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One July day in 1944 a man
light of build sat -backstage at
the Chicaso coliseum munching a
hot dog sandwich and drinking
from a bottle of Coca Cola Then
tome men rushed up and told
Mm he .was ; wanted downstage,
Hirohitofs Riglrt
Hand Man on List,
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Named
TOKYO. Dec. 6 General
j MacArthur today ordered "the ar
rest of Prince Furnimaro Konoye;
that he had been nominated vice three . times ' premier ' of Japan;
president of the United States. on Marquis Koichi Kjido, who was
th democratic ticket .Thus did lEmDeror Hironitb's right nana
Harry Truman learn that he was
put in line of succession to the
presidency. .
One April .day in 1945 news
was flashed to the senate cham
ber .that Franklin D. Roosevelt
had died suddenly .at Warm
'Springs and Harry S. Truman
realized, that the presidency which
man throughout tne war. ana
seven others as war criminal sus
pects. '
Reaching into we highest cir
cles, the supreme auUed comman
der named as the other aeven
wanted:
Vice Adm. Takiio Godo, who
was unofficial envcjy to Germany
he had not sought and from I to present Japan's, side ox tne
whose duties he shrank had been China incident,-also former cam
thrust upon him.
Now in the midst of world con
fusion and domestic contention
Harry Truman must wonder why
he ever let himself be induced
to leave the comfortable, clubby
atmosphere of the United States
senate to endure the turmoil -of
the White House. A feeling of
bafflement - must - have gripped
Mm when Philip Murray, presi
dent .of the steelworkers' union;
CIO, accused the administration
Of "completely Ignoring human
rights In his proposal for a fact
finding body in industrial dis
putes, and asserted that the de
sign of the president's recommen
dation is "to i weaken and ulti
mately destroy labor union or
ganization.". Only a few weeks
ago the employer! group had
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Solenu Orecjon, Thursday Morning. December 8. 1945
Price -5c
No. 118
Reuther
Tola! W
ar on
GlOjl GM. to Resume
Shouts Of
G.-MI
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net member.
Shigeo Odate, lohg.time polit
ico-economist, f
Taketora Ogata, !vice president
of the Tokyo newspaper Asahi and
a foremost Japanese Journalist.
Viscount Masatoshi Okochi, in
dustrialist " .
Lt Gen. Hiroshl Oshima who
had been Japanese ambassador
to Berlin since 193j and arrived
In Japan only today.
1 Count Tadamasu Sakal, mem
ber of the house of peers.
Yarichiro Suma, long time -dip-
lnmfit: formerly councillor of the
Japanese embassy in Washington.
Konoye, who was premier at
the time of the China Incident
and held the post ithe last time
lust before Pearl Harbor, when
he was succeeded by Hideki Tojo,
has teen one of the most talked
about men in poat-war Japan.
Recently he had been reported
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BUTFALd, N. Ded. ! K-The United Automobile Work
ers (CIO) "is deterrxiined to fight a total war" in. its struggle
with Geheral Motors Corp.' over a 30 per cent wage increase,
Walter V. Reuther, vice: president of the UAW-CIQ, declared
tonight. ' jM . J'J - . - I . . ' 'r I i
I Thej struggle between "the! corporation and. the UAW-CIO
"is just fundamental as the things for .which we fought on the
battlefields of the war," Reuther
told a mass meeting of Buffalo
area General Motors strikers.'
"We pelieve Jn the four free
doms, we subscribe to the prin
ciples' ot the Atlantic charter, but
let's take the slogan out of . the
guilded Iframes and make them
live in Buffalo and Detroit where
the people Jive," he asserted, v 1
Before entering the meeting,
Reuther! told a reporter "General
y0 s0 dmim
COPD
duppi
Party
is
riTirl . rrPrtllPrP active in revision o the constitu--
Draws Pleas to
Buy Scries E '.
tion and had asserted he was do
ing the work at the request of
MacArthur, although MacArthur
denied this. He is la member of
the Japanese royal ifamily,
Kido, who held the recently
it - Arrfcl nt Ttuttr'm Tavern aboUshed post .of keeper of "the
,-r. -if miffffotism sheer Privy seal, was Emperor Hiro-
. k. --ii. Virtnt-r hito's closest adviser and had
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bond,1tiTfr-a gtyxl many series 2 , T
E Durchasei may be anticipated miers as iojo.
