Nimitz Says Okinawa Conquest Completed in 82 Days of Battle
Truman Visions
Improvement in
Food Situation
Anderson to Straighten
Mess Out To Pay
Portland Visit Monday
Olympia, Wash., June 21, U
President Truman today fore
cast material improvement in
the national food situation when
the new food administration
takes over.
Mr. Truman made this fore
cast in a special news confer
ence here in the office of Gov.
Mon Wallgren, his host during
a vacation in the northwest. The
conference was held primarily
for reporters from this section.
The president said he thought
the food situation would straigh
ten out automatically as soon as
the new administrator Rep.
Clinton Anderson, (D-N.M.)
who becomes administrator and
secretary of agriculture takes
over his Job.
Mr. Truman also praised con
gress for its renewal of the trade
agreement act, saying this act
ion "places the United States
squarely behind the principles
of international trade coopera
tion which must prevail in the
interest of world peace and ec
onomic well being."
To Visit Portland
At the same time the presi
dent expressed gratification over
the progress of the San Fran
cisco United Nations conference.
saying he was very happy that
it had been a success.
He announced plans to make
a brief stop Monday at Port
land, Ore., en route to San Fran
cisco where he will address the
adjourning session of the con
gress on Tuesday.
, Mr. Truman said he would
lsave here at 10 a. m. (PWT)
Monday and fly to Portland, ar
riving there about 11 o'clock,
and leaving there in time to
reach San Francisco about 4 p.
m. Monday.
Permits Quotation
He permitted direct quotation
of his comment on congressional
action in renewing the trade
agreements act for three years:
"The action of the senate in
approving the legislation to re
new and strengthen the trade
agreements act is indeed gratify
ing.
"The revitallzation of this
act places the United States
squarely behind the principles
of international trade coopera
tion which must prevail in the
Interests of world peace and ec
onomic well being.
"Trade cooperation, however,
rnust go hand in hand with mon
etary and financial cooperation
and I am confident that the sen
ate will also take favorable ac
tion on the Bretton Woods leg
islation." (Continued on Pare 16, Column 5)
President for
Alaska Road
Olympia, Wash., June 21, (U.R)
President Truman today ad
vocated completion of the Alas
kan highway as an essential
postwar project.
Mr. Truman told his press con
ference that 600 miles of high
way still must be constructed
to complete the long highway
which links the United States
with Alaska.
He made the announcement to
1 his press conference after meet
ing with Gov. Earnest Guren-
ing of Alaska and Sen. Warren
G. Magnuson, D., Wash.
Mr. Truman said that the
(Commission which planned the
Original highway would be re
vitalized. He observed ., that
Magnuson is now a member of
the commission, as was Gover
nor Wallgren who sat beside
him during the meeting with
the northwest press. ,
The president said it would
be the commission's job to plan
the construction of the last leg
of the highway.
In answer to a question, the
president reiterated his sup
port for the bill introduced by
Sen. Hugh B. Mitchell, D., Wn.,
which would create a Columbia
valley authority.
Mr. Truman reminded that
the CVA is part of an overall
plan in which his home state
of Missouri is interested as
well.
Forest Fire in Metolius
Bend, June 21, (U.R) Fanned
by fitful winds, the most severe
forest fire in recent years was
raging in the lower Metolius
river section of the Deschutes
national forest, - approximately
5 miles northwest of Bend, as
oipwards of 300 men fought to
bring the blaze under control.
Capital 4 Journal
57th Year, No. 147 matter at Salem. Orecoo
Doolittle Marks
Map for Set-up
For Jap Bombing
Washington, June 21, VP) The
strategic bombing of Japan will
be carried out by two separate
heavy bombing forces, the 20th
and the 8th.
This was disclosed today in a
news conference with Lt. Gen.
James H. Doolittle, chief of the
8th air force which now is be
ing redeployed from Europe to
the Pacific area.
In answer to a question about
the general setup, Doolittle said:
To Command 8th
"The 8th will be under my
command; the directives will
come from the joint chiefs of
staff."
This will parallel operations
of the 20th air force, command
ed by Gen. H. H. Arnold, with
Lt. Gen. Barney Giles the dep
uty commander in the Pacific.
The 21st bomber command (a
part of the 20th air force), bas
ed on Saipan, has been conduct
ing the attacks on the Japan
ese home islands. The 20th is
directed from Washington and
the strategy is determined by
the joint chiefs of staff here.
