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- ..... ... . ' i V ..; . - ) 'j ... S . j . ' :' 1 ,t j . . ; ?Lmn Lmmm mma raosKi yucmis ikra Mr 111 !S 1 Iffl ffl:! Mia. Rata S3 e. 85 8T - e 60 ft M O WlUainett river -l.S ft. FORECAST: (by IT. S. weather bu reau. Mr Nary field. Salem) Partly cloudy today with cooler temperature. Maximum of 83 degree expected. s fy&2yf.S)fcZZl . RounShg out three-quarters of. a century ot ' existence, r Pacific lodge no. 5tf, A. F. Sc A. will hold its diamond anniversary to morrow night with public exer cises at the Salem high school. The no. 5fr means that it was the 50th lodge of the Masonic order to be founded in this state. Older by some 18 years is Salem no. 4. Records of Pacific lodge are meagre for the early days, but grand lodge records show that Free! on J. Bibcock, B. F. Brown and J. A. Waymeir attended grand lodge meeting in Astoria in June 1870 and. asked fori and were granted a charter for a second Ma sonic lodge in Salem. Babcock was a Vermonter who had been a captain of j cavalry in the civil war. He was an active Mason in his home state and continued his lodge interest after he came to Or egon in 1869. A daughter, Miss Grace Babcock. resides here at 749 N. Commercial st.. - The history of Masonry in Ore gon goes back to the roots of the pioneer settlement of the state. " At a called meeting of Masons in Oregon City on Feb. 21, 1844J, a petition was drafted addressed to the Grand Lodge of Missouri, the nearest jurisdictionj requesting a charter. Joel Palmer, then one of the messengers for the Hudson Bay company travelling between the northwest and St. Louis, later Indian agent for the government, took the petition to St Joseph, Mo, where the grand lodge was meeting, and on October 16 a char ter for a lodge at Oregon City was granted. There was delay in send ing the charter until some mem ber of the order could be located who was coming to Oregon. In late December, 1847, Pierre B. Cornwall, a Mason, was found to be bound for Oregon. When his party got to Fort Hall, Idaho, Cornwall was attracted to Cali fornia by news of the gold , (Continued on editorial page) . CallOllS HI Postmastership Applications to take the civil service examination for the Salem postmastership will be received up to July 10, it was announced in Washington on Wednesday. : The position, which will be held under temporary appointment by Albert C. Gragg after the retire ment of Henry R. Crawford on July I, currently has a salary scale of $4920 ($4200 base, $300 temporary increase, and $420 con stituting 10 per cent granted for overtime). Prospective applicants so far ne. Include Gragg and Kenneth Bayne, democratic county chairman. The announcement that appli cations now! were open said the civil service commission "is not interested in the political, relig ious, or fraternal affiliations of any applicant": .and that "appli cants will not be required to as semble in an examination room for written tests, but will be rat ed on their education, business or professional experience, general . qualifications, and suitability, Applicants, who may be men or women, must be UI. citizens, in good physical condition, and have resided in this postoffice area at J least one year. ' ' Crawford has been postmaster for 10 years. Goenng Helped Lay Uut Bliclienwald, Yank Says B ELTON, Tex. June 2d.-JPjr Lt Gen. Walton H. Walker, com mander of the 20th corps which Order for Gity spearheaded Gen. George Patton's HAVANA, Cuba, June 20.-i)-drive across Germany, told a press Ernest Hemingway, the . author, conference here today his corps was Injured slightly today when -had found evidence that Hermann his automobile skidded and crash Rnerfatf had heloed lay out Buch- ed into a tree on the Mantilla OTiwald crison camp. City, County Representatives TFiH Present Problems to New State Tax Study iCommission Representatives o O r e g 0 n counties and the League of Ore gon Cities will be invited to ap pear before the new tax study commission at Its next meeting to present tax problems of titles and counties, the commission! announ ced at tHe close of its organiza tion meeting here Wednesday. Later, men who are said to have lft Oregon because of alleged op pressive taxes will be invited be for the commission. . ' -. :t T Carl W. Chambers, Pendleton, is chairman, while Senate Presi dent Howard Belton, Canby, was elected vice chairman. Charles