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War-ntoll Cobalt on (DoonftroO Lists WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-)-Rigid control over use of the war vital metal cobalts-hitting radio and television makers "extremely hard" was announced today by the government. Civilian use in January will be cutto one-third ol the amount consumed in January, 1950. Then on Feb. 1, every purchase of more than 25 pounds will re quire approval of the national production authority. Cobalt, little known by the pub lic, is precious-to many industries as a steel alloy for cutting tools, for making magnets, lining gun barrels, for quick drying inks and paints and for making radio and television speakers. . A spokesman for the Radio Television Manufacturers associa tion said the order will affect ac Food Dealers Asked To Hold Price Lines WASHINGTON. Dec. 29-iJpy-The government tonight asked food nroeessors and distributors to hold the line on prices. Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle issued a statement emphasiz ing that the government's so-called "fair price" standards apply to OTP 033HB TO) HOB w.v, t roin down to Sauvies island at the confluence of toe Willamette and Columbia rivers today where he will take i tk. jiuiixoKnn nt 9 Hridtre T ccnt island" with the mainland, the first in the more San 100 years of white settle- 2n .t fh rihhon onenina the bridge to traffic, which is appro priate since she was born on the Island and her father was an early settler there. ties will be well represented at Sauvies island, if not by people, Sen 5 soil, for the island's rich alluvial sou is tne aeposn oi me Willamette and Columbia rivers through centuries of time. There -is another connection' between Marion county and Sauvies is land: its first permanent settler was Laurent Sauve, a French- Canadian who ran a dairy on jne island for Hudson's Bay company. He retired in 1844 and. as did so many of the employes of HBC, came to urencn rraine, sewung at St. Paul where he died in 1858 and is buried. The island's name is derived from his own. Also Jason and Daniel Lee, who in 1834 visited the island in their search for a place to start their mission work, rejected it, be cause of fears of the annual high anri fover and affue and came to what Is now Mission Bot- torn north of Salem to establish their mission, which later was abandoned because of high water. The story of Sauvies island is Eleasingly told 'by one who has ved on it for years, absorbed its traditions and become intimate with its soil and its moods, Omar - i C. Soencer. a prominent Portland wi Hook has lust been . published for the Oregon Histori- cal (Continued on xxuionai i-age A . Portland Rent Control Lifted WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 -W-Rent controls were lifted today in Portland and surrounding areas today by Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods, His action was based on recom mendation of the Portland city council which said there is no longer a rental housing shortage In the area. Besides Portland, controls were lifted from all incorporated com munities in Multnomah county and from unincorporated localities In Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties in Oregon nd Clark county, Washington. ; Vancouver, Wash- was not in cluded. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH M8st cntr and fullback vr J m tual production of sets perhaps about March. The fast changing defense mob ilization picture showed these de velopments today: L The economic stabilization agency, which governs price and wage ceilings, announced that it will set up 13 regional offices "to handle price and wage problems and appeals" for each area. 2. The labor department report ed that management-labor com mittees to help solve employment problems in the national emerg ency will be set up regionally and in labor market areas where im portant manpower shortages arise. 