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NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR
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How good are the Boy Scout?
Are they as good as they thiols
they are or as bad as Bill Wolf,
writing , In November "Sports
Afield" says they are?
To Wolf the program of scouting
Is almost valaelessr the uniform
absurd, the emphasis on good con
duct namby - pamby. Wolf puts
a lot of the blame on the Scout
leadership which he credits with
good intentions and charges with
ignorance. Wolf writes as a he-outdoors-man
who thinks remem
bering to bring matches is of more
practical value than learning to
start a fire by rubbing sticks of
wood together, and thinks love, of
nature means more than marching
single file behind a scoutmaster
along a trail, frightening birds and
game.
Scout uniforms are bad, thinks
Wolf. The low-cut shoes are
worthless in the woods; shorts
which leave the knees bare are
good only around a eleared camp,
not for wear on a bushy trail. The
flat - brimmed hat, described in
the handbook as "the perfect head
gear for the'outdoors" draws hoots
from this practical woodsman. He
says he has never seen one on
fisherman or hunter and that it
has been abandoned generally for
wear.
Scout equipment likewise falls
under Wolf's criticism: one regu
" lar axe in a party is worth more
' than all the handaxes the scouts
carry. The scout knives are too
big and heavy; cooking equipment
not practical.
But this critic of scouting takes
even more vigorous swings at the
scout program: too much boon
doggling, he says. Signal codes are
quickly forgotten; bridge - build
ing, etc. are "time - wasters";
cooking without utensils, "results
only in charred and foul-tasting
foods." He scolds at scout overih
sistence on high moral -values:
"No boy could possibly be as noble
as he is expected to be as a scout."
Wolf may be venting a gripe;
as a veteran hjunter and
(Continued on editorial page)
BONNEVILLE AT POWER PEAK
j PORTLAND, Nov. 20 (8)- An
all-time high of 1,473,000 kilo
watts was delivered by the Bonneville-Grand
Coulee system be
tween 10 and 11 a.m. yesterday,
Bonneville power administration
reported today.
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LONDON, Nov. 2.-Tp picture Is a general view f the wedding
ceremony of rrinecss Elizabeth and Lieut Philip Mountbatten, the
Duke of Edinburgh, in London's historic Westminster Abbey. At
altar from left to right are the king; Princess Elizabeth, her train
being- held by two paces; Mountbatten; and the best man. Marquis
of Milford-Haven. The Archbishop of Canterbury, performing the
ceremony, is in light robes facing Elizabeth and Philip. Princess
Elizabeth (lower) smiles as she sits in Irish coach enroute to West
minister Abbey. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman vis radio from
London.) (Additional pictures on page 2 and 14).
Stansbie to
Oppose Wilson
Theodore S. Stansbie, owner of
the Lincoln hotel, Toledo, Thurs
day filed in the state department
here for state senator from the
24th senatorial district, Lincoln
and Tillamook counties, at the pri
mary election next May. He is a
republican.
Stansbie is mayor of Toledo and
president of the chamber of com
merce there. He will oppose Joe
Wilson, for three terms a mem
ber of the house of representa
tives, who filed for state senator
earlier in the week.
George Winslow, Tillamook and
incumbent, has indicated he will
not seek reelection.
Italian Leftists9
Drive Subsides
1 ROME, Nov. 20 -JP)- The week
old drive of Italian leftists to un
seat Premier Alcide de Gasperi
by strikes and disturbances di
minished in violence somewhat
today.
An unsettled general strike
plagued Bari province and other
strikes disturbed much of the
Apulia, Lucania and Calabria re
gions of southern Italy and Ro
vigo province in the north.
But the day brought no reports
of a fresh wave of riots, bomb
ings and Assassinations.
Th Oregon Statesman.
Russians Bring
Pressure on Iran
For Oil Rights
LONDON, Friday, Nov. 2l-(JP)
The Moscow radio said today that
Russia had delivered a "resolute
protest" to Iran as a result of the
Iranian parliament's action last
month in voting down proposed
oil concessions to the Soviet Un
ion.
