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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1946)
LFL1LETE rui LP nn rn 7 Lfu JU re OtP SH3300QS TPCDCnXS Px!etine i more than u geo- gtrfphical designation. It is a compound of human ch-mitry ith eploie possibilities. Take the apir ation t-( an abu.ted peo ple, the pr wie of another lellK inui gioup, the (ram of one treat government, the mixed politick arwl sympathy f a second and up-ted mteient of a third and add mumwHM quantities of oil and you have modern Palestine hich C'hntian call the Holy Land, the eat now of unholy strife A condensed recital of fat preeding the present sit uation would teem timely. Occupying an area of 10,429 square mile. Palestine i the nar row strip of land between the Mediterranean ea and the Jor dan river Lebanon bounds it on the north; Transjordania lie arrow the Jordan river to the ait; on the south it the Sinai desert It u occupied by the Hebrew tribes follow ins; the con quest under Joshua, suffered numerous invasions by neighbor ing armies until it was incor porated into the Roman empire prior to the birth of Christ. Fol lowing a Jewish revolt its Capi ta!. Jerusalem, was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70 A. D. and the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine followed By 636 it fell under the control of the M"lems. from whom the zealous O.iUtiaris of Europe sought to ie'iver Uie holy places during the ("rude that began in 1096. The Ottoman Turks brought Pal etme under their rule in 1518, making it part of the loose! de fined area xf Syria. During the first world war General Allenby led a Bntuh force which (Continued on editorial page) Shady Surplus Sale Alleged In Investigation WASHINGTON. Aug. IS -A)-House investigators heard today that the war assets administra tion s Philadelphia office sold hundreds of kegs of bard-to-get nails to Benjamin F. Fields. Wash ington promoter, despite absence f prt.er certification on his ap plications Lucia n Sneed. hardware sales manager for the office, testified he allocated nails to Fields from goernmerit surpluses on direct orders from his superior, William J. Gilrein, the general sales man ager, after protesting the improper certi fioat inn Testifying befote the houe sur plus property committee, Gilrein had denied that any "special treatment' as given Fields' ap plications He also declared there was r.o connection between Fields' dealings and his own dismissal fn.cn his )t.l August 7. His firmg." Gilrein asserted. was due to "politics. " related to the Philadelphia and Pennysyl Varua democratic organizations. The committee heard testimony that Fields made a profit of over 94 0O0 on a quick purchase and sale of go ernmerit-owned bronze screening 3Mnt Picking Kate Set for Hops - PORT LAND, Aug 13 Growers In Marion and Polk counties will pay hop pickers a tnaaimum of thiee and a half rents a pound. Aldrn F. Oir of the U S department of agncul ture wage txiard said today. The rate is the same as lat year and as that being paid In principal hop producing counties ef California Animal Crackers By WAfitEN GOODRICH oTl Hj-r Hmphl Controls On Meiit Debated WASHINGTON. Aug. II -(P) Hot arguments over the State of the nation's meat supply featur ed today's hearing on whether livestock and its products should be brought back under price con trol. Spokesmen for 22 group went before the decontrol board with opposing claims. j Herman A. Greenberg, form er OPA enforcement official, told the board that talk about "black market" operations in meal had been used in a "propaganda! cam paign by large packers to idrive small operators out of business. H denied that the black! market handled most of the meat and butyrr supplies while ' controls were on. '. t However, Joseph B. Danzansk? told the board: "Ask any meat man and he win tell you ; thai under the regulations it was vir tually impossible for any, legiti mate wholesaler to remain in business without cutting j aj few; technical corners or engaging in some form of over-ceiling trans act ion." . : Danzansky represented the na tional association of non-slaughtering processors and wholesalers. A. A. Smith of Sterling, Colo., a vice president of the American National Livestock association, told the board that any attempt to restore price controls to the livestock industry would ; return most meat to the black market. Health Officer Eyes 10 Oregon Cases of Polid PORTLAND. Aug. lSOP)-Forty cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in Oregon this year, 10 during the past week. Dr. Harold Erickson, state health of ficer said the next two weeks would tell whether or not the di sease would reach epidemic pro portions. "We are not alarmed." he said, "as this is eqly. 4lJgMly above normal, but naturally JWe art watching it closely." By Tho Associated Pi ssa The worst wave of infantile paralysis since 1916 began losing momentum in some hard hit areas Tuesday but most health authori tie said it was too early to tell if the peak had been reached'. In other sections, however, he disease was in epidemic form with