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.; UUJ mm DKIOA KOQJL World Scrie 1 BmU x. KL Loi i 2nd MU Loala 3. IImUi 3rd Kln 4. Hi. Loots U SL Loafas 12. Boston S lh RmUb . t Loots S (Details e taartt page) .5 : ;t : . ' ; POUNDBD 1651 ' wmm NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 12 PAGES Salem. Oregon. Saturday Morning. October 12, 1946 Pric 5c No. 169 Klamath School Voted CRT SSEOOQ0 UCDDDDCE Following month of study, f ie emel reports are coming cut f the office of the director of th interim commission to study tax ation. The rommwuon itself ha prepare no final report or state ment of recommendations. That wilt b done before the legisla ture meets. In Urn for publica tion, it u iMumfd, iMi that sutte- kle study may be given to the onclusons of this important lidy. jt werli the Iirector. S. J. lutruk. gae out .me figures re im tinf profits ft the lipor ad ministration, adding the sugges tion that such profit be covered Into the state general fund and t available fur appropt lalion. At present the funds are appropriat ed directly into the public welfare fund. airie from the portions al-)-at-d to cities and counties. Han irk estimates tht the prof its of the liquor mmmiwion will approximate $3.400 000 above the 112,000 000 appropriated for pub lic welfare in this bieumum. I am not surprised at the fig ure The estimate verifies pre riicturft made in this column Feb. 20. IMS. In his 1045 message to th leg HUture Governor Snell r(iin mriided that liquor rrhue le oirrrl into the geneisl fund. In aupporting that recommendation I referred to the ultra -conservative figures used in computing ei riings of the commission. Using reports of the commission 1 com puted that the commission would ivr a sum in excess of $.1,500, (oo ftn eah or Increased inven 4cy) beymd its tramfeis to pub lic welfate. I etimated similar e si ess pi of its for the 1915-47 bi rrii.Mim, or 7.0WOO0 whuli would have been (Continued oil editorial, p.ifcr) Haaj Namecl To Head 19 17 Chest Drive A C llaag, local business man, was elected chairman of next year's community chest drive at a chest meeting Friday noon at the Slem hotel. I-oyal Warner, falem chest president, announced. Tirkham Gilbert, drive chair man. reprtei to division heads and the esecutive boarii thiit the current drive"1 fell short by $B9 in leaching the $80.03. No more irfxrt meetings will be held, he said, but "clean-up- announce ments would be teleased as addi tional returns rsn In. The newly-elected 1 940 drive chairman chairman of the current drive's pre-campaign om-imiMee ishich rwiel $40,000 tefore the drive sUitrd. He held the chairman pt of the automo tive division in the last two cam paigns and has been active in ihest drives since their origin 10 years agu. tlag owns the A. G. llaag Trac tor company heie and is a mem tr vt the executive board of the Cascade council of Boy Scouts. In announcing Haag's election. Presi ctent Warner thanked all con cerned with the drive ami ex pressed satisfaction that tlie nrw cixners Ui Salem community had aided in converting this year's campaign from a war to a com munity rtveat. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Anderson, Clark Talk of Meat - j CM? f : : V, ... t'y.r r:ly .Jn . v?.-v ':tl - e ( ' ' I "V:v , j -. A HOMES YTRAHS 1 K ' I "Do you mean to stand therm and tell me the C. I. Bill of Rights don't mention Carrier Pkeonsr WASHINGTON. Oct.; 11 Secretary ef Agrlcnltare Clinton Andersen (left) m4 Atterney General Tern Clark confer at the White House elaar after leaving an hour and m half cabinet meeting today de voted to diaevaslea of the sneat shortage. (AP Wlrephete) I Meat Lack Reviewed By TryiUDany Cabiroet Decision May I)e Tolcl ih Broadcast WASHINGTON. Oct. 1 l-(4)HeIatiatlon of the meat control; was recited authoritatively today to lie definitely under cottsldergtlori by President Truman. ' y i While a final derision has not been made, the president hopes to find at least a partial solution for the meat shortage by the week end and to announce It to the nation by radio Sunday night. The situation came to a head rt a cabinet meeting today which lasted one hour and 35 minutes, ttte longest cabinet session Mr. Truman ever has held. An official familiar with what took place in the meeting disclosed the president's