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Iv i i i ' TO SHffiOOS a! mm Federal TRDODQJ lSSlOIl I , j Convert anted to mm 1EIS Perm Gr i i r The Christmas seal sale con ducted to support the battle against tuberculosis has just been , concluded. Now being organized is the March of Dimes campaign to raise funds torombat infantile paralysis. After thar will come solicitation in behalf of the Amer ican Cancer society. These are all worthy causes. However, their multiplicity is annoying. Worse than that, the programs of the numerous organizations in, V the health field are uncoordinated and the budgets of each bear little re lation to the incidence of the par ticular diseases which are being fought The time has come when some overall public body should review the program and appeals of these separate agencies or some day the public may get tired, of the continuous solicitation and withhold contributions. Fortunately such an effort is being initiated now by the Na tional Health council, which has created a citizens' committee of 25 with a duty to develop a plan for coordination among the 20,000 voluntary health agencies of the country. The temporary chairman is Dr. Louis I. Dublin, vice presi dent and statistician of the Metro politan Life Insurance .company and recognized leader in. the field of health education. Ttie" commit tee will find art excellent founda tion for starting its work in the study made by Selskar M. Gunn and Philip S. Piatt and published under the title "Voluntary Hea'th Agencies." This reveals clearly the unbalanced condition prevailing in the field. For example, due to the peculiar emotional appeal in the case of infantile paralysis the collection for this cause (Continued on editorial page) Russians Ask Time to Study Bretton Woods WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-(ff)-P.ussia wants more time to .study the Brettqn Woods monetary agreement before signing them. A state department official aid today the Soviets had so informed Averell Harriman, American am j bassador In Moscow. Russia . mad severtl reserva tions whea 44 nations decided at a conference at Bretton : Woods, N. H., In 1944 to set up an inter national ; bank' for reconstruction and development and a fund to stabilize world currencies. They agreed to subscribe a total of roughly $9,000,000,000 for each fund. Russia and eight-smaller na tions passed up their chance to become charter members when they failed to sign up before Jan uary 1, this year. But the bank and the fund will be created any way because the 35 nations that did sign in time have pledged enough of the cash about 83 per cent of the total. If and when she does sign, Rus sia will contribute $2,400,000,000. Russia now must get the approval of the boards of directors, not yet appointed, to Join the internation al financial agencies. Filipino Enters Innocent Plea Bernardo Jucutan, Filipino, charged with first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of two of his countrymen ini the Lake Labish district here last Tuesday, appeared in the Salem Justice court Saturday, pleaded innocent and asked for apreliminary hear ing to be held January 12. j Jucotan, in a signed confession, aid he killed the two men with knife and gun as the result of an Altercation during a New Year's ive drinking and card party. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH 7 -: "It you don't stop eating tho$ Christmas neckties they're going to start com ing out your-ooptV 1 ; i t Ex -Army arracks 29 Buildings Go to Slate Hospital; 217 Available for Veterans and Families. Council to Consider! Plan Tomorrow ' 1 i II' A new and temporary suburb with 300 to 500 residents at the southeastern edge of jjalem was virtually an assured fact today. Promise that the city would receive use of Salem army airbase properties and could acquire all but 29 of the 246 barracks and other buildings there for veterans' housing" and airport operation came Saturday to George: Aiken, state budget director, from federal surplus property administration officials. j Twenty-nine buildings will be turned over to the state for use by Oregon state hospital during construction operation there. Cost of moving those buildings to j state hospital property will be borne by the state. Officials said the structures would be used to house hospital attendants and other, employes of the institution. Applications of the state and city were filed at the same time through the Seattle surplus prop erty division, under an act adopt ed by congress approximately two weeks ago. Already plans for the use of 50 to 75 of the barracks buildings as emergency housing for veterans and their families have been out lined by a special city-wide hous ing committee. These will be pre sented to tomorrow night's coun cil meeting or to the city housing authority the council is expected to establish. Briefly, those plans are: Installation of partitions, plumb