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Lnir SGEGDDQB If the situation was difficult at higher administrative levels in the state system of higher edu cation . before, it would seem that the Late action of the tate board in accepting Secretary Byrne's resignation from two of his three positions and giving him a four months' leave of absence would make the situation impossible. For the jobs from which '. Mr. Byrne retires administrative assistant to .the chancellor and director of information are high ly important; and there is no one left who can handle them. This comes at a time when the prob lems of reconversion at the higher .institutions are most critical, and Mr. Byrne has been the one car rying' the chief .burden at 'the central office. HL? assignment merely to -secretarial . duties leaves a vacuum which may pro voke a crisis. The heads of the several institutions, like the uni versity and state college, may simply refuse to operate "in a vacuuiri." The difficulty seems to have l.een one of relations between Chancellor Hunter and Secretary Byrne. For years the board has ihown more confidence in Byrne for administrative work than fn the chancellor. When Byrne found his position too much of a personal strain, members of. the board suggested to the chancellor 'that he retire, since he is two years past the retirement age. Dr. Hunter demurred. This put the board on the spot; but instead of (Continued on editorial page) Seizure Order Issued, AFL To Back Move By the Associated Press President Truman yesterday formally ordered government seizure and". operation of the na tion's strike-ridden meat packing Industry, and a few hours later the AFL meat cutters union or dered their striking members to return to work Saturday when the plants are seized. . The CIO packJpghouce workers, representing 183,000 of the 263,- 000 meat workers en strike, said their decision would be made to day on "whether" to resume work. i The AFL union's back to work order, effective "as quickly as posiible" was announced in Chi cago by union leaders who said the union "cannot and must not distrust" President Truman, the order called for a "temporary truce." Under the president's order, Secretary of Agriculture Ander son will take over and operate 134 struck plants of 19 compan ies at 12:01 a. m. Saturday. The AFL union said its order affects 55,000 striking workers in 430 AFL locals. Earlier it had es timated 70,000 were on strike.- It said all AFL pickets will be with drawn by noon : today. Union spokesmen estimated normal AFL work would be resumed by Mon day. Navy Mid-Way In Release Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-P-The navy passed the halfway mark in its demobilization today with discharge of its 1,500,000th naval reservist He was Eugene Lowell Smith, free controlman second class, .of Watson ville, Calif. He entered the navy Dec. 14, 1942, at the age of 17 and won II Pacific battle stars. He was discharged at the Shoemaker, Calif., separation cen ter. Congratulations and wish for "good sailing" were broadcast to Emith over the Associated Broad casting system by Vice-Admiral Louis E. Deneld, chief of naval personnel. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Tm crazy - about you - Baby can - see you .. at - twelve ?" B MMl &f g Vir Svt.c.i. l-)S Renowned Warships Destined To Feel Power : of Atom Bombs ' V ! : -.1 - fJ VAKHAIIN , (PtklAMUSHIRQ csfaruiO 'KUaitl : IX IN CAROtINt li. guaV A SOLOMON . t I AUSTRALIA ft 7 ftONM . i i . i I ' - - , MARIANAS M " . ' Jan. 24 (Above) These four V. S. battleships win feel the destructive for.ee of an atom bomb next spring In the test at Bikini Atoll In th Marshall Islands. Top te bottom are the Arkansas, eldest batUe wagon In the Navy; the Pennsylvania and the Nevada, two Pearl Harbor victims that ram back to fight ontUhe rest or the war, and the New York, veteran of action from North Africa to Okinawa. (Below) Pointers locate Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, where the tests will be conducted. Inset locates Bikini in relation to other important islands fn the Marshall group. (AP Wlrepbotos to The Statesman) - v; 1 Navy's Guinea Pig Fleet Already I On Way to Scene of Atom Tests By ELTON C. FAY j ; ) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-(P)-Ships of the United States I navy's guinea pig fleet already are westbound in the Pacific i for a test to determine what the atomic bomb has done to sea power. ' . ' This became known today as Vice Admiral W. P, Blandy an nounced detailed plans for a three-phase test of the world's ; most destructive weapon against this nstion'3 traditional "first line of defense." The target fleet of 97 vessels not all of them yet en route will include some famous veterans of American naval action as well as a sampling of the navies of Ger many and Japan. Witt) supporting ships for observation, supply and transportation, these vessels will constitute "joint task force one," an operation in which the army, the army air forces and the Man hattan project (the military cus todians of the atomic bomb) will burticipate: - It will, Blandy told the senate's atomic energy investigating com mittee, be designated by the code wort)! "crossroads.' That word. B!anpy commented, was selected for two reasons: for reasons of brevity in communications and with an eye "to its possible sig nifies nee." v Chiirman McMahon (D-Conn) of th senate comxftlttee, told news men if ter the pdmiral's testimony :hiit Hhe enti"e security council" t the United Nations orgaoiza lion oufcht to witness the test. (Additional details on pae( 2) -r 1 1 , i r MlMtMl 14 . HArboi KJMHSTOW ' . . ii. 5 V PALMYRA , ? 