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i , 7VT Three Meet at Potsdam etv j 7 inNETYTOTH YEAR 10 PACES Sdfm. Oregon, Wtdnesclcry Morning, August' 1, 1945 Pric 5c No. 109 Big : - ' 4 " ' ; - - - ' r - -- ..... ... . . ' Ho. 109 Britain' nw prime minister, Clement R. Attlee (left), joins President Joseph Stalin as the new bl Sisnal Corps radio from Berlin) The action of the aluminum di vision of the war production board in recommending thatWPB ' stop all work at the Salem alum ina plant probably stems out of the original opposition of thii di vision to the plant WPB ordered the work over objections of its " aluminum division. .That decision vts made about 15 months ago, when the- emergency with respect to bauxite iore and aluminum pro ductionj had largely passed, j The plant t was projected as a J?ilot - plant 'for testing of various pro ' cesses ior( 'reduction of alumina - from domestic clays. There ik no essential change in the situation . since the plant was approved as far as bauxite. and aluminum are - concernedJnd WPB cannot; Just . casuaBy thrbw .the plant over , ? Wheii ; constftiction' of such" a V - plant was first a g it a t e d, j our . stocks of domestic bauxite yrere . dwindling fast and ore-carrying . ships from Dutch : Guiana were '. being torpedoed in crossing; the Caribbean sea. By the first of . 1944 that submarine menace was ended and plants found they could use lower-grade bauxite found in abundant supply. Nevertheless . under pressure from northwest congressmen WPB approved the plant Under the arrangement, De- . fens Plant corporation, subsid ' lary of RFC, finances the plant construction and initial operation, ' under a contract with Chemical v Construction co. of New York. After thev latter has tested; the plant thoroughly it is to be turned over to Columbia Metals corpora tion, J ' - I ! (Continued on Editorial Page) Army Slates Release of ; ....... Railroad Men WASHINGTON, July Sl-HJP- The war department announced . ; tonight it is expediting release of former 'railroad men from the army and making available enough ; planes and pilots to fly 25,000 ? troops monthly, across the coun ; -try. . ..i " -: . ' i Actins; Secretary of War Robert -' p.. Patterson said the two meas- ures were "Intended td relieve the - pressure -on the nation's railroads in connection with the Tedeploy r tnent of American troops." . L : The department said 1362 men with railroad experience will be - released from military railway - seryice in Europe by August 10 - for return to this country and sep- - tration from the army. ; Animzl Croclicrs ByNXENGOOORICHi "A'ur, Sween IS Monarc ; I'LPCD OlDZB 0 Oat SwiSyn iW, -' V for I three meets at the Potsdam conference Jul j 28. (AP Wirephote via ' - . .. Stalin's Sickness Delay in Big Profrrens - - POTSDAM, July 31.-(P)-The of progress" in a "fruitful" 3 H nounced officially tonight and. making conference would end by Thursday at the latest, j President Truman will fly to Plymouth, England, and meet King George VI and Queen Elizabeth there on j his Way 12 More Jap Gties Warned Of B-2' GUAM, July 31-(P-MaJ. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay , Warned 12. Jap anese cities today they are marked for quick destruction by his 20th bomber command Superfortresses, increasing: to 19 the total ; of warned targets six of which the sky giants already., have burned out f' "7nVV,f' Six of the B-29Merried today's warning in VJffiaCt 20,000 leaflets to1 yie- doomed munici palities, four of which were among the 11 cities listed in the first warning four days ago. "Evacuate these cities immedi ately," the 1,300,000 persons in the 12 places were told. : The eight new cities added to the list are: Mito, Hachioji, Maebashi, Toy- ama, Nagano, Fukuyama, Otsu and Maizuru, all important small centers on Honshu island. Nagaoka and ' Nishinomiya oh Honshu, Hakodate, largest coastal city on Hokkaido island, and Kur ume all received their first warn ing last Saturday and had it re peated today. - Koriyama on Honshu, the 19th city, -was on Saturday's list , but not today's. Army Reveals Jet-Propelled