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f A boy or girl who is a resident of Oregon can attend the Univers ity of Oregon or Oregon , Slate college and the amount of his tuition and fees is $34.50 per term. If the boy or girl is not a resident ' of Oregon the cost is $50. per term " more or $84.50. There is this exception, however: If the boy or girl resident of Ore gon is a GI an honorably dis charged veteran the cost -is -the , same as for a non-resident, or $84.50 per term. There exists a V patent discrimination between vet , erans and non-veterans who are Oregon residents. How did this come about? .When the GI bill of benefits was pending " the American Council of Educa tion lobbied in behalf of the state- supported . colleges and univers . idea a provision which permits v- these institution to charge the gov ernment tuition and fees on war veterans on a non-resident basis. Then - does the penalty fall on the government? Initially, yes; but the GI Jaw contains this whip : cracker that all sums expended by the government on a veteran's edu cation is to be deducted from what ever bonus congress may. vote to war Veterans. All those who be 'lieve that-NO bonus will ever be voted can continue to believe that this extra charge is borne by the federal government. All others know that unless the law is ' (Continued on editorial page) Army, Science s Defense,. Against A-Bomb WASHINGTON, Oct. v 15.-)-Sdence and the army teamed up ... today to tell -congress there is no defense against the atomic bomb . except the defenses that work on r other sorts of bombing. At the 'same time President Truman nominated Ma. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, over-all cSrec ' tor of atomic developments, to be assistant to the army chief of en , glneers. ;, . j V : ThafshUt" was taken to show the emphasis ' the "army-proposes to put on Nuclear energy -weapons. He would succeed Brig. Gen. John J. Kingman. j Groves also was named for pro motion to brigadier general on a permanent basis. The testimony on lack of "any special defense against atomic bombs came from Secretary of War Patterson and Dr. Vanne var Bush, head of the office of scientific research and develop ment. . ; - Said Patterson: There is no known defense "peculiarly effect ive against the atomic bomb.", Said the scientist who worked on its development: ('There is, in my opinion, no trick way of get ting rid of the atomic bomb - -because it is an atomic bomb." Their testimony differed from a report of. the house naval com mittee which said there were "in dications that an effective coun ter-measure to atomic bombs has been developed to such an extent that they can be exploded far short of their objectives." Portland's Hero of Corregidor Welcomed . PORTLAND, Ore., Oct IS-iP)-This city's hero of Corregidor, MaJ. Gen. George M. Parker, 44, was welcomed home today. - Lean but not emaciated, Gen. Parker was met by Mayor Earl Riley and Governor Karl Snell, who accompanied him to Victory Center, where he addressed bond- buyers In t brief ceremony. Gen. Parker at one time was commander of the. Seventh infan try at Vancouver barracks, Wash and was commander of the Sec ond army corps at the time of the retreat to Bataan. He was taken prisoner when the Jsland f eU and liberated in Manchuria, Animsl Crackers . By WARREN GOODRICH Deny LONDON, Oct15 -(JF)- A Reu ter dispatch from Tokyo tonight said a former Japanese navy staff officer had "told details of a plan for -Hitler to escape to Japan with Eva Braun. The dispatch said a Japanese officer attended a "secret meet ing in Tokyo on March 3, 1945, when final arrangements were made for the 'rescue of Hitler and his former secretary whom he married shortly before the fall of Berlin." , ' ' 'The dispatch continued: "Hitler had promised the' Jap anese that if they provided a safe refuge for himself and Eva. Braun he would give them plans which he guaranteed would win the war in the Pacific," the Jap anese officer said. Laval lhi(n)1!: Mtieir ooScoidle Proves - - - PARIS, Oct. 15.