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"7! 11 Weather YCVC Max. Mln. ss 34 Fred. Saleai Portland .44 San Francisco S4 44 i .CO Chicago 29 13 , J4 New York 32 is i 3 Willamette river 3 foot. Falling.. tonight with patch of oarly morning tog. SUfhtly warmer temperature. bt aUU below freezing. Highest today 40, low tonight 29. f 1651 HLNtTT-SLVLNTH TTAB U PAGES To Onqoa fi tattmtm. Sclacu Ofgoa. Thursday, February 12. 1943 Prlc 5c t) Cin-lO C3 22 (G)M) ' J ) V POUNDSD No. 277j ' Athena DtF I -j J v , 11 'J Within a few days an appal will be published signed by many distinguished people asking for a suspension or the program for partition of Palestine. The Alsop column in this paper yesterday reported that the Palestine ques tion is under review by the Na tional Security council and that President Truman will no longer make decisions on this question "on his own." The reasons for the review of policy are given quite clearly In the Alsop column. Partition, it is now apparent, is leading to open war between Jews and Arabs. In such a develop ment, it is claimed, the Jews would be wiped out by the vastly superior number of Arabs. But war any place in the globe, we know, may precipitate world war; and particularly is this true of the middle east where the stakes of oil are so huge. Enforcement of partition by the United Nations is yet impossible because It has no police force. The United States doesn't want to send troops in there, and doesn't want Russian troops sent In. because Russia is slow to pull out troops from any occupied territory. The lesser powers will likewise be re luctant to furnish troops to do a police job which the British are giving up with confession of fail ure. The new petition asks that both tides suspend their hostilities while a fresh examination of the Palestine problem Is made. But such an examination holds min imum of promise because the question has been studied by com missions and governments for years without reaching a solution both sides would agree to. As the Alsops say: "No more difficult task has ever been imposed upon American policy-makers" - or on those of the world it might be added. So long as agreement seemed Impossible partition seemed the only way out But we all shudder at the prospect of a "blood bath" in the middle east, not only for the victims and their families but for the portent of widening con flict. The Palestine situation is one to watch closely not only in Pales tine but at Lake Success and in Washington. Murray Charged With Violation of T-II Politics Ban WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 -Pi Philip Murray and the CIO heads were charged by the government today with violating the Taft Hartley act ban on union po litical spending. Murray said he welcomed the Indictment. He said it will test what he called an attempt by congress to curtail the "vitally important freedom of the press." A federal grand Jury accused the 61 -year-old Murray and the CIO of intentionally printing in the CIO News an endorsement for democratic candidate Edward Carmatz last July in a Maryland congressional election. The indictment said the en dorsement was made in deliber ate violation of the Taft-Hartley law's prohibition of political spending by labor organizations and corporations. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOO0RICH "Ifi discoursing whn I mAt tnJi mtt I miod up with M xaro." Bank Theft Loot Found FBIHolq's Manager Of Cafe PORTLAND, Feb. 11 The discovery of $8,300 of coins stolen from the Athena bank and arrest of a man In whose cafe some of the. coins were found, were an nounced today by the FBI., Six hundred pounds of silver coins, taken by burglars who tunneled into the Athena ; bank vault a week ago, were recovered. A snow-covered cache ir the sagebrush country yielded most of them. The others turned Up in the Damsite cafe at Umatilla. Theodore James Audettjj 43-year-old Umatilla county native who managed the Damsite; cafe, was arrested in the cafe last night, FBI special agent Howard I. Bob bin said he was held on a charge of participating in the burglary. Ilele Tee Small Umatilla county sheriff R. E. Goad, indicated that some one else must have carried out the ' actual theft of the coins. The sheriff said Audett a six-foot man weighing about 180 pounds could not have squeezed through the 15-inch hole which Was cut in the bank vault. A boy. a girl, or a very small man or woman might: have crawled through, the sheriff said. Ne Farther Arrests He added, however, that no more arrests were expected! at this