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Sm, brtgon. Tuesday Morning, December-18, 1945
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No. 223
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BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec CALM AFTER THE STORM
A thick blanket of now rorered trees, streets and automobiles today
after Baffalo's weekend blizzard. . This scene alonr a side street
is typical of conditions throoxboot tbc city's residential districts.
(AF TTlrepboto to The Statesman)
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11,000 Oregon Rg
Vets Apply for
Jobless Pay
It is a sad commentary on the
current low state of Interest in
-politics and on the present mori
bund state of the democratic party
in this district that fewer than
one-half of the number required
for a nominating assembly gath
ered at the armory last Saturday.
The meeting was properly called,
was well advertised; and certainly
its purpose, the nomination of a
candidate for congressman, was
of the highest political impor
tance. Moreover, the party had
the opportunity of nominating
man of capacity and of standing
In the person of Bruce Spaulding,
Salem attorney. It was truly a
sorry showing. j
Members of congress will pass
on questions dealing intimately
with the lives of this and of fu
ture generations. All the great
Issues of our time, both domestic
and international, come before
this body for decision. How peo
ple even In the rush of Christ
mas shopping can be so indiffer
ent to their responsibilities of citi
zenship, particularly the members
of a great political party long se
curely In power in Washington,
can hardly Je understood. If peo-
Nearly 11,000 of Oregon's 75,000
returned servicemen have filed
applications under the GI bill; of
rights for readjustment allowan
ces and 4832 payments were made
last week, . state unemployment
compensation officials said here
Monday.
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Accidents
Blizzards 1
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A pre-wiiiter cold wave which
has caused mt least 30 deaths and
set record llow temperatures . In
some sections of the country set
tled down last night for a long
stay. - 1 j ,
Aside from some moderation
I the gulf stales and slightly higher
4ovnrfcAi-au A in wort, rf 4Via tvii)
Last week's payments marked 1 ye& f0recasters
four or five more days . for most
of ; the country. ' If
A paralysing siorm caused three
in
an increase of 45 percent
previous week.
Almost another 75,000 are still
in the armed forces, but the rate
of discharges (now approximately
20,000 per month) is expected to
slow up after the first of the year,
it was said.
Unemployed veterans in Oregon
will draw $350,000 in readjust
ment allowances this month, it
was estimated. Under an agree
ment with the veterans' adminis
tration, payments in each state
are handled by the unemployment
compensation commission.
The Portland office accounted
for less than 35 per cent of the
readjustment allowance payments
up to November 30; Salem ranked
second with 1534 checks; Coos
Bay had 834; Klamath Falls 689;
Toledo 408 and Oregon City 404.
Morse Blasts
can omraij p iumotiuoo. ii po-1
uuuci as cicviuis wnat ngut uvc
they to complain of the course of
their, government? And IX our
democratic privilege of nominat
ing and electing public officials
is treated with such disdain what
right have we to condemn the
non-democratic regimes of coun
tries less schooled in democracy?
The fiasco of the Saturday as
sembly made Spaulding's own ad
dress to boomerang. He denounced
the previous republican congres
sional committee
(Continued on editorial page)
6 Total Toll in
Train Wreck
WASHINGTON, Dec. n.-(JP)-Senator
Morse , (R-Ore) told the
senate today that it was finishing
"one of the most remarkable do
nothing sessions in history' but he
refused to agree to a debate limit
to speed business.
Instead, he proposed night ses
sions all this week to get pending
measures out of the way.
After three different measures
had been before the chamber in
two hours without action on any
of them Senator Downey (D-Calif )
proposed the limitation.
"This forum must be maintained
as an open forum with unlimited
debate protected from steam-roll
er tactics In the closing days of
the session of the senate," Morse
declared.
The senator had his way and
the senate went ahead without
deaths in die Buffalo, N. Y, area,
together wih one at Dunkirk and'
one at Waf&rtown; a 75-year-old
man was found frozen to death
in a ditch linear Huntsville, Mo.t
five' deaths in Ohio were attrib
uted to the cold; two died in sled
ding accidents in Pennsylvania
and a death in Philadelphia was
attributed to cold and exposure;
in West Virginia, icy pavements
caused tnee highway deaths;
snow and ids-covered roads caused
two' traffic! deaths in Maryland;
train-automobile accident at
tributed
killed six
death was
a Portland! Ore
to a pedestrian's
a foggy windshield
Illinois and another
ttributed to exposure;
death was due
fall on ice. i v
At least three deaths in Michi
gan were Attributed to the cold.
