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Veal. Increase Sel;
Cabinet Meeting to
Sean Issue Today
WASHINGTON. Oct. 10-r)-R tail prireson yea cut will
go up from thj-ee to nine cents a pound Monday, the; OPA an
nounced today as it listed sample prices for New York, Chicago
fend San Francisco. , ;"
The increase are limited to the two top grades, choice and
jood. and average 7 and 8 cents a pound retail on weighted
average basis, the agency said. Revamped prices for other meats
are under consideration.
Sample prices below are those for (mall independent stores
on choice AA) grades of veal. These are the highest retail
levels because large retailers, such as chain stores, have slightly
lower ceilings.
Following are the new ceilings for the western areas to
gether with the amount of increase over present ceilings which
are the name a those of last June 30:
Cat rriees
I.aia chop er raasts ............ ....... .....at. ap
Rib rhep or iniU SI, P.7
Kbeelaler rhs mr reaats ... ... ...' St. ap f .
Veal eetlels. reune steaks mr raasts e, ap I '
Kirlaln steak er chep 4t. ap 1
I -eg raU i.. ........ 4J. ap 7 '
Ramp er slrlein resit (toneless) ..... tJ, ap t .
fthuldrr rat (square rut. bne In) - JX1, ap S -
ShMldtr raaaU tsqaare eel. benele) 47, ap 1
Ktew meats and ether rata, bresst. neck ana shank
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- WASHINGTON, Oct. lO-t-With the question of easin
meat controls to'the fore. President Truman went into a huddle
tonight with key advisors, including the two who would draft
any executive order. I
The decontrol Issue was placed
squarely up to the administration
in a formal petition of the beef
packers, backed by sworn state
ments that livestock on the hoof
is plentiful.
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son, to whom the petition was
made, promised a speedy answer,
He presumably will be governed
by the president a position.
That was emphatically against
removing ceilings to weeks ago.
But a question mark appeared to
day when the president at , his
news conference declined to com
ment when asked whether he still
holds that view. i
The session at; the White House
reached no decision. Press Secre
tary Charles O. Ross reported, and
the full cabinet will review the
meat shortage tomorrow. Boss
said tonghj.'s meeting "was sim
ply a session In which tha pres
ident listened to these men." They
included both Attorney General
Clark and Clark Clifford, presi
dential legal counsel, as well as
officials directly concerned with
meat.
The president's unwillingness
to commit himself on the question
of meat price controls today, in
contrast with his previous defense
of ceilings, caused a stir among
the reporters.
One of the questions sure to
provoke controversy is being kept
tff-stsge for the present while
ether, more immediate Issues re
ceive attention. This is the mat
ter cf disposition of island bases
in the rsrific. The aarly attitude
,f the military and naval leaders
was "vchat we have. We hold"
They recalled 'the," long road back
to the Philippine, the sacrifices
at Tarawa and Saipan and OHi
ri, and were determined to
bold to this dearly-bought er
ritory. the fixed airplane baes
f.r offeiiiMr or defense in any fu
ture vmr.
Thl lonfluts with the declara
tion of the Atlantic Charter sgaui
t territorial aggression, which
has been leiteialed by President
Truman and Secretary Byrnes,
though not without some qualifi
cation in the case of the former.
Disagreement is reported between
the ruvy department and the state
department over the disposition
I tbee inlands,
There re line povobilitie: To
retain item or a many as He
want; to return Ihern to former
sovereign 'or holders of man
date; to tuin ttm over to the
t'niled Nation The state depart
ment ( pear to piefer the latter
course, arwl tlirn to arrrpt a
rruteehip for. the Inlands.
Under the chaifter of UK this
country may ietan surh , ttm
queiei lands a it wants to ter
ritorial oetilemcnt t'f the late war
is a matter of agreement among
the ictors arid is riot a subject
fi th United Nations.
The proiatie solution will be
methiim of a compromise. We
siiatl rrl-lfi (jiuin as a naval 1
bae, a that was American terri
tory before this war.
Continued ort Fditrrial Paye)
I lit Ilka. Office to iAonC
i)n (!oIiiiii1mim Dav
Mariiin county offices, except
the sheriff s, and - Salem banks
i!l i We Saturday in observance
-of C In minis tay as a legal holi
day, f(i tals annotnued yester
day. Although no official an
nouncement was made otherwise.
