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Dutch Marines Take Republican Java City , BAT A VIA, Java, Tuesday, Dec. 21-;p)-Dutch marines have occupied the Republican port ot Toeban in the central Java campaign, the Netherlands army announced today. - Toeban lies on the north coast of this key Indonesian island, 140 miles northeast of Jogjakarta, the Republican capital which the Dutch took with an airborne assault Sunday. DTP WDEDQCB The executive committee of the Oregon State Employes associa tion adopts as one point of its legislative program insistence on "parity" pay for state employes. By parity the board means equal ity with industry, on a comparable basis. So here we have parity breaking out in a new place. The farm bloc got parity back in the early days of the new deal, and retaining it is the aim of many politicians and farm groups. Parity for farmers means that their prices are held at levels which will give them substantially an equivalent amount of products which they obtained back in the pre-first-world-war period. Now public employes are adopting the word (and the argument) and ask ing to be put on the same level as workers in industry. have no disposition to criticize the state employes or the farmers fot wanting to improve or protect their station in life. This parity idea, though, is an interesting de velopment. Our printers, for in stance, want about the same wages as Portland printers. The latter probably want the same as Seat tle printers, and so it goes. Now railroad employes want a 40-hour week such as industrial workers get under the wages and hours act Parity, parity, we all want par ity; only we want it by stepping up a round on the ladder. Nobody proposes a parity 'that means the fellow on the top rung should step down a notch or two. Will we arrive at an economic quality through this leveling de vice? Will the upgrading of groups with lower levels of income pro ceed until (Continued on editorial page) State Contests in Derby Estate Inheritance tax determinations on the estates of the late Frank N. Derby and Marian Derby, his wife, are objected to by State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott in a mo tion filed Monday In Marion coun ty probata court. Scott says he believes the true market value of the real property held by the estates is greatly in ex cess of the values placed on It by the estate appraisers. The inheri tance tax actually due, Scott con tends, is more than the tax com puted on the basis of the appraised value. Scott ' also denied that bequests made to Masonic, Eastern Star and Elks lodges of Salem were tax free. Inheritance taxes on the Frank N. Derby estate, valued at $111,455, were set at $1,577, In heritance tax of $1,556 was set on the estate of Marian Derby, valued at $112,813. Marian Derby died here July 14, 1947. Her husband had died several years earlier. He had owned a number of businesses here including the Senator hotel. Shares left the three fraternal lodges were valued at $13,022 each In the Frank Derby estate and at $12,181 In his widow's estate. In each ease they were marked as charity bequests. Weather Max. Mtn. Preeip. it .17 3S .10 2 .00 2 xa SALEM Portland San Francisco .44 .50 Chicago M New York 22 27 J00 WlUaaictU rived S3 feet. Forecast (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy with scattered ihowers today and to night. Little temperature chance with the high today 45 and low tonight 28. SALEM PRECIPITATION (From Sept. 11 to Dee. 21) Thia Year Last Year Average 18.61 18.18 14 81 Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Honest, Honey thifs all th waffles I can eatf it- A Netherlands communique said Dutch marines were on the out skirts of Tjepoe, the. Republican army's only oil center on Java. Other Netherland forces, in a lightning thrust through western Sumatra, were within 40 miles of Bukittinggi, the main Republican city on that island. This was the second day of what the Dutch refer to as their "police action" into republican territory. Well ahead of their time table, the Dutch troops have made it al most a bloodless occupation thus far. They already have occupied large chunks of republican terri tory. Jogjakarta, the republic's capital, fell in the first hours of the fighting and the Dutch now are moving through; republican territory immediately west of the city. Virtually all the, high repub lican leaders, including President Soekarno, are in Netherlands cus tody. (In Washington Indonesian Minister Soemitro formally asked the United States to grant "po litical and economic : support" to the republic. He also asked that American officials give serious consideration to cutting off Mar shall plan aid to the Netherlands because of the Dutch action in the East Indies. (H. Merle Cochrane, American member of the United Nations good offices committee cabled the security council in Paris that the Netherlands violated the truce agreement signed last January aboard the USS Renville. He said the Dutch notice ending the agree ment reached him at Batavia and Dutch authorities would not let him notify his Belgian and Aus