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First Faoirvoew IrtoDuue oaiDdlDinis: Booms An employes' home at Oregon' Fairview home southwest of Sa lem was extensively damaged by lire early Tuesday night before being brought under control by . firemen from Salem and the in stitution. The blaze ranged through the Interior of the old two - story frame home, completely destroy ing the wails and furnishings and leaving two families homeless. Salem Fire Chief VV. P. Roble said the fire apparently started In the kitchen shortly before 5 p. m., and spread rapidly through all the rooms before being no ticed by patients at the institu tion. Inmates used the institu . lion's pumper before the Salem department arrived. Burned out and losing their 2 Escape Death in Slide On North Santiam Road OTP S33DOQ0 mpiiaxs General Eisenhower's publica tion of his war memoirs has stir - red up a hornet's nest in Great Britain. The British conclude that Ike thinks the USA won the war (though Texas will insist it was Texas AND the USA). Naturally this piques the island cousins who feel keenly how they carried the weight of the war alone for a long time, cashed in all their negotia bles and contributed both army, navy and air force to the big job f crushing Hitler. The military correspondent of the Sunday Times (not the famed London Times) is sharply critical f Eisenhower as a military com mander. He was great, stuff as "lubricator". - handy with the oil .'can for keeping bearings cool on his vast military machine, but no field commander. The invasion of southern France he calls a strategic blunder of the first magnitude an American blunder. The critic rises also to Montgomery's defense, saying that Monty's proposal of a single field commander (offering to serve un der Bradley) was wise, and that Monty's plan for a drive around left end (the north) would have ended the war in -'44. Other Bri tish critics have noted that Ike's praise seems to fall mostly on American commanders. Finally the British writer thinks that Eisenhower's decisions have left the west in a weaker position for the postwar settlement: "With a proper plan we could have been i In Berlin, Prague and Vienna be fore the Russians." He holds his nose over Kay Summersby's book "Eisenhower Was My (Continued on editorial page) Self-Service Gas Stations Banned PORTLAND, Nov. 23 -JP)- The Portland city council today ban ned self-service gasoline stations In the city as a fire hazard. Fire Marshal Miles E. Wood worth recommended the action. He said the stations have been banned in Los Angeles and that , the state fire marshal has taken similar action in Oregon. Motorists fill their own gaso line tanks at the self-service pumps. " f J Progressives File $40,110 Expenses Campaign expenses totaled $40, 110 for the progressive party in s Oregon, it was declared in an ex- Sense- filing with the state elec ons bureau Tuesday. Frank V. Patterson, secretary, I made the filing. The expense cov i ered campaigning on behalf of several candidates of the progres sive party. None was elected. Animal Crackers Sy WARREN GOODRICH "Your teeth are like perh king size." Decline in belongings and some furniture were families of Sidney Carl Bartruff, Fairview home super intendent, and David Dewey, the gardener. Both families were eat ing dinner in another building when the fire broke out. Firemen fought the stubborn blaze for more than an hour be fore bringing it under control. Damaged besides the interior were the roof and sections of siding. Firemen said the build ing appeared to be a total loss. Tuesday night's blaze was the second in the building this year. An overheated j French frying device this spring set lire to tne kitchen, causing extensive dam age. Earlier this fall; fire razed a hog house at the institution and 55 pigs were destroyed. Two motorists narrowly escaped death in a landslide near Detroit and a large portion of Salem was blacked out by a power failure as a blustery winter rainstorm swept the Willamette valley Tuesday. Mrs. Rose Miller, former Salem resident, and her son, Luke Bra den, came within seconds of being trapped in their auto on the North Santiam highway I six miles west of Detroit when tons of rock and mud thundered onto the highway about 6 p.m. Mrs. Miller was driving toward Salem, enroute from Idaho to Cal ifornia, when she noticed the slide moving toward the highway. She and her son were forced to flee through the waist-deep mud as the slide hit their; car,; completely burying it and causing extensive damage. Traffic Interrupted Traffic on the highway was In terrupted for four' hours. Workers from the Kuckenberg Construction cleared the 100-foot slide and freed the car. The avalanche occurred in a section of the road now under construction near the Detroit dam side. Other cars moving along the road stopped in time to avert being buried. Electrical service in north and east sections of Salem was cut off for about 18 minutes starting at 4:45 pjn. when a line insulator car rying 57,000 volts gave way. Insulator Fallare ' 'Portland General Electric com pany said the insulator failure dis abled the university " sub-station and crippled another ? 