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4 The Qrty Statesman. Salem. Ore.. Friday. Tune IS. 1948 - - eaSaaaSSSSS SatB , . M"No Favor Sivaya V$; No Fear Shall Awt" f Frees first SUkuun, March 2. ISM TIlE STATES51AN PUBLISHING COMPANY ,4 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher M fiber ef the AiMtUM Press TV AmdiUI Press to exclusively entitled U Um u for psbllestlon 1 n m gaspetcbes credited UlltrMt UxrwlM credited la this "Scofflaw" Revived ' FVnltiei aggregating over $9,000,000 are sought from 40 lumbering concerns In the west through actions brought by OPA ; attorneys. The suits are the culmination of months of investiga tion i trade practices. Defendants are accused of violating OPA ... regulations through sales at over-ceiling prices, upgrading of Materials, cutting lumber in odd sizes to obtain premium prices. Undoubtedly nefarious evasions have been resorted to by profit-greedy manufacturers and wholesalers. The willingness of customers hungry for materials opens the way for price-gouging and trkkery. Purchasers are penalized, but they are victims who consent to being raped. On both sides the dealing is bad. but the 'desperate customer has a ready answer: '"What can you do about Jt? Min'i extremity in housebuilding is the gouger's opportunity. The fact and the extent of these alleged violations of OPA regulations show the difficulty of enforcement of OPA rules. If this nfrLer is caught in the first dipping of the net how many .fish got away who may be equally guilty? And what about other v lines, like meat, automobiles, etc? If violations are widespread 'fbow effective can the policing be? The prospect of treble damages : Is a deterrent to be sure, but the lure of extra gains seems tempt ing ewowgh for many to run risks of apprehension. From reports we hear of current practices in grain buying we hate to predict what will happen this fall. In the scramble for grain, buyers go direct to elevators or farmers and by liberal .payment ef side money get truckloads of corn or wheat. Poultry men and livestock feeders will seek protection of feed supplies against next season's need, and if it takes something extra to prime the pump that may be forthcoming. , 'With full recognition of the need of price control and of the effort- to enforce it we can see in these lumber cases themselves evidence f how OPA rules are ignored. This tendency Is apt to spread in the months ahead, with the result that the ones really .penalized are those who try to live up to the law. Prohibition left us more than the word "scofflaw;' it left us .the spirit of contempt for regulatory law. I L- CWar Co l in IJfe j The wax department has released the full lists of dead and missing for the second world war. The total deaths reported In cluding those killed in action, dying of wounds and from other causes was 307,554. The number of missing is reported as 1,424. Since there were more than ten million men and women mobi- lUed In the army the percentage for dead and missing is low, 2.98 I per cent. The Oregon toll was 2.821 dead and 14 missing. Our ratio 'for dead and missing Is 3.69 per cent of those entering the army from Oregon, a little higher than the national average, i Tle Civil war remains our costliest war. The deaths reported "for the Union army were 359.528 and for the Confederate army 111.785. j Statistics do not tell the full story. Desth of our strongest yeung men deprive society of the fruits of his nature manhood and robs their families and friends of their association. We doff our editorial bonnet to Patricia SmitrY whp swam 13 rules ie, the Icy waters of Green Bay. Wisconsin, to safety after her father's stoop tipped wer That's a good argument for learning to swim. Corralus Gsette-Time. A 13-mile swim back to bread and meat shortages, the old New Deal, hay fever, the atom bomb, OPA, the housing shortage, auto accidents, lineups for nylons. "-we're not so sure. The editor of the Rosebrrrg News-Review says he is tired of looking at OPA ceilings. He wants some attention paid to foundation snd floors That was NRA and the blue eagle. Does he want to revive them? Behind the (Distribution by Kieg Features Syndicate, Inc Reproduction In whole or in part strictly prohibited ) WASHINGTON. June 27 The Russian are playing a