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Vinson Takes
Oath as Head
Of Treasury
WASHINGTON, July 23 - (7 -Fred
M." Vinson took the oath as
secretary of the treasury . today
amid increasing speculation that
two other new faces may be added
to the Truman cabinet soon.
It is -generally ' expected that
.Secretary of War Henry 1,. -Stim-son
will retire soon after his re
turn from Potsdam where he ac
companied Mr. Truman to the big
three meeting.
How long Secretary of the In
terior Harold L. Ickes wtlf stay in
the administration is an open
, question. He plans . to see the
president soon after Mr. Truman
returns to the United -States and
ask for clarification of his status,
in view of wide public discussion
of the .possibility that he may go
OUt.
' It is understood that the interior
secretary wants word-one way or
the other about where he stands,
and plans to step out if the answer
is 'notv satisfactory to him. Mr.
Truman has not given public voice
to his plans, but persons -close to
the executive office expect him to
say he would like to have Ickes
stay on "for a time."
Few expect the president to
give; Ickes any definite assurance
that he is a cabinet fixture.
Senator O'Mahoney (DWyo.)
is among those whose names have
been mentioned most often for
the interior post if Ickes should
leave. Others are democratic Govs
Robert Kerr of Oklahoma and
Herbert B. Maw M Utah.
Man Fined $85 for
Game Law Violations
STAYTON. Julv 23 Oswald
Karl Hirte paid fines totaling $75
and flO costs in Staytort justice
court and his .30-.38 rifle was con
fiscated when he appeared to an
swer to charges of game law vio
lations. State: police charged him
with possessing untagged deer in
closed season and with having no
1945 hunting license. He was ar
rested in the 'Mill City area. ,
Darre! Francis Anderson, ar
rested Sunday, payed $25 and $5
costs. He was charged with an
gljng within 200 feet of theifish
way at the Mill City dam. J
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Of Paul V. McNutt WD6ubt
By STERLING F. GREEN r; ' j.
IWASHINGTON, July 23.-0P)-A proposal; to create an
eleventh cabinet post secretary of ihe department of welfare
and ! security rendered uncertain today f the political future
of PauLV. McNutt,
IMcNutt Is war manpower commissioner and director of
the I federal security agency. The suggested new department
would take over the half-dozen
or more agencies now loosely at
tached to FSA.
McNutt is absent from Washing
ton 6n a rehabilitation mission to
the priilippines, and hence there
was no immediate comment from
him on .the proposal, which is
under study by ottier government
officials. ;' j '
At the commerce department,
meanwhile, it was learned, that
Secretary Henry I A. Wallace is
planning a thorough reorganiza
tion Which might also require con
gressional action he wishes to re
shape commerce for better promo
tion jof business activity after the
war.! . '
Tfcje proposal for a full-fledged
new security department is highly
tentative but is being studied at
the office of war mobilization and
reconversion. The new secretary
presumably would administer the
expanded postwar social security
program for which the adminis
tration is plugging, i -
OWMR's pending recommenda
tion If or the government 'a own re
conversion are in line with Presi
dent Truman's request for . con
solidation and simplification of the
sprawling federal structure which
he inherited from the late Fresi
dentj Roosevelt . .
" One phase of OWMR's work
the j consolidation of manpower
agenjeies asked by congress al
ready has jeopardized McNutt's
manpower commission. Some of
the functions now exercised by.
WM(j might be transferred to the
labor, department.
Alive to the 1 possibility "that
WMC might be liquidated as the
labor; shortage lessens McNutt told
friends he would: not remain" in
government if he had charge of
FSA alone. Neither, he has stated,
would he relish a return to the
post pf high commissioner, of the
Philippines
s Prepare
For Bad News
From Potsdam
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 -()
A Japanese broadcast prepared the
eneniy home front today lor baa
news from the Big Three confer
ence! and proposed "a fresh, vig-
orou4" diplomatic policy toward
Russia. ,
The Domei agency quoted Sanr
gyo I Keizai, Tokyo commercial
newspaper, as urging the foreign
office to "check to a minimum
Japai's unfavorable position while
at the same time carrying out a
freshi vigorous policy, especially
vis-a)-vi3 the soviet union."
While this might be interpreted
as either a policy of conciliation
or of belligerence, the tone of the
dispatch as heard by the federal
communications commission was
cleaij in regard to the Potsdam
conference of President, Truman,
Prime Minister Churchill and Pre
mierl Stalin.
"The Japanese people," said the
newspaper, "must be prepared,.
for eventuality that the commun
ique to be issued upon its conclu
sion jwill include provisions con
siderably unfavorable for Japan."
Supplies for Red Cross
Enroute to Manchuria
Mf)SCOW July ; 23 - (ff) - The
first j 15 tons of supplies for Inter
national Bed Cross representa-
tivei who will handle prisoner of
war! packages to allied soldiers in
Japanese - occupied territory are
en route from Vladivostok to the
Manchurian - Russian frontier,
was! learned today.
