3mjm mm frvi, -A nn rn UVUUNJ Quiet-Lover at Work To . Face . ' N Ready; . v - '-- - ' - ' ' . ."- :. lir !'. ; :" . 5 t "vi - - :' ... 1 . ' . I .j . ' v,r ., ., ' v I . I v j. ' Y - . , I ftouNDHD 1651 - t . - .4 .' 1 ' v ' 'if ; NINETY-FIFTH YEAH For want of a- horseshoe nail the kinfdom was lost." y ' The old saying fits in the case of the lou (temporarily, at least) of the Bush Pasture because fail ure to publish a notice of election. renders the same invalid. Hence the bonds authorized by an affir mative vote with majority of over 1000 cannot be sold. . The fault lies with the office of .the city, recorder, Alfred Mundt, whose duty it is to'prepare city notices and have them published. The lack oi publication was dis covered in preparing the tran script which must be ' submitted to bond attorneys "for their opin ion on the validity of a bond Is sue. Such - a blunder .is difficult to - explain away because ; the forms for election procedure are well established, and well known In the recorder's office... ..: While there is no reason to be lieve thatthe voters will hot re affirm; their .readiness to make the purchase of ttepasture tract for park purposesTstill the pro ponents are forced to the work I mod expense of again presenting th case to the people and obtain ing their favorable response. The city on its part finds that all its expense for the June election has been lost 'r,A"r .;' . The coming election of a 'con- gressman called, for' January 11th gives an opportunity for the city to hold a new special election at very little cost Otherwise the question would have to lie over until " the :- primary ' election in May. ,&nce it is advisable to get the matter' settled promptly the earlier date - seems preferable; and the council should take the necessary steps Monday night: to order; an election. And this time It iif to be 'Jioped there are no errors to invalidate the election.- Union Ask tat Parts Flow DETROIT, Nov. 30 -(JP)- The strike-idle General Motors Corp. proposed to the city's United Auto Workers tonight, that work In GM'i parts and, accessories vdi lision be resumed for the benefit of other automobile manufactur ers. ! '-.;,.';'!: . The proposal was made . in a letter f roxr. President C E. Wil son of General Motors to Presi dent R. J.Thomas of the striking union, which has 1 tied up GM production since' Nov. 21 in a strike affecting 225,000 workers. Wilson' said the' proposal,', for which he. suggested "acceptance by your union,' was jade with the thought of restoring the, flow of auto parts and accessories from GM's factories for other recon verting plants of the industry. . , . A ' Lewi Arjeiw; Heads Industrial Group ; v Lew, Arens, Salem,, was elected president of the Interstate Asso- u elation' of Industrial' j Accident Commissioners In Winston-Salem, N. C, Friday, an election which means the convention will' come to Oregon for its next session, his office here was notified. Two hundred- sixty persons have attended . the conference closing today In Winston-Salem' Arena has just completed a term f office as vice president - Anfrr.::! Cracltcrc By WJEN GOODRICH . JLLUS BacM) a 12 PAGES Salem. Fund n Flood Bill Senate Votes to Keep Willamette Control. Project WASHINGTON, NovSMvPV- Big money for - navigation and flood control went -into a defi ciency supply bill today in the face of stern opposition by the house appropriations . committee. Included 'were three f major construction Jobs in the Willam ette valley , (Ore.) project: The Cottage' Grove reservoir, $11,500; Detroit reservoir, $2,000,000, and the Dorena reservoir, $1,000,000! All ! were flood control projects. Also included Is $62,000 for. the McKenrie river"; flood "control project in Oregon. AH had failed to receive approval of the house appropriations committee. By a standing vote of . 