In Salem during the remainder of
the week. That the magnetic nu
cleus Is here was proved by bond
owners who filled the Elsinore
theatre at a Victory loan premiere
last night to hear Archie misuse
.the English language, listen to and
watch Bing Crosby, Dorothy. la
rnour and many other stars strut
-their stuff.
The picture itself may not cause
any Salem' resident to put aside
In bonds for a few years the
money earmarked to "redese
crate" the house. But there will
be those who will want to cast
vote for one of the lovely young
cueen candidates Introduced by
Sidney Stevens from the stage of
the theatre. Some will buy be
cause of the eloquent plea of Gene
Vandeneynde, merchant who
ureed Salem to Join the parade
f other Marion county cities over
the top in E bond purchases, sug
gesting the choice of security rath'
r than foolish expenditure.
Storm Damage to
Highways Light
Tuesday afternoon's wind and
rain storm resulted in little dam
age to Oregon highways, R. H
Baldock. state highway -engineer,
reported here Wednesday. A few
roads were closed temporarily be
cause of fallen trees; These roads
were cleared within a few "hours
Seven Inches of snow fell in
some of tne mountain cusiricis
Tuesday night and at Santiam
Junction Jt was still snowing Wed
nesday morning. Two inches of
new snow was reported at govern
ment camp on the Wapanitia cut
off.; It was snowing hard at Odell
lake with four inches of new snow.
Klamath Falls aL reported some
n,ur mutf
Light rains were general over
western Oregon Wednesday.
raws
ement to
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Ballots To
Iiist Party
Backing 4
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Platform
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Farrell Rules' on
Entries Label as
Field Grows j" 1
Motors officials have agreed there I ! 4T ! i
WARHtwriTrw rvv. s us will belno strings ! attached this . Party endorsement for first dis-
U MMSoaru. time" when neeotiatiOns between trict: congressional candidates be-
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tne comnany ana tne u aw -wiu i uui-suugm vwiu -vj-aj
are resumed in Detroit tomorrow.' with announcement by Secretary
Negotiations Start Today I candidates holding such approval
DETROIT, Dec. I 6.-(y?)-Hdpes can havei their party designated
for an early peace in the auto on the January 11 special election
industry! increased tenight as Gen- ballot.
eral Motors corporation and ither Others on the ballot can run
United Auto Workers agreed to f only as Independents, and all will
ByD. Harold Oliver
day approved a mid-term declara
tion "of party principles calling
for "open diplomacy at home, and
abroad" and for fulfilling United
Nations pledges to .small nations.
The 1000 word statement of
aims and purposes" designed to
supplement the party platfortn of
1944 in preparation for the ; 1948
rSr idM reopen negotiations hile a union be so regarded, legally despite the
congressional elections, ! rejected X-ZZZL-JlJT Uair-TaK! fm Wa. f them
"great power domination of the
world.
On the? subject of labor J it as
serted collective bargaining con
tracts should be binding on both
sides.
spokesman for Chrysler corpora
tion workers ruled i out possibili
ties of an early strike there, r !
-The surprise resumption of GM-
UAW negotiations was announced
at Pittsburgh by Philip Murray,
nn. wa. : mari-i president of the CIO, after a sec-
by; the hbuse. party members in
the policy declaration - as drifted
by a seven man subcommittee.
This was: .to eliminate a clause
which said: , " n I I 1
"No organization of, capita) or
labor should be permitted, direct
ly or Indirectly, to use itsfunds
for any political party or candi
date;" A member of the drafting
group asserted that "Us elimina
tion -was' "not-a bid for support
of the CIO-PAC." U S
In addition to foreign relations
and labor planks, the statement
urged a $trong national defense
supported by. science, industry, re
serves and equipment
tatives and officials Of the striking
UAW union.
party label for two- ot them.
. At' least 'our republicans: . and
two democrats appeared definite
ly in the. race today.
