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rami to. To dLnJot .!: - r- ... ." 5 :il j . , ''''''" . ; ' i WDHQ3 Our supreme court seems to have adopted a "rule of silence" when it comes to determining the validity of laws passed by the legislature. It is this way. In the 194S legis lature House bill 403 was intro duced, passed by the house and amended in the senate. The house refused to concur in the senate amendments; the bill went to con ference and new amendments were rawn upi which were agreed to y both houses. The bill which Was enrolled and signed by the -speaker, .the president of the sen ate and the governor, however. did not ' contain the conference committee amendments but did include the senate amendments which the houe had rejected. The supreme court in June held that this bill ; or Chapter 460 in the 1945 laws was invalid. The same legislature considered another bill, HB 388. It passed the house. The senate adopted a committee report recommending certain amendments, then backed up and adopted other amendments and parsed the bill. The house concurred in the latter senate amendments; but the enrolled bill as signed by the presiding officers and the governor does not eonlain the senate amendnu-nts which were included in the bill as passed by the senate and repassed by the house, and docs include amend ments reported. (Continued on editorial page) 3-Hour Blaze Destroys Home In South Salem The home of Mrs. Alice Ed mundson at 2509 S. Commercial tt, burned to the ground Wednes day night. The Salem fire depart ment was unable to answer the call because the house was two blocks outside the city limits. No ene was injured in the blaze which burned for more than three hours. " . . Almost ail of the family pot sessions were- removed witjh -the help of neighbors. .The house vu said to be'msured. Mrs. Edmund son had lived in the. house for more than 40 year. She had been living alone but her daughter-in-law, Mrs. L. F. Edmundsoft, had dropped in for an evening visit shortly before the fire started, supposedly from a defective flue, about ? o'clock. The air base fire department was called, sometime sifter the Salem department was notified, but the flames had progressed too far to prevent destruction of the home. ; - The house was considered a Landmark in south Salem, being the property of the Ohmart fam ily before the Edmundvons pur chased it more than 40 years ago. Mrs. Edmundson's belongings in- eluded many heirlooms most of wbichjwere saved with the excep tion of two marble topped dress ers which were in a room made inaccessible by the spreading flames. Vet Strikers To Lose Pay WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -(JP) General Omar N. Bradley, veter ans administrator, ruled today that veterans 'are not entitled to unemployment compensation un der the GI bill of rights when deprived of work by a strike. "Omar B. Ketchum, na'""l lcgi&l4ton representative of the Veterans of foreign Wars, an nounced immediately that his or- ganization will attempt to have the bill amended so that veterans Lfhr 'Art nstf viitja tttr crilrM mav draw, compensation. He estimated about 13,000 Veterans are involv ed in the General Motors strike alone. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH 0u oh htre come your hiccups againl" cj ectmirotiy Resigns TOKYO. Jan. II Sotaro Ishl wata (above). Imperial house hold minister of Japan, has re signed as a result of Gen. Dong las MacArthur's order for the ouster of all ultra-nationalists from the cabinet (AP wire photo to The Statesman.) Cencral Bans Unauthorized Mass Meetings FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. 1 -Gen. Joseph T. McNarney today banned all unauthorized GI mass demonstrations In Europe and warned that such meetings might be "exploded by some indi viduals or elements" to the in- Jury of army discipline. "A tendency has been noted on some occasions to use the meet ings for purposes other than urg ing more rapid redeployment,' said the theatre commander's or der, directed to all major com manders in Europe. The soldier demonstrations have served their purpose,; .McNarney He told the -eopimajjderi to guard against; he relatively harmless practice it rrtsss protests for inforrnationrf'tUtt64s Irora degenerating into an -opportunity that may be exploited by some individuals or elements to the ex tent of becoming definitely in jurious to the discipline and good name of the army," Discharge Due 45-Poiiit Men WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -UP) Army ground and service forces installations in this country were ordered today to get started at once on discharging all men with 45 points or two and a half years service. They will be released "as fast as the separation centers can handle them," the announcement said. The action was in. line with the war