137-&3, the house approved art amend ment adding $122,273,000 for. pro jects which the committee want ed to shelve until next year. Thus, disregarding "economy'' appeals by Chairman. Cannon (D, Mo) and others, the house acqui esced in President .Truman's re quest for money to put war-halted Water jobs back on a peace time basis. This' also had the sanction of the budget - bureau and the army engineers. . . Leading the attack; " against omission of the program, Bep. Whittington (D-Miss) declared that the . committee's attitude was arbitrary and -' inexcusable. He noted that all the projects had been authorized by congress it- seifi; y-;:; 4 McreFliers 46 Located - COOS BAY, Orey Nov. Woodsmen searching for- three missing army 'fliers 'tonight mov ed, toward the area where a scout plane spotted - two parachutes in wad Oregon coast country. ' -i - . Late todajr a navy PBY; pilot spottd three other men 'wander ing through rugged mountains near the fork of Bear creek and ' 11 M t iaxecrees:. xney answereovui a walkie-talkie dropped from the craft that they werf WelL " -A fourth later joined . them, -food and lothing were dropped tothe men, missing since an army transport plane crashed Monday in a coastal storm. 7 V : Meanwhile, searchers concen trated on a second area near the one where the four were found. An, army pilot reported . seeing two parachutes there,, but could find no signs of life. . DD1ECTOXS TO MEET "." ; ' A special meeting of the board Of directors of Sicks Brewing Co. has been called in 'Salem today for presentation of the company's 1948 expansion program. - S " Prob e Reveals ;"' By William TV Peacock j WASHINGTON, Nov. ZO-UPH Ma j. Gen. ' Sherman, Miles said today the knny nigh command always had considered attacks on Hawaii 'and the Panama canal about "equally likely" in case of. war with vJapan. ' i ' " That .was so "inherent far the situation, ' he declared, that he had hever thought for a moment before. Dec. 7, 1941, that Pearl Harbor's defenders were not ful ly on the alert. ' ) Miles acknowledged before the senate-house - Investigating com mittee, however, that Hawaii was not mentioned in any of the evaluations and forecasts he pre pared as head of military intelli gence. Lt Gen. Walter C Short, army commander at Pearl Har bor when . the Japanese struck, sat at a nearby table as Miles testified. He leaned forward and listened carefully as Miles related that he had served under four commanding generals in Hawaii and all ' had always been con scious that Hawaii might be at tacked if trouble developed with Japan. . . .... $om Missing CanaL Oregon. ; Saturday Morning. December. 1 1945 Scliool -aj Dallas Closed By Lack . ! Of , Dry Sawdust ' l r - J s s: DALLAS, Nov. 30 - (Special) - The' Dallas junior high school was closed by .lack of useable; fuel j to day fand it was not known wheth er or not a re-opening could be effected by Monday. , The school plant uses sawdust Fuel on hand was too wet Super intendent JWhitworth said. The ele mentary $ c h o o 1 and the high school, heated by wood, remained open. - ;: A : centra! heating plant used by several' stores in the business dis trict continued operating today but had 'only little sawdust left f ' Council to Be '- 9 fax ' ; ' ' Asked to Stage Salem city council will be asked Monday night to move ra pidly, either suspending the min- Lutes; or going into special session a few days after the iMonday meeting, jjjto pass an ordinance calling a special city election in conjunction with the January 11 congressional j election. r , Thus, it was generally; agreed Friday, can the council best help to rectify: the mistake which nul lified the 'June 22 decision of the city's voters to expend $125,000 for purchase of 43 acres of Bush's pasture to' complete a 100 acre park. At the i same election, vot ers 'refused to grant a franchise to; Salem iElectric. That questicm, too, fwill be re-referred to the vo ters;: if the ordinance planned for presentation Monday la adopted, it was said, i- ? : ; Possibility that the parking me4 ter 'referendum ordered -for . the next general election might - get on he special ballot was fore- scent by jnerchant opponents of the meters' j - - j Because" the formal call for a special election June 22 was not published at any time between June 2 and June 12, the election was: illegal and the affidavits re quired by . the bonding company cannot be 'provided, it was dis covered Thursday. The election, if legal, would have authorized the issuance and sale of $125,000 worth of city park general fund bonds for , purchase of the Bush property. "Friends of Willamette university" have raised s another S25.000 to aid In the Purchase. Willamette is to acquire a 10 acre athletic 'field in the park tract under terms of the agreeihent between current owners, the city Dockmen Refuse Parley On Planned Walkout $AN, FRANCISCO, Nov; 3H5 -A request by the Pacific Coast WaterfronJ; Employers' association to arbitrate scheduled . 