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). - , . . if. - . - i ! - Russians if av Nip; Board POUNDDD cut ; SLN JOBS Okeh k uj ran i ilia i ! ii in . - Ii When the ten million dollar , building fund question was before : the voters a few months ago "sup porters of the higher Institutions of learning got together and put on a campaign in support of the ' referred measure. The people ap proved of the special tax. ' The ' success of the cooperative effort and the prevailing atmosphere of fjriendliness existing among the .4.t. - 1 1 - J . 1 uiki nisncr caucauoD iiuuiu tions has encouraged transforming this temporary body into a perm anent organization.1 So1 there was formed last week the United Cit v teens' Higher Educational council. The announced purpose of the group is to direct public attention toward the state institutions of f higher learning, to encourage more. research to advance Oregon pros perity, and kto support high stan- - cards - of Instruction. The council is specially set up to aid the state- supported schools but professes friendly interest in the private colleges of the state. This does indeed mark progress In the field of higher -education in 'Oregon. The previous organiza tions have been usually partisan affairs, aimed at promoting one institution and . (if possible) tear- . ing down its rival. Jealousy be tween the state university and the state college stains the pages of most of the history of higher edu cation - in this state. If the two . lions will, lie down together in - amity a psychological revolution : truly has been reached. ' Thgr restoration of courses in higher division and graduate sci ence in the university curriculum and approval of degrees at the state college based, on four years removed the major, irritations sur- ' Viving from the curricula revision - instituted by the single board back (Continued on editorial page) i Final Revised WASHINGTON Oct 30 Amid appeals for a balanced bud get, the house today voted , final approval, 297 to 33, of the first tax-re hieing bill in ,16 years. Senate action Thursday, on the measure, designed to cut 1948 bur dens by $5,920,000,000, will send it to President Truman for his sig nature. - Sponsors said the bill is intend ed to increase production and em ployment, and puts the responsi bility for doing so ori business. The legislation removes 12,000, 000 low income persons from the tax rolls completely, assures mil lions of others earning up to $50, 000 a year tax reductions ranging from 10 to 40 per cent or more -with smaller cuts for higher in come brackets, and provides spe cial tax treatment for 'veterans of World war 1L - It repeals outright, on January 1, the corporation 85.5 excess prof r : its tax which the administration said could be justified only as a curb on wartime profiteering. Suggests Secret Atom Bomb Deal LONDON, Oct 30-(flVCapt Raymond Blackburn, laborite, suggested In commons today that Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the late President Roosevelt ; entered a " ' secret agreement on atomic en ... erry. ; ; " . ? - , V ! ! "It Is apparent" tald Black burn, "that Mr. Churchill and ; President Roosevelt came toge J ther In deadly secrecy to an -. agreement in Quebec in Septem . ber. 1943. on this subject" . He said the agreement "left the peacetime development of this energy very much to the discretion of the president of the United States." Animal CracUcrs : By WARREN GOODRICH mlfM easy. I only hoc to ; hold the pose or 15 ' minutes." Tax Slash Bill Allies Anxious Tr Get Soviet " Participation By Graham Haver ! WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.iPh The United States and Russia were believed near agreement tonight on a plan to create a four-power council for Japan which , would not abridge the supreme authority of General MacArthur. High U. S. officials : indicated this government would accept such a council in return for Russia's participation in the allied far east ern advisory commission which met for the first time in Washing ton today without a soviet repre sentative. ' ': Thje commission was established to give advice on the governing of Japan. Russia long- has contended mat the four-power council composed of U. Si Russian, British and Chi nese. f representatives should , be established' in Tokyo in advance of the Washington advisory com mission. The. commission adjourn ed today for a week with the hope that' Russia, would be on hand for the second meeting. . American - officials, who. asked not to be Identified, said the U. S., Britain and China had been "doing everything' possible" to get Russia to "sit in on the Japanese situation." . U.S., Canada WASHINGTON, Oct 30 -4JPf- - LGjeat Britain, Canada and the United States, creators of v the a tomic bomb, have decided on a meeting there around Nov. 11 to talk about the future : of. atoniie energy. Announcement was made simul taneously in London -and Wash ington . today that British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Can ada's Mackenzie King will meet with President Truman - on this greatest issue of modern times. The secret of history's - most devastating explosive is held by all three powers, but only the United States has produced a bomb from it and has the facilities for its manufacture. There was no sign than any of the other Allies, including Russia, had been invited to the parley. At tlee told commons it is better "to take these things ty. stages. Plan Unveiled To Congress i WASHINGTON, Oct 30.