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i a . . a i ' mi, I 1 V 1 I I i : I I I - i,v i LTU ID uu ! ? The Wcalher JSrtifd ?an I rincure CkwiTfo jew torn Max J . S3 77 7 71 Mm. M 7 47 12 SI Preclp. tn no SO iac 00 WllUnwtU river -3 (. FORECAST fTorn U . weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem t: Moatly cloudy today, tonight, lew right scat tered ihimfil. Higrtest temperature 71. Uft SO 1 I MUNDBD Ifiil NINETY -SIXTH YEAR II PAGES Satan. Oregon. Friday Morning. September 13, 1948- Pric 5c No. 144 FedleiraD (DdDimftir&D Salem rent arc expected to be rolled back by as much as 20 per rent under federal rent control which becomes effective here for the fiint time in Salem history on October 1. r - Introduction of federal rent control in Salem and throughout Marion county was announced Thursday by Jackson. T. Moore. OPA district 'rent executive in Portland, who said rent will be frozen at the I July 1, 1845. level. MP Misses Tor get in Balkan Demonstration 1 1 OTP SQQQjQS lULU LUUU51 i Older people will recall the Doc Abrams' health machine which pulled In thousands of dol lars from the ailing a quarter century ago. What the operator did was to put a drop of the pa tient's blood In the machine, flip a few switches or turn few cranks and he claimed then he could tell whether the patient was ' suffering: from chiUblain, polio. heart disease, stomach ul cers. fallen arches or hiccoughs Those who set up In business with the machines coined money for a time. Finally It was ex prwed a a fake. by. I believe-. Henry Ford's! Dearborn Indepen dent It was astonishing however. the number of people who fell for the promises of Doc Abraira . Another device emanating from California is (the Doc Town send sure-fire prosperity scheme. It's a good parallel to the Doc Abrams machine, at least In get tin money from customers Tuwnaend's machine doesnt ope rate in the field of disease, but is at perpetual (notion machine for making: everyone MCB. i The Townaend whirligig Is bas eri on this theory: give the d frtk money and require them to spend it, and everyone become tirrwLiterrHia Thus sonnsors of the prcpied three per cent groat in come tax in Oregon say the mer chants will be 'glad' to pay the tax because they will make it back and a lot more by the spend ring of the pension money. I had 1 always- believed that prosperity was made by creating wealth. through work and effort and in telligent . use of our resources. That's quite old-fashioned. .The Town send scheme says we all get rich merely by spending! Suppose we take apart this Townsend whirligig, as the Dear born (Continued on editorial page) Drop Due in Electric Rates Electric" users supplied by Portland General-Electrie Co. and Northwestern Electric Co. in Ore gon and a small part of Washing ton will save an estimated $500,- 000 annually under reduced rates announced Thursday by George II. Flagg. state public utilities rommisaioneY. Local PGE officials, however, pointed out that users in Salem proper will be but little affected by the rate changes Inasmuch as rates here already were lower than in other areas for both com mercial and residential use. Rural residential users of electricity probably will benefit most from the rate reduction, it was esti mated pending study of the new rate schedule. Announcement Of the various rate schedules is expected1-to be made within a few days by the Salem -division of PGE. The new rates are effective September 21. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH. i CWa Sua Bynixttfl "Now don't bother getting a ttoolTU tit right here." Moore declared that the deci slon to control rents by OPA in this county was reached after comprehensive survey by the bu reau of labor statistics showed Marion county rents, had risen steadily and had reached 'infla tionary levels in the past year. Supersedes Local Haling j Salem rents were removed from sf local wartime control in Novem ber, 1943, after two years of city administered control during which time 2,118 houses and 3,218 apart ments and rooms were registered. 