57.000-volt line in the north section. Several thousand homes i were without lights until about 5:03 p.m. when power was switched around the trouble spots. Heavy rainfall at the time was believed; responsible for the failure. C. S. McGaughey, 76, Vancouver, Wash., suffered minor injuries Tuesday night when struck by a car at Hood and North Broadway streets during the heavy down pour. He was treated by Salem first aid men and did hot require hospitalization. The auto was driv en by Donald E. Merrill, Brooks. He was not held responsible, po lice said. State Acquires Myrtle Grove Perpetuation of one of Ore gon's finest groves of myrtle trees was assured here i Tuesday when the state Forestry department purchased 160 acres of land on the Chetco river; approximately eight miles north of ; Brookings, Curry county, Nes Rogers, state Forester, announced. A survey of the tract, Rogers said, Indicates there is about 54 acres of old-growth myrtle and the remainder Douglas fir. The consideration was $6,500, of which "Save the Myrtle Woods, Inc.," contributed $2,500. Rogers said the tract would be improved, and will be known as the' Alfred A. Loeb forest park, n honor of the former owner who sold at con siderable sacrifice, Rogers said a large amount of credit for securing the park goes to the Brookings; and Portland Garden clubs. Rain'Suspends Airport Work Work on the $80,000 improve ment program for Salem airport, just past the half - way mark, has been suspended for the winter. City Manager J. L. Franzen said Tuesday. Rainy weather j makes paving work impossible at this time, the manager stated. Included in the project is. a 24-foot paved road on the west side of the field, which is now half completed; hangar ac cess road, unit storage space taxi ways and apron for ah adminis tration building to be erected in a later project. ; Federal government funds will pay for 56 per cent of the project cost. TANKS SHIPPED TO CHINA HONOLULU, Nov. as-t-For-ty-five old army tanks were ship ped yesterday toj Shanghai for use by the Chinese nationalist government. The ; tanks, discard ed by the army, are being traded for construction equipment and scrap Iron. 1 Living Costs 98th Year 12 Price of Food Said Falling WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 -UP-The first decline in living costs in seven months was announced today by the government. The announcement, made by the bureau of labor statistics, came only a few hours after President Truman named Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of his economic advisory council, to work out an anti - inflation program for pre sentation to congress early next year. The cost of living decline was slight only one-half of one per cent but it broke a steady climb through most of the late spring and summer. The decrease showed up in the index for consumer prices. The index dropped to 173.6 for Oc tober from the all time highs of 174.5 for the months of August and September. No Pay Increase The October index Is just be low the 173.7 July index so the 338,000 employes of General Mo tors Corp., whose pay is par tially dependent on the index get neither a pay boost nor a de crease. The October living cost decline was attributed by the bureau of labor statistics to a substantial and general drop in the retail price of foods. This decline "more than offset increases in all other major groups" of consumer cost items, the BUS said. Rent Rises In Oregon The BLS said that the largest rent increases in October were reported in Detroit. Ksnui atv and Portland, Ore. For the coun try as a whole, rents have in creased 3.3 per cent from a year a CO. but less than 14 nor rent since August, 1939. Nourse. whom the rresirfnt Lnamed to plan anti - inflation strategy, saia ne wouia work with the secretaries of the treasury, commerce, labor, agriculture, in terior and other agencies. Final decisions are un to th president, who will determine just what sort of program will ne presented to congress. Nourse has not been known a new deal type of economic plan ner out ne nas shown willing- ness to favor economic controls wnen necessary." State Timber Sold Despite Scott's Protest The state land hoard protest of State Treasurer Leslie m. acott, Tuesday voted to sell 165.000 feet of pine timber and 36,636 feet of larch timber to the Fir Pine Lumber Cove, Ore, on a bid of $1,000. Advertisement for the sale fix ed the minimum price at $5 per 1,000 feet for pine and $2 for larch which figured as $996 for the entire tract in Union county. Scott also recently voted against accepting a bid of $10.50 per 1,000 feet, covering 5,127,000 feet of Ponderosa pine, and $2 for 135, 000 feet of tamarack from the Ponderosa Line Lumber company. This timber was sold at public auction at the Prineville court house. The land board Ti rejected an offer for purchase of tne land. Application to purchase ap proximately 10,000,000 feet cf Port Orford cedar in Coos county was turned down by the board pending better market conditions. Amateur Candy Makers, Here's Your Statesman 'Candy By Maxine Bnren Woman's Editor, The Statesman Women who "suffer" from a sweet tooth may perhaps find permanent satisfaction if they attend the