The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 16, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextJap PDaEtes Japs Get As GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 16.-P-Admiral Halsey's huge allied carrier fleet destroyed or damaged 464 Japanese planes in their final two attacks of the war including 26 shot down in a dog fight with nearly 50 Japanese interceptors over the Tokyo area early Wednesday. ' ! The Wednesday morning strike was dispatched before the CFLP SGHIDS UQ3CDDB A company of conscientious ob jectors working on the forest fire in Polk county announced Tues day they "would quit the Job Sat urday, because they said ! their work was "aiding the war effort" which violates their conscience. The war is over now, so one won ders if their scruples are dis solved. Their work can't help the war effort if there is no war. I wonder if they reflected that if as a result of their quitting work the fires got out of hand and burned up forests and mills they would also be helping the war effort Japan's. Conscientious objectors think they have been treated badly by their government. They are re quired to report for some form of public service but get no 'com pensation or sustentation. But they have also been spared mili tary duty and exposure of life and limb in combat. . -Such is our respect for the rule of conscience that the government does not trespass on its domain. Personally I have never been able to make conscientious objection to war square with the realities of living. Sure, war is immoral and senseless. But it also a fact; and in this world we can't escape the facts of life even though dis agreeable. V Take the war Just concluded: what chance would "conscience' have under the fasdst-nazi ideol ogy? Had Hitler gained .domin ion over all the earth, as he as pired to do. what would have become of our cherished institu tions and our principles of human freedom, including religious free dom? Those who refused to fijht for reasons of conscience have (Continued on Editorial Page) State Fair Set For Next Year Oregon state fair, sacrificed to the war since 1941, will be held next year with super-sized ex hibits, Manager Leo. G. Spitzbart declared : Wednesday. Grounds, buildings and equip ment, given the barest of upkeep care during the fourj years and much of the time used as army barracks for troops guarding the coast, will be repaired. Spitzbart said he. believed getting the erounds Into shape for! the biggest fair in the state's history would take most of the next year. Durlntf the war. he pointed out. Oregon has learned it can produce and manufacture much that it never before had considered prac tical, so it will have much to show its own residents as well as the many anticipated tourists. ' ' i INTER-AMERICAN MEET SET RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 15 The next Inter-American confer ence will meet at Rio de Janeiro beginning Oct 20, it was disclos ed today, and will be known offi riftll-r as' "the Inter-American conference for the maintenance of . peace and continental security.'' Animal Crocltcrs By WAJ&EN GOODRICH IP ' ' ' ' ' - . -' tVfi Chief SmSyMic.f t-t uihi$ is aob for you, papa ig nttdt a good gpGnkijiz!" Wair CflninrDsiii t fleet received cease-firing orders,; Admiral Nimitz explained. Its planes probably were attacking their targets at the very time President Truman was announc ing Japan's surrender. (7 p. m. Tuesday, eastern war time; 8 ajn. Wednesday, Tokyo time). " ! Nimitz reported 31 enemy ships miles southwest of Tokyo, in last Monday's carrier plane sweeps, which also cost Japan a total of 424 planes. Today's communique added 208 destroyed and 78 dam aged aground to previously-reported Monday tolls. American and British airmen were attacking Tokyo area targets in the first of six or seven sche duled missions Wednesday when orders to suspend offensive action reached Halsey. The pilots had shot down 26 of the largest group of enemy planes sighted in many weeks. Nine more enemy planes were shot down near the fleet during the day. - i Nimitz also disclosed a Japanese suicide plane crashed into an American naval auxiliary vessel in Buckner bay, Okinawa, early Monday evening, causing struc tural damage. Fifteen men were killed, one was missing and 14 wounded. i Admiral Halsey's warning to his fleet that "there must be watchful waiting" by his warships off Ja- pan despite Nipponese capitulation bore almost immediate fruit. The third fleet warships un furled huge 35-foot victory flags at their masts. Fourteen minutes later . gunners knocked down a Japanese bomber. Quieter Tone Noted in 2nd Salem V-Day Salem entered into the second day of the V-day holiday, with city, county, state and federal employes enjoying another day's respite from their duties, but with somewhat quieter mien than the day before. Deliveries of first class mail will be made in the downtown district only. Mail will not be de livered in either the residential or rural sections of Salem and the windows of the post office will be closed A skeleton crew will be on duty there, however, to expedite necessary deliveries and pickups. Both banks will be closed, also the office of the Salem war price and rationing board. The Retail Trade bureau has asked all retail stores and res taurants to open today and indi cations were that most of them would comply with the request Emergency crews will be on hand in all buildings, it yas said. 1 -, End of Shoe Rationing Predicted by New Years WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -m The end of shoe rationing" before the end of the year was forecast today by( the war production board. The board said this forecast was prompted by drastic reduc tions in shoe requirements for the military services in the last two quarters of the year. Wool purchases, WPB said, have been slashed approximately 100 per cent, "freeing thousands of yards of woolens and worsteds for the civilian market before Christmas." Japanese Broadcasts Say Nippon Defeat Temporary WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 HH Japanese broadcasts Implying that Nippon already looks to re building her armed might got close attention from American officials tonight. Some- military and diplomatic authorities didn't like the tone of two Tokyo spokesmen in particu lar. - - " Telling Japanese troops of sur render, the chief of Japan Broad casting Corporation's overseas bureau, Jusuo Ayo, declared that "we have lost but this Is tem porary. He added: "Japan's mis take was lack of material strength and scientific knowledge and e quipment. This mistake we must amend.' , - . ' And before his cabinet resigned, Premier Suzuki said that "this day NINETY-FIFTH YEAR Removed High Octane Gas To Be Available, Civilians Soon WASH INGTON, Aug. 15 'lm "Fill 'er up" came back into the American language today. Gasoline rationing : ended. ; j So did the rationing of fuel oil, oil stoves, and all blue point foods, but rationing of meats, fats and oils, butter, sugar, shoes and tires will continue until lowered mili tary requirements and Increased production bring civilian supplies more nearly in balance with ci vilian demands. I The order became effective im mediately. All that filling stations and merchants have to do is hear the news through press or radio;. Shortly after the announce ment, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, as petroleum ad- PORTLAND, Aug. 15-(-District OPA officials today asked service station operators and oil industry employes not to destroy gasoline and fuel oil ration coupons pending in struction from Washington.' . : Tha . same request applies to food merchants regarding, blue food stamps. 1 ' " minlstra tor, said ample quantities of civilian gasoline will be avail able immediately, with high oc tane . following in a few; days. Supplies of heating and fuel oil will be adequate to meet normal peacetime requirements, Ickes said. The removal of price control on a large number of minor items, and the suspension of price con trol on jewelry, sports equipment, toys selling for 25 cents or less, dgaret lighters, pipes, some pho tographic apparatus, . clothespins, and so-called luxury furs and fur garments was also announced. Goodmans in Auto Accident PORTLAND, Aug. 15-(ff)-Four members of a Salem family and an Oregon City man were in a hospital after their : automobiles crashed on highway 99E between Portland and Oregon City. Victims included ! Chester i O. Goodman,1 35, Salem, driver of one car, concussion; his wife, Mrs. Ruth Goodman, 33, knee lacera tions and a rib fracture; their daughter, Joan, 3, fractured clav icle; son, Larry, 6; Lawrence L Van Zandt, 33, Oregon City, pos sible skull fracture. State police said Van Zandt was riding in a car driven by Marion FJ Cooper, Oregon City. I i Chester Goodman is former pas tor of the Englewood United Brethren church and now boys secretary at the YMCA. i ; has become the day that never, never will be forgotten by the Jap anese people. t The Allies have committed themselves to pulling Japan's fangs by destroying her power to make war. Some officials here suggested the words of Ayo 'and Suzuki made it doubly impera tive to keep a watchful eye and a strong hand on all Japan and es pecially on the military and indus try. :; v .i"-. . . In telling of . demobilization plans, the army said today; . "Until our own troops have moved in and ascertained that no new treachery is being planned by any groups In the Japanese popu lation, we must have the means to stamp out inexorably and completely- any enemy-uprising," Luxury Control 12 PAGES President Truman Announces Jap Surrender! N-'.hk-f -. i-3v ;- :; Hi t"'-, ... 