tentative plan for a Sunday night broadcast and re ported the consideration given to the price ceiling question. Argentina Meat Considered The official also, reported that the posaibility of obtaining meat from overseas, principally Argen tina, was another point consid ered. The statutory ban on Xreh meat imports from Argentina which was imposed on the ground ;hat there was a danger of spread ing hoof and mouth disease, pos sibly could be overcome by execu tive order for an emergency. But it was thought unlikely that suf ficient supplies woutd be avail able from foreign sources. Ko Keisure la Proaaeet Definitely out was the proposal of some congressmen and others that the government seize live stock or meat supplies. The president was represented as Inclined now toward some, modification of the meat controls but still opposed to their out right removal. Vets to Move j Into Hospital Approval of permits for use of facilities of the naval hospital at Camp Adair by more than 300 married veterans attending Ore gon State college was announced by Govj Earl Smell Friday. : The. I approval reached Gov. Snell in telegrams from army en gineers and war assets administra tion officials, following an appeal made last Saturday when college officials said they had encoun tered delays in securing the nec essary permits. Thp original agreement fwas made) with the federal public housing administration. But when the Ume came for the veterans to occupy the buildings. It was found that the navy still had control of the heating and water facilities. $75,000 State To Apply For Barracks The state emergency board Frl day appropriated $75,000 for use in establishing a state vocational center at the Klamath Falls Mar ine barracks site and the state board of education planned to make formal application for the barracks Monday to the war as seta administration. Emergency board members vot ed 5 to 2 for the appropriation after debating merits of the edu ration department's plan to pro vide ; vocational training for the war Veterans in the 80 buildings. including housing facilities, at the base ! which WAA had "frozen pending the state's decision. In voting against the appropria tion. Rep. Hurt Snyder of Lake view 1 said he felt the emergency board was usurping legislative responsibilities and Sen. Dean Walker of Independence, voicing alarm over the State's finances, asserted that the $75,000 asked by the education board was only a small ante in comparison with an ticipated future requests for ap propriations. Enrollment Figures O. I. Paulson, state director of vocational education, told the board he anticipated Initial en rollment of 400 to 600 -students and eventual enrollment of 1500 students at the school, lie esti mated operating costs at $41,000 per month and remodelling ex penses at $35,000. Sen. Ernest Fatland of Condon and Sen. Eugene Marsh of Mc Minnville, emergency board mem bers, said their favorable votes vere cast in the understanding that the project would be only temporary. Until February! The $75,000 appropriation Is to provide funds until February 1 when the state legislature can appropriate regular funds for the project. Paulson told the bo id the WAA price on the barracks mufttfcjalso Include a 100 per rent discount in order- to put througti the purchase. . Three other emergency appro priations were approved by the board. One .was for' $3000 . for the state parole board, of which $2000 is .required for Increased salaries of employes. Another was $3500 for the state apprenticeship council. The third was $10,000 for the vocational rehabilitation division of the state educational department. These appropriations also run until February 1. GIRL HURT AT HOME ! . Beverly Emmons, 14, of 1687 N. Summer st., incurred a possi ble fractured arm Friday while skating in the basement of ; her home, according to first f aid crewmen who took the girl to Salem General hospital j for j examination. Catholic Yugoslav -Leader Sentenced to 16-Year Term ZAGREB, Yugoslavia. Oct. 11 (i(l)4 Archbishop Alojzijc Stepl nac.ihead of the Roman Catholic church in Yugoslavia, was con victed by a peoples court today of sponsoring organization of Ustashl terrorists . and waa sen tenced to 1 years imprisonment at hard labor. The balding. 