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7 J t - J ' ii i U M v. - ; .. . ', . . . . l- Mg New Soopeir- rt nl o o uesns doh . SHDOS &kt ( C D ..... i i One of the minor victims of the war is the annual Family Picnic. It long had been a standard cus tom in this valley, where family trees' with roots a century old thrivied mightily. There being no "farther west" to migrate to, the descendants have continued their residence here with some inci dental desertions to sunny Califor nia, j It was the family reunion on a midsummer Sunday that always drew the clan together to make note; of the additions and sub tractions of the preceding year, to have catalog of the ailments and achievements of its various mem bers. The annual picnic was the one regular occasion! which could be planned on months ahead, and so was more largely attended than suchj special events as weddings and funerals. . i Before the wartime immigration the Valley seemed to be composed very largely of family clans, de scendants of the sturdy stock that crossed the plains in the migra tions from the '40's to the '808. Not jail; were as numerous and as widely diffused as the Irvines and the Powells and the Butlers and the Avery's, but still there were scores of families who traced their lines back to the Jedediahs and the Sarahs,! the Joshuas and the Re- bekahs Who made fires of buffalo chips and ate the dust of the Ore gon! trail on the great crossing of the high plains. The war has caused most of the family reunions to be cancelled. Gasoline and tires are scarce; adujlts are very busy; youth are (Continued on editorial page) Borneo Harbor Of Balikpapan Open to Allies MANILA, Sunday, July 15- Balikpapan harbor, greatest oil port ofj Borneo, was open to al ,lie4 shipping todar while Aus tralian amphibious forces pushed 14 miles up the east coast of Bal ikpapan. bay and seized a former Japanese seaplane base. -The enemy did not resist the new landing. Some naval supplies were captured by the Australians, but the base itself had been de molished by the retiring Japanese Another Australian seventh di vision force advanced a mile northward within about . eight miles of the big East Borneo oil field district of Sambodia on Thursday. ' i A Dutch colonial and Austral Ian force enveloping the Japanese strong point, on "Smashed-Stone Ridge" six miles north e-f Balik papan from the north and east had the support of heavy artillery, Gates Veteran Drowns in U. S. GATES, July 14 Sgt. Darrell (Dutch) Hayward, veteran of the North African Invasion, Salerno and An z i o was accidentally drowned while wading near Ft Lawton, Wash, Wednesday, his mother, Mrs. Ruby Winters, Gates postmistress, has been notified by Ft Lawton officers. Sergeant Hayward had been an instructor at1 Lawton recently. Funeral services will be held Tuesday from the Mill City Pres byterian church and burial will be made in the Falrview cemetery at Gates. Sergeant Hayward was 34 years' old and his wife died before bi enlisted. Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Winters of Gates;, a sister, Mrs. Lois Brosiz, Prairie City; two brothers, Ansel Hay ward, U.S. army, Portland; and Qrville Hayward, In defense work near Portland. Animal Craclters By WARREN GOODRICH "Either twallow that thing 4r close your mouth I hate alarm clocks V imrETY-nFTH YEAR 20 pages Wilson Fire Out 1 Of Hand Big Crew Fights Ta Stem Tide of 3000-Acre Blaze .. While 450 soldiers, 150 special crewmen (largely high school boys) and 150 loggers worked with bulldozers and smaller equipment to stem the tide, the Wilson river area fire was still running out of control early this morning. . Covering more than 3000 acres of the old Tillamook burn, it caused closure of a six-mile stretch of the Wilson river high way at A o'clock Saturday morn ing, but traffic was resumed at 10 a .hi. Salem saw the smoke from coast fires in a pall over the city, which turned the setting sun scarlet. ' i The Salmonberry river fire was believed slowly burning out across 3000 acres of Tillamook- Clatsop county. However 500 log gers and soldiers were reported still patrohng the zone. V High west winds, regular fea tures or July afternoons in the Oregon coast country, rose early Saturday. State Forester N. S Rogers said that although such winds scatter fire they also carry fog and sometimes rain to aid fire fighters. j In Coos county the rising hu midity was credited with part of the success of smoke chasers who succeeded in establishing trails around the most costly fire of the year. The $41,000 estimated dam age there was caused when cold decks of logs were destroyed. Else where, fires re in : logged-over areas, where dry snags serve as ready tinder. . v- ' Lightning caused 62 small fires over the state, all reported under control today, Rogers said. At Dallas, District Fire War. den R. C. Howell asked that per sons not on essential trips stay out of forested areas of Polk coun ty, closed, he said, because of hazardous fire conditions. Fish Shortage Felt in Salem Increases in both civilian, and government purchases combined with the fact that a number of Oregon coast fishing vessels have turned to the more lucrative catch ing of tuna and shark have brought