time. Several persons were ques tioned last night along with Au dett. but were released later. The Athena bank, a branch of the U. S. national i of Portland, lost nearly $9,000 IdsHver coins in the burglary last Wednesday. The manner of breaking into the building prying open a main door, then digging through "the vulnerable side of the bank vault led police to believe that the culprit was thoroughly familiar with the building. Footprints in the snow outside one set much larger than the other indicated that at least two persons were involved. Officials at Pendleton said Audett had served in the Wash ington state reformatory on a charge of forgery and i In the Washington state prison on a charge of grand larceny.' Zielinski to Vie for County Commissioner Alfred J. Zielinski, Silverton route 2, filed his declaration of candidacy for the office of Marion county commissioner on the re publican ticket in the coming el ections with the Marion county clerk Wednesday. Only other candidate for the commissioner's position is Roy Rice, incumbent, who will also try (or the republicans primary nomination. Zielinski. 30, was born in Sa lem, attended Salem schools and is a veteran of the late World war having served in the Slat field ar tillery battalion, the 603rd tank destroyer battalion and the 91st infantry division. ' He is married and the father of two children. His campaign state ment stresses that he Will strive to "speed along the completion of the present road and bridge pro gram and repair and maintain the present ones in the- county to make them more safe and useful and to restrict excessive load lim its, especially during hazard con ditions." His ballot slogan is "an efficient and impartial business adminis tration." The young candidate is a descendant of the five Zielinski brothers who settled In what is now the Hazel Green 5 district in the 1880 s, where they" still have extensive farming and; fruit acre age holdings. Zielinski is a member of the Am erican Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He lives in the Howell Prairie district West of Sil verton. Influenza Closes Portland Scliool PORTLAND, Feb. H -UP)- In fluenza, still rampant In the state, forced the closure of another school today. Whitaker grade school here closed for the rest qf the week after half the students and three teachers were absent; with flu or respiratory infections. Several schools in this region had. closed last week. The number of influenza cases reported by physicians in Oregon doubled last week, to 137, New 'Weatherman9 in Salem '-,, J it , i ! ; : f ' " ' ' ' ' J '" ""kaw,aafc Weodertnx Imw the weather la Oregea will ecsapare with that ef MwUa fcs M. S Main, right, new manager the SaJessi weather bveaa at MeNary field, shewn mbere checkinx charts and records with Joseph Sehlieskl. left, weather bsenrer. Mala was sUUened with the U. S. weather bnreaa la Great Falls, Meat, for seven years befere being transferred m Salens. He weat en duty here Manday. (PbU by Dea DIU. SUtesBsaa sUff aheUgraaher.) 400 Protest Bus Schedule For Suburbs Approximately 400 residents of the east Salem area beyond the city limits lodged a strong protest against Oregon Motor Stages bus service in that district with Pub lic Utilities Commissioner George Flagg Wednesday morning. Dr. Robert Clarke, 460 Morgan ave., presented the petition bear ing the 400 names to the PUC with a request that an open meeting be called "to correct this unfair and deplorable condition." Chief complaint of the east Sa lem residents is that OMS has established no evening or Sunday service there and that the daytime schedules are "erratic" and do not cover enough of the area, Dr. Clarke said. "This section had a good trans portation service in the Salem Suburban Bus lines, except Sun day and evening hours," the pe tition read. "When OMS took over the route, they promised good service. They kept this promise for one month. Then on February 1 the new Sunday and evening service was discontinued and routes changed and cut down to where the service is of little value to this community," Dr. Clarke said. The present service is a "de cided detriment to this commun ity both as a means of travel to and from Salem where many of our residents work, shop and at tend church, and to the building up of this section and its busi- Those streets involved In the petition include Garden road. East State street, Lancaster drive, Mor gan avenue and the Fruitland road. SOAP PRICES REDUCED CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 11 -UP) - A price reduction of ap