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ODOO O OEDO POD DDloOD ODO ooob oa o o o o o ooo s4 Weather Max. SS M - M 14 Mln. lilta U J 41 ( Portland ban Franc taro M T Chtc.ro S4 IS New York . 44 M ti FORECAST (from C.S. wmthar bu reau. McNary fiM. Salem): Cloudy today and tonlrht. Hl temperature today 60, low tonight 3. NINETY-SEVENTH YEAH 10 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Rr1, Oregon, Saturday. Norembor 29, 1947 Pric 5c No. 211 CRT SS3H08 If wamm founded; 1651 Senate committees are dutifully listening to statements of cabinet members appearing in behalf of the program of economic controls outlined by President Truman as means of checking inflation. They are listening, but offstage republicans are in a deep study to prepare an alternative program which they hope will halt the ris ing tide of prices. The republi can senate policy committee last week decided to attempt some thing affirmative and not be con tent merely with knifing mot of the president's recommendations. It seems to have dawned on some of the majority that they have a responsibility they can't shake off. Leader in this group Is Senator Flanders of Vermont, an able industrialist himself. He has been holding hearings over the country during the congres sional recess and listened to housewives' complaints of high prices, so he came back prepared to do something. Others are be ginning to Understand that the prime issue in 1948 may easily be the -high cost of living," old HCL of 1919-1920. The antagonists in this duel over domestic economics are Tru man and Taft. The president de lights to shoot verbal spears at Taft and the Ohio senator is prompt in rebuttal. But a consid erable group of . (Continued on Editorial Page) Youth Enters Guilty Plea to ter 1)ALLAS, Nov. 28 John Peo ples, 18 years and 10 months old, pleaded guilty in circuit court here this afternoon to s charge of man slaughter in connection with the death of Robert J. Armstrong, 78, last September 8. The youth was represented in ' court by Philip Hayter, Dallas at torney. Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker accepted the guilty plea and said he would ask for a pre sentence recommendation of the state parole board. An indictment charging man slaughter was returned at 1 o'clock by the Polfcrounty grand Jury. Peoples has been held in the Polk county pail since his ar rest November 13 at St Helens, where he was working in a dairy. .Armstrong's body was found in the ashes of his home north of Dal las and it was at first believed he had burned to death in an acci dentally caused blaze. Later offi cers learned a youth had been seen about the place and search was started. The grand jury was given the story of Armstrong's death and the firing of his home which Sher iff T. B. Hooker said was told to him by the youth, who will be 17 in February. Maximum penalty which may be given the youth is 15 years, and it is expected it will be twd weeks before the pre-sentence investiga tion is received by the court and before sentence is passed. Mrs. Gerlinger Lashes at Aiken PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 2&-UP)-Oregon's republican national com mitteewoman today lashed at a leading critic of party chairman Carroll Reece, asserting that Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) is "stupid" and "out of step" with what the party is trying to do. Aiken, who has called for a housecleaning of the national committee, "is just . plain stupid and I don't mind being quoted on that," said Mrs. Gerlinger. He has criticized every chairman from John D. M. Hamilton on down to Mr. Reece." MOVIE WRITER FIRED HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 28 - UP) -Writer Ring Lardner, jr., one of 10 film figures cited by the Thom as un-American activities com mittee for contempt in refusing t& testify whether he is a member of the communist party, was dis missed today by 20th Century-Fox. And Now IC ..... RipKirby Starting Tomorrow Rip Klrby, one of the na tion's outstanding detective comics, has been obtained by Jlie Oregon Statesman and will become a daily feature of this newspaper starting tomorrow. Noted for its excellent art svork as well as its fascinating plot. Rip Kirby is from the pen of Alex Raymond and is being made available to The States man by King Features, Inc., of New York City. So that the sequence will be readily understandable and the groundwork laid for future events, there is published on the comic page of YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER today a rynopsis of happenings thus far. .You can "catch up" quick ly and be all st for the fast moving picture-story of Rip Kirby, a genteel sleuth with many beautiful girl friends and an ex-convict butler. Starting tomorrow in & OrtfioaCD0laltmM Manslaudi French To Take Plans to Assembly PARIS, Saturdays Nov. 29-UP)-Premier Robert Scnuman's cab inet called parliament today to -act upon its demands for wide powers to cope with widespread strikes, after government forces ousted strikers from strongholds they had seized. In