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G G-DGITADGUSlG NINETY-nrTH YEAR - 20 PAGES J - Salnu Oron. Sunday Morning. October 21. 1945 Pric 5c No. 179 (ffi))' 1 Q D 0 Jl fi 1 1 f?M (T bMay iifKh t Lbrisoir f W Week Appeal j ' - U-IJv3-i ; By John F. Chester on the 45-hour week with over- dustry with a strike as an al ! I W 1 Director for Reconversion, John ,vW. Snyder, says that either the . worker must get more money or his standard of living will de cline. This is a debatable propo4 sition, at least For if prices of - goods and services declined, his v standard of living might rise even if his wages remain stationary However, I am not going to argue th point I want to raise the : question: What do the economists " and publicists and labor leaders and officeholders mean when they refer living?" to the "standard of . r The answer, is simple. They mean that a rising standard of living means more radios, more food; more washing machines, more ice cream cones, more bath rooms, more aspirin,' more cus- tume jewelry, more automobiles, more DDT, more Easter bonnets, - more linoleum on floors, or rugs, ' more dentures, , more lipstick, ' more fur coats, more movies. more electric ranges and refrige rators, more jwrist watches One political campaign reputedly was waged with slogans of "two chick ens in every !pot"- and "two cars in every, garage. All these! are things. Jn popular conception the staridaT of living to determined by anjrccumula tion of things. Its yardstick is the radio or the automobile' or the fur coat But are things the only or the best measure of a living standard? iThe lesson , of . religion and of moral philosophy teaches otherwise: "Man's life consisteth not in the multitude of things which he possesseth.' T The gadgets of modern living, the abundance of leisure and of entertainments do i they make for human happiness? The sta tistics of Continued n editorial page) R. L. Elf strom To Move Firm, To New Site . Robert I Elfstrom, paint deal er, stated Saturday that his firm will occupy the present Hamilton Furniture location on Court si as soon, as the furniture com pany moves to Its new quarters on Front st ' - Improvements in the Court street building will cost In ex ' cess of $25,000, Elfstrom said, and will include a complete -new type of front with 15-foot glass; win dows, glass doors, and a new type marquis. Complete new elevators, new stairs and new plumbing will be put in. : ! 1 Elfstrom stated that in addi Man to the present lines he car ries, the store will have a com plete furniture and drapery de- . partment Klari Cross Burns Again i. ATLANTA, Oct 20 -(P)- fThe Ku Klux Klan, claiming a mem bership of more than zO.000 in Georgia, is burning its fiery cross again and; stirring up. new argu ment over; the order born in re construction days. I ' A huge cross which Klan lead era said was visible 60 miles way was lighted atop historic ' Stone mountain a few nights; ago. Cross i burning' was halted by ' the Georgia Klan during the war, pr. Samuel Green, the. grand dragon, said, because it was nec essary' "tht all factions unite to win the war." ' i? Animal Cracltcrs . By AREN GOODRICH f John i forever bringing ' ' l.zztt tcsis hind cl cwfcti? : . By John F. Chester Associated Press Business Editor DETROIT, Mich., Oct 20-r-A 45-hour work week for the nation was proposed by C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors, shortly after he returned from a conference with Presi dent Truman. i. Wilson .said he was called to Washington for a conference with Truman and other high government officials at a time . when the Detroit labor situation was spotlighting the wage ques tion throughout the country, ! Wilson head of the largest op erating corporation in the. Unit ed Slates, held a press confer ence in the Book-Cadillac hotel a few minutes after he flew in from Washington. He did not specifically link . his proposal with his conferences in Wash ington but said his talk with the president had been "very satis factory," - f'.l i Wilson s argument . was that high production was the only answer j to the nation's economic ills, but that a road block ex isted in the form of national leg islation for a national 40-hour "week. ! He suggested that a flat five to eight per cent wage increase Tanks, Artillery Aid Rebels in I By G. ALLEN CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct.l 20P-Violent fighting broke out in the streets of Caracas tonight' and the revolutionary Junta declared it -was using tanks l and artillery against government forces.' . . ' :'. I. 1. ' 'fpx . .