Plane Secrets WASHINGTON, July 31 - (P) The army air forces' new jet plane can fight more than eight miles above the earth at speeds-In ex cess of 550 miles an hour. One of the P-80s was put on press display here today, a gray- painted, sleek and deadly look ing craft, suggesting super-speed even when standing motionless on its tricycle landing gear. Its pilot, Capt Wallace A. Lien of Wright Field, Ohio, said some of the P-80s had gone overseas but he believed none had been in combat up to now. Tnese omcial and company specifications were released on the P-80, built by Lockheed and pow ered by a gas turbine built by General Electric: 1 Speed! In excess of 550 miles. Service ceiling "More than 45,000 feet Wins span -35 feet, 10 M Inches. Weight -Empty, 8000 pounds; with maximum fuel load, 14,000. Armament Six JO caliber ma chine guns, located In the nose of the ship. The section can be re moved and a camera installed for reconnaissance purposes. Snell Confirms Allen ; Choice for Secretary ' Gov. Earl Snell on Tuesday con firmed reports published by The Statesman that Eric W. Allen, Jr., Salem newsman, would succeed Douglas Mullarky as his private secretary. "After nearly three years, Mullarky desires to return to his home county and his news paper interest Snell said, adding "I can appreciate his wishes but accept the resignation with per sonal regret" Mullarky is a co publisher of the Burns Times Herald.4 Allen will take his new post September. L-' " iiiiMiili In h r Harry S. Truman and Premier . ; . .f .. Caused I I 3 iffeeitiiig Retiorted Made n: I r --'III I big tnrce "made a great deal - hour session today,! it j was an observer predicted the; history- home, the American delegation disclosed.' "!":.. I - ' f I: ' Premier; Stalin was apparently fully recovered! from a slight in disposition which had", forced a two-day interruption Sunday and Monday in his sessions with Tru man and Prime Minister Clement Attlee.f : - v '!'" -;-t ;: While all signs indicated conference was drawing to a close, it wast; announced officially that the three leaders would meet again tomorrow.' - ''1- ' I; i " - ' President'' Truman will fly rectly from the Potsdam area! port to Plymouth for the meeting with the British royal family. Then LONDON. Joly U.-(Jpy-lxmlt Wulff, British press association court correspondent reported to night that Kiss George would not be accompanied by Queen Elisabeth when he; goes to Ply mouth to meet President lira man on the tatter's visit to Eng land, i . i he will board the cruiser Augusta, waiung xor mm mere, ana sail Ali . ,tl XI L. . t . , rectly for- the United States. The i chief executive's meeting with the king and queen is! ex pected to be brief, cordial affair, and Truman probably i will not spend the night in England, it was said. These arrangements will permit the president to fulfill his desire to visit England and meet the Brit ish leaders, but also, because of the urgency of making a formal report ,to the United States on the Conference, will avoid the time involved in the formalities of a Far East Air Forces Knock Out 24 Ship MANILA, Wednesday, Aug. 1.- yp)-Smasbing far east air forces raids on Japanese shipping around Kyushu and Korea knocked an additional 24 ships, General MacArthur announced today. That increased to 250 the num ber of; Japanese ships sunk: , or damaged since Gen. George! C Kenney's EEAF began striking Japanese shipping from Okinawa bases early in July.i j ? 1 - The shipping . bagged Monday Included two destroyer escorts; off Korea ) and : a 6000 ; ton freighter transports between Kyushu land Korea. For Soldiers at Possibility of establishing an early-Sunday-morning j dormitory in the Salem armory was broached by representatives ot organizations interested in accommodations for visiting servicemen as they con ferred with Maj. Gen. F. B. Mai ion, Camp Adair commander Tues At the same time, It was said that a plan may be worked out to guarantee to restaurants of the mid-vatley . area sufficient foods and beverages to serve the crowds! from the navy hospital and tne Adair Redeployment depot-V 