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Newspaper Page TextTAGS 1X1111? Th OREGON STATESMAN. Satan, Oregon. Friday Morning. December 21. 1345 10 Lives Taken In Northwest - Due To Fires SEATTLE, Dc. 20 (AV Hve flrw accompanying the winter's severes t cold have taken 10 lives In Washington and Oregon the past 43 hours, three in a rooming house blaze here early today. Property loss in other Washington ' fires this week tops the quarter million dollar mark. A two-story wooden home in the rirst Kill district, near hot pitala, was fire-swept shortly aft er 9 a. m, trapping two women ' and an elderly man. They were Mrs. Myrtle Kaefer, landlady, Mrs. Anna Peterson and Fred Winters, A Spanish-American war veteran. Oecapants Escape . A woman boarder, Lucille Col lins, awakened by the smoke and flames, ran from her room and gave the alarm. Merle C. Stall- . cop. living next door,- was unable to break into the back door of the burning building but meantime the other occupants escaped. Three were .seriously burned. : Eight miles east of Kent, south of Here, a farmhouse fire burned Thomas Menty, about 55, to deatfe about 1a.m. His wife was awajK for the night. ( , Leeal Fire Added The worst of yesterday's Crbs was . near Woodburn, Ore., In which Mrs. Bessie Seely, 25, and her three babies perished. A child was fatally burned here and an , elderly man died in a Mount Ver non fire. I . The property loss at Mount Ver non was $80,000 and a paper box company plant was destroyed at Tacoma yesterday,! with $50,000 loss. Other bad fires this week were at Kelso, Copalis Beach and Belfair, near Bremerton. ' Legless Flier Weds -. 4 A Bill Proposes To Give River Control to U.S. . WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-JP)-Creation of an authority; to de velop the resources of the Colum bia river region in Washington and Oregon is proposed in identi cal bills introduced today by Sen ator Mitchell and Rep. Jackson, Washington democrats. The authority would be pattern- . ed after the Tennessee valley au- ' thority and have headquarters In the northwest The CVA would have authority to generate andj distribute hydro- electricity, irrigate arid lands, im prove navigation facilities, pre vent floods, conserve soil and pro tect forests and wildlife. ' . "Congress must soon adopt some kind of a policy regarding widely scattered functions in the Colum bia valley," Mitchell and Jackson said In a statement There much confusion. The handling of power facilities alone is on a confused basis with different agen cies operating the dams." "This measure," he continued, . "incorporates suggestions made by ; the president to us in our dis cussions with him. It provides for sound and orderly development of a unified basis rather than un der piece meal arrangements now prevailing." I f -.'V v .V'i : w -'VVt (7 '-:iV-': I l -"' i ' ' : . ' CeL Graham W. Weil, 34, of Portland, Ore, army flier who lost both legs In North Africa, was married In Denver, Colo., to Phyllis HoUey, S3, of Beverly Hills, Calif. With artificial limbs, West flew again in the Normandy invasion, only to be knocked on t of action by nak wounds. (Ar wtrepnoto) ) . - Insurance Commissioner Condemns Federal Control Any very strict surveillance of the insurance business by the federal government, with an accompanying tax, could be come a heavy burden upon the business, which in some: states already bears an unfair portion of the cost of government, Seth E. Thompson, state insurance commissioner, declared as he addressed the Salem Lions club at iti Thursday luncheon meeting, For almost 100 years insurance CIO, GM Talks li , To Continue Despite 'Policy' (Story also on Page 1) . ; By the Associated Press v At the request of President Truman's newly appointed fact finding board General Motors and the. UAW .. agreed .to meet . this morning to try to - agree on a basis for resumption of collective bargaining on the. strike Issues. I The president's statement T of pol'cy came a few hours after General . Motors informed Mr. Truman's fact-finding b o a r d it would withdraw from 1 hearings on its wage dispute if profits and prices were considered as evi dence, f Walter 0. Merritt, New .York labor lawyer who represented the corporation, told the board the issue of profits and d rices was entirely irrelevant" to the hear ing since General Motors was 'not pleading poverty or inability to pay." ... - Confidential Merritt ; Contended the union had demanded highly ' technical and conf i d e n t i a 1 information on the company's financial posi tion which; would have to be based on speculation and predic tion "on future conditions. ; He added the union, if such informa tion were given, could weU sug gest that the company operate its business differently to save money or otherwise attempt to influence management operations. President; Truman said that since neither the government nor its board would endeavor to fix a rate of return for the employer "since wages are paid out of earnings, the question of earnings is relevant.? ! i Informed!; that General Motors had objected to submitting its records tola fact-finding board, the president said he was sorry to hear that and hoped they would Of a 12.4 per cent wage fate in crease and negotiations were ad journed to Jan. 8. i . ! "Shackle" Unions J I T r The union criticized a condition attached to the 1 wage proposal that the ' union not seek more wages even if higher OPA price ceilings are granted for. new cars, asserting this would "shackle" the union. It charged that "aurrender of other union demands such. as. increased vacation pay, ..removal of interplantand intra-plant'in-equalities"would amount to no in crease at an ior some employes. . Schools jGlosed By Icy Roads, Flu Epidemic VANCOUVER. Waslu Dec- 28 -6P)-The flu epidemic, coupled with icy roads, today had halted Classes in 27 Clark county schools with total enrollment of abouf 4000. Influenza closed Camas