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(Dims mM PDacDiraoiros l3D(rirg),S!' flr Diro'IFQ(dI (Doou'Sir! Duchess off 'Windsor Victim off Jewel Theft LONDON, Oct. 17 -,V,- Ixm rion police cmled mghf clubs tonight (or a truce of expert thieves who climbed a drain pipe into the Duchess of Wind sor'? country apartment, looted ' a "cons-iderable portion' of her glittering $1,000,000 jewel col lection and left part of it scat tered on a nearby Rolf course. A friend of the Duke of Wind tor and his American-born wife aid from 480.000 to $100,000 worth of rich gems were taken late yesterday from the second story boudoir at Ednam lodge where the ducal couple were guests of the banker and inter national industrialist. Earl of Dudley. I Exchange Telegraph agency said, however, it understood the value of the stolen gem was $800,000 amd that $120,000 had been recovered. The duke' Off SCOODQ0 What the late embrnglio over meat control demonstrates is the importance of the old factor of Human Nature. That is what make so many nice theories tf government and economics un workable when put to the test. It is what would wreck sta'te socialism' if undertaken in a wholesale way in this country. The super-planners may not ad mit it. but the fact sticks 'out, plain a. a pikestaff. Price control was good in theory as a device to prevent inflation. The public might endure its un even administration. But when it required general respect and com pliance to make it succeed con trol finally blew up. Every regu lation taxed the individual's in genuity as to how its binding ef fect could be moderated. The manufacturer shifted production to- more profitable hnesfe mer chant stocked goods with longer profit margins. Universal policing f retail store, eating places, fac tories, faims was impssible. OPA followed the life history of pro hibition tnd NRA. At first there was pretty general eornpiiance; later the orders came into dis respect: finally non - compliance became quite general. As was said in this paper last June. OPA was a Humpty Dumpty fallen off the wall, which couldnt be put to gether with all the government's horses and men. The experience teaches a les son that should, not be forgotten, particularly by those who want gmernment to do all the planning and to regulate, or control the economic life of the people Nof nly is it ' I Continued on Editorial Page) Allies Cremate Nazis9 Bodies NUERNBERG, Oct 17-itfVThe liodies of the, suicide Hermann Ordering and 10 hanged nazi war leaders have been reduced to ashes ljke the thousands at their victims who perished in concen tration camps.--and "secretly dis-j-ersed." the allied control council announced today;. Meanwhile, it was learned from a security officer that Goering had planned to commit suicide three month ago with a piece of cellu loid An alert guard foiled him. During the trial a guard exam ined the ear phones Goering used and discovered, that they had been tampered with and the inner working extracted. This working contained a piece cf celluloid which the officer raid was sharp enough to slit a vein cr an artery. Cancer to HeMiIt from Atom Boinh ExpoHiire CLEVELAND. Oct. 17-0P)-Ol. A. W. Oughterson, American can cer society director, declared to day that many surivors of the atomic bomb attack on Japan had suffered scar tissues which would develop cancer within the next 10 years. Animal Crackers By WAPREN GOODRICH mrf om" Sxi v friend said all the stolen jewels were insured. Detectives announcing the recovery of a "certain amount" of the rich rhaul said the loot was found in gladstone bag on the earl's golf course overlooked by the duchess' boudoir window. While Scotland Yard's sleuths began a check-up of all known upper cru.t crimtnals in England who might have participated in the daring raid on the former king of England's apartment the detectives cleared up one point of mystery in the case. They said this thief or thieves had climbed a drain pipe and entered the duchess' room by a window. Previously there had been speculation that a present able thief might have walked right in the t front door under the noses of a special detach ment of Scotland Yard men. Dies in Wreck And to think that I used to do this tor veanultV , ... ' 7 t.,- v . - - ' - , . v - V ? - ' m- m LARAMIE. Wye Oct 17 Doro thy Hartman mt Oakland. Califs stewardess, killed near here, as were 12 then aboard a char tered air liner (NATS) which crashed today in stormy weath er. (AP Wlrephoto). (Picture of crash on page 7.) Airliner Crash Brings Death To Thirteen , LARAMIE, Wyo.. Oct. 17.