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u (Story in Column 8) nes on OWS SCBZDDB fPCDOjlE OUNDID NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 14 PAGES Salem. Ortaon. Friday Morning. January 4. 1948 Pric 5c j m v i m m w I: ' " On 1 1651 No. 2-.3. A week from todav the first district of Oregon will hold what the Canadians and British call a by-election: One called during a parliamentary term to fill a va cancy. This will be first of the kind since this district was cre ated in 1C91. Trior to that the state had only one representative In -ohgress. elected at large. The 1J?0 census revealed such growth in population that the state nasned representative and two congressional districts were cre ated. Now thre are four districts. The nendinc election is to fill the eat made vacant by the untimely death of James W. Mott., Bv-e1ections! are followed close ly by political observers. .It is the way thev have of determining trend.. If the party in power toscs many scats in by-elections that is taken as a sign of shifting public entiment. If an overturn orurs in a district long- accust omed to supporting a particular party that is hailed as ofpecial significance. - t What thi.s adds up to is this: The attention of the country will be on ihiis Oregon election. If the repub 1 iean candidate is elected that will be accepted as the natural conse quence of the strength of the party in this district; If the republican candidate should be defeated (which; docs not seem likely), then politicians over the country would jsit up and take notice. For the republican party nationally it would be a serious blow. Just now a shift of around 27 seats in congress from democratic to republican would give republi cans . control. This is the party objective J (Continued on editorial page) Paul Jackson 1 Named to U. S. ' Education Post Paul T. Jackson, former superin tendent of the Chemawa Indian school who.: for the past three years h;s been supervisor of train ing at the Seattle port of embarka tion, has been appointed field rep- lesentative of the U. S. office of education' and will maintain his headquarters in Salem. Jackson was in Salem on Thurs day qualifying for the position and left Thursday night for Washing ton, D. C., to icpend a week or 10 days familiarizing himself with his new duties. Hi immediate assignment as leprescntative of the federal of fice of education will be to work With schools of the state, both public and Institution of higher learning, on purchase of surplus -properties. With Mrs. Jackson he will tome to Salem to reside as soon as living accommodations have been secured here. For the past three years they .have made tbir home in Seattle. Mac to Purge Nip War Chiefs TOKYO. Friday, Jan. A.-UP)-General MacArthur today order ed the Japanese government to clean its political house and to purge from public office and gov ernment service those- persons, whether small fry or members of parliament; who led Japan into war. In two far-reaching directives, uiich pick up where thej war criminal lists leave off, he or dered the imperial government to abolish all ultranationalist," ter rorist and militarist groups or societies and to remove from pub lic office and influence those per sons "who deceived and misled the people of Japan into embark ing on world conquest." Animal Crackers B, WARREN GOODRICH. a gU mine! Tve mad $42.5 tonignf just 'going torn plate eUeT - 4 OwttiSaOvMni, vw i t ' ', i j - , ' ; i J.. .... . ; . .t.- :, .'.. -1 - ..-"-vilIU JAN. . tVUllam Joyce (above) notorious "Lord Haw Haw" of the German air waves, was executed on the gallows of Wandsworth prison, London, early today. He had been conyleted on high treason charces. He was arrested last March by the 2nd army. (AP Wire photo to The Statesman) Complaint Asks Joint Through Freight Rates PORTLAND, One., Jan. Z-&) Attorneys for Inland Navigation company, Vancouver, Wash., an nounced today the river barging concern has filed a complaint with the interstate commerce commission seeking Joint through rates with connecting railroads throughout the northwest. John M. Hickson, Portland, and Howard Dent, Jr., The Dalles, said the complaint, asking through rates on all freight classes and commodities, listed 64 northwest and California railroads as de fendants. The rates would affect all points west of the Cascade mountains and all points east of the Cascades! as far as Billings, Mont., and south to Provo, Utah, The complaint also requests joint th r o u g h rail-barge-rail rates on commodities moving via Portland between the In land Empire and California points south to San Jose, the attorneys said. Inland seeks a 2d per cent differential under the all-rail rate for the water-borne portion of the haul. Butter to Be Scarce Soon WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-(JP)- Butter may be harder to find in some parts of the country during the first