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, -. ; - ; rlon MODS FOUNDED 1651 . !, V.'j Truman Arrives in Berlin NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salens, Oregon. Tuesday Morning. July 17. 1945 Price 5c No. 6S roro)nci7?n L9) lAiU u u ' t IF Meeting To Open Today "V . ! 1 JV i S I ! i i I. President Truman leaves his plane at Gatow airports In Berlin as he arrives for the Potsdam conference with Churchill and Joseph Stalin. In the doorway Is Adm. William D. Leahy. (AP Wirephoto) THDODQCB Last fall, when the voters of Missouri adopted a new state constitution, it was the first time in 35 years that a state had ap proved of an entirely new con stitution, from preamble to clos ing schedule. In August, Georgia's voters are to pass on a new con stitution, the eighth in the state's history,- which was submitted to-J them br the last . legisiaiureri Voters In New Jersey, unde the leadership of Bobs Mayor Hague of Jersey City, rejected a new constitution ' last fall, which, had given promise of needed reforms in that state. Back in 1920 Missouri adopted constitutional amendment which provided that every 20 years the' question should he sub mitted on whether tocau a con stitutional convention "to revise and amend the constitution." The first , such convention in 1922-23 proposed a series of amendments but only six were approved by the voters. This time the conven tion did the constitution all over and the voters endorsed it almost two to one. ! One thing about the new con stitution is that it is about a third shorter, than its predecessor. Among the changes made from the 1875 constitution are: ; Provisions of freedom of speech extended to radio; rights of em ployes to organize and to bargain collectively were recognized. A bicameral legislature was re tained but provision (Continued on Editorial Page) linn Welfare Budget Said to Be Too Low ALBANY, Ore., July 16 '-() Higher living costs, population growth and more old age bene ficiary claims will make it diffi cult for Linn county public wel fare department to get along on the estimated $375,000 on the 1945-48 budget, Mrs. Ruth Cotter, administrator, . said today. She said the office needed $450,000. Ammo Dump Blows Up STRASBOURG, France, July it (P) A munitions dump blew up near here today, killing eight per sons and injuring ten, and au thorities said the explosion was caused by hot weather. The tem perature was near 100.. Anirnsl Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Ihii it it tpeakinzr iN7l NK 1 V i City Pay In Midair By ISABEL CIULDS City Editor The Statesman Votes of two aldermen Monday night held up passage of the Salem city salary ordinance, and to quote others "left things in an awful mess' so far as the next street department payroll is con cerned. But two "nays" weren't enough to 'defeat a resolution by which the city recorder was auth orized to call for bids-on parking meters. I . - Tom Armstrong --and " David O'Hara, - after expressing their growing distrust' of any system under which such an ordinance as that fixing salaries for city em ployes must be "railroaded,'' cast the negative votes on a motion to suspend the rules so that the sal ary measure might be given' its final reading and passed on the night of its introduction. Only salaries for which money is provided in the new budget for which the budget does net spec! fy individual pay scales are wages of certain employes of depart ments under the city engineer's office. The engineer can't find men to dig ditches under the old salary scale, so new residences in Salem must wait for sewer con nections until the new ordinance is passed, Alderman C. F. French maintained. Armstrong declared himself willing to attend a 'special meeting of the council to vote on the bill but declared he would not vote on it without having read it City employes whose pay is established in the budget will receive the new scale. OUara and Lewis Mitchell past the dissenting voles on the park ing meter resolution. Lloyd Big don questioned the wisdom -of hurrying through such action without public hearings and was told that bids, though called, need not be 'accepted and that there was still time for such hearings. Rigdon said he favored the me ters and believed the businessmen who opposed them five years ago would like them if they were in' stalled. ' ' (More city council action on page 2.) , ' ." Measure Civilians Must Wait Until 9 46 For Food Supply Improvement WASHINGTON, July l8.