-W-The stormy political career of Pierre Laval, thrice premier of France, fame to a dramatic end today when he was shot as a traitor aftet trying unsuccessfully to? take his own life. j ' Before he was led to the '"execution "ground, Laval at tempted to cheat the firing squkd by taking poison,1, but in this, as in many other things, the swarthy chief of government in the Vichy regime failed. Four hours later, in the court-f- yard at Fresnes prison, his life was ended by a pistol shot through the temple after he had been brought to his ' knees by a volly from an execution squad of 12 riflemen. . ! Just before the volley was fired Laval, condemned for intelligence with the enemy and endangering the security of the state, turned to the judges of the high court of justice which had tried him. Sorry For Jurors "Gentlemen," he said, "I simply want to tell you that I'm sorry for you and for your having car ried out such a piece of work." . Then he turned to the firing squad and said: "I regret for you that you are made the innocent accomplices of a judicial crime. I die because I loved my country too well."' He asked to give the firing order to the execution -squad, but was refused. He. declined to be blind folded. His last words were "Vive la France." He fell forward dead at 12:32 p. m. Buried With Darnand His body was immediately plac ed in a waiting coffin and loaded on a hearse. Accompanied by a few officials and newspapermen, the hearse drove directly to Thiais cemetery where the recently exe cuted Vichy militia chief, Joseph Darnand, was buried. - Without, ceremony, Laval's cof fin was lowered into a grave which had been prepared in advance. Next to it was another grave marked "Her lies an unknown collaborator." Laval's grave was left unmarked. Local Building Rises, Pulp Mill Due to Rebuild October building permits in Sa lem soared toward a hew post depression high Monday with the Issuance of one for 137,500 worth of construction of Oregon pulp & Paper Co., for rebuilding of the digester destroyed in the August 19 fire. The fact that permits for small home construction arc sought al most daily led to the conclusion that this month's permits will top the $171,731 total of September, which, in turn, was more than the $149,920 record of August. In September, 1944, Salem building permits totaled 111,252, of which $1006.15 was for new construc tion, $9637 for alterations. Last month permits for new construc tion represented ' $146,693 worth of new building, $26,038 worth of alterations. (Other Monday building per mits on page ). f -TEAR-OLD .GIN BUXNED . PORTLAND, Oct. 15 -tfV A five-year-old girl lost her life last night In a .fire which gutted a suburban house. Mrs. Lloyd Corn stock rescued four children two pt them neighbor's youngsters but was unable to get to Rose Marie. The mother and another child were burned severely CEILING PRICES RAISED WASHINGTON, Oct- 15.-P-Washington, Oregon and Califor nia ' processors of packed fruits, berries and , vegetables may In crease price ceilings on sales to government agencies to compen sate for increased wage rates. The OPA said today the ceiling in creases were to offset pay hikes approved during the 1944 pack ing season. "Hitler also asked for and was I given an assurance by the: Japa nese imperial staff that! after the Japanese had conquered Australia and America they j would help him regain control rof Europe so that between them j Germany and Japan coulfl rule 1 the world." J I The navy offices' said at Hit- fler's request, apparently because fne had reached the stage where1 he could trust no one in Ber !lin, a Japanese Submarine was fsent to pick hinvup.. ij i "The submarine left Yoko- Ihama at dawn March 5 and headed for Hamburg. It never reached its destination and its fate Is still unknown," the dis- . patch said.;. ,ff; Mteppft JE i IFa Negotiations To Start Today j PORTLAND, Ore., Oct -()-Changes for success of a negotiat ing meeting here tomorrow were strengthened today by the decl- slon of four northwest lumber operators .to meet the AFL'S Wage increase demand, t I II Willamette Valley Lumber Operators and the AFL North west' council, Lumber and - Saw mill workers, reach an agreement, other employers probably would follow suit,-. union officials said. Negotiations will fb the ' first since the 61,000 AFL men stag ed their strike Sept. 24. John Christenson, AFL council president, announced four plants would resume operations at .once after agreeing to pay workers the $1.10 hourly minimum. They are the Hoyt Lumber company, Columbia Falls, Mont; York-Ellis Lumber company, Bellingham, Wash.; Van Zandt Lumber com