It Was expected 'that State and
flty i ffitrs also would rloc,
Animal Craclcers
By WARKEN GOODRICH
NINETY-SIXTH YEAR
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Salem. Oreooiv Triday Morning. October 11, 1946
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Three Killed in
Portland Blaze
PORTIAND, Ore.. Oct 10-iVP)
Fire killed three persona tonight
in a two-story frame building in
downtown Portland. ! r
The bodies, not identified at
once, were found by firemen sev
eral hours after flames destroyed
the building, which housed a
semi-hotel where 30 men lived.
Fifteen ethers were driven by
smoke to window sills but fire
men rescued them from their
perches. The building, in a ware
house section of the city, con
tained a blower bulb storage
room and a furniture exchange
in addition to the Buckeye rooms.
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Klamath Project
The Oregon state emergency
board will meet at 2 p. m. today
to consider the state board of edu
cation's request for fundsv-it would
need to operate Klamath Falls
marine barracks as a vocational
sctnl.
The education board Wednes
day voted to apply for the Klam
ath property to the war assets
administration. It was expected
yesterday that the emergency
boaid would be asked for $65,000
with which the education depart
ment could operate the barracks,
if granted it, as a school until
February 1.
SAN JOSE, Oct. 1 The GUceblnl-Zlaner comet, with very faint
i tail. Is shewn la this pictara taken September 17 by 1L M. Jeffers
at the Lick ebaervatery en ML Hamilton near 8sa Jose. Calif,
I when It wss at Its nearest point te the earth. ZS.COt.tO miles. The
picture has Jest been made aestlsble. The earth en October passed
close to the comet's orbit and meteors trailing behind It were
visible te the naked eye. Streaks In plctars are star trails which
I moved In different direction te the comet daring the It minutes
expesare ree sired te get the pietare. (AP Wlrephete)
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Red-Hot Bolt from Blue
Thought to Be Meteorite
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 10.-OT)-A curious egg-shaped object,
which "fell red-hot from tha sky," was sent to an astronomer fof stu
dy today to determine whether it was a fallen meteorite.
Mrs. Marshall Cowle. Vancouver, Wash., nurse, said the fragment
dropped "like a brilliant ball of light" in front of her car during last
night's shooting star display.
Gold Rush in
California Gels
fiew Impetus
1 GRANTS PASS. Ore., Oct. 10
6pv-CeIifornla's modem gold rush
received another boost today, as
two mining experts reported see
ing -free gold" In a sample run
from the clslm that Jstartell the
UJohn C. O'Brien, district mining
engineer of the California state
division of mines, and llollis Cole,
Oregon State college mining de
partment, said an assay by the
Hay process disclosed gold visible
to the naked eye.
The ore. tested today at the of
fices of Erie C. Annes. Grsnts
Pass, minerslogist, was from the
sf rtle Creek claim along the Ore
gon-California border staked by
Tom Cronin, veteran prospector.
The gold rush whtcn jammea
the town of Crescent City, Calif.,
started last month when Ernest
liar. Del Norte county assayer.
announced that a special process
he invented shewed gold-bearing
ore from $50 to $73 a ton in Cro
riin's claim.
s Later, however. Independent as
says by traditional methods were
reported to disclose "no gold at
allj and scores of fortune-seekers
turned their Jalopies around and
drove away.
LOVE LICENSED TO WED
i If names mean anything "love
should prevail in this family. A
marriage license application was
issued to Charles A. Love, and
Lovedy J. Wolf Wednesday at
the Marlon codnty clerk's office.
LoVe lives in Salem and Lovedy
is from Monroe, Wis;
Construction Figures in Salem
Tower Above Previous Marks
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Valuation of new buildings and
other construction work in Salem
for which city building permits
have been Waned this year already
totals $3.065.474 a fiaure nearly
twice as high as valuation in the
previous high complete year
City Engineer J. II. Davis report
ed Thursday.
The report compiles building
permit issued since 1929 and
shnWs the high valuation of 11,
1193.244 for the year 1938. That
year's U4al Included the Salem
city warehouse at $29,229 valua
tion, which, the engineer said, was
the only WPA project listed in the
group of buildings valued at over
$25,000 when permits were grant
ed The warehouse is at 1310 Fer
ry st.
