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1 ' - hub rail "t'-f r DETROIT- Sept.l 19.-It would ;;tbe a;miatAke to concludejthat'be- 'plants are' all down ' because ": of 5 what one reads in the papers about V - laoor troubles. Only , a lew plants . s , . are shut down--the " Ford works being the largest- It- is anbrehen- . - sioii 'about the immediate future - rather than nresent . difficulties! s V-; which bothers most of'the Indus " 1try.. .., . . : t;Unstruck plants "are ; working . - - r busily, but . largely, on , reconvert : sion and accumulating stocks of . ' parts. Materials are - not yet in ; ; , juu juppiy anjj gome iike chromic acid are lacking. The big task of 4' moving machines out that, were A Z I exclusively, on war work and mov- '; lng' motor car machinery . in is L" 1 m full r progress. . '-, '"v..-: , - . rr ".1 . ot an eyeful of reconversion ,! j Jtodajf. atThe-' big gear, axle -and ?' iorze" division of Chevrolet' The piaol -was .devoted almost '.wholly - tb war - work. Tools' for car-mak- ins were' millprl .1111 in lfltl onrl - 1841, moved but,, mariy into "open f air storage - under ,y tarpaulins or ; ' 1 exposed to the weather. New tools .were -.moved in, new assembly v ' lines formed. I : .'.The reverse "practice now .'under . way is astounding. Here are great ., .passes, --f.-3-:-V.. . V . (Continued on editorial page) Dean Acheson Wilis State Post Over Protests WASHINGTON, Sept. 24P)- Dean G. Acheson's nomination as 'undersecretary of state got 69 to 1 approval from the Senate today after S hours debate on whether he had "rebuked" General Doug las MacArthur. Senator Wherry; (R-Neb), who cast the lone opposition vote, said Acheson had. He lost 66 to 12 a move to send the nomination back to the foreign relations commit tee. - " r:w Majority leader Barkley (Ky) and Chairman Connally D-Tex) - of the foreign relations committee aid Acheson hadn't. ' Senator 1! d w I n Johnson (D Colo), said it looked to him "like a tempest in teapot." . Iress Glamors ForConstitution In Argentina i BUENOS AIRES, Sept 24.-flV A plea by - retired navy leaders that constitutional government be restored in - Argentina won ac claim today from the powerful afternoon press and from political forces united in opposition to the military government of President Edelmiro Farrei. A similar statement signed by high navy officers on active duty was expected to be published soon. A high military tribunal rep rimanded Geo. Arturo Rawson for participating," in uniform, at the Anarch of liberty and the con stitution," in. which 500,000 per sons participated last Wednesday. Haile Selassie Asks Colonies CAIRO, &!pi 24.-(VEmperor " Ilaile Selassio of Ethiopia has sent the London conference or xoreign ministers a demand that Eritrea i and Italian Slomaliland be turned over to EthioDia. reports from Ad- dis Ababa In the Egyptian press . said today. " : The "Lion of Judah" was quoted by one newiipaper, Al Misri, as saying he sought the territories - "not as a bonus because we have been fighthn: the axis 10 years, hut because they belong to the - Ethiopian empire and were stolen trom us. . "' Anlmd CtczUctg By WARREN GOODRICH ' J lis Ccms dovjrif went jia to me! my friend! ' JUuid WWM 01 era : Jobless Pay Bill B"h 1 TOKYOSepC24.HEniperor Hifohitf-the Jate'st abdica tion rumor; vanishing into the thth air whence it '.came--waii reported today to be arranging an unprecedenied visit to General MacArthur. ' i '-f H '.': .' Whether the "emperor meets for the first time the alien boss of his smashed empire, as reliable.' Japanese sources say, a new series of . drastic U. S. decrees showed that neither Hirohito nor his government now.; had much control. Over Japan Y fate. ; MacArthur ordered the Japa nese "government to ..install strin gent .wage and price controls and ration all critically-short com modities to head: off wide hunger and suffering among Japan's 80,- 000,000. people. : i ; ' -vj , MacArthur 4 froze, all Japan's trade abroad, except for approv ed ) exports :'.or imports. ; tie zorpade : the import or ex port of bullion, currency and ne gotiable Japanese 'assets -tempor- way. 