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Auguit 14, 1945 Met 5c No. 120 flT0 fVS rSV' lrrrD llr nnin nlni- nrsrr un n hItn n nzji-r-s wLQ),UUU(g& n W III XIII I " 1 1 I 1 f I J II I ' I I ml IF 1 - f I W I I 1 I l I II v-r.l I I I X X I , . 1 .- . .'- Ill I I II I Mil "I 111 l I i, I - I 1 I II II If If V I t II I I II I I I 1 A II , fi liTT. i rVfTM B-ik i i i - - ,i ..... . t !- -. v-, - -r- . ...... r J The Wall Street Joxurnal quotes a San Francisco store official as -saying: j ' - "We watch each department like it was our waistline not al lowing any excess to build up." Smart idea. Other merchants will be wise if they do the same. In prosperous times stores are tempted to load up with merchan ' dise, to fill empty shelves, in an ticipation j, of continued heavy consumer i demand. The danger is that when the shelves become filled with high-priced merchan dise demand may shrink and the merchant be faced with large in ventory losses. - : This was the experience In 1920-21. Many a merchant was caught with excess stocks. Some were forced into bankruptcy. The older merchants remember this experience w e 1 1 . I They have guarded their stocks closely, and have built up cash reserves to absorb possible losses. Those newer in business may -not be so cautious. ! ; Besides this memory of 1921 and of 1930 there is another fac tor which inakes the present situ atloH sdancruu. That is, the much greater-length of this war and the , far greater curtailment of manufacturing. This means there is a real vacuum which it will take; many months to fill, so there ought to be no prolonged falling off in' demand, not for some little time. Quicker trans portation, too, makes large re serve stocks Unnecessary. Both manufacturer and wholesaler and retailer speed up turnover, so they are not so apt to be caught with quantities of unwanted merchan dise. ' A change in the income tax laws also is helpful to merchants. The old! rule of choice: Lower cost or imarket price has been succeeded by the rule of first-in first-out,; in valuation of invento ries. Over a term of -years with falling prices the inventory losses are reduced under the new for , mula. !:.'. ' ' All the same merchants and that includes farmers who grow or hold crops should be "alerted to the need to watch markets closely, and to beware of holding heavr inventories as . the war winds up. . Resurfacing of Center Street . Now Underway Resurfacing of Center street with asphalt from Capitol to North 14 th is in progress. Warren North west company is doing the work . under contract with the city. The lob is part of the street improve- I ment program being financed from i receipts of the state highway fund. 1 About an inch and a half of as phalt mixe is spread over the old cement concrete base. The original paving was laid In 1912. '!;! .v. (Animc! Crccltcrs By WARREN GOODRICH y:.;':;;3Sa 1 ' ' ci 'i i'J Iczrd redly a Z Izzk thscpbvt tht had if .1.-:.. : t -J . t Patience Of Allies Strained NEW YORK, Aur. 14 -Tbe Domel news agency said today In a Tokyo broadcast re corded by the FCC that "there probably will be something im portant" at 9 o'clock tonight (5 a.m. Pacific War Time). By Douglas B. Cornell WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-(Tues- day) -(&) Allied patience wore thin today (prior to later devel opments) as Japanese stalling dragged out the war another 24 hours. The possibility of terrific new destruction, to be piled on that still being spread among the en emy, had grown with the weary waiting for Tokyo to accept Al lied terms of surrender. President Truman had retired at 10:30 pjn. (EWT) tonight, appar ently convinced there would be no further developments on the Japanese surrender situation be fore morning (but Tokyo broad casts later changed the picture). Digging for explanations of the delay, early In the evening) Wash ington experts on oriental affairs suggested two possibilities: 1. Squabbling in. the Japanese cabinet. - 2. Consultations with oomman ders of field forces to determine whether Tokyo could guarantee their .surrender. This and, other Allied capitals went right i ahead with plans for victory and for meeting the in evitable great problems to follow. But developments on surrender were entirely negative. President Truman, broke the long wait for an answer with a mid-afternoon dip in House pool. the White i Repeating last night's schedule, the White House had arranged to stay on the alert until midnight, then open up shop again at 9 ajn. tomorrow (6 ajn. PWT). 