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turn LW (Story in Column 4) if V POUNDBO 1651 NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 12 PAGES Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 1, 1946 Price 5c No. 240 ROikado Denties Witness Charges Divinif v Fa We, Leveled EL MIL pgr mmsm . " . - t f :-rJV ; " $' , t . . " l . ? . , , I : " v . - , I ' 'JiTT"' -"'-' ." " -: -Cttw, .. -; v 4 ' -yjlr T , Mi 55 -sy Vi&g- (jfc r IVI uwiiac approves ... . .. ' 4 U II ro r Happy New Year! A L utile uj LiiaijKC UIV vaicif drs. The old one comes down; the new one goes up. Traditional ly, too, it is a time for progriosti ration, an effort to peep behind the' veil i to- see what the coming twelve months may bring. I prefer, however, to look back j over 1945. Never was there a year Jike It in history. More events' of earth-shaking importance were congested in its 365 days than .in any period of similar length. In comparison, time ahead looks pale. a sort of fifth act of earth's drama whose climax already has been " - passed. I The end of the war, the con- version of atomic energy to hu ' man purpose, the birth of the United Nations organization stand out as the high peaks of the year. Time may reveal them as perman ent peaks of human history. Other events claim attention in retro spection; The death of Franklin Roosevelt and the tapering off of hii era; the grisly J execution of "" Mussolini;; Hitler vanishing into ash iafttiwM catling in anguish tri his bunker - as the Russians, like the avenging furies of Greek tragedy, tear his capital apart the broken pride &f Japan repre sented in the humiliating scene j n the battleship Missouri on Sep tember l.J Here, indeed, is ma terial for history, material also ' 1 : . 1 J m -4 And now the spastic jerking of a world in reconversion: conten tion among the victors; the ambi tions of subject peoples for inde pendence; the bitter feud of labor and management; the return and readjustment of millions of serv ice folk; the exuberant bursting of -restraints as noted in frenzied buying, in eating and drinking, in speed of travel? These are im- meaiaieiy in lue scene as vw vui- furnish the setting for the early months at least of the coming year. TP . T . .. . njuie icunviiuii. "Trie year is dying; let him die." Nineteen hundred forty -five,; with its high drama and great tragedies' and pageantry of war, belongs to history. The world will never be the same again hope fully not, we might add. JVIorga n Appo i n ted To Succeed Cooley Appointment of Ralph Morgan at supervisor of agricultural edu cation to succeed; Earl R. Cooley, wjho died two months ago, was announced by the state board of education Monday.' Morgan was Cpoley's ' asistant. ! Maurice Buchanan who was serving as assistant supervisor of food production wks m;iie assist ant -supervisor of 'agricultural ed ucation. 'The board toted1 to extend for another year the emergency cer tificate for Oregon teachers. Animal Crackers evwrkKi Goodrich Hirohito Bluntly Admits Defeat, No Super Race TOKYO, Tuesday, Jan. 1 -UP) Emperor Hirohito denied today, in an imperial rescript, that he is di vine land drewTromhiconqueror and current boss a prompt well- I done. "The emperor's New Year's statement pleased me very much," said MacArthur. . "By It he undertakes a lead ing part in democratization of his people. He squarely takes his stand for the future along liberal lines. His action reflects the irre sistable influence of a sound idea. A sound idea can not be stopped." The mikado branded as false the twin legends of his own divinity and his people's destiny to rule the world as his defeated, nation greeted the new year with appre hensions over the allies' future oc cupation policies. . .; Emperor Hirohita a unprece dented rescript, with its disavowal of myths taught to his subjects since infancy, bluntly told the people the depths of their defeat and destitution and called upon them to "strive courageously" for the construction of a new, peace ful Japan. , "We stand by the people, and we wish always to share with them in their moments of Joys and sor rows," said the emperor's-message , "The ties between us and bur people have always stood upon mutual trust and affection. They did not depend upon were leg ends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races and fated to rule the world." - Truman Names Board to Head Off Steel Strike WASHINGTON Dec. SljiJPy President Truman sought to head off a steel strike with the appoint ment of a fact-finding board and instructions' to the OPA to review the -possible need for price in creases . . j Stepping into the dispute be tween the industry and the CIO United Steel Workers' union, the president set up a -board composed of: Roger I. McDonough, associate justice of the Utah supreme court. Chief . Justice James M. Doug las of the supreme court of Mis souri. . Nathan P. Feinsinger, public member of the expiring, war labor board and professor of law at the University of Wisconsin. Million Throng Times Square To Ring Out Old, Ring in New NEW YORK, Jan. l.