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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO- Reopening of USQ Here Not FormaUy OKd Reopening of the Salem USO on full-time basis hag not been for mally approved- by national ftead quarters of the United Service Or Conizations nor has. an date for such reopeninf been set eren un officially, Tinkham Gilbert, presi dent of tb Salem USO -council, v. eun mm ' . a m ' m i ne suuemem louewev a codkp ence with Clara Akroft, north- west regional USO representative, and . Lawrence Johnson.- assistant regional executive from .Sao Fran cisco, on terms of the lease which the i Salem council haa reeom mended. . . ' ' i . There cannot be much doubt that the servicemen's center will operate full time , soon in Legion home. Cottage and Chemeketa streets, where activities -have in creased considerably atnee the re deployment program took in Camp Adair, GUbert said, but authority for such operation has not come through as rapidly -as was ex '. pected. - R. R. Boardman, director of the USO club in the Legiont building when Camp Adair was a training center, haa been notified of his re assignment here and has indicated he will come as soon as he is re- lieved at the Ephrata, Wash., USO, but may not be here for another two weeks, Gilbert said. Meantime, although 255 cots with blankets have been set up at St Joseph's hall and the YMCA to accommodate servicemen, not enough sheets or towels have been secured to supply each bed, CELEBRATED POET DIES PARIS, July 2H)-pauFYal eryj 74, celebrated French poet and philosopher, died today after several weeks of iUness. He be came a member of the French academy in 1&25, succeeding Ana tole France. OWL SH0V7 TOIIITE AFTEB 12 IIIDinTE! . CONT. TROM I P.M. NOW SHOWING! fry1- r, - 2m 7aseesav CO-BJTl LATEST NEWS FLASHES! NOW PLAYING! Ilr. trd Ilrs. i:M;fi' ::H:ii H '-i in - - f n i mil iriiiilBrTIl ii i T ii l IfllOiilt f i "ffe il 2 i U ' CO-niTI Hi Saturday Evening Poet's " ( IK .THE...'. . Fred Pfennig Home On 30 Day Leave - Fred Pfennig, motor machin ist's mate 3c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Pfennig, Is home on a 30-day leave. Enlisting In the na vy February, 1943. he spent 23 months in the South Pacific and took part ui the invasion of Lu zon and Okinawa. He wears three service ribbons with four bronze battle stars. He will leave next Thursday; Julr 26, for "Bremerton, where he will be reassigned. He is a brother of Henry and Emma Pfennig. LEBANON' Friends, ef Cpl. Jeanette ' PWpps, r WAC, have learned that she was one of two members of the corps in; the Mediterranean theatre of war se lected to attend officers candidate school. She has been assigned to the 12th fighter command. She served in North Africa and Italy and has been overseas a year and a half. A farmer student at Uni versity of Oregon, she was gra duated from Pacific college and was a member of the Lebanon high school faculty before She en listed in the WAC in the spring of 1943. A EC ENGINEER COMMAND BATTALION, Germany "For -meritorious conduct in the per formance of services from April 1, 1945 to April 25, 1945," T. Sgt. Merton H. Boembildt of the Fish er apartments, Salem, Ore., has been awarded the bronze star medal. He was serving as a sur veyor with headquarters and ser vice company, 818th engineer av iation battalion at the time of the service for which the award was made. Sgt. Roemhildt's sister, Miss Irene Roemhildt, resides at the above Salem address. The Rev. I and Mrs. Carl Baker of Monmouth have r e c e i ved word from I their son, Ronald E Baker, S 1c, who was reported burned several weeks ago, that he has completely recovered and is on active duty again. He received gasoline burns and head and arm injuries in a suicide plane raid during the Okinawa invasion Baker enlisted Jan. 12, ; 1944, and has seen; active .duty in many parts of the. South Pacific. ENDS jTODAY! (SAT.) Bob Hope -THANKS FOR THE MEMORY? j Tim Holt "FIGHTING FRONTIER" - CONT. FROM 1 PJH. . TOMORROW! YOU'LL THRILL TO COfFE ATURE $ i i wft T 1 1 J rrs mi H CONT. FROM 1 PJtt. ACTION wwtn ( i i ? ELUOTT) i - m t i - - - i Th . . - . , 'H T t. 