Yanks Encircle Shuri Trapping Main Force of Japs on Okinawa
Overwhelming
Blows Prepared
apital
Journal
Big 3 Meeting
Held Essential
To Settle Issues
Marines Use
Flaming Oil in
Enemy Caves
Japs Driven Into One
Square Mile Area
Close Fighting Rages
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Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 21, 1945
Price Five Cents
Against Japan
Truman Presents Medal
To Soldier at Joint
Session of Congress .
Washington, May 21 (Pi A
ramrod-stiff G.I. sergeant from
the shrapnel-splattered battle
fields of Europe stood before his
president and the congress to
day to receive the congressional
medal of honor.
The sergeant, slender black
haired Jake W. Lindsey of
Lucedale, Miss., was the 100th
infantryman to receive the cov
eted award, highest in his coun
try's gift.
Senators and representatives
cheered and applauded a few
with excited yells as the tech
nical sergeant bowed his head to
receive the blue-ribboned war
trophy from President Truman.
Presented by President
"This is a proud and moving
occasion for every American,"
the president said in remarks
broadcast over all major net
works. "It follows the complete vic
tory of the allied forces over a
powerful enemy in Europe. It
finds us striking devastating
blows in the Pacific. We are
preparing to strike them later in
overwhelming force."
Mr. Truman joined In the ap
plause as the young Mississip
pian, accompanied by Chief of
Staff Gen. George C. Marshall,
accepted the award and stepped
from the house dias.
Badly Rattled
Once during the applause
Gen. Marshal was overheard
saying in an aside to Sgt. Lind
sey: "Give "em a bow, give 'em
ufa bow."
' The soldier who bravely fac
ed overwhelming odds in battle
' found the occasion almost too
much for him. He swallowed
several times and his features
never relaxed from their stern
Immobility, except when he
shook hands with the president.
After the ceremony Sgt. Lind
sey was the guest of honor at a
private capitol luncheon At
tended by President Truman
and congressional leaders. Rep.
Colmer (D., Miss.), the young
sergeant's ' congressman, was
host at the luncheon.y
Speaks to Congress
Mr. Turman told the congress:
"Before . the battle against
Japan is won, we shall have
other men to honor men whose
deeds, like those we celebrate
today, will have brought closer
our Inevitable victory."
Lindsey is the 100th infan-
tryman to receive the nation's
Highest award for valor in bat
tle and the president, in making
the presentation personally be
fore a joint session of congress
(Concluded on Page 7, Column 6)
Army to Lose
Men Aged 40
Washington, May 21 (U.R)
Army enlisted men aged 40 or
older were made eligible today
for discharge on their own ap
plication.
The ruling applies to all such
men whose service record is
4inonorable.
This represents a lowering of
the discharge age from 42 years,
which became effective last
April 17..
The reduction of the GE brai
uets affected about 30,000 en
listed men in the 40 and 41
year age groups.
When the military situation
permits, a further reduction
will uc lllduc III uic tifie Mlllll,
the war department disclosed.
These discharges are separate
from those made on the point
system which applies to all ages.
The new policy Is also appli
cable to enlisted Wacs 40 and
older who have served for one
year or more. Eight thousand
enlisted Wacs are eligible to
apply under this policy.
i Commanders will be permit
ted to retain for 90 days any
eligible man who applies for
discharge under this policy for
whom a replacement is not im
mediately available.
The Weather
(Released by the United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and vicin
ity: Mostly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday with scattered light
rains tonight and occasionally
Tuesday. Continued cool day
time temperatures. . Minimum
tonight about 48. Conditions
Tuesday morning will be favor
able for dusting. Max. yester
day. 65. Mln. today, 49.' Mean
temperature yesterday, 54. which
was 3 below normal. Total 24
hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m.
today, .01. Total precipitation
.lor the month. 3.99. which is
2.52 inches above normal. Wil
lamette river height, 6 ft.
Tito's Troops
Withdrawing
From Austria
Trieste, May 21 (Pi Yugo
slav forces which penetrated
into Carinthia and Styria began
moving out of Austria in force
today in trucks provided by
(he British eighth army and
are expected to be outside the
border by tonight.