V. Galloway, Salem, state tax com missioner, with Harvey N.. Black or Portland and Speaker of the House Eugene Marsh, McMian vlUe, were named to a committee NINETY-FIFTH YEAR Freedom Given To 3 Poles Heaviest Penalty Set at 10 Years; One Trial Left LONDON, Thursday, June 21. -flVTwelve of the 16 Polish un derground leaders accused of subversive activities behind red army lines in Poland were found guilty in Moscow early today and sentenced to prison terms ranging from ten years to four months, the Moscow radio said. Three were acquitted and the trial of another, Anton Paidak, was postponed because he was ill. The heaviest sentence - - ten years - - was given to Ma j. Gen. L. Bronislaw Okulicki, Polish home army commander and prin cipal defendant. - Jan Jankowski, deputy prime minister of the Polish exile gov ernment in London and leader of the Polish underground move ment, was sentenced to eight years. . Two other leaders of the Po- 1 i s h underground government, Adam N. Bien and Stanislaw Jas iukowicz, each received five year terms. ine otner sentences pronounced by -Col. Gen. VassUy V. Dlrich, MM . Il - i . ; 9 presiding omcer ' ot tne military collegium conducting , ; the triaL were: K. V. Puzhak, 18 months. Kazimir S. Baginski, one year. Alexander Zweicziwersky, eight months. - Eugene Czarnowski, six months. Stanislaw Merzuva, Z. Stupulo- wski, JT. A. Khratsinski and F. A. Urbanski, each four months. Three defendants were acquit ted, the broadcast said. They were S. E. MikhailowskL K. S. Koby- lyanski and J. H. Stember-Dom- browski. , An earlier Moscow broadcast had said guilty verdicts would not be asked for these three be cause of insufficient evidence. 3 Solons Map X New Industrial Peace Chart ..WASHINGTON, June 20.-P-Legislation revamping the govern ment's labor relations machinery and described by its authors as an "industrial peace" chart was launched today in the senate. Its intial reception by represen tatives of organized labor indicat ed that its course through congress might be far from peaceable. The measure, offered by three senators who took a leading part in advocating permanent world peace machinery, Is patterned in large part after th,e railway labor act. It would overhaul the govern- ment's conciliation and mediation agencies and rewrite major pro- I lations act. HEMINGWAY INJURED 'road near here. to recommend an executive sec retary. Salary of the secretary was not fixed but $5000 a year was mentioned as a tentative sal ary. The commission agreed that ev ery angle of the state's tax study should be subjected to a clinical analysis, but most members of the commission spoke in favor of employing an Oregon agency when Gov. Earl Snell's recom mendation that a firm of "nationally-recognized tax experts' be employed to conduct the investi gation. ..." ' - , --. State Tax Commissioner Earl Day took issue,' predicting that the people would give more at tention to .the commission's work if the job was handled by an out side agency. Rep. Giles French, 12 PAGES Battery Firm yes Valley j ForSPlant Site i The construction and opera tion of a manufacturing Unit of the National Battery company appeared st distinct! possibility for the Salem area today, f A representative of the com pany, ; largest producer of re placement automobile batteries in the nation, was known to be here scanning the sector If final plans are consumated, construc tion would start immediately. War Droduction board aoorov- al of the projected .factory al- has been Received, f The plant would employ between 100 and 125 persons, both men and women, j - . J Thei Natjonal Battery com pany, fwith j headquajrters at St PauL Minn., operates 14 fac tories, including subsidiaries." Its nearest manufacturing i unit is in Los Angeles, It has branch hi Portland S I i Triiman-Soiislit WASHINGTON, June 20.-(P)- Smashing down a series of re strictive amendments, the senate today passed and lent to j the i White House legislation; extend ing the reciprocal trade agree ments law, three more years with added power for the president to cut tariff rates." :;ine VOte On imal passage iwas 54 to 21. I s Aireaay auuorizea unaer, xne old law to cut import duties in half, the president will be em powered under- the nevy legisla tion to reduce them . another 50 per cent below the rates prevail ing on Jan. 1, 1945. Where the full power is Used, duties thus could be trimmed to orie-fourth of the Smoqt-Hawley schedules of 1930. . "President 1 Truman called ; the broadened authority "of' the first order of importance for the sue- cess of my i administration." The late President Roosevelt likewise warn alheartv hacker !