a definite shortage In the fresh fish market here, dealers said last week. " . A light run of salmon and the closure of a number of streams to commercial fishing added to the problem, although the Friday de mand was met Dealers found that telephone calls rather than telegrams were required to as sure filled or even partially-filled orders, they said, but quality was high. Salmon and halibut, sea perch, stripped bass and red snap per were snapped up. Crab was lacking. Meantime, resturants, faced with an influx of servicemen, in dicated they would add more fish and poultry entrees to their men us. STALIN BOUND FOR POTSPAM MOSCOW, Sunday, July Generalissimo Stalin and Foreign Commissar Molotov lef today for the Big Three meeting at Pots dam. ' . Postwar Reduction of Army To HaUMUtionMMForecast WASHINGTON, July 14-(- Postwar reduction of the army's strength to a half million men was forecast today by Senator Gurney (R-SD) in view of the senate's expected ratification of, the United Nations charter. . ' The South I Dakota senator, a member of .the military affairs committee, told a reporter he be lieves a regular force of that size will be ample to supply the men needed for this country's share of police work under the new inter national organization and to gar rison the far-flung outposts the United States may retain in the Pacific - . , Gurney'a estimate came in the midst of discussion by charter sup porters of when a decision shall be made on the number of men, I planes, tanks,, guns and other e - Big Three9 Chiefs Converge 0ri Potsdam By Daniel De Lnee POTSDAMl July"' 14 -m- Here in an idyllic woodland setting still strewn with the wreckage of the German; army are Versailles of 1919 and Teheran of 1943 rolled into one, with agonized Europe and Asia alike looking to it for help, i . From Moscow,': London and Washington have come forecasts of what gordian-khotted problems will be laid ! upon , the Big Three conference table next week be fore Russian and English speak ing statesmen. ( With Europe's chaotic peace and Asia's still fiercely paging war fare inextricably linked, it, is ob vious, tnat the soviet union now Gen. Chennault Rs 14th Air Force Job KUNMING, China, July 14-G!P) Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the VS. 14th air force in China and former color ful leader of the famous Tlying Tigers," said today that he was leaving China arid would retire from the army after returning to America.'. ' -'K 'Chennault, 54-year-old genius and guiding light behind the stea dy growth of American air power in China, announced his resigna tion at a press , conference here two days after the appointment of LL Gen. George E. Stratemeyer as commander of an augmented U.S. air force in China. It previously had been stated that ; Chennault would retain his command of the' "fighting four teenth." j Hi ChennaulVs 14th air force, which took; the place of the gen eral's brainchild the spectacular American volunteer group of "Flying Tigers" has wiped vir tually every Japanese plane from China skies. "The Japanese now are beaten in the air in China," Chennault said in his i resignation statement Work-Weary ssmen Vacation WASHINGTON, July 14-(- Work-weary congressmen scat tered four ways from Washington tonight for the longest house re cess of the; war. ; Although' the vacation will not begin officially till the latter part of next week many members took a running start and began check' ing out of the capital last night, Barring emergencies the house will be in adjournment until Oc tober 1, the longest period for either branch of congress since the war began. n There are a few legislative tag ends left over, but house leaders admitted frankly 'that .they wouldn't be able to get a quorum together for any floor business. The house end of the capitol and the corridors of the house office building were virtually deserted today. I - .j - -13 Killed, One Injured ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, July 14.-(P-Thjrteen men were killed and one was injured in a crash of a B-29 six miles south of Al buquerque today. quipment the nation shall assign for peacekeeping operations un der the proposed world security council. , ! Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of the foreign relations committee has said that the issue should be settled in Separate legislation and has asked f he state department to assist in preparing a measure of this kindj lie has opposed any charter reservation of , this nature and there' was, 1 doubt any would be offered formally, although Sen ator BushfieldR-SD) Is attempt ing to draft some. Subsequently; Connally told news conference he did not be lieve ' congress would attempt to define the authority of the Amer ican delegate on the security coun cil until the International organ - ' izatioa actually comes into being. Congre found no 1651 ; r- !.',- j . , ' ---f Salem, Orecjon, Sunday Morning. July 15. 