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wm 3 UUJ in Hit '" By i Stor: ME) nnfo) Portland Liines . t. t . " . " .- - .' - . - " 1 - .. i ' - - , 1 ' i i 1 1- YANKS TAKE JAP CYCLOTRON APART Members of an American Engineer Aviation Battalion remove parti from a Japanese cyclotron In the Nlsbina laboratory at Tokyo, A vacuum chamber la shown being extracted. (AP Wirrphoto) rfu' SGQOjQB A report out of Rome carries Speculation that Archbishop Fran cis J. SpeHman of New York may be appointed papal secretary" of state. If this develops It will be a most unusual recognition of the Roman Catholic church In North America. Never before has! such an honor come to an American Catholic. Previously there I had been reports that Archbishop Spellman,. who has served as chief of the Cathollcf chaplains in ; Am erican military service and was a frequent consultant of President Roosevelt would be made a car dinaL Undoubtedly he would wear the red hat of a cardinal if elevated to the post now men tioned, j The office of papal secretary of state Is second in Importance In the Catholic hierarchy only to that of supreme pontiff. The secretary Is the close Advisor of the pope and through his hands pass -the reports from the far-flung; sec tions of the church. The present pope, Pius XII, served in this of fice before he was elected pope in 1939. ; j .1 It should occasion no surprise If the Vatican looks westward to I J JJ J J? the new world to recruit lieuten- VHQlQcltC I OF anta fnr Ita rrtnrinal tent at rvfiw- I i er. In the past the center ol Ro- Cgw rrrACC Tracf man Catholicism has been Italy, V-iMllfiiACOO JL US I 1 (.! I Tl1 I 111 . I vusiria, oyam mu ruuuiu. nu ui these lands have been sorely stricken In the wars of this cen tury. Italy is now Impoverished and prostrate. Austria was left by the first World war shriveled in territory. In power. In wealth. Spain suffered cruelly from its civil war. Poland was once a staunch outpost of . j (Continued on Editorial Page) i . 1 - U.S. May Loan Surplus War Housing ! - WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. - UP) - The government may turn over surplus buildings to the states without cost to meet the housing emergency. W. Stuart Symington, surplus property administrator, was re ported tonight by an official of his agency to be considering issuing such an authorization tomorrow. The officials, who asked that he not be named, said the terms as contemplated call for: 1. The states to maintain the property. . , 2. Houses to be rented first to veterans and after that to the gen eral, public. S. Demountable (knocked down) houses in storage areas of various disposal agencies to be erected by the states on favorable federal cites. 4. Leases to be for a maximum of five years with permission to terminate on six months notice at the end of the housing emergency. S. Rents In excess of mainten ance costs to revert to the govern ment The order would include bar racks, cantonments, demountable houses and the like. Plane Pushed? Into Power Line By Gple Force ; By the Associated Pris ,,.-:-- Three persons were dead tonight and , tugs were fighting to free grounded ships in Puget Sound as a gale reaching 84 miles in spots moved I northward leaving a trail of toppled trees and power lines along the Pacific northwest coast jjj I j ., - " - f ! Theodore pukes, 40, was killed at Vancouver, Wash., barracks when a falling tree crushed the cab of a bulldozer, and al Eugene, Ore; a wind-felled tree killed Clif ford Mather; in the cab of a log ging truck. John Muzzy, 89, was electrocuted in Seattle when he touched wires that had . blown down across i his house, setting It NINETY-FIFTH TEAB 12 PAGES Salem, Orvqozu Morning. December 51945 No. 217 Crosby Invades the Met afire. The 13 th l w Walter Norblad .Walter Nprblad, Astoria attor ney recentlyxdischarged from the army air force, Tuesday declared himself a candidate for the office of representative in congress from the first Oregon district to suc ceed the late James W. Mott Urging republicans to '"agree on a candidate . . . and give him their solid support" Norblad in bis announcement of candidacy de clared he would "abide by the de cision of the congressional com mittee meeting at Salem on Sat- Fliers' Fates i , T. TT'JIJAM Iurda7 M other republican candi JLieiMlUIl X11UUCI1 dates will do likewise." Norblad served in the state leg islature in 1935-37 and was a member of the 1940 republican presidential convention In Phila delphia. - By th AnocUtcd Prcts j The fate of at least 26 fliers In the Pacific northwest was i stiU hidden today in snowbound moun tains, wooded bills, and the rug ged Canadian-Alaskan coastline. Eight different airplane mishaps from Alaska to the California border have Involved 42 men. Six have been found dead: 10 res cued. I ! : , The latest major plane reported missing was a navy , Privateer transport which ! left Xodiak, Alaska, November! 