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V l '"' ' ' ' MW( 4 . ' Mass Murder -. The Inside story of the master mind behind the murder of 9, 000,000 JewsJulius Streicher based on - captured secret - r - chives, will be told In a series of stories ' starting Sunday, Nov. 4 in The Oregon Statesman, :-v. " I: ; r I." - - - ; i 4 ri-. : : 1 V vvy i. - NTNETY-nFTH -YEAR 12 PAGES' .' Salem. Oregon, Saturday Mcminn, Norembr 3, 1945 Price Jc . iiir Currents Play i -Havoc With Plane 1 i - (fftx A 1;. 'I a1 Of ' On the heels of the army report reaffirming the declaration of the western , defense command that from one to five unidentified air- - craft 'were - approaching Los An- geles the night of Jan. 24-25, 1942, ; comes the blnnt statement from a V Japanese navy spokesman that no !; The WDC may counter by- saying ( It never asserted the planes were T 1 1 W MHliVOL, . ULAOli w&c ; Unidentified. To this day they lack .' lAMil, mA k irnti am T B4fiA " lias been one of skepticism. f . It was a treat battle while it i lasted,! with - ack-ack ' coughing all the heavens for the intruders. 4 Mass psychology got a good work- ' and lights. One "saw? a Jap bomb ' r ga down in flames. Another -' saw sf mysterious balloon in the skies. There were varying reports as to the- number and location of planes. Some even got the planet Venus, mixed up with' visions of strange lights far out at sea. ' and no foreign planes in sight nor . ruins from enemy bombs. The bat tle of Los Angeles was over. Never again was there even an attempted Invasion. - j The Japs admit shelling of some oil works near Santa Barbara and of Fort Stevens, and the dropping of bombs in southwest - Oregon. - -That was the extent of the inva- .i Jap intelligence had the plans fo: 'a Fort Stevens including the range , of Fort Stevens guns,4-but the sub marine's shells landed in the sand. In the case of the airplane bomb ing in Curry county Jap intelli gence wasn't so - good. The pilot . was instructed to bomb military ' Installations, but could find none on that lonely coast, j , : . The Japs never had plans to in vade either Hawaii or the United ; States. That is belated comfort. They might have told us that and spared civilians from many wor- ' ries. Some of them actually moved back, into the interior. Others de posited funds in interior banks. If i we had known they were not coro : Intf manr husbands would have :-; been spared the splints - and ban . - . J. 4 M.t Unit - I nt.aiH.W J-xnlttees could have! spent' many mora nights at home. Still these civilian activities gave a harmless . - outlet to pent-up patriotism which might bm blown off with' some damage. ' I opdburh Soldier Dies From Wounds WVSnt)TrDM Ur-'iiul .UH ..: 1. H. : West of EUiott Prairie, re- - mvwA fvAM 4 Via vktb Am. partment that their ; son, Donald, . who was In the European theatre of war and had previously been . . i reported missing, died December -. 30, 1945,- from wounds received in 'action. ! ; 'r y Donald' rJitere4 th service Sept. 15, l.'He was a gradu . - at of Jaw at Willamette univer iy anda member of the Oregon : state bar. ,r, j Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH - mmmm"m y- 6 Chk SmSyaiott " "OK X -jump in tht tor U.S.Equipped Chinese Army Attacks Reds . CHUNGKING, Nov. 2 -(4V A Chinese communist - dispatch charged ' today that, the central government's aew Sixth army equipped and trained by Ameri cans, is in action against the. reds along the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukow railroad. ; It was the first accusation that American drilled and supplied Chinese troops were involved in the current strife.- Previously the communists had expressed open irritation over the employment . of United States transports to take central govern ment forces to Chinese commun ist "liberated afc-eas." ft ' 4 The Chinese Sixth army fought the Japanese in northern Burma ahead of construction crews build ing the Stilwell highway. V Communist sources told j of a "great offensive" by the govern ment aimed at opening the Peip-lng-Hankow line for unrestricted movements of Chiang's armies to North China and Manchuria, j Gen. Kehney SuPP oris !... ..'i , For Merger ! ' WASHTNGTON,": Nov. 2-VP)-Gen. George C Kenney told Sen ators today that time was lost in the war against Japan while the array and navy argued and Com- omised. -.. I I If such delays resulted In pro longing the war just one iday, what price can we place upon the lives we lost?, he asked , I He asserted the war had dem onstrated that a single over-all command is required for victory in a theatre. He said he was fun able to understand'' the argu ments of those who oppose 'uni fication of the war and navy de partments under a single cabinet secretary. : i ' , - "1 believe it follows naturally that we must have unity of Com mand at the head and heart of our military structure at home," said the