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6Deddly To Pit Old WarsMpS Against Atom .Bbmdbs WDCDCO Through the surrender of the new mayor of New York a strike was averted this week on the city's transit system. This system is the major of means of trans port for the people who live and work in New York City. Suspen sion of its operations would be one of the worst things that could happen to the normal functioning of the city. Prevention of the strike was imperative; but the price seems to have been prohib itive. . The issue was not one of wages and working conditions for work ers 'on the transit system. It was on the question of a proposed sale of certain c i t y-o w n e d power plants. The transport workers' union (CIO) opposed the sale and its head, Michael J. Quill, threat ened to call a strike of transit workers unless the question of the sale was submitted byj refer endum to the voters of the city. ' What we; have here is ian as sumption of political power outside- of constitutional processes. New York City has a charter which establishes the machinery of government for the city. The orderly process is for citizens to make their appeals or protests t the proper authorities. For a la bor union to paralyze the trans portation of the whole city or to threaten so to do to influence the decision of the governing author ities in an invasion of authority that threatens the foundation of our democracy. If the union gets away with this demand it ran cime back next week or next year and apply similar threats to force through other demands on the city council. Whether the pro posed sal is good or bad for the city we do not know; but surely th agencies of opinion are ade quate to inform the whole public and to sway the council against a deal, that would injure the city's Interest. The method used effect ively transfers power i from the city hall to Michael Quill's office. Mayor O'Dwyer's capitulation is a humiliating surrender. In its im plication for the country as a whole it is gravely alarming. Dennis Given Week Reprieve By Gov. Shell , A reprieve staying for one week the execution of Andrew Dennis, once scheduled for this Friday, was Issued Wednesday by Gov. Earl Snell, who declared "There are some phases of this case on which I desire additional infor mation." i Dennis, 45-year-old Portland resident, was convicted of first degree murder in the Multnomah county circuit court in connection with the slaying of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Anna Beljle McNal ley, in a Portland apartment house, in January, 1944. The tate supreme court later deferred the execution on the ground that a defcth warrant had j hot been i.ued by Judge Martini Hawkins, who presided at the trial. Dennis subsequently was resentenced to death. The action of the supreme court gave Dennis' attorneys ad ditional time in which to file application for a commutation of the death sentence. Governor Snell said a number of persons had called at the exe cutive department in Dennis be half. Invitations for the execution already had been printed at the penitentiary but not mailed. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH M. . . simply add water and serve" Experiment' L j Pennsylvania, Saratoga Are Among Ships Slated for Test CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-iAy-The Chicago! Sun said tonight a tfft of atomic bombs versus seapower wil start May 1 in the Pacific and that it is "expected to vaporize;; or sink the strongest ships ever constructed by the United States; Japan or Germany." The Sun in a Washington dispatch said the test calls for "an American naval mobilization nearly as great as that for 37-Ho Project Readied Work Will Start TIi is Week; Cost $4000 to $7500 Construction of 37 new homes, to cost from $4000 to $7500 each, will begin this week on a 10 acre tract in the Liberty district three miles south of downtown Salem, it was disclosed Wednes day. The work will be carried on by the Margo company, a business name recently taken on by Ron ald Hudkins, Salem real estate man, who said considerable of the necessary materials were on hand and that priorities and the re mainder of the materials were "assured." Average Price $6000 - Selling at an average price of $6000, the 37 homes ranging, from one to three bedrooms, and with World War II veterans giv en preference to the limit of FHA regulations will represent $220,000 venture, exclusive of the land purchased recently from Mrs. Ruth P. Chapman at the in tersection of Liberty and Belcrest roads. Hudkins also said he hoped to build "two or . three hundred" houses in and neaffSelem within the near future. The $7 homes will be built from 18 separate , plans drawn up by R. W. Frost, Industrial design er, who will supervise construc tion. No two homes will be iden tical In all ways. The "average" house is' described - as 28' by 34 feet with two bedrooms, bath with twin wash basins, living