The protest was delivered to
Iranian Premier Ahmed Qavam
yesterday by the Russian ambas
sador to Tehran, said the broad
cast, which hinted at the possibil
ity of a break in diplomatic rela
tions.
The Russian note, the broadcast
declared, protester against "the
hostile actions of the Iran govern
ment in regard to the Soviet
Union, which are incompatible
with normal relations between, the
two states.
The note "charged the govern
ment of Iran with responsibility
for the consequences of this," Mos
cow said.
MAIL DEADLINE SET
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 -UP)
Christmas presents and mail for
U. S. navy personnel in China,
Japan, the Philippines, pkinawa,
Wake, Truk and Peleliu-must ar
rive by Dec 5 at San Francisco's
fleet postoffice if it is to get to thf
boys in time, the navy announced
today.
MUNDID
Salem. Ore., Friday. NoTnber 21.
Dinner Greets
Tired Pair at
Romsey Castle .
LONDON, Nov. 20.-(yP)-Princess
Elizabeth wed her handsome
Prince Philip amid glittering pag
eantry today, and together they
sped off through a misty night to
honeymoon in the village of Rom
sey.
" Like figures in a child s happy
fantasy, the radiant princess and
her tall bridegroom knelt before
the magnificent altar of Westmin
ster Abbey as the Archbishop of
Canterbury intoned: I pronounce
that they be man and wife toge
ther." It was a moment of solemn cli
max. Outside the abbey a million
Britons cheered as the iron ton
gues of church bells announced
the wedding. A world radio audi
ence heard the broadcast of the
ceremony.
Later as the childhood sweet
hearts escaped London's jubilant
throngs, King .George VI announ
ced his final wedding present
Philip Mountbatten, the monarch
decree, henceforth will be a prince
of the realm as well as Duke of
Edinburgh, j
Sea of People In Streets
A happy sea of people lined the
streets of London as magnificent
royal carriages and sleek limou
sines moved to and from the 'ab
bey for the ceremony that made
Britain's . future queen apparent a
bride.
Elizabeth was wed in all the
golden splendor and medieval
magnificence that her father's au
sterity-pinched ' land could muster.
Stunning in a dress of ivory
satin embroidered with thousands
of pearls, Elizabeth and her na
val-uniformed): bridegroom knelt
on crimson pillows in the soft
light of the altar.
Throngs Silent
Not a sound came from the au
dience as Elizabeth and Philip re
peated their vows. They were pro
nounced wed at 11:45 a. m. (3:45
a. m. Pacific standard time).
There was only one hitch in this
ceremony rooted in the traditions
of the centuries. Five-year-old
Prince Michael of Kent, one of
the pages, stumbled twice near the
steps of the altar as he bore the
princess 15-foot-long train. Prin
cess Margaret Rose, her sister's
chief bridesmaid, quickly stepped
forward and steadied the child.
As Elizabeth and Philip pro
gressed the mile back to Bucking
ham palace behind the Windsor
grey horses, London's voice , went
up in jubilation. It was the great
est ceremony war-battered Brit
ain had seen since the coronation
of the king and queen in May,
1947.
Couple on Honeymoon
ROMSEY. New Hampshire,
England, Nov. 20.-OP)-Dinner was
ready and cheery log fires crack
led in many rooms of Broadlands
mansion tonight when the royal
newlyweds. Princess Elizabeth and
Prince Philip,- fatigued by the long
wedding ceremony, stepped from
a shining limousine into the pri
vacy of their honeymoon.
The royal wing of the great
Georgian estate - - the greater part
of the home has been turned into
a hospital in which 74 patients are
being cared for - - was gay with
red and purple chrysanthemums,
and both the drawing and dining
rooms conveyed an intimacy and
quiet informality rare in such
large establishments.
