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I note that the Portknd council
of churches has become concerned
over the extent of pari mutuel
betting on the dog races held m
Portland. The council urges the
repeal of the law. Its idea is good,
but belated. The bill legalizing
pari mutuels was passed in 1933,
and dog racing has been in vogue
in Portland ever since. In the
' 1937 legislature the late Senator
' Isaak Staples led an unsuccessful
fight to repeal the law. Since then
there has been no real attempt at
repeal. In this .interval of time
the licensees for the racing-pari
mutuel operation have become
well entrenched.
I wonder if the 'good people, of
Portland realize the devices used
by the dog racing licensee to wet
down opposition. The law itself
was cleverly designed to build, up
support for the institution by pro
viding for a sharing of the loot
all over the state from big shows
like the state fair and Pendleton
roundup down to all the county
fairs in the state.
But the licensee does a good
Job of building political security
right at home. By getting permis
sion from the state board to run
a few extra days various com
munity projects are "cut, in" for
a share of the intake. Thus the
Multnomah war finance commit
tee has drawn all or part of its
non-government support from this
source. This appeases local mer
chants who , have " resented the
drain of shopping dollars to the
doggie. . The George E. White
center for soldiers has likewise
been a - ' ( '
(Continued on editorial page)
Yanks Seize
uge
TOKYO, Friday, Oct. IS.-W
-American authorities to Jy
seised more than $36,000,000
worth ' of flittering1 diamonds
belonging to the, official Japan
ese government control agency
. and stored In j thermos bottles
within a trust company safety
' deposit box. .
TOKYO, Thursday, Oct. 18.-W
-The transfer of 350 tons of gold
and silver bullion from the bomb
wrecked Japanese government
mint to the vaults of the bank of
Japan began today under the pro
tection of heavily armed Ameri
can" cavalrymen.
There was no estimate -of the
total value of f the bullion. It
should be in the millions .pt dol-
jars. -Today'! transfer was the
first big scale move to gather to
gether Japanese gold, silver and
platinum holdings in the bank of
Japan's vaults in Tokyo and
Osaka. :
' The treasure will be held pend
ing instructions from Washington
for its disposition.
Small Loan Companies
Forbidden Extra Fees
- Attorney General George Neu
ner ruled Wednesday thajsmall
' loan companies are forbidden
fiom collecting extra fees fa mak
ing loans, such as mortgage fees,
when the property is used for
collateral. ,1 i '
'.The opinion was requested by
Ai A.- Rogers, state superintend
ent of banks.. Neuner also .held
that when an out of state resi
dent applies for a loan in Ore
gon the Oregon laws apply.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
Wve tried to rau them
right but tht?rt still just a
couple of UttU itmkeru"
Diamond
Cache in Japan
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Salemi,
Vanguard of Great
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NEW YORK, Oct. 17 Carriers tie 'up for navy day celebration. All
navy blimp flies over the aircraft carrier Enterprise (left) and
the 10,000 ton light carrier Monjferey (right) as ithey tie up to J
Lewis Asks
if CeaD allk(S)ifl4
Den Saadldlcini Cps
WASHINGTON, Oct. nAJPhJohn U Lewii toda
216,000 striking soft coal miners
and end the growing threat to basic reconversion indust ries.
The sudden! call for a halt-at least a temporary J one to
stoppages in more than-1000 mines caught thebperaWs by
surprise. " ' ;
They quickly expressed great satisfaction, promised to co
operate fully in restoring coal
production,
and pledged there
would be no retaliation against the
strikers.
Secretary lof Labor Schwellen-
bach, whose own efforts at settle
ment collapsed Monday night, de
clared himself both "delishted'
and, hopeful; that Lewis action
would have j "a steadying effect
throughout Industry generally."
No detailed explanation of Lew
is' decision to end the strike was
given beyond a UMW spokesman's
statement that the step was taken
in the public Interest. 1 1 .
