The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 03, 1994, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text; --rf TP nriro) ; i ' : : ; i : ; I. i For this year of 1948 I should, . if I had the power, 1 proscribe as it-quired reading" for every f jaduM rehid:nt of ' the west Ber- jpjird DeVoto's "The Year of De- kU-im: 1846." It was , first pub - iliyhed about three years -go but jthis centennial anniversary of the events it relates is a fitting jtime to read the book, a com fortable centennial celebration, as it were. Interesting and some times exciting thoukh the naria- ti e if , 'the book is not one, to be jrt-ad hurriedly; so it would be Swell to start reading with Jan uary and so have jphmty of time to digest the book's rich contents. Consider that a century ago none of the Pacific coast was ter ritory of the United States. The Oregon question was unsettled, with a local, provisional govern -I meht in existence. Rival claim ; i.r.t. Great Britain and the Unit s' ed States, had deferred settle- I rnent of title under the plan of f joint occupation. California and : New Mexico were part of the ; Mexican republic.j Texas had, t just thiee days - before Jan. 1, : 1846, a.-sented to annexation .with ; the United States' after having f Mood alone as the Lone Star re t pqblic for nearly ten years. Utah was the great basin of the inter- f mountain country,' uninhabited, Y -at DeVoto docs is to trace the stiands reaching from the middle border to the Pacific coast in that faeful year-of 1846 which was to bring about the final expan sion of United States to the west ern shores of the continent. DeVoto wi ites history, but not one lis accustomed to (Contin ued on'yeditprial page) Flood Clean- Starts, rv t, uamage Tallied Bloll in P,r th Associated Prrs 1 Shallow lakes shattered bridges md hundreds of silt filled houses lemained today as western Ore gon began the weary task of clean ing up its flood soaked valleys.- Four -tad of flood victims frtill were sought; in the upper Willamette valley iarea. Five had been recovered. j Damage; estimates were being I piepared. jStnte highway engineer! R. H. BaMock said Willamette a1- ley tatc (highway damage, would j run from i$150,000 to $1"5.000. Power companies sulfered hoav-; i!y and liinf.- Lumber Co., West- ' i , 1oed lor r-pair of $75,000 ' !..TMKe. - . M.iior ifos'". how i-i , was at U' t SouLiktiieid where the Red ; l'i,oi cs'tniatcd ytl per cent of -'he homes Mesi roved or damaged. nd on valley frms v, -here sheep. 11 i e arkd chickens were misting. opyiiirtsi tii;rr..j8eft, aim utias cov- . red v debris. b?ttit began sureying plight and rcoorted (. ouii'V 'he fain -hot d;;n; ;e(t machinery misjht be fie mr.:t ftrlpplme' blow, delaying k oiid tutting proliict ion. f.M rri wo Additional details on page 2). 'Mooi! Xamd Molt Basin ASTORIA. -Ore... Jf'j. 2 -i.i- Mott Basin will be the name of ne 'Ton'true Point moorage where '.ii:.ri..rvi. m.U v.ll 1m IhtiIimI. Tapt. L. Di Aid of Astoria naval i.ir station .sard the navy chose the name in recognition of the work . t the late liep. Jamr-s V. Mott as : inking membfr of the house naxal anairs committee. ; 40 KILLED IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2.-A)-Dlspatches Sfrom ttie central Mex ican industrial center of Leon re ported tonight that at least 40 persons hal been killed when police fi,red into a crowd which had gatrjered there to protest the -outcome of a mayoral election. Animal Crackers .- Goodrich Tie ibn told you have loYely ankUsr, Packers Ask Wage Increase t Reserves LoW, Says Secretary Of Agriculture ! By the Aatociaurd Presa Approximately 200,000 packing house workers were called upon yesterday to strike Jan. 16 and Secretary of Agriculture Anderson at once reported that low reserves of meat make it essential that the contemplated wantoui De averieo. The packinghouse strike was called by the CIO United Packing House Workers In support of the union's demand for a 25 cents an hour wage increase. Anderson, who did not comment on the strike issue, told reporters at Washington: ' j European Relief "The government has large com mitments for European relief and needs of its own armed services which must be met. Likewise, it is essential that the packing plants be kept operating to supply civil ian requirements," Other slabor developments ih- j-cluded art electrical union's threat to diMupt service of the nation's communications system by a strike set for today and indications from Washington that the steel indus try1 dispute may not be settled by any steel price increase the OPA might allow. 