48-year-old arch bishop, described by Bishop Jos eph P. Hurley, the American re- WASHINGTON. Oct. 11-JV)-1'nderseeretary of State Ache son officially declared today that the United States ts deeply ! worried over the possibility that ArrhbUhon Steplnao waa am fairly , tried fey the Yugoslav government. He sjaestloned whether the trial may foreshadow "the Im pairment of freedom of reli gion and of worship under Marshal Tito. gent of the apostolic nunciature in Belgrade .as "the Merrier of our time." received the verdict without emotion, looking straight at the court. (Cardinal Mercier was an out spoken defender of the Belgian peooie durine the occupation uf Belgium by the Germans In world war one.) Apparently resigned to tuch a verdict. Stepinac insisted through out his trial that my conscience is clear, and in one of the i few times he addressed the court de clared that "when there is peace . . . there will be none -who will say a word against my arth bishopric. i Two ro-defendantt were sen tenced to death by the three man: court.' Ten others, including the archbishop's secretary and a number : of priests, drew prison sentences. Three Fran c I scan monks for whom the prosecution had asked clemency were acquit ted, i 5 The archbishop was convicted on all main counts of sympathiz ing ; with the axis, the puppet Croatian regime of Dr. Anton Pavelic and the Croatian war time' Ustashi terrorists. He was convicted of approving forced conversion of orthodox Serbs to Catholicism, of glorify ing the ' Ustashi in the ; Catholic press, pastoral letters and speeches, or sponsoring organiza tion i of : terrorist units, ' jof being seen' in public with German and Italian occupation officers, and of having fanned a hope that the government of Premier Marshal Tito'- soon would fait, - ! Trusty Leaves Penitentiary Ward Ervln Hixon. 33, Oregon state penitentiary trusty, escaped Friday afternoon while working on the. prison grounds; prison of ficials said last night. Word came from Portland shortly before mid night: that Hixon was believed sighted In East Portland and po lice were searching the vicinity. Hixon. who had been serving a three-year term from Tillamook county since March, was visited by his wife at the penitentiary earlier yesterday, prison officials said. Hixon had been convicted of larceny by bailee and obtaining money by false pretenses. N The escaped man had been em ployed driving a tractor on the prison grounds in recent days and had a good record as a prisoner, officials reported. Police Patrolman Spots Bad Brakes A ! vigilant Salem patrolman spotted defective automobile brakes while watching school traf fic at the intersection of Parrish and Capitol streets yesterday noon, and as a result Duane Kottek, route 4, box 128, Salem, was hail ed into municipal court and fined $2.50 on a defective brakes charge. Police said ' the driver was seen grabbing the emergency brake in his Model A as he approached the intersection and that the care con tinued about 100 feet before Stop ping. A check by police was re ported to show "no drag" on the foot brake and very little on the emergency brake. BUTTER PRICE ROARS The price of butter in Salem neared the dollar mark , Friday, with some grocers selling it for 69 cents and others generally charg ing 95-97 cents." IIUL178 OUT OF DANGER! WASHINGTON, Oct. 11-fV-Cordell Hull, who was gravely ill ten days ago. today appeared to be "out of any immediate dan ger, his doctors reported- Senator to Request Alumina Plant Be Declared Surplus The Salem alumina plant Is one of three government-sponsored war-built alnmlna plants which Senator Maybank of South Carolina cited Friday in an-announcement that he will Introduce to the next congress a resolution that the plants . be declared surplus. The other two plants men tioned are In Hartley vllle. B.C., and j Laramie. Wyo. A fourth such plant at Salt Lake City al ready has been declared sur plus,! according to Associated Press, which quoted the south ern senator's announcement. Indepcnd ence Man Killed in Auto Accident Heiman Sperling, 5, of route 1, Independence, was injured fatally Friday evening in an automobile collision at the junc tion . of highway 99-W and the Helmick PaiK cutoff road 4'i miles south of Monmouth. Sper ling Hied in a Salem hospital several hours after the accldc-nt. Monmouth