne president's S10,000-a-year administrative as- sistants. Another Bond Victory Center Tpday ! Another: big bond show was scheduled for Victory Center to day noon following the success of the rally yesterday when several acts from the circus entertained the big crowd during the luncheon hour. Leonard's Supper club will pro vide the program Saturday, with Sid Stevens, retail chairman, again in charge. Rusty Colman as mas ter of ceremonies will bring on the LaRue duo for comedy xylo phone numbers, while the supper club orchestra will furnish lively music WaBy Overman, novelty cartoonist, will help out the enter tainment. Still a third big show is In pros pect for next Wednesday noon, but bond officials are not ready to divulge details of the program, I -.vt.t, i. A-maMAl in attract th biggest crowd yet and which will mciud a number Of Stunts-de-! n aoriTDeir i y airarosrai TaKes. n Okinawa aoro-Deir y I; lerralc Bylpope Haley WASHING' ON, June 13-d3) The U.S.S. Saratoea. oldest and th biggest aircraft carrier in serv- ice with thtf United States fleit, now can ja3 claim also to beipg the toughest! Qn February 21, two days after - day on IWo Jima. the navy re- Ivealed today, big "Sara" was cruising with! a fast carrier-tafck group northwest of that island when she took a terrific noundine from enemy! fair attackers, incldd ing some sMciders, who scored seven direct! hits Her hull Was blown open. Her superstructujfe was twisted into a mass of blickened wreckage. A gaping holel j was blown in ner lUgnx aecK, ana ner nangar ueta. was turned Ihto a sea of flames. But she cante through, still afloat and fightingjj- In Train Collision MILTONJ Pa, June 15 -Qft- Eighteen were killed and 32 in jured in a!nightmarish collision early todayjpetween the Pennsyl vania railroad's Dominion Express and a freighi train thrown into its path by a jrok'en journal. (Sight memners 01 a section gang were killed by the New York Central water level limited a few hours later jnear Amsterdam, j N. Y.) The 14-car Washington-to-BUf- falo expressed thundered at j 55 miles an hojir into the 34th car. of the 103-car freight train, proceed ing in the opposite direction along a parallel frack, with a crash a soldier described as "longer than No warning; was -possible as the locomotive k ploughed Into "caP JA 0TZ freight car from the tracks and pulling seveii cars behind it off the rails in grotesque pileups Parli ment VngJQ ImUfllUS session LONDON,! June 15-HP Bri sion today! after hearing King George VI peclare that the road ahead stiE was difficult, with la pan yet toie beaten, j l-l The grievous sacrifices which my peoples Jknd my gallant allies have had to bear in these long Lf Z.Zi' JL " il? V; I "L" Tk ."fl. .,"1 J,V VUV4 V W DM MMWMM V j a new world order based upon I A ! equipped to crush U - Attempt to disturb the ceace of thd world." I J prime Minister Churchill, who rallied the jftation to victory -over Germany, wUl remain head or the state as leader of the temporary "caretaker"! kovernment until fhe results of thf July 5 general elfec- tion are announced, possibly ion j July 28. Atinew parliament will " meet Aug. 1. . S t Show Slated signed to gfye a big boost ta E bond sales. p with barely two weeks- to Gialrman Douglas Yeater and his hundreds of enthusiastic assistants were planning to concentrate oi E bond sales.! More than a million dollars still jmust be invested! in this type of .war bonds .before Marion county meets its $2,270,000 quota for the Seventh War Loan drive.' r Br. - - 1 ' t j 'Tickets for next week's , bond premiere, ffValley of : Decision,' were going; rapidly, but a few choice seats kre left, Manager Carl Porter said,! All issuing agencies give these tickets with sales this week. Wii Greer Garson 4nd Gregory Peck as stars, this show (reviewed M this week's life)! is expected to double the $279,00$ E bond sales already credited to the theatres since the start of jkhe drive ... , l 18 Killed n eata The final count of her casual ties were 123 men killed or miss ing and 192 wounded. After a record-breaking repair job at ! the Puget Sound, Wash., navy yard, she is already back in action ready and eager to throw the full weight of her fury at the enemy; ! ' Although it was the first time the Sara had been injured by air attacks, she had twice before sus tained ! severe damage from Japa nese torpedoes, requiring exten sive repairs. . .The Saratoga had joined other carriers of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's task force 58 in blast ing the Tokyo area early in Feb ruary, f and was proceeding south to give direct support to the Iwo Jima landings when she took her , damage.! ; ! Conference Group Rejects Plan for Revising World Charter Within 5-10 Years By Douglas B. Cornell SAN FRANCISCO, June lorVGreat bowers squeezed out a victory today when a United. Nations Conference committee rejected a plan for automatic revision of a new world charter within live to 10 years. ! . j On a critical showdown on in the conference, a big majority Brazilian proposal for a conven tion to overhaul the charter no sooner than five and no later than 10 years after it goes into .effect. But they