department order yesterday tha-t by April 30 all enlisted men with 45 points or two and; a half years service be discharged or be aboard ship en route home. The ground forces said that 'many eligible men will be out weeks and months earlier than the deadline." Ex-Servicemen Picket Mines LANSFORD, Pa., Jan. 16-ifp)-Waving banners asking "welcome Home For What?" ex-servicemen picketed anthracite mines in east ern Pennsylvania's Panther val ley, today in what they called ! a fight for jobs. r I War veterans paraded past ev ery mine in the valley. Miners refused to cross the picket lines and 6000 were made idle. The vets said mines hired "out side" help during the war and the ex-GI's now want the jobs they say they rightfully deserve. About 65 participated in the picketing but a mass meeting of all Jobless ex-GI's in- the area was called in a move for a "solid front" throughout the valley. Priest Lavs Claim To Japan Throne BALTIMORE, Jan. 16 -()- A former Buddhist priest who claims that he, and not Hirohito is real ly the emperor of Japan has asked Gen. Douglas MacArthur to place him on the imperial throne, Rob ert B. Cochrane, Tokyo corre spondent of the ( Baltimore Sun wrote today. The claim of Hiromichl Kuma zana who would, become the Emperor Hiromichl sa was ac companied by documents pur porting to prove that Hirohito's ancestors displaced those of the 'ormcr priest 554 years ago. mmmmmmmmmmmjfmmmmmmmmmmmmmwmmmm mm mm m mmH i tJSjh ''fmm ni (Couro'ciil Byrnes Asks Forj Delay, in laints By John A. Parrts " , LONDON, Jan. 16. . -D-'The United Nations security council was confronted tonight with an international dispute before it had even taken a first step toward or ganizing for its task of keeping the peace. I ' Iran served notice it would ask the H-member body, .which meets for i the first time tomorrowl for protection against what' It termed- "Russian interference' in northern Iran. ' Simultaneously, delegates to the six-day-old general assembly of the United Nations learned of two other international problems they might be called upon to consider, ' The Hilversum radio said that the premier of the self proclaimed Indonesian republic planned a direct appeal to the United Na tions .to resolve its conflict with the Dutch. I Poland threatened, through its foreign minister, to: bring before the; security council a protest against the maintenance of a-Polish' army jn Great Britain and Italy. f All three disputes came to the fore despite pleas of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and other assembly leaders not as one dele gate phrased it to Tput ice skates on the -international baby before it has learned to walk." Judge Charges County Welfare Power Shorn . Under existing flaw, Marion county is virtually shorn of all its powers in administration of the welfare situation and its place In the present setup is a farce, County Judge Grant Murphy de clared Wednesday. Judge Murphy's remarks came after he had been handed an opinion from the attorney gen eral's office directed to the coun ty court in response to inaulries of the court In regard to handling; funds for public assistance. - The judge' indicated that as the matter stands at present the state should take it over the entire ad ministration! and control of pub lic welfare matters. The opinion indicates, be said, that the court should take fits orders in regard to welfare matters from the coun ty welfare, commission which . in turn- gets the word from the state commission's ruling. Which puts th county court in the role of puppet, the Judge added. LICENSE OFFENDER FINED It cost James Delmer Campbell of (Salem $4.50 to drive his car without new 194(5 license plate and sticker. Campbell paid a $1 fine (the; first collected in Salem this year for the offense) and 14.50 costs in Sajem justice court on Wednesday. 1 Comp : t M. Oregon Motor Stages to Seek Hearing to Set State Bus Rates Oregon Motor Stages will pre sent a formal request next Mon day to George H. Flagg; public utilities commissioner, that he in stitute a general hearing to fix just; and equitable rates under which all motor, passenger car riers in the state shaU . operate. It Will be joined in the request by Pacific i Trailway formerly Mt Hood Stages. This is the move by competitors, .of Pacific Grey hound stage! against the rate cuts initiated by; that carrier in 1945 and permitted to go into effect by the ! public utilities commis sioner pending hearing on his docket next? Monday. The biasic contention of Oregon Motor Stages is that motor pas senger" carriers Operate under regulations, and that rates should not be dictated by competition but by determination of the commis sioner on a basis which will pro tect, the public interest and at the same time prevent the industry from becoming a monopoly. Grey hound stages on the other hand