3. The federal reserve board forecast in its monthly bulletin "extensive shifts in the use of manpower, materials and plant capacity," and reductions in out put of civilian commodities. i millers, packers, wnoiesaiers, re tailers and other handlers oi iooa products DiSalle said the statement was issued as a result of requests for declaration ori the meaning of the ordered a clerk and a customer to Dec. 19 call for a voluntary "freeze" on prices. He said the "fair price" stand ards provide for price increases under some conditions general ly in hardship cases but he de dared: "Food distributors .may base price increases only on actual costs paid and not on market or replacement costs. In this way they can make an important con' tnbution to stabilization at a time when voluntary action of all ds u necessary in the public interest. DiSaUe's statement, contended that the "fair price" standards Provide for fair profits and do not Position of ceiling prices on farm products selling below parity, Parity is the legalistic term for a formula designed to be fair to farmers and consumers alike. Meanwhile, the agriculture de- partment reported that farm pri- ween mid-November and mid Truck. Bus Plates Hit By Shortage Law enforcement officers Fri day were requested by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry to give truck, farm, bus and motorcycle owners 10 days additional time in which to obtain and display prop- 1951 plates rrr . T i !J , A" request, newory saia, was based on a shortage of aluminum used in the manufacture of these Ptajw. . . ... Newbry said that while most of the plates have been delivered to the secretary of state's office the small date tabs are not lmmedi- ately available. As a stop-gap measure, ixewory is issuing me plate and a windshield sticker which wiU permit operation of a ou mux us wua uu ue uc- I UVC1CU. ncwuijr bcuu nc was wuuuciu that the proper plates and tabs for trucks, farm vehicles, buses and motorcycles can be issued within a few days. Proper plates for exempt ve hicles, publicly owned, will prob ably not be available for two or three weeks. Because of the acute aluminum situation it was necessary some time ago to accept a substitute metal for certain plates and tabs, Newbry said. Miners Rescued 1?a QTsnfr TTiVo r-rom l SILVER PLUME, Colo., Dec. 29 -VP)- Tire sealed six men in the smuggler gold mine for about three hours here today but they scrambled to safety after rescuers bulkheaded the main shaft to halt a rain of burning embers. i The men were in a lateral tun nel at the 700 foot level and about 500 feet in from the mouth of the mine when a fire broke out in the shaft house. Rescuers entered the mine at the 100-foot level and braved the falling brands to shove heavy planking across the main shaft, sealing it off. They then called to the trapped men who scrambled, unhurt, 400 feet up the wooden ladders along the side of the shaft. GENERAL'S BODY SHIPPED TOKYO, Saturday. Dec. 30-6P ! -In a driving rain the body of Lt. uen. waiton H. walker left Tok yo's Haneda airport at 9:55 a. m. today for its final resting place I in Arlington National cemetery. Max. Mia. .5 49 Precip. Jtl J01 M .00 1.02 Sales Portland .58 5S -29 San Francisco Chicago 45 IS New York 39 28 Willamette river 4.0 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem) : Partly eiouar witn a tew anowers tooav be coming fair tonight. High today about a ana low toment aoout 94. SALKM PRECIPITATION Since start at weather Tear Seat. I I Tb' ' -ar L.t Year Normal MM UM UTS 100th YEAB 12 Telephone Company Denied PUC Says Returns Adequate Public Utilities Commissioner George H. Flagg, in an order here Friday, dismissed the application of the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company for an annual rate increase of approximately $2,920, 000 based on its Oregon opera tions, v Flagg held that the company had failed to establish that the proposed rate increase was just and reasonable. Fletcher Rockwood, company at torney, at the conclusion of the hearing involving the company's testimony, announced that failure to grant the increase would result in appeal to the courts. The PUC application was dis missed on motion of special as sistant Attorney General Eugene Laird. Company officials argued at the hearing that earnings of 7 per cent were required to attract new capital and cover increased fed eral taxes, higher wages for em ployes and other items. Rockwood said a rate increase of $4,100,000 actually was needed by the company but the lower rate increase of only $2,920,000 was filed. Post-war expansion al so was stressed in the application. "So far as ascertainable," Flagg said, "this is the first time a pub lic utility has attempted to secure