Some persons in touch with the
situation thought these factors
might have played a part:
1. Possible concern on the part
of the UMW: leadership over pub
lic reaction to the strike.
2. A protracted strike of miners
over an issue not involving any
wage increase for them might not
be continuously popular with
them.
Nip Companies
To Sell Stocks
1 f
. TOKYO, Oct lT-KWapan's
four great industrial companies
with their tight grip on the na
tionjs economic and political life
already an avowed target of UJS.
occupation policy have decided
to offer all of their stock at pub
lic sale, the newspaper Yomiuri
Hochi said today adding that
this "is not enough."
State ownership of such con
cerns the J Mitsui, Mitsubishi,
Sumitomo and Yasuda companies
is the only solution to their
entrenched grip on Japanese
wealth and I government, the
newspaper commented.
Banquet Honors" Cant.
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On Release From Service
CAMP ADAIR, Oct -(Special)
Nearly 300 Ninth service com
mand officers and their wives
paid, homagej to Capt Douglas
McKay tonight on the eve of the
captain's honorable discharge from
active service. I .
A banquet in his honor was held
at the officers' mess, arranged
under the chairmanship of Ma.
H. P.. Dowd, deputy director of
supply, of Corpus Chris tl, . Tex.
Music and dancing followed the
dinner. " - y
' High tributewas voiced for tiie
Salem man's long record of active
and able service In the army. He
will be entitled in doff his uniform
tomorrow. The captain's most re
cent service has been under CoL
Lewis S. Norman, post comman-
dcr.
Oregon. Thursday Morning. October IS. 1945
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io return to work by
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Uiiibn
MiiiimumW
Lifted by WLB
I WASHINGTON, j Oct. 17 --()-The
war labor board today raised
the- minimum tjourly rate for all
experienced employees lot the
Western Union Telegraph com
pany to 55 cents, j; j I
? The order did not apply in the
metropolitan New York or. Co foot
and bicycle messengers. For these
messengers the- board ordered a
starting rate of AS, cents Jan hour
and 50 cents after; 10 days. The
messengers now receive 10 cents
at the start. , . ' If ...
I The average increase! spread
over all the employes' in the com
pany would amount to Lucent.
I Approximately 8400 messengers
receive less than 55 cents jan hour.
Increases averaging about S cents
hourly would be necessary to
raise foot and bicycle messengers
45 cents an hour. H
President Asks Aid of
New World Fod Croup
I QUEBEC, Oct f H-C'ry-Presi.
ent Truman asked the newly
created food and agriculture-or
ganlzation today to set an exam-
pie of 'world cooperation In at
tacking the problem of freeing
thillions from hunger. I f'
I In a message read before the
opening conference of the FAO,
the president said! the agency of
fered the United Nations ami chance
to ."begin to cultivate, if not yet
to gather, the fruits of
Victory"
over their axis enemies.
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S McKay, who goes to
Barnes
General hospital at Vancouver on
Thursday for formal separation
from the army, served as lieu
tenant in the 91st ! division during
world war I and was Wounded
fa action. On Oct) 31, 1942, leav
fust his automobile aeen&v in Sa
tern and his position as State sen
ator, he re-entered the service as
I captain and has served at Ft
Lewis and at Camp Adair; prin
Cipally as director of - military
training, but at various times has
also been adjutant, director, of
personnel and public relations of
ficer.'' ;"v,'-v. : . ' f ! -, .. :
I A former mayor of Salem, the
Officer has been on military leave
from the state senate and from
Chairmanship of the Willamette
galley project committee.
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pier in New York harbor today. They were the fisrt major warships
of; the fleet to arrive to take part in the navy day celebration here
October 27. (AP Wtrephoto)
Solons Seek
11 - -
To Cut Budget
By One-Tliird
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IWASHINGTON, Oct 17 -iJP)
Congress set out today to cut gov
ernment spending this year by al
most one-third.
