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si 11 - .-"V- - i t ' i;; '-11-'. : -.: . I ' i 1- ... - . . ' x , , . . - . rJoedllbiioirQTi s DiniVG I I 1 . t-vyi iifc.Vv I ' II - "5 1 in V. II v t ir X , PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7-tV A former guard told hert today "of seeing two teen-age youths 'beaten at th Oregon state train ing achool for boys at Woodburn 'until -blood dripped off both boys' 'bands and one left red puddles wherever he stepped." ' - ; , The man,-an 'Albany resident, said he -resigned In protest to the ' punishment He asked that he not be named until after an investi gation directed by Governor Earl jSnelL r (Gov. Earl Snell said Friday he I had ordered an Immediate inves tigation of reported beatings of iboyt at the Ore ton state training I school so that "an Immediate re "! port may be laid before members lot the itate board of control. Snell said he had been told un ' usual disciplinary action -was tak ' en In connection with two boys ' reportedly guilty of repeated and '.continuous violations.") Tour big men whipped those ,boys from 7 until 8:15 pjn. In cottage three at the school," said the witness. Visibly shaken, he told this story: ..- ,-. ' Taken to a locker, room, ' the boys were asked If they knew the consequences of their escape at tempt A, 210-pound school em ploye then lashed them about the hands ' with a three - foot - long Mather strap, tapering In width from 1 to inches. , He counted 115 blows on the hands of one boy.' ' ; Another employe then whipped the boys' . bodies, leaving 'painful welts. One youth "screamed ter ribly" and both begged for mercy. The lashes continued this time on the boys' feet Earlier, the guard said, he was asked, "Do you think you've been here long enough to ' watch whipping?" "I agreed because I thought would be a humane thing," he said, adding, "some of those boys are hard to deal with and I be lieved an ordinary whipping might be necessary." . He said he would testify before any group named by the governor, i - ' i w --- i - - - - -.(.- - - u ;... t .- r-.. t- -1651' :- "O- r. : . : i . - - - v - - , , t ..... ... . - . .- . .. - . . - 1 ? . PCUNDD NHIETYnFTR YEAH 12 PAGES Salem. Ongoa. Saturdcrf Morning. December t. 1845 M arshall is Epistles XM; .1'. j His Warning Wcnt IJnliecded Revealed Sri1!:-',:?8 i : If-.' 'II' ' - ; M - - - ' i r ; Probers Hear nip somas TO LOOS I ' The first district republican i congressional ' committee which meets today faces a heavy re- sponsibOity. -Under a ruling of 'Secretary of State Terrell it can 'make nomination of a candi date to fill the existing congres- aional vacancy. Or it could call a reoresentatlve assembly td make nomination. Or . it . could do ' nothing. The 'committee must make ud Its own mind which course to follow. ' If it should make a nomination a ratifying assembly of 250 should be held to Insure a place on the ' ballot Otherwise the court might declare the committee nomination Insufficient ' If a representative assembly Is called its sixe should be sufficient to make sure at least 250 are Presents The congressional com mittee should plan then to ratify - such a nomination to make sure It will receive, the party desig nation. " " , I am of the opinion that an as mblr called by the committee would be the' best plan of mak ing a party nomination. It would be a larger group and so more fuii rmrMMtativc. Delegates should be apportioned to toe ten MumtiM of the district on the basis of their vote for Congress man Mott at the last election or en the basis of republican regis tration. One criticism of this plan however is the delay It would cause. In anv event before the com mittee proceeds to make a nomi nation or to call an assemhiy u should have a definite statement "from all known candidates wheth er they' will or will not abide by " the nomination made by the com mittee or by an assembly. ' Since the first district was es tablished back in the early 180's 1t has always been represented by a republican. That party is till In a decided majority. IU danger now lies in a multiplicity ef candidates who might divide the republican vote. The commit tee must keep this in mind as It deliberates todsy. If it makes its own nomlnatlon.lt should seek to name one who is ably qualified to represent the district In con ITess. . ' GM Anti-Trust Probe Started, Talk Recessed DETROIT, Dec 7-P)-A gov ernment investigation of General Motors corporation f under - anti trust laws was disclosed -today while the corporation and the CIO United Auto Workers wrangled in their wage dispute. The department of justice In , ITT .1. I i a . . 