approval of increased rates by claiming it can only sell its se curities by increasing the. value of its common stock at the ex pense of the rate payers. "The evidence in this proceed ing shows that the Pacific com pany is controlled by the Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph com pany through stock ownership and that American has consistently subscribed to approximately 90 per cent of all its stock issues." Flagg said a comparison of op erations of Pacific company for the first nine months of 1949 and the first nine months of 1950 dem- 1 onstrates that the rate of return on an annual basis for the year 1950 is 1.62 per cent higher than for the first nine months of 1949. "Pacific company is now mak ing a rate return of 5.96 on its Oregon operations and it would not be common sense to base rates on estimates of a very uncertain and clouded future,' Flagg added. Willamina Tot Dies in River Statesman News Service WILLAMINA, Dec. 29 A two year-old boy drowned in the Yam hill river near Willamina Friday while his four-year-old sister ran for help. Dead is Allen Russell Langdon who Polk County Coroner Paul Bollman said tumbled into the stream while playing near his home at Fort Hill junction about 1:30 p.m. Bollman said the boy's sister, Mary, ran for help and a neighbor girl pulled the tot's body from the river after it had floated 150 feet downstream. A pullmotor worked over the victim for two hours, the coroner said. Survivers, besides his sister, in clude his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Langdon. The body was taken to the Sheridan Funeral home. MANILA BRACES FOR BLOW MANILA, Saturday, Dec. The U.S. air force base at Clark field today ordered its personnel I into storm-proof buildings as a typhoon swept toward Manila af ter causing crop damage in the central Philippines. Thirty-One, County Draftees Due for Induction on Tuesday Thirty-one Marion county youths will leave Salem Thursday after noon for induction into the army, according to the selective service board. It announced that 168 men from the county, plus six trans fers, had been drafted in 1950. Although some counties have been reported running short of draft eligibles, Marion is sending mostly 20- and 21-year-olds next week. A large group of the former J and several of the latter, plus some older men through reclassification, are yet to be called before 19-year-olds are required, laid the clerk's office. - Tuesday's group will Include four volunteers, under a program an nounced only this month. Prior to departure, the 5lnduc tees and their families have been invited to a farewell party at 1:13 P-m. Tuesday at the YMCA, spon sored by Salem committee of As sociated Services for the Armed rorcei. ttJJOtl PAGES Th New Stayton S tar STAYTON Stayton's branch of the is celebrating its 15th birthday building on Third street in the Sr. ' . . ''v. - ''w-ntvi .. . ' 2 1 "'"" ''" " ' '- ' - .MMM V t i r j.x re. the exterior and tne flower-decked Interior. (Statesman photos). Freezing Rain Glazes Eastern State Region The east and parts of the south were one big ice slide Friday. There was fog in South Carolina and a weird gathering of fumes over Detroit, and it was still cold, except for Florida and the far west. Jones to Head Sub Postoffice Reece Jones, a Salem postal clerk for more than 24 years, will be superintendent of the Holly wood classified station, due to open at 1 p. m. today. Postmaster Albert C. Gragg announced Fri day. Gragg said necessary equipment for all postal business, except postal savings, would be moved to the Tile road location Tuesday morning. Carriers will not oper ate from there until the end of next week. The station will be headquarters for nine city foot carriers, five mounted routes and rural routes 2 and 7. Jones, who resides at 2540 S Summer St., is now foreman of clerks at the main office. Who will succeed him there was not known Friday. He will be assisted by one clerk in the Hollywood sta tion. ENEMY JET DOWNED U. S. FIFTH AIR FORCE, Ko rea, . Saturday, Dec. 30-fl)-F-8G Sabre jets destroyed one enemy MIG-15 jet and probably another in an air battle south of Sinuiju Saturday morning. The list includes: John H. Cook, Benjamin Fred erick Von Flue, Victor John Han- auska, Roy Lee Smith, Walter Darrell Johnson, Deral Jones, jr., Virgil Floyd Gregory, Elmer