rsnnrsn JXJUUNJ IF IP FACT: DIP SGGDDQB Edison Memorial Dedicated mm Maternal Treaties Reduce Satellites TPCDQjQa Qti IMDBB 1651 After considerable mental sweating. Judge Frank A Pic card of Detroit resorted to the "de minimis ' escape hatch pro ided In the supreme court decision in the Mt Clemens pottery cae and threw the claim for "portal-to-portal" py out of court. The union f xpd to appeal hi de cision so another supreme court tt is in prospect. With due iepect to the jurist. I am wondering if the governing rule w.j not "Me miumis' but Me maximis ." The foinv-r Li:in phrase menns "of or concerning minima " Its application in law m that c o u r ! do not concern themselves w ilh tnfle Judge Piccard concluded that the time involved for the pottery woi ker. uhich had not been compensated. 1c i trivial (or consideration. The truth i that the previous r n u r t ruling has loosened an n alanine of claims on industries, which now agnrecate ncany $5 billion The sum are so stagger ing that even union lawyers are Maitlc-d. while industry managers tire quite benumbed when they contemplate the pcMb:lity of hav ing to pav out for past wages the Mims which are sought Since the federal government, as the great lax-gatherer, would stand to lost a large part of whatever 'ollet tions may be made, it has inter vened to oppose claims for porta I -to-portal pay. And congress is trying to devise a legal formula to quash the actions. It is the "de maximis" doctrine which has caused the alarm the magnitude of the demands. The court, seeing how the trifle when multiplied reached astronomic proportions, lowered the gate on the trifle, to keep it confined -De minimis-' is the immediate basis of the Judges action; but "de maximis" must have been in his mind when he denied the claims of pottery workers to pay for time spent in walking to and from their work. Court Favors Tax Use for Catholic Pupils WASHINGTON. Feb. 10-;p-Di-vidmg sharply on w hat constitutes, government support of religion, the supreme court held 5 to 4 to day that public tax receipts may be used for pupils' transportation to Catholic parochial as well ss public schools. It also upheld the Hatch "Clean politics" act ban on political activ- 1 lty by certain federal and state officials The school bus ruling, in a New Jersey case, affects at least 16 states and the District of Co lumbia which provide some form of ti ansportation to church-operated schools. Another decision went against the CIO United Public Workers of America which attacked the pro hibition against active political work by federal civil service em ploye In the other, the court up held a section permitting the gov ernment to withhold federal aid money from states where the funds are administered by officials active In political campaigns. Dr. Boring Named (lonntv Head of HOP Fund Drive Dr E Boring. 1860 Madison st . w.is named Marion county chair nun for Oregon Republican fund raising campaign, according to the Republican budget and finance committee Monday. I ii c hnled in 15 persons named to county chairmanships are James llciuli ick. Benton: Vern Orr, Douglas; and Charles E. Wiper. Lane. 7 Murine Mining a draft Sinks in Practice OCEANSIDE, Calif. Feb. 0JP) Seven U. S. Marines five privates and two non-commissioned officers- -are missing and presumed drowned in the sinking of three amphibious tractors during prac tice landing operations near here today. The crafts sank in a heavy surf about ISO yards offshore. Animal Crackers By WACREN GOODRICH "Good morning, madame, would you be interested in purchasing a parrot with a rather high I.QJT 1 TO la E3 MEMO PARK. N. J.. Feb. 10 Thomas A. Edison memorial is dedi cated here by Charles Edison, former New Jersey governor and son of the Inventor. Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of the inventor's birth. CAP Wirephoto to The Statesman) Appointment of i 1 Lilientlial SetS Off Debating WASHINGTON. Feb. 10 -VP) Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the republican whip, added his voice today to a swelling chorus of bi partisan opposition to President Truman's appointment of David E. Lilienthal to head the atomic energy commission. He said he had no desire to take part in the argument as 'o whether Lilienthal is a communist sympathizer, but asserted the post should go to a man about whom not a "shadow of question" be raised. These attacks came after Sena tor Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) told Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson at a senate hearing he believes release of the Acheson Li lien thai report on the interna tional control of atomic energy j was "the greatest blunder in di- j plomacy this country has ever made." Acheson replied that the stale 1 department originally had classi-' fied the