29 with 12 aboard. Naval craft and coast cuard and navy planes ; were cruising the 1000 miles of rugged coast line which wag the Priva- . teer's Intended route. : ! Salem's USO Closure Slated naval district! said numerous ships were V driven aground in Puget Sound but dam age evidently was not extensive and there were no reports of casu- altie8- I: II . . I i . At Portland a parked airplane was pushed into a power line, by the wind. ; Half of Portland was blacked out by power failures and several Washington towns were in darkness. Three trees crashed to the roof of the Portland outdoor sanitarium,' - put there were no casualties. r- if i' Coast Battered - : i Coastal f; communities reported homes, barns and harbor facilities battered. Communication and pow er lines were disrupted in a score of towns for several hours late Tuesday. - j j .. . i . . , Gales of ;50j to 84 miles an hour velocity battered the state as far inland as the Cascades, i At;Medford the southerly winds reached 70 miles an hour. Valley communities reported 40 to 50 mile winds. In Portland, gusts reached 70 miles while a barometer read ing of 29.13 at 4 p. m. yesterday was near the record low for the area. One airport of the city re ported 84 rnile : winds. J; : One apattmeaf dwelling and a section of the Iron Fireman Manu facturing company plant was un roofed. Trees; crashed in the city parks andf on nearby hills. At Newberg winds ! unroofed the block square Herger building, blocking traffic on highway , 99W for several hours. A woman and child ; were knocked to' the street in Portland when the mother dashed from a home to heMauto. I ? Heavy seas battering the Colum bia river mouth yesterday swept away a deckload of lumber on a Canadian vessel that later berthed in Portland; A fisherman, Howard R. Johnson 34, was knocked from the wheel f bl the fishing craft Alameda through a window; An arm was injured. ; J4 At the Troutdale airport feast of Portland,! Western Skyways service reported winds of 84 miles an nour hit the field wnue 27 planes were parked in the open. One privately owned craft was flipped over end damaged before It could be staked. Others were undamaged; ijj; . . " - x . . - ' X 4 , -1 ' -, - r C- ' ' - c - . ,'-1 7 i . : 1;- ? 'V. OM-Ih State's Courts Judiciary Rules Federal Penalty Suits: Are Legal In a case without precedent for the last- 100 years, the , federal away Hsiiinnis Tramraami H 11 rveA-n Jx ivsa :' not if government today held the right Vgll1 r llm ..flT to sue in stale courts for penalties 1 & IV A lUll NEW YORK, Dec 4 When he paid a visit to the Metropolitan Opera House fast night, Bin Crosby; stopped in at the dressing room of Patrice Munsel and took the role of accompanist while she sang. (Bing is starring in tonight's bond premiere at the Elsinore theatre) (AP Wjrephoto) K I ! - j ( J Solohs Demand MacArthur as 1 It I ? Probe Witness Robbers Leave Sack of Sugar in Hasty Departure I -. - Weather '1 Max. . eo an ttk , , -. n rrcnriaco S3 se ft. ! s : 40 M ! sum ! JO ! J4 . rORKCAST (from U S. WMthvr bu rau. McNaxy field. Salem): Cloudy with occasional nthl thowcra today, Maximum mpraiur ( atgwm. January IS would be a suitable date for the closing of the Salem USO center, the Salem USO com mittee agreed at a meeting Tues day with Mrs. Clara Alcroft, re gional supervisor. Mrs. . Alcroft will carry the recommendation to the national organization. Dave Holtzman, chairman of the Salem committee, said - at tendance at the center : is now dropping sa rapidly that it is ap parent the YMCA will be able to provide ' whatever accommoda tions : are needed by servicemen after the middle of January. The USO has operated on some basis here !-once with two full time clubs) since September, 1942. , By William T. Peaceeli WASHINGTON, ,Dec. 4.-(fff-Disclosure that President Roose velt took a personal hand in get ting war machines to the Philip pines in 1941 brought a republi can demand tonight that Gen. Douglas MacArthur be called as a witness in the Pearl Harbor In quiry. ' The demand came from Sena tor Ferguson (R-Mich) who de clared it was evident that Mae Arthur, then commander of army forces in the Philippines, received a great deal more information on the threat of hostilities than did army and navy commanders In Hawaii. S Mr. Roosevelt's role in the war warnings I was developed during questioning of Ma). Gen. Sherman Miles, pre-Pearl Harbor head of army intelligence. A message which the late president sent on Not. 26, 1941, to the United States commissioner In the Philippines was read Into the record. It said in part: 1 consider it possible that this next Japanese aggression might cause an outbreak of hostilities between the U. S. and Japan.' Japan, the president said, ap- Has Atom Secret fLSSLJl NEW YORK,' Dec i " " Winiv riicbatch. at the. Polish I . M press agency today quoted Adolf Bennan, undersecretary Kenny Foundation to upen uuice in roruana Pole Qairas Russia as saying: 1: - "At the present time the atomic bomb is no longer the property of any one nation. The soviet union, which leads in scientific research, has conquered atomic energy." ITALIAN PREMIER SET f ROME, Dec. 4.