St. Etienne, national guards men drove strikers from the railroad- station into the locomotive roundhouse, where they held out. In Brives, national police cleared the station of strikers and re established rail traffic on the Paris-Toulouse line. Drove Out Strikers In the Montrouge district of Paris, police forces took over the Chatillon - Montrouge machine plant from strikers. In Nayc, na tional guardsmen came to the res cue of police, whose lines had broken under an, attack of 2,000 strikers, and drove out several hundred striking workmen who had entered factories still in oper ation. Police lines were thrown around stations and factories in Rouen to protect them from some 8,000 de monstrating strikers. Emergency Session ;The cabinet, in a three-hour emergency meeting last night, summoned the national assembly to meet at 10:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m., eastern standard time) today to consider its demands for broader authority. The demands the cabinet agreed upon were not disclosed officially, but they were understood to in clude authorization to (1) mobil ize certain public service work ers; (2) take stern measures against sabotage, particularly of railroads, post offices, communica tions and electric light plants, and (3) deal strictly with civil ser vants and employes of the na tionalized railroads judged guilty of breaking discipline. There was a possibility also, a parliamentary source said, that Che nationalassembly might be asked to limif the right to strike. Alaska Crash Probe Ordered JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 2S-UP) The early Thanksgiving morning plane crash which took the lives of 13 persons at Yakutat was or dered investigated by the civil aeronautics authority today as ar rangements were made to fly the bodies south. A check by the Columbia Air Cargo Co., Portland, operators of the OC-3, made one change in the casualty list. The crash occurred as the plane came in for an in strument landing in the fog and drizzle, on .an Anchorage-Seattle flight. The name of Lawrence W. Sel lers, Milwaukie, Ore., was added to the list, replacing that of J. T. Jinkins, also Milwaukie. Mineral Deposits Located in Canada QUEBEC, Nov. 28 -P)- Pre mier Maurice Duplessis announc ed today mineral deposits of "un surpassed quality" had been lo cated in Quebec territory in the Labrador peninsula and potenti alities of the area were "fantastic." The premier told his weekly news conference mining experts who had explored the territory had definitely located deposits of 200,000 tons of high quality min erals in a 1,500-square-mile sec tion of the "immense territory", of 300,000 square miles. Jewish Congregation to Dedicate Temple Beth Dedication of Temple Beth Sholom, Just completed by Salem's Jewish congregation as their first temple, is planned for Sunday at 2:3 p.rn with services In which local and Portland leaders, fnclnding Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, will participate, according to Dr. Barry Brown, In charge of the program. Invitations have been Issned, gad the pnbUo la invited to an open bono from 4iM to Premier eni-Taft Palestine Plan Showdown Soviet Warned Independent Action Near LONDON, Nov. 28-C)-British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevih warned Russia tonight that the western powers possibly would act on their own to save Germa ny and Europe from "chaos" if the big four failed to agree on Ger many's future. The warning came during a ses sion of the foreign ministers con ference marked mainly by confu sion and disagreements, inform ants said. Bevin, the sources add ed, looked straight at impassive Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.. Molotov and asked: , "Are we going to leave Europe in chaos? Is chaos our objective? Is a settlement to be blocked every time we try? I say we can not go on forever with chaos in Europe as it is now." Bevin asked the auestion after Molotov blocked agreement on setting up border commission to examine territorial claims on Germany. Mundt Reveals Civil Service Exam Grades Names of 17 men who passed recent civil service examinations for 15 vacancies in Salem police and fire departments were an nounced Friday afternoon by City Recorder Al Mundt, following a session of the city civil service board. The names .will be certified) the fire and police chiefs today, Mundt said. The scores, a compos ite of written, oral and physical test results, do not yet include ie 10 per cent addition allowed war veterans. Since most of the appli cants are veterans, this will change their order in only a few cases. Scores of applicants for the five police department openings were Edward Lewis Pease 90.8, Robert T.