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V fac2 roua Th CHTGO!T STATEZMAIl. Scfaa. Oregon, Tuesday Morning. December 11, 1345 Former Salem -is? j Resident Dies "Wo Faror Sways ts; No fear ShaR Awi" From First Statesman, March U. ltll I i ... r"" "7 -''r'., TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAQUX, Editor and Publisher i Member of the Associated . s. The Associated Press it exclusively entitled to the oaa for publication of afl Dtwi dispatches credited; to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. iFIax at Program Mtttinjgs ! . Farmers of Oregon are to hold meetings in looming weeks to consider their Ili46j farm pro j gram Federal and state authorities! will meet with" them to give them the latest ari4 best i information respecting probable market de mands for crops and livestock. On the basis of this information broad polirie"s of operations twill be recommended. Final decision of j what i to grow rests, of course, with the farmer htm- :cif. ' . 1 '-1 The SUtesman would like to jirge these farmer groups in the valley counties to give Especial attention to! flax in their discission. We have reached the! point where' in jtbe central ;'valley more acreage is needed, to Ripply the 'existing plants with flax for processing. There .t even demand in some quarters that the; state ;plant close down or reduce iU operations to give the private plants a better-show. I - We ought to make no retreat In flax-grow-i'lng. Instead the acreage should be expanded to ) provide adequate supplies for the retting and ( scutching plants. We have here an expansion '. of the industry in the way of ! a plant which '-will use large quantities of tow for rope and for rugs. Other expansion njayj come if there f.U assurance of an abundant supply. It is true that flax-growing has not been as profitable as some other crops the past two or three years. But those other crops may not ; always yield the profit they have. Farmers can ' well afford to devote enough of their acres to ; maintain the flax industry here. This piomeer ' lng Is necessary to provide firm base for the v manufacture of flax fiber into articles of com- merce. ) wYhooe the county committees and the col- lege experts will be sure to include flax on ' the agenda or their program conrerences. Price Control on Housing President Truman's endorsement of price con trol over real, estate in the effort to head oft inflation is of doubtful virtue; The "horse" has already been stolen from th unlocked stable. The proper antidote is construction, and now that the lumber strike ' has largely been ended this will accelerate very rapidly. Normally the regulator of prices of old houses is the relative cost of newij houses. Existing houses will bring "price comparable' to the cost of a similar new house! less depreciation, although the time element favors the sale of the house already built As long as construc tion costs remain high, prices of old houses will appear inflated when compared with prices, of former years. lAs soon as construction costs show a stabilization or j decline the froth will quickly come off the top of the price level . of old houses. ' . ' . - There is mo.e basis for the president's pro posal to restore a priorities system for building materials. That was taken of fj only a few weeks ago. There could be little criticism of prefer- ence to veterans for house construction in allo cation of materials. This would be little enough to do to help the returning j service man find a dwelling place for himself and his family. The right slogan of the times might be taken from the "Seven Dwarfs' song: "Back! to work we go." Prices, inflation, housing, appliances, automobiles all will get into fair balance if work is resumed. It must be; resumed shortly. People still must eat! 1 ' : " I - - T, . 