The Salem city warehouse.'built
In J936, atLSlO Ferry St., costing
$29,229, was the only WPA proj
ect: listed in the entire group of
buildings for which more than
$25,000 wasl expended.
: About $1JOOO,000 was spent by
the city and by the state in 1930
37 for public buildings.
Extreme low figures reached
were $181,905 for constructions in
1933, a depression year, and $138,
787 in 1943. the low war year.
. Largest projects included In the
1948 figure are a Paulus Brothers
cannery building at 1677 Oxford
st.. evaluated at $501,000, and the
First National Bank building go
ing up at Chemeketa and High
streets, estimated at $200,000.
Others who observed It said It
was "tremendously bright" and
appeared to fall straight down. "I
thought it was a fire," said Mrs.
Robert Kadow. 'It lit up our din
ing room window, so I ran outside
to see what it was."
The fragment Mrs. Cowie re
trieved, wss sent to Dr. J. Hugh
Pruett, Eugene, Ore., astronomer,
after a state geologist here wss
unable to determine whether it
was part of the Giacoblni-Zinner
comet's meteor tail.-
Observers said the falling object
appeared the size of a baseball,
but was shattered into hot frag
merits when they reached It. The
spot today was scorched for a four
to six inch radius.
Shipowners
Quit Mediation
By the Associated Press
Atlantic and gulf cuast ship
owners withdrew Thursday night
from the maritime strike negotia
tions as efforts to settle the Pitts
burgh power and the Hollywood
movie strikes continued with it
tie promise of early success.
In Washington, the walkout of
the shipowners rum the talks
aimed at ending the 10-day all
coast tieup of 800 ships again
darkened prospects for maritime
peace.
The shipowners and agents
committee for tha Atlantic and
gulf coasts withdrew saying "The
positions of the unions made a
continuation of negotiations futile."
Survey Ends in
Annexed Areas
Field work in the survey of
water facilities -in areas recently
annexed to Salem is completed
and the evaluated survey will be
submitted soon to the Salem water
commission, it was reported to
the commission last night by Fred
Merryfield of the Corvallis en
gineering firm retained by the
city for the special report.
Merry field said survey work
would continue in the city pro
per to, provide a complete sum
mary of the wster grid system
which. Will be of use in long
range planning for the city's development
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The Weather
Mas. Mn. Free i p.
Salem SB
PorUand .. 70
San rranOars'. . S4
t'hteaco . ? Si
New York S3
Willamette river -2 S feel
rOHf-CAST llrom U . weather bu
reau. McNary rield. Saleml: snoauy
clear today, tonight; cooler tempera-
lures again lonlgnt. liftni rroai in in
valley and warmer daytime tempera
tures. Highest 70. Lowest 34.
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Treaty
Finished
PARIS. Friday, Oct. I1.-0P)-The
Paris peace conference ap
proved today a Joint American
and British proposal for free nav
igation on the Danube river and
completed work on the terms of
the peace treaty with Romania.
' The vote on the Danube issue
was IS to six - - the division be
ing along the usual enst - west
lines. Earlier the American find
British pleas for free navigation
on this key European river and
Unhampered trade In the Ha Ik arm
were met by soviet accusations
that "dollar democracies" were
seeking to further their "imperial
istic" ambitions.
The' conference agreed to the
opening of the' Danube's naviga
ble tributaries and connecting
canals "on terms . of entire
equality to the nations, vessels
of commerce and goods of all
states."
By a 14 to 7 vote the confer
ence also provided that Romania,
all other Danubian states and the
Big Four would have a confer
ence within six months after the
Romanian treaty goes into effect
for the purpose of establishing the
river's "new international re
gime." , The sharp clash between the
western and eastern viewpoints
came as the conference rushed
toward completion, of the peace
treaty with Romania after putting
the final stamp on the Italian pact.
The delegates began voting on
the Romanian treaty at the start
of tonight's plenary session, com
pleting the political articles In 45
minutes with little difficulty.
.They agreed also to reduce Ro
mania's armed forces to 123.000
men for the army 5,000 men and
15,000 tons of shipping for the
navy and 100 combat and 50
transport planes and' 8,000 men
for the air force. Then the dele
gates went on to vote on. the dis
puted Danubian and commercial
clauses.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
(R-Mich) told the conference that
a free Da nute Is 'indispensable to
the economic health and therefore
to the peace of central - Europe,"
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin, in full support, charged
that soviet opposition "gives rise
to a good deal of suspicion to the
designs of the soviet union in this
part of the world."
