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The Orecon Stcrteaman, Salem. Ore.. Sunday, June 30. 1946
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Sad Farewells, Ardent Hope
Go With Valiant Ships Now
Facing Annihilation at Bikini
By Wendell Webb
f -i : Muti)( editor. The Statwman
- (Kama : May a vaUaat aaia awaits the biIkbI of the alaaa ta4Ur at
far away Kia-iai- Wca4ell Waea. aaw aaaailai eaiter mt ttaa stalassnaa. was
ess aereral ( Ota Sartac war cerraaaaaaea far .Tea Aaaaeiataa
Press, ta4 kerewtt give a lew iiUtu raariag tbaae kc kaw first-haa.)
1 '
. i- The historic second when the awesome A-bomb tears into staunch
hipa-of-th-lLne at tiny Bikini (set for 1:30 pm. Pacific time today)
is going to brine a perceptible wince from a good many Oregon
navy men wno fought through World War II.
No man- can live and fight for months aboard a floating arsenal
without acquiring an intrinsic pride in the fact that all the enemy
: could throw was not enough to down that plowing hull with the Stars
and Stripes. And even today tnere cannot but be a lingering hope
mat some oi uie gaiiant era it wui
ride through even the mortal
fires of unleashed nature.
The super-dreadnaught Neva
da, bullseye of the atomic bom
bardier, has well earned the
world's limelight, sadly destruc
tive as it may be. Of the eight
battleships battered in the tr cacti
cry of Pearl Harbor, it was the
Nevada which first got up to
fight again.
Site for Ceremony
Three months after that holo
caust, while the great ship was
preparing to leave for Bremerton
for further repairs. Admiral
Chester Nimitz and his white-clad
staff climbed aboard under the
bright Hawaiian sun fur the na
vy's first mass decoration of its
heroes of Dec. 7, 1941.
In nearby waters we could see
the awful wreckage of other ships
still was visible. The great red
bottom of the capsized Oklahoma
was but a few hundred . yards
away. But for a brief moment.
Kthe thousands of workmen labor
ing to turn Pearl Harbor info
what It already should have
been the Gibraltar of the Pacific
hushed their deafening din
while thoughts travelled toward
hoped-for brighter days to come.
Cruisers IIero hips'
Iriddently, a picture taken of
that medal - presentation aboard
the trim ship was the first ever
radio-pbotoed across the Pacific.
It was sent by RCA from Hono
lulu to The Associated Press in
San Francisco and when it was
received it was so black that no
one could be recognized. That
was because we had not yet learn
ed how "sharp" a picture-print
should be used for radio trans
mission. Subsequent radio-photos
were much better.
So far as the early-day Pacific
war is concerned, the real "hero
ships' facing atom destruction
are the heavy cruisers. Pensacola
and Salt Lake City, and the car
rier Saratoga. The two cruisers
were the largest useable Ameri
can craft (exclusive of carriers)
In the Pacific war area for eight
months after Pearl Harbor, and
they carried a terrific brunt.
The Pensacola during one trip
aboard was even ued as a lone
cargo craft, many cf its weapons
Immobolized by great stores of
supplies stacked on its decks, to
carry aid to the menaced New
Hebrides off the northeast coast
of Australia.
A grave situation confronts the
country, as grave as most any we
have faced in peacetime. The
economic health of the country
hangs on the actions of the manu
facturer, the farmer, the landlord.
the businessman, the storekeeper,
, the worker, the consumer. The
death of price control by expira
tion of the law establishing it
occurs tonight, and there seems
no probability that legislation will
be enacted to revive it. This
means that, the country's economy
. is on its own. The play of econo
' jnie forces will determine prices
and -wage;- but IX the parties at
interest - in their greed balloon
prices, the end may be economic
disaster.
Business has been clamoring
1 for freedom of competition, has
raged, often with just cause,
gainst the Irritations and the er
jTprs of the OPA. Now that con
trols are going' offj if the producer
and the manufacturer and the dis
tributor and the merchant go on
a spree of profiteering they will
bring the temple of our prosper
ity crashing on our heads when
the aftermath of deflation comes.
Labor, too. has a responsibil
ity. If it seiaea the; moment for
fresh wage demands reinforced
by work stoppages then it will
defeat the only sure cure for
high prices: Abundant production.