'Missouri9 May See Surrender WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-ZPV- As a tribute to President Truman, the allied high command has dis cussed using the mighty battle ship Missouri for negotiating the surrender terms with the Japan' ese . This was learned today from close associates of Mr. Truman at th Whit WmiKJ These sources said it has not been decided to arrange the sur render parley aboard the Mis souri but that "it is under dis cussion." The president is a Missourian. j By Marvin L. i Arrowsmlth 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. Frinting of new ration books de signed for another year of war time stringency was halted today as government leaders rushed plans to hurry this country onto a peacetime footing. President Truman conferred with six top advisers on recon version problems. Two of , the main problems they discussed were keeping wages and prices steady. . ... .1 ' - . . Their main worry on this score: to prevent peacetime - Inflation which could undo much of the good that came from the war time controls on prices and Wages. Meanwhile these were - other high spots in the - government's efforts to swing over to peace as soon as possible: 1. OPA indicated indirectly that rationing may soon disappear. It ITibmiiMfls Make It Official, Jips! If It Isn't V J It Shoul Be formal announcement of the; Japanese surrender is an nounced this moniing: from Washington, D.C., Salem stores, with the exception e f retail food and drag establishments, will be closed all day.f f would reopen Wednes Loyal Warner, chairman of ;jkhe V-day plans committee of the (hklem Retail Trade bu reau, nas announced. - i s9 Aides Receive Bi Recognitioti ! - f Salem's nurses' aides, classified by Gov. Earl Snell among "the unsujbg heroes of the hqme front whose loyal, unselfish and patrio tic devotion contributed jtnuch to ward! bringing about . the day of finali) surrender," were f .Monday night awarded the citatiqii for the only Award of Merit aver pre sented to any such corps.! The First Presbyterian church auditorium was filled forjthe cere mony over which Supreme Court Justice George Rossman! presided in his capacity as chairman of Mari&n county chapter of the Red Cross. The governor was principal speaker at j the mass ! meeting, wherje - 82 aides, were i capped, bringing the corps membership to 362, largest per capita among all west coast cities. County Judge Grants Murphy joined Snell and Rossman in con gratulating the aides, who were credited with having f 'enabled overcrowded, understaffed, hospit als to operate emcienuy,; Ma3. Gen. .Robert H. I Ley is of Fort ilLewis made the formal pre sentation of the citation from the National Office of Civilian De fense! Selma Hilmer and Lillian McDonald, - superintendents of nurses at Salem Deaconess and Salem General hospitals, and Louise Arnesen, Red Cross chap ter director of nursing Who has trainld, organized and placed the aides! since the corps was organ ized In 1942, were in charge of the capping ceremony. Pins recog nizing individual service were presented by Mrs. Ralph Moody and Mrs. Floyd Utter, y stopped an order to 000,000 new ration fnmlji ffDsnltne. shoes. pilnt 18?, books for 2. jta order to prevent unem ployment where possible; restric tions were eased on home and plant; deliveries of anthracite and coke:! This meant more men could be employed in hauling this fueL Government officials 3 familiar with Isome of the : plans being cooked up predicted that? employ ers and workers may be; 'allowed to negotiate wage increases wher a boost would not lead I to price increases. ; : . - iJ But there was no indication of any sharp change immediately in the little steel formula,1 a step long urged by labor leaders. The formula was designed ito bold wages to IS per cent above what theyfwere in. 1941. Those who conferred with Ur. Truman: were J&ha Wi Enyder, Tank-Tipped Soviet Thrusts Threaten Jap Communications System on Manclmrian jFront By ROMNEL WHEELER j LONDON,' Aug.- IS.