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o oa ODDO O ODO ODD OOD OOO OOOOCDD 0 O O O ji-ires:Dini Mann (DDnoseDD to Direct eteirsiinis Affff aiirs Carl Gray Chosen as Bradley to Step Into General Eisenhower's Shoes WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l-;P-Four-Star Gen. Omar Bradley was chosen today to succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as army chief of staff, and Carl R. Gray, jr., a railroad extcutive, was named to follow Bradley as veterans administrator. Bradley's appointment as chief of staff has been anticipated ever since Eisenhower announced his forthcoming retirement from mili OtP 0330000 Steadily we can see the setting up of corporate dominion over substantial portions of our natural Latest acquisition isf some 120,000 acres of timber land in the Olympic peninsula from the Poison interests by Rayonier, Inc., which is a large producer of pulp for rayon manufacture. The com pany has a mill as Shelton, Wash. The lands include 50,000 acres of virgiru-timber and 70,000 acres of reproduction growth. Other large corporate; interests holding timber lands are Weyer hauser. Crown Willamette, Long Bell Lumber Co., Puget Sound Pulp and Timber. Rapidly the small private holder is disposing of his lands, either selling out right or letting the land go for taxes after timber has been cut There is a certain inevitability In all this. The individual is not able or willing to carry lands with a prospect of only one harvest In a lifetime. He can't well wait an other 4a to 80 or 100 years for a crop.' The big corporations can. They can space their cutting and are doing so, that their mills may continue in steady operation. They are launching tree farms to renew the timber. They employ trained foresters, protect lands against fire. - '- , Against this trend in ownership of timberlands is that to state ownership. 'Oregon now owns around 400,000 acres . of timber lands. The area ought to greatly increased both to prevent timber monopoly and to give a larger re turn to the public. In time the small operator must look to state forests or national forests for his logs. With granting of priority rights to mills' with attached land holdings, many mills will be forc ed out of business. We are in a transition period. The log-lumber business in the northwest will never be the same after the new pattern is estab lished. It will take a good many years, but eventually the lands will be either in public ownership or in the hands . of comparatively few corporations. Also a larger proportion -of the timber cut will go into products other than lum ber, a fact which immediately ap plies to the big purchase by Ray onier in Washington. Royal Couple Jaunt in Jeep ROMSEY, England, Nov. 21-P) Britain's royal newlyweds, Prin cess Elizabeth and her dashing Prince Philip, took a joy ride in a jeep today and then spent many hours alone in the seclusion of Broadlands, their honeym oon mansion. They were occupied, according to word received in this placid market town, in the pleasant task of reading the thousands of con gratulatory messages sent from nations around the world. Unnoticed " by Romsey towns people, Philip drove the bouncing jeep out the gate at Broadlands while England's future queen sat beside, him holding her Welsh Corgi dog, Susan.- For about an hour they toured the . 6,000-acre Broadlands estate. Weather Max. S A I.EM 48 Portland 49 San Franciso - 55 Chicago . . 48 New York 4S Min. Preoip. M " M 32 .00 37 ' .00 35 .00 39 .00 . Willamette river 7 6 feet. Forecast (from U.S. weather bureau. TMcNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today. - tonight and Sunday. Little change In temperature. High tempera ture today 50. low tonight 30. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH 7 wish they'd ove this hous ing shortage?1 ary life to accept the presidency f Columbia university. But the election of Gray to supervise veterans' affairs was a surprise to official Washington. 1 Other Shifts Three other shifts in -the high executive posts were announced by President Truman at his news conference: 1. Robert M. Littlejohn is re signing as war assets administrator effective Nov. 28. His deputy, Jess Larson, wih take over the job, pointing toward liquidation of WAA, except in real estate, by next June. 2. Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates was appointed commandant of the marine corps, succeeding Gen. Al exander A. Vandegrift, who is re tiring. 