24-hour worfcjstoPD&ee Monday on all ves sels1 except; troopships wal reject ed today by the CIO International Lonkhoremen's and ' Warehouse-' men's union. ' . " : ; Fank P. Foisie, president qj the; association, asked that arbi tration begin tomorrow unless the stoppage waa called off, t : ' Army jThought In response . to questions from Gerhard Cfesell, assistant Commit tee counseL Miles said he knew on DecT 6 that the Japanese con sul tn Hawaii was destroying his records but did not inform Short Such ; secret information ordi narily was handled by the. navy because its code was regarded as "more secure,'- he explained, and "we; had every reason to; believe that;; any navy message to Hawaii would ' be - promptly given to the army.".;; IvX- S Miles read to the committee a letter , from - Lt Col. Kendall Fielder of the Hawaiian depart ment, dated Sept 6, 1941, saying cooperation among army, navy and i federal bureau of investiga tion "is most completed Miles also, told the committee: He Instructed military attaches in Tokyo on Dec. 3, 1841, to de stroy their codes. No . warning " messages were sent to Hawaii between "Nov. 27 and 'Dec-? when General George C Marshall, chief , of stiff, dis patched one which was not de livered until,, three hours- alter the attack began, v ? Special Ballot Liliely if AFLMill :-4 en Oregon Pulp's 1 Lumber Division To Resume Work . ;j - 1 - PORTLAND, Nov. 30 (fli- Members of the Dallas, Ore., local 2714, AFL Lumber and Sawmfll Workers, voted tonight to accept the 15-cent offer made in negoti ations of the Willamette valley council with Willamette Valley Operators' association representa tives, Ed Hayes, local1 secretary, reported.'" W :' Hayes said the. Willamette Val ley Lumber company . would re sume operations ' of some units Tuesday. The finn employes 320 men;'" ' ' - . : -. f-. if Salem Mill J ' if Approximately 120 men will re sume work shortly at the Oregon Pulp and Paper company, after acceptance of the 15 cents pr hour compromise wage increase" was announced Friday by repre sentatives of the lumber division of the company and local '3050, Sawmill - and 'Timber .Workers (AFL). . " i Some of the men, who are mill wrights, will start work today. Full operation will not be in ef fect for some time because of needed repairs to the plant, E. A. Linden, lumber division manager, said 'Friday. . ' . - i I - Standard Increase j I The Increase accepted Is the same as' was accepted by the Wil lamette valley district council arid the Willamette Valley Lumber men's association at ai meeting at S1J05 per hour base pay,-George Surgeon, .president of the local, stated Friday; night j ,j i U. S. Diplomats ensioni 4 ' ! i i m iilortii Iran WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 JP The United States has sent a dip lomatic mission to northern Iran to obtain an on-the-ground report on the Russian-Iran tension there, the state department disclosed today.- 1 ; j . The department dispatched three attaches from its Tehran" embassy by plane and jeep to; the trouble spot, Tabriz, in Azerbaijan prov ince. ; : rf. This news,' announced by Mi chael J. McDermott, j special as sistant .to Secretary of State Byrnes, coincided with these other International developments: J 1. Publication by the Iranian ambassador, Hussein Ala, of Mos cow's - note refusing passage Of Iranian government troops to the northern j Iranian - area - where a separatist movement is reported. 2. The United States Is still awaiting a reply from Russia and Great Britain to its proposal that troops of all three countries be withdrawn from Iran by Jan. 1. 1; est i - . ' ' A Sale Report In; " The largest one-day's report on E-bond sales to come into Marion county Victory loan headquarters to date waa received Friday, when $aL46X5a worth were recorded. 