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Salem, Oroonv Saturdar Morning, August i, 1945
No. 112
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President Truman shakes hands with
Renown at Plymouth, England, where the two met alter the president returned from Germany mod
the Big Three conference, en route to the UJS. (AP Wlrephoto via radio from London).
TOECDDCE
The Polish corridor was the ex-
cuse used by Hitler to touch off
the second,! world war. A Btudy
of the map pf the new boundaries
of Russia,! Poland' and eastern
Germany offers ground for pre
diction of a third world war if
Germahy ever ri?es to military
stature as a great power again,
One cannot? identify the boundary
lines as , Inf hy way related to
the Russia ;Poland or Germany
Take East Pnissia. The north?
e astern portion, with the capital
and principal port of Konigsberg,
is given to) Russia. Never in hif
tory was it part of Russia. The
southwesterly portion is given to
Poland, though it never was an
organic part of Poland. This re
ion on the Baltic was settled and
dominated 1 by the Teutonic
knights. Poland may have claimed
some tenuous authority in we
region but lit ceased being a fief
of Poland in 1657.
!' Aa far as Poland is concerned,
fniinwin lt three- partitions
(1772-1795), Russia held dominion j
over most of the counuTi dui no. i
over eastern Galicia with L.wow,
its DrinciDal city. Now Russia ex
tends her boundaries westward to
the Bug river and embraces east
ern Galicia. J '
t ihA wMt Poland is to be I
AAmnoncQtoH with liberal slices of 1
eastern Germany, including some for Salem, as state offices lor we area of 80Uthwest Pa
lands lying east of the Oder and governor, the supreme court, ana cifi(J which includes I Australia,
much of mineral-rich Silesia. This
area
was 'never Polish, always
German. i-
We need! have little charity for
Cermanv whose double sins
i (Continued on Editorial Page)
Construction of
Battery Factory
To Begin Soon
. The National Battery company,
which purchased a site In West
Salem several weeks ago, probably
will begin construction within the
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. n - i it Q7a imhim
v Tha rir-ffon Statesman Friday,
The company, with head offices
at St. PaUL Minn, will build a
plant for the manufacture of bat
teries and will employ arouna i
persona 'on a year-round basis.
Anirhc! Crccltersj
By WARREN bwowwv
Sv mo
Yeak how can you tell?
t hi. V:- Al l
1 M'J
Kin George XI as he is piped
Defeat of Japan,
Of Nip-Conquered Territory
Planned by High Commands
T5y Ernest B.
ABOARD U.S.S. AUGUSTA
Auje. 3-(AP) -Powerful new blows
of Japan and the liberation of
planned by, the Anglo-American
A . t.a im.vtreeilnt Tniman tnM TPnortrs kboard this
4i,k hUV 0AW WMMry
Statesman Adds
BuildinSlated
Th Statesman Publishing com-
Dany has acquired the WCTU
corner adjacent to The Statesman
plant at Commercial and Ferry
streets.
The - circulation department of
The Oregon Statesman, will be
housed on the ground floor ox tne
newly acauired building. An
archway has been cut connecting
room with the main business
oficeg 0j The Statesman. The
carrler room will be in the rear,
opening into The Statesman press-
room. The second floor already
wa , used by The Statesman's
composing and engraving depart-
merits.
The corner was
structurally
part of the same building with I
lesman s poruon. v
oiaesi 'on
street, ou" " 4
70,a. It was successively used lor
mercantile purposes, as post office
the norary wiore me oiu
was occupied, ana ior v"""
and puousnmg pianxs. r,
The Statesman has .JPted
the major portion since iw.
enure Duuoing ueum v,
lnsiae ana ouisiae. . j
"We have needed the space lor
Snraeue.' publisher, , "and
much oleased to conclude a pur
chase from the WCTU. We hope
some time after the war to erect
a new building and have acquired
a lot for the Duroose at 270 North I
Church street, in the block: north
of the post office." - f
The WCTU, which has met in
the corner room for over 40 years,
r ronunues acuve s iu,ui(ouu
tion. It will meet at the home rf
nne of its members. Mrs. M. D.
Ellis, 402 N. Summer st ; j
Aumsville Private Dies
From Okinawa Wounds
ATTMSVHXE. Aug. S Pvt.