1 " " LX " " " union a- code-cracking secret in the cam nouncement that it was inquiring Brtn,nt awr th Wri into operations of the corporation. which has been crippled - for 17. General Tell of Letters to Dewey WASHINGTON, "Dce.-fT-vSV Gen. George C Marshall told to day how Gov, Thomas E, Dewey complied with his fervent plea to soft pedal ) 1944 campaign debate that might have tipped ; the Japa- neser the .United States. had cracked their code. . Is -The -retired: chief of : staff told the joint committee investigating Pearl Harbor he informed. the re publican nominee of the "utterly Sfi!?.,- "J?1 WUXJTAMfflPOKX. Pa, Dee, 7-Four years ao iuy. Sgt. Joseph t. G0)Pilet ! liNaiiil1 Candidate Delay Possible Pe n ding Calling Of An Msembly Br Wendell Webb (Managing Editor, The Statesman) GOP 'congressional'' committee men or their proxies from the 10- Mimtv firct distrlrt ' wri in Za- lem today to do one or both of two' t tnings: (1) Endorse a candidate to car ry the party , label into the cam paign tosucceed the late Rep, James W. Mott at the January 11 special election; , 4 ;. (2) Call a representative assent-, bly to nominate such a candidate paign arguments over the Pearl Harbor disaster. Dewey, he -said, not only held his own silence but! offered, after the election to help still congressional debate.; .. . : J The latefiPresident Roosevelt, Marshall testified, did not know he had made his appeal to the days by a strike. The union had asked such a probe. Representatives of the' corpora tion and union meanwhile-recess ed a bargaining session until Mon day. reporting little progress in the Kew York and added .f4mn 4V. iTiW-rin'. I ew xorer. ana aaaea. ev wa it waw demand for a 30 per cent wage rate increase within General Mot ors present price structure, GM officials said there would be no company statement on today's "I think he died without know- in n t trw9 SiCtiersi. . , j There were two letters because Dewey, declining to be bound by nego' gtaT but! Wter h not Reuther.UAW vice president, told JV1 to 1 . " , i turned the first one unread to the tlon will give more and more and cal-WM ib7 Sfe? tory Loan! more and finally will wrap It up "trT iT "TV and well all en back to work." r w. TVu-Knr mmHmi th hhmii1i r mM.Rt!rt . Mt. under, the state law which prd- " " i : . . , .tn . .4 duly-designated 1 meeting may place a name on the ballot Candidates Waiting Jockeying for position remained the paramount activity as the 1:30 pjn. session approached, but there was little in the republican ranks to bear out the inference of promi nent democrats that a split was inetritahl. ' Kmmral ' nrvtonHal ran. SPOKANE, ! Dec - (ft - Two didates apparently j were waltnlg . ates before Japanese bombs rained from the skies. His warning west .. anbeeded. Now, ia his more peaceful home setting here, he reads the funnies to (left to: right) his wife, Pauline; daaghter, Michelle Diaane, J, and his sen. Joseph H, age 3 months. (AP Wirephote to The Statesman. ; , Xv:-.'-ii " ---.'