To Use B-29s
Doolittle said that Colorado
Springs, Colo., will be the head
quarters of the 8th air force
while it is retraining in this
country.
Asked whether the 8th would
use only the Superfortresses us
ed by the 20th, Doolittle said
that the "decision to date is to
have B-29s and such other ships
as are needed." He was unable
to say whether the B-17s, used
along with the B-24s in the
bombardment of Germany
would be part of the 8th air
force in the Pacific.
He said the 8th hoped to have
long-range fighters as part of
its Pacific organization.
While Doolittle gave no fur
ther details on the Pacific air
organization, he said, there
would be an announcement on
the strategic command in that
area soon.
AbeleSunkby
Jap Baha Bomb
Washington, June 21 U.K
The navy, rapidly removing the
news blackout on Japanese sui
cide attacks, told today how
the double blow of a Japanese
suicide plane and a "baka
bomb" sank the destroyer Man
nert L. Abele off Okinawa last
April 12.
The account, containing the
first disclosed incident of a
baka bomb hitting an Ameri
can ship, followed by only 12
hours navy release' of a six
month old account of a suicide
plane attack on the light crui
ser Nashville enroute to the in
vasion of Mindor island in the
Philippines.
The Nashville was hit by a
single suicide plane while in
convoy last Dec. 13. A total of
133 officers and men were kill
ed but the ship remained afloat
and has since been repaired
and restored to action.
Casualties aboard the Abele
were 113 81 dead and 32
wounded. The ship was on pic
ket duty off Okinawa on the
day of the attack.
$100,000 in War Bonds
Sold at Victory Center Show
While totals were not yet figured up an estimated $100,000 in
bonds were sold yesterday under the stimulation of last night's
bond show and the cleanup made in jeeps yesterday by bond
salesmen. It is estimated fully
2000 people saw the show on
the courthouse lawn and a con
siderable number participated
in the bond bidding.
A purchase of $10,000 in war
bonds brought the services of a
group of business men to cook
and serve a dinner, the seven
men being Glenn McCormick,
Ed Boring, Dent Reed, Doug
Yeater, Loyal Warner, Bob Mc
Ewan and Burr Miller. It was
then discovered by the brave
seven that the bond purchasers
were the St. Paul Rodeo associa
tion and they'll have to serve
the dinner to around 150 per
sons at the rodeo.
The rodeo association queen
with her court and a fine show
ing of visitors appeared in full
regalia and opened the bond
30,000 Japs in
Cagayan Valley
Herded in Trap
Manila, June 21, (IP) A force
of possibly 30,000 Japanese was
herded north up the Cagayan
valley today by onrushing col
umns of the 37th Ohio infantry
division toward fierce igorots
bent on adding them to the more
than 400,000 enemy casualties
on Luzon.
The Nipponese were falling
back on Aparri, a scant 100
miles ahead of 37th advance pa
trols, with nowhere to go once
they reach that northwest city
on Luzon.
On the west side of the Ca
gayan river, which splits the val
ley, the Igorots and other Fili
pino guerrillas waited in long
prepared positions to frustrate
any Nipponese attempt to find
refuge among the wild, spiney
ridges of the Cordillera moun
tains. Maj. Robert S. Beightler's
Buckeyes drove unchecked
north of captured Ilagan and its
grass-grown airstrip. The back
tracking foe was hounded by
planes, some flown by Mexican
pilots, which are making as
many as 300 sorties a day in
support of the Luzon opera
tions. Latest field advices added 336
more Japanese to the daily
mounting casualty lists.
New Borneo Landing
On Borneo, Australian forces
have made a new landing, this
time at the northern head of
Brunei bay to give them con
trol of "the shores bordering
both entrances into the bay,"
headquarters announced today.
The diggers crossed the five
mile strait from previously cap
tured Labuan island in a move
which would block any attempt
of the Japanese to attack from
Jesselton, 60 miles north.
Headquarters reported anoth
er in the daily series of attacks
by . heavy bombers on the oil
center of Balikpapan on Bor
neo's east coast but still said
nothing concerning repeated en
emy broadcasts that an allied
fleet is offshore, shelling and
mine-sweeping.
In dozens of small scale mop
ping up operations on Luzon
and Mindano island fronts of
the Philippines, ground forces
killed more than 350 Japanese
Tuesday and captured 160 oth
ers. Prison Terms
For 12 Poles
Moscow, June 21, VP) Twelve
of 16 Poles accused of subvers
ive activities behind red army
lines were convicted by a Sov
iet court early today and given
sentences of from four months
to ten years in prison. Three
were acquitted and the trial of
another was postponed.