pany, Van 1 Zandt Wash., and Hammersmith Lumber company, Tacoma. - . ":f . j f I "It is noticeable that independ ents in the industry are able to meet our demands While the large est and most powerful operators still are conducting a lockout against us even though the en tire reconversion program is be ing threatened," Christensoh ! de clared. I GOLDWYN STEPS DOWN ?! I HOLLYWOOD, Oct 15 -(P)-Samuel Goldwyn announced; to day that 50 per cent of the stock in his motion picture company has been acquired by his employes, that the company was being reor ganized, and that he would relin quish the presidency to James A. Mulvey. Goldwyn will continue as chairman of the board of direc tors. " i Slifloie Lumber atmke Final Luncheon Sees Salem Unitld tar Chest 95 Full With $95,365.80 of their $100,- 2$8 quota paid or pledged, Salem United war Chest workers j are not yet over the top although for mal conclusion of the annual one week campaign was planned! for yesterday. '. jf , . ' J . A series of minor hindrances, together with major industrial unrest, caused several divisions to fall short of assigned goals, chair men declared as they presented their, reports at Monday's fVic tory" luncheon (see page 9). ' IThe women's . division, with $12,350.97, or 123 per cent of its quota, led all the rest when tal lies were taken. Dorathea Steus loff, reporting the final returns, spoke of the "350 women' who first contributed generously them selves and then went outto raise the rest of their quota. .Schools of the cjty were 'next la the victory parade, with $4270. 33, or 118 per cent of their quota. Carl Aschenbrenner, chairman, Introduced a grade school group ol solicitors who, he said, repre sented similar groups over ; the city that -worked hard , to raise the money. The mercantile divi sion, of Which Leo Page Is chair man, had $12,826.80, or 107; per cent of its quota. h The professional division, which had taken an early lead, "was NINETY-FIFTH YEAH 12 Tax May Remain Reduction in j Levy on Whiskey ! Draws Debate WASHINGTON, Oct. tt.-VPh Sentiment' for ripping from the tax reduction bill its provisions for a cut next July 1 in "luxury" tajces was evidence today as the senate finance committee began work on the house-approved measure. .1 The proposed drop from $9 to $8 a gallon in the tax on liquor came under particular fire.; Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told his colleagues he could see no justi fication for it unless it Was ar gued that the wartime rate was so high it could not be collected in! peace. j Senator Connally (D-Tex) sug gested it., might be well to post pone action on all excise levies until next year when a broader tax bill is considered. The exchange over the excise taxes- was purely informal and it was evident there were few "firm conclusions" In the com mittee on that issue. : t came during a general ex planation of the house bill by Colin Stam, congressional tax ex pert, who argued that bootleg ging would Increase unless the whiskey 'tax was reduced. i Vinson's program, and that ap proved by the house, calls for cuts In luxury taxes which would reduce revenue by $535,000,000 neat year. Vinson Hopes To Balance '48 et WASHINGTON, Oct 13.-ff)-Hope for a balanced federal bud get inrl948 was held out by Sec retary Vinson today in urging the senate finance committee to sub stitute the treasury's tax reduc tion program for the bigger one approved by the house. " Under questioning by Senator Byrl (D-Va), the treasury head said it was estimated the deficit In I the fiscal year ending July 1, 1947, would be S5,000,000,000 to $8,000,000,000. ThatU a "terribly rough esti mate,' Vinson said, but added that if the forecast proved correct the country would be "pretty well along the road" toward a balanced budget in the next year. among the top scorers, with $10,- 643, or 106 per cent of Its quota. Chairman -Ed Majek reported. The automotive and transporta tion divisioned by W. L. Phillips, came across with $6721.30, or 104 per cent The $7521 which the rural division has brought in represents 101 . per cent of its quota, but more is yet to come. Chairman Frank Doerfler said. Utilities had $3 more than their $2500 quota, Chairman Ralph Johnson reported. Far down the list were con tractors and builders who Mon day had paid or pledged $7000 of their $12,000 quota. Strikes