- Keefer 82.1, Glenn Lee Foster 81.5, Everett L. Odle 77.8 and Lewis H. Wells 72 J. All but Kee fer are now serving on a tempor ary basis. For the fire department's 10 openings, applicants' scores were Bill R. Bishop 82.94, Robert E. Erikson 90.60, LaMarr I. Shep hard 90.22, Donald L. Hill 89.44, G. A. Noff singer 89.21, Frank Hills 88.32, G. H. Hall 84.60. C. C. Nelson 83.10. Charles M. Bower 82.19, Allen C. Snyder 78.95. The odore T. Cupp 74.93 and Eugene H. Carver 72.10. All but Cupp, Snyder, Bower, Carver and Noff singer now have temporary ap pointments. A. A. Gueffroy and Lyle J. Page attended the board meeting, but Chairman Arthur H. Moore is convalescing at Salem General hospital from a lengthy illness. HUKBALAHAPS KILLED MANILA, Saturday, Nov. 29 UP) - Fifty hukbalahaps (armed. anuadministration peasants) and one Filipino military policeman were reported today to have been killed in a two-hour clash 53 miles south of Manila. The Ma nila Chronicle said an undisclosed number of women was among the victims. " ' Tim ' ' Asks Added Powers as Violence 'IQ)oiuhteodl Faith' off Onroited Contois-Plan Purchasing Officers to Face Boards of Inquiry WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -UP)- Several more wartime purchasing officers of the armed forces will be called upon to explain their re lations with contractors who made large profits, members of a bouse committee indicated today after a long hunt for war frauds. Chairman Bender (R-Ohio) of the house expenditures subcom mittee, which has been digging into war transactions flor several Re-Trial Set as Jury 'Hung9 in Pinball Case A Marion county district court jury, which could not agree on a verdict for1 Ethan B. Reed, Hub bard, charged with possessing maintaining and operating a slot machine, was dismissed Friday and the case will be set for re trial, according to District Judge Joseph Felton. The trial began Wednesday, was postponed Thursday and was tak- en up again Friday morning when final arguments of attorneys werej presented and instructions given the six jurors.,. After deliberating for more than two hours, the v'hung" jury de clared itself in disagreement and was dismissed. To reach ja verdict in district court all jurors must agree. Judge Felton said. Deputy District Attorney Regi nald Williams, representing the state, called Deputy Sheriff Louis Bonney to the stand again briefly Friday. Bonney testified again that he purchased a package of cigarets from Reed, owner of the Playmore Park tavern, with three pinball machine tokens. Reed previously testified that at the moment of the exchange he was busy serving customers and in his haste thought the coins laid on the counter by the deputy were nickels. Police Release Lifer in Case of Mistaken Identity OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 28 UP)- Br answering to another prisoner's name, James Albert Landers, alias James Albert Lile, who police said was a life-term prisoner from Louisville, Ky., walked out of the city jail tonight. ; The escape occurred when Bill Shirley, jailer, received a bond receipt for the release of a pris oner and called for him by name at the door of the cell block. Only one answer was heard and the man was released. Later the man who was supposed to have been released learned of the order and demanded to be let out The escape of Landers was then learned. 20 BOATS SINK IN STORM MIAMI, Fla Nov. 28-fP)-A freakish storm born in a squall wave sank about 20 small boats, damaged several others and up rooted trees in Key West today and caused northeast storm warn ings to be hoisted from Palm Beach to Key West. REDS OFF METALS LIST WASHINGTON, . Nov. 28 -JP) Russia was omitted tonight from a list of countries eligible to get quotas of steel and iron materials from this Country during the final quarter of 1947. r 5$ pjn. Sunday. Picture at left shows the brick-faced exterior of the structure at; Madison and Broadway streets. Photo at right depicts the Interior of the modern synagogue. Rooms In the basement provide for B'nal B'rith lodge meetings, social activities and Sunday school classes. . (Photos by Don DHL Statesman staff photographer.) months, said he is "ready to act on certain cases involving plane contracts." Bender told a reporter that the subcommittee it "not out hunting headlines." Nevertheless, he pre dicted that the results of its in quiry will compare favorably with those of the senate wsr investiga ting subcommittee which unearth ed the secret wartime dealings of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, air force procurement officer. Naming no names. Bender said that investigators have been! ex amining the relations of several wartime purchasing officers with manufacturers who later were listed as having been greatly ov erpaid by the government. He said the committee will try to find out whether any of the officers were cut in on the contracts. Meat Market Strike Near In Portland PORTLAND, Nov. 28 -(JP) Em ployers and meat cutters will con fer tomorrow In an attempt to avert a strike which would close most of Portland's butcher shops. The Food Employers, Inc. and the Independent p Retail Meat Dealers' association have nego tiated for three months with the AFL Meat Cutters union without reaching a wage agreement Work ers have authorized a strike if no settlement' is reached. The association secretary said negotiators are $2.50 apart the employers offering $65.50 and the