The heaviest sentence 10
years was imposed upon Maj.
Gen. L. Bronislaw Okulicki,
commander of the underground
home army after the ill-fated
Warsaw uprising.
Jan Janowski, deputy prime
minister of the London Polish
government-in-exile and leader
of the Polish underground move
ment, was sentenced to eight
years imprisonment.
show. They also had planned to
buy in the 50-pound ham do
nated by Mickey's Cafe but an
unidentified woman took the
ham for a $7000 war bond
purchase. A pair of pre-war
silk hosiery brought $500 in
bonds.
With the bond sales of Wed
nesday night not yet figured in
the total in E bond sales is still
lagging and causing acute con
cern to the members of the
war finance committee, who
see less than two weeks ahead
in which to sell around $800,
000 in this type of bonds. The E
total did go to 61.2 percent of
quota Wednesday with $1,388.
162.25 of this type of bond sold
and the individual quota, in
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21,
,t',"""'&,,.,..'
Map of Bush's Pasture, purchase of a portion of which will be voted on in the special city elec
tion Friday. The area marked A is the lower 57 acres already owned by the city in which the 10
acres to be used as an athletic field by Willamette university and the community is located.
B is the portion to be retained for the use of Miss Sally Bush during the lifetime of Miss Bush
and A. N. Bush, after which it will revert to the city. C is the remainder of the tract. Portions
B and C are the 43 -acre area to be voted on Friday.
University Policy on
Sports Field Liberal
Willamette university has no intention of adopting a selfish
attitude in connection with the development of an athletic plant
on the lower level of Bush pasture should the proposal to secure
the entire tract as a public park meet the approval of the voters
at Friday's special election. This was the assurance given today
Security Meet
Ends June 26
San Francisco, June 21 (IP)
A charter embracing the views
of 50 United Nations was wrap
ped up today into a world docu
ment designed to maintain
peace.
President Truman, now tak
ing a brief holiday In Wash
ington state, will bring the
United Nations conference to a
formal close with a speech on
international affairs Tuesday af
ternoon. Until that time the delegates
of the 50 nations represented
here will be busy with a variety
of technical problems and
speech-making sessions. But
the real work of the conference,
which met April 25, is accom
plished. It reached that stage last
night. A committee approved
an Australian-Russian compro
mise empowering the proposed
general assembly of nations to
make recommendations on any
question "within the scope of
the charter" written here.
Thus ended a long struggle
by small nations to make the
assembly a "town meeting of
the world" potentially capable
of exerting the pressure of
public opinion on the big-power-controlled
security coun
cil, even though it could exer
cise no control over the council
directly.
Victor Andrade of Bolivia,
chairman of the committee on
assembly powers, attributed
leadership in this struggle to
Foreign Minister Herbert V.
Evatt of Australia.
The Weather
(Released by the United States
Weather Bureal)
Forecast for Salem and vicin
ity: Partly cloudy tonight and
Friday with temperatures about
the same as today. A few light,
widely scattered showers are ex
pected Friday afternoon. Mini
mum tonight about 52. Condi
tions will not be favorable for
dusting. Max. yesterday. 91.
Minimum today, 53. Mean tem
perature yesterday, 74. which was
12 above normal. Total 24-hour
precipitation to 11:30 a. m. to
day. 0. Total precipitation for
the month. .32. which is .63 inch
es below normal. Willamette riv
er height -1.7 ft.
by President G. Herbert Smith
in explaining the university's
plans for the 10-acre tract for
which it is willing to pay $25,
000. "Willamette has traditionally
made its athletic facilities avail
able to the ctiy," President
Smith said. "And the univer
sity would look forward in the
development of the new ath
letic field on Bush pasture to
provide the best possible fa
cilities both for the university
and for the entire city. Sweet
land field is crowded and can
never be made adequate for the
needs of the university or the
city.
The university would start
construction of a football field
within a short time, the presi
dent said in explaining Willam
ette's plans for development of
the tract. A modern grand
stand of steel and brick con
struction will have a place in
the plans, although no effort
will be made to erect such a
building until peace has been
concluded. Dr. Smith has in
vestigated a number of athletic
fields and promises the de
velopment in Bush pasture will
be in keeping with the beauty
of the tract as well as those of
other cities.