document secret but re leased it after details of its con tents which Acheron gave con fidentially to the senate atomic committee appeared in the new paper. Movable Stop Signs Slated For Crossings Movable stop signs will be placed at all busy city schcil street crossings sometime next w.ek. City Manager J. L. Franzn announced last night after a per sonal survey yesterday of all such crossings. Franzen said that construction of the signs would begin imme diately by the city shops and that he thought that they would tem porarily solve the school crossing problem which has caused so much discussion recently by school authorities and the parents of school children. He said that the signs would be placed at the crossings during peak periods in the morning, at noon, and in the afternoon and would be removed by school em ployes during the time school is in session and after school closes. Lumber Union Warns Of Wage Negotiations PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 10-P-AFL and CIO lumber unions ex- , pect to re-open the wage question in the Pacific northwest in March. Kenneth Davis, executive secretary .of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Northwestern Council, whose contracts call for 30 days' notice to bring up wage changes, said notice would be served this month. Mrs, Brand Hopes for Sea-Legs As Trip to Bremerhaven Starts ' FORT HAMILTON, N. Y., Feb. 10-vP-( Special to The Statesman) Mrs. James T. Brand, wife of the Oregon supreme court justice now in Nuernberg, Germany, to act as ' a trial judge in nazi war crime cases, expressed hope she could i "find some sea-legs somewhere," 1 just before boarding the Gen. M. B. I Stewart for Bremerhaven to join ' her husband. She had learned I that a recent trip took 35 days due , to storms and other delaying fac tors. Mrs. Brand arrived here after a I transcontinental trip during which I she visited Mrs. Roy Yocum in Chicago; bought -a pair of flat heeled, fleece-lined "stadium boots" which "look big enoueh for an elephant but really fit," and ' finished her journey in a crippled C8i s.a,.em Y0,te8 Un Joining halem Schools March 7 WEST SALEM. Feb. W.-(JP)-Voters of West Salem school dis trict probably will vote on the proposed consolidation with Sa lem, district 24, March 7, it ap peared tonight. Necessary peti tions were more than 50 per cent completed following a mass meet ing of east Polk county school district patrons and taxpayers. Petitions were finished for the districts of Zena. Brush College and Spring Valley, and one for Mountain View lacked but one signature. Other petitions out in cluded those for Eola, Pop Corn and Lincoln. Completed petitions, checked with the Polk county boundary board, must be filed with Agnes Booth, secretary of the Marion county boundary board by Tues day. February 11. in order to per mit legal advertising for the elec tion at the latest possible tax-roll date, set as March 7. State Airports Improvements Sought by CAA WASHINGTON. Feb. 10 -VP)-The establishment of a class I airport at Mill City, Ore., the in creasing of Albany, Ore., airport facilities from class 2 to 3, and the improving of scores of other landing strips in Oregon were recommended by the civil aero nautics authority today. The list of recommended es tablishments and improvements, totalling 4431 in the nation. In cluded 104 in Oregon. Listed for improvements, with out increasing classification, were Salem. Corvallis. McMinnville. Lebanon. Aurora-Canby, Portland and many others. The list disclosed by CAA Ad ministrator T. P Wright, is the base from which projects will be selected for work starting July 1, the extent to depend on con gressionak appropriation. The work would be finished in three years. Currently, the list showed there are five class 5 airports in Ore gon Salem. Astoria, Pendleton, Redmond and Klamath Falls. (Class 5 has paved runways be tween 5500 and 6500 feet long. The state has 10 class 4 air ports (with paved runways be tween 4500 and 5500 feet) Port land. Corvallis, Port Orford (Den mark). Eugene. McMinnville. Med ford.. North Bend. Tillamook, Troutdale and Newport. The CAA report showed it was planned that Oregon should have 46 class 1 airports where no facilities exist now, including Mill City. bus and a pouring rain "that would make anything Oregon put out look like a drizzle." Delays brought her to Fort Hamilton two days too late for the ship on which she originally was scheduled: to saiL She highly commended the mealtime fare here, declaring that "breakfast was as good as Bill Mc Gilchrist's back in Salem," said that "only the delightful comments of the GI made 10-cent movie here endurable," and opined that she was just beginning to conquer the irregular bus service around Fort Hamilton when she was sum moned to board