union scaling its original demand down to $68. Present scale is $63 for a 40-hour week. Bullet Moves Stubborn Mule NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28 -UP) An old gray mule stood resolutely in the middle of the Huey Long bridge across the Mississippi river for four hours today while train after train lined up on the lengthy approaches. Slightly injured by a passing train earlier in the day, the sad eyed, long-eared animal just gaz ed reproachfully at train crews and officers and refused to budge despite ear tweeking and tail twisting. Finally, the society for the pre vention of cruelty to animals dis patched the mule with a bullet Water Control District Hearing Set January 2 Hearing on the proposed Pud ding river water control district is set for January 2, 1948. in Mar ion county courthouse, the Mar ion county court decided Friday. The first hearing will be to per mit objections against the pro posed district to be filed. It will also fix the boundaries of the dis trict, which has for its object the clearing and care of the Pudding river in this area. Sholom Here f ' .11 delayed Vote Set Today; Proponents of Plan Optimistic NEW YORK, Nov. 29 -VP) -A surprise compromise move by France today put off for at least 24 hours a final showdown vote in the United Nations assembly on the so-called Soviet - American plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arabic countries. The assembly voted 25 to IS on the simple question of adjourning for 24 hours. The change in the situation came after several delegates, in cluding the assembly president, predicted off the floor that the partition plan would be approved with one or two. votes Xo spare. Chief U. S. Delegate Warren R. Austin, who had voted against the 24-hour delay, commented: "It will not diminish the prospect of the majority report tne partition plan) being accepted.". One highly-placed U. N. offi cial, however, said that the ad journment made postponement of the whole problem until next year much more likely. The Soviet Union sided with the U. S. in voting against ad journment The vote was taken on a show of hands. A motion for adjournment takes precedence over all other busi ness, must be voted on promptly, and requires only a simple ma jority for adoption. A two-thirds vote of those pres ent and voting is required to adopt the plan. Hunter Shoots Garage Door Hunting season is over and Sa lem a restricted area but city po lice Friday were looking for a game violator who fired two bul lets through the garage door of Mrs. Thomas Downs, 760 N. 21st st.. early Wednesday morning. " Mrs. Downs summoned city po lice Wednesday morning when she discovered the shells had pierced the door and smashed through the windshield of her car parked in side. Police said they believed the snots were fired by someone who has been reported hunting phea sants in the area recently. Boys Drown As Ice Breaks CANYON- CITY, Nov. 28 -UP) A thin cap of ice over the Silvies river broke under the weight of skaters yesterday and the two small sons of a logger went to to their death in the stream below. Eugene Ashcraft, 7, crashed through the ice. His 10-year-old brother, Herbert, skated over to help him and also plunged through' the break. They were skating at Seneca, where their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ashcraft, live. The bodies were recovered. Salem Man Leaves $398,386 Estate John W. Crane, Salem business man who died here recently, left an estate totalling over one-third of a million dollars, according to an appraisal of the estate filed with the Marion county clerk Fri day. The $398,386 estate consisted of $186,866 cash, more than $68,000 in stocks and bonds and the rest rest in real estate, personal pro perty, and sole proprietorship of Valley Oil Co., appraised at $52, 500. Series of Shocks Ends with Death OREGON CITY. Ore. Nov. 28 fP-Mrs. Emma B. Heller, 53, of Damascus, died of a heart attack today after a series of shocks. Her house caught fire, and she suffered a heart attack. She was placed in an ambulance to be rushed to the" hospital, and the ambulance plunged, off the road into a telephone pole. . She was moved to another am bulance, and died before reach ing the hospital. ALUMINUM PLANT DUE VANCOUVER, Wash. Nov. 28 (JpyTht Aluminum Company of America said today it was draft ing plans to build a major plant here to manufacture aluminum rod, wire, and electrical trans inifsioB table. Victim PARIS, Not. 2S Gen Leclere. French army hero of World War n. who the air ministry an nounced today, was killed In an airplane crash in Africa. Gen. Leclere, French Desert FighterJOUed PARIS, Nov. 28 -4JP)- Gen Le clere, the hero of the march from Lake Chad and the man who led French troops back into Paris, has been killed in an airplane crash in Africa, the air ministry announced tonight The 48-year-old expert in arm ored warfare died in the Sahara desert where he first gained fame in World War IL Air Secretary Andre Marsolelli said the accident occurred 20 miles from Colomb bechar near the Algeria-Morocco border. It