Strike Threat Hangs
Over Lumber Plants
Portland, Ore., June 21 UP)
A strike threat hung over the
northwest lumber industry to
day. The executive committee of
the AFL northwestern Council
of Lumber and Sawmill Work
ers went into closed session this
morning to discuss calling a
general strike vote in, support
of their demands for a flat 20-cent-an-hour
wage increase.
AFL officials said the strike,
if called, would involve some
60,000 loggers and sawmill
workers in Washington, Oregon,
California, Idaho and Montana.
An AFL spokesman estimated
the conference would last at
least through today, but de
clined to say how soon a de-
i cision might be reached.
1945
Price Five Cents
v90ljSSMft
Say Hitler in
Hamburg Area
Hamburg, June 21 (P) Ru
mors that Hitler is in the Ham
burg area and talk of his pos
sible capture within the city
itself are increasing among
German civilians once Joachim
Von Ribbentrop was picked up
here.
Residents to whom one cor
respondent talked in Germany's
second largest city, where many
other nazi bigwigs have been
arrested, do not believe the
story of Hitler's death in Berlin.
They are more disinclined
than ever to lend credence to it
since conflicting reports have
been given as to how Hitler al
legedly met death by men who
contend they were on the scene.
British security officers still
are investigating the Ribben
trop case amid a high degree of
secrecy. He may have had
many Interesting visitors during
his seven weeks stay in an
apartment house room which he
presumably rented from an at
tractive 35-year-old blonde di
vorcee. The divorcee Insists the only
caller on Ribbentrop that she
saw was a "tall, slender man
with black hair."
"He always asked me the
exact time I would return when
I left."
No State Fair in 1945
Is Decision of State Board
There will be no state fair in 1945. This decision was reached
at a meeting of the Oregon state board of agriculture held in
Salem Wednesday. In making this decision the board called
attention to the following fac-f-
tors:
1. In the face of food short
ages the efforts of farmers are
devoted fully to production,
leaving little time either to pre
pare exhibits for a fair or to
attend if one were to be held.
2. The farm labor supply is
such that a fair held at harvest
time would impair the necessary
harvesting of crops in the terri
tory adjacent to Salem.
3. The redeployment of mil
itary forces to the Pacific Is
creating a very difficult trans
portation problem, already crit
ical. 4. Crowded transportation
facilities and tire and gasoline
shortages together make hold
ing of a fair inadvisable.
5. The extent of repairs and
renovations required at the fair
grounds would utilize labor
needed in more essential pro
Remnants of Japs in 2 Pockets
Mopped-Up by Flamethrowers
With Over 90,000 Nips Killed
parations Underway for Invasion of Japan's
.o 'auoWo-ne Islands 'Vinegar
9600 kner in Command of
Guam, June 21 M.B The American Tenth army has won the
battle of Okinawa after 82 days of the bloodiest fighting of the
Pacific war, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today.
Simultaneously, Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a surprise move
appointed Gen. Joseph W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell, chief of U. S.
army ground forces, to command the victorious Tenth in the cli
mactic battle of Japan.
Radio Tokyo said the United States apparently already has
begun preparations for a "direct invasion of the Japanese main
land." NimKz's brief, triumphant communique reported that all or
ganized Japanese resistance on Okinawa, hard-won stepping stone
island only 330 miles southwest of Japan, ended today.
The 41-word communique was issued at 10 p.m. (Guam time)
after a dramatic message to headquarters here from Marine Maj.
Gen. Roy S .Geiger, Tenth army j
commander, three days after his
predecessor, Lt. Gen. Simon Bo
livar Buckner, Jr., was killed
in action.
"Remnants of the enemy gar
rison in two small pockets in
the southern portion of the is
land are being mopped up," the
communique said.
Two Pockets Left
. Only yesterday, marines and
doughboys of the Tenth army
had split diehard enemy rem
nants into three separate death
pockets. Nimitz's announce
ment indicated one of the three
pockets since had been wiped
out and the others reduced to
lmpotcncy.
Apparently still holding out
were pockets in the area of hill
81 and another pocket at the
extreme southern end of the is
land where many of the Japs
were leaping from cliffs to their
deaths. But the marines and
doughboys swept into the pock
ets, breaking up what little was
left of Japanese communica
tions and severing the enemy
from overall command.