'X '4.VK V:;T'; He prohibited; any v Japanese atomic 'bomb research' or. atom-l splitting bfanyr"nahre and-pla'c-: ed all research' laboratories of the empire Under4close and ' contin ual" allied contrpl. - ,; .r.? MacArthur. tore down all Japa nese' government news' barriers. stripped the Dome! agency ' of its monopolistic privileges and threw the news : field open to all comers foreign as well as Japanese. 4 - " - ; . '.: --1 " e - I " . Public? School stration ' i-iS , .... Risto!5128 Salem public schools' registra tion was. up 11$ Monday from the; 5013 1 recorded the first day of the new school year a week ago, and three schools had not sent in corrected registration figures. , i j ;..- Included in the group not heard from was Salem high school. where constantly .changing en rollment kept 'ahead of the add ing! machine operators, McKinley and Richmond! schools. - At Leslie, the new figure was 560, an increase of 25 from the registration of Monday, Septem ber 17; at Parrish, 939, up 44 from last week but still behind last year's first day total of 950; Wash ington, 179, - an increase of 4; Garfield, 1 189, up 33; Bush, 419, up 11; Eiiglewood 398, down 13; Highland," 383, an increase of 18, and Grant, 182; down 3. 11 Moveiuent Growfc To StopMeasure ilJiitil Strikes End ' WASHINGTON, Sept 24-()-A movement developed in the house ways and means committee todaV to put the 1 unemployment com- pensation ' bill on the 'shelf rf until J men now icue oecause oi suxH.es return: to work. " . , The committee held a closed- door session and .word circulated afterward that there was even strong sentiment for killing out right the measure calling for lib eralized pay to the Jobless. Suc action would be the severest con gressional - rebuff to President Truman since . he", entered the White House. The committee set showdown votes for tomorrow. When the committee adjourned its afternoon session Rep. Knutson ol Minnesota, senior committee republican, told newspapermen: "The committee probably will take the position tomorrow that with thousands of workers out on strike it is impossible to tell wha the unemployment situation is. Delano, Uhrig Plead Guilty to Robbery Count l. - . " . - Charles Delano and Joe Uhrig, who. Monday pleaded guilty be fore Circuit Judge KM. Page to a variety of charges growing out of the robbery of the Ernest Handy residence near Woodburni will be sentenced Thursday morn- ing. . .- ! Delano, whose attorney asked that h be treated as a Juvenile since he declares himself to be only 16 years of age, was indicted on and pleaded guilty to the rob4 bery of the Handy place of $400 cash and $1083 in checks, the lar ceny of Handy's automobile anc the burglary of the Handy resi dence. ' Unrig, Jointly indicted with Delano on the robbery - charge, said he would make a showing Thursday morning as to exten uatlng- circumstances. ' BattleWounded Due Home Soon WASHINGTON, Sept 24.-(flV! The war department said today most of the 3000 battle casualties still hi the Pacific will be brought home.ln 60 days. '-- It added that all other trans portable casualties in the area can be expected In this country by Christmas.' I . . Most of the wounded will be brought home by hospital ship", although some will come by air. Both hospital ships and . planes also are beingused, MaJ. Gen. C. P. Cross, chief of transportation, added in a statement, to bring back American prisoners of war who are in need of medical atten 12 Prisoners Escape In Portland Break PORTLAND, Ore., Sept 24-(P) Police tonight hunted 12 of 17 Multnomah county prisoners who escaped from a seventh floor jail cell block and dropped through a utilities shaft to the basement and freedom. :-.: Five of the men were recaptur ed, including . Robert Breckman, 32, described as a life-termer be ing held after recently escaping the Oregon state prison at Salem. Appointment of Hess To D. A. Post Delayed WASHINGTON Sept 24 A protest against appointment of Henry L. Hess. La Grande, as U. S. district attorney, today de layed confirmation by the senate. Chairman McCarran (D-Nev) of