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UtDODMB One of the first items for con sideration by the congress is a bill to' increase unemployment com pensation benefits to a maximum of $23 a week lor 26 weeks. Pres ident Truman has endorsed the bill, which has the backing of or ganized labor. However reports indicate that congress is not in clined to go along. The bill meets heavy opposition from" the states which see in it a step toward fed eralizing completely the unem ployment compensation setup. .Under the terms of the bill the government . would put up the money to pay the difference ,be . tween the amounts now paid by the states and the sums author ized under this bill. The effect of this would be to subsidize the states with the lowest schedule of benefits. ... - ; .' Congress does well to be delib- erate on this matter. I recall back in 1942 there were great pressures ' for the government to appropriate $300,000,000 .lor unemployment benefits to be paid those workers who were . expected to be out of work during the period of con version to war production. The " Detroit CIO crowd put up a tre- inendous push to obtain this legis lation,- predicting dire conditions .If money was not forthcoming; Congress refused to make the ap I propriation, even on recommendaJ pon or rresident Roosevelt- Acf tually there followed no season of Unemployment that amounted to anything. Workers .were needed Cor war work as fast as civilian work wound up. The experience then proved , that the predictions - of disaster were false. The situation is different now, but congress ought not to be (Continued on editorial page) . Quisling Calls Himself Patriot In Oslo Trial; OSLO. " Sept.. 6 CTVIn vibrant tones, Vidkun Quisling argued be fore the court trying him for trea son today that his actions as pup pet dictator under German occu pation were for the good of Nor way. I There was no apology, buLvigor and bitterness in Quisling's voice as, climaxing his testimony in his behalf, he cried: ' i "I am Quisling the patriot." Burden of his dramatic defense, .which, held the courtroom spell' bound,1 was that .personal invest!' gation convinced him soviet Rus ia planned to engulf the Scan dinavian peninsula and he turn d to Germany for protection. Chinese Army Troops Flown To Coast Cities CHUNGKING, Sept C--U. 8. transport planes, carrying ou the greatest airborne movement of troops in Asiatic history, swarmed away today with additional con tingents of - the 80,000 Chinese troops who will be flown to re Occupy Nanking, Shanghai and other cities of China s coastal prov inces. The entire operation of ferrying troops and their equipment is ex pected to take 40 days, American headquarters said. . ! The fleet took off from Chih kiang today with units of the crack Chinese sixth, army on the 650 mile flight to Nanking, prewar capital where Japan's formal sur render in this theater will be Signed, possibly on Sunday, i , JEWISH SERVICES SET i BERLIN, Sept 6 -V?)- The first High Holy day Jewish service to be held openly in Munich since the advent of nazism will open tomorrow. Simultaneously, the first synagogue will reopen in the American sector of Berlin. Animcl Crcclccri WARREN " GOODRICH -r ' A'Jf H$ cwct.aSrBe .' ' - ?Eerybxty tryvnz tp pt j ; v. -info this aOT.-H- . P3 .:r--nn-.TT:n n rv- I . . f Mm I i r i To) o c W SI . livu BB a 8 Re - Appointed By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL n .: : WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.r-The administration saddled on coagress today a wde program for peace and gave it free rein on an investigation of Pearl Harbor, Kfi ! rM - I ! f President' Truman trundled out the longest presidential message the present legislators ever saw 16,000 words. " It listed one-two-three style just what the chief executive wants congress to do about help ing the country shift to peace. The senate waited a while to hear it j First with the president's backing, it voted unanimously for a senate-house inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disaster that dragged America into war on Dec, 7, 1941. The balloting on Pearl Harbor was the first' official action, of a congress which: cut short a sum mer vacation j. and hustled back yesterday to work on problems of Peace. - : The senate economy committee reported elimination of war and other activities should lop 2,000, 000 people from federal payrolls and save $5,000,000,000 a year in salaries. . j ;l ; - -I Southern legislators - screamed when an" UNRRA official told them; starving Europeans would turn up their noses at American sweet potatoes-i-of which there's a