Ths OREGON STATESMAN, Salrau Otmgoo, Sunday Morning, February '4, 1949
'Grand Jury Probe of Dies Letters Is Beimanded
Bum Voyage, Mates!
PACETWO
Many Charges
iGted by Hook
Issue of Withdrawal 3Iay
Come up on Monday;
Motion Is Filed
WASHINGTON, Feb.
Rep. Hook D-Mlch) demanded
today a grand" jury Investigation
of all Um facts connected wiCi
letter which ha placed In the
congressional record concerning
Rep- Dlea ( D-Tex ) .
Hook made the request la a
letter to Attorney-General Jack
sou, saying there had been
"charges of forgery, perjury, col
lusion and conspiracy" which he
thought should be cleared up.
The letters purported to estab
lish a llak between Chairman Dies
et the house- committee on un
American actlTltles and William
Dudley Pelley, chiet of the Silver
Shirt Legion, an organ real km de
scribed by the committee as
-fascist,"
'The Wee committeemen in
formed the house that D a r 1 d
Mayne of this city had confessed
that he forged the documents and ;
eld them to persons who handed
them OTer to Hook.
' Mayne appeared before the com
mittee at a closed session today.
Informed sources said he bad been
asked to show the committee how
well he could imitate Pelley's sig
nature and that the result was "a ,
masterpiece.
j The rules committee will con
sider Monday a resolution by
ftep. Hoffman (R-Mich) to hare
the hook letters and remarks
expunged from the record on
the ground that they improperly
Deflect upon another member of
the house.
I One member of the committee
predicted that "Hook will be pret.
tV well skinned" by the com
mittee, unless he offers to with
draw the matter from the rec
drd, apologiies andconcedea that
the documents were forced,
j This Informant said the "skin
ning" would take the form of a
resolution of censure.
Hook attempted to withdraw
tha matter from the record
Thursday, but Rep. Keefe (R
W1V blocked the move because
Hok refused to say the letters
wef e' forgeries.
The Michigan representative
sail today that his position was
nihanged and that he would not
declare the documents forgeries
until they were proved to his
satisfaction to be that.
Freezing Sliced
Apples Process
p Held Perfected
IiIaTTLE, Feb. 3.-(P-Got-er&gent
chemists announced to
da;k(hey had perfected a'tnethod
to reese sliced apples without the
sli es discoloring. '' 1
J.;C. Dlehl. senior chemist of
th f. department of agriculture,
en- head of the United States
trocen pack laboratories here
taiB the new method "means that
frozen, crisp apple slices, ready to
drtt-lnto a ple and as white as
they, were the cay they were cut.
8cxt"will be pouring into eastern
mackets from Washington."
; Diehl said the new process
woald open up a new outlet for
thrf state's apple crop which would
alf lit reducing the surplus caused
yjthe elimination of European
shipments.
fhh research work at th lab
oratory was done principally by
ehimists assigned by the WPA,
who, piehl said, were baffled for
tong time by the tendency of
.apples to discolor when 'sliced.
tTTp overcome this problem a
thin layer of ice is .frozen over the
allies of apples Immediately after
tbexre cut. The slices are found
to fsoTfer no deterioration in ap
pearance or flavor when thawed
foeuse," he said.
The Seattle frozen pack labora
tory, "has perfected many many
important quick-freezing process
es and about 110,000,000 worth
et frozen fruits and vegetables
were sold from Washington and
Orfgon last year.
Sfonn Warnings
, a uoivu ua vmuai
fORTLAND, Feb. 3.-;P)-Ex-eenVln
Hood River and Pendle
ton thermometers remsiaed above
utf-freezlng today as rain fell
over most of the state.
. Southeast storm warnings were
posted along the coast.
The government weather ba
rest. forecast occasional rain tor
Sunday, with snow over moun
tains and locally in east portion
and little change In temperature.
tfood River's minimum temper
ature was 29 degrees, one degree
above Pendleton's, which was re
corded at the airport-
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Bjptte Norwood Is
Honorary Colonel
EUGENE. Feb. S.-A-Dark-L
aired Bette Norwood, pretty
Jamlsson, Ore., Delta Delta Delta,
waa v acclaimed honorary little
colonel at the annual military ball
held on the campus tonight under
the. auspices of Scabbard and
Blade, military honorary.