1 A significant feature of the day's report was the fact that nearly half of the $81,462 JO came from cities out in the county, most of which already are over their quo tas in E bonds but go right on buying them. Listed from cities outside Salem were $30,131.25 in E bonds. ' ; L TTie fains made out in the coun ty "show up" Salem .again, com mented Douglas. R, Veater, county war finance chairman, adding: Jt looks, as if. the city Salem is go ing to have to be prodded. Salem can not let the rest of the county down '' " 4 - Weather 8n iTSBdsco Salem Portiaad -. Vi:!flmtt river 17 ft. "TOr.CAST (from U. auer bu reau. Mcfearr field. Slem) : Local fog, torn clouoincin in forenoon. Scat tred showers probable thi afternoott. Viajumum tenierstur IS degrees. . ,v Dallas To Op oiuuv : Max. Hin. - Xaln ' , . ST 0 At : ti . m - ' it : i ' -.JM 31 Traee S U 03 Price 5c . T 'Spec9 'Keene to Qiiit Coaching! to ! - Enter Business t i Jh- Rov S." rSnecl Keen. head coach and director of athletics at Willamette university for 17 years before entering the' navy as 'lieu tenant commander in 1942, has resigned to go into private busi ness, Dr. G. Herbert Smith, Wil lamette president, announced Tri- day. ... -.! Keene will form a partnership with Howard Maple, another for mer WU coach, in the latter's sporting goods store in Saleni Keene, f who . was reappointed to the state parole board a few days ago, returned -from -naval jdutief only last week.. (Full details on today's sports page.) ; J - is ' .r ;.: meet jinas in eement WASHINGTON, Nov. 36 -ffl President Truman's labor -management conference " adjoun led at 6:25 pjn. eastern standard' time tonight without setting up the hoped-for machinery to handle postwar labor disputes.4 Toward the end, John L. Lewi$ arose to "scold fellow labor lead-t ers for inability to agree among themselves. He called on them to witness management's , "precise and efficient functioning" ; at the (yfftfrMu snH tn raii fViftirf Mnirri house in order" by unifying their policies.; ;. . -A , - The conferees were in complete disagreement on ; such jmajor issues as ; wages and .collective bargaining, but, leaders - asserted the;: meeting attained "substantial advances toward industrial peace.', Thejf losing session of the 25 iSay meeting called by Mrj Tru man to devise wa Jjpnd.means of curbing Industrial s&ife, fjared in open attacks on management by ranking labor leaders and a.vig- orous exchange- between the heads of the rival CIO and AFL unions.:; . , Little business was transacted today other than the defeat, by voice vote, of each proposal sub mitted by either labor- or agement Each aide Voted bloc. !j r t. . rnan- as a Jfeanlcott Back in Leair In Queen Race Back in the lead again for the, Marion county queen contest of the Victory Loan is Jean Wolcott Miller's store candidate, 'with $65,306 worth of E bonds. She climbed from third place in Fri day's count to the lead position, Saturday morning. 1 Only $150 in E bonds boosted Miss Wolcott ahead of Beth Greenlee, statehouse candidate. Victory Loan bond purchases m Marion eeanty to date: TataL all issaes. Sl.73JJt46.78. eat ef quels ef S2,e90,00. ; Series B bends $634482.75 f U ef I1.1M.000. Deadline: December however, Miss Greenlee having $65,130 in E bonds to her jrredit Following , closely . behind the two leaders, is. Leona Tingtlstad, Hollywood Lions club candidate, with $61,050. Faye Larkins,) spon sored by Salem Lions club, is above the $50,000 E bond total now, taking fourth place 1 n the contest with $50,325 cf bonds to her credit The Salem Ki wanis dub candidate, Betty Lou Kay ser, has $30,825 for fifth place, Beulah Lott of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce, $15JB50 fOr the sixth position. Oregon Roads Near Normal; Oregon' highways were 'nearly normal Friday, following, heavy- rains of the past few days, jR. H. Batdock. state highway . engineen announced. . .:!' I I Chains were advised on the Wapanitia, Santiam, Willamette and. The Dalles-Calif ornia ; moun tain passes. Weather, was clear In the passes Friday and no rain or snow was reported anywhere in the state,' The : WUsonville and Independence-Granger ferry high- way were still- closed- by high water but the flood threat, had disappeared and traffic over the latter highway probably;! will be resumed Saturday. Labor-Capitol liisasT V Snapshot from an album kept by j drowsing Is sa easy chair, while i. says the tw were aaarried in the Nayy- Plane 'Missing Over Ca s c a d e Area ;-;---.." .. - :!.