House Passes
To Apportion
Support
By Wendell Webb
Managing Editor. Th Statesman
The house overrode Multnomah county and eastern Oregon ob
jection Monday to pass 55 to 4 the amended bill (HB 9) providing
for the distribution of the annual $16,000,000 school support fund
approved at last November's vote.
The vote came after repeated attempts (defeated 44 to 16) to
let the bill re-referred either to
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In the course of a senate de
bate last week in whrch news
paper comment had been referred
tc Marion county's Sen. Allan
Carson paid his respects to the
press in the quoted lemaik:
"If we had less of this s-upe -rupreme
court of the press we'
get along a lot better, no matte,
how innocent then intent may be
To newspapermen that has
familiar ring. There was Gov
ernor Berkeley, for example, the
tory governor of Virginia coi-
onv, who wrote nome to zjigianu.
"I thank God there are no tree
schools nor printing, and I hope
we shall not have these hundred
years; for learning has brought
disobedience and heresy and sects
into the world, and printing has
divulged them and libels against
the best government. God keep
us from both."
It is almost inevitable for the
office-holder to look on the work
of his hands and declare it good,
and to feel irritated if newspapers
bVcome critical.
But I offer no complaint over
the senator's remaik. Newspa-
pers nave a tenaency to ponun-
rat. fr. and easv lik. on mat-
ters ' about which they may have j
little or no information. Being
human their editors are subjett
to prejudice and myopia; and
their papers often become com-
mon scolds. i
Their historic role however is providing that two of the five
that of critic and guide. To the j sha" be from east of the Cas- I ,ff. A a-aO
degree that they desert this duty j cades. It also approved and se nt , IjUXIC I&IIlCl ICct
they become f..lse to the tradition to the senate a bill to continue
o honest journalism On the ac- under the public employes re
turns of men in public office the I tirement act those teachers who By H. D. QmlfK
newspaper becomes a court, nei- ! became county school superinten- Representing the combined American
ther super nor supreme, which i
nevertheless casts judgment. '
whose only validity is the logic to
fcU-t.im it
If the press lacks the knowledge
of intimate contact with partuu-
lar problems it has the other ir- Th senate passed two house
tue of detachment. It can iev bills, one of which sets up a five
matters ith a somewhat broader man commission, through a tax
!.r, anH rbt th naitiriilar n "n wheat, to find new markets and
the general.
Yes. the press is often trouble
some and annoying as it tries t
be political, economic and moral
monitor for the world; but there
. , . ..i struction. The measure also pro
tating press, and that is a silent . i On
press.
press.
"Gcxl keep us"
from that
Soviet Admits
Conscription of
Korean
Troop
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 -;PY-Lt.
Gen. John R. Hodge said to-
day the Russian radio has ac- I
knowledged SovKt conscription of ;
Koreans into the army in their !
nrn.mtinn rnn and that nesotia- I
tlons to unify Korea now "appear i
hopeless."
"I feel that I have done all that
I can on a kcal level." the com
mander of the U. S. occupation j
forces told a news conference af- I
ter a report to President Truman. !
Hodge indicated his negotiations !
With the Russians in Korea for I
unification of the two zones lock- !
i vr.o i
ment are being abandoned
that anything further will have
to be done on a higher level.
He declined comment as to
whether he would ask Marshall
to bring up the matter at Mos
cow, but said the Koreans would
Tike to have the secretary do so.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
"Junior, come back into
this mud this instant!"
tf
Plan
School
Fund, 55-4
the committee on education or th
committee on state and federa
affairs, and tfter proponents led
by Rep Lyle Thomas of Dallas
had declared in effect the bill
constituted the best compromise
plan that could be devised. The
opposition was led by Rep Giles !
'French of Moro. whose counties
(Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman.'
I Wheeler) stood to benefit more
(through a congressional district.!
, Rep. French also initiated a bill 1
of his own last week, and de- !
maned futilely that amended
house bill 9 be re-studied in the
light of his proposal.
The bill as passed Monday pro
vides roughly that 20 per cent of j
the school support fund go for .
equalization. 70 per cent for grants j
and aids, and 5 per cent for trans
portation and administration. The j
original bill would have give 50
per cent to equalization.
