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ADMITS SLAUGHTER
Confessed Killer Of Six
En Route To Courtroom
SAN DIEGO, Calif. AP A confessed killer of six,
William E. Cook Jr., is en route today to a federal court
room where his wild, bloody career may end with the
death penalty.
The FBI said Badman Bill admitted slaughtering five
members of the Carl Mosser family of Atwood, 111., and
salesman Robert H. Dewey of Seattle, Wash., all within
five days.
Holdups, robbery, kidnaping and killings filled the
straightforward accoujit of Cook's depredations given by
E. C. Richardson, Federal Bureau of Investigation agent
in charge here. Shortly after the agent's recical yester
day Cook was taken away, en route to Oklahoma City.
Student Finds
Can Of Money -
Little Richard Minor, student
at tha Oillard gride ichool, w
poking around in tha mud rteer
tf school during tha noon hour
Tuesday, whan amathing cauqht
hit eye.
Ha dug it out af tha mud, and
much to his surprisa found it to
ba a containar fillad with money.
Ha racad to the schoolhousa and .
flowed it to Principal Harry H.
Krug, who immadiataly callad
tha Douglas county sheriff's of
fice in Roseburg.
Daputy Ira Byrd investigated
and dacidad it must hava baan
part of somoona's parsons! af
facts lost in tha flood. Ho filed a
description with tha Rad Cross,
which bagan chicking to saa if it
had baan raportad missing.
In tha maantima, Byrd an
nounced that if tha ownar can
identify tha containar and tha
amount of money, it will be re
turned. Ha asked that ha ba con
tacted during the day at tha
Shariff's office in tha Douglas
county court house.
Strong Stand
Against China
Urged By U.S.
LAKE SUCCESS '-(PI The
United States, appalled by the
ear and indecision to which C h i
nes Communist intervention in
Korea has reduced the United Na
tions, pressed urgently today for a
strong stand against the Peiping
regime.
American diplomats held a se
ries of conferences with non-Communist
countries, lining up support
for a resolution condemning Red
China as an aggressor.- For the
third day in a row an American
spokesman said tha resolution
would ba introduced in the 60-na-tion
political committet this after
nooltx (3 p. m. EST).
Tha resolution, which would open
tha way for later direct action
against Peiping, faces three chief
hurdles:
1. Stone-waH Soviet-bloc opposi
tion. 2. A move by 12 Asian-Arab
countries to try another p e a e
appeal to Peiping.
3. A deeply-ingrained fear among
European countries that the U.S.
will become so deeply embroiled
in Asia that they will be left open
to aggression at home.
The American view is that the
Chinese Communists are obviously
aggressors and should be de
nounced as such.. Washington
maintains that theenire idea of
collective security is at stake and
that a retreat from that principle
in Asia would weaken it dis
astrously in Europe.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The war news from the fighting
front in Korea this morning pic
tures a calm before a coming
storm.
An ominous quiet prevails in most
sectors, but there is abundant evi
dence of heavy red troop concen
trations . . . Allied commanders
expect a general communist offen
sive may come at any time . . .
"All hell may break loose soon,"
an officer at the front says.
The storm, if anil when it breaks,
will put our "walled fortress" proj
ect to the final and hitter test. If
we can hold it and kill enough at
tacking Chinamen, it will be one
thing. If we lose it, it will be
something else.
Shivering GIs in icy Korea are
told that 10.000 heavy type new
sleeping bags are on the way to
the front. This is described in the
dispatches as "good news."
I suppose it is. But there's a
ctch in it. If the gooks jump you
in your foxhole at night, it takes
TIME to get out of your sleeping
bag. If it takes TOO MUCH time,
it's just too bad.
The red Chinese turn down our
proposal for a truce in Korea.
What next?
Well, a dispatch from Lake Suc
cess this morning says: "The Unit
ed States is really to call on the
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The Weather
Slightly warmer with rain to
night. Partly cloudy with showers
Sunday.
