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0 lEtBTDPvl ; . : 4 : :;. ' ;; '' !! gram '&A-A4 jf ' NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 12 PAGES f 1 Historians tell of the leavening eriect ei the crusades of the 12th : and 13th centuries.. The return of ing pilgrims from the regions of iu ciuicni Aicuiierrancaa surrcu the whole life of western and lun Iiiisi n Yiid-karA.' " Yawns 4Kam . got to Jerusalem, but many came ' fn, contact with the older and rich ' er culture of Greece, of the old Pyzantine region, and on their re turn ther hrmirht nw lHs vhirh later . flowered in the movement vw uui 'tuv CTiwiamv. , - One cannot take a trip across the- country, as I have, with paus es in a , few . of the centers of population, 'Without seeing that lhis . war is. bringing change in America. That seems inevitable. For one thing there has been a scrambling ot peoples. Men and women in military service have been poured into the great melt ing ' pot of the "army and l navy. .There have been thousands of re gional intermarriages. War work ers, have ; been recruited from countrysides and shipped to distant parts of the country. Add to this the experience of the millions who have been overseas in nearly all : countries and all climates, and no ' one can be surprised if the great 'mixtures of peoples and customs and ideas does not bring change and ferment to the American scene. . -.' . . ! '.' One thing I believe the war has done "and that has been to accelerate the urbanization of the t American oeonle. The small towns I along the railroads and highways , have crown drabber with the -years. The cities (Continued on editorial page) Concessional .... CL, s:y,.-1 Committee to WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-)- Like a coroner's jury, the con gressional I committee investigat ing Pearl Harbor is going to be gin by taking, a look at the scene of the crime. The 10-member senate-house group decided at its second meet ing today to visit tne Hawaiian naval base as soon as it has com' . pleted reviewing the reports made on earlier inquiries into the Dee. 7, 1941, Japanese attack. Chairman Barkley (D-Ky) said the trip would: 1. Give the members a clear conception of the installations, surrounding terrain and the de fense establishments. 2. Afford "opportunity for ques tioning of witnesses who only with difficulty could come to Washington for hearings. Ifofstetter Fined On Noise Ordnance Hans Hoffstetter, proprietor of "Curley's dairy, was. fined $15 Tuesday afternoon by City Judge Alfred Mundt, after he was found guilty of violating a city ordi nance regarding loud noises in the city limits. The complaint, filed by Dayle Jory, stated that Hoffstetter quar tered horses in a barn at 660 Nor way and that the noise from the animals disturbed the peace and quiet of the neighborhood. SUBLIMITY MAN DOCKS PORTLAND, Sept. 25-JP-E-Sgt Walter Freitenstein, Sub limity, was among northwest sol diers on a troopship which- dock ed at Portland Tuesday night The men will leave in a few-days for separation centers to' receive their final discharges. Animc:! Crcsltcrc By WARREN GOODRICH 7r Til Hi mother voat frightened a bolt of Itghfmn?! , Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. September 28. 1945 . i- ifvs 4YTyJ ok VCN 1 Prico 5c ' j I No. 157 Mam suras ' Ysairs 9 Nippon to Swap Silk Food For Ban Placed on japan Moving Picture Industry TOKYO, Sept. 25-(-General MacArthur declared today Japan might be occupied "many years" although the conquering force would be small "under favorable conditions" presumably if the fallen empire behaves. His denial of reports that occu pation might end in six months came as Japan embarked on an economic transition that will erase her, at least for the present, as the world's greatest silk pro ducer. . Faced by the stark prospect of mass, starvation this winter, the Japanese ministry of agriculture announced that all but 75,000 of the 1,225,000 acres of mulberry trees that, fed the silk worms would be plowed up for food crops. The "Nippon Times reported MacArthur had moved m on Ja pan s moving picture industry with an order banning films of a militaristic or ultra-nationalistic character. Caspar-Cutler Company Sold ! - Electro-Watt, Inc. of Seattle, has purchased the Caspar-Cutler furnace manufacturing company of Salem and has already taken possession of the firm, it was an nounced Tuesday. J. D. Hamel, general manager of the Salem firm since last June, will remain in that capacity and no other changes in personnel are contemplated, he said, Approxi mately 34 men are now employed in the construction program. The change of ownership will mean also that the firm will manufac ture oil burners. Herman Cutler, who purchased the interest of Nicholas Caspar sometime ago, plans to rest and recuperate his health. Federal Credit Controls to Go WASHINGTON, Sept 25.