proximately five per cent in seven brands of soap manufactured by the Lever Brothers company was announced tonight by president Charles Luckman. Home Owner Files Court Suit to Block Installation of Front Street Rail Track A suit seeking to prevent the installation of an Oregon Elec tric Railway Co., switch block and spur line at D and North Front streets, was filed in Marion county circuit court Wednesday. The suit is brought by Bertha B. McMahan, "for herself and on behalf of all other property own ers and residents on Front and D streets." It is lodged against the Oregon Electric company and Terminal Ice it Cold Storage Co., for which the spur is to be built Attorney ii L H. McMahan, husband of plaintiff, and a Mar ion county circuit judge for sev eral terms prior to his retirement in 1942. McMahan opposed city council action which last month granted Oregon Electric the spur track franchise. The plaintiff declares that she lives next to the Western Paper Converting Co., on Front near D street, and that between the paper company and the ice plant, which face each other along Front street, the street has been reduced in 'Coldest Weather Of Season9 Due By the v Associated Press A pile up of cold air over Ore gon brought the highest baro metric pressure in 13 months to Portland Wednesday and promise of the coldest weather of the seat son. The weather bureau said the cold snap might ease by the week end, but only slightly,: and that sub-freezing temperatures would be general in western Oregon during early morning hours. The mercury was due to plummet near the winter's lows in eastern Ore gon points. Police Force Vacancy Filled, Man Promoted All existing vacancies in the Sa lem police department were! filled Wednesday by Chief Frank Minto when a patrolman was promoted to the detective division and a for mer patrolman was rehired on the force. Leonard Skinner, formerly pa trolman on the day shift, was as signed to the detective division on the 2 to 10 p.m. shift, filling the remaining vacancy in that divi sion. Joseph Schutz, who resigned last September 1, was rehired as a patrolman on the 10 p.m. .to 8 a.m. shift. City Recorder Alfred Mundt said Wednesday night. Both Skinner and Schutz joined the force May 1, 1946, and both served with the marine corps dur ing World War II before joining the force. Minto had made no announce ment of the changes Wednesday. Mundt said that he had not been informed of Skinner's pro motion, and Capt. Stanley Friese said confirmation of the change would have to come from Chief Minto. Skinner is the fourth mem- ! ber of the detective division. SAI.EM PRECIPITATION (Since Sept. 1) This Year 28.12 Lait Year 24.13 Average 24.73 width from 60 feet to 40 feet. She further alleges that the de fendant railroad switches freight cars day and night along Front street thereby creating a pedes trian annoyance and a traffic haz zard especially at the Salem end of the Polk county bridge. Oregon Electric and the South ern Pacific railroads maintain 20 switch and spur tracks along Front street for the use of private industrial plants, the complaint states. These tracks. It is alleged, are laid either on the sidewalks, or along the outer edges of walks. Vt A' ilka. and a and freight cars are loaded unloaded on planks which block the sidewalks. Also mentioned in the complaint is the Union street track owned by the Valley and Silez Railroad company, which jiaily "pulls across Front streetlogring trains three-quarters or a mile long, stops at the crossing of Front street, blow its steam whistle. Food Cost Wavers In Salem Prices of some food items show ed signs of slipping in Salem Wednesday, in line with the drop in national commodity markets, but other than offering a few shelf -clearing "specials" most Sa lem food merchants gave no in dication that they expected any prolonged tobogganing. Items expected to show the most reduction immediately in cluded flour, pancake flour, lard and perhaps fresh pork and smok ed meats, and there were indi cations some kinds of soap would join the downtrend by next week. 8agar Reduced Many other grocery articles also may be off slightly, some merchants said, but mainly as a result of a weakening noticeable for the past several weeks. Sugar already is off around $1 per hun dredweight since last November, and slight drops also have been noted in salad and cooking oils, some fruits and a few varieties of meat, as well as eggs. Only a cent or two a pound drop was noted in actual whole sale meat quotations in Salem Wednesday, and some merchants said it