'i RUTH TRACT, daughter el Sirs. LtSS as an army narse at Ft. Lewis. Mks Traay (radiated from St Anthonr'a hesnitaL Weaa tehee, June 21. and wIU eompleto my training and receive a eom - I mlssloa as second lieateeaat en Aacvai 15. She la a rradoaU ef Sacred Heart Academy, Sailor Moves FPO to Atlantic Seaboard SILV5RT0N Richard Madsen, the radar service in a subma rine, has changed post offices from New York to San Francisco, he has 'written his grandmother, Mrs. M. J.:1 Madsen, l Silverton. Seaman i Madsen had; been in the service two years. A native of Sa lem, his parents, Mr. i and Mrs. Alvin H. Madsen, now live in La Grande.i He visited here and; in Salem and Albany last fall before I he wento the Atlantic coast! Flint Trainee Qne of 13 Brothers in! Service CAMP ROBINSON, Ark., July 20-()-vt Fred Burns of Flint Mich, trainee in the Infantry re placement training ; center - at Camp Robinson,' 1st one "of 13 brothers in the armed forces 4 near record for one family, so far as Ihcptrolic relations office Can determine. I . !, , . -Ti.:. '.-,: t ft 'Coniraaiido' ymeetin Wednesday leave Army loaay ; j ATLANTA; July OrK-Charles (Commando) Kelly, the techni-1 cal sergeant , who Won - the Con gressional Medal of Honor : for mopping up 40 Germans in Italy, leaves I the army tomorrow and wants to "start work as soon as possibly, fj Eire Plans Relief Work DUBLIN, July 20M(AV-Eire's dail parliament) ! unanimously voted $12,000,000 today to buy Irish food for European relief as Agriculture Minister S James Ryan reported the home food outlook excellent. I i i TONICA; IlMiflP)-The young est station agent on the Illinois Central railroad's Springfield dl- visions-Arnold Hering, 14,1 of nearby Blobmingtoo-rno sooner completed one four-week vaca tion relief; than he bounced right into another. ! ' I A sophomore at -Bloomington high school, Hering learned Morse code and other railroad depot Chores at a tower station after school hours. His first four weeks j relieved an adult agent at Hudson,! and today he took over a four-week stint at Ton- ica. - : I- . J (ttbitoary Larklat' f .' Memorial aarvicea . far i Tech. Srt. Howard Larkin. killed in the aervfta of hta country at Mindanao In the Philippine June IS. 1S49. will be held t the HoweU-Idward chapel, MS North Capitol aU Sunday. July XL at 4 p.m.. with Rev. George Swift ottl- cieunf . aumvm ere to parents. ; Mr. and Mrj Baa Larkin of Salem; two sisters. Mr. Lawrence ; Stoddard Mrs. Sam Saunders of Salem: thi brothers. 3j Tech. Srt. Marvin Lax kin stationed; at Camp Maxey, Texas, and Melvin and Harold Larkin of Salem, and a nephew. Tech. Sat. Jelfry Too lite to. Classify PUPPIES: Part buU. SS. Salem Vet erinary Bosp Portland Hd. rOR SALX: Chestnut mare years old. Saddle and bridle. A nice little pony. After pjn. . week days, SIS PINK tweed coat size H, $10. Like new. Phone sjm. f v - t V J.W. Vletorjr Oub 111 m I I eat i Old-Time Dancins: I To ;Vc!:rcn5 Ildl l Corner nood and . . ': Chordi Streets , . ' iluiiety mr7f?T7 nigh! OREGON STATESMAN,-: Satan. , s- Jigs Johnson Home , r l From South . Pacific l W Pfc Corf y (Jigs) JohnabfV son of Mrs. Hazel Hoove?, Gervais, ;is home on a 45-day furlough after serviag 39 months in the -south Pacific with the army, artillery. He 'has spent some time in- the Hawaiian islands-and at Tarawa, and since his enlistment 2 H years ago, has not been home. 1 He has four . brothers in . the service.- Staff Sgt. George and Sgt. Oscar! are in Germany, Sgt Harris' is with the combat engi neer, on Okinawa, CpL Alonzo. is with the infantry la the Philip pines, and" Pfc Edward Is with the USMC in the south Pacific. Anotner orotner, IQcnard, was recently discharged, and is living in Salem. ; s , h ranco Makes Ti - j - -'e - . UianffeS 111 iO LI' 7qL! JLJUB7 VUSJULAVa MADRID, July 2HP)-Gener- alissimo Franco completed, a long- expected shakeup of his cabinet tonight, dropping Foreign Minis ter Jose 1 Felix Lequerica and Falange Secretary-general Jose Luis Aires but appointing Fa langists to five of the 12 cabinet POStS. .! J . i Franco, jwho said j in a speech Tuesday that Spain was entering a preparatory period for the re turn of a monarchy, appointed live cabinet ministers who were considered monarchist sympathiz ers. althouEh none haa had the support of exiled Prince Don Juan L 1- 2A . 