432 new rental places were res istered and 41 hearings were held, records of the former city rent control agency showed Thursday, The !new city rent control plan adopted this month will be super scded by the OPA control plan, as provided in the city ordinance on rent control. ( Leo N. Child. Salem realtor Who was chairman of the rent board, estimated Thursday that since the city control was removed increases in rent rates have ran red from 10 to 25 per cent, with a few increases enough higher to be placed In the "exhorbitant class. There were -no local records im a ' a .a a a . mediately available to form a comparison . between the July 1, nT ine present level. Jeati Residential Keats Under the Just-announced OPA rent control plan for Marion coun ty only residential rents; are sub ject, to the restrictions. All land lords will be required to register their retnal units as soon as local rent control offices are establish ed by OPA. Moore announced. Ire explained that pressures ev erted on rental housing 1n Mar ion county during i the past year have created an "emergency" ait uation,' with many! reports of ex orbitant rentals and "gouging" rent practices reaching his office. "The return of many war vet erans and their families, coupled with increased college enrollment and return of shipyard workers from other areas, has created a critical housing congestion and re sulted In accelerating .rent in creases,'' he said. ! "Federal rent control was determined to be nec essary to protect thousands of tenants." UNRRA Relief to Slavs Jo Continue WASIIINNGTON. Sepi.-12.-4V) Acting Secretary of State William L. Clayton announced tonight the United States has decided not i to stop UNRRA relief shipments to Yugoslavia. The decision Was made, he said, because "such action on our part would- be a violation of the obli gations we assumed when we agreed to participate in UNRRA, and would subject us to the charge that we have little regard for the sanctity of International agreements." Wrsl Salem Heights To Be Without Water Residents of the KJngwood area are again without f water. They received , p 01 tea r d s Thursday morning , from the! West Salem water department informing them not to sprinkle due to emergency work which must be done on one of the pumps: It added "Even with no sprinkling there Is a like lihood; that those on higher levels will be without water. Residents were Informed the work would require 48 hours orj more. ' tmr- 4 , mm ti-f 1 ?' - e"V ;:r-,-:.- :-t MLGGIA. Sept. 12 Aa Aaaerfeasi smilitary aUeemaji amlsses his target as he does his share to break ing Bp a demenstratloa staged y, pre-Ymgoalav Italians and Slovenes In Meggla, near Trieste. De spite the miss. It helped harry alee desnonstraUr at light, (AT WlrepheU) Editors Ask UN for Free World Press LAKE SUCCESS, L. I., Sept 12 (J?y- The American Socier of Newspaper Editors formally ask ed the UnitedNations today to adopt at its autumn assembly session a covenant to establish world ' freedom of information and 01 tne press. 1 The proposal to open the doors throughout the world to lnforma tion for all people was submitted to the UN economic i and social council with the support of spokesmen lor three big nations James F. Byrnes, U. S. secretary of, state. Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Great Britain, and uen erallssimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China. . 1 The program, es previously submitted to UN Secretary Gen eral TryaTve Lie, proposes that agreements betwiren nationf be soueht to include: ; . L Recognition that friendship among nations depends on free dom and exchange of lnforma Hon. i ? '! ' 2. Public labeling of lnforma tion paid for In whole or in part by a government or organization or person. 3. Recognition that any govern ment or private monopoly of me dia of information Is inimical to Dublic interest. 4. Refusal to recognize the Tight of any government or person to infringe upon, discriminate against or censor information in time of neace. This program was submitted to Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov at Paris for endorsement but be has hot replied. Salem Kiddies To Pose Today The 1 sunken garden directly in front Court street and across from the north steps of the state cap ltol building will be the setting for the movies to be taken this morning of small children of the Salem area as a feature of the "Live in Salem" all-color picture. Moving picture men who ex pected to spend I a week of long days here getting the 50-minute film together announced Thurs day they would remain through next week so that school pictures could be added to the production, which,) they . declared, would be stretched a bit and would take more than an hour for showing. $80,085 Goal Established for County Gommunityl Chest Drive A goal of $80,085 has been es tablished fori the 1946 Salem Com munity Chest drive,; according to an announcement made yesterday by Campaign Chairman Tinkhani Gilbert ' Pre-campaign festivities are sla ted to get underway: with a Chest workers breakfast Tuesday