William F. Music; 18, died June 8
in a hospital of wounds received
iMav 31 on Okinawa, his motner,
Mrs. Alice Music, has been noti
fied by the war department
Private Music was Dora June
25. 1928. at Shedd where he also
i
attended school. He. was inducted
Sept ' 20, 1944, and trained at
Camp Roberts, Calif. -
Crown Gem lit UJS. Hand
WITH UJS. SEVENTH ARMY,
Aug. J-(ff)-Hun g a r y ' a royal
crown and other priceless royal
and religious treasures were tax -
en V to . newqmxvers u
Frankfurt today, and await final
disposition.
The seventh army captured
them last June. Lt. Col. Ii. f.
Rowe of the seventh army mili
tary government escorted the
treasure with a strong guard of
Office Space;
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aboard the British battle-cruiser
Liberation j
Vaccaro - j
WITH PRESIDENT - TRUMAN,
to speed the complete defeat
Japanese - held territories were
high commands at the Potsdam
homeward bound cruiser that; he
' T " ' T
had made "no secret! agreements
of any kind in the rheetinj with
Generalissimo Staling and Prime
Minister Attlee. The president is
preparing a radio report which
he will make to the people of the
United States soon after his re
turn to Washington next week.
Disclosure of the Anglo-Amer
ican military talks : was made
Jointly aboard the Augusta and
in Londdn where Prime Minister
Attlee has already returned. Rus-
sia did not participate in this an
nouncement, since Russia is not
a party to the war against Japan.
The president and prime minis
ter, their statement said, approved
various undisclosed proposals
made by British and American
chiefs of staff. The military lead
ers discussed a "re-allocation of
areas and commands in the south
west Pacific and southeast Asia
areas and consideration was given
to the employment in the war
against Japan of forces of 1 the
other allied nations- that are at
war with Japan." ii
(In Washington, it: is expected
that Lord Louis Mouhtbatten, the
British commander in. southeast
lareed command area ? embracing
th bulk of the territory over
urhirh - nnoTil Tirkiifirldv XTarA
tw- Awrfnaiw ua tnnfrni That
the Solomon islands and the
Dutch East Indies. Mountbatten's
area, it is beUeved,iwill extend
from the Solomonsj north and
west to a line running just south
Q Philippine islands.)
j Japan Hears Potsdam
Text From Russians :
The Moscow, radio yesterday
began a Japanese-language broad
cast to' Japan of the text of the
big three's Potsdam statement re
lating to the control of Germahy,
The broadcast, reported by the
FCC, began with a summary,) in
which it did not mention that the
statement omitted any reference
to Japan. This was followed by a
reading of several paragraphs of
the text dealing with the treat
ment of Germany, f ?
iDeprivatibris of jap
EBuds aCoirporars Valiant Figntvoii.Lii'e
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 3-
6PV-CpL James E. Newman, 25.
who was suffering from tubercu
losis of the throat " lungs and
gtomach, died today at his home
here at 520 pan.
I. . For Newman it was the end; of
tough fight for uxe mat stanea
.rVi-n tti, Jim mritirred him at
Sataan. He struggled, through jthe
"March of Death" he didn't re-
I member the last live noun it.
He got xnrougn wtw ; v
1 -Japanese impnsonmtoi
In a
prison camp in the Philippines he
endured hopeless starvation ana
flesh rnelted from Ms body. M -
Doctors at army ' hospitals 1 lb
New Guinea and In New Mexico
shook their heads over him. They
told him hia case was hopeless.
but Newman wouldn't give up.
Wjoundea
Nips" Are
Unhurt s
Ammunition, Red
Crosses Both on
Hospital Vessel
MANILA, Aug. 4-(f-A Jap.1
anese hospital . ship j carrying
arms and fake patients was he
' tag brought Into an allied port
today for investigation, General
Don-las MaeArthur's headquart
ers announced. j
The ship, clearly marked with
red crosses indicating ' it carried
neither arms nor fighting men, was
boarded yesterday in the Banda
sea near Timor in a routine in
vestigation in conformity with
international law. j
The boarding party found bat
teries of machine suns, packed
ammunition marked "medical sup
plies" and unannounced quantities
of other munitions. -
The boarding party promptly
began .investigation of the 1,500
supposed patients. !
I When bandages were removed
and some of the men examined no
wounds were found. T
The "hospital ship" ivas marked
with red crosses on its sides and
upright on the superstructure.
