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LONDON, Aug. 23.-W-Prime Minister Attlee told a cheer ing house of commons today that "arrangements are being made for the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong to be accepted by a British force commander! J 1 1 The British determination to march back into Hong Kong as soon as possible epitomized the attitude of western-European OTP S333JQB TPCDUDCB Recently there was issued in New York a unique statement. It was signed by 75 Roman Catho lics, Protestants and Jews. That is not unusual. A few months ago a statement similarly signed made recommendations for changes in the Dumbarton r Oaks plan " and was heeded at San Francisco in drafting the Charter. The unique thing about the present statement is that its subject is "Man's Re lation to the Land"- For once - representatives of three great re ligious groups recognize the im portance of land the "good earth" they call it to humanity: and the obligation resting on hu mans to preserve and protect the land. v . The statement says: ' "God's intention in creation is to enable man to live with dignity in accord with his noble 'nature and destiny, to develop his personality. to establish and maintain a fam ily and to be a useful member of society. Society exists, to fulfill these aims. "The land is God's greatest ma terial gift to mankind. It is a fundamental source of food, fiber and fuel. The right to use such elemental source of life and de velopment is essential for human welfare. No law or contract is superior to natural law. A funda mental human right is not to be denied or rendered ineffective by i any legal ordinances, apparent previous rights or obligations. ! "Land is a very special kind of ! property. Ownership of land does not give V . (Continued on editorial page) Planning Starts On Final Loan . PORTLAND, Aug. 23.-(flJHw"ar finance committeemen today be gan planning the 8th war loan, which has an $11 billion nation wide goal $3 billion less than the 7 th drive. Oregon's quota probably will be cut from $80 milhon to $50 million, officials-said. Dates for the drive will be Oct. 29-Dec. 1, j with an extra week for corporation sales. Payroll deductions will be credit ed for November and December, said state chairman E. C. Sam- mons. , 28 Men Given Medal of Honor ; WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 - JP) Eight officers and 20 enlisted men who performed feats of extraordi narv heroism received the na tion's highest award today from President Truman. . In the greatest single ceremony of its kind, the chief executive hung the blue ribboned congres sional medal of honor around the neck of each. . '.-.':' It was an impressive hour and a Quarter in the red and gold eas room of the White House. The -president stood between the American and presidential flags and bestowed the medal on each of the fighting men after formal citations were read by Maj. Gen. Edward . wiiseu, ' acung aaju - tant general of the army.h Arums) Crcchcrs By WARREN GOO0RICH X''t K KJAOfflUCATiOH "YrMt mean to tav another 16 dependents still doesn't give m enough poind? ft l Y"f IVjI nations, toward repossession of their territories in the orient. i The house cheered when Attlee assured Opposition Leader Win ston Churchill that the govern ment was taking action to restore British administration in the crown colony as soon as it re ceived the Japanese surrender there. The French, Dutch, and Portu guese have displayed the same eagerness to restore their colonial empires since Japan went to her knees, but none was in as favor able a position as Great Britain to proceed with the manifold tasks of restoration. ,. The two advantages Britain has over her European nations (ex cepting Russia, whose interests are different) are an army in the field and a merchant navy. When Churchill raised the ques tion of Hong Kong today, he re minded the prime minister that the British government repeated ly had made it plain that it did not contemplate "any modifica tion in sovereignty of his majes ty's territories in the far east." Strike Threat Results in ODT Railroad Grab WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 - (P) Government .seizure of the Illi nois Central railroad was author ized tonight by President Truman. The office of defense transpor tation will take over the road, which had been threatened with a strike at midnight. The dispute involved promo tions, stemming from a jurisdic tional conflict with the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers. An all-day meeting called by Reconversion Director John W. Snyder at the president's request had failed to gain any settlement of the dispute. The White House action was announced at 10:30 pjn. Eastern war. time. JS. stoppage in the railroad in dustry at this time is unthink able, President Truman said when he signed the seizure order. Morse Derides Anti-Strike Bill j SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.