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The navy has made today, its
J traditional Navy day, as much of
a "homecoming" day for men and
-women in its service as could well
be. On all the coasts units of the
navy are on" exhibition and on
' parade. I They, are not the .well-
scrubbed, freshly painted ships of
peacetime, but ships that show the
i wear, the rust of Ion sea duty,
"and some of them the scars of bat
tle. It has been a hard-working
navy for four years. j
' It Is too bad! we cannot have
a big homecoming for all our serv
ice men and women. In the days
when companies or regiments
were locally recruited it was possi
ble to give them a local welcome
on their return. In 1865 there was
; the grand review of the union
army m l Washington, a farewell
celebration in their honor, j Under
, present induction I and muster-out
methods men leave by groups, are
'separately discharged and just
dribble back as individuals to their
home . communities. They! get a
warm personal welcome, but a big
, community greeting is not prac
tical. . . ij; '
; f On this homecoming day for the
navy my? memory goes back 47
years to the homecoming given in
my old home town to our soldiers
iu the Spanish war. It was Just
at mis season of the year Novem
ber 14 as 1 recall. A big barbecue
was staged at the fair grounds to
; honor the returning heroes of that
' short war.; Albright autumn day
it was. AS a boy just turned II,
X was all ears and, eyes for the
big event. Everyone wore a ribbon
badge which . was given away,
' There was a great barbecue pit
'and of course a parade led by the
town band and patriotic exercises.
I do not recall the program, al
though I do remember well how,
seven months before when the call
. for volunteers went out, veterans
of the civil war i
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Japs Stall on
TOKYO, Oct. ZMVThe Ja
panese today questioned the pro
priety of allied orders to disband
their diplomatic network abroad,
while General MacArthurs headquarters-
expressed ignorance of
the prospective arrival of British
and other troops to share in the
occupation of this conquered
country. . j
j Simultaneously, American au
thorities seized new caches of
precious metals and other: trea
sures of doubtful title and pressed
. a campaign to confiscate all arms
.'held by Japanese. While! 'most
Japanese military stores have
been handed over, disarming of
Individuals 1 is expected to ; take
until December 1. -
Disbandment of the Japanese
diplomatic and consular services
long notorious among the allies
as fronts for spies was ordered
by MacArthur yesterday on In
structions from the joint chiefs of
, staff In Washington. The order in
eluded " surrender of physical
; properties and archives abroad.
t Today the i Domei agency said
that foreign office officials in-
. tended to ask allied authorities
whether this unprecedented step
conformed with the Potsdam de
claration, under which Japan sur
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Harold Say to -Resume
Post as Tourist Director
Harold Say, recently released
from - the navy, Friday resumed
his duties as director of the state
highway commission tourist bu
reau. Say I was stationed in
Washington, D.C during the war.
" t The tourist bureau director
said he would shortly outline
plans of the bureau for the com
ing year and that an extensive
advertising campaign was eon
templated. i ;
Animal Crackers
, ; By WARREN GOODRICH-
Duit sweetheart, I thought
Order Ending
Embassy Posts
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - 0T
special train at 8 o'clock (PST)
will highlight Navy day observances with an important foreign
policy address. , ' ; X j ' i
- The president and Mrs. flTurhan boarded the presidential
train at 10:10 pjn. They were accompanied by Brig. Gen. Harry
H. Vaughan, the president's. mili
tary aide.' . - , 1
Others making up the official
list of guests included Fleet A-
dmiral William D. Leahy, the
president's chief of staff; Postmas
ter General Robert E. Hannegan
and Mrs. Hannegan. I I
The White House said! tomor
row's speech will be the "most
important" from a news standpoint
since the president entered the
White House. i' . 'j
He will make two Navy: day
speeches in the course of his day
long visit In New York. The first
will be a nine minute address, M
11 ajn., eastern standard time,
upon the dedication of the j new
aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roose
velt
The
second and main 1 speech
will be delivered at 1:30 p.m. at
Central Park and will last for 25
minutes.' (It will be broadcast lo
cally over KSLM at 10:30 a.n)