ing, etc., to make each building into two or three apartments, prob ably three rooms each. The quar ters would be sanitary, comfort able, liveable, but not aesthetical ly desirable. They would rent for approximately $25 a month. Rental money would be applied to repay first the investment which would be made there in the name of the city for exten sion of city water and sewer ser vice (already a part of the bar racks set - up but not quite suitable for the three family un its). Since there apparently is ho city fund which could be drawn upon for this work, it is consid ered probable that it will be fi nanced in much the same way as was the initial Camp Adair bus service, through business contri butions, pnee the debit of the housing project to the fcity fund has been (paid, the federal gov ernment Would be repaid for Its investment in partitions, ete. Roads Good Roadways in the area are good,and probably will meet fed eral specifications so that side walks need not be installed, members of the citywide commit tee said last week. Many of the barracks stand on land. which the government pur chased or leased from owners other than the city, although some are on McNary field, pro per. It was understood here yes terday that the city would not be required to move, the barracks onto the property it owned be fore the war. No attempt will be made to de velop the project into anything very attractive, although health and comfort of the occupants will be of major importance, commit tee members declare. The pur pose of the development is to pro vide shelter for veterans, their wives and one or two children, so that larger families and non veterans may secure housing in side Salem. It would also be de signed to encourage veterans to remain here to establish homes when building increases or to oc cupy houses and apartments ' as these are constructed by other persons. Vets Leave Numerous veterans have left employment here to go elsewhere and others threaten to follow suit because of lack of housing, it is pointed out. Rental will be high enough at the project, it is anti cipated, so that it will not pro vide unfair competition for pri vate housing, but low enough that families living there will not be paying a profit to the city or to the federal government Property Return When the council considers the matter of a city housing author ity, for which the recent congres sional act provides, it will also i consider asking for return of its McNary field property, city offi cials said here Saturday follow ing a conference with Charles S. Cohn, chief of the management and disposal branch of the Port land officevof army engineers. It will make A check of the airport properties at once to determine what damage may have been done during army occupation so that the required information may be filed before termination of the government lease. 'SLIM' SL'MMERVILLE DIES LACUNA BEACH, Calif., Jan. S--George J. "Slim" Summer ville, 54, motion picture actor and director, died at his home here tonight. Housing Chief Promises to Cut Red Tape 1 ;By Sterling- F. Green VfASHINGTON, Jan. 5-?)TThe new housing expediter, Wilson W. Wyitt Jr., today promised jtoj cut any; federal red tape which pre vents j shelter-starved Americans from obtaining reasonably priced dwellings. . j j - At a meeting with Wyalt in the white house, Reconversion Direct or Snyder and the heads of a half-dozen other government agencies concerned with the hous ing emergency pledged their,! co-1 operation. 1 ! Wyatt announced he: would call upon Individual cities and towns shortly to prepare, for 'immediate prompt and effective action," add ing in a statement that "no mir acles" can be worked from Wash ington.! ' ! Ballot Boxes I Out for Special Election Jan. 11 Eighty-two ballot boxes for the January 11 special election were turned! over by County Clerk Harlan Judd yesterday '; to Sheriff Denver Young for delivery to the separate election boards. j With; the other nine 'counties! of the ; first congressional district, Marion county, will j ballot nfext Friday' to name a successor! to the lale Rep. James j W. . Mott. Walter; Norblad, Astoria attorney, republics n-ihdependent, and Democrat Bruce Spaulding, Sa lem attorney, making ! the race as an independent, are candidates. In Salem, voters also; will con sider; again a $125,p00 bond Issue for the purchase $f 43 acres of Bush's j pasture ' to complete a 100-acre park tract. Approved at a special June election, the bofjds were ; not issued because j adver tising requirements had not been met and the election was held 1 to be illegal. t Not more than 35 per cent the 147.985 registered voters the district will go to the polls, David O'Hara, in charge of the state elections bureau, ; estimated here Saturday. U.S.-JAPAN PHONE TO OPEN' NEW YORK, Jan. 5-P)-Radio telephone service between Japan and the United States will be re opened next Thursday, the Ameri can Telephone ic Telegraph com pany announced today. 