-ff Secretary of Agriculture Ander son declared .tonight that, on the basis of present indications, civil ians will have to wait until 1946 for any material Improvement in the domestic food situation. - j "Because of the time it takes to produce food, not much relief from actual shortages can be ex pected during 1945," he said. "The supply-of food we have available to use at this time was fixed by what was done a year or more ago, Just as what we do now will determine the food sup ply that will be on hand next year. .; ; - ' ..4,- 'f For the months ahead, he said, meats, food fats and vegetable oils, sugar, condensed and evap orated ' milk, and canned ; fruits and vegetables win continue in short supply. In addition rice and dried beans will get shorter. The only bright spots, he said, . are milk, potatoes and fresh vegeta bles. ' ;.::'. '.-. POTSDAM, July 16 -)-Pres- ident Truman and Prime Minis ter Churchill talked informally today preliminary to meeting Premier 'Stalin and there was the possibility that the big three might be together tonight Authoritative quarters refused to say whether the big three al ready were meeting but soviet sources j said .' Information about Stalin and Foreign Commissar Vyacheslay Mblotov might be re leased within a few hours. Iti was generally believed that Stalin and Molotov already were in Potsdam when President Tru man arid Prime Minister Chur chill made independent and un heralded tours of conquered Ber lin during the afternoon. At that time, a "soviet spokesman said merely f that Stalin and Molotov "will be here In time for the open ing of the conference.' Mlxit Meet at Nlht Evening conferences are cus tomary at the Kremlin but there was! nb positive Indication that tne j Dig tnree wouia wors tnat way here. ; j ' Truman and Churchill at any rate: were awaiting the first ses sion of the momentous confer ence which Is believed to have the war with Japan high on the agenda and the peace of Europe definitely on the list of talks. Truman has instructed Vice Adm. Emory S. Land, chairman of the : maritime commission, to come to Potsdam immediately and bring members of his staff with him. The action suggested that the conference agenda would In clude discussions of postwar shipping and : utilization of the United States' great merchant fleet I Each Tours Berlin Emerging separately from be hind the wall ' of secrecy and the thousands of ; c r a c k American, British and Russian troops guard ing tfe Kaiser Wilhelm ' castle, Truman and Churchill, each with his retinue o! advisors- and high military chiefs traveled through the jwreackage of Berlin during the afternoon. Iti was the first time in history that anr American, president had visited fcBerlini Truman, in fact, is the first American chief exec utive to set foot on German soil. Bail Proposed i Si -A . X . On Gnnpiil sory Armv Traiiiin s r "ft . WASHINGTON, July 1 House .Republican Leader Martin today proposed a world-wide ban on compulsory peacetime mill tary service Dut advocates of a training program dismissed his idea at merely something "grand to contemplate." The Massachusetts - congress man announced in a statement that ha: will introduce tomorrow a resolution calling on the adminis tration to work for an internation al anti-conscription agreement "before- the United States adopts compulsory military service.' Chairman Wood rum (D-Va) of the house postwar military com mmeea wnicn recently, recom mendeq a system of universal peacetime training for this coun try, voiced the criticism. Albany Man Decorated PORTLAND, July lMflVOut standing performance of duty in the Pacific has won the Distin guished? Flying Cross for Lt CoL Jack R, Cram, Albany. He was decorated on Iwo Jima. "The total ! demand for meat will; continue far above our sup ply he said. 5 'Anderson gave this picture of the prospective food supply - - a plcture which he described as "not ail optimistic one on the whole" i- - in a talk over the Am erican Broadcasting company net work and at la news conference held earlier. -'S ' ' The report on the food outlook . - theJ first broad one given by him since he became secretary of agriculture July 1 - - said the government - was taking "positive steps' ;to deal with shortages. Those steps were listed as follows " (1) Ta increase production to thef limit of our ability; (2) to improvf distribution, with partic ular attention to "choking off black markets; (3) to pare down government and foreign demands; and it to obtain supplemental production and supplies in food producing areas abroad, partial larly in; South America. , 25,000 Acres Afire Along Both Sides f Wilson River I PORTLAND, Ore., July .