1 . t,r.U VftSg vZvZSSSfiZ. The Heat's On ffffl iTfllT (Continued from page 1) Tho Literary Guidepoot "' By W. G. KOGEKS - ? Loef of Military Plan ; -What a tragic roll the record of losses of military planes and, personnel in recent weeks makes. Some, like the Jive naval , planes lost oft Florida, apparently were caught in sudden 'storms. Most of the others were flying into ! slorm conditions. The . transport plane at Bill ; lngs crashed when it tried to land in a snow '4 storm. - -H While these louses have occurred with .army and navy planes there has been no serious loss on the great airlines. The contrast is so ob--vkxn as to make people rise up and ask why the army and navy planes take the risks whtfh the veteran civilian pilots will not do. It' is peacetime; there is no great urgency for mili tary planes to take off intothe stormsL' Since the pilots often are unfamiliar with the routes, there is added reason for caution. ! i There is always the temptation for the pilot to overestimate his own skill, to figure he can get through. But when his plane ut high in the air and' ice commences to form and clouds to hem him in, then he may become helpless. Only Lady Luck will' ride with him s to a safe landing. . j ' . i - h ' The field commanders should have authority 'to ground planes and keep them there until weather conditions clear. Perhaps they t have that authority now. Then they should exercise it more than they do. It b a bitter loss to have personnel who have survived the war die in ' airplane crashes that might have been avoided. The army and nayy should be more vigilant to spare the country and the families of men these losses. ' . !l j Early Settlement?! We shall not be- surprised Jf the HAW and GMC ret together on new contract before long. After U, .-210,000 workers do not like to be walking the streets or doing -picket duty or sitting at home with no?weekly ;pay en velopev And 'the company doesnt relish having' plants idle while overhead expense eats into reserves. . - f . j There is another reason neither side likes the fact-finding committee proposal of Presi dent Truman's. The company! has no stomach for opening its books and the union doesn't, want any government! body . looking 1 into its throat. Mutual fear of government may prompt better relations between management and labor leaders.. If ' - :- ; The sparring . for position has gone on long enough. Time now to be biting into the barrier which' separates the,grbups, so that an agree ment can be reached. The public doesn't want to have to settle the row; but it wants it set tled, and soon. 1 Interpreting I The Davis News By Janes: D. White Awoctatetf Ptcm SUtf 1 Writer - come Injury to Cen George Patton - It was General ! Patton's misfortune to , through the war without a wound only to suffer critical injuries in an automobile accident The accident was similar to thousands which occur In this country. An army truck entered the main highway from a side road, crashing into Patton's car which was traveling towards Man nheim. Patton himself was the only person injured, and now lies partially, paralyzed: in a hospital at Heidelberg. The couMry which owes much to his gallant leadership, regrets his injuries and hopes : for 1 his speedy and complete recovery. I . i i The injury to Patton points up the fact that the automobile is a lethal weapon as -truly as a machine gun or mortar. The casualty list v ranks well. up with those of -military campaigns. Most deaths and injuries due to auto accidents ' are preventable; but the end of the war and ' resumption of motor traffic in volume is making ' casualty lists mount rapidly. People wear out' the slogan "safety first in reiterating it, but fail to apply 'safety rules 'to 'their own travel. SAN FRAMCISCO, Dec.. 10.-fP-An important conference took place in Singapore the other day. There Admiral Lord Louis Moontbatten confer red with his field commanders,! including French and Dutch commanders who are 5 under him in his vast southeast Asia theater. lijj Two important decisions appear to have been made. The first is that the British job is done in French Indo-China, where Brit-, ish troops are preparing to with draw and leave the French, to fin ish the business of suppressing local disturbances connected with a native independence movement - The second Ts the reported de cision to bring into the Dutch East Indies whatever additional forces may be necessary both British and Dutch to finish the large job tKt pMnatna 4Kr -i t In both cases it looks as though Japanese troops still are used and LA 4. D. WhiU BEDSIDK BOOK OF FAMOUS FaEISCM STORIES. elt fey Bell Becker I sb4 Bofeert N. LUucott, ' wita tatr4tioa ky Lewis Gaiaa Uer (KABdem Hmm; S3). ; Twenty-Uiree stories, most of them'by I9t century authors and the others by writers who lived through oneor both World Wars, are coUected here in a book selec ted by the! Literary Guild for . December Theyrer excellent stories; France has