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'I I i; WASHINGTON, July 20- (Jp) -Two survivors of the heroic: ma rine garrison on Wake island said today the defenders surrendered to the Japanese largely to prevent further slaughter -of unarmed ci vilians. . . ! - V ' Seventy civilians had already been killed, along with 49 ma rines, when the little Pacific Miss and John F. Kinney, 80, of marine death came the day after surrender. A, Japanese cbrpsman told them enemy casualties . to taled about j 500. ; j ; . . It was lieutenant Kinney who was ; credited with - keeping the island's, few ; planes in the air by a " process of patching, swapping parts, stripping and rebuilding.- Lieutenant McAlister was with the defense farces on tiny Wilkes island, part; of the Wake atoll, which was the last defending unit to surrender. ;- f I Kinney said he was in an im provised hospital suffering from exhaustion when ' the - surrender order came, and a surrender flag was raised Over he j hospital shack. When Japanese troops ar rived, he ,said,j all personnel who were able were standing; with arms raised, 'IbutMhe ' Japanese vunax, wasn. . f They have Just reached Wash ington after escape from a pris oner of war camp near Shanghai, China.' How they managed that is a secret. 1.,.: , .The lieutenants said the 'Japa nese killed two wounded men in a surrendered hospital, forced all the surrendering garrison to strip and tied them to posts for hours. They allowed the captives no food and little water for two days.,, They told a news conference that: there were, 435 marines on Wake at the start, that the 50th en two meals a day from their own stores. ,1 . '.-. Except for about 300 civilians and a few specialist military per sonnel left behind as a labor bat talion, and a few too ill to move, the . island's garrison iwas ' put aboard the former passenger lin er Mita Maru, on the afternoon of January 2. No one: was al lowed ? to . take anything except the clothes he wore. j All were locked up in holds below deck, not allowed to talk, and had to sleep on the bare deck - , . ! The ship arrived January 18 in Yokohama, where a few enlisted men and officers were taken off. The remainder arrived in Shang hai January 24. Food ;in the prison camp con sisted of small, portions of rice, and occasionally some cabbage or carrots with a tiny piece of meat about every, third meal. The officers were paid 160in Central; Reserve bank money monthly. At the time they left, the exchange rate was 14,000 such dollars to one United States dol lar. Ten Japanese cigarets, "ap parently made out of seaweed," cost $40. . The prisoners! health held up fairly well after Hed Cross, pack ages began to arrive, which "kept us going." Attempts at escape re sulted in 10-year sentences for "attempted desertion from the Japanese army, When the first attack came De-" cember 8, Wake time, Kinney was 80 miles at sea .with a four-plane patroL The garrison's eight other planes 1 were ' dispersed on' the ground as much as possible) but the' first attack destroyed seven and badly damaged the eighth. 20 were "k 1 11 e d or ' seriously wounded. The I first sea, attack came ca December 1L This resulted in tho sinking of a Japanese cruiser and two destroyers and damage: to another, cruiser: and a transport r Between the-first and. 23rd at tempts, at landing, the island was bombed continually, and by the time the landing '.was effected, there wrs no plane left in flyirg condition. 1 ', , . . That was' when the final dra matic message went out: ' "Enemy on Island. . Issue U , doubt". i ; - :.; -nevertheless fired into the shack, killing two and wounding one. . :' Their story,! from then on: ! t All of the surrendering garri son were stripped naked and tied tor posts for 'several hours and then kept in J the open for. two days. On Christmas night they were moved to barracks and giv- island was finally given up to strong enemy forces on Dec. 23, 1&41, they related. " - - The survivors, first to tell of the last hours on Wake, were First Lieutenants John A. Mc Alister, 26, ot Blue Mountain, I Of the Island's 44 air- personnel. Weather.