President Truman was probably
wise in vetoing the bilL The OPA
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SAN FRANCISCO. June 29. HJP)
San Francisco tonight faced a
threatened tieup of the municipal
ly owned street car and bus yt
taan as ATX. and CIO Carmen's
locals prepare dto strike at mid
night to support demands for
Wage increases.
City utilities manager James H.
Turner, directed by the board of
supervisors ) to continue transit
cperations despite - the strike
threat, said we will operate the
System tomorrow, we hope, with
what men report for work."
Double Parking
Drive Underway
- A Salem police drive against
double parking Is underway.
Patrolmen were instructed by
Police Chief Frank Minto Satur
day to renew a strict enforce
ment of regulations forbidding
double parking, and by Saturday
night several drivers had been
ticketed for violations.
Trucks as well as passenger
vehicles will be checked closely,
the police chief stated, although
Jan. 1, 1946. to noon Saturday j trucks may continue to double-
park lor commercial loading pur
poses In the mornings only.
Marion County
Marriages Set
Monthly MarE
The 113 marriage license appli
cations issued during June by the
an all-time record for any month
Marion county clerk's office set
in the county's history.
License applications issued by
the county clerk's office from
TMXTJ OF THE TIMES
WASHINGTON, June 29 -JCf-It
may or may not be significant
but on the day congress allowed
price controls to expire, the ceil
ing in the house press gallery
weakened. A heavy downpour of
rain was too much for the ancient
roof on the house end, and a
steady trickle of water seeped
through.
Animal Crackers
Br WAE2EN GOOWCH
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mIhafa dirty they should
not edloio half -nelsons."
totaled 627. or more than last
year's enUre issue of 599.
Before record - breaking June
came along. May of this year
was the all-time high month with
103 applications issued. In June.
1945, 65 applications were handed
out. The biggest year yet record
ed by the county wan in 1943
when 739 license applicauoiis and
326 divorces were granted.
While June set a license mrk.
some 46 divorces were granted,
which does not. according to
County Clerk Harlan Judd, estab
lish a record. Last month 40
divorces were decreed.
Big 4 Relay
Showdown
PARIS. June 2tMP-The four
power foreign ministers tonight
postponed a decision on a gen
eral European peace conference
and pondered a new compromise
proposal on the disputed port of
In the Thick of Midway
It was also in the thick of the
Battle of Midway: tried vainly
to save she carrier Yorktown
which was mortally wounded by
Japanese torpedo planes that
turning-point day of June 4. 1942:
was itself badly shattered in that
flame-ridden night off Guadal
canal on November 30 of the
same year when scores of men
were lost; and lived to fight the
remainder of the wtir.
Its sister ship, the Salt Lake
City (both were reported sunk
many times by the Japanese),
also figured heavily In holding
the line until capital fhips could
come from the states to end such
precarious times as at Midway
when an American fleet, out
shipped by 4 to 1. had not a
single battleship with which to
face the dreadnaughts of Japan
The carrier Saratoga, also fdted
to be a scientific guinea pig under
the might or nu lear energy, was ; re-examine the problem
uic niiiu-iui r Miip oi eariy war
days. But it figured valiantly in
many later Incidents. And its
great gray hull was one of the
world's most welcome sights when
we saw it loom through the fog
north of Midway to bring badly
needed plane replacements for the
Enterprise and Hornet after the
costly first day of that engage
ment.
Truman Keeps
War Powers
WASHINGTON. June 29 OKI
President Truman today tigned
an amended version of the second
war powers act, which renews
his authority to ration and allo
cate scarce materials.
The bill contains a specific pro
vision that It cannot be used as
authority for fixing price ceilings
on commodities or rents.
Signing of the measure also
bestows on President Truman for
another year the extraordinary
powers to requisition property
and give priorities.
Scientist Warns
A-Bonil) Mav Fizzle
KWAJALEIN. June 29 -()- A
ii'&mifi ttk rkiiHli thai t lv
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VJ Ji CT J .V rr"s -atomic bomb to be dropped at
said might break the conference Bikini iag0on mifc.rit b a "fizile"
deadlock but which American was voiced by emment scien-
tuiwi9 umaicu cuuia no I De today
seriously considered. ; WJirninir
Siege Controls
75 of jews
In Palestine
JERUSALEM, June 30 - (Sun
day )-M)-More than 73 per cent
of Palestine's 600,000 Jews were
placed under virtual house ar
rest yesterday as British troops
clamped a tight military siege
over the Holy Land "to end the
state of anarchy."