Statesman-sponsored candy making schools conducted by E. Remington Davenport of Portland Monday and Tuesday, November 29 and 30, at the Portland Gas and Coke com pany auditorium. There will be two classes each day, 1:30 and 7:30 pjn. Both men and women are welcome to attend, and, of course, the school la free. Davenport has just completed a course of 18 lessons for one of the Portland newspapers, -during which time he took his listeners through many phases in PAGES Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, November 24, 1948 si dJJpIMd JVU Compulsory In Northwest Discussed SEATTLE, Nov. 23-iT")-Mandatory curtailment of power use in the Pacific Northwest was discussed at a special conference called by the State Department of Public Utilities this afternoon. Edward Falck, National Security Resources Board Power consultant, was asked what forms of curtailment might be effective in this region, after the "brownout" orders issued by the War Production Board I during the war and by the Civilian Thanksgiving Union Church Service Set Church services, as well as a shutdown of much governmental and business activity, will mark observance of Thanksgiving Thursday, as Salem eats - and pauses to give thanks. A union worship service at 10 a.m. will be conducted in the First Christian church, under sponsorship of Salem Ministerial association. The Rev. Brooks Moore will deliver the message. (Services detailed on page 2.) Federal, state, county and city business will be at a standstill, except for police and fire serv ices, and holiday dinners at the institutions. This is the month's third such holiday following election day and Armistice. Mail will not be delivered, but will be picked up on a holiday schedule. School children, in both public and parochial schools and Wil lamette university, will have their annual long week end from Thursday to Sunday. U. S. Proposes Compromise Israel Plan PARIS, Nov. 23 -UP)- The Unit ed States laid before the United Nations today a plan that would leave the final territorial ar rangements in Palestine up to Jewish-Arab bargaining. The American proposal was contained in an amendment to a British resolution implement ing the Bernadotte plan. U. S. Delegate Philip C. Jessup spoke before the general assem bly's 58-member political com mittee after his statement had been double-checked by President Truman and the state department in Washington. Under one of the amendments, the assembly would recommend no specific territorial changes in Palestine but would set up a three-nation commission with au thority to delimit the frontiers in agreement with both Jews and Arabs. Other amendments proposed: That this commission take over the duties of the Palestine medi ator, and that the security coun cil's recent order for Jewish-Arab armistice talks be widened to in clude talks on political problems. Fire Wipes Out Six City Blocks REYNOSA, Mexico, Nov. 23-UP) Fire wiped out six city blocks mostly in slum areas along the Rio Grande here tonight. Reynosa is a border town of some 30.000 persons opposite Hidalgo, Tex. The area destroy ed contained many dance halls and bars. It was in the south eastern part of the city. Opportunity School' Nov. 29, 30 of candymaking, not orinarily known by amateurs. A professional candymaker for 25 years, Davenport learned most of his information on candymaking by experience, which makes him especially qualified to demonstrate the art. Monday's shows will feature" fondant, creamed fudge and pea nut brittle, with discussion of principles of candymaking and demonstration of variation of those recipes. Tuesday's classes the speaker will prepare after dinner mints and English toffe, both excel lent Christmas gift suggestions. His book of 50 professional candymaking formuli and also a smaller pamphlet covering a portion of the larger book will be available to those who wish to purchase them. 7 Months1 Reported by POUNDS D 1651 Power Cut Production Administration during tne 1940 coal strike were intro duced in evidence. He said' these four plans were available: 1. Voluntary curtailment. 2. Pro hibition of non-essential or less essential use. 3. "Load freeze," barring any new customers. 4. A percentage curtailment of all use. He said that in his opinions voluntary, programs were not suc cessful, resulting in maximum savings of only five to six per cent. He also said they could not be sustained more than four or five months, whereas the Pacific Northwest power shortage would continue for several years. Elder Weldon Committed to State Hospital Charles Henry Weldon, elderly Stay ton farmer facing a first de gree murder charge, Tuesday was ordered committed to the Oregon state hospital. The order was issued by Mar ion County Circuit Judge George R. Duncan who said the murder charge will be held in abeyance as long? as the 74-year-old man remains' in ihe state hospital. Weldon was charged with r the snooting death of his son, Carl, 40, at the family residence on Sep tember 3. The younger Weldon aiea later in a Salem hospital. The state hospital staff had previously found Weldon to be "psychotic and not responsible for his deed of violence." In a re port to Judge Duncan last