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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. -
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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.
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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
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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"'..
The report, filed in - conform
ance to the Faddis amendment to
the.; service men's pay increase
act, was made public by the sen
ate military affairs committee aft
er -the house committee declined
to release it on the ground it was
confidential. . : . . , ,
The, navy .department, filed a
similar report, but it was not
made public,5 the house naval . af
fairs committee regarding it as
confidential. . .
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Are Extinguished
The" city m fire department an
swered two" calif Thursday night
A car on fire at 10:30 pjn. while
parked between High and. Church
streets on Court No serious .dam
age was reported. The second fire,
caused by- defective wiring was
reported at 690 North 14th about
8:40 pjn. It was also quickly ex
tinguished. with no serious dam-
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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
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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:;
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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-
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I cratic side of the primary. ;
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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
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Pastor Charge
Is Conspiracy .
HARTFORD, Aug. 20-(ff)-The
Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, accused
of conspiracy to spy against "the
United States, should knowlRcj
day night whether he can go bade
to his parish in Philadelphia or
whether he must serve a prison
term that might" be as long as ,
20 years. --'-J- - ;v'-"v "C--?
With the defense having - con
cluded two days of summation, r.
during , which it contended the .
prosecution fafledT to show that
Mr. Holzahn conspired orf even '
had any intent to conspire, Fed
eral Judge J. Joseph Smith said
he would charge the jury of eight ;
men and four women eand give
them the case Friday.
Mrs. Goodrich Dies
PORTLAND, Aug.. 30-(P)-Re-quime
mass was held Thursday for
Mrs. Caroline C Goodrich of Port
land, former president of the Uni
versity of Portland Mother's club.
She died Tuesday. She is survived
by her widower, a daughter and
four sons, including Hollis Good
rich, jr., Portland newspaper man. ,
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