surplus in dehydrated form. - V " ' - --f - " f i "- Panl V. McNott who will return to the Philippines In his capa city as American high com missioner. " PaulV.McNutt To Return to e Post hilippin W.A S H INGTON, Sept 6 Paul IV. McNutt has been selected to go) back to the Philippines as American high commissioner. President Truman announced the choice at a news conference today. He said McNutt now war manpower commissioner and head of the! federal security agency, will help the islands get back on their i eel so iney can nave weir inde pendence as quickly as possible. Under existing law, the Phil-, ppines must be freed politically by July 4,-1946. Both the late President Roosevelt and President Truman have promised earlier freedom once the Japanese invad er is Iiquidatedand economic re covery under way. The president recalled that the silver haired McNutt served as high commissioner to the Philip pines from February, 1937, to July, 1939, when he was succeeded by Francis B. Sayre. With the Japa nese conquest the interior de partment took over their super vision. 1 ! ! i sers i mm 10 tan ami te TklT O 1' ! Lfirmed only one day after JV-laX OClimelinfffdent Truman submitted It O . On Mondav. ! the sena' Trial Monda v HAMBURG, Sept e.-()-BriV ish authorities announced, tonight that Max Schmelingformer world heavyweight champion arrested on a charge of "breach of military government orders' would be tried Monday in the Hamburg Rathaus. Schmeling, whose .activities dur ing and after the war were inves tigated earlier, recently was re fused a license to enter the pub lishing business. The license was denied, an official said, then, be cause the German boxer "was a symbol of nazism during the war for the youth of Germany." It was learned from one source that Schmeling was held on a charge of "misstatement of fact1 SEATTLE, Sept. MPacific northwest lumber workers voted to striW, 12,754 to 2,818, In a bal lot taken by the national labor relations board,; it was announced tonight by the board's regional director Thomas P. Graham. The Iumber and Sawmill Work ers union (AFL), which called for the strike vote, seeks the estab lishment ; of a $1.10 minimum hourly wage in mills and lumber camps. ! The I present minimum, iCVi unfon, officials, is 90 cents in the fir producing area and 82 Vi cents in the white pine region. In a : statement by the union, Executive Sectretary Kenneth Da vis said : a last minute attempt would be made to avert strike ac tion by the issuance of a request for a bargaining "meeting with lumber operators 'at the earliest possiblejmomept" - ,y j 4 Stars Given ToWainwright WASHINGTON, Sept W) Tl)e senate approved four-star rank today for General Jonathan M. Wainwrighi who won time for America in the defense of Correg idor. i ; , - His promotion, from lieutenant general to full general was con firmed only one day after Pxesi- -. ji ; ' - s r:::--f;": iir x'vVVi--? Vir--J".-r- -iVf-Jv-VW t""-"'""-"""-' :l ::V;. ;,fv:V.-:: .lt, I-,,,. r ..KT:r.-y;r!i-;V-.f.i-..-.-.-'--. b:;'.ffMUNDBO-'- toot 7-rIv'f' r. J : : '4 l') '":" S '-; NINETY-FIFTH YEAH II PAGES Sxxlanx, Oregon. Friday Morning, September 7. 1345 Price Se Ha. 141 - DDtl Top Prices Paid To 4H Club Members ;;:;in"Tati;Stoc t By Ulargnerite Gleesonv . Valley Editor, '' The Statesman ; , Future livestock breeders of Marion and Polk counties; in the persons of boy and girl 4-H club members, saw' their work turned into the ultimate goal, money bn-the-line. at the second annual, club fat: stock sale in the state fairgrounds Thursday anernoon, - s -a . . The stock sales totaled $7306.12 of which $2082.82 was for Polk county : stock and $5223 JO Adm.McCain 1- On ' Monday, the senate and house will pajr him personal trib ute in a Joint session. ; Flying home from the; Pacific, the general will arrive here that day and I will! receive a White House welcome before his trip to the capitoL , Workers Flan Bust of . Franklin D J Roosevelt PORTLAND j Sept 6. iff) Moulders and foundry workers lo cal 139. Portland, will provide funds: for; erection of a bust of Franklin D., Hoosevelt officials said today.