The bill as pased also provided i
for distribution on the basis of I
20 cents per pupil daily attend- '
anc and $500 annually per teach
er The original bill would give ;
10 rents per pupil and $450 per
teacher. i
The measure as approved. Rep. 1
Thomas explained, places the state ,
Jeve, of education at ,5 per
pupil "below Washington and !
far below California" and would
"take money from districts most :
aDle to pay and place it in dis-
tricts least able to pay." To share
n the apportionment, counties
must have a 7-mill revenue (com-
bined county school fund and dis- j
trict school tax) based on "time
cash valuation;" a school year of at
least 160 days, with six or more
in average daily attendance, and
a transportation setup where
needed. t
Voting against passage were
Reps J. E. Bennett of Portland, i
French, Henry Peterson of lone ;
and C L. Lieuallen of Pendleton, i
Absent was Rep. Burt K. Snyder
of Lakeview.
It did manage to pass, 39 to
19, its own measure increasing j
the state highway commission j
from three to five members and :
dents, assistant superintendents or
supervisors. The house defeated
a bill increasing fees for guide li-
-censes anu ocuriiig guiues irom
hunting or fishing while acting as
uses for grain, and three of its
own bills including one which
would allow school districts to
double their maximum indebted
ness (to 10 per cent of their eval
uation) to facilitate school con-
ides for stabilizing school dis
trict evaluation at 60 per cent of
cash value.
Present assessed valuation vary
from 37 per cent of cash valua
tion in Polk county to 70 per cent
in Jefferson county. Sen. Eugene
Marsh of McMinnville told the
senate Marion county's assessed
valuation is listed at 44 per cent
of cash value by the state tax
commission.
The senate was asked to grant
the board of control authority to
negotiate for the Camp White hos-
pital for use as a public health or
ufa"""i" insuiuuon in one oi
'hrr" b''' introduced in the upper
nHJ Thf others would
P"1 PUD1,C "orary employes
counties over 100,000 population
under the public employes retire
ment act and let county courts
instead of the legislature set sal
aries for county officials starting
Jan. 1, 194ff
Prepared for introduction in the
nat todav by Sen. Thomas Ma-
honey of Portland, and sure to
P.oe comroversy. is . measure
wnicn wouia aoousn me siaie nsn
commission and turn its duties
sion.
Meanwhile, the state's budget
ary prospect were not improved
any Monday when the house as
sement and taxation committee
indicated it felt forced to reject
r-, v ,ri cir. r,i, (,,.,.f,
rL "1- . " " . i
i J.OOU.UOO of surplus corporate ex-
cise toxes 10 tne general xuna 10
bring potential expenditures in
1 balance with estimated receipts
' for the next biennium. The plan
I might be unconstitutional, the
j committee w as told.
Up for final action in the house
today are 16 house bills, including
those creating a state agency for
; the acquisition of surplus prop
.erty; allowing non-property own -'
ers to vote in school elections, and
I increasing from $25 to $250 the
t fine for hunting with artificial
lights.
Eight house and eight senate ;
bills calling for increases in the
salaries of county officials start
ing T..I. 1 - l
tion in the senate today, along !
with two other senate bills which
would standardize business hours
of county offices, (making Marion
county offices open at 8:30 a.m
instead of 8 a.m. on week days)
and eliminate a 4 cents-per -yard
royalty now paid to the state edu
cational fund by the state high
way commission on gravel I taken
from navigable streams.
Both the senate and house will
resume at 10:30 am. today.
(Other legis. news page 3)
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NINETY -SIXTH YEAR 12
Commodity Prices Zoom to New Highs
It's Cold'
Richard E. Test, pharmacist's mate
2c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
W. Test f 191$ Saginaw sU,
Salem, is with the navy's Ant
arctic expedition, and tops a
recent letter home with the
simple' statement that "It's
cold." He also tells of icebergs
protruding 296 feet above the
water, of seeing his first pen
guin, and of tragedies such as
that of the man who fell from
the wing of a PBM In the
Tr V a m l i
Island, a tender. He Is pictured
''rT'V UCPtLr 11
one of the first pictures to be
Test is on the LSS Pine
received from
expedition.