failed by a narrow mar gin to roll up the necessary two thirds ballot Delegates reported the vote was 28 for the revision plan, 17 against. The committee still had to act on a counterproposal of big pow ers for a provision for reviewing the charter later, without specify ing a time limit, and with the right reserved for them to ap prove or reject any changes. Many i small nations wanted to write in a time schedule because they want, assurances of another crack at big power veto rights over peace enforcement mecha nism of the world organization if they aren't satisfied with the way it operates. The committee action today had been expected to clear the way for swift conference progress, un less the question of future amend- ment of the charter was raised again at an open commission session. But Russia raised the prospect of reopening arguments over pow ers of an all-nation general as sembly to discuss anything in the field of international relations. Soviet delegation Chief Andrei Gromyko, reportedly following in structions from Moscow, brought up the question at a meeting with the three other conference presi dents Secretary of State Stet- tinius, Lord Halifax of Britain and Wellington Koo of China. ; He was reported to have ob- ected to what he argued was a trend in the conference , toward granting the assembly too much power and subordinating it to a peace-enforcing security I council of 11 members. He was said to. have contended a committee had gone fat beyond the Dumbarton Oaks blueprint for a world char ter in saying the assembly , should be able; to discuss anything per taining to international relations instead of just matters affecting international security. British-Indian Meet Date Set LONDON, Saturday, June 18 fflrTht British government an nounced today that a British-In dian conference has been set. for June 25 at Simla to discuss Brit ain's Offer of additional posts for Indians tn the Indian government. An; Associated Press dispatch from Bombay said later that Ma homed All Jinnah, Moslem league president; pledging the Mohamme dans ; cooperation and good will, had asked that the conference be postponed for two weeks to per mit fuller discussion of the situa tion by the ; league's executive committee, BOMBSIGHT IMPROVED CHICAGO, June 15-i3-An at tachment to the Norden bomb sight hiaking it "deadly effective' from .heights around 50,000 feet was disclosed today by ' the air technical service command ff:.:l5MlCi:aMTOn.V(BSaiII The strike came late in the aft ernoon as the huge carrier was ! launching her planes. A group of Japanese bombers, believed to be on suicide missions, closed in. The ship's AA guns and pilots in the air shot down four. Four others managed to crash and bomb the ship. The ninth was knocked down alongside the ship, but freakish ly caromed ptt the water and ex ploded, tearing a huge hole in her side below the waterline, ruptur ing many fel oil lines, and giv ing the shipia six degree list. j - Burning planes and leaking fuel blanketed the ship in flames. The flight deck, at the forward end, Was battered beyond use, and a Japanese syicider penetrated the Side of the I ship into the hangar deck, wher his plane exploded, causing gre&t fires. i t perhaps HKe toughest issue left of nations favored a Canadian- German Mines or Ports in East WASHINGTON, June 15-fi)- German. submarines ranging the United States east coast at the peak of the U-boat campaign in 1942 and 1943 planted mines so effectively 'that major ports, in cluding New York City, were closed to ocean traixic zor Drier periods. , j Revealing this today, the navy said five mines were swept from the entrance of New York harbor between November 13 and 31, 1942, and from November 13 to 15 the port was completely bot tled up, with no traffic moving in or out The entrance to Chesapeake bay, gateway to the ports of Nor folk' and Newport News, Va and Baltimore, Md was twice closed to traffic, once from June 18 to 17, 1942, and again from Sep tember 12 o 14, 1942. Moscow Acknowledges Occupation Differences i . LONDON, June 15 -in- The Moscow radio acknowledged to night "inevitable differences of administration in various occupa tion zones in Germany, and said no one would deny the necessity for coordinated efforts among the four powers to achieve a common aim as outlined at Yalta and lnj the Berlin declaration.' - War Cosi Continues Hign WASHINGTON, June 15-iP)- war spending In the first five months of 1945, the closing day of Germany's struggle, amounted to $38,015,000,000, the war produc tion board reported tonight. ? The sum was only 1.5 per cent less than government outlays In the same period of 1944, when the invasion ' of Europe was being mounted. I - $200,000 Mai State Tourist Travel Will Two hundred thousand dollars annually for promotion of motor tourist travel In Oregon will be sought by he tourist travel bu reau of the state highway com mission In years immediately' fol lowing - the: war,;Hay Andrew, Portland, advertising consultant, intimated Friday. I Andrew, jwho said the commis sion on July 9 would consider final approval of the - bureau's proposal to spend $45,000 on mag azine adveftising: late this year and early in 1946, quoted - the $200,000 annual expenditure as suggested by Cmdr. Harold Say, the bureau's head, now on leave for navy service. r- 4 - The figures were presented to Despite this ordeal, however. the Saratoga not only continued to move but gathered speed as heroicjsurvivors of her crew fought manfully to get her fires under control. Within only a few hours, they successfully completed the job, and the Saratoga, proceeding un der her lown power, continued flight operations, landing not only her own planes but those of an other damaged carrier in the vi cinity. Shortly j after the first mass at tack, more Japanese planes ap peared and one managed to drop another bomb on the carrier be fore crashing in the water. Dam age "from, that attack was also soon brought under control. Petitions i ' Filed On Two Bills Petitions to refer to voters of the state j bills of the 1945 legisla ture prohibiting use of mobile reg istration booths and closing to commercial fishing most , of the coastal streams were filed here late this afternoon. With a reported total of 19,170 signatures, against the 14,000 re quired toi place the referendum on the nextj general election ballot, the petitions against the fish bill (HB 378) were sponsored by George A. . Brown and John T. McLaughlin of Kernville and the Siletz riyer local No. 3 of the Fishermen's union; George! Lavey, Multnomah coun ty democratic party chairman, said the petitions for referral 'of the registrar bill (HB 306) had "more than the; number? of signatures needed. jWith Nancy Honeyman Robinson, the party's national committewoman from Oregon, he brought them here for filing in the elections division of the sec retary of state's office a minute before the 5 p. m. deadline. Lew Wallace, national j committeeman. Mrs. Robinson and Lavey were among the prominent democrats of the state who. sponsored the ref erendum movement. Opponents of the registrar bill, which with the fish measure would have become law at 12:0 Saturday 'morning had not the pe titions been filed, declared it was aimed solely at crowded Multno mah county, where mobile booths were operated to ; registrar new comers in war industry before last year's elections. Both referen- dums will be on the November, 1948,-baBot. - PFC Frank Nist, Jr., Dies in Okinawa Fight PFC Frank Nist jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nist of Dallas and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. G. W Nist of 1240 N. 16th st, was killed In action on Okinawa June 8, ac cording to a telegram received from the; navy department, Fri day. -: -4 Private: Nist was with the Fourth marine raiders. He was senior in Salem high school when he enlisted. The family lived in Salem before moving to Dallas two. years ago. ; - A rinually the more than 80 representatives of chambers of jcamraerce, ad clubs, state fish, game and high way commissions, hotel and tour ist cabin associations, railroads, air lines and other , commercial enterprises interested in building Oregon's reputation as a t vaca tion land, who gathered j at the state capitol today on call of Gov. Eari Snell to organize for pro motion purposes. J. j Highway commission funds can never be expected to finance the entire promotion job, Mac Wil kins, Portland, of Mac "Wilkins and Cole, advertising agency, de clared, as he urged organization to survey needs, attractions- paign Near End J j Buckner Says U. S. Can Finish , Japs in Week GUAM, Saturday, June 16P) -Lt Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck ner, Jr., predicted today that, the 77-day-old Okinawa campaign will be wound up by his advanc ing 10th army within a week. He expressed the belief as his divisions, tearing to: pieces the last stand line of the Japanese at the southern tip of Yaeju escarp ment, overran a fourth, of its pla teau! area. A fleet communique today re ported that Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley's 96th division, which captured 500-foot high Yaeju peak; Thursday, overran 'several hundred yards in the plateau's center yesterday. Tanks and flamethrowers led the way. At the same time, Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's 7th 'infan try division, curling in the east ern arm of a pincers behind the escarpment, moved ahead 700 yards through Nipponese strong points. ' ) The 381st regiment of the 96th division also completed capture of the southeast ridge of Yaeju hilL! ' . . ; The 96th drove west from the promontory to get behind Yuza hill,i less than a mile away. The pressure they can bring should cut down the weight of artillery and! aiatoxnatie weapons . fire the Nipponese are hurling against Maj. Gen. Pedro Del Valle's first marine division on Kunlshi ridge. General Buckner characterized the bulk of the estimated 10,000 or less enemy survivors the gar rison originally totalled about 85,000 as service and labor troops and Okinawa conscripts. Nevertheless, the survivors were putting up a fierce fight from for tified strong points built on the plateau out. of coral knobs and outcroppings. f .; WU Schedules Baccalaureate For Sunday First event of commencement week for the 46 