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TL OTSGOli STATESMAN, 5dta Oregon Friday Morning. Angus! ZL-1342 ' 7 McNary IJkes Wickard Plan, ; Price Fixing - WASHINGTON, A u g- 2M) ; Secretary, of Agriculture Wickard has reached the conclusion, a close ' associate said. Thursday, that some , form of "price fixing should be J adopted to stabilize farm, food ' and industrial prices In the inter est of wartime economic unity and - to prevent inflation.' - . . This official, who asked that he tie not quoted by name,' said. this - conclusion prompted Wickard to - advocate in a speech Wednesday - night repeal of a provision of the price control law prohibiting ceil lugs on farm, prices at less than ' 110 per cent of .parity. - - Senator McNary of Oregon, re--. publican leader, endorsed this idea ; Thursday, a well as a Wickjard proposal for a "practical plan to Impose price ceilings on livestock. On the other hand, Rep. Fulmer " (D-SC),: chairman of the house agriculture committee, complained that Wickard was doing nothing to assure farmers a "fair" and . square deal" under the price con . trol law. Wickard was said to feel that the government should have the . power to set ceilings on agricul . tural .products, at any Jevel . deemed necessary to protect the , whole structure of price and wage - control. Generally speaking, ceil . lngs on farm products would be at parity the farm price goal of federal crop programs. Wickard was said to believe " that if ceilings were- reduced, price supports should be creased. Under present legislation, the minimum ceiling level on . farm prices is 110 per cent of par ity and the minimum support lev; el is 85 per cent of parity. It. was the theory of this legislation that ' farm prices would fluctuate be tween these two limits and ave ' rage out abouHaarity. A parity ceHing would require : a parity price support, it was ex plained, if prices were to average parity. Such a support would, in . effect, be price fixing. ' The secretary was said to be leaning toward the belief that it would be better to set the prices " by executive decree Joined in by both' the . agriculture department " and the office of price adminis - traiion in the case of farm prod nets than to use the present me' thod of setting up ceilings to keep - prices from going too high and of using government crop loans and other devices to keep them from going too low. Oil Chances , Probed, Burns WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-(V- Senator McNary (It-Ore) tele- graphed Senator O'Mahoney (D- Wyo) at Cheyenne, Wyo., Thurs- ; day asking that the senate mineral resources committee which O'Ma honeys heads, hold hearing at Burns, Ore., to investigate oil pro duction possibilities in Harney . county. The subcommittee has been holding hearings in the west and - McNary suggested it investigate the possibilities of producing oi . in the Oregon area. McNary said the geological sur vey would send an oil expert to Harney county if it. was found there was reasonable showings of . oil there. - k mmmmm Jj) r .7 1 rw Milk bottles hare Joined the War Bonds campaign.. A message in red, vhite and blue will poor from every bottle, urging milk drinkers to Buy War Bonds. A Treasury Dept. mes senger, Jane E. Austin, shows how vitamins have been joined with Dimond Sees War Decision In Aleutians WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-(JP) When the final battle of the war in the Pacific is fought it is likely to be waged in the Aleutian is lands area rather than in the Solo mon islands, Delegate Dimond of Alaska predicted Thursday at meeting of the Junior board of commerce. "If the old strategic principle that one follows the shortest line to advance against the enemy is valid," Dimond said, "the crucial battle of the Pacific will be fought in the north Pacific." Dimond said that the late Briga dier General William L. Mitchell foresaw the present war and had warned that to win it the United States must advance against Japan through the Aleutians and thus carry air bombardment to Japan ese cities. Fogs in the Aleutians, Dimond continued, were no worse than those near Halifax and said Unit ed States forces would have to fight in fog if this' country were to win the war. "There is no substantial ground to prove we can't fight just as well in the fog of the Aleutians as the Japanese can," he added. He declared that the safety of the United States depended large ly on provision of a unified com mand in all Alaska. He explained that a unified command now existed only in the Aleutians. "A divided command 'can lead to nothing but disaster despite the best efforts to cooperate," he said. ne would think theexperience of Pearl Harbor alone would be enough to condemn forever di vided commands." Dimond praised action of army and navy fighters in the Aleu tians and said United States air men in their Catalina flying boats had put up a good fight against Japanese planes. Job's Daughters Elect ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, Aug. 20-(P)-Enola A. Henry of Porter ville, Calif., was elevated to the office of supreme guardian of the supreme council of the interna tional order of Job's Daughters at the group's 22nd annual conven tion Thursday. - A i fc 3 II III I i I 111 Army Officers Sans Training Gets Flaying WASHINGTON, Aug. . 