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Oil' vmmm M a m I m m . temperature , Tuesday - 49 degrees mini 'man 19 degrees,', na rain, river -9 Inches. Cloudy -Wednesday--and Thursday; ceaslonal light rain extreme northwest por tion lite Wednesday; litilf temperature change. - IJINETY -FOUBTH YEAH j 10 PAGES Salem. Oregon. Wednasday Morning, January 3.- 13i5 '. Prica Sc No. 247 On AprU " 7, 1919, President """' Woodrow ' Wilson, ill and very weary of the struggle "Iff-get the in. i 'ii r : J. . ' - . i . : " - - -' ' : . - -4 - ' ' 'i ; .:... ii i .1. :,a .1; :!(''-.''"--'" ' ' i - . ;;j . '"' -..;.'! i ''-"' -.,.-..!.:: .- ' - ..,. , T r . ' ' 1 . . ., , . - I . - ' j j " " I 5 " ' ' ' ' ' ' cept the ' basieilrihciples "which ' --.he felt necessary : to insure the lasting peace which he desired for the world, ordered the battleship George ."Washington ; which had ; carried him to Europe to sail for Brest, As Ray Stannard -Baker reports in ; his work "Woodrow Wilson and the Peace Settlement:' "The president decided jthat he could not and would not get up and' resume the struggle on the old terms. He I must break the Impasse at any, cost Before he would yield to the French de mands he would pull out and leave the others to extricate themselves vas best they could from the morassTntowhich they'were try ing to drag him. He Would lay all ' his reasons public , and commit further decisions i to the peoples of the world." v v - But President Wilson did not leave the conference, and - come borne. Clemenceau made - some compromises; so did Wilson; and the -peace treaty was .finally drawn up and signed. For 20 years , Its critics have felt that Wilson should navel carried out his threat . .... land come home. Why did he not do that? Why did he acquiesce in . terms which he felt unwise or - unjust? According to Baker, he ""sacrificed the ; (Continued on editorial page) 0 FDR Hints at Early Meeting Of 'Bie Three' - WASHINGTON, . Jan. 2-' - President Roosevelt acknowledged today that there are some! Irhpor taat differences among the Allied ' powers and implied that they con cern European political and tr ritorial problems. ! : i " . , Moreover, he indicated that he doesn't hope to settle them all at his forthcoming . imeeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. ' 1 . Sketching a rough background for this meeting in -response to a rapid firf", of v news conference questions, th president declared that the Allies have a pretty good cet of principles but that they are differently interpreted, in differ ent countries and under the cir ' cumstances, he said, you do the best you can. ; i ' " ' Earlier in theday, it was indi cated that the big three probably will meet early in February; Sen ate Majority Leader Barkley said after talking with the president that Mr. Boosevelt had indicated he would meet Cfeurchill and Sta lin ssome lime loon, x to which House Majority Leader . McCor mack added "probably." L -v 4U.S. Ships Lost in Action WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.- JP) -The 1525-ton submarine ' Harder has failed to return from a patrol and has been given up for; lost, the navy reported today. t " , A ' communique also disclosed loss by enemy action of a landing ship, the LSM 318, and two motor torpedo ' boats, the PT SCO and the PT 311. i r The Harder, commissioned Dec. t, 1942, wrote a , combat record during her comparatively brief life which won for her the coveted presidential unit citation for "out Standing ' performance and dis tinguished service." . Investigation Started . For Cannery Fire Cause . Investigation was reported un der way here Tuesday in an ef fort to determine whether the fire that destroyed a large part of the Blue Lake Producers -cannery in West Salem early Sunday was cf an incendiary origin. The loss was placed in excess of $1,000,000. ceuecrt txtrwex?) 1 MM K.I M Hunters Pay fine,; Parolled i -.