tralian colleagues who were in republican territory. : (The Netherlands delivered a memorandum to the security council saying further interven tion by the United Nations would be futile. The Netherlands said the Indonesian republic had fail ed to cooperate in agreements to create a United States of Indo nesia by Jan. 1. (Dutch Premier William Drees said developments in the Indone sian republic had brought the Netherlands government to the point where it felt obliged "to end the valueless truce" signed aboard the Renville and to act with all means at its disposal. He told. the Dutch parliament in the Hague that the operations of Netherlands j troops had come up to the high est expectations). City Postoffice Sets Record Holiday Pace Cancellations at Salem postoffice were maintaining record levels Monday, with the lobby full of mailers and both Incoming and outgoing parcels and letters keep ing employes rushing to keep up. Incoming parcels appeared to be getting more numerous every day, and an additional delivery truck was added to bring the total to 11. A tabulation of cancellations for the past 10 days (December 10-19 inclusive) by Postmaster Albert Gragg showed this year ahead of last 931,400 to 810,840, even though the period had two Sun days this year as against only one in 1947. Saturday's postmarks were 136, 000 compared to 147,000 on the same date, a Thursdayin 1947. But Sunday's 47,000 compared with 39,500 on the last pre-Christmas Sunday of last year. ? Much Damage But No Injuries In Hill Crash A teleDhone nole was nanH the front yard of a residence ex- i tensively damaged, but no one! injured when a city bus and an ' auto collided Monday night at the j intersection of East Kob Hill and i McGiIchrist streets. City police said the accident in volved an Oregon Motor Stages bus driven by John Arthur Reese, Salem route 2, and an auto oper ated by Carl William Weidner, 740 N. Cottage st. The bus was headed east on McGiIchrist street and the auto north on Nob Hill street. Both ve hicles went out of control after the impact and crashed into the yard of the Ridgley C. Miller home, 2490 E. Nob Hill st. The bus snapped off an 18-inch telephone pole, crashed through a fence and came to rest against a front yard tree. The car, like wise, ran through the fence and stopped against another tree in the yard. Six bus passengers were shaken but unhurt. Boundary Shift Denied For School Districts Marion county school district board Monday denied a petition seeking transfer of a small portion of land from Sublimity school dis trict to adjacent Auinsville dis trict. The board held that not enough need was shown for the transfer. It involved a farm on the north edge of the Sublimity district own ed by the O. B. Whorton family. 98th Ysor IB Spy StLosoj) Court Appeal Fails For Jap Warlords By W. H. Mobley WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-;p)-The Supreme court held today it has no power over the International Military Tribunal which condemned Japanese leaders for war crimes. The findings cleared the way for execution of former Premier Tojo and other warlords. : Two paragraphs' of a brief unsigned opinion disposed of appeals Two Persons Killed in Area Auto Accidents Six traffic accidents in the Salem area over the week end claimed lives of two Salem residents and injured eight others. Mrs. Elizabeth Meyers, 74, of 575 Marion st., died in a local hospital Sunday, 15 minutes after being struck while crossing Marion street near Center street by a taxicab operated by Robert E. Leach, 1211 S- Liberty st. Leach was charged with reckless driving by city police. He pleaded innocent to the charge in munici pal court Monday and posted $100 bail. His trial was set for January 20. Leach said he made a turn onto Marion street from Center street and was unable to stop in time to avoid striking Mrs. Meyers as she crossed in the middle of the block. The elderly woman, who suffered a fractured skull at 8 a.m., was on her way to church. The second victim Sunday was Emil Moen, 55, of 465 Morgan st., injured fatally about 9:30 a.m. In a collision on highway 99E, three miles south of Salem. State police said Moen stopped his auto on the roadway when mechanical trouble developed. A car driven by Talmadge L. Shipp, Silverton, struck the ve hicle from behind, evidentally pin ning Moen between the vehicles and severing both of his legs. He died in a Salem hospital at 11:30 am. Mrs. Moen suffered a head lacer ation, but another passenger, Wil ma Anderson, 2470 Myrtle ave., was not Injured. Shipp and a pas senger, Raymond Copple of Sil verton, suffered bruises. Another passenger, Wesley Jones, also of Silverton, received an eye cut, but was dismissed from the hospital Monday. (Additional details page 2) Welfare Office To Need Large Fund Increase A legislative appropriation 40 per cent over the last biennium's will be required by the state wel fare commission to make ends meet In the coming two years, statehouse reports indicated Monday. The welfare commission is ex pected to ask the legislature next month for nearly $31,000,000, in addition to federal