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Five Industrial Cities Bomb
ed; Planes Massed For
Attack; 298 Ships Sunk.
By United Presi
American bombers and fight
ers raked Kyushu Island again
and scourged Japan's strangled
sea life lines in attacks which
sank or damaged 14 more enemy
vessels, it was announced Satur
day, as Tokyo reported a great,
steadily-growing U. S. Air Fleet
of more than 2200 planes massed
on the empire's doorstep.
Five Japanese industrial cities
still smouldered after a near
record 600-plane B-29 raid as the
new attacks came. The enemy's
obvious inability to oppose effec
tively the mounting fury of the
obliteration aerial assault in the'
face of the tremendous air power
pouring into the Marianas and
Okinawa accentuated Tokyo re
i ports of frantic measures to
strengthen the homeland against
invasion.
Australians in East Borneo
drove six miles inland above
captured Balikpapan as the bat
tle for the great Pandansari oil
refineries entered its sixth day.
Allied air power "battered the
enemy on land and on the sea in
all fighting zones
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
Okinawa-based 5th Air Force
Mustangs hit Kyushu for the
third time. Philippine-based
bombers prowled over the Asiat
ic coast, sinking five ships off
Hong Kong and in Tonkin Gulf.
Navy bombers blasted five ships
in the Yellow Sea. Four others
fell prey to rocket-firing marine
bombers off Honshu.
The latest bag raised the 14
day toll for Pacific air groups to
298 ships, a crippling blow em
phasized by Tokyo's appeals to
the nation to boost food produc
tion. Resistance Feeble
Lack of aerial opposition to
TT s Forces in the past 4B nours
indicated a critical depletion of
Japan's weakened air power, noi
i inslp B-29 was lost in the
strike on Honshu and
the few enemy fighters sighted
over Janan failed to challenge
thi Runerforts.
Navy bombers which took a
toll of 27,450 tons of shipping
destroyed or damaged off Japan
during June were able to record
only eight enemy planes ncsuur
nrf atiH 13 damaged for the 30'
day period. MacArthur's planes
met six enemy fighters and de
stroyed or probably destroyed
all of them.
Tokyo admitted that smaller
warplancs were mamus
strikes against .the homeland.
B-29 reconnaissance craft were
roaming at will over the empire
and their photographs were so
complete that American war
leaders virtually were able to
chart the enemy's day-by-day
war production.
IDPlOfUPLE
Bed Bluff, Cel., July 7-OJR)
One woman was dead and five
other persons were in a Red
Bluff hospital tonight following
a head-on automobile collision
near Corning.
Mrs. Arthur Graham, 60, ot
Los Angeles, died en route to
the hospital.
The injured passengers In
cluded Mr. and Mrs. C. Edwin
Cox and their seven-year-old
daughter, Susanne, of Medford.
C. Edwin Cox is listed in the
city directory as pastor of the
Pilgrim Holiness church, resid
ing at 330 Sunrise avenue.
Pdrtland Surgeon
Dies Auto Plunge
Portland, Ore., July 7 U.R
Dr. Allen Edward Kidd, 69,
Portland physician and surgeon,
was drowned looay wnen
car plunged from the Columbia
river highway into the Sandy
river and sank in 18 feet of
water.
Mrs. Kidd, 69. managed to
open a door under water and
escape. She was in fair condi
tion from shock and swallowing
water.
Officers believe he may have
suffered a heart attack and was
trying to stop his car. It failed
to negotiate a sharp turn and ran
through a roadside stand and
down to the river. i
HURT AUTO CRASH
Boy With Matches
Causes Tot's Death
Portland, Ore., July 7 (U.R)
Funeral arrangements are be
ing completed for six months old
Janet Halstead, who died Friday
as result of burns suffered in the
family automobile while her
mother shopped for meat. Her
year and a half old brother
found matches and set fire to her
clothing. '
E
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Portland, Ore., July 7 (U.R)
Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, vet
eran of air commands in the
Pacific, tonight said it is his
firm conviction that air power
alone will bring the Japanese
to their knees.
Promoted to the rank of lieut
enant-general by the senate June
28 for outstanding achievements
as commander of the 15th AAF
in the Mediterranean, Twining
said he expects to apply the
same technique of aerial bomb
ing in the Pacific as was used
against the Germans, if he is re
assigned as expected to the Paci
fic.
"First, the oil fields, then the
air fields, factories and always
the communication lines," Twin
ing said.