- 1 ' Victim Vc Spouse " Requests Four Men Be Let Off ALBANY, Ore., ?an. 2-(vP)-Four hunters who pleaded guilty to manslaughter werf each sentenc ed to a maximum of five years in the state penitentiary in cir cuit court here today, only to be paroled upon the request of the man whose wife was fatally shot: 'That's what , rpy wife would have wished," stated j Charles Duncan in asking for the parole. His wife, 30, was killed last night as she washed fishes j in their trailer. Lee J. Matthews, who fired the shot, told police he mis took the window' reflection for the eyes of a deer, j ? Clarence Molini, Fabian Cott nair, Arthur R. Andrews and Matthews, who police said ad- Knitted they were i spotlighting deer when the accident occurred, were fined $100 leach by Judge L. G. Lewelling, They were charged jointly because spotlight hunting is illegal said ! District Attorney Harlow Weinrick. . The four Were j hunting about 30 miles east of here on a logging road near Snowj Peak! Logging company camp, where they are employed. They saw ; something shining about 500 yards away and thought it was a peer's eyes, po lice quoted Matthews as saying. Several bullets qrashed into the trailer after Mrs.. Duncan was shot, one just miising the Dun cans baby, 'asleep! in a crib.' The Duncans; their twi children, and a neighbor, Merle Janness, were in the trailer. ' ' " j ' (Additional details on page 7) Salem Postal Receipts!! Set Record in '44 : i-v 'II Postal receipts for 1944 reached an all time high) for the Salem office, the annual report shows. Receipts for the li: months total ed $488,122. 18 as '.compared with $432,122.31 for 1943. V- Every month ii 1944, except January and December, had heavier .receipts taan the corre sponding month, in 1943. The holi day mailing started in September this year and so I receipts ' were distributed through; more months, Henry Crawford, postmaster, said. The packages . fpr the "short hauls" only were sent late and so at I i we income ior postage was less, Postmaster Crawford said Tues day, in commenting on the low figures for . December. Receipts for the fourth quarter of 1944 were $157,941.72 -A as compared with $131,646.71 for the last quar ter of 1943. i American Mission 111 Middle East Abolished CAIRO, Jan. 2 -Up)- James M. Landis, director of (the American mission in the middle east, an nounced today hist organization had completed its work and would be abolished this week. . 1, Douahtoh Still Seeks Changes In Form of City Government . Mayor L M.-Doughton does not beleve that the voters of Salem voted down a change in the form of municipal government entirely upon, its merits, "but rather for the reason that they did not fully understand the proposal,"! and he is recommending that the; subject be further considered and again submitted to the people. This he declared in his ; annual message Tuesday night to the city councilj Members of the council should be compensated for time actually and necessarily given to perform ance of their duties," he main tained. ',4'' : ff..f v .',;':-'' -CJa ' .. And should the '-state legislature not make provision for the retire ment of city employes, , the city council should consider the mat ter, he said. Problems which may arise . in postwar improvement, park development, annexation of suburban areas, health and - the keepiDg of good order were also referred to by the mayor. G. r. (Ted) Chambers, ward Salem Council Turns Over -iVeto Leaf and Refuses to j ! Backtrack on Past Action VX ' By Isabel Chllds" , . ' V i - City tditor; The Statesman " ' .: - -h h "i i " i 4 - . .,. ' -' ! - ' : Another year, another system marked Tuesday night's meet ing of the Salem city council when previously-taken actions. . - The council will neither Tom Hill's sandwich shop on North Capitol be given a' beer re tailing license similar to the one" it has held since shortly aftr the repeal of prohibition, nor will It repeal a resolution adopted last November, calling for civil service examinations to fill vacancies In the ranks of city police I arid fire departments. At least, it indicated 3ast" night it wouldn't. j " During 1944,, stop watch opera- torsallegjd that 35 per cent of council meeting time was devoted to "unmaking" resolutions and ordinances. ! , , Near ; Fairish School j Hill's confectionary Is near Par- rish junior high school. The Salem school board in 1940 established a policy opposing granting of any type ! of liquor license within a neighborhood surrounding a school considerably larger than that or- jdinarily recognized- by the liquor - I.I- S- control commission las a : school I . --j . . - - ? dry area. But the Hill license was .already several years; old and only la renewal would have been need ed, had not Hill taken in . a