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Fire Destroys Lumber
Company at Molalla
MOLALLA, July 23 -(&)- Fire
which destroyed the Frank Lowe
lumber mill here yesterday did
damage of $35,000, it was esti
mated today. The plant, employ
ing more than 100 men, was not
covered by insurance.
FIREMAN CALLED OUT
Firemen were called last night,
just! before midnight, to extin
guish a fire in the kitchen Ji the
Dew Drop Inn, on Court st. Al
though there was a great deal of
smoke, the fire was soon brought
under control by city firemen who
were able to report back to the
downtown station in .45 minutes.
No damage was reported.
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Jap
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Chinese Grab ;
Three Tovria
NeariKweilin
CHUNGKING,; July 23-P)-Chi-
nese soldiers . n a v recapiurea
three i-ublbled towns I guarding
Kweiliri, tightenipg their strangle
hold on the big air base city while
a Chinese column approaches an
other former U. S. 14th; air force
airfield , afe nearby Yangso, the
Chinese high commands said to
day. . i I
Along Chinas '"invasion coast"
west of Formosa, Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek's ill-armed war
riors fought into the rear Of Japa
nese- troops battling toward Swa-
tow and apparently broke up an
enemy attempt to j establish a
coastal corridor between Swatow
and Amoyi . 1. -.,-.' f
These Chinese successes came as
recent visits to Chungking of
American and British army offi
cers indicated discussions were
under way regarding plans to co
ordinate China s role in the war
with the coming allied blows
against Japan. i f"
CpL Newman
Gams in His
Fight to Live
FORT WORTH, Tex., i July 23.-
(JP)-CpL James E. Newman, gain
ing ground in his fight for life
against tuberculosis and; malnutri
tion after three; years Irt a Jap
prison camp, received the purple
heart by mail today. :
NewmanJ who has lived under
an oxygen Itentfor the! past two
days, spent a restful day today.
His condition remained f "much
better." . I- ; i f .
According to his sister. Mrs.
Billie Fitcnf he had a good night
last night and slept most! of this
afternoon. However she said, when
he was awake, it was .necessary
to give himj morphine at intervals
of about four hours to ease his
suffering. 13 t
Corporal Newman received at
least 200 letters today, i including
two from England, one from South
Africa, and; one from Canada.
New Zealand Bombers
Will Join Pacific War
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WELLINGTON, N. Z., July 23.-
(JP)-A Newj Zealand heavy bomb
er squadron, presently operating
in Europe! will loin the war
against Japan under RAF com
mand, defense minister 'F. Jones
disclosed tonight. i
Announcing that 3,000 air crew
members of the New Zealand air
force would be brought home from
Europe for; release, Jones explain
ed this would riot affect the fuE
scale operations of the New Zea
land air foce in the Pacific.
Girls Dfown in River
TILLAMOOK, July 23-()r
Caroline Jean Hodgdon, 14, and
Alice podgHon, 11, drowned while
swimming in the Nesqitta -river
near their fiome at Beavier yester
day. Playmates said Alice sank
in deep water and her sister, Car
olyn Jean, idrowned attempting to
save her. I
School IVote Scheduled
McMINNVILLE, July 23
Consolidation of. 11 outlying school
districts with McMinnville dist
rict will be voted upon -by resi
dents of affected areas at an elec
tion August 3. ; I
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Nights at 8; Sun. Mats, at 2:30
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
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Company of 152 Starring the "Old Smoothies," Donna
Atwood, Larry Jackson, Tiixie, and many other sensa
tional performers.?, 100 beautiful Ice-Capets in 10 lavish
production numbers; 27 ads. Thrills, beauty, laughs on
daztling ice. i .
SEATS NOW Portland Arena, J. XL Gill Co, SWFiftb
aAs?J and Red Drug, Vancouver j
PRICES: $3, $2.75, $2.30 and $1.50, including all tax
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Move on to1
Organize New
Oregon Town
PORTLAND, Ore, July 23x-(
Residents of about 12! commun
ities in the southwest icorner of
Multnomah county have sched
uled a public! meeting for tomor
row night, when ' a movement to
organize a new city will be ex
plained, it was learned today.
Fred H. Slate, chairman of the
NvmmittM innnwirinv itk rtlan.
said no petitions , have been pre
pared for circulating among esti
mated 6000 Qualified electors. In
the area but such action may.be
authorized tomorrow, i
He said about 10,000 to 13,000
people live in the vicinity of
Multnomah, West Portland, Glen
cullen, Maplewood, 'Collinsview,
Ryan Race, Capitol Way, Hills
dale, Bertha 'and 'part Of Garden
Homes on the Multnomah side of
the-line and Dunthrope' and some
neighborhoods on the southwest
slopes above tha Bertha-Beaver-
ton highwayj. . . '. .'...
He said incorporation would
give residents legal machinery to
handle .sewage, street construc
tion, and health and police pro
tection. ',. I I -, I "'
The meeting will be held at the
Si- i
Bertha Water company office at
Bertha. Slate said there has been
no proposals for a name for the
proposed new city. j
op-up
In PliiKppines
Being? Pushed
MANILA, Tuesday, July 24-P)
One of the toughest actions of the
bloody mop-up campaign in the
liberaed Philippines w a being
pushed today ' in the Avild ' and
rugged mountain area of northern
Luzon Island.!