-tf-Aldde de Gasperi became premier of Italy today after; a nine-day govern ment crisis, and was expected to announce his new cabinet soon. r The Sister Elizabeth Kenny I Foundation, Inc, M 1 n n e a polis, Minn, . Tuesday filed ' articles of incorporation in the state corpora tion department here. . Purpose of the corporation was listed as "the establishment of a clinical facil ities for the study and .treatment of infantile paralysis. Principal offices will be in the Pacific budding, Portland. Robbers of the Allen Fruit com pany, 295 SN. Jront sL, apparently were So surprised by police Tues day morning they left behind their ear containing a 100-pound sack of sugar.: , i I, Officers Wayne Parker, and Herman Doney noticed the car at the loading platform about 6:35 a. m. ;They found the sugar In the car and another sack on the load ing platform. f , jomea Dy waae tuns, .an em ploye; ox we nrm, tney made a search of the i warehouse and found a door to a dryer and the Front street entrance open. The mvesugaiors tooK tne car to a garage for storage and. held the sugar; as evidence. penalties under a. federal act. The decision by the Oregon state supreme court, in an opinion written by Justice James T. Brand and with a dissent by Justice George Rossman, specifically gave the state's circuit courts jurisdic tion in cases brought by the of fice of. price administration- in volving alleged violations of OPA regulations. Cases Consolidated The opinion waswritten in the cases of Chester Bowles, adminis trator, office of price administra tion, against the j Gresham Berry Growers, N6rth pacific Canners and Packers. Inc., Martin Lom bard!, doing business as the Ho tel Australian, W. L. Owen, oper ating as Jack Spatt's Meats, and Emma Anderson,! doing business as the Market Tobacco shop, The five eases were consolidat ed in appeals in which orders of dismissal were made upon the ground that the circuit court was without Jurisdiction of the sub ject matter. In three of the cases damages were sought for sales at PITTSBURGH, Dec 4.-(P)-President Philip. Murray of the Cip tonight rejected President Truman's proposals for ending strikes and charged that the federal administration has "com pletely ignored human rights" in the current industrial problems. In an outright break with the administration,' Murray as serted in an address prepared for radio delivery, that the design I of the specific legislative proposal" of the president "is to weaken and ultimately, destroy labor union or ganizations." He added. 4 i -"y -1 nt can.be but the first step for even more savage repression. n For this reason the CIO shall mo bilize Its entire membership and the; American people to defeat this specific measure and all similar attempts directed against labor." The CIO leader declared the ad ministration is embarked "upon a policy of continued appeasement of American industry in the face of Byron Price, former director of censorship, who has been named as new vice president of the Motion .Picture Producers and Distributors of America, aamages were sought ior sales fttlw r prices in excess of those permit-1 piVyOTl JLnCC ted by theX)PA. In the other two, I J Given Highly Paid Film Post U.S. Food to Go to Germany i STUTTGART, Germany, Dec. 4 -W-The United, States will im port food into Germany to raise the German food ration effective Jan. 1, Lt GenTT Lucius D. Clay said today in declaring that "hun ger and starvation have never been the United States objective." , The foodstuffs, to be paid for when "Germany is able to par." would be sufficient to increase the daily average ration ol Germans in the VS. occupation zone to 1S50 calories, Clay, deputy Ameri can military governor for Ger many; told meeting of the Ger man council of state minister presidents. ' the plaintiff sought injunctive re lief, to restrain alleged violation of particular prices and related regulations. j Decision Reversed The appellant j asserted that jurisdiction was obligatory under the emergency price control act and the federal constitution. The cases were appealed from the Multnomah county circuit court where Judge Walter L. Tooze held 1 for the defendants. The supreme court reversed the decision of the lower court and the cases were remanded for fur ther consideration. In the cases at bar the defend ants have challenged the jurisdic tion of the state (courts and the cases were i dismissed for want thereof," the majority opinion read. "We cannot; hold the act unconstitutional merely because a regulation which is not challenged might have been I arbitrary, ' and, if so, the prescribed review, might have proved inadequate. - "The alleged violations of the act occurred while armed conflict was still raging. Though the shoot ing may have ceased, the menace of inflation is perhaps -greater than ever. The price control act was enacted primarily to protect against inflation." WASHINGTON, Dec l.