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i LAR ELLfMVMJMG, ywuc Nt(ra pwttr to hath Muwlwkhw ift trap train. Ttw engineer pulM out withwl Urn, no be railed t.xi, mifht the train after a six-hour dune, and delivered the food. Even spontaneous of the MMien couldn't quite pay the 1111 cab fare. The Gallup Independent VOLUME 56 "Western New Mexico's Daily Newspaper" (Associated Press) GALLUP, N. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25,.

1945 NUMBER 150 WEATHER New Mexico Portly cloudy today, tonight mnd Sunday; widely scattered showers; Hltlc change in temperature. V. S. Guncrco temperature for 24 hours ended 8 a. in, today, high 82; low 53.

Allies Revise Occupation Plans Easy Terms Credit Buying Comes Back WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (IP) Easy credit terms on home-building came back to the nation today. The homebuilding will follow shortly. Not only also washing machines, a tires and paper-figured in the news for Americans rapidly reconverting from the nightmare of war. along with the bright tidings came rumblings oi trouble over prices.

The government wants to hold prices down. Some manufacturers spoke up and said the government goes too far. Here's the way things looked: Federal Housing Administration declared itself ready to resume its program of insuring mortgages on new homes on a full prewar scale. The program has been virtually suspended except on repairs and resale homes for lack of new building. Ten thousand private banks and other institutions stand ready to lend the'money with FHA backing.

Maybe you can't build yet, but you can start arranging a loan. 2 Washing machines started trickling off production lines but the industry isn't satisfied with prices. Washing machine makers are seeking 15 per cent more than they got in May, 1942. The OPA wants prices toj.be only 5.2 pgr cent higher. said it will put' its own washing machines in warehouses until higher prices are granted.

GE has started producing them at Bridgeport, Conn. 1 here's the dope on other things-to-come: AUTOS THE automotive coun cil for war production, happy over yesterday's WPB order removing dll limits, on auto output, said 500,000 cars between now -and Christmas are more than possible- Unless the rules are changed, these cars won't have spare tires. the army put 255,000 of its truck lires on, the market for (Continued on back page) Taxes Are Reduced On N. M. Property SANTA FE, Aug.

25 New Mexico property owners will pay cents less per $1,000 of valua-' (ion this year than they did The reduction was announced last night by Chief Tax Commissioner H. B. Sellers in reporting the property tax rate for the current fiscal year would be $5.975 per valuation. Sellers said that the new levy, despite the reduction, was expected to raise $2,089,669 or $37,960 more than last year because of an increase of $12,000,000 in assessed valuation. The' reduction in the tax rate was made, Sellers said, in the amount levied for debt purposes and this year's levy will wipe out a $50,000 balance' of the $750,000 public defense indebtedness of 1941.

Labor Board Rules In Chino Case 25 The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a petition of the CIO for determination of collective bargaining representative in the Chino mines and the Hurley mill and smelter of the Kcnnccott Copper Corporation in New Mexico. The company and the AFL Chino Metal Trades Council of Grant county, N. opposed the CIO petition saying that have a contract which urns until June 12, 1946, at the Chino mines in Sanla Rita and the mill and smelter at Hurley. Boy Killed'By Hit-Run Driver SANTA FE, AIIR. 25 State police and Rio Arriba county authorities today sought the driver of an automobile which last night struck and killed an 11-year-old boy on the street in Espanola.

AFSI. State Police Chief A. B. Martinez taid the automobile did not stop. He identified the boy Jrocph Drl Tfortc, Cola, who was visiting on uncle, Jake i Trujillo.