and county re venues bringing the commission's total budget to $61,082,269- This overall budget would be one-third more than the current biennium budget of $45,422,000. j Nearly half the total welfare ; budget would be earmarked for old age assistance, figured on the basis of $50 monthly penions to some 24,400 elderly persons in keeping with the pension bill passed by voters in last month's general elec tion. Welfare commission officials have pointed out that liquor reven ues are declining as a source of welfare revenue, and that the bud get as drafted for state welfare needs would require about $14, 000,000 from the state general fund. U.S. Production, All-Time Record WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 American production, national in come, and profits surged to his toric new crests In 1948, the com merce department reported to night. The value of all goods produced and services rendered was meas ured at about $253,000,000,000. Rising prices were responsible in part. The national Income for 1948 was estimated at $224,000,000,000. It was still going up in the July September quarter, when it reach ed an annual rate of $227,300,000, 000, the report disclosed. Corporation profits after taxes also set a new record. The rate reached $21,700,000,000 a year in the third quarter, or 20 per cent above a year ago. Before deduct ing taxes, corporate income was $35,600,000,000. The after-taxes figure for 1947 was $18,100,000,000, and for 1946 was $12,800,000,000. Both those PAGES The Oregon filed by seven of the men, solely on the ground that the Interna tional Tribunal was outside the reach of any U. S. court. It did not go into detailed legal arguments nor give any consideration to their attack on the basic legality of the proceedings. The one dissenter in the 6 to 1 decision was Justice Murphy. He merely noted his position and did not write an opinion. In the hearing on the case last week, however, Murphy gave a clue to his reasoning. He ques tioned attorneys closely on the scope of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's control over the proceedings as al lied commander-in-chief, and on the degree of American authority over MacArthur. The division of the court later will become either 7-1 or 6-2. Jus tice Rutledge reserved his vote and said he will write an opinion later. The court's brief majority ruling today was read and presumably written by Chief Justice Vinson. It said: "We are satisfied that the tri- I bunal sentencing these petitioners is uoi a uiuunai oi ine unnea States. The United States and oth er Allied countries conquered and now occupy and control Japan. under the foregoing circum stances the courts of the United States have no power or authority to review, to affirm, set aside or annul the judgments and sentences imposed on these petitioners and for this reason the motions for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus are denied. TOKYO, Tuesday, Dec. 21 -UP)- U.a. supreme court refusal to in tervene raised the question today whether General Douglas MacAr thur will order execution of seven Japanese war lords in the midst of the yule season. Headquarters awaited official notice from the army department to proceed with the hanging of ex Premier Hideki Tojo and six oth ers convicted as war criminals. Col. Marion P. Echols, chief of MacArthur's public information office, said he probably would re institute the 24-hour death watch in his section tonight. News of the execution will be announced by Col. Echols' office. Correspondents will not be allowed to attend, un der regulations announced pre viously. Earthquake Rattles Klamath Falls Area KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 20-yP) A house-rattliig earthquake was felt here today at 8:18 a. m. No damage resulted. Scores reported the temblor rattled dishes, set lights swinging and caused house timbers to creak. C. C. Overeen, warehouse su perintendent at the Oregon voca tional school five miles northeast of town, said the warehouse he was in "cracked and popped." Apparently the shock was local only. It was not recorded on the University of California seismo graph at Berkeley. Guards Nab Escaped Prisoner Near Annex Prison guards Monday night captured Cecil Pease, 33, who es caped from the state prison farm annex southeast of Salem Mon day morning. State police said the guards ap prehended Pease about 8 p. m. as he was walking between the an nex and the prison in Salem. He was reported missing from the in stitution about 10 a. m., and was seen roaming in the vicinity of Turner earlier Monday evening. Income Hits Crest in 1948 years were the highest in history, but now eclipsed. The department commented with caution on its profit figures, perhaps in view of speculation whether the new democratic-controlled congress will restore the excess profits tax, as twice urged by President Truman. Industrialists who have upheld high corporation earnings in recent hearings of a senate-house eco nomic subcommittee could draw some comfort from the govern ment flnindings. The report said: "Although the absolute level of profits