1 RE-APPOINTED TO BOARD Hugh Kirkpa trick, Lebanon, was; Saturday re-appointed by Gov. Earl Snell to a new six-year term on the state liquor, control commission. I Spruille Bradeii Danger Lurking WASHINGTON, Jan.! 5, -VP) Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden said tonight that axis force? which used Argentina as a base for wartime operations "still (constitute a danger to the Americas." Participating ini an NBC broad cast disctisjiion of inter-American policy; the former ambassador to Buenos Aires was asked: , "You mean that axis j business firms jin Argentina are still un touched, despite all the promises that were made?? i "No, I wouldn't say that," re plied Braden. "I would say that nothing has been done against the mott pow erful and therefore most' danger ous axis elements." j Braden explained that the fun- NINETY-FIFTH YEAR New Counsel WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 Seth Richardson, Washington attor ney, leans his head on his hand as he sits In on the Pearl Har bor inquiry In Washington, lis tening to testimony of Adm. Harold R. SUrk. Richardson was named as successor to William D. Mitchell as chief committee counsel. (AP WIrephoto.) Probers Finish Examination of Admiral Stark WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -(JP) Admiral Harold R. Stark said to day that he left all responsibility for movements of the Pacific fleet up to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, its commander, afterj ordering a "defensive deploy- j" .. '' " ' ' ' - - - t " --- f 1, J t, v i ' -' - "' Si 'T' :'' :' )'' "Vs xi f m ment wov. Z7, - 'Jv.il A chief of' naval operations," Stark said, he made no check on how Kimmel was carrying out that order because that was not the navy way of doing things. "In the navy, he explained to a senate-house investigating com mittee, "an officer gives an order and expects a subordinate to car ry it out." j With this testimony, the white thatched naval officer left the witness chair after' a week of questioning. He maintained throughout that: 1, Kimmel had received "ade quate information" so that he should have been on guard when the Japanese struck Dec. 7, 1941. 2. No top official tn Washing ton sought war with Japan, but on the contrary all endeavored to maintain peace because the country was unprepared for a "two ocean" war and Hitler was regarded as the major threat. . When Stark's examination was completed the committee recessed until Jan. 15. At that! time Kim mel will be the witness. Religious Persecution Reported Continuing VATICAN CITY, Jan. 5 -(JP) A press bulletin from Mgr. En rico Pucci's unofficial news ser vice today quoted an unnamed Croation, who recently fled from Yugoslavia, as saying that 615 priests had been killed in Yugo slavia. The bulletin added that "relig ious persecution continues as strongly as before.'' Sees Fascist in Argentina damental American policy of non-intervention, in the affairs of other American nations "will continue, but added: "We have no intention of tak ing that kind of unilateral action. Neither do we intend to stand idly by while the nazi-fascist idology against which we fought a- war endeavors U entrench it self in this hemisphere." The American policy 3s one of Joint action, he said, with the other republics group action for mutual , security. One basic fart about Argentina, Braden declared, is that the ma jority of the Argentine people have always been proTdemocratic and opposed to totalitarian dictatorship. j FOUNDBO 1651 20 PACES Salem. -Lnnrr -TlJIJUNj Electric tout Date Set By the Ansociatcd Prrt The CIO Electrical Workers yesterday announced a nation wide strike of 200,000 workers in plants of the General Electric Westinghouse and General 'Mo tors companies had been called for Jan. 15. The announcement was made at the end of a day-long confer ence of the union's executive of ficers in New York, and followed by less than an, hour the an nouncement of a revised wage offer by General Electric. Strike Delayed Another strike was temporarily stayed by President Truman's appointment of ai emergency board to investigate a labor dis pute affecting the St Louis and San Francisco ('Frisco) railway. The walkout of 7000 employes had been set for 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time today. In New York, a union leader said the three-day old Western Electric strike was "just about ready to explode" into a nation wide walkout of telephone work ers. Offered Raise One of three companies threat ened with a strike of electrical workers Jan. 15 announced Sat urday it had offered the CIO United Electrical, Radio and Ma chine Workers of America a wage increase "better than the 10 per cent" It recently proffered the union. Charles E. Wilson, president of the General Electric company, saiq,, the company had made a W offer of a straight 10-cent- an-hour increase for all employes making