produced enough of mis quality to fill many hun dreds more I pages. These have, little in common beyond mastery of form and they're varied enough in subject to suit every- ' one in the; family. .4 - Among old favorites are Bal zac's Grane Breteche," Dau det's -Last Lesson," Zola's "At tack on the i&ll," Anatole Fran ce's masterpiece "Crainquebille' and three by' de Maupassant Re cent writers Include Kessel, Saint Exupe'ry, iilalraux, Sartre, and . Edith Thomas. More idiomatic translations , would improve some of the ear- ' lier stories. ' MT YANKEE"! PARIS, y Beert B. Freach (Tuiiud; fZM). This author .was part of the forces .to- tnf ade France but, as he points out ruefully, he did it so long after -day that the dan ger has passed. If he didn't have to frght Germans, it was still a great adventure because he made the acquajntance of the French. 'His 'book s very slight, and his experiences not so funny as :they -may r&ve seemed at the time. But fr some people, of whom F am ne," any book with Paris in the title is Worth read ing and I wis not utterly disap- , "pointed. There ate Jj good many meet ings with women, and some de velop according . to established though politely deprecated tradi tion. FrenchJ customs and man ners have a mild sort of fun poked at thern, but on the whole the author lives ui to his name. He exaggerates considerably when he says 4,000,000 French men were held in German camps. He gets no sympathy from me for a long wait in line just to hear Prokofieffs "Classical sym phony. And tf he was frequently . lost in Paris, pne reason was that he supposed a ; droite meant "straight ahead" i. . . the idiom he has in mid is tout droit News Behind the News I. , By PAUL MALLON V CDistfibuUon by Kong Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction tn whole j ' 1 ' 1 or In part strictly prohibited.) ! jTragedy atruck twica la the. home of former residents of Salem when Mr. and Mrs. LaDou, San Diego, CaL, succumbed to baart attacks within 2 hours of each other. Mr. LaDou, 84 years, died . vrL followed him in death No- candidates not named, there was Vember 26. Double funeral aenri- no indication of any serious ais- n held in San Diego Ko- chord. ' vember 28. I believe that one factor which ; he LaDous, former residents of may well have been decisive was Salem have been residing in San the recent war record of Mr. Diego, where they were assoda Norblad. While there was only ted in restaurant business. i k one veteran of World war XI on j-rfcey ar survived by three the committee others expressed ,jaughters, Mrs. Esther Ivie, Sa pref erence for a veteran of the Grace Hendricxsen, San s laU war and regarded that as a jjlego; and Mrs. Ida McManamy, distinct asset in Norblad'a favor, cjarlsbad. New Mexico. Four -'although one other candidate, Edward Walter, Harold, and Capt Imrie Conn of Lake Grove jelvine LaDou all of San Diego. also is a veteran of the second c world war. If this is a real straw in the political wind, poll- FATHEK DIES - . ticians will need to take notice. jyr. R. (Bill) Scott, who last ' In -selecting Walter Norblad, week joined the news staff of The the committee named one with statesman as a reporter and pho ' many good qualifications. He tdgrapher. was notified Saturday comes from a good family, his afternoon that his father, William father, Al W. Norblad, having Rpnald Scott, log scaler active in served as senator from Clatsop the lumber industry for 45 years, county, and for a year as gov- hd died of a heart attack while ernor. The family name carries working on the river. The senior weight over the district Walter Sott,was a native of Mill City, a had excellent preparation un- resident of Portland since 1900, a dergraduate and law courses at member ol Portland Masonic the University of Oregon, a year lodge and Al Kader Shrine tem In Harvard law school,-foreign pie. Survivors are the widow, - travel. He served two terms in children, Scott of Salem and Jan the state legislature, made one Ml Scott of Mill Valley, Calif.; a unsuccessful race for republican sister, Mary Holktwell, Portland; nomination for congress. He left brothers, E. M. Scott and Walter his law practice to volunteer in Scott of Portland, Robert Scott, the army and rose to the ran seatue,- ana uavia scott, van of caDtain. He served in the in-J coiuver, B. C. Funeral services are telligence division of the eighth to! be held