new game at Pans. Mr. Byrnes, they have pinned to idealism (he pinned himself largely), and about Mr. Btrvin they do not care much. The instructions of our state secretary were largely his own. Mr. Tru man gave way to tactics, warning only a gain -it sacri fice re" r ideals and none too firmly Whatever Byrnes does in the. (rm of a treaty must be ratified ar the senate (twa laird of it) Whatever executive agreements he' makes on the ide are his own. not to be ratified by anyone. . Into this pleasant negotiating atmosphere. Mos cow has sent Molotoe, apparently with instructions not to btiee. Behind him they are building up daily at home a belief that the United Stales and Britain are fascist fascist -minded and that we want war. While the pomsMuues are both far from our thoughts, the Russia citizen n tetng made to be lieve them They appear daily in his newspaper and Faal Maltoa upon ha radio, if any. ami there nrno rebuttal. He gets no other side of it. He ne nottnow tacUca. He believes always what is against us, and swthang favorable to us is printed in Russian newspapers. Our people read the reproom t..n of Moscow propaganda, and laugh. o them the report that the fascist are trying to bring on war I abetted, that our official or people are fascist-minded or warlike Is cracy. Nvt so to the Russian They are being required to believe we see Hi as all Peaee tie ea flail Mow wImIwmM ywu do in a i.e like this? Washington has saked itaaif. aM rer ofiawil: "Let us wait to see " The senate knows no mora about steswtiations thee. you Congr-men are totally uninformed. Mr. Trumsn has not established his own expertness. Mr. Byrnes is just about the whole shew. -But Mr. Byrnes believes (or says he does) thst the people he represent in the world want peace at what might be railed ay reasonable price (the word 'reasonable" not being defined). Thus sJr fur propaganda is directed toward hope in a peace, while all Bjia at devoted to treating suspicion of u. They play out of all proper proportions Ue activity of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, and othmrwr seek fault to r-mphjuf, conduct shootings around the world, rharging we have secret agreements in China, are protecting fascism In Italy. Spain and Argentina, etc., and we foolishly ask our selves: "Are we- ton khort we justice, they seek suspicion. The quevtio then sriie vhr'hrr you ran reach an agreement with a thing I ke that, ar whether ur agreement is worth anything If you do. This is the entire quotum behind the dickering In Paris. &ne say we should try further, rme say not. I say not, for these Caart Aree Wise. Smaiei i . . . l . a L. cannot agree. with ausfMcion. You tannot compromise with it, when' suspicion hi synthetic, unreal and only organized. It can turn upon you in a moment. Indeetl it hs laid ground for that purpose. There are some of our people, not many, who believed the old line that the Bvwians are mnwtiow different than their government. They are not. They have no chnce to be different. They live under one-man rule, under censorship, dictatorship, self -concealment, and public at tack. Whatever beliefs their government feeds them, they take. There re no-e4her. Only one British official has suggested the possibility of iw)!tns Othors M agree the Stalin dictatorship is firmly estab IlshedL J Wh4 "right had we to expect anything different, than we are getting? The RumIm sytem had preached world revolution for 27 y mr. 1st that time It Km pr- tned ommuniim. socialism and capital ism us a variety of adr"t' and phases for its farms and factories. It ha sm affirmative principles excepting only revolution. It will tear d-twn anything existing, and then try to adapt a program (as in France where five communist nVpjiet aie metalled in the Bidault cabinet, yet there s no mmmuniinii We knew all then things. They were ununfKivtant to us before toe war. But the war has made Russia pow erful avfwt now we se-k a-cromprmi.e with her. Beware Treaty -Wa ring It ranna t be dme If Byrne comes back waving some treaties like Chimfce Ltn did after Munich (faying it meant "peace in our time," where It only gare Hitler more power and Ume to build it,) you anay be suie t are no nearer pe.u e than when we started. If he comes empty-tanoed. there will lw no peace either. Peece rest only witn mutual confidence, and that is non-existent. News Br Paul Mallon . k. . . . 