-0?)-Unexplained tragedy struck a twin-engined transport plane dur ing a heavy snowstorm west of Laramie early today and the craft plunged into the treeless prairie, killing all ten passengers and 'a crew of three. None of the dead, identified, from an airline passenger list, was from the northwest Two survived until they were brought to a Laramie hospital. Acting Coroner E. L. Knight said several of the seven men pas sengers were sailors. The pilot of the plane, Clarence Ahernathy, a former lieutenant commander in the navy air trans port service, was treasurer of the "NATS Air Transport Service." a postwar commercial line organ ized by a group of former navy pilots. The NATS plane which crashed three miles west of here at about I a. m. (MfcT) was bound for Chi cago and was to have stopped at Cheyenne to refuel and change crews. Officials pf the civil aero nautics administration at Chey enne said the weather Was unfa vorable there at midnight and that a routine report was given the pi lot, but that he was not ordered to land at Laramie, where no stop was scheduled. The plane was twisted to pieces after plowing 300 yards across the snow-covered earth and Knight said some bodies were thrown 75 yards from the smashed cabin. Meeting to Discuss Labor Camp Schooling Just how schooling will be pro vided for children living at the farm labor camp near Salem air port will be considered tonight at a meeting of county school leaders in the state library build ing. Rickey and Pringle school districts, which have jurisdiction over the area, will be represented. The meeting will be closed to the public, it was announced. Cattle Prices Drop as Markets Swamped Butter, Eggs Inl Decline CHICAGO, Oct 17 -(")- Meat exploded onto the nation's live stock markets today in the larg est numbers in 10 months. When the storm was over' virtually all price balloons except those on top grade cattle had collapsed from $1 to $10 a hundred pounds. i Most commodities likewise were deflated, including butter, eggs, poultry, wheat corn, oats and cotton. Lard, soybeans and flax kept out of the storm area, how ever,, and moved to new high ground. Some markets, such as Okla homa City, were swamped with so many animals the yards couldn't handle them.- Prices which had set tnew. records only yesterday receded steadily almost with every new truck load, par ticularly on nogs and lower grade rattle. : 1 j ! Dae in Shops! Next Week ...Meat; industry spokesmen sajd, some of the meat coming; to mar ket today could be preceded and reach retail ; shops by next week, but estimates as to when a "nor mal" might be reached could, not be ascertained. PORTLAND. Oct. 17 -fP)- The wholesale price of butter dropped 3 cent today, while the; price, of hogs skidded and retailers pre dicted a return of bacon and ham to the butcher shop within two weeks. . .- The price of "A" butter to re tailers went down to 85 cents on print and 86 on carton, and farm ers were expected to receive 87 cents instead of $1 a butterfat pound. ' j Appeals to SneU j On another price front Jessie M. Short chairman of the affil iated milk committees, appealed to Governor Snell to extend state milk control to "protect the con sumer." Her group will convene tomorrow to protest the milk price boost Ne tvlyt veils Sue Raclio Pro gram LOS; ANGELES, Oct. ll-if)-A pair of newly weds today sued producers of: the! radio program "Bride ; and i Groom" for $17,000 damages for alleged breach of promise. U ; Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Craw ford asserted , they were given an oral contract for a wedding and honeynfeooni but that last July 7 the day before the scheduled wed ding, jthe contract whereby they were to appear before and after the ceremony . on the radio pro gram was broken "without cause." 25 Injured as Bus Overturns KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct. 17-(jP)i-A Pacific i Greyhound bus en route from Los Angeles to Portland overturned in a snow storm 43 miles north of here this morning;, injuring 25 persons. The Klamath Falls hospital to which , they were brought said some were in critical condition. Four passengers escaped unhurt. The heavy bus had just round ed the; last sharp Sun mountain curve when it skidded in the fall ing snow, crashed into trees on the highway atrip, and turned over on its side, i City Police Investigate Two Accidents Thursday Two auto accidents were inves tigated by city police yesterday afternoon and evening. No injuries resulted from either crash. A car