Frank Randall, the 68-year-old
butler, impeccable in a blue frock
coat with gilt buttons and a vel
vet collar, served the simple din
ner prepared by the cook, Mrs.
Mary Cable.
Sherry was served with a thick
soup. Then followed chicken and
a few vegetables from the home
farm. Ice cream and a 1941 vin
tage champagne completed the
meal.
Two Boys fFox9
Fox-Hunters
BEDMINSTER, N. J., Nov. 20
(JP)- It was "tally ho" in the brisk
country air near here yesterday
as the Essex Fox Hounds Hunting
club chased a fox.
A crowd of huntsmen in their
red coats were just about to close
in on the fleeing fox wheri two
shots rang out and the fox keeled
over like a duck pin.
Out from the bushes emerged
not a red coated huntsman but
two boys in overalls who were
hunting for rabbits.
Groups Lend Support
To Scott for Governor
PENDLETON, Nov. 2MP-Leon
N. Lefebvre, Portland, said today
he and other pomanders were
backing State Treasurer Leslie M.
Scott for governor, and declared
Scott had strong support in east
ern Oregon.
Leiebvre told an interviewer
lhat Scott, as the only experienced
member of the state board of con
trol, was the person most famil
iar with Oregon problems and best
able to administrate.
1651 - . . - , 1
1947
Price) 5c
Mercury Nears
Freezing in Salem
. Willamette valley and Salem
area temperatures dipped to
near the' freezing zone late last
night and continued cold with
possible snow was forecast for
this area today and Saturday,
by the U. S. Weather bureau at
McNary field Thursday night.
At midnight the mercury
plunged to 33 degrees. Thirty
two degrees is freezing. A layer
of clouds moving in over the
Salem area had raised the tem
perature to 35 degrees by 1:30
this morning.
A 35 degree minimum was
forecast for tonight here and in
Portland.
President to
Name Bradley
To Replace Ike
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 2& -VP)-President
Truman's announcement
of his selection of Gen. Omar
Bradley as United States army
chief of staff is imminent, officials
sard tonight.
: They said the anouncement may
be made tomorrow at a news con
ference in which the president al
so may disclose his choice af a
successor to Bradley as veterans'
administrator.
This successor is a civilian and
not a professional soldier, said
these sources, refusing to be quot
ed by name.
How soon General Bradley will
step into Gen. Dwight Eisenhow
er's shoes as chief of staff depends
on the time of Eisenhower's re
signation to take over the presi
dency of Columbia university.
Bradley has indicated that he
considers his main VA task prac
tically completed. That task was
three-fold: decentralization of VA
itself, establishment of a satisfac
tory medical program and system
atization of the insurance branch.
fFine Trip from
Germany9, Says
Mrs. Wendt
PORTLANP, Nov. 20.-OP)-An
82 - year-old German woman
climbed from an airplane today on
the last lap of her journey to Sa
lem, and walked into the arms of
three generations of her descend
ants. Mrs. Pauline Wendt, elderly Ber
lin woman who was once in a
German concentration camp, was
met by her daughter. Mrs. Bert
Wittenberg of Salem; a grandson.
Leonard Wittenberg of Salem; a
granddaughter, Mrs. Erna Young
of Aloha; and a baby great-granddaughter.
"A fine trip," said Mrs.' Wendt
in her native German. "Such nice
people all the way." Only one dif
ficulty arose: in Chicago, a fellow-passenger
took the elderly
woman to a hotel, ordered her
meals sent up to her. Until an in
terpreter was summoned to ex
plain, Mrs. Wendt was troubled:
she thought she was a prisoner
again.
On the same plane with the
shawl-covered grandmother ar
rived a 10?year-old French boy:
Alexander Shevalier, Paris, came
to Joint his mother, Mrs. Roland
Olson of Corvallis.
Britain Refuses
To Share Mandate
LAKE SUCCESS. Nov. 20 -dp)
Britain refused today to share re
sponsibility for the Palestine man
date with a United Nations com
mission and thus rejected one of
the main props under an elabo
rate plan for creating independ
ent Arab and Jewish countries.