General MacArthur's statement
said a boarding party jfrom block
ading yessels of the U.S. Seventh
fleet, went aboard in! the routine
investigation to make certain that
the enemy hospital ship was oper
ating in conformity with interna
tional law and the Geneva conven
tion, r
The statement said theunauth-
orized contraband they found -in
cluded 23 heavy machine guns, 15
light machine guns and an unde
termined number of 75 millimeter
shells. " i
The vessel was manned by a
crew of 13 officers and 63 enlisted
men. I
Newman Killed
On Okinawa
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Word has been received by the
parents of Pvt. Edward Newman,
jr., 20, that he was killed in action
on Okinawa on June 10. , 1
Private Newman, a member of
the 17th division, received his basic
training at Camp Roberts, Calif.,
and had beenoverseais since Feb
ruary of this year. I i
He was .the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Newman, 450 East Turner ra.
and is survived by them and his
sister, Mrs. Pearl Lorraine, route
5. box 65. Salem. ! i
Before entering the service,
Private Newman attended Salem
high school and was j employed a
short time by the Red Star Trans
fer company in Salem. j
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McMinnville Airport
To Receive license
McMINNVILLE, Aug. 3 -0?)
The 'McMinnville airport will re
ceive its official license from
Washington soon, Ed j Leach, civil
aeronautics authority examiner,
said today. I
He granted the field a tempor
ary : permit Southwest Airways
has asked for f eederi service for
the town, and two flight schools
have opened. j
Worth, he said. He wanted to go !
back to a little white cottage he
had left seven years before. That
was where he wanted to make a
final fight for life. : j f
: (Yesterday he completed his
first month at home.) i . "
But physicians - at Brum Gen
eral hospital told Mr. and Mrs. O.
F. Newman, the - corporal's par
ents, that their son could never
survive' the trip. He was suffer
ing from tuberculosis; of the lungs
and throat and stomach and from
the after-effects of bexi-berL Skin
seemed molded to the bones of
bis ;i six - foot two - Inch f frame.
Once he had been a powerful 170
pound athlete. Now he weighed
92 pounds. "At least; he will die
happy," Mrs. Newman told the
hosnital authorities. ?He will die
on his way .home." 1.- -
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"Evil Genius9'
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Ex-Vichy Premier Pierre Laval
who testified yesterday that re
tain approved this statement
- I desire a - German victory.'
Tillamook Fire
Veers Through
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3P)-
Fire crews reinforced by civilian
volunteers held the Tillamook for
est ifire in check on the edse of
theForset Grove watershed to
night, while flames roared through
timberland to the south.
as weary patrols gave up hard
won firelines on the Hember ridge
area on the flamui Jordon creea:
tone.
Flames were moving north from I
thelNehalem river into Clatsop
county and running out of con-J
troV but state forest headquarters
said men on the Forest Grove
watershed line could not be shifted
until the danger eased there.
Back-fires were set by loggers
about 10 miles east of Nehalem
bay in an effort to slow the north
fire! rim slashing across rugged
mountains of the ; coastal slope.
SDot fires as large as 800
acres
were reported in the sector. One
fire was burning a mile from
Wakefield, near the rail line to
Nehalem.
Shoe Ration
End Forecast
WASHINGTON, Aug . Hffj -
The end of shoe rationing early
next year or' sooner if the war
ends in the meantime was fore
cast by a war production board
official today.
He said prospects for terminat
ing the program early In 1946 are
"very good," even) if the war still
is going on at that tune.
Anonimous at his request but
qualified by his job to speak au-
thoritatively,' the official added:
I "If Japan surrenders sooner,
shoe rationing will go out the
window shortly after V-J day."
Sharp cuts in military require-
ments already made or anticipai-
ed were given as the reason why
the, rationing program may not
last beyond another six months.
South Tiinbe
Prison Camp tFiiiially
So on July I an army plane'
bore Corporal-Newman home to
Fort Worth. An ambulance drove
up to the little white house and
Newman was taken out on a
stretcher. He had a .civilian hat
on his head it was pushed back
at a jaunty angle. Just being back
was the biggest thrill of .his life.
He repeated, over and over, "lr
so good to be home!,, - I
1 The nation heard of Newman's
plight and from every state and
from Canada and. Hawaii came
letters ; of hope and encourage-.
ment more than 800 letters.- The
white cottage was crowded with
gifts and flowers there was not
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roam ior au me xiuwcis.