driven by Philip Thomp son, 40 Fairview ave., collided with a 1941 Chevrolet coupe in the 100 block of North Church street and a motor-bicycle operated by Gene Jarver 15, 1705 S. Cottage st., collided with a car driven by James A. Gorton, 1905 S. Church st, at Oxford and High streets. Army Orders Discharge of all 1945 Draft Crop by Year's End WASHINGTON, ' Oct 17 (JP) Flooded with volunteers, the army today ordered the discharge by January 1 of all remaining sold iers who were drafted in 1945. The announced aim of this and other orders is to lop off a fourth of the army's existing strength by the year's end. The new directives Included in structions by the air forces to dis charge some 8,700 wartime air officers still on active duty in addition to those quitting active service voluntarily. Revising; previous estimates in the light of the recent upsurge in volunteer enlistments, of fi c 1 a 1 s disclosed that 435,000 ground and air officers and enlisted men must be returned to civil life to keep within the payroll authorized by congress. Aiming at total strength of 1.310,000 by December 31,; the war department: 1. Ordered the discharge of the last of the 1945 non-volunteers in time for completion of their ter minal leave by the end of Decem ber. ; , 2. Directed commanders to screen 1 all rosters and eliminate as surplus all non-volunteers deemed to be unfit for ; their as signed duties, and those who have shown ; "ineptitude for . j military service.' ' ' -f General Willard S. Paul, the war department's director of per sonnel : and; administration, ac knowledged to (reporters that the army bad been kept over strength for several I months because of 'uncertainties,, over the future of the draft and the success of the drive for volunteers for the regu lar army. i 33 INDBD I6SI NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 16 PAGES Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning, October 18, 1948 Price 5c No. 174 Guard To i Revert To State By! Don Dill Staff Writer. The Statesman , After six , years service with the nation, the battle standards of Oregon's four outstanding regi ments of the national guard will be returned to the state on Wed nesday, October 30. Announcement of the event was made by Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, state adjutant general, who with Mrs. Rilea visited in Salem Thursday. ' . I The national colors and I the regimental flags of the 162nd and 186th infantry regiments and the 218th field artillery regiment, which were a part of the famed 41st division,, and of the 249th coast artillery ' regiment will be presented formally to Gov. Earl Snell on the state house steps at 2:30 p.m. The 2nd division of .Ft. Lewis will send its widely-hailed band and a special color guard to par ticipate in the ceremonies. T Fellow Parade The presentation will follow a parade which is to form at 2:10 p.m. at the supreme court building on State street, proceed west; to Commercial, north to Court, and east on Court to the statehouse. Accompanying each regimental standard will be the officer origi nally in command of the regi ment at the time of induction of the national guard into the active service of the United States Sep tember 1. 1940. Those in command at that time and who will present the colors to the governor are: Col.. II. C. Burmbaugh, 162nd; Brig, Gen. R. P. Cowgill. 186th; Brig. Gen. W. D. Jackson. 218th, and Col. Clif ton M. Irwin. 249th. Color bearers will include' enlisted jmen from the four regiments. ; Groups Deactivated AM four, regiments were de activated at the end of the war, but reorganization of the 162nd under Col. H. A. Taylor, Mc Minnville, and the 186th by Col. C. A. Fertig, Astoria, is under way. At the time of the mobilization of the national guard i in 1940 the two infantry regiments and the one field artillery regiment went to Ft. Lewis, Wash., as part of the 41st division. During the war the two infan try divisions went to the south Pacific area ; where their record made them world famous. The artillery unit was divided in a reorganization and half went to the Pacific and the other par ticipated in the European strug gle. The 249th coast artillery regiment was at Ft. Stevens as part of the Columbia river de fense command, but individual members of the regiment were sent to coast artillery and anti aircraft units over the world. GOP Contributes To State Campaign WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -OP) Varying amounts have been con tributed by the republican and democratic congressional