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Taft Seeks to Delay Income Tax
UtP
9330000
iretrv of State Oeorite
Markhail made a plea for m "truth
pure unadulterated truth" in hi
firt full-dre pro confe'enc
in his new office Thi i hi
untidote for the "riot nf propa
ganda" with which the world ha-tx-cn
and is being filled He -aid.
"Somewhere in the world truth
mit be enunciated until every
..ne accept it as truth We should
brgin t. eta"lih .lowly but
teaiilv a credit befoie the world
for pure. an urate ..iein ni-
The speed of locomotion for
lie is widely known; truth i if
puted to travel at snail's pace
But in the ana of men's thinking
the identity of truth n difficult
to determine.
Take religion- "Ye shall know
the truth and tjie truth shall mako
jcu free." Btit htw m.my creed
and sert .art .lhjife in the world
each claiming Avjith simere con-
i c t i o n and. .tfrim, tenacity the
-truth' of their wn relation'
Small wonder the individual is
bewildered in the multiplicity
ml rivalry of faiths
Take politic which paity i
"right' ami which is "wrong"'.'
At the end of a national political
campaign how clearly does
"truth"' tand out"
Take economics: where may
naked "truth" be found balan
cing the realities of human nature
id the ethics of xiul responsi
bility" Truth wears no readily recog
nizable brand; and reactions to
the same net of facts vary with
different mimis Intelligence i
I qui i ed to ident i fy
'Continued on editorial pae)
Crowds Plead
For Coal in
British Crisis
LONDON. Feb. 8 - - Britain
prepared tonight for tt major in
dustrial shutdown amid warnings
l.v a laixir spokesman that the
coal crisis threatened an end to
the lab r gove rnment and "so
c ;al ism in .ur time "
While F.manuel Shinwell, fuel
minister, declared "complete di--uster"
awaited Britain if industry
and the public failed to carry out
Ins sweeping conservation meas
uies, almost chaotic conditions
weir reported among Industrie,
in the huge industrial lelts about
London. Manchester and Bir
mingham uheie 4.000.000 will be
thrown out of work beginning at
midnight Sundav.
t'olice were called a second time
today to Shoreditch. a London
suburb, to quiet crowds besieging
a ccal store. About 100 persons
uiged around the store gates
with w Iceelbai rows and other
hand vehicle, seeking to reach the
coal plies Thev blocked the sticet
for a time and after waiting vain
ly for an hour to be served dis
persed. Shinwell s order halts elec tric
power to industry in the biggest
export - pi oducmg areas of Eng
land and cutting off current from
domestic users including homes,
theatres, stores, offices and res
taurants for five hours daily.
Planning for 19-47
KeI Cross Drive
Set for Monday
Plans for the 194
American
Red Cros campaign in Marion
tountv will be discussed at the
meeting of the board of director-
of the county Red Cross chapter
at 8 p. m. Monday in chapter of
fices. Kied G. Starrett. new chairman
for the county campaign, will
meet with the board. The drive
opens March 1.
Also at the Monday meeting
all department chairmen will
submit reports on the past year's
work.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
"Wheech way to Havana,
Scnort?"
NINETY -SIXTH YEAR 22
Talmadge
Charges
Collusion
By RO.MNEY WHEELER
ATLANTA, Ga , Feb. H - tJF) -Merman
Talmadge today assailed
a rul.ng of a Georgia judge, which
held that Talmadge illegally
claims the office of governor, and
reused the judge of rendering a
v est-po ket decision without hear
ng both fides.
The decision, made yesterday at
Home. Ga., was in a suit brought
.igainst the pardons and paroles
board by Lt.-Gov. M. E. Thomp
son. The action sought budgetary
information from the board lai-
madge was not a party, and is
not presently affected by the deci-
sion.
Superior (Circuit) Judge Claude
Porter held Thompson was legal
acting governor, in sucession to
Gov. Ellis Arnall. resigned, and
held the Georgia legislature ex
ceeded its constitutional authori
ty when it elected Talmadge for
the four-year term of his father,
the late Eugene Talmadge.