ship. "Life is like that," she com mented philosophically. "You just learn how to live when it's time to die." NTNETY -SIXTH YEAR 12 BigDeiicit Cited As Assured A deficit ot 15 to 18 million dollars "is the best Oregon can hope for" in the next biennium, barring further legislative action, the state house of representatives was told Monday by Dr. F. H. Dammasch of Portland, chairman of the house ways and means committee. The comment came during ar gument preceeding passage of a bill which would transfer to the public welfare fund the $200,000 remaining of the money given the public welfare commission in 1941 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARINGS l Veterinarian qualification (HB 1S4) 1 p. m. today, room 321 statehouse. be fore house committees on food-livestock and medicine-pharmacy. Joint ue of highway utility poles i (SB I22 Following this afternoon's 1 adjournment, room 309. statehouse. be fore senate roads and highways com mittee. Irrigation (MB 263) Following to morrow afternoon's adjournment, room 328. statehouse. before house agricul ture committee !for purchase of commodity food I stamps. I A move by Rep. Robert Ben 1 nett of Portland to give the $200, 000 to the general fund was de feated. New Bills Fall Off . New introductions dropped off I sharply Monday. I The house was given 11, in cluding those raising salaries of 1 county officers; liberalizing real ; estate loans of insurance com- p a n i e s; compelling windDreaks on vehicles hauling animals; and , giving counties authority to reg ! ulate sub-divisions. Also entered in the house was a joint memor ial asking congress to effect a more stable system of payments in lieu of tax on federal lands. The senate received nine new bills one broadening powers of the state attorney general and another giving employers three ' days' grace to pay employes re leased after doing seasonal work and suspended rules to adopt ' immediately a resolution to con i sider acquisition of Camp White for state hospital purposes. , Pay Boost Favored The house passed eight of its j own measures, including those ' increasing pay of election clerks 1 and judges from $4 to $6 a day j (vote 42 to 13); letting election j judges initial ballots instead of ; signing them; and raising from $35 to $50 the rate of payment to partially disabled workmen. The senate passed seven house : bills, including those letting Mill ! City incorporate in Linn county. barring the borrowing of hunting ; and fishing licenses, and giving j the w o r k m e n's compensation commission authority over wages j paid by an employer to a rela ! tive living with him. Among six of its own bills passed by the sen j ate were county salary measures ; and a plan whereunder Tillamook ! county may establish a county hospital. i City Revenue Bill Talked Meanwhile representatives of i Oregon cities locked horns with the state highway commission ! Monday in a house local govern ment committee hearing on the bill to give cities 15 per cent of the state's highway revenues, or three times the $1,000,000 they i now get. Virgil Langtree, attorney for the League of Oregon Cities, said 16 per cent of all traffic in the state is on city streets. He said Washington state gives cities 15 ; per cent, and California gives 162a per cent. State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said the bill would cut Oregon's federal aid for highway construction by 40 per cent, re i tard the state's highway program and help smaller cities very little, : Nine I'p in House Today i Up for final action in the house today are nine house bills requir I ing enclosed stairs and elevators in all buildings other than private I residences; giving circuit courts , authority in probate and juven ! ile matters; increasing hunting and angling fees for non-residents: reducing the smelt limit, and letting the game commission set up new tagging regulations. Ready for final senate action today are four senate bills, clas sifying as employment agents any labor contractors who accept com pensation for employing persons for anyone else, allowing merit systems for district and county health departments, repealing the law compelling maximum senten ces for second-time losers on bad check charges, and restricting condemnation powers of the state highway commission. . Both the senate and house will resume at 10:30 a. m. today. (More legis. news page 3) Price on Turkeys To Be Set Today Sen. Wayne Morse informed The Statesman by telegram last night that the department of agriculture in Washington today probably will sign support prices for turkeys, including: Young hens and toms over IS lbs., 25c live, 32 dressed; young hens 16 lbs. or less, 32 and 41; old hens 16 lbs. or less, 26 and 34c; old heavy hens, 24 and 32c; old toms, 21 and 29c. PAGES Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Youth Declared To Have Admitted Hillsboro Killing OREGON CITY. ORE.. Feb. 10 -7P)-Chle( Deputy Sheriff E. L. Bacon said tonight a 16-year-old boy who claimed he was desper ate for money had confessed killing a Vancouver, Wash., music salesman whose bullet riddled body was found along a rural road west of Portland last Friday. (At Hillsboro. District Attor ney G. Russell Morgan reported Washington county deputies had taken Into custody Albert Jack Green.) Bacon said the boy, an adopt ed son of a Lake Grove family, told how he came upon Ralph Porritt. 