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i P CMP ' '-; V52LS2 '"far" " ' ; f!f -I -i -, ill- s ,." j , a r - Iff? l."- ! M BQHDQS WD 0333 The year opens with attention ptill focused on troubles on the labor froht. The chief trouble now it the deadlock between General Motors and the United Auto Vorkers-j Threatened is a strike c.f steelworkers, already set for January 14th. Electrical workers re frojoming jthemsclves for ftriking nd telephone workers are very reatless. -In the face of this tiirbjilence it wonld be easy to Iram ermlad on the tirnes, Those-avboM memories go back to the fiHt world war and after -' especially those resident then in the ; forthwest-. are less dis turbed ofer the situation and the outlook; They will recall the fa mous shipyards workers' strike In Seattle ih 119 which developed into a "gieneral strike. That was wheni the- communist element was trying la seize control after the pattern of the bolshevik revolu tionr The leader in the Seattle strike prjxlaimed that that gen eral strike would lead, "we know not brf." However he had his own serfse of direction and knew where heJwanted it to go - straight to soviet-style communism. Seattle and the northwest were plenty worried.- The remainder of the country became immediately concerned over the implications of the general strike. But strong hands took over. Ole Hanson, (Continued on Editorial Page) U.S. May Grant Soviet Claims By Graham Hover WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. - W) -Diplomatic officials expressed be lief today that the United States and Britain during 1&46 would of ficially concede that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are a part of the soviet union. These officials, who cannot be quoted by name, also, said it was "good , speculation" that the' big three in Europe will be following a common policy on diplomatic recognition before the year is over. If true, tiii , would mean that the U, S and Britain, In addition to eonreilingthat the three DaJtir states are now Mviet republics, would biicfak with the Franco govr ernmVnt of Spiiin, which lUiw-ia never ha if recognized. Animal Crackers 8WAR?EM GOODRICH "Poor chap r- he's got the D.D.TtP Bernardo Jucntan, 4S-year-old Lake quietly Tuesday in the office of Sheriff Denver Young, where today the district attorney declared be will be served 'with papers charging him with first derree murder of two companions in New Tear's party fracas. Screen door still ajar, the house of Marcellno Ducusin, where I Ducusin was stabbed and Lucas Calves was shot seven State, City Ask Federal Board The state of Oregon, through the state budget division, Tues day made application to the sur plus property administration for use of barracks and other build ings at the Salem airport now declared surplus. The structures would be used by the state hos pital here while the institution's building program Is in progress, the application sets forth. At the same time Mayor I. M. Doughton wired to surplus prop erty administration officials the city's application for 1500 bouse ing units to be used by returning veterans. This number may be increased, provided there . is de mand, Doughton said. State officials said airport buildings might he' required to house returning servicemen and others committed for care to the state hospital which is now crowded -to capacity. A total of 19 buildings is sought in the application. Gov. Earl Snell said he was in sympathy with the hospital-program unless the build ings are needed to house war vet erans who cannot find homes for their families. The hospital requires additional room ror housing or nurses as well as patients, budget depart ment officials stressed. The build ings would be moved from the airport to hospital grounds, under plans discussed here Tuesday. O'Dwyer in as Gotluuli Mayor NEW YORK, Jan. l.-WV Wil liam O'Dwyer, 55-year-old native of Ireland, today Was inaugurated mayor of New York - - the city to which he came with $25 in his pocket in 1910 and whose streets he once pounded as a cop. From three-term Fiorello H, LGuardia, who did not seek re election, O'Dwyer! formally took over responsibility! of the $25,000-a-year job in ceremonies in the mayor's flower-decked office in city hall. He told LuGuardia he hoped he could "do as well in my time as you did in yours" in drunning the nation's largest city." ForHousins; Governor Snell Looks to 1946 as Prosperous Year Despite Reconversion, Housing Problems Referring to 1945 as "probably the most outstanding year in Ore gou's history from both financial and military standpoints," Gov. Earl