'c skv . 5 . - .. -H-.::t-: - -" ' ? r ': b) r,U -j V I . .r f . - - r s Most momentous i moment iin modern times President! Truman Is pictured in the White House as he "tells the world that War's End is here! (Left to right, front row) Admiral William Leahy. Chief of Staff to the President of the United States; Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; President Truman, reading to the nation Reds 125 Miles insr. Post-War Drive LONDON, Aug. 15-(V-The Red army ordered to battle on until J apanese lay down their f arms, smashed forward today in it new two-pronged drive that carried them to within 125 miles of the ancient Chinese capital of 1 Pein- ing, Moscow announced tonight. Gains of almost 20 miles; were reported across western Manchur ia. Soviet aircraft supported the ground troops with attacks on enemy ; group forces and ! Man- churian rail hubs.! I - The i new onslaught slashed across southern Charar province of inner Mongolia. One spearhead enveloped Kangpoa and Chang teh, the later only 25 miles from Wanchuan (Kalgan), the old cara van route "gateway to northern China. ' - A second spearhead seized the important rail Junction and air field town of Tolun, 165 miles north of Peiping. j j Despite Japan's surrender an nouncement, Gen. Alexei Antonov, chief of the Red army general staff, told his troops in a special order of the day: f "The Japanese capitulation will be completed only; when arms are surrendered by the fighting forces. Until this moment arrives the Red army will continue offensive op erations, j Cheap Shoes , Become " Ration Free Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Aug. l5-ff)-The OPA today advanced to Aug ust 17 the beginning of ration free sales of certain types of men's and women's low-priced shoes. These ration-free sales! will continue through 'September 29 Previously the sales had) been scheduled to begin August 27 and end October 13. ! 4 Only shoes made before March 1, 1944, and which the dealer is willing to sell for $3.50 or less a pair may be sold ration-free. 1 HOSPITAL SHIP TO AKUVE NEW YORK, Aug. 15 -(fffc The Frances Y. Slanger, largest and fastest -hospital ship afjofit, is scheduled to Arrive tomorrow along wiih; five other troop4arry ing vessels! The Slanger, formerly the - Italian ; passenger liner Sa turnia, will: debark, 1547 patients. Weather San rraaeisco Eugene SHem Portland Kax. -88 iOn. S3 U U 7 Rata trace -S5 trac Seattle -S3 S4 Willamette rlrr -X ft. forccatt (from XT. S. weathr bu reau. JAcNarr field. Balem): Ltrw cloadS tn the early morolnc, other 1m clear and warmer wiu igaest rromreip u o(rta. . i FOUNDED " 165! I , Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning. Snyder Warns Unemployment Is Exvected 1 4 Until Reconversion t unshed By MARVIN L. j WASHINGTON, Aug. lS.-W-The government! hurled aside many wartime controls today, but solemnly pointed out that reaching a fully prosperous peace at home will be neither quick nor eaay.i--- . -. .1 " ' Reconversion Director John W. Snyder frankly., painted a picture of wide unemployment which he hopes will be only temporary: 5 million or more within three months, perhaps 8 million by next spring. k "The government shot at the peacetime goal from all ; angles announcing: the immediate end to the rationing of gasoline, fuel oiL stoves, canned fruits, vege tables, catsup, chili sauce, grape juice; the new discharge plans for the armed services; the lifting of price controls from many items, the cancellation of 29M billion dollars in war, contracts, the dis solving of the office of censorship. 