Highest temp, for any Jen. 71
Lowest temp, for any Jan -4
Highest temp, yesterday 44
Lowest temp, lest 24 hours 34
Preeip. lest 24 hours .0
Pficip. from Jan. 1 S.II
Pracip. from Sept. 1 ..ll.te
Excess from Jen. 1 1.73
Sunset todey, 5:0i p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow, J;! a. m.
There he is charges! under the
federal Lindbergh law with kid
naping the Mosser family and
causing injurty to them, "to wit:
murder," a crime for which the
death penalty can be imposed.
With his hands and feet shackled,
Cook was taken by automobile, un
der heavy guard, to Los Angeles.
He was there just about long
enough for photographers to snap
a few pictures. He said nothing,
nor were interviews permitted.
He and four other federal pris
oners then were loaded aboard a
special car on a Southern Pacific
train which left Los Angeles last
night on a schedule getting in to
Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon.
Five tight-lipped deputy U. S. mar.
shals guarded the party. Blinds of
the car compartments were drawn
immediately after the prisoners
got aboard.
Cook was captured in Mexico
last Sunday.
Hoarding, Scare
Blamed For Rise
Of Meat Prices
SAN FRANCISCO UP) The
avarice of American meat hoard
ers and "scare talk" by govern
ment food and economic officials
"playing politics with meat" have
been the major causes of the re
cent jumps in meat prices, Loren
Bamert, president of the Ameri
can National Cattlemen's associa
tion, said today.
Bamert, in an interview, de
clared that in view of the sup
plies of meat available the price
increases were "unnecessary and
unjustifiable" and were brought
on by the record hoarding of meat
by consumers and the "irrespon
sible talk of officials which fright
ened people into believing they
faced immediate shortages and
price boosts."
The hoarded supply, he said,
amounts to a week's supply for the
entire nation.
The lone, Calif., cattleman, ear
lier this month was elected to his
second term as head of the na
tional cattlemen's organization.
Bamert said he was particularly
concerned by government reports
this week showing that 1,000,000,
000 pounds of meat had gone to
fill deep freeze units and cold lock
ers in recent weeks.
"The effect of this extraordi
nary demand for meat in the re
tail market has been exactly the
same as that of the black market
in World War II, when large por
tions of the meat supply were di
verted from the normal channels,"
Bamert declared.
"The plain fact is that the con
sumers or a small portion of
the more greedy, above-average
income group have pushed up
the price of meat for the whole
nation."
Lyle Bursik Gets
6-Year Pen Term
Lyle Reece Bursik, 18, Roseburg
sawmill worker, was sentenced to
serve six years in the Oregon
State penitentiary by Circuit Judge
Carl E. Wimberly Friday. Bursik
pleaded guilty to a district attor
ney's information charging him
with incest.
Three other men, sentenced to
one-year penitentiary terms,
Thursday, were placed on proba
tion by the court.
Lloyd Wilbur Raiter, 36, a
Sutherlin logger, pleaded guilty
to District Attorney Robert G. Da
vis' information charging him with
larceny of livestock. The informa
tion accused Raiter of stealing two
broad breasted bronze turkeys,
Dec. 12, belonging to W. A. Darns.
Also pleading guilty to informa
tions were. Robert Hann, 23, and
Ralph Gibson, 23, both E a g 1 1
Point' loggers. The two were
charged with larceny of five truck
tires, wheels and tubes belonging
to Robert G. Holcomb on Dec. 23.
News-Rtview And Mail
Official County Papers
The Roseburg News-Review and
Myrtle Creek Mail have been des
ignated as the official papers of
Douglas county for publication of
county court proceedings and '.ists
of claims in 1951.
A court order issued Wednesday
named these publications the two
with the largest circulation in the
county. According to the order, :he
Mews-Review has 7.937 official sub
scribers and the Mail has 1.(17
These figures do not include stieet
sales.
An official subscriber, according
to the order, is one who has taken
the paper continuovsly for one
year.