Th first action of such magni
tude In many years was initiated
byjthe house appropriations cora
raittee, acting on President Tru
man's reccommendations with
some ideas of its own thrown in.
The committee reported to the
houee a bill to cancel $52,453,535,
27 in previously authorized
spending for this fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1946.
jThere had been $17,0,000,000.
000 made available for this 12
months, voted at a time when the
nation was fighting a war on two
fronts.
This recapturing of funds does
not mean a tax cut however,
Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) was
quick to point out He said it sim
ply means slowing down thesrate
atwhich the national debt is pil
ing up. . .
Krug Offered
Movie Position
HOLLYWOOD, Oct 17. -()-
Busy with efforts to end the "ex
tremely complicated' seven
mpnths motion picture strike,
Erjc Johnston, head of the Mo
tion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors of America, announced
today that J. A. Krug, chairman
of j the war production board, has
been offered a $75,000 Job as
president of an affiliated film or
ganization.
Krug, who is in Los Angeles
today, was not immediately avail
able for comment He has a week,
Johnston said, to accept the prof -erjred
position as head of the Mo
tion Picture Producers associa
tion, one of two film organiza
tions. Johnston heads the other
at a $100,000 salary.
Rjts. Kayser to
Head Committee
;The appointment of Mrs. Hen
ry (Bessie) Kayser as chairman of
the women's division" of the Ma
rion county war finance commit'
tee was announced Wednesday by
Douglas Yeater, general chair
man. -.-;
Mrs. Kayser, who was chairman
of the downtown women workers
in the Seventh War Loan, per
formed first public duties of her
nw task Tuesday when she pre
sided at a meeting of 40 Marion
and Polk county war bond sales
women who heard Mrs."Pat
CfBrienv wife of the, actor and
national war finance representa-
uye, cuscuss pians ior vac -vic
tory" or rTharucsgiving , Loan'
scheduled for November (see
picture on women's page).
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Kaydets Given
Cliance to Quit
And Be Drafted
- Washington, Oct 17
The War department announced
tonight that 38,000 volunteer
army air forces aviation cadets
are peine given the option of
discharge. ?
Because most of the volnn
teerfi are youths who sicned bp
before reaching their 18th
birthday or before their draft
boards tapped them, air forces
officers said It is likely that
those who take advantage of
the releaso provision will be
drafted.
822,000 Bid
Wilis Contract
AtSFair grounds
First contract for postwar pav
ing at the Oregon state fair
grounds was awarded Wednesday
to WfuTen Northwest company.
For; $22,000 the company, which
the past summer handled Salem's
major street paving contract, will
pave ithe road leading from the
Silver-ton road gate to the barns,
widen paving in front of the ad
ministration building, pave the
area between the stadium and the
livestock barn and the area in
the machinery building and will
resurface much of the midway
and the strip between the grand
stand! and the racetrack.
This is only the first of the
paving contracts at the fair
grounds to be let this winter, Leo
Spitzbart, fair manager, said
Wednesday. The state received
$36,000 in federal funds to repair
paving damages wrought at the
grounds while "the army' was in
occupation' there, he added Dur
ing a large portion of the war
troops occupied some of the buil
dings! at the fairgrounds, which
served as headquarters for army
men 'assigned to the defense of
the Oregon coast, t '
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rjlTLElt DTJUNG HAPPY MOMENT Adolf Hitler . (center) smiles as he sits with RelchsmarshaJl
Herman Goerinr (left, facing camera), and his girl friend, Eva Brann (right) Mrs. Goering (back
i to camera, left) and ether unidentified persons at an outdoor affair. Time and place ef the! occasion
, are unknown. Photo is said to have been found: by a soldier of the French eclere division la a
drawer la the Fuehrer's Berchiesgadea heme last May. It became available tn the United States
on October 17. (AP WlrephoU)
U. S;ffied
Policy
Clash Due
Balkan, Nippon
Conflicts Bases
Of Coming Crisis
I By John M. Hightower
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 -VPt-
Conflicts between the United
States and - Russia over Balkan
governments and Japan are ap
proaching a new period of crisis.