Chiang Outlines Territorial Aims Of Nation BY SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Aug. 25 Chiang Kai-Shek said today that outer Mongolia should be granted independence; that Tibet should be made autonomous, and that the status of Hong Kong as a British crown colony would not be changed without negotiations. China's major aims are the reestablishment of the nation's territorial and administrative integrity in Manchuria, recovery of.foimosa and the Pescadores and restoration of Korea's independence, Chiang said in a statement which, may have been designed, in part, to prepare people for the new Chinese- Russian treaty. (Terms of the treaty have not been disclosed officially. The Bern radio said last night in a broadcast recorded by the FCC that the treaty provided for Russian recognition of "Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria," and that the "price, for Moscow's accommodating'atttiude is said to be establishment of joint Russian- Chinese naval bases at Port Arthur." Moscow in return denounced intervention in Chinese internal politics, the broadcast said, and "the Chinese Communists will thus no longer have a foreign political pretext to continue their controversy with the government of Chung- Regarding Hong Kong, Chiang said: "I now declare to the nation and the world at large that the status of Hong.Kong,-which-U based on not with-' out" going' into negatiations with Britain.

China also will resort to diplomatic means to restore concessions and leased territories, including Kowloon, from other powers." Chiang said Chinese troops would not be sent to Hong Kong to receive the Japanese surrender there because the step might cause a misunderstanding among the allies. Chiang said restoration of Manchuria to China "Is assured" and "Korea will in the not distant future be liberated and made free." China has no demands or designs on Burma, he continued, but "hopes Britain will take concrete steps to raise the political position of the Burmese people and facilitate ihe return of Chinese to resume business there." "Our foreign, policy is to honor treaties, reply upon, the law and seek rational readjustments when requirements of time and actual conditions demand such readjustments," Chiang added. Chiang sent a third invitation to Mao Tse-Tung, civilian leader of the Chinese communists' Yunan Regime, to come to Chunking for a discussion of communist-nationalist differences which threaten to erupt in civil war. Mao had asked Chiang to accept Gen. Chou En-Lai, his ranking assistant, but Chiang replied today that in view of the urgency of the situation he hoped Mao himself would come "so these problems may be speedily resolved in the interest of the nation." Arizona Mines See Bright Future TUCSON, Aug.

25 CarnotUc, one of the ores from which uranium is gotten, is being mined in northeastern Arizona, Dr. Bert S. Butler, professor of geology at the university of Arizona, reported today. He said the ore had been mined earlier in the century to get radium but that when Belgian congo deposits of pitchblende were discovered it drove the Arizona industry out of business. Later vanadium was mined from the same ore deposits and now uranium-base for atomic is being mined in the area.

McCarthy Corrects War Fund Quota McKinley county's quota in the National War Fund drive in October will be $12,100 instead of $21,000, Frank J. McCarthy, state director, said today, correcting the figures erroneously supplied to The Daily Independent Friday. Alonff with the quota an additional sum is (o he raised for coirnnmily clicsl poses, which will make the lolal iTuiuify fur the campaign about $17,000, instead of $23,000, the grosb- figure previously announced. What Yanks Will See When They They Occupy Tokyo Marunouchi district, administrative and transportation heart of Japan. V.

S. Embassy, in Tokyo, where Stars and Stripes will wave again. Schools Start Work Monday New Principal At Senior High Gallup teachers and students will start the work of the school year at 9 o'clock Monday forenoon. Plans arfd preparations for the opening day have been worked out by Sup-' erintendent T. C.

Gallagher and his assistants. Indications are that the number enrolled in the several schools will be in excess of last year. R. D. HoIIingsworth, of Las Vegas will be the principal at Senior High this year.

Wesley D. Kirby who was elected to the position did not accept because of the housing situation here. Mr. HoIIingsworth has had experience in Grady and Tatum, N. serving for a time as principal of schools in the latter town.

Bernicc Burch, of Sayre, will be a new teacher at Senior High. She will teach mathematics. Mrs. Francis B. Skinner, will teach in Junior High and Mrs.

Joyce Gallagher, in the elementary grades. These are also new teachers in the school system. Monday will be given over to registration of other preliminaries incident to the starting of the school year. The registration schedule follows: SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Senior high school building assembly room. Sophomores at 9 a.m.; Juniors at 10:30 a.

