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The subject ;is one which Dr. Stevens is well qualified to dis cuss since Yi was employed by the government, a few years ago to make studies1 on the silting of Boulder damj in the Colorado river. , ., , The base for silting studies is the Elephant Butte storage reser voir on the Rio Grande river near El Paso. This dam was built by the United States to supply water to users in Mexico in satisfaction of prior rights claimed by Mexi cans. It has. been in use over 25 years. Records have been kept as to I the progress : of silting this storage basin through continuing tests of the solid content of the water, through, soundings .and through measurements when the basin is empty so that engineers can walk over its floor. Through computations' based on these stu i dies the scientists : estimate the life of the reservoir at 15& years. At the end of that period it will be filled with the sediment de posited from the silt-laden Rio Grande, though long before that the partial filling will greatly di minish the value of the reservoir. The Colorado river is another turbid stream. Draining the southwestern slope of the conti nental divide through Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona it accumulates huge quantities of . A " ' , .It t It. - t reaches the pool of Lake" Mead, behind Boulder dam it drops ops its cargo. (Continued Ion Editorial page) Endorsed by Hoipe Group WASHINGTON, July 5-(vP- With rmlT lr,n mpmher 'voicinff opposition, the house postwar military I committee r today v en- dorsed the 1aroad rjolicy" of uni- versal military training., ' The committee did not offer specific legislation it has no legislative powers but left - that job to the imilitary affairs com- mittee which is expected to hold hearings after the sumtner re-1 cess. j A majority 01 tne military Army Training committee Is known to xavor a deal, Justice Roberts held a bal-peace-time draft requiring every ance of poWer between "conserva youth to take a year f military tive and ijberar elements in the training at some time betwi the ages of 1 IT and 22. Navy! Seizes Rubber Plants To Halt Strikes By the Associated PreM The navy seized five plants of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber com pany in Akron yesterday (Thurs- ber capital' 33,000 strikers to d r, t;:)ns tnAV n f Prudent Truman, the navy took over Goodyear pro- national air service In the Euro duction, crippled by the 20-day pean area should not be restricted walkout, after the 16,700 ClU TTn,-wi Ri,Mr Workers had de- fii lahor board back-to- work orders seven times. The teizure wasi br the navy because it let most of the Goodyear con- tracts. Occupation of 1 Goodyear was expected by the WLB to influence peaceful resumption of production at the Firestone j Tire & Rubber company, Akron, where 18,500 CIO rubber workers have been out since Sunday. Strikes In addition to those in Akron made some 60,000 workers idle over the nation. Steak May Be Full of Lead PORTLAND. July 5 -V Some hungry consumer Is going to lose a few teeth when he bites into the steer Charles L. Hale sent six 22 rifle slugs into todayV Hale told a deputy sheriff he was awakened this morning by a two-year-old bull calf and four yearling heiier, stampeding around hU back yard. ' slugs late O. bulL but teach shot umy urouj(Ak uis auuuai w - knees. Puzzled, the calf finally Diphtheria Cases In Suite Increase PORTLAND, July S-iSV-Diph- theria cases in Oregon have in- creased 12 per cent during it id. state Doara 01 neaini saia w day. Ten new cases were reported last week, bringing the year's total to 178. . . NmETY-FIFTH TSAR 14 PAGES Retires Jastice Owen J. Roberts If IvarAfl rllllitlc Vf If Vir JLl.VFUv'l. Retires From t - 1 Highest Court WASHINGTON, July S.-W- I Justice Owen J. Roberts, for years the supreme court's leading dis- "enter ana next to tne last mem- oer oi tne tnDunai noi appomtea by President RooseVelt, retired way; euecuve wuiy ai. Since he has served more than 1 years! and recently became 70 years of age, he will receive full pay of $20,000 a year for life. He had been a member of the court since 1930. Chief Justice Stone also was appointed to the high court before Franklin D, Roosevelt became president ; In early years of new court, voting sometimes with one group and sometimes with the other. 