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The question of restoring eco
nomic controls is so charged with
politics that it is hard to decide
whether Washington spokesmen
re sincere or not. Just a few
weeks ago President Truman,
speaking in a news conference
branded price controls as the mark
of the, police state. Yet now he re
commends restoring such controls.
Is he yielding to his economists
who believe in state control, or to
his politicians who believe that is
a popular-issue, or to politicians
who think the request may put re
publicans in a hole?
On the other hand it is hard to
get as worked up as Senator Taft
who sees in Truman's proposals
"a step toward a completely total
itarian nation." After all the
country. survived OPA and various
other control boards. In fact the
general feeling now is that wage
and price controls were relaxed
too soon.
With 1948 and the elections
coming on fast what chance is
there for the measures to be
considered strictly on their merits?
Inevitably party leaders will be
studying moves iri terms of votes
next November. And speaking in
terms of votes I am not sure but
that Truman may stand to profit
in the current interchange. He
certainly will if prices keep on
ins. Then he can say. "Well,
I called for powers to halt infla-
4; am on1 iAn0rKe r fiicpH to errant !
them it's the fault of the repub
licans." ,
On the other, hand if congress
followed his counsel and sought to
restore controls, Truman would
probably be the one to suffer be
cause it seems an almost unsur
mountable task to revive general
controls and
(Continued on editorial page)
Battleship to Win
'Battle of Newark'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -UPy-The
"battle of Newark bay' ended
tonight with agreement among the
feuding city officials and -a sal
vage compony, and the city called
off its "embattled" fireboats.
Under the agreement Morris E.
Lipsett, salvage operator, will
scrap three battleships, including
the New Mexico, over the next
nine months at Port Newark.
j-. The port of New York author
ities will begin sept. 1, 1948. its
$1,000,000 development of the Port
Newark harbor.
Animal Crashers
By WARREN GOODRICH
"Loot, Uncle Charlie us
gerrtd n act!"
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PAGES Ths Oregon Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Wednesday.
Michael Barrett, nearly fow, son af Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Barrett, discovers display clay animals
representing story-baek characters at the Salem public library. Belaw, David Vanek, 19, son af Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Vanek; Judy Jackson. II. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Jackson; Jack Barker. 10,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Barker, and Dorothy Meier. It, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Meier,
approve an exhibit of original illustrations for children's books. David likes books about horses, Judy
reads "any story so long as it's good," Jack coes for . adventure tales, and Dorothy prefers books
about people, (Statesman photos by Don Dill, staff photographer),
General Strike
Imminent in
Paris Area
PARIS, Nov. 18-(;P-Commu-nist-led
strikes tied up France's
coal mines and most of the auto
industry and threatened Paris
with a general work stoppage to
night. Socialist Premier Paul Rama
dier took the lead in efforts to
form a new, strong gpvernment
to cope with the spreading crisis
which was heightened by the call
ing of a meeting here tonight of
the" executive body of the gen
eral confederation of labor of the
Paris region to debate calling of
a general strike.
The communist - dominated
general confederation of labor
has ordered unions to demand a
3,800-franc ($31) increase in the
minimum monthly wage and 25
per cent salary advances pending
negotiations. The minimum wage
is now 7,000 francs ($58).
As a result:
One 'hundred fourteen thousand
miners in the northern fields
walked out.
Employes in the Renault,
Hotchkiss, Panhard, Citroen and
Ford automobile factories and the
Gnome-Rhone truck plant went
on strike.
Paris school teachers decided
to strike .Friday whether the gov
ernment accepted their demands
for salary advances or not
A strike decision was debated
in maritime union locals in the
nation's ports. One national mari
time strike was settled only a few
weeks ago.
Gen. Meyers' Profits from War
Contracts Set Near $100,000
By Edwin B. Haakinson
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -UP)-Witnesses
told a senate inquirey
today that Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
Myers received $94,081.33 in two
war years from an aviation parts
subcontracting firm at a time when
he was an air force purchasing
officer.