was doubtful a major break in prices would be reflect ed immediately. Wheat products, Shich soared under impetus of e Marshall plan for European recovery, also showed little signs of weakening more than mildly for the time being. Canned vege tables already are down. Comparison Shown How far food prices have risen is shown In a comparison be tween lists of February, 1940, and the current month. Taking a gen eral average (difficult to esti mate because of quality differen tiations and also because the of ferings of merchants vary with their own particular supply of specific items), here it what a rough comparison shows: 194 1948 Sugar, lb. 5c 9c Coffee, lb. 25c 50c Canned corn 10c 18c Margarine 15c 40c Butter 40c 92c Milk 11c 19c Eggs 35c 70c Soap 5c 11c Canned milk 7c 14c Cooking oils, pt 20c 42c Salt 7 "4c 9c Pancake flour 17c 33c Bread 124c 22c Lard, lb. 12Vc 30c Pork roast, lb. 124c 50c Pork steak 15c 55c Link sausage 19c 65c Ground beef 13c 45c Smelt 6c 26c Pot roast 18c 50c Today's Salem market quota tions shows butter and eggs up slightly over a week ago, and poultry unchanged. Most live stock except calves is slightly weaker. Stayton Liquor Store Robbed STAYTON, Feb. ll-(Special)-A thousand dollars worth of liquor was taken from the state liquor store here in an early-morning burglary today, it was reported by L. Nokelby, agent operating the liquor store. Nokelby said the glass front door of the store had been broken in and 18 to 20 cases of liquor plus $60 in cash taken. He said residents of apartments upstairs had heard nothing during the night but some residents a block from the store thought they had heard noises about 4:30 a. m. Marion County Sheriff Denver Young was here today investigat ing the theft. rings its bell and obstructs and delays traffic." A switch track on Division street for Hunt Foods, Inc. can nery, which adjoins the McMahan property, is alleged to parallel Front street to withir 16 feet of plaintiffs property and that "switches are in constant use for the profit of thecannery only. This same twitch, the com plaint declares, extends to the Western Paper property and is laid over the sidewalk there for about ?00 feet Further north on Frontis another spur track also laid on the sidewalk alongside of Murdock cannery. Purpose of the suit is to head off alleged plans of the ice company and Oregon Electric to install a second switch block immediately in front of plaintiffs house. Shunting of cars along the Front street track already is so noisy, plaintiff alleges, that with the door to the house open it prevents conversation or use of the radio and deprives her family of rest and sleep Slump Pays $200,000 To Chicago Speculator WASHINGTON, Feb. A "leading speculator" who made a killing of $200,000 or more when grain prices slumped was named today as E. T. May nard of Chicago. His identity was disclosed to congress by Secretary of Agri culture Anderson, who had re vealed that Maynard sold 1,000, 000 bushels of wheat short, but had withheld his name. Both senate and house inves tigators demanded it. Rep. An dresen (R-Minn) contended that the size of the operation indi cated possible use of inside in formation but this Anderson and Maynard stoutly denied. Senator O'Daniel (D - Tex), often a critic of administration (T!lfonnn-rhs (TIhllllrm Aired at CooiicDave Dr. Hamblin Re-Elected President ' i . - By Winston H. Taylor j SUff Writer, The Statesman I The challenges to Christianity today extension of the church to more people, making its personnel as good as its product, erosion of the line between church and state, gaining the proper sense of values were emphasized Wednesday at closing sessions of the Oregon Council of Churches annual conference here. The conference theme was "Christ's Call Today, The council re - elected Dr. Chester W. Hamblin of Salem First Presbyterian church as pre sident. D. Ralph Walker of Port land was elected representative to the World Council of Churches conference In Amsterdam next August Duriqg the past three days, more than 500 ministers and laymen from over the state, representing at least 15 denominations, parti cipated in the sessions. The Ore gon Council of Church Women, which opened its meeting Tuesday night and joined in most Wednes day sessions, will close today. The program; will be featured by in stallation at First Presbyterian church at 10 ajn. of new officers' elected Wednesday, including Mrs. Ralph Mort of Portland as presi dent succeeding Mrs. Max Reeher of Hillsboro. Pioneer Spirit Recalled Dr. Walker, pastor of First Bap tist church, Portland, in the clos ing sermon Wednesday evening re called the Oregon pioneer spirit, which led ministers to come with the settlers, rather than follow af ter. Because some of the century old churches are quarreling among themselves, he declared, only 22 per cent of the state's population are church members. The commis sion of the council is to lead in gaining "togetherness," he remind ed, expressing wonder and some despair at the church's approach to "those ! who work with their hands.'" He Warned of the encroachment of "statism" through proposed federal aid to education, including sectarian schools. In addressing the laymen's ban quet ait First Methodist church. Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker of McMinnville urged the importance of gaining proper sense of values and of basing a person's happiness on service. "It's not enough to be good; you need to be good for something." Talk on Delinquency He realizes, said Judge Walker, that as a judge he is starting from the wrong end when boys reach his court that their training must begin in the home and the school. He reminded his audience that he recently sent two 16-year-old boys to the state penitentiary, then declared that such a thing should not ha.ipen "Oregon should be ashamed of having no intermedi ate place for the segregation of youngsters in serious trouble.'- Church people were called by Judge; Walker "the most privil eged ipl all groups to live in Am erica." At the final business session, the conference adopted a resolution supporting the Stratton bill in congress to admit 100,000 displac ed persons annually to the UJ5. This was the only resolution, other than five approved Tuesday con cerning social action. (Additional details on page 2.) Search for Ship Proves Fruitless SEATTLE, Feb. 11 JPy- Fears for the safety of a Seattle fishing vessel were allayed tonight but an air search for another such vessel from; Warrenton, Ore., the Rose Ann,1 proved fruitless. A i radiophone conversation be tween the Paul L. and a fish company in Anacortes was in tercepted tonight The Rose Ann, out of Warren ton, Ore., has been unreported since gale winds swept the north west coast early Sunday, causing several vessels to report they were in trouble. i policies, once ' more demanded that Anderson resign. He blam ed government grain purchasing operations for consumer price rises. In Chicago, Maynard said the formula for his quick cleanup is as simple as this: "All you had to do to know prices were going down was to read the newspapers." Anderson asserted that May nard "had no information from us" and that "no corruption" was involved in his trading. He said Maynard had shown an uncanny ability to scent out market move ments, and added; "We wish we had him on our atafL" Rep. Norblad Ready to File For Re-election Walter Norblad of Astoria, in cumbent U8. representative from Oregon's first district, is ready to file his candidacy for re-election to congress,' he announced from Washington,; D. C, Wednes day. He is i republican. One of the youngest U. S. leg islators, Norblad,; 39, was chosen by special election in 1945 to fill the unexpired term of James Mott who died In office. Norblad was subsequently1 elected to a full term, in 194.6. During World War II Norblad served in combat in telligence with the 8th air force. His filing was expected to reach the Oregon statehouse today. In filings i recorded Wednesday, State Sen. Paul Patterson of Hills boro sought reelection to the state senate from the 11th district, Washington; county. He is a re publican. Dal M. King, Myrtle Point, filed for reelection as circuit judge of the second judicial district, po sition No. 2. His name will ap pear on the ballot as non-partisan. Earl A. Nott, McMinnville, filed for reelection as district attorney for Yamhill county. He is a re publican. Snowslide Hits Train; 12 Hurt DENVER Feb. 11 -UP)- Twelve persons wre Injured today when a snowslide struck a Denver & Rio Grand Western railroad pas senger train in Toltec gorge be tween Duranga and Alamosa, in southwestern Colorado. George Dodge, public relations officer toi the railroad, said he was told only one person was in jured seriously. Two coaches and the observation car of the narrow gauge tran were overturned by the avalanche. The coaches rolled 300 feet down an embankment and the ob servation j car . tumbled about 75 feet. ! Gandhi's Ashes at Disposal Point I NEW DELHI, Feb. 12-)-The government radio at Allahabad announced that the ashes of Mo handas K. Gandhi reached the sacred spot at