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Jo) uvyull) i I i -!-' SreBUloivs From Skyscraper t ' .V'r . ..!..- ". wm ( b m t J1 , L ...n -,. Mll Emoke billow ant fram upper floors of the Empire State building Saturday morninr after; plane the structure. Fires were burning In ll! of the ' Upper floors of . .the building. (AP wirephoto). One picture 1 which is sure , to hold attention Is that of the post var kitchen. Wherever it appearsJ in "House Beautiful" or In ads, it terns to have come off the same, easel. It ' glistens in white enamel on range, refrigerator, sink and cupboard, with delicious color contrast of blue or green or yel low with dots of red for the trim. It is the dream kitchen which every wartime bride is confident she will have and every veteran housewife wants. Its sleekness sug gests efficiency; its whiteness sug gests cleanliness.' Even the mere male can't help but be intrigued by the picture; But there is another picture of a kitchen, which appears, of all places, in j the scholarly Yale Re view. It is sketched by Betty Fible Martin. thus: " (.'' ; ; "In . our Virginia country, we like the way our farm kitchens are furnished; the linoleum mat on the floor, mamma's 'begonias blooming on the window sills, the ring-two, ring-four telephone on the wall, the busted-out black leather sofa by the front windows where the 'ol man naps after noon dinner; the pine corner cup board : for company china and glass; j the' refrigerator, washing machine and radio we bought on the installment 'plan;,, when we were 'rural electrified; the bucket of spring tuater and dipper a fixture Unchanged for too many decades to count, as are the wood en washstand with shaving mirror above it, the row of coathook for variegated attire shapeless, yet serviceable; and the split-bot" torn rocker close to the cookstove, within spittin ! distance of the woodbox. ;','' ' K . -'. '. Efficiency here gives way ; to felicity; cleanliness yields a bit to (Continued on editorial page) Animal Croe!:crs By WARREN GOODRICH . r! l.f SUM TOM tT T tJUis L : MIA 17 I ; kmme go, Cert got an ifcn-or U that you?" ' ' -4 V- '- .- - ' 7 : ' r "J .crashed Into the Uth floor of (Additional picture on bare 2) Big 3 Resiimes : POTSDAM,. July v2$: P)- The tug. inree.resur" -vrvp- confer ence tonight . ... ,msm -. Britain' pew prime' minister, Clement att lee, arrived by plane to replace Winston Churchill in deliberations on which the world's future hinges. V The three -leaders sat down to gether immediately after Attlee had -made formal calls, first on President Truman, then on Pre mier' Stalin. !'. -.-j , .,"r;.- ' The belief! prevailed that the Big Three ' would meet again to morrow as they did last Sunday. It was learned that lower levels of the conference have been meet ing regularly : since Churchill and Eden left for London Wednesday to learn ) of the British . voters' crushing rejection of the Church ill government Presumably their work has accomplished much to ward speeding the conference to a conclusion, expected early next week. Airbase Gty Of Kweilin in Qiinese Hands CHUNGKING, July 2-(P)-Chl-nese troops recaptured the prize airbase city of Kweilin yesterday and seized its three former Amer ican airfields from the Japanese, the Chinese high command said tonight. The victory ended a sav age six-week battle. ' -j I " Kweilin! walled cadtal of Kwan- gsi province, once was the biggest U.i Srairbase In south-central Chi na It had been occupied by the Jabanese since last November; Its recapture was the most significant victory In the recent comeback of the Chinese armies. , . . Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's veterans smashed into the rub bled streets of Kweilin, 860 miles southeast of Chungking, at 4 pi m. yesterday after mowing down; the defenders of theldty south and west gates. .