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By James Jlarlow
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31-P)-Meat, money and marriage.
There was more meat for Americans. They tipped their spending
bit. And they set a record getting married.
l" That news came out today. So did this: -I
or?
TO) LOCO
This Is the day which has been
the apex of our thoughts and ef
forts for months and years: the
day when Japan signs the docu
ments of surrender. The road,
the long road from. Guadalcanal
And Milne day, fro.ni Wake island
and Tarawa has ended, where it
was pointed, in Tokyo bay. It has
ended 4n complete victory which
means stripping Japan of its con
quests of half a century and of its
capacity for war-making in the
future; - It is ending with the free
ing of China, of i the ' Philippines,
of the British, French, Dutch and
American possessions which had
been occupied by the fast-moving
Japanese forces in 1941 and 1942.'
This Is Lot a day set aside for
' celebration. : We had that two
Weeks ago when the Japanese gov
ernment agreed to accept the
terms laid down at Potsdam. That
put a stop to the fighting and gave
instant emotional relief to mil-
' lions of Americans. ' The surge of
feelings then served to discount
popular reation to the formal sur
render which takes place today on
board the USS Missouri, flagship
of Admiral Halsey. , v
We can therefore view this day
soberly, and appraise more accur
ately its significance in world his
tory, .it marks not nly brilliant
success at arms; it marks also an
epochal change' in the' history
the orient The sun of Japan
which shone so, brilliantly for a
time has sunk swiftly, a bipod-red
disk into the night of crushing
defeat. Faint rays, still
V (Continued on editorial page)
Y-J Day Proclamation Presi
dent Truman will plaice it Satur
day night or Sunday. ' Hell say
Japan's licked.. That wont 'end
wartime controls. '
. Gas-rOPA says that better gas
oline upcoming won't cost
more. It won't raise the price ceil
ings. . . :
; Tires WPB predicts a record
number 'of them' next year for
passenger cars and motorcycles
Extra Red Paints American
civilians coming, home from
enemy prison camps will get 100
extra red stamps for meats, fish,
cheese.
Xmas Llrhts T his yuletide
you'll see of all things floures
cent lights for ye olde Christmas
tree.' . .
Small Shops The smaller war
plants corporation offered to help
small manufacturers' find surplus
war property to modernize their
equipment. ' '
The labor department surveyed
56 large cities, found: Meat coun
ters better stocked in mid-August
than at any time since March. .
: The department further re
ported: Supplies of applesause, mixed
pineapple and pineale juice were
larger. ' .
Suplies of applesauce, mixed
frut, lard, "cooking and salad oils
and! sugar were less plentiful than
"in mid-July.
Love boomed.'-In cities of 100,
000, people or more, the census
bureau found, marriage licenses
issued in July hit a peak for the
past five years. r 4
NINETY-FIFTH YEAR
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jSalenv Oregon. Saturday Morning, September 17 1945
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No. 138 1
Yamashita to
S.tart Joiiriiey
To Surrender
Army
Keq
ueste
DraftvTakirig
Of Volunteers
' WASHINGTON, Aug. . 31 -(JPf
The armed services sought today
to encourage voluntary enlist
ments but kept plugging also for
continuance of the draft.
Navy and marine corps officers
told the house military committee
. that those services do not believe
recruitment alone will keep them
up to needed strength.
. The committee was informed,
however, that draft calls can be
cut if Volunteering exceeds expec
tations, and a joint ' army-navy
.board presented a. program of
proposed Inducements for volun
teers. Their -. outline consisted
largely of financial benefits with
special allowances for re-enlistment
and for long overseas serv
Tokyo Placed Out of
Bounds to U.S. Troops
.'. NEW YORK, Aug. 31-vry-Tbe
BBC said tonight in a broadcast
monitored by NBC that "Tokyo
has been placed out of bounds to
the American occupation troops
at the suggestion of Japanese of
ficials." The Japanese officials have ex
plained that they offered the sug
gestion "for the security of the
American troops," the broadcast
said- ' - '
Animcl Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH ,
ri hsrt wnrruH ain't
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MANILA, Saturday, Sept.
Lt.Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the
"Tiger of Malaya" who dictated
the surrender of the British at
Singapore and had vowed ' he
would crush MacArthur's Philip
pines reinvasion, radioed he will
begjn his own surrender Journey
tomorrow. i
The swaggering Japanese gen
eral previously had said he would
not meet American ! commanders
until after Japan's surrender was
signed in Tokyo bay Sunday.
