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Newspaper Page Text2 The- Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Friday. January 21. 1943 Trumads End Busy Day at Inaugural Ball By Roth Cowan WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (Fri day ) -President Truman wound up his crowded inauguration schedule at 11:40 a.m. Eastern standard time today, when he left the inaugural ball and headed for home. The president. Mrs. Truman and their daughter Margaret arrived at the ball shortly after 11 o'clock last night and stayed until 1:40 o'clock this morning. They depart ed then for the Blair House, their temporary residence across the street from the White House, un dergoing repairs. The ball was a blaze of color, merriment and music. Everybody wanted to dance at the ball but only 5,300 got to. The fire department turned the" rest away. The capital's fire laddies are not snobbish. But fire regulations say maximum of 5.300 persons in the armory, and 5.300 it was. The committee which arranged the ball sort of lost track sending out the invitations, mailing some 8,000 or 10,000 bids: To the com mittee's surprise, almost every re cipient replied yes, thanks, he'd love to come. Some of them came from across the continent. More Shivers Predicted for Midcontinent CHICAGO, aJn. 20-(-A new cold wave from Canada pushed in to the midcontinent today, but weather-harried California and the midwest got a respite. However floods, the aftermath of heavy snows, spilled over some Wabash river lowlands in Illinois. v Scores of families were reported marooned at Three Forks, MonL, where a dike in the Madison river has broken. The new cold wave enveloped Montana and Wyoming and spread eastward into Kansas and Nebras ka. The weather bureau issued special warnings to stockmen in the areas. Overnight temperatures as low as 40 below zero were forecast for parts of Montana and the mercury was expected to drop to 20 or 25 below in Nebraska. Blowing and drifting snow was expected to ac company the cold. AX the snow-locked Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dako ta, disaster units of the army and Red Cross were flying medical sup plies, food and fuel in an impro vised airlift. Snow at th ridge Is 40 inches on the level and some tlriltM mrm 30 et dp. All roads are blocked. An epidemic of dy sentery added to the misery of the .stnexen Indians. Report Ready On Indonesia LAKE SUCCESS. Jan. 20-CTVA four power resolution for settle ment of the Indonesian problem was reported completed tonight after nearly a week of intensive study among delegates to the se curity council. . Informed sources said he Rrit ish agreed to suDDort the resolu tion and this decision apparently insured its passage - - perhaps to morrow. The new proposal was said to provide mat the commission would recommend the withdrawal of Dutch troops. It does not have the weignt or a definite council order. Luther Wrights Given Housewarming Party AUMSVTIXE Mr. and Mrs Luther Wright were surprized with, a housewarming party Sun day i night when guests arrived, bringing gifts and the supper. The evening was spent playing cards. The group included Mr. and Mrs. Omar Roberts, sr Mr. and Mrs. .Omar Roberts, jr., Mr. and Mrs. Lee Highberger, Mr. and M?. Frank Perlow, pr., Mr. and Mrs. Myron (Bud) Mikolson, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tullius, Bill Roberts and Glen Zwick. Rod and Gun Club Has Meeting at 4 Corners FOUR CORNERS The Four Corners Rod and Gun club met m the Community hall Monday. Rep resentatives elected to work with the Community center are Dale Jeffries to act on the board of di rectors; Floyd Green and Jess Mc Ilrray, entertainment committee. Tareet practice scores went to Clyde . Johnson, Henry Martin, Cordon Alman. One new member, W. E. Pederson, 3800 Mahrt ave., was reported. CAMDEN GAS SUPPLY CUT CAMDEN, N. J., Jan. 20-JPh-The supply of gas to 100,000 res idents of the Camden area dwin dled tonight as representatives of 450 striking gas company employ es and company officials remained deadlocked in a wage dispute. SHANGHAI PLANS SIEGE SHANGHAI, Friday, Jan. 21-(T)-The municipal government to day announced it was storing up a three - month supply of food against a possible siege by the Chinese communists. TRAPPED MAN GIVEN FOOD TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 20 -VF, A United Nations convoy took 40 tons of food today to the 3,000 Egyptian troops trapped in the Fa'uja, pocket and brought out 250 sick and wounded men. Thousands