Members of her official staff,
runners up in a popularity con
test.; were: Elisor Sederstrom, Sa
lem; Sadie Ttnrri, Boise, Idaho;
Joan Hoke, Pendleton, and Jeanne
Burt'Colton.
Stanford Winner
I In Feature Even
StENO. Nsv Feb. -(y!P-S tan
ford anlverslty won the team title-
la the downhill race hers to
day at the Nevada winter earal-
. raj. in which 11 teams are com
peting. The University of Nevada
Is the defending champion.
Stanford was credited with 100
points la the downhill nee. Ne-
Oda was next with 11.9. ' '
Balkan Entente Studies Neutrality Plans
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Kjos of Europe are on Belgrade (1) where representatives of the four "Rankan Entente powers Ru
mania, Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia, assembled to find a way to keep out of war. Plan for "eco
nomic neutrality" was first discussed. Caught In the middle of the conflict, Raman La was faced with
the prospect of Hungary's striking at Transylvania (2), Rostda's marching Into Bessarabia (S) and
Bulgaria's cry for part of Dobruja (4). German pressure on Rumania for oil, industrial and agricul
tural products wm reported.
Vibrations Delay "Flying Bullet" Tests
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Engine and propellor vibrations delayed test flight on one of the army's newest and fastest pursuit
planes, known as the "Alracobra" and nicknamed the "Flying Bullet." The new plane, shown .at
BoUteg field, Washington, DC, is of nltra-etreamUne design, -capable of carrying a one-pound cannon
and four machine guns, all fired automatically from the pilot's cockpit.
First Birthday
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Texas' Badgett quadruplets celebrated their first birthday at the Galveston home of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. Ellis Badgett, recently, but a siege of sniffling colds prevented them from having a
party. At one year, Jeraldine, left, is largest, weighing 26 pounds. Others average 18 pounds each.
Jeraldine, Joan, Jeanette and Joyce received scholarships to Texas' Baylor university among other
birthday gifts.
Firm Declaration
Made by Stanley
War Must Go on Till Peril
Represented by Nazis
Is Broken, Asserts
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. Eng
land. Feb. -(;P)-GlTing a blunt
answer to advocates 0f peace ne
gotiations. War Secretary Oliver
Stanley declared today that the
war must go on to end forever the
power of Germans "to inflict upon
the world the misery twice in our
life they have done."
Vehement in his first speech
slnae taking office, Stanley said
that a halt now would bring "no
lasting peace but only a troubled
truce," with "no assurance for the
present and no security for the
future."
"Within a few months, at the
most within a few years," he said,
"we should find we had not won
peace but had sacrificed victory."
Britain, he sard. Is ready to
"grasp with both hands at a peace
which Is both secure and honor
able," but only victory can assure
such an end to the conflict.
Criticises Hcrtaog
Stanley singled out Gen. J. B. M.
Hertsog, former prime minister of
the Union ot South Africa, as one
of the advocates of peace and an
"apologist" for Adolf Hitler.
Hertsog went oat of office Sept.
t after losing a campaign for a
separate peace with Germany, and
was defeated recently when he re
vived the issue in the Union par
liament. Stanley said "distance had lent
enchantment" to Hertxogs views
on Europe, and suggested that
"we call as our witnesses not
people thousands of miles away
bat people a little nearer the
scene" for Judgment ot Hitler. -
Ask Neutrals, Urges
' "Let us go around Europe,"
Stanley said, "and ssk the small
neutral countries It they feel this
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Europe Is Closer
By Air as Horta
Stop Eliminated
MIAMI. Fla., Feb. 3.--It's
just an overnight jaunt now from
Florida's resort area to Europe.
The American Clipper of Pan
American Airways' trans-atlantic
service took off at dawn today
and was scheduled to reach Lis
bon, Portugal, early5 tomorrow
morning.