-CJ-Russian armies, limging towards the Jap stronghold city of Harbin, tore out gains: up to 28 miles in Manchuria today and cut vital Japanese communication line. as Tokyo reported a Soviet invasion of Sakhalin island, lying 26 miles north of the Japanese homeland., Swift-driving, tank-tipped disrupt the entire Japanese com munication system in Manchuria, playing havoc with the enemy's supply and leaving pockets of en emy troops open to encirclement and annihilation. Japanese broadcasts said Rus sian marines had swarmed ashore on strategic Karafuto, Japanese territory on the southern half of Eakhalin island, and established two beachheads on the west coast in a swift follow-up. to the -borne Invasion of Korea!" - There Was no confirmation of the enemy report from the Soviet high command. Moscow's - broadcast communi que announced Alexander - M. Vasilevsky's five-pronged drive toward Harbin had -seized at least 22 Japanese strongpoints In converging sweeps into Central Manchuria from the west, north west, north, northeast and east. The Russians riped across one of Manchuria's three vital north south rail lines and threatened another, the 950-mile line linking Dairen and Mukden with extreme Northern Manchuria,- Moscow's war bulletin disclosed. The easternmost of Manchuria's north-south lines, running from the Korean port of Seilsbin to Kiamusze on the Sungari river, was severed when Marshal Kirill A. Meretskov's first far 1 eastern army captured the rail junction of Linkow, 170 miles northwest of Vladivostok. Capture of the three-way junc tion put the Russians. 177 miles east of Harbin, the great war production -city of central Man churl a, and cut the last rail com munication line for Japanese troops putting up bitter resistance in the marshy valley between the Sungari and Ussuri rivers in east- ; era MetkKwH?. - BYRNES GETS DSC WASHINGTON, Aug. 13,-Fh Secretary of State James F. Byrnes twas decorated witn the ousting uished service medal by President Truman today for his "major con tribution to the war effort" as di rector of war mobilization. war mobllizer, labor secretary: Schwellenbach; William H. Davis, stabilization director; Chester Bowles, OPA boss; George W. Tay lor, war labor board chairman; and John R. Steelman, former chief of the U. S. labor, concilia tion service and now an adviser to Schwellenbach. After they departed, a White House statement said simply that they had submitted reports " on labor disputes and wage stabll&a tion and that Mr. Truman 'has them under study." : ' - OPA stopped the ration book printing . because it thought that, even if .Japan does not fold now, the war certainly wCl be over before the books can be used. - Gasoline rationing .. may end within a week after the Japanese .surrender. Rationing of shoes is expected to end within two or tree ncnihs after VJ day. - Soviet' thrusts threatened to Chinese Say Scattered Jap Units Give Up CHUNGKING. - Aug. .13 -UPh- Fronrdiipatches said tonight that; following Tokyo's surrender of fer, some Japanese troop units in Chekiang province south of Shanghai had ceased fighting and were negotiating their capitula tion.. . - j-. On China's vast battlefronts, however. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's troops continued their attacks against Japan's Asiatic forces and the Chinese ministry of information said hostilities throughout China would continue until peace , was officially pro claimed. " j The front dispatches said Jap anese forces ih Chekiang province sent representatives to the Chinese commanders to negotiate capitula tion, but no details were given. Salem Bleeps As Japs Talk , Salem slept while monitors combed the ether today for broad casts which might bear out Japa nese informal! announcements of surrender. j . Whether weary with the week end vigil beside radios or without hope after a series of premature announcements, the news-consci ous folk who Ion other occasions have kept telephone lines into The Statesman office hot with their queries did not call. A hand ful of listeners talked with The Statesman's night operator,- some of them several times, but the re sponse to the pews was small. 