-j,;' (Radio San Cristobal in .western Venezuela said President Isaias Medina Y Angarita had been reinstated in Caracas, after government cavalry had cleared revolutionary forces from Mira flores palace. --ir....';': , The broadcast said its informa tion came from radio national, in the hands of antievolutionists in Caracas.) ' ' , The revolutionary Junta warned citizens to remain indoors. . -i Earlier the revolutionists had announced seizure of the country's WASHINGTON, Oct Z9.-VP Ambassador Frank Corrigan re ported from Caracas that no Americans had been injured In the Venezuelan fighting ap to 4 p. m. as far as could be learned the state department said to- main arsenal, and declared they had enough power to crush anti- revolutionary forces reported marching upon Caracas, the" capi tal. r . j (Radio i San Cristobal, still in the hands of forces loyal to Presi dent Isaias Medina Y Angarita, announced that: loyalist troops still were fighting revolutionists "street by street and house by house in Caracas. The broadcast was -heard in Bogota.) ' Dachau Nazis i To Face Trial WIESBADEN, Germany, Oct 20 --Germans accused of atroci ties at the notorious Dachau con centration camp will be placed on trial before an American military court at the camp about Nov. 15, it was announced today. It will mark the first time that atrocities against Germans will be a factor in an American court r CoL Leon Jaworski, Houston, Texv in charge of the war crimes trial board, said the 40 to 50 de fendants include doctors charged with using Jews and others las guinea pigs in medical i experi ments. . . i Law Enforcement Meet Slated Oct. 30 ; The federal bureau of investi gation will hold - a law enforce ment conference in one of the cir cuit court rooms of the ; Marion county courthouse Tuesday night October 30. This is one of a series of v such i conferences '". held twice each year . throughout the . state, Special -Agent J. E. Thornton said Saturday; announdng' plans for the meetings of local law enforce ment officers. . -j ,; - ' Special Agent Ralph C. Vogel will talk on ."The Detection i of Deception",' and Special' ' Agent Howard B. Pattersoa "Will "handle the subject of auto thefts and hit and-run drivers, with- particular emphasis on use of laboratory aids in connection with these invest! gatlons, ;.r'V:1 f ' on the 45-hour week with over time pay thereafter would give the worker approximately the same take home pay that unions are demanding ; under the 52 hours wage for 40 hours work. Wilson's organization has been S .1 r .Charles E, Wilson picked as the target ; for the United Automobile Workers-CIO demand for a 30 per cent, wage increase in the ' automobile in STEWART Farben Plants In Germany WASHINGTON,- Oct 20-(JPh The United States army has mov ed in on I. G. Farben, giant Ger man chemical and munitions cor poration; "to forever destroy its stranglehold on German industry and end its war-making power. , Most of its known plants in the American military zone have been seized, the war department announced today. Three of its munitions plants i; already j have been, ordered blown up, the American military government disclosed in Berlin. I ' The war department said an other early step!; will be a pro posal that the allied control coun cil for Germany outlaw j cartel arrangements in general to'brea"k up the world-wide combine set up by Farben. ty T ZHUKOV DECLINES WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 Marshal Georgi Zhukov, com- mander ; of Russian occupation forces in Germany has postponed his -visit to the United States until next year. : ' 1 BELGIUM TO GET GOODS WASHINGTON, Oct 20.-P)- The United States will turn, over to Belgium under lend-lease $45,- 000,000 worth or surplus army goods needed there . for ? civilian use, the state department an nounced. - ( Oregon Scho ol Program Tops Oregon's school: district'postwar construction program, ta aggre gate! in excess of $20,000,000, is how being formulated. Rex Put ham, state superintendent of pub lic instruction, reported Saturday, f School district sinking funds, for construction purposes, now to tal $9,818,500. while budget funds have been authorized for $1,187, 000. .These figures do not Include any, bonds already, issued or .to be issued, by school districts. . i Salem has 'the largest budget allocation for