3. Dillon S. Myer resigned as commissioner of the U. S.' housing authority, in the expectation of taking another government posi tion. Mr. Truman said Myer has not said what job he wants. The president said that he him self does not know when Eisen hower plans to step out as chief of staff. Ike's plans were described as "very indefinite." To Make Survey Bradley, who commanded the 12th army group in Europe dur ing the war, will go back to the army December 1. He is expected to make a survey of army posts before assuming the duties of chief of staff. Gray, a St. Paul, Minn., repub lican, is slated to go in as-veterans" administrator January 1. PORTLAND, Nov. 21-(;P-Carl R. Gray, jr., new 'head of the vet erans administration, is a' one time Oregonian. As a railway construction engin eer, he helped build the old Ore gon Electric railroad between Sa lem and Eugene. He was married here in 1911. Blum Fails to Win French Premiership PARIS, Saturday, Nov. 22 -JP) Leon Blum, nominated for premier of a new French government, fail ed to win national assembly ap proval last night, and early to day it was reported that President Vincent Auriol had offered the post to Robert Schuman. Auriol, a socialist, was said to be. awaiting a reply from Schu man, who is SO, a member of the middle - of - the - road popular republican movement (MRP) and a former finance minister. He called the Luxembourg-born Lor rainer to the presidential Elysee palace at 2:30 a. m. Blum, 75 - year - old socialist, had been nominated by the presi dent Thursday night to succeed Premier Paul Ramadier, also a so cialist, who resigned Wednesday night To take office, he needed 309 votes in the assembly one vote more than half the total. He got 300 votes to 277 against him. There were 41 abstainers and absentees. Flying Grandmother Brings Chinaware, Needlework from Germany; Finds Language No Bar loyFriendship in U.S. By Don Dill Staff Writer, The Statesman Mrs. Pauline VVendt, 82, is rest ing today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Wittenberg, 236 S. 17th st., after a hectic week of flying from Berlin; Germany. Mrs. Wendt, short, plump and hearty, looking like all the good grandmothers of Grimm's fairy tales, was thrilled by the airplane ride. She was a bit apprehensive back in Germany when told of her mode of travel, but took heart when a friend suggested that since God had seen her through the terrors of the nazi regime and the war, He was not likely to desert her during the flight wamca to ivrcp uumi Once airborne Mrs. Wendt fejf as though she would like to keep right on going, she declares. The only hitches in the flight came at New York and Chicago where her planes were delayed by in clement weather. But even the delays provided her with thrills, for in New York a man and wom an took her in charge, drove her downtown to see the tall sky scrapers and dined her royally. She still doesn't know who they were, but thinks that America must be a land of generosity. And on the Chicago flight a fellow woman traveler gave her a dollar bill with which to buy coffee at the stops. " Originally scheduled to - arrive in Portland at 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning, Mrs. Wendt finally saw her daughter, Mrs. Wittenberg, after the plane landed about 1:30 p.m. After the first emotion-stirring meeting with' her daughter NINETY-SEVENTH YEAH Truman Amity Boy Charged with Murder '- '- "-"I ' -ll ,CY'- Hi In -" ' 4 s h I ' v ' - r : Facing second degree murder charges at Dallas is John Earl Peoples, 16, Amity, standing i center with Polk County Sheriff T. B. Hooker, left, and District Attorney R. S. Kreason, right, in front f Peoples' cell in the Polk county courthouse. Peoples Is charged with the arson-slaying of Robert of Dallas last month. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Russ Threaten Split with Iran MOSCOW, Nov. 21 - (JP) Russia hinted today that, she might break diplomatic relations with Iran as a result of the Iran ian parliament's refusal to ratify an agreement for oil concessions to the Soviet union. Describing Iran's action as in compa table with normal relations between the two nations," Russia said the middle east country must bear responsibility for the conse quences of "treacherous violations, gross discrimination and hostile activity against the USSR. Judge Rejects Candidacy For Governor Proposal PORTLAND, Nov. 21-(;P)-Cir-cuit Judge Donald E. Long today publicly rejected proposals that he become a democratic candidate for governor of Oregon. He said he would seek reelec tion as judge of the court of do mestic relations here. Mrs. Wendt was subjected to a whirlwind of activity! including pictures and interviews by re porters and photographers. Din ner was; scheduled at her grand daughter's, Mrs. Ema Young, at Aloha, near Portland. Then came the drive to Salem with her daughter and son.