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Oregon's 81 si Slate Fair to Open Monday Better Show at Same Admission; Exhibits, Fa- cilities All Improved ' STATE FAIR PROGRAM Monday, Labor Day 8 o'clock, gates open. 9 o'clock, livestock judging begins. 9 o'clock, textile, food and art judging. 10:45 o'clock, midway pa rade, 2nd Infantry band. 11:00 o'clock, opening army exhibits. 1:15 o'clock, post time, Lone Oak track. 8:00 o'clock, vaudeville re vue. 8:00 o'clock, horse show and rodeo.' 10:00 o'clock, State Fair dance. 12:00 o'clock, gales close. By Ben Maxwell Feature of the 81st Oregon Slate Fair, opening Monday, Labor day, is an enlarged and improved 1946 show with pre miums Inflated to beyond $50, 000 but with gate admissions kept at the 1940 level. Admis sion to the fair remains at 50 cents and those 14, or younger, get in free. All fair ground buildings, Leo Spitzbart, fair manager since 1935, points out, have been ren ovated. Cars will be parked as usual and occupants will walk to the bright stainless steel wicket at each admission gate and obtain tickets. Pass-out checks, good between 11 and 1 o'clock will be Issued to those who wish to return to their cars. Traffic congestion at gates will thereby be eliminated. Salem folks are requested to enter via 18th street, outsiders will use the Silverton road gale. Marion Booth Being Set Dp Thirteen county booths will be housed in the agriculture building as usual. Marion coun ty's exhibit is now being ar ranged by the Marion county fair board consisting of Eddie Ahrens, Turner; A. A. Geer, Sa lem, and Warren Gray, Marion. Wives of board members will be in attendance during the fair. Some manufacturers of farm machinery have diverted their limited supply to food produc tion and relinquished their dis play areas at the fair to use by 1 the armed forces. . Army air iVforce and ground force mobile units will arrive today and among these will be the 2nd Infantry Division band, 40 strong, to remain here during Fair week. (Concluded on Page 8, Column ) China to Buy Army Surplus Shanghai. Aug. 31 OP) The United States agreed today to sell to China the bulk of Amer ican civilian surplus property In the western Pacific and in China. Foreign Liquidation Commis sioner Thomas B. McCabe and China's ' Premier T. V. Soong, in a joint statement, said pay ment would be in the form of settlement of an American debt to China in Chinese currency plus the equivalent of $55,000, 000. The sale does not include air craft, ammunition, weapons or any non-demilitarized combat material. China's communists attacked the sale when it was in the rumor stages, charging the government would obtain enough new war material from the United States to carry on the civil war an additional two years. McCabe and Soong described the property as "suited to the needs of China's economic re habilitation." China is given 22 months to remove the surplus. Coopera tion of U.S. forces at the various bases was promised. Many troops who have done little but keep an eye on the material may go home when China takes de livery. The original cost to the Unit ed States was about $500,000, 000 for movable property now on Okinawa, Saipan, Tinian and other islands, and in China, and $85,000,000 for fixed installa tions in China. Hiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiuiminiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiw I No Capital Journal On Labor Day Because of the stringent shortage of newsprint and the impossibility of secur ing needed supply, there will be no issue of the Capital Journal on Mon day,, September 2, a legal holiday. The newsprint situation is worse than it was any time during the war and has necessitated smaller newspapers and every possible economy to keep within the allotted quota. The Capital Journal G apital jk J01101 al 58th Year, No. 207 Soviet Threat In Pacific Scares Congressmen Tokyo, Sunday, Sept. 1 (IP) Expressing grave concern over Russia's intentions, and over "imminent danger of another Pearl Harbor," house military committee members called to day for strengthening the Unit ed Slates position in the Paci fic. Present American forces there are inadequate to defend them selves, they found. . Startled by an off-the-rcc-ord high-command report on the Far Eastern military and dip lomatic situation, the six house members inspecting the Pacific occupation areas advocated a strong, mobile force in the Pa cific to meet the threat of Rus sian encroachment upon Ameri can zones of control. Need More Troops The report was given them in a three-hour conference with top men