-P)-From a million celebra tors in Times Square at midnight rose shouts of joy, the ihrieks of thousands of whistles, the blare of countless hoin., as New York greeted the riotous beginning of 1946. Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander; who arrived" at 46th and Broadway just before the bells tolled the end of 1945, made the official ' estimate- tliat the crowd numbered atleast a million persons. Revelers ; in the crowd pulled along huge rubber balloons which floated high above the shuffling thousands. More than 2000 patrol men shunted intoxicated, figures out of traffic, and gently guided service men who had celebrated too well and had lost their bear ings in the surging multitudes. Everybody seemed to be carry ing a - horn, a bell or a rattling noisemaker, and everybody . let go when the clock hands reached midnight. Like people all over America and all over the world. New Yorkers expressed in one great yell their relief that the war was over and many of their sons were home, and their hope that 1946 would be a big year. Barricades were up in the huge square. The crowds brushed against planks, ropes, storm -shut- tcis and other khiclds put by V. I n I - ,1k: ' i " ,x.V X - -; f 1 Admiral Harold R. Stark, who tes tified at the Pearl IUrbor ln nlry yesterday that Admiral Klmmel did not take proper precautions at Hawaii Dee, 7, 194 1. ' Child KiUed by Hit-Run Driver ALBANY, Dec. Sl.HSpecial)- Gary Nemchick, 2, was killed at 5:15 tonight by a hit and run driver when he ran out into the street from his home at 406 Geary si in East Albany. The child had been playing with older children ' in the back yard and for some reason tan out the driveway and into the! street. The only witnesses to the accident werei the children with whom Gary had been playing! and among them were his two brothers, Har old. Jr., 8 and Jackie, tt The boy's body was picked up by Alva Sla- vens who ! lives nearby but Who did not see the accident. The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Nemchick who came back to Albany from San Francis co a few months . ago. (They were remodeling a home for themselves and living meanwhile in an apart ment in the residence ot her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. ,D. McLain. His parents are Mr. j and ' Mrs Emu Nemchick, also 01 Albany Weekend Dead Hit 306 iniU. S. i --- By the Associated Presi The nation's New Year was ush ered in with a total of 306 victims of violent death during the week end starting at 6 p. m. Friday up to a late hoar last night. , : Traffie-'Bcdidents accounted for more deaths than all other causes, such as fire, drowning, shooting, explosions, plane crashes, and falls, with a total of 154, miscel laneous accidents caused 152 deaths. Jlood waters accounted for 7 of Oregon's 11 weekend deaths, traffic accidents for two more. Vanport shooting and a Portland fire resulted In the jother two deaths. ; wary storekeepers on j the great white way, who wanted to protect their windows and their goods. A fireman was stationed at fevery firebox to stave; off prankish drunks who might want to turn in false alarms, but only four such alarms were received iy the metro politan area up to midnight. U. S. Businessmen Optimistic Over'46 NEW YORK, Dec. 1 31 - VP) -American business leaders, in an outpouring of year -end state ments, today pictured 1946 as a year of tremendous opportunities; with prospects that civilian pro duction in many lines could sur pass anything this country - had previously known in peacetime. There were hints of caution in some statements, with- obvious reference to management -labor difficulties and other problems facing the start of the New Year. One of the most outspoken was Paul W. Litchfield, chairman of -the board of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company. Af tr speaking of the "great market awaiting us," and the prospect that "we could be busier! than we. have ever been," he conclude! that "the immediate future fe neither clear nor bright. ,Tbo parW By Stark Short's.Opiriion Different From Admiral's Views By William T. Feaeock WASHINGTON, Dec Jl -VP) Pearl Harbor Investigators . heard Adm. Harold R. Stark contend to day that Washington's warnings should have brought. "all-out se curity measures' 'in Hawaii In 1941. They received also . a di rectly contrary view from; Lt Gen. Walter C Short, army com mander in the islands ' when the Japanese attacked. ; With Stark, 1941 chief of navy Operations, in the witness chair, the senate-house committee was given a transcript of Gen. Short's testimony in 1944 to an army inquiry board. j ; .: In brief, the Hawaiian army commander's contention was that he never was given any reason to anticipate an air attack; and, from information supplied by the navy in Hawaii, had felt the chance was "very slight' Unarmed Planes Snt Short cited that the army dis patched 12 unarmed four-engined bombers from, the west coast to Hawaii the night of Dec. 6, 1941 Four were destroyed when they arrived in Hawaii next day dur ing the attack. That incident alone. Short de clared, demonstrated that the war department's "estimate was ex actly the same as mine, that they were hot expecting an air attack on Honolulu ..." Stark's view, on the other hand, was that he sent an "un equivocal war warning" to Adm. Husband E. Klmmel, Pacific fleet commander; on Nov. 23 directing that he "execute an appropriate defensive deployment" Combination Planned Under questioning from Wil liam D. Mitchell, 'committee coun sel, Stark said he thought that as a result of this messaee Klm mel would take up the matter 1aJ a. . . -A. i c. mm wiui anon ana ine rwp wouia "mike the best disposition of the forces they had to guard' against danger." Mitchell asked what was meant by "defensive deployment" "A -defensive deployme nt," Stark replied, "would be to spread his forces and use them to the maximum tp prevent, surprise. He said Kiromel could have de ployed submarines and light craft . The release of Short's testimony marked the first time that his side of the Pearl Harbor story had ever been made public in de tail. He is listed to follow Stark as a witness before the congres sional committee, but there is doubt that he can testify then be cause of a respiratory ailment. New- Record for County Divorces Total marriage license applica tions at the Marion county clerk's office for the year Just I ended reached ( 606, while . approximate ly 446 divorce complaints were filed during the year.! The divorce total of 1945 is the highest recorded yet, topping by 120 the 326 complaints registered in 1944. The 1945 figure of marriage ap plications just topped by eight the 1944 figure of 598 and missed by a considerable mark the all time high of marriage applications re corded in 1943 of 739 applications. adox is that while almost every one recognizes the nature of our problems, effective steps are not being taken on a national scale to meet them." In San Francisco, Henry J. Kai ser, who is interested in several industries, declared 1946 i "pre sents far more prospects than problems." He forecast the west In, particular was in- for its great est advance, and based his op timism on the return generally of a competitive consumers market. Kaiser said "Private enterprise now has its greatest opportunity in meeting an unprecedented de mand for housing. This one essen tial could do for our economy in 1946 what the automobile did for it in 1921." Clarence Trancis, chairman of General Foods Corp., said the American food industry's most competitUe era will start in 1Q- The Willamette didn't set any records over the weekend bat It did a food Job of. kicking up a fuss. It surged around railroad bridge piers at no mean speed (top left), backed up its' already swollen tributaries to create such scenes as those at Bellevue and S. Cottare la Salem (top right), took over the Burke Auto camp In West Salem (center left), crashed logs against the piers of the Salem- Petitions Filed For Spaulding; Election Jan. 11 Bruce Spaulding, SaUm attor ney and former district ' attorney Of Polk county, today apparently j was assured aplace on the ballot for the January 11 special elec tion when a successor will be chosen for the late Rep. James Mott Completed petitions were filed with the department of state late Monday and Italph Campbell, campaign manager, said they con tained 4862 names. A total of 3, C96 qualified signatures are nec essary for the 10 counties af fected. t Spaulding.i who. was endorsed by the first district's democratic congressional committeemen but will run as an independent, will compete against Walter Norblad. Astoria republican, who qualified through representative assembly rather than by the petition me thod. 