-Wr Appointment of Byron Price as vice president of the Motion Pic ture Producers and Distributors of America was announced to night by President Eric Johnston. Price, who served during the war as director of censorship, will be in charge of the association's Hollywood office. "All with whom I have talked in the motion picture industry have great respect and admiration for Mr. Price," said Johnston in a statement "All of us feel we are extremely fortunate in securing his services in behalf of motion pictures. Everyone knows his bril liant record in carrying out a dif ficult and delicate task during the war." PRINTERS REJECT OFFER SEATTLE, Dec 4-j'P)-Seattle,s striking printers turned down a management proposal tonight and returned to their picketing ; of three newspapers strikebound now for 16 days. - -' 1 DETROIT, Dee. 4ff-Walter P. Reather, vice president of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) tonight assailed President Truman's labor stand as a "clean 1 cat break wtth Roosevelfs poll- -des."i s - ' ' Speaking at a meeting ot 509 UAW 'members, Revther accused 1st president of an aareattstie" attitude toward labor relations. . i - i .-.,. its contemptuous attitude toward the; American people and the gov ernment itself." j This: was Murray's reply to the president's message to congress calling for legislation which would' create fact-finding commissions to inquire' into major disputes, presi dent Truman had at the. same, time called! on-the CIO -, United Auto - Workers to go back, to work and appealed to the CIO United Steel Workers, of which Murray is also president, not to strike. i ". "Indiistry has refused to engage in collective bargaining," said Mur4' ray, "Industry has refused to ac cept voluntary arbitration in the automobile dispute. Industry has refused to meet with the union in the ; steel industry though spe-' government. . - ! "To all this arrogance, the f ed administration .yields to as- ta& iwiyt n yA i sa i "Its rancor is confined to labor. . "Industry can raise wages 24 per cent and still enjoy more than 100 per cent increase in net profits after taxes. , . . J "Faced with these economic con ditionswhat has the federal ad ministration done? -.J , "It has completely Ignored hu man rights. But -American indus try has been appeased" with ever j greater opportunities for increased - profits at the expense of the Amer ican people." 1 i -n t ' UNO Bill Wilis i 4 - Queen Candidates to Take Bow Senate, Okeh, A 4h ' a7il nn -4 Tw ami nin TAi nrUf Sent to Jtlbuse CUTMNEY FIRES SOAR The city fire department; was kept busy fighting chimney fires during , the windstorm that swept tne city Tuesday. Runs were made to 1085 N. 18th st, 475 S. High at, 375 E. Owens st, 12th and Leslie sts, 1563 Court st, 900 Norway strand 1700 Chemeketa st Two special events highlighting the double observance of Victory Loan week and Pearl Harbor week in Salem will, be the public pres entations of the six candidates in ' the' Marlon county queen race of I the Victory Loan drive, tonight and Friday night fi Wearing formals' and . special ! corsages, the six "princesses" will Animal Gathers Damage Mkti : as. 49 EUilpGi Wind -Whips Salem Area! ByWAEREN GOODRICH I xTK mwM leave th light on so Is ccn set om sleep, lit works dayu9 , ; Wind which reached 49-mile ve ; 1 o c i t y with still higher gusts wreaked minor damage and a few injuries in the mid-Willamette val ley Tuesday afternoon. Height of the jtorm was around S p. m., and winds had virtually died by (J p. m. - , s , . i Pmbably most seriously injured was Mrs. Sumner Gallaher, upon whom a heavy pane of glass crash ed as she worked in the Willamette university 1 alumni office. Several stitches were required to close a gash in her scalp, and pieces of glass cut through her clothing to gash other portions of her body, it was said. Gil Lieser, university public re lations man, was cut across head and hand, his typewriter and other office i equipment namaged .in an other window crash in Waller hall on the campus. Glass in the old bell tower fell, and an ancient oak crashed into the university library, damaging only molding. . 