1 In 1937 the retirement of Justice Van Devanter upset the previous balance i between the other eight members. Three Air Lines Now Authorized npA ini A tl 0 f v i-wM WASHINGTON, July 6-(flV " " T ate across the north AUantic, holding that this country'! inter TO one company. Pan American Airways, Inc. American Export Airlines, Inc, and Transcontinental and West- era Air: Inc- were given permis- sion to fly transportation routes which the board said will provide additional service to Portugal, Spain, Eire, . the British- Isles, Scandinavian countries, Russia, other European countries. North Africa; the Near East and India. BIRTH BATE CONTRAST LON DON, July 5.-vT-Thi British ! medical Journal Lancet expressed astonishment today at the rise in the European Dirtn rate since 1941-42, calling it One of the most unusual accomplish ments of the war. . : . 'CIV J 7 1 M i Orderly Vote Follows. One of Country's Bitterest (Lampaigns LONDON, July 5 P)- Great I , . !' - ' '"'"i 1 war with' jTpa ! i th . foundations for peace to come, but the result 00 rancor of one of the bitterest campaigns in decades. Voters decided whether their immediate future would be shaped by the free enterprise system ad vocated by ' Prime : Minister Churchill and the conservatives, I or by the labor party . with its aiinounced eoal of "socialist commonwealth of Great Britain." The ballots will not be counted until July 28, after the service i ; , AA : - r ? n .. . r . u 1 1 !!-! . j ' . 1 Farben s - ! TM .1 :. - I.' In Army Control : il. h t ; il I : Action Taken to Smash Greatest Arms Combine HOESCHTV Germany,; July 8.- (jfHn a sudden move today, the American army seizea complete control 01 tne management, assets 1 and plants of the vast I .G. Farberf- uiuusuic Jul mic wiitcu ouiies tunc rvvi 1 ri' aj4 nrmfSTiw an1 a4- ir motic4 machinery intended to ZSr Acting under general order No. 2, issued by Lt Gen. Lucius Clay I j as deputy military governor, arm- j PORTLAND, JuSjS.-iJPyOTe' ed American! troops marched si- on is still morethan seven! mil multaneouslyinto 24 Farben plants lion dollars short of its E bond at 6 pi. m. and. assumed control of properties which had played a I great part In building up and I maintaining the German war ma- chine.! I I The- action was taken to smash I. G. Farbenindustrie's worldwide cartel system and practices and id break up the; industry's , war mak ing power, which the United States group1 control council considers "major threat to the peace and security of he postwar world so one as such industries remain within the control of Germany." Control of the industry's man agement assets and plants which produced more than 50 per cent of Germany's supply of chemicals and allied products is to be held for ultimate disposition by a four powejr government to be estab- lished, for Germany. ine greai raroen pianw pru- duce4 about 80 per cent of Ger- manys entire nitrogen output 100 per cent of the Country's magnes- nun jiivvu, iw v. ui tetra ethyl lead production, 100 per I tent o the cellophane, ap- proximately! 80 1 per cent of the plastics, more than 50 per cent oil July 4 against light opposition, the explosives and 100 per cent! It is 10 miles by air and 13 by of the effective poison gas. Sub Trigger . Lostith85 Men Aboard ! WASHINGTON, July S.-fPh L - . .alt The submarine trngger, noiaer oi the presidential!, unit citation for an "excepuonauy noiaDie recoru of severe , damage inflicted on hostije shippfng," Is overdue and presumed lost s: ii . . i The navy's announcement said next of kin of her war time com- plement of about 80 omcers ana men have been notified. jTbe Trigger was the 4atn unit- ed States submersible lost since tk Ua4 a '4Ka ihr&V T Warsaw's Main Street Once ; Alore Uluminated JUVVW;, tlWiy .-Vrr JT1 arsaw ."id to- nghthat the mam distort of toe Polfcfr capital was ubinatedfor v"LXT:J system. i I! . i vote'l. returned from an the bat- tiefronts. The results are expect- mA A Km nr.nn .bout noon T.T.- 1 " T The world watched the election . i?AH f whether En- ropes postwar political pendulum would wing to the left or the la one of the last speeches of the stormy campaign iurauu . th defeat of his con- serrative "Caretaker" government woutd cast many European coun trie into cornmunism. Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee and! other laborites have demanded he ! nationalization of coal I raining; power, inland trans- Portland the iron and Steel Indus - tries of Bri tain. Scdm, Oragoiu His Breakfast Would Kill An Ox-and Ration Book j ATLANTA, July S.