- If- ,.h: . - Fredric Littman, sculptot, is put ting facing touches on the plas ter model. Casting, twice life-size, in bronze will be completed soon. 3000 Fed, Entertained at ii Annual Alderman Barbecue 1 Br Lillie I Ms4sen Farm Editor, The SUtesmsn Fifteen! hundred Oregon bus! ness and professional men mingled with as many farmers and bean pickers to form the 3000 people who attended the colorful fourth annual harvest barbecue at the U. S. Anderman farms at Dayton Thursday, j The 1000 pickers worked In the fields until noon, then joined the visitors for the dining and pro gram, returning to the fields again at 3 o'clock. Four Steers Prepared To feed the group, U. S. Alder man, host, had prepared four of his steers. State Representative Eugene . Marsh and , Francis Marsh, McMinnville attorneys, had begun to barbecue at 1:30 a. m. Thursday. Assisting the Marsh twins were Art King, Mc Minnville butcher, and Barney McPhhlips, also of McMinnville. The huge pits had been dug the day previous and the barbecue frames had been made I In the Alderman shops. i Six barrels of corn, one of diced beets , 800 pounds of beans, 4500 buns and 75 I pounds , of butter completed the dinner. s Alderman farms contain 3800 acres in Maridn, Polk and Linn and Yamhill bounties with 850 additional acres of potatoes in Klamath county, ! , Cold Storage Plant i ' Visitors were interested In the 43 tractors,! SI trucks and six buses used on the farms. The new cold storage blant, now under construction at the Dayton place, attracted attention of the barbe cue attenders. This plan is 176 by 232 feet and its cost when completed will ; be $1501)00. It will be ready for use in a month's time. ; Alderman has a steady payroll of 200 people.! He paid $500,000 for labor last year, and his gross income this year will approxim ate $1,000,000.: (Additionals de tails on page 4) ' "2: mmt. Mi .Mr idl Shortly after his return to the United SUtes frem his pMt as eemmander of Task Feree ".2S, Vice Adm. John 8. McCain died last night from eombattsUrM and exhsostien tn Saa Dlege. Combat FatisiK Qaims life of Adm j McCain SAN DIEGO, Sept 6.-UP)-Vice Adm. John Sidney -McCain, who won a flier's wings at 50 and went from a Washington desk job to share fame with Adm. Marc A. Mitscher as the world's greatest carrier task force strategists, died tonight from exhaustion, caused by combat .duty. McCain, 61, had lived Just long enough to see Japan surrender but he was not convinced that the Nipponese war lords would be as docile as they appeared outwardly. 'They are not half licked,. he said only two days ago enroute home from witnessing the surren der signing aboard the U. S. S. Missouri in Tokyo bay. "I don't like the look in their yes. McCain arrived only yesterday. He was scheduled to go to Wash ington after a short rest and a 4-visit-with his wife. - " - Attendance at the sale was at least twice as . great as fair the first sale in September, 1944, Buy ers from Portland and surround ing districts were In attendance, many of them' stopping on he way to Albany wfcere the Linn-Benton county- sale was held last night-.-. ' :i - Dan B. Roth of Albany was the auctioneer, coaxing the added money from the not-reluctant bid- IMersiwlio- included local packers ana market buyers and todjvidual purcnasers. : ' s (See also story page $.) Surrender of Base Planned ABOARD THE USS PANA MINT OFF OMINATO, Northern Honshu, Friday, Sept 7-(flVJsp-anese emissaries boarded this flagship of Vice Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher shortly after 9 ajn. to day (8 p.m.1 Thursday eastern war time) to discuss transfer of Omi- nato naval base to Fletcher's com mand. . They were put aboard by the American destroyer Bear. . The delegation was headed by Rear Adm. Desuke Kanome, chief nf staff of the naval base dis trict Others in the party included Cmdr. Jasunosuke Okuma,! IX (jg) Akira Namie and an inter preter. i Governor Legalizes Shooting Fireworks ; Governor Earl Snell Issued proclamation Thursday making It legal to use fireworks, nereioiore, pannea . oy . requesx ox we army during the war. '. Snell' said the reason for the ban was to prevent use of fire works as a means of signaling the enemy and" causing a fire hazard. . , , Marion county sales receipts. Last year Marion' county Stock brought $2446.23. . The grand: champion lamb shown by Shirley Hennies of Tur ner sold for $1.90 a pound to Sears- and Roebuck. ' This firm bought 10 lots and managed to corral all of the grand champion animals offered for the two counties..- ' ;i . TheA champion lamb In! 1944 brought $1.10, the top fat steer brought 53 cents, the top bog 33 cents. - i ' i Yesterday the sale was the cli max of the fall show of ihe Mar ion county 4-H club, and six top beef animals from the Polk county clubs were brought over to 'boost interest: In the sale. 1 Long Message N ears Record WASHINGTON, Sept l-Urf- The White House described. Tru man's message to congress today as the longest presidential mes- sage since Theodore Roosevelt submitted a 20.000 word docu ment in 1901. Today's message Contained more than 16,000 words. Charles O. Ross, White. House secretary, said a great many peo ple worked on it including de partmental experts who submit ted matrial for various sections. However, he said, the president had fhad a very large hand in the writing of it and worked on it quite hard., " ; : Doolittle Raiders Return General Arrival Fliers who participated In the Doolittle raid on Japan April. 