1 At Willson park and in state- house grounds across the street heavy branches crashed. i A window in the fourth floor of the county Icourthouse was blown in. Mrs. Gordon Tower, ' 360 E. Miller st, 'blown over" ; by : the wind on State street, was taken to the Courthouse, where city . first aid men examined her injuries, a sprained left ankle," and bruises and abrasions of the right leg. An elderly man' fell to the sidewalk in front of the supreme court build ing beneath the heavy wind. "jj " Public School Supt Frank B. Bennett's car bore the brunt of a tree -which fell on The parking of the School Administration old high school building. ; - ; fr . Part of a large window at Stan Baker Motors, High and Cremek- eta, was blown in, and top globes of several I street lights shattered. The little bus waiting room at Hollywood! blew over, t Approximately 150 lines of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, involving 300 telephones, were out last night, and repair men labored. Countless "farmer" lines, connecting with Pacific Tet and TeL were down. Seventy re pairmen Were at work for Port land General Electric Co. ; Light and power were off in Suverton, i Mount Angel, Wood- burn, St Paul, Gervais and Hub bard in the southern part of the county while all power and lights were - out in Stayton except that received from ; the generator in the town itself. , , ,The galvanized Iron roof on the Co-op warehouse m Dallas was blown off early in the afternoon. It moved i toward - the southeast end of the elementary school build ing, and because it seemed for a time that it might be blown through the building two classes were dismissed at 1:30. t : ' All power and light was cut off in Falls City at 2:25 and many telephone lines were down. In Monmouth, branches from trees on the campus were broken off -and scattered along the, streets. : At Stayton windows were- blown in at the high school, Shux Electric, Stayton Mail and in several resi dences.. , . , ! ', Shutdown of the -power closed down the Stayton woolen mills and cannery.ir-' -;--; "; i At Mt Angel the roof of the new addition to the Farmers Un ion warehouse was blown off and one -of the large trees on the aca demy grounds was uprooted - i A window was blown out in the Ray Messick residence be tween Gervais and St Louis and several .signboards .and power bic poles were blown down in Wood burn. At the; Lincoln grade school in Woodburn, shingles were blown from the" roof and trees were blown down in the yard. Building paper was blown from the I roof of the . Birdseye-Snyder Food Packing plant and the roof was blown from a box car on the siding in the railroad yards. The Birdseye plant shut down at 2:45 because of the power failure which left i the plant without power or water.; ' .rHVvV ; Failure of power and light lines in the Four Corners area east of Salem meant no light and no water or heat for many, and hindered milking operations. - A illve wire down across the highway near the Rickey school made necessary rerouting of traf fic by way of the pen annex as children were dismissed from school. V : ' - be Introduced from the stage at the week's two bond premieres. Victory Loan bond . sales la Marion county to date: Total, all Issues, $1484449.75 eat of a ota of $2,C9.009. Series K bends, 178242045. eat of U ef USO.Oeo. Deadline: De cember f.-:-: the one at the' Elsinore theatre "to night and the second at the Capi tol theatre, Friday evening. .- . Both shows open at 840 pjn. The ; queens' will be presented each evening at 8:45 o'clock, Sid ney L. Stevens, chairman of the queen contest committee, intro ducing them. I Stress is laid by the queen com mittee for the candidates - and sponsors to turn in their ballots by noon, Saturday, .if possible. The contest closes at midnight, Saturday, but many bond-issuing agencies close regularly at noon, Saturday. "We do sot want any one to miss some ' ballots that should be in, so we are urging that none of .the candidates holds back any votes until the last min ute. All votes each has should be in as early as possible Saturday so that all may be counted, Ste vens commented."-. 1 The Friday, night premiere pre sents "What Next, Corporal Har grove? on the screen. Tonight's premiere shows Bing Crosby in "Duffy's Tavern. (Contest stand ings on page 2.) J 4;. . WASHINGTON, Dee. 4.-W- TfiaV anata) 4vtv nnmiil tk 7 and sent to the house legisla tion; providing for full participa tion by this country In the United Nations organization. . . Before the final vote the senate rejected a proposal to inquire the president, to come to congress for authority each time American troops are furnished to the UNO security council for putting down aggression. j i 1 The proposal sponsored by Sen ators Wheeler (D-Mont) and Wil lis (R-Ind), as an amendment to the UNO bin," was rejected by a 65 to 9 vote, j j LET'S TAKE A CMANCX WE ONLY HAVE I SHOPPW6WYS LEFT UNTIL CHRISTMAS