-in-law. Through the Oregon night Mrs. Wendt saw and marvelled at Oregon orch ards, trees and farms. Arrival at Salem touched off another series of greetings and welcomes from relatives Mrs. Wendt had never seen and their friends. Speaks No English Friday - morning Mrs. Wendt, despite her 6,500-mile trip, .was up and ready to catch up on all the happenings, of the years she and her daughter have been sepa rated. Speaking in rapid German she speaks no English she told her daughter of being caught in the Russian zone, of being smuggled by another daughter to the British zone, and finally of the thrill it was to eat a banana at her granddaughter's. Thankful for her good, fortune to be in America with her daugh ter, Mrs. Wendt said her plan for the future is to send all the food and clothing she can to her other daughters and relatives back in Germany. Having little clothing to pack she brought instead all the chinaware and needle work she could for her daughter. Mrs. Wendt will be 83 years old this Christmas and will be taken by the Wittenbergs to their daughter s home in Los Angeles for the occasion. 10 PAGES Backs J. Armstrong, 78, on a farm north Polk Grand Jury Recesses without Decision on Case DALLAS, Nov. 21 -( Special ) The Polk county grand jury re cessed today until after Thanks giving without reaching a decision in the case of John Earl Peoples, 16, referred to the grand jury, un der a second degree murder charge in connection with the arson-slaying of 78-year-old Robert J. Arm strong. The charge against young Peo ples was placed by District At torney R. S. Kreason after the yeuth allegedly signed a statement admitting cudgeling Armstrong and setting fire to his farmhouse 10 miles north of here September 8. Peoples is in the county jail here. BURT SNYDER OUT OF RACE LAKEVIEW, Nov. 21-;p)-Burt K. Snyder, state representative from Deschutes arid Lake coun ties, said today he would not run for election again. Snyder said he had been considering retiring from politics for some time. TV firms'1 ' - v-" rA ---- : Feeling hale and hearty Friday after a flying 'trip from Berlin, Germany, to Salem, Mrs., Pauline Wendt, 82, center, shows china and silverware and needlework she brought for her daughter, Mrs. Bert Wittenberg (right), and Mr. Wittenberg (left) la their home at 23 S. 17th st Mrs. Wittenberg will enjoy: the gleaming Bavarian figurines, small silver sets and exquisite hand knitted and em braidvred doilies and center pieces which were sent to her via her mother by friends ta Germany as payment for food, clothing and shoes which she and her husband have been sending- since the close of the war. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) POUNDBD 1651 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, November 22. 1947 Export Stassen oses Shipment WASHINGTON, Nov. 2MiP- President Truman said today he sees no reason to halt shipment of U.S. machinery to Russia in the face of congressional demands that the traffic- be stopped lest it strengthen soviet military might The president made his views known in reply to news confer ence questions stemming from the disclosure, in department of com merce records, that Russia is im porting locomotives, freight cars and other equipment from the U.S. at the rate of $150,000,000 a year. - Asked about criticism of this ex port volume, Mr. Truman said the Russians have a purchasing com mission here and that it is buying machinery needed for repairing dams and for farm work. - He said be saw no reason to stop such exports now. . Shipment of heavy machinery and other goods which might help the soviet bloc has been assailed repeatedly during congressional hearings on the question of ex tending economic aid to western European countries. In Chicago today. Harold E. Stassen republican candidate for president, said recent shipments of American equipment to Russia "are the kinds of technical materi al needed for modern warfare." Legionnaires Charged with Mob Violence G LEND ALE, Calif, Nov. 21-VP) Twenty men were named in mis demeanor complaints today as the aftermath of the visitation by a group wearing American Legion caps, at a political meeting in nearby La Crescenta Friday night. Among those named were 14 members of the Glendale Legion post 127, including its command er, Orville Collins, and Harry C. Burkheimer, publisher of the Glendale News-Press who also was charged with battery. Burkheimer said he was present merely as a newspaperman. The charges were instituted by Hugh Hardyman, a retired fruit grower, in whose home the meet ing was being held. He said it was a meeting of democrats, adding that a spokesman for the visiting group addressed his guests as "members of the