Lackawanna, a city just south
of Buffalo, recorded 68 inches of
snow,- and the. weather bureau
said several drifts up to eight feet
in height had accumulated In the
dty during; the four-day storm.:
Foreign Ministers OpenMoscoiv Conference
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SMreas'
Seek'To
Join City
Supreme Court .
Holds Decision -On
Jurisdiction
By John B. Owen
WASHINGTON, Dee. .17
(ff)-The supreme court of th
nation granted a stay of exe-
cation today to Japanese Gen
eral - Tomoynki Yamashita, '
v j-" "iio Ai '""--ipmicicn bjs si war criminal.
tion of suburban areas to the City
of Salem were introduced In' the
city .- council " meeting Monday
night. And the council authorized
the. city fire department to serve
two of the districts, petitions from
which, had gone through the spe
cial boundary expansion commit
tee of the council.
Those areas included the north
highway area in the vicinity of
the Bonesteele holdings (more
than 90 acres) and the Valley
Packing company property. iThe
third petition, which was referred
to the committee, is apparently
for a portion of City View ceme
tery addition and includes as
signers Charles A. Goodwin for
-. The former "tiger of Malaya,"
convicted by an army commission
of permitting wholesale atrocities
in the Philippines sped a petition
here by air mail asking that the
case be taken out of the hands
of the military.' " l
The supreme court Justices held
a hurried get-together and granted
a stay of the death sentence.
whether the high tribunal actually
will take Jurisdiction over the
case and thus decide the legality
of the military trial was not
immediately announced, however.
It was believed unprecedented
for a foreign enemy general thus
to appeal to the supreme court
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However, it is usual for the court
uec, 17 orein mnusiers 01 we rag xnree get toseuier in Moscow alter their first meeting Dec. 16. tion and R. L Skopil and Lorayne u k". ir
Left to 'right: Ernest Bevin of Qreat Britain; Vyacheslar M. Molotov of Kossia and James F. Byrnes
of the United States. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Moscow to The Statesman)
Lindbergh Favors World Stalin Back in
Union Backed byMilita ry Drivers' Seat
As Talks Start
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-P)
-Charles A. Lindbergh, a pre
war non-interventionist, called
tonight for a world organization
backed jby mliitary power and
guided jay the "qualities repre
sented in Christian ideals."
"I have advocated tonight a
world Organization backed . by
A n At A J 1 .mm
said, Man organization led by!
pending a decision on whether the
appeal should be reviewed.
Yamashita is not appealing di
rectly ; from the sentence. That
City fire protection and water might! come later. He is fighting
m ucuuuu ui uic inn pjnitra ftu
preme court denying his conten
tion that the military tribunal
was without jurisdiction.
Skopil, holders of property in that
area just south of the city limits
on Commercial street.
Water to be Stopped
craft and atomic energy in the
future, that twill mark a greater
epoch1 in human relationships
than their invention marked in
science," Lindbergh told an Aero
club dinner; marking the 42nd
anniversary ; of the Wright Bro
thers' flight, . ?
' "Yet if we fail, the penalty' Is
staggering. We can succeed only
by organizing all nations toward
LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 18
VGeheralissimo Stalin has rer
turned to Mosco from a vacation
of mor than two months.1 The
Moscow- Iradio said briefly today
that Stalin, who had been vaca
tioning Shear Sochi on the Black
and sewer service (except in
cases where old contracts existed)
are to be denied areas outside the
city not taking, any steps to come
within its boundaries. . Deadline
for rural fire service was Decem
ber 2. . !
An ordinance fixing new fees
for the right to perform a variety
of services in Salem was with
drawn on motion of Alderman Ed
Acklin, who said after the council
session that it had been opposed
by businessmen who maintained
it should be given a public hear
ing. ' .', :. , ':
Action on an ordinance which
wesWiPeoples who developed! For we ?cvr
um oofty, fact that aircraft and the atomic r vil j..Ji uuic would have . vacated specified
i - I L r w. , J. dition, where the Keith Brown
w t ,Z i'-- industrial enterprises are propos-
Insecurity. ; tt Tj c7T j .7 7 " TT ing expansion, was Indefinitely
-To nS it is no longer a quas- &s postponed It has hung fire whfle
KOLLOCK, S. C, Dec. 17 -UP)
The collision of the Seaboard Air
line's Florida-bound Silver Me
anrt nnrth-bound Sun Oueen
here in the sub-freezing pre-dawn debate limit
Sunday cost six lives and left
ni Ksirk!t 9lix1 triHav
It was first feared that more PattOn Getting Well
had been killed but General Man- p
ager J. C wroton ox tne &ea- "liKC IIOUSC Alire
boara, aner a cnecx toaay, piacea
the death toll at six.