.'"t E Bonds Lag ops As Lountv 1 - j - i Over-All Goal 1 Union Plans to Pay Strikers' Expenses : . Marion county is over the top on its over-all quota in the Vie- But E bonds still are. behind; AFL union executives conferred in. Spokane today with leaden of the AFIi Lumber and Sawmill Workers union 'on plans to "pay expenses' of! striking lumber workers In. Spokane area -pine operations. - i- John Christianson. Seattle. president of the lumber union's northwest council, said members schedule, $232,893 worth of this I of the union on the coast were as- ti' . . . . I series belnff needed before mid-i sessins' themselves 10 ner cent of offer tA relnxtatA th 13U rnt In. A ne missives, . one oaiea, aepwi . . . . . . . -,4 i. u 1 4Kt. i .,tv. merely to see what endorsement, if any, might be given. Two of them had definitely scheduled their , own assemblies merely to speed procedure Sieaker of the House Eugene Marsh, at McMlnnville next Fri day, night, and Irmie - Conn, at Lake Grove Monday. . Marsh' name-was figuring particularly heavily in pre-session talk, but several others also were counted LX7CriTY r';23 and the krther Sept 27 1944.H !t"!Jrrfir r.yyr 1-J:-?L I? mucn m the race, including 3 th;HW j;r;,Ti: mentioned 4 ; Pech In (congress "7 rT" 4v.a i Trjr lw e ?QU5lI7 woraers. , waiter Norblad, former state shortly before the strike was call ed at GM plants in 20 states. Deleg ates to hTry to Save Appropriation by Rep. Harness (R-Ind) on the question oz a feari Harbor m vesti gallon. Marshall wrote that although Harness might not so Interpret iti the speech would mean to the Japanese that their codes were being deciphered here. Eeeerd Reveals Announcement that i- Marion county had ' passed its i over-all goal was a feature at the bond premiere held at the capitol thea tre Friday: evening. - ' The county's over-all total was $2,690,000 las the quota and at close of; bond headquarters Fri- Hurley Charg Th congressional record show- - 9WM ed that on Sept 11, IW44, in an .u. -addiss on L floor, he said: i Bond headquarters is determin- Brings Denial From Tniman WASHINGTON, Dee. 7 -ff)4 rep resentative and Astoria attorney, and Dan Harmon, Newberg auto mobile dealer who lost to Mott in the 1944 primaries. backing for Belton ! t There was backinsr. too. for Senate President Howard Belton cf Canby, and Rep. John Steel hammer of Salem also was in the background without a definite :;lifeiiii?rJapaiii DeifDts . WAS foreijnpi secretaries of he United States,' Britala and Russia win meet in Moscow Dec 15, the state department announced tonight, to tackle an array of critical international issues including control of atomic enerar..: . ' -;' . : Secretary of State Byrnes is planninr to fly to the Rus sian capital, probably leaving -Washington early next-week. It is considered; improbable that he will be home by Christmas. . !--,4 f .W .v.; yy :J" i This wiU be the first meeting of Byrnes, Foreign Min ister JJevm oz Britain and Foreign Commissar Molotov of v Russia Declares War .- . - "J Walter P. Reuther, vice president f the United Aute Workers (CIO) tells a mass meeting of ' : the Buffalo. N.Y. area General Meters strikers that the UAW CIO "is determined to fight a total war la Its straggle with the company ever a 31 per cent wage increase Remand." (AT : WIREPHOTO) , r 1 commitment And there remained Ornron'a deWaUon In Mnmu "VxAA i .Vw; fiww ed to leave no stone unturned to- - t" h,X5I K distinct possibility the con- was urged Friday by state officials that General' Short (Peart Harbor j day in an effort to have the coun- -V j Anie-i-a- ' im gressional committee; might reach . . . i i i rn iww it. ir rtnnn mint rw I i i s anu agencies 10 appear oeiore commander wnen me i enemy m icy m Iran had been destroyed by , pramuenuy senate committees to seek rein- struck) received a wire from the Sday nI5nLM 1 . . Undertsecretary of State Dean menrned' for compromise statement of the originally-pre- chief of staff in Washington, "we can do It if we work and Acheson brought a denial today ncmmee- posed $3,000,000 appropriation for about eight hours after the Jap- ever7 ffj01 .Hf UJI Just M from President Truman. ! 