1 1 In the group conferring with Mallon and Maj. D. L. Martin were Tinkham Gilbert president of the Salem jUSO council; C A. Kells, YMCA secretary: H. F. Braden, War Chest secretary; Loyal War ner, War Chest and Salem Cham ber of j Commerce president and Clay Cochran, chamber secretary, Sunday Morning American giistody inniffi win i iinn . .Mr r w mm lcIi Justice SAX; JRG, ' Austria, July S 1 (fl'HHer'se Laval, j arch pro-nazi collaborator and No. 2 man in the French Vichy regime, surren dered to American authorities to- E aay aner oemg expeuea zrom Spain and tonight was en route to Innsbruck to be handed over to French Justice. I Wanted as a war criminal by Gen.! Charles De Gaulle, the swar thy former-chief lot government of the Vichy state was expected to reach Innsbruck tonight With his wife, Laval was in the custody of Brig. Gen. John E. Copeland, assistant commanding general of the VS. 65th division. The pouting fugitive, who sought refuge In f Spain 90 days ago, flew into Austria with his wife and two uniformed German luftwaff e fliers this morning. ' Tbe Party, which took off' from Barcelona at dawn in a speedy Junkers dive bomber, landed on an airstrip at Horsching, south west of Linz. They were imme diately arrested by members of the VJS. 79th fighter squadron. Laval was sentenced to death in his absence by a court at Mar seille on October 20, 1944, but re-trial probably Will be ordered. (The news of Laval's surrender caused lawyers for Marshal Jeiyi nuippme retain, wno was i-a- val's chief in the Vichy govern ment, to announce they would ask postponement of Pe tain's treason triaL ' . (In Washington, VS. state de partment officials! said Laval was expected to reach Paris before Pe- tain's trial ended. The affair, how ever, was considered purely a French one. The United States, it wad said, wanted nothing to do with him.) (Additional details on page 2.) . " . " Morse Seeks Demo Aid in Probing OPA - WASHINGTON,! July Sl-(ff)-Senator Morse (R.-Ore.) today called on Oregon democratic lead ers to support his demand for a congressional investigation of OPA. Morse telegraphed Lew Wallace, Oregon democratie national com mitteeman, commending a letter in Which Wallace discussed OPA's handling of the Oregon soft (milk fed)! lamb situation and suggesting joint action by the major political parties in "correcting OPA abuses.'' "I believe that correcting OPA abuses should be! a purely non partisan matter,". Morse 'tele graphed Wallace. fMay I respect fully suggest that the time has come for the entire Memocratic organization ' in Oregon to - point out to the administration and par ticularly to Mr. Robert) Hanne gan 4 (democratic national .chair man) that OPA maladministration has become a great 'political lia bility." - Armory Eyed The general conferred also with Gov, Earl SnenV-H The Idea of using the armory was suggested after an earlier plan for using barracks at . the army airbase here had been de clared impractical; Without suf ficient men at the base to keep up the barracks Which are out of the jurisdiction of the Adair conv mandfethe scheme would not work It was said. " f AJ J. Crose, in command of the state guard unit based In Salem, has been asked to consider the plan to. use the armory as an aux iliary ' dormitory, to be outfitted with cots and bedding by the Salem. United War Chest and op erated by other service agencies. The 'armory could serve a number of men who come into Salem not intending to go to bed until early morting hours after the dances, including that at the armory are over1, it was suggested. Dormitory ADaQDuDDDD If the war production of work at the Salem alumina plant (and some represen tatives of the WPB denied Tuesday that they intended to do any such thingwhile others recommendation for all war - other federal agencies and numerous individuals and organ izations are determined 'that ment station shall be completed J j Gov. Mon C Wallgren of friend of President Truman, ointment to Canadian Post LONDON, July 51.