The Sun Queen was pulling
Into a siding at this northeast
South Carolina hamlet at 3:45
a.m. when the Meteor, coming
through the darkness, crashed
Into It, derailing five cars on each
train and the Meteor's locomo
tive.
U.S. Canada to
Join pDef enses
IWASHINGTON, Dec 17.-(V
The United States and Canada are
cooperating; on Joint defense meas
ures gainstlany future attacK, par
ticularly across the' Arctic regions,
allied diplomatic officials dis
closed today. '
As one step, the U. S. has as
signed six Observers to accompany
tne uanaaian army ana an- zorce
expedition which will make j a
3100-mile ji Expedition through the
Arctic earbr next year to gather
iniormauon on possioie tuiwtj
operations In that region. The ex
pedition wll be suppi'ed by air.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold has pre
dicted that the next war may
bring attacks across the north pole
with atomic weapons.
CAB DRIVER II ELD
Gordon L. Clark, 38, 430 S.
. 18th it, who police say was the
driver of the cab which struck
and killed Victor T. Lynch Sat
urday night was arrested Monday
on a warrant out of Salem Justice
court charging Involuntary man
slaughter . by Deputy Sheriff
James Garvin. Ball has been set
at $1000.
Animal Cracltcn
By WARREN GOODRICH
HEIDELBERG, Dec. n-JPh
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., sat up
in his hospital bed today for the
first time since his automobile ac
cident eight days ago, after doc
tors removed a traction apparatus
which had realigned the vertebrae
in his broken neck.
Army medical authorities, who
substituted a plaster cast which
encases Patton's neck and the up
per part of his chest, said the
colorful 15th Army . commander
was getting well "like a house
afire."
and its atomic bomb.
"But il. must confess to you
that I am fearful of the use of
power. ;I plead for strong mili
tary forces only because I be
lieve the alternative Is worse."
He then recalled the fate of
France, .Poland, and other coun
tries, adding that "power is es
sential to survival; it is essential
to freedom; it is essential even
to justice."
"If we are able to prevent the
misuse of power based on air-
-vr-JSomb have brought us to a time
When we wiu either live In an
organized world or in constant
tion of whether or not we should
have world (Organization, but of
what form jit should take. I do
not believe, it would be wise
even if it were possible for this
country to! dominate the world
by force." I ' ;
As a civilian technician, Lind
bergh was j in both the Pacific
and European theaters.
foreign i commissar Vyacheslav M.
Molotov presiding as permanent
chairman, met for two hours late
today but there was no announce
ment of the progress of their con
ferences S on multiple world; prob
lems. It was learned that U.S.
secretary of state James F.
Byrnes 9nd British foreign secre
tary Ernest Bevin had asked
Molotov jto preside as chairman.
Wages gloves Upward
In Lumper Industry
1 More than 30 per cent of all
regular hinbber and logging work
ers in Oregon received wages in
excess :of $3000 during 1944, coin
pared to 72 per cent in 1943, the
state unemployment compensa
tion commission reported here
Monday, f- ft
pklore than half of the indus
try's workers earned : more than
$2500 while 48.5 per cent earned
less than $2000.
Soviet Blamed
For Iran Revolt
WASHINGTON, Dec 17.-(ffH
United States officials expressed,
oeuei toaay inat xne . uprising
which led to the creation of an
autonomous regime in Azerbaijan
was inspired and not spontoneousj
These officials, who asked not
to be identified, said this govern-j
ment attributed the troubles in
northern Iran largely to the pres-j
ence of Russian occupation troopsi
A request that the United States;
register a vigorous protest with,
Moscow was made by Iranian Am4
bassador I Hussein Ala.. After a
visit to acting secretary of statej
Dean Acheson, he told reporters;
that Russia had deliberately en
gineered establishment of the
Azerbaijan regime.
Sales Tax Recommended
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To Tax Study Commission
G - CUrtn SSyn OHf
cm very fond of you,
Dowser, but will you please
stop pouring mer
A sales tax as the answer to
Oregon's taxation problems was
recommended Monday to the
state's special tax study commis
sion in resolution from the East
ern Oregon Wheat league.