general who whipped the Japanese airforce all the way from Australia to Japan. Nation V-Bond Sales Moiint I WASHINGTON, Nov. -flV The total sales to Individuals in the' Victory loan today stpod at $314,000,000, of which $ f 67,000, 000 was in series. E bonds, I the war finance-division of the treas ury reported."; -1 -4 : V"-; Montana - was -leading the na4 tion in - percentage of E-bond sales against the quota, -with 20.7 per cent of its state quota sold in the first five days of the drive. Eight Montana counties already had exceeded their E-bond quo tas, six of them on the first day of the drive and Powder River and Treasure counties since then. The orer-all goal of all securi ties to all. investors is $11, 000, 000,000. Of this amount $400,000, 000 is the goal for sales to indi viduals and half of that is the goal for E-bonds. . . Private Industry Survey Planned v. ' A survey of private industry in Oregon outside of. Multnomah county will be started within the next few days by John F,' Purr, Eugene, recently employed by the. state postwar and development rehabilitation - commission. ; ' f John Kelly, commission secre tary, predicted ; that the survey would require several . months. Durr's findings will be reported to the commission. , Figures on file in the commis sion offices here, .show that cash now on hand by private Indus tries, for postwar expansion, ex ceeds $150,000,000. The survey was expected to increase this fig ure materially, Kelly said. i t r first to the scene f a trainer plain crash early Friday afternoon on the Keller ranch, 2V4 miles north west of Cheixuwa, were members of the Keller and Ed Sproed households and the state police (upper left). State Officer Robert White notes details of th dasoage as he stands beside the splintered pre pUer to which still dines some f the black beaverdam soil thrwoxh which ft plowed as the plane overtarned. first word of the? sjecident in Salem referred nwrely to "a plane crash." so Military Police Sergeants Keith Sorensen, left (above), and Stanley Orsechowskl hastened eat and remained to view the shattered civilian City Water, Sewer Users Out of Salem May Official notices should be urban residences that on a set; day in February or March of 1946 city water and city sewer service are to be cut off from those properties. j Members of a special coihmittee ot the. SalemjjLunca agreed on! this i Friday, That conwaittee seven months ago spon sored the 'resolution setting De cember 2 as deadline beyond which provision, of city services outside Salem's corporate limits would be denied. Only residences to be excepted, under the resolu tion, were; those in areas which by that date had petitioned for admission to the city. One such area, east of Salem, has asked to be brought into the city limits. At its meeting Friday, the committee voted to take a second resolution before . the council Monday night under which or ders would be issued to the pro per authorities to send out the notices so that all may be done legally. . 1 Giving Time .to Dig Incidentally, members of i the committee in submitting such a resolution tare factually asking that t the suburban residents' be given 60-90 days more time in which to dig wells and sink sep tic tanks. The Original resolution contemplated the cutting off of services early in December.. Even that time may not be suf ficient unless extra well-drillers are brought into the Salem area, but it should .permit, the .estab lishment of one well in a neigh borhood. Approximately 300 ru ral residences are served -with city water. ?- . - Materials will be available this winter, the committee was . told, and much of the work, could .be started shortly. , Health May Be Affected Ninety-day notice is all that any of Salem's rural sewer-con nection contracts require for can cellation. 1 -But the city's health would be affected also should poor substi tutions for sewers be hastily In stalled. Right now Clark creek (outside the city it is Davidson's 1 f By Fred Krl'eg CAIRO, Nov. 2 -Wi- Shouting, rioting anti-Zionists fired a syna gogue and smashed Jewish stores today in wild clashes in Cairo, in juring at least S80 personsvand unverified reports said seven per sons were killed in Alexandria. ' Riots flared in Port Said, Man sura, and Zagazig, Egypt, while planned "Balfour Day" strikes ind demonstrations protesting against making Palestine a Jew ish national home were staged by Arabs in Palestine, Syria and Le banon. 1 . V ' - British officials listed 290 ci vilians and ; 90 police injured in Cairo. 'Reports that seven persons djed m Alexandria's riots could sot be confirmed immediately." s plane. ' -f - - - - r . - : " . .' . t; '"V' - ' - - ' - - ' ' '- J Lose Service By Isabel Childs ; XJIty EditoiL Tba Statesman mailed shortly to owners of sub 1: ' ". ' r.k.. Rent Ceilings On New Houses May be Higher WASHINGTON, Nov, 2 -() Rent ceilings on new dwellings may be 15 to 25 per cent higher than those on existing houses. The OP A, it was learned today, is considering an Increase in that range to allow for increased conr struction costs since . 