-' -!"J Meet Attlee Japan Topographically Easy To Invade Believes General WASHINGTON, July 28-()-An army engineer general, vet eran ot scores of landings in the Pacific, said today he believes beaches of the Japanese home Is lands and the China coast will be less difficult for invasion from a topographical standpoint, than those encountered up, to now.. Brig. Gen. William F. Heavy, commander of the Second engi neer special brigade, just returned from two and a half years and 82 landing operations in the Pa cific war, made these points; -; The Japanese and China coast 1 ' ' ' I NEW YORK, July? 28-(ff-A fog-blinded army bomber crash ed into the Empire State build Ing at the 79th story today and exploded inside with an earth shaking roar, killing three fliers and at least 10 office workers and turning the world's tallest building Into a smoking, flaming torck in the sky. , . The bizarre disaster Injured 24 persons, six seriously, and while rescue workers searched the twisted, .blackened wreckage of 78th and 79th floor offices to night, police said the death toll may exceed. 15. 4 - fl :i : : Army and fire department in vestigations: were under way. j. The eight-ton, twin-engined B 25 "Billy Mitchell" plane, grop injf through; a thick fog toward the Newark" airport, rammed the 102-story skyscraper at 9:49 ajn, sending blazing gasoline cascad ing through offices and down elevator shafts, Jarring the area like an earthquake, and ; show ering broken glass and debris into crowded business streets for five blocks around. Police said inNETY-riFTH YEAR Wilson t Fjire Still Spreads? Scores of Spot Blazes . Add to Fighters' Woes P0RtaND, Ore, July ZiHJfr State foresters tonight; described the work . of ; fire patrols on the south rim of the Tillamook forest fire as a "battle of the bulges" andj reported scores of; spot fires on both south and northwest fronts. - ? U, j' JUsing . humidity today gave fighters hope of some respite from the wearying two week task of Jumping from east, to ; west, to south and then back to the north edges of the 100,000 acre fire zone. Forester Ted Rainwater report ed at state headquarters tonight the newest trouble spot ; is break ing Out near Cedar Butte two miles ahead of the main fire on . the west branch of the Wilson river. The region is completely iso lated, he said, with no roads or trails. ; i - i -? : j He reported about 300 fighters, including some servicemen, are still holding a center sector of the 15-mile wide southern front where two fires have pushed fur ther south on either side of the men. -'! Vi H l ' The men are pocketed in a five mile wide gap between burning mountains. ; ' " ; f " -.I . Most of the 2800 servicemen and loggers are' on the south front but are being withdrawn to new lines, foresters reported. State Forester N. S. Rogers said today flames , have advanced east into the watershed of Forest Grove and v HillsborO but city firemen turned fire hoses from creeks onto wooden water pipes and prevented serious damage. f Rogers said the 11,000 acre Polk county fire Is under control and there seems to be little danger of it breaking out again soon. ' ' I Baiy Has! Dental "Woes At Age of One "Week HAMILTON, Mont, July 28-(AP) Linda Ann ; Davis had dental trouble at the age of one week. Born with ; two normal lower teeth last Saturday, Linda Ann lost them today, the dentist ex nlalninf ther had loosened and interfered with the baby's eating. beaches do not have the hazard ous coral formations that fringe the beaches of most of the south west Pacific islands, i: i f T ; Landing forces going ashore on Japan will have behind them long experience and better equipment. The weather forecasting in the Pacific Is so good that Invasions can be timed to fit in between typhoons, making possible land ings during that storm season. ; Heavy said Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur fooled the Japanese by landing on Leyte at a time when the enemy thought he wouldn't in the typhoon season. ; 1 , . ; ' r " " - - ' no pedestrians were injured, i Panic spread among some pf the 1500 persons in the building, but police said virtually all were evacuated in orderly fashion within 20 minutes. The area was blocked, off from a quickly , gathering crowd of many thous . ands.J,i::-.::;;'-.::n' j-: 1,4 J . The bomber, with threeroerv- Icemen aboard, took off - from ' Bedford, : Mass this rnornteg;: bound for Newark, N Short ly