But today he said he would be
in Kiangan, Northern Luzon, to
morrow ready to proceed to Ba
guio, the Philippines summer cap
ital, to sign the surrender of all
remaining Japanese. forces in the
Philippines. I
Byrnes Denies
Debt fJanceUe
WASHINGTON, Aug. (Zi-Sf-
Secretary of State Byrnes stated
flatly today that the Unit States
is not seeking dollar payments in
settlement for lend-lease,
He said formal settlements are
still to be worked out. with for
eign' governments.; j; . v
Dollars for payments are "not
available "to our debtors" Byrnes
said in a statement issued by the
state departmeni f $ .'
The statement, the department
said, was prompted by a question
based on President Truman's
lend-lease report; at the congress
yesterday In which the president
in effect gave notice that the
costs of lend-lease might as well
be writtfen off tbe books. i
Camp Adair Sends 200
To Separation Centers
- CAMP ADAIR; Ore, Aug. SI
Approximately 200 men have been
sent from Camp Adair to separa
tion centers since the middle of
August, It was revealed here to
day, These meji were overseas
veterans who possessed the 85 or
more points necessary for dis
charge under the army's point sys
tem.. Among those who left was
FTC Johnny Scbaefer, 870 N. 12tn
stf Salem."' - ! H '"V -f-' -'"'-.
Naw Guts
PointsFor
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Viators I
Fliers to Receive
Discharges With
14fPoint Credits
WASHINGTON, Aug. Zl -()p)
To expedite release of aviators,
the navy today, reduced the num
ber of points required for their
discharge, putting ihe figure! at
44 -the same as for enlisted men.
It takes 49 for all o :her male re
serve officers.
But -with the Ides i of continu
ing the flow of new pilots into
the fleet, the navy announced it
will continue to offer flight train
ing to 17 and 18-year-old high
school graduates or students in
their last semester of high' school
or secondary schooll -
They would get three or f our
semesters of college education be
fore entering flight school
youths Would have to be
The
single
and stay single until commis
sioned. 9 ' 1
. To prevent a surplus of fliers
in any one age bracket, the navy
said it Would let out a large
number of aviation cadets-4-if the
cadets want to go back to full ci
vilian status. . ' j
Back of the decision to cut dis
charge points for men already
qualified as aviators, it wis un
derstood, is the fact that thjey are
about five years younger?" n the
average, than other commissioned
officer gjfoups . and were fbrbid
den to marry while In school.
Satin lelh
Jap yPre-Pedl
HdrBor Moves
SPOKANE. Wash- Aug. ?l-(iT)
A; former chief petty officer in
the navjf said in an interview
today that his transport in No
vember of 1941 "passed through
a Jap battle fleet between buam
and Wake." j
The discharged veteran, former
Chief ; Commissary Steward! Der
rel Dirks of Spokane, added:
"It wasf a big fleet and th boys
were worried plenty.
The veteran said that in Octo
ber, 1941, j his transportj was
trailed by two Japanese destroy
ers from Formosa to unina nvnen
it went fto pick up. marine garri
sons from Tientsen and Pejping.
On the night of Nov. 28, 1941,
when! the;! destroyer was between
San Pedro, Calif-, and Pearl Har
bor an American destroyed sig
naled that jthree Japanese sub
marines were in the vicinity, he
added.
British Arrest Nazi
fBroWnShirt Eeader
LONDON, AurSj(-The
American-controlled Luxembourg
radio said tonight that Hermann
Rechling, 58, Austrian nazi
"brown i shirt leader, has been
arrested at Adolf Hitler's birth
place,' Braunau-Am-Inn. '
. . The broadcast -described Rech
ling as one of the ' principal or
ganizers of the brown: shirts and
said he "is held responsible for
numerous murder attempts
against supporters' of. Austria's
pre-cazi governments.
Congress Definitely
To Start Wednesday1!
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-
Congress definitely will be
on the Job next Wednesday.
There had been some talk
later' reconvening date, but
of the senate and house leaders
said today official notices shave
been prepared and will be sent
out Saturday calling members
back to Washington.
back
of a
aides
Job Finished
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Elmer Davis, head of OWL abol
Ished as of Sept. IS by Presl-
deHt Truman yesterdar, is ex
pec ted to return to radio broad
' easting.! ; .