Twining, who was awarded
the Distinguished Flying Cross
December, 1943, for his direc
tion of the bombing of Bougain
ville, is visiting in Portland with
his brother, Deputy U. S. Attor
ney J. L. Twining.
RATIFICATION BY
Washington, July 7 (U.R)
The formal battle for prompt
ratification of the United Na
tions charter ' begins Monday
with the start of hearings before
the senate foreign relations com
mittee and there were predic
tions tonight that it might be
over by Aug. 1.
Committee Chairman Tom
Connally, D., Tex., said the
group hoped to complete hear
ings in one week and thus bring
the charter to the senate floor
by July 16. If that could be
done, he said, "We might com
plete the whole thing" ratifi
cation by the end of this month.
Plans completed tonight called
for former Secretary of State
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who
was chairman of the American
delegation to the San Francisco
conference, to open the testi
mony in favor of the charter.
Akron Strike Junks
Half Ready Tires
Akron, O., July 7 (U.R)
Production of war-vital rubber
at the Firestone Tire and Rubber
Co., was stalled for the seventh
consecutive day today as 16,600
striking rubber workers re
mained away from their Jobs.
Partly completed tires and
other rubber goods, unprocessed
since the work stoppage was pre
cipitated a week ago by a labor-
management dispute over union
grievances, were ready for the
scrap heap.
BULLETIN
At the end of the fourth In
ning the Klamath Falls Marines
were leading the Craters 9 to 0
at the fairgrounds. The visitors
hammered four pitchers hard.
COAST
San Francisco 3 6 1
Sacramento 5 7 0
Buzollch, Oliver (8) and Ogro
dowski; Penrose and Schluctcr.
American
(Night Game)
Blustering Sig Jakuckl of the
St. Louis Browns won his sixth
victory in a row when he de
feated the Washington Senators
in a night game, 7 to 3. In al
lowing the Nats six hits, Jakuckl
registered his ninth triumph and
nipped a Washington winning
streak which had grown to six
games.
Washington 3 6 1
St. Louis 7 12 0
Wolff. Holborow (7) and Fcr
rcll; Jakuckl and Mancuso.
U PSTATE STRIKE VOTE
Springfield, Ore., July 7 4U.R)
A strike vote to determine
whether the AFL or the CIO
should have bargaining rights,
will be taken Monday at Spring-
field Plywood Corporation's 300-1
employe plant, ,
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E
BY ENDjF YEAR
Re - Deployment Timetable
Told Eight Divisions
For Occupation.
Washington, July 7 (U.R)
Of the 68 American Divisions
which fought in Europe and the
Mediterranean, the War Depart
ment announced tonight, 42 are
scheduled to return to this coun
try by the end of the year.
For the first time revealing
details of its tentative re-deployment
timetable the department
also identified eight divisions
which currently are slated to re
main in Europe as occupying
forces. They are the 1st and 4th
Armored, 82nd Airborne, and
1st, 3rd, 9th, 29th and 36th In
fantry Divisions.
Three infantry divisions the
86th 97th and 95th already
have been returned to this coun
try. Parts of eight others have
returned and their units which
still remain overseas are sched
uled to arrive this month. They
are the 104th, 2nd 4th, 5th, 8th,
44th, and 87th Infantry and 13th
Armored Division.
The tentative schedule for the
return of other U. S. fighting
teams was as follows:
August 20th Armored and
85th, 28th and 30th Infantry Di
visions.
September 5th, 6th, 7th, and
14th Armored, 17th Airborne,
and 88th, 91st, 35th, 45th, and
103rd Infantry Divisions.
October 9th Armored and
92nd, 26th, 79th and 99th Infan
try Divisions.
November 10th Armored
10th Mountain, 13th Airborne,
and 83rd 63rd, and 106th Infan
try Divisions.
December 2nd and 11th Ar
mored and 34th, 90th, 80th, and
76th Infantry Divisions.
Those units which are sched
uled to remain in the European
theater throughout the remain
der of 1045 are the 3rd, 8th,
12th, and 16th Armored, 101st
Airborne, and 42nd, 65th, 66th,
69th, 70th, 71st. 75th, 78th, 84th,
89th, 94th, 100th, and 102nd In
fantry Divisions.
The War Department warned
that the sechedule is subject to
"radical changes at any time re
sulting from revised operational
requirements."
