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m mm All " Retiring Word Of Results ; 3 I TRD LOGS If it can't be San Francisco, then let it be Boston for capital of the United Nations. Decision la to be made at the session of the general assembly in London on January 10, the preparatory commission having limited the choice to the United States east of the Mississippi river- We west erners think the USA. doesn't .-tally get going until the big river Is crossed. But if the world capi tal has to be in that area, it may as well be in the Boston vicinity. New York, which is also men tioned, has been accused of being ."foreign," but Boston, despite its influx of immigration w h 1 c h swamped the original native stock, is genuinely early American. Chi cago Is Just Chicago, riotously mid western; If anything (Judging by its Chicago Tribune) radically anti-foreign. Boston would be a good choice. . Boston got bypassed in the com petition of American cities for growth. The construction of the Erie canal and the centering of railroad terminals at the mouth of the Hudson river enabled New York to forge ahead of both Bos ton and Philadelphia. Though Boston has a magnificent harbor and offers a shorter route to north European porta, most of the At lantic shipping slips past it In favor of New York. It is the com mercial capital of New England and remains a great city of the United States, but It hasn't kept the pace of New York, or of Wash ington, in recent growth. The dis tinction of being the UNO capital would be a compensation which Its glorious history entitles it to have. Dos ton offers a comfortable environment for a world capital. Despite (Continue on Editorial Page) TJruman to Tell U.S. of Coming -,-.-V O'r- Bills Via Radio Delayed -1 ' POUND0D - 1651 -; - v. Gen. Brehon Somervell, eom- mandlng general ef the army service forces, who will be suc ceeded by Li. Gen. Lerey Lutes I departure. Optomistic Air Fills Conference, Progress Made , By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW, Dec. 26 The foreign ministers of the United States, Russia and Great Britain were said late . tonight to have reached agreement on all points of their discussions and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and For eign Secretary Ernest Bevin were making arrangements for an early NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 12 PAGES Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, December 27, 1945 Price 5c No. 233 rrin : v- Nip Guard Given Life Five - Day Quarantine Ends upon bis retirement Jan. L (See story en space 2.) utiesUr (The Moscow radio in a broad cast heard in London said that the conference had ended and that Byrnes would hold a press con ference at 7:30 ajn. Thursday (8:30 pan. PST, Wednesday). , Diplomatic observes forecast a I prompt announcement of "import ant and definite results" concern ing the conference. Beyond Expectations ; - ' Unquestionably agreement hasj been achieved -on many main is-! sues, these observers said, adding Under the terms of a law passed I that the conference has gone well by congress last Friday the fed-' beyond anything that had been ex eral government will dismantle pec ted even by Byrnes, British surplus houses on ' government Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to File Claim for Added Housing KANSAS CITY, Dec. Presldent Truman will carry his labor and other legislative propos als directl t . to the neoDle in a radio address probably during the stipulate the exact number of first week in January. It will be uwis immediately avaiiawe out a state of the union address to I urged action in order that the projects and transport ' them to the cities where needed and re erect them on sites provided by the cities. Gov. Earl Snell - said Wednesday. Snell urged Oregon cities faced with the problem of housing vet- been made. erans to advise Jesse Epstein, re-1 Await Message gional director of the federal housing administration, Seattle, of their problems. The houses must be located cn land owned by the cities . and leased to the federal government They, may be occupied only by veterans or their families for a period not to exceed five years, with a revocation claus terminat ing the lease six months after the emergency in the community has been declared at an end. Communities taking advantage of this government offer win be required to account for expendi tures they make in connection with the administration of the housing units and if earnings ex ceed the expenditures the ence win be.rrid by the -federal government. Epstein advised Governor Snell that his office is now preparing the necessary forms for applica tions by the cities. He could not and Soviet Foreign . Commissar Vyacheslav ' M. Molotov - them selves. ' All world ills have not been solved, these informants said, "but progress, and great progress, has At Labor YOKOHAMA, Thursday, Dec. 27 -flV" Tatsuo Tsuchiya, a pris on camp guard who was the first war crimes suspect to be tried in Japan,, was convicted today of killing an American prisoner of war and ' was sentenced to hard labor for. life." -The U.