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.The city council decided the hot
qjsestioi) of installing parking me-
,: tie protests of the merchants
croup. I was not friendly to put
ting -in! Jthese peg-legs, but am
'n;n;r,rtUAk- jyrt 4 Via vrdirt of
"the council." I do not believe there
vi saiuass. r w m---r
a referendum.
MIVUIU liJVTT V - f w
the issue is mot of suliicient im
portance. . ;f-.j .
' We must give the city council
i credit for delaying its decision un
til all parties tpuld be heard. For
the majority to, override the very
Considerable pressure raised by
AnieKi ' indicates a
conviction which must Toe based
yln tndv kit all the factors in
volved, together with the expert
inee1 of other cities. I think there
is "little! to be gained by continu
ing the controversy.
The removal of 'gas rationing
las greatly increased the conges
tion on downtown streets. At buy
ihours traffic piles up fast, despite
ilnur. wide streets and four-lane
Hfiveways. Putting in meters may
Deed the turnover in parking but
' It will not solve the problem of
fcongestlon. , ,. . .
I What Salem and afl other cities
Will . require j is . more off-streef
parking. This can come - from
clearing of j old ,! structures, by
ierefcting buildings for car storage
or by providing underground stor
; lace under buildings. I can recall
When' one or two hardy souls be-
Igan to 'provide parking lots, here,
! iThelr business was light for
imonths 1 Steadily though.it has
gncreased, until, now it is quite
.ubstantial. It is bound to grow
as more facilities are provided and
more cars are registered in the
area. - ! ' ' ! '
The parking meters should be
helpful! in making more space
available for temporary parking
on streets. I believe the merchants
who opposed their introduction
would be better advised not to
prolong! their opposition but de
vote their efforts to provide more
parking lots where' longer-term
parking can be provided. If this
is done it may well be that their
fears will prove unfounded; that
reasonable assurance of the part
ing space, for long or short periods
of time will attract more custom
ers than under conditions prevail;
ing at present;
Bus Drivers
Continue Tallis
With Company
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct 2-(-Union
'leaders and officers of two
bus lines tied. up by strikes will
continue meetings here tomorrow
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gent . -
'K morning meeting with Qver
land Greyhound officials j and
spokesmen for 192 Overland driv
ers of the northwest division was
scheduled by Conciliation Agent
Guy V. Lintncr. He said the union
officer- would also represent 45
drivers of Pacific Trail ways at an
afternoon meeting with'Trailways
management. : j I
Both union and management
said today settlement was expect
ed soon. ' V :j;
Greyhound schedules to and
from jbalgm are unaffected by the
present dispute. , I
Reconstruction Finance
To Make Gty Loans'
WASHINGTON, Oct 2.
The reconstruction finance corpor
ation, announced tonight it stands
Yeady to make loans , to municipal
ities land' other public bodies to
help finance construction projects.
It said such loans would aid re
conversion bjr stimulating employ
ment : and would.. "Increase' the
real wealth of the nation, j . :
i Water- and sewer systemsr air
ports,! bridges, highways, hospitals
and schools are among the proj
ects eligible for loans.' ,
Animcl Crackers
li WARREN GPOORICH "
"I wet about to tell him
thtrtfg nothing to be afraid
cf .around, her but qtdek-
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Japs for 40 months, does K. P.
f the; Gernuuu and Japs at the
Ana, Calif. Officers aaid It waa
dischargee en ;Ki P. becaas "we're awfully short-handed here.
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LONDON, Oct. -2.(ff)-The
ministers, after.threje weeks Of discussing European peace settle
ments,, ended tonight in apparent lailur. I I.
: , The ministers of the United
France and China' concluded their
over procedure which authorative
resolv:edv by President Truman,
Premier Stalin and Prime Minister
Attlee.,V -In
an authorized statement,
S. Secretary of State James
Byrnes disclosed that : the issue.
which deadlocked the conference
was Russia's insistence on barring
France and China from discussions
of Balkan peace treaties.
"There . is good reason to
be-
lieve," he added, "that with' :on
tinued patience and understanc ing
on all sides agreement on es ten-
tials ean be attained. We are
de-
termined upon that outcome!!
The adjournment capped a week
end of bitter personal debate dur
ing which Russian foreign commis
sar V. M. Moiotov at-one point
was said to have threatened, sifter
a tiff with British foreign secretary
Ernest Bevin, to leave the, confer
ence and return to Moscow.