The sum included loan repay
ments ,a blue Cadillac car with
monogrammed robe, a $10,000 dec
orating job on his "very nice"
Washington apartment and kick
backs on salaries to two officers
of the company, witnesses said.
The main story came from Bler
iot E. Lama ire, boyish-looking 35-year-old
president of the manufac
turing firm Aviation Electric
company of Dayton, Ohio who
says the general (was the actual
owner of the firm.
Lamarre, appearing before "the
senate war investigating subcom
mittee which is inquiring into
Meyers' relations with wartime
POUNDBD 1651
Kiddies Get Fourth
The thrill of discovering good
stories is still part of the life of
most children, despite' increased
demands on their time, City Li
brarian Hugh G. Morrow said
Monday in commenting on the
current Children's Book week.
The publication of children's
books has expanded three-fold in
the past 25 years in he United
States, Morrow stated.
While more radio programs, mo
tion pictures and non-literary pub
lications 8re directed toward the
juvenile audience, children are
kept busier than ever by school
activities' and other programs.
But nothing can replace good
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King to Dip into 'Sock' to
Pay Princess' Stipend
By Jack Smith
LONDON, Nov. IB-OVKing George VI today brightened the joy
of royal wedding week with an offer to increase Princess Elizabeth's
$60,000 annual government allowance out of his savings in order to
avoid a "burden" on his subjects in a time of economic stress.
In a .message to parliament that evoked thunderous cheers and
enriched the people's warm feelings for his. family, the sovereign
Nenner Terms
Hut Illegal for
Waverly Street
That -"erection of quonset huts
in Waverly street adjacent to the
state office building here would
be illegal was the advice given
the state board of control Tues
day by Attorney General George
Neuner. ' ' -
The attorney general said it is
unlawful to spend state funds for
any sort of buildings on property
for which the state does not hold
title. The city of Salem had
agreed to the proposed construc
tion on a temporary basis, with
the understanding that such
building be removed when com
pletion or the proposed new state
office building alleviates present
overcrowding of state offices.
Board of control members
Gov. John Hall, Secretary of
State Earl Newbry and Treasurer
Leslie Scott indicated their op
position to such a temporary ad
dition but planned definite action
on the matter for their next meet
ing. contract holders, said that Meyers
asked; him late in 1941 to begin
giving him Lamarre's salary kick
backs in cash instead of cashier's
checks.
"As I recall, he (Meyers) said
cashier's checks are too easy to
trace," Lamarre explained.
The witness says he was listed
on company books in 1941 for $31,
000 salary but that he received
anly $2,957.66 and the differences
less taxes went to Meyers. He
said the next kickback to Meyers
thus was $17,972.14.
In addition, he said, an "execu
tive salary" of $13,750 was set up
in the company 'for his brother-in-law,
Thomas Eugene Readnow
er, listed as a vice president But,
he added, Readnower received on
ly $25 a week in 1941 for a total
of $1,259.34, while most of the!
$13,750 was used to pay income
taxes on Lamarre's own 1941 "ex
ecutive salary," most of which had
gone to 'Meyers.
November 19. 1947
of Library Funds
books and many children still go
through stage of avid reading
which lays the foundation for
greater intellectual activity later,
Morrow said. He does not consider
radio or comic books as real com
petition to good books, and tioes
not condemn these innovations as
wholly detrimentaL"
Of the library's 11,300 members,
2,200 are children and one-fourth
the total library budget is spent
on juvenile books. The library
will award a well-known chil
dren's classic to the child bringing
the most new members" to the li
brary this week.
(Additional details on page 4)
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said he, rather than the govern-
ment, should put up whatever ad
ditional money the. Princess and
Lt. Philip Mountbatten will need
after their wedding Thursday.
Expected Boost
Court circles, newspapers and
the people: generally had expected
the treasury would boost the
princess' income and award a sep
arate allowance to Philip out of
public funds.