- S. war crimes' commis sion adjudged that Tsuchiya, known as "Little Glass Eye,f along with other Japanese "wil fully, unlawfully and unmerciful ly beat and killed Pfc. Robert Gordon . Teas of Streator, 111-, a survivor . of the Bataan death march. -' ' ' - - Tsuchiya described himself as s Expl Eutom j: .-1 1 osion bs 30 to 50 PINEvTLLE; Ky, Dec 25-(5V Although rescue workers late to night had dux their way to a point approximately - 4000 ' feet from where SO to 50 coal miners were entombed, workers and relatives alike held little hope that any of . the men would be found alive.; Trained mine rescue squads were balked at every step of the way by flames, gas fumes and fallen debris.-A spokesman for the -Kentucky! Straight ' Creek Coal company. said,' however, that the latest rescue team to report had penetrated one and one-half miles . from the mine entrance. Hope was expressed that the area where the shoulder bags to leave. (AP Wlrephote to The Statesman) In London, foreign office offi cials were called back from holi day vacations to be at their posts for an expected release of the conference communique. The air . of . optimism persisted here right up to the closing hours of the conference. Observers point ed out that the rapidity with which the three statesmen reach ed an agreement on peace treaty procedure Indicated considerable progress. To Nominate U.S. Willing to 3ik,of Break . With Franco a protector or we prisoners ana i - " . . . w uk wi miners were believed to be said he could remember nothing U 909trlsM "bore Siilp Christmae tree gutters en hatch top aa mea jtrapped could be reached tomor-" about Teas. The little guard ad mitted he did hit some prisoners with his open palm, but only af ter his commander reprimanded him for being too easy on the men. The prosecution claimed Tsuch iya beat Teas across the face with a rope when the starving Amer ican was caught with several tins of Red Cross food the Nipponese ! had appropriated for themselves. Camp commandants ordered to trial are 1st Lt. Ked Yuri, accus ed of keeping Red Cross supplies from prisoners, of ordering an American bayoneted to " death; and permitting others to die of starvation' in. solitary confined Near 750 Meet Fr11.3"'? jLooKiNo undue Risk on Flight KANSAS CITY, Dee. 2C -UP) Lt. CoL Henry T. Myers, pilot ef the presidential plane. "The Sacred Cow," , declared tonight that President Tramsa. took bo endue risk In his flight from Washingtea to Kansas City yes terday. Commenting en reports that weather, conditions had made the trip hazardous, the veteran. WalterNorblad ASTORIA, Ore, Dec. 26 -OP) Walter Norblad, republican nomi-1 nee for congress in the first dist rict special election Jan. 11, was given - an independent endorse ment here tonight. The nomination assembly near- ment; and :1st Lt Cliotoran-W-finiedJ-the 750-seat Viking thea- CIO Declares Electric Strike 'Inevitable9 v . By m Associated Press CIO leaders last night declared ' strike in the electrical Indus- sKma, chargedlwiffi perrm-ttmgttreTixrIdls torture and "- denying prisoners food, clothing and medical fa i cillties. WASHINGTON, Dec 26 Although critical of aU three re gimes, the United States today took simultaneous steps in the veterans may be cared for at an early date. Governor SneU indicated that a number of Oregon counties and cities probably would take ad vantage of the offer. start off 1946. This announcement today came from the president at his federal building offices here in a news " conference. The president replied in the negative when a reporter said he heard the address would be an anti-labor one. .will be on the overall legislative X O Jlj6 Jt5l?OiCeil program- suiie uic uiuvu u- 'dress," he said. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26-() (Washington today reported that Most of the 170,000 stranded vet- " the president also likely will de- erans of Pacific war who ' spent toox simultaneous steps in tne I m-m ar i "T direction of a diplomatic break YlaH OI jL wiua one ZAiropean government Coast GI Jaim one and recognition of two others. At his news conference Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson disclosed these prospects: 1. The U. S. has indicated wil lingness to discuss with the Brit ish and French governments all aspects of the relations of the three countries with Generalis simo Franco's 'Spanish regime. 