1939. i The' Increase would apply to apartments as well as houses. I ' This prospect was reported as the agency announced a 'new pol icy of establishing rent ceilings on houses in advance of construc tion. ' " 'y- I OP A Administrator Chester Bowles said the new program is designed to 'encourage building and thereby protect tenants from inflationary rents. ; i - i: Rent for new units will be tased on current ceilings for com parable accommodations in the Same area, plus allowance for In creased construction cost. .- ' ditch) flows into Salem carrying seepage from septic tanks "south of the city, it is said, and studies ire being made to determine what correction mayb made." ' : 1 -" The committee, of which. Al derman James Byers is chairman, with Alderman R. O. Lewis; Leo N. Childs, Arthur A. Keene and W. W. Chadwick as members, was assigned the task of getting the city boundaries to coincide with areas, where city services arc of fered before major, postwar con struction is undertaken in either sewer or water systems. i ? Egyptiaa Prime Minister Nokra- shi Pasha, appealing to the people to be calm, aaid, "There are no signs that more events will occur" and "The people will resume bus iness tomorrow."' V - J Maj. ;'"Cen7 T. W. ' Fitjqpatrick, acting commandant in Cairo, said the situation was regarded as .well in hancT-ionlght, but Cairo police remained out in full force. Sudanese troops, armed with long whips, also stood at strategic points. He said 150 persons, most ly looters, were arrested. ; i Steel-helmeted police fired into the air, used tear-gas, and swung clubs trying to disperse the crowds, who seethed into .Cairo streets on the 2&th anniversary of Svma X Trainer Plane Crash Sends 2 to itcl l A trainer plane crash in a pas-1 ture on the old Keller place 2 miles northwest of Chemawa sent Richard Poet, pilot instructor, and Charles Clare Keller, his stu dent and owner of both the plane and the farm, to the hospital Friday afternoon. Full extent of their injuries will not be known unto x-rays are taken ' today, their physicians said. I ' At; Salem Deaconess hospital th two men were believed not Lserlously injured. Keller has a jaw injury which . the .pictures may show to be a fracture, and has bruises, abrasions and. swellings on his head.: Poet complains of a sore back but is able to walk. He also has a cut chin and a gash over the right eye. j J Sacked Earthward . ; t . Recently discharged from the service, Poet was piloting the Stearman trainer which he had been teaching its owner to fly, had circled the pasture, dipped into the little valley there and was apparently preparing to lift the plane to cross a hill when the right ! wing dropped and the plane seemed sucked earthward, Eunice Keller, 14, told investigat ing state police. With her friend, Edna LaFlemme, she had stood at the pasture gate and waved to her father and his instructor as they flew past. Dug IS Foot Path The plane's wing dug into the soft beaver - dam . soil, - cutting a shallow 15-foot long path before the plane overturned and came to rest upside down. Ed Sproed rents and operates the farm from Keller where the accident occurred not far from th Oregon Electric railroad's trestle over the beaverdam low lands. "-.''. Vandals Do $500 Damage, in Salem i: Damages which in material 'and labor will -cost the -city cf Salem $500 were wrought, by Halloween vandals. City Engineer J. H, Davis said Friday. Mutilation or 'theft of street and, traffic signs -were principal losses. - : 4 Since neither men'ner mater ial are available now in suffi cient quantity to. repair all the damages, only the most necessary of the signs, such as those mark ing' through traffic routes, will be replaced at once, Davis indicated. thej Lord Balfour, note promising the! Jews a national home in Pal estine. ' v ' ' In Palestine, where Balfour day coincided wife an announcement thai Lord Gort had resigned as high commissioner,' because of his health, there' were only minor dis turbances accompanying a nation-wide Arab general strike. In- London, the British govern; ment, through Secretary of Colo nies George HalL served an ulti matum to terrorists in Palestine's Jewish community that unless there is a cessation of the "das tardly series ot outrages" in the Holy Land, negotiations for set tling the Jewish problem would be halted. - - ' . " He referred' to yesterday's or- Hosp Jleivislhi askRaie For Civil Seryiee -j,.: 20 Pay Boost Advocated for 1 Federal Workers WASHINGTON, Nov. 2j r(P) The 'steaming wage battle; took new, sharp turns today, with the scrimmage spreading into' the government itself and no solution in sight ' ! . . I ' Here were the main points: . - 1. The 'White House threw its weight behind a proposal to j boost federal civil service workers' sal aries 20 per cent. Senator iByrd (D-Va) protested. ' - 2. The CIO auto workers, seek ing a 30 per cent wage 'raise, threatened ; court action to' pre vent any "unwarranted Increases" in new car prices. . 