'Thetiomination deadline was last night. State Defense Couneil Ended r The Oregon state defense coun cil headquarters here, opened by executive order of former Gov. Charles A. Sprague in June, 1941, closed Monday nighjL Jack Hayes, acting administratoj-, will return to his previous position in the state fire marshal's department Hayes' final report . filed with Gov. Earl Snell said that various units of the organization had functioned efficiently and that thousands of persons in defense units throughout the state gave freely of their time in making the plan a success. - Employes of, the headquarters, along with Hayes, will be ab sorbed in other state department Jobs. Producers, processors and dis tributors will find keen competi tion for" a share of . the consumer's dollar from" all industries and from the greater number of units within each industry, Francis said. He continued, "The record cur rent income; plus peak savings, has spurred farmers to buy long needed equipment, fertilizer, ma chines, and tools, for greater pro duction efficiency to meet stiffer competition from American and foreign farmers in the coming years." j Edward Ritkenbacker, presi dent and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, said "The new year will mark the wide introduc tion of 300-mile-an-hour passen ger service and the public's mass acceptance of air travel to an ex tent heretofore not even Portland Reports Boom in Divorces, Real Estate Sales PORTLAND. Dee. Jl -(JP)- It was a record wr.ashlng 1945 at Multnomah county statistics bu reaus. . Divorces and marriages ran a merry race, breaking- all rec ords. Divorce actions totaled 5535by noon today, 663 above 1944. Marriage applications to taled 4119, or 653 above last year. Real estate sales totaling $87,424,088 were reported to the county assessor's office, compared with $68,523,086 In 1944. Building permits for the year reached $12,355,185 in value against $'.,305,890 the previous year. 2 Wrecks Mar New Year's Eve in Salem Amid the confusion of floods, holiday celebrations arid' the ush ering in of the Near Year, Salem's traffic slate was chalked up with two traffic accidents late Monday night. Watch night parties in churches, homes, hotels and club houses highlighted the New Year's observance, but whistles blew, horns honked and the few persons on downtown streets greeted one another cheerily. Mrs. Floyd Dunn, 365 Taylor st, was injured in a two-car accident at the intersection of Center and Commercial streets. Mrs. Dunn was taken to Salem Deaconess hospital where stitches were tak en in the cu on her forehead. Other occupants of the car were uninjured. - Arthur Staples, 32, 2190 Berry st., was injured on the Pacific highway just north of the under pass when he was struck by a car. Staples was. taken to Salem Gen eral Hospital in the first aid' cure where several stitches were re quired to close the cut. over his lefe eye. Man, Killed on 99E Near Brooks Henry Caley Williams, Valley hotel, Portland, died early Monday in a Salem hospital, as a result of Injuries he received Sunday night when he was" struck by a car oh the highway near Brooks. Williams, ' who had been visiting an acquaintance, in Brooks, was walking on the highway. ' Homer A. Mitchell, Turner,, driv er of the car was not held respon sible for the accident, state police said. ' Sawmill Department To Re-open Thursday The entire sawmill department of Oregon Pulp and Paper, orig inally, scheduled to resume ope rations tomorrow, now is set to re-open at 8 ajn. Thursday, Jan uary 3, company officials an nounced. Minor damage from flood conditions necessitated the delay. West-Salem hit h way bridre (center right), swirled over the road at the west end of the same bridge (bottom left), and isolated the Jack Minto farm southwest of Salem bottom right). Photo by Bill Seott, Statesman Staff photographer, some of them taken from a boat provided through the cooperation of Willard TaaJor of (ho Salem Boat house). Willamette's 28.35 Feet Valley Death Toll By Associated Prill ' ' ' Seven deaths and millions of dollars in property amaf e were reported today' as western Oregon's flooded valleys savr river levels recede. ' j " The Willamette river's crest was passing through Portland today but district army ertgmefrs said little damage was expected. ! Greatest toll of death was j Portland. The body of Mrs. Mit- eheH was found Monday, confirm- ing the tragedy suspected when their empty car was located off the highway south of Eugene. The'i bodies of Mitchell and their two children, 8 and 4 years old, ;ire sought. 