the south pole
All Welcomed
But Vandalsin
ABOARD THE ICE BUNKER j
JRTON ISLAND, Feb. 24-iP-
BURTON
Little America
chill and desert-
ed but with the stars and stripes i Repairs for county road dam
still rippling over it ,.i the rose- 1 ages caused by alternate freezing
tinted early morning, has drop- and thawing periods during the
ped over the horizon and we are past winter will" cost approxi
butting our way through skim ice mately $100,000, Marion County
northward and homeward. Commissioner Roy Rice said Mon-
This powerful icebreaker day.
shoved off last night with 197 Both gravel and asphalt roads
men w ho for five weeks and four j will require repairs, he said, ex
days have helped make explora- ' plaining that poor drainage, al
tion history in the tent city of lowed because of difficulties in
Little America. obtaining labor to properly ditch
Twenty-five minutes before roads, resulted in water settling in
midnight we moved through the ! the roads. Water seeping through
narrow entrance of the Bay of i cracks in road pavements often
Whales and out into the fog cov- j loosened chunks of paving and
ering the Ross sea. Behind us, the 1
pointed rows of tents of Little
America loomed in silhouette atop
the great ice barrier and then
slipped out of sight.
It was decided to evacuate the
base five days early to avoid
thickening ice. Rear Adm. Rich
ard E. Byrd placed the following ;
note on a nail for any visitor who
might happen along: "This has
been a peaceful place. It deserves !
better than to be vandalized. Oth- !
erwise welcome.'
Pay Bill Passes
Committee,
Goes to Floor
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -V
The senate judiciary committee
ioajr approeu, ;. cm u
Kin uie punai pay suits ana seni
it to the floor for possible passage
this week.
It would outlaw all existing and
future suits, except claims cov
...j w.. i i j, '
ered by custom in an Industry or ,
by contract.
The committee is i
proceeding
on the assumption
tnat nearly all Dendins suits to-
all pending suits to-
- nonnonnnn i
tallino- narlv t nflfl fWlfl nflO r
',J ,
..... '
outside of the excepted category. 1
Funds Asked for More Power
Development in Northwest
W ASHING TON, Feb. 24.--Support
for funds for northwest
power development was asked of
the house appropriations commit
tee today by Reps. Norman (R-
na tusworui
st i v a ma n v
noiowi, in m iiaiciiKiii iucu
after his appearance before a
closed-door session of the coin-
tte-. i1 d?)tion.
in full" of the budget of the
Bonneville power administration.
He said the requested appro
priations for Bonneville will be
seli-liquidating - - a view echoed
by Ellsworth in a statement say
ing the funds "will be paid back
to the government with interest
and ultimately with a profit
Ellsworth said that because i
the existing transmission line ore which, he said, made possible j iam H. Turner, commanding gen
f rom Bonneville to Eugene. Ore., j production of the metal at a price j eral of the ATC's Atlantic division
is now used to capacity, it will be making it commercially practical j has recommended the distingu
necessary to build an additional "for the first time in history." ' ished flying cross.
PAGES
Saltan. Oregon,
Market
Upsurge
Spreads
CHICAGO, Feb. 24 -(IP)- All
time high prices for pork -on-t he
hoof today highlighted an upward
surge in prices which spread
throughout the nation's commodi
ty market and also brought broad
advance to other meat animals
and grains, cotton, eggs and silver.
At Chicago, hog-butchering
capital of the world, a top of
$29.00 a hundred pounds was paid.
All wheat contracts sold above
$2.00 a bushel. Winter wheat now
in the ground was bringing the
highest price on record at Chica
go for mid-winter.
Wheat futures closed 4 to 8"4
cents a bushel higher, March
$2.364. and corn 4 to 5i cents
a bushel higher, March $1.42s4-,4-
October egg futures at Chicago
advanced to a new season high
at 43.35 cents a dozen. Flax at
Minneapolis sold at $8.00 a bush
el, a record high and up 25 cents
'rom Friday. Rye was quoted at
$3 26 27
1 bushel at Omaha,
.
The Associated Press average
of 35 weighted cash wholesale
commodities hit a record peak for
the fourth consecutive day at
173 74.
Russ Jeter, pork market spe
cialist for the agriculture depart
ment, said the jump In pork pri
ces may result In pork chops at
$1.00 a pound retail.