And there were high hopes in
that little house. 1
The Lord has brought him this
IT
Ma
slial
Accused
'
By
Ex-Premier Says j
Petain Approved
'Victory' Speech
papts Aut 3-PV-Pierre La-
wal th swarthy politician who
. 7 i n.J 441.V.A A.nl tfoniiis"
Qj vichy, testified at Marsnai re- i
tain's betrayal trial woay wi i
oSSi TSScartSS
I desire a German victory."
Petain inunediateiy aenieaie .
Laval to strike the sentence from
his address and was norrmea
when he heard it on the radio.
; Laval said he made tne aecia-i
ration to fool the Germans. He
showed Petain the text oi nis
neech. he testified, and Petain
asked ihim to change his word, "I
KAiivi In a German victory" to
! desire a German victory.1
In a four-hour statement amid
the surcharged atmosphere of the
tense courtroom, the man who is
accused of using Petain as a iou
.,h;u t-iVir.fr nrAfr from Hitler
Vichy dj gocAMB
nuuc wn - -
wreat. "iwiu ueu
threat, "I will defend myself and
I will accuse.
Protesting his own Innocence
with a smooth flow of words
which, neither jeering nor laugh
ter nor" pointed questions could
stoo. the veteran figure of the
tie . and black satcneu
f -
tossed these developments into
r-wg celebrated trial:
; m 110- that In 1935 he
ViaA concluded a secret military
alliance binding France and Mus-
l colini's Italy.
- The declaration that the famous
Montoire meeting of Petain and
Hitler, at which the policy of
collaboration was supposed to
have been reached, resulted in
"nothing at alL" '
But Laval also admitted rue
fully that he had remarked "Here
is where we overthrow the French
republic, when . he had pushed
through the acts making Petain
virtual dictator in 1940. This was
said 14 jest, he declared.
Construction
I lYiirl iViilAf-ir1
JL Uiiu VJJJAlVi.
Of the $75,000 tax levied this
year to inaugurate a Marion
county courthouse construction
Q 7 J.
Butler revealed Friday.
The tax is to run for a period
of 10 years.
collected is Invested in
the sum
war bonds, Butler said.
While the county's general fund
I waa dropping as the year rolled
on (from $404,951.29 on July 3 to
$370,830.83 yesterday), the gen-
eral road fund, nourished by state
contributions, increased from
$421,305.71 to $10,840.84. the
county school fund ; rose from
$8021.74 to $10,840.84 and the va-
rious trust funds were upped
approximately- $13,000. However,
drains on other funds held the
August 3 balances to $1,255,248.01,
a little more than $10,000 above
those of July 3.
far,'r Mrs. Newman said. "The
Lord will take him the rest of the
way. My son will get welL" "
' T can't 4ie," said, the corporal.
"Too many good people are pray
ins for me." ': t . - . ..
' Newman fought to live.- He
knew the battle was going against
him he asked for an oxygen tent
because it was getting harder to
breathe, tux smue was lainter
but he stui smueo. f .; , -
; But the years were stacked
.
against James iNewman ! inose
hundreds of days he tried to draw
strength from potato vines those
hundreds or nignts ne cnewea nis
blanket to bear the agony of berl
beri were taking their toll.
And today the Lord tnok Cor
... . . . i -m ...
porai ewman uie i-w w. uib
way
Laval
mi4llu(3D-
Superf orts Finish Job of Alining :
Japan's Key Ports; Island Now -j :
Circled by Ring of Submerged Steel
i I f "By MURLIN
GUAM, Saturday, Aug. 4
every uuuic yui v nuw is unn.rn.cu
lashed out at Ukinawa and sunk one light American vessel
dainiged another in air attacks on that island base wher.
they contend an allied invasion
, Admiral Nimitz announced - today that the ship loss
occurred on July 29, the ; first
enemy nas xa&dt any offensive
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two light units were sunk1 and
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Attlee includes
Cabbie, JlKncrs in
Cabinet Change
LONDON, Aug. 3-tfVNineteen
new ministers seven ox them
once miners.: another formerly a
taxicab driver,, still another once
a Baptist lay preacner neppea
into Prime Minister Clement Att
J lee'i new! labor Jcabinet today.
. Drawn ! from yie heart of the
labor party, i they represented a
cross section of the British work
ing class. The 1
one of them a
woman, also Included a - former
schoolteacher and former printer.
They brought Attlee's list of
ministers; to 25, with eight-minis
terial posts still to be filled.
The new appointments included
John James Lawson, former min
er. as secretary of state for war;
Albert Victor Alexander as first
lord of , the admiralty, and Vis
count Stansgate as air secretary.