- (VSenator Morse (R-Ore), to day described the Burton-Ball-Hatch bill to outlaw strikes as "the most undesirable legislation' in the field of labor-management relations. Speaking at a press conference, he called the bill a "legalistic curb" which would! prohibit strikes by the indirect method of forcing arbitration of industrial disputes. The senator said business must not be allowed "to run hog wild' and that labor should not be al lowed "to get away" with juris dictional disputes, but that in oth er respects legalistic controls are "undesirable." Crime Rate in Philippines to Delay Soldier Return MANILA, Friday, Aug. 2M;P) The continued high crime rate in the Philippines, plus the necessity of guarding Japanese prisoners, will delay the return home of thousands . of American - soldiers who will be trained and assigned for military police duty. . I Col, H. B. Hildebrand, military police commander, said the new MPs would be recruited from sur plus army units here and from police units now In the United States. Wife of Combat Soldier Faces Charge of Aiding P Escapes SEATTLE, Aug. 21 -(A3)- PFC. William Bruns was home from the battlefront today to "take care of the kids" whose , mother; Fae, faces federal trial on accusation of aiding in the escape of prisoners of war. ,: ;".''-"-"'':" Mrs. Burns and her aunt, Mrs. Lenora May Hodgson, were ar rested in Oregon and brought here to face trial. They were accusedi of helping three Italians leave a local service unit one of the first actions under the nation's public law No. 47. V"".. ';.-'';- --' - " Burns said he applied for an emergency furlough as socn as learned of his wife's arrest He went immediately to the home where Mrs. Bums had left their daughter, Donna, 3, and son, Bil ly, 18 months. "My morale is up 100 per cent 'Back to Nbrmailcy' I - - ! I j f ! 'r - - ! I - ' . Cets Federal Boost U.S. Employes Get 40-Hour Week Pots, Pans to Sell at '42 Levels 252 War Factories Up for Sale Sugar Stamp Still Worth 5 Lbs. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-P)-OPA boss Chester Bowles said today consumer durable goods like washing machines and aluminum pots and pans which during the war must sell at And-4-the president ordered ire 11 ear Mt. Jefferson 1 1 Spreading Fast k)RTLAND, Ore., Aug. is-UP) At new forest fire burst out high iri! the central Oregon! Cascades today, roaring across more than 700 acres of hemlock and fir to ward nearly inaccesible regions south of Mt. Jefferson. ,' ' - Fanned f by a stiff southwest wind, flames spread rapidly in the area between Three-Fingered Jack and Jefferson. Foresters threw 200 loggers on the lines and hoped marines from the Klamath Falls base could be ob tained before the fire swept far beyond control, j Meanwhile, cool, weather; slow ed down the Tillamook blaze, but extremely, heavy smoke pre vented comprehensive scouting of advances made in the recent out break. ! I s i Mount 1 Hood f orest officials said they hoped to have the Tan nei creek blaze, on which 150 men are fighting, fully; trailed-.. ;The state , forester's office said late Thursday that around 200 to 300 men ! were Still working on the Polk fcounty fire, and that the blaze had not been completely trailed as yet No particular com munities I were in danger, i how ever. ' I " I Franco Takes Verbal Beating WASHINGTON", Aug. 23-(P)- President Truman took another crack at Generalissimo" Francisco Franco s Spanish government to day. ! I -'- ' ! ; He told a news conference that nbne of fus' likes Franco or his government. He said he thought that Prime Minister r Attlee of Britain ; had very clearly f stated the agreement reached by the Big Three at Potsdam, which was that so long as Franco remains in power Spain should not be ' ad mitted to United Nations mem bership. I i 5 More Red Stamps to Become Valid Sept 1 j WASHINGTON, Au. 23 - (iP) Five more red stamps will be validated Saturday, September 1, the office of price administration announced tonight : I The new meat-fats stamps are LI, Ml, Nl, PI, Ql. They Will be good for! the usual period of four months - September 1 through December 31. -."', i Each of the stamps is worth 10 points, making a total , of 60 meat-fats points coming into' use September 1. " . - now," he said after the visit "The kids are well and I'm home and ifs going to be all right" ' I He said he married Fae five years Ago and that they lived hap pily until he went into the army 26 months ago. When he re turned on a furlough last Novem ber, the private said, Mrs., Burns told him she wanted a divorce and that he obtained a waiver f so she could put the divorce through." Ifs a funny, thing, Isn't if he told reporters, "that . all .; of us Would be over there Citing to get it over as fast as we could for just one reason so we could get home and then a thing like this would happen here. , I "As for her, I'm just disgusted '" "Well, It could have been worse. It could have been a J ap." m ! have been out of production or near the 1942 price levels. all government workers back on a 40 hour week, Starting Sept. 9. They are now working 44 and 48. ; L. ! Mr. Truman also told them to take' all their regular holidays, just as before the war. I In Its drive toward the good things as well as the perils of peace, the government also: 1. Set out to clinch the job rights of veterans -rights which congress forgot to protect fully. 