Survey Slated
For Bridge at
Independence
PORTLAND, Aug. ll-Sur-
vey for a proposed $600,000 bridge
across the Willamette river at In
dependence was ordered today by
the state highway commission sif
ter a delegation from Marion and
Polk counties assured members
the two counties could meet half
the expense.. . i
State Sen. Dean Walker (Benton-Polk)
a said lifting of gasolihe
rationing would make traWIc'too
iieavy for' the present free ferry
to handle.' '- "' ' "
Permission to haul . cverazel
loads on State highways, on Sat
urday afternoons, Sundays and
holidays Was revoked. The prac
tice bad - been allowed to speed
Champoeg state park is in, ex
cellent condition, an engineer re
ported. Plans to spend between
$3000 and: $4000 on new park ta
bles and benches were approved.
A study of wage increases for
employes, asked by the highway
engineer and the state employes'
association! - was ordered. Next
commission,' meeting will be Sep-'
tember 24j''
Importance of United
Nations Emphasized
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. Zl-Uft
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former
American secretary of state, safa
tonight "nothing is more import
ant to the people of the world"
than the success of the United
Nations organization to maintain
peace. ; ,
r Arriving; on the Queen Mary
with his family, Stettinius said he
would take up his duties Immedi
ately as American delegate on the
United Nations preparatory com
mission. 1 1 . M ., - .
TCGOSLAV ELECTIONS SET
-LONDON, Aug. JH)-The
Yugoslav telegraph agency rer
ported tonight in a Belgrade dis
patch that general elections for a
Yugoslav Constitutional assembly
will be held Nov. 11.
Union
To
gnore
let
Rule
Brooklyn, Court
Decision to Be
Appealed Soon ;
WASHINGTON, Aug? 31- (T) -The
union involved in a Brooklyn
court decision giving "super-seniority'
to returning veterans, ad
vised its locals today to ignore
the ruling and promised an im
mediate supreme court appeal.
President John Green of the
CIO -Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers told a news conference
his union will take the case di
rectly to the highest court in an
effort to avert further confusion
over the status of service men
coming back to their" jobs. The
judge held yesterday that for a
year after he gets out of service
and goes back to his Job, a veter
an is entitled to work even though
a non-veteran with greater se
niority is laid off.
"We told our locals not to wor
ry about the "decision,"; said
Green. 'We feel sure the supreme
court will throw it out The lo
cals , will resist . its application,
through their grievance machin
ery.".:.. ;
Congress May
Investigate
Pearl Harbor
" WASHINGTON, Aug. Sl'-(ff)-.Congrfis
edged along today to
ward hearings Of its own on Pearl
Harbor and on" single command
to improve army-navy teamwork.
The house postwar military, por
ky committee probably will begin
Interviewing a string of witnesses
within - a month on legislation to
put the armed forces in one de
partment of national defense.
On Pearl Harbor, it's a little
more Indefinite. But a number
of republican and democratic lead
ers on Capitol Hill declared con
gress would, start its own investi
gation of Peirl Harbor unless
are ordered on the
of army and navy
courts martial
basis of reports
boards of inquiry.
Nip
Cbmnla
11 . .
in
Of Bomb Toll
TOKYO BAY, Aug. 3l-fly-The
Tokyo Nippon Times said in the
August 28 edition received aboard
American ship today that atomic
bombing was more terrible than
the great 4923 earthquake, and
urged all nations to strive for a
world "in which wars will be Im
possible. " , :
America's two ''atomic bomb at
tacks, on I Hiroshima and Naga
saki, killed J0.000 people and
wounded 180,000, the editorial as
serted. ' . 1 ' ,
The grea? earthquake disaster
of 1823," Jt added, "caused the
world to shudder with horror, but
in comparison with the present
holocaust, caused by the hands of
man, nature's destructiveness
seems like a gentle triviality."
Yank BlilejackeU Boardap Battleship
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' party of American sailers the fast transport IL A. Cass Inspect the Japanese battlrship Nagota,
badly gamaged by bomblnrs. at Its ancherare tn Tekosaka navy yard, Tokye Cay. (At Wlrephote
tU Navy radicpboU aboaxi VZS Iowa ta Toija Bay) j -
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Jap
1 Tried to Die? Says Navy
Pilot
Broadcast Says H
, Mh Anny Moving
Ashore m Nippon
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OFUNA PRISON CAMP. Near
Yokoama, Aug. 31 iff) -Accounts
of hideous treatment by Japanese
captors and guards one prisoner
beaten to death; seven, dead of
malnutrition; a flier covered with
his parachute and shot; men forced
to. sit for. hours with metal bits
in their mouths were given me
today at this unregistered torture
farm ' -
.They came from the lips of 103
brutally treated allied men 93
American, eight English inter
viewed after a Swis representa
tive uncovered the camp Sunday.