The trans-atlantic service was
started last June, and the 100th
crossing was completed a week
ago. More than eighteen hundred
passengers and many thousands
of pounds of mall have been
transported.
In the past, flights have re
quired 27 to 30 hours, with stops
at Bermuda and at Horta, the
Azores, on the way from New
York to Lisbon.
Now, with seven months' ex
perience. Pan American has ar
ranged for heavier gasoline loads
and will omit Horta from the
itinerary. The handling of pas
sengers and mail was speeded.
These innovations are expected
to reduce the flying time to 24
hours in good weather.
Pan American officials hope
to maintain the one-day schedule
whether- the western terminals
are In the north or south.
confidence In Hitler."
His voice sharp with sarcasm,
the war minister continued:
"Are we just a little inconsist
ent? No, General Hertsog Just
2000 miles nearer the facts.
"Millions of different race, ot
different language and ot differ
ent creed bear witness to the tact
that with this man (Hitler) lead
ing and with his nation allowing
him to lead, there will be no
peace and there will be.no secur
ity for Britain or Europe or for
the world."
Stanley was Interrupted several
times by hecklers, leaflets headed
war la in vain" were ' showere J
from the balcony.
FRENCH BRITAIN
ALLIANCE
T77 GERMAN SOVIET
Y A ALLIANCE
BALKAN INTENTS
Indians Lay Claim
To All of Seattle
But Willing to Settle for
Mere Three Millions;
Bill in Congress
SEATTLE, Feb. 3-(ff)-The Du
Wamish Indian tribe claimed to
day to be the real owner of "all
the land In the city ot Seattle,"
but expressed willingness to set
tle for I3.07C.800 from the fed
eral government.
Superior Judge J. T. Ronald
acknowledged a contract in which
the Indians retained Attorney Ar
thur E. Griffin to press their
claim for such an amount' at ses
sions of congress.
Chief Peter J. James ot the Da
wamieh tribe, who. lives at Mar
ietta, Whatcom county, declared
the Indian claim was based on a
treaty signed In the 1850s by Got.
Isaae Stevens of the Territory of
Washington, whereby the Indians
relinquished their ownership of
all the Paget Sound country In re
turn for the promise of a reserva
tion. Shevens subsequently was
killed la the Civil war; and, the
chief claims, the agreement was
never kept and no lands were as
signed the tribesmen.
BUI Is la Congress
Hence, the Indians argue, their
prior ownership of King county
land particularly that on which
the city Is built should still be
recognised.
Sen, Lewis B. 8chwellenbach
(D-Wash) introduced a bill in
congress last year authorising
payment of I3.07t.800 to the
tribesmen. The current action is
another attempt to obtain that
settlement.
Judge Ronald pointed oat . that
Griffin obtained a substantial set
tlement for Yakima Indians under
similar circumstances soma time
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Drager's Trial
Opens Monday
Nine Days Required for
Testimony, Forecast
Grand Jury Meets
(Continued from Page 1)
ended at that time with a hung
jury, and Richardson is again to
go on trial February 19.
Meeting of the grand jury will
be given over in large . part to
routine matters to be presented by
District Attorney Lyle J. Page, it
la understood, but may again be
concerned with the probe into the
affairs of City Recorder A. War
ren Jones begun last November.
Prior to its adjournment in De
cember, the grand jury handed a
resentment to Judge McMahan
! advising him of certain facts dls-
covered in the course of the In
vestigation, and asking for ln
! struction as to whether under
1 such facts any law had been vio
lated. To date the judge has declined
comment on the presentment, but
is expected to make some refer
ence to it in the course of the new
session of the grand jury.
Study of the city recorder's
office began last fail when an au
ditor alleged that f 4081 waa un
accounted for. Jones was absent
i m San Francisco at the time.
Lambert Estate
in Equity Court
In addition to the grand jury
hearing and the Drager trial, the
courthouse will also see taking of
a deposition in the Lambert estate
matter before Judge Lewelling to
morrow. On Tuesday the judge
holds his regular motion day, and
on Wednesday the case of Kubine
vs. state unemployment compen
sation commission is set for hear
ing. Trial of Bedient vs. Anderson
on Friday will be followed on the
next day by the case of Union
Pacific and other railroads vs.