2. Turned loose 252 war plants. They'll make civilian goods and employment if industry will buy them. i 3.!-Warned that the 20 per cent wartime cut in coal for homes must stay, for a while, at least. 4. Ruled out any increase in sugar rations this year. They'll stay at five pounds for four months. 1 5. Talked of plans to help the small wage-earner get a new home, the man who! can pay only $20 to $40 la month.! 6. Said you could buy electric ranges and fans by December, washing machines by January. Every ironer, washer and' pot must be tagged with its retail ceil ing, right at the factory. To disgruntled manufacturers of durable goods Bowles! said: make a lot of goods at low! prices. By seeing a , lot, you'll make good money,-;. ..;.; r j V ' - 1 Reds Proclaim Total Victory Over Japanese LONDON, Aug. 23-(fl-Premier Stalin triumphantly proclaimed tonight complete victory over Japan, with his mighty red army war machine occupying all of Manchuria, the powerful Japa nese naval base of Paramushiro in the Kuriles, and the remainder of J southern Sakhalin island. Snapped up as the last founda tions, of Japan's stolen empire in Manchuria crumbled into dust was the feeble puppet emperor, Henry Pu YL The former boy king of China was captured as he and his entourage huddled on the airstrip of Mukden airdrome, the soviet communique said. ' Generalissimo Stalin, in his first order of the day since the start of his 15-day' lightning war with Japan on August : 9, an nounced that his armies had seized all of the rich industrial province of Manchuria, which the Japanese called Manchukuo after they wrested it from China in 1831. - Lt. Robert L. Knight Killed in B-29 Crash JEFFERSON. Aug. 23 -(Spe- ciel)- Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Powell received word of the death of their son-in-law, Lt Robert L Knight, 28, of Mt Vernon, Wash, who was killed August; 17, when two B-29's crashed in! mid-air over Weatherford, Tex. j Lt Knight was a bombardier on a B-29, stationed at Clovis, New Mexico. Mrs. Knight and their two-year-old daughter, Perrie, had only been with him there two weeks, after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. i L. Powell, in Jefferson. He married Maxine Powell of Jefferson September 12, 194L WAINWSXGnT 12 TODAY CHUNGKING, Aug. 23.-aV Lt Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Corregidor. tomorrow will celebrate his j 62nd birthday anniversary ind new freedom after being a prisoner of the Jap anese for more than three years. YOUTHS HELP ON FARMS CORVALLIS, Aug. 23 -(-The 4623 workers placed on Oregon farm jobs in July set an all-time record for the month, the Oregon State college extension service said today. Almost a third of those employed were under IS. LI Visitor -'"- jBSttc-., 7 , v, v General Charles DeGaolle, presi dent of the Provisional French Republic who Is discussing "problems of mutual Interest" with president Truman at the White House. ' DeGaulle Here; President Raps French Press WASHINGTQN, Aug. 23.-flV President Truman rocked a group of French newsmen back on their heels today by asserting bluntly that this country has! not been getting a square deal in the French press. His remarks, to a group of 12 j o u r n a 1 ists and photographers covering the visit of General Charles De Gaulle, put only a very slight chill, however, on oth er indications of warming French U. S. relations which grew out of the presence here of the president of the French provisional govern ment - Hf told the newsmen he had onliiMM thing to say I - thai he Hbeped they would begin to give this country a square deal in the French press, which he said it has not had so far. i The Frenchmen were obviously takeh aback. None of them had any questions to ask. Just before the French news men were introduced to him, Mr. Truman had "told American re porters of his very pleasant visit with,; De Gaulle last night A member of the general's par ty described De Gaulle as "highly pleased" with the results ' of the two-hour preliminary talk after a state: dinner at the White House last ihight ! Today the president and De Gaulle , worked separately while their; top aides conferred at length on the matters referred to them. mers JoblMeasure ', ." WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 Two "farm spokesmen' today en dorsed the bill labelled the "Full Employment Act of '1945," and told a senate subcommittee that agriculture has a vital stake in the measure. That view was expressed be fore the senate banking group by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson and James G. Patton, president of the national Farmers Union. . . Anderson testified "the main tenance of full employment will be essential if we are to guard a- gainst another period of agrieul tural depression and low farm in come." Patton said "full employment In the United States hasi become in dispensable for agriculture just &s much as for Industry." Snell Asks for $75,000 To Reseed Burned Areas FOREST GROVE; Ore, Aug. 23. -P)-, Governor Snell and state forester N. S. Rogers will be asked