morn ing, and - will continue until the end of the month. .The regular campaign leaves the starting gate October 1 for an intensified one week run. Purpose of the pre-campaign Is to solicit large donations from lo cal business firms and prominent citizens. During .the regular cam paign, contributions of all amounts will be sought from Salemltes through a city-wide canvass. Contributions to the Commun ity Chest will be. distributed amonf fix local and ; eight state wide agencies. Local beneficiar ies of the project Include Boy Scouts,1 CampCre Girls, Catholic charities. Salvation Army, YMCA and YWCA. In explaining the purpose of the Community Chest program. Chairman Gilbert said, "The Com munity Chest Is an attempt to consolidate Into one drive many channels of donations. This saves time of volunteer workers and as sures a fair distribution of charity funds.' , ; The Chest budget Is scrutinized by ' local business men familiar with the needs of the various ag encies concerned, and la approved by not only the Community Chest committee, but also by the agen cies themselves.; . . Community Chest headquarters have been established In the Sa lem YMCA building. New Atom Ray Research May Provide Cold Light I By Howard W. Blakeslee Associated Press Sctenee Reporter f CHICAGO, Sept 12 -JPf- The pleasant side of atomic energy, with new things like cold, light, and drinking water, purified by 'rays instead of by chemicals, was described to the American Cham lea I society today by Dr. Milton j Burton of Notre Dame. I Cold light, that comes from fireflies, also is produced from a large family of chemicals known ?as phosphors. Some are In use to give materials a glqw that can f Just be seen in the dark. But light as bright as that from electric bulbs is also emitted from some phosphors, when they are 1 under ' bom bardment of radioac tive rays, or of ultra-violet rays. Radioactive rays have been too expensive for this kind of light ; Dr. Burton, however, said that ; atomic ovens may remove this barrier by producing large quan tities of radioactive substances. The same radiation can be used to purify a city's water supply, and at the same time to sterilize dangerous sewage. These' radia tions would be produced auto matically by an atomic energy plant making electric power, steam and heat ' D. Burton predicted many in dustrial uses of the radioactive materials. Petroleum, he said, may be cracked at low tempera tures with the aid of radioactive materials., ... - Metals may be hardened better -er more easily. " It should be possible to pro duce vaccines for virus diseases by Use of the rays, as well as new drugs of many kinds. Dr. Burton aaid that the atomic by-products offer a new field of research known as "radiation chemistry." Unions Favor 4 Incumbents In Coining Vote Tour of seven Incumbents up for reelection this fall to major state and congressional offices were endorsed as candidates, by the Oregon State Federation of Labor's executive board and del egates from all Oregon city labor councils Thursday, Salem dele gates reported upon their return to this city last night ! They said the group, after stu dying voting records and com munications from candidates had endorsed the following: i For .governor. Earl Snell, In cumbent;, for secretary of state, Robert S. Farrell, Jr., Incumbent; fori labor commissioner, William Kimsey, Incumbent; r for congress meri first district Lyman Ross, Aloha democrat; aecond district Lamar Townsend, Klamath Falls democrat; third district Homer Angell, Portland 1 n c u m b e nt; fourth district Dr. Louis A. Wood, Eugene democrat The four ! in cumbents endorsed are republi carrt'; the three other candidates democrats. . ( Local men attending were Pres ident Francis Keith, Secretary Herbert E. Barker and I Joseph Prange, legislative committeeman of the Salem trades and labor council. ' , ': j Salem to Answer Injunction Asked By Heltzel Estate The city of Salem's answer to Injunction proceedings initiated by the Heltzel Estate against the city's plan to erect curbs and force removal of gas pumps at the Par rish Garage in the 600 block of North Capitol street was prepared Thursday by City i Attorney Law rence Brown; Brown said the answer would bei served on Charles Heltzel, le gal counsel for the estate which owns the garage property, later this week. The legal answer re affirms the city's Intention to place curbs and have pumps re moved from what Is part of the public street and states that the "carrying on of said business (Parrish garage) obstructs or par tially obstructs the easterly