of General MacArthur's command. It was one of several such reports received by the committer since it left Wash ington Aug 10 on a trip which has included Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Japan, with visits scheduled la ter to Korea, China, Manila and Australia. "After what I've heard I wouldn't even give the Russians an index to the atomic bomb" Acting Chairman Sheridan (D., Pa.) told reporters after at tending the Tokyo conference and a luncheon meeting with MacArthur. Sheridan urged that an armed force be maintained, to keep in condition the billions of dollars worth of surplus U. S. war materials in the Pacific, and that a striking force built around long-range supersonic bombers be kept in strategic Pa cific and Alaskan bases. Russia's Intentions "It is not our Intention to alarm the American people," Sheridan added, "but I speak the unanimous opinion of my committee when I say that we havs a duty to let people know what is going on." Reps. Sikes (D., Fla.) and Short (R., Mo.) flatly accused Russia of seeking to alienate Far Eastern countries against the United States. "Russia is maintaining about five times the number of oc cupation troops, mostly in Ko rea, that we have," Sikes com mented. "This Is neither neces sary nor reasonable." The whereabouts of a Japa nese army force, estimated at 750,000 men, Sikes told news men, is not known. It is gen erally believed, he added, that it is in Russian territory. (This apparently refers to Japanese army captured by Russians in Manchuria.) In Tokyo alone, Sikes said, Russia has 10 times more peo ple attached to its embassy than has any other nation. Short said he feared there was "imminent danger of another Pearl Harbor in Korea, Trieste or Alaska," and remarked: "We cannot afford to take any chances. While we tradi tionally are not aggressors, we cannot risk being caught unpre pared again." Committee members earlier had called for strengthening the defenses of Alaska. Body Recovered at Beach Astoria, Ore., Aug. 31 (U.R) Body of Todd Sedgewick, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sedgewick of Portland, was recovered irom the Pacific ocean at Cannon Beach yesterday. Reds Clash with British Troops in Greek Elections Athens, Aug. 31 (IP) British troops assigned to Greece were confined to their barracks tonight on the eve of the plebiscite generally expected to return King George II from his English exile. Reports of sporadic figthing involving "communist bands" brought to 28 the num ber of persons killed in two days. Attackers set afire the police station at Platycambo, Thessaly. One sldier, one po liceman and a civilian were killed. Troops rushed to the spot and clashed with the alleged com munists. A major and two sol diers were hit by bullets while five other soldiers were wound ed when their truck was blown up by a land mine. Near Kalamauta another band was reported to have killed four civilians. Political meetings were ban ned throughout Greece today. Confinement of the British troops to their barracks until 6 a.m. Monday followed the pat tern used in the earlier Greek election!. ."So,'i Salem, Oregon, Saturday, August Molotov Flies To Moscow to Consult Stalin Paris, Aug. 31 (U.R) Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov slipped secretly away from Pa ris by plane for Moscow to day, presumably to confer with Premier Stalin on the bogged down peace conference. The trip was Molotov's first lo Moscow since the peace con ference began five weeks ago. Conference observers assum ed that Stalin had summoned Molotov lo Moscow for a per sonal report. The trip came when the conference was tied up in angry recriminations be tween the Soviets and western powers, and when feeling be tween the two blocs was strong er probably than at any time since the war. Italian Frontier Fixed In the conference itself, the Italian po 1 i t i c a 1 commission adopted the second article of the Italian treaty draft delineating the proposed Italian - French frontier. The aclion brought the con ference up lo one of its toughest problems the frontier of Italy and Yugoslavia, involving the Trieste issue. The article adopted today would turn over to France four small Alpine areas. Italy agreed to the cession of three, but ob jected to giving up the Mont Cenis plateau. The Mont Cenis proposal was approved by a vote of 10 to 0. End 3 Days Debate The five British dominions and India abstained from vot ing on the Mont Cenis pro posal. The commission had de bated the issue for three days. It rejected an Australian pro posal lo set up a special sub committee