before the crash it commun icated with LaGuardia field, New York, by radio . and was told: , l "Maintain contact flying reg ulations with three mile forward visibility. If this is not possible, return to LaGuardia. At present I cannot see the top of the Em pire State building." j j The; plane then was over1 Man hattan; It flew southward rough ly following the route of Fifth avenue. The fog was so dense that some New; Yorkers in the area heard it but could not see it I j 'J',., ' ' : ! ; Then,-with many Empire State 20 PAGES Gen. Chennault Predicts Victory j Over Japs Soon j KUNMING, China, July 28.4 (AVMajL Gen. Claire L. Chen naalt," retiring commander ef the U. 8. 14th air force, pre dicta victory ever n. Japan la a reasonably shert time. i At a farewell dinner riven him last night by ; represents ttves ef the Yonnan prevlslonal government Chennault said: , -.; "Ml departure dees not saean goodbye, N matter where $ re part of my heart will al ways remain In China. Most credit belongs to the Aaeerleaia JifJf. rm?2 bers-ffkers and men-W011 barter, settor tomotion have . fought for a common cabm Sad for the freedom t China. . It will always be soy hope! that the sacrifices those boys mad will cement Chinese and American relations. 1 auzuki opeech On Wnder Fails to Show I"' - :- V;- . ; 1. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28-ff)-A promised address by . Premier Suzuki to the Japanese nation on the coming "battle of the streets" had failed to materialize late to night despite advance billing by the Dome! agency over the Tokyo radio. '-, ;. . : I i . 'American radio monitors comb ed the airwaves in vain for the speech Itself or for any further word concerning it They did pick up a statement by the p of Japan's powerful to political party declaring country never would Allied ultimatum to While the Japanese gov officially remained silent edict from Potsdam, and newspapers reached a frain of rejection, Gen. nam!, president of the Association of Great the first reaction to the ultimatum by , an 5 acknowledged "public fig ure, - , . i i Radio Tokyo quoted NinamI as saying Japan would never quit and the "entire Japanese j nation will remain absolutely unaffected in their resolute determination to save their country from national extermination.' 1 Capt. Richard Gtrberry Dies In Prison Camp : , i - - - ' . - SELVERTON, July 28.fCapt Richard E. Carberry, U. army chaplain's corps and former pas tor of St. Paul's . Catholic; church here, died while Japanese pris oner of ; war. This information was received today by his cousin. Fa ther John Walsh, now pastor f St. Paul's parish. The word was received from the war department at the arch diocese office in Port land. : ; v - -...... :u '..-if (Additional details on page 6). ADAIR CONTRACT AWARDED i-.ti- ASTORIA, July 28 - () - John Kelstrom, local contractor, today was awarded a contract to build five officers' quarters at the Camp Adair naval hospital on a $5210 bid. " , " j resident talitarian that his accept the surrender. I ernment 1L. Tokyo's common re- JiTO Mi- Political Japan; gave building workers alarmed by the crescendo of its roar; it hurled -its eight-ton weight j against the tower-spiked structure, slashed a gaping hole in the wall, plung" ed in, and disintegrated in series of" three blasts, - Instantly, flames enveloped the: . office suites in its path; :- '- parts of the plane were caught ln'the wall. Others; were . scat 1 iered through the two, floors. Still others including one motorj part of the fuselage, a landing gear and a stray wheel hurtled entirely across 33rd street to the; roof of another building. The crash snapped the cables of three elevator cars parked at the 80th floor. All three plunged : to the basement. Police still were trying to get at their wreckage late tonight to determine whether the falling vehicles Carried oth ers to their deaths. . ; I Another elevator was parked at the 75th floor. Its cable snap ped, too, and 'James W.. Irwin ' management consultant with of fices on the floor, said he had seen two women enter the car POUN Salem, Oregon, Sunday Senate 89-2 Vote Starts Machinery