49, apparently asleep In his automobile and "just shot him" five times with a .22 cali ber rifle, reached into his pocket for his wallet, and then dragged him from his car. The shooting occurred less than two blocks from the boy's home. UN Censures Decision in Greek Affairs LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., Feb. 10 7P)-The United Nations security council ruled today that the U.N. Balkan investigating commission had exceeded its authority in ask ing the Greek government last week to postpone the execution of 11 condemned political prisoners classed as guerrillas. By a vote of 9 to 0. with Russia and Poland abstaining, the council approved a United States proposal stating that the commission should make such requests only in the event there was reason to believe that examination of condemned persons would assist the commis sion in its work. Today's ruling was made at the request of the commission, which asked for clarification of its pow ers after the Greek government had protested against what it call ed interference in the internal af fairs of the country. The final vote came after a sharp clash between U. S. dele gate Herschel V. Johnson and So viet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko. Gromyko sought to amend the American resolution so that it would have approved the action of the commission in the Greek case, but at the same time would have stated that the commission had no power to make such re quests in the future to any of the four governments involved in the inquiry Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. 81 Charred Bodies Results j Of Berlin Fire BERLIN, Feb. 10 -JP)- Rescue; squads had taken 81 charred bod- 1 ies, including those of four Brit ish soldiers, from the ice-covered i ruins of the Karlslust dance hall tonight. German police said relatives 1 had reported a total of 91 missing persons believed to have attended ; the tragic costume ball there Sat- urday night. British authorities ; did not expect the death to 9,0 1 much higher. Meanwhile 39 other persons who were in the hall when flames engulfed the structure were in hospitals, many of them still in a grave condition. German . au thorities said they were convinced an over-beated stove set fire to the building. Willamette to Ask Dorm Bids At a meeting of the executive ' committee of the board of trus tees of Willamette university Sat urday in Portland it was voted to ask for bids for construction of the men's dormitory at the university. Bids will be opened on March 7th and the board of trustees will meet March 11th to decide on the work. Separate bids are asked for the general work, electric work and plumbing and heating. The board will reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Plans have been drawn by Peitro Belluschi, Port land architect, for the dormitory which is designed to house four fraternity groups and 100 inde pendent men, with dining facil ities provided. The dormitory will be built east of the library and south of .the law building. THOMAS EDISON DAT Designation of today as Thomas A. Edison Day in Oregon was an nounced Monday by Gov. Earl Snell. Today is the 100th anni versary of Edison's birth. FIRE MARSHAL, DIES PORTLAND, Feb. 10-P)-Ben-ton Taylor French, fire marshal of Portland for 39 years, died at his home today. He retired last October. Morning, February 11. 1947 Coalition Unlikely In Crisis By Tom Williams LONDON, Feb. 10-(P)-Winston Churchill charged the British la bor government tonight with "in competence in high places" for its handling of the nation's coal shortage and indu-trcl crisis which has shut down more than 50 per cent ol the kingdom's in dustry, but withheld "or another day" his awaited demand for par liamentary vote of censure. Both Churchill and Hugh Dal ton, laborite chancellor of the exchequer, stated, however, dur ing debate in the house of com mons that neither the conserva tives nor the laborites would con sent to the formation of a coali tion government. 