new partner. When the' pa -tnership ap plied for a license, the council tnooded its approval. ' 1 0 men tne neignoors (Dut niu says they are many .blocks from his establishment) started passing petition and the school hoard agreed that it must oppose the granting of any new 1 cense in that area.:; Hill " appeared before the council Tuesday nignt to declare (beerj was not -served during the noon heur when school boys and Xirls ' frequent thi place," that school children are not there dur ing the hours adults in number natrftniz hfm that h has never ioffefed or, sold beerj to t children land flaunted it before them and that he wants it merely as an ac jcommpdation to his sindwich pat Irons, The council pimply filed petition and school board letter. Civil Service Necessary j " The civil service examination was ordered because both police and fire departments allegedly pannot get suitable men without Some guaranty of security and should, under the city's civil; serv ice regulations, hire then! follow ing examinations rather .than "from, month to "month on emergency basis. The argument against it has been that returning veterans should have the chance at the Jobs and that older men in the! two de partments hould not be retired during the period of current high living' costs. j (Torn Armstrong, who with Claude Jorgensen, voted in favor Off repealingj the resolution which calls forhe elections, declared he vfantedthe investigatory Commit tee .continued. That committee, romj&ised by members of bolice lire committees and thet; civil service commission, had tossed the matter back in the lap of the coun cil at the' opening of last night's session. Alderman Q. Lewis reporting for it, said only five of the bine members: had attended the session and that "everyone was in a dhurry.! - I: . two, v and Lewis Mitchell, ward fourr: were seated as new council members; Lawrence N. Brown, J. K. Davis and Batty Cooper were re-elected as aty ) attorney, city engineer-building inspector-street cornrhissioner, and sanitary'1 in spector, respectively. V j ., ; Election of a health officer was postponed for "investigation on the suggestion of Alderman David O'Hara, who i suggested there might' be something wrong about electing a doctor who immediately turns over the duties of the office and the - compensation j for the work to another physician, who cannot qualify. Dr. A. E. King has been health officer, elected ' pre viously with" the I understanding that he could during the wartime shortage of doctors here deputize Dr. W. J. Stone, head of the coun ty health department who quali fies except for the required three years residence in Salem.' v (Annual u committee 1 appoint ments page 2.) : ' : it refused to backtrack on two , ' I h, - ;! rescind Its recommendation that Meeting to Decide Fate of Oregon's j PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 4 .-(JP) Whether or not Oregon will hold a 1945 'state fair probably will be decided at the 17th annual meet ing of the Oregon Fairs associa tion jhere ' Friday an!d Saturday, President Herman Chindgren, Mo lallaj aid today. 1 j! Ne:ct "year's Pendleton Roundup and 'county fairs, also "will foe mulledh added. At Multnomah county! fair is planned for cer tain, A. H. Lea, manager, announced.- 1 ! ' I The last state fair was in 1941. Officials1 1 Jl as i $ If! ! if ( l! CHICAGO, Jan. W -The armyjtoday discharged 1 1 officials of Mlptitgomery Ward f and Com pany in seen cities,;. a federal grandj jfury began an investigation of th dispute which jled to seiz ure oil Ithe mait order firm's rrorR ertiesO hi'ardshTnahV " j5ef weu U, Avery, held a long con ference! with his associates, v !: t - The 'army's' crackdown , came durina day ;of ' renewed' ' activity in the : controversry with - orders and charges coming thick and fast from Chicago headquarters of Maj. Gen. pjfpseph W. ,Byrn, military manager who took over Thursday under presidsntial seizure ' order. The ;3 1 company officials were discharges because, General Byron said, ihey refused to cooperate and accept 'jarmy appointment to conU tinue -their jobs underj Uncle Sam. .