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pfcs outers ; DvOOUD L(MAJOS ft The Weather Mm . 4S M - 44 Mm. 43 Preoip. .23 lM Hortlaad Kan f'ranciBCO Chlcito 44 11 jM 42 00 34 00 1 SI Willamette river 3t feet FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNarv field. Salern i . Cloudy wtlfi intermittent rain today and to night. Highest temperature 50. Lowest 42. NTNTTY -SIXTH YEAR Twice within the year the country has been swung close to the edge of economic disaster, to be pulled back In the nicK of time by the retreat of labor leaders. L.t May it was the railroad strike: this time the coal strike. , In botlt cases the stoppages were ordered when the government was j In poasesion of the facilities. In the latter instance the return-to- ! work order did not come until af- 1 ter the court had adjudged the union and its chief guilty of con tempt court and assessed a heavy fine. In each instance the ' people wake up as though from a bad dream in which a driver gets the carriage to the edge of the ' precipice, the rescue coming only : with the awakening. The people are getting weary of this cold- , sweat experience. This time in- j deed it ws no dream, but reality i "cold" reality. ! Aside from the snarl at the ad ministration in referring to its yellow-dog Injunction," the let ter of John il Lewis ordering miners back to work was logical and In good temper. The first rea son he advances is to permit the supreme court to function in an atmosphere not electric with the "hysteria and fpenzy of an eco nomic crisis;" but Lewis admits also that "public necessity re quires the quantitative production of coal." While the order is only an armistice with a terminal date set for March 31st next, Lewis announces the readiness of bis committee to negotiate with who ever has authority to negotiate respecting wages and working conditions. This means first rapid return to normal through restored coal (Continued on editorial page) MARSHALL MAY KETl'RN NANKING. Sunday. Dec. 8.-0P) General Marshall's headquarters denied today the special U. S. envoy was returning to the Unit ed States before Christmas, but did not rule out the possibility he might return to Washington to confer with President Truman if Chinese peace talks are not re sumed. Animal Crackers By WARRN GOODRICH mGoK I bet i?M $tuffy in there." OiP SCEGDDQB TPCDDDDB -a lis Oft 24 PAGES dlns ATLANTA. Ga Dc. 7 (left) Tw fmU at the Wlneoff htcl hing mui in apper up the side ef the blazlnr buildinr. (rifht) UnidenUHed dead All the tnorme at tery wlndew (see arrow) as flames feraa a fire which teek 127 lives early this a fn serai home as firemen briar In aoether body. Conntlnf of the bodies is not mornlnr leap from windows directly below them. Water from fire hoses streams yet complete. (AP wtrephotos flown by -Air Express to The Statesman.) Wors4 HtoteO Fire Don CKlDstoiry off U ATLANTA, Dec. America's most destructive hotel fire early today turned the 15-story WinecOff hotel into a blazing inferno that brought death to 127 persons and injury to at least 100 more. While scores of fuests trapped in the upper part of the building burned or suffocated, ether men, women and children plunged scream ing to death on the pavements below in the pre-dawn darkness. A revised, death list compiled - late tonight after a check of . . ' funeral homes and hospitals, COlITteSV DriVUli? which was complicated by the re v the re- moval of bodies from one mortu ary to another, set the toll of the disaster at 127. Of these, 114 had been identified and an esti mated 13 bodies still were un identified. It was possible that the total might be changed silght Jy upon completion of the diffi cult casualty check. At daylight the sides of the tall, chimney-like structure were draped with torn bed sheets and blankets, marking in grim silence where victims tried to escape. Eyewitnesses told how panic stricken guests swung from 10th and 12th story windows on flimsy make-shift ropes. A few were rescued, but most fell headlong as flames burned away their sup ports or they lost their grip. Shrieking, Praying Others were seen briefly at flaming windows, shrieking and praying, then disappearing into the terrible inferno. At one time a half dozen brok en bodies lay at the intersection of Atlanta's famed Peachtree street and Carnegie way, oppo site the theatre where the world premier of "Gone With the Wind" was staged. The origin of the blaze appar ently was buried in the charred wreckage or sealed with the dead. City Fire Marshal Harry Phillips started in the corridors of the third or fourth floors. Phillips, accompanied