SPECIALISTS CALLED
WASHINGTON (P The
army announced yesterday an
early call to active duty for a lim
ited number of national guard and
reserve majors and colonels.
No specific quota was set but
trie army said that those selected
would be specialists required in
the current buildup of military
manpower.
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Staff Heads
Insist UMST
Is Necessary
Military Men Favor
Long Range Training
Plan To Meet Goals -
WASHINGTON (VP) The uni
formed chiefs of the army, navy
and air force insist that a long
term universal military and serv
ice training (UMST) plan is needed
to meet their manpower goals.
General J. Lawton Collins said
yesterday that army strength by
July 1 will be equivalent to 24
combat divisions compared with
"the 12 or 14 previously men
tioned."
The army chief of staff agreed
with Admiral Forrest P. Sherman
that the nation's current goal of
3,462.205 persons in the armed
services may have to be boosted.
17 Months Urged
The commanders of the three
large fighting forces told the sen
ate preparedness subcommittee
that it is absolutely necessary to
start drafting 18 year old boys
for a minimum of at least 27
months service.
Collins with Gen. Hoyt Vanden
berg, air force chief of staff, flew
back here from frontline inspec
tions of the Pacific battle front,
only a few hours before testifying.
One member of the committee said
they expressed conviction that U.N.
forces can hold on in Korea. He
asked not to be identified.
Sherman, chief of naval opera
lions, also backed completely the
Pentagon requests for lowering
age limits and lengthening service
of men who will be inducted into
the armed services. 4
The chiefs of staff differed only
in their opinions as to the length
of military service which should
be required under UMST.
Long Terms Favored
Sherman said that the navy ac
tually favors a minimum of four
years, or the present shortest pe
riod for voluntary enlistments.
He said it takes at least that long
to make a good sailor out of a
recruit and that the navy expects
these long-term volunteers to be
the backbone of the fighting navy
as they have been in the past.
Vandenberg said the air force
wanted men for a minimum of
"three or four years."
He explained that the modern
aircraft and air force are complex
and it usually takes about 12
months training before a man can
even fit into a crew or other unit
team.
Collins said the army also
wanted men for a minimum of
three years if they could get them
as volunteers.
Man And Wife Killed
When Car Leaves Road
Mr. end Mrs. Leo Henry Morin,
box 415, Yoncella, ware killed late
Fridey, when their cer went off
the rood into Canyon creek,
ebout 12 miles west of Oakland,
reported Deputy Coroner M. B.
Emmitt.
Emmitt said the car war found
in ebout five feet of water. The
bodies were removed todey. They
hava been taken to Steerns Mor
tuary, Oakland.
PORTLANDER KILLED
EUGENE (Pt Mary Alice
Grendler, 2, Portland, was killed
in a highway collision four miles
south of Junction City last night.
Two occupants of the other car
were hospitalized here. They were
Claude A. Starr, 31, Junction City
and Thurman F. Swain, Blue i
Ri.or I
Illegal Possession Of Elk Meat Draws Stiff Penalties
WANTON WASTE OF GAME ANIMALS Pictured above is state policeman J. M. Burkhart
examining tha carcan of an elk cow recently killed illegally near Lander's lookout. Two local
man war fined e total of $650 by District Judge A. J. Geddes in connection with killing and
wasting tha game animals. (Picture by Paul Jenkins I
'All Just Alike1
Truman Compares Stalin
With Despots Of History
WASHINGTON - AP President Tniman last night
declared "there isn't any difference" between Soviet
Premier Joseph Stalin and Hitler, Moussolini, and other
notorious despots of history.
"They are all just alike . . . they believed in the
enslavement of the common people," Mr Truman told a
"business mobilization dinner" of the Society of Business
Magazine Editors.
But, he added, "We are going to win."
Solons Push
Bills Through
At Rapid Pace
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. .
SALEM (Jet Oregon's legis
lature is only two weeks old, but
already it has almost all of the
top issues before it. The law
makers, fearful of another long
session, have started work like
they never did before.