George's income from the gov
ernment totals 410,000 ($1,640,
000) a year. Lobby correspondents
speculated that what the king has
saved, plus what Elizabeth gets
from the government, will enable
the newlyweds to foot their bills
for about two years. There was no
official statement on the amount
of the king's hest egg.
Philip's Income Small
Philip has no income other than
the $33.63 weekly he gets as a
lieutenant in his majesty's navy.
He'll be upped to $53.90 when he
gets the navy's marriage allow
ance and Is posted to London.
The happy princess and her
sailor fiance spent the day in a
gay round of public and private
functions in anticipation of the
wedding.
Mildred Deischer Named
To Home Economics Job
Mildred E. Deischer, graduate
of Iowa State college, has been ap
pointed assistant state supervisor
of home economics education here
to succeed Marion Hess, who re
signed. The new appointee serv
ed as a member of the executive
council of the Iowa Home Econom
ics association before coming to
Oregon.
Green Backs Truman
Except for Wage Lids 1
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -ilP)
AFL President William Green to
night endorsed President Tru
man's foreign aid program and
much of his anti-inflation plan
but said that labor was opposed
to proposed price and wage con
trols except as a final resort in
the event of a "national crisis."
Weather
Max.
57
54
58
Min. Precip.
42 .jn
45 .00
43 .00
SI .00
Salem
Portland
San Francisco
Chicago 44
New York 40
X M
Willamette river 11.4 feet.
FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau, McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today and tonight. Increasing
cloudiness. Thursday, with occasional
light rain Thursday night. Highest to
day 55, lowest tonight 33.
Price 5c
No. 202
4Q Sailors Await
Rescue Huddled
On Barren Rock
BOSTON, Not. l-(aj-British
sailors whose vessel grounded
and broke In two , last Saturday
off the northernmost tip of New
foundland tonight huddled miser
ably on barren, wind-swept Sa
cred island while four rescue
ships pounded through the ocean
to rave them from death by ex
posure.
The crew, variously estimated
as near 40 in number, sought
safety on the small, bleak island
after their ship, the freighter
Langleecrag, grounded . in Belle
Isle strait, between Labrador and
Newfoundland.
Weak' and spluttering1 radio
calls, picked up today byU. S.
coast guard and Canadian sta
tions, told of the men's suffering
from rain and cold and pleaded
pitifully for "help within 48
hours."
Red Drive in
Europe Speeds
Solons' Action
By Ed Creagh
WASHINGTON. Nov. 18 JP)
Warned that western Europe is
threatened by a "communist
squeeze" within four months, con
gressional committees worked to
day on President Truman's plan
for emergency aid to Italy, France
and Austria.
But republicans launched on the
house floor an offensive against
the president's bid for authority to
bring back rationing and wage
price control, if necessary, to keep
prices from climbing. The White
House, meantime, said 47 out of
50 letters received favored the
idea of controls. .
Rep. Dirksen (R-IU) told the
house foreign affairs committee,
which completed hearings on im
mediate foreign aid. that Czecho
slovakia would be the victim of a
"communist squeeze" within four
months unless, she had U.S. help.
Austria, Germany, France and
Italy would fall next, he said.
Chairman Eaton (R-NJ) of the
house foreign affairs group said
an emergency aid bill probably
would be presented early next
week. The senate foreign relations
committee began writing its bill
today.
Traffic Survey
At Keizer Due
Marion county court was ad
vised Tuesday by F. B. Crandall,
traffic engineer for the stale high
way department, that the depart
ment would direct a survey soon
of traffic conditions near the Keiz
er school north of Salem.
Marion County Judge Grant
Murphy, who- with County Com
missioner Roy Rice, is in Portland
this week attending the annual
meeting of the Oregon Associa
tion of Countv JllHof anri fnm-
missioners. had requested the high-
woy aepartment to make the sur
vey. His request followed a recent
petition from the Keizer Grange
that the highway near the school
be posted with warning signs,
slowing traffic down to a speed of
25 or 35 miles an hour. The Grange
members said that a traffic hazard
existed for school children using
the road.