At the same time a Yugoslav-controlled
newspaper here
adopted a conciliatory tone to
ward the message of Marshal
Sir Harold Alexander to his
troops on Trieste, although a
confused situation of dual oc
cupation still prevailed here.
Marshal Tito's Yugoslavs be
gan moving out of Austria af
ter an officer of the third
Yugoslav army conferred with
Gen. Keightly of the eighth
army's fifth corps and told him
he had been ordered to with
draw below the Austrian bor
der. The Yugoslavs had infiltra
ted into Austria after advance
parties of the eighth army en
tered, and at Kalagenfurt seized
the local newspaper plant be
fore a guard could be placed
over it.
An allied military govern
ment had been placed in opera
tion throughout the zone of
Austria occupied by the British
despite the Yugoslav action.
The ' Y u g os 1 a v - controlled
newspaper II Nostro Avvenire
published the text of Marshal
Alexander's message to his
troops, giving Trieste citizens
and Marshal Tito's troops here
what probably was their first
news of the gravity of the si
tuation. Russians Train
Czech Army
London, May 21 (P) The
Czechoslovak news bureau an
nounced tonight a new Czecho
slovak army to be trained and
equipped by the Russians will
be built around the Czechoslo
vak army group which was
formed in Russia during the
German occupation of the home
land. . A spokesman explained that
re-establishment of a modern
army would follow the pattern
adopted after the first World
war when the Czechs turned to
France for aid and equipment.
At that time a large French mil
itary mission with headquarters
in Prague helped organize an
army of 40 infantry and four
motorized divisions.
Now, said the spokesman, new
Circumstances and the mutual
assistance pact with soviet Rus
sia make it desirable to request
military assistance and advice
from Russia.
Czechoslovak units trained in
Britain will be absorbed and
retrained in the new army.
Russia has agreed to receive
a number of young Czech offi
cers and enlisted men at all so
viet military schools for train
ing. After receiving the same
training as red army men they
will return to the homeland.
Nazi Governor Jailed
London, May 21 (U.R) Copen
hagen dispatches said today that
Werner Best, former nazi gover
nor of Denmark, has been turn
ed over to Danish authorities
after his arrest by allied troops.
British Labor Breaks Away
From Churchill Government
London, May 21 (U.R) The labor party decided today to break
away from the coalition government and force a British election,
despite an urgent plea from Prime Minister Churchill to put off
nnlitirs until .Innan f ripfpatpri
Meeting at Blackpool, the la
bor party rejected Churchill's
proposal to continue the coali
tion government and offered to
go to the polls any time. The
step meant the death in a short
time possibly next month of
the government Churchill
formed five years ago to guide
Britain to victory in Europe.
In a last-minute maneuver
Churchill suggested that an un
precedented national referen
dum be held on whether the 10-year-old
parliament should con
tinue in office.
Deputy Prime Minister Clem
ent R. Attlee and Home Secre
tary Herbert Morrison, in a
press conference at Blackpool,
Single Aircraft
Sinks Convoy of
5 Jap Vessels
Manila, May 21 (Pi In one of
the war's outstanding aerial
feats, a single Philippines-based
navy patrol plane destroyed an
entire Japanese convoy of five
ships, totaling 17,000 tons off
Formosa Saturday, Gen. Doug
las MacArthur reported today.
The largest ship, more than
5,500 tons, was a troop carrier,
judging from its numerous life
rafts. A total of 369,818 Japanese
have been killed and captured
in the seven months' Philippine
campaign, 14,408 of them in the
last fortnight, MacArthur an
nounced. Japs Weakening
Japanese forces driven north
of Davao into a succession of
defense lines on Mindanao isl
and appeared to be weakening.
A U.S. 24th division column
which speared up the coast,
throwing a flank threat at stout
ly defended Sasa airfield, did
not meet resistance until the end
of a full day's advance. At
nightfall, it overcame strong
Nipponese positions 3,000 yards
northwest of Ipil village.