The former include Eugene
Marsh, speaker of the Oregon
house of representatives, McMinn-
ville; Walter Norblad, former
state, representative and Astoria
attorney;! pan Harmon, Newberg
Chelan's Shore i
Sees Saddened
Birthday Party
CHELAN; Wash; -Dec. 5.-&n
On the. cold shore of Lake Che
lan tonight as darkness fell
Roger Hale and his wife knelt
beside a gaily decorated birth
day cake and Mrs. Hale slowly
touched a match to each of its
seven candles. ! ! ' -'' -
.The few Who had lingered.
after memorial services for the
16 persons drowned when a
school bus plunged into the lake
saw, decorating 'the cake's ic-
l.ing, the message "Stewart 7."
The -Hale's two sons were
among the victims. Douglas was
8. Stewart would have been. 7
today. ; ; "
Mr. and Mrs. Hale, as the
last candle was lighted, began
to sing "Happy Birthday to
You." Their voices could get
only part way through the song
and when they could not con
tinue they rose and - slowly
walked from the tiny circle of
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Queen Entries
a fi,Ev.nn, iat,r iNnrman Mak. automobile dealer who lost to the
thews, 'director of i the UAW ite Rept James W. Mott -in the
Chrysler; division, said after ' w vow, ana inme wnn, m-
meeting pf -450 Chrysler local pres- "Ulurai &mTr.
idents and stewards that Chrysler "u -:u
wnrkon wftrt without a rati. I
Speed Drive
As End N
tract foi three months if neces
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ine aemocrais . mciuae ; jaruce vi I tttv"v -
Jack Bain, state representative, thi 100 ono totals. . . . U
ears
The Marlon County queen con
test in the Victory: Loan drive be-
NEW YORK, Thursday, '. DecV. 6P-Tht New jYork
Herald Tribune, in a dispatch front Washington, said today
that the United States and. Great Britain had agreed on the
terms of a $3,750,000,000 credit 'to' the United Kingdom for
reconstruction purposes, and an additional $650,000,000 for
surplus property and lend-lease settlements. - ;
- The paper said forma) signature by representatives of
the two governments was jjexpeeted today. - ' ' "
- L7) N D O N, Thursdiy, Dec! 6w-(P-London morning
newspapers said today that pe
United States and Great Britain
had concluded negotiations fo a
loan of $4,400,000,000 to England.
The Laborite Daily Herald,! in
reporting that, an agreement Ijad
been reached in Washington ion
the loan, said repayment of the
loan will be over a 50-year period
starting from 1948, but no inter
est will be payable for the first
five years. j' '
During the remaining period,
the Herald said, the rate of in
terest will be two per cent, or
about $$8,000,000 for the first
7eTh Dauy Sketch, the Daily
Mail and the News Chronicle also
published, special dispatches from
Washington and New York stating
that the loan, agreement had been
reached and that formal an-
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State Tblice Off iccrj j
To Return From Army
Col. Harold G. (Fod) ; Maison,
315 Belleyue st, who resigned his
position as assistant superintend
ent of state police five years! ago
to enlist in the army ground forces,
will revert to inactive status Feb.
23, 1945, it was announced ; Wed
nesday at Ft Lewis. ! I
Maison swill return to the state
police in a capacity not yet made
public, Supt Charles P. Pray said.
Hitler Raving Madman in Final
Hours. Eyewitness Reports
OBERURSHs Germany, Dec. 5
(ff)-, A graphic eye-witness ac
count of Adolf Hitler's last hours
today pictured the fuehrer as a
raving madman, alternately re
hearsing suicide and "directing"
a phantom rescue army which
bad Jbeen wiped out days before.
, The dramatic description, often
bordering on comic opera, was
given to U. S. army investigators
by Capt Hanna Reitsch, German
avlatrix who flew the last nazi
clane out of Berlin, and was re
leased with the comment that it
was "probably as accurate" an
account, as will be obtained. Her
Animal Cradtcrs
By WARREN GOODRICH -
dUo$ stop lamp-
i-.-crouni-you'r making
McVay's Orderly!