construction ;; with $108,000 reported. Tillamook is next wiuV$80,00Ov - ; . ! ; Largest sinking rtnid, aggregat ing $5,000,000, has been-reported by the Portland school district The t. Portland program - includes construction of at least one new' high school building and a num ber of elementary , grade struc tures. There already is available more than ' $1,000,000 for . con struction operations in. the ' Port Venezuela Army dustry- with a ternative. f "Personally I am afraid the proper formula will - not be reached in tune," he said, "and I am afraid that .a strike will be the answer.' "If we have to give 30 per cent increase in wages without an increase in selling price. General Motors will run out of cash and we'll Just have to shut down," said Wilson. "A lot of people seem to think that if you cut the week down from 48 or 45 hours to -40, you employ -more people. That isn't so in our business. We have only certain places ; a man can work, work stations, machine tools for him to work on, or desks in an office. If he works five days a week, the plant is just Idle on Saturday. . , f. "There is no way to hire an other 20 per cent of people and have them come in Saturday only. "There will be, more people employed in this country at good Jobs, if we work more than 40 hours. At 30 there will be still fewer people employed. If we went to 20 we would all I starve and that is independent iof how much you pay and how i you juggle the money. Senators Ask Priority for Military Issue WASHINGTON, Oct 20 .-(JP) Three republican senators de manded today that congress give- right of way to the controversial proposal for! a single armed forces department. ' -..'-" ' i "Until that question is decided. then, the problems of peace treat ies : and postwar armed forces must be delayed," said Senator Austin (R-Vt), senior minority member of the senate military af fairs committee. Similar views were expressed by Senators Guraey (R-SD) and Revercomb (R-WVa) ' in separate interviews. Here is a summary of their ideas::; 1 1. Agreement upon formal peace treaties will be delayed until oth er nations know about postwar plans for the armed forces of the United States. 2. Congress cannot act intelligently- upon plans or .appropria tlons for these postwar armed forces until national defense poli cies have been Settled. 3. These defense plans will hinge upon the proposal for a single department continuation of the present separate army and navy departments, or possible addition of a third, the air forces. Qkinawa Ships ToBc Salvaged PEARL HARBOR, Oct 20 -UP) Fleet headquarters announced to day that 70 per cent of the 184 navy and merchant marine vessels beached during the disastrous Okinawa typhoon Oct 9-10 may be salvaged within six weeks. ; Despite ' unfavorable weather, 52 shps. including Liberty ships, landing and repair ships, .minor combat ships, dredges, tugs and floating dry , docks, have been floated from the treacherous reefs bordering the island. Construction $20,000,000 land school district The Portland funds; were approved by the vot ers at the last election. : i Second largest ' amount , $800,- 000, was reported by the Eugene school district This represents sinkintf fund' for postwar activi ties. An . additional: $215,000 has been set aside in the Eugene school district budget The Astoria chdor -district has provided sinking fund of $300,000, vWhiie Bend has a fund of $270,000. - Other substantial sinking funds Include:" v. :K -'"vr - : Corvallis $125,000; Grants Pass $250jQ(A Gresham $100,000, Hills boro $163,000,:: Klamath VFalls $400JX)0. ' Klamath, - rails. , unit $250,000. .Ja- Grande , $125,000, Lebanon $45,000, Kilwauki un ion high school $100,000,' Oregon City $225,000, Pendleton $105- 000, Parkrose $100,000, Roseburg $150,000, Salem - $540J00, St Helens $120,000 and Toledo" unit ' $125 0ff0L""'JWAf''"'5'' SlOll Reinstatement of Man Said Threat To Closed Shop WASHINGTON, Oct 20.