1945 or stands toward Japan in many respects similar to the way the United States stood toward Ger many in the months preceding Pearl Harbor. ! f ' i That is why the most import ant news of all may not be known about the Potsdam conference for a considerable time to come. All' that remained was for the three; principals ;to take their places in Germanic versions of the White House, the kremlin and No. 10 Downing street, sheltered behind lines of allied guards sev eral miles deep. J - President Truman was sched uled to land at Antwerp tomorrow from) thefTuiser Augusta and. to proceed here by plane. Prime Min ister Churchill was to ehd his va- .1 Resigns Gen. Claire! Chennault 1 India's Unity I Meeting Ends With Failure I SIMLA, India i July 14 -OFf Vicrfty Lord WavelTs conference to establish ; a more representa tive government for India ad journed in failure today and Wa- vel said he did: hot intend to try again soon to solve the Indian problem. .1 ' "' ; wavell said In a closing ad dress to the 21 Indian conferees that his principal tasks were pros ecution of the Japanese war and laying the administrative ground work for postwar tlevelopments and that both efforts required a Stable government Stability, he Said, could not! be preserved If continuing 'political discus sions produced a feeling of inse curity among government serv ants. ' ft , '! i Maulana Abud Kalan Azad, president of the congress party, Said later at a press conference that the party's principal political rival, the Moslem league, was im mediately responsible for the fail ure; but that the ultimate blame rested with the British. ; f II. S. Bombers lit 'ii " ' i Continue Raids On Formosa i i ! MANILA, Sunday, July 15.-(JPr American Liberator bombers con tinuing their series of strong neut ralization raids 5 on Formosa, set fire to oil: storage faculties at Toshien while attack bombers de stroyed many rail repair installa tions on the east coast and fighters beat up airfields, Gen. Douglis MaicArthur announced today.' Weather forced cancellation of far; east air force operations against Japan from Okinawa, a communique said, but MacArthur's plines continued to range far and wide along the 'Asiatic coast and over the southwest Pacific. A Canton supply depot was de stroyed and a column of 1000 Jap anese troops and artillery was strafed in the Amoy area., Indo china transport and railway fa cilities were bit again, and two small enemy vessels were sunk In the south China sea. ; ; Nisei Produce Refused WASH INGTON, July 14 Secretary of AEriculture Ander son.aid today; he had received numerous complaints that produce firms in Seattle are refusing to handle produce grown by JJapa- nee-Americans in that area, 7 a 4 , t Victory Meet cation at Hendaye in France over the weekend. Generalissimo Stalin suspended his series of talks jtfith Chinese Premier T. V. Sobng at Moscow and prepared to leave for the meeting. I H This summer resort area, once popular with nazi stars of the stage and screen, has been almost completely depopulated of Ger mans to furnish the security es sential for the Big Three. V The American . and British groups are housed in little terri todial islands well within the so viet zone in greater Berlin. Traffic on the broad asphalt highway to Potsdam is a cosmopolitan ! collec tion of "high brass? from Moscow, London and Washington. (Addi tional details on page 2.) ; Butter to Cost Only 16 Points Starting Today WASHINGTON July I4.-UP)- The OPA tonight ordered a cut of 8 points a pound in the ration value for butter, effective at 12.-01 a. ml, Sunday. The reduction from the current 24 red points a pound to 18 applies to creamery butter. Farm or coun try butter will remain at 12 points. Stating that the increase in the civilian supply resulting from a cut in military requirements will amount to about 10,000,000 pounds during August, OPA added: "It is believed that with the set-side reduced, there will be enough butter to permit the point reduction, at the same time main taining the good distribution that had , enabled consumers - to find butter in most stores throughout the country in the last several months.' ' V- The agency cautioned, however, that ? if butter moves too rapidly at IS points, jhe point value will be increased to keep consumption in line with the allocation. Cordon Views Glider Crash WASHINGTON, July I4-(P)-A elider. being demonstrated at Hyde field, Clinton, McL, crashed today in view of three senators, injuring one of their party, Betty Krause, secretary to Senate Sec retary Leslie L. Biffle. i -. ' n Senators McCarran . (D-Nev), Cordon (R-Ore) and Taylor (D- Idaho) had permitted Miss Krause the courtesy of the first ride.'She received , a wrenched back when the glider was caught in a down- draft as it came in for a landing. - Observers said one wing hit the ground, spinning the plane on the runway. The pilot; William Samp son, was not injured. The glider was being demonstrated by the Laister-Kauffmann Aircraft cor poration of St Louis. i Yank Recognizes Picture, Makes Caption Accurate - BUSHNtLL GENERAL HOS PITAL, Ufah, July 14-vfVA sol dier recently returned from Okl nawa stopped before a ; picture hung in a hospital corridor. The caption read: "Soldier of the Emperor," : Sauinting - at the . face, the wounded American said to a com panion: "This guy looks familiar.. Suddenly he produced a, pencil and changed the caption to: "Ex- soldier of the Emperor." Heat Wave Broken, Cooler Weather Due With Saturday's maximum tem perature down to 81 degrees, ob servers at the Uf. weather bu reau, McNary field' termed the heaf wave broken and predicted cooler weather for the next five days at least Maximum temperatures reached 90 degrees and above every day from July to July 13, highest be ing 100 degrees on July 7. Italy Declares War ROME, July 14-(VThe foreign ministry announced tonight that Italy had declared war on her former axis partner of Japan, ef fective tomorrow. No. 95 Mitscher !