Other elements of the 24th
knocked out strong Japanese re
sistance around Tugbok on the
main Japanese escape route into
the mountains.
Sayre Road Opened
One corasany beat off four
counterattacks by a single Ja
panese platoon one night.
The Sayre highway on north
central Mindanao was opened to
the Yanks as far as Dalirig vil
lage as the 40th and American
divisions drove south. Advanc
ing northward toward a junc
ture, the 31st bucked sniper fire
to reach within 11 miles of Mal
aybalay, provincial capital of
Hukidnow.
On Luzon, where fog and rain
added to the toughness of the
fight, Yanks cleaned out resist
ant pockets in the Balete Pass
of the northern sector and in the
Ipo pocket east of Manila.
Chinese Capture
Second Port
Chungking, May 21 (U.R)
Chinese troops have recaptured
Hochih, 90 miles northwest of
the former 14th U. S. air force
base at Lichow in Kwangsi prov
ince, a communique announced
today.
Hochih had been the western
most Kwangsi base of Japanese
troops since they were driven
back from Kweichow province
last December after a thrust ot
ward the American air base at
Kweiyang, 180 miles south of
Chungking.
On the Fukien front, victori
ous Chinese troops drove to
wards the sea today along both
sides of the Min river from the
recently recaptured inland port
of Foochow, 25 miles from the
east coast.
One force pushed 15 miles
along the right bank of the Min
to capture the river port of Di
ongloh. Another column occu
pied the Pagado anchorage of
Mamoi, 18 miles southeast of
Foochow.
Another force, pushing north,
had reached the vicinity of Lien
long, 22 miles north of Foo
chow. saia me party oenevea tne eiec
tion should be delayed until au
tumn, but was ready for it in
July the, earliest possible time.
Churchill made his proposi
tion in a letter to labor party
members. He acknowledged
the need for expression of the
nation's will to vote, but urged
that for reasons above party
lines the coalition government
stay in office.
.Attlee and Morrison pointed
out that the end of the Japanese
war was indefinite. They said
that they felt the election should
be put off until autumn. They
believed that one was necessary
in the relatively near future
to renew the life of the par
liament elected in 1935.
In; Aim
French Turn on Their Would-Be Conquerors W) German
Frenchmen as the enemy was rounded up at Jouy-en-Josas,
capital was liberated last August. Censorship just released
Dan Grossi, with wartime still picture pool.
County War Bond Sales
Reach Total of $645,740
Total war bond sales in the seventh loan drive barely skinned
by the $600,000 mark Monday with a total reported of $645,740
out of which individuals sales were $515,026 and these Included
"E" bond sales of $337,195. Employes of the Western Paper
Converting company were latest reported by Industrial Chairman
Eisenhower
Used Double
Paris, May 21 (P) A Chicago
lieutenant colonel was used as a
double for Gen. Eisenhower last
December after the Germans
voiced threats against the su
preme commander's life, it was
disclosed today.
Supreme headquarters said,
however, that the plot was a
hoax-i-a .i story the Germans
spread to heighten their armies'
morale.
The double, Lt. Col Baldwin
B. Smith of Chicago, was placed
in Eisenhower's four-star auto
mobile on journeys between St.
Germains and Versailles.
Smith volunteered for the
role "of decoy when the army
clamped an iron-tight curfew on
the Paris area and set up the
most elaborate machinery of the
war to prevent possible destruc
tion of supreme allied headquar
ters and assassination of the
commanding general.
The similarity in appearances
of Eisenhower and Smith is so
striking that they frequently
are mistaken for each other.
"When Smith sat in the gen
eral's car, you couldn't tell the
difference," commented Lt. Al
bert Buonnano of Cranston, R.I.,
"their smiles are identical and
from the rear they look exactly
alike."
Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny, aide
to Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler and reported to be
leader of the picked assassins
directed to kill Eisenhower, was
captured by the U.S. seventh
army last Thursday. Censors
then permitted release of the
plot story, one of the top mili
tary secrets of the European
theater.
First Imperial
Wizard of KKK Dies
Atlanta, May 21 fP) William
Joseph Simmons, first imperial
wizard of the Ku Klux Klan or
ganization which was revived
throughout the south 30 years
ago, is dead.
