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Nip Ships K Heavily; Attacked , j In the old days the foreign min isters or ambassadors who sat in international conferences brought their shooting irons .with them, not literally, to be sure, but fig uratively. The British ambassa- dor sat with the great British navy at his back. Germany's rep . resenUtive sat with the Prussian military staff at his elbow. The . frenchman had to support his ar- ; cuments the Napoleonic tradition '. of military proweM. Russia' spokesman could refer to the great imponderable that was Rus . sia with its hosts of ijnanpower.j , ! The present conference at Pots dam does not meet in quite the - same atmosphere, yet each of the three knows the others are at tended with military power of no mean order. Russia's strength has '. been fully demonstrated. Britain . emerges from the war with I a great navy and air force. The ' United States possesses strength - In all categories, and leads in the ( essential of production. 1 j : The session of the Big Three will fail, however, if it resolves itself into a contest where argu- iment must be backed with show of force. Its purpose is not one of application of pressures for na tional advantage or for, dividing the spoils of conquest. The ob jective of this conference is the sharing up of the world, of west ern Europe immediately and of .East Asia latterly, so that human organization in national groupings may be set back in the path of or derly progress. For the United States this par ticipation must be whole-hearted. No longer are we mere observers on the scene, whose interests do not (Continued on Editorial Page), Senate Flattens Opposition to Bretton Woods ' WASHJKGJ.ON, July 18.-UV-A solid phalanx , of democrats and a handful of republicans flattened opposition to the Bretton Woods monetary legislation in its first senate test today. I f Rallying to the call of Demo cratic Leader Barkley (Ky), :the senate rejected, 32 to 31, a motion by Senator Taft (R-Ohio) to post pone action on the house-approved Fund-Bank, bill. Plans of leaders to bring the bill to a final vote today bogged down under six hours of general debate. Majority Leader Barkley (D Ky) served notice that he will strive for final passage tomorrow so that the senate can clean up its other business and take up the United Nations charter Monday. A half dozen proposed amend ments to the Bretton Woods bill still are pending, v Army Wants To Buy Lamb The army procurement office In Seattle is ready : and willing to buy all the lamb it can get, but it can't get enough. It is already digging into its reserves, its rep resentative told Oregon Director of Agriculture E. L. Peterson in a telephone conversation Wednes day, Peterson said last night Federally-Inspected plants; eith er can't or won't kill more lambs. Until federal agencies either qual ify class two plants for sale of lamb to the army or lift points In order that Oregon lambs may move now when they are right for the market, sheep raisers will still be sacrificed, he indicated.' (See also story on page 10.) Animsl Crdclters l By WARREN GOODRICH Ycantd calcium. Are you Ctlttnj plenty of fresh NINETY-FIFTH YEAR IMS? - t . ! Old Fir In Path Of Blaze Wilson Highway Closed; Flames Veer to West PORTLAND, Ore., July lB.-Jf) Wind whipped forest fires, in two Oregon regions veered to the west tonight and state foresters admit they dont know where they can halt them. Highway officials again ordered the Wilson river highway closed between.' Tillamook, at the coast and Glenwood Junction, S3 miles eastward. The Wilson river fire, with an estimated 35,000 acres left char red and smouldering in its wake, was licking into a virgin tract of Douglas firtimber owned by two large lumbering firms. About 70 miles south of the Wilson fire zone, loggers are bat tling flames which in less than 12 hours have spread from a 500 acre spot fire to destroy 2800 acres of cutover lands owned by the Willamette .Valley Lumber com pany.. About four million board feet of logs have burned and $8, 000 worth of equipment destroyed as high winds scattered, spot fires into' standing Douglas fir tracts. Sailors Evaeeated ,. ' Shiftinr of the Wilson river fire last night forced evacuation of 400 sailors camped near the western edge of the fire trail pat tern ".which' forest$iyesterday expected would : blaze late a pocket to -the orth. No one was Injured and the camp is still undamaged. . State Forester N. S. Rogers said tonight he was alarmed by velo city of the east wind and that de spite having more than 1700 men now in the area he could only hope for winds to subside, virgin Fir In Danger Gordon T. Hanson, official of Stimson Lumber company, said the "island of Douglas fir" spared by the 1939 fire was in the new path of the Wilson river fire cen ter. Another virgin tract owned by "Consolidated Timber company is menaced by the south edge of the fire. One veteran logger said flames are moving out of the rugged canyon: country and have a clean sweep "fo the coast Ickes Curious About Status WASHINGTON, July, 18.