tomorrow to make $75,000 avail able: from state funds for reseed- ing f the Tillamook burn. A two-county' committee, with Sen Paul Patterson, Hillsboro, as chairman, will make the request Grass planting will provide the quickest vegetation cover to re duce erosion, the group said. . Seeding would be done from plane. MT7HS NEW ASSESSOR McMINNVTLLE, Ore- Aug. 23 --Fred Muhs, McMinnville, was appointed assessor today by the Yamhill county 1 court suc ceeding Ralph P. GiUt-Newberg, resigned. : Since 1941 Muhs has headed the county AAA committee. Veterans SaoeDndleif teoii ' Promised Jobs Back Truman Assures Servicemen of Former Positions WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -(P) President Truman said today that he won't permit any veteran to be deprived of his former job be cause of a legal technicality. . Mr, Truman told a new con erence that if additional legisla tion is Heeded he will recommend specific changes to congress. Of the men who will be out of service by Jan. 1, an estimated 1,000,000 have been guaranteed by law the right to return to their former jobs. But Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey, director of selective service.' brought out in Boston last night that, because of an omission in present law, this legal right will expire "when congress terminates hostilities."; In the original selective service act congress provided mat every veteran who had a job would get it back if he asked for it in 90 days. It also provided that even though other provisions of . the act should be abolished, the job guarantees would go on. ! It was in the renewal of the selective service act this spring that the change was made. The' act is to run until May 15, 1940, or until "the date of the termi nation of hostilities in the pres ent war." - I Congress added that either it or the president could declare this end to hostilities. - . But unlike the original act there was no : snecific extension clause for job rights. USO Lease of ! Legion's Hall i Runs Into Snag Before approval of the proposed lease on the American Legion hall at 693 Chemeketa street can be made,' several changes and the deletion of one clause in the lease must be effected, a telegram front Harold B. Allen, regional director of the USO in San Francisco in formed building trustees of the Legion Thursday. 1 At a meeting Thursday night of the . trustees , and the executive committee of Capital Post No. 91 the legionairres took no definite action but invited the USO to send a responsible representative to Salem to confer further with the building trustees. They in-f formed the service ' organization that certain local misrepresenta tions had arisen and needed clar4 ifying before the lease could be completed. The Legion's reply was made through R. R. Board man, director of the Salem USO. In the proposed lease, the Legion had asked for the option to. buy the furniture and equipment now in the building and belonging to the USO, The USO objected to this clause, and asked that it be deleted on the grounds that they must submit bids for the equip. ment when they no longer had auy use tot If . -. The proposed lease also carried a time limit of six months after the expiration of the Japanese ' war with provision' that it. could be cancelled upon sixty days notice. iue telegram asked that this be cut to 30 days. , Mint Harvest Brings New Help Call; Bean, Hop Aid in harvesting their mint harvest was requested Thursday at the farm labor office by four valley mint growers. Workers are needed immediately and " must work a 12-hour shift,' they, told Mrs. Gladys Turnbull of the la bor office. Good wages are being paid. f. The work consists of chopping and loading the mint hay, and Is good work for those adverse to picking activities. The. long shift is necessary because the mint stills must operate on a 24-hour schedule once they are started, because of processing techniques' involved In the extraction. xtf the mint on. - The bean situation; while some what relieved by the employment Stewed! .allep Wflppeoiies Say MANILA, Friday, Aug. 21 ernment radioed General Mac Arthur today that execution of his directives in preparing for arrival of occupation troops in Japan has been retarded because of a typhoon. We feel it necessary to our best efforts, the preparations required by you for the entry of the advanced party are meeting gome difficulties due to the heavy 74-meter typhoon which lasted from the evening of the 22nd until the message stated, "and brought we communications ana trans portation in the Kanto districts.1 The "advanced party" appar ently referred to the 7500 Ameri can airborne soldiers who are due to go in, armed to the teeth and accompanied by MacArthur, Tuesday at Atsugi airfield 20 miles southwest of Tokyo. The note was the third radioed in swift succession today. The .iirst inquired if MacAr- thur's directives, brought back by the Japanese emissaries who met his aides in Manila Aug. 20, car ried the hours specified in Japan ese time. N The second expressed a desire to provide "as much facilities as circumstances pennitw to the al lied press and asked information