-JP)-Doctors don't know what's the matter with PpC Chester j, Sal va tori. 1 v PFC. Salvatori has a big appe tite, an appetite that would appall even an elephant. . i ; , j A breakfast Of 40 eggs, 20 pieces of toast, several quarts of milk, eight pieces of bacon, a quart of coffee and a box a big box of cereal is, nothing unusual for t$e soldier from Southbridge, Mass. And PFC. Salvatori isnt a big guy. Just 140 pounds. Slightly less Un average in height He teUs friends he once ate an is.pound turkey at one meal Without any i help. His favorite IJregOn Jj7,UOU,UOll Short of Reaching Its K Bond tluota goal, with three days left to go, Seventh war loan omclals said today. I Sales are now $47,583,447 of the $55,000,000 quota. Overall sale topping the quota by 155 per cent, are now $171,469,647, ! - j Aussies Take ital Airfield Vear Oil Port MANILA, Friday, July fl -() The Australian Seventh division tia rnntnrfl " Manar airfield with its 4000-foot runways and won control of aU of the big un rvnrt and refinrr town of Balikpapan in southeast Borneo, Gen. Douglas MacArthur an- Bounced today. iipiure oi ine ainieia, second taken in the Balikpapan area jince the invasion of July 1, was accomplished on the afternoon of foad northeast of Balikpapan. i An Australian column, pushing on beyond the airfield along the pomb-cratered paved road,1 could see raging fires at Koeala Sam- bodja, once-great refinery and pumping station. . ; The Japanese apparently were methodically destroying all of the oil installations in Borneo's rich est petroleum belt -m - 1 HLOCkrOaClieS I i jp Attimrnr jO) ilJiyWay 1 ! " " PORTLAND, July S-OP)-A Van- port man's! scheme to celebrate fTh Fourth" by exterminating I cockroaches went astray, and to- gay his Savage 30.6 rifle is on Its way back east w I vr. v. xvenneay couianc aeny the holes in the floor, but claimed yrT m Tr . a . . . the rifle had done its work, for .there were no cockroaches to be iound today; I TnliVo thanlrfiil 4 Via VI txrita lanrl I'wa rhlMran nr t IVnn-tH bf Jul Imi h !with Nation. Kennedy prom' ;ised he wouldlhip the We back east to his father. Irumaii signs Tariff Pover WASHINGTON, July 3 -PH President Truman took over' to- f JSJJ!!22ft lyTZ. r "ri.-T. .TI ifciwaa ucvcsjMUy tu I "success". of his administration. 1 - y f extension n me reciprocal iraae f ctrrie uori to tariffs 50 per cent below the rates concession from other nations. 1 w.TWf I V WINDOW BOX FATAL t j "SPOKANE, July 5.-ifP)-Three- - 1 year-oia wo wean- orensen. l aaugnter oi jt. ana am. aji sorenienw vpponumiy, wm killed today, when a window box I Jarred loose at her home and fell on her head causing j a skull 1 fracture, Coroner C J. Abrams said.' Friday Morning, July 8. 1945 meat is pork chops and he says he s eaten as many as 36 at a meat tJf i . : He's been in . the army four years and four months. "J : . In civilian life he likes to work in a grocery store or a bakery. Once, he said, he worked for an optical company ; arid nearly starv ed to death. ; j ; Physicians who have the little guy under observation at Ft Mc Pherson station ; hospital say his stomach is a little larger than average but not much.; They say also it may be his craving for food is psychological, but they are not definite on un animous in the matter. Meeting Time Extended for i ! Berlin Parley WASHINGTON, July 5 The Berlin Big Three meeting will be held in the next three weeks, President Truman said today, ex tending his own previous dead line for the conference by nine days. " f " The president's time estimate was made at hi pews conference, a few hours after Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, had told reporters that news on the conference will - come through communiques and not through di rect reporting of the proceedings. Saying reporters will hot be per mitted actually j to cover the ses sions, he said - the communiques will be issued , "as may be de cided on from time to time." Warsaw Poles Recognized by U.S., England WASHINGTON, July 5 The United States and Britain Jointly recognized the: reconsti tuted Warsaw government of Pol and tonight cutting adrift the London exile regime with which they have dealt throughout the war. President Truman, announcing American acceptance of the War saw government said it had rec ognized" the Yalta agreement in full and thereby confirmed the Crimean plan for free elections. The president said Arthur Bliss Lane has been named ambassador and "will proceed to Warsaw as soon vs possible." ; Diplomats here did not expect any formal withdrawal, of recog nition' from the London Poles. Rather the organization was ex pected here to be treated as if it had simply ceased to exist diplo matically. ; j . Hopkins Chairman of N.Y. Coat Industry NEW YORK, July S.