- ' - -'1 , i : i' ' i (-. - y : ; i -y ' : n ; r rzs LftDCTOGg fy&2&yfi$kzp2 NmrrY.rirTH yeah - 10 pages y' - :- -t-'-- I. ' pounddd 1651 " .. I " ' "-" . : ' i-. -:f-v San rrtccisco , Eu Irene , ,, . Salem ' Portland SeatU Uuc Kin. Kaa 7 4f - .t O ! M . . 4S SS ' 1 4S f 80 - M .t ! 70 M trac ! TtruianM tte river -3.4 f FORXCAST rrom V. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem) : Mo&t.r cloudy. . deartnf toward afternoon. Maximum temperature near S4 C grees expected. ; . . A. Salem Oreqoiu Saturdcrf Morning. Jvlj 21, 1945 Prlc 5c No. 100 Here's that man again, trying to sell Salem parking meters. And here are the merchants who are opposed to the parking meter idea, passing a petition of protest Are we going to have a knock- down-dragout " fight as we did several years ago over the park ing meter question? v : , ; The first the town knew that the parking meter question had come up again was when the city council adopted a resolution au thorizing the city recorder to call for bids on meters. That seems rather fast work, in view of . the strong previous opposition. There had been no preliminary discus sion or agitation. ' The last time the proposition was up, there were various ru mors of velvet for those promot ing the sale of the various meter devices. No such report has yet been heard in the 'present in stance, but the council would do welT to ascertain whether the present call for meters comes from a "selling" job or, from gen uine public demand, i - "T ' Street parking, with or without meters, is not the answer to downtown ; parking. More . off street parking is . required to ac commodate worker and shoppers. The streets have to be saved for movement of traffic and for short stops and deliveries. In all cities those in business in the central area are studying how to provide off-street 'parking for patrons and workers..;. -' This- -tmisiiiM is one wfeleht very properly should be referred to the new planning commission. It would have a dispassionate ap proach to the subject and could make recommendations based on facts. Retailers who have been opposed to meters are neverthe less ready to do what is shown to be. best for the city. There is no immediate rush on the matter. Why not take a little time,' 'have appropriate studies made, and get the matter settled without the contention and bit terness of several years ago? Sifted TirMsiui) .31 M 1 r .i. - ' i--- i . - i " The big three get dewn to work at the big round: table In former Kaiser Wilhelm's erstwhile Potsdam palaee tn the environs ef Berlin. President rTrjimaa. Js "at left lower center (1);: Prime Minister Charehill, with a fresh cigar ia place. Is at upper, left; (2); Marshal Stalin, eigaret hoUjer in hand, is at right (I). AdnUxWilliam Leahy, President Trnmaa'g personal ehief ef staff. Is at lower right (white nnilonn),- Jtusian Foreign Minister Vyaeheslair Molotov sits at Stalin's right j - U i" t..-V. - -.(uteniatioiul Ra4IosondpnoM) Effect of Rogue Dams on Fishing Will Be fiiscussecl Representatives of the federal bureau of reclamation from Boise, Idaho, of the state game- commis sion and the army engineers are to be in Salem today to confer with state Isaak Walton league officers and directors concerning plans for a series of dams on the Rogue river. ; Scheduled for this afternoon at the Marion hotel the conference was called by Waltonlans in an effort to learn just what the con struction plans are and what re sults would be of such dams on the famed river of sportsmen. Early Win Predicted Monetary Bills Passed, Sent to White House WASHINGTON, July 20- - Congress completed the economic framework for the United States' widened place in, world affairs today by sending to the White House the Bretton Woods mone tary agreements and a $2,800, 000,000 boost in the export-import bank's lending powers. The actions left the United Na tions charter as the only pending business connected with an Inter national program ' designed to keep the peace and promote world trade. The charter will come up In the senate Monday for a week of debate and undoubted ratifica tion. With little debate and by unan imous voice vote, the senate ac cepted the house-approved legis lation increasing the export-im port"" bank's lending authority from $700,000,000 to $3,500,000,- 