1942s pictured en arrival in Washington from Karachi, India, following rescue from Japs. LlorS. rt J. D. DeShaxer, Salem, Ore.; 1st ia. nobert mte, Earth, Tex.; Ut Lt C J. Nielsen, Hyrum, Utah, (AP Wlrepheto) ! ! Amy Officers Foiiu4 res Established! Sco lleleg Laud ; ! WASHINGTON, Sept. 6P)-The army today established a point score system for the discharge of officers and estimated that approximately 200,000 are now eligible for release. 1 .. '. The point scores for male officers are as high or higher than the present discharge score of 80 for enlisted men. Like wise the scores for women officers are as high or higher than tne score or 41 xor enlisted wacs. For male officers the scores are: Colonel, lieutenant colonel and major 100; captain, 1st lieutenant and 2nd lieutenant 85; warrant of ficer and flight officer 80. Nurses require a score -of C5; WAC of ficers 44; and physical therapists and dieticianiv41. i f The scores will be computed on the same bases used for enlisted personnel, with one point for each month service in the army since Sept 16, 1940; one point for each month overseas service; five points for each medal and campaign star; and 12 points for each child under 18 years up to a maximum of three children. ates 1 ... -, . . . -A--- Legion Control By New Vets Railroad, Plane Loading Authority Succumbs DETROIT, Eept -(")-E. S. Evans, 66, president of the Evans Products company and a leading authority on railroad and airplane loading, died at his home in sub urban Grosse Pointe Park today after a short illness. - - . Evans' company operates a large battery separator plant at Coos Bay, Ore, and formerly owned a plywood mill at Lebanon, Ore. He had planned mass production of pre-fabricated houses at Coos Bay after: the war. Truman Outlines Peace Pians lii (ngressionaljMessage v J Compiled y fix Associated Press'- Congress received a 21 point 16,000 word document from President Truman yesterday outlining the administrations views on .peacetime legislation. :. f: ' . ;. T L ' : ' ' ' ' --. Briefly, they were these: r :', '-1 -?V J - r Wages The minimum wage raised above 40 cents an hour. Firms in interstate commerce have to pay at least that now. Taxes "Limited' reductions for i 1946. (But Rep. Knutson (R Minn) promptly called for deep slashes and Rep. Flood (D-Pa) ' sought more exemptions for little fellows) . j , :: Peace Hold off on declaring the; war ended because some wartime controls still are needed. Like those on prices and ration ing. , . . . ' . " r Draft Continue it for men 18 'through 25 for two years. -Fall Employment Pass a "full employment bflL Such a ) bill, now In congress, wouldn't provide full employment It merely I would authorize congress at some later time to do something -about full employment" ; hK: - 4 - : Jobless Higher pay for jobless workers than most states . give." The house ways and means committee struggled today with a bill to give the Jobless, when entitled, $23 a week for 26 weeks.' It may make major changes. i . i : Cangresa Higher pay for congressmen. He wants mem to , ; raise their own salaries from $10,000 a year to $20,000. S orpins Pre pert A single administrator, instead "of the . present three-man board, to get rid of leftover war supplies. The house agreed to take up a bill on this Monday. f Agencies Mr. Truman wants wide power to reorganize and , reduce government agencies. "Hell probably get lots less power -..than he asked. . -h- i-";.f.-..--; . Mr. Truman ticked off these Items, too: Veterans, bigger t benefits. Would-be home owners, better housing; Farmers, con tinued price supports. Labor, a stronger labor department ' The country, a huge public works program, development of ' natural resources, more scientific progress. National . defense, : a supply of scarce, strategic materials. Small business, a helping - hand. .1 ' ; ' ' :- ' - ; Racial and other minorities, a permanent fair employment practices committee, i i- PORTLAND, Sept 6-tfV-More than 500 delegates to the state's American Legion convention to day applauded plans' to turn the organization over to veterans of the Just-ended war. Duncan Nease, grand . chef de gare du Oregon, told the opening session of the three-day meet that "if we don't listen to them they're going to go out and form their own organization . . .! and we would have plenty of eompeti- tion.