382.000 Out The packing house workers' stiike would boost sharply the na tion's total of strike idle, kep't at around 382,000 by the continuing General Motors strike. Approxi mately 175,000 workers are in volved in the 43-day-old GM walk out, i The packinghouse union's presi dent, Lewis J. Clark, told a news conference in Chicago that the nation's meat packers could meet the unions demand without in creasing,meat prices. , j The strike, he said, would af- i feet 147 .packing plants, including several operated by the four maj or packers Swift, Cudahy, Ar mour and Wilson. "The only thing that will pre vent this strike is a substantial wage increase. Total Holiday I Deaths Hit 530 By the Associated PrMS The four day year's end holiday the first New Year's observation in four years without -war time limitiitions-took a toll of 53fr-vi0- dents caustnl by bad sinter wea lent fU-athr, a- final tabulation j therj the fourth air foi'-e will per showrd. 'a ! : mit I only the most experieiiced The toll showed 248 deaths at tributed to traffic accidents and '2H2 ran od hv misrellarwoiw acril- ki i viv mii.-'. hit n a ,7tui,vd v. iv K I vu I iv violent deaths during the period f,rom 6 p. m. Friday to midnight Tuesday. They were Delaware, Mississippi, Rhode Island, North jind South Dakota and Vermont. Pennsylvania led the list with 46 cie;ths. Texas and New York each showed 41 and Illinois had 39. Housing Committee to Seek Airport Barracks for Veterans I Property and buildings of the ! Salem air base '.north and east of I McNary field proper would pro j vide approximately 150 dwelling j f they could be secured. ; members of the new citywide lumniuicc on cieiaiis Housing believe. To study methods of financing, a committee- headed by State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, with R. L. Elf strom, David O'Hara, Lawrence Brown iAand General Committee Chairman W. J. Braun will meet today. City Engineer J." Harold Davis and the planning commission's engineer, C. H. Mc Clure, comprise another commit tee which is investigating en gineering problems which the city would have to solve to provide sewer, water and street service for the area if it is secured. A third sub-committee assigned the task of determining what equipment, ,if any, the city should provide if it undertakes a munici pal veterans', housing project is headed by State Budget Director George Aiken, wiilh C. B. McCuI lough, . Adolph C'l Nelson, Marie Ling. Mrs. T. W. Creech and Mrs. W. E. Smith as co-workers. MfCIure i chbirman and Ed Majek and Ralph Nohlgren are members of another sub-committee which will ask the city plan ping and zoning commission to meet with it to discuss relaxation of zoning provisions, if necessary, so that apartments rnay be devel oped and rented in strictly-residential areas 83 a means of bet tering the civilian housing situa tion. Leo Childs. Kenneth Perry, Ar thur Bates, Karl Wenger, Tom C. of C. Chief r E. Burr Miller, War Chest cam paign manager for Salem in 1944, former president of the Salem Retail Trade bureau, ac tive In Red CroM, Salem Lion club and Boy Scout work, waa 1 Wednesday elected ; president of the Salem Chamber of Com- ; merce. Miller la sales manager . for Valley Motor company and ; was formerly district manager j for Safeway store. , E. Burr Miller Elected to Head Salem C. of C: j E. Burri; Miller, sales manager fori Valley Motor company, is 1946 president "of the Salem Chamber bf Commerce. He was elected to the posrtiori at a Wed' nesday noon meeting of the or ganlzation's directors! and tuc ceeds Loyal Warner, under whose leadership: the chamber "gained 1975 members last year to reach a new high of 1424. Both Miller and Warner recent ly chose to leave large merchan riisihg organizations with which they had worked for a number of ears rather than, take pro motions which would force them to live elsewhere-than Salem Douglas McKay, S who last month exchanged his. army cap tain's uniform for civilian garb, was; elected first vice president to succeed W. , L. Phillips. Rey no!ds Allen, also recently out of the ;army, succeeds Lion C. Smith as second vice president. Lester Barr was re-elected secretary, and Linn Smith was named tressurer to , succeed Guy H, Hickok. '' i Flight Limited To Yet Pilots SAN FRANCISCO, ian. Seeking to reduce aircraft acci- aimy pilots to fly cross-country Only command pilots, senior pil ot., i?rid '.'pilots with 1500 hours and a green instrument card, will be permitted to make such flights, !the kiurth ir force announced to- y j ' All flight plans into the Pacific horthwestmust include alternate landing fields having I approprite Weather conditions, arid aircraft fnusj be equipped for icing condi tions. : ' : . I Armstrong, O'Hara, Clay Cochran, Bratjin and Aiken are; on a laia son committee to work with city council, federal agencies and the main committee. t - 4 9 '4 wft i Unemployment Office Lines