room, kitchen, dinette, forced air. oil heat, utility room, optional fire place, Insulation, optional plas tered or "dry" walls, and with range and refrigerator. Material to Be Pre-Cnt The houses will be on concrete slab con struetion containing membrane for damp-proofing. Partition walls are described as "functional," with chests, wardrobe-storage space or other fa cilities built in to save separate wall space. Car-port garages are contemplated but fully-enclosed garages are optional. All houses are arranged to permit addition of bedrooms. : Materials will be pre-cut at a plant already established by the Margo company on Cherry ave nue just south of the alumina plant, and construction will be on a production line pre-cut ba sis, "not prefabricated." to com ply with "the most rigid building code," Hudkins said. Tract roads are to be constructed. Average size of lots will be 65 by 100 feet. Financing will be through GI loans, FHA or private money, Hudkins said. Oilier Houses Planned Headquarters of the Margo company for the time being will be at the R. W. Frost offices, 411 Oregon building and at the Charles Hudkins and Son real es tate firm, 275 State St., which will handle all sales. Hudkins also disclosed Wednes day that the Margo company in tended to develop homes on a 500 acre tract just northwest of Port land. Hudkins said he was under taking the venture after "many, many times hearing veterans plead, almost with tears, for liv ing space." WILLAMETTE TO FALL PORTLAND, Jan. 23 -(vP)- De spite light rains today and early tomorrow, the Willamette river should start falling at all sta tions above Oregon City by Fri day night, the weather bureau said today. The Santiam was re ported falling at Jefferson. Weather Max. M M M Min. IS 41 37 36 42 Rain .It 30 M 1.17 M Salrm Eugene , Portland - , Seattle San Francisco ' 49 5 Willamette river 8.2 ft. FORFCAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem): Cloudy with Intermittent light rains accom panied by light to moderate wind, (lightly warmer; highest temperature today 55 degree. the invasion of Okinawa a in a deadly experiment" expected to destroy the strongest ships afloat. Some details of the test will be disclosed tomorrow, the Sun said, by Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, deputy chief of naval operations, in charge of specific weapons. Meanwhile from Washington As sociated Press reported a house naval committeeman said tonight four veteran U. S. battleships were to be used for atom bomb experiments--the Arkansas, Nevada, New York Kind Pennsylvania. Oth er ships to be used include the carrier Saratoga, he added.'" Vice Adrhiral W. H. P. Blandy, deputy chief of naval operations for special weapons, is expected to be top commander in the ex periments, j Details Will Be Secret Full details, the Sun predicted, "will be kept secret for some time f especially since the out come of the attack will determine in some respects the future of the capital ship as the backbone of the modern; navy." The stor continued: ; ;"It may fbe revealed, however, that the 'guinea pigs' in the ex periment are to be vessels from the navies of the United States, Japan: and; Germany. i 'Principal j targets for the ato mic bombs bre to be: Will Use Frin Eaten ;TheGerman heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen7which was put out of commission but not sunk by bombs dropped by allied aviators. The Prinz SEugen arrived in Bos ton todayf with an Amerlcan 0iman crew aboard. "The principal surviving Jap- anese bettleship, the Nagato, which was5 found in Tokyo bay to. be defenseless, but still : intact despite the de-elevation of its gum and the fact that it was sit ting clows Tth' bottom. ? -Pennsylvania Wat flagship i "The former flagship of the VS. Pacific fleet, the Pennsylvania, which was forced to go out of action) for months as a result of the sneak attack on Pearl Har bor, but which was repaired and came back: to become one of the most active units oi the fleet. The U45.S. Nevada, also one of the battlewagons caught at Pearl Harbor, and which also returned to the fleet battle line to lob its shells into enemy con centrations," Richards Named Trustee Professional Engineers PORTLAND, Jan. 23.-P)-Ben E. Torpen of the army engineers here was named president of the professional engineers of Oregon last night at the 17th annual meet ing. J I: Carl P. Richards, Salem, was named trustee at large. 