-WPV-A dedsion which the AFL predicted would destroy the union shop sys- j tem was announced today by the m-it at a press conference in re national labor relations j board, sponse to a direct question wheth which ordered a sawmill worker er Emperor Hirohito might pof reinstatecr. - -. . . . t , , r tihl trimY - . ,r Ward Wilmarth, discharged un- der a contract requiring all em ployes to belong to the AFL lum ber and sawmill workers union, was ordered by the NLBR to be reinstated by Portland lumber mills. The firm also was instruct ed to compensate Wilmarth for pay lost since his discharge, Aug. 21, 1944 The AFL had asked the com pany to discharge Wilmarth 'be cause he acted as observer for the CIO international woodwork ers of America in a collective bar gaining election. The AFL said two problems would result from his reinstate ment: (1) if the AFL refuses him, non-member would be working in a closed shop plant (2) To prevent similar incidents, a com pany would have to investigate union decisions a power employ ers do not have. We, will fight this decision in all the higher-courts, for it would destroy the union shop clause in all our contracts if allowed to stand," declared Kenneth Davis, executive' secretary of the AFL northwestern council, lumber and sawmill workers. "As a first step, the case will be -appealed to the circuit court of appeals." Military Fills Cabinet Posts Iii Argentina ! . . f BUENOS AIRES, Oct 20-(ff- President Edelmiro Farrell today appointed Gen. Juan Pistarini as Argentina's vice-president and filled four cabinet posts with men regarded as sympathizers with the policies of the nation's "strong man" Col: Juan Peron. I The new cabinet members are CoL Bartolome Descalzo, minister of the interior; CoL Amara Ava los, minister of .finance; Jose Asti gueta, minister 'of justice and edu cation, and Pedro Marotta, mini ster of agriculture. At the same time it was an nounced that War Minister Gen. Jose. Humberto Sosa Molina had placed Gen. Felipe Urdampilleta in command of the Campo de shown itself as a great factor in the country's precarious politics. Ground Forces Are Moving Out j Of Camp Adair CAMP ADAIR, Oct' 20(Spe rial) Inactivation of army ground forces replacement depot number 4 continued apace today, and military officials said: no an nouncement has j been received other nations which have signed from the war department as to the document! future plans for Camp Adair. While Russia has approved ra The comment followed dis- tification at Moscow, it has not closure that SenJWajne Morse completed the process by deposit had - telegraphed Salem interests ing the formal documents at the that the war department advised state department at Washington. him of "some shifting of troops at Camp Adair but now a new-program for, the camp is being de veloped, at least for the present" It is known some efforts have been underway tot interest manu facturers in utilizing the facilities here in event " the military leaves' entirely. There has been' no in dication of the withdrawal of the 8th service command forces, civ- ilian help or prisoners of war. Salem's War . Chest 98 Full Late firoresfV for the t , Salem United War Chest ahowed Satur- or $98,102-33 had been raised and the raising of the full $10089 would -depend On the persistence or me -workers. - Six of the 12 divisions were, re ported over the ' top, with the women's division at the head of the -list . with 131 percent Other Jk AM asi iMintnif 4Vat iim ssub mercantile 111. professioaal 10T.I and rural icx,"",Tv - fRoyal House' iMav Answer For Atrocities By James Llndsley TOKYO, Sunday, Oct 21 -UP) Not even "members of the im perial household" will be immune from possible prosecution for war milt Col. !Alva C Carrvntpr. General MacArthur's Wal offi- Cef, said today. He made the sienificant com- Carpenter added that the- mik- ado has not peen investigated as an individual; but emphasized if examlnatiotii of state papers lead a trail to the imperial household it will be followed regardless- of where it leads. . t ' Whether the emperor might be tried has been an international question. Australia's prime min ister voiced a demand soon after Japan's surrender ' that Hirohito be tried as a war criminal. Carpen t e r ; declined to say whether any J members of the present cabinet of Premier Kijuro Shidehara are on the giant list of suspects. : f Strikers Face Cancellation Of Contracts COOS BAY; Ore., Oct 2fHP) A eroun of i lumber oDerators warned the striking AFL lumber I and sawmill workers today that unless their strike ends by Oct 26 their working: contracts will be cancelled. .'!.