schools where officials reported 225 stu dents and 18 teachers m. " xne Vacolt grade school also was shu down because of illness, -which was blamed along with: sleet for clos ure at Battle Ground. - Treacherous highways,: slowing and-stopping school buses,-, were responsible for most of -the othe- Closures, officiala said. Vancouver in this country has been regu lated by the various states, which have established similar laws but have made provision for specific conditions peculiar to their own areas, Thompson said. Recently, insurance was declared "com merce" and as such most of it may be regulated under the inter state commerce provisions of the federal constitution. To date that regulation has been either expen sive nor troublesome, he indicated. Costs High Because of the long term con tracts involved in insurance more regulation has been required than over other types of business deals. Thompson said. In Oregon, insur ance regulations cost $40,000 to $50,000 to administrate, but the policies pay a 2 per cent tax which amounts to 51,250,000. In some states the tax is 4 per' cent. Thompson spoke of taxation for other than the purpose of paying costs of regulation as Unfair in states where other commodities are not forced to pay a sales tax. Insurance Is second only to transportation in the United States in the amount of money involved, Thompson said. E ? Carols Played frank Sanders, Laons accom panist,' played a group of Christ mas carols as a special feature of the! luncheon meeting, which was held in the mirror room of the Marion hotel, where a big Christ mas tree was lighted. 0 The 25,000 civilian airplanes in the UJS. in 1941 represented one plane for every 5200 people. reconsider, Kecess The GM ; fact-finding board re cessed until Saturday, before re suming a study of the month-long strike which has kept more than 200,000 idle. By then, the board said, it would have- reached de cision on (whether to consider prices and I profits in relation to wages!. f Under legislation advocated by the president and up for consid eration in congress after the Christmas holidays, fact-finding boards would be given authority to subpoena records power lack ed by fact-finding boards now in AvIetatnM I V Aid V-U j: . " Efforts to restore harmony on another front in the automotive industry were stalled when the CIO-UAW j rejected as a "mock ery" a Ford Motor company offer Truman Sets ' i ' j - Out to Rescue Full Job'Bill . WASHINGTON, DecJ . 20.-iPr President Truman set out today to rescue nlslsoalled fuU-employ-inent bill, terming, a bouse substi tute inaectablATW r cri. . " He disclosed ; that he l has- made an appeal to a joint congressional conjmittee.llor quick enactment of a measure passed by-the senate, which he said meets the essential characteristics of his program. . At the same time, the chief exe cutive disclosed he will! apeak out forcibly soon on a congressional proposal to transmer the U. S. employment service - back to the states over his opposition. In his final news conference be fore Christmas, Mr. Truman also said he wants navy secretary For- restal . to remainat his post at least for the present, despite their differences over army-navy uni fication. i i J r UNO Preparatory Group To Select 6 U. S-iQUes LONDON, j Dex. 20 -()-.The United Nations 'preparatory ypr mission decided .tonight to set ep a committee with representaUvea from 12 nations which: will tour the ; United States .and select t maximum;o six cities as candi dates ior a world capital. : r f ; 1 The committee will fix a dead line for new1 offers and for bear ings from representatives! of pros pective sites' for headquarters, of the -United - Nations organization. schools stayed open. Among those shut down in Clark county's 23 districts: Walnut Grove, Chelat- chie,-Pleasant Valley, Good Hope, Fargher Lake, Amboy, Union High, West Mill Plain, EasVMill Plain, RusselL Fisher, Proebstel, Or chards, Burton, Harmony, and 'Pleasant Valley. Weallier Holds Back 1 Trnnn-Tjirrfer FLmes 5 SEATTLE, Dec 20 -ilPh Two-1 giant aerial troop carriers hurry infilo Seattle to speed xnldwestern veterans home for Christmas baye landed at Great Falls Mont, bei cause of weather -conditions" the -Seattle port "embarlatlonre ported . tonight. ". Vs ' i . -. c - The big I planes were to have landeoy.at jBoeWfSdd bere.,iv 530 p, m. (PST) and started the return; to- Chicago Journey at. 7 p. : m; each carryintr 100 men. Jus! Arrived Ilev; Shipment THRILLING COSTUME IT Reforestation Bill Postponed WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -)-Pkuns to obtain a congressional appropriation to rehabilitate areas in Oregon and Washington na tional forests have been abandoned until after Christmas, northwest senators said today. The senators decided not ) to' lurry the measure after forest service officials told: them incle ment .. weather would delay . the work unUl spring or later. Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore) said the work would require about $1, 000.000. . , Morse quoted Lylc Watts, forest service chief, as saying the service had no funds for restoration and maintenance at Timberline Lodge, 800 camp and picnic spots and 23 ski areas In Oregon. w m , . s The Gift she will enjoy and thrill her. Choose your gifts from the large selection at the.Fashionette. f 1 REDS HANG 7 NAZIS LONDON, Dec. 20-OFr-The Moscow radio said tonight that seven German storm troopers (SS) convicted of war crimes were hanged at noon today in a Smolensk square before . 50,000 onlookers. M i- 1 A new spray has been developed which kills weeds among vege tables at a cost of less than $12 per r.cre, as compared with about $G0 for hand-pulling methods. ' I Drs. Chaa . . . Lena 1 Dr.T.T.Lani.N.D. Dr.O.ChaaJiJ). c: tnt.se iierbausts j 211 North Uberty ( rr '. -.; rortInl Cnrl I3etrlc . Cif.c open turdy onfy l. in. to 1 p.m.; S to 1 P m- Con ,ii!!ium. 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