Bids Near on
Road Projects
' The state highway commission
will probably be 1 able to start
awarding its postwar 'road con
tracts at a meeting in Portland
October' 29, state highway jengi
neer R. H. Baldock said Tuesday,
after; he' had learned Congress had
approved the nation's postwar
highway program. ;. .
Tentative plans have been made
to award $2,000,000 In contracts
at the I meeting. The commission
cannot go ahead until the federal
public i roads administration au
thorizes it, but Baldock said he
expects this authorization to come
within a few days. '
I - Oregon's road program calls for
spending $12,000,000 a year for
each of the next three years. Con
tracts ifor the first year's work
will be awarded - this winter, so
that construction may start next
spring
Baldock said.
Phone Union to
on
NEW YORK,' Oct . J
Moran, vice president of the na
tional ' federation of telephone
workers, said tonight members of
the union rould leave their jobs
all over the country Friday after
noon from 2 pjn to 6 pjn., east
ern ' standard time to vote on
strike action on a nation-wide
basis. ; r ' : . '
. The demonstration Friday, Mor
an said, and the strike vote, were
called in protest against a ruling
by Charles W. Whittemore, nation
al labor relations board trial ex
aminer, recommending dissolution
of the federation'! western elec
tric5' imp oy e s association at
Kearny, NJ.
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from left), bombardier on one of
duty with ther former prfsonerp
army separation center at Santa
Becessafy to pot the prospective
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five - povler conference of foreign
Statei, Kussia. Great Britain,
first peace, talks in a deadlock
circl
Said would have to be
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Stike Fired,
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erans rurea
ex.
AUSTIN, Tex Oct i-Wh
Ninety istriking union! wejrkers of
ii l 1 .1 i : 11
ity whkh closed down four hy
droelectric plants . and stopped
electridi Service to a large area
of central Texas for 30 hours
were ffred today, ' t
Their lobs were immediately
offered to war veteransij Electric
power was restored to (virtually
the enfire area today .
General Manager Max Starcke
of the LCRA said: . t !
Thei men who walked off are
out of Itheir Jobs and; will not be
re-employed" r; v
Previously, Starcke had com
plained of "acts of sabotage and
vandalism." -: St I' - 1-
GovJ Coke R. Stevens?.! , .ap
proved! the action. "Any man who
commits sabotage on. the proper'
ty on which he is employed should
not bes re-employed," the gover
nor told a news conference.
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Sicks Brewery
A . burned portion of the roof
and sme damage to the engine
room jwere the results of a fire
Tuesday night at the Sicks Brew
ing company plant on South
Commercial st Acting fire chief
Tir:iii-1. t .u ..f- v.
scene laid that the blase started
when the boiler got too hot -
Fl03d ;W. Shepard, manager of
the brewing company, said , the
fire "fad a good start in the en
gine loom but the fire depart
ment fgot it under control and
damage wasn't greaV He said the
plant remained in operation.
Jh imy Steivart
Eager to Act
PASADENA, Caff Oct
CoL 4ames Stewart returned to
day ftpm the war and said 1 want
to start making pictures as soon as
possible." . f
Th4 laaky actor, alighting from
a traih here on furlough, was met
by actor Henry Eonda, vith whom
he his been friends feince they
roomfd together in their . New
York Istage days years ago.
Stewart, who. served overseas
two
years with - the eighth air
force,
has 123 discharge points.
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Salem. Onqotx, Wdnsdarf
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Given In
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Oil Strike
Schwellenbacli to
Get Conciliation
Results on Wed.
WASHINGTON, Oct.,2--
The government will know at 1
pjn. (PST) Wednesday how far
it got in a weekrlong jdrive to
end 14 state refinery strikes. 1
Secretary of Labor Schwellen-
bach set that hour for answers
from the CIO oil workers and 11
companies to his back-to-work
proposal. ! j ' ij
It is a ?4-hour delay in the cli
max to conciliation conferences
over union demands for a 30-per
cent wage rate-boost.
He granted the postponement
in the answer deadline to request
of nine of the companies "and
no further delay will be al
lowed." t' ' i- ' : '-. H
The secretary gave no Indica
tion what bis next move would
be if his plan is rejected. Seizure
is his big club, but he has said as
A. if i -ii . u
a general poucy ue wiu use 11 as
a last resort, i ;
He has remarked repeatedly he
will rely heavily on couecuve
bargaining. ' -' , . j '
Salem Sewer
to
The city's sewer expansion atid
replacement program,, a - project
of paper and promise purely the
past ! 3 Mi years, is putting men
"to work today. : " . !