-fifi the trade i" W program fathered by. CordeUHull in 1934. 50,000 Idle Because ; OfSquabbles By the Associate Press Nearly 50,000 persons, principal ly, in war industries, were j idle yesterday because of strikes; and! labor squabbles. J I I Hopes of prompt settlement of the largest I strike, that of more than' 16,000. CIO united rubber workers at the Goodvear Tire & Rubber comnanv. Akroni 0 wan- defy wart labor board back-to- work order. L , f - - The f Akron strike started Sun day over four major, issues re maining of some 30 submitted for negotiations.! These were a union demand for, participation in' set ting wage rates, a - general wage Increase for some employes, re vision of the engineering depart ment merit i system and elimina tion of "quick shifts" to fill spe - dal orders.; urging that Oregon lanS be S ei ployed, declared alsd4ht the re- port should be fUed not later than July I, 1946, so it could be ldis- .ru tx.' t.j u- tueu uj ure viuuut yiui vj uic 1947 legislature. i ) ' Funds tot replace income tax and liquor profits, which he pre- dicted. would diminish j material - ly after thjwar, must be provid- ed from some source, Sen. Earli T. NewbryJ Ashland said, f There is la eeneral feeling that Oregon industry has been retard - ea- Dy tnei uregontax system, . . . I A ' . . Biacx saio, iurging mat tne metn - od of ! levying personal taxes be amended. Declaring that 'Ore- gon's tax structure is not perfect u alio way maintained, : neverthe- less, that it compares favorably with those of Washington'- and Cuiionua. , r ' Senate Passes Tariff Powers Nearly Salem. Oregon. i : New Men! Civilian Aid Be- ing Asked; New j Deputy Named Initial contingents of the post complement were getting settled !at Camp Adair today in prepara tion for the thousands of army 'ground force troops which will be redeployed there for the Pacific war. First announcements indicated between. 15,000 and 20,000 men would be sent to Adair, but it has been stressed unofficially that no definite number had been set, and that the total might exceed those figures. Call Sent Oat for Aid In the meantime, a hurry call for civilian assistance has been sounded from the huge encamp ment, which has become the site of ai naval hospital and quarters for a comparatively small number of German prisoners of war since it was deactivated a year ago. Several hundred employes are heeded. Camp officials said "temporary civil service appointments provid ing substantial incomes are await ing those who apply" for positions. Recreation and -restaurant facili ties are to be provided, and 1 a dormitory will be available - for women who lire too far away nrrirnut arh dav. EvM-vrwi Qualified is beinff asked to renort mo im nearest y. o. xnptoymen i service. CoL Norman In Command Already in command of Adair is CoL Lewis S. Norman, native Tennesseean who formerly com-; manded the 7th infantry division i and more recently was at Phoenix, Arizv in charge of army supply in that area for the ninth service command. Mrs. Norman, now at Missoula, Mont, is to arrive at Adair soon. ; levVceVnS C L Cr,. T SIT iT f ru,T: E.1 11 9fl Arriving lit Adair ivn,wnoserveamtne37tniieiaimT i . rr brigade m World w I !Vait1iri0 Ot TflY and who has just completed a 28- months tour of duty as command- ing officer of Camp Irwin on the edge of Death Valley, Calif. 5 The former post commander, Lt CoL E. L Foster, who succeeded Col. Samuel D. I Hays last Novem ber, is to be post executive officer at Camp Cooke, Calif. The colonel, his wife, and their daughter, Jeanne, will drive south shortly, Two Sons In Service The new post commander, Col-1 ( onel Norman, has two sons in the service Lt Lewis S. Norman, Jr, I West Point graduate now at Max- we11 field, Ala,! and William Clin wn Norman, who olready . has served in the army and will enter I West Point on July 2. The civil service jobs which jnchid , d"10?!. administrative, technical and skilled and unskilled labor. Dr. W.J. Stone In New Post PORTLAND,! June 20.