Snell declared Tuesday that "there is every prospect that the year 1946 should be one of the most prosperous years in the his tory of tS;i state despite the seri ous problems confronting its cit izens." Principal problems he listed as business reconversion, re - initia tion of a state building program interrupted by the war and the provision of housing for veterans and civilians. The governor said he looked for a business expansion program " 1 , ! . J '- POUNDBD 1651 . j NDnnr-nrrH year 12 pages r 0 A Labish farm worker (left), -sat Hitler Beiva iled (. S. Wa r, Foresaw 'Spirit' Rebirth By Daniel De Lace NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. l-(P)-Beaten and bitter, Adolf Hitler prophesied a week before his "death" in flaming Berlin that "my spiritvwiUl arise from my grave and one will see that I have been right, A long-secret letter by Joachim Von Rib bentrop disclosed today. Von Ribbentrop, then nazl foreign minister, wrote the let ter to Winston Churchill, and Anthony Eden just before he was captured ih Hamburg last summer. He said Hitler , made the prediction in their final conversation in Berlin, and de scribed his letter as Hitler's ; "last political will." Von Ribbentrop's handwritten letter was put on the secret list by army intelligence when he was captured, and this is the first dispatch to quote from it textually. The letter declared that the Nip Surrender Near Year Late MANILA, Wednesday, Jan., 2-W-Twenty Japanese soldiers and sailors who have been hiding out in the' caverns of Corregidor island in Manila bay since its re capture in February, 1945, sur rendered today to an amazed American graves registration de- tail. Waving surrender flags and carrying a surrender document, the group made startled Yanks think they were having New Year's heebie jeebies. The Japanese had not learned of the surrender until several weeks ago when they found an old newspaper. The group had led a mole-like existence in deep re cesses of a cave amply provision ed, with rice and dehydrated ve getables. Japanese went out nightly to obtain water. ENGLISH FOG CLEARS LONDON, Jan. l.--The worst British fog in 20 Vars lift ed today, but it was ucceeded by one of the season's most severe cold waves. : NEAR RECORD DEATHS PORTLAND, Jan. l.-(AVThe ' traffic fatalities here during 1945 represents the second all-time high officials said today. The 1944 toll was 45. t large enough to -absorb many thousands of returning veterans and men and women released from war industry. He made par ticular mention of encouraging reports by his postwar readjust ment and development commis sion. ' - , , - . ' "The ' executive . office, . along with other state agencies, is do ing everything possible to pro vide necessary housing facilities for both veterans and civilians," Snell averred.; To this end may ors of a large number of Oregon town and cities at my request, are now conducting surveys' to determine what housing facilities are available or will be available ' 4 A I v - -I ; .r .. I j;. I times, was locked by official order Tuesday. The house te near the northeast corner of Lak Labish. But tw Year's day rains; failed to wash from the concrete . slab at the doorstep bloodstains which marked the place where the body of Galvez, was found. Ducusin was carried out the back, door to bis car, but died en route to, the hospital. (Pictures by Bill Scott, Statesman staff photographer). jittery Hitler entrusted to Von Ribbentrop the delivery of an appeal to British statesmen for real friendship between , their empire and Germany as a "fun--" damental necessity if both na tions will live in the long run." Hitler also was quoted as saying he "regretted" the war with the United States. Further, the fuehrer could not help ex pressing his wonder at the pow er of the soviet union and call ed Marshal Stalin's creation of . the red army a "grandiose deed," Ribbentrop added. Of the war with the United States, the letter said: - "Hitler regretted the war with America because we had no pos sible divergencies with this big nation. We had always regret ted this war from the beginning and haVe done everything we could to prevent it even when our ships were being attacked." England Plans 4nti-Atom Nav v Lp N D ON, Jan. l-P)-The Daily Mail said todajr. that a spe cial! admiralty ' commission, was working on revolutionary plans for i a new anti-atom navy for Britain. The commission's report, the newspaper said, was expected to be delivered in March- and will decide whether the 40,000-ton H.M.S. Vanguard, due fgr her trials late, this month, will be the last of that type