1 TOY To jo Gets 1 1 " " "" I ..,!..,,,, ,.,, ,.MI i.jnn.ii.i.1.1 - n i i i in a in miiiii a, i Ci v . t x Jr TOKYO. Hay IS. Shuroel Okawa (center, top) reaches eat to slap . poker-faced Hldeki Teio'a baid bead dorlnx a session of the Jap . sjsese war crlases triai In Tokyo. Tejo amilea (bottom, left) aa he tun to look at the co-defendant who slapped him and then tarns : back to the court's proceedings, (bottom right) Guard la Lieot. .3 CoL A- 8. Kenwerihy. Okawa has been turned over to psychiatrists. (Ar Wirephoto from Paramount news) OTP OtD ijDDCS Under th terms of the 1937 net for the administration of Oregon and California grant lands tho department of the Interior la required to maintain the for ests. Tho cut is to be held within tho . annual growth to the end that timber crops may be har vested off of these lands for the Indefinite future. The secretary ct the interior waa given power to set up cutting areas and make timber there available to coope rating private loggers. This was the first attempt in law-making to provide practical means of Sustained "yield- through coope- xatioa with other : landowners. The O At C administration has been making its surveys prelimi nary to establishing such cutting , areas. The "guinea pig" of the Jot u In the Siuslaw district. In the coast range west of Eugene atod Junction City. A hearing was - held recently which touched off hot argument over the depart ment's program. A group of pri vate loggers was organized to Hrht the scheme. - You see, under the O itC plan the number of loggers who can share in the timber is reduced. This means that s considerable number of private operators will be put out of business as far as O & C timber is concerned. They charge that big operators have come in and bought- up cutover Y-iwttft 4a an s st 1 4Hr ska f Ktaa oiAe 4 trot government recognition. The O St C people say that public "econ emy justifies limiting the cut Wicks to Lead W.U. Student Body - Clarence nicks, Salem, was elected president of the Willam ette university student body Wed nesday in a revote necessitated by Jack of majority votes for any candidate for the presidency and two other offices. Wicks is a sen ior majoring in political science. Other new officers are; First vice president, Evelyn -Tory, Sa lem, sophomore; second vice president, Margaret Allen, Salem, iunior; secretary. Bet ti Olson, ililwaukie, sophomore. DEMOBILIZATION TOLD WASHINGTON, May 15.-(F)- Tbe navy announced today It bad demobilized 2,327,206 men and women from V-J day through May 11. Totals for the marine corps and the coast guard lor the same period were 337,383 and 132,528 respectively. Animal Crackers Pr WAKJEN GOOPBtCH guess ivc don't have '"WW Si pcoy any more tie s buzz ing baritone!9 .: t Pate Patted Coal, Rail Talks Continue With No Progress9 By th Associated Press President Truman made anoth er move last night to settle the soft coal dinpute as railroad ne gotiators raced against time In efforts to avert a nationwide transportation strike set for Sat urday. John L. Lewis and Charles O'Neill, representative of the ope rators, conferred with the presi dent for 45 minutes, and follow ing the meeting White House Press Secretary Charles G. Rops said "no progress was made to ward a settlement." The presi dent asked the two to return for additional conferences today. Meanwhile, representatives of the railroad operatmg-urrions and carriers continued their wage talks without any official report on what progress they had made. The brotherhoods have instruct ed their 250,000 members to leave their jobs at 4 p.m., EST, Sat urday. Marion County Road Projects To Be Delayed Heavy demands on the federal funds available for county road improvements in Oregon and the greatly increased labor and ma terials costs for such projects will postpone most of the work sched uled on 93 miles of Marion county roads for at least three years, it was indicated by county officials Wednesday. Oscar Cutler, market road en gineer, said improvement of a 14-mile stretch of Silverton road and an 18-mile stretch of South River road are the only projects in prospect within three years. and these probably will not be undertaken until 1949. A Silverton chamber of com merce delegation appearing bo fore the Marion county court to urge early completion of the Sil verton road project was inform ed of these facts, but was prom ised the support of the court when it petitions the state high way commission in June for an earlier completion of the project. There have been requests for about $300,000,000 worth of coun ty road projects throughout the state, but only about $45,000,000 in federal funds is available, it was pointed out at the meeting. BIRTH KATE INCREASED CHICAGO, May 15. -UP)- The journal of the American medical association reported today that more than 2,000,000 babies were born last year and that the coun try's birth rate jumped 30 per cent between 1933-43. Army Major Seeks to Spend Life With Wife in SAN FRANCISCO. May 15-JP) The love of 55-year-old Mrs. Ger