1 Radio Hool i Suggested to Aid Efficiency WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 HTV Congress got a suggestion today that it hold some night sessions and allow them to be broadcast This was one of a number of proposals made by a senate-house committee Studying ways to mod ernize i congress and improve its efficiency. Another f was that three full days a week be devoted to com mittee session and three full days to chamber sessions. As It is now, committees usually meet in the mornings and the senate and house convene att noon, generally five days a week. The committee definitely urged that congressmen be placed under the federal system and given a $5000 pay raise to $15,000 a year, it also proposed that each mem ber be allowed an $8000 a year assistant to handle non-legislative matters. ! t Extensive! reforms were pro posed in committee procedure. The study group recommended: 1, That the number of commit tees be reduced from 33 to 16 in the senate and from 48 to 18 in the house. j ' 2. That the house rules com mittee be required to clear all bills within: 20 days. President Truman has accused this group of blocking some of -his program. - 3, That committee chairmen be required to bring to the floor all bills which their committees ap prove. I ; 4. That every committee con sidering legislation be required to ! I i i NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 12 FaoirO Call Rail Strike Off InChicago Freight Service Continues During Board Sessions CHICAGO, Jan. 23-JP)-A strike against two shuttle railroads in the Chicago area has been called off,?T. L. Green, general manager of the roads, announced 25 minutes before ' the deadline set for the walkout, set for 8:30 p. m. (PST) tonight. The strike had been called against the Indiana Harbor Belt and the Chicago junction railroads which perform vital freight service-in the Chicago area. Several hours before strike time Green announced the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen had agreed not to strike on the Indiana Har bor, line. Later he said the sche duled walkout had been averted also on the Chicago Junction road, which serves the Chicago stock yards. A strike on the lines would have disrupted east and west through freight service. Earlier in the day, President Truman, acting under the railway mediatlonTawJiad created an emergency boarato--4nvestigate the dispute over alleged contract violations by management Or cgpii Motor Sjages Retract k Rate Protest A truce, which officials of the involved companies indicated would probably be extended into another long-time period of peace between Pacific Greyhound lines and Qregon Motor stages, came out of ; Wednesday's public util ities meeting. Oregon Motor stages represent atives appeared at the hearing to withdraw their company's protest to the new low rates previously filed by Pacific Grehound, ac cepted by the PUC and in effect since Jan. 1, 1946. Probability that a new, com promise rate on commutation tickets for the Portland area would come out of negotiations said to be underway between the two companies was foreseen here Wed nesday ; night by Public Utilities Commissioner George Flagg. The short-haul tickets appar ently were the bone of conten tion, Flagg said. an) in Lonsress hold a public hearing on it at least once a month to keep it moving. The study further recommend ed that , the courts be given au thority ; to settle claims against the government on which con gress now must act, and that all lobbying groups and their agents be required to register and sub mit quarterly reports of expen ditures. ; Butter Supply Dwindling in Salem Area By Marguerite Gleeson Statesman Valley News Editor One third less butter is avail able in Salem now than this time last year and the prospects are that less will be available in the immediate future. This Is indicated in a survey made Wednesday of creamery manufacturers supply Salem. Three creameries which were furnishing about 11,000 pounds of butter weekly last year are now able to furnish only slightly over 7000 pounds. This is In spite of the fact that ML Angel Cooperative creamery, one of the two largest manufac turers contributing to the Salem supply, has not cut the local al lotment of 4000 pounds a week. Frank Hettwer, manager, reports a drop of 25 per cent in butter manufactured as compared with last year, .but said shipments to PAGES Fire Captain Dies in Wreck OAKLAND, Calif, Jain. 23, Firemen and velnnteer try to extricate the body ef Capt Joseph Pimen tel. 55, killed when J this fire track skidded answering an early morning alarm, hit a tree and pinned the captain against It. Three other firemen were hurt. (AP Wirfphote) UNO Stymied In Appointing Major Of ficial LONDON, Jan. 23. -(JP) Mem bers of the United Nations secur ity council met informally tonight but again failed to agree on a can didate for the key post of UNO secretary-general. ..The stumbling block was said to be Russian insistence that since the headquarters of the new peace organization art to be In the United States, the secretary should be from I some nation In eastern Europe. Informed quarters said no furth er discussions would take place for several days. There was specu lation : that Soviet representatives would ask for further instructions from Moscow. But while this deadlock con tinued, the UNO speedily and un animously, set up its economic and social council, potentially one of the most important organs of the