the senate Judiciary committee. declined to say who had filed the protest which will delay the vote for a week. Regi Seiiibrity Said Out of Control I I ' V : WASHINGTON", Sept 24 -ff)-A veterans' letder said today selective Service is running "hog- wild" in its interpretation of "super-seniority' 1 for returning war veterans. ; s " " James W. Cannon, general counsel for the- Veterans of For eign! Wars, declared in an inter view:" J" j i , "Selective service now has gone far beyond what congress ever intended. It lias mixed things up until neither business nor the la bor union knows where it stands." The American Legion, on the other hand, is ; going along with Maj, Gen, Lewis ; B. ; Hershey, selective Service director. Discharges by Mail Proposed f . ... , ; ., A '- WASHINGTON Sept 24-(-The CIO proposed today that sol diers eligible for discharge be sent home immediately and their for mal releave completed by mail. Clinton S. Golden, chairman of the CO I veterans 'Committee, ex plaining the suggestion, said the paper processing could be comple ted while the man is at home. I 7 - -.ur u M SI' i" 1 'f'-'.--. v .-.iri- wundbd mwi ri : - . . vM:;: , , ..t.: . - ' ; NINETT-FIFTH YEAR P ' r 10 PAGES Scdem, Orjon, Tuesday Mornlncj. September 13. 1S45 Prlc-9c No. 153 t .r. r 1 : i Sa -1- -r 3SOrJ3eini Duu.Airoiiiiinid Bemni: Leave Woods; PSDlslKlFsEelhesS r h rri n n iCiieyator i Walk.(fbiiti . T T MAAmT 9vt SL Mfmm liigan State - - f Thirty-five hundred men' . in i the Salem tradini , area left their jobs in forest and inilLMonday or. will leave, them when thej AFL" Lumber & ' Sawmill Workers' strike ' has " been . called at.eyAra sawmiU., :'J , v :f 4Howlar e'Tipples from the pebble" tossed into the stream of the u northwest's lumber industry might reach herej was. a matter ior . conjecture . aionaay among building trades workers. Most of the residential building underwayt here will be halted shortly,' some contractors said. .. 1 Cabinet i work . at both Keith Brown Building Supply; and Ore gon Pulp-and Paper plants' (where the sawmill I was down 1 Monday) may; continue for two weeksjj but stock' at .either place will not guarantee further operation. I Garages Change Over j Garages here which have done a heavy business in servicing logging: trucks, turned their atten tion to; pleasure automobiles 'and oil companies checked off a big piece of business for the duration of the strike. f i , Unorganized and CIO mills (there are some of the former and none of the latter in the immediate Salem vicinity) continued to oper ate, but raftsmen who. wear the AFLj button left the river or re mained only to fish. i ' Mills Listed V . I Black Rock and Snow Peak, log ging I operations in Polk county ;lAutomobUe Workers (CIO), Gov Willamette valley Lumber; com pany, Dallas; Cobbs tit j Mitchell, ValsetzJ Winlock Handle' company, Silvertan; Capital Lumber com pany (still operating Monday night) ; Oregon Pulp & Paper Com pany's 'sawmill operations; Cas cades Plywood, Lebanon; Albany Plywood; Santiam, E. H. Clarke, West Gate and Cascaola Lumber companies and Oregon Plywood, Sweet pome, , and the Corvallis Lumber company were listed Mon day by Lumber it Sawmill Work ers' offices . in Portland as mid valley mills affected by the strike. State Dept. to O 1 WASHINGTON, Sept 24 The state department will take over disposal of American war surpluses overseas with the dual assignment to aid stricken coun tries j and gain trade concessions for the I United , States, j -' president Truman has decided to transfer disposal control to the state! department' "as soon j as practicable," reconversion director John' W. Snyder told the' seriate war investigation committee to day. j j ' ! :,- j Declaring "we can't expect dol lars" from dollar-starved nations, Snyder I said this country . would be willing to swap surpluses for "commercial and1 military rights.". LEBANON MAN LIBERATED WASHINGTON, Sept 24-(Spe cial)PFC Charles M. Brown, son of Mrs. Delilah Brown of route 1, Lebanon, Orej has been liberated from a prison camp of the Japanese,- the war department .an nounced today! - ; ;:,. : , Micl