battleship the navy will build. ;The article predicted that ev ery; branch ox the royal navy, from recruiting and training to battle tactics, will be affected by the i commission's findings. Fact Finders to Attempt To i Stimulate Negotiations WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 - (A) - The president's new fact-finding board will try to get wage talks going in the steel industry labor dispute, a member said today. Nathan P. Feimrthgr, one of the three men appointed yester day by Mr. Truman in an effort to head off the big steel walk out, said the board will make a special plea' to both sides to re sume negotiations. soon. Some of these mayors al ready have filed their reports. Governor Snell said the state building program, to cost approx imately 113,500,000, would be prosecuted as rapidly as possible but was largely dependent upon the ability of contractors to ob tain materials and manpower. Re cent information received by the state board of control showed that construction costs have in creased more than 60 per cent since the year prior to the war. "I am convinced that the citi zens of Oregon understand the present economic problems and will cooperate wholeheartedly in the reconversion and housing pro grams," Sneli declared Salm, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. January 2. 1946 Unemployment Claims Hit New High in Oregon December's payments to Ore gon's unemployed reached $1,590, 700, by far the highest ever made, the state i unemployment compen- s a 1 1 0 n commission, announced Tuesday. ; Of the: total amount, $372,177 went to returned veter ans, while the $1,21,523 paid to laid-off civilian Workers was higher, than the previous .monthly record of $1,117,756 set in March. 1938. '-.. I ! - " Stetftenenu for 1945 were $2, 802,104, nearly 18 times as much as the $157,843 paid in 1944, and more than' for' any year since ' iO, when the total was $4,099, 925. Nearly 84 per cent of the year's payments were made in the last three months. A cross-section; of nearly 20, 000 beneficiaries m the week before- Christmas showed that bare ly 30 per cent .were men between the ages of 20 and 50. Nearly as many more were men between 50 and 65, while 8.5 ; per cent were men past 65. Women comprised nearly a third of the active; claimants with 78 per cent, being under 50 years of age. The average age of the women was, 4 1 years as compared to 53 for the men.' With 20,000 claims for the 1946 benefit year already on file and with many already having served their one waiting week, the un employment commission antici pates even higher benefit pay ments in the next few months. Siam Agrees to British Terms SINGAPORE, British-Siamese Jan. 1 - (P) - A peace treaty in which Siam agrees to conform to international control of rice dis tribution and to Join international tin and rubber agreements of the United Nations, was signed today by representatives of India, Great Britain and Siam. Under the treaty Siam prom ised to make available to the Brit ish a maximum of 1,500,000 tons of surplus rice. Siam agreed also to make res mutton to me uritisn ior war losses in Siam, and to abandon any claims to British territory in Burma and northern Malaya seized while Siam was allied with Japan. U. S. TROOPS ALERTED 4 SEOUL. Korea. Jan. l-tn-U5. troops were alerted for possible! trouble today as the American-occupied half of Korea seethed with agitation against the -five-year trusteeship on for this country by the Big Three powers in Moscow. SUGAR STAMP NO. 39 GOOD WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 -JP)-Sugar ration stamp No. 39 became valid today and is good through April 30 for purchase of five pounds. Stamp 38 expired yester day. Weather Max. . 54 55 85 53 Min. 45 43 45 44 47 IUln .14 JOS . Jl J4 .00 Salem Eugene ... Portland Seattle . San Francisco Willamette river 202 ft. FORECAST from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field, S,alem): Gusty today with occasional rain. LUUe tem perature change. Maximum temper ature change. Maximum' temperature 55 degreea. , . 