quarter- of this year than at any time since early in the war when heavy military buying de pleted supplies. This prospect was indicated by an agriculture department an nouncement today that 30,000,000 pounds less- have been allocated civilians for the January-March period than was allocated them for the October-December period. The allotment for the current quarter is 369,000,000 pounds. Shortages are expected to be most noticeable in the east, the wist and in other areas distant from major producing areas of the midwest j COOS BAY VOTE SET COOS BAY,! Jan. 3-UP-Two bond issues will be voted on Jan. 17 by the Coos j Bay water district. A $400,000 one would finance purchase of the People's Water and Gas company. The other, for $275,000, would finance recom mended repairs. ffimmler's Aide f Pleased to Have 5,000,000 People on Conscience', Wished it Were More By Noland Norgaard NUERNBERG, Jan. 3.-(-ffVThe nazi leadership conceived and exe cuted a program which bathed eastern, central and southern Eur ope in blood and claimed up to 5.000,000 victims, two former of ficers of the dread S. S. and se curity police testified before the international military tribunal to day. The grim testimony, which dis turbed 'the steel calm of two nazi generals among the 22 German leaders on trial, was given by S. S. Ma. Dieter Wisliceny and by slight, 38-year-old Maj. Gen. Otto Ohlendorf, trusted aide of Heinrich Himmler and a member of the S. S. since his youth. Under questioning by U. S. As sistant Prosecutor John Harlan Amen Wialency testified the nazi lust for blood became se great, tVkV. f "S4 Lord Haw Haw Dies Defiant oh British Gallows s By Glenn Williams LONDON, Jan. S-itVDefiant to the last, William Joyce, 40, Amer- ican-born nazi propagandist better known as "Lord Haw Haw," died in the hangman's noose today for deserting England in war and pleading for?HitlerisBl. Afterward, his brother, Quentin, said Joyce had given him this last statement; i ' "In death as In life I defy the Jews who caused this last war . . , I am proud to die for my ideals and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why." '! Joyce dropped through the trap at 9M a. m. (4:03 a. m. EST) clad in the same blue serge suit he wore ; when : British officer! Captured him in Germany seven months and six days ago. : A, crowd -of about 250 stood Outside, Wadsworth prison quiet except for ; an occasional cry of 'Uairmany calling" in mimicry of the manner in which Joyce opened his broadcasts from Berlin. Crosby Sued For Services NEW YORK, Jan. 3--Bing Crosby wag named defendant in a suit filed in state supreme court today; by Kraft Foods com pany which charged that the singer "has refused and still re fuses" to return to the Kraft Mu sic Hall radio program on NBC. The company asked the court to declare Crosby's contracts with regard to the. radio show valid and enforceable. The crooner has been away from ; the j program since last spring when he left for his an nual vacation. ) In a statement issued in Chi cago, John H. Kraft, president of the food company, said: ; "Bing claims there-is no longer any agreement enforceable against him, and Kraft has filed this suit in order that the court can determine whether these contracts are still binding and enforceable. TIGIITINQ TIGERS BACK ; TACOMA, Jan. 3-ifly-The 23rd fighter group, formed from the original famed Flying Tigers and the oldest! group in China, ar rived in Tacoma tonight on the troopship Alderaxnin from Shang hai. ! that the Germans even, tricked their puppet neighbor Slovakia into sending thousands of Jews into Poland with the promise . of good treatment. Wislency, describing the orgy of murder in 1942-44, testified that he, himself, had prepared vast shipments of Jews from conquered lands to German murder camps. The officer quoted Adolf' Eich mann, head of Himmler'a Jewish problems office, as declaring him self much pleased to have "five million people on my conscience and wishing that it were more. Eichmann, long considered one of the roost i blood-thirsty of Hiov mler's murderous crew, still is be ing: sought by allied authorities. The sallow Ohlendorf testified that the special S. S. groups were attached to the . German army when the: nazis - attacked 'Russia, British Sent Hess Teeler' " Swiss Aided in Getting Message From English i By Daniel De Le NUERNBERG, Jan. 1 -(jT)-Adolf Hitler's secret papers con tain the assertion ' that "import ant English circles" conveyed a peace feeler to a representative of Rudolf Hess a month before Uess flew to England in May, lj41, in his vain attempt to end the German-British war, It was disclosed .tonight. i Dr. Albrecht Haushofer, Hess' intimate adviser, sat down at Obersalzberg May 25, 1941, with in 48 hours after his friend's de parture, and wrote Hitler a full account of his own role in the peace overtures, in which he said he ued a prominent Swiss offi cial of the