week from Dr. D. K. Brooks, state psy chiatrist, it was noted that Wel don "had an intense fear that he was going to be committed to the state hospital." After the son was shot, accord ing to state police reports, the father turned the shotgun on him self. He recovered from face wounds. The small, white - haired old man wasremoved to the state hospital by sheriffs deputies last night after a Tuesday afternoon hearing in Judge Duncan's court. He told Judge Duncan he could not offer a satisfactory explanation of why he killed his son. Air Base Building To Become Detroit School Auditorium PORTLAND. Nov. 23 -(JP)- Bids were opened today for salvaging a building at the Corvallis army air base and transporting and re building it as a school auditorium near Detroit dam. Rushlight Automatic Sprinkler Co., Portland, bid $83,900, low of four bids opened here today by the Portland district corps of engineers. Government estimate was $77,237. Meanwhile, the engineers an nounced bids will be asked Fri day for repair of the levee along the left bank of the South San tiam river, one-half mile east of Lebanon. Bids will be opened De cember 14. The job includes one-half acre of, clearing, 3.200 cnbic yards of excavation and 5,200 cubic yards of dumped stone reventment. NLRB Rules Against Boeing in Controversy SEATTLE, Nov. 23-(jP)-The Na tional Labor Relations board ruled against the Boeing Airplane com pany today in its long cpntroversy with the aeronautical mechanics union. The company immediately appealed to the federal courts. The board ruled that the com pany should resume collective bar gaining with the aeronautical un ion in its Seattle plant. Closed on Thanksgiving The Oregen Statesman Dull ness office will be closed all day Thanksgiving. Classified advertising, however, will be accepted via 'phone from 3 to 5 pjn. There will be no Inter ruption in publication. 8 Orrgon30l&te$n&n It Won't Be Long Now COLUMBUS.! Ohio, Ner. 23 Anyway yea leek at It. It weal be leng now for Mir. Turkey whe- Is being threatened with aa axe in the hands ef two-year-eld Jeffrey Ladwlg at Ce-laasbaa. O. That's four-year-old brother Mike holding their Thanksgiving day dinner la a firm grip. (AP Wirephete te The Statesman.) Truman Vetoes Hoffman Grain Export Policy WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 -JPy-President Truman tonight threw overboard the decision of Foreign Aid Administrator Paul G. Hoff man to take the government out of the grain export trade. Hoffman, rebuffed on a major policy, said his economic cooper ation administration will rescind at once its order giving private traders control of Marshall plan grain shipments on December 1. But Hoffman, one of the few republicans high in the govern ment, came out of the White House conference with what amounted to a vote of confidence from Mr. Truman. "The president said he wanted me to stay, on the Job," Hoffman told reporters as he left the pre sidential office. "He volunteered that." Asked whether he, Hoffman, was agreeable to remaining, the ECA chief smiled wryly: "Whe ther It's agreeable or not, I'm staying on." The grain policy reversal left foreign traders with millions of dollars In contracts signed, cal ling for European shipment after December 1. Hoffman said some means would be found to "honor" the contracts.. ALTITUDE RECORD SET WASHINGTON. Nov. 23 -UP)- A captured German V-2 rocket, fired in an experiment from New Mexico, apparently has set a new altitude record of 114 miles. 125 Attend Initial Meeting of Salem Naval Air Reserve Unit An aviation volunteer unit of 125 members i was formed Tues day night by jSalem naval air re servists anxious to bring a new navy training program to this ci ty. , Ernest F. E3dridge, a lieutenant in the reserve rwho has worked with thel aid ! of Salem Chamber of Commerce in interesting the navy in a Salem reserve training site, was elected commanding of ficer. ' i j, ' . Eldridce reflected the sentiment of the ex-navy fliers present when he declared the new volun teer group will work for an ac tivated status as rapidly as pos sible. Already the naval air re serve headquarters at Seattle has Indicated a full training program will be started in Salem, Portland or Hills boro, provided an aggres sive volunteer unit is functioning. City Manager J. L. Franzen ad dressed the new group, explain ing that the City of Salem is now conducting an airport improve ment program which ! will adapt itself into the navy plan, if Sa Price Ic (S ' 1 " 1 ' w ! if i ;. I , " ' - i ' I " ' ' ' ' ' - . "V; J - 1 11 'Slowdown' Adds To Strike Worries On Atlantic Coast NEW YORK, Nov. 23 -V A "slowdown strike" of Railway Express agency employes today cut deeper into New York's com mercial life, already severely hampered by ,the east eoast wa terfront tieup and a new trucking walkout. Because of the "slowdown," the agency imposed an embargo on nearly all rail and air express shipments into the metropolis. Thousands of workers have been made idle by the 14-day-old strike of AFL dock workers which has closed ports from Maine to Vir ginia. The truck strike, which began yesterday, has affected a third of the city's trucking industry, an employer