was understood that all the 12 persons aboard the plane were burned to death. Just when the crash occurred -was not an nounced. Leclere was one of France's greatest heroes. The slight, fair - haired Leclere firmly established his military re putation when he led a Free French force on an epic march of almost 2,000 miles from Fort Lamy in the Lake Chad region of French Equatorial Africa to Tripoli and a junction on Jan. 23, 1943 with Field Marshal Lord Montgomery's British eighth ar my. 3 Tons of Clothes Found Amid Rags HEALDSBURG, Calif, Nov. 28 (JP)- The American d Cross to night disclaimed ownership of 6,000 pounds of clothing found in a consignment of old rags on a railroad siding here. R. S. Eaton, Pacific area man ager of the Red Cross, announced after an all-day investigation that the clothing was not part, of a Red Cross shipment intended for Europe's needy. Shipping tags indicating the Fresno county chapter of the Red Cross had sent some of the cloth ing to the Pacific area office, Eaton said, came from discarded Red Cross cartons which were used as inside wrappings in the bales. t Report Delayed on New State Building Secretary Roy Mills of the state board of control indicated Friday that it probably would be several weeks before he will complete a preliminary report in connection with the proposal to erect a $2. 500,000 state office building in Portland. The board of control ordered such a report at its last meeting Tuesday. Outstanding problem. Mills said, will be that of selecting a site where adequate parking space will be available. RED OUSTER IN HAWAII HONOLULU, Nov. 2&-UP)-Gov-ernor Ingram M. Stainback said today he has asked department heads to oust every known com munist in public service in the Territory of Hawaii, so that by example the CIO Longshoremen also will be forced to clean Mounts Officials Disagree On Curbs WASHINGTON, Nor. 28 -jfV Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) today chal lenged the administration's "good faith" to asking -limited" econ omic controls powers, while two high administration officials dis agreed on the best way to curb Inflationary bank loans. Taft took Issue with Secretary of Commerce Harriman's testimo ny before the senate - house ec onomic committee that only "lim- . . . . . a- A. ilea auinorixy was Deing sougni by President Truman to control and allocate scarce goods oiks commodities with the view to halt ing the rising cost of living. ltt Authority The Ohio senator contended that what was really being sought was blanket "100 per cent authority "I dont think your proposal are in good faith," ho said. Harnman replied that there is a difference between the Truman plan for "standby" power and the 100 per cent authority Tan men tioned. Harriman told the committes) the overall aim was to channel scarce supplies into the most es sential uses. He mentioned meats, steel and lumber as major field wherein he -hoped" lower price would result. Eecles Proposal Secretary of Treasury Snyder told the committee he disagreed with the proposal of Tederal Re serve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles that banks be required to in making the proposal last week, asserted the special reserve would cut down the amount of money banks can lend and thus be anti - inflationary. Snyder said he believes the best way to reduce tho.banks' lending ability is to keep taxing revenue higher: than government spendinaj and use the surplus to pay oft government securities owned by banks. ' r Wincliell Girl Search Widens k i NEW YORK, Nov. 2a-VPoliee of 13 states along the eastern e- board searched today for Waldo E. WinchelL attractive 20-yes old actress-daughter of Columnui waiter Wlnchcll, .but no clua were reported. Miss WincheU's: mother report ed her absence to police yester day, saying her daughter had been missing from her Fifth Avenu hotel since Wednesday afternoon J A 13-state alarm was sounded today. Mrs. Winchell told police be daughter was ill. Winchell. in Hollywood, said several doctor; had pronounced her "very, very ill" and in need of immediat hospitalization. The nature pf he illness was not disclosed, however. Local Chamber to , Hear Palestine yi Expert Monday Dr. Theodore Jackman, noted world traveler and executive di rector of the Palestine Renesrehl Institute, will discuss his recent experiences in Palestine in av speech before the Salem Chamboa, of Commerce Monday noon in th chamber dining room. i. Jackman is the near east repre tentative of the World Christian, Fundamentals association and fellow of the Royal Geographical society of London. England. H. also will show color movies Ukeny during six years he spent in tho Holy land area. He is known a one of the world's outstanding au thorities on the Palestine situation. BOXCAR LOOTED Several sacks of potatoes war stolen from a boxcar parked on a siding in front of the Pacific Fruit and Produce company, 531 Trad St., Thursday night, city polic reported Friday. The seal on the car's' door was broken and tho door forced to gain entry, polic said. T , lllllllllllliiinj i