-- - The Oregon coats operators, who represent Gardiner Lumber Co. I Gardiner; E. K. Wood Lumber jCo ' Reedsport; Irwin & Lyons, North Bend; Moore Mill and Lumber, Band on: and McKinley Lumber Co McKinley, sent the formal ! warning to the AFL Coos Bay area district council. The action would affect only those firms. The operators said the firms must be notified of .a strike end by Oct 26,1 and work must be resumed by Oct 29. The letter! addressed to P. J. Cruickshank, secretary of the dis trict council, claimed the strike violated the working agreement, and contended that under con tract termsemployers have the right to sue for damages or can cel the entire agreement The letter declared that opera- ; tors were ready to resume negotia tions on wage demands. The union business agent said ; he would reply shortly. If ipnf K'mTfll'ri Okehs Charter WASHINGTON, Oct Great Britain today completed ratification on the United Na tions charter, leaving only Rus sia among the big five to act The charter requires ratifica tion by the United States, Rus sia, Britain, France, and China, which are the permanent mem bers of the projected world secur ity council, and by 24 of the 46 Many Jobs Open in Low Wage Brackets, Young Men Desired Most of the thousands of Job openings In Oregon are in the lower wage brackets, the Oregon post war, development and read justment commission reported to Governor Earl Snell Saturday. In many cases,! they said, industries are restricting their new em ployes to a -43 year age limit and women, are not being considered. The report; said a substantial demand prevails ; for competent workers in , the in the counties but the hotwinr shortage i emem-t'tn-siatecoimTuinltiesJ that workers cannot nddweH ings to rent and are adverse to purchasing homes at inflated val uations.. Tor this reason the re port . said, many, of : the workers Of Oregon's 24 counties the fonly uncspkryment loadcxixtsv Washington 13. OSC . Oregon 26. WSC 13. ' S. Calif. 2. C Pacific . Texas 34, Arkansas 7. . r--i Idaho 44. Montana 0. . i Great Lakes 37. Marquette 17, -; Tufts 70. Boston 0. ; Columbia SI, Colgate 7. " Pena State , BuckneU 7. Army 65, Melville Baideis 13. Holy Cross S3. Brown 0. Illinois T. Wisconsin 7 (tie). , Minnestota 90, Northwestern 7. Purdue 15. Ohio State 13. Notre Dame 39, Pittsburgh t. Michigan State 27. Wayne 7. Missouri 41. Kansas State 7. Indiana 52, Iowa 20. Louisiana .State 32. Georgia 0. Alabama 25, Tennessee 7. VirsinU Tech 21. Maryland 11 Aubum 20, Tulane U. Iowa State 27, Nebraska 7. ' Oklahoma 39. Kansas 7. Tulsa 40. Nevada O. VanderbUt 19, Kentucky 0. Oklahoma A &c M 46, Utah I. Colorado 31, Colorado College C. Utah State 13. Colorado A & M 0. Southern Methodist tl. Rice 18. - Texas Christian 13. Texas A St M IS. New York Univ. 47, City College 0. Brooklyn 13, Massachusetts State 7. Indonese Ask Truman's Aid In Revolution BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 2H)- Fighting flared anew in Batavia tonight with at least 13 persons killed as the Indonsian leader, Soe karno, called on President Truman to stop the Dutch from using A merican equipment to put down the independence movement The new clash came after three days of comparative quiet in the capital. The dead were all In donesians., Two British Indian troops were wounded. , i The foreign minister of the "Re public," in a message to U.S. Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes, said his government had the "en thusiastic support of the entire population in all parts of Indone sia" and added "the whole civil administration is in Indonesian hands." Soebardjo's message to Byrnes asked that .the Indonesian native government be represented at the meeting to the far eastern advisory commission of the United Nations scheduled to he hel in,, Washing ton later this month. Et. Van Cleave 1 4 Killed in Crash Lt David Van Cleave, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Van Cleave, was one of 13 killed in an air plane crash in Texas Friday. The parents have been notified by the war department A member of the army air corps. Lieutenant Van Cleave is the second of his family to be a casualty of World war II. His brother, Merrill Van Cleave, was a member of the crew of the submarine Pickerel which has not been heard from since June, 1943. The navy declared Merrill Van Cleave dead as of August 1945, and notified his parents. The body will be brought to Salem to the W. T. Rigdon mort uary some time this week; Industrial Accident Rate at Record Low 1 A four-year record was estab lished October 4 when the week ly report of the state industrial accident commission disclosed no fatalities of employes of firms un der the state workmens compensa tion law for two successive weeks. During the first 40 weeks of 1945 the total fatalities reported to the commission showed a