SOCIAirSTATE
Simla, India, July 7 U.R)
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian na
tionalist leader, said today he
favored "progressive socialism"
for India under a genuinely na
tional government but at the
same time discounted reports of
growing Soviet influence.
Nehru said some measure of
state control and direction
seemed inevitable if the great
sub-continent is to make rapid
progress towards solving its
many economic ills.
"India is an outstanding ex
ample of long-arrested develop
ment due to many causes, chief
ly British economic and political
control, and the result has been
a continuing crisis in land and
industry," he said.
Indianapolis, July 7 (U.R)
Mrs. Audrey Hancock, sister of
the late John Dillinger, filed a
$5,00.000 suit today against
Monogram Pictures, Inc., charg
ing that a moving picture based
on the slain gangster's life had
"humiliated and embarrassed"
her and threatened to cause a
wave of juvenile delinquency,
Mrs. Hancock demanded half
a million dollars damages to
compensate for her own person
al "pain 8nd mental anguish"
and sought to enjoin the film
company from continuing to
show the picture.
PLETHORA OF LAWS
Sacramento, July 7 (U.R1.
Gov. Earl Warren tonight was
studying 514 legislative bills
which he must sign by July 21
if they are to become law, with
chances Improved for several
carrying special appropriations.
Sacramento, July 7 'U.R) A
month-old strike involving three
Sacramento canneries was called
eff tonight by union official.
13 Oregonians Die
Every Million Miles
Salem, Ore., July 7 (U.R)
Thirteen persons died for every
100,000,000 miles of auto travel
in Oregon during May.
There were 27 deaths In .all.
For the first five months of 1945,
12 persons died for the same dis
tance traveled. In 1944, the
ratio was eight, the state depart
ment safety division in Salem
reported today.
FRUIT, VEGETABLE
PROCESSING PLANT
Negotiations W i t h Baker
Foods Products Co., of
San Mateo Told C. of C.
Establishment of a plant for
freezing and dehydrating fruits,
vegetables and berries here in
1946 now seems certain, A. b.
Cummins, chairman of the Jack
son county Chamber of Com
merce industrial committee, told
members of the chamber board
and guests Friday at the semi
monthly meeting of that group.
Details of negotiations of cham
ber of commerce officials and
local fruit men with Baker
Foods Products company of San
Mateo, Calif., were disclosed at
a board luncheon at the Hotel
Holland.
The California company has
already contracted for a sub
stantial portion of the 1945 cull
pear crop, Cummins said.
The chamber's industrial com
mittee has also been in contact
with the H. J. Heinz company in
an effort for greater utilization
of the fruit and produce crops
of this area, according to Mr.
Cummins. Following contacts
through W. D. B. Dodspn in the
east and through Carter Bran
don, manager of the, foreign
trade and shipping department
of the Portland Chamber of
Commerce, assurance of an early
visit to the northwest by repre
sentatives of the Heinz company
has been given.
Mineral Resources
T. M, Gerely, chairman of the
chamber's mining committee and
official of B-H Oregon, Ltd., a
local mining organization, pre
sented an illuminating report of
coal and clay resources of the
Rogue River Valley, supplement
ing his report with finding of
Dr. Lloyd Staples, associated
with the School of Geology of
the University of Oregon. Dr.
Staples made preliminary sur
veys here recently and requests
for additional research have
been sent to the state geology
department and the U. S. Bureau
of Mines.
ss
TO
REIMS, July 7 (U.R) The
American army today turned
over to the city of Reims and
"the people of all France" the
historic map-lined war room at
allied supreme headquarters
where the German high com
mand signed its unconditional
surrender Just two months ago
today.
The 30 by 30 foot war room,
on the second floor of the block-
long schoolhouse where Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower directed
the final crushing battles of Ger
many, will be turned into a na
tional museum by the French
government.
Plan Reception For
New U of O President
Portland, Ore., July 7 (U.R)
A banquet-reception will be giv
en former Iowan Harry K. New
burn, new president of the Uni
versity of Oregon, by graduates
of Iowa State University Aug.
17 in Portland.
Expected guests include Gov.
Earl Snell, President Lee Paul
Sicg and Dean Edward H. Laucr,
both of the University of Wash
ington; Chancellor Frederick M.
Hunter; President A. L. Strand
of Oregon State. College, Willard
Marks, chairman of the board of
Higher Education, and Dr. Wil
lard Spalding, superintendent of
Portland schools.