has set the pace in rate reductions through its own initiative. On Feb. I 1945, Greyhound re duced rates to 1.5 cents a mile on, the Pacific highway; and on the , Klamath Falls route. On March 1, )945, Greyhound re duced the rates on its- coastal routes to two cents per mile. On Oct, 1, 1945, it cut commuter fares on I the suburban line around Portland by selling ten pone-way rides for the price of. seven. The last; cut was filed In November to be effective Jan. 1, 1946, and set up a scale of rates from a maximum of 1.5 cents per mile for trips of not more than 300 NINETY-FIFTH YEAR Refusal to Jail Spies Kimmel Testifies Stimson Blocked Pre-HarborMove By William T. Peacock 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. Reap Adm. Husband E. Kimmel said today that Secretary of War Stimson blocked a pre-Pearl Har. bor proposal to jail Japanese con sular officials spying on naval in stallation in Hawaii. ' .Kimmel, -who was Pacific fleet commander at the time said the recommendation for arrests or iginated with Adm. C. C. Bloch, then commandant of the 14th (Ha waiian) naval district, in the sum' mer of 1941. "Bloch recommended that they put them all in the jug," he testi fied to the joint Pearl Harbor in vestlgating committee "In effect, that is what he recommended." Army Opposed But the army opposed and no thing was done, Kimmel related, addling: i "I have since found that the secretary of war was the man who decided nothing should be done, I don't know what jhis reasons ! i - were. Under questioning by Scth Rich ardson, committee counsel, Kim mel had testified that he knew, of course, prior to tne wee. 7, attack that Japanese agents could easily keep track of ! what fleet units were in Pearl Harbor since a view of the whole harbor. could be obtained from nearby moun tains, j "On Alert" ! Kimmel declared flatly that "the fleet was on the alertf! when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Shaking his finger, he told the committee that every step he took; in the days before the' attack was taken, only after "mature jqonsiO eration" of the information J&Yt$k him "by the navy department. "I did the best I could," he said. "And with the same Information I am not certain I would not take the same actions again." Chinese Charge Truce Violations ; 1 CHUNGKING, Jan. 1 - (JF) -Gen. Chang Chiuv government truce negotiator, told China's uni ty conference today that armed clashes still were reported In the north the communists said in seven strategic provinces. :. (U.S. marine planes dumped cease-fire leaflets over three strife-torn provinces today.) I The national military council charged the communists with three specific violations of the truce. miles to 1.25 cents per mile for trips of over 400 miles. 'Oregon Motor Stages, which competes w i t h Greyhound on some of its routes in the valley and down the coast, requested the public utilities commissioner to suspend this last rate cut pending a hearing. Its request was denied. Now Oregon Motor Stages through its general manager A. I Schnei der, presses its fight by calling for a general hearing to determine rates of all motor passenger car riers in the state. ! Spring to Two angles of the mounting unemployment problem in Ore gon were analyzed Wednesday by state offices. 1 Veterans Affairs Director Hugh E. Rosson predicted that jobs for returning war veterans will be scarce until April, after survey ing selective service, employment service and unemployment com pensation commission officials. At the same time the state un employment compensation office Reported that unemployment pay ments, for ; the first time since benefits were started in 1938, now threaten to outstrip contributions to the unemployment benefit fund, .. .,;.,. I Rosson cited four main causes of job scarcity for returning ser vicemen, who will number 85,000 in Oregon by the end of Febr iiary: ' 1. Seasonal weather conditions have decreased employment in Revealed 12 PACES mramrcsiinid) 6 Pickets Parade Past Swift & o CHICAGO, Jan. 16. Picket lines plant early today as a strike In OPA Ready to Attack Meat Black Market WASHINGTON, Jan. Jo-tfV OPA, fearing "tremendous pres sure" on meat price ceilings as a result of the packinghouse work ers strike, today promised swift action against any blackmarkets. The .. agency strengthened its enforcement staff as a retail meat f dealers- spokesuuttrwamed that if the stoppage is in effect a week or ten days it will make wartime black markets "look like a Sun day school picnic." Representatives of: manage- ment and labor agreed to attend a government conference here to morrow in an effort to settle the strike which has pinched off fresh meat supplies ' to a nation which has less than a week's re serve left The conference was called by Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach, after consultation with President Truman. Lewis J. Clark, president of the CIO United Packinghouse Work ers, reported his 193,000 men were out in full force. The AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher workmen estimated 70,000 of its men were out. Deaths Draw Secret Probe FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. 