is current ly far above either the pre-war period of 1929, the same is true of other national income shares" including, it added, the total of payments made to employes. Moreover, if the profit figures are adjusted to allow for the present-day high cost of replacing in ventries as they are used up, the profit figure is reduced. OUMDOD 1651 Statesman, Salem. Oreaon, Tuesday, December 21, 1948 rv.i . " i . t . -,--f- -. f litilnMfn'nir NEW YORK. Dee. 20 Three boys and a rlrl start en a skiing expeditlen In Central Park here Sunday night after 19.5 inches of snow blanket the city. The storm ended early this morning and moved eat to sea. (AP WlrephoU to The Statesman). Dcy Blasts Greet Official Winter Wew York More Freezing Temperatures Due for Salem Not that any contrast will be noticeable, but winter starts of ficially today at 2:34 p. m. While Willamette valley resi dents and the rest of Oregon were still shaking from last week's cold spell, the U. S. weather bureau Monday forecast that the icy blasts will resume again early this morn ing and late tonight. The weatherman said the ther mometer in Salem would dip to 28 degrees today, the shortest day of the year. The renewed cold follows closely behind a week of sub freezing temperatures, climaxed by a low of 20 degrees Saturday morning. Sunday the thermometer rose briefly to 38 degrees. A total of .31 inches of rain Sundav broueht the months total to 6.19 inches. The heavy Decem ber downpour has edged the pre cipitation since September 1 to 18.61 inches .43 more, than the total during the same weather Deriod last year and almost lour inches above normal. The weather bureau forecast colder temperatures . for Eastern Oregon with the mercury expected to plunge to zero in the higher valleys. Portland got a preview of the winter solstice yesterday when a thick, black cloud rolled over be tween 2 and 2:30 p. m. It forced motorists to turn on lights down town, dumped a quarter-inch of snow on the heights and .08 of an inch rain on the downtown section. Portland's New Sheriff Rapped for Misleading Claims PORTLAND, Dee. 20 -UP)- The Olregonian reported today that Sheriff - elect Marion L. (Mike) Elliott, a democrat, has admitted his campaign material contained misleading data. The newspaper said Elliott had served but 23 months in the ma rine corps instead of six and a half years, never attended the University of Michigan as claim ed and is but 27 years old Instead age 31. Discrepancies were discovered, the Oregonian reported, while compiling biographical informa tion for a series of stories on new Oregon public officials due to take office soon. BRITISH PLANE CEASHES LONDON, Tuesday. Dec. 2-(JP) -A large airplane believed to be a Royal Air Force Lancaster bomb erf crashed in flames 10 miles east of Manchester just after midnight last night The British Press asso ciation said six bodies were recovered. Skiing in Manhattan J2 r BDanketed by Snow Technical Institute Is New Name Given Vocational School Oregon Technical institute Mon day became the official name for the state vocational school estab lished a year ago in former ma rine barracks area at Klamath Falls. f The state board of education ordered the new name after Su perintendent Winston Purvine ex plained that the name Oregon Vo cational school had been misun derstood by many prospective stu dents. He suggested the name in dicated to many a sort of state reform school. Only board member to oppose the new name was May Darling of Portland who said the new name implies the school is too technical. Famed Movie Actor Passes In Los Angeles BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 20 -(P) Sir C. Aubrey Smith, who typified the British Empire itself to most moviegoers, died today of double pneumonia and a heart ail ment. He was 85. j Active right up to his Illness, he was signed for a part k" '"The Forsythe Saga" by VI-G-M only last Friday. Smith, who was the distinguish ed Britisher in his acting and in person, recently finished a role in "Little Women." His last stage ap pearance was in "Spring Again," in which he co-starred with Grace George in 1942. Born in London July 21, 1863, Smith was considered the unof ficial . head of the British colony in Hollywood. ' His screen roles included major Dart in "Th Prisoner of Zenda." "Little Lord Fauntleroy, "Garden of Allah," "Romeo and Juliet." "Lloyds of London." "China Seas." "Clive of India." "Lives of a Ben gal Lancer," "Queen Christina," "Cleopatra," and "Unconquered," as well as many others. QUICKIES "Oh, Alvin. you've sold ear ear with a Statesman Want Ad and bought some meat!" Price So c V ft SJMW 19.5-Inch FaU Snarls Traffic; DeathTollatl7 NEW YORK, Dec. 20 -jP- The I nation s largest city bounced back today from the season's worst buffeting a 19.5 inch snowfall and went about its business with Its usual show of noncha lance. But the northeast counted at least 17 dead as an aftermath of the storm that swept across the area yesterday and early today. Five of these were in New York! city, five in New Jersey and sev en In New England. The snowfall was the third hea viest in the