trude Hornbostel for her husband is so great that she chose impris onment with him in the Philip pines during the Japanese inva sion. In prison, she developed leprosy although it isn't definite that she contracted it there. Tonight the love of Maj. Hans George Hornbostel, 65, for his wife and mother of his three children moved him to strive strenuously to obtain permission to spend the rest of his life, if need be, in the leprosarium to which she is to be taken at Carville, La. And sympathetic officials prom ised the man, survivor of two wars NINETY-SIXTH YEAH Lu OutDUt tO Increase By Marvin L. Arrousmlth WASHINGTON. May 15 -(A) The government, In perhaps the first use of housing subsidies, to night announced three point program designed to spur home construction by increasing lum ber output. The national housing agency and the agriculture department, in a joint statement, said the pro gram was expected to boost lum ber production more than a bil lion board feet 4 by from 250 to 300 million feet this year and by from 650 to 800 million feet in 1947. The plan provides for: 1. The building access roads to out-of-the-way government tim ber stands. 2. In the case of identical bids in the sale of national forest timber, selection by the agricul ture department of - bidders "whose output will result in max imum production of materials needed for the housing and re conversion program. 2. A return, with approval of the U. 5. forest service, to the cutting of timber in certain areas of the west and south at a rate in excess of the replacement yield. 200 Dealers Take Part in Surplus Sale About 200 dealers took part in a spot bid sale of miscellaneous lots of used hardware and office supplies Wednesday morning at 2750 State st., conducted by the war assets administration. Total of bids for the 67 lots of odd items such as gauges, shovels, vises, was over $10;000. Individ ual bids ranged from $6.76 to $1005. Thirty-five of the lots were suc cessfully bid by Salem compan ies, 1 1 of them going: to the Salem General Jobbing company, owned by two veterans.) Procedure for the sale required bidders to be in the general hard ware business. They; had a week before the sale to examine the merchandise and enter their bids. Bids closed at 101 a.m. Wednesday when merchandise was awarded to the highest bidder by Ed Thar modsen, Portland, WAA auction eer. Buyers have ten days to re move the materials from the warehouse. Inquest Due in Farmer Death District Attorney Miller Hayden announced Wednesday that in ad dition to a grand jury investiga tion he had directed - an inquest next Wednesday in connection with the shooting ; of Thomas Mux hammer, Chemawa farmer, last Friday. The bullet that killed M ur ham mer, a state police report said, was fired by Millard Elf berg, 25, who told the officers thai he was en gaged in target practice with a friend at the time. Murhammer was working in a nearby field. mber Foreign Ministers Agree To Reconvene on June 15 By Joseph Dyoan PARIS, May 15-P)-The for eign ministers of the four major Allied powers agreed tonight to meet again June 15 find probably will adjourn their current dead locked conference tomorrow. Leprosy Camp as well as Japanese prison camps, to do all they could to grant his Wish. The cheerful Mrs. Hornbostel developed skin trouble while both were prisoners at Santa Tomas in Manila, but only last week, more than a year after their liberation, was the positive diagnosis of lep rosy made at Lettermart hospi tal here. Both had; suspected It all along. She is now in isolation at San Francisco hospital, where her devoted husband is a daily visitor. To the major, the whole matter is very simple. Most of his life is behind him and how he wants just one thing in the world "to be with my wife' cejpi 12 PAGES Salem, Washington to Peterson Flies East For Aid Stating he would attempt to reach President Truman if neces sary. State Agricultural Director Ervin L. Peterson Wednesday left by plane for Washington, D.C, in an attempt to obtain relief of the critical livestock feed situ ation in Oregon. Referring to the government's request for food for starving na tions abroad, Peterson said Ore gon producers cannot assist others if they destroy themselves by so doing. "I am not at all optimistic, Pe terson declared, "and I consider the Oregon feed situation even more serious than generally real ized. If relief is not forthcoming immediately the state's livestock Industry, particularly poultry, may be set back 10 years or more. Shortages Peterson said there is now a shortage of eggs, turkeys and milk for next fall and winter. Surely, our farmers who re sponded so loyally to the gov ernment's request for food pro duction during the war are en titled to every possible consid eration in this emergency," Peter son continued. Peterson said he would confer with Sen. Guy Cordon, other members of the Oregon congres sional delegation. Gov. Mon Wall gren of Washington and other Pa cific coast officials at the nation al capitol. Snell Directed