less than one dollar an hour. Such an increase, he said, would grant employes in lower pay brackets more than the straight 10 per cent increase ori ginally offered. Educators Talk Over Teaching Qualifications Educators from all parts of Ore gon gathered here Saturday at a joint meeting oj the state teachers association and state educational department involving teacher cer tification and teacher training. Purpose of the meeting was to discuss improvement of qualifica tion of teachers and the existing teacher training program. Any recommendations of the joint com mittee will be filed with the state educational department and the legislature. Officials said that while teach er certification in Oregon is ope rating satisfactorily some improve ment in the qualifications may be necessary before the prewar teach er requirements are again placed into affect. It was brought out at the meeting that a shortage of teachers still exists in many sec tions of the state. Lt.HidayKilled In Car Crash First Lt. Richard Hiday. 1210 N. 16th st, was reported killed , in an automobile accident In Ger many Dec. 25, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hiday, Saturday. Hiday, a graduate of Salem high school in 1933, was an offi cer in the 71ft division landing in Europe in January, 1915.. His division was a part of Patton's Third army. He had been in the service iince July, 1942, and re ceiver! the bronze star last April. Before entering the service he was employed at the Oregon Pulp and Paper mill. Survivors are his parents and his wife, the former Elizabeth Spain, Columbus. Ga. Weather Max. Salem .41 Funone 0 TorUar.d T49 Seattle .. SO San Franciwo 5 Min. 38 39 42 38 52 Rain .14 26 Trace Willamott liver 13 ft. ' FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem); Fog early In morning, partly cloudy in after noon. Mtximum temperature 42 degrees. Wall Oregon. Sunday Morning. January 6, 1946 To Warm the Hear I-And Toes it i - .-. f. V ? -p. i fj'-i't oil i - -yls "n-'i?. Fry -; -:r - . 1 ?. h DRANCY, France, Jan. 5. These UUIe girls ecsUUcally hoc the new shoes that were distributed to them by American Red Cross relief workers to replace their shoddy, ersatx leather shoes. The children of Draney were chosen for the distribution because they were considered as beinr most in need of them. (AP WIrephoto) Alcoa Charged With Blocking U.S. Plant Sales WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-(P)-The surplus property administra tion asserted today the Aluminum Company of America Is using its patents to obstruct disposal of government aluminum plants to Alcoa competitors a charge the company promptly denied. In a bluntly worded letter to Chairman O'Mahoney of a sen ate subcommittee on surplus prop erty, SPA Administrator W. Stu art Symington declared the, re sponsibility for shutting, down two Arkansas plants "and throw ing the employes out of work rests squarely upon . . r the com pany." "The time has come, Syming ton said, "to say frankly to con gress that it may well be that no disposal of any of the (alu minum) plants to competitors will be possible unless Alcoa changes its attitude, or unless the courts, acting under the Sherman act, re organize Alcoa so that its monop olistic power is broken." Snell Flies to Speaking Date in New York Gov. Ear Snell left Salem by airplane Saturday for New York City, where he Is to be principal speaker at a banquet of the mo tion picture industry Monday night honoring Ted R. Gamble, who is leaving his post as federal war finance chairman to return to private business as a Portland theatre operator. Point Scores Dropped as Basis For Returning GIs From Europe By Wes Gallagher, FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. 5. IJV)'Gen. Joseph T. McNarney dis closed today a new system of U. S. army redeployment from Eur ope under which the release of men . to go home wil depend on whether they are essential in their jobs, and whether replacements arrive. . ,3 ...v, It was good news for men with w n,,int. m m i k poinu who had thought they might be in Germany for years under the point system could be home by July J, if replacements arrive. McNarney, U. S. commander in the European theater, told a news conference that high point men kept in Europe remain because they are needed, and not because of lack of ships. He said that through the new program "we will have the re quisite American forces to fulfill our nation's rcioonsibilities in Germany. Thev United States forc es will be employed efficiently and J Slowing Waters South End Fear Of Second Flood EUGENE, Jan. S -(P)- Re ceding waters of the Willam ette river Saturday night dis pelled fears of a second major flood when ; the river reached just fraction under the flood stage of II feet, with a crest forecast at slightly less than IS feel. State police said the highway to Springfield was not closed and there was no Interruption of traffic on any of the