L. Wolf, Harvey Mike Mitchell, Jam es Leo Uebelman, jr. Lawrence Joseph Wur dinger, jr., Robert Wesley Keppinger, Roy Francis Rice, Frank LaVern Wallis. Victor Paul Troyer, Ardith Lee Goin, Francis Raymond Keagbin Glenn Ray Graber, David Russell Blum, Glenn Frederick Monster, Andrew Reuben Biro, Russell FJ mer Broyles. Robert Arthur Lels, Howard William Hatteberg. Rich aid Terrance Gannon, Warren W Osborne, Eugene Gerald Clason Clayton A. S. Jacobs. Transferred from other boards for induction here are James Gil bert H artless, Myron Teddy Har ris and Robert Gene Wler. David Arthur Garren was trans ferred to Chamberlain, S, D. POUNDS D 1651 Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday. December 3a 19 SO Bank Open a First National Bank of Portland by opening for business In a new downtown district. The photos show TT". ..I. i J L !W ...... - from east Georgia north into New Fr,niaH Ti?Trt. England. Motorists were warned of extremely hazardous driving conditions. In New England, heavy snow accompanied the freezing rain. Snow up to six Inches was expected in eastern and southern New England by Saturday One man was killed by a truck near Matick, Mass. Five other persons lost their lives in crashes on slippery pavements in Ala bama and Louisiana. Charleston, S. C, was blanketed with fog, w4th ship movements and air traffic stalled. And in De troit, an unusual atmospheric con dition scared residents, who thought leaking gase was filling their homes. A body of warm air was close above the city, while at the surface there was a thin layer of cold air and no wind. All the city's smoke and fumes, which normally rise and are blown away, lay stagnant near the ground. The weather bureau s explanation did n't clear the atmosphere, but it relieved worried Detroiters Ice made roads impassable In southeastern Connecticut, while New Jersey's roads were lined with stalled cars. Southeastern New York was pelted with freez ing rain, which was expected to spread throughout much of the state. At La Guardia field 82 flights were cancelled. Tempera' tures were below seasonal norm' als throughout the entire country east of the Rockies, except for the Florida coast. Easing of Rain Seen for NW WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 -JP) The weather bureau looks for wetter-than-usual weather dur ing January in the south and east, about normal precipitation In the midwest and less than normal In the far west. It said today, in a 30-day fore cast: "The weather bureau's 30-day outlook for January calls for greater than normal precipitation over southern and eastern por tions of the country, occurring mostly as snow north of Virginia and as rain to the south. West of the continental divide subnormal precipitation is indicated. "Temperatures are expected to average below seasonal normals in the lake region, the northeast, the Ohio valley and in Texas but above normal west of th conti nental divide and in the south east- S!(ol 01 last U.S. Cannot Stand Alone, Dulles Says NEW YORK. D 29 -Ut- Tip publican foreign policy adviser John Fottrr Dulles said tonight America can never stand alone as a Gibraltor against the world. "Solitary defenne is never im- pregnable.' he raid In an address. On the other hand, he went on, it is not necessary "In spread our strength all around the world in futile attempts to create every where a static defense." Either of these courses he call ed disastrous. Instead, Dulles suggested an economic, political and military ring around the Soviet world to make Russia pay dearly for any new aggression. Speaking Onlr far Self Then, if all-out war comes. Dulles said, the free world will have "the capacity to counter-attack." 