police told The Statesman last night that Sper ling apparently drove his Model A ' from the cutoff road across the highway directly Into the path of a northbound sedan driv en by Jack Burris, 2t46 SE Stark st.. Portland, about 5:35 p m. Police said that both cars were badly damaged and the Sperling car overturned. Independence ambulance men who took the injured man to Salem said he was cut severely about the head and face. Burris suffered only a slight leg Injury, police said. Neither driver had passengers. : s : Army Declares Draft Holiday To End of Year WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 -(A) With nearly 1.0O0.000 volunteers in uniform, the army today de clared, a draft holiday for the rest of 1946. Maj.' Gen. 'Lewi B. Hershey, selective service director, was notified by the war department that some 20,000 men who alrendy had been called up for induction the last half of October, and 15.000 men in the November quota, need not report. For December there will be no quota, but no promises were made beyond the first of the year. The war. department said the Mif.peni.ion did not prejudice its right to renew calls if future volunteer enlistments fail to maintain adequate military strength. The holiday was the second this year; there were no calls in July and August. Men Said 'Peddling' A-Photos BALTIMORE. Oct. ll-(P)-Six snapshots taken on Tininn island of material and equipment re lating to the atom bomb were in the hands of federal agencies to day after three mcri were taken into custody on a tip from alert Baltimore News-Post editors. Federal bureau of investigation agents and military intelligence agents ai rested the men on ac cusations they attempted to ped dle (to the News-Post) the un authorized pictures, described by the FBI as "most detrimental to the security of the United States," for $7000. The first announcement of the arrests said that the pictures were of an atom bomb, but n bureau announcement litter from Wash ington said further study of the photographs showed the pictures "were not of the ntomic bomb itself but were of material and related equipment to the atomic bomb. ..." Former Private One of the men, a former pri vate in the army air forces, ex plained his possession of the pic tures by saying he unci four other servicemen surreptitiously lemov ed the covering of an atomic bomb and took a photograph on Tinian island in the bite summer of 1945. the FBI snid In an nouncing the arrests. ' But how the private, George Wallace Comer. 23, Bel Air. Md.. managed to flip the photographs through security safeguards was without explanation. Pair Arraigned Comer, with Miles Frederick Daubenheyer, also of Bel Air, and Capt. James Barnes Hike, Chat tanooga. Tenn.. were arraigned before United Stales Commission er Ernest Volkart here Unlay but were not asked to enter picas. The.t were ordered held under $1000 bond each for another hear ing October 23. Fred I In 1 1 ford, agent in charge of the FBI here, said the depart ment of juMk-e specifically charg ed that the men "did unlawfully publish a photograph of a piece of classified military equipment without first obtaining the per mission of the commanding offi cer of the army air. forces based on Tinian " Year's Sentence He said conviction on the charge carries a penalty of a fine of not more than $1000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for each of fense. NWHn-int OilingH InrreuMMl $10 Per Ton WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 -A) Newsprint price ceilings went up $10 a ton today, but OPA turned down publishers request for complete decontrol of this ma terial on which newspapers are printed. On the basis of present con sumption, the price increase means a boost of about $42,500,000 in annual cost of newsprint. r" - In Custody At- -V r - c '-W ' f.. v1 27 Hurt In Wreck Of Airliner Entire Crew of Army Bomber Dies in Crash ALEXANDRIA. Va.. Oct. 11-VT) Five men were killed !n the? crajh of an army homber r.ear here tonight, but 27 per-. aboard an Eastem Airline flare which was wrecked sonn after a few miles away escaped death. ! A pca-5oup fog hung low ever 1 the countryside at the time c,f within an hour of each other. The army plane, a B-25 tn engine job. was enroute frrra Inpley Field. Va.. t- nearby An drews Field, Md. Identity