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. 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.
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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'
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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