(Additional details page 2). Eastern Coast Feels Bite! of Severe Winter . j Bjy- the Aiaoeited! Press - -1 .. f Atlantic seaboard ; states from Florida through New' England felt the sting of a severe; cold wave last night while the Great Lakes region; got a sprinkle jof snow as warm! j air , fronts moved in from th? stti!thwest and ncjrthwestf j The! feather bureai said siibj zero temperatures would hang oii injthi jeast today but that trier probably would be no repetition of i blizzards which hid piled ; up traffics-blocking drifts in Michigan, Ohio, i Pennsylvania, I and f New In rthe north, where the temi perature dipped to 23 degrees be-i low zero in St Cloud, Muin Monday night, the mercury alsd was moving up. ! j Thei cold wave bit deep Into the south with a minimum of 21 above registered at Atlanta, 1 Ga. Robert Bissell Killed, Action ' - .! - J SILVERTON, Jan. 2r(Special)- Word has been received that Sgt Robert' ; Bissell, formerly of Sil-t verton gnd"McMinnvil!e, was kill- eod in action recently over Ger-n many.. ;He nad previously Deen reported missing. - . j , 1 Formerly with the J; C. Penney company , here, Bissell was tne first president of the' Silverton Active club. His wife and daugh ter now reside in Roseburg. John ; (Ja sic).. Condon Dies at 81 in New York :--w Sif - :-- '- ! NEW YORK, Jan. l-(tf)-:Dr. John Til (Jafsie). Condon, 84, who tried in vain to tansom the kidt naped j Charles,, A. Lindbergh ;jr. died today the 10th anniversary of the'i fccart of Bruno. ; Richard Hauptrnann's trial for the crime. Dr. Condon, a retired Kew York city public school, principal, had Ward Probe Be been ill of pneumonia for a month. Yanks Gain ahd Halt Nazis Arrows indicate action reported from the western front (heavy line). The TJ, 8. Third army registered gainsi between Molrry and Baa tagne an the southern flank of the salient driven Into Belgium by the nazt winter offensive (1). Ta the south German attacks (2) on U. S. Seventh army positions in the Bitch area appeared it have made little progress. (AP. wlrephoto) 'i m .. : -.. Congress Convenes Today; Official Opinion Divided Over Proposals by Byrnes 'I '.;'--,?.:.-: I - J - ; v By Tom Reedy : ' ; : S . . - . i -i WASHINGTON, Jan. 20iP)-President Roosevelt gave gen eral endorsement to a home-front legislative program proposed by. War Mobilizer' James F." Byrnes, as members gathered for. the 79th congress opening tomorrow. However, some other government agencies, such as the war labor board and the treasury, pointedly disclaimed 'any respon Killed il "1 4 v Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay Adhia Ramsay, Allied Naval Chief, Killed ! PAKIS, J Jan. IWAO-Adm. I Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, whose ships: saved the British army at Dunkerque and who four years later directed naval operation in the Allied! invasion ' of Normandy, was killed today; when. his plane crashed on a trip to Belgium. He would have been: 62 on Jan. 20 - An announcement from supreme headquarters said that the admiral whose aggressiveness won hint the nickname ;"Dynamo,--which was the code name of me Dunkerque operation, ; met with an "accident' while en 1 route to a -conference. His plane , was not shot down by the Germans but - probably ran into bad weather. :' ,- "'' '' ' Ramsay "was a planner and. eom mander of every Important com bined naval-army operation of the Allies and' was naval TOmrnandef: in chief under General Eisenhow er. . t ! - " . i. ; -.:'' : 1:,.. i--y--:y --. ; Mi ' Adj.. Gen. It. Olson May Join Regular Army Adj.: Gen. Raymond F. Olson, who has the distinction of being at once a brigadier general and a lieutenant colonel,' left Salem - on Tuesday morning - for McChord General hospital to take the physlr cal examination which will either sent him back to regular army duty as a lieutenant colonel in the finance . draining field r return him to Salenvaa brigadier, general of the state guard and Oregon's adjutant general. Olson was placed on the inactive list seven months ago because of his health and. sen home from army service at Duke !