with consequent work stoppages on their jobs and no indication as to, when contracts might be pick ed up again were blamed for this by Boy Houck, chairman. Some last day's solicitations may bring , the governmental di vision dose to its goal, but Mon day it had $7633, or 76 per cent of its quota. The industrial divi sion, also affected by strikes, by the paper, mill fire and by the stoppage of war contracts, had $13,704, or 86 per cent General gifts amounted to j$9640, of 96 per cent of the quota. West Sa lem, where many residents said they had paid in Salem, had rais ed $552, or 37 per cent f ..I Luxury Federal Bude PACES Salem, U. S. Ship Stranded On Jagged Rocks Above Victoria i VlCTOUA. B. C Taeadar , Mernlag. Oct. !.--Th S3. A Barrage Queen ef the Faciflc Salvage company was en her way early today U a peint ap proximately 150 miles , up the west coast ef Vancouver island to assist In salvaging ef a II,-000-ton American freighter re ported stranded en jagged rocks Sunday during a heavy fog. American salvage vessels al ready are at the scene and It Is understood here that salvage operations are being directed by U. S. army transport authorities. Health Group Asks Council to Change Of f ice The office of city sanitary in spector would be abolished and In its stead Salem would have an asistant health officer If an ordinance introduced ' Monday night' by the committee on health and sanitation is passed when presented for final reading two weeks hence. Not discussed in the council in recent months, the change Is, sim ilar to one proposed approximate ly two years ago and defeated on personal grounds. It was then said that the move would remove Batty Cooper,, who holds the In spection job and has many friends on the council and throughout the city. At that time the proposal was merely to place the inspector's post junder the authority of the health officer instead of under the authority of the council. N Personalities Involved Members of the health commit tee declared Monday night no personalities were involved in their proposal, but did not deny that jthe recommendation came partially because army sanitary inspectors recently moved In and closed to army personnel eight Salenj restaurants as unsanitary. They; later Intimated that they had found it difficult to' secure action from capital city's two headed health and sanitation set up but agreed to have one of their officers work with Cooper on the Job. Without argument the council passed, 7-5, a resolution instruct ing the mayor and city recorder to sign contracts for the trial in stallation of 450 parking meters. The contract as presented would provide a means of termination of the contract at any time ' within the six-months' trial period. t Zone i Change Kead Proposed ordinance . vacating streets and alleys In Roeedale ad dition! was given first and second readings. Members questioned the. wisdom of going further with the actiorj until the school board's plans jconcernlng establishment of a playground have been clarified. All action to change the zone to permit establishment of a play ground was canceled automatical ly when more- than 69 per cent of tiie neighboring property owners objected, there would be no ob jection to establishment of the playground on a limited permit which would not make the prop erty available for business uses should it later be sold , some of the petitioners have said. (More about: the council's action on page 83-Ycar-Old Man Dies from Injuries c SILVERTON, Oct 15 -(Special) Alex SHalverson, 83, who came here 13 months ago from Canby, fen downstairs at his home, 211 South st, tonight and died before a physician could get there. ,- A widower, he la survived by a niece, Mrs. N, J. Brekke, , Wood burn, jand a nephew, George Hal verson, Seattle. The Ekman Fun eral home Is In charge of arrange ment, ' - - .j . RATNj HITS NEW LOW The: first two weeks of Octo ber, 1945, has seen the least rain, J01 Inches, since the wejRther bu reau came into, operation in Sa lem in 1936. : - i ' ' ' Orecon, Tuesday Morning, October 16. 