Would Testify on
Officer's Behalf U
ASTOftlA, Ore., Dec. 5.-JPy-k
marine who survived the Indian
apolis sinking said today orders
directing abandonment of the
cruiser were given by word of
mouth because the first blast on
the doomed ship severed communi
cation lines. :1 I
Capt Charles B. McVay 3d, now
on trial by court martial, was
said by PFC Max M. Hughes, 31,
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Other Possibles
Other InameS also are : being
mentioned.
Meetings thus far scheduled in
elude; j -
Saturday, December 8, Salem:
Republican, first congressional
district committeemen, basement
Marion hotel, 1:30 p.m.
Monday,' December 10, Lake
Grove school: Assembly to nomi
nate Conn, 8 p.m.
Friday, December 14, McMinn
ville: 1 Assembly to nominate
Marsh, evening.
jumped past the $100,000 totals,
and a new leader was listed to
start out today.
Faye Larkins, Salem lions club 1
candidate, holds first place this
morning, $127,150; in E bonds to
Victory Loan bond sales In
Marlon eeonty to date:
Total, all Issues, $2,192,
193.75 out of a quota of $2,
690,000. Series E, $823,695.25 of a
quota of 11,150,000.
places
The Sketch said the loan "will
ease Britain's winter" and termed
the money a "Magna Carta for
world trade." -
The Daily Mail said 'go has
been given to world trade by the
great deal. ; j
The Mail said the long and de
tailed document listing the terms
of the loan, included a provision
that Britain work towards a re
duction of the sterling debt and
dissolution of the dollar pool. An
other provision, the Mail said,
was that Britain join with the
United States in a long-range
Grants Pass, to be without blame DemocJftic c?f, chairmen.
Jt... Uirh wWiiiak
MoV'.!nr!priv h would Forplaces on the ballot, candi
like to testify in the captain's be- dates mu eith endorsed at
half, declaring that he was on an assembiyof 250 rmi
the bridge when McVay ave the fOM 0T, rable
abandon hip order.
her credit She replabes Betty Lou
Kavser. Salem Kiwanis club can-
Saturday, December 15, Salem: didate, for the time being, Miss plan to reduce tariffs and elinji-
Kayser having held first place I nate quotas and restrictions on
through Wednesday. I world trade.
Joan WoleotL snonsnred hv Mil
rfr . In vrnnri nlflrft thl FOLIO LAStS KJUTUKAUJ
morning,' $112,150 in bonds being PORTLAND, Dec. 5 To
hr crnro ' U new cases OI mianuie puiujaw
In third place ! is Miss Kayser and two or cipmnena were re-
story was told today through an
American Interrogator.
The blonde 33-year-old. pilot
said Hitler and Martin Bormann,
his missing deputy, had joined In
a suicide pact a few hours before
the 'fall of Berlin, but said she
had left upon the fuehrer's orders
before the suicides were carried
out S
Tracing Hitler's actions as he
and a little group of associates
huddled in a bunker under the
reichschancellery while the . Rus
sians closed it she said the fueh
rer,; raving and ranting, repeat
edly berated Hermann Goering,
Heinrich Himmler and other nazi
leaders as traitors who deserted
him in an attempt to save their
necks. - j ,'
As the intensity of the Russian
artillery barrage increased, Capt
Reitsch said; the shaking fuehrer,
on the Verge of. collapse, called
repeated 'suicide rehearsals while
special SS (elite guagd) men,
charged with destroying the bod
ies, stood by.
Until the last however, she
said. Hitler pinned his hopes on
the arrival of an army, . com-
mahed by a General ' Wenck,
which he; believed was driving up
from the south to rescue him. The
army, she learned later, had al
ready been destroyed by the Rus
sians. " S " 1
"He was the picture of a man
running almost blindly from wall
to wall m his last retreat waving
papers that fluttered like leaves
in his nervous twitching hands,
or sitting stooped 'and crumpled
before his table to represent his
non-existent armies like a child
playing at war."-.
ScatUe
San Franeiseo
vrnismttc river 5 9 ft.
FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly
cloudy today wna occasional rain tti4j Matinn organization,
hewers. Highest temperature near S3 uruiea riauons organization.
URGE UNO SITE IN U.S.
LONDON, Dec. 5--The La-f
tin American delegates to the
United Nations preparatory com4
mission agreed unanimously ; to
day to vote for the United States!
as a - permanent site for the
tions signed by 3600 or more.