-UP)- The government cleared away to day its financial hurdles for ob taining new coats of paint, fur nace repairs, insulation and gen eral house renovation. It lifted, as of Oct IS, all fed eral credit controls for such home repair and improvements. It took another step in the same direction by extending from 12 to 18 months the time in which borrowers must repay "non-pur pose" loans for those services or for general purchases not on the government's, restricted list of 40 items. Give s ! ILigEW :U $! 0 :?vHIII6ii Sifcafce 4 BuiiiiBisi Program for Older Students Planned Soon The state emergency board authorized the state. board of control to go ahead with plans for jits $10,000,000 building pro gram,! -although the board ot control said it might be some time before the buildings are constructed due to shortages of labor and materials. I ' ip' ;; - .. f . - Gov. Earl Snell, board of control chairman, said that some of the buildings i won't be built soon i because they won't ; be needed as badly , as others. We want to time the program so it will relieve unemployment, and so that we Could take advantage of lower building costs. It is, however, timely to proceed with the plans." ; Of the $6,000,000 voted by the people last June, the board of control has ' plans to spend S5, 399,400 for buildings at state in stitutions. 14 addition to this, the legislature . appropriated $2,915, 000 for new! institution buildings, while the board will build a $1, 500,000 state office building in Salem to be financed by rentals of state departments using the building.; v j) 1 The board; of c6ntrol, however, will transfer $1,116,500 from the $6,000,000 voted by the people to add to buildings already provid ed by the legislature. This addi tional ! amount ' was made neces sary by increased construction costs. L I" - i i Oregon state hospital, the state penitentiary, Fairview home, the state tuberculosis hospital. Hill crest school,! the state training school at Wpodburn, state school for the deaf, state school for the blind 'and eastern Oregon state hospital at Pendleton, are the in stitutions which will share in the building . funds under the com bined program. (Details of building plans for those institutions on page 4.) Big 5jTalks of Japan Meeting i LONDON, Sept 25-(iT)-Tenta-tive plans for a December meet-' ing of an allied control commis sion for Japan have been present ed to the Big Five council of for eign ministers, it was learned authoritatively tonight The meet ing would be in Washington. I The proposal, originally put for ward; by the British, has been neither accepted nor rejected by the United States, reliable inform ants said, h ; i While the: subject is not being discussed at formal sessions, it forms an important background for the talks. ! People's! Court Set Up In Philippines j. MANILA,;; Sept 25--Presi-dent Sergio;! Osmena, signed into law today an act of the Philip pine legislature setting up a peo ples court to. try Filipinos, in cluding twor of his own sons, Charged with collaborating with the Japanese. -j Osmena declared the bill guar anteed "a I fair and Impartial hearing." ' ft; r - 1 Oliata Mayor's Constituents Resent His Losing Their War By Doane Hennessy ' OHATA, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 26.-iP)-The mayor of Ohata, an elderly gent who wears an olive drab suit that ends in plus fours and wrapped black leggings; is bowing out of a job because Japan lost the. war. . . , Hizzoner, a newspaperman nam ed Zenjisachi Sasazawa, announc ed today that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself in mis fishing town's election next month. - ' - " With a tweek of his greying mustache Sasazawa nervously puts it this way: ' "A certain feeling that has grown among the people does not make for my peace of mind in office." . These are simple folk In tattered -in thin fishermen who exist in Isuch appalling poverty an Ameri can would shudder at the sight At Ohata, 600 miles above Tokyo in northernmost Honshu island, the people don't understand treaties and world courts or why the war was fought! They just know that the emperor said to fight and almost four years latersaid to quit' " 3 ' . They also know that Mayor Sasazawa gave, them their orders during the war. They arent quite sure where be got them. He told them about: rationing and the lack of food and increasing taxes. He is the symbol of the government that took their sons away to die. Tor these simple .little people, Zenjisachi i Sasazawa, of whom Hiroblto aid Tojo never heard, conducted a losing war. He must pay the price. There will be a new mayor In Ohata next month. 