side Lof Capitol street and particularly ine sidewalk area ... so as to Interfere with pedestrian tra vel ... " OESON .WELLES SUED . LOS ANGELES. Sept. 12 -(P) Producer Orson Welles was sued for $63,000 today by a theatrical agent M. C. levee, who claimed this amount Is due under acon tract for the employment of Actor Franchot Tone. Wallace Rap U. S. Policies NEW YORK, Sept 12-4VSec-retary of Commerce Wallace warned tonight that the "British imperialistic policy" in the -Near East combined with! "Russian re taliation." would lead the United States straight to war unless this country formulates a clearly-de fined and realistic foreign policy of its own. , i ' "To prevent war and insure our survival in a stable world, it is essential that we look abroad through our own American eyes and not through the eyes of either the British foreign ofiice or a pro- British or anti-Russian press, Wallace declared in an address prepared for a meeting sponsored by the National Citizens Political Action committee and the Inde pendent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions at Madison Square Garden. Takes Middle Road "In this connection, I want one thing clearly understood," he con tinued. " am neither anti-British nor pro-British neither anti-Russian nor pro-Russian." In dealing wfth the Soviet Un ion, Wallace said this nation was reckoning with ia force which, can not be handled successfully by 1 "gef tough with Russia" policy. "The tougher; we get, the tough er 'the Russians! will get," he pre dieted. : (In Washington, President Tru man told a press conference to day that he had read and approv ed all Wallace's speech and that he considered nothing in it con flic ted with the policy stated by Secretary of State James Byrnes in his Stuttgart address.) Pepper Disagrees In contrast to these statements of White House approval of Wal lace's address. Senator Claude Pepper (D-Fla), in a speech pre ceding Wallaces at tonight s ral ly indicated disagreement with Wallace and said: "You and I know today the rea son we have got so! much unity behind the foreign policy is be cause there Is so much McKinley imperialism in our foreign policy What do you expect 1 of a foreign policy which, really meets the ap proval of Senator i Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles?" AFL Moves ffff PomeS: iLoinies As Pay Chaise Wood WASHINGTON. Sept Godfrey Betler. director ef the maritime commlsalon's labor relations division, said today the division will recommend that the same wage Increases be author ised for CIO maritime workers as have been approved far the AFL. "I assume the commission will approve" the recemaaesMLUiosw Batter told a reporter. v The commission -mast authorize Increase, bet It Is then as to employers the ship owners as to whether they wilt agree to them. Commission officials will meet with ship operators at If a.nu. eastern standard time, Butler said. CIO unionists went on strike at midnight demanding- wage Increases corresponding to those opened to the AFL by Steefmaa's ruling. The CIO was given a '$17.50 monthly raise but Jane. West coast AFL men are due to get $22.56 and east coast men 127.50 under Steelman's decision. - . . Bailey to Die This Morning Kenneth William I Bailey. 27 convicted slayer of j Sgt T. R Chambers, state police department operative at Ontario, Malheur county, on April 29. 1945, will go to hif . death in the lethal gas chamber at the Oregon state pen itentiary at 8:30 a.m. today. Prison jWarden George Alexan der said all plans for the execu tion were completed Thursday and that Bailey had been transferred to the "death cell." : Bailey was convicted of first- degree murder in the Malheur county circuit court and the ver dict later was affirmed by the state supreme court. Police Disband Squatters Strike LONDON, Sept. 12-P)-Mounted police charged into a crowd of 2000 "squatter s y m p a t htzers choking traffic lanes outside 1 squatter-occupied luxury apart ment building tonight and broke up a demonstration and sitdown strike. No one was injured. The crowd, which had gathered in protest against police refusal to allow delivery of blankets to the squatters, finally dispersed. Population in Lane County Said Higher Than in Marion EUGENE, Sept 12 -(JPV- A Uni versity of Oregon , publication said today that Lane' county .has surpassed Marioa county to be come the most populous county after Multnomah. ' The Oregon Business Review, published by the university school of business, administration, placed Lane county a 1945 population as S2,950, and Marion's at 80,801. : The