First major undertaking will be
the laying of larger sewers at the
east end of Market street to serve
oft-flooded Ro s e d a 1 e addition.
City Engineer J. H. Davis , indi
cated Tuesday after first work
man had been employed. ; f
Authorized by the city council
Monday- night to hire needed
crews, Davis got four men Tues
day morning and is in the market
for more.
Materials are moving again, he
said, expressing the hope that
"high-priority'', lobs such as the
Rosedale sewer might be com
pleted without -delay and that the
many residential and residential-
area services promised "when
men and material are available
might be handled rapidly and ef
ficiently. No promises can be
made until quantities of both la
bor and material are assured,
however, Davis said.
ASKS AGED BENEFITS !
PORTLAND, Oct 2. -JF)- The
Oregon ' Townsend ' council an
notuiced. today it would seek a
special session of the state legisla
hire to consider. "needs of old age
assistance - beneficiaries." State
Townsend representative Harold
H. Wilcos said present prices were
creating an "acute situation"
among the state's aged indigents.
Expansion
Today
Faulty Engi n e S lows
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct jA
(ff)-Ti ATC command . here
reported .tonight that the C-54
Globester y left . Guam at 7:45
a. ' m. ! Wednesday Guam time,
(4:45 p. 4D. Tuesday, Eastern
Standard time) for Honolulu
after a, turnback caused by en
gine trooble.' . i :
By Paul MUler ,. , i
GUAM,; Wednesday, Oct 3.P)
-The - Globester developed engine
trouble today on the homestretch
and wis forced to return to Guam
afVr.it had sped 315 miles along
the road to Kwajalein.
This was but a temporary
in-
terruption of the first around-
the-world flight of the army
transport command, and passen
gers were quickly transferred to
another plane for . the resumed
night:,- . V ' . ' i ;
The four-engined world travel
er developed magneto trouble
and the No. 2 engine cut out; '
'! With . 1,238 maes still to! be
flown to Kwajalein, Capt. S.Iar-
Morninc, October 3. 1945
Gen. Patton
"Two Gun" Patton, photographed
as he left his conference with
Gen. Elsenhower. The foUawlng
:' ay, be was informed he had
been relieved of his Bavarian
tmato
Censor News;
Riots
BUENOSAlRES, Oct 2-JP)-
The Argentine government re
Imposed a strict censorship on
dispatches of foreign correspon
dents tonight a few hours after
rioting had broken out near the
center of Buenos Aires between
students and a group of youths
shouting "Viva! PeronJ
. Censorship which, has been in
effect since- shortly- after the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
was lifted by the government
last Aug. 17.
In the disorders tonight the at
tacking youths hurled stones and
fired an estimated 30 rounds of
shots at the buildings housing the
University of Buenos Aires engi
neering school. At the time many
students and faculty members
were inside the buildings.
Columbia Aircraft
Industries to Close ,
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. .--
The liquidation of Columbia Air
craft industries, manufacturers of
$20 million of airplane parts 'dur
ing the war, was announced today
by President Guy R. Harper.
Lack of a market with commer
cial aircraft demand using "only
a 'tiny percentage" of long-established
plants' output -was cited as'
I the reason.
ion H. (Click of Denver, Colo
made the decision to turn back to
Guam." .-; .-,
- (The army transport command
at Honolulu said the globe-girdling
plane was scheduled to ar
rive there at 9 a. m., Wednesday,
instead of 11 a. m, as first an
nounced. "The plane picks up a
day by crossing the international
dateline.) f
The Globester, scheduled to be
in Washington by Thursday, had
left Guam at 3:15 a, m. (12:15
p. rh. Tuesday,1 Eastern Standard
time) and returned at 7:05 a. m.
The delay came after a .full day
in which . the Globesters eight
round-the-world passengers:
1. Ate breakfast at Kunming,
China, after flying at 1400 feet
across the Himalayas;
2. - Had lunch at Manila and
were taken on a tour of the bro
ken and ruined city; ?