no letup in sight and a possible delay in opening of the fall school term was being considered in Minneapolis, Minn., and In Mis sissippi. Encouraging signs were noted in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio and Florida where the disease either showed at least a: tem porary slowup or progressed slow er than originally feared. ; Arrest Made; ! At Fort Lewis In Car Fatality A deputy from the office' of Sheriff Denver Young was to head for Fort Lewis today to return Richard Cannon, soldier under ar rest there on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of 11 -year-old Larry Col lins at Idanha last July 20. The warrant was Issued at the request of District Attorney Mil ler Hayden. An accompanying complaint alleges liquor was in volve d. The Collins boy was struck by car while walking along a highway near his home. The warrant and complaint were sent tu Fort Lewis several days ago. Yesterday the sheriffs of fice was informed that the provost marshal! would release Camion to civilian custody. He will be held here for action of the grand Jury, officials said. Community Program to Mark) Opening of Settlemier Park WOODBURN, Aug. 13 Offi cial opening of the J. H. Settle mier memorial park is slated for Wednesday, August 14, when a community gathering under the direction of Perry William j will be held at the site Of the park. Entertainment will include faces for children, a Cub Scout i ball game, and the Initial concert pf the new Wood burn Community band. The ball game has been called for 2 JO p.m. with Tony Halter In charge. Races start at 4 p.m. with "Jiggs" Burnett and ; Wil liams heading the activities j Races scheduled are foot race for glxla under six years for ' . . y MUNDID i&si tflNETYSIZTH YEAE 10 PAGES SaDemnjJ aftiooi) Cootie Victory i Ainiiniiveirsairy City Program in; Park Tonight "A Year Since Vicjory" will be the topic of Carlton Greider, blinded while serving With the Marines in the Pacific and now with the Salem U. S. employment service, when he' speaks at tonight's Victory day celebration In Salem. The program will begin at 8 p.m. ori the west steps of the state capltoL Don Goode, head f the planning committee of the observ ance; has asked that flags be displayed by Salem residents and business men. , Goode, an ex-marine, is commander of Salem American Legion post; 136 and contact man for the Oregon state department of veterans affaire office. : Douglas McKay, veteran of both world wars, will be master of ceremonies and the Rev.;: M. A. Getzendaner, president of the Salem Ministerial association, will give a memorial prayer, McKay will introduce the heads of all the veterans' organizations In this area. Several selections are to be played by the Salem municipal band. President Proclaims Victory Day r (Bjf the Associated Press) The lag will fly ort all government buildings today in honor of victory day proclaimed by President Truman to signalize the first anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Japan. In the defeated empire itself, V-J day will be recalled quietly. The principal military display by the American occupying forces will be parade j past the imperial palace by the Seventh cavalry regiment From Secretary of j Navy James Forres tal came a Victory day statement that understanding between nations "must rest on the free exchange of information which alone can dissolve the rolfts of prejudice J "We must firmly resolve," Forrestal said, "to keep ourselves! strong for the tests of the future until the United Nations Is an accomplished and working fact." To General Douglas MacArthur, heading Japanese occupation forces, went a message) from Secretary of War Patterson con gratulating him on "your great contribution to the magnificent victory achieved and your outstanding accomplishments in the past year to bring about a lasting peace." Jobs, Profits Increase Since War WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-0P)-The nation has achieved i "substantially full employment'' and record profits in a yearj of peace. Reconversion Director John L. Steelman reported in a victory day statement tonight, but the "threat of inflation; still casts a shadow over the future. . "We must maintain 1 a fiscal policy of high taxes, reduced public expenditures, credit controls and debt retirement," Steel man declared as a sobering conclusion to an otherwise optimistic.: progress report. "We must not mistake temporary gains in production, employment, end income for permanent stability,"! be said. "Public support of prices and restraint in buying gre; no less important now than before the fighting stopped." 