-CP)-Amid praise from ' sympathetic senators, the army today unveiled its detailed charts for a single cabinet department, with authority over land, sea and air forces. Sensitive to strong navy opposi tion to any "merger" of the navy and war departments, the4' army spokesman quickly assured legis lators "this is not a proposal to merge the army, -navy and air force into a single service." Instead, Lt. General J. Lawton Collins described the proposal as one that would "guarantee ade quate autonomy" for the, navy. the marines and navy air units, as well as the an forces and the army. All would be. placed under a single civilian "secretary of the armed forces.". ; ' : Collins said "the war depart ment plan leaves all military con trol squarely in the hands of the president1 as commander-in-chief. There would be a chief of staff for the president; a chief of staff for all the armed forces; and separate chiefs of staff for air, army and navy. ' NEW STAMPS' VALID WASHINGTON, Oct 30 HV Red ration stamps Wl through Zl and green stamps N8 become good Thursday, and remain- valid through -Feb. 28 for meats and fats, the OPA said. England Flan A-Bomb Parley Cabinet Chang AdluiiEcipcaiooo om &isb' iHIere Wim 5isiss0s -foirfiS-iS By Isabel CbJIdsT r C3ty Xdltor, Tn Statesman ' This new state law Tc-hich re quires boys and girls, who Quit school before their 18th birthdays and prior to high school gradua tion to- continue their education even though, night classes are re quiredhas opened the : way to what may be a huge "adult educa tion program in Salem. The law not only demands that no person under IS without a high school diploma- may hold a work permit unless he or she k- taking at least one hour a day ef school work, but requires also that the ICKZTT-ITiTXI TEAS ip - i . i . . II : : -. ' - .if'."'" ' " m i '. -I " ' ." kr. . Slaughter Described By Priest VmAINLA, Oct, 3Mff)-A mad, miscriminate slaughter of civil ians ? here' last February when troops under command of Lt Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita realized they could not hold the city was de scribed today by witnesses at the Japanese "general's .trial on war crime charges. ..! i Survivors told how infuriated Japanese ran -wild along Manila's fashionable Taft avenue, sparing neither women nor children nor the jiaged and . helpless as they hacked, stabbed and raped in a futile frenzy. When American marines fought their way past the gates of de la Salle college on Feb. 12, Father Francis Joseph Cosgrave testified, a Japanese officer gave the order to slaughter the inmates. Before they; were driven out of the place the (Japanese had killed 40 men, women and children,' including Brother Xavier, the college head. (Additional details on page 2). ; Boys Arrested After Holdup of f ? v W ' : ! ' i . . ' T :e ii Re-enacting during the noon houif Tuesday a pair of Monday night Salem holdups which still hav police guessing, i a pair of juveniles landed in the clutches of the law in a matter of minutes. The boys, IT and . 16 years old and;! residents of Toledo and San Francisco, were picked up bjreity police on North Commercial street five j minutes after one . of them had! allegedly told Mrs. Alice Grif' fin,341 Union" st, to ''open-up" the i cash drawer and : had; unon her refusal to comply, reached across the counter, opened the drawer and snatched S7 In cur rency. Right hand in his pocket, fin eeri' nushina at coat to look like the: hidden barrel of a pistol, the 17-year-old was brave until he hadj the currency in' his hand. Then he ran outside where he was met; by the 16-year-old and to gether they ran down the alley, Ruth Brooks, employ led in : the Griffin grocery store,;; said. Miss Brooks followed, watched the two change hats and was still following when police, radioed to pick up the pair after Airs, uni- fin had called headquarters, drove up beside them. The boys admitted nothing and the younger gave a false name, officers said. Although he gave a San Francisco address, he Is a native of Logsdon, Ore, according to police. bull at large, the youth or youths who got $40 in a similar holdup Monday night and " was frightened away when he at tempted a second, had apparently not ? been operating in this area Tuesday. Examination, to Select State Gvil Service Head EUGENE, Oct. SO.