2. Once the U. S., Britain and Russia have concluded peace neighboring areas -nominated the 35-year-old Astoria attorney and World war II veteran to the con gressional seat of the late James W. Mott Eugene Marsh, McMinnville, speaker of the Oregon house of representatives, nominated Nor blad. The Astorian's name will be placed on the ballot as an "inde- NEW YORK, Dec. 26-UP-Pres- pendent republican." The nomi- ident Harry S. Truman was named I nation was seconded by Herman Truman Named Koosevelt and Tnunan and high military officials, describ ed the Journey as "Just another; routine flight, entirely devoid ef any . risk. After all," he added, "I think as much of my neck - as the president does ef his." 41st Division laenx narry a. lruman was nanrcu i nauon was seconaea Dy nennan rn T today by Time magazine as its Chindgrin, Molalla, and Grant) I f nPVPTl. I.fl "man of the year" for 1845 In selecting the president, Time said in its Dec. 31 issue, released tomorrow, that "the greatest of all 1945's great events was the atom bomb." The president, the magazine said, "somewhat unwittingly, somewhat against his own will, Murphy, Marion county Judge. Joseph Felton, Salem, manager of Norblad's campaign, outlined election plans. Serving as execu tive committeemen of the assem bly were Oscar Hugg, ReedviUe; Bob Glenn, Corvallis, and Victor L. White, Tillamook. treaties with Romania and Bui- became more than any other man garia on lines laid down by the responsible for the bomb, its use it..-, vi. ..oi sat-.. mn. rhririmn in Pnrt. nrt u' amxu i. m iW9 ana i iuiure. u. imuw v.u.n v I " - - . . I , .1.!. - Ml v I- U. ,r.,ir, HHm will K Knm An hJr wo ww, Syvcixiicui. Will Jan. 14, and thrt the speech may be ' sent by t''vision broadcast The president's nationwide ad dress to the people would precede his appearance before congress). Traffic Normal on' Columbia Highway Traffic conditions . on the Co lumbia river between Portland ; and the Dalles were normal Wed nesday for the first time in two weeks, R. If. Baldock, state high- way engineer, reported. Snow was , falling in the higher elevations of , the state with rain In the lower , areas. . . Klamath Falls and Santiam . Junction were the only two places that reported snow' on the high . ways and advised chains. AU oth- -, er points reported road conditions open and traffic proceeding nor- , mally. ; by . New Year's day, army and navy officials indicated today. Even during the greatest trans portation tangle in the few days before Christmas, the average sol dier was being held up in San Francisco only six days. ' Army officials said they - ex pected this time to be lowered be fore the end of the month. . Animal Cracltcrs By WARREN GOODRICH . -' ' mi if i ipw. 7o no iYot throuzh your leclhr ready to recognize regimes of the two Balkan states. lied military men, the magazine declared. OPAto Clarify Lumber Ceilings, Admiral Key es Dies ill London Game Commission LONDON, Dec 2Admiral To Erect Buildillff iuc imv wuu iwin vuu iv - . . . National Guard PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 26.-(ff) Reassignment of the famed 41st infantry division to its pre-war status of national guard unit of the Pacific northwest is planned by the army, Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea said here today. The former . assistant divisional commander of the veteran. 41st said "plans are pretty well final- been the surrender of Germany BAT A VIA, Java, Dec. 1-JP- ked at Washington, f or the reor and Japan, and the greatest men Native Dutch troops fired a volley ganization of the national guard, of the year would have been Al- Dj today at a caJn which national guard units to be Sutan Sjahrir, premier Of the un recognized . Indonesian -republic, was a passenger, but Sjahrir was uninjured. Dutch Fire at Except for the bomb, the great- TJUrJ PrpmiPr1 est events of 1945 would have Xl-CJJJCi .J. 1 ClllXd. British naval hero who emerged from retirement to serve his na- WASHINGTON, Dec M-WV tion In the second World war. The OPA today authorized Its Idled in his sleen today after an regional offices to fix dollar-and- fflness of three weeks. He was 73. cent price ceilings for retail sales Lord Keyes. who was given a organized In Oregon would be assigned to the 41st" He added that "in view of the fact . that the 41st, formerly British authorities said it was 'square' division, was now stream- established that the native troops I lined and a triangular, military Eurasians and Surinamese did I organization, it ' might embrace . . . ... . . I a jnj 4U . .1 A r - . . v- . j:.t;.-,i.i,j I jmub wiuiuiwiuu uaa i not jrnow me menulr OI ine cars I cs .