Later, after a luncheon aboard the
battleship Missouri, Mr. Truman
will review a vast naval and air
armada aboard the destroyer Ren
shaw before setting out : oh his
rail journey back to Washington
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House Experts
OkehVetTax
eness
WASHINGTON, Oct 2$-ff
House tax -experts agreed to go
along with the senate today in
forgiving all federal income taxes
on the service pay of enlisted per
sonnel from 1941 until the formal
end of the war. j "
That Was the first decision
made by a senate-house confer
ence committee named to adjust
differences in the 1948 tax reduci
tion. bill, which passed the house
with cuts aggregating $5,350, OOO.i
000 and the senate at $5,788,000,1-
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The conferees also adopted j a
senate provision granting com
missioned officers a three-year
extension of time in which to pay
accumulated taxes on their ser
vice pay, and a similar extension
for payment of taxes on pre-er?r
vice earnea ! income for 1940 or
1941 which became due after; the
taxpayer entered the service.;
The enlisted men, forgiven their
taxes, will not even have to make
out returns. Those 'who have paid
the tax can get refunds. However
the loss to the treasury is not ex
pected to be great, since most en
listed personnel already had been
removed from the tax rolls by a
provision in present law for' $
special $1500 servicemen's exemp
tion. I
College Offered
Trailer Houses
PORTLAND, Oct It UP) -I
Trnasfer of 25 family trailer liv
ing quarters from Troutdale to
Willamette university at i Salem
was approved today by the na
tional housing authority. f t
The (university will finance
moving, installation and manage j
ment I- I .. H
The university is not at all sure
It will finance a trailer settlement
here for f its married students,
President G. Herbert Smith said
Friday. Expense would amount to
approximately $450 a unit by the
time the trailers had been moved,
attached to sewers and provided
with electrical and other facilities,
he said. Three-year rental guar
antees would be required and
probably Would not be forthconvf
ing from Students, he said. "
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V-12 qsarteni to women's dormitory. The end ef ene j semester closes Willamette university's wartime
training program, and the beglaalag of another tin ds both Lausanne and the eld historic campus back
en an even keeL BeU-bettom troasers and ether navy bleea are ta the bag (left to rlcht In picture to
left) for Dale Conn, Portland; Art Maaler. Vaneooverj BUI Pettit. Salem, and Bill Memenrer; Port
v land. It deesa't take long (center pictare, left to right) for Serethy Cress, Irene Bailey. ileea Cren-
Hlghtewer
- President Truman departed by
tonight for New York where he
Snyder Urges
President Keep
War Powers
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 UPh
Congress was informed today that
President Truman wants to re
tain,, for an indefinite period, his
power to continue rationing, pri
orities, the draft and other war
time controls. 1
The president's principal trouble-shooter,
John W. Snyder, told
a house judiciary subcommittee
that revocation of war powers
would be a "serious" threat to re
conversion. .':j ' j
. Snyder, ' war: mobilization and
reconversion director, MwasVj the
main witness "At the opening of
hearings on bills to declare the
war legally at , an end. When that
date is fixed, much of the presi
dent's emergency powers: are void.
He said, "There is grave dan
ger" that the machinery for re
turning to peacetime ways would
be thrown out of gear by a sud
den abandonment of i controls
which have been in effect since
1942. -.- . . I . .
The committee heard an oppo
site argument from four lawmak
ers, Reps. A. if Miller. (R, Neb.),
Bennett (R, Io.), Lewis (R,
Ohio), and Boren (R, Okla).
Their principal objection was
continuance of selective service.
Said Miller: :
"It is morally wrong
to keep
men in the -service who enlisted
for -the duration and six months.
by .this legal trick of continuing
hostilities beyond the end of the
shooting."
GOP Objects to
Pearl Harbor
ngleboldL
WASHINGTON,- Oct I 2-SV
Republicans complained today of
what they called a democratic
stranglehold on procedure in the
Pearl Harbor . investigation but
the chairman, of the inquiry com
mittee said the rules
been finally determined.
The comment of
haven't
Senator
Berkley (D-Ky), democratic
leader in the senate and presiding
officer of the senate-house group.
was made to reporters ! after it
was learned republican members
have protested an order signed
by President Truman.