16 -(jT)- Investigation of the cre mation slaying of three American military government officers at Passau has been classified top secret," it was learned 1 today Correspondents were unable to obtain confirmation of rumors that an arrest had been made. Sosecret has the Investigation been that thus far there has been no official announcement of the names or addresses of the three officers who were hacked to death before their billet was burned almost to the ground 10 days ago. Bring More Vet Jobs the logging and lumber industry and on farms. 2. From 60 to 80 per cent of returning veterans never had steady jobs before they went into service and are unskilled, while about 80 to 90 per cent of avail able jobs call for skilled workers. Z. The GI apprenticeship train ing program is not providing as many jobs as it should, largely because of lack of information on the part of both employers and the veteran. 4. Many federal, state and local government construction projects will not get under way until spring or later. No estimate of the number of unemployed veterans can be made until ..February because figures from local USES offices through out .the state are not yet in. Be sides, many veterans either have not yet filed job applications with the'NSES, or have found employ ment on their own, or plan to do so. fOUNDID 1651 Salem. Oregon. Thursday Morning, January 17. I94S stretch across the entrance (background) to Swift Co. packing the nation's meat Industry starts. Driver's Wartime Habit Boomerangs WASHINGTON Jan. 1-P) A habit Inspired: by wartime gasoline rationing boomer anged today on en Washing ton motorist. For three years, Charles Tappy, a radio talesman, has been parking his car atop a highway hill near his home. When , he goes someplace, be releases the brake and coasts away.! Bat this morning when he got to the bottom of the one mile glide, be remembered he'd left the switch key at home. Senator Urges 4F, Single Men For Overseas WASHINGTON, Jan. 16-P)-Senator Johnson (D-Colo) pro posed today that single men up to 45 and "lots" of 4-Fs be drafted to provide army replacements overseas. The war depa rtment an nounced, meanwhile, that General Dwight D. Eisenhower will ad dress the nation by radio on the demobilization problem. The chief of staff will make a 15-minute broadcast at 6 p.m. (Pacific Stan dard Time) Friday over CBS and possibly other networks. If the draft is greatly expanded until May 15 and voluntary en listments are increased, Johnson said, "then there will be no need to continue selective service be yond May 15, when it will ex pire." Committee Given Hawaii State Bid HONOLULU, Jan. 16-0P)-Ha waii's, bid to become the 49th state in the union was in the hands of the house territories sub committee today. The great bulk of testimony by more than 70 witnesses strongly favored giving the rights and privileges of statehood to the is lands, which occupy a strategic military and commercial position in the Pacific. The unemployment compensa tion commission reported that of returned servicemen, about 14, 000 have tiled claims for their GI readjustment allowance benefits, and are filing at an increasing rate. In the other aspect of current unemployment reported yesterday, the state unemployment office forecast .that payments in the first quarter of 1946 will set new record highs. During December, it was re ported, 72,054 checks went out to workers and others unable to find suitable employment while, in ad dition, 18,671 payments were made as readjustment allowances to re turning veterans. In alL $1,590,700 was paid, to the unemployed last month. Although $264,048 in fourth quarter payments was only about two-thirds of the $3,560,184 in con tributions during the same period, December's outgo was slightly more than the average monthly in come In the final quarter. ff ft"D Co. Plant (AP Wlrephote to The Statesman) lLS.Meat Crisis To Lose Punch In Salem Area Salem meat wholesalers and re tailer today braced themselves against the impact of the nation wide packinghouse workers strike, but expressed confidence that Sa lem wtu not go meatless. Since welT ever half the meat retailed locally- comes from inde pendent ? packers of Salem j and vicinity, the pinch will not bei felt here as strongly as in cities more dependent upon the four giant packing companies. ! Local independent packers are not directly affected by the strike, but they are already operating at capacity and hence are unable to increase their normal meat output