1 "Total income payments to individuals today equal r exceed the war peak of 1163,000,000,000 and have climbed more than 60 per cent over the peacetime peak of $100,000,000,000; in the fourth quarter of 1941," the reconversion chief said. In attaining full employment the economy has created nearly 3,000,000 new jobs, Steelman estimated,' bringing civilian em ployment to 98,100,000 as against followed V-J day Dorris and Her Dog Are Back Together Again Little Dorris Williams and her dog Bubbles were back together again today. ) The dog broke out of its! crate at the Salem S. P. depot last July 5, after arriving here via Railway Express from Visalia, Calif., the Williams family's former (home, and Dorris was inconsolable. Yesterday, however, after see ing a picture of Dorris and; Bub bles in The Statesman, young Jimmy Parker of Kapphahn lane Just north of Salem telephoned Desmond Long, Railway Express manager, to say that a dog had come to the Parker place On the same day Bubbles disappeared, and that it looked like Dorris' pet. It was, and there was a happy reunion at the Parker home Patton to Talk at Picnic on Sunday James G. Patton, president of the National Farmers unions will speak next Sunday at the annual picnic of the Oregon rarmefs un ion at Champoeg, it waa announ ced Tuesday. The speaking; pro gram, to start at 2 p. m.; follow ing a picnic lunch, 'also will In clude Sen. Guy Cordon and .Ron ald Jones, president of the state group. I boys under six, for girlf nder 12, for boys under 12, and both boys and girls over 12.- A jfree-for-all race will be open to (boys and girls of all ages; a sack; race for boys and girls; a three-ltgged race for boys and girls, and six-party relay race will be Jheld. The band concert will start at 7:15 pjn. with Kenneth Thomp son directing the band) Camp Fire Girls will sell i ice cream. Earl . Goodnight, auctioneer, will , do the announcing iorj the programs, A line of hose has been laid Into the park to fur nish water for the day. Petma nent water lines are to be later. laid Sol am, 51,200,000 in the slump that Nurses Asked To Aid in L.A.5 Polio Outbreak Telegrams urging immediate re cruitment of nurses to serve through a polio epidemic in Los Angeles and nearby areas were received Tuesday by Marion county chapter, American Red Cross, from the Red Cross area office at San Francisco. Mrs. Louise Arneson, director of nursing services for. the Mar lon county chapter, was request ed to conduct the recruitment program through Marion, Polk, Benton, L4nn and Lane counties. Further Information may be ob tained by calling Mrs. Arneson. either at the Red Cross office here, 8277. or at her home. 4326. The area telegrams urged air transportation to the south if possible and stated that trans portation and maintenance would be paid and that nurses would receive $14 per day. Death Claims H. G. Wells, 79 LONDON, Aug. 13 -(A)- Her bert George Wells, prolific author and historian hailed as one of the great men of modern English letters, died at his London home today after a long illness. He was 70. Wells, whose monumental books popularizing hUtory and science became world-wide best sellers, "had been in failing health for a considerable time," his secre tary said. wens was ranked by many with - George Bernard Shaw and Rudyard Kipling as one of the big three of modern British let ters. Much of Wells work was touched with prophecy. In 1114 he wrote The World Set Free," which predicted the coming : of, the atomic bomb. tS DUCKS' ON SALE PORTLAND, Aug. 13 -VP)- The war assets administration said today 250 ducks vehicles which run on highways and in water- will go on sale at the Umatilla ordnance depot Aug. 19. Oregon, Wednesday Morning. Railroad i Measure Gets Veto WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -(JP)- President Truman tonight vetoed the Wheeler-Reed railroad reor ganization bill. The president said he was rejecting the measure be cause he feared it would not ac complish its purposes. Among other objections, he said the bill "fails to direct specifically the Immediate reduction of gross ly excessive interest rates now wasting the funds of the rail roads'' in process of reorganization under section 77 of the existing bankruptcy law. The measure, the president said. does not "adequately cure the evils" which permit "improper control of the railroads after their reorganization. He also said the bill fails to. provide full, pro tection against forfeiture of se curities -and investments.' The vetoed measure, a compro mise of house and senate bills, porvided that a carrier in bank ruptcy might adjust its financial obligations if it had earned its fixed charges during a seven-year period ending in 1943, and if its gross operating revenue was $50, 000,000 or more in any of the calendar years between 1942 and 1944, inclusive. The bill provided that federal judge might allow the carrier 18 or more months, in the discreation of the interstate commerce com mission, to accomplish its volun tary adjustment. The carrier would file an adjustment pln with the ICC. Americans Aid Illegal Entry, British Charge LONDON, Aug. 13-iP-A colo nial office spokesman charged to day that "American financial sources' were responsible for "en couraging and directing" illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine. Asked to elaborate on the gov- e r n m e n t's statement yesterday that "very large financial con tributions" supported the mass exodus of European Jews to Pale stine, the spokesman declined to specify individuals or organiza