4 There , was no indication that surveys and investigation of recla- anese attack.! saying that the gov adition" bonds as we pos- tresMCnt mad- his first repubUcans intended to rely sole- mation projects in western states, eminent in Washington expected Ji61 an wa 7 mes$ Irom comment after Secretary of State ly on the congressional committee ine original appropnauon was a Jananese ultimatum at 1:30 1 uouul V -, wu w Byrnes told the senate foreien re- endorsement if one is given, to reduced to $500,000 by a house p.m, December 7, and the gov- 'i11110 rmtn, in announcing hations conimittee that Huriey had sure a candidate a place on committee. RepresenUUve LoweU eminent had learned very confl-1 Marion county had complet- faileeV: to back un "-his charges ballot Secretary of State Robert $t instructions were ltt OverU total. , against the conduct or American S, Farrell, jr, several days ago Stockman, Pendleton, was said to dentiallv th be particularly Interested In The gent out from the Japanese gov Dalles project which contemplates eminent to ill JaDanese emissa surveys and invesugauons to de- rfes in this hemisphere to destroy lermuie we cost oi imgaung ap- the code." proximately 5000 acres of orchard J t A1 A. -M t -A t A WA M I ' t u iinoi in tnat aumci. i was xear- i tr .t ir ' " tt ed that drr seasons would re. DeaUl March ilOmma liaison to Resume State Police Duties i CoL H. O. (Fod) Maison, now on terminal leave from the army after more than three years of overseas service, will resume his duties as deputy superintendent ef state police here December 33, official announced Friday. ! ' Lee M. Brown,' who has served as deputy superintendent during liaison's absence, will be assigned to another position in the depat- tnent An:n:rl Crachcrf ! By WAJSEN GOODRICH :fc2j )(( 1 mm . year brecihT FBI, Six Cops A-Bomb Keep 4' u . Due at Manila for Trial . , . I Tokyo, Saturday, utc a-vn RaaIcmI An Ijirnv Informed sources said today Lt Ul Sugar Uharire . ' mander in the Philippines when held diplomats in China. . Byrnes In uid candidates bearing tarty en- effect challenged Hurley to do so. I dorsement one to each party At a news conference Mr. Tru-i would - have r their names on the man was reminded that Hurley ballot with ! their party designa. told the committee yesterday that j tion. But the assembly method of I Under-Secretary Acneson destroy-1 zormai nomination also was ex- ed American foreign policy in Iran. - The president was asked whether he thought actually that i j; m i t i j ; i aw m r... jtu ...-ii i m i .v w.u f i tv. wi. i " xrom a eaiem cannery,' was ar-1 iukjo iw wnimi iuwuj wiwm i cagi su 01 uic com vnuit m con mtttM. rested Jtere rnday Dy city police iwiai as; a war cnminai. i innox. l - on a warrant out of Justice court Homma, who submitted; to ar- . Before the session in the finance Victor Knight 1611 N. Com- rest Sept 15, has been held ml committee room of the-senate of- mercial st, and Fred Jacobson, I Omori prison; here. It was indi-1 fice building, three FBI men cased i960 N, . Broadway st, charged I cated plans are oeing maoe w ithe )omt, pulled out every drawer. with receiving . stolen property. I fly him to Manila within a few I looked behind the window drapes and even peeked under the tables. 1 1 Then they . inspected i rooms I above - and .) below the hearing were also booked by city police, days. 'Pupils' Catch 1 - Il W ns j&scapea jq j? ' a. - Woman Driver Accused of Chasing, Crusbing Italand pected.to be followed. Demdcrats, who hate scheduled a meeting here a week from to day, already have published legal notices of a representative assem bly to be held the same day, and thus j apparently, "have T assured themselves 'a candidate , whose right to a party-designated place on the ballot cannot be questioned. May Ran As Independent Candidates not carrying formal party approval would appear only as independents on the voting list Congressional: committeemen scheduled to attend this after noon's session at the Marion ho tel, which will be called to order by -Niel Allen, chairman of the j! PATERSON, N. J, Dec 7 -VP) Dignified, gray-haired Mrs. Ge neva Humphrey, was charged to day by Prosecutor's Assistant Jasper G. Kirchner with chasing her husband with an automobile, cornering him in a blind alley and crushing him to death atop a garbage pile in front of a cellar door. She was held on a murder charge. !'''' . -, I . Kirchner. gave this account of the death of Hugh Edwin 'Hum phrey. . 