-(HVForest patrols struggled to night to clear lanes across the path of fires in the Wilson river area where 15,000 acres are blazing on both sides of the river, I More than 1000 soldiers and sailors will be fighting in the zone orjenroute by morning, foresters said.1 Loggers from Western Oregon operations have joined crews organized by Fred M. Vinson Nominated for - I ' ' i Treasury Pot WASHINGTON, July 16K)- President Truman today nomi nated Fred M. Vinson as secretary of the treasury and John W. Sny der to step into Vinson's post as director of war mobilization and reconversion.! . I Snyder, former St Louis bank er, succeeded Vinson only last April as federal loan administra tor, h ' . i 5 ; Confirmation of both appoint ments by the senate was consid ered a foregone conclusion. The nomination of Vinson, -55-year-old Kentuckian, was sent to the senate earlier than planned. President Truman had expected to send lt up after he returned from his present trip to Potsdam. It was transmitted today at the suggestion of retiring Secretary Morgenthau so Vinson could pro ceed at oncei with pressing finan cial decision. -a - U. S. Can Land ; I! In Japan Soon, Says Admiral - v WASHINGTON, July 16.H55)- Vice Adm. Daniel Barbey hinted tonight that American forces may not wait until the encLof,the ty phoon season to invade China or Japan. j s Discussing;! Invasion prospects in an NBC radio interview, the Seventh amphibious force com mander said:that while the wea ther is important "it will take more than a big wind to stop us." Barbey said that landings in Japan and Quna are "equal pos sibilities and that an invasion force could be readied within 30 to 90 days, depending upon the size of the force. Reiterating; bis prediction that Japan can be forced to surrender within a year if there is no slack ening of the war effort at home, Barbey declared that Japan is "now at the crossroads." "Her leaders must make a de cision," he said. "She can follow the German (example and see her cities destroyed or she can be realistic and: save something fof the future. . . Liquor Control Head jNamed PORTLANp, Ore., July l-(P)- The state liquor control commis sion today announced organization of a new hard liquor enforcement division and appointment of R. D, Davis, Portland, veteran ; Oregon peace officer; to head the new di vision. ';' I "This new division Is' being es tablished to tarry out policies of the Knox law and other ; Oregon legislation," 'Administrator Ray Conway saidv . ! I Davis, chief of interior security olice for the western defense command until August, 1944, is a former Deschutes . . and Klamath counties sheriffs deputy and state police investigator. I ':. -" ... ' Tuesday Hours Changed At Salem Ration Board Salem war j price and rationing board offices in the Argo hotel building on Center street will not be open this afternoon or any jother Tuesday afternoon until further notice. The office Is open Tuesday, night from 6 to 10, Tues day morning from 10 to 12:30, and daily, other week days from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. The new schedule Of hours was drawn when work ing hours of 1 employes were cut OPA officials' said Monday. forest department officials who are recruiting every man in the fire area. One bridge on. the Wilson river highway ' where several routes junction for the crossing was re ported- by Associated Press corres pondent Paul W. Harvey to have been destroyed this afternoon. He reported three lumber camps and all reforestation in the Tilla mook burn of 1933 has been wiped out Companies estimated damage at $90,000 to camps and logs which were being salvaged from the ten year old burn. Gov. Earl Snell and, State For ester N. S. Rogers toured