To Investigate Detroit Strike DETROIT, Sept 24-W)-The state of Michigan entered Detroit's troubled labor situation as a vari ety of disputes and layoffs con tinued to keep 9P,000 persons idle. - .' : Asserting he had reports that "not more than 25 per cent" of the strikers at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. plants in Detroit favor tbe, month-old jtrike there. Gov. Harry F. Kelly ordered an invest igation into efforts made to end it and the attitude of the 4500 idle workers. ' Pointing out that the strike had been repudiated by the United ernor Kelly said: "I am interested in finding out if it really Is the wfll and wish of the majority of the strikers." Under-AgeVets Given Status V '. '1 ; It , WASHINGTON, Sept llMJPf Boys and girls who fibbed about age to get in the navy, marines, coast guard and WAVES will be forgiven and paid off now. , president Truman today Signed a congressional measure that will allow these underage patriots the same pay and treatment accorded honorably discharged veterans. The navy department previously had ruled that It lacked authority to pay the usual benefits. Congress quickly authorized the payments. It was told that the army already overlooked false age statements in such cases. Anti-Japanese Acts Reported WATSONVILLE, CalifV Sept 2 4.H;P)-This community had its first recorded case of hostility against returning -Japanese before dawn today, when unidentified persons hurled a blazing, flare to ward the Buddhist temple, which is being used as a Japanese hotel. , The flare, set fire to shrubbery but there was no other, damage, Chief of Police Matt Graves said. The hotel guests included three Nisei servicemen on furlough and many families who have sons in the armed forces. vf';i.-. Jewess Tells lnJeire SQaimi im ! By William F. Frye LUENEBERG, Germany, Sept 24.-P)-A young Polish Jewess, in explicably reprived at the last mo ment from' death in the gas cham- tber Of the notorious Oswiecim con centration campj; today dramatical ly accused! one camp official with slaying "thousands of 'innocents.: ' The woman, Mrs. Sophie Lit winska, had testified before the British military court trying 45 naxia for crimes at the; Oswiecim and Belsen camps that woman in mates were forced to line up naked before camp officials making selec tions; for the death chamber. : 'Asked by. the. prosecutor, Col. TJfi Backhouse, If she recognized any of the prisoners who took part in the selections she leaped to her feet in the witness box and pointed oi7 T Edous amidis azS asMooDis straight at Franz Hessler, SS (elite guard) unterstArmfuehrer and pa- I "That is the! murderer who de stroyed thousands of innocents," she shouted.-! : j I ,: j Then the. bust Into tears, and had to be taken from the court room to regainj her composure. Wlien -she was able to resume, she related that she herself was sent to the gas chamber and "yel low fumes" were actually entering the room when her name ..was called and she iwas removed. . . "Later Hessler covered me in a blanket and took me on a motor cycle to the hospital," she said." . : Other witnesses identified one after another of the prisoners; as helping choose gas chamber Vic tims and beating or otherwise mis treating internees, , t J' j - " i - ,,',',' 1- ..V-S ,' " ?( ' .ij i--,.-. ' i.. I " ! -'J-..- j ' I , !'-'' I . - One, Dora Szafran, testified the SS woman guard Juana Borman set j dogs on prisoners while an other, blonde Irma Grese, beat them with riding crops. Mrs Litwinska said that beat ings at prisoners by guards were "normal", and that there was no apparent system for administering punishment ' r-. - -. She accused one of" the women. Isle Forster, of beating to death with a rubber truncheon a young Polish girl who stole a potato. ; j - When savage blows from the truncheon caused the girl to defe cate involuntarily, Mrs. Litwinska said, the woman guard forced her to eat the excrement drove her out of the kitchen and continued beat ing cer until she died. . . mm y Sksrapei: Hit; :F eiAttempt8 to alk Up' Noted NEW YORK,! Sept 24-(ff)-Fif- teen thousand elevator