Most of them were fliers. I was
among the "first three American
visitors in the camp.
Men are here . who survived
Wake island and tbe Java Sea bat
tle only to undergo a living death.
Beatings were commonplace. Ajt
least eight died.
Ensign Fred Turnbull, 21, High
land Park, Mich., a carrier flier
shot down during a raid Oct, 12,
1944 off Formosa, said:
"My captors tied my hands be
hind me, made me lie down and
covered me with my parachute.
Twenty minutes later, I heard two
shots. I didn't feel the first one
in the left upper arm because my
left shoulder already was full of
shrapnel and . was hurting too
much. The second bullet went
through the right side of my chest
y "I tried to die and 'make peace
With my God. t .
Twenty minutes later ; they
made me sit up, A Jap rolled my
collar down and tested his sword
on the back of my neck. He made
a practice swing. , .
j Avfirst aid man arrived, a For-
mosan, who thought I didn't move
fast enough so he struck me in the
back with a bayonet.
I "At a hospital close to an air
field, shrapnel and bullets were re
moved without an anesthetic but
they ditf give me glucose and bloodi
plasma. -.
j The mext day American fliers
strafing an airfield put 31 holes in
the hospital room, including four
In the bed I had been using and
killed two Japs. The Japs told
me if it happened again, they'd
kill me."
Truman Orders Abolition
Of OWI; State Department
.! ' m Te . eil i r J
ToDist
nte Fropaeanda
By John N. Hlghtower
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 lW-rPresident Truman, today or
dered Secretary of State Byrnes to set up America's first peace
time foreign propaganda program in the state department.
Abolishing the office of war information effective Sept. 15,
the chief executive directed Byrnes to take over' part of the OWI
The aim, ur Truman declared,
wni beto give
other nations ""a full and fair
picture of American life and of
the aims and policies of the Unit
ed States government
In a sweeping executive order,
Mr. Truman accomplished these
things:
1. Abolished the office of war
information.
2. Placed under the state de
partment the foreign information
activities of OWI and of the office
of inter-American affairs which
has operated in Latin America. '
3. Directed Secretary of State
Byrnes to work out by the end of
the year an Information program
"which he considers, should be
conducted on a continuing basis."
The long-range program un
doubtedly will have to be ap
proved by congress.
Word Received
ve
Of AttuCapti
- .'. A
KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. 31--Word
was received here today
that Mrs. Charles Foster Jones,
one of only two white persons on
Attu at the time of the Japanese
invasion, is alive.
No Information has been re
ceived regarding her husband. .
Last direct word of the couple
was July. 7, 1942, when Jones, a
radio, operator, was talking by ra
dio to an operator on a neighbor
ing island. Jones said he had a
"hunch" the Japanese would
come; and that he hard armed the
handful of natives on the island.
In the middle of his communica
tion the radio went dead.
Morse Urges
Gourtmartial
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 31-vf)-An
Oregon senator told Idaho repub
licans today that . President Tru
man's statement that the nation
as a whole is responsible for the
Japanese war "in no way fulfill
our responsibility to .the men who
lay dead at Pearl Harbor.''
Sen. Wayne Morse, stopping
here briefly on his way to Wash
ington, D.C, urged a court maf
tial to determine those responsi
ble for military unpreparedness
at Pearl Harbor. -
FL'Eli KATIONTNO ENDS
PORTLAND, Aug.' 31-ff)-Fuel
rationing restrictions Imposed
since 1943 in Washington, Oregon
and 10 northern Idaho counties
wiU be lifted at midnight tonight
OPA said today; There still is a
wood fuel -shortage, but abundant
coal and oil wQl ease the demand
for wood, OPA said, . "
Retail Stored
In City Due to
Close Monday
JAll retail stores and city, coun
and state offices will be closed
Monday to observe Labor day, the
retail trade bureau ' announced
Friday.
jNb special picnics or observ
ances are being planned by labor
unions this year, due to the short
age of help in the fields and in
most building trades. Workers
who have the day off have been
urged by Governor Earl Snell and
other city and county officials .to
register for work in the harvest
' State police announced Friday
that all available officers would
be on highway patrol this after
noon, Sunday . and Monday, be
cause Of the heavy Labor day
holiday travel anticipated in all
sections of the' state. They cau
tioned motorist to drive care
fully due to worn tires and de
fective cars.