- vcuiwij . uum uu uw uiu . I authority to purchase a building occupant, and had sought to con- national guard division.' m roruana, on , wmcn - u now I fiscate an Indonesian car. . The old national guard eist, holds an option, without consent Another unidentified Indonesian veteran of New Guinea and Phil- of the state, board of control. At- passenger in Sjahrir's car also es-Itppine campaigns and first Amer t o r n e y General George Neunericaped injury.. . iican army combat division enter: held here Wednesday. The struc-1 ling the southwest Pacific, orig- km,m aw iiwn - xjotvl xveyes, who was given i im -m - i a of softwood lumber, shingles and large share of the credit for de-1 tur 13 located near 17th and Al- IJolonS tO OieCK Oil ItoalXy had units from Washington, I der streets. ubauww, ..wiuj. inuiu uw Aitiuuui v-Duai men- . r 1 t t The agency described mis as ace in World war L was famous Y The structure will be used for I J5UrTHlg nilDDlieS a move to obtain more effective i a thm Ywm nt th nMnihr 7.-1 the commission's offices, housiag 1 1- . a - - .. control over prices for. building brugge raid which sealed up the 1 01 "cks ana ior laDoratory xa- row. i : . -Violent Blast Indications were that the explo sion was a violent one, and Dan iel Harrington, of the bureau of mines at Washington, said it was probable that all the trapped men were killed. ' Highway Patrolman Austin HalL who reported the latest de velopments, said the miners were believed to be trapped at the dead end of the two and one-half mile long mine. . ; All available means were being employed to combat the : flames. try was -inevitable,- and Edgar wwVk r. LTTr L. Warren, chief of the U. S. eon-1 771' dilation service said the action about s.2i T7. would be a -serious aggravabon? ser-, vm-'l'JJi KJ. of current, industrial problems.. J. KnntA had ti' Tn thm walkout of 200,000 CIO elec 'min sevm h digging through trical workers early In January I n 1 1 . h framing rfiW 1 as "inevitable," union officials smok. nA . f. h, declared, and government efforts nme upon the OrtT to evert a strike appeared blocked. HaU said lt appeared unlikely The union's executive board will that the explosion area could be mr I!W lOTt Ti0"; reached short of two or three sider calling a staike authorized days," and that there appeared by the membership earlier this little hope that the men could be month. A stoppage would affect reached in time. 76 plants in 22 states. Mine Operator W. E. Lewis said The electrical workers, demand- believed there were -not less than 30 nor more than 50" men in the mine. ing a $2 a day wage increase, have rejected an offer of a 13 cents h uriy increase from the electrical division 01 uenerai Motors corp., 1 r-gi which employs 25.000 electrical I .11 111 H I YllPf workers. . - ManKiUedby Hopes Dimmed CHUNGKING, Dec 2$ Hopes of an early truce in China's undeclared war received another setback tonieht when a scheduled SILVERTON, Dec 28 Thomas formal resumption of negotiations Flying Wheel O. Farmer, 38, 402 Jefferson st. died at a local hospital as the result of injuries he received as an emery wheel at which he was working flew apart, completely severing the side of his face. Farmer, who operated a wood yard, was gumming a saw with the emery, wheel when the acci dent occurred. He died one hour later. between government and com munis t leaders was postponed. . Representatives of the two sides met but their encounter was described as an "informal , social occasion," and a- truce, pro posal which communists earlier had said they would deliver in writing today was cot presented. He had been a resident of Sil- I Mrs. Man 8f eld t Reported Sane materials. 'Brugges canal in 1918. Corporation Asks to Construct State Office Building, Portland cillties. The opinion, asked by the game commission, was filed with the state board of control. Oregon. Idaho. Montana and Wyo ming. Most of the men were from Oregon. VVirr. iMiatm tslr rift fnmnrrniil on a 30-day, 'round-the-world 1 17' , flight to see whether good mill- Hi A." tary supplies are being thrown verton for the past 12 years. He is survived by his widow, Blanche, and thre sons, Orville, 15, Wes ley, 13,- and Darren, t. His mother and a brother reside in Monitor and sisters in' Portland and Cali fornia. : Announcement - of. funeral . ar rangements will-be made by the Kkraan funeral home. -I: Confesses I Excess Blood Plasma To (So to Gvilians away.! Senator Police to Drag River for Body ALBANY, Ore, Dec 28 Indicating its Interest In con structing a state building on the state's east Portland property, the Lloyd corporation of Portland on Wedesday asked the state board of control to provide details of the project Reports previously received from the Lloyd Interests indicated that the corporation . probably would accept . rental certificates In payment for the structure. The only barrier to the rental certifi cate plan is a provision of law which provides that the state shall not issue In excess of $700,000 of these certificates. It was estimat ed that a state office building, large enough to house all state departments now in Portland, would cost between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Similar, proposals