lo investigate. Allied nations showered down documents supporting as sertions that Italy damaged them to the extent of $10,000, 000,000, although actual repara tions claims were expected to approximate half of ttyat sum. France submitted a claim for all Italian property in France and part of the Italian war in dustry. It was the first revela tion of French intentions with regard to Italian reparations. The United States and Britain have made no claims. Brazil offered to collect her claims by taking Italian prop erty in that country. Mexico asked $5,400,000. Belgium asked for $60,000,000. Oil Truck Driver Killed in Crash Shedd, Ore., Aug. 31 IIP) An oil truck driver crashed into two parked cars last night and died as he told how it happened and hoped no one else was hurt. James P. Snyder, 23, Vancou ver, Wash., was found on his hands and knees beside his tele scoped truck cab. "I'm sorry Bob. I must have gone to sleep. Was anyone else hurt?" he said as he died, State Police Sgt. Earl Houston reported. Ernest Schalzman, Coquiile, told police he was fixing a flat lire on one of two cars parked on the Pacific highway three miles south of here when the truck slammed into them. The truck caromed off the road into an embankment. The cars were unoccupied. Deputy Coroner Walter Knopp said Snyder died of internal in juries. Royalists already were mak ing preparations to welcome King George from his five-year exile. Royalist leaders predicted vic tory by a large majority. Their communist opponents, on the other hand, have accused Brit ain and the United States of meddling in Greek affairs, and the Moscow press has charged that the plebiscite was fraudu lently rigged. ' British and American observ ers prepared to fan out across this country to watch the vot ing. U. S. Ambassador Leland Morris said the U. S. commission lo Greece would be supplement ed by 25 American officers from Germany and Italy. Russia rejected an invitation lo send observers here for the referendum. r ...y,u.i,iii i i mmu.iM Mi i.iimill ywmwwy 1 "S Senator Connally at Peace Parley in Paris ft Sen. Tom Connally (D., Tex.) sits with his chin in his palm at the peace conference in Luxembourg Palace at Paris after taking his place on the Ital ian political committee. At left is Assistant Secretary of State James Dunn. Organization Formed to Abate Sewer Stench An executive committee of eight persons, which later is to be enlarged to a committee of perhaps 50 or 60 members, was the result of a meeting called at Salem Labor temple Friday night to start a movement for relief from the summer sewer stench, pending construction of a sewage disposal plant. As temporary relief it is planned, by work-" ing through the city council, to brine pressure to bear on the United Slates army engineers to divert some of the current of the Willamette river through the stagnant lagoon where some of the sewer lines now empty, thereby carrying sewage down stream. The meeting was sponsored by the Salem Central Trades and Labor council, President F. M. Keith and Executive Secre tary H. E. Barker explaining that their organization was taking Ihe initiative with the hope that other civic, religious, patriotic and fraternal organ izations of the city would line up with the group. On the ex ecutive group were appointed the following: (Concluded on Pare 11, Column 4) Pepper Wants Big 3 Meeting Washington, Aug. 31 IIP) Senator Pepper (D Fla.) pro posed today another "big three" meeting of President Truman, Prime Minister Attlce and Sta lin to end "rooster fighting" In international relations. He told reporters, before leaving on a west coast speak ing tour, that affairs have reached the point where the United Stales, Great Britain and Russia all ought to "back up and start over."' Pepper said he thought a big three meeting might "resolve the major conflicts which will have to be settled before there can be agreement on more minor points. There is loo much rooster fighting going on to day too much sparring for po sition." He held both sides equally accountable for this, adding: "I am not suggesting thai we allow ourselves to be pushed around by Russia. Neither do I think that we should attempt to push Russia around." The Florida senator said he believes the world might have escaped many of its present mis understandings if President Roosevelt had lived. He said he plans to urge West Coast demo crats to "support the Roosevelt program at home and abroad." Pepper will make a scries of political speeches in California, Washington and Oregon, top ped by his keynote address to the democratic slate