3-, ' - The return to school of many older students, due to the recent state legislation will create many problems, superintendent of schools Ftank B. Bennett told members of the school board Tues day night j : Bennett said that plans are be ing made for continuation schools and night classes in several sub jects and that to make the pro gram adequate, it will be neces sary to hire a teacher to take charge of the continuation classes and also a visiting teacher to en force attendance of those who will have to attend classes untit "they are 18 years old. Nothing has been done yet to ward a definite start in the night schools but a tentative opening date was set for October 15. The first week I in October, however, a meeting of all students that these classes will effect, will be called and the actual needs determined, as well as a knowledge of how many students will attend. After the opening of these class es, the labor office will grant work permits only to those students un der 18 who attend school. ! Russian Sets Jump Record 1 i London, j Sept 25.-(F7-The Mos cow radio; tonight reported major Vassili Romanysk, Russian airman, had set "a new world record for delayed ! parachute jump," leap ing from j 12,800 ! meters (42,000 feet), with the parachute opening only when he was 800 meters. (2628 feet) from the ground. Claiming the leap as a new record, the broadcast said an auto matic device flicked the parachute open at. the 800-meter altitude. The radio reported Romanysk fell through, temperatures recorded at 53 degrees below, zero, (centi grade), when at 32,800 meet spam Gas Line Back Asairi in Detroit c!7 " t ' ... ft. W.-tUJUUU MM : t E3SID Tie-IUp PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 25.(AP) The CIO was rv ported today to be considering' the r possibility of another lumber strike which would halt leycry logging camp and saw mill in the northwest. The CIO negotiating committee meets here tomorrow to decide whether to strike in demand' of a $1.15 hourly minimum. . .; - i J- : ' The AFL, whose strike policy committee conrcnes here Thursday, reported no indication of operators accepting the industry-wide $1.10 hourly minimum the demand that has 60,000 northwest lumber workers out on strike. The AFX. workers were notifiea -tini It f. - I. I - 1 1 Motorists llae a street te buy gasoline at this track-side fining station In Detroit Sach stations are not affected by the strike el tank wagon drivers and have 'been doing a rashlng- basmese as nearly all ether stations, supplied by truck, are closed. Ap Wirephoto) CbDiverence Op ens to - I i . ! End Detroit Strikes 1 'DETROIT. SeDt; 25.-i?VThe United Automobile Workers I (CIO V. and Chrysler corporation maintained! strict secrecy tb- ntn uu uiy iivgiva aiuiue uie oiwiung session 01 a coiuerence on the union's demand for 30 per cent wage jincrt ase. Negotiations will be resumed tomorrow. , As the meetings began, Norman Mathews, tl AW national director for Chrysler units, arrier Task , : II ( South Opposer Wage Increase Sept25-(ff5- I WASHINGTON, Southern opposition to boosting the minimum, wage cropped up to day after; a ; senate committee heard Secretary of Labor Schwel lenhach endorse a proposed rise to 65 cents an hour. . In a session which found sena tors questioning each other more often than they did the witness, Senator Ellender (D-La) repeat edly argued that a wage Increase Would inevitably lead to increased living costs. He contended, too, that a rise in prices I would restrict exports and hamper economic expansion. McMinnville Turkey Growers Plan Exhibit 1 M&rNNVILLE, Sept 25.-JPy- Turkey growers in this area and the chamber of commerce agri cultural committee are conferring on plans; for a fifth annual Pa cific coast turkey exhibit here this fan. i: .::. ' i Oakland growers refused a state department of agriculture rogges tion to combine the McMinavDle and .Oakland shows into one at Salem. The Oakland men vlan an exhibit late- this fall in BoAeburg Force on Way PEARL HARBOR, Sept 25- Units of a 48-ship carrier task force,; carrying 20,000 war veter ans eligible for discharge, steamed past Diamond Head today enroute to the Atlantic coast Hundreds of persons viewed the majestic procession from roof tops of downtown buildings and from) the waterfront Teh thousand marines and sail ors were destined for separation centers, and about the same num ber of high point crewmen also were eligible to leave the service. an nounced that i petition for a strike vote among the corporation's 