In that forbidding sector troop's
of America's Sixth Infantry divi
sion drove I eight; miles alone
Skeleton road" and captured Ba-
naue, Japanese mountain retreat
The Yanks were withiii two and
a : half miles ! of Philippine army
forces punching through the re-
gton from tU northwest
The going was slow because the
Japanese had blasted out sections
of the road along which the
Americans advanced, f Japanese
skeletons lined the road, attesting
to the sharpshooting abilities of
U. S. flyers who had bombed and
strafed roads arid trails repeat
Salem, Albany Miers
Awarded hying Cross
HEADQUARTERS 58th BOM
BARDMENT .WING, Tihian, July
23.-JPy-Awats have been made
to many Br20 flyers of jthis wing,
recently transferred to the Pacif
ic, for participation in combat and
operational-missions from bases
in India and .China. The wing is
commanded by Brig. Gen. Roger
M. Ramey. Those awarded dec-
oroations include:
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First Lt. James V. IDeCoster,
co-pilot, Albany and (First Lt
Sergeant R. Horn, special instru
ment operator, 2210 North Lib
erty street, Salem, distinguished
flying crosses.
Oiarles Flegel Killed
In Airplane Crash
PORTLAND, July 23-(JP)-
Charles P. Flegel, 53 Ontario,
one of two men killed in a cen
tral Idaho airplane trash, was a
brother
of Austin FlegeL jr..
president
of Willamette Iron and
Steel Co., Portland. ;
Born in Portland, j graduated
from Oregon; State college, Fle
gel has been connected with the
Eastern Oregon Land: company
at Prairie City and Ontario. His
wife, a son and daughter sur
vive, i r
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Thumbnail
off War!
By th Associated Press
Fleet Great fleets! of carrier
planes- strike Kure naval base on
south Honshu coast, r "
a. Aerial General JDoolittle
reaches western Pacific to estab
lish new B-28 eighth air force
on Okinawa; land based; navy
planes sink seven Japanese ves
sels of f Korea in Yellow sear
China-f American planes bat
ter Shanghai while j Chinese
troops capture three! Jap held
towns guarding KweUin air bast
city. Japanese effort! to force
coastal escape comdor from
Swatow to Amoy , fails when
Chinese break into rear of ene
my forces. I
Berneo Australians - overrun
Japanese i positions around Mt
Batochamper. i
Aussies Gain'
3;Miles Along
Borneo Road
MANILA, Tuesday, uly 24-f)
Australian; patrols have thrust out
three miles along the Inland road
leading north from Balikpapan to
the big oil center of Samarinda on
eastern Borneo, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced today.
Behind the patrols, other Aus
tralian troops overran Japanese
positions around Mount Bato-
champar, six miles north of Ba
likpapan, striking by night and
heading off an enemy attempt to
withdraw.! Several truck loads of
enemy troops were killed. '
The Japanese had -made a
strong stand around Batochampar,
taking advantage of Its natural
defense positions blocking the road
to Samarinda, which is about 65
miles north of Balikpapan. -
HURRY I HURRY I LAST TIMES TODAY!
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"SALOME, WHERE SHE DANCED?
Lee Tracy "I'LL TELL THE WORLD 5
CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY FROM I P. M.
SarSs
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cinating to all women! ; . And
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Yanks Make ;
Bid to Cut Nip
Food Supplies
GUAM, Tuesday, July 24HP)
Sunday's shelling of Paramurshiro,
announced today by Adm. Nimitz,
well may have been another bid
to cut; down the enemy's swiftly
dwindling supplies of foodstuffs. --
Thef Japanes radio .said h e
American, i naval r forces shelled
Sunbachi, a town on the southeast
coast, jof Paramushiro : island in
the northern Kuril es. It is a can
nery center, which produces large
quantities of tinned fish, taken
south to the main home islands by
small coastal craft !
: Nimitz aajd the usual fog, ob
scured results. i
' A major naval combat air field
also is located on Paramushiro
only i mile inland, easily reached
by destroyer gunfire. '
Other targets on that often-shell
ed island include radio: stations,
radar ! air ' warning installations
and three other air fields, j
Stolen Truck Recovered
AURORA, July 23 A truck
stolen! July 12 ' from the Aurora
Warehouse company was recov
ered today at Vanport : by! state
police A load of sacked barley
the. truck carried when it was
taken was found beside the high
way at Oswego. Police worked on
the supposition the car had been
taken by a boy who escaped July
11 from the boys' training school
at Woodbura and was later appre
hended at Spokane.
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PRIORITIES GO UNUSED i
I EUGENE, Ore July 23-(ffH
Priorities for building here are
going Unused because of material
and labor shortages, Eugene and
Springfield builders reported to
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Only 528.274 1 American troops
fought in the war of. 1812.
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