'We are not bankrupt In re sourcefulness," he Insisted. Dulles' speech was delivered at a dinner of the American Asso ciation for the United Nations. T T a 1 . . ne ioia a reporter tnai he was speaking solely for himself rather than for the state deoartmenL for which he Is an adviser, lie added that President Truman did not see his speech In advance. In the speech, he said the Unit ed States need not "crawl back into our own hole In the vain hope of defending ouselves against the rest of th world." Says Idea A Fallacy And the Idea of a Gibraltar-like defense, he added, la a fallacy. ana a dangerous one. His speech a major outline of his foreign policy views follow ed former Republican President Herbert Hoover's qualified demand Dec. 20 that the U. S. withdraw from Europe and Asia and make our oceans the frontiers of an American Gibraltar. Dulles as foreign policy ad viser to the state department aV ,hl" JLn l",P?,ient "nanani democratic admlnlstra- tlon than any other republican. H said In advance his speech was not intended as a reply to Hoover whose recommendations only yesterday were termed by President Truman Isolationism." Bread Prices Go Up Today .Bread prices of the Cherry City Baking company will rise one cent a loaf today in Salem, it was re ported Friday night. New prices will be 24 cents for a lvi -pound loaf and 17 cents for one-pound loaf. The Associated Press Friday re ported similar increases will take effect today at some major Port land bakeries. Other bakeries are expected to make similar increases next week. On manager reported I , , unc " mij. Th Benson bakery in Salem announced there would be no in- crease in its bread prices today. Paramount Mart Closes Today Though New Building Plan Dims Paramount market on down-1 town Liberty street will be closed after today, but possibility of a large-scale "Mark Salem" busi ness development at that site ap peared in doubt Friday. Arthur M. Enckaon, wno an nounced yesterday his Paramount market would be discontinued, also owns supermarkets in north and east Salem and is building a new one on South Commercial street. Despite the sudden vacating of the market building, no known move is underway to construct a new building, reported at one tim to b designed for a large chain store. Plans to vacate another building on- the North Liberty site apparently have been aban doned. Walter Graham. Portland, who has represented the "Mark Salem development, was not reacnaue last night, but som Salem busi nessmen affected by tne puma in dicated a belief they were not cow materializing. The proposed buata develop ment, heralded as one oi the ejtyl Ugjest, appeared ertala last June Pric So Rate Increase Continue Advance IFbnEc Fo$thumout rromotiQnl Sou ft hi for Gen, Wilker WASKINGTOX. Dec t-UP- rTl4eat Tnuau ak4 cm grew Udajr U permit r ! as appclBtaest f lh bt LL Gea WalUa IL WaUer U the grade f fail geaerai. Walker, rmmaa4er f the C. S. Eighth army La Krea. was killed la a Jeep aeeMeat Dec XX la WUer U Vie rtvsloeBt Hartley aai Hesse Speaker Kaybara, the presJa'eat ai: "I reeamnea4 the eaaetaaeat f legUUtUa wbUh waali per- soil ta PMthaBMra iimIiU rat af the late LL Oea. TaJUa IL Walker U the graoe af gea- eral la the araaf af th VJL Anti-Monopoly Bill Signed By President WASHINGTON. Dec. i-(,lvJ President Truman today signed an anu-monopoly bill designed to prevent business mergers which would tend to lessen competition The legislation is an amendment to th 11 Clayton anti-trust law have signed this act with treat satisfaction, because It closes I a gap in our anti-monopoly laws that has existed since 1914," Mr. I Truman said in a statement. Th president explained that under the Clayton act, corpora I tions were forbidden to weaken competition by buying up th stock or their competitors. But he said they were able to "defeat the pur pose" of the law by buying up the assets, rather than th stock, of business rivals. Th amendment provide that the same restriction will apply to the purchase of corporaU asseU as to the purchase of stock. 300,000 New 0 Jobs for West SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 29-OTr- The man who is mobilizing man power In the west said today war production will create about 300, 000 new jobs by next summer in five western states, Hawaii Alaska. Glenn E. Brockway, regional dl rector of th federal bureau of employment security, said rpot" manpower shortages already are developing In some aections. He told a news conference that recruiting has started to line up 2.000 workers In highly-sallied classincationai such as aeronauti cal engineers, chemists and tool and die makers. Brockway said that in the re gion he covers California. Ore gon. Washington. Nevada, Arizona. Hawaii, and Alaska unemploy ment stood at 700.000 last Febru ary, and has decreased now to I about 229.000. 