Youth Killed as
Cops and Robbers
Played with Bullets
JOHNSTON, R. I Nov. 18-UP)
Donald McWeeney, 16, of Johns
ton was fatally wounded this af
ternoon in what Police Chief Ches
ter B. Colwell said was a game
of "cops and robbers" played by
five youths with four 22 calibre
rifles and live ammunition.
Chief Colwell said Joseph T.
Desgranges, 21, would be arraign
ed in district court tomorrow on
a charge yet to be determined, in
connection with the shooting.
Chief Colwell said he learned
from questioning Desgranges and
three other youths of 16 and 17
years that they shot at each other
from behind trees and rocks for
about an hour, "trying to see how
close they could come," and that
McWeeney was struck by one of
a series of shots.
TARIFF CUT COST TOTALLED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18-OP)-Canada's
new restrictions on im
ports from the United States will
mean a $300,000,000 blow to Am
erican exporters and manufactur
ers, government officials tenta
tively estimated today.;
JAP MINE AT GLEN ED EN
DEPOE BAY, Ore, Nov. lS-(ff)
The seventh Japanese mine to
drift ashore this month was ex
ploded by the navy today on
Gleneden beach, four miles north
of here.
MEDAL FOR MARLENE
WEST POINT, N. Y., Nov. 18.-(JP)-Actress
Marlene Dietrich to
day was awarded the medal for
freedom for her work in enter
taining troops overseas during the
war.
Propaganda Rfflusft ease
Salem-Portland
Ivay
Priority Asked .
-PORTLAND, Nov. lB-(-Priority
for construction of a four
lane highway linking! Portland
and Salem was recommended by
a contractors' group today at the
closing session - of the legislative
interim committee on highways.
Spokesmen for other groups en
dorsed a bond issue proposal to
speed Oregon highway! improve-,
ments delayed by lack of cash
reserves, urged more work on the
Dayton-Amity cutoff and the Sa-lem-Dayton
roads tunneling traf
fic onto the Pacific highway and
asked increases in the state gaso
line tax and license fees.
F. J, Harding, secretary of the
Associated General Contractors,
included the Portlahd-ISalem ar
tery and Columbia river routes
among work considered vital in
the five counties of the Portland
area. . !
" State Representative pari Fran
cis of Yamhill county said the
work. on. the Salem-Day ton-Amity
roads was falling behind the
demands of traffic in the area.
Committee Chairman) Ralph T.
Moore said the hearing schedule
would take the members to Sa
lem on Feb. 16 and Eugene on
Feb. 17. Other dates: ITUlamook,
Jan. 20; Coquille, Jan 22; Med-
ford, Feb. 19; The Dalles, March
22; Pendleton, March 23; La
Grande, March 24; Klamath Falls,
April 12; Bend, Aprjl 1 13; BuTns,
April 14.
Local Accident
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Victim Loses
Home in Blaze
Just three weeks after his leg
was broken when he was struck
by aft auto, Fred Scbindler, 71,
lost his home by fire Tuesday
night! Flames from : the small
building, in the alley lot the 700
block ! between North Commercial
and North Front streets, were
shooting high into the air before
a neighbor noticed and) summoned
firemen at 11:30 p.m. Cause was
undetermined. j
Schjindler is still in Salem Dea
coness hospital recovering from
the accident of October 28 at
Front and Center streets. His con
dition was reported early today as
"good." Told of the fire by city
police and hospital attendants, he
said he lost nothing of lvalue.
Firemen, who, reported flames
soaring into the trees when they
arrived, controlled the blaze with
in a few minutes buf were re
quired to scatter and; wet down
the bundles of paper and crates of
bottles Schindler has collected
and stored there. Most of the cen
ter portion of the trailer house
wss destroyed.