commit tees to the campaigns of house nominees in Washington and Oregon. In Oregon the republican con gressional committee gave $500 each to the campaign expenses of Representatives Stockman, Ellsworth and Norblad and $1000 to the campaign of Rep. Angell of Portland. The democratic con gressional committee did not list any help to its party's nominee. Drinking Liquor at Bar In California Illegal SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 17-UP) The California supreme court to day ruled that intoxicating liquor can not be sold for consumption on the premises in any place but a bona fide restaurant. The ruling is expected to have far reaching effect on small bars throughout the state that serve liquor but no food. RENT CONTROL SPREADS PORTLAND, Ore., Oct- 17-(P) Establishment of rent control in Cowlitz county. Wash., Nov. 1, with all residential rents frozen at the July 1, 1945, level, was announced today by the district OPA. The Wealher i - Max. Mln. Prertp. Salem -l , S3 4 .11 Portland M 43 .06 San Francisco S4 4 trace Chicago ; M S3 SI New York ; 70 M trace Willamette river -3.7 feet. FORECAST tfrom U-S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Sale, ml: Partly cloudy today with llfht rain In early morning and late afternoon. Highest temperature ss. Lewwt 40. Byrnes Congratulated by Truman On Paris Job; Report to U. S. Set tonight f 1 . ' I 1 ! 1 I I 1 fe ' W if, WASHINGTON. Oct. 17-Secretary tt State James F. Byrnes (right) reports te President Trvman In the Iatters effice In Washington today en the Paris peace conference shertly after Byrnes retnrned from Europe by air. (AP Wlrephoto). Truman Frees Flood Control Project Funds WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -CP) The administration changed its economy program today to make a $35,000,000 concession to water way advocates displeased at re trenchments affecting their proj ects? Budget Director James E. Webb announced that $130,000,000 worth of flood control expenditures will be permitted in the current fiscal year ending June 30 instead of the $95,000,000 ceiling previously imposed. The government figures to save $300,000,000 in meat packers' sub sidies as a result of the decontrol of livestock. Thus the increased flood control expenditures may not materially- affect the plans of last August for a total retrench ment of $2,100,000,000 below the original government estimates for the year. Webb also said that he and Re conversion Director John R. Steel man Will act soon on proposals to hike the $83,000,000 ceiling on re clamation projects. The $35,000,000 increase grant ed on flood control was not tagged for specific projects. Dallas Woman Killed in Wreck McMINNVILLE. Ore., Oct. 17 A two-automobile collision five miles east of here killed one per son and injured five others today. Mrs. Erlene Terrel, 34, Dallas, driver of one machine, died al most instxntly. Mrs. A1. H. Davis, 56, Mrs. Theon Grenfell, 29, and Virginia Bell, all of Dallas, were hospitalized. They were passen gers in the Terrel car. George W. Dixon, Vernonia, driver of the other car, and his wife were treated for cuts and bruises. Truman Declares Trials Not Finished WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -President Truman set up a new board today to correlate govern ment activities in the field of sci ence in effect an administrative substitute for the national science foundation which was stymied in the closing xrush of the last con gress Hel named Reconversion Direc tor John R. Steelman to head the new Woup, to be known as the presidential research board, and gave it this job: "To insure that the scientific personnel, training and research facilities of the nation are used most effectively in the national interest." lit-FOOT BARGE LOST COOS BAY, Oct. 17 -(JT)- A 110-foot empty steel barge which broke loose Monday while being towed with 10 others from San Francisco to Puget Sound was given up for lost today. A plane and ship search failed to locate it. PETRILLO GAINS RAISE CHICAGO,, Oct 17-(JP)-James C Petrillo announced late today that an agreement for a 37 per cent wage increase for musicians Who make recordings had been reached at negotiations with mem bers of the industry. CHILI PRESIDENT RESIGNS SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 17.-0P) Alfredo Duhalde resigned as act ing president of Chile today be cause of -ill health." A mbassadorto Reds Flies To States for Conference WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.