-yST-Da vid Dubinsky, president, of the International Ladies' Gar men Workers' union, said today Harry L. Hopkins, former special presi dential adviser, had accepted the post of Impartial chairman of the New York women's coat and suit Industry. ; ' ' ' Gen. Carl Spaatz Gets Cmmand of Army's Growing Drive to Bomb Japan Off the Map WASHINGTON, July 5-VThe man who directed the smashing of Germany from the air today was assigned to do j the .same thing to Japan." - . ' T j! v - The war department announced an expansion of the air command set-up in the Pacific, placing Gen. Carl A Spaatz in charge of the B-29s now levelling Nippon's cities'; and softening the enemy horse islands for invasion. The red-haired, , poker-playing Spaatz .will be commander of the U. S. army strategic air force in the Pacific. His set-up will be this: He will be in charge of the 20th and the 8th air forces, equipped with B-29s, with their own fight er iover. '' '! r.t Secretary To Leave IMorgenthau Re signs Effective j j After Next Sleet WASHINGTON, July 5.-V- Henry If orgenthau, jr, resigned today as secretary of the treasury after 11 years in the office, h He will remain as secretary for several weeks or until President Truman returns from the big three conference near Berlin. Truman, announcing Morgen- thau's decision to step out said he has a successor in mind but won't name him until he gets back from Europe. Still la Succession Line Until Morenthau actually leaves office, the tall, bald, applegrower from Hopewell Junction, N. Y, will remain No. S in the presiden tial line and would succeed to the presidency if anything happened to Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Morganthau has been secretary since Jan. 8, 1934, j longer than any other man except Albert Gal latin of Pennsylvania, who was secretary for 12 years in the early 1800s. Smiling cheerfully, Morgenthau told reporters that when he leaves office he will go to his farm in Dutchess county, N. and after resting there ul haven't the slightest idea what I will do next" 3e is 54 years old. U His friends said emphatically he is "not interested in any govern mental job. The president wrote to Morgen thau, saying he was "indeed sorry' over the secretary's decision. He praised Morgenthau's work,, par ticularly in raising taxes and sell ing bonds. i r Morgenthau is the sixth of the Roosevelt cabinet to resign, leav ing only four: ' Secretary of the Interior Harold Iickes; commerce, Henry Wallace; war, Henry, Stimson; navy, James Forrestal. i In the immediate speculation re garding the new treasury secre tary, many in .Washington put Fred M. Vinson at the head of the list Howard Larkins Killed iii Action In Island Battle TS Howard Larkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben O. Larkins, station A, Salem, died in action on Min danao June 15, according to ; 1 telegram received by the par ents ' ";' Larkins was one of three broth efs to enter the army with the original 41st, and went first to Ft Lewis. They went through the campaigns of Salamaua, Hollandia, Biak and the Philippines. - First Sergeant Marvin Larkins, older brother, is back on rotation and now is at Camp Maxy, Texas. The third of the fighting broth ers, Tech. Sgt Melvin Larkins, was given an honorable discharge from Baxter General hospital Spokane, on . February 1, and now employed at The Oregon Statesman. ;A younger brother, Harold, student and two sisters, Mrs. Gar net Saunders and Mrs. Gayle Stoddard, and the parents, all of Salem, survives V: r (Picture on servicemen's page) J .X. Gen. Carl A: Epaata 1 if N Henry Morgenthao, ; Jr., whose resignation as secretary ef the treasury was accepted by Presi dent Trnmaa on Thursday. .1 Still Chance of E Bond Quota Marion county still has a chance if only a, slim one to meet its $2,270,000 quota for the Mighty Seventh War Loan campaign. With $2,060,000 actually in sight Chairman Douglas Yeater announced ..Thursday . night that determined efforts would be made by all workers to make up the remainder a of the official bank deadline at noon Saturday. ?We have a day and a half to work," said f Yeater, "and 4f 27S loyal Citizens each, would! buy a $1000 (maturity value) bond, Mar Ion county- would be over the top. "I have asked every worker to stay on the Job." ' j Meanwhile, official, tabulation at 477 Court st headquarters showed total sales of all! bonds would pass the six million mark and possibly reach $6,500,000 or around 150 1 per 1 cent of quota, when all returns are in. Latest national tabulations show that Oregon has regained its No. 1 place among the states with $376.83 per capita sales, 52 cents ahead of Connecticut temporary leader. " ! Casualty List Grows 6258 i 1 ' i Within Week WASHINGTON, July 5.