t if 1 - 1 I '! f - - i r v . ; WASHINGTON. Jan. 2ft-Thls was how packed capltol plaza looked today as President Truman was sworn In under eapitol porUeel at far left. This view is from the top of the boose winr of the capitol with sen ate office building In left background. Platform in center of crowd was for photographers. (AP Wire photo to The Statesman). x Crusader i WASHINGTON. Jan. it-President Harry & Truman delivers inau gural address from capitol por tico here today. (AP Wirephote to Th Statesman.) j Silverton Church Elects Officers SILVERTON At the annual business meeting of Immanuel Lutheran church Wednesday night officers elected were secretary, H. B. Jorgenson : treasurer, Leonard Hatteberg;? financial? secretary. Otto O. Dahl; deacon; Louis Lar son; trustees, H. N. Omholt, Hen ry Johnson; Sunday school super intendent, : Hannah Olson; assist ants. Mrs; Alma Swayze, Mrs, John Overlund; parish education board. Dr. R. J. Van Cleave, Os car Overlund, Mrs. , Elmer John son; parsonage committee, Ida Jorgenson.; Edwin Overlund, Mrs, Kenneth Ilenjum; fellowship com mittee, Mrs. Aage Anderson, Mrs. H. Funrue, Mrs. R. Poverud, Mrs. H. Gottchalk, Mrs. Lloyd Larsen; cemetery board, Albert Funrue; ushers. Erwin Overlund, Homer Rue, Jerome Rue. Robert Johnson, Ray Letter, Ardell Johnson; Allen Dahl, Elmer Johnson i and , Albert Funrue; organist. Mrs. I Arthur Dahl, Mrs.; Elser Aarhus and Mrs. H. Gottchalk. Officers ' will be installed Sun day morning. j Truman Speech Heard in Moscow MOSCOW, Jan. 201 -UP)- The broadcast of President Truman's inauguration was head clearly hers today. I The Voice of America rtelay re ception was excellent on short wave. Earlier, the United States infor mation service carried details of the broadcast in a bulletin. Near ly 500 copies of the bulletin giv ing frequencies, wave lengths and times' were distributed. Search Renewed for 20 on Missing Plane MIAMI, Fla.. Jan. 20 -OF)- A light and an unidentified obect sjghted far at sea today spurred the search for a missing British South American Airways : plane with 20 persons aboard- The search concentrated some 300 miles ; southwest of Bermuda but the coast guard said at night fall all results so far had been negative. ' f Free Teen Age Dance Tonight Glenwoqd Woodiy's Orchestra at Inaugural of u 1 I) Truman Urges Private Capital, Know-How Sent to Other Lands By' Sterlln F. Green WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-JP-President Truman today urged the United States to do global battle against poverty by throwing its in dustrial know-how and money into a "bold new program" to raise the world's standard of living. In controversy-packed paragraphs of his inaugural address the president hinted at government guarantees for private industry to los ter capital investment in areas needing development." He urged a world pool-of tech nological knowledge, with other countries contributing as well as the United States. Half the peo ples of the earth dwell in pover ty, he said, while America's store of technological knowledge is growing and "inexhaustible." "We are ready to undertake new projects to strengthen the free world," Mr Truman declared. It was uncertain whether con gress was ready - -prominent sen ators quickly split on his guaran tee proposal. But the president made it clear he will ask them to approve a strengthening of foreign invest ment, and he replied in advance to the expected soviet charge of "dol lar imperialism," "The old imperialism - - exploi tation for foreign profit - - has no place in our plans," Mr. Truman said. "What we envisage is a program of development based on the con cepts of democratic fair-dealing." Umatilla Store, Gty Hail Burns UMATILLA, Jan. 20-;P-A fire, apparently starting in a flue, burned the city hall, liquor store, a barber shop and a library to the ground here today. All were located in the same frame building. Mrs. Mary Neill, city recorder, rescued all the city records. Much of the liquor stock was carried to safety, and library books were tossed tq the street. Many of them were dameged. Mrs. Neill said the fire broke out in the liquor store, which had not yet opened for the day's busi ness. Damage was unofficially esti mated at about $50,000. The city , hall will be set up temporarily in j a community hall here. History of Aurora Wromans Club Given AURORA Mrs. William B. Chandlee, president of the Oregon Federation of Women's clubs, was the speaker when the Aurora Woman's club met with Mrs. Wil liam Dental last