Proximity to several industries
summoned several pieces of equip
ment, which in turn attracted a
large number of onlookers.
School Districts
To Talk of Ulnion
HUBBARD, Nov. 18-i-Six school
districts will meet at the Hubbard
school gymnasium Thursday eve
ning to discuss consolidation.
Schools represented wjll be White,
Aurora, Donald, Butteville, Broad
acres; and Hubbard.
. Lester Wilcox from the office of
the state superintendent of schools
will speak.
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Flying Grandmother
Lands in New York
NEW YORK, Nov. bg-;P-Mrs.
Pauline Wendt, 82, Berlin, one of
five German grandmothers to fly
fronv Frankfurt to tais country,
landed at La Guardia - field to
day. I
She boarded another plane to
join her daughter. Mrs. Bertha
Wittenberg of 236 S. 17th st., Sa
lem, Ore. j
Mrs. Wendt has npt seen her
daughter since 1907, i when Mrs.
Wittenberg came to the United
States.
!
Superhigh
Over 10 of Public Employes to
Continue fast Retirement Age
More than 10 per eent of Ore
gon's 2,300 public employes who
have reached retirement age will
be permitted to stay; on the Job
for another year past December
31, Jerry Saylor, executive secre
tary of the state public employ
ment retirement , board, said
Tuesday in Portland, j
Saylor said the bord, meeting
in Portland Tuesday, approved
about 200 applications today and
had previously accepted between
50 and 60. Approvals of a post
ponement of retirement will not
bind the employer to keep the
workers a full year, the board in
dicated. Between 10 and 15 appli
cations have been denied, Saylor
said.! ). '
Action allowing or disapproving
a supervisor's request is based
upon the reasons offjered by the
employer, according to Saylor. The
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CHICAGO. Nev. 18 Secretary
f State GeFfc Marshall wht
declared today that Rassia's
"brasen" propaganda mast
halt. (Story In column at right)
Rent Advisers
Oppose Blanket
Increase Here
Neither removal of rent control
nor a general increase in rents is
favored by the Salem citizens' rent
advisory board, it was disclosed
Tuesday by E. G. Clay, Salem area
rent representative.
The six-man board representing
local landlords, tenants and the
public considered the possibility of
a general rent increase but decid
ed any inequity working a hard
ship on landlords facing rising
costs can best be handled by indi
vidual applications for permission
to raise rent.
Clay pointed out that all such
applications for rent change must
first be filed at the local rent of
fie in th public school office
building and, after action there,
may be appealed to the board.
Radio Receives
Solar Music9 .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -JP)
Two Harvard scientists believe
they've picked up "music of the
sun" on a special radio receiver
and one of them said today "it
sounds like gravel on a tin roof."
"It's a rattling, whistling sound,
very similar to ordinary static,"
Dr. Winfield W. Salisbury told a
reporter at the autumn meeting
of the National Academy of Sci
ences. Previously, Dr. Donald H. Men
zel, one of the world's authorities
on solar phenomenan, had told
the meeting it was believed that
the signals detected were caused
by radio waves emitted by Old
Sol himself and measuring any
where from 200 to 2,000,000 miles
in length.
Don't get the idea that there's
an asbestos-clad swing band
broadcasting hot licks from a
solar night-spot.
The scientists said they believe
the waves result from turbulence
in the sun's atmosphere.
Rehearing Denied
In Murder Case
. The state supreme court Tues
day denied application for a re
hearing of the case of Wardell H.
Henderson, Vanport resident, un
der death sentence for the fatal
shooting of Walter H. Poole in
Vanport on Dec. 24, 1945.
Only chance for Henderson to
escape the lethal gas chamber is
to seek clemency from Gov. John
H. Hall. Chief Justice George
Rossman wrote the opinion deny
ing the application for rehearing.
living-expense problem carries no
weight he said. Principal aid is
directed at those positions for
which no persona have applied,
the employer has tried to secure
replacement and the civil service
board cannot submit the name of
a replacement In order to be re
tained, the employe must be physi
cally and mentally capable, a mat
ter the board investigates, especi
ally for school bus drivers, who
are carefuUy checked.