streets . in the suburban areas and the major highways In the area. Morse Hits at Taf t's Tirade' WASHINGTON, Jan. S -(P) An unexpectectgaftermath of Pres ident Truman's speech .was a statement by Senator Moree (R Ore) that Senator Taft (Rj-Ohio) had delivered a "radio tirade" in reply last night Morse himself criticized the Truman appeal. But he said some of the measures Taft attacked had bi-partisan backing. He as serted that the Ohioan's remarks show "in a frightening "manner" why the common men and wom en of the country "cannot look to the reactionary republicans, who are seeking to control the repub lican party, to protect and im prove their standard of living." "Taft demonstrated," Morse1 said, "that his political and! -economic philosophy is the same as that of the reactionary democrats nowjn control of the -democratic party." ) will be assisted by a maximum of non-military personnel. "To this end I have created a liquidation and manpower board to check into every activity. Its objective is to recommend person nel reductions by eliminating tasks or speeding their end." He said it had not been decided what divisions would compose the j newly planned occupation force. but tnat a,J wou,d infan(ry . . . ' , There will be no armored divis- I io."" ,as KUh ?ut the constabulary will be entirely arjnored. Infantry divisions will be com posed of about 15,000 men each. The armored constabulary will have 38,000 men and the air force 62,000. The rest of the occupation force will be made up of head quarters, supply, engineers and other supporting troops, he ex plained. McNarney estimated that a cut of 70,000 men, or 19 per cent would be made in the original oc cupation force estimate of 370,000 by July 1. Price 5c No. 243 mm Marshall To Assist In Parley By Spencer M CHUNGKING, Jan. 5hT)-1 government and the communists announced today an agreement on methods of ending China's civil strife and Instructed their top negotiators to meet not later than Monday to work out the de tails. It was learned reliably that Gen. Chang Chen, the govern ment negotiator, and Chou En Lai, the communist representa tive, would seek the help of Gen. George C. Marshall, special L' .5. envoy to China. Cease Fire K. C. Wu, minister of informa tion, said a cease fire order,, stal ing the sporadic shooting that has punctuated the civil turmoil simo Japan's surrender, would be st when the negotiators meet. It still was not known r whether the government had agreed to lift the blockade of communist areas, wbLch the com munists had demanded as ore condition before going' farther' with peace talks. The long-awaited agreement was widely acclaimed In Chung king as assuring at least a tem porary peace, and there were ex pressions of relief oa all sides in this long-anxious capital. Armistice Helps It was generally conceded thst the existence of an armistico when the Chinese unity .confer ence opens Jan. 10 would great ly enhance the prospects of it success, but that there was tho danger of a resumption of hostili ties should, that all-party ' meet in fail. Generalissimo Chltnt Kai- Shek, who called the session, in dicated in his message to the ns tion New Year's eve a willingness to broaden the base of his gov ernment to achieve unity. Whether the generalissimo would go even further and accept the demands of the communist party and China's Democratic league for a full-fledged coalition government was not known. Morgan's Pay To Be Stopped LONDON, Jan. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan, asked by the UNRRA to resign as head cf the organization in Germany, pre sumably will be deprived of his authority and dropped from the fusal to quit, a spokesman for the relief agency said today. Morgan, under fire for express ing belief at a Frankfurt news conference that a, secret Jewish organuation was responsible for the mass exodus of Jews from Poland and Czechoslovakia, has been instructed to return to Lon don. A UNRRA public relations officer said, however, that reports that Morgan already had been dis missed were exaggerated. JAPS TO GET LIBERTY SHIPS TOKYO, Sunday, Jan. -UT-Informed sources reported today that 100 United States Liberty ships would be turned over to Japan shortly for the repatriation of Japanese still in China and on various- islands of the South Seas. PORTLAND-LONDON, 40 IIRS. PORTLAND, Jan. 5 -yp). Air travelers - leaving Portland can i each London in 40 hours via connections with trans-Atlantic carriers at New York and other Atlantic coast points. United Air lines officials said today. Historic Place Of Pilgrimage For Protestant and Catho lic alike is lovely St Mary's church at Mt Angel, where on this Epiphany Sunday the crib scene is changed as the Wise Men from the East re place the wondering shep herds and the sheep at the manger in Bethlehem. Some thing of the history of the building .Is told today on page 3 by Loretla Dehler, Statesman correspondent at Mt AngeL