-- 1- .. PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. S(M-A riavy Ventura plane with a crew of six men aboard disappeared today over the storm swept Cascades on a flight from Portland to Red Bluff, Califs the Port land army air base reported. , j The missing plane is the since Monday when an army Oregon coast and 12 army air men parachuted' from the craft Nine of. the .army airmen 'have been rescued and the search con tinues for three still missing in the rugged wilderness near Coos Bay. ! .The navy. plane was last heard from at 1:20 pjn. when the pilot reported he was returning to Port land to land after running into Storms on the radio range beam, the air base here reported. An air search was. begun late today as far. south as weather would per mit, but no trace of the plane was sighted. Willamette university, host to' the state high school basketball tournament annually since 1917, will entertain prep hoopster in the A portion of the tourney and their! guests again the third week in March, 1946. " . . " In the face of other bidders, the university was handed the 1 big gest high school sports event in the state at Friday's meeting, of the Oregon High School. Activities association In Portland. " Salem Chamber of Commerce, state fair officials.; and represen tatives of the ' university have conferred here twice this week on plans which might make the pa vilion at . the state fairgrounds available and suitable for tourna ment play. More than 7000 per sons could be Seated there, while the university gym- seats 2000, it was pointed out (Further details on sports page.) ;) :-''' '''A'-A' New Precincts Due on Jan. 15 . Precinct changes .recently " ap proved by the Marion county court Will not go into effect until Jan uary 15, three days after the Espe cial congressional election. . "It would have been physically impossible to. 'complete all the de tails necessary for . establishment of new precincts, by the time of the January .election, and we are fortunate that the order, although drawn,', had not been formally signed and filed when the gover nor announced the dale," County Judge Grant Murphy declared Fri day,. .. i- .: , . " , So the order was re-drawn and the date changed to permit voters of the county to cast their ballots at the old, familiar 82 precincts. Salem Wrings Stormy Weather could well have been; November's theme song.. Rain, f ell on all but- five days, resulting in a total amount of 10.73. Inches, 3.10 during the 30-hour period. from shortly after midnight on the 2tith until Vm. on the27th. This was the wet test November since' 1 937 when 11.1 Scinches were recorded. Two and i forty-seven one , hundredth Inches- were measured on the 26th to give it the distinction of the Wettest day. Comparatively high water resulted In the Willamette and many of its tributaries, with local' flooding tiear'' Jefferson on the Santiam and Harrlsburg "on the Willamette,' but no great ma terial amage was done. A . Winds near 40 miles an hour wenr. noted at -the weather bu reau for. several i hours on - the 2!'.h, vrith. a peak, cf 41 - miles Prep Tourney Slated Here For March '46 0: it-feiafc. .dsi' vt&mm Eva Braun shows Adolf 'Hitler Eva watches. British; Intelligence last days ef the siese ef Berlin. f. j wr -A a-: " V second to disappear over Oregon C-46 exhausted its fuel Qver. the Younger Congressmen Start Revolt' . WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 An embryo "Young Turk" move ment developed today in the ranks of house republicans,, but party leaders insisted it didn't mean there was lack of harmonyi , As GOP steering groups In both the senate and the house sat down to try; to" write al mid-term jarty program, -39 jyoung-m-setvice house members issued a state ment of their views on universal military training-and the Pearl Harbor investigation. ' ' .Their carefullv-worded state ment boiled down to an assertion by the 39 f all first on second tenners that fiiey - intend to speak, for themselves on majr matters and not be bound by the utterances of individuals. But behind it those who helpt ed prepare the ' statement said privately. , was dissatisfaction in the ranks of the younger republi can element with the way things had been handled by the party's -congressional veterans. I. ? Prints Check in Mezzina Case PORTLAND, Ore," Nov. 3 Chief, of Detectives James Flem mg reported tonight fingerprints irom a Deer Dotue laxen irom xne tavern where Joe' Mezzina. was shot Nov. 10, checked with those of a man being held in Spokanet Fleming said the department's bertilljon expert, M Lou Morton; had ' confirmed the identification The prints from Spokane are those of Bert Crenshaw, 28, ar rested after a tavern holdup on ,a charge of robberyi Fleming said the i circumstances around A: the holdup and shooting of the Port land tavern owner .coincided with those of the Spokane holdup. ' Meteor to Be Studied By Oregon Astronomer fclJGENE, Nov. SO-W-A study of the big meteor reported seen last night over California and Ne vada was started today by J. Hugh Pruett, ; Pacific regional director for the American Meteor society. ' Pruett said he was seeking ac counts from persons who. saw the meteor. ' ' t Out Wettest per hour recorded, shortly before noon. , '. ?, .,. .