1 . . . L . . i ,r -TV'."". - -a Mh City Zoning Commission Denies Change (Story also on Page 1 ) The city planning and zoning commission last night denied a petition requesting a change from zone II to III that would permit the Lester DeLapp trucking ser vice to establish facilities on pro perty adjacent to the Paulus Bros, warehouse near Myrtle and Lo cust streets. City Engineer J. H. Davis said the petition signers represented only 4S.3 per cent of the property. ; City Attorney Lawrence Brown gave an opinion of illegal spot zoning in connection with the third request, that of Electric Cleaners for establishment of zone III in a 50 by 50 lot ad jacent to their Highland avenue plant, to permit expansion. When the Highland avenue dis trict was zoned as residential, a business property already existed at the present sit of Electric Cleaners, Brown explained, and now there is no zone III ad jacent to the area of requested change. The commission, h o w ever, held the matter over to its next meeting in order to give the petitioners opportunity to sppear. IOTP 1 8KEDQQB (Continued from page 1) the labor cause, readily assented 4o the amendment. Under this. 1934 act criminal charges were brought sgainst s teamsters local in New York City and 28 individuals. They were charged with violating this law and interfering with interstate commerce in the movement of trucks from New Jersey to New York. Found guilty in the dis trict court, the case came to the U.S. supreme court after a re versal in the circuit court of ap peals. Jimmie Byrnes, then mem ber of the supreme court, wrote the opinion sustaining the reversal and letting the union and its members go scot free. This was the most important opinion that Byrnes wrote during his brief ten ure on the bench. He ruled that the goons came within the excep tion of "bona fide employes of bona fide employers." Chief JuMice Stone wrote a strong dissent, saying bluntly that the defendants "forced their way onto the trucks and by beating or threats of beating the drivers procured payment to themselves from the drivers or their employ ers of a sum equivalent to the union scale for one day's pay, $9 42 for a large truck and $8 41 for a small truck." The Byrnes decision was scan dalous aj far as elemental justice was concerned, but such has been the political influence of the un ions that congress hitherto failed to cure the defect in the law. La bor unions, in other words, were allowed to continue to operate with goon tactics unless state law interfered, as it did here in Ore gon under Governor Martin. The Case bill, which the pres ident vetoed, included an amend ment of the 1934 act making the offence of interfering with com merce "by robbery or extortion" a felony. The Hobbs bill which had passed the house before the Case bill was sent to the president, was passed by the senate after the lat ter was vetoed. Labor unions cannot defend use of violence or extortion to advance their cause and make employment a union monopoly. The Hobbs bill will not injure un ions in their proper operations and should protect them from th- in flux of lawless gangsters such as those who invaded Oregon in la... tVj early FOLitri Clock AUKBZ STEW tlVSARS f fcl'I'tWW WOPLO IM7CHCALLCP -rue OLP$T CLOCKS tf N TH CLOCK ViHXCt tAC1 1 NsCiv:':r?.i PdrmrTPICa- j , i arm mss GRIN AND BEAR -I den't why ther can't Instead ef IPonlbflfie DHeBD)irdl FKOBATE COl'KT Velieda W. Ohmart, estate; or der .directing further distribution of estate, snd fifth account filed. Alverda Welch, estate; Order authorizing sale of personal prop erty. Inga Wastby. estate: Order ap proving and confirming ssle of real property. Zola Lewis, an incompetent per son ; First account of guardian. Ernest Chester Rogers; estate; Final account filed. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Thomas M. Tandy, legal, ap pi entice plumber and Dorothy Whelan, legal, title examiner, both of Salem. Albert Roy Wolf, 19, farmer and Evelyn Ann Weigel, 18, domestic, both of Aumsville. Eugene Edmund Johnson, 22, mi II worker, Stayton and Mary Ann B ruder, 19, waitress. Mill City. Richard C. Owen, 19. service station snd Ruby E. Carpenter, 18, domestic, both of Salem. CIRCUIT COURT Howard William WaUon vs Hel en Janes Watson; Application to place on trial docket Elvtn F. Learman dba Pacific Decorators and Supply company vs Mike Steinbock and Harry M. Steinbock dba Leonard's Supper club; Motions by plaintiff to strike. Alice La Verne Mohney vs Rus sell Alger Mohney, jr.; Order for dismissal based on plaintiffs mo tion. Gordon Bihl and William Bihl, partners dba Bihl Bros. Construc tion company vs Peter L. Cleary and Grace I. Cleary; Application to place on trial docket. Lorraine Green vs Lettie L. Loose, Bethine M. Loose and Rex Gibson as executors of the estate of Loren Loose, deceased; Order of dismissal of plaintiffs motion. Henry Nicoli Hall vs Beulah R. Hall; Complaint charges cruel snd inhuman treatment, asks divorce and custody of four children. Mar ried Dec, 12. 1931 at FontaneUe. Iowa. Tho Literary Guidcpost By W. G. Rogers AIJ. FOR THE BRST. by Beats PU -tlk (Sum SchusUr; sis) David Forster, sn upstanding young fellow, tells this story- in the first person. He subscribes to noble Idess snd principles which sre supposed to be American, and he follows through thick and thin what is known as the American way of life, yet hs is never con scious that what he professes con tradicts what he does snd ex periences. He sees caste in the navy, but won't believe his eyes. He be lieves Jews are sll right, but can't stand them around. Women are of two kinds, like and unlike mother, and he sticks to that con viction though the girl he plans righteously to marry tries hard to jump off the pedestal on which he holds her. An Uncle Harry works at pounding some sense into him, but it goes in one ear and out the other. "Candide" was something of a model for this venture, snd I cari only wish the copy were closer to the original. It's a grand idea, but doesnt develop into a novel. Plagemann is not Voltaire, and this is a biting satire that doesn't bite. IT'S IT TO IS, y Harris Werfertf. Jr. (Harcoart. Brace; SZ). The author of this book, 19-year-old founder of the Student Federalists, pleads most earnestly and effectively for world govern ment as the' alternative to World war III. Wofford acknowledges admiringly Clarence Streit's pio neering work, traces the history of the Federalists, who are now represented in many high schools and colleges, and in sum presents a challenge of youthful ardor and mature practicality. INITIATE THE HKART. by SUtrr M. Maara (MirallUa; SI TS). This sensitive poet has imagina tion, a fine ear for meter and rhyme, and an admirable economy with words. AMERICAN LEGEND; A TREAStRY or Oil COUNTRY'S YESTERDAYS. aelecteS by Robert and DrOtv Via fielder (Apptetox-Ceatary ; SJ 71). More than 500 pages by Welty, Melville. Wharton. West. Thom asun. Richter. Thurber, Day, Mark Twain and others. By Lichly argee like sensible Individuals like Natieasr John Korerian vs Roy-L. Nolen; Motion by defendant for; order re quiring plaintiff to furnish in ventory and to make more defin ite and certain. Max L. Murphy vs Rose L. Mur phy; Order of default issued,,. Nelson M. Etter vs Melba E. Et ter; Order of default issued. - Philips Products company vs George E. Barza dba Capitol Lum ber - Fuel company; Complaint charges defendant owes $1,200, asks judgement. Mina Pickle vs Melvin E. King and Delbert E. King; Motion for dismissal on grounds that settle ment has been reached. Jeanne A. Bohall vs Robert L. Bohall; Application to place on trial docket. Nelson M. Etter vs Melba E. Et ter; Application to place on trial docket. Paul A. Porter, administrator OPA vs Coos Bay Farmers Co-operative, a corporation and Oyster Growers Service association, a cor poration; Answer by Coos Bay Farmers Co-operative admitting and denying, asks dismissal. 