Among workers whose services
will be retained beyond the re
tirement age are Sam Boardman,
state superintendent of parks; Er
nest C. Hobbs, state printer, and
Rex Davis, cashier in the state
treasurer's office. Permission has
also been granted to Marion coun
ty to retain 18 employes due for
retirement
Claims U.S. in
State of 'Active
Resentment'
CHICAGO. Nov. Is -an-
retary of State Marshall tonight
denounced Russia's "brazen and
contemptuous" propaganda as 'a -threat
to world stahilitv nH
it was time to cal! It to a halt
we do not propose to stand by
and watch the disintegration of
the international
which we belong," Marshall de
clared. Shamir denvinv that th TTn;t
ed States has imDerialistie aim im
extending aid to Europe, he said
communistic miir epreaen tat ions
"goaded the American people into
a state of active resentment.
Speaking on the eve of his de
parture for the Big Four foreign
ministers conference at London.
Marshall said that Russia herseli
is to blame for what he termed
a complete change in this coun- "
try's attitude toward the soviet
since Germany's surrender.
Contrasts 'Expansions'
Her territorial exrtansion ron
trasts, he noted, with the volun-
rary reduction in area made by
the United States and Britain.
Russia, he charged, appears de
termined to prolong Europe's
plight indefinitely.
raarsnau spoke out bluntly in
an address delivered at the Chi
cago council of foreign relations
and the Chicago Chamber of Com
merce. I. .
His references to Russia wer
viewed by some of his associates)
as aimed to make plain this coun J
try's attitude before his meeting
next week with Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov In the Big Four'
fifth post-war attempt to reads
agreement on a European peaca
settlement
Aware af Serial nesa
"We are aware," Marshall said.
"of the seriousness and extent of
the campaign being directed
against us as one of the bulwarks;
of western civilization. We are not
blind to any of the forms which
this , attack assumes. And we do
not propose to stand by and watch
the disintegration of the interna
tional community to which w
belong." . ,
Despite "provocation," Marshall
said he would take an open mind
to London and will seek only ton
a sound basis of agreement
Taxi Strikes
SP&S Engine
Severe damage was caused to
a McMinnville Uxicab early Tues
day when it ran into an SF&d
railway engine on Front street aa
the car drove off the Jnter rtieet
bridge. City police reported th
taxi, which was driven away urw
der its own power, was driver
by Robert Allen Brooks. McMinn
ville, and the engineer was Clydei
Bliven, Portland. i
Passengers In the car wer
Marlyn Waters, Syble Ingram and -BUly
Mault, all of McMinnville.
The Ingram woman was advised
by first aid men to go to a hos
pital for treatment of an injured
leg, and the Waters woman re
ceived the same suggestion later
when she became ill in a res
taurant but neither was treated
at a Salem hospital.
Constellation
Crash Kills 5
WILMINGTON, Del.. Nov. IS
(iVA Trans World Airline Con
stellation transport undershot th
New Castle airport after a train
ing flight today, crashed and
burned, killing all five occupants.
Barely missing the heavily trav
eled four-lane Dupont highway,
the big four-engined airline;
struck a ditch approaching th
north-south runway and went out
of control, said a TWA statement t
The landing gear buckled. On.--5
of the wings was ripped off and.
the sfiip was torn nearly in two.
Flames enveloped the wreckage
and burned furiously, destroying
the craft before firemen could
reach thescene. Wreckage was)
scattered over a 100-yard area.
There, were no passengers on
the plane.
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BTKNE8 BACKS CONTHOL
ANDERSON, S.C, Nov. 18-UFV
Fonner Secretary of State James
F. Byrnes said here tonight some
form of modified controls ar
needed to prevent further Infla
tion In America.
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