tions. Britain, meanwhile, announced new phases in the drive to halt illegal immigration to the Holy land where today British troops fired on rioting Jews. Three per sons were killed in Haifa and seven wounded when the crowd stormed the heavy guard at the docks in protest against depor tation of 1,000 immigrants to Cyprus. The British declared they would confiscate all Illegal immigrant ships caught in Palestine waters. CPA 'Shaking Loose9 Hides WASHINGTON. Aug. 13 -P)- Morris Verner, official of the ci vilian production administration, said today the government had "shaken loose" 500,000 to 1.000, 000 rattle hides after official warning of danger of a shoe pro duction shutdown. Verner, CPA compliance chief, told reporters that an investiga tion of producer and tanner stocks had forced about 300,000 hides to market during the first 48 hours of the survey, launched a week ago. About 300 CPA investigators are making the inventory check. Shift in Mediterranean Control Seen as Possibility by Molotov PARIS, Aug. 13 V. M. Molotov, Russian foreign minis ter, declared today at the Euro pean peace conference that "cer tain powers are trying to gain power in the Mediterranean at the expense of Italy and France." Answering Italian Premier Al cide De Gas peri's recent plea for Italy, Molotov did not IdenUfy the "certain powers." Branding De Gas peri's sugges tion for a year's delay in decid ing the fate of Trieste as an at tempt to "exploit divergencies of views among the allies," Molo tov said it was based on a hope "to upset certain compromises of the foreign ministers council. August 14. 1946 Compares Klan with Nazis OTiilED HATE INTHEflAMEOF LIBERTY " NEW YORK. N. Y, Ang. 11. Daniel Duke (abeve). aseUUat attorney general ef Georgia and special prosecutor la tfse state's eeert ease to reveke the national charter ef the Kla Klux Kiaa. holds a Klan mask and a newspaper as he declared at a pre conference In New York that "the Klan carries ea where Nasi storm troopers left off." Duke said be waa In New York te look Into the .etiea ef direct ties between the German-American Band and the Klan Immediately prior to World War 11. (AP WlrepbeU) Chiang Promises to End One-Party Rule in China NANKING, Wednesday, Aug. 14.-yT-Oeneralisimo Chiang Kai shek today promised solemnly to end Kuomintang (government) one party rule and institute a constitutional overnment in China "with out delay, despite all obstacles." , The statement. Issued on the first'anrtiversary of the surrender of Japan, broke Chiang's silence at the height of China's new crisis Injunction May Be Sought in Sale Protest "We as representatives of 9000 World War II veterans in this county bitterly resent the pro jected sale of 41,000 sleeping bags on bid to one dealer at Umatilla ordnance depot near Hermiston, Oregon. ..." begins a telegram which was drafted last night by a formed -on-the-spot Marion County Federated Veterans- coun cil. The wire will go to President Truman, the war assets adminis tration, Oregon's congressional delegation and the national com manders of eight U. S. war vet erans organizations. Paul Hedricks and Tyrone Gillespie were named as legal counsel who, if exclusive sale of the sleeping bags to one firm is not stopped, are to file an in junction suit against the WAA administrator in Portland to pre vent him from carrying out the administration's advertised plan. Don Goode was elected tem porary chairman of the new group, which is to include all Marion county veterans organi zations which desire membership. A meeting was called for August 22 In the state library building. Oregon Israel Nation In Sweet Cherry Oop SEATTLE, Aug. 1 3 HH -Oregon leads the nation in sweet cherry production this year with an Aug ust 1 estimated crop of 30,800 tons against California's 30,000 tons and Washington's 28,000 tons. The national estimate is 102,550 tons. Romania, second former enemy ttate to plead her cause before the conference, tonight supported Russian treaty proposals, but op posed most of the terms advanc ed by the western powers and demanded reparations from Ger many and Hungary. Romanian Foreign Minister Giorgiu Tatarescu praised Russia for asking only 8300,000,000 in reparations from Romania, which he said was moderate. Soviet Delegate A. Y. Vishin sky and Czechoslovak Delegate Jan Masaryk, in what appeared to be a virtual eastern lineup behind Romania, lent their sup port to Romania's plea. The Weather Mas. S7 Mln. PTectp S Irarv 7 trace 47 .OS S3 .00 S3 feel Saleas . Hoi I land San FranriK-o Chtraso . a so 7Z Mew York Willamette liver -3 S I'ORrrAST Ifrnin ITS rather bu rrau. McNary field. Salem I: Partly cloudy today and tonight tfh lucnet 80 flfgrrni. Prics 5c No. 118 brought on by months of stub born civil strife. It came four days after the Am erican envoys. Ambassador John Leigh ton Stuart and General George Marshall, announced that a general peace for China appears impossible. In a lengthy statement Chiang laid down a six-point program for China. It included a decision to use po litical means to settle political dif ferences and negotiate all pendtng problems - - "but only if the com munists give assurance and evi dence that they will carry out the truce agreement, restore commun ications, respect decisions of exec utive headquarters, and integrate their army into a national army." PEIPING, Aug. lSHVAmeri can Ambassador John Leighton Stuart said today there is "noth ing In Chiang Kai-shek's state ment that removes the difficul ties" preventing government and communists from reaching a set tlement in China. Portugal, Siam Opposed as r U.N. Members NEW YORK, Aug. 13 -AV The applications of Sweden and Ice land for membership in the Unit ed Nations received tentative en dorsement in the security coun cil's membership committee to day, but Portugal and Siam were strongly opposed. Poland led the opposition to Portugal, while France vigorous ly objected to the sdmiMion of Siam. Russia also opposed both Portugal and Siam. Polih Representative Jerzy Michalowski charged that the present government of Portugal whs ideologically cloxely related to the Franco regime in Spain and to the governments which had existed in Germany and Italy before the -defeat of those coun tries. Salem Gets First Ha in Since July A trace of rain Tell in , Salem Tuesday for the first time in al most a month, the Salem weath er bureau reported. Forest fire - conditions in this area continued favorable late last night, with no new fires reported by the state forester's office. Cooler weather and high er humidity were reported in most areas of the state, with a light drizzle in some. Wisconsi Senator In Front MILWAUKEE. Aug. 14 Sen. Robert M. LaFo".ette. Jre.. seeking to retain his seat in UU senate despite a diarize in party affiliatitei, was running a Beett and neck race with. Circuit Judg Joseph R. McCarthy jfor the re publican nomination farly teddy as the tabulation ct votes la tfre) Wisconsin primary bajtsed trat two-thirds mark. j Meanwhile. Wisconsin's T-year-old governor. Walter's. Good land, seeking renoralnatteei on the republican ticket for a third! term, held a lead of nearly l9d; votes over Ralph M. ImrnelL V ea rner stale adjutant geral. In the senatorial primary. 21tt precincts out of 3148 gave La Tel le tte 118,118. McCartny 11T.K2. and Perry Stearns 13,713. Return from 2120 precincts gave Coed- land 109.533 votes to ;1?.4 lut Imraell and 42.537 for jDelbert J. Kenney, candidate of I the stte republican organization. I i By The Associated Zn1csver In Vermont republic nor Mortimer R. ProctJr was feated for renotninationj by-Erne W. Gibson on the basis cf com plete, unofficial returns Last 'eight the first time in modern histcrx a Vermont chief executive Taad been denied a second termj Young Gibson never before had been nominated to starjewide f fice but served briefly jin the U. S. senate. He was appointed to the unexpired term of his falhec upon the latter's deatti In South CaryUr-a J Strom, Thurmond, a former arsny off-tet; making his first state-Hide jc&m- paign, piled up an ovec helminsj lead over ten other candidates for governor in yesterday's democrat! primary but failed .to get the ma jority needed for nomination. 4 As a result bit willj enter a runoff prunary ' September 3j against the second tghjcian, Dr James A. McLeod of (Florencsk president of the state health, aasof elation. Returns from 1,297 cf th state's 1,544 precincts gave Thuee mond 74,471 votes, Zlctjtod f ijm 817. Governor Ransom! J. VTxlW Urns was third with 265. f i In Arkansas incumbents in tJse, three statewide rices at Axkaco sas' democratic primary t -co ted. commanding leads over their ex ponent on the basis of return from more than bail Ihe LrecrxUa . e nn c i ruman aians i Out Bill to Finance ; New Hospitals WASHINGTON. Aug. 13 ye President Truman tody sifned a bill authorizing federal Tin ring of one-third of a tl25.C"0, 000 hospital building program spread among the states accord .... i . : . I ing to meir neros. I Truman declaVed the Irgisla&sa contained objectionable j preced ent, but in spite of theni he sign ed it because of the urgent need of a prompt start on the fite year plan. i M ! The president pointed to the fwo " shortcomings:" j - - j 1. A council "composed of n- di vidua Is who are not to be f41J time officials of the goxWwne'.r' may veto certain a ctioas cf the) surgeon general, including his approval of a state's plan because) it does not meet federal law. - j 2. -A state agency may appeal to the federal courts from cer&al of a construction project by the . federal administrator, j : Byrnes Fires j 40 Employes ; WASHINGTON, Aug! 11 -yfj Forty state departmentj emplcyes have been fired for having "cl connections or Involvethent with foreign governments' I or part records Indicating "a high degfee of security risk," Secretary Byrnes disclosed in a letter made putLe today! I The 40 weee among depart ment employes discharged after ptehminary examination of 3tC0 employes by a screening com mittee. i H I SITKA SPKt'CE PEICE IT i WASHINGTON, Aug4 13 -OV A price increase averaging $4,73 per 1000 board feet lor Sitka spruce lumber was authoried by OPA today. I : I i Our Senators !: - ifg M r ' 1