As commander in chief,- the
president' directed that army and
navy records be made available
only when a majority of the com
mittee requests j them. The order
also requires a committee ma
jority for summoning army and
navy witnesses.; :
Seventh Day j Adventists
To Erect Gymnasium
The Oregon Cbnferencej of Sev
enth Day Adventists will! erect a
$5000 one-story; gymnasium at
1913 Broadway, representatives of
the church indicated Friday, as
they took out i building; permit
at the city hall -i I
H. H. Harris was issued a per
mit to construct j a' one - story
dwelling for $1600! at 307; S. 25th
st; Joe Mejstrick was . Issued a
permit to alte" a two-story apart
ment house at 194 S. Cottage st,
for $150; Norval Emmons, a per
mit to repair at a cost of $50 a
dwelling at 168T N. Summer st
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Marshal Joseph Stalin, appearing
well and healthy, despite n
n is the oontrsry, discussed
motnal problems with the VJS.
ambassador at his vaeatten re
treat yesterday.
Stalin Healthy,
Talks With U.S.
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Ambassador
MOSCOW, Oct 28 -UP)- Gen-
eralissimo Stalin, it can be author
itively stated tonight is in good
health and has received U. S.
Ambassador W. AvereU Harriman
and discussed with him at length
current American-Russion ques
tions. i
; (A dispatch from London to
night quoted the Moscow radio
as saying that Harriman had de
livered a message-to Stalin from
President Truman on Oct 24 and
had. had two talks with the Rus
sian leader before returning to
Moscow.) , s .
Stalin is planning to return to
Moscow shortly from fiis vaca
tion. L " . '
Reports in the foreign press
that he was ill were saidto have
caused him considerable amuse-H
ment" '"'
Realtors Ask
Raise in Rents
GEARHART, Ore., Oct 2&-UP)
-The president of the National
Institute of Real Estate Brokers
tonight attacked OPA Adminis
trator Chester Bowles' proposal to
set ceiling prices on the sale of
houses.
I "The best way to guarantee
continued housing shortage is to
put a ceiling on new construction
which was shut off like a faucet
at the start of the war," declared
Arthur S. Kirk, Des Moines, la.
He urged easing of OPA rent con
trol, saying rent is the only cost
of living held down to the 1941
level while other expenses have
risen. .
- Khk, speaking at the Oregon
Association of Real Estate Boards
annual convention, recommended
a, 10 per cent boost in rent ceil
ing as a start.
Dr. Ralph MaUon
Dies in Portland
f PORTLAND, Oct 26 P Dr.
Ralph C Matson, 5, Portland
surgeon, died today.
I j A University of Oregon medical
school graduate, he died at the
Portland Open Air sanitorium, of
which he was director.
i. Matson, an authority on
lung diseases, served with the US
army in World War I as a major
In the medical corps.
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Salem,
Price Cut-
Asked By
Senator
; Murray Requests
Lower Prices if
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WASHINGTON, Oct 25--A
proposal to . enforce ; price cuts
upon' companies whose workers
suffer reduced hourly earnigs
through loss of overtime was ad
vanced tonight by Sen. Murray
ra-Mont). ;
i It came as government officials
spoke more optimistically of la
bor peace and the U. S. concilia
tion service predicted the strike
problem would drop to "near nor
mal" - proportions within three
. Murray suggested that OPA be
directed to lower the ceiling price
on the products ot any employer
whose average hoorly wages are
reduced by the elimination of
overtime and the "down grading"
of i employes to lower paid job
ratings.
" The plan, proposed in a senate
speech, thus would pass on to
the public in the form of lower
prices any such payroll savings
not restored to the workers in the
form ot higher hourly rates.
Murray r accompanied this with
another proposal: That corpora
tions be penalized through the
tax laws for refusal to bargain
collectively and failure to accept
federal offers of mediation or
voluntary arbitration, i
"If corporations are to engage
in union busting," he observed,
"they should be required to do
so at their own expense."
Shortages of
ies Delay
Home Building
If building supplies such as
lumber and plumbing are not
forthcoming soon, there won't be
much improvement this winter in
the acute shortage in both rented
and salable houses, in the opinion
of several of the city's leading
realtors.
fin normal times a city takes
care of its increasing population
by. new building construction as
the community expands, but un
der present conditions new con
struction is very ! low," : ene real
estate man pointed out
Returning veterans' and civil
ianS and people ' dispossessed by
these groups, as well as numerous
out-of-city and out-of-state home
seekers constitute the : bulk - of
house hunters. '
When building supplies do be
come available, realtors agreed,
Salem will experience a big build'
ing program in both . homes and
business establishments, but they
do not look for such a program to
get well, under way until next
spring.