cf the victims wfis not immediately dis closed. Twenty-three pasiieer5. in cluding a baby In arrm. and a crew of four escaped serious in jury when the DC -4 airliner, en route north from Atlanta. ws wrecked about 3'j miles south cf Alexandria. The big plane apparently hit a lumber pile and ther. a well r.c-use, ploughed into a 2330-voIt h:;h tension power line, and burst .r.to flame. Breaks In Piece piece, de- T'-i l "4vj ! The.rilane broke fr.to I ,-. -. i l,i is littering the c !urtrynie. : 4 ' ' ' ' i The plane was on a Miami to 'T'' C - f f ' I ' New York tiip. ' y V , I ') ; 1 raherfon the farm cf Farl "u- V iS ''f.li' ' ' ' 1 i' ; Popktns. narrowly m!ir.g hrs -Mi State (Highway PD a bis To Conseirve Cemroeinit The Oregon state highway com mission can be relied upon to con serve cement, along with other vi tal materials, in its road construc tion program, , Gov. Earl Snell Friday night Informed T. J. Kd- munds, district director of the office of price administration, Portland. Snell's letter was In reply to Edmonds request that the state highway department curtail op erations so that more materials would be avaklabie for housing. The governor informed Edmonds that on one portion of the high way program. Involving 55,000 barrels, of cement, the commis sion already had authorized a change In the type of pavement to save this amount of cement. "It should be stressed that at least 40 to 50 per cent of the state program consists of cons truction and maintenance of ac cess roads and other roads that carry heavy log truck movement," Gov. Snell declared in his letter. A cut in the state program would mean that the necessary supply of lumber from - Oregon forests would be affected and this in turn would have a strong1 beuring on the construction of homes. Wen dell Wyatt, national housing ex- peditor, on a recent visit to Ore- Tbe Weather Max. Mln. Prerlp Salem .. 7 JS . Portland 7! 37 .00 San Francisco M 60 .00 Chicarcj . S3 62 trace New York 6S 58 .12 Wlllaoirttr rlvr -2 feet FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Sialcm): MoMly clear today and tonight with little rhanite in temperature. Highest today 75 desrees. Jtmt 34. gon emphasized the importance, f f access roads. Governor Snell added that a letter received recently from F. M. McCaslin, president of the Ore gon Cement Company, said there would be an important improve ment in facilities and supplies in cement manufacture and distribu tion. McCaslin, according to the governor, declared there would Le approximately 1,000,000 additional barrels of cement available for Oregon next year, over the 1946 capacity. BALTIMORE, Oct. 11 James Barnes Hike (top), George Wal lace Comer (renter), and Fred erick Daubenheyer (bottom) are under arrest here on charge of publishing photographs of ato mic bomb equipment. All are former servicemen, and one of them, while serving; with a homber sqoadron In the Pacific In 1945. Is said by the lit I to have obtained pictures of the secret bomb. (Story at left,) (AP Wirephoto.) Gen. Stihvell 6 Very Weak' in Fight for Life RAN FRANCISKCO. Oct II CVi The condition of Gen. Jeh W. Stilwell. critically III in Ietter man General hospital, was re ported "very weak" tonight in a bulletin Issued by" the hospital. As he foocht on in this touuh est battle for his life, he was awarded the decoration he hs coveted most In all bis army ca reer. It was the combat Infantryman's badge. The award was directed by Sec retary of War Patterson, who in structed Sixth army headquarters from Washington to present the combat infantryman's badge to the leathery old soldier now wag ing a battle against death at Let terman General hospital. Uy his bedside were hi wife. his two sons, and his three daugh ters. The 63-vear-old hero of Burma campaign, and Sixth aimy 'ined. commander at the Presidio, tin- i Ten-year-old derwent an operation on October house titur Grovetcrt. and rammed into a hilly pasture. Flame flared a'.most immedi ately, -but the wind f inned 'hem away from the escape r.&Uhv through which mot of the fas-, senceis crawled. fine r f the passengers. 34-vear-o!d C. II. Elliott. Rom. Ga . erug fit. said he lost $23,000 sr.d a' check for $27,855 with which ho. snid he intended to purchase jp- plies in New Yotk. Round for Home Rao At the scene of the other crah, a spokesman for the army t:ans oort command said the' B-25 was I mud for its home baie, Andrew Field. At 1126 p.m. the plane reported heavy fff and aed permissscn to land either at N !'"