Death in a hospital here last
Friday of the man who directed
the Klan In the years when it
wrote a stormy chapter in the
pages of American history was
disclosed by friends today. His
wife survives.
Simmons had been in failing
health for the past four years.
Since eclipse of the Klan, he had
been in retirement, devoting the
past few years to writing and
occasional lectures.
Hitler's Photographer Taken
Rosenheim, Germany, May 21
(P) Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler's
personal photographer, was
captured by the seventh army
a week ago. He registered a
double complaint from his pri
son cell today: (1) He had had
no " mpagne for a week, and
(2) all his negatives were de
stroyed In the bombings of
Berlin.
IT"
1 1'A&H:
ft vt
4". Dent Reed to eo over the toD
among local industrial firms
having passed their quota of
$10,125. Keith Building & Sup
ply company and Chemical Con
struction company are other
plants which had previously ex
ceeded their quotas This brings
the total of subscriptions for
industrial plants up to $66,533
for employ subscriptions.
Added to the list of awards
for war bond holders is a four
piece bedroom set valued at $100
and donated by Woodry Furni
ture company. This brings the
total of such awards up to 81
and others are expected.'
Gene Vandenynde, c i t 1 e s
chairman for the campaign, has
reported heads of drives in out
side communities with their
quotas, these all being filled
with the exception of Jefferson,
(Concluded on Page 8, Column 6)
Hungarian Gold
Cache Found
Paris, May 21 (Pi The state
treasure of Hungary, including
the total gold reserve behind all
Hungarian currency in circula
tion, was uncovered recently by
the U. S. 80th infantry division
on a rocky, pine-covered crag
high in the Austrian Alps.
The treasure trove, hidden at
the ancient mountain village of
Pital Am Pyhrn, was unearthed
by Hungarian-born MSgt. Wil
liam J. DeHuszar of Chicago, 111.
It Included 4.000,000,000 pen
gos ($130,000,000 at the present
rate of exchange), 29,000 kilo
grams of gold bullion worth
$30,000,000, complete sets of
Hungarian bank note plates for
printing all Hungarian cur
rency, plus other wealth repre
senting most of the capital in
terest and individual deposits of
Hungary brought from Buda
pest before the Russians captur
ed that city.
Also in the mountain top
chapel cellar were more than
1,000,000 reichsmarks, $159,000
in American currency, six cases
of priceless Hungarian art treas
ures, including historical 14th
century illuminated manuscripts
belonging to the ancient Magyar
kings, and 20 cases containing
jewels and other valuables once
the property of the royal Hun
garian court.
This wealth in money, art
and jewels was watched over by
the pro-nazi president of the
Royal Bank of Hungary and
some 500 financial experts,
clerks, bookkeepers and other
employes, guarded by 200 pick
ed Hungarian gendarmes.
Easing Promised in
Civilian Lumber
Seattle, May 21 (U.R) Sup
plies of lumber for civilian con
struction will be eased during
the last months of 1945, the
army-navy lumber information
committee said today.
The committee emphasized
that the supplies will be tight
ly controlled for army and
navy needs in the war against
Japan for the next four months.
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troops run from kicks and blows of
near Paris, about the time the French
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Budget Law
Suit Dismissed
A suit by Oregon Business &
Tax Research, Inc. to invalidate
the 1945 legislature's local bud
get law was dismissed today by
Circuit Judge George R. Dun
can. The firm, which has head
quarters in Portland, is expected
to appeal to the tate supreme
court. It had asked for an in
junction against Secretary of
Slate Robert S. Farrell, Jr., to
restrain Farrell from including
the measure, known as house
bill 403, in the published ses
sion laws. The suit has delay
ed publication of the laws.
The firm charged that the
bill, as finally signed by the
governor, did not include
amendments which had been
passed by the legislature.
But Judge Duncan, citing a
well-established rule of law to
the effect that the official leg
islative journals are the only
records on which courts may re
ly, said the official journals
show the bill was properly en
acted. The bill would permit tax
levying bodies to set up a cash
working account for use be
tween the time taxes are author
ized and until they are collect
ed. The suit was filed only last
Thursday, and argued in court
the following day.