1 The solid fuels administration said that, beginning Aug. IS, strictions limiting dealer deliver ies of anthracite and coke to SO per cent of I consumers",, yearly needs, would be listed. So wherever - local conditions permit, customers : will be able to get their full quota at once. That quota has been only 80 per cent of normal needs. " The war .production board in order to provide as much postwar employment as possible produced a v program tq crack bottlenecks Which are delaying completion of industrial plants for civilian pro duction. The help would; come through priorities assistance. - But WPB Chairman J. A Krug said this will net be an over-all priorities 1 as sistance. He said the prorities will be limited to items not otherwise cttakiatle.' 21 Suicide Planes Destroyed GUAM, Tuesday, Aug. 14-WV Twenty-jone Japanese planes were shot down off Tokvo vesterdav a they vainly tried to get within reach of Adnural Halsey s Third TIAr in tan Dan o I honr)f Aheva that may be their last berserk ef- fort of jthe war. -iMone 01 xne Japanese) air craft penetrated to the vicinity of our surface forces," Admiral Nim- itz said j in today's communique. He reported the American fleet's carrier planes and their British allies, in! strikes against the Tokyo area, destroyed 46 other t enemy i planes oh the ground and damaged 71, and did extensive damage to ground installations. The Allied assualt was hamper ed by bad weather, Nimitz said, giving no indication that it had been renewed today. (ice Japanese Dome! agency, which had made much of the at-' tempt, to. bit the flee V -broadcast j an imperial communique hours later, claiming that "one enemy aircraft carrier and one cruiser were heavily damaged and set a- blaze.") Gen, George C Kenney's Far East air! forces stepped up their assaults on Kyushu and Shikoku, striking with 600 bombers and fighters on Sunday. Detroit Fire Brings Death to 11, Injures 52 DETROIT, Aug. 13.-ff)-A sud- den fire. sweeDine throueh a De troit boxing factory today, brought ucaia xo iii women ana iwo men and Injuries to 52 other persons, several of whom are not expected to live. atom Toe'SnorY bTx Sealer It hAira Mtt boy tho inn Co., mostly women, were in the midst of! a rest period and were . . . . ... listening! to a luxe box. Apparently disbelieving a shoutl of fire from the first floor of the woraers conunuea to nsen w tne B,aring oi we mecamu pjw !Zr TL- oaa; "JJU V .r. :,"rrZ :J.Z: 7AAio the White House. But there dened by the Intense heat, died af- ter leaping from second story win- uow. aou wasmn, w wo uc- J .J AW t a walk of one Of Detroit's most heav- fly traveled streets. The exact cause of tho fire has not been! determined. j Beam Canneries To Work VDay; Call for Help , A world in which the umted Nations Sre victorious is a world which must not go hungry and Willamette valley beans Willi con tinue to grow on Victory day, and eaneries will continue to 1 can (hem Edgar S. Oliver, labor co ordinator for the Salem canners committee, declared late Monday as he issued a call for more can nery workers. ' ; , . Both men and women .arc needed jor night shift work .at California Packing corporation's Salem plant, at Blue Lake and s-aui.ua iuroa. wannia, . wiuxo Calpak is revesting also a large number jof victory shift workers, both laca and women. Domei Says Being Readied; Guam Hears That Potsdam Plan Adopted I By the Associated Press l ; I A Tokyo radio broadcast saying the "Text of an Imper message accepting the i Potsdam proclamations will hi forthcoming soon" electrified 2 a. m (EWT) today. (Almost two hours later, that the forecast message still I The Associated Press listening post in New York - which recorded the original announcement - - said that at 3:30 a. m. (Eastern War time) I routine English language news reference! to the subject. .1 There was no word from allied surrender terms were GUAM, Aug-. 14 (AP). The communications room of U. S. Pacific fleet headquarters flashed word over the Guam radio today that the Tokyo radio had reported Japan has accepted surrender. There was no broadcast was picked up. day - - concerning the receipt of s message Chere from Japan, and all remained quiet at the White Hnse In Washington. ' Monitors throng host the world, reet word. from-the Tokyo radio at The Dome! broadcast predicting off at 19 a, ul. Eastern War time warning. , The statement was repeated a CABINET-EM rONTLNLOUS SESSION Ne farther details were given. Only a short time earlier, heweree. Tokyo had reported that Oi Japanese cabinet had been in continvou session MnntU