4 . j ' 2. None Of the labor and man agement leaders toning in batches 'from conferences i with President Truman- predicted positive results from the labor management conference starting Monday. But a few were - hope ful of some good. ' Arthur S. Flemming, civil ser vice, commissioner, said he; was authorized to state that the 20 per cent raise for federal work ers would be "in conformity: with the program of the president The pay : scales of government workers, he told the senate's civil service committee, are below the levels of private industry and a raise is needed to bring them "to a plane of equality." ) The endorsement for the 20 per cent raise for the bulk of government workers wasaccom panied by this recommendation: A $10,000 a year raise for; con gressmen, federal . judges, top people in the administrative branch, such as cabinet members, and more pay for other govern ment officials such as undersecre taries and - assistant .-secretaries and agencyf heads. ; i Alaska Fears Bomli Try outs WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (P Delegate Bartlett (D, Alaska) warned Navy Secretary Forrestal today that the proposed test of an atomic bomb on warships may have "catastrophic'' results, f- Explosion of an atom bomb in north Pacific waters might de stroy, Alaska's entire $50,000,000 salmon fishing, industry,' he said. It also might result In . tidal waves that would cause grave danger to the territory, he said. : Int a . letter to the secretary, which emphasix-ed that the effects of an atomic, explosion In the sea are stiQ unknown, Bartlett asked that .the north Pacific be ruled out as a site of the experiment. ; -', I - - . - November 22 Set - t- ' , As "tluuikBgiviqg Day; Thursday,-November 22,' defi nitely is Thanksgiving day in Ore: gon, the executive department announced here Friday. J Many Inquiries have been re ceived by the governor. Confusion apparently "1 has arisen from the fact that different dates will be observed In other states. i ganized attacks on Palestine's transportation system that tost five lives and wounded at least eight persons. He delivered .the warnings, in reemmonsi while; ftn? nouncing Lord Gorfs resignation from the Palestine post. ' ; i . I Fitzpatrick said the Cairo riot ing was kept from, spreading to the European' parts of the; city. Foreign establishments in the riot area also were attacked. f ; He said a synagogue was set ffire by the rioters with "fairly extensive", damage. : " t ; i Declaring the rioters bad "fought themselves out and "are now licking; their wounds," Fitz patrick said he did not anticipate renewed outbreaks tomorrow. I Scores Coiniiiando Kelly Trades in Rifle j For Gas Pump j . PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2-HflV Swapping bullets for gasoline, ex-Sgt - Charles (Commando) Kelly, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, was back today at a peacetime job of running a filling station. : j Kelly,, who won fame by slaying 40 . Germans single handed in 20 minutes, said he's happy filling up tanks. ' I "It's - an honest living," he declared. "I like It"'- GOP Protests Pearl Harbor Probe 'Block' WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-iiP)-Re-publicans and democrats fought a new Pearl. Harbor, battle .on the senate floor today over republi can complaints that their inquiries into the disaster are being blocked. Senator B r e w s t e r. (R-Me.) charged he had been, denied; by a five to three party vote of a senate-house inquiry .committee the right to check a tip, that vital doc? uments are missing from army and communications commission files. . Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) said that so far as the com mittee and its counsel know "there are no missing papers." i . The committee decided to start open hearings November 13. 1 Verbal battle developed when the two republican senators' took th floor .to report to - their- col leagues that they didn't think the committee's action today lent self to the impartial investigation Barkley had promised. - i ; Savings Plaii Gommended by State Chairman One of the finest things jthat happened to labor during the: war and one of the best habits which can be continued is the payroll savings plan, William A. - Bing ham, state chairman of payroll savings with the i Oregon war . fi nance ' committee, declared " here Friday night. j' : ".'.. 'j " . Speaking to a dinner meeting arranged to draw together indus trialists of Marion county but at tended by only a few in addition to those who are regular workers with the war finance -committee, Bingham urged that the plan be "sold" over again if necessary.'