1 or maj sooQarciusfc groups. . ' Spaniards have expected a cab inet reorganization since the time of the United Nations San Fran cisco declaration that no govern ment ' organized with Axis held could become a member : of any United Nations group, Franco named Alberto Martin Artajo, Catholic lay leader, to sue ceed Lequerica in the ministry of foreign affairs. Arrese iwas displaced through the elimination of his cabinet po sition minister without portfolio. Jefferson WSCS Has Al Powell Residence JEFFERSON . The WomenS Society ot Christian Service met with Mrs.' Mary Powell on Wed nesday. The .vice-president, Mrs. J. G. Fontaine, presided . at the meeting. I . ' Z ' Miss Addie Libby was in charge of the devotional period. using as her topic: fThe Door to Understanding." Mri C, J. Thurs ton reviewed the closing chapters of "West jof the Date Line," and Mrs. Fontaine conducted the les son study I and spoke on "The Road to Understanding." Rev. N. Hawk read an article, "The Bal ance Sheet on Race ! Relation." Mrs" Lloyd Arnold f of Salem assisted her, mother in serving. Dallas Logger Killed DALLAS, July 2Q (JP D. Whitlo, Dallas logger, was killed about 12 miles southwest of here today by! 4 log which crashed upon him' during a logging oper ation. I RofO'tutir$ Original A. II IjaTal -Stands ?! VTV T$r ) Yes. Me IrraeMUeSv j SkJ ' " 1 v- littie deit caw auad . J )A V ( . . by heraeff, and eaa ae t . . - V " ff V -- , placed In many ether Ii -i1. t ' ' ; Hfo-lika peaea , . . fee V l I 1 her arms, Itgay aedti ' ftv I MeK are Jalntad. WeHCS- Mk 4 " t aaadei all eempssltleaw f , ) jft.'t . WncaaataiU j C fcX .' Oregon, -Saturday Morning. July Senators Want 1.S. to Keep Pacific Isles I WASHINGTON, July 20-( Senators made it plain; today they hope President Truman was ex empting strategic islands in the Pacific when he said at a flag raising in Berlin that the United States does not want "one piece of territory" out of this war. Asserting that this, country. Is. fighting, for peace and for the welfare of mankind," the presi dent declared:" - ; -1 j "' -"".rr v ; "We are not fighting for con quest There is not one peace of territory or one thing of a mane tary-nature that we want out of this . war. We want peace and prosperity xor the f world ; as whole. While legislator agreed with his main thesis, several said they hop ed the renunciation! of territorial gains does not carry with it loss of control of the Pacific islands taken from Japanese in bloody fighting. . Senator Byrd (D-Va). who headed, a delegation of senators who discussed the island question with American delegates at the San Francisco conference, told reporter: v ' I r ' ."We must retain' those island bases. We need them to keep the future peace in the Pacifie." . Senator Johnson jD-Colo) sug gested that perhaps; Mr. TrOman was referring only to the European war.' K - i But Senator Ellender (D-La) said that in any event he believ ed, the president was ! being "too liberal.. . ' j - j I believe; that we not only ought to have the Pacific islands that we have conquered, but . that I we ought to have cpntrot of some I - . A.- - ; 1 J A 1 ' l ,A i ox uie uuumrj oases we nave duui fin other parts of the world," said. '.:; - A ' ; Nippon Planes leturning to Okinawa Skies OKINAWA, Julyi aCHP)-Jpa nese planes have returned to Oki nawa skies -after an absence of nearly a month, .indicating the enemy -may not have yet entirely written off the loss .of this stra tegic island, now a base for deva stating raids on southern Japan. They have caused four! raid alerts in two nights, but appar ently little or ho damage. Three Americans . were slightly injured in the latest raid, made last night during a storm. I -1 The Nipponese planes attempt ed to come in under; protection of the storm, and three of them crashed, one in an occupied area. One tried to make a suicide run but missed. - I "'- DAIICE Salen Araory Every I ; Saturday NiM Mosle by Jee i Haasenstab's "Orchestra, Clyde i Banereft, Vocalist - Admission tee - Sponsored by Oregon 'Stale m V T i Satisfaction; Guaranteed or Your Money. Back 484 SUU SL 21, 13U Thumbnail of War! . ' 1- - - ' ' By th Asaodated Presa v ferial Bombing of Shanghai area, supply port for, Japanese army In east. China' for eight years, goes into second dayl : CMna-Chmese announce 50 miles." of southeast China coast has been cleared of Japanese. Barnee Aussies consolidate hold on third captured oil field atiSambodJa, near Balikpapan. Sea Movements of American and British fleets, somewhere oft Japan's coast stay shrouded in second day of radio silence. Memorial for vardLarlrfn To Be Sunday Memorial services ' f ot Tech. Sgt Howard Larkin, who was killed in action on Mindanao June 15, will be held from the Howell Edwards chapel Sunday at 4 pjn. The! Rev. George-H. Swift