by fire inspectors, said in every instance the flames had burned into the rooms of the third, fourth and fifth floors, indicating that the origin lay somewhere in the car peted hallways. Spread Rapidly The fire was out of control within a few minutes after, is was discovered and before every piece of fire fighting equipment in At lanta could be summoned, Phil lips said. The marshal said a bellhop testified he had noticed no fumes or smoke when he delivered some soft drinks to a room on the fifth floor, but, when he turned to leave the room he found he was trapped by flames in the doorway. No Fire Escapes The brick, concrete and steel structure had no outside fire escapes, but was classed as "fire resistant." Fire Marshal Harry Phillips said it met all safety codes when it was built in 1914. There were 285 guests registered at the hotel, which was one of Atlanta's leading hostelries. The nation's previous record toll In a hotel fire was 71 in the Newhall hoMse holocaust at Mil waukee in 1883.. (Eyewitness story of the fire on page 2.) GAS LINK TO CONTINUE HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 7.-0P-The big and little inch pipelines will carry Texas natural gas to the east and north until at least Aoril 30 despite end of the coal strike, Gardiner Symonds, presi dent of Tennessee gas and trans mision company said here today. nmvt Salem, Orecjon Sunday Morning, December 8. 1948 aooiiftodl odd ) " " Cam Pri zes Following is the list of prizes in The Oregon Statesman-Warner Brothers Courtesy Driving campaign: MAJO GRAND PRIZE Seventeen-jewel wriatwatch. choice of men' s or women's i Stevens 6l Son). GRAND PRIZES tire and tube (State Tire lat: N aervice) Za4: Dtshee. service for Hardth-are). 3r4: Sandwich f Mil and I (Salem fly rod (Sears Roebuck). 4th: Permanent wave (Larzen'a Beau ty Studio). St: Wool auto robe (Bishops Cloth ing!. it: Airplane suitcase (Miller Mer cantile). fife: Table lamp (Elfstrom's). St: Electric room heater (McKay Chevrolet . t: Table lamp (Court Street Radio). 1st: Amrons iDoughton Hardware). DAILY PRIZES 1st: Camellia (K A. Doerfler St Sons). tad: Three pair nylons (Army 4c Navy storel. trd: Ten gallons gasoline, oil change, lubrication (General Petroleum I. 4t: Umbrella I J. C. Penney co ) St: Car vacuum (Hamilton Furni ture I tfc: Album of records (Heider Ra dio). It: Auto flashlight (Yea ter Appli ance). 4h: Half gallon ice cream (The Pike). t: Two tickets Usinore theatre. 1st: Two tickets Elalnor theatre. In addition, every one of the prize winners (daily and grand) will re ceive a certificate en titling him or her to an x ! browntone photograph ( Bishop-Mode roe). All prizes are being made available at The Statesman office, with the exception that certifi cates, instead of actual merchan dise will be issued for the photo graphs, gasoline-oil, the perma nent wave and ice cream. FRENCH ELECTORS TO VOTE PARIS, Dec 7-(P)-France will begin the final stages- of setting up the legislative branches of the Fourth Republic tomorrow when 85,000 electors father in small electoral colleges throughout France to vote for members cf the parliament's upper house. Oregon City Debt CD eared Under Manager Ultor's Mete: FJtowlc is the third Jul atst of Tk orcsaa Statesaaaa's series of stortes shawtaf hew tne ctty aaaaacer alaa has work la Orefoa City. Other Baaaagrr-type cemaaaasUws are helax sarveyre aaa the marts ef the ttaoy will appear later at that avewspaper). By WENDEZX WEBB Managing editor. The Statesman OREGON CITY; Ore.-(Special) -Twenty-one yean ago, when J. L. Franzen came from a job of engineering work on the Des chutes river to be Oregon City's new city manager, the munici pality was million dollars in debt There isn't any debt now. The right side of the ledger sheet shows nearly $250,000. Many things happened to bring about a change in the picture. A decade or more ago the city MUNDBD 1651 Sweet Home Man Killed in Santiam Wreck LEBANON. Dec. 7 Maxwell Keiser, 41, of Sweet Home, was dead on arrival at Lebanon hos pital after his car crashed into a truckload of lumber on the San tiam pass highway about '-three miles southeast of here early this evening. Linn County Coroner Fisher reports. Fisher said lumber on a Salem truck, driven by a man named Riggs, crashed through the wind shield of Reiser's car, after Reis er's car collided with the rear of the parked truck. Riggs reportedly had lost a load of lumber the previous day. and was engaged in reloading it onto his truck at the time of the collision. A second car barely avoided collision with Keiser's after the crash, by