this afternoon. army air force and made flights j i--- ) f WASHINGTON, Dec 10.Aj few of the bravest administration, congressmen said God loves everyone and the j British loan 'agreement is a good ! one, im mediately after it was announc ed. ".T-; i - I ! ' The suspicious or knowing con gressmen roundly denounced it But the bulk ducked and ran when i! they saw news men com ing to seek com ment. These de tected; a high aroma of un popularity about the whole affair wafted in the first puff of the news f rom the state depart- j . i tr J!J ! Pau M alios mem.jl iney wn not know mucn oi its vast un fathomable ramifications. What hey knew, they did not like. And the deeper they went Into it, the less they liked it It was so' bad few, wanted to be. connected '.with it ; one way or another.1. ' M ! : J Indeed its sponsors, in the sac i red halls of the department, were i; not eager to champion the sue- ' cess of their negotiations in con gress. They rather made . plain j they would welcome a delay at least until parliament has acted ; on the Bretton Woods agreement, I and. would not press for ap- proval until after the Christmas holidays. ; Revising Passible ! If Britain turns down Bretton Woods, our sensationally modest official enthusiasm for this thing. I -The first superficial exanunajl, lion of the proposition by the congressmen' i was enough for most - j I We are to lend Britain far more than her Whole cancelled J first world war debt The amount to be advanced is $3,750,000,000 while the old war debt Still owed is $2,331,000,000, less than two thirds as much. 1 - I The only way we can raise this money is by borrowing from Our people. The interest charge to us is not; less than 2H per Cent The loan to the British car ries only two per cent. But we must pay our -people interest from the date of the loan. AT ByLichty ( Land RrforniB in Japan ; Reforrra in land tenure such as General Mae- Arthur has ordered for Japan may prove the most enduring of all the revolutionary changes hels imposing on;that country. The democracy being set up may -not last The wiping out oi. I family industrial and financial -blocs may be superseded by some new aggregation of capital. I Dut once put the peasant in ownership of the . land he tills and he will rarely part with it. In all countries where vestige of feudalism remain, land reforms are needed. That Is true in Japan where the farmers have been virtual serfs tied to the land, deriving a scanty sub i Utence as they share their produce with, their ( landlord. If the Japanese peasants can become '! land -owners they can be put on the path to psrticipation in government and to a higher itanJard of living. They, at least, may be " ' r-rrr.ancntly grateful to their country's con ,vicror, General-MacArthur.- 'J - will continue to be used to help maintain order for a while. - After a British statement that Japanese troops 'in Java would be used only for -defensive pur poses, it was reported that a Japanese artillery JTLt S.jrT GRIN AND BEAR IT ital of Indonesia. t jf ' Japs U rreteet French . In French IndoOuna reports May that Japanese troops will be maintained under arms to protect French nationals stranded at isolated points until enough French troops arrive to ' handle the situa tion. Meanwhile other Japanese.! forces are being disarmed and concentrated at Cap St Jacques near Saigon. ' ' ' ; ' . j j The Indonesian situation is much more up in the air. Native outbreaks continuf in several places. People are getting killed on all sides Indonesian revolutionaries. Eurasians, Dutch! and British mili tary personneL The British recently bombed vil lages with RAF Thunderbolts tp emphasize their intention to do whatever is necessary to restore ' order. . ' ' ? - . 11 ' ' ! The Indonesian 'situation is complicated by the apparent inability! of the native leaders to control . the extremists among theif forces. The prime mu liter of the independence "government' Sutaa Sjarir, is regarded as a -moderatf man who wants to atop the tolling, but his guerilla bands go on fighting, and even shot down art RAF plane over the weekend. v.!. : fl Seekara SUU Leader : Reports say that the extremists still regard the titular "president' of their government Dr. Soe karno as their real leader.which may explain partially why they seem to disregard Sjarir's pleas to avoid violence. 