operators and maintenance workers in some 1875 Manhattan! buildings walked off their jobs today. For hours the sidewalks outside some buildings were crowded with office' workers who were undecided I whether to tackle the stairways. They spilled into the streets and police had difficulty keeping the way clear fori vehi cles. i d 1 Finally, many workers went home. I i As the Empire State building's 72 elevators stood idle, long lines of office jworkers stood waiting for a chance to "phone upstairs." Two television engineers of the National Broadcasting company. Thomas J.) Buzalski, 38, and-Joseph Lombardi, 1 45, got to their work on the Empire State's . 85th floor half) an hour before . the strike began. With them they took two beds, a stove, an ice box and a locker full 'of food. ; "We're prepared to stay three days," said Buzalski. CIO Asks Aid of ScKwellenbacii Over Lockout' SPRINGFIELD, Sept- 24-ff- Charging the halt of operations at the Springfield Plywood ' corpor ation plant is a "lockout on the company's part," CIO officials to day wiredj Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach to intervene. The ClOj union has maintained it has enough men to operate the plant without; AFL employes, who walked out in a Jurisdictional dispute. - - - Defending the corporation's ac tion, General Manager Frank L. Mollis said, that! "out of our 300 man crew, a maximum of 82 men reported to work since the walkout We cannot run without a balanced j crew; of skilled work- l men, but We are trying to zind a solution to our problems." Union and company officials met last week ' but made no set tlement J Test pa Well Proves; Empty PORTLAND, Ore, Sept 24-CV Abandonment . of Its Clatskanie No. 1 test bil well and plans for drilling a second well about is miles west of At 5650 showing o: j feet E Oil here were , an nounced-today by the Texas com pany. there was "no or gas" In the Clatskanie well, but although dis appointed by the outcome, - the company has: not given up hope of finding oil in that area, an official said. - .-v I j , ---.; v The new jwelLjto be known as Cooper Mountain No. 1, will be located halfway j between Tigard and TiHsboro. 300 Iron Fireman Workers Ask Strike Vote ; PORTLAND, Sept 24-(AVMore than 300 workers at Iron Fireman Manufacturing company yester day voted to petition the national labor relations board for a strike vote. ;. j. "-: Negotiations for higher wages since' - April were ' unsuccessful, Neil Broady, business representa tive 'of the International Associa tion of Machinists' (AFL), report ed. . ,: . ; M 'ir-r-;-;,.-.i - A strike would be for . a new contract with raises retroactive to May 1, Broady said. ODD 'gitr QIC GDisoflcre lfoDeini(5es; r PORTLAND, Ore 'SepiL 24-AP) Quiet replaced tit" usual hum of buzzsaws and cries of timber I" today in near ly 500 sawmills,' logging; operations' and woodworking plants hit bythe AFL s northwest lumber strike. ,i j - The union, which' Hsted 60,000 workers idle, declared the strike "100 per cent effective,? jAn estimated 85 per cea( of the. lumber industry in Oregon,1 Washington, Idaho and Montana . was tied up. Other mills are ClO-af filiated. ' . Aimed at a minimum $1.10 hourly wage, the strike be gan at 12:01 a. m. Monday. By mid-morning, pickets were stationed at plant gates, but watchmen and maintenance men were allowed to enter - - one to m shift Union officials reported net the slightest hint of violence and said none was anticipated. , ' , . A 21-man strike policy commit tee will gather in Portland Thurs day to consider possible request and to watch the strike's progress. The AFL calleoV the strike after a three-maA conciliation commls sion named by Secretary of Labcv Schwellenbach failed to Iron out the wage dispute. J 1 ITEL SIIOKTAGE. SlJQt i Russians Ask Repatriation of Red Nationals LONDON, Sept 24-(P)-Russia tonight raised an entirely new Is sue speeding the repatriation of soviet nationals at the con ference of -big five foreign min isters, swinging discussion farth er away from the, main problems of European peace settlements. ! This development . apparently' came as a surprise to American and British delegates, who earlier found themselves stymied with the Russians over the question of emergency control of. Europe s inland waterways. Diplomatic quarters were un able to explain . immediately how the repatriation' question was in jected into the discussions at this state, 1 - ' .. .' . - . ' PORTLAND. Ore, Sept 24.