Ormond R. Bean, public utilities
commissioner, to which virtually
all truck lines operating in this
state, together with the AF of L.
Teamsters union, have been ad
mitted as interveners.
The case concerns the power of
the utilities commissioner to sus
pend announced rates for trans
port of petroleum by railroad.
Trucking companies in their peti
tions in intervention have alleged
that if such rates are allowed to
stand, they will have a depressing
effect on their business.
France Indignant
At Rail Bombing
Prompt Protest Promised
as Report Says Five
Europeans Killed
PARIS, Feb. 3.-TP)-Govern-ment
spokesmen voiced "Indignant
surprise" today at reports that
Japanese warplanes had bombed
a train on the French-operated
Kunming-Hanoi railway in south
western China and said the matter
would be "taken up" at once with
Tokyo.
Five Europeans were reported
killed in the bombing, which de
stroyed 100 yards of track and
wrecked a bridge over which the
train was passing. Most of these
victims were believed French, al
though details were lacking.
Authorized quarters said the
bombing was a surprise, because
France had been given to under
stand by Japanese officials that
attacks on the railway, which
have occurred several times in the
past, would not be repeated. This
was in response to French pro
tests in Tokyo.
US Protest Reported
These sources said the United
States also had protested previous
bombings, and declared that the
French ambassador to Japan,
Charles Arsene Henry, had point
ed out that the railway is of wide
international interests.
French quarters said that
United States protests against at
tacks on the railway (presumably
registered by Ambassador Joseph
G. Grew in Tokyo) were based on
tne contention that the line is the
only means for transporting Amer
ican merchandise into central
China and the only means of com
munication between Americans in
Chungking and the outside world.
Budget Reduction
Slight Says Glass
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be cat from the $1,800,000,000
defense estimates and used In
part for farm benefits.
He said that the appropriations
committee would have to hear
numerous witnesses on the farm
legislation, and that it might not
reach the senate floor before
May.
A senate-house conference com
mittee approved today legislation
authorising a I2S1.200.000
emergency expenditure tor estab
lishment of the neutrality patrol
and expansion of other military
activities, paving the way for fi
nal congressional action on the
first ot more than a dozen ap
propriations bill.
Restoring only about 1 100,000
of 217.788.IC4 lopped off the
bill by the senate, the conferees
agreed on a figure approximately
119,600.000 below the presi
dent's budget request.
Sons Beat Humboldt
ASHLAND, Ore., Feb. 3-ff)-Southern
Oregon College of Edu
cation outrushed Humboldt State
college in a furious second half
tonight to win a basketball game,
50 to 44. Baseman ot Southern
Oregon was high scorer with 12.
Sether got 11 and Lee 10 for
Humboldt,
Lansing's War
Plan Revealed
Preparing 2 Years Before
US Entered War, Shown
by Secret Letters
By ANDRUE BERDING
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 -()-Robert
Lansing, World war sec
retary of state, was preparing for
the United States entry into the
war on the side of the allies near
ly two years before this country
finally broke with Germany, his
secret correspondence reveals.
The correspondence la to be
published by the state department
within a few weeks, and, authori
tative sources said, will disclose
this fact and many others throw
ing new light on the trying 1914
18 period of American neutrality
and belligerency.
It was taken by Lansing from
bis files In the state department
when he fell out with President
Wilson and resigned In 1920. Aft
er his death his relatives returned
It to the state department and
congress authorized an appropria
tion to publish it. The letters will
appear in two volumes of about
700 pages each.
Xotes Exchanged
Many exchanges of private
memoranda between the secretary
of state and his president are in
cluded. In one, written in August,
1915, Lansing stated his belief
that a rupture of diplomatic rela
tions with Germany was probable
and analysed the advantages the
United tSates would receive from
such a break.