-(P)- Secretary of the Interior Ickes, last remaining member of the original Roosevelt cabinet, plans to ask; clarification of his status under President 'Truman. The showdown, it was learned today, will await the return of Mr. Truman from the big three meeting fn Germany. Although the president said in his last news conference before leaving for Pots dam that he had no plans to re place the 2 1-year-old cabinet dean, it is expected that Ickes will step out if he is not satisfied with the reply. Lifting of Blackout, Dimout Results Viicertain in Salem All blackout and dimout regu lations; in Oregon are to be lift ed August 1. Gov. Earl Snell this week issued the proclamation say ing so.' "v ; - : What difference that may make in plans for better lighting of Sa lem streets depends on a number of factors, Alderman Kenneth Perry, 1 chairman of the commit tee on street ' lighting, declared I Wednesday. Probably materials would not be available for the installations recommended recently by General Electric engineers following a sur vey of lighting needs here, Perry !said." i . ' . ... When lower lamps in the down- town - cuistexjights ; were turned ! oiito that.- bl ackout-regulationa could be met, 300-watt globes were substituted for 60-watt lights in' the upper sockets and these now provide more light than the old four-globe clusters did, W. M. n PAGES UJLJi Ghandi on Way w.t..tfl Ghandi (in carriage) F 3 ' ; ! i I I I ft . - I .4 4 Kajkomari Amrit Keor, to Interview his excellency the vleersy. Lord Wavell, at Simla, India, on plans for a new Indian govern ment. (AF WirephoU) .... i j Fleet Adds 1322 Ih Five Years to Become 'it ' i ' . Largest Navy WASHINGTON. Julv 18.-WVMarkinr the fifth anniversary of theTwo ocean fleet," the W Von ddKl t0M Mtp vmm years, f , :: ,f Thus the navy now boasts ships, the .biggest navy in history, Legally Exiled From Belgium BRUSSELS, July W.-Bet-um'sl parliament i today legally exiled King Leopold III and bar red him from returning to Bel gium soil without ; parliamentary consent. '"'' U' ' Thesenate, by a vote of 77 to 58, approved the measure previous ly adopted by the chamber of dep uties, lit .becomes law with the signature of Regent Prince Charles a mere formality, f 1; ! The act continues the regency under! Prince Charles who has been serving in that capacity while his brother the king, has been pondering "steps to return to the throne at his St- Wolfgang, Ba varia,' villa; . J ' As m the lower chamber, Cath olic senators championed Leopold's cause In today's debate. Bet 3he Didn't Get It GETTYSBURG, i Pa- July 18- (iiP)-This classified advertisement appeared in the Gettysburg Times: "Would' like to borrow! five pounds of sugar.- Will return when '37 stamps available or when canning stamps received." Hamilton of Portland General Electric company, pointed out Wednesday. ; Three dark globes, coupled with the fact that many store windows are now dark, have had the psy etiological effect of making streets seem extra dark, he added. Under d i mo u t j regulations, merchants have been required to leave win dows unlighted unless they could guarantee that they could be dark ened in a few seconds, i - ; If JOO-watt globes could be used in the three lower sockets of the street clusters, light. around the poles': would be intensified at an added cost of approximately $110 a month, but there is 'some ques tion whether the wiring could car King Leopold ry the . added current,: HainiltanTdistrict announced today. said.; IT the city is planning to have new installations as soon as they are available, rewiring would not seem feasible just now,: he indicated.1 ' : Salenv Oreejon, Thursday Morning. July 18. 1945 to See Wavell leaves the house af his hostess. . I" ! Warships in History navy revealed tonight thatl322prire. boats rushed to the scene tA its forces in these fiv - ' :- i a force of around 1500 fighting r, reaay 10 support uic invasion and force the Japanese enemy to ready to support the invasion its knees.' Added to the 383 jliymo! ships on; hand on and deducting the 40 announced combatant ship losses, brings the total to 1565 fighting ships. From this must be deducted an undis closed number transferred to al lied nations under lend-lease. And the job Is not yet. done, Building yards, navy and Private, are still at work completing the bullding program now grown to five ocean program." and a total of 223 shiDS remain on build - ing schedules. The record five year ! construe - Uon program included 31 ships built in navy yards and 991 in private shipyards. Navy yard con- struction included seven battle ships, five aircraft carriers, seven iMri mavn Kati-. escort carriers, a heavy cruiser, 58 destroyers, 155 destroyer es-; corts, and 98 submarines. Private yards built three battle ships, 13 aircraft carriers of 27,- 100 tons, nine carriers ;of 10,000 tons, 105 . escort . carriers, two large cruisers, nine heavy cruisers, 33 light cruisers, 312 destroyers, 393 destroyer escorts, and "112 sub marines. The bulk of the! remaining pro gram is, due zor completion this year and next, with ajfew units' ramlntf iwm Into 10i7 ! 