Peterson's trip to Washington was directed by Gov. Earl Snell who announced that Peterson has the full support of the executive offices. Peterson also will call atten tion of federal agencies to the feed situation as It relates, to state institutions. The state board of control Tuesday was advised that there is a shortage of both livestock feed and flour at several Of Oregon's state institutions with prospects that the flour supply will be exhausted early in June. Wooton Says Oregon Draft At Standstill "Oregon is virtually at a stand still as far as the new draft policy Is concerned,' Col. Elmer E. Woot- en, state director of selective serv ice, declared Wednesday upon his return from Washington, D. C. Less than 350 Oregon men are eligible for draft under the new law exempting all fathers and teen-agers, and of these many are now in the merchant marine (but not deferred) or are deferred tem porarily due to illness or injury. The new law went Into effect here immediately. Col. Wooton said. He stated that most of Ore gon's men between 20 and 25 years old already have seen war serv ice or have been enlisted since the war's end. Youths reaching the age of It still must register, however, the colonel pointed out. In deciding on the month-long adjournment the ministers also accepted a proposal by U.S. Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes to attempt in the interim to work out their present disagreements. Byrnes, reported by his associ ates as "very discouraged" over the results of this conference, lost in his attempt to have the for eign ministers set a definite date row for the European peace con ference and to have the Austrian treaty included on the confer ence agenda. Russia objected to both,! the American informants said. - : Soviet foreign minister Vyache slav M. Molotov and the others agreed, however, to revise the terms of the Italian armistice. This was agreed to in principle less than two weeks ago and Byrnes suggested last night that the four powers sign the revision. Byrnes at a conference session this morning proposed that Amer ican, British, Russian and French representatives begin immediate ly to draft terms for a German treaty to be presented to a peace conference on Germany next Nov. 12, American sources said, but no action was taken on this immediately. KUNDID 1651 Oregon. Thursday Morning. Testing New Equipment ,.;r .--. til, E: iff- . '-s . yy i 'mm. wmi j - $" a-- . 4 . r , Ts-.iiii.iii,i,8a. "; ") " '" I I 2 L.J IsssMsMlsvJ Victor Wlthrow. chief, aad John Etael of tho For Corner fire c partnseot try oot tho latest typo of high prearare fog fire fighting equipment Wednesday moon while Olio Ilaeaarsd. ftaa Jose, CaJtL. demonstrator foe the Food Ma of the etolpanent, lsotrstcta. Tho M lbs. pr sos ore st tho ttossle. staff shetogrsoher) Registration for Primary Election Shows Increase For the primary election 551,753 Oregon voters have registered, as compared with a registration of 495,909 two years ago, the state elections bureau announced Wed nesday. The registration Is di vided between 290,923 republi cans and 259,101 democrats. Democrats gained by 29,796 registrants and republicans by 20,138 in the registration. OnW nine counties, including Polk, show a decrease In registration this year. In Marion county 19,756 repub licans and 11,447 democrats reg istered. Among other counties registration showed (republican figure first): Linn, 8270 and 7574: Polk, 4576 and 3250; Yam hill, 7208 and 1521; Benton. 5673 and 3163; Lane, 20.012 and 15,- 882; Multnomah 95,227 and 103, 303. Yoshida New Jap Premiere TOKYO. Thursday, May 16-(;p) Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida old school conservative who once was imprisoned aa a poacomonger in war-bent Japan, today waa named premier to succeed anoth er conservative. Baron Shidehara, He began at once to select his cabinet. He had withheld acceptance of the post throughout several days' negotiations, while soliciting co operation in tho new, many-party diet which today took its first half-step toward organisation. Emergency Board To Consider Bids Gov. Earl Snell announced Wednesday he would call a state emergency board meeting within the next few days to consider bids for construction of a patients' cot tags and an employes dormitory at the Fairview home. Two bids received by the state board of control Tuesday were submitted by George Isaackson, Portland contractor. Separate bids for the two projects were approxi mately $4000 higher than Isaack son's combined proposal of $704,- 000. VANDALISM AT AIRPORT Recent Instances of vandalism at the city airport have resulted in broken hangar door and brok en glass in a gas pump. Manager Wallace Hug has reported to po lice, i PETS MAY TAKE TO AIR PORTLAND. May 15.-0VPeit now may be taken on air jaunts, United Air lines announced to day. Their shipment in cargo com partments as excess' baggage was discontinued during the war. Weather "A" . n . si . 