7 - ' ; In both Indonesia and French Indo-China a cer tain amount of British blood has been spilled in this business of holding the fort: against revolting natives until the Dutch and French respectively coull get back themselves. p i ; Britain's compensation for these losses, when and if the trouble is all disposed of. is likely to be increased British influence over the entire colonial "We have tmmnA m Uay loephale, Herr Keichaaanhall w shall world of southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific. yew defense eat an overactive -pitaKary gland eewdltlen." tvKL, WT'" v1 "r I " A, IX' , F- ' "4 II If HriT - sW -- lM; Interest Start Delayed f Fjbr the British, interest will not i start until five years,! at least so the publicity said. Ac tually her interest payments will not start until five years after December 31, 1945 more than six years hence.' j" IThe British permanent under cttancellor of exchequer. Sir Ed mond Bridges, succeeded in slip ping the extra year in at the last moment ! Britain can use this money any way she chooses. The publicity put stressupon i her likelihood of buying American products. This is but one purpose among many specified. The others 'are so broad as to permit her to spend the sums through her treas ury anyway she wishes. ' , Simultaneous announcement was made by Mr. Attlee to par liament that; of course, he was going ahead with the socializa tion of Britain. To buy i coal mines, utilities and other busi nesses, he will issue bonds to his people, but not delayed action bonds. -No. one can give me off hand the cost of British socializa tion but it will be certainly S3, 750,000,000 added to British ex chequer obligations. If. S. Permits Experiment . IThe use of our money to pro tect the British financial posi tion permits the socialist experi ment Otherwise that added debt could not be carried, judging from the official British state ments of-her financial plight But on our loan, we get no thing for five years (what will happen in this atomic age by then?) while Britain can draw the money as she wants it This is, strangely enough, the best feature of the deal. It gets worse from here . on. The lend lease deal is almost unbelievable. Britain owes us about $25,000,- 000,000 under what Mr. Roose velt deceptively called "lend- lease." . Repayment Ferrettea : Now' it. U officially said this -money and - goods were neither loaned nor leased. Kx. Roosevelt had ' a provision for repayment mi kind, so .we could at least get some of our equipment back for use , or scrap. That is for gotten in the current arrange ment - - ... s '. " , .Britain gets the title to every thins: 'we - have given' her for j what the agreement calls a pay' iment of $30,000,000 to $700,900, ; 000. This . is not a "payment' 1 We merely add it on to the ! loan which is to start becoming :a loan six years after; the money is j. paid. Actually Britain pays nothing unless or until she pays the new loan 58 years hence. ! Ira short we throw away $25, , 000,000,000 Of debt for a new debt of $50,000,000 to $700,000, 000" to begin in six years. ' j What do me get? We get prom . ises. Nothing definite about any thing. No time limit or signed specific plan of - immediate ac tion. We get a hope of negotiat ing the abandonment of the- var- iobs gypping arrangements by which ' Bntam has maintained her trade empire prefeYences, anti-dollar, pools, sterling, blocs, and cartels. NexUatUns rnwaised' They do not promise to aban don all these, immediately or at any time. They promise to nego tiate about abandoning them. Which, of course, means, nothing. Whether , they do abandon these practices or not is left to future negotiations and a -world trade conference next year. 1 Note well Mr. Truman's care ful words about the credit "mak ing it possible" for the United Kingdom to expand multilateral . trade; and Mr. Vinson's claim that it opened "the likelihood of a less competitive trade world. over Germany at the height of the, air war on that country. He is at 36 matured, experienced. vigorous. His nomination merits the loy-1 al support of all republicans. Mrs. Godfrey Dies on Visit Mrs. Frances Godfrey, Salem, FARRELL SPEAKER Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., speaks today at the Salem Kiwanis club's noon lunch eon meeting on "State Affairs."' I - - - Dt RETTES PARENTS OF SON r. and Mrs. Melvin Du Rette, Auroraare the parents of a son born at Deacotfess hospital