are expected later by the board. Some state officials -said they - favored con struction in east Portland because of the heavy traffic on the west side of the river. Two state build- Knowland (R-Calif) , Who used to be an army major in Hiirftn inM n rwrwtrfor that war WASHINGTON, Dec 28 -UP) wtf,,i an that -t. -. Blood plasma, the substance that things had to be throwni away. J Sheriffs deputies will drag the rir. "1"USiU,ua Vl "v " e "What we want to make sure , .1 soon wui oe avau- ofhe said, that there is no u wimuKt w uvuiana wuo unnecessary waste now, Red SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 28-P) Three court-appointed- alienists today reported that Irene Mans feldt society matron,, was- sane and was not suffering from any definite psychosis on the day she killed Mrs, Vada Martin, a nurse whom she suspected of hav ing an affair with her husband. Dr. John Mansfeldt v " The report on Mrs. Mansfeldt's mental condition was disclosed in the - first session of - her 'sanity trial which began here today. - The Cross, announcing p.nenM nf NorinnwM Urr. vm j this tonieht said . it would dis-1 UJ VU1UULU.ICU aiHA I . , m 1 T paid for, on the rental certificate I trioute 130,000 umu 01 plasma leiepnone SOIKe LOOmS plan. One of these is the present office, building & Salem and the other the state agricultural build ing. - : ' ; Secretary of State Robert S. FarrelL ir declared ODnosition to COMBINED AIR FORCE federal aid for the state-county- j TOKYO, Thursday, Dec. 27-) city ' of. Portland health v project I General sMacArthur today an- unless control of the health de- nounced consolidation of five Pa partment was placed in the state, Multnomah county and the City of Portland.. "I certainly don't want our state health department dominated by federal officials back- in Washing ton, D. C- Farrell declared. State Police Sergeant Earl Houston said today that & D. FRENCH OKEH MONET PLAN . PARIS, Thursday, Dec 27-ff) The French constituent assembly Marys river In Benton county to morrow for , the body of Ernest Bowman, 45-year-old Kelso, Wash., logger who police report a prisoner has confessed killing. A bloodstained hat; and coat which had been declared surplus I NEW YORK, Dec 28.-P-A together with a ; . blanket was by the army and navy. This was nationwide telephone strike may found In Polk county by sher- esumated to be enougn to meet follow the scheduled Jan. S walk- if? officers as. they combed the civilian needs for two years. ? I out of Western' Electric Co. env I three-county, ' area of Benton, ployes In the New York-New JeM Linn and Polk counties for clues sey area, union spokesmen said to the missing man.. -today. y The garments were found five Henry Mayer, counsel -for the! miles southwest ox. Dallas near Western ' Elect,' : employes asso- J a bridge crossing the Little Luck- dfie air forces under one new elation (Ind.) said at first, picket J lamute river In Polk county, command which win supply air I lines would be placed around tele- Linn County 1 Sherifi , s Mike ontrol for enforcement of Japan's I phone operating companies in the! Southard said tonight he believed sur-ender and maintain America's 1 two states on the day the strike I the body was most likely to be outflung defense line. Geh.j starts. The association is an af-j found in the Marys river below George C. Kenney will command filiate of the national federation the bridge on the Philomath and the new organization. (of telephone workers (Ind.). Corvalhs road In Benton county. ed thev Bretton Woods -monetary jtabilization agreement and an American export-import bank loan of $550,000,000. - McLain, 67, Portlarid, ieifessedlearly today unanimously approv- iboooBf Bowman "because 6 talked too much." Jack Mann, 27, Corvallis, first told of the shoot ing when arrested at Albany on a charge of burglary. McLain said Roy Moore, 55, Portland, the 1 4.46M0S RELEASED third man held In the burglary I WASHINGTON. Dec - 28 -P) of a Brownsville . store, was not The war department announced Involved. In the shooting. Earlier today that a total of 4,488,000 Houston quoted him as saying all army personnel had been return three were Involved. : ed to civilian life from May 12 McLain, under the ' name of i through Dec 21. Douglas Lv. Day, served two terms in j&e Oregon . state Weather tenuary. xie .was reieasea m cember of last year. Moore, also known as Albert Leroy Moore, j was receivea mt tae emiuuu j 1 sestue In July, 1940, to serve two three year terms for burglary in Baker county. He - was discharged In July, 1842. -. ': - S3 41 SI San Francisco. M WlUamett river .(3 ft. Max. Cn."Eali s S8 M U M - FORECAST (from .US. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): aoutfj ( today, hgbt rains. LiM variable winds Maximum temperature S3 aWgree. fl