County Road
Repair Bill Set
lOl fil Oft ftftft
A ei?lUU.UUV7
increased damage occurred when
cars knocked parts of the pave
ment loose
Limitation of log hauling for
several weeks on both gravel and
oiled roads partially preserved
roads but regular traffic caused
considerable damage to the soft
gravel roads. Rice said
fl o n ft MpTl
"""t aasta
As Bank Robbers
PORTLAND, Feb. 24.--Two
members of a gang of five men
and two women arrested here with
$5,600 in their possession are
wanted under federal indictment
in North Carolina for a $23,000
bank robbery, the FBI announced
today.
FBI Agent Howard Bobbin said
William N. Sired and D. L. Birch
field were named in the indict
ment in the Newland, N. C. hold
up of January 30.
LEGISLATIVE PL'BLIC HEARINGS
la.araaca association U1 (HB 302)
journmeni. room 3Zi, luirnow. oe-
or, houie- commlttee' on fm.ncial tn-
ittitutiona.
Water control district a an4 art-
!" SB
. ueaaay. , r foruirr . i j p i
Turmdav. February :
300. itatehouse.
ury committee.
300. .tatehouse. before senate Judlc-
25,000 kilowatt line from Salem
to Eugene.
"The coastal area of Oregon,"
he said, "is suffering now be
cause of inadequate power, so I
earnestly urge that the recom
mendation of the budget bureau
for the construction of a trans
mission line from Eugene to the
coast, through M a p 1 e t o n and
Reedsport, be approved.
Ellsworth said he also "hoped"
that figures in the budget esti
mate for operation of the bureau
of mines laboratory at Albany.
Ore., would be approved and in
cluded in the bill.
Durinft the war the laboratory
develooect a process for extract
in zirconium from black sand :
INOIO l&SJ
Tuesday Morning, February
HTex' Rankin, Pioneer of the Air, Dies in Crash
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KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. Rescuers work to remove the bodies of J. G. (Tex) Rankin, veteran west
coost pilot, and two other men. killed when this plane, piloted by Rankin had engine failure at
the takeoff and struck a power line at the airport here Sunday. A fourth man waa critically In
jured. (AF Wirephete to The Statesman)
Two Killed in
5-Car Wreck
Near Lebanon
LEBANON. Feb 24 John Hen
ry Elliott, 20, of Lebanon and
Delores Irene Ross, 18, of Jeffer
son, died here Sunday night as
the result of injuries received in
a five-car collision north of Leb
anon just beyond the Gore school
at 3 o'clock Sunday morning.
Elliott was the son of the El
bert Elliotts of Lebanon and had
served 26 months with the 96th
division and saw service on Oka
nawa. He was driving the car
in which Delores Ross, Helen
Lake. 16, Jefferson, and Warren
Lanning. 20, Lebanon were riding.
The Elliott car was demolished.
Miss Lake is expected to re
cover but Lanning suffered a
basil skull fracture and was still
in a critical condition last night.
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Lanning of Lebanon.
Elmer Nichols, 37, of the Water
loo community near Lebanon,
was hospitalized with chest in
juries. Also involved in the acci
1 in the acci-
Deb Fennell
dent was Delmar
who escaped injury. Four of the
five cars were damaged sufficient
ly to be taken to repair shops,
oficers said.
Police said Elliott, the driver,
sideswiped one car and plunged
into the path" of another on a
curve.
Senate Delays
Vote on Budget
Cut Measure
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-(P)-An
armistice" proposal in the senate's
budget fight was shouted down
late today and a debate limitation
adopted in efforts to Teach a vote
Wednesday on a $4,500,000,000
slash in President Truman's esti
mates for the year starting July I.
The house has voted a $6J)00,
000,000 reduction In the Truman
estimates.
The senate debate brought a
suggestion from Senator Langer
(R-ND) that President Truman
meet with Premier Stalin "and
get this matter of fear which each
country has for the other out of
the road."
Saved Army
Fliers Return
In Rescue Plane
NEW YORK, Feb. 24-P)-Elev-en
army fliers, including M.Sgt.
Lawrence L. Yarbrough, Spring
field, Ore., maroqned for three
days after their B-29 crashed
above the Arctic Circle, were fly
ing back to the United States to
night in a heavy C-54 transport
plane which made a spectacular
landing on a Greenland ice cap
to rescue them from the freezing
wasteland.