Presented by F. H. Young,
Portland, manager of Oregon
Business St Tax Research, Inc
the resolution maintains that the
burden on property will become
oppressive and out of reason un
less new sources of state revenue
are tapped to offset diminishing
state income tax receipts.
Before the sales tax is placed
on the ballot again , there should
be a year's educational campaign
to convince voters of its merits,
the league recommended. Reject
ed several times by Oregon's voW
ers, tne tax nas Deen opposed
particularly by the grange and
labor.
Discussion at the meeting .of
the commission centered also on
the personal property tax which
several members declared sets up
unreasonable barrier against
an
new industry, urging that if it is
retained if be placed on a dil
ferent basis covering an entire
year instead of being restricted,
as now-, to a specific date. A
number of crops escape their
share of the levy now, it was de
clared., ii liu-'-! , -K I
? No delegations appeared at the
session, where an advalorem tax
On the basis of production also
was discussed. Principal problem
before the commission, members
agreed, is ; the unearthing of new
tax sources because of , the im
pending -decline in various exist
ing revenues Just as the demand
for added funds . Increases. Al
ready the state board of higher
education! and the state public
welfare commission have indicat
ed they will seek additional funds
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Eclipse 6i Moon AUe vrecK
Visible Tonight if Causes Death
Weather i Permits
Housing Conference
Opens on Sour Note
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-(-
The CIO today endorsed the ad-j
ministration's appeal for price
ceilings on houses, but a spoKes-j
man for? home builders said such
controls would "emasculate the
industry."
While labor and management;
delegates; to a government spon-j
sored housing conference clashed
on this point, they Joined in rec
omm ending that it be made clear
to the public there can be noi
quick solution of the housing
shortage. .
MAIL ZONES TO CONTINUE
WASHINGTON, Dec. VHJPH
The post 'office department said
today that postal zone numbers on
city addresses ' will be v continued
permanently.' The department ad
opted zoning on May 1, 1943 to
expedite mail deliveries. -
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Willamette river 1J fL
, FORECAST (from UJ5. weather buf
reau, McNary field. Salem): Yog this
mornine ufunc cleanns shortly after
noon. Maximum temperature 40 dc-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-W)
a total eenpse or the moon
will be visible weather per
mittingin the United States
tomorrow night. ;
The eclipse will start at 4130
p. m. and will end aV-8:03 p.
m. The period of totality will
be from 5:40 p. m. to 7 p. m.
During this time when the
moon passes completely into
the shadow of the earth the
satellite assumes a dull, cop
pery red color.; .;
On the west coast the moon
Will already be partially eclip
sed wnen n rises. '
NEWARK, N. Jn Dec 17-rV
The motorman of a Hudson St
Manhattan tube train was crushed
to death and 46 passengers were
injured ihere tonight when the
train, loaded with home-bound
commuters, crashed into the east
end of a! Passaic river life bridge
between; Harrison and Newark at
about 7:27 pjn.
Emergency railroad crews,
rushed: to the scene, worked for
three hours with acetylene torches
in the near-zero temperatures to
extricate the train's conductor
and two passengers trapped, in the
wreckage. Their cries for help
could be heard at the Harrison
tube station 500 feet up the track.
the matter of a zone change to
permit Industrial development
there was under consideration.
The planning and zoning com
mission's recommendation that
the zone change be permitted was
presented last night to the coun
cil and sent back to the commis
sion because It was believed a ref
erence In the report to a remon
strance by "35.2 per cent of prop
erty .owners' should have read
"owners of 35.2 per cent of the
property.
Council Tables
The council tabled for two
weeks an ordinance which would
double the license fee for bill
board concerns. It tabled also ac
tion on a proposed preliminary
agreement for a contract for pur
chase of the remainder of the
Bush pasture property following
the January 1 . election, when the
question of a bond issue for the
park purchase will be presented
to the voters again. Accepted at
the June 22 election, the bond
amendment ' was illegal because
the election had not been properly
advertised. Council members
asked last night that they be
given more opportunity to study I Hicnut.
in resolution form.
Snowed-in Snow
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BUFFALO, N.Y, Dec 17
-)-Five' rotary snowplows -ordered
last March by" Erie coun
ty highway superintendent Ar
thur J. Yaw finally have
arrived but they're not helping
to combat the present record
snowfall. ' - i
Yaw said today he had been
informed they were in the New
York Central yards, adding
wistfully: i :j
j"I am trying to locate thern
Maybe they're snowbound.' i
FINLAND HAKES PAYMENT
WASHINGTON, Dec. ll-OPl-
The treasury said today Finland
: had made another payment of
$258,0S4'74 on its World war I
I debt ! i
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Police Crash
CIO Lines With
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GM Employes
' : By th Associated Press
With the aid of police squads
who charged through: one picket
line in a flying wedge' formation.