International Red Cross as an intermediary. This 1400-word confidential re port, now in the possession of allied and neutral intelligence, listed more than a dozen names of Britons, mostly titled, with whom Haushofer believed a rap- prochment possible. ; The report said Haushofer as early as September, 1940, wrote a letter to the Duke 6f Hamilton at Hers' request, In an attempt to establish "contact" ' i The report attributed to "moderate group in England a readiness in April, 1941, to talk peace on a three-point basis. recognition of Britain's - para mount interest I ! In 1 Greece Wt only nominal Intercuts elsewhere tn eastern and 1 southeastern Eu rope; restoration f occupied Western European states, gnd confinement of jGerman colonial demands to forrijier German ter ritory, along with modification of Italian demands. T Kampf .qr Bros. Sell Markets, Packing Plant Kampfer Bros, have sold their string of six meatmarkets and packing plant in western Oregon to the five Steen brothers of Eu gene who will continue to operate them under the name of Steen Bros. Food Stores. One of the markets is at 170 N. Liberty st, Salem. Merton Coon will continue as local manager. Headquarters of the business and the packing plant have been at Albany. Other markets are at Sweet Home and Eugene. Kampfer Bros, will re tain their supermarkets at Med ford and Grants Pass and drug store at Roseburg. The five Steen brothers have been in business in Eugene since 1931, operating the Eugene Pack ing co. and six retail markets. They plan to do their killing at Eugene and t Albany plants. The brothers are Carl E., Walter, Ray, Cecil and Harvey, all active in the business. Arnold Kampfer of Albany and Carl and Harvey Steen were in Salem on Thursday in connection with the business transfer. with orders to kill every Jew and political commissar in regions overrun. Women and children were not spared, although later, to protect the feelings of those German soldiers who might ob ject, jthe children were consigned only to gas . vans for execution, he said. The killings, Ohlendorf testified, were carried out with military precision, and with the knowledge of the ' German high command. Vainly, attorneys for nazi chief of staff Wilhelm Keitel and Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl tried to shake the testimony that the German army was aware of this slaughter. Both defendants maintained their icy calm in the morning, but they were visibly disturbed during the recess, and anxiously instructed their counsel h "' ! " ' Jury Disagrees In Sanity Trial of Mrs. Mansfeldt SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. The jury deliberating the ques tion of whether Socialite An nie Irene Mansfeldt was insane, when she fired a ballet into the breast of Nurse Vada Martin failed to reaeh . aa agreement -tonight and will resume deli berations at t a.m., tomorrow. It Is the same Jury which two weeks ago convicted Mrs. Mansfeldt of manslaughter for the murder of the pretty nurse whom she suspected of stealing the love of Dr. John II. Mans feldt. The Jury received the ease at 4:t7 p.m. (PST) after receiving Instructions : from Superior Judge Edward Murphy. UoSo'atWar'in November '41, Stark Claims WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. -(P)- Admiral Harold R. Stark related today that American warships In the Atlantic got orders Oct, 11, 1941, to destroy "German and Italian naval, land and air forces encountered," and" were then op erating at times under direction of LBritish officers. He told the Pearl Harbor in vestigating committee that as chief of jpaval operations he is sued the orders by direction of the late President Roosevelt. That was what he meant, he explained.' when he wrote a let ter Nov. 7, 1941, to Admiral Hus band E. Kfmmel, Pacific fleet com mander, saying "we are at war" J lirthe Atlantic. The committee .had received a copy of the letter earl ier In the hearings. Stark was emphatic that with this situation in the Atlantic all top officials in Washington were trying to avoid war with Japan. And he declared that he believes no one in the capital knew in 1941 that Japan was - going to' attack this country or where the attack would come. Comity Funds Rate Increase Tax collections piled up and road expenditures were at a min imum last month in "Marlon coun ty, the report of County Treasurer S. J. Sutler reveals. Total fund balances rose from $1,992,958.70 November 30 to $2,179,036.38 on December 31. The county's general fund in creased from $327,944.14 to $352, 163.29 during that period; the old age pension fund was upped from $37,64.76 to $53,566.39; the general road fund increased from $389,764.70 to $450,003.89 and the market road maintenance fund Went up in the same fashion. I The county's courthouse con struction fund reached a new high of $90,241.93, an increase of ap proximately $12,000 over the fig ures on the November 30 