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PoDeminrDa mMs
WASHINGTON", Oct. lO-iVIVPreiddent Truman today: The
budget will be in balance by the end of the vc;ir.
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder yesterday: "Theie'have
been no changes whatsoever" In the estimate last August which
"appeared to be that there will be a deficit of $ I ,0.(I00,000 "
President Truman again todiTy: There Is no disagreement
between Snyder and me.
Reporters trying to reconcile the pronouncements ulso got
from Mr, Truman today the assertion, twice repented, that
Snyder had been misquoted.
The treasury's official transcript of Snyder's news confer
ence yesterday showed, however, that he icnewcd the previous
forecast of a deficit for the current fiscal ycur ending June 30.
Mr. Trumiin did not specify Just what comprised the misquota
tion. ' -
Snyder wns repotted authoritatively to feel miic thul when
the president said Snyder was misquoted, he wns referring to
stories that there was a difference between them.
An hour after the president's conference tod.iy Snyder issued
the following statement:
"Theie is absolutely no difference between flic president
and myself and there has been none. What I told rny pi ess con- '
feience yesterday was for the puirose of keeping the press on
the right 'track.
"We ait- mukiriK every effort to h.il.uitc the luc)nt. Presi
dent Truman said there was no difference between us; 1 re
iterate this statement."
EnliHlmeiil Hint
CiiIh Draft Quotas
WASHINGTON. Oct. lO.-cr)
-The army has cut its Novem
ber draft call to 15,000 men. the
smallest since selective service
started before Pearl llailxir.
The October quota whs 35,
000 and September's 25.000.
MaJ. Geti. Willard S. PauT,
war department personnel di
rector, said the record-breaking
enlistment of nearly one mil
lion volunteers in the last year
was the primary reason for the
reduction.
1'apprH Wurn AguiiiMt
Hevering McArthur
TOKYO. Friday. Oct. ll.-i7P-
The newspaper JiJi admonished
its readers today against substi
tuting General MacArthur for Km
peror Hirohito as an object of
reverence.
The liberal newspaper declared
In an editorial that MacArthur
must be regarded as a representa
tive and symbol of democracy, not
as living God.
Loggers Strike (
Conies to End
PORTLAND. Ore., Oct 10 -(A')-The
strike of 5,000 CIO loggers in
the Columbia river area, which
lasted 18 days and forced a big
Portland sawmill to close for lack
of logs, was settled today.
An agreement worked out with
the U.S. conciliation service will
send the men back to work Im
mediately except at the leep Riv
er, Wasn., operation wnicn was
one cause of the strike.
The Deep River dispute, Involv
ing unionists who walked out be
cause non-union men were em
ployed, will be submitted to ar
bitration.
Truman Deuir AIloinh
DiftputrhtMl to Ilriluhi
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 '--The
British have no atom bombs,
President Truman declared flatly
today and diplomats expressed
belief his statement might help re
lieve tension abroad.
Apparently he meant that the
United States continues to exer
cise a complete monopoly on pos
session of the bombs.
GOP Wins in
Alaska; Favor
Becoming State
, JUNEAU, Alaska. Oct 1.0 -an-fncomplete
return tonight indi
cated the republican scored s
mighty victorytheir first in 16
years by capturing the lower
house of the territorial legislature,
gaining five senate seats (one
short of an even break with the
democrats) and nabbing one ter
ritorial office, commissioner of
labor.. Th, advisory vote was al
most two to one in favor of state
hood for Alaska.
Unofficial returns from all the
territory'. Indict I divisions- In
dicated tiie next house of repre
sentatives will consist of 14 re
publicans and 10 democrats, and ! Ry a decision marg'n of t
that the senate will consist of nine .371 nit.n f,utnumbered wunn on
democrat and seven republican. tn Willamette university campus
lerrnoiiui ucicioiie r.. i.. mwi ; for the first time Sine seletie
Bartlett s overwhelming vk toiy ; service and the war begja rerrtov.
for return to cngies whs the one 1 jntf male students from the d
bright spot for the democratic j UKiat scene, a tabularinn of W.l-
Salem In
Zone Of
Increase
The price of milk fa Salem
will jump to IK rent a a quart
next week, probably Wednes
day. Thin became apparent lat
nijfht when milk producers fa
Portland confirmed an In
creased butterfat price report
ed in the c-ffing for the pact to
weeks. Local distribul jr. echo.r.g
an official announcement of rn
Portland Milk Distributors' a
elation, arreed that the Increase)
must be passed along to consum
ers. Present milk price in Salem sr
Portland is HP rep.? a quart m
multiple purchases and 17 cer,'te
for a tingle quart.