5 Edith Shelley vs Gordon M. Shelley; Answer by defendent ad mitting and denying, asking dis missal. Leslie A. Hamilton, administra tor of estate of Lillian Leslie Car ver vs Hilliard L. .Golden; Order that defendant strike part of an swer. Carmen Coburn vs Robert Co burn; Answer by defendant ad mitting and denying, asks dis missal. Paul Hart vs Jack D. Matheson and Melvin L. Stinson; Reply de nying and admitting, asks judge ment. Martha Baker vs Deena Hart and others; Answer by defendant. Deena Hart admits, denys and al leges that defendant Doris Eckman was negligent. Wlllard Roscoe vs C. T. Farmen; Amended answer charges that plaintiff was negligent, asks dis missal. Alice M. Joines vs Lloyd Robert joines; Decree or divorce giving plaintiff return of her maiden name. Alice M. Banks. State of Oregon vs Grant Mur uaga; Sentence on charge of un lawful use of an automobile, fin ed $100 and six month in jail, released on parole. JUSTICE COURT Edgar Reay, charged with lar ceny, pleaded not guilty; posted $50 bail to appear for trial June 28. Allard Thomas, 415 N. Cottage st., found guilty of larceny upon trial; sentenced to SO days in jail. Kenneth Alfred Anderson, pleaded not gtrHty to charge of rap and posted $2,000 bail pend ing preliminary examination Ju ly 5 Wilbur Eugene Butts, no oper ator's license, fined $1 and costs. Jarvie McClure Miller, viola tion of basic rule, fined $10 and costs and driver's license held for 30 days. Bob LaChappelle, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct; continued for sentence to June 28. Jack Nelson, charged with lar ceny; case dismissed. MUNICIPAL COURT Joseph E. Albrich. jr., 1625 S. High st, violstion of bssic rule, fined $10. Keith A. McKibben. route 1, Dallas, failure to stop; posted $2.50 bail. V. H. Shay, High and South 23rd streets, charged with allow ing vicious dog toTun loose; post ed $5 bail. Detroit Hit by New Tornado DETROIT. June 27-7P)-A short lived tornado the second in 11 days swirled across the border today injuring at least nine per sons and damaging property in Detroit and Windsor. Ont. There wre no immediate re ports of any fatalities. The twister apparently formed in Windsor, swung across the De troit river and cut sharply through an industrial area of the Ameri can city. It spent its strength in about two minutes. Observers said it reversed the direction of a similar tornado thai claimed 15 lives and injured hun dreds on June 17. IT Poultry Group Asserts U. S. Hoarding Grain CORVALLIS, Ore., June 27-0P) Speakers at the annual meeting of the Oregon Baby Chick As sociation today asserted the gov ernment has been hoarding grain in terminal warehouses and ele vators while the poultry indus try went without. Fred Cockell. Milwaukie, re ported that on June 25 terminals in Portland, Longview and Van couver cantained 1.6(58,127 bushels of wheat and 3(K4o50 additional cars were arriving daily. Foreign exports of wheat from the three ports totaled 23,718.968 bushels during the present crop year, he said. Nevertheless, he declared, only 50,000 bushels were relased for Oregon feed to fill needs of nearly a million bushels. Psper Promises P. M. Brandt of Oregon State college said most of the relief feed slated for Oregon Is still "paper promises." He said the state's feed dealers had ordered 494 carloads 194 for upstate points, but only 40 cars of grain had been received by June 25, with 30 more in transit. Fax Named President r. E. Fox, Corvsllis, was named president of the association; G. W. Avery, Tualatin, vice-president; George Gray, Corvallis, secretary-treasurer; Howard Hughes, Hillsboro. Kelly Comstock, Port land, and Gordon Boyington, Hood River, directors. Holdover directors are P. A. Gent, Eugene, and Don Anchors, Grants Pass. Adm. Carter to Guard Fund WASHINGTON, June 27 -JP)-The government today appointed Rear Admiral W. J. Carter, navy paymaster general, as custodian for the United Mine Worker's health and welfare fund, one of their biggest winnings from the recent strike. The first installation of the money, expected to amount to $30,000,000 annually, is due from the mine operators August 15. Carter's appointment was an nounced by Vice Admiral Ben Moreell, federal administrator of the seized coal mines, ss thst na tional labor relation board made public a letter to him promising expedited action on unionization of foremen, another big issue in the dispute that brought about seizure. The operators had declin ed to recognize foremen's unions. Morse Asserts GOP Loyalty WASHINGTON, June 27 -7P-Senator Morse (R-Ore) will not bolt the republican party no mat ter who is chosen for presidential candidate in 1948. Replying to a report that he might walk out of the GOP if the party nominee did not suit him, Morse declared such an action would conflict with his "concep tion of political ethics and loyalty to the liberal cause. "It