There have been 23S bills intro
duced, compared with only 182 at
the same time two years ago. But
that doesn't tell the whole story.
The committees are working
hard on those bills, in order to get
them to the floor for action.
Three Main Tasks
By now, the legislature's three
tough jobs have become apparent.
These are balancing the budget
with new taxes and by cutting
state expenses, reorganization of
the state's school system and re
organizing the state government.
When those big items are out
of the way, the lawmakers will
be ready to quit, some 70, 80 or 90
davs from now.
Here's the status of all the major
legislation:
Finances The joint ways and
means committee wants to trim
the $180,000,000 general fund bud
get, which is $58,000,000 in the red
if the proposed $24,000,000 build
ing program for higher education
and state institutions is included.
Economy Suggested -
The committee threatens to re
duce the number of state e m
pioyes, cut down operating ex
penses of state departments, and
reduce travel in state-owned auto
mobiles. Taxation The house tax com
mittee will work on several pro
posals, but It won't take any action
until it finds how much the budget
is cut. The proposals include the
govenor's plan to eliminate the
federal Income tax deduction on
state income tax returns. Other
suggested taxes are a slate prop
erty tax, a 2 percent sales tax,
2 percent tax on business profits,
a property tax on motor vehicles,
and a 3-cent cigarette tax.
Education The house and sen
ate education committees plan
four big public hearings on the
T. C. Holy bills to reorganize the
state school system.
Milk Control Hearing Set
Government reorganiza
tion These bills, by a legislative
interim committee, call for big
changes in state departments. But
thev haven't been introduced yet.
Dairy The house dairy commit
tee will hold a hearing next Fri
llav night to consider repeal of
milk conlrol. The bill to allow sale
of colored margarine is before the
legislature.
Highways The senale roads and
highways committee is consider
ing a hill to let the highway com
mission issue up to $62,000,000
worth of bonds to build new roads.
There also is some sentiment to
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a conciliatory mood toward
senate critics of his right to send
troops to Europe, Mr. Truman in
dicated he thinks the senators' mo
tives are the best.
"There is not a senator," he said,
"who is not just as anxious to see
the U. S. government continue as
a free government in the world as
I am. And actually, no matter
what they say for publication,
when the time comes for action
they will be right in there I
am just as sure of that as I stand
here."
Freedom Will Prevail
He declared that "we are faced
with aggression, and we are faced
with inflation" but freedom "is go
ing to prevail in the world."
The President has often scored
Soviet Russia as the fountain of
Communist imperialism, but his
prepared comment last night was
one of the rare occasions when he
has criticized Premier Stalin b y
name.
His denunciation of Stalin as a
dictator recalled that in 1948, Mr.
Truman referred to the Soviet
leader as "Old Joe" and called him
a prisoner of the Politburo, Rus
sia's top political council.
Mr. Truman makes a hobby of
reading history, and he reached
back to the legendary days of an
cient Rome for historical tyrants
to keep Stalin company.
Tyrants All Alike
"There isn't any difference," he
read from a prepared text, "be
tween Hitler and Mussolini, Tar
quin in ancient Rome, the ty
rants in Sparta, Charles the first
of England, Louis the 14th and Sta
lin. They are all just alike. Alex
ander the first of Russia was just
as much a dictator as any other
that ever existed. They believed in
the enslavement of, the common
people."
It was perhaps significant that
the historical companions Mr. Tru
man picked for Stalin all died vio
lently or as failures after aggres
sive careers.
New State Offices
Taken Over Here
New headquarters have been ar
ranged in Roseburg for offices of
the Oregon . totor vehicle license
department and for that of the
driver's license division.
The state has arranged for space
in the Mousche building, recently
vacated by the Si Dillard Motor
Co., at 343 N. Main street. The
new quarters will house both state
agencies, according to Mrs. A. J.
Farenbaugh, head of the local of
fice of the license department.