for World Security WASHINGTON. July 28V The senate thundered 89 to 2 ap proval " today of the United Nai w uwuuuci ivi m wwiu organi zation armed with force to keep future peace. .. , V f In; a history inaking roll call before f Jam-packed galleries, 89 senators voted loudly and clearly for American participation in a 50-nation league founded primar fly on the principle of united ac tion by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, France and China. .Only; two. Senators Langer (R ND) and Shipstead (R-Minn) said "no" to a ratification action re versing" the policy the senate es tablished 25 . years ago when it rejected j Woodrow Wilson's leagui of nations. i Senator Hiram Johnson (R-Cal), aged and ailing member who op posed the league then and voted against this charter in committee; was absent He is III in a naval hospital. , , r ! f Four others, Senators Bailey (D NC), Glass (D-Va), Reed (R-KansH and Thomas (R-Ida)' were absent when the vote was taken after six days of discussion. Johnson was paired against the ratification resolution with Thomas and Reed; who favored it. f j So complete was the senate's approval of the charter , that not a reservation or amendment was off ered to the document drafted at the !San Francisco conference of. 50 nations. - ".- j When Senator McKellar (D- Tenn), the presiding officer, an nounced the vote, the galleries were unexpectedly silent. Specta tors packed two deep-around the walls. Included many men and women in uniform. Shortage of Help Threat To Aluminum WASHINGTON, July 28-AVA present I critical manpower short age threatens the future of the aluminum industry in the Pacific northwest, Oregon senators' said today.. . - - In telegrams to Oregon, labor union officials and the Portland chamber of commerce, Senators Cordon (R-Ore) and Morse (R- Ore) urged that efforts be-made to supply 540 . workers ' for the aluminum plants - at Trotdale, Ore," and Vancouver, Wash. War manpower officials have estimated that deficiency in Alum inum production at the Vancouver and Troutdale plants and at Spo kane, Wash, tor, the last half of this year will be around 90,000,000 pounds, due solely to lack of man power, the senators stated. : ' FMUFDILL f ...... i- . ... . i ... ...... Ratifies Gharte immediately bef ortT it dropped. S . It was sudden death for most oi the victims.. t " , : j , Firemen entering the national I 'Catholic .welfare conference suite on the 79th floor found nine charred bodies, most of them I i i ; , a t . ( i J grouped around a single table. . 'Another body was found fur- ther back on the same floor.' -. Still another was found on. the parapet of the 72nd floor. It was that of . Paul Dearing, ; publicity man for ; the Catholic forganiza-" tion.and a former Buffalo, N. Y. reporter. Police said the crash apparently hurled him from his office and out of - the building to the wing roof six stories be low. Fifty persons were on . the i sightseers t o w e r, of ; the sky- scraper, standing where queens 1 and princes, presidents and paupers have stood entranced by the horizon spreading out from that highest man-made i vantage point. All were evacu ated, safely, v' . I The fire that resulted was a t Morning, July 29. 1945 2 Killed, One Hurt in Blast Near Marion Two persons were killed and one . seriously Injured-in a pre mature dynamite blast on the "old Whitlock farm" four miles east of Marion at 5:45 p.m. Saturday. ; Joe W$liams, 25, route one, Aumsvflle; who. was driving a well, died IS minutes after a half stick of - the explosive ; blew up above ground in the pipe he was attempting to sink and ignited a pocketfull of caps he carried. 