federal 1940 ' census listed Lane population as 69,096 - and Marion as 75,246. j Permission to Erect School Addition Okehed PORTLAND, Septi 12 -JPV- Ap provals listed today; by the con struction committee of the civilian production administration includ ed: School district No. 3, Marion county, $8000 school addition; Or egon - Physicians Service, : Salem,, $3500 alteration. County Veterans Council Asks Uniform Surplus Sale Bulletins Uniform notification from the war assets administration of the "where and when" of surplus property sales was demanded by the Marion County Federated vet erans council at a meeting last night In the Salem Legion hall. 1 Regular and timely bulletins to be displayed in post offices will be recommended in a letter from the council to the WAA office in Portland. Post office bulletins of surplus sales are received but the coun cil said, they are not regularly supplied, as is necessary for ade quate information of veterans. A sleeping bag cover" brought for display by a Woodburn vet eran, who purchased It for $4.46 wfth only his discharge as a' cer tificate of eligibility, was ad judged by veterans present as an adequate sleeping hag, except lor the fact that it Is not waterproof. Lumber from buildings torn down at the former Adair camp site Will be stacked in truckload size piles on-the-spot and sold, disregarding sizes of j boards. It was announced. Veterans will have first priority on this lum ber, expected to be ready in about 45 days. Hub; Saalfeld, county service officer, informed the group veter ans taking apprenticeship training under public law 16 for disabled veterans, rather than the G. I. bill, will not undergo pay cuts to a maximum of $175 for single men and $200 for married veterans. Rates fori the new national serv ice life Insurance have been re ceived by him, Saalfeld said, re marking that the insurance should not. be missed by any World War I veterarC Final payment , to the veteran, ender the policy, is now optional either as a lump sum or installments. Rex KJmmeL commander-elect of Capital post 9, American Le gion, wag authorized to prepare a permanent constitution for ap proval at the next council meet ing, at 8 p. m. September 26 at the Legion halL By the Associated Preaa. Members of the, CIO National Maritime union struck early today on west coat ports and in New York. ' This action came as the AFL Sailors; Union of the Pacific voted to end their eight-day-old walkout on the' Pacific coast an the renult 'of a government proposal spon sored by John II. Steelman- restoring a wage increase which had been vetoed by the wage stabilization board. Joseph Curran, president of the NMUV told newsmen in New York that the strike would become effective at -all other ports on the eastern seaboard and the gulf coast at noon today. "We are prepared to negotiate immediately with the shipowners," he said. The CIO union's national council voted unanimously to strike on all dry cargo and passenger vessels under contract with it because of "deliberate creation of inequities which result in. different lates of pay for men doing the same work on same types of ships" arising -from the government proposal. "The basis of the strike," James Drury, west coast NMU. leader said, is the demand for the money won by AFL unions in excess ol the general l1.50 wage increase won by the committee foe maritime unity (CIO)." Earlier the SUP and Seafarers' International union ( AFL). de spite the government plan granting them wage demands, voted in ' v . 1 ' ' " Government Bureau Explains Plan For Halting AFL Maritime Walkout WASHINGTON, Sept lt.-i The office f ecenesaie sta bilization tonight Issued this explanatory statement en Its pUi for halting the AFL shipping strike: The shipowners and the anions and the maritime commis sion all reached agreements and submitted them to the wage sta bilization board. The shipowners pleaded with the wage stabil ization board to approve, stating they wer willing te absorb the Increases above those already approved. "Under present wage regulations where private tndatry Is willing to absorb an Increase It Is unnecessary ,1 appeal te the wage stabilisation board. These cases would not have gone to the Wage stabilization board, therefore, except for the fact that the government (maritime commission) was also Involved. "Today the maritime-commission chairman erged Mr. (John R. Steelman) to find a way for the maritime commission to go . aloag- witl private Industry and labor on the eoatraeto. He ata- '' ted the maritime commission Is a minority operator fa the