2 Drowned Two men drowned Saturday in the coastal Coos river. The body of the Rev. Neil J. Barnes, re tired minister, was recovered but (that of his companion was bv Lived swept into the curient and out to sea. Searchers late Sunday foumi the body of 'Raymond H. HiP, 26, Drain. Ore.. World wrr 11 vet eran, in his car in nonrttxi tut creek. Many of the upper valley com munities were without power to day as the flood toppled poles. U. S. highways 99 and 101 were; reopened front the Columbia river to California Rafter three days' closure but many secondary routes were still ' closed by washed-out bridges,., (Full road information on page 10). No Damage Report, . No estimate of the flood damage to properties in this area can be made until the now. rapidly-receding waters of the Willamette river have uncovered again the fields and pastures inundated last weekend. The heavy current of the swol len river carried with it enough tnud to indicate that soil erosion was considerable, but the ea arly warning service of Red Cross anil army engineers probably cut otlv er types of losses considerably, it was said. Among the largest loss es. in the New Year's day flood 01943 was hop wires and poles, tangled! and carried away in the debris of the flood. Crest S.35 Feet Crest of the flood, -which reach ed here" early Sunday night was 28.35 feet; less by 2.65 feet than predicted.. Trie 1943 maximum was 30.6 feet. Minor darrla'ge occasioned by the flood delayed the scheduled re-1 opening of the saw'mHlj division of Oregon Pulp. & Paper Co.' until Thursday, January 3. It was to have opened Wednesday. No lunV ber was lost by Oregon Pulp but approximately 200,000 feet of logs were swirled away on the high water. (Story, also on page 2). : Weather Marc. Mm. 41 lUtn trace .wt M Silem .. Eugene . Portland SratUe . .: 5i 4 -5.1 43 .51 , 43 San Fnneiwo St . "43 . Willamette rlvfer.232 ft. FORECAST (from U.S. weather be reau, MrNnry field. Sltjil: Cloudy inday. wasionl light rain. Maxinram tanaperatim S3 degrf . ; Crest at City, 7 in the car of John A, Mitchell, Committee on LVet Housing to T7 Be Proposed A resolution cnfling for tr poimment of a, sjjecial commit! on veterans' nmtsinu will prob ably be presented to the Salem city council at its1 next meetiniu next Monday night, January 7 Alderman Tom ' Armstrong de clared Monday. . ( Armstrong said he planned to ask that the oimmittee be in structed to investigate use of ex isting housing units at the Salens airport with some reconversion, for emergency-Priof dwelling? J units from Camp Adair which might be taken down, transport! and reerected in a location her at federal government expense or any other . possibilities whict might seem feasible. These and other dans wrr discussed at a meetinf Monday tl W. J. Braun, president of the Sa lcnv Credit association; Clay Coch ran, Salem Chamber of Com merce manager; George Aiken, j state budget director and execu tive secretary to the governor who has been active in work-to secure veterans' housing for Or--, gon; State Treasurer Icslie ScottJ Ralph Nohlgren, Salcjm .rejftau'V antman recently returned llfrora navy duty, and H. C. tllub) Seal fe' Marion county veterans' ser vice. oiiicerv Saalfeld fs asking that veteran or their dependents in need of emergency housing get in touclt with him t his office in tha state Hbrary buiWing, or tele phone 3755, so that number cl units needed here may be deter mined. Hiiildino- IVrmilj' Total 9x,:o,ti-s in sal em Permits representing $ 1,793,841 worth of construction" were issued in Salem durm -195. Of this) amount, $15,0 1,693 was earmarked for .new building, $292,147. for al terations. ; December' "building prnrits to tald $192,904, of which-$17571 represented '-. new . Tonstructioag $17,129. alterations. Nojlgal Hollay For Special Election FrMay, Januaryj 11 the date of the special election to crfbose j representative in congress from me iirM cungTessinniTj aisirjci 1. counties). Is not a legal holiday lj Oregon, Secretary5 of State Robesg S. FarfelX, ir.. declared Mouday,