Seniors at 1 Pm JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL All students will report at the junior hifih building at 9 a.m. Seventh grade will register in' rooms JOG and 101: eighth grades in the gym; ninth grades in the assembly room. ELEMENTARY 1 SCHOOL Elementary students will report to the respective schools at 9 a.m. Monday. Children must be 6 years old by Jan, 1, to enter the first grade.

The only exception to this (Continued on back page) Coal Co. Takes Delaware Charter Notice was published today of the dissolution of the Gallup Gamcrco Coal Company of New Mexico, which sometime ago look over the Gallup American Coal Company. The Gallup Gamerco Coal Company has been re-chartered under the laws of Delaware to succeed the former state corporation. At the same time the Gibson Stores Company has been changed to the Gallup. Gamerco Coal Company.

Neither corporate change affects the operation of the local properties. VETERAN MISSOURI PUBLISHER DIES SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 25 S. Jewell, 78, president of Springfield Newspapers, died today after year's illness. He hnd been a newspaper publisher here for 50 years and had been a member of the Associated Press since it was organized at the turn of the century.

GOP Chief tains Are Preparing To Don War Paint ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 25 (IP) Sub-committees to consider revision of party rules and to draw a budget for next year's election campaign were named by the Republican party welfare committee yesterday. Chairman George R. Craig sail that in a discussion of party harmony all elements of the party appeared eager to iron out differences and down the line for the party's candidates next year." The revision of rules seeks to put party affairs in tune with the change in date of the state's primary election from September to June. Craig said the two sub-committees tt-ould meet next month and report back to a full committee meeting here on Sept 20, the night before the stale central committee meets.

Members of the sub-committees Lyman Raef and Earl Douglas, Socorro, and Philip Hubbell, state GOP chairman; and Miera, Gallup; Tom Broome, Santa Fc; and Neal Jcnson, Albuquerque. Hurricane Is Due On Texas Coast End Of Lend- lease Stirs British Ire LONDON, Aug. 25 The end of lend-lease stirred sharp debate throughout, Britain today. The government stifled official comment that might complicate negotiations with the United States for credits to replace the wartime aid, but there was no such prohibition on the press and public. The Conservative Daily Express commented that the United States did only what "it was entitled to do," and this was echoed by many individuals who said they realized "it had to end some time." The Financial News, however, protested editorially that Britain "has had a pretty raw deal." The authoritative Times commented that "lend-lease wus purely a wartime arrangement, and it had been known that these facilities mild, quickly end after (lie defeat of Japan." "BUT," the newspaper added, "the' expectation was that sufficient time would have elapsed to permit the consultations and decisions which had been prepared to smooth over the transition.

1 "It is as well known in the United States as in Britain that (he present British difficulties are duo. in no conceivable way to improvidence. They "have: arisen, from the agreed. I share which this country undertook i to contribute to the common war effort." The Times urged "above all it is important that there should be no fruitless controversy or recrimination." Opinion was unanimous that the abrupt termination of lend-lease shipments left already slim-rationed Britain in hard straits, and that a substitute plan for obtaining necessities on credit must be worked out quickly. Small Crowd Hears Recreation Concert With an estimated of 200 persons at night and only a scattered audience in the afternoon, sponsors of tiie summer recreation program expressed dissappoinlment today over public interest in the two musical programs given in the Junior high school gynasium Friday as a demonstration of the work done during the summer.

Those who attended indicated satisfaction with the results at- laincd. The program included Bongs, dances, and various novelty features learned by the children. About twenty-five children took part in addition to members of the municipal Juvenile band. Mrs. Harry Scoopmire directed the program, with Mrs.

Betty Whitchill piano accompanist and Roberta K. Slamm in charge of makeup. The recreational council plans lo hold similar programs later. Aside from a paid supervisor, the work was handled by volunteers and children supplied their own equipment. Superior Buys Fruits, Vegetables NEW ORLEANS.