Handful of Guerrillas
A handful of Japanese fight
ing as guerrillas remain at the
northern end of the island, but
it was believed they would be
of no effect in' halting devel
opment of Okinawa as a base
for the reduction of Japan.
Total Japanese casualties
were not announced immedi
ately, but they were believed
well above the 90,000 mark. A
total of 87,343 Japanese dead
had been counted through Tues
day and 2565 other enemy
troops had surrendered.
American casualties have not
been tallied for publication
since May 24. Then they to
taled 35,116 in the army, ma
rine corps and navy, including
9602 dead.
It was a costly campaign for
the U. S. fleet as 31 ships,
mostly smaller units, were sunk,
and 54, including four large
units, were damaged.
Suomela Appointed
State Fish Warden
Portland, Ore., June 21 UP)
Arnie J. Suomela, Ilwaco,
Wash., was appointed master
fish warden of Oregon today
by the Oregon state fish com
mission. Suomela, managing biologist
of the Washington fisheries de
partment, will take over his
new post August 1,
M. T. Hoy will continue as
secretary of the commission
under the title of assistant
master fish warden. Irvine
French, now field superinten
dent, will replace Hugh C. Mit
chell as chief fish culturist.
duction activity.
The agricultural board again
stated it was only with reluct
ance that this decision was made,
particularly as this mokes the
fourth year in which no state
fair has been held. However,
plans are definitely made to hold
a fair in 1946. Improvements
are underway on a limited scale
at the fairgrounds and will con
tinue as materials and labor be
come more readily available.
Director E. L. Peterson, i n
commenting on the board's act
ion, said: "I think in view of
the facts mentioned this Is a
wise decision. We still have a
war to win. We are far from
easy street with respect to food
supplies. I hope the friends of
the Oregon state fair will be
patient. We will have a good
fair when the gates open Labor
day, 1946."
Joe' Succeeds
10th
Jap ueneral
Being Hunted
Okinawa, June 21 (IP)
Seventh division infantry storm
ed up hill 89, south of Mabunl
Town, today in search of the
Japanese general commanding
the Okinawa garrison, whom
they want dead or alive.
The hill, 200 yards south of
Mabuni on the southeastern
coast, is believed by many to be
Japanese army headquarters.
It is highly probable the Jap
anese general was killed by na
val gunfire, bombing or artil
lery. Or he may have commit
ted hara kiri, a precedent set
by other Nipponese comman
ders elsewhere in the Pacific.
There is a bad pocket near
Ozato, which was so badly in
fested with mines that the
Yanks withdrew from lt upon
their first entry several days
ago.
This Ozato pocket was 1000
yards behind American lines.
Three hundred Japanese held
out there for three days before
the pocket was cleaned out by
troops led by Lt. Col Charles
W. Johnson, Olympia, Wash.,
and James F. Doyle, (no rank
given), Worcester, Mass.
Japanese Increased their at
tempted infiltrations In thesa
final hours of the campaign,
but were, having little surcpss.
Stilwell in
Buckner's Place
Manila, June 21 (U.R) Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell has been
appointed commander of the
American 10th army on Okin
awa to succeed the late Lt. Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., it
was announced today.
The appointment was made
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
commander of all Pacific ground
forces for the climactic battle
of Japan.
Stilwell still is In the Pacific
area, where he has been making
a tour of the battlefronts and
training area in his former post
as commander of army ground
forces.
He will take over command
of the 10th army as soon as he
can reach Okinawa.
Okinawa at present is under
the over-all operational com
mand of Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz, but MacArthur's com
paratively new post of com
mander of all army forces in
the Pacific left to him the se
lection of local army comman
ders. Senate Passes
Tariff Cut Bill
Washington, June 21, (IP) Tha
broadened, extended reciprocal
trade legislation which Presi
dent Truman called "of the first
order of importance for the suc
cess of my administration" was
his for the signing today.
The senate passed it late yes
terday by a vote of 54 to 21.
First it restored a house-approved
provision permitting Mr.
Truman to reduce selected tar
iff rates another 50 per cent.
Then it slapped down a series of
proposed restrictive amend
ments. Chairman George (D-Ga.) of
the senate finance committee
had made good on Tuesday his
effort to put back the addition
al rate-cutting provision which
had been eliminated in commit
tee, 10 to 9. He and other ad
ministration Democrats, joined
by a considerable number of Re
publicans, followed up the inl
tial victory by defeating yester-
;day all other attempts to amend
the bill and by passing it in the
same form in which it cleared
the house.
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