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PAGE TWO in l( .... lite CZTGON STATESMAN, ScUa, Oregon, Thursday llocciag. Septoxabor 13. 1S13 Raise in Minimum Wages, Elliott's Debt Discussed in Congress Committee Rooms (See story on pace 1) : - ' WASHINGTON- Sept J2.-(JP-In addition to the billspre sented on the floors of the house and the-senate, from the- com mittee rooms came these recommendations and forecasts as. to future formal legislation. j " ; . : . GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS - The house passed a - bill to Dut them under congressional control. There are 101 of . them Buch agencies as' the recon- struction finance and heme owners loan corporations. ' If the senate passes the bill and -' A f A. - --AS. 1 ,tne president signs 11, m it km as if they will, all the corpora tions will have to submit' to an annual audit Forty -one -will have to send yearly budgets to congress estimating how much money they ! Neuner Rules Of icials to Be Notaries Public . Attorney General George Neu ner ruled Wednesday that the Multnomah county election regis .t trar and his deputies should be commissioned as notaries public ! and they should he-given power to administer oaths. The opinion ; was requested by District Attor i ney T. B. Handley of that county. Neuner also ruled, for-District i. Attorney Colon R. Eberhard of t Union county that alt unexpended t balances of the LaCrande public library must go back into the county's general fund at ttre end of each year. ; In an opinion requested by Dist rict Attorney H. A. Canaday of Douglas county, he ruled that un ' der certain conditions, 'a minor j child has the right to -redeem real 'property acquired by the county .. by delinquent tax foreclosure pro Board to Try To Avert Strike Of Lumbermen WASHINGTON, Sept. t-4F-. Secretary of Labor SchweUenoach named a special three-man com mUsion today to attempt to avert a Pacific northwest lumber strike which he asserted would" be ex tremelyetrimental to the orderly reconversion of our industrial production capacity from wartime to peacetime needs." 4 He chose conciliation service commissioners Harry H. Lewis and Oliver E. Goodwin, to serve with conciliation director K. P. Marsh of the western region-on the commission. . -. The move coincided with an nouncement by the war produc tion board that controls over the distribution of lumber would end September .30. ! ' r , i Early Christina Mail To Servicemen Urged EfJRT LEWIS, Sept 11 With . millions of army personnel on the move, oversea Christmas mail delivery will, be a -greater problem than ever, predicted Ma jor Ray D. Farris. Fort Lewis postal officer. A ! Non-request packages, limited to five pounds, may be mailed be ' tween Sept 15 and Oct 15. Third class matter, including Christmas cards", is not forwardable and for this reason it is requested that all Christmas cards be sent first class. SniPYARD LABOR DROPS PORTLAND, Ore., Sept 12- Kaiser shipyard employment was down to 28,000 workers today and yard Officials eaid completion of ships soon would push the total ' lower .- ; , '; . t . , - - ". " - - - TTwas Quite a Story 1 Reported Dead LONDON,, war Sept office ll-tfVrhe said tonight British that German Field Marshal Ernst Busch died in a British, prisoner of war camp last summer. He was buried at Aldershot with full military honors, the British Press association said. The 60-year-old German gen eral, who commanded all nazi troops Jn northwestern Germany at the end of the war in Europe, was brought to England in the summer about two months after he had surrendered his forces to Field Marshal Montgomery. Atom Bomb General Groves Given Medal WASHINGTON, Sept . 12-(A- Maj. Cent Leslie R. Groves, who was commander - for the atomic bomb project was presented the distinguished service-medal today by Secretary of War Stimson. The presentation was viewed fby high 'ranking army officials and the general's wife, son and daughter, Mrs. Grace W. Groves, Lt Richsrd H. Groves, and Miss Gwen Groves.. u : .vWA - AMD NCR SENSATIONAL AllGjtl CtXHlSTRA I t i FirL'sy. Cr L M; CRYSTAL1 CAr.DDN BALLT.00:i . OFENS f:45 TM. NOW PLAYING I (AND THRU VRL) . MYSTERY CO-HIT! :i5 vtM , , t i : BRENT . tUKAS need. Congress - could okay, trim or reject the budgets. Heretofore, it hasn't had the chance. WAGES The house labor com mittee plans a look next week at bills to raise the minimum wage. Chairman Norton D-NJ) said she hoped for a boost from 40 to 65 cents an hour in the minimum now .required of firms in inter state commerce. ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT Fin ancial affairs of the late president's son will: be- put on display- in public report So said members of a, house committee Investigating them. They are investigating because Elliott got a $200,000 loan from John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company and Hartsord claimed a tax. reduction of, 1199,000 for bad debt The committee says it's interest ed in protecting federal revenue. UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES - The house committee on un-Ameri can activities successor! to the old Dies committee got a, report from one of its Investigators who tried to find out whether Holly wood is a hotbed of subversive ac tivities. What's in it? The com mittee isn't saying yet. UNRRA The senate foreign relations committee reportedly shot director Herbert H. .Lehman critical questions about the united nations relief and rehabilitation administration. Chairman : Conn al ly of Texas said he supposed con gress will have i to appropriate $550,000,000 more money for UN RRA because it had passed legis lation "authorizing' that much. But Connally showed little - en thusiasm by approving any money beyond that Lehman said UNRRA is "racingJjuiw. ni navy calls in Autfuet : a a: n l i i m I ' - . - thousands from starving. JUST BACK FROM OVERSEAS In a borrowed suit because his clothes were stolen Rep. Fulton (R Pa) said UNRRA activities are the "laughing atock" of Europe. Field Marshal Mountbatten Accepts Jap Capitulation - f.SINGAPOBZ, Sept 12.-)-Ad-miral Lord Louis Mountbatten ac cepted formal surrender of J pan's huge southern armies today from silent 'Japanese envoys, and then told his troops to get tough With "obstinacy, impudence or non cooperation.'. u v - j The southeast Asia supreme commander; noted that the south ern armies; were unbeaten In the field, and warned: i i They are finding It yery hard fto accept defeat 'and may try to wriggle out of the terms of, sur render. ; j f. i . - ; ;Lt Gen. Seishiro ItagakL com mander of 1 the seventh Japanese army, substituted for ailing Mar shal Count! Juicbl Terauchi, com manding all-the southern armies, at the surrender. But Mountbatten said that he would insist on re ceiving Terauchl's personal sur render as soon as he could travel. Mr. nd Mr John MeCsOlev ef 11U NeTaraaksst: reading The , Aasaelated Preaa dispatch,; jsut a it came-, eff the teletypes, fletaJllag the I story f Hldekl Tojo s attempted: suieida at & home near Tekye, and telling ef their sea. PFC EkUa Mo- CmUer, being eoe ef 4he first cavalry multarr peUeeaaen who helped carry him eat en a stretcher-bevad for aa Aaaertoaa Held hospital where American bleed apparenUr saved his life. (States- aa-HcEwaa pirate). ; ; . - i Red Cross Committee. Meets To Hear Report on Activities Members of the home service committee, Marion county chapter American Red Cross will meet today at the Golden Pheasant to hear a comprehensive report on work dene during the past month. - acting; noma service supervisor for the Bed Cross in Salem. She said in August service calk from army men amounted to 274 com pared with 213 army calls for to 112 in July. Calls for ; ex-servicemen and their dependents totaled 79 during August, most service requested for assistance with disability pensions, death pensions, insurance claims, reports- for the veterans adminis tration; and financial assistance. Services-for civilians amounted to 12 calls during the month, Miss Jamieson said.' ; Serving tbe full time assistant is Mrs. Marjorie Saunders and Mrs. Elmer Berg is the part time assistant Other volunteer corps members are: ; r Mra. Lor BatrkiM. Mrs. J. H- Cmt soo. Mn. r.- W. Poormu, sir. W. J. LOnfbot, an of ' Salem; Krs. Harold Lanoa ef SMrerttm, Mrs. Carl Smith ot St Paul. Levi Miller ef Hubbard. Mrs. Robert Harper of Gervais. Mis. Gerald Smith and Mrs. Ray Glatt ef Woodburn. Mrs. A. X. Bradley of AumrviUe, Mra. . Robert . Schroeder of MU1 City. Mra. HI Wiley of Jeffer son. Mrs. Ronald Jones of Brooks. Father Hildebrand of Mt. Angel. Mra. Wendell Weddle of Siayton. Herman Peetz of Turner, S. P. Rose of Aurora and Mrs. Roy PhlUippl of Mehama. On the home service eonuntttee. act ing as the policy making., group for the home servica departrftent from the county chapter, of the Red Cross ar Judge George Duncan, Mr.. T. 3. Bra bee, Mr. A. C. Haag. Mia Marian Bowea. Mra. Douglas McKay. Thomas Roen. Fred - Gahiadorf, . Paul Parker and Guy Hickok. ' , i : 1 t; j ATTORNEY PASSES i PORTLAND" Sept M-(JF-John F. Reilly, 60, special attorney for the city in -the million-dollarJ public market ease now-before the state supreme court 'died last night He was known as one of the state's foremost trial lawyers. -OPENS f:4S PJL NOW fc PLAYING 1 1 I (AMD THKU SAX) '. Touqhasi Bruiser on the Bcabary. Coast! rlynn 11 as- u t 1 :. GEIITLEIIiill- jnr i J. Action Co-II'J I ' JlDAVEjOTS t -5 . "MarSctd- CUPTZl' TVTO ( A I m 11 J ' AAjwa ' 1 LbumJ Group to Make Nommations The. board, of t directors of the Salem 1 Chamber of' Commerce agreed at a meetings Wednesday night to the Salem school board's request to iserve -s the organiza tion repreaenting tha employers for making, nominations for the local apprenticeship counciL Two . ef the-' members of, the council are' representattvas of la bor" and two, at present Harry Scott and Xlmo Cheek, represent (ttvr city!a -employers. The fifth member of the council is not con nected with either group. Superintendent of Schools Frank B. .Bennett, vwho , spoke