11 DTE TH MJIVE riAKn mar del PLATA. Areentlna. Saturday, Dec JO-VA passen- irer piane crasnea near una iibm sea resort 230 miles sou the act of I Buenos Aaires early today and 14 1 persons were reported killed. when announcement wti made of k. ,m,I(inn nf eOT! w. town properties by Melvtn Mark of Chicago. These properties lie on the east side of Liberty street between Chemeketa and Court street. Involved in a $200,000 sale to Mark were Leon's and the Gol- den Pheasant restaurant proper - ties. Earnest money of $30,000 was paid to L L Belch and Charles Foulger. operators ef Leon's, It is shown In the re corded deed. Leon's had planned to vacate by January 13. but Belch said Fri day that negotiations are "stm In complete" with Mark. He said Leon's now has no definite plane to vacate. Mark also had leased for M years th Paramount market pro perty, owned by George Putnam. H said Friday h did net knew wno wouja occupy we mum m la th future. Putnam added that Marx Salem still had the lease bat "If certain stipulations are not met th leas will be cancelled. to sse Ccsrta of in Urn Enemy Moves Closer to City of Seoul Bt tbert TOKYO, Saturday. Dec X) -Jr Seven thousand enemy tmort ka two growpa are now 12 and IS miles south of the Uih raraual on the east flank in Korea, tba U. S. eighth army ad today. A briefing officer asid one fore of 3.000 men had pushed at tat as 12 miles south of th eld Ko rean dividing Un at point about Si miles from th east roast. He said this heaviest cotniwuniat fore was "la contact" wlla Uni ted Nations troop Friday afta advance of up to mor than tern and a half mile Thursday, ratral Meet Fare A second red lore. 2.000 strong; was encountered by United na tions patrols about It miles at from the east roast and 12 mik south of th parallel. Tnes Torres wer not loeeuhw4 ruerrUlas. Reports at eighth rmy headquarters Indiraled ihy wer etiner oy-pasara fiorui Ko rean troop or fresh forces whtea had swept doa-n from the north. Th briefing officer said there was evidence of enemy Infihra- lion and cutting of U. N. svrs ly routes hi th eastern sector. H said there also were Indica tions of increasing enemy rtrenrth on th fluid eastern front. Om U. N. division reported four enemy regiments la this sector. K Sign af Big Fash There still was no aim ef th big red push which allied cfXkxra believ will com soon. In th west, th Chines an4 North Korean communiru roc tinued their big buildup. They moved ever closer to Seoul. th menaced capital of South Korea, The petiinxula-wid front wag reported relatively quiet, aside from th action near th eastera end. Patrol activity continued. Planes of the U. S. Far East aay fore resumed their constant pounding of th enemy In rte weather at dawn today. In aotne 450 sortie Friday they lnfhrt4 an estimated, 00 enemy casual ties. General VLacArthur Las predict ed th big red push will com be tween Jan. 1 and 10. LL Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, eighth army commander, return ed to his headquarters after a tow of th front and said h was "eon fldent" his army would fulfill t mission In Korea. Adm. Sir Patrick Brind, cone mander of the British Far tartar fleet, cam to Tokyo Friday for conieroce wita th general star Engineers Ask Better Terms CXXVTXAND, Dec 2-CVTa brotherhood of locomotiv engi neers 1st today di iiiiiiaad "more favorable" terms la a propoaaj three -year peace pact between tb. railroads and four unions. Tb brotherhood's officers were Instructed to "go back to Wash ington" to get them. There was no amplification 4 what terms th union wants eg) improve, or whether th uaiam considers Its stand aa outright re jection of th proposala. Th thre other railway operat ing union trains an. tu i b'i j and conductors wul meet with) the next ten days to consider the) plan. Providing wag tncreaaa aa4 other benefits for arprcxl&aav 300.000 men. the plan waa Identtal assistant John IL man. Eight days sro It was aa nounced from th White He a settlement of a long dispute wages and operating rules. 1 Tnimail HoATOJ YacHt For Weekend Cntle) WASHINGTON. Dec It -tTH President Truman baaraad CM yacht W imams burg shortly fee for 4 pjn. (EST) today tor weekend cruise in naairy wet H ts expected to Spend of th tun in work on his of the union message CANADIAN I FLAN F0KC OTTAWA, Dec 29 Wrf Minister Louis EL Laurent lnV i rated today cm ted today the Canadian covers I meat ts r-'"g to o4 aeverti fighter padrone to Europe wr I said the army special tare r4 may go to