spokesman said. British Ship Missing at Sea HALIFAX, Nov. 23 -VP)- A search was organized tonight for a British freighter believed miss ing 400 miles southwest of Halifax with a crew of possibly 17. ' United States coast guard planes searched the area today for the 1,267-ton freighter Hopestar which was last heard from November 13 when she reported "heavy weath er damage." The Hopestar cleared from New castle November 1 en route to Philadelphia. Search and rescue officials here said Canadian planes would Join the search tomorrow If weather cleared. lem is designated a training area. Franzen said he would offer the navy within a week or so terms for airport use. The city manager explained that as the municipal airport facilities are concentrated on the west side of the airfield, the east side could be made available to the navy, providing new arrangements can be made for present tenants (com mercial flying services) now us lng the east side hangar. Edwin Schreder, a chamber of commerce board member, Was chairman of the meeting. Other civic leaders who spoke included Charles A. Sprague, publisher and former governor; Hedda Swart, county engineer and zoning com mission member, and Lt. Comdr. Vernon Gilmore who was first commander of the local navy re serve training division. The' volunteer naval air group will meet next Tuesday, Decem ber 7, provided m representative from 131th naval district head quarters can be here to explain organizational details. Bureau - (Story In column 3) H ' i , i ' m .y doted Tomorrow ! There will be no Interruption In publication but The States man's business office will be cloe- i ed all day Thanksgiving. Classl- j fied ads will be accepted via i phonefrom I to pm ; No. Ill DWD"DrDS Date of j Hangings Yet Unset 1 TOKYO, .Wednesday, Nov. 14 (AVGeneral Douglas MacArthur today upheld the sentences of all l5iformeT Japanese leaders con victed as war criminals. MacArthur'f decision In his re view upheld death sentences for former Premier Hidekl To jo and six others; life Imprisonment for IS; and lesser prison terms for twe Others. The occupation eosamander, sole reviewing authority under the Allied Trial Court's charter, said In a statement: . " "I can find nothing of technical commission or omission in the in cidents of the trial itself of suffi cient import to warrant my inter vention in the judgments which have been rendered. i I therefore direct the com manding General of the Eighth Army to execute the sentences aa pronounced by the TribunaL" Ne Date Set MacArthur, did not announce the date on which Tojo and his six co-defendants will be led up the gallows to die for plunging the Pacific into war. At least five of the convicted war crimes trial defendants have decided already to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, regardless of how MacArthur decides. Former -Premier Hideki Tojo, , No. 1 defendant and one of seven condemned to hang. Is not among them, however. He was represent ed as asking only one thing to get the hanging over quickly. . ; Acted Swiftly ; , MacArthur acted' swiftly la completing a review of the cases, which also include 16 life sen tences, one of 20 years and on of seven years. Early today he an nounced his decision was ready. Only Monday he consulted with ' other Allied representatives upon the sentences, which were handed down Nov. 12 by the International Tribunal. - Under the terms of the Tribun al's charter MacArthur is the sole reviewing official. He can lower but not increase the aentences. Club Approves Plans for Dorm Salem's 20-30 elub, meeting Tuesday night, approved archi tect's plana for 12 -boy dormi tory to be constructed by the or ganization at the Henry Turnldge foster farm - home near Jeffer son. The proposed dormitory is one of the club's Juvenile delinquency projects and will provide badly needed housing at the farm which cares for displaced children. The elub also announced It would make a bid at the north west 2020 club convention In Portland next month, asking that the summer convention be held In Salem. r. Al Lightner, Statesman ports editor, was featured speaker at Tuesday's meeting. Luminous Tape for Bicycles Offered to Youths by Lions Fifty-four Salem boy and 'girl bicyclists may now ride their bicycles in comparative safety Hnrtn thm evenine hours because of a new safety feature applied to their machines oy memoers oi Salem Lions club safety commit tee Tuesday night The preliminary test by the mmmltiM was held at Scott's Cycle shop. Strips of "Scotch Light," luminous tape applied to various parts of tho bikes, will reflect against light beams from auto headlights, making the riders visible to motorists at night. The Lions club, through Safety Chairman Stanley Smith, said the club would soon make the safety precaution available to every Salem boy and glrL Weather Max. Mln. FreHa, Sal em , Portland San rranciece M .l M 44 . 1 4t 13 trare S3 44 J Chicago Willamette rnrer w za.i . -FORECAST from VM. waather bu reau. McNary flald. aalm ) s ParUy cloudy today and tonlfht with a la llxht thowtn today: alishtly cooler; hib today M, low tonisht M. salem rarcrriTATioM crreaa Sept. 1 ta May. This Tear 1S.S1 Lart Year Average S.14 -