Talmadge charged that the suit
was "patently collusive," and was
"brought by friends, against
friends, before friends and for
friends."
Supreme Court to Review
The decision is due to be speed
ed to the Georgia supreme court
next week In a bitter statement.
Talmadge stated. "1 am informed
that as sexm as the case was pre
sented to him. and before a hear- ,
ing from the alleged defendants. 1
the judge reached in his pocket
and pulled out an opinion he had
already written, and proceeded to
read it."
Judge Recalls Story
Advised of Talmadge's blast.
Judge Porter commented mildly
that it reminded him of this story:
"An Irifhman was kicked by a j
jackass." saic the judge, "and
someone asked him what he was
going to do about it. Nothing.' the
Irishman replied, "I just consider
the source'."
War Memorial
Board to Meet
Monday Nmht
The board of directors rf the
Salem War Memorial association
will meet Monday in the cham
ber of commerce at 7:30 pm
There aie about 40 members on
the board now. including repre
sentatives of organizations which
have paid the organizational mem
bership in the association.
A five-person advisory com
mittee will be elected, to serve
as chairmen for the finance, legal,
publicity, site and building divi
sions of the association.
Correspondent Hit
By Sniper's Bullet
HANOI, Feb
ese sniper'.-, bullet
struck Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Ml-
chael Moutschen in the neck as he
was accompanying French troops
in a river crossing outside Hanoi
yesterday, and doctors said today
his condition was critical.
The bullet injured his spine and
caused
a severe throat hemorr-
hate.
The 22-year-old correspondent.
who served his native Belgium as
an uiKiergrouna iignier during mr
war. has been reporting events in
Indochina since last July.
5 IN'avv Men Di After
Drinking WoOl Alcohol
NORFOLK, Va.. Feb 8 -iV
Five seamen who were at a party .
aboard the navy attack transport
Latimer Thursday night when
wood alcohol was served were
dead today and 10 others were i
. hospitalized, five in a serious con- i
dition. j
A spokesman for the navy said '
, wood alcohol was stored aboard
, the ship for use in machinery
1 maintenance, but there was no
immediate explanation of the use
of alcohol at the party.
U. S. Pros 'Converted'
In Russian Drama
MOSCO. Feb. 8-tP Konstantin
Siminov's new play "The Russian
Question," dealing with the
American press and its attitude
toward the Soviet Union, opened
before an enthusiastic audience
tonight in Kalinin.
The central character is Smith,
an American cc esportdent who
agrees to go to Moscow to write
a slanderous book about the So
viet Union, but enjnges his mind
when he returrs to the United
States and writes what a reviewer
calls "a truthful, honest book."
PAGES Salem. Oregon, Sunday
Roll top Desk's Contents
Adds to Edison Legend
Uranium Nitrate Vial, Bills, Pills Found
By Milton Marmor
WEST ORANGE, N.J.. Feb. 8-
j (A)- Thomas Alva Edison's fam
I ous rolltop desk sealed since his
death more than 15 years ago
was opened today by his son and
was found to contain scientific
materials, but mostly the person
al effects of Edison the man.
There were stomach pills and
mouth wash, bills accumulated
for decades, jokes written in his
own hand, a book he never had
time to autograph for a young
girl in Chicago, but nothing start
ling except perhaps a small vial
of uiSriuim nitrate.
His son, Charles Edison, for
mer New Jersey governor and
former secretary of the navy, su
pervised the unsealing and study
of the desk. Standing beside him
was Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, wid
ow of the great inventor.
'Open the Winda,
Linda', Radio Quip
Saves Mother, Girl '
HAMILTON. Out.. Feb. -&
Radio Announcer Paul Hanover I
paraphrasing the song title j
"Open the Door. Rlchar d." I
quipped "Open the Winda. Lin- 1
da."