1 Plan to WASHINGTON, July .18-P) Rep. ' Springer (R-Ind.) opposes what he terms a "pernicious'" gov ernment plan to send! 10,000,000 pounds of soap to Europe. The article u so scarce in this speech yesterday, that many peo- SLi?1 ta "n Department of agriculture of- fiHaia that thf lo ooooofl ,a. w vrir,. to Europe represents only a small part of United States product X $ War Against Nazis Cost America 25,000 Jeeps , PHIWU3ELPHIA, Jury Soap Opposed The war against Germany cosiiraimea me-ongni yeuow wmcn jmast be a definition by the con the United States more than 25,00p!maxkrall state highway crew gress of the powers'' of the United Jeeps,Jhe. philadeJUihia--ordnance Lt CoL A. U. Kelson, district chief, said the Jeeps were part of 100,0001 vehicles destroyed. Junked and written off the books by our armies in the European theatre. FMIIj 13 DlC ill Explosion Series of Blasts Rock Armament Depot at Halifax t HALIFAX. Thursday, July 19 (jP)- At least 13 persons were killed and 12 injured last evening I in a series of explosions which wrecked the Royal Canadian naval armament ;depot near here , and started a raging fire that threat ened early' this morning to spread to the main magazine. The blasts, beginning with a great concussion which shook the Halifax area for miles around at 6:35 pjn., forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people from the danger area. - The total number of casualties still was uncertain, but a Cana- dian naval officer, Lt Cmdr. Wil- liam Sdater, said he believed that no one in the magazine area in I the immediate vicinity of the first I blast could have survived. Figures on how many were working in the magazine at the time were unobtainable, Blasts continued I to rock the naval depot at intervals, with a terrific detonation at 12:20 ajn. which was even louder than the first explosion, i I. Every truck, military and civil-. Ian, was pressed into service in the Dartmouth area, across the harbor from here, to move people 1 from the danger zone. The north end of Dartmouth is close to the magazine. 1 wen wiwarami wnen it vm found the blaze was uncontrol- Able. -r -r JtttClllC f OWCl Company Due TV fif- Pnfna JLLf V-iU.1 JAcllCS of Pacific Power company in Oregon and Washing- ton wfll be saved ved a million dollars annuauy by new rate schedules filed Wednesday with Public Util- ies -.Commissioner George H. 1 lags. uie commissioner announc- 1 ed- iJtcess earnings oi we company 1 were aajusxea in Dy a reiuna 01 approximately $600,000 to its Patrons. Continued . high earnings savings to be made by a re- imancing program now in pro gress warrant the large cut in rates which will be effective on all meter readings after August 2, Flagg said. .". Savings to residential and rural users win approximate 14 per cenVto commercial and industrial accounts 15 per cant The com pany's principal lines are in east ern, central and coastal Oregon. Ex-WAC Commander 111 at N. Y. Hospital NEW YORK, July 18-SV-Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, former, com manding officer of the women's army corps who recently-retired to private life, is ill at Doctors hospital, the institution said to night .-.-i. , n f A spokesman said Mrs. Hobby, wno held the rank of colonel, en tered the hospital Tuesday. The nature of , her illness was not dis closed, t-. : ; I Revised Income Tax WlUmoltting J? omi Due Washington, July SS-JJSR waounced today.it has adopted I revised form of Income tax with- holding receipt (Form V-2). I The new muw iuc uiu, vub nam iceu uo- proved in arrangement . wording and typography. vlv.Tw I l. WoI.m munqj a a UUk-yj.umi . ix snouiani Desasy , to .hide. I equipment, a 1S37 Fotxt dump truck which disappeared from the Santiam Junction the noon of July 18 was still missing today. It car ried license number E-4f 16, high way, commission, truck number! 27349 on both doors. Canadian 'Bis Three? Confer A : am C7 In Pacific fTopGopl POTSDAM, July lS.