Admiral Sallada
Heads Air Bureau
Washington, May 21 (P)
President Truman nominated
Rear Admiral Harold B. Sallada
to be chief of the navy's bureau
of aeronautics with the same
rank.
Admiral Sallada will replace
Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton
Ramsey who has been chief of
the bureau of aeronautics since
August 6, 1943. Ramsey's new
assignment was not announced
immediately.
The president also nominated
Monnett B. Davis of Colorado to
be minister to Denmark. Davis
is now a personal representative
of the president in Denmark
with the rank of minister.
French Senegalese Fire
On Lebanese Creating Crisis
Beyrouth, May 21 (U.R) Disclosures that French Senegalese
troops fired on Lebanese demonstrators and killed several of them
yesterday brought a new middle-eastern political crisis to a head
today. (A Cairo dispatch said
clashes in Syria and Lebanon
had put the whole middle-east
on edge over French policy in
the Levant states. . A Lebanese
legation official said 17 persons
were wounded when Senegalese
troops dispersed crowds in Da
mascus.) The shooting climaxed a se
ries of incidents provoked by
troops in Syria and Lebanon
and brought these rapid devel
opments: 1. Syria and Lebanon re
solved jointly to refuse to ne
gotiate with the French on the
question of landing additional
troops in the two countries. The
decision was designed to place
the blame on France for any
further clashes.
3.olems of Frontiers,
6? Criminals Assum-
ng Crisis Proportions
fBy th Asufwtdtd Pr.Mt
Europe's vexing problems of
frontiers and war criminals
spurred new demands today for
an early meeting of the Big
Three. The British press
warned that some of the issues
already were beginning to as
sume proportions of "interna
tional crises" as tension height
ened in the dispute over the
Adriatic port of Trieste.
Moscow commentators in
creased their demands for swift
trial of captured nazi big shots
by the Americans and British
and asked why other Hitlerite
leaders had not been captured.
Opposed to Doenitz
Apparently no nearer settle
ment was the Polish govern
ment question and there were
signs of Russian disagreement
with Anglo-American methods
of treating the Doenitz admin
istration. Hunger began to make itself
felt in Trieste. Associated Press
Correspondent Lynn Heinzer
ling said Yugoslav military au
thorities were reported io have
made overtures to allied au
thorities for shipment of food
to Italy but the Italians were
confronted with the problem of
feeding thousands of displaced
persons of their own.
The allied military govern
ment, which apparently would
be in position to alleviate the
food shortages, remained out
side Trieste and there was lit
tle prospect it would act as long
as Marshal Tito's troops contin
ued to control the port. The
Yugoslavs gave no sign of evac
uating the city.
War Criminals
While the discussion of how
to proceed against war crimi
nals continued, occupation
troops rounded up another Ger
man leader, Field Marshal Fer
dinand Schoerner, commander
of the hold-out troops who re
sisted the Russians in Czecho
slovakia for several days after
the nazi capitulation. Schoerner
was turned over the U. S. 42nd
division by a German army com
mand post to which he had fled
in disguise.
The manhunt for Gestapo
Chief Himmler continued.
A British military govern
ment officer announced a plan
for ultimate decentralization of
the German government under
allied-supervised local mayors.
Sought for the job were "worthy
burgomeisters."
Refugees to Return
German refugees in London
will return to the reich to help
carry out the program. But a
Russian commentator said pub
lic opinion demanded "an im
mediate stop" to allied collab
oration with "the Ersatz govern
ment of (Grand Admiral Karl)
Doenitz."
The American military gov
ernment put a freeze on Ger
man bank accounts, limiting
nazi leaders to $30 a month
for living expenses and an
nouncing that all whose funds
were so restricted also were
subject to arrest. Other Ger
mans will be limited to $100
a month for expenses.
King Leopold 111
London, May 21 (UR) Radio
Brussels quoted a statement
from the Belgian premier's of
fice yesterday that King Leo
pold III, who was liberated in
southern Germany, suffered an
acute heart attack last week
and was unable to be moved.