new peace agency. British officials, meanwhile, raised the question whether the security council should at this time investigate Soviet charges of British "interference in Java. They indicated, however that Brit ain "would welcome an immediate inquiry into similar charges re garding British forces in Greece. By acclamation, the 18 members of the economic and social council elected Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar of India as president GOP to Formulate Election Moves Pre-primary election plans will be discussed at a meeting: of the executive committee of the Ore gon republican clubs called here for Saturday, Feb. 2, Joseph Fel ton, president, announced Wed nesday. Particular stress will center on registration of voters, state organ ization activities, cooperation be tween republican campaign units, and establishment of clubs in counties not now organized. other parts of the state had been cut in preference to the Salem or Marion county trade. The Dairy Co-op, second large manufacturer, has been forced to cut its allotment from 700 pounds a day to less than 200 pounds. Andresen's creamery, which Is manufacturing 15 per cent less than this time last year, has made no recent reduction in its 2500 pounds furnished local distrib utors. Why is the butter scarce? This is the question which the con sumers want answered. If the dairyman can get twice as much for his butterfat in the form of whole milk he does not want to churn it! This is the sim plified answer which Joe Kend rick, manager of the Dairy Co-op in Salem, gives. The w ole milk market is in creasing rapidly, Kendrick said, rouNDso 1651 Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, January 24, 1946 y , Pawnshops Bulge With War Trophies PORTLAND. Jan. ZZ-(A)-Pawnshops here are bulging with Japanese and German war trophies, proprietors grumbled today. One declared he would take no swords, guns, hari-kari knives ... "no Japanese noth ing. I don't buy 'era, because I can't sell 'em." he complained. Managers said what many soldiers and sailors consider a flue weapon Is, to them, enly a "drug en the market' Atom Council Post Sought by Cabinet Men WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -VP) The secretaries of navy and the Interior urged senators today to deal the cabinet in on any com mission set up to control atomic energy. - . Testifying before the special senate atomic energy committee, both disapproved Chairman Brien McMahon's .(D-Conn) proposal for an independent, full-time, five-member civilian board. Secretary Ickes of the interior recommended a single adminis trator, appointed by the president and responsible to a committee of cabinet officers. As second choice, he favored a hinermember board "including five or six heads of departments and four or three in dependent members." Secretary Forrestal of the navy came out for an eight-member commission headed by the vice president of the United States and including as ex-officio mem bers the secretaries of state, war and navy. The other four would be appointed by the president for six-year terms, subject to senate confirmation. PRIORITY FORMS ARRIVE Approximately 100 forms on which application 'may be made for priorities under the new vet erans' housing program were re ceived Wednesday at Salem Cham ber of Commerce offices and may be secured there by would-be builders, Clay Cochran, chamber nianager, announced. and whipping cream with all re strictions off is increasing by leaps and bounds. Ice cream is taking a great share of the milk and cream, which during the war it was not permitted to take. Oth er manufacturers are boosting their prices for milk even to twice that paid local members of the co-op. Oregon in past years has been a butter exporting state but the situation has been so serious in recent weeks that efforts were made to get Idaho cream or milk shipped in, only to find that much of the neighboring state's butter fat is going into what Kendrick termed "plastic milk' or whipped cream products and other indus tries. What is the solution? E. L. Pe terson, Oregon state director of agriculture, gave as his opinion Wednesday at Rotary club, that - Price DmdmstiirtiiaiD misodfeir of Truck Socialist Gouin To Succeed Gen. De Gaulle PARIS. Jan. 23 - (A) -Felix Gouin, 81, socialist chief of the constituent assembly, tonight suc ceeded Gen. de Gaulle as presi dent of the provincial government of rrarjee. i' The Interim president will serve until the constituent assembly finishes its work in May. The assembly's vote was 447 votes for Gouin. There were 55 votes cast for other candidates. Michel Clemenceau, moderate deputy and son of the World War I premier, received 33 votes. Gouln's election was greeted with cheers from all sides except the section occupied by the pop ular republican movement (MRP), bne of France's three major par ties. , The MRP at. the last moment had requested an agreement that the socialists and