-W-Three veterans of old battlefields President, Truman, Premier Stalin, and Prime Minister Church- lH-i-conf erred again late today, with allied victory in the Pacific a pressing goal. - jjThis second formal meeting of the big three was as heavily blanketed by security as yesterday's, but, the trend of thought among the American and British delegations seemed to make . it certain that the ways and means for Japan's defeat would be fully aired before the soviet leader. Earlier in the day Truman con ferred separately with Churchill and Stalin. . The day's events indicated the leaders were agreed upon reach ing as promptly as possible full agreement on the issues facing them issues upon which a speedier end of the war with Japan and- the future peace of Europe may depend. Truman, the presiding officer of the tri-power sessions, seeks as his chief goals a quicker triumph over Japan and the bulwarking of peace through solution of long standing disputes. He lunched today at 1 pin. with Churchill, and then later with Stalin. He was accompanied at the second luncheon by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, his close friend and an experienced nego- tiatorr Truman . and Churchill talked cordially on ! the terrace while photographs were taken, and then lunched inside at a table set for two. When . Truman was leaving. Byrnes, emerged from British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's house next door, where, he had lunched, and met the president at irairmw 1M onajo aeg. tioft did not say. how long Church ill and Truman conferred, nor was there any hint of their topics. Stalin was host to the president at 3 pjn. at a comparatively brief luncheon, but' there were evi dences that it was cordial. Caviar, zisn ana meat apparently were on the menu. i Resignation of i WW-.c I W I A-r vsAJHyj. cax xiu rr WASHINGTON, July j 18.-UP- Rep. Mansfield (D-Mont) said to day that the retirement of MaJ. Gen. Claire L. Chennault from the air forces "will be a real 1low to tne united States. j Mansfield went to China last winter as a personal observer for President Roosevelt He told reporter that there coUld be no doubt that Chennault with his 14th air force had held up nearly 400,000 Japanese troops who might' have been employed else where. .. .; - . " ' I- senator .mender (D-La) was called for an Investigation of the causes ot Chennault's retirement to be. conducted by the senate military icommittee. j . Senate OKs Altmeyer 1 WASHINGTON, July 18-(ffV- The senate confirmed without dis sent today the nomination of Ar thur J. Altmeyer, of Wisconsin, to a new. term on the social security board. He has been chairman. Hoover Says Peace Charter Should BeRatiHedJbY SencUe SAN FRANCISCO, July 18 -VP) Former President Herbert Hoover stated tonight that the San Fran cisco charter "should - be ratified by the senate., r ' ,r- ".-. ! The charter, he said in an ad - Columbia i Broadcastmi- sys nn.., kImT. :.. dress prepared for delivery over tern CI pan. EWT)ris better than Dumbarton Oaks and is probably as good as could be obtained un der the existing emotions, the L, ,Tit i world." ..-w- ' - I ' -. I - . . t XL- -1 1 a iuuuij wcwuicasn la lllc uuuter, mfna- oe urgea fpeaucaiiswasi I "somewhere " along the line there "nmnvhmw'ilnnir th" IItm State representative on the world I security council. The former president contend ed: MWhHe there need be little worry about our representative using our military forces for minor police incidents, yet the congress Met 5c V No. S3 ean Air- Vets Join Blow Against Japan MANILA, Thursday, July 19- ()-Airmen from the European theatre joined in the Far East air forces attacks on the Japanese homeland for the first time Mon day, Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced today. ! The raids covered the length and Breadth of Kyushu, southern most Japanese main Island. They were made by more than 250 planes without the loss of a single one. . - i : . - The communique announced the raiders scored effectively against enemy airfields, j communications and industrial targets. There were no attempts at interception and no reports of serious enemy an ti -air craft challenge to the Okinawa- based planes. ! r 1 Slayton Island Flood Project Waits Sponsor Unless some sponsor is provided soon for the Stayton island flood control project for which $50,000 federal funds have been appro priated, the job may not be done. This warning came Wednesday to County Judge Grant Murphy from Project Engineer McKenzIe after Marion and Linn county courts had indicated they would not un dertake local sponsorship.. Unless the appropriation is used this year, thete is likelihood it will be canceled, McKenzie wrote Mur phy. j. 1 Linn and Marion county courts, at a conference earlier this Week, had suggested that property own ers in the area of the project should undertake local sponsor ship. Whether the Salem city wat er commisison, owner of Stayton island, could sponsor the project has not been announced. . 