1 Mrs. Clara . L. : McKenzie, 55, waldport, who . was sitting in a truck 50 feet from the: well site, was killed instantly when a piece of the pipe struck her between the eyes. . ;' Luther Lea, 39, of 290 Silverton road, Salem, is at Salem Deacon ess hospital, where early diagnosis indicated his principal injury to be a severely-shattered ankle. He was standing beside Williams and was struck by a piece of the pipe. William A. McKenzie, whose wife was killed, told state police that Williams had inserted six or seven sticks of dynamite in the pipe and was sending another half stick after them. , The half stick went upside down and the cap dropped onto those already in the hole, McKenzie said. He described to the investigating officer how Lea lighted a cigarette for Williams a moment before the explosion of the half stick. Wheth er the flame or something else caused the detonation, he could not say. - 1 Williams body is at the Wed dle mortuary in Stayton. Mrs. McKenzie's body was brought to the Clough-Barrick establishment in Salem. f-y" Japs Report n 8 , SAN FRANCISCO, July 28-(ff) Japan's Dome! agency claimed to day that fresh Allied landings were- made Thursday on Pukct island, off Malaya's western coast, and that "fierce fighting is now going on." ' The enemy radio earlier report ed landings were attempted on Wednesday but said they had been "frustrated.' There has been no Allied confirmation of the report ed invasion. f .. .. v-;-:' Naval task force units are sup porting the Thursday landings, the broadcast continued, and bombardment shore positions. The broadcast claimed Japanese sui cide planes Thursday night sank one cruiser and heavily damaged another. Man Killed, In Wreck Near . j j- ... . ? .. r One person was killed and an other seriously injured when an automobile " apparently driven by G. - J. Hildebrand i of Ind?otnd ence turned over 3 miles south east of .Independence,-late Satur day night: . :.- v-v Details of the accident were lacking early 'today , but i state police who were at the scene of the accident shortly after it oc curred, said that the dead man, found lying under the car, was . W WV-iy VSirl : IV II II . I t A V 1 I ; II DDD 1651- f . ' t '. . . " j- j cuiief "fire above the clouds." It was the highest . fire . ever fought in the city 913 feet aloft but al though witnesses said the heat was "like an oven," Tire Com missioner Patrick Walsh said It was a fairly easy job." At no time, did firemen fear a holo caust, although - four : alarms were sounded. : " I "' It was the first fatal airplane " accident since 1929 among New York's skyscrapers. On Nov. 20, 1929. Charles L. Reid, a weal-. thy concert manager and ama--teur pilot, - perished when his . biplane . crashed on the roof of a four-floor extension of ' the YMCA building.- .' . , The crash ; brought ' demands In Washington for new laws re gulating flying dver cities. - Scores cf ambulances, physi cians , and Cre trucks swarmed to the building within minutes After the disaster and excite ment spread through Manhat-' tan. - . -". ; - While thousands assembled in streets, there were . epics of heroism Inside the burning sky Price 3c Bi Bm rvn i By Murlin Spencer j '. rj ' . 4 i GUAM, Sunday; July 29 (AP) Superfortresses Iash4 isix of Japan's 11 forewarned ci tits with fcoaflaerations? land laxzt fires" ..today without loss 'ft a single plane and against opposition described as only ncal,n despite a full day's ajvanee notice of the strike, j I ' ' Admiral Ilalsey'a vast carrier plans fores meanwhile re-, ported two Japanese.battleships and three misen disable 4 and in flames front fresh: blows at tho shattered Kare naval base Saturday - - " .. :;. 1 -i .'v' ; s Returning B-29 erewmen, CiantNewB-32 In Operation For 2 Months ABOARD A B - 32 BOMBER, OVER LUZON, Sunday, July 29-OTV-The giant new B-32 bomber has participated in strikes against widely spread Formosa targets by day, ' and in nighttime sweeps along the China coasts seeking enemy shipping. The army per mitted these disclosures today The new heavy bombers ' made their first combat runs exactly two months, ago today against Japanese positions on Luzon.' - ' A two-h our demonstration flight proved to correspondents today that the big plane has vir tually fingertrip control. i CoL Frank R. Cook, formerly of Denver, Colo., directed the B-32s combat tests and was pilot on to day's demonstration flight The new plane .can carry a- larger bomb load, faster and farther than its little brother,. Consolidated' famed liberator, he said. As additional B-32s arrive, they will be added to the: Far East air forces' assaults against Japan, he said, carrying "sizable bomb loads for long distances at speeds in ex cess of 300 miles an hour." i , ? Spanish Embassy in -Cuba Stoned, Egged ! HAVANA, July 28 The Spanish embassy was stoned and splattered with eggs today by some 1000 youths carrying banners pro claiming "Death to Franco." , The Spanish flag was ripped from. its standard and, two em bassy limousines were overturned. er Injured . 