driving into the ditch, Coroner Fisher said. ACTRESS DEATH MYSTERY NEW YORK, Dec. 7-AVActress Laurette Taylor, 62, died tonight. Cause of her death was not imme diately disclosed. Miss Taylor, a stage star in 1910, was voted the best actress of 1945 in a poll by Variety, a Journal of the enter tainment world. mm- . bUUyfr- p. JUU i Who's Courteous -When? Families and firms with severaj members driving the same car can well keep in mind these days just who had the car at certain times. Otherwise there may be an argument whether pop, mom, junior or Susie is entitled to a share in the prizes in The OregoR Statesman-Warner Brothers Courtesy . Driving campaign. The campaign now is underway, and starting Thursday in The Statesman will be a daily list of license numbers of the first 10 prize winners, chosen by traffic safety experts in the secretary of state's office from lists of courteous deeds noted by Salem police and assisting observers. No red tape is necessary to win the awards, and everyone is eligible (except employes of The Statesman and Warner Brothers). All that is necessary is to be noted by observers as being extra courteous in driving on Salem streets. That and noticing in The Statesman whether your car license number is among the winners. If it is, anyone may obtain his or her prize at The Statesman of fice merely by a proper identification. The 10 prizes will be given daily through December 21, and the winners as well as those cars now being noted prior to the start of the daily campaign will be eligible for at least 12 grand prizes at the end of the contest. The awards are donated by Salem mer chants in an effort to make Salem streets more safe and pleasant. The prizes, which will be placed on public display soon, and their donors are listed in full elsewhere on this page. Driving courtesy will pay! needed a fire truck. The lowest bid was around $10,000. Franzen didn't like it "we were poor." So his city machine shop, under his guidance, got hold of an old bus chassis, bought a pump, built and completely equipped a fire truck for less than $4000. The city now has newer trucks, but that one still is in use. More recently the city needed posts for its new box fire alarm system. Best price was $45. So Franzen designed a mold, had his shop pour the cement, and build steel ' reinforced posts for $5 each. And incidentally, Ore gon City is to have at least 50 fire alarm boxes, on four circuits. One circuit with 12 boxes already is in. The city also has been mak ftDaiirD'Sai Deal Holds Santiam Pines for Tourists BEND, Dec. 7-0P)-V i r g i n timber stands along the McKen zie and Santiam highway have been acquired by the U.S. for est service in exchange for 100,000,000 board feet of timber on forest lands. The transaction, intended to preserve the roadside pine as a travel attraction, was made be tween the forest service and Brpoka-Scanlon, Inc., lumber company. It was the. largest such exchange ever made in Oregon. West Salem Census 2,005 The population of West Salem increased from 1490 at the time of the 1940 federal census, to 2005, Saturday, when the state census was completed, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., reported. The increase was 34 per cent. The state census of Bay City in Tillamook county was 538, an increase of 159 per cent over the 1940 federal census. Aurora with a count of 243 and Vernonia with 1420 show only a slight gain over the federal census. Each census was taken at the request of city officials. West Sa lem was the 58th city in Oregon in which the secretary of state has conducted a state census. ing its own street-sign posts, out of cement at a cost which Fra zen estimates is no more than the cost of a 0 by 6 wood standard. A short time ago, an offer was made for the downtown building which Oregon City owned and was using for its city hall. It was a good ofer, so Franzen took it. Then he moved 'all city offices to another city-owned building outside the main, business dis trict. With completion of an addi tion now planned, he - estimates his spic-artd-span building will care for Oregon City's needs for a long, long time. And inciden tally again, he disposed of coun ters in the old city hall for $200 and bought second-hand mahog any ones for his new quarters for $50. No. 218 Former Salem Woman Dies In Catastropl le ATLANTA, Dec. 7 -UP)- Eloise Buck, a University of Oregon graduate and former teacher in Ashland and Monmouth, Ore., Colleges of Education, died in the Winecoff hotel fire here, and a young Portland, Ore., honeymoon ing couple was rescued from the 11th floor. Mrs. Alice