Progressive Cit izens of America " The spokesman, he added, told the assembled group to "thank God you live in the United States' and urged them to disperse. The meeting continued, however, with David Leff, a former UNRRA in formation officer, discussing Greece and Yugoslavian problems. Opp of Machinery Franchises, Sewer Kent Provide Storm Clouds for Council By Robert E, Gangware City Editor. Tb Statesman Proposed bus and electric franchises and sewer service rental charges may add up to a stormy session of the city council when it meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday in city hall. Prepared for final action on the heavy council agenda are nine ordinance bills. Most of the city aldermen had ample evidence by Friday of mounting and controversial public interest in the sewer, bus land elec Thermometer Hits 28.6 Degrees, May Get Colder Red flannels were the comfor table attire in the Salem area Friday night as the thermometer at the U.S. weather bureau sta tion at MeNary field dipped to 2S.C degrees at midnight, and the bureau forecast continued cold accompanied by heavy frost over the week end. The bureau predicted the tem perature would drop further Just before sunrise today, perhaps to about 2 degrees. A low of 3 degrees was forecast for tonight and Sunday night. Friday night's temperatures by the hour: pjn- 32 degrees. 1 p-m-, 3Q.Z. 11 p.m, 3L 12 midnight, 2I.C 1 a.m, SO. Oregon, OSC rWar9 Airborne CORVALLIS, Ore, Nov. 21 (JPi Inter-campus rivalry be tween Oregon and Oregon State reached its usual peak today, just irrior to the annual football game between the schools. Air-minded Oregon State students sprinkled the Oregon 'campus yesterday with "Beat Oregon" leaflets dropped from a plane. Oregon students replied in kind today, thousands of printed sheets fluttering d.own on the Oregon State campus. The Staters masqueraded as Oregon students and delivered a load of material for a rally bon fire at Eugene. In the load were timed incendiary bombs, which set off the pile prematurely. And then two Staters, wear ing Oregon Sweaters, walked up to a fraternity house and. relieved the guard over the Oregon mas cot. Puddles, a duck. The Staters then walked off with duck and cage. They said they would re turn both between halves of the game tomorrow. . v -:v Price 5c tric bills. One alderman preoicted the council would have enough to consider to warrant delaying final action on air three matters. The. pending bill to enfranchise for 10 years the Oregon Motor Stages as city bus line on the basis of its present operations already has been opposed by petitions from patrons of Suburban Bus Lines who expressed the fear an OMS franchise might jeopardize the suburban bus operations. It was understood some resentment was felt when OMS recently ex tended its bus runs into Salem suburbs beyond city limits. Some Riders Dissatisfied Some aldermen also have heard complaints from city bus riders who said they are dissatisfied with OMS service. Also reported as considering a formal protest is a group of residents . living near the OMS shop and garage on Front street, who have complained of noise in use of the street for bus parking. Two bills are before council proposing a franchise for Salem Electric, the cooperative distribut or in Salem and West Salem of Bonneville power. A city-drafted bill would grant a revokable franchise limited to the coopera tive's operations as of Oct. 1, 1947, at an annual charge amount ing to 3fc per cent of the com pany's gross receipts. An alternate bill brought in at the request of Salem Electric i would provide the cooperative firm with a general franchise for operations within the city for a five-year period, with the city's fee amounting to S per cent of gross receipts. Merchants Ask Service Several downtown merchants have petitioned the council for its authority to enable them to have Salem Electric service and others have expressed themselves un officially to aldermen that a gen eral franchise for Salem Elecetric would make healthy competition for Portland General Electric Co. and tend to keep rates at present low levels. The sewer service rental bill is firs part of a $1,445,500 pro gram of sewer expansion into new city areas and ultimate .construc tion of a sewage disposal plant. The program was recommended by City Manager J. L. Franzen who asked 'that as a starter, new revenue be raised (at an estimated $104,000 per year) by charging residents and business firms for sewer use on the basis of water used. (Sewer bill details in Sunday's Statesman). Response Generally Favorable Although the long range plan for sewer improvements was greeted by generally favorable re-, sponse, several