! " . j Wahinrton. or at the navy's Eol- ' nng r u ui, across t.-v r c ri i-r. It was told to wait a minute anotliei plane w vtro-r-i .i. t the National alrporL Nothing more vtt heard front the plane. It crash! in a w id area. Mut was furt wh-n a m ty policeman saw tho flame hir wtie aboard, and au ,t kilh-rl. 3 Injuries in Salem Due to Traf fie Wrecks Thiee Salem pervir were :n- '. juii in three traffic accidents i in the city Friday. William Pett.t. ; 84. of 1220 N. Summer st.. and j Mrs. M. M. Petroff. route 4. tew , 169H. were reported resting r m i fortably at Salem Dacone ' m- i pita I early today, the extent cl the' their injuries not fully caUerro- Ra'ph MorrL.n. 1565 Trade st wai released from 3 for a liver condition thought to ; Salem General hospital after ex amination for minor back injuries incurred when he wjf knocked from his bicycle bv a car at l'H and Center street "shortly sfter 8:30 a.m. yesterday. Invetie-tirgT police identified the car driver as G. A. Young. 675 Bieber t. Pet tit was Injured when hit by a sedan as be stepped into tho crosswalk to cro Center at Church street about 6:45 p m . ac cording to police who ci!edtth driver. Kenneth Eilert. ; 70 Thomson st.. for failure to gio right f way to a pedestrian. First aid men said the elderly pedestrian apparently incurred compound fractures of the right leg and litfht arm and numerous lacerations. Mrs. Petroff suffered po?it:o broken ribs, authorities said. ir a crash involving sedans driven by her husband and Henry W. Maker. Ih80 N. Commercial st, on South Commercial at MiMer strett, shortly before I9 p m. have been contracted in the Bur ma jungles where, in Stilwell'si classic phrase, he "took a hell of : a beating." The combat infantryman's : badge given only to those men j who have come personally to arirta taitW 4Ksm anamw lot aa SA W ! wa'wsss I which Stilwell has yearned, and one he has coveted more than any other in his military career of more than 40 years. Ex-Albany I'ostmaHter I'leudrt (iiilty to TJiare. PORTIAND. Oct. U (Al-G. T. Hockensmith. 73, former Albany postmaster, pleaded guilty in fed eral court today to a charge of using postal funds for his own benefit. On recommendation of the U. S. district attorney's office, the elderly man was given a two-year probationary sentence. Grants Pass Builders Facing Court Edict, CPA Presses Fight PORTLAND. Oct. 1 1 -(A-Jhe battle between the civilian pro duction administration and Giants Pass builders who defied orders to stop construction was carried into federal court today. On complaints filed by the U. S. district attorney, Federal Judge Claude McColloch directed the A. K. Wilson Motor Co. and Will II. Jones to show cause October 18 why they should not be restrained from finishing the construction of a garage and a motel. Galen Geller, regional CPA compliance-manager, said the two actions represented the only vio lations discovered in Josephine county by the entire CPA investi gating staff. Sixteen other build ers who received stop-work or ders complied, Geller snid. Ted Hopkins, president cf the Grants Pu&s realty board, dc- dared, however, that 130 stop or ders were issued in the Rogue river valley "and no construction was stopped not one job. They're all going ahead, every one." He told the Portland Realty board that "We have $12,000 in a volunteer kitty to defend the first man' brought into court for viola tion 'of CPA regulations . . . We know about your night clubs here and your race track, and the peo ple down there are getting pretty red and hostile." Portland Realty board members endorsed Grants Pass' courageous attitude "against the bungling of the enforcement agencies." "Whether we bring more court action," Geller said, "depends upon the attitude of Grants Pass builders. So far we. have discov ered no other violations." ANSWER TO MEAT LACK SEATTLE. Oct. 11 -;p- First shipment of Alaska reindeer meat since before the war will arnv. in Seattle Monday aboard the steamship Square Knot. QUICKIES i 7 "Why. John, here's that beaatl ful Powers girl's Statesman Waal Ad wanting a Job -why don't yea hire herT-