This developed today from dis
closures made by Secretary of
State Byrnes at a news confer
ence.' r :);
The outcome of the conflicts is
considered certain to have a vital
influence on the future of American-Soviet
relations.
In respect to Japan, Byrnes dis
closed that Russia is standing pat
on its demand that an allied con
trol council should take over
supreme authority there from
General Douglas MacArthur. As
a result it is possible that Russia
will refuse to send a representa
tive to the first meeting of toe
American-sponsored far eastern
advisory commission here next
Tuesday.
On Balkan conflicts the central
problem is whether the United
States and England too will
recognize Soviet supported- gov
ernments in Romania and Bul
garia, i which they have thus far
declined to do. j
Cut in Army
Points to Less
Than 60 Seen
WASHINGTON, Oct 17
Senators heard! today that 'the
minimum total j! for release from
the army may be cut below CO
points in December.
Brig. Gen. R. W. Berry, deputy
personnel chief j of the war de
partment offered this testimony
before the senate military affairs
committee as It checked upon
progress of the big job of return
ing millions of fighting men to
civilian status, j
' Amid a barrage of critical ques
tions and "pages; of estimates, the
general stressed these points:
Daily releases from the army
reached a peak of 44,000 last week.
Men and women with two years
service or more cannot hope to
get out on that basis alone before
March 20 next !
' Voluntary enlistments under
the new law designed to spur
such enlistments have reached
1000 a day. j
Mac to Speak
To Congfess
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 -(ff)
The house unanimously approved
today arrangements for a senate
house meeting to hear General
Douglas MacArthur whenever he
can pay a visit to Washington.
Some legislators said they ex
pected MacArthur to be in Wash
ington within two weeks, but
others said the visit might not
take place for six months.
The senate approved a resolu
tion by Rep. Hays (D-Ark) ar
ranging for senate and house to
receive the general. The senate
had previously (passed a resolu
rtion inviting him to speak.
Hitler Been Doing Since May!
to
DtWJesS Mis
PORTLAND, Orje, Oct. 17-(AP) The AF& lumber
workers today declared all ClO-produced lumber was "hot
and asked affiliated luilding tradesmen to refus to handle
it as the AFL strike committee redoubled efforts to shut
down the industry in the northwest. i 1
The AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union has or
dered its men, out on strike for 24 days, to check delivery ef
all hotf lumber and picket building projects using it. Al
lied AFL groups, including the sailors union of the Pacific,
have Joined to thwart sea and land: movement and use ef
Congress Told
0f Devastating
A-Bomb Raids
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -(ff)
Congress 'was told today that 40,
OOO.OOOAmericans coulq be kill
ed in one overnight atomic raid
if there is "one false move in in
ternational diplomacy."
Dr. H. J. Curtis, one o: the men
who helped make the atom bomb,
called for a "miracle" in inter
national relations to prevent a
"war toojhorrible to contemplate."
He said the impelling motives ' for
a miraculous improvement in di
plomacy f'should be just las strong
as those which moved us to create
the atorn bomb." f
Dr. Curtis testified ajt a joint
senate military-commerce sub
committee hearing on behalf of
the association of Oak Ridge sci
entists. The hearings are: on a
proposed national science I foun
dation tc explore the atom and
other scientific developments.?
Another witness, Dr. i. R. Op
penhein.er of the New "Mexico
atomic laboratories, testified' "I
am afraid it is" when asked if it
was true! that a single night's raid
on America could kill 40,000,000
persons in congested cities, j
PeronOutpf
Prison. taM!
To Argentines
Juan Feron, ousted as vice presi
dent and minister of war eight
days ao, returned from prison
tonight and received a j thunder
ous ovation from thousands jam
med in the Plaza Mayo! in front
of government house to hear him
speak. j '
Earlier in the evening the
crowd which had been! notified
Peron would speak, became im
patient when Argentina's "strong
man" was, late in appearing and
stoned government house and at
temped to break down the doors
leading to the navy ministry.!