members of Wil lamette university's June, 1945, graduating class is scheduled for 3 pan. Sunday at the First Meth odist church, when Dr. R. Frank lin Thompson, former dean of freshmen at Willamette, who is now! president of the College of Puget Sound, delivers the bacca laureate address. "And the South Wind Blew Softly" is his subject Traditional processional for capped and gowned seniors at Willamette is "Pomp and Circum stance," which Prof. T. S. Rob erts Will play. Dr. J. C Harrison, pastor of the church and president of the university's board of trus tees, will give the invocation, and President G. Herbert Smith wUl read: the scripture. The university mixed chorus, di rected by Dean Melvin H. Geist, will sing three numbers. Commencement proper Is to be held! in Waller haU next Satur day I with Bishop Paul Bentley Kern of Nashville, Term-, as speak- er. ' ' V -'-."-.- . for Promotion sources of funds and wise meth ods of expenditure, f- Fred M. Brenne, Eugene Cham ber of .Commerce manager, and Arch Sanders, executive secretary of the Oregon Coast , association, were named as first two members of an organizing - committee r of seven representing various parts of the state, to be headed by a chairman from Portland. Arden X. Pangborn, Portland, Oregon Advertising r c 1 u b a, temporary chairman of Friday's meeting, made the appointments after the group had voted approval of the committee plan. - -. - '. - : With Snell and Pangborn, Brenne and . Sanders will select the ether five .members of the By Attlee LONDON, JuL 15 The big three victory meeting will be held in Berlin, ruined capital' of the dead , German ndch, an an nouncement from Prime Minister Churchill's official No. 10 Downing st, sard tonight ! said a date had A spokes man- not been fixed for the meeting, but Brendan Bracken, first lord of the admiralty1, said in a speech tonight that the meeting would be held : "at ' the1 very time votes are being counted In Britain's general election j That would place It between July 5. the date of the election, and July 26, when the results are to be announced. . Attlee, ' former, deputy prime minister in Ch(irchflr coalition government andj present leader of the labor opposition, lifted the lid in a letter which was the result of a question raised as to his role in the big three discussions. Harold Laski, (labor party chair man, said last inight that Attlee should attend ofily fn the role cf observer without binding the la bor party on any decisions taken. Churchill, who previously had announced in parliament that h was inviting Attlee to accom pany him to the meeting, in a letter to Attlee today made plain that the government would "of course bear responsibility for all decisions.' i . Supreme Court Holds Budget Act Not Valid The Oregon supreme court Fri day held the local budget act ts amended by the 1945 legislature invalid and enjoined the - secre tary of state rom including it ii the 1945 session laws. , , : . Justice Ji Ol Bailey, wrote the opinion which', reversed " Judge George R. Duncan of the Marion county circuit jcourt, holding thct journals of both house and sen ate indicated that the bill as en rolled was nM passed by tho house of representatives. 4 A conference committee report changing the percentage of its annual income a local govern mental, unit might budget in A special fund to tide it over be tween the' end of the fiscal year and the receipt of tax payments iff the fall was not included in the , bill as it was signed by presi dent of senate, speaker of the house and the governor, the up per court held. . The case was brought by F. H. Young, manager of Oregon Busi ness and Tai Research, Inc., against y the secretary of state to enjoin that official from inclu- sion of the act in the published laws of the session. For the first time In a number of years, the laws of the current year's legislature which go into effect today have not been pub lished because Of the court action. Salem M arine And Hs Dog PORTLAND, i J une 15-(P)-Gung Ho, Big 60-poimd English bull dog and veteran of two years' ma rine corps reserve service, was dis charged today I as mascot of the Portland USM(b recruiting office. He's going bkek to Salem with his master, Sgi Lloyd Ringland, recruiting staffer also discharged today. j There are a dozen stories about Gung Ho, whi has a rating of master technical sergeant, with a service number; Once when giv en required smallpox vaccination, it didnt take. His medical record notes: "Patient! too tough." Be Sought committee, which wUl call tho next meeting and recommend or ganization procedure. Education Of Oregonians so that they may! help visitors from other states to see the best Ore gon has, to offer, suitable accom modations to care for visitors and proper promotional material to bring tourists into - the state are, great needs which may be par tially met before the war is over without, weakening .the war ef fort, the group iagreed. ; . . .v-v . Oregon could "easily double perhaps I coulJ better say treble the $50,000,000 annual Income of normal years from the tourist business,'', Governor Snell main tained as he opened the sessioW Discharged Of 0- M