convention in Olympia, Wash., Sept. 7. Yugoslav Barges Moved Up Danube London, Aug. 31 IIP) Tass said today that American au thorities in the occupation zone of Austria have been transfer ring Yugoslav ships already the subject of a complaint to the United Nations social and eco nomic council farther up the Danube from Linz. In a Bclgardc dispatch the So viet news agency reported that on Thursday, 30 Yugoslav barges were towed away and that on the following days the transfer of ships upstream con tinued. "The transfer of Yugoslav ships up the Danube from Linz is regarded in Belgrade as a measure emphasizing American reluctance to return these ships to Yugoslavia, a measure for which there is no legal founda tion," Tass said. 31, 1946 Brazilian Mobs Smash Stores Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 31 OP) Rioting which stemmed from Brazil's1 economic crisis killed one person and injured nearly 100 as mobs moved through downtown streets smashing store windows last night. Sporadic attempts lo renew the demonstrations today were foiled when merchants, after opening their shops briefly, slammed steel shutters across the store fronts. Police at the same time were busy dispers ing crowds. Plate glass from store fronts was scattered throughout the business section of the Brazil ian capital. The mobs, protest ing against high living costs, attacked movies, grocery stores, music shops and even funeral parlors. Federal Police Chief Pereira Lira said in an official commu nique that the riot, in which groups of high school students participated, was inspired by more serious motives than a mere student demonstration. He did not elaborate, however. The communist newspaper Tribuna Popular, which reap peared yesterday for the first time since its recent 15-day government suspension said to day that the student cost of living demonstration was a peaceful one, but "provocateur elements infiltrated among the students" and brought about the rioting. Rogers Files Waiver Of Extradition Hub Rogers, alias Herbert Rogers, alias W. C. Rogers, also known as W. H. Rogers, Friday afternoon filed a waiver of ex tradition in circuit court and consented to return to Cren shaw county, Alabama, to an swer to a first degree murder charge there. Sheriff Horn from the Alabama county is ex pected to arrive the latter part of next week lo lake the man in charge. Roy Hewitt appear ed as attorney for Rogers. A copy of the indictment re turned against Rogers on St. Patrick's day in 1906 has arriv ed from Alabama and was re marked by court attaches for its brevity, the charging part mere ly stating that "Hub alias Her bert Rogers unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Lena Moseley by shooting her with a pistol." On its face Ihe charge of "murder in first de gree" is typed. A list of 18 wit nesses is also transcribed on the document. Another a d v i cc from the Crenshaw sheriff had stated that the crime referred to was committed during the Christmas holidays in 1905. Lightning Starts 11 New Forest Fires Eleven new lightning fires were started in Douglas county forest lands last night, but all arc small and are giving no trouble, State Forester N. S Rogers said today. He said the Scared Man Creek fire, which had been giv ing trouble all week because it is an almost inaccessible area of burned-over land, is being mopped up. Price Five Cents OPA Controls Off More Food Washington, Aug. 31 IIPI Secretary of Agriculture Ander son today took an action which immediately removes price ceil ings from more than 20 farm commodities including fresh ap ples, peaches, all frozen fruits and potatoes, canned peas, lima beans and apricots. A long list of other commodi ties were declared lo be "in short supply" and hence eligible for continued or revived price control. Anderson so listed hogs and cattle, most fats and oils, jams and jellies, fish and many other items. The announcement was An derson's first listing of "agri cultural commodities in short supply," required monthly by the new OPA act. This law provides thai any agricultural product not listed is automatically out from under the price lid. Germans Held As Spies Freed Frankfurt, Germany, Aug. 31 (IP) Col. C. F. Fritsche, deputy U. S. army intelligence chief in Europe, disclosed today that all but one of 15 Germans ar rested on suspicion of soviet sponsored espionage in the American occupation zone of Germany have been released from jail. Col. Fritsche said Ihe only one still in custody was Waller Kazmarck, alleged leader of the Russian - sponsored clandestine organization known as "Free Germany." He declined comment on Ihe reason for the release of the other 14 suspects and would not say whether charges had been filed against Kazmarck. Fritsche would not even say when the 14 were freed. All were picked up several months ago as a result of what the U. S. army described as "evi dence of soviet espionage and subversive political activity." They were alleged to have op erated in the Suttgart area and to have given information to Russia on American troop movements. "This operation has been go ing on for five months," Fritsche said, "and they may have been released months ago. "This operation is still con tinuing and we cannot disclose information now that might jeo pardize our future operations." Civil War Looms In Luzon As Huks Refuse to Disarm Manila, Aug. 31 IIP) Luzon's unrest threatened to burst into civil war today. President Manual Roxas announced military police and civil guards, with orders to kill all who resist, would start tomorrow disarming the Hukbalhaps, Roxas said he would not ex tend tonight's deadline ending a six-weeks truce. During the truce the peasant guerrillas were offered a chance lo sur render their weapons peace fully. Military police used artillery against Huks in several large scale actions in Nucva Ecija and Bulacan provinces. Interior Secretary Jose Zu lucla said he would utilize so called peace guards, in addi tion to military police, in en forcing an "armed peace." They would be instructed to shoot possessors of arms, he added. Goering Shouts Innocence As Nazi War Crimes Trial Ends; Verdict To Be Given Septemer 23 Former Reichsmarshal Asserts That He Stands Back of Everything Done Ribbentrop and Hess . Along With Others Make Final Pleas Nuernberg. Germany, Aug. 31 lA'i The verdict in the nine month old Nuernberg war crimes trial will be given Sept, 23, the tribunal announced today. The disclosure was made by Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Law rence of Britain, presiding, after 21 henchmen of Hitler in the. prisoners' dock completed their final picas. Lawrence announced that the international military tribunal would recess until Sept. 23, when the verdict is to be given against Hermann Goering and his fellow defendants and seven ' nazi organizations. For four hours the tribunal heard impassiuncd speeches by the ringleaders of Hitler's war machine denying they were guilty of war atrocities and crimes against humanity. It was their last chance to explain nazi Germany's con duct before they learn their fate. Most of them blamed Hit ler for war developments. Some said nevertheless they were not I afraid to die. I ' 3 Not in Court Justice Lawrence praised counsel for botli prosecution and defense for the way they per formed their duties. He said some Germans had written Ger man attorneys criticizing their conduct, but pledged that both the tribunal and the allied con trol council would protect the attorneys. Three of the 24 men originally indicted were not in the court. They were Martin Bormann, a Hitler aide several times re ported dead, who was tried in absentia; Gustav von Bohlcn und Halbach Krupp, ailing armament maker; and Labor Boss Robert Ley, who commit ted suicide. Goering Shouts Innocence While the 21 co-defendants sat in the prisoner's box, Goer ing opened the string of last minute speeches by shouting his innocence over and over again in an impassioned 10-minute plea. Gaunt, white-faced Rudolf Hess followed Goering. Un leashing a storm of abuse. Hit ler's one-lime deputy attacked the entire procedure. "I predicted that witnesses would appear who under oath would make untrue statements and the court would receive af fidavits of untrue statements: that the defendants would hear astonishing facts," he shouted. Appeals for People In a high, strong voice the former reichsmarshal made an appeal "for the German peo ple" regardless of what fate lay in store for himself. He sought lo ameliorate any guilt for himself, however, by declaring that the prosecution had failed lo show by documen tary proof where and how he could have known everything that happened under Hitler, even though he admittedly was the number two nazi. "I wish lo stale emphatical ly," said Goering, "never did I decree a murder of a single individual." In a final outburst, Goering asserted he was nevertheless "standing back of everything I have done." "The only motive which guid ed me was my ardent love for my people. I call on the Al mighty and the German people as my witness." Von Ribbentrop Joachim von Ribbentrop, who followed Hess, defended his con duct as foreign minister with