shin- . ping Industry and. by direction of congress. Is rapidly getting'out of the business entirely. . For that reason, he felt private indus try should be allowed to set the ware standard." f (The ClD union, which railed a strike as the AFL strike was ending, was In a different position. Since It had negotiated a eon ' tract with plrvate operators for only a $17.50 monthly increase. It would hot qualify, on the basis of Its present contract for aa automatic Increase to the AFL union's higher scales.) New York to continue their strike on the east and gulf coasts until written assurance was received from government agencies, including the war shipping administration, that the full wage, raises won in. bar gaining with ship operators would be approved. ' I Harry Lundeberg. leader of the Sailors union of the Pacific, said in San Francisco that Steelman's plan indicated "the wage hoard's un realistic policy has been overruled." ? A spokesman for ship owners on the Atlantic and gulf coasts said he believed that under Steelman's plan the 90.000 striking seamen would get the full wage increases which twice had been denied them by the wage stabilization board. . Steelman announced a change in wage stabilization board reg ulations which would permit government agencies .such as the "U. S. maritime commission to pay the same .wage scales as private operators in the same field. Steelman had been authorized by President Tru-?, man to take charge of the negotiations earlier in the "day. - The operators' spokesman in New York, who declined use of his name, said that ship owners had agreed to pay the full $27.50 a moith wage raise asked by AFL seamen on private-owned vessels --ship not operated for the maritime commission. The. maritime commission, too, had agreed to jyy the $27.50 fig ure before the W SB ruled against it, under then existing regulations, the spokesman said. It now appears that the commission will be able to put the full increase in force, he concluded. , AFL Gives Signs to CIO in Portland PORTLAND, Ore:, Sept. 12-(P-Strike placard were to be hand ed from AFL to CIO hands tonight, indicating the port of Portland will remain tied up in spite ef the settlement of the AFL wage issue. The national maritime union announced a CIO strike to begin at midnight and J. W. Massey, business agent of the Sailors' union of the Pacific said AFL workers "positively will not cross CIO picket lines." . 1 II - Board to Consider Dairy Prices Recontrol WASHINGTON. Sept. 12 -P)- Disturbed by rising butter and cheese prices, the decontrol board today railed for evidence regard ing possible recontrol of dairy prices. The board issued a formal no tice calling for an' explanation of the Increases to be considered at a board meeting here September 18. UN Assembly Date Delayed LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.. Sept 12.-tP)-The United. Nations gen eral assembly was formally post poned until Octbber 23 today. while Russia raised new objec tions to any dealings with Franco Spain by the United Nations. U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie announced that the postpone ment proposed by Russia, China. France and Belgium in Paris . last weekend had been made official by the approval of more than a majority of the. 51 members. The possibility of Franco Spain sitting on a proposed permanent central opium board under Unit ed Nation auspices brought Rus sian objections during a session of the U.N. economic and social coun cil Courthouse Tax Bill Filed Official Marion county court order to place on a special blU t in the November election a pro posal to levy $200,000 annually for the next three years in sup plement the courthouse construc tion fund and make possible ere--' tion of a new courthouse in 1949 was filed by County Judge Grant Murphy Thursday. The ballot order remains- tn be prepared! The order was drafted by a legal advisory committee ct the Marion county bsr following a public hearing on the Isiqe Tues day, The $600,000 total levy thus proposed would augment the pres ent courthouse construction fund and levy and provide a $1,050,000 fund for the work by 1949. Three File for Six Firemen Positions Deadline for the filing of appli cations by prof pective city fire men passed Friday evening, with City Civil Service Secretary Al Mundt reporting that only three candidates filed. About six vacan cies exist in the fire department he said. After a check! of the ap plications, the candidates if they qualify otherwise will be called for an examination at city hall next Thursday at 9 am, Mundt added.