President 1 Edelmiro Farrell,
who introduced Peron to the
cheering multitude, said: "As you
have demanded, the government
will not deliver its power to the
supreme court," a demand voiced
by some
country's
crisis.
political groups in the
current government
Farrell said civilian cabinet.
announced earlier by Attorney
General Juan Alvarez, "lacked
foundation."
GREEK CRISIS ENDS
ATHENS, Oct. 17. -H Arch,
bishop Pamaskinos, regent j of
Greece, ended the prolonged cabi
net crisis today by taking; over the
government personally as provis
ional president
such lumber. i- . , v
Operators have been using CIO
lumber; to break the AFL strike,
aimed at a. $1.10 hourly minimum
wage, AFL. officials asserted. Be
fore today the AFL had described
"hot" lumber only as "that prtw
duced behind our imaginary pick
et line."
AFL I carpenters in the Grays
Harbor Waslu, district council
and in Vancouver. Washv today
were among unions refusing to
touch "hot" lumben In Aberdeen,
pickets set- out to riursue every
truck carrying CIO lumber and
prevent unloading, j
Superior Judge JTj fi. Phillips
at Aberdeen made permanent a
temporary injunction to restrain
picketing, issued two weeks ago,
at the behest of the Internation
al Woodworkers of America
(CIO). I
Picket lines remained today
before Coos Bay, Ore, lumber
and logging companies, both CIO
operated. The logging firm and
Port Orford cedar null were op
erating I without AFL inspectors,
which balked at pickets yester
day. The lumber .company men,
unable to produce without inspec
tors, appealed to employers to
have AFL pickets removed.
Power Shut-off
Threatened
In Michigan
LANSING, Mich., Oct 17-MV
Much oif industrial Michigan faced
a crisis tonight in a threatened
strike oif utility workers and Gov.
Harry F. Kelly ordered state po
lice and state troops on the alert.
Representatives of the CIO's
state Utility workers council,
which previously had set a 5 p.m.
deadline for a strike to begin in
plants Of the Consumers Power
company, jleft a meeting an hour
later without a final verdict.
At Grand Rapids, William Wen
zel, president of local 107, said bo
had received instruction from the
state council to walk out before t
ajn, Thursday.
The Strike would cut off elec
tricity In almost all Michigan's
major cities outside Detroit and
would affect 2,000,000 residents.
Consumers Power also services
gas but union officials said only
electricity would ' be affected at
the start of a walkout
Publisher to
Xct as Jiidfife
SILVERTON, Oct 17-( Special)
John T. Hoblitt, publisher of the
Silverton Appeal-Tribune, was
named temporary police judge at
a . special meeting of the city
council here' tonight He succeeds'
Bert Terry, who died last week.
The council took advantage of
the extra meeting to make two
planning - commission appoint--ments.
It returned C B. Anders,
son to the commission which he
left last year when he went to
Stayton to take over the wartime
management of the bank there,
and.it appointed L R Alfred to
succeed Lloyd Larson, who. has -resigned
from the j commission. '
, An ordinance levying a JO-cent
monthly tax on city water users
for purchase , of fire equipment
was passed.
Convict Escapes
From Prison Gang
Frank V. Terralei S3, alias John
Ferrele, escaped from a prison
gun gang sometime Wednesday
afternoon, state police reported
today. '. ' '
. Terrale, who also Is known by
other aliases such as Frank Cel
Iupica, Tony . CelAipica or An
thony. Cellupica, was committed
to the penitentiary from Mult
nomah county In 1939 after con
viction on a chargcj of assault and
robbery while armed wXh a dan
gerous weapon.
The man was described as 5
5 tall, weighing . 150 pounds, j
dark complexion, brown eyes and
black hair.
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