War Chest Nears Top
The Salem United War Chest will
be filled by the time division
chairmen meet for luncheon on
a day next week notj yet desig
nated, chest campaigners predict
ed Friday. The predictions were
expressed following a luncheon
of division heads at the Golden
Pheasant with Loyal j Warner,
chest president serving as chair
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been refurnished for ee-eds. The girls are members ef a freshman class ef more than 0 completing
registratlea at XVU today. Ia the pictare to the Tight. Barton (Pop) Crsry serves Lorena Jack, director
ef the nlversitr's dormitories, the first meal im the new cafeteria, where resident mea and women, and
students rooming la private homes
aad Badness lXaaager Xebert Feaix await torus with more anticipation taaa hunger la their exprctnawt
Oregon. Scdurday Morning, October 17. 1945
Mom Bombinsveln
World Government Physicists Answer
.'.!( ' By Heward Blakeslee " I' "'7-'
: - i ll ' Associated Press Sdence Xdltor ' v
' BOSTON, Oct 2HffHrot Albert Einstein says ia1 an Inter-
view published in the Atlantic Monthly that atomic bombs could
kill perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth, but there always -will
be enough thinking men and books left to start again. : -
He favors a world government, to be set up soon aid jointly
by the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, to re-'
duce the peril of a war waged with atomic bombs. ' j
' If, he says, a world government is not set up by agreement t
it will come in a much more dangerous form, with a war or wars
ending in one supreme power
- dominating the rest of - the
world. - - -:, "" ..
In a foreword to the article,
the , .magazine recounts - that
Einstein, discoverer of the
.. theory of relativity, . wrote ta
President Roosevelt in 1939,
predicting that uranium soon
might be turned into "a hew
and ! important - source of en
ergy," that would, lead to con
struction of "extremely power
' ful bombs. v...,.v';
However, "I do not consider
myself the father of the re
lease j of atomic energy," Ein
stein says, "I did not in fact
foresee that it would be re
leased in my time. . i
"I do not believe the secret
of the bomb should be given
to the United Nations organiza
tion. I do not believe it should
be given to the Soviet Union.
Either course would be like Dr.r Albert Einstein
the action of a man with capital, wo, wishing another man to work
with him on some enterprise, should start out by simply giving his
prospective partner half of his money. The second man might
choose to start a rival enterprise, when what was wanted was his
cooperation. ! . ' f j
"The secret of the bomb should be committed tola world'
government and the United States should immediately announce
its readiness to give it to a world government !
"Since the United States and Britain have the secret of the
atomic bomb and the Soviet Union does not they should invite
the Soviet Union to prepare and present the first draft of a con-.
stitution. That action should help to dispel the distrust which the
Russians: already feel because the bomb is being kept1 a secret
Obviously the first draft would not be the final one."
MacArthur Denies
Reported Trip
To United States j
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TOKYO, Saturday, Oct
General MacArthur, supreme
commander of allied powers for
the occupation of Japan, has "no
immediate plans" for returning to
the United States for a visit au
thoritative sources at headquar
ters said today.
The comment was made after
war department officials in Wash
ington had said they assumed
MacArthur would' visit the Unit
ed States between Nov. 1 and 8.
Headquarters sources also said
MacArthur has received no offi
cial congressional invitation to"go
to the United States and . appear
before the house and senate.
New State Cannery r
To Cost $32,000
v
Machinery for the -new state
cannery to be Constructed at the
penitentiary here will cost in ex
cess of $32,000, based on bids
opened by the state board of con
trol here Friday. i
Three bids were received but
awarding of the contract for the
machinery was deferred pending"
further investigation. Work on"
the building was to start' within
two weeks. T "
TO FIIX POSTMISTRESS POST
WASHINGTON, Oct 26-fl5)-Nomination
of Emma B Howell as
Postmaster at Rickreall, Ore., has
been sent I to the senate by the
president j
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Steel Workers
Threaten
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Call Strike Vote
By the Associated press
President Philip Murray of the
CIO announced yesterday the
steel workers' union would call
for strike votes, to enforce de
mands for a $2 a day wage boost
in the steel industry.