-', university.' : ' . T ; '; ii sibility for the Byrnes proposals. The president!' conferred : this morninsT with demof ratiei leadm in congress." They: emerged speak ing favorably of Byrnes "work or faght" proposal. . : . I ' FDR Likes PUn j jl ! Later" in the day Mr. Roosevelt told his news conference that the ideas- of 44 Assistant 1 President1 Byrnes contained in ; a year-end statement were substantially in agreement with his own.: ij C 1 " : The treasury emphasized it was not consulted, on the, Byrnes rec ommendation for tax; revisions." War Labor . Board -. Chairman William H. Davis denied he had any. hand in the proposal to give WLB enforcement authority . and Lloyd K. Garrison, public member of the boards said her Would "hate to see them open up" the ques tion of compliance in' the courts Morse Olfa . Idea ". i i ; . ' .. . Rep. Harnees (R-lnd) express ed opposition to clbthing.the board irt i Monw TnAt-A tMnrao iKa with "any more power. On the other hand,; Wayne Morse, Oregon republican,-.who left ,WLB to win a senate seat, endorsed the Byrnes proposal.-. - ' 4 il," 1 A number of senators and mem bers of the house immediately be came wary over the ; 4-F - draft idea. r 1 Complete British Fleet Arrives in Australia. SAN FRANCISCO,! Jan.! 2 -OP) Acomplete British fleet has ar rived in Australia; NBC Reporter tiedrge Folster , said I today in a shortwave broadcast I from the; Philippines. He said the'; force, in cluding aircraft carriers; is under the command .of Adm.j3 Bruce Fraser,; ". who recently concluded strategy talks with! ;U.: S. ; Fleet Adm. Chester W: Nnaitz. Senator xBeli!onCompletinalAst Of Appointments to Committees 1 - -tf-; "t m i i By Wendell Webb : ? ..Managing Editor, The ' Statesman " Committee appointments in the state senate "will be made on the ; basis -of the ability of individual members, the interests and needs of the districts represented, and the welfare of the state as a whole," Sen. Howard C. Bel ton, whose selection' as senate presi dent has been' conceded, told The Statesman , Tuesday. .' "Members have been asked to express their preferences in com mittee appoinbnents,?; the ; Canby senator said, : "and : their i wishes will be respected so far as is in sistent with toe primary basis of judgment. It is impossible 'to re gard such wishes to the exclusion of other considerations, of course.' I Senator- Belton said;the! list of committee chairmen and members is nearing. final form for an nouncement, subject td his formal induction as a e n a t e president when the 43rd session of the leg islature opens "hext Monday. . .' - The presidentand senate offi cers, as customary, will be chosen informally 'at- a - pre-legislative caucus in Salem Sunday, From various - senate sources, on Riindstedt May Be Withdrawihg ! Sizeable Dent Made in Seventh: : I Army ! Front But Drive Slowed; 2500 Allied4 Planes Hit Enemy .. ; By AUSTIN BEALMEAR PARIS, Wednesday, Jan. 3 (AP) German troops wera jabbing today at nearly a dozen places from Saarbrucken to the Rhine against ,US Third and Seventh army positions in a series of diversionary, thrusts two miles in atj least ohi point. ' Nowhere had these counter the proportions' of the break-through Marshal - Karl Gerd Von Rundstedt had achieved in the Belgian bulge. There h was already, making his first the hammering jof 2500 allied enemy troops, armor and Installa tions from the base of the wedge to-thIUnne. i ;-;' A sizable dent has been made In the, US Seventh army ; front south of the Maginot line bastion of Bitche, close . to the German border, field dispatches disclosed, but this push has been slowed al most to a standstill after gaining as much as two .miles on a five- mile front' A new series of counterthrusts has 'been opened- by" Von Rund stedt on the Third army fron fur ther west v.- . I Attack With Fury! 1 ; : 7 These fresh blows to the south, delivered-with the same fury that marked ,' the v assault against the First army in Belgium and Lux embourg last month, were launch ed on New Year's eve.- .:. An apparent miscalculation m the weather has worked against the C ' Nazis, ; however . since ( clear skies have permitted complete aerial support of j the American ground troops. J ; Disclosure that the Germans ap peared to be withdra wing from their Belgian salient followed a US Third army advance of more than two miles into the Nazi southern flank." I. Blackant Xlfted' f ' Moreover, the Allied high com mand lifted the 36-hour embargo on hews from thej Belgian -bulge tonight, disclosing that the fringes of the enemy wedge have been comparatively stabilized since the Third army's thrust - ' :-'. No startling developments in the last 36 hours were revealed, al though it was admitted that some reports might have been delayed because of the time required for the