-0P)-Congratulated by President Tru man for doing a "most excellent job at the Paris peace conference. Secretary of State Byrnes went to work tonight on a report to the nation in which he is expected to reinforce emphatically his "firm policy" toward Russia. He will broadcast for 30 minutes at 7 p. m., Pacific Standard tj Friday, over NBC. The . j Youths to Give Days9 Work to Buy Equipment Salem farm labor office today is is.uing a "job wanted" request in behalf of about 50 youthful members of the junior council at the farm labor supply camp near the airport. The juniors want to pick walnuts for one day to earn money for playground and athle tic equipment for the ramp. Any grower interested should have a grove large enough to ac comodate the group, which will be supervised by adults, Mrs. Gladys Turnbull, farm labor as sistant, said yeisterday. Transpor tation would have to be furnished the youths, she added. Although the local filbert har vest is nearing its dure several yards north and south of Salem still need drive-out pickers, the office reported. The onion harvest in the Labish area has just been completed but soon graders and sackers will be needed in the onion houses there. U.S. JiiMtice Department Barn Etonian Kefiigcefl MIAMI. Fla., Oct. 1 7. It was a dark day for the stout lit tle band of 47 Estonian refugees who sailed across 8,000 miles of choppy ocean from Sweden in three battered fishing boats with freedom from political persecution as their goal. The justice department announ ced in Washington this afternoon that the first group of 18 which arrived Aug. 21 in the 38-foot sloop "Inanda" without visas had been excluded from the country. TO PICKET COLISEUM LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 -(A)-The Building Service Employes' union (AFL) said today it will throw a picket line around the vast Memorial coliseum in an ef fort to obtain closed shop condi tions among the concessionaires. broadcast will deal at length with the inconclusive Paris conference which 'Byrnes said today, made "some progress" toward peace in Europe. There was speculation that the president and Byrnes, who talked for 50 minutes today, would re ply to former Secretary of Com merce Wallace's c r 1 1 i c is m of Byrnes' attitude toward Russia. Another talk on foreign affairs will be broadcast by Senator Van denberg (R-Mich) at 4 p. m., PST, Saturday over CBS. Vandenherg served with Byrnes in Paris and came home with him by plane today. At the state department, mean while. Ambassador to HunMa Wal ter Bedell Smith began a series of conferences with top policy making officials on the whole range of issues with Russia to de termine how present politics can be more effectively carried out. Smith arrived from Paris lait night and will be here 10 days, returning then to Moscow. Mexican Meat Moves to U.S. WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.-01')-The United States reopens its border tonight to rattle from Mex ico, removing- a quarantine after four and a half months. The move will permit the flow of 500,000 young, thin beef ani mals to pastures and ranges throughout the southwest. Agriculture department speci alists say movement of Mexican animals, reportedly already be gun, will have no immediate ef fect on the current meat situation. ARMV TO CAN BREAD WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (P) Canried bread Is the army's ans wer to wartime GI complaints about teeth-cracking ration bis cuits. Five million cans of it, the war department announced to night, will be tried out on troops at home and overseas in the next year. Dawn-to-Dusk Campaign Slated For Chest Drive at Woodburn Cities and towns throughout Marion county this week are rushing toward completion their plans for raising county commun ity chest funds in the all-out countywide campaign for the $13, 000 quota. Woodburn's dawn-to-dusk one day campaign will be directed by Chairman John Enschede October 25. The Woodburn chest executive committee met Thursday with the Rotary club to further plans with the assistance of Lyle Leighton, Salem scout executive who is aid ing in organization of the county drives. Woodburn team captains will meet Monday, according to M. D. Wool ley, president of the Woodburn chest. Details of the Hubbard cam paign will be completed Monday when Mayor Garfield Voget meets with Hubbard boy scouts, camp fire girls, woman's club and Re becca lodge. Silverton captains will meet to night to continue plans for their solicitation on October 23. H. C. Saalfeld, county- chest campaign chairman, announced Thursday