This triumvirate will play a lead
I ing role in prosecution of the war
I against - Japan.
Two Midnight
Crashes Add
To Traffic Toll
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ess hospital, her right temple pos
sibly crushed and extent of any
other Injuries unknown, follow
ing an automobile-train 'collision
oh the East -State street crossing
of the Southern Pacific shortly
after .midnight today.
The car in which she was rid
ing with . Viniee Vondracek, 23,
of 1420 N. Fourth st, driven by
Luman C Ramsdell, USMC, Cor
vallis naval hospital, was demol
ished. Ramsdell told state police,
in whose headquarters ' dooryard
the accident occurred, that he had
purchased the secondhand Buick
Friday. He Was only cut and
bruised. ; Miss Vondracek sustained
head and possible hip injuries
City first aid men were sum
moned to the scene of the East
State street accident as they re-.
turned to their station, from Salem
General - hospital where they had
taken : Larry Hendrlx, , 1108 Va
lencia .st, San Francisco, follow
Ing his injury in a single car
wreck at the Polk, county end of
the Willamette river bridge. His
right knee cap waa fractured and
his head injured.
Hendrix was riding with How-
I church, 642 Edgewater st,
1 when Church's car swerved into
teleohohe Dole in the northeast
m I -
angle created by the Wallace road -
(Edgewater street Intersection, The
I post, severely splintered, was left
hanging from the wires as the
vehicle then skidded across the
- road into another pole in the
northwest ancle between highway
- and road. Church, his wife and
. 1 . .. ?.. . .
px-year-oia son, riaing in uie car,
-were uninjured. ' '
Britain
Gets
New
0354 Dim .
SPENCER j
( AP) The Japanese, who
hh ou-bvwu auuivsy uv
fleet is massing1, i
time in 10 days that tha
gesture at Okinawa and the
4W -m Tll.
three were damaged. j
jsimitz Drier communique gave
no details. The designation of light
units, however, usguajly includes
vessels up to' the size of light
cruisers. While he did not say
i whether the attack wis, by suicide
j planes, that has been) the, ehemy't
general method in recent- months.
The 20th air force announced
Friday that. the JSuperf orts had
mined all important , harbors of
japan ana v.orea 10 'wiuun ji
miles of Russia. Ji said only
u . . M . V f . ' . A '
Bnaaow . snipping s couia owv
now,-'- i - ,
Jap Supplies Cut S
Japan's flow of food and war
supplies was declared cut to
than half 'b&lhe ; countrafs needs
a a result" 1 :
Tokyo radio reported that 500
allied warships, including battle
ships and cruisers, had recently "
concentrated in Okinawa waters,
wniie umavoraoie wcamci
forced cancellation of most
planned air attacks on Japan, thj
20th air force announced that
Superfortresses have plugged
every major Japanese harbor with
1 mines, completing the strangula
tion ring. Numtz announced land
based American naval planes yes
terday sank a 700-ton Japanese
freighter in Sagami gulf southwest
TnVvn ; i : . V
The naval planes were attacked
by five enemy fighters and five
reconnaissance bombers, but shot
down two of the reconnaissance
planes and damaged one fighter
without damage to themselves.
Mustangs Down Two Planes
Ninety-seven army Mustangs
from Iwo strafed "targets of op
portunity" in the Tokyo area yes
terday and shot down two of the
101 Japanese fighters that rose to
meei them. They damaged another
Interceptor and destroyed eight
and damaged six grounded enemy
planes, the UJS. strategic air forces
announced.
1 nnm mint urfii Mcniwi
Eleven locomotives, three elec
tric locomotives, two gun envi
placements and electric trans
formers were destroyed by ; the
strafers, who also damaged six
locomotives, a hangar, 50 railroad
cars, several factories and power
lines and 12' luggers and fishing
boats. , V-
The Japanese previously had
announced the raid j without de
scribing results. J : I
Repatriation j "
Work Goes 011
FRANKTURT-ON-MAIN, Ger
many, Aug. vP)-Nearly 65 per
cent of all displaced persona in
western Europe have been re
stored to their homeland in per
haps the greatest mass repatria
tion in history, VS. army statis
tics disclosed today
This means that 4,168,000 per
sons representing 17 European
nationalities have been cleared
from' the ruined cities and hlgh-
ways of the American, British and
I French -occupation tones, leaving
a 2,174,182 still to be reclaimed.
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military police..
He wanted to go home to Fort
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