the, fire, lines today where 415 bluejackets from Astoria, Ore., Tongue Point station joined loggers. , Rogers said 200 more soldiers will come from Geiger field, near Spokane, Wash., 300 are due from Fort Lewis tomorrow and others will be called from naval stations and army barracks In the area. District Fire Warden Cecil Kyle, Forest Grove patrol sta tion;-' said flames were reaching an area where men soon can "or ganize and make effective use of equipment State Forester Rogers issued an urgent call for civilians to help, while upper Willamette valley llumbermenL tonight warned : that forests in the area are "like a tinder box.. 5 Forest officials said the 3000'- acre Salmonberry river fire was under complete control and some of the 250 soldiers from Vancou ver barracks may be shifted to the Wilson river, area tomorrow. Limitation on Troops Would Ruin Charter WASHINGTON, July 16.-P)- The senate foreign relations com mittee declared today that a con gressional limitation on the use of American military forces un der the proposed world security council "unquestionably" would force renegotiation of the United Nations charter.- , In a formal, favorable report on the 50-nation agreement a 21- memberh majority asserted that any attempt - - either by reser vation or by subsequent legisla tion - - to restrict the use of US troops by requiring that congress pass on each individua l'case "would clearly violate the spirit of one of the most important pro visions of the charter." This interpretation, written by state department aides and sub scribed to by the majority in ap proving ; the report, appeared to forecast strong opposition to any subsequent move to limit the au thority of the American repre sentative on the power-wielding security council. Chinese Take Rail Town in Kweilin Drive CHUNGKING, July 16 Chinese troops fighting toward Kweilin, site of triple-airfield base abandoned 'last "October by the Americans, have captured a railroad stronghold and are driv ing on Kyungfu, 31 miles south west of the city, the Chinese high command said today. : ; . ( ; In coordinated assault Chi nese troops seized : Hwangmlnhu, on the Hunan-Kwangsi raflroadV 51 miles southwest of Kweilin, on Saturday; - communique said. Part of the attack hit along the railroad, ' and part along the main Liuchow - Kweilin highway. Hwangmlnhu Is 40 miles north east of Chinese - controlled Liu chow. r " Some of the enemy fled north ward toward Paishou, highway center 23 miles west of Kweilin, but were intercepted and fighting continues, the communique added. Soldier Visitors From Adair Draw i- Praise of Police "About the finest group of young fellows We've had in Salem," ac cording to Chief of Police Frank Minta, crowded the capital city's restaurants -and . hotels Saturday night and Sunday. V: Soldiers in sun tans and boots, the Visitors from Camp Adair were good-natured even about the lack of accommodations. Crowded bus es carried 2000. of .them back, to the camp Sunday afternoon and evening. By the time next week end's crowds arrive, the USO plans to have a longer list of rooms in residences to offer and cots will have been set up in at least two dormitories. Crew Bails Out Of B-29; Plane Still Unlocated GRAND RAPIDS, Minn., July 1HP)-A huge B-29 which dis appeared into the night after be ing! abandoned at an j altitude of 9200 feet by its nearly asphyxiated crew was hunted tonight from Minnesota to the Pacific coast crewmen, all of whom were rescued from the. woods of north ern Minnesota and from a lake, said the bomber, carried enough gasoline to fly it to the Pacific ocean. They doubted, though. that its altitude would carry it over western mountains. When they last saw it, It was headed due west, controlled by the automatic pilot S i Search continued in the north western . Minnesota lakes and woods region, however, because it was though possible that the ship exploded. It was filled with gaso line fumes when the crew bailed out i about midnight Sunday. B-29 Will Be - i Midget Beside New 'Hercules CULVER CITY, Calif j July 16 -(JP) The Howard Hughes Air plane Manufacturing plant today took the wraps off its "Hugest Hercules," which 'is to be the world's largest seaplane, and dis closed that the massive cargo car rier will weigh 425,000 pounds. Its cost "will exceed $20,000,000. The plane has a wingsp'read of 320 feet, or large enough to ac commodate a '' Superfortress on each wing. It will have eight en gines to generate 24,000 horse power for, its maiden flight some time next year. Delivery of the engines is expected next January. The Hercules will be able to carry a 60-ton tank, complete with armor and "crew, or. three" light tanks. Used as a hospital ship,' it ' would accommodate 350 patients on stretchers with doctors and nurses to care for the wound ed. As a transport, it would carry 750 Infantrymen i from Honolulu to Tokyo; nonstop. 