Sun day. The baby weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces, j i ANNOUNCE BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. Harlan .Wilson, died at the home of her son, Chief 7, Salem, announce the birth Petty Officer Richard Campbell, of ;n 8 pound 7 ounce daughter Oakland, Calif. She was. visiting at peaconess hospital Sunday, her son who had just returned to PORTLAND COUPLE - : uie umiea siaxes aner iour years axnOUNCE BIRTH . ;"1 of duty in the South Pacific. cr .nH Wr. rn Mrs. Godfrey was born in Sa- irI tK. "77.: tT" I .ndMrsTjafririm PoS? ? W she married. John CampbeU of . , ' Portland, where she had made her TALL CITY COUPLE 1 ! home prior to her husband's death. ARE PARENTS V , - - She is survived by two children, I ' Mr. and Mrs. Leon Mason. Fall Mrs. ' Ray Lucas. ' Alturas. Calil; 1 City, announce the birth of a son. and Richard Campbell, Oakland: I Sunday at Salem General hospital. a grandson. Cadet Ricnard Camp bell, Hills Military Academy and two sisters. Miss Emma Godfrey, Salem, and Mrs. Kate McClana han, Oakland, CaliL' : Funeral services will be held at the W. T. Rigdon chapel, Wednes day, December 12, at 1:30 pj m. Interment "will be in City View cemetery. Public Records CIRCUIT COURT MOTHER AND INFANT AT HOME : Mrs. F. E. Watts and infant son of 50 Williams st were dismossed Monday from Salem General hos pital. i ' - . -HASKDLLS AT HOME f IIrs. James HaskUl returned to hei home at 65 Park st with her infant son. They were dismissed frob Salem General hospital on monnay arternoon. DAUGHTER TO Dallas, Motion for order restrain in defendant t DALLAS COUPLE filed by plaintiff. Mr. and Mr OImi FrMnin n- Marguente A. Will v United States I i . . - . National Bank of Portland and others: I UOUnce the birth of a daughter at swSl. -u,UD m nouni 01 meaconess hospital Monday after- rraiuc smoia Edna SmoU: De-lluuo- ine ireenuni reside at renaant liln answer admitting oenymg. SHowend- Ua ttMi HoweTconv 1 SAlJCM! COUPLX PARENTS . ty V'ltS v nd Mrs. Richard Noll, 1070 and others: Ttu of plaintiff to real E- Lafelle st, announce the birth Stt o( daughter at Deaconess hos- nie D. Patterson: Plaintiff files an- Pltal Monday. The baby weighed swer to defendant's eross complaint 7 nbunda 5 rxmr-m - , . ' admittinc and denymc Motion made P00 ounces. , to place suit on trial docket w.j.. Leland B. Sarff.vs Eleanor Louis JOHNSONS ANNOUNCE BIRTH f'iJrtinS Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson fendanfs maiden nam of . Eleanor announce the birth of a daughter TTt &JZ?wr Surulay at Deaconess hospital. The L. . Todd ts John Meyers: Plain. Johnsons reside at 1580 Center st tuTs motion to strike desendants -. Saalliwed?- !uniw WOODBURN COITLE PARENTS PROBATE COURT; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Erwert are Minn Bower, estate: Final account theLparenta of fW bom Sunday. James Miehela. nunithto werxs reside at 313 Brown at . (wain, autnortzed 1 wopaDurn. Elizabeth Paolus. estate: Estate "ao- . IM-M, Sarah F. Hepburn, estate: Final count of Chester M. Coffey, executor. Joseph HUler. estate:' Petttioa by administrator, Robert G. Oostermann. to sell personal property approved. wen - .oie. Buaraianchip estate: Rosa Cole appointed guardiaa. JUSTICE COURT : State Edward H. Pearson: defend ant held to answer on rh.r i... ceny for a buUdinc. State vs Victor Knight: preliminary hearing on charge of receiving stolen property act for B.30 a. nv TJecember MUNIC17AL COURT : TRobertScorel. Jefferson; reckless 1t iinf: sse-fme. - . Erwin L. Frye. ' ISO N. X3rd st laihire to stop: S2M fme- . ' Dean J. Needham. 100 lccGilcnrist DeeembeuT MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS ituric.U" Bewo- . farmer and "'VV- y..l. turkey plant work er, both SUvertoa. , fo Paul I Folx. Is. U. 8. army. S5 tee rt. and Vera Jean Fry. isclerk. 1W Hines t both K.w CIer' PprceO. Okla, and Nona Led better 32. awUchboard. operator. Woodburft.' CHILD AT HOME Jack Fitzmaurice, V route" 4, Salem, was dismissed from Dea coness hospital Monday. We got "possibniUes" and "lik lihoods"; and thev sot the 25. 00000)00 we have already sup plied Plus $3,750,000,000 more at less . interest than it will cost our treasury to raise the money, Jewelry : or men Cuff Tint ,. r-ti . and Collar Seta. Key Chains, Alsa) sv fin ' T" " TTatehea and Leather Gaoda. "... V t w. m XJ Canri Street v , uyjrwpose. sre chooses.