At the controls was Lieut. Bob
bie Joe Cavnar, of Oklahoma City,
Okla., for whom Mai. Gen. Will-
atematt
25. 1947
Gardens, Lawns
Get Going-Over;
'Fair' Forecast
Gardeners and other out-door
enthusiasts who have been having
a pre-spring heyday apparently
had more of their favorite kind
of weather coming up today.
.The forecast fair after morn
ing fog, for most of Oregon. Mon
day's sunshine and 60-d e g r e e
temperature after an almost
equally balmy Sunday (one de
gree cooler) left a lot of mid
Willamette valley lawns with
their first grass-clip of the year.
Flowering trees and shrubs were
showing definite signs of color
and many a plant already was in
full bloom. In Brookings on the
coast, the mercury went to 0
Monday.
Rain? Not immediately predict-
ed but precipitation is consider
ably below normal and nothing
would be surprising.
60.000 Pupils
Get Vacation as
rwi 1 o
1 CaCHCl'S Stl'lKe
BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 24-UP)
Striking teachers demanding an
immediate $1,025 annual pay raiye
today closed all but 19 of Buffalo's
schools and gave 60,000 students
an unscheduled vacation.
Picketing was light. Most stu
dents appeared sympathetic with
the teachers and greeted an at
tempt to open Lafayette high
school with chants of "we want to
go home." Sessions there were
recessed for 24 hours.
Superintendent Robert T. Bapst
ordered approximately 500 non
strikers of the 2,960 teachers to
continue classes tomorrow at 20
schools.
City Corporation Counsel Fred
C. Maloney, ruled that:
"By striking and deliberately
absenting themselves from work
the teachers have breached their
contracts. The striking teachers
may be summarily removed with
out the necessity of a hearing."
The Buffalo situation focussed
attention on a state-wide teach
ers campaign for a sallary mini
mum of $2400 to $3600 annually.
Former U. S. Army Worker
Seized as Nazi Plot Leader
FRANKFURT, Feb. 24-(Jpy-A j
icrrner capiain jvno woricea
ing German bands to play for ;
American entertainment was one
of the leaders seized in the i
smashing of a widespread nazi I
underground movement, it was
revealed today.
U. S. army officers made the
disclosure as the British and Am
ericans, continuing an operation
launched in a Saturday night
snowstorm, made more arrests in
the wrecking of an underground
plot to restore - German armed
might. Authorities said the move
ment claimed possession of a se
cret bacteriological weapon.
In the British zone, where the
bulk of arrests was made, an in
telligence officer said the subver
sive movement could be regarded
as "smashed." He described the
raids as "extraordinarily success
ful," but declined to give the ex-
Weather
Max.
Mln. Precip.
12 Utrt
36 .00
4 .00
13 .01
Sala M
Portland 61
San Francisco .., 74
Chicago .... 31
New York 2
Willamette rivr 1.4 feet
IT .00
FORECAST if torn U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Falem): Fair
today and tonifM with fog In morn
ing lifting shortly before noon. Tem
perature today. Mgh 0. low 38
No. 285
Pric Sc
Three Killed
In Crack-up at
Klamath Falls
KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 24
(ip)-The body gf John G. "Tex"
Rankin, 53, who survived more
than 20 years of stunt flying only
to be killed in a routine flight
here, will be sent to Tulare, Calif.,
tomorrow for funeral services.
Rankin died along with two
others in the crash of a single
engine amphibious plane here yes
terday. They were Cy Wallan and
Jack Elie, flying service operators
here, for whom Rankin was dem
onstrating the plane. A fourth
man, Milton Thompson, Klamath
j Falls, was critically injured
Rankin was at the
comrois
when the plane took off. Fifty
feet up, the engine faltered. Ran
kin apparently tried to maneuver
to a landing in open fields, but
jjiiiiit- anaggeu a power line
and spun to the ground.
A ndtive of Texas, Rankin
learned to fly just after his army
WIV " .r.;iT' :
stunters. In 1931 he established
a record that still stands for suc-
cessive outside loops. In 1937 he
won the international acrobatic
championship at St Louis On
advice of physician he ended
In the war he operated civilian
flying training schools in Califor -
two children survive.
Escaped Con
Still at Large
State police reported last night
that William E. Conley, 55-year-old
trusty employed in the barns
of the penitentiary annex, who
has been missing since the 8:30
p.m. check-up Sunday, had not
yet been apprehended.