80, 000 workers had been filed with the national labor Relations board. A strike vote on October 24 among more than 300,000 General Motors workers approved and! the ing to petition for 000 Ford Motor C Chryslers was the first of the automobile industry's "big three to meet with the union, which has begun a drive fori a major wage increase for ; more than half : a million men land women in the nation's car industry. Reds Institute Demobilization LONDON, Sept 25. Th presidium I of the supreme soviet today ordered demobilization of all enlisted personnel ti the ten elder - classes except those serving in the far; east Moscow radio re ported. - I . ' Others released, the broadcast said, j include former students in higher schools, former teachers. persons who have completed tech nical or j agricultural education, those, with two or more wounds, those serving since and before 1938,1 and all women privates and sergeants except those who volun teered to remain in the Bed army, Roger Le Qerc Killed in Action Pvt Roger A. Le Clerc, 19, son of J. E. Le Clerc, route 8, box 120, Salem, was killed in action in Italy, October 14, 1944, the fa ther! has (been informed. Young Le Clerc Was previously listed as missing in action on that date. He was with the 135th infantry and was stationed near the Po river sector. He was graduated from Salem high school in 1943 and was "Inducted into the army Feb. 3,-1944. .J GAS STATION HELD CT . Two men held up aa Associa ted service station in CorvaHis Tuesday night and got away with 173 cash, state police' reported early today. - " Weather EuretM , j s&irm , Portland Seattl ss -S3 .61 S s) s jn M JD3 Willamette riw 1 ft. FORECAST (from XI S. wcatber bo u. McNarr field. Salem): Partly cloudy today with miiirnum ttmper- atur aeax m oesrvea. today that the AFL sailors union of the Pacific would sail no ships with, strike-bound lumber. A telegram . from Harry Lun-denberg,- secretary - treasurer : of the sailors union at San Francis co, advised - that "no members of our' organization :wtll sail ships into sawmills or docks where a bonafide AFL picket line Is es tablished." -, - -- Kenneth . M. Davis, . executive secretary oJLthe' AFL northwest ern . council t . lumber . and saw mill "workers, said the action would halt a large share of lum ber movement David Beck, Seattle AFL team ster boss, reiterated his statement i. If the lumber stoppage con tinues dee fte the strikes of lumber and sawmill workers, Salem will have a serious shortage ef fuel woed and saw dust this whiter. This was the opinion ef several fuel deal ers Tuesday nirht One dealer said that they had ne wood for delivery since last month, with ne hope of re placing their stock until the strike abates. that Washington teamsters would haul retail yard lumber. His statement came shortly aft er John M. Christenson, president of the AFL northwest council of lumber and sawmill workers, outlawed such action as a viola tion of picket lines. , The Seattle teamsters,! how ever, had . difficulty following Beck's ruling - - the strike-closed yards nad no one to load for them. dy has been on is prepar- ne among 109,-1 employes. V -Mail to Cease On October 31 NEW YORK, Slept 25-P)-Lt CoL E. D. Snyder, in charge of the V-mail section of the army pictorial service, today confirmed a report that the microfilm trans mission of V-mall would cease Oct 3L f I .The Eastman Kodak company of Rochester j N.Yj, reported ear lier its contract with the army for the service 'would terminate on that date,' '; tt . ! CoL Snyder said that after Oct 31 V-mail would by air in its original form. be transmitted Wage Dispute Hearings to Start Tliursday PORTLAND. Sept 25. (P- A ! two-day series of hearings on wage dispute cases will begin here Thursday by the full membership of the 12th regional war labor board, officials said today. Union-management arguments will be heard in cases of the Van couver, Wash., bus company and the Chase Bag company, Portland. The board will act on four other disputes and on five wage stabili zation cases, it announced. Oregon firms involved in the dispute cases: Tillamook County Creamery association; Pacific Fruit and Produce company, Oregon and southern Washington branches; Cherry .City, Smith and Benson bakeries, all of Salem, Steckmest company, Inc. and Portland Glove company, Portland, and-the Water ville (Ore.) Implement and Hard ware company are among the firms involved in wage stabiliza tion cases. British Fight Disturbances In Ind(H Liiin a SAIGON, Sept l3-aVA vio lent uprising of Annamite (Indo Chinese), independence forces oc curred today and the British, fired mortars and heavy machine guns in efforts to halt