Aug. 23 A hurricane packing winds up to 90 miles an hour is expected to strike into the Texas coast between Port O'Connor and Frccport some time Sunday morning, the weather bureau warned today. DALLAS, Aug. 25 Agriculture Department reports the following best buys in fresh fruits and vegetables in these key New Mexico retail centers: Albuquerque. Gallup, Santa Fc -local potatoes, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, squall, t-oukini; apples grapefruit, ranges, lemons.

Brophy To Shake Up Indian Service ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 25 Indian Commissioner William Brophy today displayed a bulging notebook with the explanation thiit his several weeks' tour of Indian reservations would be the basis for reorganization of (he U. S. Indian service. He snid thr journey of 11,000 miles during which he vibilcd "I don't know how fribch" jin-osh the United Stjitcs in j-Olul uf jiroblri the liflil wr runic out with a sound of Brophy gave no details of his plans for the nation's oldest, bureau and discussed problems of the nation's 350,000 Indians only in terms.

"Public henllh has to be borne down he said and named expansion of educational as another top problem. Also a must, he said, is improve- mcnt economic eircumsUnices, siiKycMinp that a partial solution i for tile ft) .000 Nil va jus. the nation's: trilx 1 be 1 found in modern Hve: breeding pnic- more water iiiul better Ui-c of lands. But he ''The- Navojoa need more land, ij don't set 1 how they can sustain themselves." Since Congress has declined appropriations for lantf purcliascs, he the Navajos "must utilize new which have acquired in (be armed DINTS nr in war industries. Me forecast most of lliuse wlio left Uic reservation for service would return, As lo UK- N.iViijos' and olhcr In- inere.isiiif! demands for frnn- chs'r.

IJiophy hahl wilhuiil Habor- ji'icur. "thi-te. iir my mind that huMans in New Mexico have (In 1 IciJ.tl nnht. fo Brophy unit! that more money Surplus Tires On Open Market WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 The army today declared surplus 254,987 tires, primarily truck and trailer sizes, and 60,000 heavy duty tubes.

The tubes are G.OO by 16, a passenger car size. The tires and tubes will be sold by regional offices of the commerce department government disposal agency for consumer goods. would be required to finance war- deferred maintenance and construction on the Indian reservations and that he expected lo recommend MI increase in Indian service appropriations for the post-war pi-iiod. Funds abo arc needed, he said, for lire protection and soil Brophy planned today to renter with tribal leaders in Alt.iniuei'q He leaves Monday for the bureau in YcMcnlay lie talked MtrorinlciKleMls of j-oulliwestern Iwlum wli.it lie i-ait! effurf increase- administrative efficiency. Sec.

Anderson Says Food Will Be Plentiful ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 25 Home for a 12-day rest on his farm, Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of Agriculture, today brought to home folks an assurance that the food situation would continue to improve. The cabinet member arrived by plane from Washington lost night accompanied by his wife and daughter, Nancy. He planned to spend a while this morning at his insurance office in Albuquerque before going to his farm south of Albuquerque.

He sketched the food outlook this way: Continued reductions in the number of points needed for meat, butter and fats, adequate supplies of canned goods, improvement in the soap supply and a surplus of potatoes. He urged (hat victory gardeners continue raising and canning so that as much food as possible can be sent to relieve suffering in. Discontinuance of purchase and set-asides for the armed services Had brought the abrupt improvement in the food situation, Anderson reported, and indicated that a reduction in the number of points needed for butter and some meats might not be lonjj in coming. Anderson laid tlio shortage of soap to hoarding. His forecast for improvement was based on an expected increase in the amounts of fats available for its manufacture and expected resumption of copra slupments.

Adm'l Spraunce Skeptical About Holding Okinawa Aboard Admiral Spruancc's Flagship, Manila Bay, Aug. 25 Questioning the political wisdom of American retention of strategically valuable Okinawa, south of Japan, Adm. Raymond A. Spruancc, Fifth Fleet commander, told his second press conference of the war today that: "It would be a sore point with us if foreign power held a string of islands blockading our coast," as the Ryukyus (including Okinawa) do Japan's coast. "In political terms, we want to do everything we can to leave no sore spots in international relations." He termed Okinawa extremely valuable strategically but "potentially explosive" internationally.

