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Newspaper Page TextMm PA it ill N A IS The Weather Occasional light rain tonight . and Saturday. Established 1873 Tire Ramming Ban on Spare For New Cars Not Yet Lifted Supply Still Inadequate To Meet Demands in Full; Price Controls Continue WASHINGTON. Dee. 21 .V Tire rationing will end at 12:01 A. M., on Jan. 1, Price Adminis trator Chester Bowles announced yesterday. He said the rationing nrogram can be terminated then "because production of tires, particularly passenger tires, the shortage of which has been most acute, ha9 Increased steadily during the past two months, reaching an outnut for this quarter of about 11, 000.000." Bowles said OPA and the Ci vilian Production Administration had agreed that rationing could be lifted when production reach ed this level. Holders of tire purchase cer tificates will have through Dec. 31 to turn In ration coupons to dealers and obtain passenger or truck tires before unrationed Continued on Page 6 British Army, Air Heads Visit Javanese War Area BATAVIA. Java, Dee. 21. British Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. DemDsev and Air Chief Mar shal Sir Keith Park made a flv ing visit to Batavia today as Brit ish forces campaigned against Indonesian trooos east of Ban doeng, the summer capital. High sources in Batavia said Dec. 8 that the British had de cided to move in whatever rein forcements were necessary to re store order and guarantee Dutch sovereignty In the East Indies. (The Dutch news agency Aneta said in a dispatch from Singa pore that several thousand Dutch Marines, trained in the United States, had arrived today off the aMlayan coast aboard a Dutch streamer.) Russians Hang Seven of . German Elite Guard MOSCOW. Dec. 1. P Seven German S. S. (Elite Guard) mem bers were hanged yesterday at Smolensk following their convic tion as war criminals. Three others received prison terms ranging from 12 to 20 years for atrocities committed against residents of Smolensk. Oregon Farm Dept. Job Taken by George Covell SALEM, Ore.. Dec. 21 (P) George Covell. Portland, has been appointed food specialist for the State Department of Agricul ture's division of foods and dairies, it was announced today. He was discharged from the Army recently after more than a year's service. Before that, he was stationed in Seattle and Salem with the U. S. Department of Agriculture's processed foods j will clause establishing the dance division. I fund. His widow was hostess. Feared Penalty, Got Banquet Roseburg Girl One of Group Thai Landed From Lost Plane On Russian Airfield in Korea Imagine the surprise of fur-coated Russians at a lonely airfield In Korea, when 10 American girls trooped out of a lost U. S. Army C-46 which landed there recently. One of the girls was Miss Helen Gorrell, daughter of Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, Douglas County School Superintendent, who has been with the Red Cross in the Southwest ern Pacific during the war. Helen and nine other Red Cross girls were flying to Seoul, Korea, from Manila and Okin awa, when their transport be came lost and was forced to land in the Russian zone, according to a letter received by Mrs. Gorrell from her daughter. On the navigator's maD In the plane was a note that Russians would shoot down any strav planes that flew over their terri tory in Korea. When the Ameri can plan? with Its precious cargo came out of the clouds, the pilots sighted an airfield with fighter planes warming ur to take off and give them a chase. So the Americans landed. When they landed, the Ameri cans were ordered out and their ship was sealed with string of pa per over the door. An "Interna tional Incident" was created. The f" W l i f M f Mil & .47 .a-.J.. ..?. 