the disturbance. The Annamites, seeking imme diate independence, have opposed the return of French rule to this southeast Asia country, taken over by Japan at the fall of France. , Saigon, allied occupation head quarters, ' was under a virtual state of - siege, with Annamites firing from places of concealment at French, British and American?. A French soldier, was . shot to death by a native and a French civilian was stabbed fatally in the downtown commercial dis trict . ; Gunfire echoed throughout the city and the possibility ; of a ser ious food, shortage grew as mar kets were closed for the second straight day. Commission Asks List of i ; on Strike PATTERSON CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Sept 23.-MV The senate today confirmed the appointment of Robert P. Patter son of New York, as secretary of war. Action was by voice vote. A complete listing of all work ers, including social security num bers, must be submitted to the state unemployment commission by employers whenever work ceases due to labor disputes, the commission announced Tuesday. These reports should be made within 48 hours if the commis sion is to avoid mistakes in pay ing out-of-work benefits to work ers affected by the dispute, ad ministrator Silas Gaiser declared; "The law is specific in barring from benefits all those directly in terested in the dispute," said -the administrator, "but we must have active . co-operation- by ' employers and employes. If notices are sent in, both sides are assured that complete investigation will be made before benefits are allowed or denied." i ' I The law also provides that no referrals of Job-seekers may be made to firms Involved in labor disputes. i ' Latest check of workers who might be involved in the new lum ber strike showed 47,415 employed in the industry in June, 1945. Ot these 18,673 were in logging, while most of the remainder were in sawmills or in combined opera tions. ' Speediei; Switch-Over from War to Farm Labor Planned : Streamlined procedures de signed to speed up! referrals of un employed wir workers to thou sands of Oregon farm jobs were approved Tuesday at a three-way conference in Salem. ' ll Representatives of the state m employment j compensation com mission, employment service and farm extension service agreed thai claimants Jjob-route slips should be extended to year-round agriculture work as well as indus try and trade, j. .v'-U'-Farm labor offices, operated un der the extension service, and the federal employment office nave not regularly channeled workers to one another. Under the" agree ment reached yesterday, all per sons seekmg - employment who have any agricultural background, though they may have come from industry or business Jobs, will be routed not only toward industrial or business .employment but will be sent to the nearest farm labor office, as welL The farm labor of fice, in turn, wU report back to the other services any records of placement of such persons. The new policy assures com plete co-ordination between the agencies in referring possible farm workers . to seasonal harvests .wherever the need arises", de clared T. Morris Dunne; chairman for the unemployed commission. "With thousands of war workers shifting into peace-time jobs we are making every effort to s that all claimants are exposed to any suitable work." - Representing the farm-labor of fice at the conf tnce were J. Ralph Beck, state supervisor; Will iam Hay cox, Portland manager; Ralph Laird, Salem manager; and Ben Tucker, assistant state super visor; Joe Wilson of Portland, su pervisor of agriculture processing. represented by the UJS. employ ment service. Silas Geiser, ad ministrator, and Floyd Baxter, su pervisor ot benefits, also, repre sented the unemployment com mission. - .- V Four Willamette Men Liberated WASHINGTON, Sept 24-(Spe-" rial) -Among the liberated prison ers of war announced today by the war department were .four from the Willamette valley, area: Pv t Melvin C Bony, son of Mrs. Eva Bony, Newberg. 1 Capt Theodore H. Demezas, son of John D. Demezas of 508 Churebj Silverton. . Pvt Marvin S. Pennington jr.. Son of Mrs. Stella Pennington, Dayton.:1 . "'. ! ' ; ,' '- Capt Charles P. Samson, son ' of Mrs. George R. Samson, 2643 Arnold way Corvallis. CIO CESTUllJ) WASHINGTON Sept 25-P)-The national labor,! relation board today certified the CIO In ternational . Wood workers ot America as collective bargaining unit . for logging - truck driver tie Bridge, Ore. - , FOWs TO PICK PEAKS " 1XEDFORD, Sept 25-P-Tha war department has granted an extension until Oct 1 for 305. German war prisoners workings" in this area's pear harvest the . Fruit Growers league said today