3 ; Rail Workers Needed In Oregon, Washington PORTLAND, July l&-PH' road manpower surveys tonight reveal 2000 semi-skilled and skilled railroaders must I be re crulxl for Oregon and 3000 for Washington to neet the transpor tation load of the months ahead. Correspondent Nearly Certain j Hitler. Eva Braun in Argentina CHICAGO, July 18. -(ff)- The Chicago Times, in a dispatch from Vlcent DePascal, Montevideo cor respondent, today reported he was Virtually certain" Adolf Hitler and; Eva Braun landed in Argen tina and are on a German-owned estate in Pantagonia. j ;; ; "From Information Just received from Buenos Aires, DePascal wrote, ' "I am virtually, certain Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, the latter dressed in mas culine clothes, landed in Argen tina and are on an immense, German-owned estate in Pantagonia. . This information, . which . the writer said was received from "reliable channels" is that the two are .living on one of a number, of estates purchased to. provide sanctuaries f-- the nazi overlords "if and when their schemes for (S Top By Leif Erickson GUAM, Tuesdajv July 17 (AP) The United States and British fleets, combined striking force erer assembled anywhere, hurled some 1500 planes at the Tokyo area today. The tremendous onslaught V still is in progress. .' ! , i The great blow, starting less than an hour a 2500-ton incendiary bomb assault on four ... Japanese cities by itearly 500 American Superfortresses. : It.' was the latest in a rain and air that in four days his length of the enemy's home islands. ; J s ; The nival shelling opened the war on Japan, in which the allies rely upon the twin strategies cf an ever-tightening blockade and destruction by shells and bombs "of every industry and resource which contributes to Japan's ability to make war,' Adm. Chester; W. Nimitz declared in a radio broadcast to America immediately following his announcement of the present op eration. ; : j The American fleet the third shelled the enemy home islands of Honshu and Hokkaido on Saturday and Sunday, and with its thousand-odd carrier planes burned but three Japanese Industrial cities and destroyed br damaged 128 enemy vessels. ' j Whereabouts Kept Unknown i i Yesterday it clamped on a radio blackout, and its whereabouts, were unknown until this morning, when Adm. Chester V7. Nimitz an nounced that it had joined the British Pacific fleet in a gigantic and continuing blow against the Tokyo area. The American carrier planes had smashed the same area's airfields in a great strike one week ago today. . -:f-' . i !; ,-"-- It is the first combined American-British operation of the war against the enemy homeland, and Is commanded by U.S. Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey, jr. ! ! , Nimitz identified one British carrier, one battleship, two cruisers -and five destroyers, and if was clear that, other unidentified units were participating. - j . . Henamed the battleship King George V, completed since the wsr began; the' fleet carrier Formidable, the six-inch gun cruiser New foundland, the 5.25-Inch-gun light - ers Troubridge, Undine, Barfleur destroyer Quickmatch. j . i Other British Ships Named . . 