-rV Combat casualties of the ' armed forces since; the beginning of the war reached ' 1,036,937 - today, a rise of 6,253 in the past week. -: The tota represented 911,397 for the army and 125,540 for the navy. It included 239,533 killed, 628,353 wounded, 49,580 missing and 119,4711 prisoners. 1 Most of the week's increase re flected fighting in the Pacific, the war department said. j : ( Only a few European casualties are still being reported. Blasting j Brings Flurry Of Telephone Queries Blasting at the Anunsen gravel pit on Cherry avenue at mid-after noon Thursday startled many Sa lem residents. Japanese balloon bombs obviously were paramount in the minds of a number who called The g Statesman office to learn the cause of the loud ex plosion. J . ; . i Under Spaatz as deputy will be Lt Gen. Barney Giles. The 20th will be under Ma Gen. Curtis E. Lemay. The 8th will be under Lt Gen. James A. ZJoolittle. . i Over the; whole show will ' be General of the Army H. H. Arn old aa commander of the entire U. S. army; air corps. 5 The new; arrangement does noi affect, the southwest Pacific com mand under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. His air 'chief. Gen. George C. Kenney, it was explained, will concentrate on the use of B-24 Liberators and med ium bombers, with perhaps some B-1T Flying Fortresses. 4 ' A ii-'. County Hitting No. 87 M'Arthur 'A T'okyo Bay Area Ripped by Units Erom.Iwo Jima MANILA. Friday. June S hUPW Gen. Douglas MacArthur baa flung his air forces against the Japanese homeland for the first time, operating from Okinawa, he disclosed today. , Thirty-six hours after they landed on Okinawa, fighters and bombers roared off on an unchal lenged sweep "over the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. This is Just the start." de clared Gen. George C Kenney, commander of the far east air for ces. "We will continue to ham- mer Japan until she accepts un conditional surender.', Balds, Staged July S The raids were staged July 3. The first blows landed on the cit ies of Tojimbara, Byu, Izumi, Chairan and Omura. j Speedy Mustangs' darted down, strafing against moderate to hea vy antiaircraft fire as the raiders swept-the skies .for two hours. They found only three enemy float planes and sank them all in Fukuoka harbor. . It was the first blow -struck ty MacArthur against , the Japanese homeland in more than three and a half years of war. PLANES RIP WAREHOUSES," DOCKS IN TOKYO BAY j GUAM, Friday, July 9.-(F)-Nearly 100 Iwo-based Mustangs of the US Seventh army air force raided airfields in the Tokyo area yesterday for the second straight day and ripped dock and ware house targets in Tokyo bay. The Seventh fighter command reported the raid at the same tim that fleet headquarters announ ced navy privateers on July 4 made their first sweep over, southwestern Korea, disrupting a main railroad line. The Japanese air force defend ing Tokyo again failed to show up against the Mustangs which the day before had broadcast a chal- enge to the foe. Five enemy planes were de stroyed and 10 damaged in yes terday's strike making a total cf 48 shot down, destroyed or dam aged in two days. Arnold Quits . Bench to Take Law Practice i WASHINGTON, July Thurman Arnold, former Justice department "trust buster," resign ed a high judgeship today to re enter private law practice and work for "a truly competitive " economy in the postwar world.; The president accepted the resig nation "regretfully" saying it rep resented a "great loss to the benchJ "' Another resignation today, waa i that of Eugene Casey, an execu tive assistant to the president He was one Sot the "secret six" aides chosen by President Roose velt because of their "passion for anonymity." j Late in 1944, Casey went on active duty with 'the navy and is now a lieutenant commander serving .In the Pacific 1 Tornado Loss Set $500,000 Air 1 1 War ; RISING CITY, Nebr, July 5.-(-Damage from a tornado, which killed six persons and in jured 15," five critically, In a five mile sweep through Butler county -Nebraska, was estimated tonight ; ; "at close to a half million dol law." ' ;-; ' - Mayor H. D. Treadway of Ris ing City, small town on the edge of the destruction wrought by the storm last night declared dam . age was principally to livestock, buildings, and crops. :. ? MATOK aUXXT BOMB PORTLAND, July 5.-P)-May-or Earl Riley arrived home today from Chicago where he attended a meeting of the American Mu nidpal association. - . . t.