city's history. The snow began falling at 6:20 a. m. yesterday, began to abate at 8 p. m. and ended at 2:10 a. m. today. But remembering; the record 25.8 fall of last Dec. 26 and 27, the metropolitan area was arm ed and ready this time and very little of last years traffic snarl was : experienced. Ill Gil CUMMIN G DIES WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 -WV Dr. Hugh Scott Cummlng, 79, re tired surgeon general of the Unit ed States public health service, died tonight. Dr. Cumming, a native of Hamp ton, , Vs., suffered a heart attack at his home here. He had a stroke In November, 1947, and had not been well since. Christmas Programs Slated by! Salem Area School Students Most of the schools In the Salem i area are Having cnri-imas pro- l grams, singing assemblies or par- ties during this brier three-day week before the school Christmas vacation begins. Bush grade school students will present the "Christmas Story" for their parents Tuesday at 1 p.m. Garfield school will present its program at 1:15 p.m. Tueday; Washington's program will begin at 1:30. Programs Tonight Parrish and Leslie junior high schools will both give programs at 8 p.m. Tuesday at their schools. Rickey's program will be given at 7:30 pan. Tuesday, and Auburn's will be given the same evening at 8 o'clock. The sixth grade Garfield choir will sing at the state capitol Tues day afternoon. Wednesday, Christmas parties will be held at Auburn, Rickey, Liberty, Swegle, Garfield, Grant, Washington, West Salem and as semblies at Englewood, Richmond and Auburn. McKinley will have a "hoUy" open house Tuesday from 2 to 3 p.m. Parties Scheduled Highland grade school and Wet Salem junior high have both pre- Your 1949 Senators !! Oregon will nave 2t republicans and l democrats la Its K state senate. Many are new. All will be presented plrtorlally la Sun No. 241 For Hull Aid Identified I I NEW YORK, Dec? 20 Po lice said tonight that Laurence Duggan, 43, president of the In stitute of International BJuca tion and former state department official, plunged to death about 7 p.m. (EST) from window of his 16th floor office at 1 Vest 45th street, Manhattan. J Police said Duggan was identi fied from papers found In his pos session. i; j The body of Duggan, an expert on international affairs, was found lying on the sidewalk In front tf the 45th street building. S f The initial police report on Dug gan's death said he "either Jump ed or fell.- WASHINGTON, Dec 20 'OPh The house un - American activi ties committee disclosed tonight that, Lawrence Duggan had been named as among those who pas sed confidential information vut to a red spy ring courier, f j Rep. Mundt (R-S. D.). acline chairman of the committee, dis closed secret testimony in which Isaac Don Levine, editor of Pit in Talk, an antl - communist maga zine, had given on Dec. 8. . Levine said Whit taker Cham bers, a self - confessed courier for the spy ring, had told Former Undersecretary of State Alt A. Berle, jr., that Duggan was among six individuals in the state de partment who had passed' confi dential information along at var ious times. 4 Mundt released the transcript of Le vine's partial testimony few hours after Duggan had-, fal len to his death. In releasing the transcript. Mundt said "the testimony should speak for itself.' 14 He told reporters that the com mittee had refrained from ques tioning Duggan because It was under the impression that the fed eral' grand Jury in New York, which has also been looking into communist activity, was planning to call Duggan as a witness. Duggan, an expert on Latin American -affairs, served In ! the state department from 1930 to 1944. He served as an adviser to Former Secretary of State Cor dell HulL ! The Institute of International Education, which Duggan headed as president, was founded with help from the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace;! Levine said he had become ac quainted with Chambers when the latter brought him an article; in the spring of 1939, describing the operations of the Soviet spy ap paratus in the United States. H After the signing of the SUIin- Hitler pact in 1939, Levine said he persuaded Chambers he should lay his whole story before fed eral government officials. !i Levine appeared before the Un- American activities committee in the secret session on Dec 8,1 Forest Grove Blaze Damage Near $250,000 FOREST OROVE, Dec I0(lip- Damage was estimated between $140,000 and $250,000 today from a fire in the business district here early yesterday. H Two food markets were destroy ed and two adjoining buildings were damaged. M ': "J I : .' vlously given their Yuletide pro grams but both schools have scheduled panties j for Wednertdb afternoon. ji Englewood grade school . hai been holding daily singing asem blies, each one presented by a dif ferent room. The Englewood drive for funds for the Chinese poor school in Tienstin, China, is con tinuing, with contributors placing decorations on the "Chinese Christmas Tree" in the halL At present there are more than: ,400 ornaments on the tree. 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