Sir. Alexander Cadogan told the
U. N. that such "confusion of
authority" would have "disast
rous consequences."
Claim Made Wife of Firm's Chief
Acted as 'Girl Friend' to Meyers
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -JP)
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers tes
tified today that Mrs. Bleriot H.
Lamarre was his "girl friend" for
four years with her husband's ap
proval and, he said, that was why
he set up the Aviation Electric
Co. and got Lamarre to run it
Lamarre,. 35, has testified that
Meyers brought him and Mrs. La
marre from California in 1939 and
installed him as president of the
Ohio firm that Meyers was the
real, but secret, owner and that
the general took I150.-000 or more
out of the company, which had
wartime sub-contracts.
Mrs. Lamarre was once Meyers'
secretary. Meyers told the senate
war investigating subcommittee
that the only reason he was bring
ing her , name into the case was
because be had sworn to "tell the
whole story to the committee."
Conceding that he was "sinking
No. 204
Rationing
Proposal
Snubbed
WASHINGTON, Novj 20 -(JP)
Republican leaders of the senate
tonight virtually consigned to the
scrap heap at least fof the time
being President Truman's re
quest for power to bring back
rationing and price-wage controls.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said the
senate's republican policy com
mittee, which he heads, put the
two controversial proposals "at
the end of the list" of anti-inflation
measures recommended by
the president and scheduled for
"immediate consideration" by the
committee.
Condemns Controls j
This means, the Ohioan indi
cated to reporters, that revived
controls and rationing are out at
least until the regular session of
congress which begins January 6.
The republican leaders simul
taneously passed the price-curb
ball back to the president, de
claring after a meeting that he
already has "most of tlie powers
to restrain Inflation" ad calling
for more information about the
new powers he is asking.
Statement Said Vague j
They said the ten points in his
anti-inflation program re word
ed, "in such general terms that
they cannot be clearljr under
stood," and added in a statement:
"The most important icauses of
inflation are the tremendous rate
of government spending and the
abnormal rate of export.
"The president has (had full
power to limit export but has not
done so. In many respects he
could cut down the rate of gov
ernment spending if h had the
slightest interest in doing so.
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Judge Voids
Rent Controls,
Appeal Due
CLEVELAND, Nov. 2(V-OPVThe
housing and rent act of 1947, un
der whict wartime emergency
rent controls were expended to
next February 29, was declared
unconstitutional today by Federal
Judge Paul Jones, who! described
the law as a "kiss of death hang
ing on with an "impotent em
brace." The Judge held that peace had
returned "in fact" on Dec. 31, 1946,
when President Truman declared
a cessation of hostilities; and that
congress lacked the power to en
force local rent controls when no
wartime emergency exists.
In Washington, however. Sen
ator Taft (R-Ohio) said he doubt
ed that Judge Jones' ruling will
affect immediately congress' con
sideration of continuing! rent con
trols, j
Expressing general agreement
with the idea that the federal gov
ernment has no power to control
rents in peacetime, Taft said he
felt that with a technical state of
war existing, congress ; still has
such rights. ! -
"I imagine the case will be ap
pealed immediately," Taft told a
reporter. j
IMarshalMLeaves
For 'Big 4' Meet
WASHINGTON, Novl 20.-OF)-Armed
with a fresh expression of
President Truman's "utmost con
fidence," Secretary of State Mar
shall left today for a new "big
four" effort at London to reach
agreement of a European peace
settlement.
Mr. Truman accompanied the
secretary to the airport to wish
him "goodspeed and good . luck."
Marshall, traveling in; the pres
ident's plane, the "Sacred Cow" is
scheduled to reach London four
days in advance of a meeting of
the foreign ministers of! the Unit
ed States, Russia, Britain and
France, which already jis clouded
by disagreement.
to a new low" by naming her, he
said:
"There is no other way it (his
story) can be related. Ij still have
a little bit of chivalry in me.