Lengthen 1 I IMH I . w i FT Applicants for unemployment compensation filled , the Salem office of the U. S. employment service Wednesday and . lined op on the sidewalk euUide, sometimes forming a compact queue from the office door oa Ferry street (left in picture) aronnd the corner an equal distance on Cottage street. Five hundred seventy-five rases were processed in the office a week ago Wednesday to create a . record for Salem operations. But that record was believed broken yesterday as two additional work ers Helped handle the crowd, which waited even during the noon hour for service. Because of sea sonal unemploymnt, cessation of activities in plants damaged by last weekend's flood, the high em ployment record of war years and because persons who received unemployment benefits last year are now re-filing for 1946 payments, this month is expected to be the busiest In the history of the state unemployment ! compensation commission l-i Salem and throughout Oregon. mm NHJETY-FIFTH YEAR ' 1 ! . Nip -Rased Soldiers MacAriimr Gills ! GIs veiiiplary9 In Ht Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 - (JPT General Douglas Mac Arthur re ported tonight that the conduct ofjU.S. troops Jn Japan "has been exemplary" and that their pres ence "may be a decisive factor in shaping the future" of that coun try. : . I" "If democracy cannot yet be imposed directly, It is at least be ing demonstrated," he wrote. j The report, released by the war department, covered in detail the first 'two months of the "occupa tionSeptember and October., It made no reference to current mat ters or to relations with allied powers. Groundwork Laid , It said that "positive steps have been taken to lay the groundwork for a democratic structure in Ja pan" Butt added that "the -Japanese government has suggested little during the two months of occupation pointing toward fun- Samental democratic reform." "Political activity Is hampered y the concentration of the people on the paramount problems of food, clothing and shelter," the report continued. "Even if the es sentials of life were adequate in Japan, it would be unrealistic to expect spontaneous and wide spread participation of the peo ple! in politics. They would will ingly punish the policy-makers and bureaucrats 'for losing the war, and that is about all. Not Individualists "As for democracy, they have had no experience with it in any way. Dignity of the individual is completely foreign to their back ground of feudalism and totali tarianism. The millions of peas ants and the women in general are politically ignorant. Add to this, the fact that real leaders are afraid to speak out, not knowing how long United States troops will be here to protect them against the 'dreaded secret police, and it will; be readily, understood why as yet there have been no signifi cant political developments in Japan." - ' Filipino Faces Murder Charge A first degree rnurder .'charge was filed Wednesday afternoon by Marion county District Attorney Miller B. Haydeh against Bernar do. Borja Jucutan, 45, Filipino,' for, the shooting and killing of Lucan Galvez, another Filipino vvith a .22 calibre rifle early New Year's day in a Lake Labish farmhouse. Jucutan, in a signed statement to police, atlmitted that he also stabbed Marcel ino Ducusin who later died while being taken to the Salem General hospital by three other members of the Fili pino party. The two killings followed: an evening of. card-playing, argu- i ments and drinking. Praised (1 12 PAGES Salem, President Ends i i:K: l ! . -- I 1 WASIIINGTON, Jan. 2Prrsident Tmmaa wavef (from the gang plank asj he' leaves the presidential yacht WillUmtburg at the navy yard here this morning as ho ended five-day erolse oa Petomae. Presldeatlal naval aide, Commodore James K. Vardamaa Is behind him. (AP Wlrephoto to Th Statesman). (Story on page Z). Navy Brass Condemns Hospital Hand-Holding NEW YORK, Jan. 2-P)-"Con-stant embracing of Waves" and similar "absurb"' conduit in the hidden nooks of the U.S. naval hospital in St. Albans, Queens, 'hat got to stop, says the navy. Art official memorandum post- ed on all bulletin boards re pealed there's been kissing in "passageways, phone booths and corners." Furthermore, t h e r es been hand-holding. Embracing. Worst of all "lollygagging," Signed by Capt. C. F. Behrens of the navy medical corps, and approved by Capt. E. D. McMor i ies, mediral officer in charge, the memorandum said sternly: 'J. It has been noted by this command that personnel are conducting themselves; in an ab surb maimer in the passageways, Income Tax Forms To Be Mailed Soon The work of sending out state income tax blanks on which to file 1946 returns, based on 1945 in comes, will, get under way early next week, the state