Shortly after the broadcast 1
today Hanover received a phone
eall from Mrs. W. Smith who
thanked htm for saving her life
and that of her daughter Linda.
Mrs. Smith explained that she
had been sleeping when Han
over nrged Linda to open the
winda." The little girl ran to
her mother's room and asked
"which window mummir?"
The query wakened Mrs.
Smith who discovered that es
raplnr gas. had filled the apart
ment. Niagara Falls
Nearly Frozen
NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y., Feb.
8 -i!Pi- The flow of water over
the American falls dwindled to
about 10 per cent of normal to
day as continuing near-zero
weather piled up a huge ice jam
soudhe 63
above the falls and froze
foot cataract almost s
Niagara Falls Power company
employes have been dynamiting
the jam in an effort to keep the
hydraulic canal clear. Although
water in the canal was lower
than usual. company officials
said hydro-elec ti ic power produc
tion had not been reduced ap
preciably. A small amount of water pass
ing over the crest of the Amer
ican falls froze as it struck the
rocks below, forming an
mountain."
ice
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Sales in Salem were up 39 per
cent during the last year, accord- j Road Conditions
ing to a report of 18 independent
Salem stores, the census bureau IVrrMisl in Orfk(Vrkn
announced Saturday llOnildl III VregOIl
November sales were up 33 peri Normal road conditions continu
cent over 1945. and December ed today throughout Oregon ac
sales up 10 per cent. Sales for cording to the state highway re
Oregon as a whole were up 31 port by R. H. Baldock, state hlgh
per cent above 1945 figures, ac- : way engineer. -cording
to compilations made Though there was some ice and
from 512 independent stores packed snow reported in the high
through the state. Department er elevations, 'Baldock reported no
stores reported a 25 per cent gain, interference with traffic.
Public Welfare as Well as Schools Likely to Be
Hitched to Sales Tax; 23 of 546 Bills Approved
By Wendell Webb
Managing Editor. The Statesman
Controversy over Oregon's tax
and school structures so dominat
ed the current legislature's first
four weeks that it appeared cer
tain today a more-than-usual
number of less-important meas
ures never would come up for
final vote.
Today marking the 28th day
of the biennial session and pos
sibly about its half-way mark
finds legislative action completed
on but 23 of the 546 bills thus
far introduced. And another 200
to 300 bills are expected to be
entered.
But the comparatively poor
score on completed measures
cannot be regarded as a true
criterion of progress thus far.
Work of committees is regarded
as probably ahead of "normal,"
and the fifth week starting to
morrow is expected to see scores
of bills up for final votes.
Major development over the
Mominrj. February 9, 1947
It was an impressive compila
ation of Edisonia. Notebooks with
the half-printed scrawl of the in
ventor; diagrams of something on
which he was working; a piece of
goldenrod rubber on which he j er dams costing $725,000,000 on the
was experimenting when he died; I Columbia river and its tributar
a box of ancient cigars; maps of jes to meet a critical power short
New Jersey; and as indicative j age was urged today by members
of the fact that the genius Edi- 1 Qf congress from the northwest.
son was just as Human as me
next man a book of accounts
dated April. 1904. and still lying
in one of the cubbyholes.
L'nstarted was a roll of chew
ing tobacco. Edison, as a telegra
pher had acquired the habit, but
in his later years had turned to
cigars. Also, apparently unused,
was a hearing dev ice. Edison was
deaf since childhood and as his
son explained he received hun
dreds of presents of hearing de
vices which he refused to use.
Vandenberg
To Pass 1948
President Race
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Feb. 8
, f.-P)-While appreciative of the
"compliment," United States Sen-
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-
Mich.) emphasized to newsmen
today that he was not a candi
date for the republican presiden
tial nomination.
Said Michigan's senior senator:
"I am not a candidate for the
republican presidential nomina
tion. I don't expect to be and I
have no wish to be, but a man
would be entirely numb if he were government's power dam develop
insensible to the compliment the ment has reached the point where
suggestion implies." private utilities cannot make plans
thaler, leaders at tne ancnigan
spring republican state conven
tion side-tracked a resolution en
dorsing Vandenberg for president.