report. Delay Granted for Murder Plea Bernardo Jucutan, charged with first degree murder of two Fili pinos near Lake Labish New Year's day, was given until Sat urday to file his plea in the Jus tice court here Thursday. Sam Suwol, Portland attorney retain ed for Jucutan, did not appear in court District Attorney Miller B. Hayden filed first degree murder charges against Jucutan, Wed nesday. Willamette Highway, McKenzie I'aftg Closed The Willamette highway and the McKenzie pass were the only two Oregon roads remaining clos ed late Thursday night, the state highway department reported. Roads were said to be back to as normal a condition as could be expected at this time of year. Rains continued falling in the valleys and snow in the higher altitudes. . : TROOP TIE-UP DWINDLES SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3-iP)-The backlog of Pacific veterans awaiting transportation here, once more than 50,000, has dwindled to less than 13,000, port officials soid'todayv ' -' ' - - . mi gtrois M jcSa on 'Failure Admitted' ---Morse WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -(AV Congresslona4 reaction to Presi dent" Truman's speech tonight ranged from a republican asser tion that it was "a confession of failure" to a. democrat's view that "the president struck pay dirt." Senator Morse (R-OreX termed the address "a real confession of the failure of the democratic ma jority in congress under his leadership." "There was nothing new, in the speech," Morse told reporters. "In fact his major points can all be found in the Congressional Rec ord in speeches made by liberal republicans last session. The an swer should be clear to the Ame rican people. The answer is elec tion in 1948 of a ma jorit gressive republicans to gress." Senator Lucas (D-1U) ed the opinion that "the struck pay dirt as to th ate needs of the country reconversion period. The . dent's address should spur congress to act with all c""--' speed on many of ' measures." ' j Bids to Open On $1,700,000 Road Projects Four . comparatively small mid Willamette valley projects are in cluded among the 14 representing approximately $1,700,000 worth of work and material on which the state highway commission has an nounced it will open bids at its meeting in Portland on January 17 and 18. Included on the list of projects are: Marion county Grading and surfacing 3.53 miles of Gates-Niagara section of nprth Santiam highway. 'Polk county Grading and sur facing 4.02 miles of Buell and Salt creek-Dolph Comer sections of Dallas Coast secondary high way. Polk county Constructing 68 foot steel bridge and approaches over Mill creek on Dallas-Coast secondary highway near Buell. Linn county Produce 11,700 cubic yards of crushed rock on Halsey-Holley rock production pro ject on Halsey-Swet Home second ary highway. MAC DENIES PETITION i- -TOKYO, Friday, Jan. 4-0P-A petition by the Japanese govern ment for permission to set up an air safety division as the nucleus of future air transport activities was denied today by General MacArthur's headquarters. City Council to Receive Plans For Veterans Housing Project The Salem city housing author ity which is expected to come out of a resolution to be presented to the city council Monday night should limit its work toward a veterans' housing project to the airport area. Probably $25,000 as working capital must, be secured to develop as many as 150 units in barracks there. These are theories of the spe cial finance group of the new city wid housing committee. Les lie M. Scott, chairman, empha sized Thursday following a meet ing of the finance group that no set figure has been established and that all talk of costs is still tentative. However, he declared, mem bers of the group with experience in that field believe that for $200 the installations to provide sew er, water, and electric service could be made, in each unit The barracks would be divided into two or three, three or four-room apartments under plans current ly discussed. There -are. sufficient U. S. Strike Thumbnail By the Associated rcss With 400,000 of the nation's workers idle in continuing la bor disputes, strikes now threatening would increase the total to more than 1,500,000. These are the major continu ing disputes and threatened strikes: i Continuing (Listed by industry, union and number idle) Automotive - - CIO United Auto Workers - - 205,000 in GM plants. Machinists --r AFL and CIO machinists- - 60,000 in San Francisco. , -4 Lumber --AFL Lumber and Sawmill workers - - 30,000 in northwest. Electrical - - Vfestern Electric Employes AssnL (Ind.) 17, 000 in east. j Threatened (Listed by industry, union, number workers and date cf '"-. rain i Wes. . i Jan. 7.. j Steel - - CIO workers - -700,: Ele'-rical ? incal W orkti s - - 200,000 - - u i a t e let Packing--CIO United Pack inghouse workers - - 200,000 - -Jan, 16. i Chinese! Reds Agree to Use Of Marshall CHUNGKINGj Jan. 3 -UP) -Chinese communists accepted today Chiang Kai-Shek's plan to use Gen. 