reduction of IS fatalities when compared with those for the corresponding per ied In 1944. . ! at the present time, in Multno mah and Clackamas counties, the report continued. The unemploy ment in Clackamas county is due to the large number of residents who previously were on the pay rolls of the shipyards In Portland and Vancouver, Wash. The report said . that during the past 100 days about 31,000 covered work ers have vanished from the pay rolls. . : I' -i- v - f : tXi-vi,. Commission members ' reported optimism in connection with the elimination of restriction on, eelthe goverri the United structkMtv It la our. opinion the report averred, fthat Oregon bow; races-. me most-prosperous-con struction, period in its history, provided the - current strikes in the lumber industry are settled and the workers return; to their posts. , . .The report -. also, touched commerce, - public - works, civil service and canneries. - - ' 4000 Mav Be Tried, Panay Incident Open TOKYO, Oct 20-fJfy-Tive hun dred. Japanese are in custody as war-criminal suspects and the first military atrocity .trials in Japan will begin within 60 days. Col. Clay C. Carpenter, chief le gal officer of General MacAruV ur's staff, reported today. Aa many as 4000 suspects may be tried. . ; The Japanese 1 cabinet : mean while' studied election , reforms, but Japanese sources said it had decided to let the next govern ment "more representative it the people" deal with the dis solution of family-controlled ' big business monopolies. ,r! j Tlje government's first concrete action -- toward solving the prob lem was to ask General MacAr thur for permission to import 4, 000,000 tons of food next year some of it aboard Americajn ships. The permission has not yet been granted.' ; j Colonel Carpenter said thtt 2000 Japanese already were listed for war-crimes trials, . and the eventual total may be twice thai Carpenter, a Fort Wayne, Ind la wyes in civil life, said the in vestigations are extending "back beyond Pearl Harbor" and may go til the way back to the Japan ese bombing of the American gunboat Panay in .China's uY&ngtze river. j t Un-American Committee May Be Dissolved WASHINGTON, Oct 20 -(.Wr-A push to do away with the con troversial house committee inves tigating unAmerican activities hts been started by Its critits. ..,The action was prompted Jby st threatened investigation by the committee of news analysts. Op ponents declared that such a prob would be an attack on "freedom of speech and thought through the press and radio." "i i Reps. Patterson (D-Calif) and Hook (D-Mich) are leaders of the movement to do ; away with the committee. They asserted , they have support of Ma large group C liberals2' in the house. i 4 Patterson introduced a bill late- yesterday to accomplish their pur pose. - ' , i US to Abandon Stilwell Road fan w wr m I M BJ LU JLXICKSOn NEW DELHI, Oct 20 4UP)- The famed Stilwell road across Bur ma, built at a cost of $37,000,000 to funnel war supplies tOi China, will be abandoned' Nov. II.. as a' white elephant ,r ' ' A army announcement said today that the historic road, com pleted after 14 months of engi neering struggle, could not be maintained economically in peace time. 1 , ' J The VS. command in the India- Burma theatre has recommended to the war department that the road, together with a parallel pipe, line and telephone line, be declar ed surplus property after Nov. 1. Truman to Draft Views WASHINGTON, Oct 0. (JP) Congressional leaders expect Pres ident Truman to ask congress, in a special message next Tuesday for a diluted form ' of universal military training. And, they predicted today, he will have a hard time getting it Some leaders In the field of mili tary letislation, believe that Mr. Trumau will not request outright ' compulsory training. . - - i . Instead, there is general belief that Mr. Truman will stress a plan calling for building up an armed reserve by - voluntary strengthen ing of the national guard and ex pansion : of the reserve officer training corns. AUSTRIA GXlZED'l -.'U VIENNA, 20-OP)-The pro- visional rnment -of .Austria was Teco, officially today by Statesv Great Britain, France and Russia. Weather Max. - Mln. : Bain e , i ; , ' .oe . 55 . 3 : I oe - m -joe Sam Francisco Euffena i, , ,, Salens Portland flaHI .S5 , 3S ., rORBCAST lfrom U.S. weather bu rom. McNarrlfield. alem: Local tot early this rnorniDif. Clear ,rst ot the ajr, liinl Kmjwrauue regrccs 4 KECO bet gove oiiied ,1 ;4, j