Vanden berg's statement regard
ing the presidential question pre
ceded his address to the conven
tion in which he made his first
speech on domestic issues in two
years calling for labor-management
harmony.
Florida in Path
Of Cold Wave
CHICAGO. Feb. 8 -OP)- Most
of the nation was locked tonight
in the grip of a spreading cold
wave that posed a new threat to
southern vegetable, citrus and to
bacco crops. Florida, where an
unexpected freeze damaged the
vegetable and citrus crops Wed
nesday night, was warned to ex
pect low ground temperatures
ranging from 17 to 38 degrees
by Sunday morning.
A strong northwest wind sent
thermometers dropping in south
ern Georgia and commercial ra
dio stations warned tobacco
growers to get plant beds under
cover. Atlanta expected a low of
18 degrees. The Georgia crop
brought $50,000,000 last year.
weekend was further confirmation
that the still-sketchy sales tax
plan probably will be amended to
provide that revenue from such
will go to schools (as first re-
RI 1f , rr.u, im( hvabikkb
TrlpUac cities' Utare f highway rev
eaae (MB ll Monday. 2:30 p.m..
room 321. statehouse. before house com
mittee on local government and senate
hlphwavs committee.
EatahlteluteM ! Wys .atteatUa
caaap SB lit) Monday. TJJO pm..
room 404. atatehouse. before aeoate
committee on county affairs.
Jalstt iu of htchways atillty poles
(SB 122) Tuesday, following after
noon adjournment, room 309. State
house, before senate committee on
roads and highways.
ported by The Statesman), and
that public welfare also might
specifically be given part of such
potential funds. Both the AFL
and the executive board of the
Farmers' Union have said they
would oppose a levy on retail
sales.
Of widest effect among the 23
Slash Until July
toteaman
Pric Sc
No. 272
KrugTold
Of Need
For Dams
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -JP)-
Immediate construction of pow
At an interior department con
ference with Secretary Krug,
members from Washington, Ore-
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gon. Idaho and Montana agreeo. xo
seek appropriations to continue
work on dams already started and
begin work on others.
They suggested that the first
action should be to complete in
stallation generators at Grand
Coulee dam on the Columbia.
The conference also agreed to
request funds to contiue work on
the $186,000,000 McNary dam on
the Columbia; the $7,500,000 Hun
gry Horse dam in Montana; the
$136,000,000 propored Foster creek
dam; the $270,000,000 four-dam
project on the Snake river in Ida
ho, Oregon and Washington and
the $36,000,000 Detroit dam on the
Willamette river.
Congress has appropriated $3,
000,000 to start work on McNary
dam, but power advocates insist
that $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 will
be needed to carry on the work
for the next year.
For Hungry Horse dam congress
has appropriated $2,560,000 and
$4,500,000 has been asked for the
next year. No appropriations have
been made for the proposed Fos
ter creek dam or for the pro
posed Snake river dams. An ap
propriation of $3,977,000 has been
made for the Detroit dam.
Senator Morse (R-Ore) said af
ter today's conference that the
for long time development with
out knowing government plans.
Chinese Face
Financial Doom
SHANGHAI. Feb. 8 i)-China'f
four day old export subsidy plan,
already under heavy black mar
ket pressure, collided with the
U. S. tariff law today, leading
gloomy Dusiness circles xo ex-
pros tears mat ine enu.ng is.ai-
Shek regime was in imminent
danger of economic collapse.
The latest blow was a mimeo
graphed notice to shippers from
the American consulate, advising
that under U. S. law, goods im
ported under any form of subsidy
were subject to additional tariff
equal to the subsidy.
Re;-ponding immediately, the
black market rate rose steadily.
Pi ices kept pace. Today a meal
costs- twice as much as it did
Wednesday, a suit costs one and
one-half times as much, and so
do most goods and services.