-. I ' ' v. !,. Nejw Job Navy Shifts Top Air Commands; Many Changes WASHINGTON, July 14-tfP)-The navy today shifted commands in its carrier-borne air arm in the Pacific in apparent preparation for the showdown phases of the war against Japan. - f l Secretary Forres tal disclosed the changes. - --r Rear Admiral Frederick C Sherman, now commander of a carrier division, was named to succeed j Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitcher as commander of the First carrier task force. " I Vice Admiral John H. Towers, now deputy commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, was named to succeed Vice Admiral John S. McCain,! commander of the sec ond carried task force. Mitscher, who with Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey developed the pres ent fast carriers task force which wields a flexible fleet, of 1500 planes, returns to Washington as deputy chief of naval operations for air; j j. ' . No announcement was made of Vice Adm. McCain's new assign ment Secretary Forrestal was asked about reports he would be come deputy veterans affairs ad rninistrator under Gen. Omar Bradley! but the secretary declin ed comment noting that such an appointment would be under pres idential authority. ; ; These changes, led a list of 29 major shifts among flag rank of ficers which Forrestal said wpuld become effective at varying dates within 30 days. The changes were not a fshakeup," Forrestal said, but were normal shifts .which oc cur periodically and by coincidence had occurred simultaneously. He said no changes were in contem plation for the higher combat com mands. ! However, he added, any such change in the future might be dictated by the "physical lim itations" of the men involved. Non-Mingling Rule Relaxed With Germans LONDON, July 14-P)-The non- fraternization policy was relaxed today. to allow American, British and Canadian occupation troops in Germany and Austria to talk with grownups in the streets and in public places. - Up to now, ' they could speak only to children. The penalty for violation was a $65 fine. ; Almost identical statements by General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery disclosed the policy change, which had been de bated on the highest levels in the past month by -American and British! leaders. ' i ; The action came as General Eis enhower's headquarters announc ed that 50,000 persons had been arrested in two months ; In Ger many in a de-nazification program by United States army security forces operating in the American occupation zone. The announce ment said the arrests were con tinuing at the rate of 700 daily. NO TRANSPORTS LOST PEARL HARBOR, July 14.-(JrV- Not one loaded American trans port traveling in. convoy in the Pacific' has been lost to enemy action, Read Adm. Walden L. Ains- worth, retiring commander of Pa cific cruisers and destroyers, re ported, today, Prico 5c Pill lal Perennial Parking Meter Bill To! Be in HqpipMonddy lSi The) perennial parking meter ordinance will be in the hopper when the Salem city council meets Monday night; it was said Satur day in official circles of the mu nicipality. .- ' ' .'. Definitely 'voted down not many months ago, the meter sys tem of regulating parking periods and netting some extra income for the city was given a bit of en couragement in the debates which preceded the decision. ! Then it was argued that with gasoline ra tioning and fewer cars on the streets the occasion for ' such ' ac tion was "not yet A salary ordinance based on provisions, of the new city budget By Leif GUAM, Sunday, July 15 powerful battleships of the U.S. navy today shelled Japan' second-ranking: steel-producing city of Muroran on the coast of Hokkaido more, than 250 miles north of the scene of tho fleet bombardment on Honshu Simultaneously more than fleet were striking northern Japan for the second day at as yet undisclosed locations. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, extension of the air and sea main islands, said the great Wisconsin were participating Pr duller 5 v. Joseph Benedict Chifley, who has been named prime minister at Australia in caucus balloting for a successor to the late 'John Cortia. (AP Wlrephota.) Nippons Break Tliroiigli Qiina Defense Area CHUNGKING, July 14. -flV Japanese troops have broken 35 and 50 miles through Chinese coastal defenses below Amoy and west of Hong Kong in twin drives possibly designated to throw up an anti-invasion wall along China's vulnerable southeast coast, the Chinese high command acknowl edged tonight. " Chinese regulars, however, have thrown all their available strength against Japanese marine landing parties southwest of Amoy., and have mowed down 3000 enemy troops, a communique said. While the Japanese beat out gains along the coast, Chinese forces of the interior battled near er to the lost American air base of Kweilin in Kwangsl province and continued street fighting in the former airdrome city of Kan hsien, 200 miles north of Hong Kong.'