Conley was serving four years
for obtaining money by false pre
tenses in Coos county and was re
ceived at the prison in February,
1945. He was reported by officials
to be suffering from heart attacks
and hernia.
act number of arrests. Previously
the British said "hundreds" werei
6C1ZCU-
An official British spokesman
in Berlin said tonight the raids
had resulted in "one or more ar-
rests in almost every town in the
British zone." He said the opera
tion, now 80 percent complete,
would end within the next 48
hours.
The German ex-captain seized,
an employe in the entertainment
branch of the headquarters com
mand in Frankfurt, was Werner
Roepke. His main job was to
hire German bands to play in of
ficers' and enlisted men's clubs.
Roepke had a faultless Ameri
can accent and got his job with
the army because of his excellent
command of the English langu
age. He said he had been a radio
announcer in Florida in 1935-36,
and attended school in Vermont,
Purdue U.
Tragedy
Ends Tilt
LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Feb.
A new bleacher section, collapsed
tonight in Purdue university
fieldhouse, killing at least two
students and Injuring more than
200.
The receiving office t ot
ft1"
jur
Elizabeth's hospital here reported
had been told five of the in-
ed were dead but only avail-
able names of fatalities were
Roger Geihauser, Garrett, Ind.,
and William J. FelJman, East
Chicago. Ind., both students.
St. Elizabeth's said it had 63
injured in beds and had treated
between 125 and 150 persona.
Others were taken to Home hos
pital, which had not completed
its count, but said it had treated
more than 100.
Collapsed aa Half Ended
The wooden bleacher, 62 rcwa
of seats on the north end of th
fieldhouse, came down with a
roar just as the first half ended
in a Big Nine basketball game
between Purdue and Wisconsin.
Purdue led by one point, 34
to 33, and some 4000 students in
the stand surged to their feet in
an ovation to the home tim. The
bleacher crashed to the dirt floor
on which the Purdue reuys aie
run each rpring. None of the in
jured was believed from the Pa
cific northwest.
Gordon Graham, sporU editor
of the Lafayette Journal-Courier,
said "hundreds of screaming stu
dents and co-eds were spilled out
of their teats. The giant bleacherj
is lying like a straw stack witn
every row smashed." j
Game Called Off
The injured were laid on the.
iriojf
i ct
tors.
basketball floor, with members
both teams and student war vi
erans helping to rescue spectatc
entangled in the splintered planks.
Doctors, nurses and spectators
with first aid training gave emer
gency treatment while officials
urged over the loud speaker that
the rest of the crowd leave the
gymnasium.
The rest of the fame was
called off and Kenneth L. (Tug)
Wilson, western conference com
missioner, said in Chicago that he
would confer tomorrow with
Purdue and Wisconsin officials
about rescheduling the tilt. The
half game was unique in Big
Nine history
Court Hands
8-Year Term
To Von Papen
NUERNBERG, German. Feb. 24
(JP)-A German denazification
court today sentenced Franz von
bor for hs fectivjtje, as the ,,y
ace of Adolf Hitler's diplomatic
corps.
Von Pi. pen flushed and trem-
e(
as he heard the sentence.
The tcim was considered equiv
alent to life imprisonment, since
the 68-year-old Von Papen is suf
fering from hardening of the ar-
t-ries, and is not expected to live
In addition to the prison term,
tho r inlMs4'e - T 4
Ir r ,u" "lf7
! SeBrinVand French rit".
I BrltIsh d French occuoat.on
500
! Von PaDen w. nn. fhrM
bunal which sentenced Hermann
Goering and 10 others to death.
The others were Hans Fritzsche,
radio propagandist sentenced to
nine years by a denazification
court, and Hjalmar Schacht, fi
nancier, still awaiting trial on de
nazification charges.
British Ease
Coal Rations
LONDON, Feb. 24. - (IP) - Brit
ain's industrial midlands resumed
limited operation today in the
first break of the two-week coal
crisis, and Prime Minister Attlee
announced in the house of com
mons that more idle factories
would be given the go-ahead next
Monday.
Near-record low temperatures
served . notice, however, that the
coal shortage was far from solved
and forecasters said the cold wave
would continue several more
days. Moreton-in-the-Marsh, in
southern England, reported
night temperature of two below
zero, lowest in the British Isles in
29 years.
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