20 rP Disclosure, by the .war department that 18,967 civilians with no prev ious" experience as military officers had .received army commissions during the 60 days beginning last June 1,1, brought '.from Represen-j tative Faddis (D-Pa) Thursday j the comment", that the. United States army "is getting mechan- ized." ? Wo;' :. On the other hand, Secretary of War Stimson ' said a large per centage of, the appointees were much-needed doctors . and other technical' men. He said appoint ments from civil life would, de cline greatly as officers training schools ttura ' out more and more graduates. ' " ' . Faddis; a member of the house military affairs committee . " and sponsor of recent legislation re quiring the armed services . to make' periodic reports on civilian commissions, r said he was sur prised that "the list isn't bigger." "They've curtailed some," he commented, "probably because the general staff has been cut LMJ 1 1 boiies I 1 Fresh II - DeKcious 11 Jl GLASSWARE ASST. Relish Dish, Pickle Dish, JOliYe Dish T Reg. 10c Hammered Brass IIOVELTIES Made in China 11 Reg. 29c 27"x44Mute It JjUUil Reg. 89c 80-Oz. ' Decorated WATER PITCHER Reg. 39c down and they, cant get around to issuing the commissions so fast now." They've probably commis sioned every movie actor who can stand up by himself," he declared, "It's hard to- find anybody below brigadier-generaL"'.. 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Wage Raising Halt Sought NORFOUC, Va., Aug. 20.-MP Price Administrator Leon Hen derson, calling upon all Ameri cans for 'greater sacrifices to win the - fight against inflation, said Thursday night the farmer "must take less, from now on,- for many of his products,", and wage , in creases must be limited to those clearly dictated by necessity."- : In an address - prepared for a rally of war .workers here, :Hen derson asserted,' "it is a. question of whether we want to win this, war or whether we want person ally to profit from it" , Placing wage and salary In creases during the last year at $1,200,000,000 a month, Hender son said the cost of living "has not even begun to . catch up." 1 '. .. Japs Find rtunity . , SEATTLE, . Aug. 20-tf)-A rec reational leader among the Jap anese who were transferred last week to the Minidoka relocation center in southern Idaho wrote to Oppo The need (or saving ioday is greater than ever before in our his tory. We are glad to he able to offer this merchandise at such money saving prices. We urge you to put your savings into: War Stamps and Bonds. The Best Valuer we know of is a War Stamp. Let's Bememher Pearl Harbor and the boys at. Bafaan. Give Till It Hurts (fhe Japs) a Seattle newspaper that, the resi dents of the project are impressed with its. potentialities. V "Some day," wrote American born -Bob ' Hosokawa, "with - pa tience, hard work and faith in our government, this will be a living tribute to the foresight of our ad ministration and to the American Japanese." Here there are facilities which are adequate and potentiali ties which are stirring. We can strive to build a model "American community, based on the deroo-i Cratic way of life. Some day our fellow Americans ' will ' be proud to'"pototto'vMInodolUuT".':T:; omnig;M:! Nominates .CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug, io. (AP)-;Th nomination of E. V. b ertson, Cody r e p u b 11 e a n,for United States senator ' was ' con ceded Thursday by his closest op ponent in a six-way primary race. Dr. A. G. Crane,- Cheyenne, for mer president of .the University of Wyoming, wired .Robertson that "iinnffiMnl ritiirnV lrr1itr n'ii nomination. llobertsotfa ' opponent 1 rf t h e general election will be Sen. Har ry H. Schwartz-of Casper, who had no opposition on the demo- -9 j. mm - - - - . , .. I cratic side of the primary. ; Aid Sough For Miners . WASHINGTON, Aug. 20- The senate special silver commit tee, seeking to encourage mining of ; strategic non-ferrous ; metals, recommended Thursday tax legis lation that would give relief to financially hard-pressed mine op erators. : -r,:; ?; A report submitted to fte sen ate by Committee Chairman Thomas -(D-Okla!) suggested that in tax returns; filed by mine own ers there should be adequate al lowance for depletion, and. that there should be no curtailment of such " allowance as proposed . by the treasury. - ' Thfr committae also recom mended that there should be. no federal tax upon 'the proceeds of strategic mineral or metal mining operations - until - the capital in vestment was recovered, r r Berry Pickers Needed PORTLAND, Aug. 20.-P-There is a serious shortage , of pickers for the blackberry crop, now at Its peak, H. - W.. Strong, Gresham grower, said Thursday in appealing to Portlanderi to work In the fields on Sunday. Reg. 49c . 12-Oz. f . 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