2. The Arab league, power
ful union of middle-eastern
countries, called on diplomatic
representatives of the big pow
ers, Including France itself, to
express regret over the situa
tion. 3. U. S. Minister George
Wadsworth conferred with Leb
anese leaders.
4. The Iraq government con
tacted the Egyptian government
in an effort to coordinate their
policies in the event of new
developments.
The fatal shooting occurred
near a French co-operative store
in Beyrouth. The Sengalese
troops were guarding the stores
and opened fire when the dem
onstrators approached.
Guam, May 21 (U.R) Marines
and army infantrymen on Okin
awa battled to complete the en
circlement of Shurl today In
drive that threatened to trap the
main strength of the Japanese
garrison in a one-square-mile
area. '
The Tenth army sent strong
patrols Into Yonabaru on the
east coast today while marinei
used flaming oil to drive Japa
nese defenders from formida
ble' fortifications guarding
Shuri, front dispatches reported.
Fleet on the Prowl
The Domei (Japanese) news
agency said an American fleet
again was "on the prowl" off
southern Japan. It appeared to
be approaching Kyushu for new
attacks on the Japanese home
land. Close-range fighting of un
surpassed Intensity in the Paci
fic war raged among the ridgei
and caves outside Shuri and
Yonabaru.
Army patrols, dispatched by
Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge of the
24th corps, penetrated Yonabaru
and found but few Japanese.
The enemy apparently has been
moving out of the town during
daylight hours when American
artillery spotters are overhead.
Oil Poured Into Caves
The First marine division
one of the three enveloping
Shuri blazed a fiery path to
ward the ancient stronghold
which the Japanese were de
fending with do-or-die despera
tion.
Front dispatches said leather
necks poured fuel Into coral
caves and hill-side fortifica
tions, igniting it with exploding
grenades. Sheets of flame shot
skyward, casting a pinkish glow
on Shuri, directly ahead, and
killing or routing the defenders.
Anti-tank gunners used their
big weapons like rifles, firing
them point-blank at slits in cor
al pillboxes.
Heavy Bombardment ...
Savage ground fighting pro
gressed under cover of the heav
iest land, sea and air bombard
ment of the Pacific war. It
appeared the heaviest ground
assault was being directed at
Shuri. Except for patrols, the
96th division has not yet entered
Yonabaru in strength. Final at
tacks against Naha, rubble
heaped west coast port and
capital of Okinawa, apparently
were being held up. pending
completion of the Shurl eam
paign.
Young General
Sniper Victim
Manila, May 21 (IP) Brig.
Gen. James L. Dalton, 35, one of
the youngest generals In the
army, was killed by a Japanese
sniper near Balete pass on
northern Luzon Island, Gen.
Douglas AacArthur announced
today.
Dalton, whom MacArthur re
ferred to as "distinguished and
intrepid," was killed May 16.
MacArthur announced the
young officer's death with
'.'great sorrow."
Dalton, whose widow and two
daughters live in Kennebunk
Port, Me., was assistant 25th di
vision commander. His body
was buried yesterday in the
Santa Barbara army cemetery
near Binaionan, 100 miles north
of Manila.
Dalton commanded the 161st
regiment, formerly part of the
Washington state national
guard, through the Guadalcanal
and New Georgia campaigns in
the Solomons, and on Luzon in
the battle of San Manuel where
the main Japanese tank
strength was smashed. "
He was killed while inspect
ing a front line ravine which
formerly sheltered the enemy
command on that front.
Dalton was the second gen
eral to be killed on the front
lines of Luzon, principal island
of the Philippines. Maj. Gen.
Edwin D. Patrick, commander
of the Sixth division, was killed
March 15.
New Street Bus Deliveries
Detroit, May 21 (Pi Six of 34
buses ordered by Oregon Motor
Stages probably will be deliver
ed the last quarter of 1945, and
six the first quarter of 1946, the
General Motors truck and Coach
division, Pontiac, said today.
The rest of the delivery is in
definite, General Motors stated.