1 Legislation Introduced1 To Raise Minimum Pay WASHINGTON, July U-ifPp-Legislation to raise the minimum wage under the fair labor stand ards act from 40 to 65 cents an hour today was introduced in the congress... ' : The amendment also provides and increase of five cents an hour . each, year until a tntnTwim of 75 cents is reached. ' should never part with Its powers to declare war. . . . His authority should be defined e that the dele gate is in some way responsible to congress before our country is committed to war." These points Mr. Hoover de- scribed as weaknesses -n-- charter: ' V. i . "There is no positive biET of only a mere suggestionrthat they With Victory Europ only a mere suggestionthat theyT J?!? should pe promoted. . . "The charter does not recover the principles of the Atlantic char ter which were, j&itUed, way at lTehfan-anl or alter xaita. , 1 rvTll ChS charter fails to define ag gression even in the admirable terms settled by the soviet gov eminent for inclusion in its treat ies of eleven years ago. "It does not even mention the new disintegrating forms of sg gression of one nation upon an other through . propaganda - and fifth columns.? Fleet Hits Tokyo ! 2nd Straight Day; Still No Battles . By Lief Erkkson j GUAM, Thursday, July lMV American carrier aircraft discov ered combat ships, probably rem nants of the Japanese navy, hid ing in Yokosuka naval base in Tokyo bay and attacked heavily yesterday with bombs and tor pedoes despite bad weather and . accurate, intense anti-aircraft fire. Yokosuka, one of the empire's largest naval bases,' Is only about 18 miles southeast of Tokyo, near the mbuth of Tokyo bay. It might have appeared to the Japanese to ' be. an obvious hiding place for remnants of its once great navy. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimili' communique today reported brief ly that carrier pilots launched heavy attack ion combatant ship ping off Yokosuka" and added "no report of damage to .targets is yet available." i ' . Details Lacking ' Although he made no elabora tion, it seemed' highly probable that the combatant ships included some at least of the few warships left to the empire; The world's greatest naval force, the combined VS. and the British Pacific fleets, has 'been bombing and bombarding Honshu and Hok kaido unchallenged but hoping- for a meeting with anything the Nipponese war lords dared send out It js certain that carrier pilots were looking anxiously for Japanese warships. Nimitz' com munique indicates they probably found them. . NimiU al60 reported that both American and British carrier planes, . comprising the 1 world's greatest . striking force, carried their, assaults on the Tokyo region into the second successive day yes terday and " that an American cruiser-destroyer j force steamed close inshore to shell Nojima cape, only SO miles southeast of Tokyo, at the entrance to Tokyo bay. r Third Straight Day . - The bombardment carried into the third straight day the fleet's attack on the Tokyo region. The sheDing, begun at II pjn Wed nesday night,, Tokyo time, con tinued .until early this" morning (tbout noon Wednesday, Eastern War time). Nlmitz also disclosed that while coordinating their attacks, Amer ican. ; and British carrier planes struck- separate targets in Tues day's combined 1500 aircraft as sault. , , British aircraft crossed Honshu to strike its western coast north of Tokyo, in the first carrier plane ; attack on western Honshu. Remnants of Japan's once great navy reduced by repeated de- feats to one of the world's small esthad been hiding desperately, under camouflage, since it was ad ministered one of history's worst beatings off , the Philippines la it October.- 7th Fleet Hits Borneo Japs MANILA, Thursday, July 19- Units of the U. S. Seventh fleet have returned to the battle of eastern Borneo, bombarding Japa nese shore positions deep in Bal- ikpapan bay. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announced today. Three troublesome Japanese gun positions and four barges were destroyed in the shelling, which high-lighted operations strength ening allied j control of the stra tegic bay area. ! Australian troops across the bay west of Balikpapan pushed seven miles inland along the Riko river. clearing territory from which the enemy might harass operations in the . bay. Patrols . found : the re treating Japanese ' were abondon ing supplies and equipment Haislip Will Command U. S. Sixth "Army Group WITH SEVENTH ARMY IN GERMANY, July IFV-Lt Gen. Wade H. Haislip has been ap pointed commanding general of the Sixth army group in addition tor hit duties as commander os the hjjrriiasa I todayrllesucceeds HTCent Jacob XTcvers, recently named comman der of army ground forces. , the Normandy, Rhineland and cen tral European campaigns before "taking over the Seventhjrmy. .; r , Rain M jte M9 Weather j i Win. ii 144 4S Si San ' Francisce Portland Seattle 7S Si Willamette river -3.4 ft. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. Mwirf mn, Miemi; i-aruy cloudy today witn li)?nuy cooler tem- Mraturaa. A ii expected. . BMxtmum ot, about 11 Max. 84 1 M 1!