as to the number of correspond ents expected to land in Japan by Aug. 31 - - the date the surrender is to be signed aboard the battle ship Missouri in Tokyo bay. in the first aerial wave win oe 350 , sky "giants - - 150 four-en-gined army . transports and 150 Liberators from Okinawa air bas es aur about, ao other big trans- pprts"fifHl nCj. Jima. . i . Around . th;sky train will hover swarms of fighters, ready to open at the first sign of treachery, and the 23 to 30 fighting men in each plane win be armed and alerted as though for actual invasion. Women Frown On Low Wages PORTLAND, Aug23-P)-Wom en are not eager to accept new jobs at reduced wages in place of high salaried shipyard work, the U. S. employment office said today. - s Although none of the men want to take cuts, their refusal to take lower pay is less marked, USES said. It explained that while most men had weathered a depression, many women had worked only in high-pay war jobs and did not know that pay levels are nor mally lower, v Raymond Uamseyer Reported Missing ' - .Raymond Ramseyer, radar tech nician 2c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Ramseyer of 2590 S. Sum mer, st, Salem, is missing in ac tion, his parents have been in formed. He was on the; cruiser USS Indianapolis which-was sunk with heavy-loss hi the Pacific a few weeks ago. ' , CARRIER . LETTK LAUNCHED NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 23 (flVThe 27-000-ton aircraft car rier Ley te , was launched today at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company plant. The Leyt is named for the '' battle opening 'the way for American reoccupaUon of the Philippine Islands. Pickers Needed of the prisoners of war from Camp Adair, snu is noraa favorable as desired. The prisoners have only been contracted for a period of seven days, after which time the growers win Trave to rely entirely upon citizens to harvest thevrest of the valuable crop. The prison ers will not be able to solve the problem, Mrs. Turnbull stated. All persons are asked not to slacken in their efforts. - . Hop pickers are- also needed im mediately .lor the picking of the early iuggle hope, Rust is start- ing in these early hops, and they must be harvested before they are lost entirely. . . The Farm Labor office will be open until 7 p. m. each evening this week. (AP) The Japanese gov inform yon that, in pite of morning of the 23rd," the about considerable damage to Pennsylvania j Hit by Torpedo As Nips Parley GUAM, Friday, Aug. 24.-Pr- The battleship Pennsylvania was struck by' a Japanese aerial tor pedo the night of Aug. 12 a time when surrender negotiations were in progress and heavily damaged, with 20 men killed or missing. The navy -disclosed the action to day. . J -.j;; j A Japanese plane swept in low ih a sneak run, catching the 33,100 ton ship,! once called the "luckiest battlewagon in the fleet" unawares.- The missile opened a gap ing ho'f 4n the side of the WEr ship. . . " ' ; y - i ' The torpedo struck the starboard side. The magazines were dam aged but , did not explode. The Japanese lane ' eacaped. .Most s of the casualties 'oforred belowiin he navigation compartment ' Britain Ratifies IFrisco Charter j LONDON, Aug. 23.-flP)-Great Britain ratified the United Nations charter tonight despite blunt state ments in parliament that it was not strong enough to maintain peace while the atom bomb re mained an Anglo-American secret Some speakers urged that the Lsecret be shared immediately with Russia. - j With even its critics saying it must be adopted, the house of lords first approved the 50-nation pact, followed by commons. De spite the criticism, in neither house was it necessary to take a vote. Britain thus became the fifth major power to give formal ap proval. The. United States, Russia, Prance and China as well as sev eral nations previously had com pleted ratification. : j British Laborites to Continue War Controls LONDON, . Aug. 23.-(7-Brit- ain's labor government proposed today to extend many wartime emergency controls for five years, and began the task of channeling men and women , released from war industry and military service into the trades where they are heeded the most : I , Labor Minister George Isaacs told commons' that 1,000,000 men and women wouldVbe released tram the armed" forces this f year, and that about 1,150,000 worker would be; released 4rc. war In dustries in the . c 0 mi n g two months. -h:. GillneUcrs Bring Record Salmon Load to Astoria i ASTOaiA, Ore, Aug! 23.-ff)-Cilnettera arm .briMrfnir in record loads of salmon here, 'making can neries work overtime and promis ing, profitable'' catches for sports fishermen next week,1 -i - Union Fishermen's Co-od re ported one ' boat" delivered 4900 pounds-In-three trips;" The sal mon now are moving up, the river for the Jirst time this season, fish ermen said. . - , - Weather San rrancisco Eueent Salem Portland WilJamen nver hj n. : FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem): Cle-ar today except for acattered cloudg in the morning. Highest temperature M degree. - - . .- " ' ,. Max. Mln. Rain CI SI 0 . . . Sa ' 4S ' OA ei ex .00 rt aa .na