7 Rain Salem Eusens - Portland San rrancisco t 47 Trace .SO Seattle WUlamette river M ft. FORECAST (from US weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Early morning cloudiness today, will become clear before nooq. Ljgjtt variable wiikU. Highest tempersturs 7 degress. May 16 1948 Get Grain Relief no factoring Corp, Baanrnfaetorers e lament delivers s foe with (Statesman shoto by BUI Scott. Ban Sought on Walkouts by UJS. Employes WASHINGTON. May IS.-VP)-A move to bar the door against strikes by government workers today wss tossed into the midst of the senate battle over general labor legislation. It came from the appropriations committee in a day bringing these other developments: 1. The senate labor committee approved a resolution for sn In vestigation of the causes of labor disputes, including the "policies and practices" of unions and man agement. Na Yotlng la Prospect 2. Senators' aides passed the word that no voting is in prospect before next week on tho general labor bill and proposed amend ments aimed at curbing unions. The appropriations committee tacked onto the agriculture de partment appropriations bill a clause forbidding employment by the department of anyone belong ing to any organization which "asserts the right to strike against the government." On Appropriation BUI Senator Russell (D-Ga) told re porters a similar provision would be added to all future appropria tions bills. He said a new CIO government workers union, re cently formed by merger of oth er unions, "claimed the right to stalks and at the same time con demned the Americans and the British for imperialistic policies. This group is the United Public Workers of America. Training School Escapee Returns WOODBURN. May 15-(Special) Alvin Stoneman. 17, Portland, one of 15 state training school boys who ran away over the weekend, returned voluntarily Tuesdsy night, bringing to four the number of boys returned to the institution. Superintendent M. D. Wool ley said today. The three returned by author ities were Donald Matlock, Alvin Dahl and Phillip Ehtstrom. City Issue, Eight Assembly Put Spark in Election The pros snd cons of s Salem city administrator, and last-minute bids for votes by eight can didates for state representatives, pulled a quiet election week some what out of the doldrums today. But activity still was far below par for the day before a primary vote. A circular by the Salem Civic Improvement league which said opposition to the administrator plan was led by "a disgruntled minority of the city council and certain city employes who fear they may fail to qualify under the new order,' and declared the pres ent form of government "grossly Inadequate" for a growing city was followed by a blast against the Idea. The latter also was in the form of a circular which said a city administrator would constitute "useless spending of the taxpay ers' money and declared the may or and councilmen under tho plan would become "mere figureheads." No. 43 Shipment Due From Dakotas OLMPIA. Wakh . May 15 (Al The U. S. department of agricul- ture has promised to ship 5Q cars of grain from the Dakota im mediately to help save Washing ton's $200,000,000 poultry ! and dairy industry. Governor Wall, gren said late today., The governor said he still plans to leave for Washington. D. C tonight, however, to place the mat- ter before government officials, President Truman promised to dav everv effort would he mad to get emergency grain supplies into Washington state as soon as possible to relieve tho feed short age Senator Mitchell and Repre sentative Jackson. Washington democrats, said in Wtthhinston. D. C. The promised 50 cars will rep resent less than three per rent of the 3,000,000 bushels a group of farmers told the governor yes terday was the minimum needed. Sllsht Relief "While this will provide only slight relief. I have hope it will take care of the immediate needs of the state," Wallgren saki. "The U. . department of agriculture has promised another 25 cars will fol low soon." PORTLAND. May 15. -VP1 - President Trumsn'a promise of re lief to the northwest feed industry, reported by Wanning ton state's congressional delegation, must be carried out swiftly if it la to be helpful. P. M. Brandt of Oregon Stste college declared. Within Week Grover C. Kseney, general man ager of the Pacific co-operative poultry producers' association, said that within a week 60 per cent of Oregon and Washington dealers will be out of feed. Salem B filters Say Supplies To Last ftonth Effect of the wheat shortage in Oregon and elsewhere had not greatly diminished Salem's bread supply by Wednesday, as retail stores were receiving sbout the same quantity of bread from local bakeries as they had been getting since the 25 per cent cut ordered recently by the federal govern ment. It is estimated that flour on hand for local bakeries will last for a month or slightly more. One flour company salesman in the city this week stated he is taking no more orders now as his firm does not expect further wheat shipments until next month. Meanwhile, a proposal that ba kers reduce the