to Salem markets. A survey of local meat market operators indicated that meat ship ments by the big packers con tinued through yesterday and are expected again today. One opera tor said he received an extra large shipment from Armour's yes terday, apparently because stocks on hand there were being cleared rapidly as the workers went out on strike. Nearly all dealers will have nor mal stocks on their shelves today and on through this weekend What the shelves will look like next week, however, is still a mat ter of conjecture among the deal ers. Loan Defended By Churchill MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 16 (AVWinston Churchill, here on a victory vacation Jtmt his mind full of world affairs, today defended the proposed $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain by declaring it was vi tal "to give us time to get 6n our feet again." "We have suffered financially more than any other country," said the war leader who is now leader of his majesty's loyal op position. "I think his majesty's govern ment would never desire to raise the social and economic standards of the British people at the ex pense of other people, but unless we are given -a chance to regain our stride we may not again be able to take our place as a pro ducing nation." 1859 LEFT IN STREET TACOMA, Jan. 16(P)-The sum of $850 in currency, wrapped in a torn piece of newspaper, lay unnoticed on a busy street here yesterday 15 hours until a holdup suspect, questioned by police, led them to where he said he dropped it on his arrest. Weather lfax. Min. M IS as ' as 4S Sfl -S3 M Sain Burn Portland Trace M M Seattle San Francisco 17 M Willamette river O ft FORECAST (from VS. weathrr bu reau. MeNanr field. Salem : Parti? cloudy with a occasional arm kle; warmer temperature with I highest about 17 degrees. ,-.". :.: 1 - ' I- t j 1 -'.-.. i 1 No. 2S4 pgirv T ru man Prepares Proposal Deadline Set For Ending Dispute At 2 p.m. Today WASHINGTON, Jan. J. i 7 -l 'resident Truman to nijrht told CIO President Philip Murray and president of the 1'. S. Steel corporation, Benjamin F. Fairies, to Wet tit their wage dispute by to morrow afternoon or he will make a proposal himself "in the public interest. Fres Secretary Charles;, C.,. Rov told newsmen, after . t: e principals receskcd their cmMr sfiUtmn until 2 p.m. tomoriew . thl the rrririent axked tt an igiMnxnt when they return in or within a "reasonable ture thereafter" during the afternoon. Rom said, in response to ques tion, thit seizure of the yiul stel industry "haj not enteral ir.to the discussions' up to no.v. Murray and Fairless, called in the White House by Mr. Tinman in an effort to avoid a strike rf 800,000 CIO steel workers set for Monday, hd no comment on, If -day's sessions when they left: tf e white Houie. Mr. Truman urged them. Bo said, to "sleep over ft and prxy over it and do their utmost to ftt together and come back again at 7, o'clock tomorrow afternoon." Police Check Woman's Story In Degnan Case CHICAGO, Jan. 18 -(JF). Chit of Detectives Walter Storms said tonight police working on i th Degn&n kidnap-slaytng case wer investigating the ,8tory of a -wem-an, held at Sheboygan, Wis., re garding conversations she tfcid she had with a Chicago man. The search for the slayer c t tlx year old Suzanne was ex narwted to a police tour of north side taverns with the woman, In an attempt to locate and identify the Chicago man whom she de scribed. Police said no charges had been filed or contemplated against either the man or woman in the Degnan case, w ' Police were Checking all possi ble angles to the case in their tn far unsuccessful investigation t the Jan. 7 slaying of the Deg nan child, whose body was d i membered. $200,000 Fire Hits Refineries FINDLAY, O., Jan. 16 -.V A spectacular fire, which raged out of control at the Midwest Refin eries here for approximately sev en hours today, cost the lives .f three men and destroyed 11 pe troleum products tanks wih a loss estimated by plant Superin tendent C. A. Peterson at $200, 000. The flames, which roared high as a thoir- fVet in; the air, threatened for a time to reach storage tanks containing hit'i octane gasoline. Further destruction was sparel by the fortunate easterly direction of the wind, Vice President L. A, Woodward said. Argentine Gamblers 1 Walkout in Protest ; MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Jan. 18.-(yrv Vacationers in th'S resort made a demonstration ; pro test against Argentina's present military gowsmment Tost night by refusing to play roulette at tables operated by the government; In a prearranged demonstration. all players halted their betting at S30 p. m. and started to leave the casino. They reentered the place when police fired tear gas into the retiring crowd, but did not. resume play. When the gas cleared they left Price 5c