week. Mrs. Francis Klaus gave the his tory of the Aurora Woman's club and others on the program were Mrs. William Gooding, Mrs. Wil liam Drahar. Hostesses were Mrs. Denral. Mrs. Wade Russell. Mrs. Frank Thiel, and Mrs. William Yergen. South Salem Club Talks 0 Highway Plans Highway and lighting plans for south Salem were discussed Thursday night at the meeting of the South Salem Progress club. Reports of activities of the club were presented to the members and a scenic movie was shown, followed by refreshments. TRIPLETS ADDED TO TWINS MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 20-JP)-Mrs. Lucille Kemp has a set of triplets to add today to the two sets of twins born to her previous ly. Two boys and a girl born Tues day night in a hospital are doing nicely. T DAIICE SATURDAY GLEN WOOD BALLROOM CURT KEIIOII And His Orchestra President 3?" Asia Nations Ask. Freedom For Indonese NEW DELHI, India. Jan. 20-.4) Speakers representing various Asian countries unanimously de manded today the establishment of Indonesian independence. Many of them also indicated i that their 20-nation conference here might develop into a vast re gional organization similar to the Pan American union. Such a body, it was 'said, could be set up with in the framework of the United Nations. The conference was .called to protest Dutch military action against the young Indonesian re public. Delegates selected a com mittee to prepare a resolution lo the U.N. security council dealing with the setting up of an interim Indonesian government. Australia, Pakistan, Ceylon and India were named to the committee. ' India submitted a paper propos ing that all fighting on Java and Sumatra be stopped, republican leaders freed and Netherlands troops withdrawn to positions held before the Dutch operation against the republic was launched in mid December. The paper also suggested that the interim government be set up by March 15, a constituent assem bly elected by October 1 and a complete transfer of power be made to the new jjovernment by next January 1. Conference leaders who stress! the idea of a regional Asian organ ization said such a body is needed to represent what Prime Minister Jawanriat isenru oi India referred to as "half the circumference of the globe and the greater part of us population. Union vale Family Visits in Portland ! UNIONVALE Mr. and Mrs. j Louis Magee were Portland vis ' itors Thursday where they spent ! the day with old frierfds and vis- ited his brother, who is recover- ing from an illness. I Mr. and Mrs. Horace Edwards j and family were guests -f his parents in Dayton. His brother, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Edwards of Portland spent the weekend at the Edwards home in Dayton. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stoutenburg of Portland were Sunday guests of their daughter, Mrs. Ari Laun er and family and visited Mr. and Mrs. Clark Noble. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Stonebrink of Steamboat Springs, Colo., are visiting relatives here and his cou sins, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ed wards. EARTHQUAKE RECORDED BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20-UP) The University of California Seis mograph recorded a "moderate" earthquake seven miles distant at 4:34 p.m., PST, today. A similar shock shortly after midnight this morning caused minor damage at one building at Verdi, 12 miles west of Reno. New Showing- Open S:45 LOIS BUTLER ., IN AT. SMUKIIKC C1NEC010R! 1 Second Big Feature HAZARD" Paalette Ooddard Macdonald Carey Oregon Wool Prices Riding Crest of 'Boom' By Lillie L. Madsen Frra Editor. The Statesman While the price of Australian wool today is the highest in his tory, Oregon is not laggmg far behind. The "wool boom indicates a world shortage of warm cloth ing and the price is just another wav of saying .hat money any where in the world will not buy what it did 10 years ago. Comparative prices given by Willamette valley wool rnen Thursday show a big price jump in the past 10-year period. The buyers indicated that the good prices will hold or might go high er in 1949, which doesjhot presage a drop in cost of woolen clothing. One and two years ago, woolen clothing was being sent to Eu rope. Word here today is that Britain, France. Italy have bought most of Australia's fine wool clip this season. Europe is getting on her feet and is going back to her own manufacturing. This is as it should be, K. H. Pickens, secretary-treasurer and buyer of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, Salem, said