.; , : ' . !42 Cars May Be Released l WASHINGTON, July. U.-Wh All remaining new 1942 passenger automobiles around, 6000-will be removed from rationing to clear the way for new models, f'- - The OPA, it was learned tonight, plans to eliminate in a few days, rationing restrictions in effect' for these ears since early In the war, " Similar restrictions are now be ing drawn up, however, for new models manufacturers are just be ginning to produce. Rationing of these is expected to last from the time they first, appear on the market probably late this -summer until at least early, in 1948. comes "In for first reading Monday night and a request for zone changes to permit establishment of a new playground In the north east portion of the city will be presented. - ..: The zone change would be from strictly residential to zone 3 which permits establishment of schools and playgrounds and would affect portions of Devers and Rosedale additions. At the same time, re quests for vacation of streets and alleys in the - a r e a of several blocks will be made by the school board which has purchased . the property and plans development of the grounds " 7 V; if . : Erfckson (AP) The newest, most yesterday. 1000 carrier planes of th ! J ' ' i announcing this spectacular bombardment of the Japanese battleships Iowa, Missouri and and that the action which be- ; gan at 9:33 ua, Japanese tun (8;35 pjn., Saturday, Eastern War Time), was continuing. : Late radio flashes direct from the fleet, however, said the bom bardment had been concluded successfully, with; the . target thoroughly plastered. t This did not necessarily mean, however, that the fleet's offensive opera tions were concluded. Nimitz, issuing , a special com munique after receiving a brief flash from Adm. William F. Hal sey in command of the Third fleet named the destroyers Mc- Gowan, Norman Scott and Remey as participating. Reports from the scene said cruisers also shell ed, the vicinity, although Nimitz named none. Ganfire Accurate Accuracy of the gunfire was notable, with the Iowa's first 16 inch ranging round striking only 100 yards off her chosen target even though it was over a hill, out of sight. of observers in the ship.--. ; Spotting planes overhead called repeatedly "no change" as tha, broadsides of high explosive shells, 10 tons at a time from each ship's nine- main guns, . crashed into the mills of the war-boomed enemy city of more than 100,000 population. 1 Naming . the three 45,000-ton battleships indicated that at least two strong task forces of the Third fleet were roaming practically at will up and. down the Japanese coasts. ': There was no report of Japa nese resistance. , . I Yesterday Nimitz announced the bombardment of Kamsishi on Honshu island by the battleships Massachusetts, Indiana and South Dakota, - two heavy- cruisers and four destroyers! Score Heavy Damage Those ships and the carrier planes of the fleet set Kamaishi afire, destroyed or damaged 87 Japanese planes and destroyed or damaged 39 enemy 4hips plus de- . struction of 27 locomotives and ' railway facilities in yesterday's strikes, Nimitz said, despite un favorable weather. , 1 ; j Locations of today's air strikes were not yet disclosed. 1 j j Nimitz in an earlier communi que, however, had said that both the surface forces and the planes were hitting the enemy again. j Actually, he announced tha shore bombardment hours befor it was confirmed by reports from the fleet boldly telling the Japa nese that the U. S. fleet was going to strike again an unprecedented 1 action, .'.i : i - j Starts This Morning ' ) The - bombardment then began at 9:35 ajn. ; (Japanese time) (8:35 pjn., Saturday, EWT). j The new bombardment force is commanded b Rear Ad. O. C Badger j Th target, Muroran, is at tha i l entrance to Uchiura bay on south- ! ern Hokkaido, in' confined watera Which the fleet. showed amazing -temerity in entering. Results of the shelling were not immediately available. 1 Jack Quentiu Hall Dies On Board Prison Ship Jack Quentin HalL former resi dent of Albany who was- widely known in Salem, died on board a prison ship en route to Japan from the Philippines on Oct 24, 944, his mother, Mrs. C. C. Hall, now a resident of Seattle, has been notified. (See also story on page 3.) Milk Shortage, Not Famine, Marks Salem Shortage but not famine marks the Salem milk market, since re activation of Camp Adair, mer chants and distributors; agreed Saturday. -Normal distribution to residential areas has riot been checked, although some Stores are sold out before closing time. ; Adair is buying in thje market and likelihood of its commandeer ing milk seemed improbable it was said. . Weather San Francisco Eugene Salem Portland - Umx, 64 Mln. Haln , M trae 61 .00 62 JM 61 M 5S trace .81 -7S Seattle .73 Willamette river -3J ft. FORECAST (from l. S. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem): Cloudy this morning but clearing before noon. Temperatur - -about hid. Maximum near S3 degree expected. s