Murray, also president of the
United Steel Workers, said he
hoped to have the strike vote pe
titions filed with the proper gov
ernment authorities no; later than
Monday. . He said they would
cover 766 companies and 643,595
members of 1042 local unions.
US Steel; Jones St LaUghlin and
the Youngstown Sheet Sc Tube
company are among those reject
ing the union's demand for the
$2 raise. v
Murray .made his announce
ment at a news conference after
the union's wage policy commit
tee, meeting in Pittsburgh, au
thorized the union executive of
ficers to "take whatever action
they' deemed necessary," includ
ing strike votes, to obtain the in
crease. "'-"' ; '
CONVICTS RECAPTUKED
Clyde Miles and I. jV. Craig,
who escaped from a penitentiary
wood-cutting gang near Wood
burn on Thursday afternoon, are
back behind prison bars today.
They were taken near Newberg
by. prison guards and offered no
resistance, a penitentiary official
said Friday night
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AFEiSete
Xabpr Bosses to .
Devise Ways to
Cripple Lumber I
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 2
(AP)-AIl union heads in
the; five-state AFL lumber
strike will convene here next
Monday in a meeting; which.
a spokesman said, may inten
sify attempts to cripple th
entire industry.
Another attempt to halt ail
lumber movement, was reported
today from Idaho where six lum-ber-loftded
railroad cars wem
said - to have been stopped by
pickets and abandoned at Arrow
Junction, 30 miles from Lewis ton.
The! AFL lumber and sawmill
workers here said the logs, nor
mally: sent from the woods to
J. B. Carney pole yard, Ahsahlut,
Idaho, were rerouted to Minne
apolis. Pickets trailed the railroad
cars about 70 miles, the union
s-Jd, and at Arrow Junction rail
road workers agreed to leave the
cars on a siding.
, One possible attempt at settle
ment of the 33-day-old strike
blew up today when the union
turned down a compromise .was
proposal . made by -Willamette
Valley Lumber Operators, associa
tion. The proposal, v somewhere
betweep. the J0 cent hourly mini
mum 'prevailing in that area and
the demanded $1.19, was the only
one made by any major group cf
.operators - ncehe strike began.
Vets Protest
Trip by Coach
SPOKANE, Wash, Oct 24--Five
hundred and fifty-one vet
erans of the Pacific war called
newspapermen to the depot todsy
to protest what they said was to
be a trip by day coaches front
Fort Lewis, Wash., to separation
centers in the east
A sign on one car of their nine
coach train read: "Three years in
the Pacific: 3000 miles by dey
coach. !
Sgt William McGrogan of Bal
timore, air force veteran, told
reporter the train left Fort Lewis
last night and added: ,
"With every seat full, nobocy
could sleep, although some laid
down on the floor and tried it.
Woman Killed
In Traiiij Crash
Mrs. Samuel R. Lucas, 60, route
7, Salem, was-killed instantly Fri
day morning when a Southern Pa
cific freight train demolished her
car at Claxter road grade crossing
north of Salem. !
Driving east toward highway
99E, Mrs. Lucas .was alone. Train
men said her automobile looked
as if it was slowing for the cross
ing, then lurched across, the south
bound locomotive striking the rear
of the vehicle.
J. It Hobbs was conductor and
T. M. Kelso engineer on the train.
No. 661, Both men are Portland
residents. J.
. In addition to her widowef, Mrs.
Lucas is survived by daughters
Mrs. Winifred Curry and Mrs.
Opal Eby of Portland; a son, Ray
Lucas, Portland; a brother, Will
iam Ray of Salem, and one sister,
Mrs. EthelDfcClay.
Salem Man Jailed
On Attack Charge
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A dark-haired, sallow-faced
young man, booked as Fred Pep
pie of the 1900 block McCoy ave
nue, is in the Marion county jail
today charged .with assaulting and
attempting to rape a 16-year old
girL K .'-. ... ; ;, ;
Peppie was arrested aKan auto
court, where the girl told officers
be. had dragged , her. '- from the
sidewalk, had disrobed and threat
ened her. Officers said persons in
neighboring cottages told of find
ing the girl clad in one scanty ,
undergarment-shivering and
frightened outside in the court
After her first objections, the girl
said, she lost her .voice in tear. '
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