lato Monday night" and Indicated that tho reply to the allied unconditional snr render demand probably would be available "as seen as legal pre eednres are completed." . j . . ; The "Associated Press listening the Tokyo j Domei Morse stations "flash" remained "on calL" Both stations were sending letters "CQ" the international standby signaL This is usual procedure prior to transmission of Tokyo Domei Morse schedules, the listening post said. j I ACCEPTANCE FORTHCOMING The Domei text of the Tokyo' "flash as recorded by the Associated Press, said merely: "It is learned that an imperial proclamations will be 'forthcoming The broadcast made no reference to the allied dictate with respect to Emperor Hirobito, contained : in a . special message dispatched to Tokyo Saturday by the United States, Britain, Russia and China. ; This' TnttKzatre In rMivtnui in Japan, specified that Japan could present but that he would have supreme commander. The Associated Press listening war time that the Tokyo Morse their regular 2 AEF schedule at flash, v ; BROADCAST VERSIONS TALLY At the conclusion or this repeution the stauons resumed tnejf (regular press transmission datelined I it .-A A. ' V . . 9 1 . I 1 - ue latest u. p. earner pianc raios . The ECC recording of the Tokyo fflash" tallied word for word with the version recorded by the (In Washington, all was quiet papermen, and President Truman, k. vardaman, were around. : j - (Vardaman showed up at 220 V awakened-) INFLATIONARY TREND NOTED I . . .. - tem war time, i Nnr York said, the Tok-ro radio Dome! news items, in the English with, the inflationary trend In Japan during the. war. A Domei broadcast from Tokyo, directed toward the United States and recorded by the federal the American Broadcasting Co.,. session Monday as soon as it received .the allied reply to the Japanese surrender offer. ' The Japanese contended that Monday morning, although the Swiss, who transmitted it, said it was delivered : earlier. . .- 'i-'-'i . WARNTNa ISSUED AGAINST Meanwhile, the tabloid Tokyo Japanese people sharply against a ting that "the worst has come to obey whatever decision the emperor might make. The broadcast urged all Japanese to avoid "Indignation," adding: As to how things have come to this pass, it is natural that everyone of our nation has his or her opinion. He or she may have indignation. . . However, no amount of discussions on past developments oi this war of greater east Asia is of avail under the present circumstances, - "It should be borne m mind that such discussions might lead to fatal dissension among our people . , We must bear in mind that such an Internal split in this gravest of national crises wouia auecs jour efforts to render the best I throne." I ' National unity is the only way the broacast said. - r,i5- tho nmnet news a eency reported in a foreign. directed broadcast receipt of the loner. . Formal Word allied capitals shortly before i however, monitors reported was not forthcoming.) , the Tokyo radio siraed off a broadcast without furthef Bern - through which thtf transmitted to Tokyo Saturw the Potsdam ultimatum to announcement where t : the however, remained alert for ! 1 any moment. - . j an Imperial message was signeo! and was preceded by a "flash: ''j: i few moments later. post in New York reported that JUP and JUD which sent the " ! , their) call letters preceded by the SOON ;..;ri-;.'vv i. message accepting the Potsdam soon." m mnrlitinnnl rurrAnrlAr nffr h retain Hirohito as emperor for the to take his orders from the allie4 post reported at 2:13 a. m- eastern stations JUP and JUD had opened 2:06 a. m with a repetition of their , - t " Tokyo, giving particulars about - ' .L . . on uie Japanese pomeiana. ... s Associated Press.. The broadca&t at the White House, Only news- naval aide, Commodore James J i v al m. eastern war time, and went' was no indication that Mr. Truman tho Associated Pres. UsWntf nost benn the transmiastan nf rnntina language the first item dealing communications commission, and said the cabinet had gone into this reply was not received until 4-' 4 -"'"v - ' "SFLTT newspaper Shimbun warned the "fatal Internal split, while admit the worst". It urged the people to ot services in the interests ofthe Japan can cope with the situation. allies answer to Tokyo's surrender - v