The issuing of vehicle licenses
has been conducted in the third
floor hall of the Douglas county
courthouse, since establishment
here about two years ago. This
was a temporary arrangement un
til adequate quarters could be
found, as the courthouse does not
have space for the offic.e perma
nently. The driver's license division
work has been carried on in the
council chambers of the city hall.
But the city asked that the quar
ters be vacated so that the room
could be occupied by the city di
rector of civilian defense.
In
Reds Beat Off
Allied Probes
Into Key City
M'Arthur Visits Korea,
Says Fight To Continutj
Collins Echoes Thought
By OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO (JPi Allied probing
troops were forced out of the key
road-rail hub of Wonju in central
Korea today by Reds attacking in
overwhelming numbers.
An Associated Press field dis
patch said the reinforced allied
patrol held off one attack. Then
as Red fire subsided the allied
force withdrew at about 4:30 p.m.
(2:30 a.m. EST) to positions south
of the city.
An allied convoy bringing food
to Wonju had cut its way through
a Communist roadblock southeast
of the city earlier. It left Commun
ist dead strewed in the snow.
Fighting Intense
The dispatch described the fight
ing in Wonju itself as intense.
General Mac Arthur, on a flying
visit to Korea, gave new assurance
that the allies fight will continue.
In Washington, Gen. J. Lawton
Collins said the allied army has
"plenty of fight left in it." The
army chief of staff added, at a
Pentagon news conference: "If the
enemy attacks in any strength
they will be very severely pun
ished." Collins returned earlier this
week from a Korean front inspec
tion and con'erences with M a c
Arthur. He said Gen. Hoyt S. Van
denberg, air force chief of staff,
had found no signs of an enemy
buildup in the entire eastern sec
tion of Korea.
General Mac Arthur on his quick
visit with Lt. Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway in Korea told a news
conference:
Armies Secure '
"No one is going to drive us into
the sea. This command intends to
maintain a military position in
Korea just as long as the states
men of the United Nations decide
that we should do so.
"The army stands resolute and
undefeated, awaiting that further
political decision which can only
come from the chancelleries of
the world now faced with this new
and entirely unanticipated prob
lem." As MacArthur dictated his state
ment of confidence from notes writ
ten on the plane trip from Tokyo,
allied patrols continued their hard
hitting harrassment of massing
Keds along the front.
The U. N. commander conferred
for 90 minutes with Lt. Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, commander of
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Monday Forum Will Hear
Land Management Head
First of the 1951 chamber of
commerce forum luncheon pro
grams will occur Monday noon at
the Hotel Umpqua Featured on
that occasion will be a discussion
of the industrial and economic pur
vey of the area by Daniel L. Goldy,
regional director of the Bureau of
Land Management, according to
George I. noma, president of the
chamber of commerce.
Luoma said Goldy was invited
tc, make this discussion last No
vember but was prevented by ill
l ess. The Bureau of Land Manage
ment participated actively In the
conduct of this survey under the
supervision of Golriy. His inlerpre
talion of the survey should prove
of interest to all commercial and
inc'ustria! people in our commu
nity, Mr. Luoma stated. The
forum is open to the public.
Two local men paid a totaf of
$650 In fines for game law viola
tions in district court this week,
Judge A. J. Geddes -reports.
The two men were identified by
Geddes as Earl Ephmer Collins,
Winston, and George D. Sanders
of Roseburg. They were both
charged with illegal possession of
elk meat and wanton waste of
game animals, the district court
judge reported. He said both men
entered guilty pleas to the game
charges.
Collins was fined $200 on each of
the two counts. Sanders was fined
$200 on ,4jie ill$al possession of
elk meat charge and $50 on the
wanton waste of game animals
charge, Geddes reported.
Slate Police Sgt. Fred L. Perry,
who investigated the case with
state policeman, J. M. Burkhart,
said (he elk were killed near Lan
der's lookout Sunday, Jan. 7. Perry
said the investigators fourA four
elk, three cows and one calf in
t lookout area. He said investi
gation indicated Collins killed the
elk and Sanders appeared on the
scene after hearing the shots. Both
men returned to the lookout area
Sunday night and cut off the choice
parts of the animals for meat,
leaving the carcasses behind.