"I have to admit that Mrs. La
marre was my girl friend from
a period of approximately 1936
to -1940. She was, with Mr. La
marre's knowledge, approval and
acquiescence."
As he spoke, Lamarre! sat near
by. His relations with Mrs. La
marre, Meyers told th commit
tee,' "is the story, of the Aviation
Electric company" and there was
"no other reason or motive for
forming the company but solely
for the benefit of the Lamarres."
Befire his "girl friend" testi
mony, Meyers entered a sweep
ing denial of any "perjury, cor
ruption, fraud." Furthermore, the
retired air force officer said he
had never been an active pur
chasing officer.
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:Ay Meseirves
Called to (Sdtoirs
PARIS, Nov. 20-(ig-President Vincent Auriol recalled 140,
000 conscripts to the afmy tonight and announced that 75-year-old
Leon Blum had agreed to try to form a new government of
"public safety" to deal with a communist-inspired labor crisis.
Blum, twice a pre-war premier and head of the short care
taker regime between: the provisional government and the,
fourth republic will go before the 1
national assembly tomorrow tc
ask for confirmation of . his ap
pointment If he succeeds In winning 310
votes, a majority of the 615 mem
bers, he will aet about organizing
a cabinet 'which it was reported
would be widely representative of
French political parties.
The communist party issued a
statement tonight which did not
mention Blum's name but con
demned his government in ad
vance "if it corresponds to the
desires of the American imper
ialists." The communists called for "a
democratic government, in the
heart of which the working class
and its commiinist party could at
last play a determining role." With
more than 500,000 coal miners,
metal workers, longshoremen,
flour millers and railway men on
strike, more due to walk out to
morrow and Monday, and the na
tion's coal stockpile reduced to
a dangerous level, the president
today appealed for calm. At the
same time the government re
called tothe colors part of the
1947 military class to bring the
army up to "normal strength."
Half of the 1947 contingent, not
due to be demobilized until next
spring, was freed a few months'
ago- to provide manpower for
agriculture and industry.
Dallas Murder
Charge Case
Left in Midair
DALLAS. Nov. 20-(Special)
Action on the murder charge lac
ing 16-year-old John Earl Peoples
of Amity was left pending today
when the Polk county grand jury
recessed until 1:30 p.m. Friday
after an all-afternoon considera
tion of the People's case.
District Attorney R. S. Kreason
last week tiled a second degree
murder charge against the youth,
in connection with, the death of
Robert J. Armstrong, ,78, in
burned farmhouse 10 miles north
of here on September 8.
The grand jury had before it a
statement signed by Peoples which
Sheriff T. B. Hooker said admitted
the sliying of Armstrong and set
ting the Armstrong farm house
afire after an argument over pay
for Peoples' assistance to the man
in unloading grain.
Peoples was bound over to the
grand jury by Justice of the Peace
Charles Gregory after his appre
hension in Hillsdale. The youth is
held in the county jail here.
Snow Falling
Over Cascades
Snow continued, to fall in sec
tions of eastern and central Ore
gon Thursday with packed snow
and some light slush in the San
tiam district, State Highway En
gineer R. H. Baldock reported.
Roadside snow at Santiam sum
mit had reached a depth of 20
inches with sanding crews in op
eration. Some ice was reported in
the Odell area.
The report
Government Camp Packed
snow on the Mt Hood loop from
Twin Bridges to the Hood River
Meadows.
Klamath Falls Roads normal:
Son Mountain Overcast and
roads normal.
Medford Roads slippery in
mountain districts.
The Dalles Night snow at
Shantico. Pavement bare.
Meacbam Snowing lightly.
Packed snow between Pendleton
and LaGrande.
; Bam One half inch of new
snow on roads in the vicinity of
Burns. Sanding crews in operation.
Tollrate Light snow Wednes
day night. Roadside snow 48 -inches.