-iPV-Oregon's civil service director 'will be se lected soon through an examin ation in Portland, Salem, and perhaps other Oregon! cities. I Herman Kehrli, director of the bureau of municipal research here, Is preparing the examina tion along with Mildred I. Fahlen, Portland, and William Griffith, Portland, Reed college professor. Date of the examination has not been set but Oct 15 was deadline for applications for the post ; school district make such school ing5 available to the 16-18-year- old' group, . "; " .V" . Pay. schooling, even on a part time basis, is urged fof employ ed boys and girls, but those who cant wedge it into their, day's schedule must attend night eiasses. And those night classes are open to ! adults whether they've : had only grammar school education er hold multiple college degrees if they can do the work without holding up the class.! Ifto tuition is charged the 16-18- year-olds who are not high school graduates but art residents of the Grocery H PAGES Fighting Zones In China r it j j am r ai n r t a I ' IS W m W HUH AH 1 yrvvwvwaJ . J Yr HWIKHOW C It ' ' U'"TjZ- J CANTON'mP (J ! ' lrV arV-: . ffOKMOSA f V r2Zitt&&f HONG ! - . ... W j . f HANOI nt'lNDO If OWN 4 Shaded are 11 Chinese provinces fighting la going en between Communist and Central government troops. Communists announced capture ef Iinmlngwang in Hopeb, U. S. marines In the Peiplng area are not Involved. (AP Wlrephoto) imOOO Reds Attacking Ch iantz Forces ' CHUNGKING, Wednesday, Oct. 31.-W-A central govern ment military dispatch today reported 100,000 Chinese communist troops attacked government forces Suiytian railroad in the inner The dispatch acknowledged by the communists. $he move was interpreted the communists to seize control of the! entire railroad. Gunfire rattled on In 11 prov inces jof disjointed China today, while -central government and Chi nese I communist spokesmen in Chungking conceded that the viol ence-provoking gap between them seemed almost hopelessly wide. American marines, "walking a tight xope'! to maintain order in some. Japanese-surrendered sectors until he government can assume control, cannot keep it up forevr without serious trouble, one high American army officer at Shang hai asserted today. Central government trops even now jare rushing into the inner Mortjblian province of Suiyuan, the Chinese press said today, seek ing bjr a show of force to control this cene of recent big scale clashes between government units and the Chinese communist troops. Tax Form Ruling Due on Monday " If ' ' '"'' " " :- Circuit Judge George Duncan announced here Tuesday that his decision would be handed down next! Monday in the case filed last montn by F. H. Young and Ore gon jBusiness and ! Tax Research, Inc'i Portland, attacking validity of the statute providing for a short income tax form, i H Arguments of -j attorneys were heard! two weeks ago. Young con-, tend! that the bill signed by Gov. EarllSnell is not identical- with that j lapproved by the , 1945 legis lature. He filed friendly suit against, the tax commission after the attorney general had advised the commission it must be regulat ed by the statute as published un til repealed by the legislature or declared invalid by the' courts. Salem school district. Others pay fromf Z50 to $12.50 a term: of ninel weeks. The $12.50, by. the wayi 1$ for double-period voca tional classes (auto, radio and wood shop courses). lEf Glasses are held Monday 'and Wednesday nights- as are the ex tension classes offered under aus pices of the general extension di vision of the state system of high er education, for which a $3 tui tion,' fee is charged. , : i$ addition to the shop courses already mentioned, a course in machine shop is offered.. Bobk i keecina and home economics arc Solemn, Oregon, VecLoeaday MANCHURIA V 1: . MUKDEr where reperte In Chungking said Chi in ina around Chining on the Peipihg Mongolian province of Suiyuan. that Chining has been captured as part of a concerted effort by Enrollment at Willamette UJ Climbs to 546 Enrollment for the winter semes ter at Willamette university which began October 30, totals 346 in clusive of 36 special students,! fig ures released Tuesday night by the registrar's office indicated. With rapid influx of veterans ex periehced this week, the total uni versity enrollment is expected to approach the 600 mark by Novem ber. 15, deadline for late registra tion. . n ! Of the total registration, 144 are men students, a figure consider ably higher than had been anti cipated, Dean Erickson, director of admissions, stated. Total enroll ment in the college of liberal arts was 466; 68 were enrolled In the college of music and 12 in! the college of law. I - Freshment number nearly ;half the total students enrolled, with 260. The sophomore class numbers 137; juniors, 66; and seniors 31. There are five graduate students. Ceiling Prices Due On Building Materials n - - i PORTLAND, Ore, Oct SOHP) -District OPA directors werej ad vised today they now have" auth ority to set ceiling prices oS some building materials in this area. Wholesale and retail dealers here will be named to an indus try ' advisory committee to help the OPA figure out the prices. tonight! at 7:15 each Monday; and Wednesday night The shop class es last two and .one-half hours, the ' others one hour and 15 min utes and are followed at 8:30 by classes I in public speaking: and typing. : Teachers are from the public school system. ' v j AH classes are held at the sen ior high school building, fJorth 14th and D streets, where an of fice secretary will be on i duty tonight and other Wednesday and Monday; nights while the school continues to "direct traffic' and answer your telephone queries and mi J- j- .;.,, , i Morning. October 31. 