. Industrialists are not eager to push the plan, he said, but Port land businessmen and industrial leaders know that the backlog of war bonds held by war workers there sent those workers back to their homes) instead of onto relief in Oregon. 'T'v-' . I Among the guests, at. Friday night's dinner were three of ihe five girls who have indicated to date they, will be candidates : for the Victory Loan queenship (names not to be announced pub licly until next week), army offi cers who are-here arranging' for the "Airborne Attack" show at McNary field ' next Wednesday, and Maj.- C H. Westover, : army commander at the field," where first of the planes and gliders wui arrive Monday. Sweet Home Ups Population 96 Population of Sweet Home has increased 43 per cent (from 1090 to 2141) since the federal census of 1940,' Oregon's state department revealed here Friday. j . A recently completed state cen sus established the, new figure, on which state fundi appropriations will be based. - Gladstone, 38th city under 2000 population, in which a census has been taken by- the secretary I of state under a 1945 law permitting such account, has a population of 1910,"" an increase of 28 1, or 17 J per cent ' over that recorded fin 1840, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr, announced. i Weather San TTancisco . Ehigene Saieaa PortUnd Max. .78 . S3 .67: .57 Mln. 48 4S M CI ftain r Seattle Willamette river -S ft ro RECAST (from VS. wtather 'bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Uominf Jo, followed by mostly clear skies. Hisacst temperatura m esrces. 12 Gent Increase Accepted AFL to J&tick By Demands for 1.15 Minimum PORTLAND. ! Ore- Nov.- i s (AP) America's hope, for , new houses brightened today as the non-striking half of the northwest's lumber work- ' era reached i a . compromise settlement with; operators on wajre demands, j The CIO International Wood workers of America,, who have krnt the InM vollinir furinr tha 40-day-old AFL strike, accepted '-' Big Fir pperatos, offer of a.12'4 cent hourly.. increase: Half the union demand. ' j . - ' -1 " George Brewer,; federal labor conciliator, hailed the agreement as America's first industry set-1 uemeni r reacnea inrougn collec tive bargaining since ,V-J day.. It ended the danger of-a-CIO strike, which members .bad authorized if necessary.- . i ' . . But the striking AFX, charged . v w turM AliV tia s I been sold down' the rhrer by the low settlement,, j and declared they would continue their de- v mands for a $1.10 minimum. -The-CIO" asked originally for a inai ma s n s rflnr ntwi f i la hm-A si.19 minimum ( anq a 25-cent . nouny -wage increase,.-- . step iri the dispute-ridden ' lum ber area boosts the s minimum s of CIO fir .workers -in western Oregon and Washington from 90 cents to $1.024 " - The . CIO was i meeting with : pine . operators' in Klamath Falls Tuesday, and , with Willamette valley and plywood operators early next week. , Meanwhile the ! strikins! AFIi Cumber and Sawmill - Workers began negotiations with plywood operators, and scheduled another meeting with Oregon coast oper ators for Coos Bay tomorrow. : Higgin Goses Plants iii South . -. By the Associated Press Andrew. J. Higglns New- Or- ' leans boat builder. prODOsed yes. terday that AFL -unions purchase r and operate the three plants h . closed because of their strike. ; ' ThereH " be no more Higgins hiring business in New Orleans,' , he said in an interview after sud denly shutting down the plants on the fourth day of a strike by about 2000 members of 33 AFL locals.- j s His discarded postwar - plans, -Higgins said, '- caUedV for employ ment of 30,000 persons "and mil-' Ideas la payroll sueUy.' Jit tho" j wartime peak the plants employ ed 13,000 but the- number hag -fallen to 2300 sincei Encounters in Java Continue BATAVIA, Nov. 2 - (0) -Shar . encounters with ! Indonesian ex tremlsts broke out in Batavia to- day after heavy fighting at Mage lang was halted under attempor r ary truce negotiated with the aid of President Soekarno of the "In ' donesian Republic" - Fighting in the capital began ha Indonesian. - headquarters behind - ' the Hotel Des Indes, and snipers fired machine guns for an hour before British Seaforth Highland ers restored order. Casualties oa both sides were believed light, ealri ih T)iifrh nrai katmfw Ansfa Greece Forced to or I Aixl ATHENS, Nov. 2 -(JF)- Gergory Kassamatis, finance minister In , Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos new" cabinet, said v -today I that ' Greece would seek increased al lied aid because fit Is humanly impossible for Greece to live on ' her own lean flesh. , ' ". The government's ' first " duty will be financial reconstruction ot Greece, he said, and the govern ment plans steps for equitable, quick distribution of all available-' goods and equitable taxation. -. ,." . ' i ; :