000. . ' Anims! Crachcrs ; By WARREN GOODRICH By Ernest Jt Veero : ; 1 f BERLIN, Julrs,.. Jrestdent Truman toldT the world today that the United States does not pro pose to trade its sacrifices in the bloodiest of wars for territorial conquest or monetary gain. Speaking only a few miles from the formers kaisers' palace whers he is working with Prime Minis ter Churchill and Generalissimo Stalin on a formula for preserv ing Europe against future war he declared pointedly: j "We are not fighting for con quest There is not a piece of ter ritory or one thing of monetary nature we want out of this war." ! The words were spoken at the historic occasion of the raising of the stars and stripes over the cap ital of Germany "our greatest adversary." Picked infantrymen from the Second ("Hell on Wheels") armored division then heard this solemn warning: Wa faust- not forget that - we ! are 'fighting K f6rvpeace and ' for j the 'welfare of mankind." : I - " This was interpreted as an ex position of the! American position, not only as relates tor present ne gotiations for: settlement of Eu rope's age-old territorial and oth er problems, but as new advice to the Japanese people that the war in the Pacific is hot aimed at the people themselves. " "We want peace and we want to see the time come when we can do the things in peace that we have been able to do in war, the gray - haired Missourian as sured the victorious outfit . ' "If we can put this tremendous machine' of ours aich has made this victory pa jle to work for peace, we can look; forward to the greatest age in the history of mankind. j "That the president conclud- ed flnnlyJ ''ia; what we propose to do." 1 ! ' -J T f Flanked if War Secretary Stlffl- son. Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. ' Omar N. Bradley. Gen. George S. Pat- ton, Lt Gen. Lucius D. Clay, and Maj. Gen.! Floyd L. Parks, the president spoke extemporaneous ly for about two minutes in the cobblestoned central court of what had been the headquarters of the y-i I m J ; x a ucimau air lorcc uisuricv com mander, j : : He had hurried to the ceremony by automobile direct from form al discussions with Churchill and Stalin.; . .( i ' ,.. '. .. i .j ' When the president concluded, the historic flag which flew over the capitol at Washington the day the VS. entered the war against the axis and which will be taken to Tokyo I was raised over the quarters of the American control forces occupying Berlin, i - Mm Blackout StiU Hides Actions Of Allied Fleet Dvcsir ; Foir A(5rr(s 6l!s Forest lElaze Seen From p a - .. r1 pickled herring, and fop r -ii ...ut. - l. t r it 1m vif uuu u vorrei vi stuicu peanuts and then Td stroll ever to Boulder Dam end slowly drkik it cUF Complaints Against .' A stecial meeting of the -Salem city council, called Friday night to enact the annual salary- ordinance so that the July payroll for municipal employes might be issued in oraeny; zasnion ana to adopt another ordinance granting the Southern 'Pacific spur rights in north Salem to serve two fruit-packing plants, passed . - .. ... ...... ... 'it tk- i s ... t . ' ; the ordinances wiui mue aiscussion. v , ? i s Then an unscheduled 'bill ' of complaints against the. SP. started "fireworks.; .: So someone who speaks with authority for the com pany is to be requested to appear at the August 20 council meeting with reports of a survey on city crossings. '.! : s. The railroad's crossings are so poorly surfaced that complaints from Salem residents are increas- City .Engineer r J. H. the council, 'listing a with descriptions. At the Commercial street crossing of the Union! street line a car was so Beverly shaken Friday morning that a hub cap flew off, went through a window and landed on a davenport fortunately unoccu pied at the moment Davis de clared. ;. ' i. ' : .: ... Section crews have removed or covered up a monument erected in 1868 and since used as center for surveys and have removed another monument, Davis charged. To these grievances councilmen added: Some trains speed through the city without any warning sig nals, others, particularly at night are accompanied by a constant and piercing blast of whistle or horn; and they stop too long on 12th st The long