All observers agree that the
present slump in Chinese cur
rency cannot continue without
grave consequences. Even cock
tail party conversation revolves
around fears of resulting riots or
even uprisings.
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Portland
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
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Willamette river 7 feet.
FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today and tonight with tcn-
per at u re
high today
3J ana low to
night 3a
measures thus far made into law
is the program to re-issue driv
ing licenses at the rate of 33,000
a month starting next June 1
when licenses numbered SRI
through 5R33.000 will be called
in. No re-examination of drivers
with good records will be neces
sitated, but all must have new
licenses.
The program also calls for a
permanently "staggered" system
of renewals thereafter. Persons
born in years ending in an odd
number will have their licenses
renewed in odd-numbered years;
persons born in even-numbered
years will have their renewals
before their birthdays each even
numbered year. The law doesn't
say what to do if you're not cer
tain when you were born.
Tomorrow's legislative sessions
(10:30 a.m. in the senate, 11 in
the house) will find several bills
up for passage in both chambers.
Major house bills set for final
house vote would Increase the
Sticks to
Policy of
20 Cut
By Jack Bell
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -7P)-Senator
Taft (R-Ohio) tossed a
monkey wrench into plans of
house republicans for a quick cut
back in income taxes with an an
nouncement today he will oppose
making any reduction effective
before July 1.
This would halve the $3,500,
000,000 reduction which a 20 per
cent cut would make over a full
calendar year.
Taft told a reporter that while
he remains convinced income tax
es can be slashed a net of 20 per
cent, he.thinks individuals ought
to continue paying at the present
rate until the new government
fiscal year begins next July.
This would keep payroll with-
j 'a,nlax " lVf ,P,q aVV
l for thp first half nf 1947. After
i -- , . ,
July 1 they would drop by what
ever percentage congress decides. I
For persons who pay their full
, year's taxes in advance March
- 15, the senator proposed rebates
later covering the last six months
of the year.
This stand by Taft, chairman
of the senate republican policy
committee and a member of the
finance committee, collided di-
' rectly with the announced inten-
' tion of Chairman Knutson (R
Minn) of the house ways an1
; means committee to rush through
a tax bill making reductions retro-
active to January 1. Knutson's
committee has ordered brief hear
ings beginning February 19.
Soldier Signs
As 'Possible'
j Dahlia Slayer
I FORT DIX, N. J.. Feb. S.-(JF)-
; The army's criminal investigation
: division announced tonight it was
J holding Cpl. Joseph Dumais on a '
charge of suspicion of murder af- '
ter he signed a statement saying
j "it was possible" he committed the i
mutilation slaying of attractive
! Elizabeth Short (Ihe Black Dahlia)
1 in Los Angeles.
Capt. William H. Florence, head
of the CID said that Dumais stat
ed he was with the slain girl Jan.
10, five days before the body was
i found in California. She apparent
ly had been dead only a few hours.
The soldier insisted throughout
that his mind "blanked out" while
drinking with the girl and that
he remembered nothing until he
j found himself in New
York's
j Pennsylvania station
later
Morris said records at Fort Dix
showed definitely that Dumais
was at the army installation on
the 11th. 12th and 13th of last
month. Then there was a lapse of
four days, during which time there
was no trace of Dumias. But on
January 17 the records again show
Dumais at the fort.
Bidding, Spectators Doubled at
Second Annual Bred Gilt Sale
By Llllie L. Madsen
Bidding and number of spec
tators at the second annual Ore
gon Swine Growers bred gilt sale
held Saturday at the state fair
grounds, just about doubled that
of a year ago at the first annual
sale.
Joe Church, entertaining auc
tioneer from New Plymouth Ida
ho, drew a total of $5340 from his
bidders. Assisting Church in the
ring was Eddie Ahrens and T. R.
Hobart.
Top price paid was $285 for
pay of election clerks and judges
from to $6 a day, raise from
$35 to $50 the monthly payments
to a permanently disabled work
man with a dependent, and make
a first class school district re
sponsible for its share of the in
debtedness of a union high school
district from which it withdraws.