BONNEYILLE TOUR OPEN
"PORTLAND, Aug. 31-(ff)-Vis-itors
again may tour Bonneville
dam following relaxing of security
regulations, army engineers said
today. .'-'( .-.r-
Why Can't Specific
Blame Be Placed ,
FOr Pearl. Harbor? i
, In early 1 942.'- while the
ceruse of Pearl Harbor was
being desperatelY sought,
many war correspondents
arrived at the conclusion
that no one person, or even
several persons, could be
held solely' responsible..
Such an opinion was not
popular at fee time, bait the
past week's developments
seem to hold it Justified. In
tomorrow's. Sunday Oreaon
SluleamaDCU Mcmu Lnj . Edi-
tor Wendell Webb, who
spent several months In the,
central and south Pacific as
an Associated Press war cor
respondent immediately af
ter Pearl Harbor, tells . on
which, basis the now-preva-,
lent conclusion was redbhed
by many persons! three
years ago and also gives
some Interesting new light
on that holocaust . ; V
The World at Your :
Officials
a ssi a ssi ear a sa rw a e
TokvoBi
ay
YOKOItAJIA Saturday
Sept. 1 (AP) UJ3. troop
in swelling numbers stood at
Tokyo's southern gates today,
and allied dignitaries were
arriving in Yokohama for to
morrow's historic surrender,
ceremony XSaturday,
time). r
American control, was !
spreading smoothly and swift
ly through the area of Tokyo j
bay, where ; the US. Eighth
army, of V Philippines Ubera
tlon fame, was scheduled to
begin moving in before night
fall in force. '
(An NBC broadcast said th&t
first units of the Eighth army
already were landing and that
General MacArthur, Admiral
Nimitz and others conferred form
ally at MacArthur's headquarters
on Sunday's formal surrender1
program.)
Lt '-Gen. Robert .L. Eichelbcr
ger's army will land in Yoke
hama, sixth city of Japan, where
General MacArthur's headquar
ters in the customs house pul
sated with preparations for -the
surrender ceremony in Tokyo bay.
The hour of this event has net
been announced. (A dispatch from
Washington said the White Houst
was standing by for word of it
between 10 and 11 pjn. Eastern
war time Saturday, which would
be from 11 ajn. to noon Sunday,
Japan time.)
Japanese imperial headquar
ters tried to put off this final,
humiliating act of a lost war by
asking MacArthur for further
conferences on the- terms, but t
was, asserted here that the cere
mony will go off on schedule,. '
Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wain wright,
liberated hero of Corregidor, ar
rived in Yokohama for the sur
render ceremony and had dinner
with MacArthur in the New' Grand
hotel. '"
Endorsements V
OfEmployment
Bill Rolling in
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31
Additional endorsements of so
called full employment legisla
tion piled up today as witness af
ter witness argued that private
enterprise alone cannot prevent
an economic tail spin.
Secretary of the Treasury Fred
Vinson said the government
should "frankly accept the re
sponsibility ol assuring jobs for
an," that Tit cannot be the re
sponsibility of businessmen alone
to prevent unemployment," ; t
j Vinson told a senate bankiBg
subcommittee its enactment 19'
"the essential step In dealing with
the problem of maintaining em
ployment," but, like other wit
nesses, he said it would have to
be supplemented by positive
measures to encourage an expan
sion of consumption and private
investment" -' ...... ' ' ' -
Raise Replaces
Seamen Bonus
WASHINGTON- Au. SWJPI-
Tbe government today abolished
the. seamen's wartime "voyage
bonus for plying dangerous, wa
ters, but raised his basic dit 1S
monthly and retained premiums
for actual encounters with linger- .
Ing mines. -
r The war labor board. In Its first
wage decisjon since Japanese vie-f
wry permitted a relaxed pay pol
icy, granted the monthly raise to
offset the loss in earnings from
dropping of the bonus, which is
effective October 1.
CANADIANS TO VOTE
VICTORIA, B.C. Aug. Sl-iffV
A general election In British Co
lumbia will be held Thursday,
Oct. 25, Provincial Premier John
Hart said today. The last one was
held Oct. 21, 194U Nomination
day win be Oct 4. . V
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