Early today the British began
lifUng the 18-hour curfew im
posed at dawn yesterday, remov
ing the ban for all of Tel Aviv
and moat of Jerusalem.
Unconfirmed reports said that
five persons were killed in various
Jewish settelments during 4 h e
day. The deaths of a British sold
ier and one Jew were reported
officially.
Ships Begin
Evacuation of
Bikini Lagoon
ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN,
Bikini. Sunday. June 30 (JP)Vice
Adm. W. H. P. Blandy today des
ignated 8:30 a m. tomorrow (1:30
p.m. Sun lay PST) as zero hour for
the detonation of the world's
fourth atomic bomb on a guinea
pig fleet of old warthips In Bikini
lagoon.
(Radio station KSLM has sched
uled a broadcast of the dropping
of the atom bomb at Bikini Atoll
for 1 p.m. today).
The decision was made after
weather experts informed the task
force commander that the cloud
KWAJALEIN, Sunday. June
SO -A)- The weatherman re
ported at noon today that wind
turbulence ever the Bikini area
was slowly disappearing bat
that It still prevailed above
20.000 feel.
I'nofflcially, some observers
here felt there was a possibility
the scheduled dropping of the
atomic bomb might be post
poned by Vice Admiral W. H.
P. Blandy.
Tiroammaini Vetoeo
ROeasinre- Intonus
Sao s4 a ions Acfiooon
President Appeals to U. S. to Hold i
Price Line Until Bill Formulated J
WASHINGTON,, June 29-;P)-Price and rent controls corn
to a halt at midnight Sunday, but President Truman toldth
people tonight that the fight for them "is not over."
He asserted in a nationwide broadcast that the fight "Is not
over" for something stronger than the congress version of OPi
extension which he vetoed earlier in the day with the declaratioci
that it would lead to "disaster." f r
The impasse came when the house upheld the veto but failed.
OPA Employes' Status Undetermined
WASHINGTON. June 29-avWhat happens lo OPA's 14.000 "
employes en Monday was an unanswered question la Washingtaa
tonlsht.
OPA said It was counting on all of them be lag at week Maa
day morning.
Senator Taft (H-Ohio) to those OPA amendment President
Truman specifically objected In vetoing- the OPA bill, said as
funds would be available lesallyt after midnight temerrew U pay
administrative expenses or salaries.
And Senator Barkley. majority leader, told a reporter that
"so far as I can see." there Just wouldn't be an OTA Maaday.
Meanwhile. OPA said Price Administrator Paal Porter will
ge en the air (ABC network) Monday at 6:15 p.m. Pacific standard
time, to tell the agency's employes Just what their status Is.
The compromise Trieste plan,
submitted by French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault, calU
for establishing Trieste as an au
tonomous region under interna
tional guidance for 10 year?.
French sources said. At the enl
of that time the big four would
came from Dr.
Karl Compion. chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff evaluation
board.
"My scientific colleagues." he
told a press conference, ".vay that
even if we had a number of bombs,
alike phyMcally, each would vary
from a fizzle to a maximum efficiency.
Restaurants to
Raise Prices
Increased prices on restaurant
meals probably will result from
the president's veto of the OPA
extension bill, according to Robert
Lehman, president of the Salem
Restaurant association.
Local restaurateurs at a pre
viously scheduled Monday night
meeting will discus the effect
of this action on their menus.
Lehman said. Menu price in
creases will depend entirely upon
the effect the veto has on food
prices snd may be only small in
creases, Lehman said.
cover would be about 20 to 30
per cent and visibility would be
about 12 miles.
Evacuation L'nderway
The evacuation of Bikini laicoon
Is now underway.
Some 40.000 military person-!.
scientist, correspondents and ob
servers mus-t be clear of the lagoon
by 5 p m., leaving only skeleton
crews to make last-minute adjust
ments to the scores of instruments,
camera Is and recording equipment
aboard ships and on Island of
Bikini Atoll.
Twe-IIour Leeway
Every ship and every man must
be out of the lagoon two hours
before the bomb is detonated.
Then all that will be left will
be the ghost fleet silent ships on
which will be no human being.
The craft will stand around the
bullseye Nevada as guinea pigs of
in first test of atomic power
against ships.
(Additional details on page 12)
Wrecks Hurt 2
Near Mt. Angel
Rose Ehli, Silverton was be
ing treated at Silverton hospital,
early Sunday for head and knee
Injuries received in a two car
collision near Mt. Angel late Sat
urday. Hospital officials said her
condition was not critical.