to the board,- asked that they also im mediately appoint two persons to serve as alternates to Scott , and Headless Chicken -Still Alive, Croaking f FBUrrATcola, Sept U-(P--A chicken beheaded Monday for the dinner table- was still alive today. . l A little surprised at the bird's hardiness, L. A. Olsen, its own er, conjectured that the head came off in such a way as. to leave the throat and windpipe open, enabling, the chicken to breathe.. He feeds it by drop ping corn and liquids into its TOroat The chicken walks, Hape its wings and occasionally emits a feeble croak. , - T, Joshua Yocum Dies in Hospital Following -a serions iltnese of several months duration Joshua L. Yocom, 76, and a Salem resi dent for the past two years, died Tuesday at a Salem hospital.- Yo com was born at Chesterfield, Ohm, September 11, 1868. He was married to Jennie' Lind, Fisher. who survives him,' June 8, 1802 near viola, -Iowa. ' . . i The family moved to Wenat chee, IWash. In 1009, where Yo- oom- operated a fruit .business un til 1924, when he and his family moved; to Oregon.- Yocom has re sided at Roseburg: 'Eugene and Salem. r i " i In addition to- the .widow, who makes her home- with ' their daughter, Mrs. Joe Osterhoff, Eu gene,' ether survivors ' are three sonsV Ray A. Yocom and Wayne K. Yooom of Sslem, Roy O." Yo eem ef - Seattle; a sister, Mrs. An na Dewess of Whittier, Iowa; and nine gTtiidchildren. . f Services will be held In the Howell-Edwards 'funeral chapel Friday, at 10 ijb. with condud ing services at Belcrest Memorial park.; . f.-.-J K- -:. PFC Moore Liberated, Well PFC Andral O. (Jerry) Moore, a prisoner of the Japanese since the f aU f of . Bataan in 1042. has been liberated from a cams at Osaka and returned to military control, ! his mother, Mrs. Kath arine Moore, was informed by the war department Wednesday. He is in good physical condition, the telegram stated.-, - ;. Mrs. Moore I has had no direct word from her son since March. 1944 when she received a postcard from him.'. .. . " ,- - t . PFC Moore," a graduate' of Sa lem high school in 1939, ha been in the air corps since January 27, 1940. He was stationed at Cha note Field, 111, and Hamilton Field, Calif., before being sent to the Philippines at the outbreak; of the-war. '-";!' " , ,1 '-. His mother is employed at Camp Adair and found the tele gram In the door of her home at 590 South 22nd st, when she re turned home from work Wednes day. She said she was "thrilled beyond words' at the news.' Hor a otije rr year term - only. The members are elected for two year terms.. I Next year the. board will noml- Cheek. These will be nominated )nate one member j and two alter' nates. Radio Strike On'Ycsterday, To 1M Today NEW YORK, Sept 12.-)-A work stoppage by union engineers halted for time tonight aU net work: programs of the American broadcasting and national broad casting companies. : ' By mid-evening, however, ABC reported conditions' to be ap proaching normal. NBC taiso-saia it was able- to send soma of its network programs-across the na tion. 1 The stoppage -began at B P. UU (EWTj.. ;-. ( Executives of the engineering departments, they said, did the work of - the- men who had left their jobs, ! I Breakdown of wage - contract negotiations was given- by-the Kational Association of Broadcast Engineers and-Technicians,. an in dependent union, as the Aviation Gasoline j ToBeAvaUable 1 For Auto3 Soon LOS ANGELES, Sept 12-(Spe- daI)-For the first time in the history of the oil industry an act ual, government-specification av iation gasoline will be (made available to the motoring publio of the Pacific coast during' the next two weeks, according to a Union Oil company announce ment released today. : , . The company is already ship ping out fll8 aircraft engine fuel"" to be put on sale at key sta tions - - the same fuel the com pany delivers to the-armed for ces and the aviation Industry un der federal specification An-F-28, company officials said h describ ing it as light blue, in appearance. for the stoppage. Both broadcasting companies said wage contracts were under discussion and had been, termin ated for the day when the work ers left their jobs. I Marine Corps Points Reduced WASHINGTON, Sept 12-v?)- The marine corps announced- to day, that its point score for re leasing' male personnel had been reduced from 83 to TO, effective hnmedtately. Moreover command ing .officers' were authorized to discharge all marines, men jmd women; who are S3 years of or older. - ' The marine corps point system is as follows: One point for, each month of service from Sept 16 1940 1 to Sept 1," 1945; one for each month overseas or at sea be tween those dates; five for each decoration and bronze service star; and 12 for each dependent child. V - - " I All monkeys and human beings have-eyes with round pupils. I Si NOW SHOWING 'A Bell forAdano W'HMfeflU Hmj TSALOUST wi&v John Loder ; KOW SHOWING CO-FEATURE TAiinr autianea VI ATOMS uoTsssiaaei A rr CONT. FEOM 1 P.M. 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