is my position that no pub lic official can make an ethical justification of running as a re publican and then bolting his par ty because he may not find him self in full agreement with the nominee of this party," Morse said. "I feel that the only way to strengthen the republican party lluind ngnt lor tn noerai principles ?in whirh T believe ia to do it with in the republican party." Monkey Strays From Environs ANCHORAGE. Alaska. June 27 (P) - Who would expect to be bit ten by a roaming monkey in Maska, of all places? Mrs. Art Larson of Anchorage thought it was a cat entering the room, until the monk jumped up for a look In her mixing bowl. Surprised no end, she tried to shoo it away. The monkay wouldn't be shooed. It sank its teeth into Mrs. Lar son's leg until her shriek put it to flight. The monkey came to Anchorage Cut Off LOS ANGELES. Jane 27 Wil liam 8. Hart, jr. 24. only child of the late cowboy actor, was specifically disinherited t n Hart's will filed far probate to day. I have made bo prevision in this will for my sen." the will ssid. "for the reason that I have amply provided for him during my lifetime." Last week young Hart lot a court fight over guardianship of his father's estate, valued at nearly $l.eO,-09. .--?-.'r-s"ri J m President Views Gift Fisli . . mil f e.", - ; M 7 f f " - r ' mi 1 w WASHINGTON. Jane X7President Trsmsn leeks ever a king sal mon presented te him st the White Reuse by Gov. Eiuset H. G mew ing (center) af Alaska. Secretary ef laterier Jalles Krsg ts st left. (AP Wirephote). Federal Offices to Vacate Downtown Portland Buildings PORTLAND. June 27 -UP)- Businessmen who can t find a spot to hang their hats will have 100.000 square feet of downtown office space if government plans go through. George Towsley, public build ing administrator, said federal agencies hoped to vacate that much space by Sept. 30. Govern- j ment bureaus in the Bedell build ing, along with four other federal ; agencies, plan to move to Swan i Island shipyard, he said. 'j The transfer to Swan Island buildings follows a national policy to locate federal agencies in federally-owned structures. OPA Lumber Suits Settled (Story also on page 1) PHOENIX. Ariz.. June 27-JP-Two of the three suits filed against Arizona lumber companies in the U.S. district court here yesterday by the district office of price ad ministration were settled today by stipulated judgements. The suits filed here were among 40 filed against lumber firms in four western states. The district court here ordered the Otis E. Phillips company and the R. L. Alego company, both of Phoenix, to set forth on all invoices on all sales of softwood lumber a sufficiently complete description of the lumber to show whether prices are proper or not. The firms also were ordered to prepare to keep records showing complete descriptions of the items of lumber sold. ! The third OPA suit was filed against the Fish Lumber company of nearby Mesa and asks $15,000 treble damages for alleged over charges on about 400.000 feet of lumber. The case still is before the court. with a resident returning from the states recently. It had " escaped while tied outdoors. Anchorage launched the firstJ monkey hunt in its history. When traveling east to Salt Lake City, Denver. c a g o or any intern point, axk your local aj ii pry Ww IKSJ ff Koeocs jr route you via the scenic north Santiam route. - Direct connections at Bend, HAM MAN Greyhound Depot 4 ..... v . t i - J Underground Parking Set PORTLAND. Ore., June 27-() The city council adopted a reso lution today permitting private operators to establish under ground parking facilities in the downtown Plaza blocks. The city attorney wss ordered to iriVestigate use of the north and south park blocks for the same purpose. The action followed a Portland retail trade bureau recommenda tion for an underground parking lot for 1,700 cars in the Plasa blocks, opposite the county court house. ( ' Chloropicrin. the tear gas used in World war I. has been found a good preventative of eel worm damages to several crops. STEVEII S DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELRY 14-K gold mountings diplaying radiant diamonds Modest Prices SS9 Ceert Oregon for all points east STAGES Phone 5054 .Vv'-:A: t: vVi';r A A . - -v, y t-r - J -A Boise. trucxco