Thursday. During 1948, Kay's, which weave tweeds, other sports and coarse woolens, bought 400,000 pounds of coarse wool directly from val ley growers. The prica? was aji average of 47 cents in the greasy. Mr. Pickens expects to pay about the same this year. The shortage of wool is not in the coarse grades, he said. Right now, he added, low braid and low quarter braid is moving rather slowly. But there is a definite shortage of medium and fine wooLs. Here are some figures furnished by Ralph Cooley of Bishops' Clothing store, Salem, and Clarence Bishop of the Bishop mills, which includes Oregon Worsted company, Port land. Pendleton Woolen Mills and Washougal (Wash.) Mills, Ore gon's largest wool users: There were 450 million pounds of wool produced in the United States in 1938, and there were consumed 600 million pounds. Today there are produced 300 million pounds, and 900 million pounds are con sumed. Per capita consumption is far greater than it was 10 years ago. In January. 1938, fine range wool sold at 32 cents and in Jan uary, 1948, at 45 cents. This month it has been selling at 57 Vfe cents. Medium range wool in 1938 sold for 37 cents: in- 1948. for 45 cents and the same this January. Val ley medium wool sold for 35 cents in 1938 and for 48 cents in 1948 and 1949. Approximate production for 1948 in Oregon was 6V2 million pounds of wool. Consumption in the Bishop mills alone was 4'i million pounds of domestic wool and 3 million of foreign wool to total 74 million pounds. Lions Hear Rep. Van Dyke Frank J. Van Dyke of Medford, speaker of the Oregon house of representatives, Thursday sum marized legislation introduced to speech before Salem Lions club in date in the state legislature, in a the Marion hotel. He said 30 bills already have been referred to the house taxation committee alone, and that 18 of 25 committees are already at work on bills which" have been formally in troduced. In connection with explaining a bill proposing state licensing of practical nurses. Van Dyke obser ved that this points to the trend of more and more groups seeking control and protection by state government. He said such groups have ranged "from masseurs and hairdressers to practical nurses" and they appear willing to pay the state for regulation by a commis sion rather than have regulation through their own trade associa tions. Salem Pastor Speaker At Unionvale Meeting UNIONVALE A festive oc casion was the formal banquet sponsored by the Youth Fellowship of the local Evangelical United Brethren church Thursday night in the social rooms of the Educa tional unit. Theme for the affair was "Christ our Conductor," with the Rev. Lloyd Anderson, pastor of Salem First Baptist church guest speaker. Reading by Lois Hibbs and a solo by Shirley Todd were other numbers. -II Always The Best In Entertainment! L NOW! It's A Ten Fingernail Picture! Yenll Chew Ahem AU Off 2nd Hit! William Gargan Virginia WeUes in "DYNAMITE" Cartoon-Masieal y M m ' Defendants Xh V W ' f J f ; NEW YORK, Jan. 20 Eleven of the 12 Communist leaders who are on trial la New York City for eon. piracy sit for a rroap picture In the Federal Building after their trial opened this week. William Z. Foster, National Communist chairman, was absent because of his health, his attorneys explained. (L to R-seated) Robert G. Thompson, Henry Winston. Eugene Dennis, Gus Hall and John Williamson: stand lng Jack Stachel. Irving Potash, Carl Winter, Ben Jamin J. Davis, Jr., John Gates and Gilbert Green. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). J : ' v 5) Wind Blamed For Flurry of Fires in Salem Several minor fires in Salem were attributed to the high wind Thursday night. Firemen answered six calls during the evening, three of them flue fires. Blazing tar mops sent trucks to the Salem Laundry at 9:16 p.m. and a few minutes later firemen went to Ford and Mission streets to check a flue fire. At 10 o'clock there was another Hue fire at 2390 Adams st., and minutes later the North Salem station answered a call to 645 Belmont st., to check a chimney fire. The wind blew over flare pots at Chemeketa and Win ter streets earlier. Firemen from the East Salem station answered a call to the 1100 block of south 24th street early Friday morning to extinguish a blaze in a- truck owned by the Campbell Rock-Wool company The fire, starting near a blower motor on the back of the truck, burned a hole in the floor boards, but damage was held to a mini mum. Wallace Asserts Truman's Speech Prelude to War NEW YORK, Jan. 20 -(-Henry Wallace said tonight President Truman's inaugural address asked the nation to prepare for "a war against almost half of the people of the g'obe." The former progressive party presidential candidate said in a statement that the president's ad dress "comes closer to a declara tion of war than the inaugural addresr of any peacetime pres dent in our history." "His statement that capitalism and communism cannot live to gether in one world makes war the eventual alternative," Wall-ice said. Carl Waddle Treated For Injuries in Wreck Carl Waddle. 