One of the most striking sec
tions centers around the British
nurse, Edith Cavell, whom the
Germans shot on suspicion of spy
ing and aiding prisoners to es
cape. At that time, the American
minister to Belgium, Brand Whit
lock, took energetic steps to save
the nurse's life and delivered a
strong protest to the Germans
against the execution. Publication
of the correspondence will shoe?
he took the action without au
thorization of the state depart
ment, indeed without notifying
the department until after he had
taken it.
Secret Accord Bared
Release of the Lansing papers
also will bring greater clarifica
tion to one of the few items of
"secret diplomacy" in American
history the so-called Lansing
Ishii agreement between the Unit
ed States and Japan. In the agree
ment, signed in 1917, the United
States agreed to Japan's "special
interests" in China. But in ex
change Japan agreed that all na
tions should be on the same foot
ing in China. This second point
was made a secret clause ana
Lansing had frequent occasion to
regret having consented to keep
it secret, especially after the Jap
anese translated the phrase "spe
cial interests" into "paramount in
terests." Another front-page highlight of
American foreign policy thrown
Into greater relief in the corres
pondence is the American effort to
force Japan out of Chantung, Chi
na, which Japan had seized from
Germany at the outbreak of the
World war.
The papers are understood also
to throw new light on the differ
ences of opinion which led to the
break between Lansing and Wil
son and Lansing's resignation in
Feburary, 1920.
The two volumes will begin
with March, 1914, when Lansing
became counselor of the state de
partment, and continue through
his tenure as secretary of state
starting in June, 1915, after the
resignation of William Jennings
Bryan.'
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Feb. 1st
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Associate Director Federal
Housing Administration, is
at the Capitol Lumber Com
pany and win help yoa se
lect year loan, prepare all
paper and other details free
off charge. There " Is abso
lutely no charge for our
many - complete additional
services.
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That seems to be the opinion of Louise Chne (left), 3, and her sister,
Shirley, a, bewildered and frightened asfthey arrived in New York
with their grandfather. Chew Sang, en route from Jamaica, BritLsh
West Indies, the children's birthplace, for a visit to Hongkong,
home of their ancestors.
Labor Federation
Criticizes NLRB
Incompetence, Stupidity
and Bias Are Charged
by High Command
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 3-(Jp)-The
American Federation of Labor
high comand accused the national
labor relations board today of
"bias, stupidity and incompe
tence" and called for sharp cur
tailment of its power.
In a statement made public by
President William Green, the fed
eration said labor, industry and
the public had lost confidence in
the board, as now constituted, and
added:
"The present board and Its
staff are totally unfit for their
important duties.
"This governmental agency has
never been an Impartial umpire
but has assumed powers never
granted to them by law in an ef
fort to impose their own partic
ular philosophies on labor and
industry."
Wants Bill Passed
Green urged that the Walsh
Barden bill to amend the nation
al labor relations act be passed
at this session of congress. He
said It would abolish the present
three-man board, provide "a com
plete housecleaning of its staff,"
and create a new five-man board.
He said the new board then
would be required to let the
workers pick their own bargain
ing agency, would be bound to
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would be compelled to avoid de
lays now charged against the
board.
The AFL expressed sharp op
position to amendments backed
by employer groups, "because we
believe they intended to nullify
the basic principles of the law."
Green urged immediate action
by congress bo the issue would
not become a "political football"
in the forthcoming campaign.
Cooperative Land
Use Plan in Coos
CORVALLIS, Feb. S.-f-Ten
federal and state agencies will
participate in a cooperative land
use adjustment program in Coos
county.
The program was approved by
the Oregon State Land Use com
mute. Three objectives of the com
mittee follow:
1. To protect and perpetuate
the forest industry and estab
lish Its permanent relationship
with agriculture In the commun
ities. 2. To establish sound farm
ing systems in areas suitable for
agriculture throuri desireable
shifts in management or types of
farming which will increase farm
Income, maintain soli fertility
and prevent erosion.
3. To prevent further decrease
in the tax base in order that
essentia public services may be
provided without undue burdens
on property owners.
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of Construction
Records Brokenll
Day by day Week by week Month by
month- new home construction has been
steadily on the march.
Again we ask yon to look about you and
see how many of your friends and neigh
bors have built their own homes in 1939.
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1940.
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