that drives already are underway in Mt. Angel, with James Fournier as local chairman: Aurora, with Fred Dentel and W. W. Miller as co-chairman, and at Gervais, with Roscoe Colby as chairman. Saalfeld said the county chest campaign will be completed by November 1. Of the $13,000 quo ta, $7,000 will go toward the sup port of local agencies and the re mainder will go into the state chest, he said. STD 1 ' i Ceilings On Coffee Removed WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -i,P-A top level official jsaid tonight that OPA has set a November 1 deadline for doing away with most of the remaining pi ice controls tn fooax, commodities and services. This difxlosure came as OPA released all price controls on ctf fee and millers argued for hft.ng ceilings ficm flour. ; The government official, who withheld thd use of hiii name, Vld a reporter that plans are laid for "an orderly jetreat." ! "We are going to carry out the president's decontrol program to the fullest possible i degree," he said, "but it is not i g jing to be a riot or chaos." I "We mut-t keep ceiling on. rent. We also mutt keep them on auto mobiles, building materia! j tr.d certain durable goodt." Scheduled to stay under ceil ings are many household appli ances such as refrigerators, cer tain basic clothing item, furni ture and farm implements. Coffee prices had been raited so high under ceiling that it as fiction to retain control when supply ci.me into balance with demand, the official said. He related lhat -OPA divisions now are busy compiling a com plete .list of all controlled, pro duct,! b th food ar. i non-fl, and listing I those on .which th public spends less thin $75,U;0.C0J a year. ! ' j I ; Thei items win b decor.trrl ed, the official added, a un. im portant to living or buuteH cotU. Crew to Go to Communities to i i j Sign Landlords Rent registration period st three Mi.rirn county communities were set Thursday by Clare Lee, Salem area rent rnreentative. Official, of thej new Salem rtrl control office will be on hand to supervise registrations in thej and, subsequently, other towns c, the county, 1 ; Registration Is set f-r Morrfay, November 4, In Silverton at rt.m chamber of commerce office. Wednet-day,, November 6. In Mt. Angel at the city haM and Thurs day, November 7, In Woodburn t.t the cily hall. Hours in each a.m are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Portland tent specialist for th office of price adrrSj'rHfrjUgn have returned to the Portland office of OPA In the face of dwindiir.4 registration I of landlord at It.m office in "Salem armory. Lee Announced return' of all special crew member exrept Rr t Examiner Robert Lowe, yeterd-y upon his return frm iitUr.! where he and Interviwr V la Morlarty df the Salem offir rr rn pleted a three-dsy .instruction program! in the a 1minimme technique df federHrent control. Worltcrs Given New Pay Rate WASHINGTON. 0ct 17. ' Higher hourly wage f.M Orej n construction worker Were an nounced today by the wage st&b.l ization board. IN A board i spokesmin uid the rates, set by areat.'are higher in all categories, although there ur reduction in a few individual in stances. The board reiultrrs per mit an employer to pjy hi estab lished rate of Oct. 2. 1342. ar.y rate subseauentlv eporved for him by the board, or the area rate published by the board. The newi rate announced for Oregon workers in eight represen tative building trade. Included: Marion county: afbesto m k ers $IJ7'4t bricklayers $l.S7a; Journeyman carpenters $1.55; elec tricians $1.51; structural irm workers $1.75; painters (brush) $1.55: plasterers $!.8?tj; plurr.b-., ers $1.75. j ' 1 Sleaksi Slakes in Carnivore Content IOWA CITY, la.,' Oct. .17 -A Big John McKay, L'niverjity cf Iowa, Junior, ate steak fur two hours today - 10 of them to win a steak-eating contest spo n sored by a local restaurant cele brating the end cf price controls on meat. After an hour and 20 minutes of steak eating, his opponent. Bill Mahone of Clear Lake, la.,.. con ceded the contest to McKay. The score XhSn iUxxi at eight steaks downed by McKay to six by Mahone. The prize wa a cr.o.ie steak dinner. POWER LINE CONNECTED PORTLAND, Oct, K.-avTh new power j line from Albany to Toledo --long wanted by co.otal residents battling e recurnrg blackout - - was connected to th central Lincoln PUD network to day, Bonneville power adminis tration satdi New It Can Be Teld Sheriff Denver Young's depu ties want it known that their nat ty new uniforms is Denver's idea, not theirs, even if good. They row get oogled at