tax commis sion announced Wednesday. Approximately 400,000 blanks, including the new short forms ap proved by the 1945 legislature, will be required. These are now being printed. Of the total num ber of blanks, nearly 100,000 will grit la corporations, partnerships and fiduciaries. The 1948 returns; must be filed by April 15 to escape penalty and 1 interest. J ,- I p 7. e"'' OUNDID 1651 Oregon Thursday Morning, January 3 1S48 5-Day Cruise phone booths and corners about the hospital. "2..; The holding of hands, os culation and constant embracing of Waves, corpsmen or civilians and tailors or any combination of male and female personnel is a violation of naval discipline constituted by th charge:, 'Con duct ;t0 the prejudice of' good order; and discipline. "3. : Male and female person nel should only be together when conducting hospital business and this should be done in an order ly manner. Love-making and lollygagging" are hereby strictly forbifldf n; i "4. All violations will be sub ject U .disciplinary action." A lollyggger is defined in the Amerfcanl thesaurus of slang as "a young Jnan who lingers to spoon in the hallway after bring ing nis inamorata nome. Stalin'lo Keep Political Roll MOSCOW,! Jan. 2. (.'P)-General- issimo Staliii was nominated to night for reflection as a deputy to the supreme soviet by his con-; -stituency of yie Stalin automobile factory district of Moscow. The supreme soviet, Russia's parliament, elects the premier and the chairman of the council of the people's qpmmissars, the soviet union's ibp executive posts which both arei held by Stalin. , Observers jsaid Stalin's unani mous nomination indicated that he planned: to Continue active par ticipation, in politics despite ru mors of? his retirement. RL'O PEODI3CT10NT IP WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 -OV OPA today predicted increased supplies! of wool rugs and car pets by spring and said retail prices would toe the same as those 1 of March, 1942. , Congressional Of Year 's Accomplishments WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 -JP) Major benefits are foreseen for Oregon by the state's congression al delegation, stemming from leg islative, accomplishments in the year just . past. Nearly $5,000,000 in reclama tion . bureau work is scheduled for Oregon in 1946, but the, prin cipal legislative plum of 1945 was approval of the $200,000,000 proj gram for development of the Co lumbia and Srrake rivers. A waterway from Idaho to the Pacific will, result from the river program, sought by jthe congres sional delegation for years. The major item in the plan, the Uma tilla dam, will be augmented by four dams on the Snake river. The Oregon congressmen point ed to these 1945 accomplishments: Operation of the wood waste al cohol plant at Springfield and the tarit'?Coiiifi:(sinds ; -Fair Wairiniiinig'v Seiiiitto By WILLIAM T. FEACOCK H WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-()-Adni. Harold R. SUrk said tc- dayi Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, Pacifio ilett commander, faiJ to carry cut orders given him in a "war warning" before t4 Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Deo! 7, 1C4I. " . The 1941 chief bf naval operations told senat-house r vestlgating committee Kimmel did not undertake aerial reccne naissance in compliance with the Nov. 27 messige Instructing him to execute : "defensive deploy ment." j Stark made the assertion ufider questioning from Chairman Bark ley (D-Ky). He and Kimmel were close friends' and it came hesit antly, and obviously reluctantly. , Had Hawaii's defenses been alert. Stark said, the damage in flicted by the Japanese would at least have been "considerably lessened." "I think they (the American forces) might have given a right good account of themselves," he added. Stark had related earlier that 30 fighter planes were taken from Hawaii in the 10 days before the attack. Twelve were sent to Wake island and 18 to Midway Island. He contended this shift had not weakened Pearl Harbor's defenses because the outlying islands form- ed part of the defense chain around Oahu. Ho said ho agreed with Presi dent Roosevelt's view in 1940 that keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor was a "deterrent" to Japanese aggression. Adm., J. O. Kicnara- son, predecessor of Kimmel as fleet commander, had urged that it be based on the west coast. It was Stark's second day as a witness. During a mid-day break In bis testimony, the committee met in executive session and se lected Scth Richardson, Washing ton attorney, as its new chief counsel. Train, Cars in Freak Wreck, Trainman Hurt Two cars and a logging train' : . ..1 . r,aftk niinilanl at fill' intersection of Ferry and 12th streets late Wednesday night