-P)-Ap- ( pointment of Dr. Willard J. SoneJ Marion county j health officer, as director of Oregon's maternal and child v health program was an nounced today by Dr. Harold M. i Erickson, state1 health officer. He succeeds : Dr. John Francis Beli, resigned, j The health board accepted the resignation r of ! ut. Frederick D. 1 Strickler fromj the advisory post head held since5 he resigned as director last winter. Dr. Robin E. t w liT i wwa, , Mmuvxuc, iv, . was y broved as industrial hygiene chem- 1 1st 1 n4t?el Cim.J. HI UnUsh oqa&da Blowing aiejElfned Line Apart . ! EIGHTH CORPS HEADQUAR- ITERS, Ploen, Germany, June 20. i t ti ixr v. . . i vrr-onusn uemouuon squaas sltb 1 mowing up ine aieguiea unci The job of i removing concrete pillboxes and dragons teeth will J bar from future membership In require several years, officials previa new world organization govern- t oicteo. j - , . . The squads were blowing up concrete blockhouses and air raid isneiters in Kiel and Hamburg.: Thursday Morning, June 21. 1945 i an W Gen. Claudius Easier General Easley Dies in Action On Oldnawa WASHINGTON, June 20.-P)-Death has Overtaken two more high-ranking American officers in the Pacific -j 7 Brig. Gen. Claud ius M. Easley and Rear Adm. For rest B. RoyaL '. General Easley, 53 -year-old as- sistant commander of the 96th in- I fantry division, twas killed in ac- I tion on .Okinawa Tuesday, the war departments notified iu wife ine navy announcea mat aq- i mnmmmtuM an xupuioiuus 4ra: uiai spwraeaa- Brunei bay, Borneo, died Monday of natural causes. No further in formation was given. General Easley, who -joined the 96th division as ; it commenced training at Camp Adair in 1942, was a native of Texas, a graduate of Texas A&M college, and had served in the army since 1917, three years of peacetime at Ma nila. With the 96th he fought on Leyte and was wounded once be fore going to Okinawa with the 10th army. 1 TO " j --JjL Z A 1 tOmllllSSlOIier 1 ' U U KdIi mral l a n I -"vlll sM. A lVClX 1 "Selection of a tax commissioner to succeed Ear Day, resigned, may be announced today. The three appointing officials, Gov. Earl SnelL Secretary' of State Farrell and Treasurer Scott, are expected to confer on the matter during the day. Governer SneU will be back in his office after being away most of the week. .The. .launching .of the interim tax study commission yesterday served to thrown the pending ap - concernea oecause tne appointee vvwiuv. a wauwr wi uis ooay, and some indivKluals are said to be interested in the appointment for themselves, f One of them is xvep. iues Jtrencn 01 Aioro, wno has served on taxation committees xur Kvenu ! legisiauve sessions. Sen. Coe McKenna, ' whose reso lution started the ball rolling for the creation of the commission, is said to aspire to toe commissioner- snip. - ; Judge Day's resignation is effec tive July 1. He expects to resume residence in Medford. V Export Trade Slumps wacttttwviyw t: Rvalue M U. S. export trade in the first quarter of this year was announced !ftoday as $A804,- nnnnnn tk;. . a, i ww-,vw. ... .ucucw w. 18 per cent as compared with the erst quartet ol last exports were valued at $3,420,- 000,000. V I Franco Defends Spain MADRID, June 20.-(ffV-General I T xl . i aut-u, epvajuujg xess man ; noun airer a unirea fiauona con - f erence commission took action to I ments set up witn axis ceip, saia tonight Spain Is not the nation I which "defamatory campaigns de- f ipict ner asj oeing." .. 1' ' ; - t, , ,f - i I- A r i r Si Last Jlaps On Isle Die Fast Nips Compressed Into Three Tight Little Pofckets i By Lief Erickson GUAM, Thursday June 21.-OP)- American 10th army troops, elimi nating fanatically fighting Japa nese at the rate of 2590 a day, compressed the few thousand sur vivors into three tight little pock ets on Okinawa yesterday. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today that 6884 Japa nese troops were killed and 885 captured on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday a total of 7769 in only three days fighting; This I was probably the highest rate of Japanese slaughter for any similar; period in the central -or far western Pacific j campaigns. It increased Japanese ! casualties for 80 days of Okinawa fighting to 87,343 I killed and 2565 prisoners. S Pockets Left Although still withholding any announcement that bloody Oki- nawa has been secured, Nimitz said remnants of the enemy were broken into three5 pockets, the largest; of which was about 1200 yards in diameter. .,,:i i iNnv,;n ... Ut iucji close quarters' that an vw artillArv r91 bn rdAr to cease fire because of the dan ger to American