1 LAMES KIMMEL Adm. R. K. Turner, above, testifying before a Congressional committee at Washington today, asserted that Admiral H. E. Kimmel, while in command at Pearl Har bor, received an "entirely clear" order, which, if obeyed, would have lessened the casual ties in the Japanese attack. Icy Coat Stymies Travel on Columbia River Highway PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 21 (.D A solid sheet of ice, increasing with more freezing rain, covered the Columbia Kiver goige today, but western Oregon valleys gained a respite from the cold spell. Only an occasional chain equipped truck was able to move along the glassy Columbia River Highway. I he Washington side of the highway was closed be yond Washougal, delaying stages for hours. Stages were arriving on time through the Willamette Valley, however, where rising temera- tures melted ice. Some trains were coming in far behind sched ule. Freezing rain was reported east of here to The Dalles, and several county schools closed in i sheriffs office reported several t ars in uncnes. j numoer Ol i and were taken to hospitals. Warmer weather was forecast for Oregon in general, with In termittent rain west of the Cas cades, and snow in the mountains and to the east. Enjoy "Jerry's Dance" WEST MINOT, Me., Dec. 21.- ((.) ) When Jairus Hilborn cheese factory worker and farm j er, died 20 years ago he willed enough money for 26 annual par ties, known here as "Jerry's Dance." At the 20th party last night at tended by 100 villagers the music stooped for a moment in J.iirus' i memory and for a roadine of the girls spent two nights in Russian custody, and weren t any happier wiii-ii a yuuiik rv-in-iin. a Jinmiin- fiu local communist, (nun i know" if thev were to be shot The least of their fears was that thev might he Interned. It all ended happily after radio meceaena had h.n f vch.-innoH with Moscow, and the elrls and the shio's crew were wined and dined bv their Russian hosts, and a dance was given in their honor. The dav afwr Thanksgiving, Nov. 23. they took off. In Seoul, headeuarters of the American military government in Korea, their plane had been listed as "lot" and 12 P-3s at a time were sent nut tn w,nr the eoiintrvsirie for siens of nossihle wreckage. Even B-17s and Cain- unas were tnrown into tne search. GMC, Union Still Try For Settlement Fact-Finders Entitled To Examine Firm's Books, Assertion of Truman (By the Associated Press) The lengthy wage controversy between General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers union appeared headed for another showdown today, in the wake of President Truman's decision that company financial records are relevant in wage disputes. Top ranking officials of the corporation and the union, in Washington for hearings by the government fact-finding board studying the nation's major labor problem, prepared to confer in an attempt to agree on a basis for resumption of collective bar gaining on strike issues. Some 200,000 GM employes have been die for one month following a strike in support of the union's demands for a 30 per cent wage rate increase. Book Scrutiny Upheld The GM Danel was to resume hearings today, having recessed to study Mr. Truman s statement, which said that fact-finding hoards investigating labor dis putes "should unquestionably have the right to examine the em ployer's books." Later Mr. Tru man told a news conference that boards also should have power to examine a labor union's books. The authority of the fact-finding boards to consider profits and prices in connection with wage increase demands had stowed the progress of the two panels studying wage disputes the General Motors strike and in the oil industry's wage con troversy. Before Mr. Truman's decision, General Motors had advised the panel it would withdraw from hearings if profits and prices were considered as evidence. Later President Charles E. Wil son said the president's state ment would not alter the com- Continued on Page 6 Federal Housing ! Program Will Go In Effect Jan. 15 WASHINGTON, Dot-. 21. TP) The povernmcnt's propram to spur home construction will go into effort Jan. 15, John D. Small announced today. The chief of the Civilian Pro duction Administration ordered that dwellings costing $10,000 or less be offered first to veterans and told a news conference that the top rent on these dwellings will be $80 a month. Small estimated that at least 400,000 homes will be built under the program in 19-16. "We expect," he added, "that a substantial number of these will sell at considerably less than Sio.ooo." This means. Small said, that a great many of the new dwellings will rent for under $0 a month. Priorities Restored The CPA chief outlined anew regulations restoring 10 kinds of critically scarce building ma- terials to a priority system and announced that the KHA wi" j handle applications for these through its 52 field officers. Beginning