which they are to be dispersed just after noon today. The scene was the confluence of three rivers near here, the visible Ganges and the Jumna and the Subterranean Saraswati. Banks, Offices to Close Today Due to Holiday Salem's banks and most city, county and state offices will be closed al3 day today in observance of Lincoln's birthday. Businesses, schools and most downtown offices will remain open today and no citywide pro gram in I celebration of the patrio tic birthday is planned. Declines In Grain e CHICAGO. Feb. 1 WPi-Maio commodities continued their mar athon price plunge today; Rever berations were felt in market around the world. A new crash in grain, which.' gave the Chicago board" of trad the sharpest weekly price drop in its history, appears to have broken the back of inflation in the view: of many market analysts. ' New retail goods price cuts ivera announced in some cities. j Temporary price rallies toclg: hold in several commodities, but in many cases they were bumped, rudely aside by skidding values.1 The decline, however, was not as Lontinu severe as on yesterday nor as: widespread. - -I Wheat for May delivery kgainli plunged the permissible 10 centa daily limit in all United States); markets. The cereal closed at 22T. a bushel in Chicago today-i-49'i cents under last Tuesday and 69 Va" cents below the Jan. 16 peak lot this year. . j Many other commodities con tinued on the price skids, but New! York stocks showed some recovery; after an early dip. jj Security markets slumped ik London, Manila, Sydney and Co penhagen, but stocks later Recov ered virtually all their losses ia . London. i-i- J jj Cycle Said 'Past Peak' r j; The Swiss National bank assert ed in its annual statement publish- ed in Bern today that there is "ev ery indication" the world business) 9 cycle has passed .its peak.) Swiss industry already is feeling the ef fects of a break in the seller js mar ket abroad, the statement said. l As prices continued ; theijr swift ' rollback, these were -the I ma jog developments in the price picture! 1 A survey of AFL arid CIQ union leaders showed theyj gener ally regard current price drops as not enough to cause themj to re duce their wage demands How ever, a spokesman far the AFL' meat cutters union in Chicago," said the commodity price slump unt doubtedly will" affect labor's wag demands. jj 4 May Eliminate Tax Cot J jj 2 Senator Lucas D-ljl) said that if the commodity j market price slump continues it might "eliminate all possibUityi of in come tax cuts this year. (A pro txacted slump, he said, would Cut national income and tax Receipts, " 3 Food chains announced new retail price cuts in New York and Detroit. At Cleveland; Dutkee Fa mous Foods division of the Glid den Co., announced a three centa. a pound cut to wholesalers in the price of margarine. iFloujr prices) declined again at Minneapolis, (100 pound family size sacks dropping i 25 cents down to S6.95. j . Russians Watching- I j J MOSCOW, Feb. 1 lHRusslani are. watching the price declines on British and American commodity and stock markets with iritense in; terest. - j i i Soviet commentators have beeri predicting that an economic crasri was on the way, especially in, th United States. ; j jj j Both the home ;f and! foreign) language broadcasts by the Soviet radio are giving much attention to the situation. Soviet commentators) have declared that whenjthe crash) comes in the United Suites, Am erican business men wopld be sd concerned with their ofn affair they would lose interest in Eutopa, Sal tons tall Says New Ideas Needed In Governiiietit I PORTLAND. Or -ii Senator Saltonstall fR-lifac told a republican part audienc to night that "new men and!! new ideas are needed in nearly every department of the federal govern ment. 1 1 He spoke at a Llncolh birthday anniversary banqust sponsored by Oregon republicans. fi Saltonstall insisted that the re publicans must recognize! the "rightful concern"Jof the federal government in public healthy edu cation, housing and civil rights. He endorsed the European Rei covery program and said "the risk of going ahead and doing- some thing ab t European Recovery is a far better risk than doing noth- ina. j Einstein to Receive '48 One World Award NEW YORK, Feb. ill -JPf- Pro fessor Albert Einstein has been designated to receive the One World award for 1948 the award committee announced today. The citation states that Einstein, "recognized that scientists, like every man, are involvied in man kind, and that they jcan't avoid great moral taking a stand on the issues of the time."