Harold Sawyers, driver of the
car in which Miss Ehli was riding,
was treated for cuts and bruises
but was not kept In the hospital.
Both cars were reported' badly
damaged. Official said that tli
driver of the other car was treat
ed for bruises and shock, but
that his name was not known.
Silverton Woman to
Take Trip to Norway
SILVERTON, June 30 Mrs.
Karen Larson leaves here Tues
day for New York from where
she will sail July 13 for Norway
on the Stavangerfjord. This will
be her 14th voyage across the At
lantic and she will spend most of
her time in Norway near Ringe
bu in Gulbrandsalen and Oslo.
CONCHIE CAMP TO CLOSE
BEND. Ore., June 2-P)-Th
conscientious objectors' camp on.
the upper Deschutes river will
close tomorrow after three and
one-half years' operations.
along with the senate, to pass the temporary extension which
would have k'ept the price agency alive past the month-end ex
piration of the present law.
Tonight the president broadcast this three-way appeal: "
To the voters To make known to the lawmakers their determina
tion "to retain price controls and so prevent inflation."
To Congress To speed a temporary extennion of the powers ol
OPA and then "pass a workable bill."
To business To "exercise self restraint" against skyrocketing cf
prices until congress comes through.
The president In the course of his all-network broadcast disclosed
that he has called in the department of justice to invesUgate "some,
of the factors involved in our prexent shortages, to determine whether
anyone is criminally responsible for them ", j
As he had done in the earlier veto maasage, to congresi, th chief
executive asserted that the Taft amendment providing higher prices
for producers would be a "bonanza" for business, and would further
increase ine tendency to withhold goods for higher prices.
The president made his appeal while administration leaders In
congress mulled over strategy for an effort Monday to reinstate tha
controls. There was evidence that the effoit will come early, but
equally strong evidence that the resistance will be stiff, y
Action on Meuanre May He Delayed Vee N
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) raid he expected objections ''that wouI I
hold off floor consideration at least until July 4 Senator UatklejC
(D-Ky). the majority leader in that branch, spoke of a poibt!ity thai
final action might be delayed two or three we-k by tit srn.jte p ac-
tice of unlimited debate. And Taft said it would be difficult to breaih
new life into OPA at all If the lapse ran as mtichas a week He i ai
he would make a "complete reply" to the piesident in a Monday n ht
broadcast. "
Meanwhile, he predicted, there is little thane that Congrewf a ill
take action Monday. ' I .i-
''Senator O'Daniel (D-Tex) can delay even a referral of a bill td
committee until Wednesday," he said.
After his plea to the voters to mak their desires known to conV
gress, Mr. Truman said he felt suie the country could depend during
the lapt-e on the patriotism and good sens of it citizens, he addtdf
Truman Aaks Keatraint Until Hill Panned j
"TherJore, I call upon every business man, every producer and
every landlord to adhere to existing regulation even though for
short period they may not have the effect of law. It would be con
trary to their own interests to embark upon a reckless period of in-t
flation. It is to their own Interest to exercise elf restraint until soma
action can be obtained from the congress.
"I also request every employe of the OPA to stay at hit battla
station. Th fight is not over."
The White House press office said jut lefore 8 pm. (EST) to
night that the latest count on messages from the public showed 288 in '
favor of President Truman's veto of the price control extension bill
with five against.
Federal Officials Predict
Effects of OPA 9s Demise
By The Associated Pies ; f
OPA's powers were snatched away so quickly Wdy it threw
top government officials into huddles to determine what effect Ita
passing will have on other emergency progiam. ' ,
They agreed that:
The wage control plan will die, too. becau th' government'
sole authority over wag boosts is it power to limit compensating
price increases.
' And the only pric control that can be salvaged will b through
companion laws, such as tho regulating housing and slaughtering of
livestock.
Stabilization officials frankly fard a sharp inflation followed
by new wag demands from labor which, if granted, would send
prices still higher. Industry has acknowledged prices would rise
but said they would drop as production increased.
Mr. Truman said that under the bill he vetoed, building materials
would Jump about 20 per cent in cost, steel $4 to 98 a ton, automo
biles $223 to $230, washers and refrigerators, 23 to SO pr cent.
Labor leaders generally supported President Truman's veto of
the congressional price control bill and grimly forecast unrest and
labor trouble all over the nation. Business leaders, while agreeing
with the union official that price rise wer coming, felt that a
flood of production would soon stabilize the situation.