4-Day U.S. DeathToll Near 500 Oregon Fatalities Stand at 18, 9 Due to Flood By the Associated Press The nation's holiday death toll reached -492. last jught as the four day tabulation period neared its end.; - . The traffic count, including haz ardous, driving conditions occa sioned by winter -weather, stood at, 234. Miscellaneous, covering fires, plane crashes, alcoholism, explosions and the like,, was tab ulated at 258. The deaths covered the period beginning Friday, 6 P-m. , Pennsylvania led in the total number.' of violent deaths with 43, whilevTexas had 41. New York, an early leader in the grim com petition, was third at 39. Illinois reported 33, and Michigan 30. Cali fornia Stood next with 27. In Oregon the weekend and holi day death toll stood at eighteen fatalities, nine attributed 'to the now subsiding Willamette river flood and two deaths to traffic accidents. Thre were no fatal traffic ac cidents reported over the 24 hour New Vear eve and holiday period despite heavy motor traffic throughout . the state. Holiday celebrations claimed the lives iof four persons involving shootings and stabbings New Year's eve. A fire, shotgun accident and a suicidp claimed the lives of three others Flood Waters Drop to 17.8 ft. At Columbia PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. l-P)-The pwollen Willamette river, pacified with its wanton destruc tion in ddwnstate lowland areas, reachejd a harmless 17.8 crest here today and melted into the Columbia. Oregon's main highways were open, Jexcept for the slide-closed South J Santiam, and train sched ules were normal. Many second ary r'pads, with bridges ripped out, stSll were impassable. Back within its banks at Salem today,! the Willamette river left a stilj-un tallied amount of de struction ir the wake of its week end flood.1 Spvpntv-f i vp hniicp- h olds. In the Salem area will need rehabilitation assistance, Grace Jackson, Red Cross disaster re lief representative, and members of local disaster relief committees figured here Tuesday. National Red Cross disaster survey spe cialist! are expected here today to take over responsibility for the rehabilitation work now that the emergency is believed past. Salem Students to' Resume Lessons Today . Five thousand Salem school boys a id girls will trudge back to classes this morning, the holidays past. Public ' and Livingston schools, and Willamette university resume; classwork today after Chrisufias vacations, which began Friday; niglit, December 21. Catholic' schools of the city and schools! at the state institutions will retopen Monday, January 7. Commutation Petition to Be Filed for Andrew Dennis Soon Seeking commutation to life imprisonment of the death sen tence imposed upon Andrew Den nis, Portland, a formal petition probably will be filed this week with. Gov. Earl Snell, friends of the condemned man said here Tuesday. Dennis, was convicted of first degree murder in connection with the slaying of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Anna Belle-McNalley in a Portland apartment house in January, 1944. He is under sen tence to die in the lethal gas chamber at the state penitentiary later this . month. A previous death sentence was set aside by the state supreme court because a formal death war rant was not issued by the Mult nomah county circuit court. Act Price 5c No. 241 To Map Policy f Am x i Philip Murray, "president of the United Steel Workers.' who has called a meeting of CIO lead ers Thursday to plan future strike strategy. Murray Calls CIO Chief tain To Conference DETROIT, Jan. l-yp)-This mo tor city heard tonight that CIO chieftain Philip Murray has summoned the heads of his auto and electrical unions to Washing ton Thursday for a campaign con ference in the battle for wage ad justments. R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO's United Auto Workers, said he will leave I Detroit 'tomorrow. Albert J. Fitzgerald leader of the electrical workers, was also asked to attend. Murray, himself, heads the United Steel Workers. Some sources here also thought the striking CIO glass workers may be represented at the con ference which Murray apparent ly felt should not be delayed un til the CIO national policy con vention Jan. 29 at Atlantic City, N.J. Reds Pass Up Brctton Woods WASHINGTON, Jan. lrWh Russia and eight other' eligible nations permitted the December 31 deadline to pass without be coming charter members of. the world bank and stabilization fund, the state department - dis closed today. In the three days following the ceremonies which brought the two big financial organizations into formal existence December 28, six additional nations signed the necessary documents to be come original members, state de partment officials said. i These were Mexico, Peru, Cu ba, Chile, the Dominican Repub lic and Iran. Apathetic Response Given Ariti-Semetic Boycott CAIRO, Jan. l-Jy-A boycott of Zionist-produced goods from Palestine, scheduled to start to day in the nations of the Pan Arab league, was received with apparent apathy rand confusion as to enforcement. Arab customers still made pur chases in Jewish stores, ahd some Arab merchants said