objections have since been raided. Some house holders have complained the rate in inequitable Jbecause they would pay the "extra" premium in the summer period of heavy water use. The basic rate of 50 cents per month for 500 cubic feet of water used is increased in all cases by three cents per each 100 addi tional cubic feet of water con sumed. Other residents voiced com plaints to aldermen that they will be paying for sewers going into the recently annexed outlying areas. Opposition is expected, too, from the canneries which as heavy water users would pay large amounts. Cannerymen point out that not all the water they use goes back into the sewers. Street Name Changes Other bills coming before coun cil for possible final action include the watered-down bill to change the names of eight city streets (controversial changes like High to Broadway having been elim inated), temporary residential zoning for recently annexed city areas, 50-foot setback lines for South Commercial street south of Hoyt street, an adjustment of sidewalk line on Hickory street between Maple and 5th streets, and higher charges for reclaim ing impounded dogs. Murtler Indictment Given in Van port Case ' PORTLAND, Nov. 21 -rtJP)- A first degree murder indictment was returned today against How ard Brown, 20, Vanport, whose 15-year-old sweetheart was fatal ly stabbed two weeks ago. Brown had maintained the girl, Noel Obey, was accidentally hurt while he toyed with new knife. No. 20S to Russ Prices to Rise, Says Anderson WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 -(-A "distressing shortage of meat beginning in February was fore cast today by Secretary of Agri culture Anderson. "Meat is going to.be distres singly short for February, March, April and May. and nossiblv June should be added, he told the joint senate - house economic commit tee. - "We are liable to have higher prices then he added. He appeared in connection with President Truman's anti - infla tion proposals. No Food Shortage Anderson said, "however, that "unless there is a disastrous wheat crop" next year there will be no shortage of food in the United rotates. His statement took into ac count the proposed food aid ship ments to. Europe. Americans' meat consumption, now averaging some 156 pounds per person annually, will be re duced to about 133 pounds, he predicted. Meat is likely to be somewhat hard to find in sufficient quanti ties until next October or Novem ber, he said. By that time, grass ted livestock is expected to bo reaching the market To Watch Wheat Crop Anderson told the lawmaker that if the wheat crop failed, im mediate efforts would be made to stimulate the production of po tatoes, soy beam and other such foods. The cabinet officer asked sweep ing authority to tighten controls over trading in grain and other foods by raising margin require ments as high as 100 per cent He also declared that the au thority, which President Truman asked to regulate the grades and weights at which livestock is Jd will not work without price con trols. To Study All Plans Earlier, senate republicans re ported a decision to develop n anti-inflation program of "sound measures' based on a study of all proposals, including those submit ted to congress by the president last Monday. Hours before Anderson testified to the joint economic committee, Mr. Truman had told his news conference that he wants federal authority to control credit margins on the commodity exchanges in the same manner that transactions on the stock exchanges are curbed. The president, however, declimd at that time to say what maximum margin percentage should be au- tnorized. Gov. Hall to Keep r Family in Portland Gov. John H. Hall declared Fri day he has decided against mov ing his family from Portland to Salem. The governor said he would spend three or four davs a week: in Salem with the rest of the week devoted to travel about the state to get acquainted. Hall said he felt it would be unwise to move hi$ family to Sa lem in view of the fact that his term ends in 14 months. His chil dren are now in school in Port land. 9 MEN LOST IN CRASH 1 SAN DIEGO, Calif.. Nov. 21 (iffVNine navy men were lost at sea in therrash early today of a Lockheed Neptune medium bomb er as two survivors were rescued by a submarine and brought to port here. Cause of the crash was not disclosed. BOMBER OVERDUE SAN DIEGO, Calif.. Nov. 2W4n A navy Martin Mariner patr4 bomber with an unknown num ber of persons aboard is overdue on a flight from Alameda. Calif., naval air station to Sam Diego, the 11th naval district reported to night QUICKIES "Mary! You know that bear skia rug we got with a Statesman Wast Ad well. Rarer Is gone new