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.
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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.
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SALEM
Portland
San Francisco
.44
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Hull Aid
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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.'
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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
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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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