Ann Gil bert, 18, the bride, moaned re peatedly "Where is my sweet heart? Find my sweetheart" when taken from the hotel by firemen. Eloise Buck, formerly of Salem, sister of Peter Buck of Portland, is among those listed as dying as a result of the Winecoff hotel fire in Atlanta, Ga. Miss Buck was connected for several years with the Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, and made her home at the Royal Court. She had recently been on the faculty of the Katherine Gibbs school. New York, and said to be on a lecture tour, stopping at the ill-fated hotel. She was in Salem during the past summer. Her sister-in-law is Mrs. Peter Buck, the former Josephine Mc Gilchrist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McGilchrist, jr., 695 N. Summer st. Henagin Jury Deadlocked OREGON CITY. Ore., Dec. 7. OT") The jury in the first degree murder trial of Mrs. Luella Hena gin was retired for the night at 10:35 p.m. after reporting to the court that the jury had been dead locked after 12 ballots. Jury foreman Carl ' Joehnke blurted out before Judge Latour ette could silence him that the jury stood eight to four in its seven hours and 25 minutes of delibera tions and also asked the court to define the penalties for second de gree murder and manslaughter. 11 DIES IN ARGENTINE FIRE CORDOBA, Argentina, Dec. 7 (JP) Eleven persons were killed and 15 injured today, police re ported, when a bus caught fire after crashing into a trailer truck on a highway near here. The Oregon City manager, like Salem's, has the power of ap pointing all city employes with the exception of himself. He is accountable only to the three city commissioners, one of which is the mayor. Franzen, a civil engineer, has quite a record. And while this series of stories is designed to show what a city manager does and can do rather than to ex toll Franzen it might be added that for two years during the war be was loaned part-time to be city manager of Vanport, a city of 40,000. "But there wasn't time to carry on Oregon City's business at night, what with being in Vanport all day, so I got back here on the full-time job as soon as I could." ROoinies CeoipeirDDODg As CffiiDef iSevjs ft; y o 0 (S(Dveriniuinieini,!i: Wants Supreme Court to be Free From 'Public Pressure9 in Deciding Case; Economy Controls Removed WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-jP)-John L. Lewis pave in to the government today and ended the soft coal strike. With it, like the finish of a nightmare, werh virtually all the restrictions it had brought and the economic peril it had poised over this and other countries. President Truman cancelled the broadcast he . had . planned for tomorrow night, closed his desk and went to an." art show,, smiling but silent on the outcome. Lewis ordered the 400,000 miners to end the 17-day walkout and go back ta work immediately. Reports from the mine fields indicated ready . com- pliance. Some maintenance crews headed for the pits tonight, and full-scale resumption . of. mining Monday appeared certain. At the same time Lewis an nounced his readiness to negotiate with the private mine owners for new wage and other demands, a j step which could clear the .way for the government to get out of the coal business. For his startling step Lewis gave two reasons that the su preme court in considering the case might be "free from public pressure superinduced by the hys teria and .frenzy of an economic crisis," and that "public neces sity requires the quantitative pro duction of coal during such peri od." Supreme Court Silent Lewis retreat came abruptly between two conferences with Chief Justice Vinson of attorneys for the union and the justice de partment. One conference was held in the forenoon, before Lew is acted; another was held in the late afternoon. The court sent word that no announcement would be made today, and the lawyers all' were tight-mouthed. The nine justices at their regu lar Saturday noon conference had an opportunity to decide whether they will hear Lewis' appeal, at the government's request, and Lewis seemed sure that they would. He said that his future negotiations will be "within the limitations of the findings of the supreme court," and made other references to an expected ruling. In das try Unshackled The sudden end of the strike brought swift action by officials junking the coal conservation measures which had shackled in dustry and darkened the Christ mas outlook. The freight and ex press embargoes were lifted, the ban on passenger travel revoked, and the 21-state dimout cancelled in time for Saturday night shop ping