Jan. 15, home build-! ers who qualify will be assigned! a so-called "II. H." rating for these materials. Hating will be awarded either! to individual veterans who wish to build for themselves, or to i builders desiring to erect one or more buildings. Housing already under way may he Drought witnin tne pro-i nussia and tne united states at gram. Small said, if it meets the 1 Dear to have brought the thn-e $10,000 pri'v linvt, is offered first I countries closer torether than to veterans, and meets otner i standards outlined In the regula ( tlon Vets Get Preference All applicants for priorities as sistance In obtaining materials must aeree to make the housing ' aval an e to veterans nunn? tne period of construction and for 30 days thereafter. At the conclusion of that pe- : riod It mav be sold or rented to a non-veteran at the same sale i nriee or rental applicable to vet erans. ! Building materials covered by 1 'he new regulation are: I Common and face hrlrk. clay i sewer Dine, structural tile. C'I sum board, gypsum lath, cast Iron soil pipe and fittings, cast non r.nii.iiiun i-qiuimit-rn, u,un I tubs, lumber and millwork. ROSEBURG. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2 1. 1 945 Ends Sanuary 1 NO SARCASM MEANT. U. S. Taking Good Care of Eleanor, Solon Observes WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. (.V) Representative Bennett R Mo.), emphasizing that he was not speaking sarcastically, re marked today that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt apDarently will be well taken care of by the government. Commenting on her selection to the United States delegation to the United Nations Organization, Bennett told a reporer that like other delegates, she will draw a $12,000 a year salary and receive expenses and allowances. He said that Congress has given her the right to frank mail, postage free, and in addi tion predicted that Congress would approve a $5,000 a year pension for her as it had for widows of other presidents in the last 40 years. Bennett said that on the whole, he thought the UNO delegates were good appointments. Additional Land for Edenbower School Bought by Board Purchase of three and 910 acres of land surrounding the Edenbower School by School Dis trict No. 4 was announced this morning by Superintendent of Schools Paul S. Elliott. This property was acquired from the Berks estate for approximately ne saia. The additional acreage now makes a total of four and 8-10 acres at Edenbower and will be "a very fine site" for an educa tional plant. Elliott said. An in crease in the number of build ings and houses along Calkins road indicates a greater popula tion in that area; he commented. In the Riverside school project, Elliott said, an agreement with the Portland architects, C. M. Freeman and Sidney B. Hayslip, has been completed, and plans are to be submitted as soon as possible. The architects have SDcelallzed in school construction, Elliott stated, and have perhaps built :.HCfTnH ns,ruc,lo.n' E1'io',! more schools than any other ar chitects in the State of Oregon. Complete plans for the River side school, which Is to be built on the Garden Valley road, will include two units, one or both of which will be constructed as i unas Is are forthcoming. The units! (11 An eight-room unit with: are umce anu Dealing plant, and (2): a evmnasium nrt rafotnri n.u i units will be part of the same miming, nui constructed one later than the other if necessary. Elliott said. Relief From Cold Wave Forecast; Death Toll 90 (By the Associated Press) rteiier irom tne season's first cold weather, which has touched nearly every section of the coun- try in the last two weeks, was In prospect for the South todav, but sub-zero temperatures continued to chill parts of the Northern Jiains and INortheastern States. . t t . t- r I JnrXnThousands of Vefs Face Yule over most oi tne ;southern States $ early todav and temneratures near freezing and below were ixirien in widely srattered areas exceot In Texas and Florida. The current cold wave tin caused at least 90 deaths in 18 States. Harmony Prevails at Big Three Conference MOSCOW Dee. 21. ((.'Til The exploratory conversations of the foreien ministers of Britain i Tnev were helore the meetine. informed foreign quarters said lon.iv. Certain suspicion, are believer! to have a good chance of