'George C, Marshall as a mediator but charged the gener alissimo had unleashed a large scale invasion of strategic Jehol province even as he talked of peace. They said government troops had burst a much aa 3(1 milec Into the northern province from western Manchuria at two points on a 75-mile front, seizing the railway cities of! Fusm and Chao yang. -1 The government which previ ously had announced capture of both cities, asserted its troops simply were taking over the pro vince, lying between Manchuria and strong Communist positions in inner Mongolia, and that the com munists had no strength in the whole area. i The Jehol dispute took on ex plosive properties Just as the communists were announcing here that they had agreed in gen eral with Chiang's New Year's eve plan for a halt to hostilities. buildings at the airport to be turned into approximately. 1500 famiy units. j First problem which will face the new housng authority will be to find out j whether the fed eral government will relinquish the buildings and grounds (al ready declaredsurplus), whether they will meet federal specifica tions; as veterans' housing units, what the probable cost will be and how the money "shall be raised. The federal government , under recently adopted legislation, would provide actual reconstruc tion costs to be repaid out of later rents, but would expect local Interests ! to make ' service Installations, also to be repaid out of -rents. A $25 rental for each unit has been talked, Scott said Thursday. Members of his committee are R. L. Elfstrom and David OUara, with W. J. Brmun and George Aiken of the over-all committee, ani Fred Pauluayas legal adviser- j gidls Reiterates Proposed Measures rljr Douglas B. Cornell WASHINGTON, j Jan. 3-P,-Pi evident Truman tonight appeal ed to "the most powerful pressure ; group in the worldP' the Ameri i cc.n people fo put the he-t, on j congress . for strike-control legi ! Utiion and other measures which j he said are designed to avert eco- nomic "disaster." H;:ndfuU of men on strategy congressional committees, .he said, ie stymie J action on his legis lative program designed to steer the nation between the dangers i f inflation and deflation toward the-- goal of "full production and full employment" In a "fireside chat" from the' White House, he urged the pec pie "to tell your public servant your own views concerning the grave problems facing the country.- He emphasized that he wanted no srrel With congress, but said f congress doesn't like he j i., im, it should formulate one i its own. j Vhat the American pec pi -1 jant is action," he declared'. ! He led off with a demand fee legislation setting up Cm t-find -ii. g boards for major mdustrui dputcs. Striket would fce bantd ffr-r 30 days while the 'board. equipped with power to namir mployer' books, made their in quiry, He also urged tnew' te f ealled "full employment Kill, greater unemployment compensa tion, extended authority to im pose price controls, a permanent fair employment practices com mission, and higher rninimt,m v.i-ges. The bill to increase payment to people out of work will stay li,kri up in the house and wa immittee, he said, "unless t people of the United States insw thia it be reported out and pWsed." J He raid he was sure the over whelming mass of citizens favoitd nd wanted their congressmen w vote for a measure to make th f.:ir employment practices com- I 11 e Permanent Mr. Truman- spoke up er more for comprehensive scientific research legislation, universal training, a health and medical care program, an "adequate sal ary scale" for government em ployes, the development of4 river valleys and the establishment ef a line of presidential succession. . (Additional details, on page ) Flood Damage Tops 1943 Toll PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. S.-1 -Last week's Willamette valley flood damage has been roughly estimated at $6,000,000 j by com parison with 1927 and 1$43 floors, officials of the Portland district army engineers said today. Engineers reported a tentative land-air survey showed sboi.t 360,000 acres inundated, con? pared with 340,000 acres and 15 -700,000 damage In 1943. Heaviest damage was in Spring field and Glenwood areas d near the North and South San tiam and Calapooia rivers, it waa reported. Officials stated the official dam age report would not be in U i several weeks. ENROLLMENT SOAKS CORVALL1S. Ore., Jan. 3.-.n-The Oregon State college reg-.e-trar's" office reported the worst conjestion In years today tt buiv dreds of veterans from many states in the union Cocked to tt eampus to enroll. Weather Kmx. Win. n 12 Smlem Portland M iS .;a .) i IS a ST Seattle Sot Francisco Willamette riw IS ft. TORICAST from VM weather tu reen, McNary field. Salem ) : Paitly cloudy today; occasional tight S. eta. snorters t to atroM wu smarm temperature SI oeTe