Said I na voidable
explaining the price rise mas
un;ivoid.ible, these d..Unbu; rs
said that the Increase It nerfary
to provide incentive f ,r diryrr.en
to produce fluid miik inv'ead of
supplying the facU-ry market. la
the low production peri-id of. re
cent .weeks the price differeri'.il
has so favored the factory market
that it was feared the bottled rr.,:k
market might face cr;:!.h'rt.
es. the IcbI distributors added.
Increase t.s peeled
Both Arthur llurlburt, Sm
manager It the Mayflower dis
tributors, and Hans If ftt'er. j
proprietor of Curly's Dairy, saii '
they had not et been advied f- ;
ficially of the butterfat pnre :r- ,
crease, but they had ben expect
ing the increase and the reu!t r.g
milk price hike to go Into effect
next week.
Associated Press reported f rc m
Portland that the butterfat pr.re
goes up from $123 t 11-37 pr
pound next week and that distr b
utors there will Increase rmlis
price to IS cents per q'jart Wed
nesday. The entire Portland area
is affected and It is expected that
the prict increases on bottled m;l .
will extend to the co-ist and as
far south as Albany and Corvall..
Enrollment .
Over 1,000 at
Willamette U.
party in Alaska. He was oppohed
by Aimer J. Peterson. Anchorage,
The unofficial recapitulations
today Indicated Henry A. Henson,
Anchorage republican, defeated
Walter P. Sharpe, Juneau demo
crat, and Ross E. Kimball, Aleu
tians, a running as a Independent,
for labor commissioner.
lamette enrollment showed Thurs
day. ,
The - university reported 10 fl
students enrolled for the recenT'y
opened 1 $M-47 school year, in
cluding 44 special stujient. Be
colleges the enrollment shows 844
in liberal arts, 91 in law and Tl
in music.
Freshmen number 339 for rr.e
of the largest starting c I . a
Willamette history. There are 2.l
sophomores, 130 junior and 101
seniors. The remainder are spec.1
I1ERI.IN, Oct. 10 !') Hermann or graduate students.
Cioering and three auh nals lost j Only 30 students have rezicteret
an appcul toniitht to die a sol- , f-r n the new nfeht rliiwi 1 f-
dter's (tenth IWore a firing sciuad fered to accommodate veterans
and the Allied control council coh- ; unable to devote full time to a col-
(soering, Others Jaw
Appeal to Allied Council
firmed Unit Hitler's once-desig
nated successor and ten of his as
sociates will die on the gallows
next Wednesday.
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1IAMM. Laxemboarg, Oct. 10 A sober-fsred flen. Dwlfht D. Elsenhower (center), army chief of
staff, and members ef his party stand silently at the grave of Gen. George Patten, Jr.. wsr-time
bead ef the Third 1'. 8. army. In the American military cemetery here, durlns the general's recent
visit te the continent. Others are unidentified. Patten was fatally Injured In an automobile accident,
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lejje education, it was reporteL.
Officials of the universitr cud tre
night registration will remjirt open
a few more days for late-returnir.g
veterans.
No Arrests on
Hazing Charge
No a res Is were reported Thurs
day in the case of three Salem
18-year-olds against -wh.m Dis
trict Attorney Miller B. Harden
has filed charges of asaault ar.t
battery in connection w-l'h the al
leged "hazing" of John Day. 3353
D St., a first-year student at Sa
lem senior high school.
School authorities stated Thurs
day that none of the three charr
ed is a high school student. It
was reported by local juvenile of-
fleers that all three are recent
graduates of the senior high ach- 1.
The three youths were Identi
fied by the district attorney as
James Brown, 760 N. Winter st :
Dudley Slater, 370 Rural ace.
and Douglas R. Yeater, Jr., 19Jf)
N. 18th st. The complaint alleges
they paddled the Day boy.
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