being dispelled, it was rejiorted. Dog Acts as Witness j - u.jj;. . AT WeOOing Ceremony NFW I.ONDOV. Conn Dec ' 21 -A'lee Krlnn WI"Ip and Frank P. Hollls thought It ; would be nice to have someone corve as witness at their mar- rlnee even though none was re nuired bv Coneoetieut law Tn thpv ettled on Dntv their hlark i Cnrlenr Qrwninl I,,! ,r lha ! Peace .larnh Sherh nmiM nni. i of Dustv's paws on an Ink rjd and tnen on the marriage certlll- Icate. M'Arthur Hits Story of Rift With Russia . Broadcaster Fed 'Hooch,' ' General Hints; Report Is Reaffirmed, However TOKYO, Dec. 21. l.TU- Gen eral MacArthur today denied a broadcast report that his head quarters had become embroiled In arguments, with the Russians over assignment of Soviet occu pation troops to Japan and that MacArthur had threatened to re sign. "I am here to serve and not to hinder or obstruct American government," the supreme com mander of the Allied powers said in a statement issued by his press relations office. "It is my full purpose to see the thing through. The question of Russian participation in the occupation is a matter for other decision than my own." The statement said the broad- . Continued on Page 6 Traffic Law Breakers Pay Fines Totaling $200 Overloaded vehicles, speeding, and failure to have operator's permits were traffic violations that brought in $200 in fines yes terday, in the court of Justice of the Peace Thomas C. Hartfiel. John J. Wright was fined $100 for an overload; Ralph J. Shirt cliff was fined $50 for overload, and $10 for overheight: Marion V. Mekkers, overload, $10; Helen ATSwall, speeding, $10; John Reitsma, no P.U.C. permit, $10; Andrew W. Knapp, no operator's license, $11). Order Opening Special Elk Season Is Revoked PORTLAND. Dec. 21. P The special elk-shooting season planned for Baker County is off. State Game Suervisor Frank B. Wire said today. He reported opposition from Baker County residents who, he might be wiped out by eager nimroas. The special Dec. 28-31 season had been planned to thin out a herd of some GOO elk forced into agricultural lowlands by heavy mountain snows. Ranchers had complained to the Game Commis- unn thut nllr wnra mimnhlurr nn their haystacks. C,-,- r,.. J Wire Pence Erected at Bridge to Ban Suicides PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 21. JPi) To forestall suicides, the city has erected a high wire fence on towering Colorado Street bridge. But one would be self-destruc-tionist had a plan. A patrolman found him, busy with wire clippers, at the span's ! highest point. Dissuaded, agreed to go home, j ne Old GI Cry: "Hurry up and Wait:' Stranding in Western Ports; Cities Plan Entertainments SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21. ((TPl) "It's the same old Army," aid Corporal A. L. Holzman, of Long Island, N. Y. "Hurry up and wait." Holzman was one of nearly 100,000 veterans from the Pacific who today appeared likely to be stranded at West Coast K)its on Christmas Day because of lark of transportation. Nearly 120,000 veterans were .tymled at the ports today, and -.hip were ;ii-tiui-u iu tiump an additional 15. 000 more daily on harassed Army and Navy trans udation officials, a far larger number than they expected to h".w -"P"r"tlon for Men required to stay aboard ship there were four "floating barracks" here today were uiven an Information sheet ex plaining the reason for the de lav. The paer also listed enter tainment and sightseeing possi bilities In San Francisco. "Sure, this Is good." said Ser jeant Louis Jaffe of New York City, a shlpbound veteran nf 20 months In the Western Pacific. "No mud. no filth, no duties but It Isn't home " A spokesman from the office I of Major Oneral Homer Gron- iuger, commander of the port of r """1' n'lll,Jn n, l HMI1- I Our plan lor handling return- mm Jr S; h ; ILLITERATE HERO PREFERS CIVILIAN LIFE Former S-Sgt. Paul W. Bolden of Madison, Ala., holds the Congressional Medal of Honor, but was rejected for re-enlistment in the Army recently, according to recruiting officers, because of illiteracy. By the time this objection had been waived, Bolden had changed his mind about re-enlisting. He is shown as he received the nation s highest decoration from President Truman. Kimmel at Pearl Harbor Did Not Obey "Entirely Clear11 Order, Adm. Turner Declares WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. UJP)) Adm. R. K. Turner asserted today that Adm. Husband E. Kimmel did not comply with "entirely clear" orders and expressed the opinion that If Kimmel had done so losses at Pearl Harbor would have been cut "materially." Turner also told a Senate-House Committee investigating the Dec. 7, 1941, disaster that the Pacific Fleet under Kimmel had been prepared for "Just such an attack" and was "ready for war." Col. H. G. Maison Rejoins Oregon State Police SALEM, Ore., Dec. 21 M") Col. H. G. Maison, who was deputy superintendent of State Police before he enteed Army service with the National Guard in 1940, will rejoin the depart ment on January 1 as assistant to Superintendent Charles P. Pray. In making the announcement. Pray said Maison's Job will be to conduct the in-service train ing program for State Police of ficers. This program was sus pended during the war. Lee Bown, deputy suierintend ent who succeeded Maison, will remain in his present Job, Pray said. OPA Office to Occupy New Location in January The Roseburg area OPA office will be closed over both the Christmas and New Year's week ends, it was announced today. The office will be closed from Saturday, Dec. 22, through Tues day, Dec. 25, and Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, oiening Jan. 2 in new quarters in the Lumbermen's building. The office will be cn Satur day afternoon, lec. 29, Instead of closing at noon, as usual, hut moving Into the new location will be in progress on that date. The office will be kept open Satur day afternoon Jan. 5. !ng veterans has been too suc cessful. We've brought back more men than the idlromls handle." can With mote than 51,000 un happy servicemen on their hands. Army and Navy authorities at San Francisco were liberal with leave passes. Sighlseeing tours were organized and jwirt officers planned Christmas parties with Red Cross bags of gifts. At lyis Angeles, a huge theater on the dock was tteing readied for a Christmas Day show for harbor-bound men. An estimated 15.000 men were still aboard shl last night. At Santa Ana staging area mess sergeants were flown In from other bases to help feed the troops, and tier man prisoners of war used as kitchen police. Portland, Tacoma and Seattle also had huge backlogs of servicemen. 45 297 The Navy Department, Turner said, had given Kimmel "tier- fectly specific and entirely clear" orders to take the necessary measures against a Japanese at tack. Turner, as chief of the Navy war plans division had prepared ! a iov. n, i:m, "war warning message for Pacific commanders. (The Japanese bomtxM'S and torfiedo bombers sank or badly damaged all the major units in the fleet at Pearl Harbor.) "We had there a total of 185 fighter aircraft. The Japanese had, according to my informa tion, 112 and a portion of these and a portion of their reconnais sance planes were maintained over the carrier group as protec tion. "Kven if only a considerable portion of our fighters had been in the air I believe the Japanese attack would have been much less severe in its results." Also, Turner noted, there were some land-based tiomticrs avail able to the defenders of Pearl Harbor. Turner upheld his warning message of Nov. 27 as entirely adequate. He said it was not necessary to send anything addi tional to Kimmel. Turner said he had had "the utmost resx-ct for his (Kim mii's ability" and added that he believed this estimate of Kimmel was shared throughout the Navy. Three Plead Guilty in Record Whiskey Seizure PORTLAND, Ore., IVc. 21 -(iT Three men pleaded guilty jestenlay to iransorting $15,000 of liquor across state lines- the largest Illegal whiskey haul ever confiscated in Oregon. The three were Fred Vargas, 2H; Robert Vincent Harrison, 33. and John Francis Wooliirh, 31. Flod Hinler, 35, named in the same indictment, p, leaded inno cent and will go on trial Jan. 11. Vargas and Harrison were ar rested In a whiskey-loaded truck near here Sept. Hi. The other tvo were arrested later In Calirornia. Sentences will be imposed after Rlinzler's trial. Mother, Five Children Die in Burning House WINNIPEG, Dec. 21. CVil A mother and her five children were burned to death and three other lMTsons were inlllred when j f(rp di-stroved the interior of a two-storv house In central Winni peg earlv tMlav. The dead: Mrs. Betty Arml tage; her sons, Jerry, 7, Jimmy, 3: and thri'e daughters Shirley, l(i, Klaine, 13, and Yvonne, six months. In lured are Bernard Armltage. 