43. chauffeur-butler to erstwhile suffragist Carrie Chap man Catt and the arrest of his wife, maid in Mrs. Catt's New Rochelle, N. Y, home: The death chase early today in nearby Singac followed an argu ment between the couple that had started shortly after midnight in a taproom 'over another woman with whom the 47-year-old Mrs. Humphrey said her younger hus band had been "running around.1 The Humphrey left New Ro chelle last night for Passaic coun- FORTEAND, OreJ Dec 7 -UP) chamber. They didn't say what two "pupils- f Portland's police they were looking for. " . - : - I school nabbed a couple of escaped state republican central commit tee, include these 20: Benton county - d Allworth and Mrs. Ivan Waterman of Cor vaDIs; Clackamas -1LS. Shrock of Muwaukie and Mrs. J. B. Caid- capitol policemen and posted them j practice patroL at the several entrances to the C-l ; Four students were riding: with nance room and connecting- chanv I Lt , Gene Ferguson in a patrol bers. - J I PC - i -Vz ear when the radio, blared, that rfe comxaltte and it, ad-Ueegon .Ute Tniman Asks Housing Law WASHINGTON, Dec 7 -)- President Truman said today there will have to be some sort of con trol over real estate prices to pre vent inflation. . 4 He also told his news confer ence the administration would shortly announce a plan to re establish a priorities system on building materials. . The purpose of the priorities, Mr. Truman explained, would be to channel supplies of lumber and other materials to home construc tion. As for price Control on real estate, the president said it seemed to be needed especially for small residential building. He added that no definite program had been worked out on this." I TirCr since' the breakdown of the Lon don council of foreign ministers in September. - ; - . -- The mere fact that they have agreed, to get together again at tins time is considered by author ities here to be a hopeful sign of improvement .in relations be tween the three countries. ; The plan for the meeting' In Moscow was suggested by Byrnes on Nov. 24. ' ' ' , KaJa' PreblesM ' - - Here are some of the main problems confronting the govern ments of the three great powers as the time for the foreign minis ters meeting approaches: ', ' 1 L The whole machinery of Eu ropean peace making has stalled as a result of the breakdown of the council at London in Septem ber and there has been no final agreement .on a compromise pro posed by Byrnes that a general European peace conference should . be held by the end of this year the time limits ' now being obvi ously out of the question. . .- . , 1 2.. The . refusal .of the United t States and Britain to recognize the governments of Romania and Bui' garia remains a touchy point with Russia which considers her inter est in those countries to be domi nant . . Disagree n Japan 3. The United States and Russia particularly remain without agree- - ment over allied control machinery or Japan despite weeks of -nego tiating and Russia still holds aloof from the far eastern advisory com mission here. , 4. Another source of : conflict among the powers is Iran where Russian and British troops remain in occupation, one section of the country is lorn by civil strife and the United States only a few days ago lost in its efforts to have all allied troops pulled out by Jan. L well of Oregon City; Clatsop Earle C. Smith of Seaside and Mrs. George Warren of Warren- ton; Columbia C! R. Hallberg of Rainier and Mrs. Dorthy Cold well of Stv Helens; Lincoln W. P. McBee of Toledo and Mrs. Faith Nash of Nashville; Marion George Manolis and Mrs. Vio let Dick of Sflvertoh; Polk Merritt Hart . and ! Mrs. Jennie Eberttng of Dallas; Tillamook Hope B. Moore of Tillamook and Mrs. Beulah Reed - of t Nehalem; Washington Earl Reiser of Sherwood and Mrs. Mathilda Mac rum of HilUboro Yamhill Wal ter W. Russell of McMlnnville and Mrs. Lyle Bridwell of Amity. Mr. and Mrs. I John Lombardo of Wayne . township. visors. Saturday, were on a city bus. The police car screeched to a stop