re sulting in the injury to the brake man of the train. Cars driven by Co'e Stevens,' 1135 N, Capitor St., and Virgil Gregory, 400 S. 19th st., collided at the intersection. The impact of the accident threw the Stevens car, on to the tracks of the South ern Pacific railroad. Before the car could be removed from the right of way it was strucK by a south bound log train. There were no occupants jn the car at the time of the second crash. In bringing the train to a stop, II. W. Friesen, Dallas, brakeman on the train was thrown to the floor of the caboose, receiving chest injuries. Friescn was taken to Salem General in a first aid car. He was dismissed several hours later the hospital reported. None of the ocupants of the cars were injured. TO AID GM STRIKERS NE(W YORK, Jan. 2 (JP) The committee to aid families of Gen eral Motors strikers announced to day that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, former treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and other prom inent citizens had become affili ated with it. Delegation Tells alumina from clay plant at Sa lem; expansion of veterans' hos pitals at Portland and Eoseburg and approval of a new 200-bed hospital at Klamath Falls; and plans for permanent, use of Camp White at Medford if peacetime size of the army warrants its use. Michael W. Straus, reclamation commissioner, in an ' announce ment of 1948 plans, outlined for Oregon: I . Deschutes project, $3,035,580; 51,795,341 onj the Klamath pro ject; $249,145fon the Owyhee pro ject and $3000 on the Vale project, with an additional 50,000 acres being brought under irriga tion in the Madras vicinity under the Deschutes project and mak ing water aaihjble to 9300 pub lic lands, acres on the Coppeck bay area of the Klamath project. Pric : to. i4a I j Klomiinniell Citrus Fruits Move Under 1 " 1 m . Ceilings Again Vv.l WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 -.j Ceiling prices for freh tiiiy. fruits wiil to reimposed at 13 el a.m. Jn. 4 the office of pr)v administration announced todays The OPA said thlj action w0 taken "with authorization and rection of John C. Coliett, stall lization administrator. Ceiling prices wero gusperde! last Nov. 19. "Because of tho unexpected price inmates in fresh eititj fruils,'' said the announceme ; "the sdvltfcbility of re to ring rode , trols has been under consideis lion for several weeks." Price Administrator Chet Bowles, In announcing the eiuvij order, reiterated QPA's , intent 4 preventing sharp price advance "While we -want ta get rid i controls, we do not intend to r move them until it i clear thi prices are not going to advar.t sharply,"" he saidl" "When this happen?, as it e4 with citrus fruits, wo will e store ceiling prices.. Only Jy Cc ing to can we proiectlthoAmeil can . ' rec-plo from unwarrsnel .price increases and keep the r confidence that the price lino i-J be btld 'j. Union Votes to Strike Despite Wagie Boost NEW YORK, Jan. z.-.f-Jc" seph L. Egan, president of West ern Union, announced tonight th , company would put into effect a 12cent-t-hour wage" boost as rccted by the National War La bor board. . Egan Mtid the pay raise exceed ed the government's own cest-tf living yardstick for wage increa scs, but Western Union "has r.O alternative but to put the direc tives Vf the National War" Lab f board into effect." Despite' the raise, CIO Arrcr ican. Communications associatit'n tonight authorized a strike against the company next Tuesday. - The raise was granted to AFL commercial telegraphers who have been standing by a strike call set for Jan. ?. The new stxike authorization would involve some 7,000 CIO workers in the metro politan New York area. The CIO strike was voted in protest agair.tt, the NV LB ruling. i , . - Ceu. Oiennault Making 'Secret' China Mission HAMILTON FIELD, Calif-. "Jan. 2-(P)'-Maj. Gen. Claire L. Cher. nault, retired from active duty but still wearing the uniform f the U.S. army air forces left fcy air today for China on what tug described as a "secret" mission. The former "Flying Tig! leader made no statement. 222,000 Applications in For 1916 Auto License Approximately 222,000 applica tions for 1948 automobile licenses had been received at the state de partment here Wednesday as against 193,500 at the same time a year ago. Officials estimated that 435,000 cars would be licensed in 1946. ' - Car owners not haying 1848 plates now are subject to arreet under the tate motor vehicle la'. Weather Max. SI . S3 ... 51 - 52 Salem ... Eugene . Portland Seattle . San Francisco . 59 Willnnwtt river 1? S ft , FORECAST ffrom U.S. rrau, McNary field, Sdlemf light rau Unlay, wind vt 13 to 2S imit-a per hour. MaiVnuin Wrrv- pciaturc Si ttrgie. Min. Hairt 44 i 41 S3 44 41 43 n leather b- Occasion?