Perry said the mefPlcft about 700
pounds of elk meat.
Perry said Collins apncaifit in
district court Monday, Mojlowing
his arrest Sunday night. aiders
was arrested Monday and v. ar
raigned in court Tuesday, Perry
said.
Appointment Of Johnston
Expected To Speed Plans
WASHINGTON w- AP Under the new leadership of
Eric Johnston, the so-called "czar" of the Hollywood mo
vies, the economic stabilization agency (ESA) pushed to-
day for a quick freeze on wages and prices.
Johnston, four times president of the United States
chamber of commerce, took a leave of absence as head of
the Motion Picture Association of America, to succeed Alan
Valentine as ESA administrator.
Valentine resigned yesterday. He had felt immediate
controls were "premature."
Ewmtjmmi..iinin'-n.nwii.. ui u
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ERIC JOHNSTON
New ESA Head
Gen. Eisenhower
Urge
es German
Help
For West
FRANKFURT, Germany (JPi
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
who once entered Germany as a
conqueror, declared today "I
would like to see the German
people lined up with others in de
fense of the western type of civil
ization." Eisenhower who flew in from
Luxembourg on the wind-up of
his tour of Atlantic pact nations
to lay the groundwork for a united
defense against communist aggres
sion, told reporters:
"I hope that some day the great
German people will be lined up
with the West. I believe in the
freedom loving quality of the Ger
man people."
Hard to Take Sides
The commander, was met at the
big Rhein main airport outside
Frankfurt by generals of the big
three western occupation armies:
Asked whether he believed the
Germans should be mobilized to
assist in the Western defense plan,
he declared there is "no place for
actual neutrality" when civiliza
tions are in conflict.
Eisenhower emphasized, how
ever, that the Germans should be
allowed to come into the defense
alliance of their own free will.
"It is silly to think of trying
to put them in against their
wishes he HprlarpH. "nn soldier
I Invpc thA front linpc Hp like In
feel he Is fighting for a cause.
No man in the front lines ought to
feel he la lacking in that convic
tion." Eisenhower said he did not ex
pect to get a real sense of Ger
man public opinion on this trip.
Tragedy Takes
Lives Of Four
LOS ANGELES (JPI The
tragic death of a pretty young
mother and her three children,
found in 'heir car in a closed
garJTBe, today recalled the Decem
ber "Brat Wagon" deaths here of
another young mother and four
children.
Mrs. Darry Albright, 28, and her
youngsters, Carolina Sue, two;
James W.,lhree, and Steven, 10
weeks, were sprawled in the auto
mobile in the family garage in
suburban Sherman Oaks when the
maternal grandfather opened the
door about 8 o'clock last night.
Mrs. Albright, in the front seat,
and the two older children, In the
back seat, were dead. Little Steven
lay beside his mother in the front
seat, still breathing.
His grandfather, Alan A. Ander
son, Glendale, snatched him from
the car and summoned a fire de
partment rescue squad. But the
baby died lix hours later in a hos
pital. Anderson told detectives he went
to his daughter's house because he
could not reach her all day by
telephone. He said a garden hose
had been run from the car exhaust
through a window of the sedan.
The car engine had stopped, out of
gas.
Three Men Die
In Aerial Crash
PRATTV1LI.E, Ala. - (P) The
pilot of a B-25 bomber was the
only survivor today of an aerial
crash between his plane and an
K-51 fighter in which three men
died.
The B-25 pilot, Capt. John W.
Fortner of Illinois, parachuted to
safely while the bomber was spin
ning earthward on its back. He
was slightly hurt.
The fighter pilot got his para
chute open but was fatally injured.
Two crewmen in the B-25 were
trapped in their plane.
Maxwell field identified the dead
B-25 fliers as 2nd Lt. Richard D.