recitation followed by a few minutes the council's enact ment of an ordinance to permit the SP to construct a spur track and rearrange now-existing trackage to serve Willamette Cherry Growers and Kellev-Farauhar plants in 6 Million Tons Of Coal Will go ing daily, Davis told half dozen Navy Must Not BefWeakeinedr Declares Mott fit we disarm, we throw away the very best chance we have of keeping the peace,', Congressman James W. Mott declared here Fri day as he prepared for a two- weeks; vacation before the open' Ing of his summer: office In Sa lem. "Let's not scrap 'our navy, or give it away, or sell it! In it we have something that no other na tion or any combination of na tions has," the ranking member of the house naval affairs commit tee said, indicating that the com mittee would fight any attempt to weaken the strength of the VS. navy after the war, ; ! ; . I i. ', i i " . "The naval affairs committee,' he added, "is of the opinion . 4 if we need (postwar) bases In New Zealand, New Caledonia or anywhere in the Pacific, we should get them and no , monkey busi ness.' Mott said he expected to spend his vacation quietly at a spot he did not disclose. Members of his Washington : staff will arrive in two weeks and his,pffice will be ' north Salem. Alderman A. H. opened then. A trip to Jracanc GiUe nointed out that the rail- naval bases is to be made by the road's franchise for use of Union house naval affairs committee im iTti oxnires next rear and "may r mediately after congress convenes 1 . - , ! fall i eairt By Sohg CHUNGKING, Ju& 20 ffr Chinese troops have 'captured Yi- yang, key . water Way - control stronghold Just south of Tung Ting lake i in China's great "rice W the Chinese, high command announced: today, as Premier T. V. Soong I predicted i victory this year or early in 1946;, On widespread fronts, the Chi nese ', announced the clearing of 50 miles of the south China "in vasion coast," and further ad vances toward Kweilin, while an American communique hinted at a Chinese thrust at; Caobang, 15 miles inside Indo-China. The US communique, without elaboration, said American fight ers "in support of Chinese ground forces attacked machine gun po sitions at Caobang in French Indo-China, inflicting casualties." The Chinese have not mentioned any drive toward Caobang. i Ylyang, in' Hunan province 55 miles northwest of Changsha, is a control point in enemy water w a y communications between Changsha and : Tung Ting lake, which lies in the heart of the rice bowL J . . . f Fromi Yiyang, the Chinese can threaten the stretch of the Can ton - Hankow railroad between Changsha and Yoyang (Yochow) at the northeast edge'of the lake! This rail line isthe enemy's main communication avenue down his "corridor" splitting; China. A -. f)itfiAee ' eke-OTtw -' i i 1i I ill n n Ickes announced plans LHnvvlu auJ3T hSj,n.,. send 6,000,000 jtons of had moved mm troops out of Hunan" in the last month, sending I 4.r: . ' ice m apparent fear of US land devastated countries of Europe Is imperative in order to j forestall disaster which the people of Eu GUAM, Saturday, Jury 2HaV While a security blackout still barred ; details of the' American and j British fleets' '. air-surface blows at Tokyo bay Wednesday and i Thursday, navy and army headquarters today received oth er widespread aerial thrusts . at the feebly defended Japanese em pire. - ..' it The second strike byTSI Mus tang fighters in one day hit the Osaka-Nagoya industrial district Friday' as 94 of . the fast raiders front Okinawa raked boats,' air fields, ; and aircraft factories in Okazaki, Oitsu "and Kamizaki without meeting earial opposition. Three Mustangs were, lost Pre sumably to anti-aircraft fire. Eighty Mustangs based on I wo Jima struck earlier in the day at four; industrial towns in the wake of a record pre -dawn strike by more than' 600 Superforts. Lumbering search planes of the fleet hit a medium cargo ship off eastern Honshu Friday, ' Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced. : July: 10-CP) WASHINGTON, Secretary today to bituminous coal to Europe by Jan uary I, confronting the nation I Nips . Grounded rope would not accept 'supinely! ' OT " m. " and without disorder," the solid i5y OllOTaQCS ' fuels administrator said. ; t J O - The " 6,000,000 ton .figure was 7SrtfQ 7Vf 1 1 fh OT qualifiedlby the phrase "if pos-KfxJJ . 