0 . endence Identified by police as Howard tocxe ,of Independence, and, that Judging from appearances, he had been a passenger. They attributed mc cause oi we wrecx to over- speeding on a sharn turn. 1 i Hildebrand was taken to Salem General hospital where attendants said the total extent of his in juries were unknown,' but that he Indep naa a: badly , fractured 'arm andro, McNry siero): ciear t severe lacerations of the head. scraper. One hero, 5 17-year-old Coast Guard Trainee Don Mo . lony of Detroit, a hospital ap prentice, was standing at 34th street when - the v plane struck. Hf grabbed first aid supplies at a drug i store, hurried into th building to I treat two injured persons in the basement then ran up 79 flights of steps to ad minister to at least 10 others. The coast guard said . he had been recommended for a decor ation. - v- " - . Within a few hours army offi cials identified two of the dead fliers. They were Lt CoL Wil liam F. Smith, 27,;(Watertown, Massv the pilot, and SSgt. Christopher S. Domitrovich, 31, of Granite City, BL The name . of the third occupant, said ' to be , -: navy enlisted man, was sot announced Immediately; ' ; Chapin L. ! Brown,' vke presi dent bf Empire State, Inc said the Wash caused approximately $500,000 damage to the $30,000, 000 ' building and ; that "six months or more" would be re-i quired to make repairs. FSmiDslhi who reported more than hall men largeis enveiopea . in con' flagratiocs and large fires break ing out amid the others, said ack- ack was meager and fighter op position "nil to slight" - There was no indication wheth er residents of the six cities had heeded the 20th air force's blunt warning to flee before their homes were destroyed. ' 1 Ship Left Bornlng ! t Halsey's" British and Americaft pilots left the Haruna and Ise, bat- tleshipi of nearly 30,000 tons eath, V burning and disabled,; along wiift the light cruisers Tone and Oyodo, Already on the bottom was the wreckage of the Ise's sister ship, the battleship Hyuga. j Admiral Nimitz also reported art escort carrier was heavily dam- aged, three submarines sunk, and 12 other ships damaged. He list-, ed 94 enemy planes destroyed and 56 damaged. 'The reports, he ex- plained, are preliminary," and incomplete."' - )-- f- - . - ' A single Japanese I plane wa9 downed near the fleet, and ' It shot down over the flaming Kura target area. ' . i . ; T, Eyewitness reports 'said Amer lean destroyers could handle east lly the few remnants of the once powerful Imperial fleet V Okinawa Planes Busy "'"' ";;. Gen. MacArthur meanwhile re ported Okinawa-based planes had Joined In inland-sea raids, and hit headquarters . disclosed that the new B-32 super-bombers havf been In action against enemy tar gets on Luzon and - Formosa f of exactly two months. j . From W0 to 00 auperfortresseS from Marianas bases rained 3500 tons of fire bombs on! the six tit ies and a seventh task force at tacked an oil refinery as a special target".' ,J., V- j'r j' -.'..'' '" They struck a little more than 24 hours after MaJ. Gen. Curtis Le may sent word to the enemy from his 20th air force headquarter here by bomber-scattered pamph lets which named the targets. I ? "And you can't stop us," Lemay taunted in bis blunt notice to the Japanese to stop the war immed iately or flee for their lives from the doomed cities, j ; VETERANS WILL GET GAS , Portland; July 28 - vf) - An extra allotment of up to. 30 gal lons of gasoline will be allowed discharged servicemen beginning Friday, OPA announced today. . : Weather Saa -Francisco EiMSen Salem Portland SeatU Willamette river -3.S ft. day with temperature ttua anrno Dear SO degree. ! f Max.'' Vln. SalA ...; SO ' JM , ti 81 ! iv 51 .. .. jM , ,, nil 1 I ., 4 .... - J