-ff)-Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, British hero of the allied Medit erranean campaign, was named' governor general of Canada to night succeeding the Earl vt Athlone. ' . The brief announcement from Buckingham palace that King George VI had chosen the 54-year-old soldier to succeed Lord Athlone, 71-year-old uncle of the king, did not fix a date for the change in office. Alexander, Britain's youngest field: marshal, fought the Ger mans from the parched African deserts around El Alamein to the snow-covered Alps of Italy, serv ing as supreme allied commander in' the Mediterranean theater since 1944. The new Canadian governor general won fame with the his toric Dunkerque evacuation, which he directed. From the sod den French beaches he was trans ferred to the jungles of Burma, where he fought staunchly against the overwhelming Japanese horde. 3 PortlanderSy Pilot Crash To Their Death MEDFORD, Ore, iJuly 31-UFV- Three Portland passengers and a pilot crashed to their death , in their cabin plane, missing since Saturday, in mountains near the California-Oregon : border, a searching party reported tonight The bodies of Sylvan L. Gos- linger, his wife Ruby, her sister, Mrs. Alma V. Pratt and the pilot Identified only as "Mr. Arm strong" were ; found with- the plane wreckage. The spot was ex tremely rugged 'terrain on Butte Fork, about 40 miles southwest of here and three or four miles south of the state border. . -J A 23-man search crew of Camp White soldiers and forest service men, led by M. L. Tedrow, assist ant forest supervisor, started back to f Medf ord y tonight - with , the bodies. Carrying stretchers, , they had reached the scene by an eight milevgrind on foot through coun try abounding in rocks, canyons. wild creeks, -and timber, after driving SO miles from here. i- - Allied Forces Kill 7000 in Burma Trap CALCUTTA. July J1.-(JP-A1-lied forces have wiped out up ward of .7000 Japanese troops at tempting to escape a bloody jungle trap In lower Burma and break eastward across the Sittang river, the southeast Asia command an nounced today. -, r.3 'This fighting has centered be tween the Mandalay-BAngoon road and the river, in a region gen erally 3 to 159 miles northeast of Rangoon ', More than 000 enemy dead have been counted, a communique said. and nearly 609 have .been cap tured. This toll, however, does not include casualties . inflicted" by guerrilla forces. This latest an nouncement raised the count of Japanese dead by 2000. - Alexander Gets APP iaopport fir board does ask discontinuance said they were making' this born experimental projects), the fire million dollar experi and put into operation. Washington, close personal notified Gov. Earl Snell of Oegon last night that he had add ed his voice to the protests against the WPB recommendation. From Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Albany and Medf ord chambers of commerce pledges of support poured into Salem chamber of commerce offices Tuesday. Clay Cochran,; Salem chamber mana ger, said the task of lining up, forces for what might be a gen uine battle was proving simple; on all sides he found agreement that the formulas for removing alumina from clay should be test ed before any consideration should be given to dismantling the costly plant at still further cost. Protests Planned The state chamber of commerce and the Western States council, which represents business inter ests in 11 western' states, with Christy Thomas, Seattle chamber manager, as its president, have indicated they would enter Jtheir protests. ; Sen. Wayne Morse wired Gov ernor Snell that Sam Husbands, president of the Defense Plant cor poration, now a part of the Recon struction Finance corporation, had declared reports published Tues day morning erroneous. From Sen. Guy Cordon the gov ernor received a telegram to the effect that the WPB had told him it - was going - to divest itself of the sponsorship of all similar yet inoperative -enterprises. However, Cordon declared, such action on' the part of WPB should not mean the end of the alumna plant chances for operation, adding that he 1 would see WPB authorities again today for clarification and would then get in touch with RFC and