5H. husband of the dead woman, another daughter Sonya, 8, and Reginald Bcnham, 42. Tompkins Not to Run PORTLAND, Dec. 21 (TV Morton Tompkins, state grange ' master oft mentioned as a pos- sible candidate to succeed the late Rep. James W. Mott Is defi nitely out of the race. The Grange Bulletin said that "conditions make It lmosslfile" for Tompkins to become a candidate. Traffic Crash Effects Fatal After 12 Days Army's Richest Leader Famous for Brilliant Action on Battlefield HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dee. 21. IAPI Gen. - George S. Patton, Jr., who led the victor ious U. S. Third Army from the beaches of Normandy into Czechoslovakia, died today a dozen days after his neck was broken in a traffic accident. The General's stout fighting heart weakened during the day from effects of pulmonary com plications which had beset his apparent recovery from the broken neck and partial para lysis. Mrs. Patton was with him. The General was 60 last Nov. 1 1. He was commander of the U. S. 5th Army at the time of his death. He had served brief- . ly as acting commander of all American forces in the Euro pean theater a few days before his automobile and an Army truck collided near Mannheim on Sunday, Dec. 9. Fighter to the Core Lieut. Gen. George Smith Pat ton, r. "Old Blood and Guts" to his men regarded his Job as winning battles. He first caught popular fancy as the dashing, roarin, hell-for-leather old cavalryman, with two pear handled pistols on his hips, ' who led the United States forces In the conquest of western Tu nisia In World War II. Then, commanding the Amerl- ( Continued on page 3.) Simplified Tax Form Upheld by Oregon Court SALEM, Ore., Dee. 21 VP Oregon citizens next year will . be able to Use the simplified state income tax returns pro vided by the 1945 legislature, the state supreme court ruling 5 to 2 . today that the law calling for the new forms is valid. The suit ttgaintt the State Tax Commission was filed by F. H. ' Young, Portland, manager ' of Oregon Business and Tax Re- search, Inc., who contended that the law was invalid because a legislative committee inserted the wrong amendments in the bill. Hence, Young argued, the law is not the same as that passed by the legislature. The majority opinion, by Jus tice J. O. Bailey, denied Young's contention, asserting that the Senate and House Journals did not show affirmatively that any mistake had been made. ' Cordon Raps Confusion In Federal Wool Policy PORTLAND, Dec. 21. m The war hit the nation's wool output harder than any other phase of agriculture, cutting the crop from 450,000,000 to 300,000, 000 pounds, Sen. Guy Cordon said here. Threat of British-controlled wool and trouble getting range land has prompted many sheep-, men to quit, he told directors of the Pacilic Wool Growers here yesterd.'iy. Cordon said farmers are con fused because the State Depart ment seeks to lower tariff bar riers and offer subsidies, while the Department of Agriculture is trying to remove subsidies as soon as possible. "There is some thing wrong," he asserted, "when administrative departments can't get together on an Integrated j program." lie contended the country must protect markets for Its own pro ducers, or lower its standard of living. Claim of Arms Smuggling For Mexico Revolt Fizzles MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21. ((D - Foreign Minister Najera said yesterday that Iibor I-eader To ledano had failed to substantiate his charges that United States "ImM'rialists" were passing wen)ons across the border to fo ment a revolution. As a result, the foreign minis ter said, the Mexican Govern ment would take no further cng nizane of the charges. The War Department also said Lombardo Toledano's assertion apparently was without foundation. VFW Post Plans Memorial Portland, Dec. 21. t.ii Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. M 12 here today announced plans to construct a veteran's memorial building In Southeast Portland. Ltvlty Factflant By U T. FUUerwteU If General MacArthur Isn't cartful in hit pro-American ad ministration of Japan, he may find himself In the unfortunate position of again being boomed for president of the U. S.