General Motors began getting- its
salaried .-employes back into its
strike-bound Michigan plants yes
terday. A - restraining order against
Michigan pickets was Issued late
today in Tansing by Circuit Judge
Charles H. Hayden. .
He directed pickets to cease in
terference with GM office em
ployes . seeking to enter three
strike-bound plants there.
The ' police charge was made
against a picket line at the GMe
AC spark plug division in Flint,
Mich, after a police-union-management
conference on the picket
ing question, j
The corporation, meanwhile, resumed-
its negotiations with the
UAW, demanding a "corporation
security" clause in any new agree
ment reached, J
General Motors also demanded
"there be an adequate guarantee
that the union win make good on
its pledge to eliminate personal
attacks, false accusation and vilifi
cation of management through un
ion publications, handbills, litera
ture and " releases.
The GM dispute will be transfer
red to! Washington Wednesday
when both sides wul meet with
a fact-finding board named by
President Truman to study . the
DEAD TO BE RETURNED
WASHINGTON, Dec Yl-iJPf
Legislation directing the war de
partment to itturn for burial in
this countr.- an estimated 300,000
bodies of Americans killed abroad
was passed by th house today
and sent tc the senate.
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Admiral's Warning Held Up
By Red Tape in Washington
Snyder to Speak on j
Kindergarten System j
Interested in adding a kinaer
garten to Salem's public school
system, ; the Salem Junior Wom
en's club has Invited Walter Sny-
JSiJTffiS?S?: Mgehc immediately before and
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.Pr-A
naval intelligence expert testified
today he wanted the U. S. fleet
warned four hours before the Jap
anese stkick at Pearl Harbor. He
said he so advised the chief of
naval operations, Admiral Harold
R. Stark. ; ' : . '
This jtestimony was given- to
congressional Pearl Harbor inves
tigators by Vice Admiral Theodore
S. Wilkinson, chief of naval, in
schools here, to address them and 1 7 W41 att4ck
representatives of other clubs at
the chamber of commerce at 7:30
Wednesday night The meeting is
open : to the public -
LUMBER PRICES RISE .
WASHINGTON, Dec 17 -yFj
Manufacturers' ceilings for al-
increased il.50 oer 1000 feet., ef- breaking off negotiaUons.
fective Dec 22. the OPA. an- I T went to see Admiral Stark
nounced today, t - ' ' "In hls:offlce about 9:15 a. m.'
Describing receipt of the 14th
part of the Japanese message to
Secretary of State Hull the morn
ing of Dec. 7, Wilkinson testified:
"It was brought in to me at my
office about 9 o'clock in the morn
ing. To! me, they were fighting
words," iThey meant more than
Stark tried to call general of
the army George C Marshall,
Wilkinson recalled, and couldn't
reach him. There was another
conference at 10:30 or 10:40 a. m.
The committee . has had testi
mony that Admiral Stark at first
disagreed with General (Marshall
on tne ground it might be "con
fusing. Marshall determined to
send one shortly before noon and
said Stark asked him to route it
to naval officers, also. That was
done -but it arrived at Hawaii
while the bombs were dropping.
Marshall said he learned of the
Japanese message after 11 a. m.
Earlier in his testimony Wilkin
son told of seeing in 1941 a Japa
nese code message dividing Pearl
Harbor into five areas, but said
he did not recognize it as the
precise bombing plan it turned
lout to be. ; : .
Salem Man Killed,
2 Injured in Wreck
A head-on collision one mile
north of the dty on the Portland
highway Sunday night claimed
the life of Paul Hankins, 24, 637
N: 17th st, and sent Joe Hankins,
a brother, and Eugene Kelly to
the hospital. Stephen Selensky,
Gervais, driver of the other car,
escaped serious injury. .
Hankins is ! survived by his
mother, Mrs. Nellie Hankins, and
two sisters, Margaret Hankins and
Mrs. Dorothy jSchell, both of
Salem.
toE CAtfT GET A CONFESSION,
ICHIEF-ALL HE KEEPS SAYING
IS THERE'S ONLY
7M00E SHOPPING
I W DAYS UNTIL
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