Institutions Face
Food 'Fund' Deficit
There will be a deficit of ap
proximately $300,000 in the food
account of the state institutions
by the end of the current bi
ennium, provided there is no re
duction in. commodity prices, State
Budget Director George Aiken
advised legislators attending a
joint meeting of the state board
of control and state emergency
board here Thursday. Legislative
budgets covering salaries and
I wages at the state institutions
! probably will be adequate, Aiken
declared.
CURTAIN HIDES WEDDING
LONDON, Nov. 2(MP)-The So
viet Monitor said that up to a late
hour tonight the Moscow radio
had not mentioned today's wed
ding, of Princess Elizabeth and
Prince Philip.
Weather
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Min. Precip.
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Portland
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
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Willamette river n teet.
Forecast (from U.S. weather bureau.
McNacy field. Salem). Partly cloudy
today and tonight becoming cloudy
Saturday with occasional light rains
or anew. Little chang In tempera
turea. Highest temperature today, near
Hi lowest tonight. 39.
Faverly Street
Quonset Huts'
Scheme Killed
Oregon's state emergency board
Thursday killed long-debated
proposal to increase office space by
erecting quonset hula in Waver ly
street at the west end of the stato
office building on Court street.
As the board reorganized with
State Sen. Carl Engdahl of Pendle
ton as chairman, there were these
developments:
Unanimous approval by both
emergency and control boards for
a $319,8S program of new con
struction at the state training
school for boys at Wood burn.
Expansion to East Eyed
Suggestion by State Sen. Dean
Walker of Independence that con
sideration be given expansion of
state operations In Salem to the
east of present state buildings
(across 12th street) rather than to
the north as usually accented in
state circles.
Abandonment of the Waverly
street plan was announced after
Secretary of State Earl T. New
bry's report that arrangements ere
made for transfer of the utilities
and assessment division of the
state tax commission from the
crowded state office building to
hearing rooms on the third floor
of the state capito!. j
Appointments Confirmed
Confirmation of Gov. John H.
Hall's appointment of State Sen.
Eugene Marsh of McMinnville and
State Rep. Earle Johnson of Cor
vallis to the emergency board,
succeeding, respectively, the 1st
Senator Marshall E. Cornett and
Hall, who was speaker of th
house before he succeeded to the
governorship on the death of Gov
ernor Earl Snell and Senator Cor
nett. ,
Secretary Newbry told the board
his rearrangement of tax offices
would leave ample room for tho
income tax division to conduct ex
panded operations. The emergency
board rescinded an earlier decision
to appropriate $25,009 for the tem
porary construction . in Waverly
street to accommodate the inccme
tax division.
(Additional details, page 4)
Russia Rejects
Oilfield Claim I
LONDON, Nov. 20 Russia
has rejected United States anil
British protests against her seiz
ure or tne rich Lobau oil fields
and installations in Austria as
reparations, the foreign office said
tonight.
A spokesman saii the mattes
probably would be raised in the
council of foreign ministers which
is due to begin German and Aus
trian peace treaty talks here next
week.
He said the Russians "restated
their case that the oil fields and
installations taken over previous
ly had been owned by German
companies and so properly con
stituted German assets."
The oil fields among Aus
tria's largest were Jointly own
ed by American and British capi
tal through subsidiary . Austrian
companies.
They were taken over by the
Germans after the 1938 Anschluss
and were operated as German
projects. The Russians moved in
during September, claiming them
as reparations.
Food-S aving
Shift Ordered
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - (JP -President
Truman today, trans
ferred to regular government
agencies the task of carrying out
the 100,000,000-busheI voluntary
grain conservation program
launched by Charles Luckman'i
citizens food committee.
Luckman and his committee will
Kstay on in an advisory capacily.
ttut tne actual direction of carry
ing forward the grain-saving plans
will be shouldered by the presi
dent's food committee of cabinet
members.
It is expected most of the pro
gram will go to the agriculture
department for administering.
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better se two fingersT