FILM EISENHOWER'S LIFE
Washington, July 7 (U.R)
Movie Producer Samuel Gold
wyn has been given permission
to make a motioon picture of the
life of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, Gold wyn announced today.
SEVEN SPL
PLOTTED TO KILL
Santa Inez Spy School of
Japs Revealed Many
Involved, All Foiled.
Manila, July 7 (U.R) The
Japanese conducted a spy school
at Santa Inez in northeastern
Rizal province after American
liberation forces landed on
Luzon, and there plotted to as
sassinate Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur, it was revealed today.
Seven spies, six Japanese and
a Filipino, were hanged June 6
and 7 after plotting infiltrating
American lines for the purpose
of killing MacArthur.
The spies were unable to get
past MacArthur's guards and no
attempt involving grenades or
revolvers the arms carried by
the spies was made. Full de
tails cannot be given as the
measures taken for the protec
tion of MacArthur are secret.
The spies tried to get within
range of the commander-in-chief.
They questioned Manila resi
dents, trying to schedule Mac
Arthur's daily routine. They
also tried to locate and schedule
the movements of other high
commanders.
About a dozen of the spies
managed to get through Amer
ican lines. They were captured
by the army Counter-intelligence
corps while they were entering
Manila.
At Santa Inez, many Japanese
civilians who had been living in
the Philippines were inducted
into the Japanese army as in
telligence operators. All were
given 1,000 pesos and weapons
at the end of intensive training,
it was disclosed.
Once the trainees were armed,
they were told by their com
manding officer: "You are now
dead."
This, it was said, pleased them
Ihey found it Dlcasant to he
dead and alive again at the same
lime.
iney were told to penetrate
American lines and gather mili
tary information. Always they
were instructed to chart the
movements and personal habits
oi nigh-ranking American offi-
cers, and to find their living
quarters.
An undetermined number of
these spies met death while try-
''B io carry out Instructions.
VALLEYIeCTED
BY SLEEPER-BAN
San Francisco, July 7 (U.R)
Eight sleeping car runs oper
ated by the Southern Pacific
Railroad Co., will be discontin
ued July 15 in accordance with
the Office of Defense Transpor
tation's order banning Pullman
service on all runs of 450 miles
or less
The operations affected, the
company declared today, include
between Oakland. Calif., and
Reno. Nev.; Oakland and Duns
muir, Calif.; Portland and Ash
land and Portland and Coos Bay.
Future Northwest
War Works Argued
Seattle, July 7 (U.R) Ar
rangements for disposition of
more than 40 Washington and
Oregon war plants will keynote
discussion Thursday at a confer
ence of government officials and
northwest Industrialists, spon
sored by the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce.
The question of whether to
dismantle such wartime plants,
leave them In government con
trol, or transfer them to private
industry will be among the is
sues considered, it was said.
WAR BULLETINS
Washington, July 7 U.R
Japan Is attempting to make
every high school student In
the main Islands a suicide
lighter against a threatened
American invasion by glorify
ing the deaths of students on
Okinawa, enemy broadcasts
indicated today.
Chungking, July 7 (U.R)
Chinese troops have started en
assault against the Indo-Chinese
border town of Chennan
kwan while Americen planes
to the southeast hammered an
attempted Japanese escape
from Indo-China by sea
through the Gulf of Tonkin,
It was rtporWd today.
Gas Consumption In
State Gains in May
Salem, Ore., July 7 (U.R)
For the first time since 1941,
gasoline consumption showed an
upward trend in May.
Secretary of State Robert S.
Farrell, Jr., says six per cent
more gas 20,782,529 gallons
was used in May, 1945, than a
year ago in May.
WAN POSED AS
' TO TWO
3 YEARS
Seattle, July 7 (U.R) Her
face sifludged trom her job In a
Seattle Foundry, husky, six-foot
Marcella Majcrus. Stillwater,
Minn , admitted to authorities to
night she had successfully posed
as "husband" to two women for
a total of more than three years.
Posing as "Danny D. Carroll."
Miss Majcrus was arrested here
after the 22-year-old girl she
married in Tacoma, Wash., last
February "became suspicious"
and tipped police, after more
than four mouths as man and
wife authorities said.
"The wife was completely
fooled by the deception until
about six weeks ago." Chief
Deputy Prosecutor John J. Kcn
nett said. "It was'only recently
she began to suspect her hus
band was really a woman."