throngs except in a few places where the utilities are near ly out of fuel. A partial removal of the freeze on coal stocks was being prepared and probably will be assued tomorrow. With the theatrics he loves, Lewis announced the capitulation to a hurriedly-called news con ference at 2 p.m. (Eastern stan dard time). Sonorously, with Shakesperean references, he read a notice to the miners telling them oil v,a.ir rvrir immHiMp. all to go back to work immediate ly until midnight, March 31, he stipulated. Seattle Port Dispul te Ends SEATTLE, Dec. 7 - VP) - United States Conciliation Service Com missioner Harry Lewis announced this afternoon that an agreement to end the AFL Checkers union strike and the 67-day waterfront tieup here had been reached be tween negotiating committees of the union and the waterfront em ployers of Washington. The agreement is subject to ratification tomorrow by meetings pf the two groups, he said, and no details of the settlement will be announced pending action by the two bodies. Thief Ignores Jewels, Cracks 'Penny' Bank W. P. Loder, 1297 S. High st, reported to police Saturday . that about $15 was taken from his son's "penny" bank by house breakers Friday night while Lo der and his family were away. He said the loot consisted of two $5 bills, some $1 bhls and about $2 in silver. - Several articles of jewelry, in plain sight, were not taken. Entry was made through an unlocked window. City Manager to be Discussed at Lebanon LEBANON, Dec. 7-General dis cussion of the city manager form of government is planned by the local Lions club. Malcom Otis, club president has named a com mittee to have speakers appear at club meetings and discuss the project Committee members ar Frank Mayer, L. E. Arnold, Law rence Morley and George Brit ton. MORSE IN PALESTINE JERUSALEM, Dec. 7-0P)-Sen-ator Wayne Morse (R.-Ore.) ar rived in Palestine today to study the situation here. His visit was described as a "private tour." Double-Check Troop Census Debate Delayed NEW YORK, Deev T (JPf- A renewed British attempt to win United Nations assembly approv al of international inspections to double-check national troop cen sus reports was deferred tonight by prolonged and inconclusive debate on India's complaint of maltreatment of Indian citizens by South Africa. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, after a hard day at the big four conference at the Wal dorf Astoria on preliminary Ger man peace plans, arrived late in the evening with his three prin cipal deputies at the Flushing Meadow park assembly hall after the new British move was an nounced. However, the unexpectedly long debate on India's complaint put the British proposal over until Sunday's plenary sessions sched uled for 4 pjn. and 7 p.m. f If J ItlOtlOTllCSS Exercise9 Boon To Lethargic By Henrietta Leith NEW YORK. Dec. 7-0P)-If ycu take the latest in beauty short-' cuts offered by a Fifth -avenue salon "motionless exercise" you'll find out why a cradle puts a baby to sleep. The poor little thing is just all tired out. The new boon to lazy women, the "rock-a-by lady" treatment, which entails a ride in a glori fied cradle, is supposed to "give you the same exercise you would get from the same time spent at a game of tennis but without lifting a finger." The inventor of the cradle. Ann Delafield director f . ti,J ueiaiieid director of a beauty school, doesn't want her natrons to get the idea that she believes in doing all the work for them the cradle is really used to stimu late the facial tissues, to carry to these tissues "the chemical hor mones which stimulate ana co ordinate cell activity:" But, if you refuse to exercise as you should, says this life-long exponent of building the body beautiful, if you just won't play that game of tennis, then what you need is a little cradle rock ing. Secret Societies' Deadline Passes The deadline for withdrawal from Salem high school's secret societies passed without official announcement Saturday but cir cumstances indicated a probable statement on the situation some time this week. Notices were sent to about 20 parents November 29 saying students who were af filiated with the illegal societies after December 7 could not re main in school. 3 CALLED IN BILBO CASE WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-yP)-More than 30 Witnesses' have been summoned tq testify, starting Thursday, before the senate war investigating subcommittee look ing into the relations between Senator Bilbo (D-Miss) and a group of war contractors. Chair man Mead (D-rNY) announced to night. 1 n1 SHOPPING I L UK) ! PAYS LEFT j 1 TP.li