4.000,001 Jobless Churchill, the conserva tive leader, begain the debate while Prime Minister Clement R. Att lee broadcast an island-wide ap peal to the British public to co operate in the dangerous coal shortage which has limited powtr production, brought the closing of industrial plants in 38 of the G4 counties and shires in England and Wales and thrown more than 4,000,000 persons out of work. British gloom deepened when a weather forecast stated a 36-hour thaw had ended and that sub freezing temperatures were due again tomorrow. Robert Hudson, a former minis ter in Churchill's war-time gov ernment, accused fuel and power minister Emanuel Shinwell of "dereliction of duty" in plan ning for the present power crisis. Mismanagement Charged "It would have been dereliction of duty if we had not responded to the emergency in the situation and acted accordingly," Shinwell retorted. Then Churchill condemned the whole labor government and its socialist principles for what he termed its "mismanagement, bad housekeeping, incompetence in high places and the progressive degeneration of our whole life." Beaten Body of Woman Found In Open Field LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10-7P)-A woman whose semi-nude, brutally beaten body was found in a field today was identified. Detective Lieut. Gene Bechtel said, as Mrs. Jeanne French, 40, a West Los Angeles nurse estranged from her husband. Identification wras made, ho said, through fingerprints on file in the police department. Police tonight questioned Frank French, 51, an aircraft plant worker, in connection with the death. Meantime more conflicting de velopments accurred in the "Black Dahlia" case. Cpl. Joseph Du mais. held by the army at Fort Dix, N.J., on suspicion of murdf r after implicating himself, was subject to further investigation of what army authorities said were "several discrepancies" in his statements. Finns Regard Treaty Calmly HELSINKI. Feb. 10.-7P)-There were no demonstrations in Fin land today as the Finnish peace treaty with allied nations was signed. On government order, flags were raised in contrast to the day of announcement of surrender to Russia. March 13, 1940, when flags were flown at half mast. Hel sinki's press emphasized that the signing of the peace treaty meant relief from the long transitory period of armistice. 3 Palestine Jews Sentenced To Gallows by British Court JERUSALEM, Feb. 10 - (VP) - A British military court sentenced three suspected members of Irgun Zvai Leumi to the gallows today' shortly after official Palestine Jewry formally rejected a British request to cooperate with the police and military in combatting terrorism. A tense Palestine recalled that Irgun Zvai Leumi, underground group committed to active resist ance against the British, had threatened reprisals "as soon as a military court condemns one of our soldiers." The agency's reply to the com munication of last Monday from the British giving official Jewry seven days to decide whether they would cooperate against terrorism expressed the conviction that the British were following a policy which would precipitate "conse Price 5c No, 273 Sign Treaty PARIS, Feb. 10 Stanoje Susie (Up), Yugoslav foreign minis ter, places his signature on the peace treaty with Italy daring signing ceremonies today in Paris. He declared that Marshal Tito's government was disap pointed because Yugoslavia's demands "have not been taken into consideration in a. satisfy ing manner." Marchese Antonio Meli Lupi di Soragna (below), the Italian a m b a ssador to France, signs the treaty for his country. It officially ended the war for Italy and reduced her to a third class power, stripped of her colonies. (AF Wirephoto to the Statesman). Cloudy Skies, Light Showers. On Forecast While a normal forecast of cloudy skies and occasional light rain showers was in prospect for Salem and most of Oregon today, some of the rest of the nation was experiencing wintry cold temper atures and winds. Although the eastern states con tinued cold today, temperatures moved slowly upward over the midwest and were quite mild over the western mountainous states, according to Associated Pres5. Another cold night was in pros pect for Florida, where tempera tures in low ground were expect ed to go as low as 20 to 24 in the north and from 34 to 38 in the south. Winds still were strong over the Great Lakes region and New Eng land, but were diminishing grad ually, and snow flurries were con fined to tbe east shore of the Great Lakes. Oregon's road report by R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, reported that though there was light snow and some rain in sec tions of eastern and central Ore gon, road conditions throughout the state remain virtually normal. One inch of new snow fell in the Government Camp Santiam sum mit areas, the report said. Weather Max. . S 50 S2 23 37 Mln. 3 36 44 8 21 Precip. 