Brewng) the co-pilot, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. 1L Brewer, Warren,
O., and Tech S? Charles A. Wells,
the engineer, son of Mr. and Mrs. .
Perley G. Wells, Cleveland, O. I
nrnu also is survivea ny nis winow
and a son, Charles Jr., at Mont-
gomery.
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Mobilization Director Charles E.
Wilson, who had forced Valentine'i
hand, immediately began drafting
an executive order for President
Truman's signature giving John
ston oroaaer powers.
The order, due shortly, re
portedly will make Johnston super
visor over the entire economic
phase of mobilization. Besides
wages and prices, his sphere
will include credit control, rent
control and home financing au-
tnority which Valentine did not
possess.
Speed Emphesized
Speed was the by-word. Wilson's
office of defense mobilization
wanted a freeze on wages and
prices by next week, but nrice
stabilization Director Michael V.
Disalle told a reporter that
"purely mechanical problems"
might delay action somewhat.
Present plans, it was understood.
call for an overall price freeze
similar lo OPA's "general maxi
mum price regulation" of World
War II. Separate ceilings then
would be worked out, industry bv
industry, as rapidly as possible A
"rollback" to Jan. 1 price levels
is under study.
Disalle s price office will gain
greatly in authority, as will the
nine-member wage board headed
by Cyrus S. -Ching. Each will be
come autonomous in its field, with
Johnston referring disputes and
laying down general policy. Labor
union heads had protested that
under Valentine's setup any wage
agreement they worked out with
Ching's office could have been
overridden by the administrator
without him hearing their argu
ments. Wants Small Staff
Johnston told reporters he plans
to keep hands off the operating job
and run a small "Vinson-type"
agency for policy planning. He wai
referring to the wartime office of
Economic Stabilization, once
headed by Chief Justice Fred M.
Vinson. Vinson had a staff of only .
a dozen or so persons.
Valentine had kept most of the
operating power in his own hands.
He made a limited delegation of
power to Disalle. who remained
dissatisfied. Ching declined to ac
cept such limited authority for his
board, and held out for more.
These two offices now will be
split and will operate almost ind
pendently, ESA officials said.
Expansion Planned
Great expansion Is planned.
ESA's 450 workers, now sharing
part of a temporary building with
the office of housing expediter, will
take over the whole building this
weekend. Larger, quarters are be
ing souyht.
Mr. Truman is known to have
been under great pressure to re
place Valentine, the former presi
dent of the University of Roches
ter. Some officials said today they
felt he had been "dragging h i i
feet."
The President's political advis
ers also are known to have been
alarmed at the title of incoming
complaints from housewives and
consumers over price mark-ups in
groceries, meat markets and
shops.
Ireland, Britain
Struck By Flu
LONDON - P Ireland and
Britain today were bearing the
brunt of Europe's worst Influenza
outbreak in years.
Official reports for the 126 great
towns of England and Wales, south
of the Scottish border, including
London, showed that 890 persons
died of the disease last week. The
total reported by the registrar gen
eral's office was almost double
the 458 of the previous week.
In Ireland, Cork and Dublin were
the hardest hit. All primary schools
were closed in Cork and a number
of government officials were ill
in Dublin.
The epidemic appeared (o be on
the rise in some parts of Europe,
but waning in others.
Czechoslovak authorities said
the disease had stricken many
persons in Pilsen where special '
treatment centers were set up.
Parts of France reported i
heavy incidence and one Paris
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nospuai saiu ll couiu nut uanuie
any more cases. Increasing num
bers of cases were reported in the
Mediterranean area.
In most of Germany the epi
demic appeared to be fading, with
only Isolated cases reported.
Denmark and Sweden also ap
peared to have passed the peak.
VISUAL EVIDENCE
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. tm A man
entered the police station here yes
terday and reported that he had
been robbed.
He said two men beat him, took
$24 and all his clothes except his
underwear.
The police took his word for it
all the man had on was his un
derwear. Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Rcizenstein
A major battle It now In pro-
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1 School books vs. pocketbookt.