' 3. Welcomed aboard 22 homeward-bound
Americans who were
prisoners of the Japanese, in
cluding nine colonels; j
4. Had dinner box luncheon fa
y
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Press
Attacks
Cabinet; Xliangcjs
-Rumored as Food
Issue Unsolved
TOKYO, j Oct 2-P)-The Jap
anese press; brandishing the Ame
rican gift of freedom, attacked
the government today amid re
ports the cabinet may fall or be
overhauled j lor railing to act in
the growing food crisis. The
Japanese government' revealed
today that 100 villagers in Ota-
kasawa-Migayi prefecture broke
into a J government-owned ware
house Sept 28. and took 54 bales
of rice after the watchmen re
fused permission for them V bor
row some. Prefect police subse
quently made arrests' and recov
ered most of the rice. '
Withl a forthrightness impossi
ble under the old regime, the
press demanded the dismissal of
"feudalistic officials" such as
those Who tried to stop publica
tion of the emperor's visit to
General MacArthur.
MacArthur set out today after
the munitions industry that armed
Japan's warriors. .. .
He ftoldj the imperial govern
ment io submit a complete re
port oh the production of arms,
ordnance, ammunition ana auto
motive equipment froim 1941 to
August of this year-when the
empire crashed in defeat.
Well-informed Japanese report
ed Entperor Hirohito was waiting
quietly for the Japanese army to
finish demobilization, possibly by
Oct-1$, before cleaning house in
the government.
Court Rules '
$10,000 fcift
ToBe Returned
Thet state; supreme court held
unanimously , Tuesday that Tom
Ray, secretary and business agent
for local 7Z, international orotner
hood bf boiler makers, .iron ship
builders and helpers of America,
Portland, must returri the $10,000
which! ; thet local voted his as a
gift- . ft ; .: hi ' -f - '
ThSS decision read: , ,
Thje members of te governing
boardj had eo adtholity whatso
ever to pay lor authorize the pay
ment to Rayl of the $10,000 or any
part thereof,' here involved. It was
not paid to him for services ren
dered j or to; be rendered in the
future. : It was a pure gratuity
and unauthorized." ,
Thef decision upheld Judge E.
M. Page of Salem, who heard the
case in Multnomah, county. A. E.
Jordan j and Jerry Martindale,
president and secretary, respec
tively; o the local brought the
suit tjrecover the money. They
were Selected after the local was
placed in receivership and the in
ternational organization took it
over, j i-! !v j . .. . .;!';' :
G Dobeste ir
shion lh,000 feet over the Pacific
en route from Manila to Guam;
. 5. Landed at Guam at 1 j a. rn.
(10 a. m. Tuesday, Eastern Stan
dard time) seven hours and four
minutes after leaving Manila on
the 1,587-mile flight I i
Heroes ! of the - d e a t h tnarch
from Bataan were among Ihe 22
former prisoners "of warj who
were Idven Globester seats at
Manila, i Some have not 1 been
home since 1940-jr ,r J j;:; ,
One was Sgt Alfred A. Hawe
of Clovis,:N. M. His right sleeve
was empty. He lost his arm in
Superfort raid on the Mojie steel
works just two weeks before Jap
an quit' ; if . " ' '' "i
The flight of the Globester call
ed for a 'change of planes at Ma
. This will take . them to San
Francisco, where the party will
change to the Statesman, another
new army transport "command
plane, for the flight back to
Washington, where it is due
Thursday-' ; - ...
Leaders
Pric. 5c
By (Eoseinilhipweir
J Foil acaoucv
WITH THE U. S. THIRD
(AP) Gen. George S. Patton!,
announcement he had been relieved of command of the east
ern military district. -
Throughout the day he was not available to correspond
ents at his walled and turreted
Ttmight a sentry at his spacious lakeside villa at Tegernsee
turned away an Associated Press correspondent with a curt
message from an aide, "You're
FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN,
Germany, Oct 2. - (JP) - General
Eisenhower announced today he
Thad ousted Gen.; George S. Pat
ton, Jr,' as commander of the
Third army and administrator of
Bavaria y and had placed him in
charge of, a "paper army,5' the
15th. I r.i ' ' . :r-
Kept Nazis In Offke ' I'
The order, effective Oct 7, fol
lowed complaints that' the pistol
packing,1: colorful Patton had kept
Bavarian hazis in office, and was
made public just four days after
the 59 -year -old armored com
mander -was .called on the carpet
to give a personal report to Eisen
hower on his denazification ac
tions., r ' I "; "
Lti Gen. Lucian K. Truscott
who commanded the Fifth army
in Italy and later headed the Sev
enth arffiypwill succeed Patton as
commander of the Third army
and administrator of the eastern
military district !.
Research Workers
The 15th army at present con
sists only of headquarters ' and
special troops engaged in research
work on j allied relations during
the war. It does, not control any
occupation area.
The official announcement gave j
no reason for the shift but dis
closed that Eisenhower had. noti
fied Patton of the transfer . las!