'And here was the other side of the picture: Price controls will continue on scarce items. Rent controls will continue. So will the bridle on wages and, for a while, on rail road travel. Well have to continue helping liberated areas for some time with food, textiles, coaL transportation, machinery. j - Coal for use in this country probably will remain short sup ply throughout next winter, j iThere won't be enough auto mobiles or housing for some time. Full employment can't be ex pected for perhaps another ; 18 months, at least : -f VoIuiitarY Censorship ! By Newspapers Ends j WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-P- Voluntary news censorship ended at 35 pan. (EWT) today and censorship director .Byron Price told editors and broadcasters they had "contributed greatly to the glorious victory." : 1 . Publications and radio stations now are tree to print or publish almost any facts they- pick up, But censorship still applies to Cor respondents assigned to military and naval forces in the field, who had to sign pledges to submit stor ies or photographs to military censors before transmission. CHINA APPEOYES CHARTER " J CHUNGKING, Thursday, Aug. 18-P)-The. legislative yuan today unanimously, ratified the United Nations charter, addhlr Chinale the list oi nations wmcn luvesub- scribed to ALBANY SOLDIER KILLED WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-(Spe-cial)-The army today placed on the official list of soldier dead the name of Pvt. La than D. Jones, son of Gertrude Jones, route 2, Albany, Ore, : ' ; j August 16. 1945 the news that Japan has been bronchi to her knees, the Mad Dogs of Asia have been choked to death; former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, venerable steersman of the State Department In the historically critical years of the terms of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (International Sonndphoto) V. S. Heavy ARROWSMTTH Doctor Named To Commission - I Dr. E. B. McDanieL widely known Portland physician, was named Wednesday by Gov. Earl Snell to succeed Paul L. Crooks, on the state liquor commission. Crooks, who resigned Tuesday after disagreeing with the other two commissioners over the grant ing of a club license, was chair man of the commission. McDanieL who has been presi dent of the Oregon State Motor association since 1928, is a native Oregonian, was for a number of years chief surgeon! for the Spo kane, Portland and Seattle rail road, -and is a former vice presi dent of the American Medical as sociation. He will not succeed Crooks as chairman. Ends Conscription CHUNGKING, Thursday, : Aug. IMPHneralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek today issued an order suspending further conscription of men for China's armies. No-an nouncement has been issued, so far as known here, ordering Chi nese armies to cease fire. For the first time in months,' however, the . .. - .. . -1 . aauy communique was not is sued. : (nsorship Release Reveals Jap Balloons in 12 Counties -1 Japanese balloons, carrying in-, cendiary-and high explosive bombs, were found la at least yi Oregon counties Jack Hay es7 state defense coordinator, said Wednes day. - f:-: Balloons were found hytnacka mas, Cootv Tfflig, ' LaVe, Union, Harney, Jefferson, Malheur Uma- tilla, . Deschutes,- Jackson "andj Douglas counties, although others may have landed in other sec tions of the state. ' I . -. Only deaths resulting from the bombs were in Lake county where a member of a picnic party picked up a high explosive bomb and six persons were killed. .This was the only balloon landing incident on the North American continent where lives were lost, Hayes said. Price 5c No. 122 Navy, Marines Release rlans WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 - VP) The army, navy and marine corps today announced 1 demobilization plans designed to release as many as 7,500,000 men within the next 12 to 18 months. They are: . 1. Reduction from 40 to 33 the age at which army enlisted men may be discharged within 90 days after they ask for release. It was one step in a program to release 5,000,000 army men within a year. The service's point discharge sys tem remains unchanged. 2. A navy point discharge for muia, allowing credit for age, length of service and dependency without regard to number of de pendents. The navy hopes to re lease 1.500,000 to 2,500,000 within 12 to 18 months. . 