communists join wKh the MRP in recognizing "the necessity of a tri-partite govern ment" The communists bluntly re pulsed MRP efforts to get a three party harmony pledge on record before the voting. The MRP retreated at the last and ballotted unanimously for Gouin, who also received solid communist and socialist support Story of Battleship Sinking Revealed BOSTON, Jan. 23 -(- The 42,100-ton British battleship Hood was ; sunk midway between Greenland and. Iceland in 1941 not by the German pocket battle ship Bismarck, as generally sup posed, but by the cruiser Prinz Eugen, the navy said today upon the Eugen's arrival here. "The Prinz Eugen placed a di rect shot on the Hood, blowing up her magazines and thus sink ing her in one ot the major losses of the British sea forces," a history of the 19,553-ton cruiser said. the ceiling price on butter must be raised to put it in direct and active competition with other dairy products, such as cheese and ice cream. Meanwhile strikes are interfer ing with supplies of margarine, some local grocers state. One fac tory in the San Francisco bay area has been strike-bound for several months, while little has been ! available recently from Swift or Armour, grocers stated Wednesday. Others believe it is a question of lack of oils. Grocers, who may have thought their troubles were over with the end of rationing, are trying to dis tribute available supplies of but ter and margarine equably among their customers. A delegation of grocers waited upon Joe Ken drick at the Dairy Co-op Wednes day afternoon in an effort to get some information on the butter situation. ; Ho. 260 Ms Plan Aims To Break Deadlock U.S. Seizure of; Packing Firms Due Saturday I By Ut AMOciatod PrrM A conference of executives ot strike-bound companies with Pmident Truman was proposed lart night by Benjamin F. Fair les as the steel and General Mo tor ftrikes remained in a dead lock and the White House marie plans to seize the nation' mctt packing plants Saturday. The preMdcnt of U. S. Sttel corporation called upon the pi evi dent to call the all-management conference of experienced exec u tievs to get their advice "on hat kind of a wage increase the econ omy of this country can endure without incurring the danger fcf an inflationary spiral." Fairles, in a prepared speeth for broadcast over ABC, declared the Ftrike problem should t solved "not on the basis of po litical considerations" but "in trt best interests of the American people as a whole." Might Pave Way He averted such a natiin-l conference might pave the wy for settlement of the steel walk out and "other strikes that new, plague the country." j Also added to the country's lalnr strife yesterday was threat ot a nationwide railroad tieup, posii bly within four weeks. 1 The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen announced preparations for a countrywide strike vote cf Its 215.000 members and the Brotherhood of Locomotive en gineers, with 78,000, indicated it might follow suit. ! Order Issaed The formal order for taking oyer and operating the meat packing industry was issued yesterday.1 Government seizure was ordered in the meat strike without surances that 193,000 striking CIO meat workers would agree to work for a federal boss. However, officials of the 70, 000 striking AFL meat workers union said in a statement that as "loyal Americans" they had pr dered their men to return to work Saturday. Officers of the 193,000 striking CIO meat workers de clined to comment, but in X?w York members of the CIO meat union voted to remain off the job unless ordered to return by their national committee. Soviet Rebuked For Criticism TOKYO, Jan. 23,-vfy-General MacArthur's headquarters spokes men rebuked the Russian Tass news agency today for lending It self to what he termed a definite program to discredit" the su preme commander and "force fur ther changes in the present occu pation policies and command." He referred specifically to a Tass dispatch from Heijo, Korea, which said: "The behavior of the American command in southern Korea as tonishes one. It has assumed a po a i t i o n of inspiring reactionary demonstrations against the deci sions of the Moscow conference of foreign ministers in which, as is known, the government of the United States participated." i Portland May Give Houses to Cities PORTLAND, Jan. 23-iP)-Tie mayor's advisory committee on housing proposed today that the national housing agency transfer 1000 vacant war housing units here for veterans in other Ore gon communities. Such action also would cletr the ground for industries anxious to build new plants here. Chair man Herbert Da hike said. The remaining 4000s vacant units would be rented with pref erence to veterans under manage ment of the Portland housing authority, he stated. SALEM MAN BUYS NEWPAPEI MOLALLA, Jan. 23-tfT- C. L Ireland, publisher of the MolalS Pioneer for 15 years, has sold tht weekly newspaper to Monroe Sweetland, Salem. 4