will officiate. Larkin entered the service with the original 41st division soon af ter ihis graduation from Salem high school and had seen action in the Pacific in the campaigns of Salamaua, Hollandia, Blak and the Philippines. , Surviving are his parents, Mr, and! Mrs. B. O. Larkin: two sis ters Mrs. Lawrence Stoddard and Mrs." Sam Saunders; three broth ers. Tech. Sgt Marvin Larkin at Camp Maxey, Texas, and Melvin and; Harold Larkin, both of Sa lemi and a nephew. Tech.' Sgt Jeffry Stoddard. -. Navy Considering Points To Release Older Men WASHINGTON, July 20 - UP) - The navy disclosed today it considering a point formula for release of older navy personnel. By December the plan is esti mated to. release 11,600 commis sioned and .warrant, officers and 19,000 enlisted men. The ..navy emphaaued that the formula unaec study will be in no way 4 a, , demobilization, measure, since the navy's strength will not be cut below the present author- Last Times Today THIYTl SEA-SICKI THIY'Rl LOVE-SICK v and YOU ll BE lAUGrr $ICW IN TECHNICOLOR! Plus (Feature, Siarls vr 11 TttlllCOLO&l 1 MICHAEL O'SHEA . MAS It aueOalAM SIU iONHtOH Co-Fealcre- Elfstrom WiU Head Chest aign n L. Elfstrom will head the pre- campaign committee of the Salem United War chest His appoint ment by Campaign Chairman Carl Hogg was approved at an organ ization; meeting of the committee Friday noon.'; . ". Ralph Campbell has Deen nam ed chairman i of the general gins division, : formerly headed by HMf! Rot Houck is to succeea - C Haag as chairman of the in dustrial division; Leo Page will be chairman of the mercantile divi sion, Ed Majek, the professional division.. Otherwise, the organiza tion ' remains . largely unchanged from last year. Temporary camwant" to be established August 1 on the Temporary'campaign offices art second Door of tne duuu ing, with C A. Kells as secretary of the campaign committee ana Blanche Allen as office secretary. Division beads include: w. I Phillips, automotive and transpor tation: Fred Anunsen, contractors and builders: Carl Aachen Dren- ner: educational: George Alexan der, covernmental: Tranx uoer- fler, rural; Ralph Johnson, util ities: Dorathea Steusloff, women's. Gardner Knapp is pubuclty cnair man. ' No West Salem chairman haa yet been: named. if' ' - :, ' V ' " ! " " r'- ' " . - FWA to Pay 'Half , Cost Of Bridges ToU Free ' WASHINGTON, - July 20-flrV The senate passed and sent to the White House today a bill author izing the federal works-administrator: to pay to a state half the value of any toll bridge the state makes free, i if on a federal-aid highway. "-'J '- ' , Salem Man to Take Part In Cornerstone Laying MEDFORD, July 20 -JP)- The cornerstone of the Friends church here will be laid Sunday with exercises led by Oscar H. Brown, Salem, and a sermon by Fredrich B. Bakert -. Camas, Washington; ized maximum of 5,389,000 which was. reached Uune SO. ! . ? Si - SXLENT PARTNER Simdoy L v rq THE DAZZLING SYMPHONY ' at, II ATIMI 1 llt ilAI AMI MUllurt AMI CULVKl AND THt GRACEFUL BEAUTY OF.. !'- 1 w J :-. V S HOMAfJCL III THE SHIPYARDS! I One of First Draftees Out WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., july ZO-vV -Harry Robert Bell, 28, on of tne nrsi American draftees called te serv ice in 1940, came nome rrora we wars today to rejoin nis wue ana 5-year-old son after four jrears and nine months in the army. He fought on five battlefronts Africa,: S icily. "alV southern France and Austria and saw ac- unn in uuvw And now that he's bacx m civ vies again, Ex-Sergeant Bell has two worries: getting a ration book and some nice cool summer clothes. . . ' . "But that's the kind of troubles I don't mind," he grinned. Fish, Sea Foods Made i m n Eligible f OF PriCC IXlDg WASHINGTON, July 10-- The senate today aecurea nsn and other sea food j to be agri cultural commodities xor price fixing purposes. A bill requiring that the agri culture secretary approve any action taken under the fair price met regarding this food, passed the senate and was sent to the house. lad Day A tiioelr. topical tip-top romanoe with a thaana ae ticudllina aa lis. kitselif MARGARET - O'BRIEN JOSE ITURBI " JIMMY DURANTE i CO-FEATURE STARTS 8 UN DAT IN TECHNICOLOR I AalaaaaiBMak aa f arwYVnlWV Streef Heerts ie Conflict! dCKEYRO OIIEY. CtlJf'UUCJ .tEVUI cb'-rEATOHE ej:i,: 1 T ... fc-aaw - Bl ! ' ' J ..... . , 4 Club Members Ozly ... . .t .. . .... . in . t - - . m -.-.--- .