order lifting the news ban to reachv the front through - army channels..':. . L ' y. . George Harris Free t Under Bail of $10,000 George Elmer (Bud) Harris, bound over to the grand i jury Tuesday on a charge, of voluntary manslaughter n the .fatal shoot ing of Charles J3atchelor at rooks early Sunday morning, is free tin der $10,000 bail.' After Harris had been ordered by jJustice of the Peaee' Joseph Feltbn held for the grand" jury and bail had been set undertaking was , posted, almost immediately by Clyde Harris and W, B. Russell of Brooks. i it was learned "Tuesday, that at least two senate offices will have new faces this session. !;. Neither Elizabeth . G 1 a 1 1 of Woodburn, assistant chief clerk, nor Roy Corey of Portland,' door keeper, have applied ' for their posts again.. J:'r :-f-'ff'-i ; Applicants ,for assistant chief clerk include Miss Genevieve Cooper of Portland 'and Mrs. Wal ter Spaulding of Salem. Appli cants for doorkeeper include Rob ert Campbell and Walter G. Lynn, both of Portland.: j " 1 Zylpha Zell Burns of Portland, chief clerk for several sessions, is expected to ' hold f that - position asain. There jare noether appli cants, t-. - : - , : . - s -..":; -"'; - Banlm Mortimer- of Portland, sergeant-at-arms,'also is sole ap plicant to- succeed himself. - : . Others who servea in preceding sessions and who are unopposed for ; continuance 1 include Pearl Schaffer of " Portland, :; calendar clerk; Gordon Barnard of Union; reading clerk (who succeeded El bert Eede when the latter became ill prior to adjournment of the last session): 'William King of -Prineville, mall-clerk. - , ' n Be?2fian Base that had gained as much as t " j- - blows assumed anything like gesture of withdrawal under warplanes, which smashed at 900 Blocks of Budapest Held rmy LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. 3.- (-Red army assault troops have seized almost 900 blocks of bat tered Budapest With "fierce- en counters in . fortified JJiousee, in courtyards and in cellars" in their drive for annihilation of the eitys trapped " German-Hungarian gar rison, Moscow announced ' last night ' . L . . . 'V , fi'More'; than ?JMQ "'of .- the enemy; defenders of the embattled capital! were taken prisoner yesterday, tha Soviets reported. This is the liirg- est bag of captives in a singlt tay since ; the Russians penetrated Budapest's city' limits! CoL Gen. Janos Voros, minister of defense of the provisional Hun garian government recently set up i in Russian-captured territory, was quoted in Moscow last - night as i esumaung vthat - from 75,000" to' 100,000 Germans were fighting in Budapest, and that possibly 30,000 Hungarian soldiers had been com pelled to join them in their last- ditch stand. 1 Navy Planes Slug Formosa In Deep Stab GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines. Wednesday, Jan. 8 H1)- Formosa figured prominently for the first time today in a communique from this headquarters with announce ment that navy patrol planes at tached to Gen. Douglas Mac Arth ur's Southwest! Pacific command made a new penetration north into Japanese waters. V? . , The communique, reporting this - first strike by ..Southwest Pacific ! planes so far north of the Phil- ' ippines, said they had shot down four Japanese planer and set fire i to five coastal freighters east and south1, of Formosa Sunday. : (Pacific coast' carrier task force planes raided Formosa " early in October and the long-held Japa nese island, some, 223 miles north of. the 1 Philippines, was bombed three times by B-2$s between' the first and middle of October. This was just prior to the invasion of the Philippines . by MacArthur's forces.).:; Military Trial Due for Spies - - ; . ! - . '' - NEW. YORK; Jan. 2-(-Trial by a military tribunal apparently is in store for the two alleged Ger man agents who, were landed on ByR 11 d A tne Mime coasv oy a suDmarinf i November Vo, ?. -V t .-, The men, arrested" here! by the FBI, presumably will be tried Iri j the same manner ar the Nazi i agents who came tor the -United i States by 5 submarine two" years i ago, President ltoose'elt Isaid iri i Washington today. - T - , l The "president added that - ha could not say definitely what form 1 the trial would Uke. "lie is ex- 1 pected to make the final decision as commander In chiet -: -' :.. . t '- ..." - --'. - -. :