'r1t rB"T" . sible" but no doubt was left that great quantities are to 'go, with 1,000,000 i tons as the goal. Very roughly- that amount of coal rep resents a! year's supply for 1,000,- CDO American homes. ' WASHINGTON, j July 20 - (ff) Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher said today he believes a shortage of some critical item possibly fuel explains the lack of Japa nese air opposition to the navy's current operations' around Japan. Mitscher, recently named depu ty chief of naval; operations for air, said he did not agree with the opinion that the Japanese are Rossinan Chairman of Traffic Courts Group PORTLAND, July 20-(,-Jus- J hoarding their air power for a tice Rossman of the state supreme final all-out attack. - court was elected permanent chair-1 I believe they are short of man oi ; governor s onei s muac something they need very badly,' courts committee at the group's first meeting here today, Mitscher said. "What it is I don': know. It may be gasolinebut we Robert Leedy, Junior bar confer-1 won't know until we so in and ence ox tne American tsar associa-1 find out" tion, was named; vice-chairman j The Samiral was brought In ana ssianey rung, airecwr oi me from the Pacific where he com safety division office of the secre- manded the fast carriers of task tary of state, secretary. I force 58 In p'm" strike at the enemr. 1 RWAVn1lT.T.A TSiFTJiriSmP WASHINGTON. ! Julr ! 20 - IXS - POSTWAR JEEPS SHD?ED Secretary of the Navy; Forrestal J DETROTf, July;20-iP)-Atrans- disclosed today that - the carrier I port plane with a - cargo of five "Shangrl-La".was Vice-Adm. John postwar model Jeeps, the first to S. McCain's flagship in bis recent be produced by Willys Overland strikes against Japanese home for civilian use, was en route to- island 1 night to Los Angeles f General Lear Gets Yoo-Hoo i From Soldiers BOSTON, July 20-AVLieuten- ant ! General Ben Lear, who once ordered a 15-mile disciplinary march for soldiers .who "yoo hooed" . at shorts-clad . girls, was hailed .today by soldier-shipmates with a lot of "yoo-hoos" and a feW:"boos" as he strode down a troopship gangway. -. f The former deputy chief ef op erations for the European theatre arrived aboard the transport Ma riposa, which .brought in -2S3S veterans, more than, two-thirds pf them sick or casualties. General Lear said . be was "ptoud of the American soldier both on and off the battlefield.' Asked' about the relaxation of the fraternization order in Ger many. General Lear said he did not learn of it until he arrived today. "" V ?But our boys won abuse It he said; "because those German girls wont get to first base with our boys anyway . Salem PORTLAND, July 20-(AP) The ravenous Wilson river forest fire had gobbled up more than 70 square miles tonight, racing across 10,000 additional acres in the last 4S hours, i -..."I r. . ; . ..' Most of the gain was blamed on consolidation of widely; scattered spot fires which sprang from flying embers. At least a half-dozen new sections were burning beneath a thick blanket of smoke on the Salmonberry fire, north of the Wilson rive? blaze. - : Spot fires thrown oat by the two huge blazes flared up tonight in the same region near, the Tillamook-Washington county line." i Fire crews battled feverishly to keep them from con solidating. '.y.jj --; Meanwhile,- loggers - from - the small lumber; town of Glenwood appeared to have halted the main force of the:. blaze only i 500 to 1000 feet away from their, homes. But a new spot. fire began roll- The glow: and smoke ef for est fires hong ever Salem's western horizon Friday night as residents of the rural Pioneer district approximately 12 miles west of Dallas prepared to evacuate their hemes. ' . Five hundred soldiers from Ft Lewis aire doe la the val ley's fire area this morning to Join 165 loggers battling the blase which! now is believed to cover 8000 acres. A southwest wind was sweep tog the fire In a northeasterly direction when the night calm came Friday. The Falls City area, where Camp Fire Girls' Camp Kllowan Is located. Is not la the path ef