-(F -With one-fourth of t$e ' cityi homes dependent upon sawdust and onef third en other wood for heat i fuel dealers todar viewed the: northwest lumber strike with alarm. Wood how on mill prem ises is hof and will not be han dled by teamsters and other unic men. i . Mrs, Glover Dies Yesterday Remoh Holland Glover, wife of Ralph Glover, died unexpectedly at the family home,- 1794 Court st, Monday night Daughter' of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Holland, she was born at Oregon City.. While she was a small child the family came to Salem where Mr. Holland became manager of the flouring milt Her mother was - widely known in this area as a singer. She was married to Ralph; Glo ver on Jan. 11, 1905. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and the Episcopal , church. Survivors, besides the widower, include a sister, Constance Thomp, a daughter, Maxine Ham mond, and granddaughter, Con stance Hammond, all of San Fran cisco. - Funeral arrangements, in the . care of Clough-Barrick Co, had not been completed this morn ing. - . - , ' Aluminum Co. - . Asks 4 Plants - -:: " i V - - WASHINGTON, Sept 24-(ffV Reynolds Metal company has of fered to Immediately take over operations at three government owned aluminum reduction mills, including the Troutdale, Ore., plant and the huge Hurricane, Ark, 'alumina plant it was re vealed today. : 5 " .W. Stuart Symington, surplus property administrator, . told the senate Mead committee the Reyn olds offer was for. a temporary contract to continue production at mills now operated by the Alumi-. num Company of America. The Alcoa contracts expire Oct 1 and the Reynolds company wants con trol to prevent dispersal of skilled personnel.' r; ' : ; ., : - AUTO LOOTINGS KISS More' than $150 worth of auto mobile accessories, -tools,' and clothing disappeared from a half dozen automobiles on Salem streets Saturday night city police were notified. Hollywood and the downtown area were scenes of the looting.;- . ' V . Truman Gives Dd Gaulle C-54, Wlio Gets Bill? ' 4 , '... WASHINGTON. Seot 24.-l- President Truman 'gave Gan. Charles De Gaulle of France a C-54 transport plane, delivered in Pans , today, but Just what ap propriation covers such a gift is a bookkeeper-and-lawyer mystery. a ue White House: The gift was "in line with a precedent set by the late President Roosevelt who gave planes to Winston Churc hill, Generalissimo Chiang Kak shek and the king of Egypt , The treasory: Not informed: it's a White House matter. The' army, threatgh a press cf- fleer: We dont know. They've a lot of funds overeat the Whit House that we don't know any thing about j , W The state department: Ask the White House. X . ' A C-54 costs upward of 1250,000. - - , ! M - ... Jews Fleeing Into Palestine JERUSALEM, Sept 24-(ffV-Ad ditional British troops were re ported en route to Palestine to night in an effort to Intensify safe guards against the illegal entry of Jews from neighboring countries. (In London, the Ally Sketch re ported Tuesday that strong Brit ish reinforcements already had reached Palestine Thty have been sent I to enable the British government to keep a grip on pub lic order, now gravely -menaced by rival claims and agitation be tween Jews and Arabs," - the Sketch said.) SALEM MAN ATTACKED PORTTlAND, Sept 24 - W -Charles H. Slade, 40, route 5, Sa lem, today told police he was at tacked by an unidentified person who struck him. on the head with a bottle and took his watch. Hos pital attendants said . Slade suf fered a fractured skuIL V7catber San Iranciace Eugene -,',, Salm ' Portland w Seam Wax. 7 - zVx -it n. XTa. t - 41 ' 4S so Xa!N tntm Jt- FORECAST from U. 8. wcath bu reau. McNary new. batemi: uowt te morning with warmer afteroooai tcmparaturca about