Wholesalers expected to see the commodity pric list go upwsrd
immediately, but disagreed on whether the climb would be sus
tained or whether the prices would level off In a short time.
Department of Conservation Urged for Oregon;
Forestry Committee Asks Long-Range Program
Creation of a new "department corporation be establithed to car-
58 to Graduate at W.U.
Commencement Today
of conservation.'1 to consolidate
: the activities of at leaj-t seven
state agencief and form the bais
for a comprehensive long-range
j forestiy prcgram for Oregon, was
recommend! by Gov. Earl Snell's
10-man special forestry committee
! todaly.
The proposed prcgram also
would provide more rigid fire pro
tection and compel the rehabili
: tation of the 300,000-acre Tilla-
Hundreds of Salem residents president of the Federal Council mock burn
and visitors w ill see 58 seniors or cnurcnes and Bishop or the
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ofl.-r.., t 1Vil wruMJUIJl IdurClA.
this
similar sagas eouio ue re- (pjcture on page 2) wlM deiiver
counted interminably by persons lamette university's 104th annual j the address.
conversant at rirst nana w i i n -nmmT,rrTM,nt TH vrri rr Mrs. Oxn&m ml ill
at the
such ships as the Pennsylvania,
Arkansas. New York. Independ
ence and other craft awaiting
scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
campus gymnasium. t-
Mrs. Ruth Fisher Oxnam. wife
receive the
degree of doctor of humanities
and the Rev. Fedje will receive
Die decree of doctor of divinity.
war's most terrible weapon. Mur- cf the commencement speaker. ! Selections by the Little Sym
mured for them today will be , and the Rev. Rov Fedie. sunenn- ; ohonv. directed bv Bernard Bar-
many a regretful farewell along tendvnt of the Salem district of ' ron, piano number by Ralph ; tion board, and possibly the Mate
with the fervent hope that in i the Methodist church, will receive Dobbs and the traditional gradu- parks department of the highway
death they may serve the cause honorary degrees at Die com- ation day solo. Farewell Willam- commission
of peace as well as they did the mencement i ttte," by Reul Shelton comprise; The committee ali.o it-corn-
tragedy of war. I Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, I the musu portion of the program. 1 mended thut a noii-iolitical state
The proposed state department
would be governed by a board of
seven members serving six-yeai
terms, would take over activi
ties of the state board of forestry,
game commission, f kJ commis
sion, department of geology and
mineial indtisti ic. board of for
est coiist-rv ation, state simitar y
authority. Rogue liver coordinu-
ry out the program for the Till
amook burn, which would be
completed in 10 years, to be fi
nanced by not more than 23,000,
000 of state guaranteed bonds.
Actually, however, the money
would b paid out of revenues
from sales of salvaged timber, un
der the proposed plan. This cor
poration also would carry out re
forestation programs In other ar
eas. To carry out the general forest
ry urogram, the committee recom
rreSied a special use tax On for
est products plus a legislative ap
propriation. The committee said exiting
laws are adequate but are not ade
quately enforced; recommended
more men be employed to check
logging operations; said there
should be a law to require logging
operations in hazardous areas to
have telephone communications;
recommended that the legislature
ippropriate $500,000 for extreme
emergencies, and said new stand
ards of fire protection be estab
lished. If private agencies failed to
meet the standards, the state
should take over, it declared.
The committee also recommend
ed that special crews be trained
for large fires, and that the state
take advantage of such surplus
army equipment as trucks, trac
tors, bulldozers, tanks, - flame
throwers, fog machines, explo
sives. Incendiaries, radios and air
craft. Declaring that the Tillamook
burn would grow 225,000,000
board feet of lumber per year,
the committee said "productive
capacity of this high quality for
est land is so great that Its re
habilitation Is Imperative." But,
the committee said, existing fire
hazards first must be reduced by
more frequent inspections, more
roads, and more firefighters.
Recommendations that the state
forestry department explore new
methods of planting and rodent
control, eliminate anags before
planting, and make a thorough
survey so thai trees best suitable
could be planted, also wer includ
ed In the report which specific
ally mentioned 77,000 acre in
eastern Linn county as well as
other large slashing hazards.
The committee, whose repot t.
was commended by th govern
or, also recommended I that the
farm forestry program J devel
oped, and that th Keep Oregon
Green association be gfven more
Our Senators
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