behind the bus and' the convicts lumped out and started to run. Wfllard C ', Freeman and Wil l&rd N. Lee caught the fleeing men after only a 30-foot chases. The convicts were Elmer R. on Border The two couples started In good 1 .hniTIB j a till 111 U8e spirits. They played shuffleboard j i 0 j T , and visited two bars. Then the Ull bUlte HlghWaYS Humphreys bezen to argue over M f J . the other woman. " : I I Chains an required this week- Humnhrev threw ud his ' hands I mnA n rvrsnn mnmhkmtMt and walked out of the diner where nd on several eastern Oregon eTln " they were eating. Lombardo went j roads, highway commission offices axter nun in an eiion to paten up reported here Friday night the quarrel. The two were walk- i w highways in the Klamath Falls area, 67 inches of snow at the Santiam ! Junction and Odell lake eight inches on the Old Ore gon trail at Meachan, with sand ing operations Jn progress; 1 inches of packed snow on The 10 Months Top Secrets Show By Daalel De Lace 1 ing along route' 23 when the Hum phrey's automobile driven by the I wife bore down on them. They j leaped to safety and Humphrey darted up the alleyway. 1 Mrs. Humphrey turned the car around Roy L. ' Waggoner, 25, serving seven for holding up a cigar store. They were taken to the city jtL and began pursuit Humphrey . was I Dalles-California highway, a a d trapped ' and I died under . the wheels. Mrs. Humphrey was sitting silently at the Wheel when police one-way t r a f f i C at Maroanita 1 settle Innetion on ! the .Oregon Coast I San Franciaco highway, where the roadbed had settled earlier in the week were reported. NUERNBERG Dec' 1 7?(ffV-Hitr Grand Ronde bank: robbery,, and I Ur began massing border troops to hurl against Russia almost : 10 months, before the actual opening of the drive to the east" and earlier fought a phoney war In the west for six months only because of bad ' weather, top German se crets bared at the war crimes trial showed today. " r i British and-American prosecu tors unfolded a fantastic story of Hitler's guesses which enabled the German army to crush seven small countries in 13 months, but failed Weather Max. 45 . 4 45 ". - - 43 ' WUIamcttc river B.4 ft. faleaa Euen Portland Kin. Rain 31 ' J 3 '.S3 38 ja 38 Trace t48 , Trace FORECAST (frem VS. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salera): ParUy cloudy, lew scattered ahoweTa today, u.vimum temperature degrees.. . miserably , to estimate the might of the Soviet union. '."" . ', . The erratic. Intuitional character of the German leadership, : com bined with a ruthless military sci ence : and perfidious diplomacy was disclosed ; in scores , of cap tured German 'secret reports in troduced as evidence against the 20 top nazis on trial. ' The -prosecutors, concluding the third week of the historic trial, in troduced documents showing that Hitler began . reinforcing ; trodp concentrations on the Soviet-Ger man border as early as September, 1940, almost 10 months before his June invasion of Russia. : . : Body of Drowned Worker Found : The body of Clarence E. Butts. 88, engineer's aide drowned Thursday afternoon in the San tiam river 1H miles southeast of Jefferson, was recovered Friday at almost the Identical spot where Butts was last seen by his com panions. t A rowboat with outboard motor which overturned in a whirlpool of the swollen river, casting Butts and Jour other members of a riv-. er-sounding party Into the water, U believed , to be beneath a .drift of logs, where the body of the ee-year-old Lawrence, Mass resi dent floated to the surface Fri day. I . t State School Directors To Meet Here Today to complete orranlzation of the Association of Oregon School Boards, school directors from over the state will ' meet here today. George C Huggini of Marsh field is temporary president Of the or ganization, which has as Its pur pose the study of school problems and administrative procedure. , t ! I THOUSHT YDU MJGHT BE . INTERESTED TD KNOW YOU w , II si l t" f I I I n SHOPPJN& Da.YS I 1 , arrived at the scene at 4 ajn, Ii : " :.:. i-.r