- " W. Bert Stevens, Tillamook, was elected grand chef de gare of the I u ei 9. rus preaecessor, uuncan Nease, was chosen cheminot na tional e, and will represent the or ganization "at the national meet ing.' i 'r - Other officers elected, all for mally inaugurated by Spence Ec- cles, Ogden, Utah, national head of the order, include Ira O. Pil cher, Salem, grand chef de train; George Parker, Albany, grand garde de la porte; Fred Siefert, Newberg,; sous grand garde de la porte; Walter Kirk, Salem, grand cheminot of district 2; E. F. Fort- miller, Albany, grand cheminot of district S. ; LasualtyL ists Show Decrease WASHINGTON', Sept 6 - The nrtior s combat casualties for world war II apparently are going to taper off at slightly more than one million with about one-fourth of that number dead. : The latest total, announced to day by the armed forces, is 1,070, 452, drop of 83 from last week's report as a result of reductions in some categories, chiefly In; the number missing. ; The total included 822,587 for the army end 147,863 for the navy, with 256,996 dead; 651,261 wound ed; 38,923 missing, and 12372 prisoners. i Police Tag 60 Traffic Violators in Drive . , ... i .. .. . . ,. City police Thursday started drive on j parking offenders ! and during the period from lpmu to 6 . pjn. more than 60 motorists were given tickets. Offenders were mostly those who double parked or parked in restricted zones. This is the first such drive since gas rationing ended. j - V f Set Today MacArthur to j , Lead 15,000 UJS. rv Troops Into Gty YOKOHAMA, Friday. Sept" 7- (")-Genenil MacArthur at . the head of 15,000 troops will unfurl ; the" American flag over Gie ruins j of Tokyo tomorrow CFriday, UJS. time , signalling a swift occupa tion of Japan. UJS. patrols are si- " ready clearing the city tn prepaa ration for his arrival. ,Tney were from the vanguards I veterans of the southwest Pacific, first to enter Manila, and now to be granted the honor of being the first into Tokyo MacArthur " goal. ' I Spread Over Nippon Within a week , thereafter U.S. soldiers will stand guard In the railway city of Sendai, 190 miles north of the capital, and a week later will be swarming over Hon- . shu's west coast - and northern most shores. . . The allied supreme commander will raise over his new quarters in Tokyo tha American flag that Hew over - Washington a capitol that day of Pearl Harbor and which, has flown in triumph over Rome and Berlin, those other axis capitals that set the world aflame with the fires of war., All over Japan's now-exploded co-prosperity sphere" her arro gant .-armies were surrendering, and by aid-October,' MacArthur estimated,' 7,WU00 Japanese sol ' diers .-will be disarmed. Home Island Army ' " j ! At least 3,000,000 of these were ; in the home islands, now marked for occupation by 300,000 to, 400, 000 American troops as swift as convoys ' of sea and air can get them ashore. The fifth air force and units of the strategic i air forces also will be based in Ja pan. . - SingapoTreNipa Reluctant to f Give Up Arms SINGAPORE, Sept fl.-ff)-Jtp. aneseiroops retreating from Sing a pore Bland across Johore cause way showed reluctance today to disarm their own military guard under the surrender terms,' insist ing that Japanese commocuue?v stones . and civil administration needed "protection. Looting has been prevalent in heavily Chinese-populated areas, but allied authorities warned to day that it would be punished by death. ' ' -if 4 An allied announcement said th surrendering Japanese garrison at Singapore totaled 85,000 men,' in eluding - tit generals and an un determined number of admirals. Escapes Con From Prison Roberi. E BennettV?4 Hescape from : a state prison gtm ' gang A Thursday, was still at large early today, although , prison official and police were continuing j th . t search over the state. Bennett, who war sentenced from Yamhill county to three yeart for larceny, entered the prison last July 27. He was reported seen a few minutes after his es-" cape from the prison flax shed, at the Krueger Grocery store at Four Corners but got away and was believed headed north. He was described as weighing 153 pounds, 5 feet SVi inches talL Lblue eyes,' dark .brown hair and was wearing a blue shirt and blu overalls. v-'' ... ' Wcaliicp Saa fTsneisco Eugene -Salem . , . ,. Portland 1 Seattle Max, -73 . .9 Mtn. 50 --. M -BS 12 Rain joe trace Willatnrtt . river FORECAST (from U. S. - atlier bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Clouty wttta foe In the morning, clearing wilit top temperatures 19 degrees, A A