1945 Soft Coal TalksEnd In Failure i Federal Seizure Of Idle Mines Postponed ! WASHINGTON,; Oct Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach said tonight the government effort to settle the widespread soft coal strike had collapsed but govern ment seizure of idle mines is not in immediate prospect j Schwellenbach told reporters he had adjourned the eight-day con ference of John L. Lewis, repre senting the united mine workers, and mine operators indefinitely. He said he had done this after the operators rejected five separate proposals for settlement The way was left open, however, by the labor secretary to resume negotiations if disputing parties should find some common ground. i President Truman today confer red With the war labor board on methods of ending the strike wave and pp. postwar wage-price policies but the status of the board itself remained uncertain. N conclusions were reached at the White House discussion with the WLB on: 1.1 Whether the board should handle reconversion labor disputes in tie interim between now and conclusion of the November labor-; management conference. 2. J Whether the WLB or some other agency should mold a wag price pattern to cut down the num ber f strikes over pay. 30-Hour Week Urged by State Biuldiiig Men -hour week (five days of six hours each) is urged in a reso lution adopted here Sunday by the Oregon State Building and Con struction council. The short week would Increase efficiency and would provide em ployment for . thousands of men and women leaving war work and the nation's service, it was argued. jVolney Martin, Portland, was re-elected president. John O'Neill, Portland, and Charles Crary, Med ford (formerly of Salem), were re elected secretary and vice presi dent of the organization. i Among the resolutions adopted by the council was one urging re? turn of all prisoners of war to their respective countries without unnecessary delay, while another commended the federal employ ment service and the UJS. army for their action In removing pris oners of war from construction projects. ' Approximately 150 delegates represented various portions of the state at the meeting, the 16th an nual convention of the council. 'Food Duke' Visits, Approves Salem Plant, PI Declaring his approval of the organization and operational methods of the Salem Reid Mur doch plant, Nathanial Cummings, who last summer bought the packing company, announced in Salem on Monday that plans for expansion here are in the making. "Details of that expansion are largely in the hands of Ray A. Yocom, our northwest manager," Cummings said as he prepared to take a plane back to Chigago. Yocom, in turn, said the amount of expansion depended on so many factors production, man power, etc, that he hesitated to make any estimate as to Its extent. Ounmings will go oh tram Chi cago tomorrow to Washington to what may be the final meeting of the food industry's war commit tee, of which he is a vice-chairman. He has made arrangements to go to Europe in a few weeks to fsee for myself what Europe needs in the way of foodstuffs this winter, v Sis ft KMcq , . . . .. . . j - i - " i ' f i' LONDON, Oct. 13jU(AP) Th house of commons beating: off a vigorous attack by the conservative opposition, tonight voted, 258 to 39 to extend the labor government's war time controls for five years. v t... ; Earlier the house had rejected 306 to 183 conservative party amendment limiting the wartime controls to a max imum of two years. u . Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who led the vigorous conservative fight in the absence of former -Prime Minister Winston Churchill who is ill, declared durinsr the debate that the powers asked by I the labor government "are such as no government has ever before asked for in times of peace. .- Eden declared that he did not think any government should ask the house for such powers "to in terfere with the daily life of cit izens' without reference to par liament "after a reasonable in terval.' . ; There were cries of "Vote, vote; ringing through the house after Home Secretary ChuterEde had replied for the government. Victor Raikes speaking for the opposition, charged: Declared 'Reichstag' "If that which is to be done in this bill, were to be carried over everything in this country, this parliamnet would be nothing more than a. reichstag - - and men and women will forget what free dom is." Raikes said the labor govern ment's opposition to the conserva tive amendment was "the most frightful confession of, failure that has ever been put upon statutory papers. When you go to the bottom of it all," he cried, "There is noth ing but a lust for power and the determination to retain power." Eden Asks Eden addressing the house said: "How long are these far reaching powers to remain force . . . !The powers we are asked to give are very wide, they are sweeping. They are such as no government has ever before asked for in times of peace." PFC Denzil D. Miller Freed From Prison WASHINGTON, Oct 15.