Miss Majerns, Kennett said,
admitted having married another
woman. In 1940. and having lived
with her for three years in Ore
gon Her ruse was discovered in
Minnesota, Kennett said, and the
first marriage was annulled.
E BUTTER IN
T
Washington, July 7 (U P.)
More butter at a lower ration
point value in August was prom
ised to civilians tonight.
Lowering of the point value
will be possible because of a Cut
In government purchases next
month. Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson revealed
that onlv 30 per cent of produc
tion will be set aside for tho
government In August, instead
of 50 Dcr cent s at present. That
will increase supplies available
to civilians by about 10 per cent.
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles said there will be "a
slight reduction in point values
on butter effective July iv.
Guesses were that th ecut prob
ably will be four points, reduc
lna tho value from 24 points a
pound to 20 points.
CIO heWfers
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Pittsburgh, July 7 (U.R) CIO
President Philip Murray tonight
offered a four-point program to
assure maintenance of full pro
duction and employment.
In a radio address, Murray
urged immediate wage Increases,
elimination of all sub-standard
wages, passage of President Tru
man's request to congress for un
employment compensation bene
fits up to $25 weekly, and appli
cation of a guaranteed annual
wage.
"Despite reports of high
wages, most workers are having
a difficult time making ends
meet, even with overtime," he
said.
"Overtime work is rapidly de
creasing and layoffs are occur
ring rapidly. Contrary to a
general impression, these work
ers do not have sizeable savings
to tide them over."
Lane Mill, Timber
Sold For Million
Eugene, Ore., July 7 (U.R)
The Long Bell Lumber com
chase of the Snollstrom Lumber
company holdings at Vaughn,
eight miles west of Eugene, for
an estimated $1,000,000.
There was no official figure
given from the Kansas City, Mo.,
headquarters of Long Bell, but
estimates of the large sawmill,
planing mill and 40.000 acres of
timber and tree farms wSre
valued In excess of the million
dollars.
FRANCE YIELDS
Paris, July 7 U.R) France is
giving the governments of Syria
and Lebanon the command of
some 25,000 Syro Lebanese
troops. It was announced offici
ally tonight.
Tl
IRK DANES WITH
REVENGEBOASTS
Weil-Fed Refugees Crowd
Schools French Take
Over Rhine Province.
Copenhagen, July 7 (U.R)
German mothers who fled here
with their children from East
Prussia to escape the Red army,
are boldly boasting that their
sons will grow up and avenge
Germany.
A Danish newspaperwoman
who investigated German re
fugees in Denmark said most
German women were "arrogant
and intolerable.
There are about 300,000 well
fed German refugees in Den
mark. Danes are becoming
more and more enraged because
children of the refugees occupy
90 per cent of Copenhagen's
schools. They'll probably pre
vent schools from reopening
Aug. 1, as scheduled.
"It's not enough that they
crowd our schools," the news
paperwoman, Mrs. Erna Milde,
said. "But we have to feed
them food that we should be
sending to Norway and Holland.
We have already fed them for
five years. That should be
enough."
But it Is the German attitude
which makes Danes angry, she
said.
Saarbrueckcn, Germany, July
7 (U.R) French occupation
forces began moving Into Ger
many's Rhine province today to
take over from U. S. troops who
have been governing the area.
America, French and German
authorities took measures to pre
vent disturbances from the Ger
mans' resentment over prospect
of French rule.
French liaison officers recent
ly began- entering the region.
The Germans saw them, knew a
change was Imminent, and
flocked to American military
government offices to plea that
Americans slay.
The Germans said they were
fearful that the French would
inaugurate a harsh rule over the
Rhine province, and authorities
took measures to prevent pos
sible street clashes between
French troops and German civi
lians. Some "incidents" have
been reported since the French
began arriving.
suit Mm
VELEZ WILL NEAR
Hollywood, July 7 (U.R) The
story of Lupe Vclez was headed
for another tempestuous chapter
tonight with a sister contesting
her will. Mrs. Josephine And
erson, the sister of the Mexican
actress who took her life rather
than bear an Illegitimate child,
charged In a court action today
that Miss Vclez' secretary, Mrs.
Beulah B. Kinder, had exerted
undue Influence on the Mexican
spitfire when the will was
drawn.