the declaration that Germany sought much the same things as the United States, Britain and Russia "the only difference Is that they think in terms of con tinents, we in terms of corri dors. "In 1939, I met Stalin in Mos cow and he didn't seek a peace ful settlement," he said. "The conduct of the man in 1939 was not considered a crime against peace." It took an entire hour to hear Goering, Hess and von Ribben trop. Huckleberry Peak Portland, Aug. 31 il'i The forest service said today that the peak of the huckleberry season would be reached this week-end in many areas of Mount Hood national forest. Gov. Gabriel Belmonte of Nucva'Ecija province told a mass meeting that "lawlessness would be quelled by the repub lic, using planes, tanks, bombs and cannon." To make the situation poten tially more explosive, Huk leader Luis Taruc, in a bitter note sent "from the field" to President Roxas, declared his peasants were determined lo re sist seizure of their arms. He said Roxas alone must now choose "between chaos and peace in central Luzon." "Even now." he wrote, "your bloodthirsty subordinates arc shelling innocent citizens." SOS Call for Harvesters Rains brought on a crisis in the peach orchards around Sa lem and picking will continue over the week-end. Work in hop and bean yards will also go on over the' week-end. Drive-outs arc needed lo han dle a record harvest of peaches on the La Follette Mission orch ards 12 miles out on the North River road. The farm labor of fice requests that workers 16 years of age and over check out with officials for the work. Hop picking has gone in ' a peak stage with the opening of late hop season. Some Marion county hop and bean yards ex pect to continue harvesting the crop through Labor day. The Salem Canners' commit tee has issued an urgent call for additional workers to process a bumper fruit crop of the northwest. Women, men. and young people 16 or over are needed in increasing numbers to care for the peaches, pears and prunes now being harvest ed. September is the peak month in the fruit processing industry of the valley. Vacationers, per sons with a few days available, housewives, can be used, said Mrs. Vcrla Beckett, chairman of the committee. Some plants are now using evening shift workers from 7 lo 11 p.m. The base pay is 81 cents tor women and 95 cents for men, with five cents extra an hour for night work. Link Klan With German Bund Washington, Aug. 31 (U.RI . Responsible government offi cials said today it was a "cer tainly" the German-American Bund was crushed by the FBI early in the war and could therefore have no link with present Ku Klux Klan activi ties. Their statement followed dis closure that Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia had asked President Truman for an immediate inves tigation of a possible connection between underground remnants of the bund and the KKK. Arnall was said to have asked specifically that the FBI an4 O. John Rogge, special justice department prosecutor in the mass sedition trial, be assigned to the inquiry. During the eight-month sedi tion trial. Rogge brought out evidence of a pre-war link be tween the bund and the KKK. It was said that Arnall feared such a link still existed. While reliable officials dis counted Anrall's fears, they did not rule out the possibility that the Klan may have allied itself to some other fascist groups. Arnall's letter lo Mr. Truman may set off an inquiry Into such possibilities. Rogge introduced during the sedition trinl testimony dealing with a joint meeting of the klan and bund at the latter's Camp Norland near Andover, N.J., August 18, 1940. Traffic Officer's Wife Killed by Car Oregon City, Aug. 31 iTI Mrs. Ida Grcnrcli, 57, wife of Jack Grcufcll, Clackamas coun ty traffic officer, was killed yes terday by a car which struck her on the highway. The driver, identified by in vestigating officers Gilbert Rob erts and Ben Schuld as George W. Irwin, 20, Canby, said he swerved across the road trying lo avoid hitting the women. The Weather i Released by the United States Weather Bureau) Forecn.st for Salem and vicin ity: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with scattered light showers. Some local fog Sunday morning. Little change in tem perature. Lowest tonight near 5'2. Conditions generally favor able for dusting and spraying. Max. yesterday 71. Min. today 57. Mean temperature yester day 64, which was normal. To tal 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today trace. Totui precipi tation lor the month .09 which Is .i'6 Inches below normal. Wil lamette river height -3.8 ft.