5 trace 00 trace 00 Salem Portland San Fancisco Chicago New York Willamette river 5 feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy today and tonight with occas ional light rain shower. Temperature high today 4S and low tonight 33. quences that may well be incal culable." The agency said it was confident that undisclosed steps it was tak ing would lead to "progressive im provement in the security situa tion." David Ramez, chairman of Vaad Leumi, the Jewish national council, said that "this grave situ ation" had "so affected a small group in the Jewish community as to bring about complete aberration of mind, which is bringing them to use terrorism as a political weap on." The three Jews sentenced to death had been arrested on Dec. 29, the night a British major and three sergeants were seized by the underground and flogged. The court found them guilty of charges that they carried guns and had in their possession a whip similar to the one used in the floggings. f rliK';- v :.-:3 I V"-' & k ---!' i 1 y - r I I - - 1 : fa.7'- . f it;." -'" Haav By Robert C. WlbM PARIS, Feb. 10-t-P;-The allies signed pear? treaties todav with Italy and four other German satellites in a history-making ceremony, but the ink was scarce ly dry before violence flared in Rome and in Pola. Italian naval base ceded to Yugoslavia. In op position to the pacts. The Italian accord, which strips that country of her colonies and a large portion cf Venem Giulia at the head of the Adriatic, was signed at a morning session in the brilliantly lighted red and geld salon de L'Horloge room of the French foreign office. Five Parts Completed Treaties for Roma r. a. Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland 3il oaring the price for helping Adolf Hit ler to scourge Europe were siened in that order during the afternoon session. The United States was a party t- al'. except the Finnish pact. Twenty allied nations participated. In Rome, throngs jeered and whistled in front of the United States. British and Russian em bassies, but were keot their dis tance by heavy guard of Italian troops. - Brig. R. W. M. De Wintm. com mander of the British infantry brigade was fatally wjni?d by a woman while he was inspecting the guard. The wom.in. Maria Pasquinell, was immediately ar rested. Some students, angered by the loss of Pcla. Trieste ind other sections of Venezia Giulia. fought their way into the Yugoslav lega tion in an unsuccessful a'Tempt to tear dewn a Yu?slav flsg. Windows and doors were smash ed. Reluctantly Sign Representatives of ItaW and Yugoslavia, which had threatened not to sign the Italian treaty, re luctantly affixed their signatures here, although both nations had protested against the new Italian Yugoslav frontier, whirh creates an international zone around the port of Trieste. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Wstanoje Simic signed without comment, but handed a note 10 the French foreign ministrv as serting that his government was "roundly disturbed" that Yugo slav territorial proposals "have not been taken into considera tion." I The Italian signatory, the Mar j quis Meli Lupi Di Soranga. his 1 lips pressed tightly together, signed immediately after Simic, i but Italian officials announced that protests had been delivered to the 20 allied nations. Must Lose Territory The treaties also must he rati fied by the legislative bod.e of the United States. Russia. Britain and France before they become effective. Still to be drjfted are pacts for Germany, Japan. Aus tria and Korea. LTnder terms of the pacts, none of the five former satellite- may maintain more than 3 ske'eton army or navv. and a'.'. lost terri tory except Bulgaria. McMinnville Pilot Killed PRESCOTT. Ariz . Feb. 10.-, .p) The body cf W. V. Leoold of Mc Minnville, Ore., was found late this afterncon in his wrecked plane nine miles north ot Jerome. 34 miles from here. It was brought here tonight. Lebold took off from the Wins low. Ariz., airport yesterday on a flight to Prescott. What believ ed to have been his small private plane was heard later over the Clemenceau field near Jerome. Citv Incorporation Allowed by Bill Mill City, which straddles the Marion-Linn county kr.es. will be permitted to incorporate in Linn j county under provisions of a bill passed by the senate Monday and 1 sent to the governor to complete , legislative action. : The bill allows prospective mu ! nicipalities. whose boundaries j would cross county lines, to file , for incorporation in the county i within which the largest area cf ! the municipality would fall. HELICOPTER SET RECORD DAYTON. O.. Feb. lJ-,P-An I unofficial world altitude record ; for helicopters of 18.500 feet was set today by Maj. Err.est Cassell, 35, of Indianapolis, the army air j force's No. 1 test pilot for this type ' of plane. QUICKIES "Let r t It. dear yea east get more tackle with Statesman Want Air 3 j -