.. ,M!'' Kinder, who received a
third of the $5,000,000 estate
fraudulently represented herself
as the only person who held any
affection for the vivacious act
ress, Mrs. Anderson claimed
Her petition cited the exist
ence of a previous will under
which Mrs. Kinder would have
h,Z ? ,?",y $5'000' 8nd
bulk of the estate would have
gone to Mrs. Anderson and the
screen star's mother.
Texas Beauty Held
Extortion Charee
i vnmna, ore., July 7 (UR)
Rose Marie Moore. llm m.,
old Texas beauty, will be ar
raigned in Portland on a charge
of extorting money . from the
families of servicemen overseas,
J. Mason Dlllard, first assistn,,
a. auorney, fliscloscd tonight
Federal officials said th
young woman, who u t, ,if
of an armv irrnnt
- r,-... u.caeua,
met various servlcemm at m,.
clubs and service centers after
iney nad been sent overseas. She
later wrote to their Dnrentjt In
obtain money under the pre
tense she was expecting a baby.
FOREST FIRE MENACE
Victoria, B. C. Julv 7 (UP)
An order closing British Colum
bia forests to the public was ex
pected within 36 hours because
of the forest fire menace, gov
ernment quarters indicated to
night. ,
TRY
President Leaves Shortly
For Berlin Parley King
May Entertain.
Washington, July 7 (U.R)
President Truman is expected to
bring back from tho Big Three
conference a definite decision
when or whether Soviet Russia
will join the war against Japan.
His departure is expected
shortly and the meetings will be
gin in approximately two weeks
at Potsdam, near Berlin.
During the next two or three
months the President will be
more directly concerned with
foreign policy than with affairs
at home. His Big Three journey
will keep him away from Wash
ington until mid-August( per
haps later. Fixed for sometime
thereafter is a conference here
with Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
But in the three months since
the death of Franklin D. Roose
velt, Mr. Truman has done a lot
of work on the home front. He
has given the executive depart
ment a remarkable shake-up.
There are six new cabinet mem
bers in office or to take office
soon, four of them former con
gressional colleagues of the new
President.
Mr. Truman gradually is re
leasing officials who came to
prominence largely as personal
favorites of Mr. Roosevelt.
Among these are Harry L. Hop
kins, Miss Frances Perkins and
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
With these cabinet changes,
Secretary of State; James F.
Byrnes becomes next in lino of
succession to the presidency.
Byrnes will accompany Mr. Tru
man to Potsdam. If both were
killed or incapacitated, Secre
tary of Treasury Henry Morgen
thau, Jr., would succeed. But the
White House announced today
that if it becomes necessary for
the presidential party to travel
by airplane on this journey, Mr.
Truman and Byrnes will use sep
arate planes to minimize the
danger of both being injured or
killed in a single accident.
Morgenthau will continue as
second in line of succession un
til sometime next month when
Mr. Truman will formally nomi
nate War Mobilization Director
Fred M. Vinson, of Kentucky, to
succeed him.
Palace Ready
London, July 7 (U.R) Presi
dent Truman is expected to
reach London sometime between
July 23 and August 1, and may
be a guest of King George VI
and Queen Elizabeth at Bucking
ham Palace for four days, dip
lomatic circles said tonight.
Truman is expected to come
here from the Big Three confer
ence. On his way he will visit
American army units In Europe '
ior iour or live days, then will
come to England, it was report
ed. Arrangements for Tnimnn'i
reception at the palace are be-
lng made.
POSTAL SERVICE
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Washington. Julv 7 (U.R)
A far-reaching plan to reorgan
ize the post office department
was recommended to President
Truman by former Portmastcr
General Frank C. Walker before
no turned the job over to Robert
E. Hanncgan, It was disclosed to
night. Walker's recommendations In-
eluded swinging the bulk of rou
tine administration awav from
Washington, providing definite
tenure of office to ranking offi
cials and creation of a new office
of director of postal service.
The reorganization proposals
were set forth In a belated an
nual report of the postmaster
general for the fiscal year ended
Juno 30, 1944 held up until
now. Walker explained, because
of the need to give attention to
extraordinary wartime prob
lems. Solon Takes Dig At ,
Elliott Roosevelt
Washington, July 7 (U.R)
Rep. Robert F. Rich, R., Pa.,
suggested today that Brig. Gen.
Elliott Roosevelt be named sec
retary of the treasury because
"He knows how to get the money
and how to settle the debts."
Rich made his remarks during
debate on the reconversion tax
l)ill.