the flame; the state forester's office assured The Statesman, which relayed the word to anxious parents. ' 275,000 acres : ot the. northwest Oregon TUlanxK burn HumiJi- ty today, however, .was febout 58 a- fairly moist mark and the weather bureau forecast inter mittent showers over the week end. ' " . ing toward both Glenwood and Cochran towns about 90 mues northwest of here. j , While women who refused eva cuation plied hoses to Glenwood buildings, loggers and ; soldiers worked on if ire. lines and hoped for what may be the only reme dy: rain. 1 f 'Y"i "We're too busy to go to church for prayers," said ; one logger. "But we're ;sure praying Insidei" The gigantic fire, which broke out nine days ago from an unde termined cause, is spreading on all sides so irapidly that a deputy state forester predicted only rain could detain it ' : ' : Lynn Cronemiller said that two days of hoi, dry weather would expand the? blaze over the entire Allied Planes i ... - Lash Shanghai In Second Raid MANILA, Saturday, July 20 f. (AVMore than 200 Far East air ! force bombers and figtters lash- ! ed airdromes and docks at Shang- : hai Wednesday for the second j straight day, ; headquarters an- ; nounced today. ' Continuation of full scale raids j to knock out the largest Japanese held 1 air and shipping center in i China brought attacks on five air- j dromes by close formations of ' Liberator heavies, Mttahell - med iums and Invader attack-bomb ers. ;':'.! - ' :- The Seventh air ierce heavy bombers dropped 100-pound gen- eral' purpose bombs on Woosung airdrome on the banks -of the Yangtze, causing three fires.; Smoke rose 6000 feet Sixty-two Mitchells bombed and . strafed Tachang airdrome northwest, of Shanghai and Ting hai airfield, near, the entrance of' Hangchow bay, entering revet- ments and starting fires. Wayne Morse Wins Anderson With Ding Dongs Over Lambs By Tom Keedy WASHINGTON, July 20 -()- Wayne Morse got the ding-dongs about lamb and stayed at it so long h won a convert in Secretary of Agriculture Anderson. "j,- ;The junior senator from Oregon proposed to ding-dong daily in the senate about lambs until somebody listened. s'.'; He'd been doing It all week and said nobody in Washington was listening enough to correct the conditions that prevail. They are this (Morse speaking) There are lots of lambs In Ore gon. ,t7 ' . ' " .. I There IsnH any lamb to be bought , - The people cant get any other meat ' ' " ' -. - . j Shipyard' workers are quitting because of that Morse said the agriculture de partment and OPA are respon sible. Newspapers in Oregon are writing bitter editorials about it, he added. J , Five days in succession Morse got up in the Senate about 5 o'clock, no matter what else was going on, and raised a rukus about the lambs.! It got so he became known as the 5 o'clock shadow, That was all right with Morse. Unless and until something was done, he said, he'd make his lamb speech., i y-.v While Morse was speaking and some republican colleagues were helping him out Senator Cordon (R.-Ore.) announced that he had Just had a telephone tall from Sec retary of Agriculture Anderson ad vising that the food chief was rec ommending that OPA lift ration points on "soft" Oregon lambs. Those are milk-fed lambs that do not stand shipping weQ. Congress OKs Tax Easing For Business J WASHINGTON, Jury 2D-(ff)-A $5,700,000,000 program of tax re lief for business won swift houso approval and headed for -President Truman's desk. - , It took the house, all set for 11 weeks adjournment after tomor row's, session, Just aboot a minute to concur in a senate amendment to the legislation designed to help business through the transition from war to peace. . The senate amendment struck from the legislation a house pro vision that would have allowed reorganized railroads to get tax credits for losses suffered by pred ecessor corporations. Senator La Follette (Prog-Wis) oejected that this would grant an undeserved windfall to a small group of railroads.'-;' . tx- New- Building Slated For Naval Hospital j Construction of quarters for 162 at the Corvallis naval hospital, costing $62,500, has been approved by the navy. Representative Mott (It-Ore.) said today. P. I 'serve as a weapon."