The senate will have before it
12 house-approved measures, in
cluding those seeking county of
ficers' salary boosts and provid
ing means of letting Mill City
incorporate in Linn county, . and
eight of its own bills confined
mainly to county interests.
The house to date has disposed
of 54 of its own 326 bills and
six of the senate's. The senate
has disposed of 37 of its own 220
bills and 17 of the house. The
legislative, wastebasket is going
to dispose of a good many others
if action on them still in unfin
ished by the time coordinated
school and tax programs hit the
floors.
Old and New
4 r 1
4 hS i
CHICAGO. Feb. 8 David Huge
of Chicago was called the "Ape
Boy" when his face looked like
this (top) and below is how he
looked after plastic surgery and
a new hair-do. Dr. Ferris Smith
of Grand Rapids, Mich., per
formed the operation free of
charge after news stories re
vealed Ruge had attempted ex
tortion to finance the face al
teration. (AP Wirephoto to the
Statesman).
Carl Francis
To Head State's
Young GOP
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 8-7Pi-The
Young Republican Federation of
Oregon today elected Carl Fran
cis of Dayton and a Yamhill
county representative in the Ore
gon house, as chairman. Other
officers: Robert A. Elliott, Port
land, national committeeman:
Jane Terry Rodman. Eugene, na
tional eommitteewoman; Mary
Margaret Godfrey, Portland, as
sistant chairman.
Vice chairmen for the congres
sional districts: Robert DeAi-
i mond, Salem, first; Carl Helm.
some time j La Grande, second; Clyde Rich
I ardson, Portland, third; Robert
Neilson. Eugene, fourth.
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, ma
rine combat veteran who defeated
Robert Ia Follette, jr., in the last
Wisconsin, GOP primaries, told
the convention tonight that he
favored Harold Stassen for the
1948 presidential nomination
his party.
of
Miss Goldie. an extra large dark
red Duroc consigned to Edwin C.
Ridder of Sherwood. She was
sired by National Harvester, grand
champion boar at the 1946 Ore
gon state fair, and bred to Com
mando Bill. Rex Vollstedt, 4-H
club member from Albany was
the purchaser.
A father and son combination
predominated in the bidding ring
with three-fourths of the animals
sold going to 4-H club youths,
whose dads were there to back
them up. Two Future Farmers of
America also took home founda
tion stock.
Second highest animal was Top
Rush Stetup, a Berkshire con
signed by Bert Denham r.f Goshen
and bought for $227.50 by James
Swanson, 4-H clubber of Leba
non. Connie Ray Larkins, 4-H
club member from Monroe, paid
$225 for a Hampshire consigned
by Charles A. Evans of Independ
ence.
Walter Holt, manager of
the
Pacific International Livestock
show paid $185 for Silver Beauty,
a Chester White, consigned by El
ton Watts of Silverton. Holt
bought the gilt for youthful Fred
erik Marx, a Rickreall 4-H club
member who had been a consist
ent bidder. Fred is going to pay
back Holt from the produce of the
gilt.
Ronald Fennicum of Amity and
Larry Stemps of Dayton, both Fu
ture Farmers, were also buyers,
Larry paying $155 for Banner
Lady, a Chester White consigned
by R. Hornecker & Son of Beav
erton, and Ronald, buying two.
Silver Sue, a Chester White at
$145 consigned by Watts, and
Oregon 46-67, a Duroc at $160,
consigned by Oregon State col
lege. (Complete list of sales on
page 2)
flsSlie Not
Settled',
Says CIO
DETROIT, Feb. 8-(,P)-The mo
mentous Mt. Clemens Pottery Co..
case was thrown out of federal
court today but the $4,830,000,000
portal-to-portal pay battle etill
continued. '
U. S. District Jude Frank A.
Picard, ruling against portal time
for the pottery workers, dismiss
ed the Mt. Clemens case with a
denial cf damages.