troops. But there still was much stubborn small arms and machine 'gun battling. The largest remaining pocket of enemy: resistance surrounds hill 81 north of Makabe. Tank Forces Join The Seventh, infantry division's 184th regiment,' driving 1600 yards westward from the southeast coast joined elements' of the first marine division north of Komesu to close off "his central pocket from an other small pocket -in the south east coastal sector around hill 82. The third Japanese pocket, an area about -1,000 yarns square, was in the Mabuni-Mura j hills north of Cape Ara which is the southernmost point of Okinawa. j . ... . Hoover Makes Meat Proposal 1 j WASHINGTON, June 20.-(P)- Herbert Hoover 'declared today that meat controls have broken down land proposed a sweeping 12-point program to remedy short- j ages in animal products. I in brief, the Droeram includes 1 an Administrative revolution" in murh authority .under the secre- 1 tary of agriculture; a system of i ceiling and floor prices tn meats, Loultrr . fr. and dairr nroducti I desimed to increase croduction without subsidy payments, and splf.nnKHnir f rmresentativM of livestock growers, packers, com- mission men and retailers. i Special Stunts In E Borid Sales i An outdoor vaudeville perform ance by entertainers from the Cor vallis xiaval hospital which drew upwards of 2000 persons to the Vktorv Center last night and a r dublesmen nent wnr mshinff rsines netted "wl7sl00 000 in E bonds. approxunaxeiy iuu,uuu in t oonas. urjth 800 000 worth. of E bonds . tos ;d to ton its ouota bv the end of this month, Marion county's war finance committee commenced figuring in the marg ins Wednesday night Savings accounts in the county are growing; bankers reports chow. while the mighty Seventh War ran'M intArenavinff nierchan- lags. ' . ; i I m 1 Bidding at Wednesday niffht'a J open air auction was lethargic al- J though bracing breezes "provided an air-cooled setting. Sid Stevens, ! retail ! chairman-auctioneer, sold $500 worth of bonds for the priv- liege of giving away a pair of pre- I war silk hosiery. Price 5c Truman Will Prolong Visit To Northwest . OLYMPIA, Wash., June 20-JP) President Truman decided to night to remain over in the Pa cific northwest until Monday af ter receiving word the San Fran cisco security conference cannot be concluded until next week. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross made the! an nouncement upon the president's return from a 90-mile, two and a half hour automobile drive in the Puget Sound area. : . The president, he said, inform ed that the delegates to the (Unit ed Nations conference, will be ready to sign the' projected char ter Monday, will fly into! San Francisco that afternoon to! wit ness the signing and to meet the delegates. - He will address the closing session of the conference at 4 p.m. (Pacific war time) Tues day. ! Ross said the president had tel egraphed Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the republican pres idential nominee last year! ex pressing his regret that the delay in the adjournment of the! con ference would make it necessary to postpone their scheduled meet ing at the White House next Mon day. ! ! ; Under the change in arrange ments, the president will leave San Francisco early Wednesday, flying to Kansas City, Mo and thence driving to Independence, his home town, for a homecoming celebration. Petition Fails; ...... , . j . Registrar B01 Now Effective Lacking 217 signatures of the 14,442 required to obtain a ; place on the general election ballot, pe titions for the referendum of the 1945 legislature's act creating the office of registrar of elections in Multnomah county had been dis credited today in the office of the secretary of state. -: j The law is now operative,: elec tion bureau officials, who with the state auditing deparhnent three times counted the signatures, declared. ! : The registrar of elections bill was one of the most controversial issues of the 1945 legislature. It provides that this official, to be appointed ly Multnomah county commissioners, shall take over all election activities in Multnomah county now handled by the sher iff, clerk and other officials; Democrats in both houses main tained that the bill was purely po litical and a direct alap at Demo crat County Clerk Al Brownj Ref erendum petitions were circulated under direction of Lew Wallace, state senator and democratic na tional committeeman from I Ore gon. Persons who brought the petitions to Salem last Friday told state department officials that they contained approximately 15,000 I signatures of qualified voters. Bring $100,000 on Wednesday War finance committee "brass hats," Glenn McCormlck, Ed Bor ing, Dent Reed, Doug Yeater, Loy al Warner and Stevens bargained to cook, serve and wash dishes for dinner for the . purchaser of $10,000 worth of bonds, grinned broadly because " their services brought such a price and then dis covered that they had made their deal with the St Paul Rodeo asso ciation. They are i preparing to serve ,100 to . 