bureau of mines offices; with a view to prevailing on those agen cies to continue ; the project. Snell Wires Selons Snell had started his morning Tuesday by . wiring both senators to "intervene vigorously at once." MIt seems most inadvisable and illogical to discontinue the plant just prior to the test,1 his message said. A similar telegram is being sent to Oregon's congressmen now in the west for their summer vaca tions, the governor said. Newsmen Complain of Potsdam "Hush Hush" LONDON, July SHV-Edward Connolly, exchange telegraph cor respondent reported from Pots dam tonight that news corre spondents had expressed dissatis faction with what he called the "hush hush - atmosphere" around the Jsig three conference and sent a letter requesting President Tru man, Prime Minister . Attlee and Premier Stalin to hold a joint press conference, i Salem9 s Legion Start in State Tourney Tonigltf Salem's Capital post No. 9, American Legion Junior baseball team, champions of Marion, Clackamas, Washington, Yamhill, Columbia and Tillamook counties, enters the annual Oregon state tournament at Portland's Lucky Beaver stadium .tonight The Sa lem team,; a product of the local Junior baseball leagues born a year ago, meets the strong and favored Albany Juniors in the S30 p.,m. game. ' ": '.'!' '-: .v -.Two Portland teams, defending champion Lind & Pomeroy ; and Challenge , Creameries, open the tournament play with a 2:45 p. m. game. The three-day .tourney is a ' double-elimination- affair . with each team required to lose two games before being, . eliminated. The two losing teams in today's round meet Thursday and the two winners today- play Thursday night The tournament winner qualifies for a - trip ; to regional playoffs at Billings, Mont, next week. Tax Chief Coe A.I UcKenna Coe McKenna Selected Tax j- mmissioner Coe A. McKenna, twice senator from Multnomah county, is Ore gon's new tax commissioner. He was elected unanimously by the board of control Tuesday after noon. I An alumnus of Portland uni versity and Notre Dame, he is , a graduate in political science from George Washington university, has served 13 years on the Port land planning board, is past presi dent of the realty board there, past vice president of the Nation al Association 1 of Realty Boards, served on the state tax investi gating committee of 1823 and is a member of the current interim committee ,oa,:ataxation. I .- . , - McKenng' succeeds Earl B. Day, who resigned j to return to his southern Oregon fruit ranch and other properties. The term ex pires December 31, 1948. Day's specialty on the commission has been In assessment - of utilities, while - Chariest' V. Galloway, re appointed to a four-year term this summer, handles property assess ments, and Earl I. Fisher, also recently reappointed, specializes in excise and i income taxes." Mc Kenna's specialty as a realtor has been - in appraisals, and he has handled appraisals of a number of large estates. In the legislature, which he en tered by way of the house of rep resentatives in 1939, he has been particularly active in sponsorship of tax legislation. He went into the senate in 1941. Tenth AAt to Shift Operations to China " CHUNGKING, Wednesday, Aug. 1 - () -Lt Gen. Albert a Wedemeyer announced today that the famous Tenth air force- has been added to the newly reorgan ized VJS. army air forces in the China theatre, , " r: The 10th formerly was located in Burma. HOSPITAL REPORTED C3T LONDON, July 11-(ff) -The Japanese radio said tonight, that the big military hospital at Ban kok. buUt with funds of the Rockefeller foundation, was badly damaged Sunday by three heavy bombs, during an allied air raid. BBC recorded, the broadcast Ball Club to Salem players who are to see action in the first state tourna ment for a Salem team since 1931 are Joe Carroll, Rod Province and Gary. Keppinger, pitchers; Dick Allison, catcher; Johnny Dalke, Dick Hendrie, Roger Dasch and Bud 'Craig, infi elders: Warren Valdev Bud McKlnney and.'Al Russell, outfielders, and Herb Ap- lington, Del "Seen and Bob Punk, utility men. Al Lightner is. coach of the team. Carroll, star pitcher for "the Salem high; team last spring,; wilf pltchthe opening game for. the Capital Posters to night.