sie of loaves of bread by 10 per cent in order to save wheat was disspproved by Ervin L. Peterson, state agricul tural director Wednesdsy, He ssid the size of losves is fixed by stste law and he has no author ity to grant the requested change. Priorities. Given for 28 House at Imitation PORTLAND. May 15-(41) -Obstruction of 117 houses In Ore gon and southwest Washington under HH veterans priorities was approved today by the FHA of fice here. Included were 28 at Lebanon to be built by John W. MiUer at a maximum price of $10,000 each. - way Race for Proponents, including signers of the circular favoring the plan, were set forth as Kenneth Perry, Albert H. Gille. G. F. Chamber. Chris KowiU, W. L. Phillips, Mer rill Ohling, Dan Fry, a majority of the city council. Mayor I. M. Doughton, Mayor-to-be It. L. Kif strom, former Mayors Douglas McKay. V. E. Kuhn. W. W. Chad wick and most of the city's civic and business men. Opponents were listed aa Dr. O. A. Olson. Henry Crawford. Cus ter Ross, John H. Carson. Ernest A. Miller, William J. En tress, Ralph E. Moody, F. G. Delano, F. M. Keith, R. L, Roiow, Mar garet Montgomery. Gertrude F LobdelL Mrs. Henry H. Vandevort and Pauline McClure. Polls will open at I a. m. and close at p. m. throughout the county tomorrow. Most state, county and city offices will be closed, as wall as bsnks and th: state Liquor stores. Price, 5c Strikers Expected - To Accept Union to Meet At Labor Teiiinlc At Noon to Vote Br Robert K. CSangware i AMWtl -ity Kditor, Jtm Stat mm Salem bus drivers snd shopsnen of Oregon Motor Stages will moot in the labor temple at noon today to ratify a contract between ! tho bu r(mfor!y and the Salem morn hers of Motor Coach Employes union, IahuI 1055, hkh has been on strike since April S. j t Drawn up in Portland We-Hw-day by cumpany and untuni ItMt. ers. the itisf t will bo sucnwl early Thuriulay and brought to So lent by the local union delegatus, which attended yesterday's ' sions. it waa announced late last 1 night by Harold Oathes, um t business ancent. by tclethone to The Statesman. I i i Ratification Doe ' It is expected that the contract will be ratified promptly, as mojor demand of the union already hot o been agreed upon, and that 1 64 maintenance men will get to work J on th ldl Salem buses before tho day is out. After that it will be a day or I two" before buses can Operate and. in any event, ue exsct time of re suming service Is s company do ciln, Oathc said. j . The new contract raises the bas ic driver's rate from IS cents tn t Prr hour, raises shopmen to ana ewminsies ait provisions applying to over-the-roed driv ers. whoe strike ronunues. Fu- gene driver also wilt take! action on a separate contract, similar to Salem's, todsy, Oathes said, NsUfled At a union meeting Ut nlht In Portland, members were noti fied officially of the International headquarters' decision that sepsr- sio settlements could be mste, at4. the Salem and Eugene delcgatiof. were instructed to art on the new contracts. 1 j , A. L. Schneider, company pres ident, was In Ralem Wednesday to confer with Chairman Albert Hr Gille of the city council's pubiie utilities committee regarding rsise in the local bus fares. It w considered poanible lsst night thai a special session f council nwi be called to consider such an ins crease this week,. Senate Group Approves Year OPA Extension WASHINGTON. May 15 U The senate bonking commitfed voted 11 to today for a Vear'J extension of OPA, then bwk four-day recess to ensbie memo bers to prepere amendments t tne extension bill. ; : Chairman Wagner (D-NYI e pressed hope that all tho amend ments will be presented by Mn dsy, the next meeting day, so theyy csn be voted upon Tuesday. ! lis, hopes to get final committee s tion by the following Friday n4 rsll the bill up In the senate May 27. Woodburii to Get City Park WOODBURN, May IS-(Spedai) Land for a city park to be known as the J. II. Settlomeier Memor isl psik will be presented t the city by Frsnk Settlemeierl son of the founder of the town,! It . wag announced today. A large number of orgartia tions have pledged cooperatMi la support of the park and eerfk has named a representative tn sJ for them. Included are almost a 3 local churches, women's organlS tions, I toy Scouts and Csmp ff ti 4 Girl, auxiliary of the 1 America Legion, chamber of eommerrfi Rotary dub, and tho city c-f Wood burn, whose city treeauree is its representstive on the mm mittee which will meet ! to or ganlzs Wednesdsy, May 22. OI'A lo Investigate) Kenjil at Corvalli PORTLAND, May 157,VTM OPA office reported here bUy it had launched an inquiry nt rents at Corvallis. i Francis II. Bacon, compliance supervisor, said numerous com plaints had been received. TIME SWITCH DROPPED PORTLAND, May I5.m Port land's city council today dropret consideration of daylight aav mis time. Action was tabled earl.ef and when a commissioner. Jt.it back from the east, said he focir.4 confusion In rnB where aorr.o cities are on daylight time ar.4 others are not . Our Senators WON 0-1 l!