4 tTtt ' - ' While not named by Nimite in the present action, the British fleet carriers Illustrous, Victorious, Indomitable and Indefatigable previously have been listed as - operating in j the Pacific against the Sakishima group of islands south of Okinawa. The Japanese radio, quickly acknowledging that Tokyo was under heavy air assault, said 10 carriers were in the task force. j No American ships, were named, but Nimitz communiques on the strikes of the past week have identified the! Carriers Lexington Es sex, Independence and San Jacinto; the ner Battleships Iowa, Mis-' souri, Wisconsin, Indiana', Massachusetts and South Dakota; the Cruisers Chicago, San Juan, Springfield, Atlanta and Quincy; and the Destroyers DeHaven, Samuel N. Moore,! John Rodgers, Schroe der. Cogswell, Heerman. Southerland, Aul, John W. Weeks, Coloham, Wedderbum, Rowe, Caperton, Frank Knox, Erben, Black,- McGowan, Mormon Scott and Remey.! i , j Huge 17. S. Flett on Iland j I h Since the Americans Suffered no demage in their earlier strikes, " it is fair to assume that all those named, and more, are on the present Tokyo raid. . "--.! . : '' ' j Their primary mission probably , was to attempt to find and de- 1 stroy the remnants of the Japanese air force, but Nimitz brief an nouncement, after receipt of flashed word that the assault was on, gave no details. . I i ' Tokyo already has suffered the loss- of 53.6 square miles of the -heart of the city from previous raids - - principally from Superfort ress firebombs - - but the low-flying carrier planes could be expected to locate and destroy remaining- pinpoint targets considered worthy ef attack. .' . 1 , .-- j j. : ' - The combined fleet, the most powerful ever assembled In a sin gle task f orCe anywhere hvJhe-. world, is under over-ell command of ' Adm. William F. Halsey, commander of the US Third fleet. Rawltngs Commands British J ' The . British commander under Halsey is "Vice Adm. Sir Bernard Rawlings, with -Vice Adm. Sir Philip Vian In command of British carriers. rf..." j ; I i (The fact that Vian, famed since Malta convoy days, was listed" as in command of carriers showed that the Formidable certainly was not the only royal navy carrier in the operation.) Other British task group commanders included Rear Adms. E. J. Brind and J. Edelston - - a bint as to the extensive nature of the forces Involved. . i r- k . ! ' Nimitz identified the targets only as being ."in the Tokyo re gion" and said the carrier planes struck at dawn. His communique. Issued at 10:15 a. m. Guam time (8:15 p. m., Monday, Eastern War time), said the assaults were still in progress. : Brazil Awards dark Southern Cross Order RIO DE JANEIRO, July 1-0P) Gen. Mark. Clark was awarded the Brazilian Order of the South ern Cross , by President i Getulio Vargas today In a ceremony in Catete palace. Clark commanded Brazilian troops in Italy, jr . 4 world conquest went awry." "The pair reportedly landed, the dispatch continued, Von a lone ly shore from a German subma tine which suposedly returned to surrender to the allies. -: j - ; "There are reasons to' believe the Argentine government - may have known nazi Uioats lurked off its shores. Certainly there, are enough nazi sympathizers In Ar gentina who would jump at the chance to. give a haven to the living symbol of national social ism. - - . ... In this - connection, the story said, "the utmost significance Is now attached to the words of Gen. Basilo Pertine at a banquet on JuneM:' ;: I; ; " 1 am glad to announce that our friends are safe at last'" to form the greatest carrier at dawn, followed by "possibly of bombs and shells from sea spread ruin along the entire "the pre-invasion phase" of ii 'i cruiser Black Prince, the destroy and Grenville and the Australian :-v. ? Airmen Down ! 24 Nip Planes GUAM, Tuesday, July 17.-MP)-M us tang fighters from Iwo; Jima shot down 24 Japanese planes and probably destroyed another 18 in a wild dog fight over the Nagoya-Osaka area Monday the first extensive opposition they had encountered In weeks of harrass ing raids over the empire. ; A large force of P-51s ran into -the Japanese : planes enroute to. the homeland targets and the me lee spread from a scant hundred " feet to three miles altitude. Although the enemy . intercep tors dived from above in j their first attacks, the Mustangs ; out Cew the Japanese in 75 encoun ters. Two Mustangs Were lost neither due to direct enemy action.1 Weather Max. L.74 -SI ea l.6 Slln. lUtn SI : . , JKf 48 ' J9 St J eo, a M trace San Francisco Eujren Salem k Portland i Seatue wuiamette mer n. - k u FORECAST (from U. S. weatber bu reau. McNary field, Salem i Early mornlnf cloudiness. WUI clear to only scattered clouds before noon. Tem peratures wul be allgntty warmer to day with a maslimim ef to degraes. I - 1 ! a-3