-; . The average maximum temper- ature was 51.7 and the minimum 39.7. The mean of .45.7 compares closely with the. normal of , 45.8. The highest temperature, 83 de grees, was recorded on the 3rd; and the lowest, ' 27- degrees, " on the 20th. - '-r 4 ' r" '-'' - -r - . The 10.73 inches of rainfall was well Above the. monthly normal Of 5.99 Inches and brought ' the calendar year's total to 4123 inches to the end of November. Since the average rainfall for the year In Salem is only 37J2 inches, 1945 .has already; established an "above normal" record regardless of what December ; may contrib ute. There were 23 cloudy days and one partly cloudy during this period, Gilbert I Sternes, prin ciD&l observer. sa?d Fridsv. ' GOP Ghargesi Keitel Accused i -OfPIottd 4Freiicli Leaders' " By:, Wes Gallagher : NUERNBERGr-KoT. (AP) Rudolf Hess sardoni cally told tht international mihtary tribunal today thai had ' faked amnesia, fool ing Uied medical experts and bis own - attorney, but that now he was prepared to suna inai and; "near loll re- . sponsibflity . for anything I have done I . ? ? The gaunt, crafty former . de puty to Adolf Hitler leaped to his ; feet and read a short astonifhj iog ' speech into a tnicrophon . when British Lord Justice Geoff rey Lawrence declared, at a spe cial hearing on Hess sanity, that the trfbunal.would like to- hea from. the. defendant himself. ,, 'Mrnsery La Order', f , j ' Hess told the court "my memo ry is cigain in order,? and that hf simulated amnesia for "tactical'! reasons. Afterward he remarked . that ;T - feel unburdened, I fed . better.' His German attorney was; flabbergasted;, a British attorney . said Hess either Vis off his rockr er, or is ! completely recovered.', The court adjourned - without announcing any decision, but the line-of questioning by Lawrence -and other justices, indicated trey ; were inclined to believe Hess is in condition to be tried. Plot sUvealed - . ' ' Hessf - statement followed a r gular. ;Court session at' which a German counter intelligence chief accused Field Marshal Gen. Wil helm Keitel, Hitler's fashion plate) chief of the German.: supreme command, with being the insti- gator of I" a plot to assassinate Trench Military t- Leaders Gen. Maxime Weygand and Gen. Henr) GiraUd. I -.- .:: : ' - . ( Hurley Agrees 3 Hehnnffs 1 By WlUlam R. Spear WASHINGTON,- Nov." 30 -(JH Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley read-f ily agreed to take on all comer i today as three congressional com- mittees invited him to shoot. f . The . senate ; foreign relations: committee; : which put in its bid first, appeared to have the inside track. Chairman Connally (D4 Tex) called a hearing for Wed-f, nesday and Hurley told reporter) he preferred to testify there firstj' but he sought a public and not private session,- as Connally had planned. 7 . . ' ' . Two house committees, on mill tary affairs and un-American ac . tivities, also want to hear more about the charges Hurley made against certain career , diplomats and. the state department in a press release Tuesday, which an- A nounced his resignation as nw bassador to China. i Russia-Bound Nazis Suicide , : r " .-- !' - -r ;' ; .' : f STOCKHOLM, Nov. 30 (fl3) About 600 German military, inter nees,- including 100 who attempt- ' ed- suicide, were- hospitalized to- night after a day of violence a the Swedish government started . extradition of 2700 former wehr macht soldiers to soviet territory, ' Swedish -authorities said ; that two succeeded in taking their own lives in wild struggles with $wed ish military forces and police whd had the ta&k -of transporting the Internees f to a waiting s Russian! ship at Trelleborg. Many attempt . ed self-mutilalien- " ; ,. wAbout 500 were hospitalized be cause of Weakness from a hunger . strike begun a week ago m protest against an order turning them eves' t to the Russians. '. . " I ' ) eEtocKitrcouNoraHfl SHOES TO WDkCTDTM town- 7ccrs ONLV V YfM