-, i,-; i '-' -. Salem won the right to a state tournament berth' by-eliminating the Sflverton, . Forest Grove and Milwaukie teams in recent weeks. "A large group of fans is ex pected to follow the Capital Post ers to the tournament The Salem team will make the Mallory hotel its headquarters during the Junior baseball classic (Additional de tails on Sports page). Go s Lose 68 Vessels, 227 Planes Damaged Or Destroyed 1 , 1 By Murlin Spencer 1 GUAil, Wednesday, Aug. l.-m -Admiral Halseys Third fleet carrier planes destroyed or dafiv aged j 68 surface craft and 227 v planes over the Honshu naval base ef Maizuru Monday - - a dcy in which Tokyo radio said mora than ; 2000 allied aircraft ham mered . the ' homeland. , . - Admiral Nimitz revised assess ment; of destruction, announce J today, added eight ships and 89 planes to previous reports of the one-day assault - - and gave the vast allied fleet credit for a total of 1035 Japanese surfact craft and 1278 airplanes destroyed or dam- aged in its 21 days of activity In Honshu waters since July 10. Driven from the Yokyo targets Monday morning bythlckenlug weather, American pilots , from Halsey's ISOO-plane carrier force damaged a light frli&r and! destroyer, and sank iinother" de stroyer at Maizuru, on the wesfc coast ', 4 ; ' ; :V' ' J i " Reports Incomplete V v ! , 1 Reports still were". Incomplete; there was no estimate Of damage ' done by British carrier planes op erating with the Americans, i I There was no indication of the great fleet's location - today - ' aside from the Tokyo radio's ner vou insistence' .tlutTrivas'TIn-" gering within quick reach of th Honshu coast for fresh attack that ihe enemy expected momen- ' tarily. ..... , .t.. '.) , In their afternoon sweeps over Maizuru, the Americans sank i st medium . freighter - transport ae well as a destroyer; damaged l a light cruiser off the Kashima ot Sakawa class, one destroyer, two medium freighters and two small " freighters,' They j also destroyed 58 grounded planes and damage j 33. I . . .-i . Their widespread bombing. rocketing and strafing of ground targets destroyed eight locomo-" ' tives and damaged four others; damaged 17 war plants, two brid ges, four hangars and two radio stations. Fires flared In four main buildings of the - Kanto -Special Steel company and in the Japan International Aircraft company, both , located in Hiratsuka, 30 miles south of Tokyo. ; Last Propeller Plant The International plant at Hir atsuka manufactures suicide bombs and is the last remaining Japanese plant still making air craft propellors. Maizuru is JaDan's only naval repair base on the north sWe Jot Honsnu fronting on the inland sea, and although secondary it was able to handle Japan's lar gest ships. The war-booming town has spread to Join with Tagashi, making a total population ot 1S0.000 in the area. ; r Corsairs of the second marina aircraft, wing joined in the home land destruction Monday with sweeps over Kyushu, striking warehouses, railroad facilities and a single parked plane.. Today communique also oonfirmed in part Tokyo radio's repeated re ports of air thrusts at American held Okinawa; it announced one enemy bomber was shot down there Monday. f Jap Suicide Pilot j Sinks Abandon&l Skip SAN FRANCISCO, July Sl-VPl A Japanese suicide pilot put hi explosives-laden plane into a dive off Okinawa and stmk -a landing ship which had been abandoned by the crew two days previously. Crewmen, now at Treasure island here, told 'of the incident today. ; The landing ship ' was beached and abandoned after it was dam aged by a mine. It had been stripped of all valuable material. - -The suicide pilot saved the navy demolition crew a Job, . I , Weather San Francisco Eugene Salem Portland . Max - Htm. Kate M 49 J0O S3 48 Jt9 SS 41 '.1 M u ss e seatu M 60 . jM WilUmetU river: SI leet rorecast (from U. S. weather bureao, UcNarr field. Salem): Clear skies to Nip Heavily Monday day mad warmer thla afternoon wttUr.. jBaximum of to degrees.. i . '