450 Radcliffe dr., was treated at Salem General hos pital Thursday for a head cut and injured shoulder incurred in a col lision at 21st and Mill streets on Thursday afternoon. Waddle was driving a car which collided with one driven by Mrs. Pauline Rocque, Timber line, at 4:25 p.m. 2nd Hill w WINTER COLOR CARTOON Latest Warner N . f N35; U yff eA!JZ2Z, ft bC vffg in Communist Conspiracy Trial xmmJ Local Demos Celebrate at Dinner, Dance More than 100 democrat of the Salem area Thursday evening combined the traditional demo cratic Jackson day dinner with celebration of inaugural day fpr President Truman. The democrats dined at the Senator hotel here1 in a party sponsored by the Young Demo cratic club of Marion county. President Joe Larkin was toast master and State Sen. Richard Neuberger of Portland was prin cipal speaker. Special guests Included State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson, the democratic delegation to the state legislature and Theodore Pen land, civil war veteran who heads the national GAR and who will be 100 years old Sunday. In his address, Neuberger call ed on his democratic -colleagues in the state legislature to present a program of-legislation In social welfare and conservation matters that will serve as a party plat form, for the 1950 election. The "Donkey Serenade" and "Missouri Waltz" were tops in popularity at the Inaugural ball' at the VFW hall where more than 250 persons danced to honor Pres ident Truman s inauguration. State Treasurer and Mrs. Wal ter Pearson headed the receiving line at the ball which was at tended by caravans from many western Oregon cities. Twenty one democratic members of the state legislature were honored guests with the Pearsons. China Peace Prospects Fade NANKING, Jan. 20-(;P)-China,s nationalist party leadership en dorsed a cease-fire resolution to day, but governmental double- talk and communist silence made peace prospects as dim as ever. In north China, terms for sur rendering Peiping to the Reds were reported accepted "in principle" by both sides, but nothing had been done to implement this sep arate deal. On the war ronls, the commun ists maintained their close siege of Peiping and were edging stead ily south of the old Hwai river line 100 miles north of Nanking. New Today! 2 MAJOR HITS - - WIS! TEES: W BfiTA!GN VV.NOUST him ftAKKE - "SUPERMAN- SERIAL FRL & SAT. MATINEES 1 mm m -m ) I'l T 1, 1 Berlin Reds Scrap Plans For Election 1 !; BERLIN, Jan. 20-7P)-The handW picked communist government of eastern Berlin appointed a rump city parliament today as a substi tute for an elected body which had been promised. . ' jj i? Western Berliners, who elected a city assembly last December, called the new communist parlia-i ment "ersatz," the German word forvphony. . :j Communists named their ifump parliament a "bloc presidium and working committee." Anti 4 com munists said It was obviously de signed to give some pretense of support for the separate govern ment the communists set up by a show of hands in a theater last No vember. I f - ij At the time the communist choice for lord mayor, Friedrich JEbert, promised "genuinely democratit elections would be held soon S I t the Russian sector of the city! to choose a parliament. s- Palestine Talks In Crucial Stage RHODES. Jan. 20 . IJP. Txraf and Egypt bumped up against th question today of determining boundaries for the disDuted Necev In their armistice talks. It was rough going. .! i Both sides were reported hi disagreement over a number (of important points in connection with the question of boundaries to be observed in southern; Pal estine. ij - j; f Mat Dally From 1 P. M. NOW SHOWING! i n EforiLfiUD ' I U iuSStl JCS1 US1 m tw m mm ' a CO-FEATURE! 0Cu4i. r Opens f:45 P. M. New! Twe New IliUt In Glorious Color! New! Opens 1:45 j cnui i 1 sins Co-Hit! Bob Mitchum -WEST OF PECOS' KARTOON KARNIVAL Tomorrow At 12:3t with Keg. Shew : f J ftj Alaa Carta AaatCuraae ' CO-FEATURE!