150 .-person and are congratulating themselves on their foresight in not offering to provide ration points for ' the meaL .... : . ."' . - The rodeo association, which ap peared in western garb as escort to -the rodeo queen and her court came prepared to bid on a 50- pound ham,' but that fine piece of meat went to a patriotic woman, whose representative was author ized to purchase $7000 worth o bonds but was not told he! could announce her name. No. 74 toy Powers i - Settled r j ... . ' I - - .' . Charter Signing Probably Will Be Finished Monday By Douglas B. Cornell SAN FRANCISCO, June 20.- 0P)-R u s s i a n acceptance of an Australian compromise on what 50-nation general assembly can talk about enabled the United Na tions conference tonight finally and formally to set next Tuesday for completion of a world char ter to maintain peace. Secretary of State Stettinius announced after a steering com mittee meeting that , a speech by President Truman late Tuesday afternoon will end this historic gathering, two months and a day after it began its deliberations. The charter of a new world or ganization dedicated to peace pro bably wiU be signed by all the delegates of 50 United Nations Monday afternoon and night It Will bring Into being, when, enough governments ratify it an. international league empowered to settle disputes peacefully or to use armed might-to prevent ws or aggression. Includes World Court It will set up a new interna tional court i of . Justice, and a council for cooperation In remov ing social and economic stresses which have fomented war in the past ' y To a compact security council of. 11 members - - all the five big .world powers and six other ' - will be entrusted the primary responsibility for maintaining peace. A conference commission considering the council's structure and duties completed its task to day. - ' i All that remained was to put into chatter language sections dealing with a general assembly to serve as the "town meeting of the world.", ; Russia cleared the way for that and a successful con clusion of the conference by ac cepting an Australian suggestion that the assembly be allowed to ' debate anything within the sphere of the world charter. Reach Agreement Russia's action was announced by Secretary of State Stettinius at the end of a big five meeting. Stettinius said that big powers and Australia "have reached full and satisfactory agreement" on the question iofL how, broad a de bating field should be permitted a world assembly in which every United Nations ' would have A voice. He 1 said the agreement would go before a conference committee for disposition today. Arab resentment over French policies In Syria flared momen tarily today, but France was voted immediate, permanent member ship on the? peace-enforcing' se curity council of a new world league. -.t- - . 100 Methodist Pastors Here For Meeting - j '- ,.f - More than 100 ministers of the Methodist church are in Salem for the annual church conference s which opens today. The first con- 1 f erence session will be held at 4 o'clock at the First Methodist church with Bishop Bruce Baxter presiding. J : The evening session wQl be pro ceeded by an organ recital by Prof. T. S. Roberts at 7:30. Bishop Paul B. Kern of Tennessee will speak on "An Ancient Word for a New Generation." Dean Melvin Geist of Willamette school , o 'music will sing.; -:v';; " h The Rev. Edward Terry, of Al bany Is conference 'secretary and has his headquarters at the Ma-, rion hoteL . where Bishop Baxter and Bishop Kern are also regis tered. All the main sessions will, be held at jthe First Methodist church.' I Assembly George Trent Killed The name of PFC George Trent, i son-of Mrs. Leota Trent Star route, Newberg, Is on today' ; OWI list of i army dead in the Pacific war theatre, : it- 6 . i