3. A marine corps discharge formula following the army's point system, with 85 points the minimum for enlisted male per sonnel and 25 for women com puted as of May 12, 1945. There wasx no estimate of the number eligible for release. . All three are effective imme diately. ' f (Additional details on page 4.) Still Fight After : Surrender in Burma - RANGOON, Aug. 15-;P)-The Japanese surrender failed to end the fighting in- lower Burma to day, and patrol actions and skir mishes continued in the Sittang river bend. v Several hundred Japanese troops stranded , in the Sittang area nave been out of communi cation with their command for weeks, and apparently news of their country's surrender had not caught up with thenw The armyjrecelved its first com plete Information on the maneu vering of these balloons last Jan uary when a marine pilot sighted balloon S8,00O'feet wer Lake- view. Hayes said the pilot at tempteiio shoot it down but his gun froze. ; -s Armv authfjriti rfmlwl nmArt that the balloons carried germs to destroy human' and : animal life and to start diseases in the for ests. Every balloon recovered was examined moroughly by a bomb disposal squad, j - ! In many cases where balloons were reported they turned out to be kites or other harmless ob jects. Hayes estimated that about 85 per cent of the reported sight ings were false alarms. , - T Order pTo Halt Fire' Japanese Given Full Details of Surrender Plan s ..... i . . By JAMES HUTCHESON MANILA, Thnrsday, Aug.. 16 (AP) General j MacAr-. thur said this morning that more than 12 hoars after sct- eral Japanese radio stations had acknowledged receipt of his surrender procedure or ders no reply has been re- ; ceived" from the beaten enemy. . j MacArthnr said the enemy -radios acknowledged receipt by 11 p.m. August 15. . (The American Broadcasting company monitored a Tokyo broadcast saying "text o the Unit ed States government j regarding cessation of hostilities Only came into 'the hands of tha Japanese government at 11 a. m. Aug. 16 Tokyo time. Necessary arrange ments are accordingly being made promptly") ( As the newly-designated supreme commander for the allied power;, MacAr thur ordered; j Cessation Ordered j 1. Immediate cessation of hos tilities '. by Japanese forces and swift notification of the, effective aate. 2. The Japanese to send repre- sentatives to' Manila to receive surrender terms, specifyjing in cii tail when and how the I represen tatives are to come by air ty way cf le Shima in thejRyukyus. ; Yesterday afternoon, a ifirrt broadcast was made in Which the supreme commander ordered thai a radio station in the Tokyo area be designated to communicate with him. j Acknowledgement Comes For several hours 'there was r.o acknowledgement. Transmitting facilities in the United States ' Joined with the signal corps here In bombarding Japan jwith the message. By I p. m. last night v Japanese; stations had acknowl edged the first menage was re ceived and understood." At Jl p. m." two hours' later; receipt , was acknowledged of tfc second message directing the sp pointntent of the representative to come to Manila. j Planned to Deliver Terms MacArthur. planned to deliver surrender terms to the j Japanese tomorrow in his Manila headquar ters, close by the hallowed shrines of Batoan and Corregidor. ' , He issued Instructions to the Nipponese yesterday to send their., surrender envoy to I Shima, an island near Okinawa, in! a green cross marked Japanese plane. From there the envoy, and aides MacArthur ordered to accompany. f him, will be transported to Manila in American aircraft j Earlier In a note addressed direct to Emperor Hirohito he gave de tailed instructions for the official designation of a Tokyo radio sta tion as the medium for further, communications in English with bis headquarters. Jap Surrender v Traffic Ticket WASH INGTONT, Aug. 15 -IJTf Even if you're delivering the Japanese surrender document your can't .make a U-turn in Washing- . ton. . Two RCA communications em ployes learned that to their an noyance yesterday. j Here's the story as told today by - Earl Allison, 26-yea i-old for mer staff sergeant attached to the Delayed famed Flying Tigers, now an RCA mechanic; ; ' At 4:15 pm, EWT, yesterday5 16-year-old RCA messenger Thom as E. Jones dashed from; the RCA building. Clutching the document the world was anxiously await ing, he hopped into a waiting' RQA automobile which, jwith Al lison" at " the wheel, sped off in" the direction cf the Swiss lega tion. ;4 ' : : ji : I -' They had gone but a short way when a policeman pulled them up, charged they had made an illegal U-turn on Connecticut avenue. :. The importance attached to the document made little impression ' on the stickler for the law. Rou-" finely he wrote out-a ticket, Said Alllsonf- ' He held us up for 10; minutes. Said that (the document) made . no" difference to him. We got to the , legation as soon as possible however ' - :-' i SHIP LOADCNQ TO CONTXNUS PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 15-(ff)r Loading of 15 Russian I ships in Portland harbor will resume to morrow after a day's1 holiday, continuing until lend-lease is halted, I r " ... . U