picketing might be necessary to enforce the boycott ing GovernoT Howard Belton pre viously refused to grant a com mutation of, sentence. Dennis, upon being resentenced in Multnomah county, was re turned to the prison here two weeks ago. ' Sponsors of the application for a commutation of sentence will rely largely on letters received at the executive department from Circuit Judge Martin Hawkins and former District Attorney James R. Bain, both of Multno mah county. HaWkins indicated that there was some doubt as to whether the slaying was : premeditated while Bain indicated that the jury ap parently was prejudiced. Bain was'dlstrict attorney at the time of the trial. in 7 . v.";V.;..., f I 7 Charge to Be Fiied Today Card Game Ends In Quarrel; Death Of 2 Workers Fir t -degree murder charges wj'l bf filed today against Bernardo JuL'tiian. 45-year-old Filipino who aiiictuly killed with gun and ki if- two companions in a carrf garnc argument near Lake Labish eariy New Year's 'day, Marion Ccoiity District Attorney Millt.r B. H;,jden said last night. Police hold a statement ' said to hbve been signed by Jucutan, telling how he shot Lucas Galvex and f lashed at Marcelino Ducusin in the argument at Ducusin house. He said the card player had been- drinking whiskey. Ducu sin vas said to have died on hi wfy toJ Salem General hospital and Quiver's body was found by state police alongside the porch, at the Ducusin house. Card 'Game When the argument broke out' ct r the card game! Jucutan, the U.iement said, left and returned with a .52 caliber rifle. When he aw Galvez'he said he fired an I miss-ed, then Galve fired two ' shot "with a pistol also missing. Then. Jucutan said, he fired and killed Galvez, picking up the pis tol as he entered the house. He tried to shoot Feliciano Gapasii, another Filipino, but the pistil wouldnt fire, the statement saif?, so he hit him with the pistol, and picked up a ' knife he saw in the loom, to slash at Ducusin to kep him away. Then he said, he went home to bed where he was found by state police. Knife Slashes Galvez's body had several kpife slashes in addition to seven built t holes, according to Sheriff -Denver Young. A wrist, watch worn by the dead; man had" stopped it 2:05, probably as the result of a bullet that Pierced his left wriU The sheriff added that the rifte was believed to have fired at lea't ten shots. He said that Ducusin s body was unmarked except for a knife wound directly over h,:s heart. Three other members of the Filipino party brought iDucusfn'f Body in to Salem General, hofpi tal1 where officials called the Sa lens police about 2:45 a.m., who held the three men and notifitd state ipolice. Jucutan is 5 feet 7 inches tail and told Young that he had work ed in the lettuce fields near her since 1936. Allies Will Ndt( Consult Mac ! HONOLULU, Jan. 1 WP)-Secie-tary of War Patterson told a pre conference today the war depart ment does not consider it neces- sary that General MacArthur tV advised in advance of Big Thr occupation policies for Japan. , ine siaiemeni was maae in re ply j.to a query by a correspond ent land Patterson ncfrW: "We advise MacArthur and give the general rll the Informa tion! possible relative to his com mand, but it is not necessary tlu.t he. be consulted in- advance." Army to.Relinqu.sh Airport January 15- Salem . army air base will be turned over to array engineers January 15 for disposal of army properties and the field will revert to the city some time in - Apri!. it was announced here Tuesday. The base was recently declared army surplus. MaJ. C?f H. Westover, eommriT der at the base since April 11945, has been ordered to Spokane to become commanding officer of veo tion H of the 4134th air base unit. He plans to leate Salem on Jan uary 20. The base has occupied the municipal airport since early in 1942. 50-RAISE IN BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. X-iA,-A new wage scale for BrazH S cilivilian and military employes went, into effect today, bringing a general 50 per cent salary in crease to ajl government person nel, with lowest-paid workers re ceiving even greater increases.' PROTEST TRUSTEESHIP SHANGHAI, Wednesday, Jan. 2 W)-More than half of Shanghai's 8000 Koreans, carrying flags and banners, held a mass meeting in Herifrew park today .in protest against allied trusteeship of their homeland. FOG BRINGS 7 DEATHS LONDON, Jan. l.-iff)-Seven deaths were attributed indirectly last night to Britain's worst fog ia 20 years , which covered 13,000 square miles and doomed surface traffic either to a standstill or a slow, pace for at least another 24 hours.