-(Spec-ial) The ' war department today announced a list of army men recently liberated from Japanese prison camps, including PFC Den zil O. Miller, son of Mrs. Annie L. Miller of route 3, box 166, Sa lem, Ore. antS. BONNET IMPROVED SILVERTON, Oct 15-(SpecIal) Mrs. Hartley Bonney, accidental ly shot Sunday afternoon by a ri fle her 18-year-old son was clean ing at their home near Monitor, was reported " slightly Improved tonight at the Silverton hospital ans Reid Murdoch holdings are only a portion of what Time magazine has described as Cummlngs duchy in the food kingdom. In the past five years he has bought control of Sprague, Warner Sc Co, of western Grocery Co. and of Marshall Canning Co. as well as Reid Murdoch, all of which he has made a part of Consolidated Grocert - corporation. . ?.The food Duke's first visit to Salem will not be his last, he as sured a Statesman representative. Delighted with the climate and industrial prospects, with Yocom's rose garden and the city's beauty as well as with the plant here, he himself established one addi tional tie to the dty. Sunday night from the Marion hotel he talked with his two sons' In Lon don.'1 Both young men are in the army and are serving in Berlin, where civilian, overseas telephone calls are not received, so when they went to London together he called them there. Expansion Price- 5c No. 174 ;- I Demobilization Of Japan Hailed 1 By MacArthur TOKYO, Tuesday; Oct, 16 -UP) Proclaiming the formal comple tion of Japan's demobilization, General MacArthur said today Jt was unique in history and that Japan "no longer reckons as a world power, either large or smalL" The dissolution of the once ar rogant and victorious forces tl the empire was accomplished without jfanfare and right on i;s Oct .15 schedule, only six "weeks after the Japanese surrender in Tokyo bay. v; MacArthur, U a worldwide -broadcast commemorating the event, hailed it as "extraordinar ily difficult and, dangerous," yet , ' accomplished with unprecedented ease and speed and without the firing of a shot Henceforth, he said, Japan's : "path in the future, if it is to sur vive, must be confined to the ways, of peace." , Nearly 4,000,000 soldiers and sailors in Nippon have been quiet- -ly dismissed and sent borne. Some 3,800,000-others overset have been mostly stripped ?ta their weapons, except in a few cases where they are serving al lied purposes, and are being slow ly brought back to Japan. Tfce process will require an estimated three years, due to shortage tl transportation. j, State Attorney; To Handle Case Attorney General George Neii ner, at the request of Governor. Earl Snell, personally will take, charge of the Multnomah county grand jury investigation of the death of Ervin Jones, Negro, who recently was shot and killed by. Bard Purcell, Portland detective -The investigation will get un der way at 10 sun. Wednesday. District Attorney T. B. Handley, Multnomah county, joined in the request to have Neuner present the case to the grand jury. - A coroner's jury In Portland few days ago held the shooting justified. At the time of the slay ing Purcell and another officer, were at Jones' home seeking an other Negro wanted for question ing in connection with a rdurdef case. r ' 3 New Polio .Cases ' Found in Montana , f BILLINGS, Mont, Oct 15 -UP) Three new polio cases were re ported today by Dr. E. M. Fair, Yellowstone county health off!-' cer, who said twerof the patient. are brothers, 2 and 3 years ot age, residing in Laurel The other case is that of a 2-year-old boy who lives west of Bifflngs. .The new cases bring to 43 the total polio illnesses which have occurred in Yellowstone county since outbreak of the epidemic - Weither San Francisco Salem Eurene Portland Seattle . WiHamtt river roRECAST from U.S. weather bu. reau, McNary field, Salem): Tog te clear about noon with scattered clouds In afternoon highest temperature about 90 degrees. St M J - 43 M. in 1 1 ii i ss tf trace i . M M ii .S-4 ft.