Saturday,! the day after Patton
had. been) summoned to Trank-
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Huge Highway
Program Voted
By Congress
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2
An Immediate start on a three-
year; f 3,000,wo,ouu . xeaerai-sxaie
highway. Construction program got
an os.ay rrom congress iouay.
It came when the senate with
out debate and in . two nunutes
adopted a house-approved resolu
tion saying there is no reason to
hold up any -longer a program ap
proved last December as a post
war employment cushion. ;
The resolution does not require
the president's signature. -
The program is the first big
postwar public works project to
get a go ahead. .V
Worked out in detail 10 months
ago, it provides for a federal out
lay of $500,000,000 a year for the
next three years to match, dollft
f or-dollar, state expenditures on
highways. ,
Sugar GacHe
Found in Java
WASHINGTON, Oct
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son disclosed tonight that 1,600,
000 jtons: of sugar have been dis
covered in the ports of Java since
the Japanese surrendered.
Obviously pleased over the dis
covery, Anderson told newsmen
at a conference that this sugar
should Very , greatly shorten the
period of rationing in this coun
try. 1 Heretofore, : it has , been ex
pected that I consumer rationing
might be necessary through 1946.
The sugar will be added to a
TJnited Nations pool.
Anderson ' said : it should start
moving j to this country within
two ; weeks.
. it win become available. at a
period when domestic supplies are
at the lowest level of the year.
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RETURNS TO FOLD
PORTLAND, Oct. 2-(ZP)-Peter
Emil Milakovich, 29, the 15th pris
oner captured after a Sept 24
county jail break, was behind bars
again today.!.
No. 163
ARMY. ftrmn W o '
jr., vras silent tonight on th
r i ' V I i ?
headquarters in Bad Toebr.
hot admitted.
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Lonsrview Mills
Running; AFL
PORTLAND, Oct 2 Tba
big Weyerhauser and Long-Be U -lumber
mills at nearby Lohgvievev
Wash., operated again today aftf
a CIO injunction action : banned
AFL picket lines. .
But at other northwest mills tie
striking AFL, workers succeed4.
in halting operations. The unioit
also announced it woulcfput union,
men in patrol cari on the high
ways to tail delivery trucks; and
request driven to return lumber t
CIO operated mills. . ' . : . ,
A hearing was set for. Monday
by Judge Howard J. Atwell 3vt
a permanent injunction after Vc.
temporary order gave 6000 unor-i
ganized workers at the two Long
view mills the signal to return to ,
jobs. The CIO and.AFL have onJy4
a minority of workers enrolled.
Group Votesto..
Lift 12,000,0001
Frpm Tax Rolls
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 -C)V
The house ways and means com-
mittee voted today to remove 12.
000,000 low-income persons froiri
the income tax rolls In 1948 ant
to cut the total individual incorco
tax burden almost half a bill if .n
dollars deeper than the adminis
tration recommended. '
Fred A, Vinson, secretary of ,th
treasury, had asked a $2,085,000,-
000 cut in the individual taxes. Tfc
committee voted an estimated S2,- 1
500,000,000. It has yet to .act en
his recommedations for , corpora
tion and other deductions. If it ap-;
proves ; them without change, t
total proposed-cut would amount
to 13,500,000,000. . : - '
Truman Opens
JL
aigu
WASHINGTON, Oct I 1 "-WV
President Truman opened tfca
National War Fund campaign to
night with an appeal for generous
contributions 1 to help War Fund
agencies "finish the job they wers)
set up! to do." ,;... v-v'li
"War service has not ended,!
said the president in a broadcast "
from the White House. "I don't
need to tell that to anyone whosi
son is still serving with the occu
pation forces o with 4Ja servic
troops .in this country. Foe, them)
the war is still going on."
He said the drive is for thref
causes for continued ."friendly
services" for those still having a
job to do in the armed forces, for
health and welfare services fo
people at home, and for-relief for
war stricken persons in liberated
areas. . -
State Towns Seek Tires
Fot : Stranded Travelers
PORTLAND, Oct 2. Up.
state Oregon towns have sent; the .
OPA urgent pleas to issue tiref
for stranded travelers, the distsict
OPA said today. '. '
Requests came from Burns, ,
whkh reported a heavy population
increase because of stalled "trans f
tents, and nine other -towns.' ( ! ;
J Officials expressed ' doubt tb .
tire quota could be stretched i&
fill the need.
Pickets
Banned
blind Camp
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