Deadline for filing by both meth
ods is December 31. 4 i i
The republicans. Saturday 'are
expected to provide party en
dorsement j f o r one candidate.
Democrats the following weekend
may endorse a candidate or call
a district assembly for such pur
pose. '!"'...' i , ! I-
with $110,250; followed closely by Ported In the past week, the state
FUth Greenlee, ttatehouse condi- DOara OI neaiur saia waay.
date, who holds fourth place with
$107,500; Leona Tingelstad, Holly
wood Lions club candidate, in
fifth place with $100,800 in bonds.
Beulah Lott Salon Junior cham
ber of commerce J candidate, is in
sixth place with $25,450 in bonds.
Hurlev Names
'Disloyal' Men
Ih! State Dept.
WASHINGTON. Dec." 5 -Uft
Showy-haired Patrick JL Hurley,
his voice flaring with anger, 'as
serted today that two .career dip
lomats who favored "collapse' of.
the present government of (China -bad
been given Vital assignments
with j. Gen. 1 Douglas MacArthur
after jHurley sent them irom the
embassy at Chungking." - v j . r. '
Also, in the course of two and
a .half hours of impassioned tes
timony before the senate foreign
relations committee, Hurley j made
these! other major assertions:
. That Britain was opposing
United States policy for the uni
fication of China at the very mo
ment that Maj. Gen. Hurley, then
ambassador at Chungking,: was
trying hardest to negotiate an
agreement between the Chinese
communists ' and Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek. . j
That some of the career, men
in : China supported an Imperial
istic bloc of nations. j
He named five men as having
been 'disloyal" to him. They in
cluded the two now serving with.
MacArthur.' These two are George
Atcheson, jr, who was counselor
of embassy in Chungking and is
now diplomatic advisor to Mac
Arthur, and John S. Service who
was second secretary in Chung-
I king and is now with Aacheson
on MacArthur's staff. ; '
Gerow Takes Responsibility
For
Tiey Bote Tffftite Hirohito Addresses Them in House of Peers
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! WASHINGTON. Nov. 5. WV-Lt
Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, brushing
aside a suggestion that "higher
ups" might share it assumed full
responsibility today for any war
department failure to send addi
tional warnings) to Pearl Harbor
before the Japanese attack. . j
I In a dramatic moment of the
Pearl Harbor Inquiry, the tanned
Officer solemnly told the senate
house committee: : .. ' - j
X "If there is any war department
responsibility for failure to send
additional warnings to General
Short, it must fall on the wax
plans division and as chief of the
division at the time, I accept the
responsibility. ' I
S William D. Mitchell, committee
counsel, suggested that the reply
of Lt Gen. Walter C Short, com
mander at Hawaii, to a warning
from Washington "went higher!
but Gerow Interposed. j
4 It was his job, Gerow said, to
check operations messages from
overseas station and he had 4$
officers to help him. He woul4
take the responsibility. I
; These other major points wer
developed from GeroVs testimonj
or documents introduced while he
was in the witness chair: ?
I L The army and navy had been
at odds since February, 1941, ovet
proposals for attaining more unity
of command at frontier positions;
such as Hawaii. After Pearl Harl
bor, it was decided that the navy
should have the top post in Hal
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. their heads se they aren't looking at his royal higbiiess). Emperor few of its kind ever V reaca una eewiry. vat ntrrynm
. m ta a haoeriai reneriot at the eBeninc aeion at the I Statesman! i " -'1' ' a reference to precautions against
Lack of Added Warnings
sabotage because he wanted the
message "interpreted as warning
only of an attack from without
Separate warnings against sabo
tage were sent by Miles and the
air corps. . . i
A- brisk-spoken witness, ' Gerow
related that months before; the
Japanese attack of Dee. 7, 1941,
military conversations, were held
with the British here in Washing
ton,! with the British and Dutch
in Singapore, and with the Ca
nadians here. ' ' J
1 The purpose' was to determine
what would be the. best disposi
tion and use of each nation's arm
ed forces in event the United .
States should become involved in
war, Gerow said, but "no political
commitment' was implied. - j " '
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