1845 Rationing Of Shoes WASHINGTON, Oct S0-(ffV- The end of shoe rationing was or dered today effective at 12:01 a. m. Wednesday. " Terminating a program which began on February 8, 1943, OPA Administrator Chester Bowles said rationing can be lifted .because shoe production has increased sub stantially since V-J Aijr ?i t Some trouble spots can be ex pected for a while, Bowles said, adding that customers "may not always be able to buy the styles they want - - -. "But both the war production board and the OPA have agreed that no general hardship should result from the discontinuance of shoe rationing.'' The OPA chief reported that shoe output climbed from 20,000,- 000 pairs in August to around 28,- 000 pairs this month. OPA .called on shoe merchants to give preferential treatment to returning servicemen and women. Both Sides in Lumber Strike Parley , PORTLAND, Ore- Oct 30-PV- J. B. Fitzgerald, secretarymanjN ger ox ue nonnwesi lumDcrmen industrial relations committee, de clared tonight the mill operators have been ready since Sept 11 to meet with striking AFL sawmill workers.. He said a letter written on that date asked the northwest council policy committee to meet the fol lowing week, but no acknowledge ment, was ever received by. his committee. Earlier tonight the union strike policy committee directing the six week old fight to win a wage in crease tO $1.10 hourly minimum for 61,000 lumber workers recess ed until tomorrow after reiterat ing previous f statements it was ready anytime to resume negoti ations. John M. Christenson, northwest AFL council president, declared the leaders of 15 districts assem bled here the past two days would probably wind up their meeting tomorrow after discussing the speech by President Truman. Belton Parries Candidacy Query HowarcLjBelton, president of the state senate and acting governor while Oregon's chief executive is in California, probably wouldn't consider running for governor at the republican primaries next May if Gov. Earl Snell is a can didate for re-election. He" made that , pretty clear here Tuesday, but would not commit himself as to what political future he might seek should Snell refuse to run. Reports have been current over the state for several weeks that Governor Snell may retire at the end of his present term, in Janu ary, 1947, to devote his entire time to private business. - ARMY LIBERATES NTETLTNG . WASHINGTON, . Oct 30.-(Spe-dal)?The war department today announced that Pvt Aloysius F. Nietling, son of Hlrs. Mathilda Nietling of route 1, box 4, Sub limity, "Ore,, had been ; liberated from a Japanese prison camp. To - that office secretary ' you may make known your interest In some specific type of education for new classes, will start in Jan uary and in April. The school system and The Statesman will make known the fact that some one wants to study home- design for persons planning to build, or Russian, or cooking; or something else. And if enough others indi cate a similar interest to guaran tee class,' then you may go to school again! - - - 'Some of these desires may fit in with what the extension serv ice has to offer better than with i the public school program, but Abolished Seeking lMcr8c xlanmies , - . Br STERLING Dmicirea WASHINGTON; Oct. 30(AP) President Ttuan to night urged higher wages for labor generally without in crease in : prices bat "authorized paj boosts in industries essential to reconversion even if their prices gt up. i Declaring that peacetime cuts in. earnings are a "sur road lo wide unemployment- if not corrected, he named three) classes of workers " entitled to j wage boosts, although they nte in a rise In prices of thf goods they produce, j '-.'; , I wonder how many of you know that many war work ers have already had to take, ori will sot have to take, a cut in their wartime pay by one quarter or more," he said in his long-awaited wage-price " broad cast . - ; . ' "It nothing is done tohelp the workers in this situation, millions of families will' have te tighten their belts by several, notches. But the president "stated the na tion must "above all else hold the line on prices' in general and told labor it has a "stern responsibili ty to see that demands for pay increases are reasonable. " . . AJ vigorous criticism of congress waa included - in the -president's description of the "blow our in dustrial workers have suffered." Relating that he asked higher un employment - compensation sever al months ago, with no result so far,! he went on: -Th responsibility for that is solely up to congress and specif ically I mean the ways and means committee of the house of repre sentatives. ls: hope that this committee will fulfill its obligation to the people of fhe nation, and will give the members of the house an early chance to vote on this important legislation.' . Responsibility for the. "damag ing) delay" in passage of the full employment bill,, he said, is at the door of the house committee on expenditures in the executive departments. (Additional Details on Page 2) Movie Strikers On Jobs Today . HOLLYWOOD, Oct 30 Film producers said tonight they and' Strike Leader Herbert K. Sor rell had been informed from Wash ington by the AFL that the 7000 studio workers who have been on strike since March 12 are to re port to their jobs tomorrow. Aj spokesman for the producers said a telegram from AFL offic ials in Washington, where a medi ation conference was held today to adjust jurisdictional points of difference, reported that an agree ment had been reached on an im mediate return to work. The ALF order was submitted to the strikers at 4 mass, meeting tonight Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela Opened WASHINGTON, Oct 30 -ifiy The UnitedJStates today establish ed full . diplomatic relations with the 'new revolutionary government of fl-rich Venezuela. , Before doing so, it was indicat ed that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had been convinced by Ambassador Frank P. Corrigan that the new regime does not have anyf Intention of upsetting Vene ruelan oil production or interrupt ing; the flow of profits to com panies In. the United States and V elsewhere, Supt Frank B. Bennett Is anxious to T coordinate . the two sets of classes, and has been assured that; thej colleges will send teachers if they have them for any dasrf organized.-" - This yeari fof; Instance, the ex tension service is off ering a two; hour course in nature study- lor scout leaders, teachers and others; a Course in advanced art apprecia tion, another in Oregon school law and system of education and one in; beginning Spanish. Th first two of these classes met Monday. The other two hold their initial sessions tonight. Unless they are Veair ODds crowded, it isnt too late to Join, 't . " Ko. 117 Basses item one m F.-GREEN By th Associated Press President . Truman'S' proposal last night that American worker be given higher wages met with the following early reaction.. ! R, J. Thomas, Detroit, president UAW-CIO: "He removed the last excuse of " the automobile com panies to refuse our proposed 30 per rent payroll increase when he Offered ' relief on prices after ' a reasonable period of production at ceiling levels if fair profit cannot be earned. .;JZ-7. ':' '".''f.'" . -' National association of manufac turers. New York, "no comment Paul Shoup, president Los An geles merchants and knanufactur ers association: I : , . "Factual . and individual appli cation is necessary to make ade quate comment on the president' wage and price suggestions.' i Dave Beck, Seattle,! vice presi dent international teamsters un ion (AFL): "The president empha sized . collective bargaining and over the long run hia; statements were very sound. - . I u Henry Kaiser, San Francisco: "1 consider it a serious subject whioia I want to study thoroughly before making any statement I Blue Boold to be Ready Soon The Oregon Blue Book for 1945 46 will be ready for jdistribution late this week. Secrete ry of State Robert S. Farrell, jr., announced Tuesday. Official "facts and figures' state publication, the Blue Book Is cir culated through the state depart ment, with a charge bf 25 cents a copy to the public. Previously restricted to 17,000 copies, this year's I is a w 30,000 copy edition Additional books will; go largel to education centers. H , Big lake, with Alt, Washington in the background, a tolor repro duction of a picture taken by Ralph Gif f ord, highway : depart ment photographer, is the cover scene. Harry Schenk, assistant sec retary of state, directed compila tion of the book, which includes a considerable amount jof new data this year. .22 Rifle Bullet Hits Hearse , .. I . ALBANY, Oct 30-?ay-A rifle bullet which struck a hearse driv en by 0.-S. Adams, j Salem, en route to T Brownsville ! Saturday was being investigated today by state police. ; , j ... " 1 A bullet from a J2Z calibre" ri fle lodged In the Shatter-proof cab window as Adams drove on the Calapooia river bridge; Coun ty Commissioner Claude Smith, riding behind the hearse,, saved the bullet - ". . The hearse was" parrying the body of Mrs. Flora Cochran. - - Weather Saa franclaco Eufen . . Epiistiy Quiet, Unions Favor r . . .... ,. j ... Truman Policy Max. Iftn. 1UI) M 41 M . . .- i t : i u a M Portland Seattle Wll1mtta rtaf -SJ ft. FORECAST (from MA. weaflicr bj pcrature. Mssiitmm today i degree T r. .-'- ' -..-. -i ,;.; bowers today. Uttl ctuuurs in Um -4