The deeision on whether to retain it, he pointed out, will be up to the diplomats. Even without the Ryukus, he added, America now controls a vast arc of Pacific bases stretching through Japan's former island manl additional bases, although important, are not vital. Iwo Jima, he said, is extremely important stratcfticnlly as are Philippines bases; but bases on the Asiatic continent "are not necessary' 1 and also might be dangerous politically Id retain. The Admiral, whoso Fifth Flcel will control waters of southwestern Japan and Korea's eastern coasts, the Americans will make sure that "Japan is in no position to start rampage again, but we won't do anything to prevent (ricndly relations in the future." "We must educate the Japanese out of Uie ways they thi.s war," he concluded. 1 JAP SUBMARINES REPORTED MISSING MANILA, Auc- -'5 imperial lu'adiiuatters nolificd General MucArlhm- linlny that fmtr arc in.iy hiivi- hrm KepcaU-d if- fu rprnmimii-'ittt Uicin have (ailed, the message said.

Postponement Decided After Convoy Starts By RUSSELL BRINES MANILA, Aug. 25 0P) Japan's occupation and formal surrender have been postponed at least 48 hours by typhoons, General Mac- 'Arthur announced today. (An almost simultaneous dispatch from Okinawa, unconfirmed in Manila, reported that first Allied airborne landings in the Tokyo area hav6 been rescheduled for Sunday by the 317th troop carrier group. The dispatch said the typhoon threat had dissipated. Whether MacAr- Uiuv's postponement followed and overruled this rescheduling could not immediately be determined.) MacArthur's headquarters gave this surrender timetable: The surrender signing aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay, scheduled for Aug.

31, will take place Sept. 2. The initial landings of American airborne troops, scheduled for tomorrow, will take place Tuesday at Atsugi 'airfield, 18 miles southwest of the imperial palace in Tokyo. The large-scale airborne landings headed poison md ly by MacArthur at Atsugii and the marine and naval landings at Yokosuku naval Tuesday, will take place next Thursday. Even those plans were tentative.

"IT IS HOl'EU that by that limo wind and seas will have abated to an extent that will permit our forward movement," said the supreme commander of the Allied powers. The Tokyo area already had been, hard hit by a typhoon Wednesday night and MacArthur's statement said "a scries of typhoons" raged in tlit 1 western Pacific between Ak- innwa and Japan. Tlit 1 dramatic postponement oE history-making events was decided on as the first movements already had begun. Initial airborne landing forces were making final preparations to depart from Okinawa. Seaborne forces already were at (Continued on back page) DeGaulle Thinks U.

S. Will Help France Comeback WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 Gen. Charles De Gaulle seemed confident loday that French economic needs will receive sympathy assistance from the United Slates and French political plans as well. It was believed the French president would go to the White House for the last time this afternoon, after returning from a trip to the U.

naval academy at Annapolis. If De Gaulle and his foreign minister, Georges Oidault, needed evidence that their visit had bettered French-American relations, they got it at the White Houic yesterday. In an unscheduled ceremony, President Truman pinned the Legion of Merit on De Gaulle's gray uniform and tied the s-ime award around (he neck of (he dapper Bidault. Uilur, at the French embassy, DC Gaulle awarded the Gruiul Cross of the French Legion of Honur to Admirals William D. Le.ihy und Er- nc.st J.

King and Gcnerab of thu Army George C. Marshall and H. H. Arnold, nnd the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor with Palms lo Gen. B.

B. Somurvell, army service forces chief. anil Secretary of State Byrnes conferred at (he state department most of tin; day. undoubtedly administrative work on the discussed by De Gaulle and Mr. Truman.

The two presidents talked for halt huur following ihe White House decorations. KtiThrr, (taullv had iiulicuioil ill news rinfeivm-f th.il chief fi-niMtnic UM-. oht.iin United I or a 'jMt'iU'ttni to 1 1 -l inm-lcin- ize fcYciich.