Industry hailed the verdict.
But the immediate reaction of
CIO labor, mainly responsible for
the avalanche of portal suits
across the nation, was that the
fight wouldn't stop here.
Ahead also was a likely final
determination from the supreme
court, itself responsible for the
court's attention to the portal
theory in the Mt. Clemens dispute.
Judge Picard he'i the pottery
worker's portal time was too tr:f
lineg for damages.
Deadline Set
The court said further industry
should not be held hable for por
tal claims prior to last June 10.
That was the day the .-upieme
court set forth the portal theory
in the Mt. Clemens cas.
The National Association of
Manufacturers, through President
Earl Bunting, said Judge Picard's
verdict piesumablv meant the
"vast majority of portal suits no
longer have any stjn.d.ng."
On the other hand the CIO's
; Attorney Maurice Susjjr said the
' auto union would not wi then aw
' any of it tuits.
j The government, in entering
i the Mt. Clemens case, said the
suit would be carried to the sup
reme court no matter what Picard
ruled.
Attorney Edward Lamb, who
brought the Mt. Clemens suit oii
ginally, warned industry the it
sue was not settled. He said the
Mt. Clemens case v. js not a "truly
portal-to-portal case'' in view of
"limiting facts." .
Said in C lass by Itself
The Mt. Clemens case. Lamb
said, was not comparable in the
portal theory with instances in
teel, autos and otner industry.
! Tooay's court decsijn was ces
cribed as "lar-reach.ng" by Frank
j E. Cooper,. a pottery company tt
torney. 1 Coc per said it "clairly points
out"' that last June's supreme
court verdict "furnishes no basis
for the many fantastic claims" by
i labor in portal suits.
J "Judge Picard's decision m;.kes
j it plain,"' Cooper added, "that the
' judgement of the supreme court
did not hold what some peopla
were led -to think had been ce
cided." Clues Found in
Porritt Slaving
HILLSBORO, Ore., Feb. 8.-.-Washington
county authorities re
ported tonight two brief case? and
keys to an automobile in which
a Vancouver. Wash., salesman was
slain were found in the wocls
leading from the lonely rcd
where the body and car were
located.
Distric t Attorney C. Russell Mor
gan said the murderer of Ralph
Porritt, 53, apparently was a hitch
hiker who numoed fhf b'let' i"-
to Porritt's head, apparently while
standing .long side -if ihe car.
uepuiy tsusch sarn an approxi
mate time for the crime had been
determined by a report of Mrs.
Elizabeth Johnstone that she saw
Porritt's automobile where it was
found at 4:30 p.m. yesterday.
! Jap Premier
I Escapes Plot
j TOKYO. Sunday, Feb. 9-iP)-!
An assassination plot against Pre
I mier Shigeru Yoshida was report
I ed foiled today and a Japanese
' arrested as the arch-conspirr.tor
was described to police as mtn-
tally unsound.
Kyodo news agency, without
any official confirmation, asserted
that a well-laid plot had been
foiled with the arrest of 25-vear-old
Asao Yamakawa, at Matsu
yama. tui the southern island of
Shikoku.
The agency said Yamakawa was
armed with a pistol and quoted
him as saying 10 others were in
the conspiracy, including three
already in Tokyo.
Per Mile Traffic Deaths
, Show Decline in State
Oregon's traffic death rate
dropped in 1946 over the 1945
rate, according to Robert S. Far
rell. jr., secretary of state, Sat
urday. The all-time high record of 479
persons killed in accidents dur
ing last year was offset by the
great increase in highway travel.
In 1946 the rate was 10.5 persons
killed per 100,000,000 miles trav
eled compared with 11.8 deaths
in 1945.
ACTRESS SELLS RANCH
MEDFORD, Ore., Feb. 8 -VP)-Sale
of 400 acres of Ginger Rog
ers' 1,100-acre ranch on the Rogue
river near here to Mr. and Mrs.
Renee Estoureille, former mem
bers of the French underground,
was reported today.