1 Riot Toll Hits 'Jf ' -. . -u ' 14 in Bombay BOMBAY,! Jan. 24.HP-Poiice battled sporadically tonight with bands of demonstrators who had thrown up flaming barricades earl ier in riots in Bombay, and the toll in two days of bloody fighting mounted to 14 killed and at least 500 injured. Police fired again today on the demonstrators, and the provincial information office in a statement tonight declared the situation re mained "very5 dangerous." ! ' Qualified observers predicted the riots would reach a peak by Saturday when the Indians ,. will fcljebrate the j 1 6th anniversary of the Indian national congress dec laration of independence. i i BAN NIPS BORROWING TCKYO, JanJ 24 -()- General MacArthur's headquarters barred the Japanese government today frorri further! borrowing and Or dered immediate sters to pay off a $1 00,000.000 (B) deficit in twin moves agaiiuii inflation. " f '5 !' Army Scientists Vtiake Eadar WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 l() The war department announced tonlfht that army signal corps scientists bad made radar con tact with the moon In an ex periment which promises val nable peacetime as well as war time applications." The tests were carried ont at ther Evans sicnal laboratory Belmar, N. J. The first contact with the moon was made Jan, Iff and has been saccemfoUy repeated several times. Using specially designed equipment, pulses of very high frequency energy were shot Into space at the speed ef light r- 1M.00 miles per second and , the echoes - detected some tVi seconds later. - The sneea ; is NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 14 PAGES Rbssiansi To Join In Nip Trials Soviet Breaks f Weeks of Silence Willi Decision 1 TOKYO, Jan. 25-(P)-After weeks of silence, Russia has de cided to participate in the inter national tribunal which will try top ranking Japanese war crimi nals, Joseph P. Keenan, General MacArthur's chief prosecutor, announced today. Keenan said all nine signator ies to the surrender of Japan now have decided to participate. ! A few minutes after Russia broke Its silence, Keenan added other names to make the list read: United States, Great Bri tain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, France, Russia and The Netherlands. j General as Judge ' Russia win send a major gen eral as judge and a director of judicial, science as assistant pro sedutor.The cable from Moscow informing of the decision was garbled! and the transmitted names could not be read. The Netherlands notified .that Judge Roling of the court of Utrecht had been named as an assistant prosecutor and would later nominate Its judge, France will name an assistant prosecutor. Plans Proceeding; Previously, In announcing plans lor the trials of such top ranking war criminal suspects as ex-premier Hideki Tojo and his Pearl Harbor : cabinet, Kennan had mentioned Russia's silence. Plans for starting the- trials, probably early In March; were proceeding without Russia's delegation when the decision from Moscow was received. j Polk County Welfare Fund Running Short DALLAS, Jan. 24-(Special)-Polk county, in..- common with several other Oregon counties, finds that it will not have suffi cient v funds with which to meet its portion of public assistance costs for the remaining quarter of the 1946 fiscal year. According to Walter Williams, chairman of the Polk county pub lic welfare commission, the bal ance of funds will take care of February and March payments and - possibly two -programs for April. At least $1,000 in addi tional funds must be provided by the Polk county court if the pres ent grants for old age assistance, aid to dependent children, blind assistance, and general assistance are tq be continued. The county must certify to the social security board through the state public welfare commission that it has funds available to meet its portion of the estimated costs. The source of the required $16,000 not Included when the budget was approved is not indi cated at this time. River Above Flood Stage; at Jefferson High water caused by heavy rains in the Willamette and other valleys of western Oregon is ex pected to recede slowly today, ac cording to the Portland forecast received by Salem's U.S. weather bureau office last night The Willamette river at Har risburg is expected to reach a crest of 15.5, three and a half feet over flood stage, and te Santiam at Jefferson to top its flood stage of 13 by three feet this morning, before starting to fall. No damage other than soil ero sion is predicted. about 221457 miles 'distant, en the average. "The signal corps experiment1 have valuable peacetime as well a! wartime applications, al though It Is impossible at this stage to predict with certainty what these will be," the war de partment said. One of the possibilities is the radio control of long-range Jet or rocket-propelled missiles, circling the earth above the stratosphere. The German V-2 missiles were believed to have reached an altitude of St miles. MaJ. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, chief signal officer, said the pri mary significance of the achievement is that for the first scientists know with cer Veteran, Family Live in Jail ('innnri 'Vs? y s.. : MADISON, N. J Jan. 24 Charles Stanek, 27-year-old ex-serviceman, ,1U wife, Anna, 29, and their two children, Charles, Jr. (on soother's lap), pne-year-old and Anne, S, accepted a cell In the Jail . here' yesterday ""after havtng. spent a week? ttv the Fcamsylvania railroad station waiting room In Newark, N. J, Their plight was solved today with the donation? of an apartment by a Asbnry Park woman. Stanek tuw been anemployed since before Christmas. (AP WIrephoto to The Statesman) Stanek Family Plight Solved ASBURY PARK, N. J., Jan. 24. -VP)-The Stanek family who lived for a week in Newark's Pennsyl vania railroad station, sat down to a steak dinner tonight in a house at 012 Munroe ave., which will be their home rent free, un til they find a place of their own. The dinner was provided by Mrs. Martin Stein, whose hus band turned over a heated and furnished three-room apartment at the rear ef their home to Charles Stanek, 27-year-eld war veteran, his wife, Anne, 29, and their two blond babies. The Staneks spent last night in Madison police headquarters, their first shelter since their week in the railroad station where they had gone after being evicted from a Madison apartment. Stanek was bewildered by of fers of aid from many sources. A New York man sent him $100. Two servicemen's organizations offered ; children's clothing and the municipal relief organisation in Madison donated clothing. 3 Fires Plague Silverton Home STX.VERTON, Jan, 24-(Special) Third time was anything but the charm so far as fire is concerned, Mr. and Mrs. Claire Skaife said early Thursday morning. The third' fire-in their home in one night occurring shortly after Z anx, burned a large hole in the roof , and side of the wall. The first fire occurred shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday night and proved only a bad chimney fire. This was followed an hour later with another chimney fire of 'more serious degree, but with no real damage done. The Skaife home is less than two blocks from the fire hall and each time the department was there almost before the whistle had stopped .blowing. Promptness Thursday morning was the only thing that saved the home from destruction, Skaifes said. Weather Max. M Min. Rain M 34 41 n 40 .40 40 JM 44 ' M Salem ., . , Eugene i Portland . Seattle i S4 S4 50 San Francisco 57 WiUnmetu- river 10 3 ft. , rOHECAST (from VS. westher bu reau, IMcNary field. Salem): Partly clouds' toda. no appreciable change 1m temperature. Highest near SO exrecs. Licbt i variable wind. tainty that a very high fre quency radio wave srnt out 'from the earth can penetrate the electrically charged iono sphere and stratosphere. The several layers of the ionosphere start about 3t miles above the earth's surface and extend to approximately 250 mile. As other possible uses of the new technique the war depart ment listed: 1. Studying the effects of the Ionosphere upon radio wave. By checking radar data against astronomers' visual data It will be possible to compute accurately the effects of distortion of radio waves by the Ionized layers. Z. It may be possible to con struct detailed topographical OUNDBD 1651 Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. January 25, Short Declares Alert Ready on Minutes' Notice WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. -UP)-Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short de clared today that the army in Hawaii could have gone into a more stringent alert in "a matter of minutes" if the navy or the war department had given any ad vance hint of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Washington had nine days to tell him that the alert he ordered as Hawaiian commander - - only against sabotage - - was not the correct one. Short told the senate house committee investigating the attack. "They didn't he added tersely. "If we had got the information from the navy or the war depart ment it would have been simply a matter of minutes of going into the correct alert immediately." When the attack did come, Short recalled, the army switched from the sabotage alert in seven minutes flat Survey Reyeals Believe German By Richard A. CRegan WIESBADEN, Germany, Jan. 24 -UP)- A U. S. army poll, taken last fall of 1700 men said to rep resent a cross section of Ameri can troops stationed in Germany, shows that 19 per cent of those questioned believed the Germans had some Justification for start ing the war. Fifty-one per cent said they believed Hitler did the reich a lot of good before 1939. The poll was not officially released for publication but was made avail able by an authoritative source. The survey had. been kept an official secret for weks. Authori ties declared ' It revealed an amazing lade of knowledge of the causes of the- war and that It ap peared to indicate that the U. S. soldier in some cases had fallen for the - propaganda of Germans echoing Joseph Goebbels. -. It showed large percentages of the soldiers ready to accept Ger man explanations and willing to absolve the mass of Germans from responsibility for concentra tion camp atrocities. However, 80 per cent favored Contact With Mobm maps of distant planets with the aid of radar data and to deter mine the composition and atmos pheric characteristics of other ce lestial bodies. 3. A Mles likely" application of the new technique Is the radio control from the earth of "space ships" venturing thousands of miles and reporting atronomlral data, electronically computed aboard such veKU. The experiments were direct ed by LI. Col. John II. Uewitt. Jr former director of the Evans Signal laboratory. W. E. Osborne, former Austra lian army major, told newsmen In Los Angeles tonight that Aus tralian scientists made radar con tact with the moon four years ago. 1948 Westi Coast Dock StiroEse Looduds As Parleys CoDSapse SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24. -4A1) A Pacific coast longshore strike on or before April 1 was recommended today by ttie CIO international longshoremen's and wart housemen's, negotiating committee after charging that waterfront employers bad broken off negotiations for the 1946 contract in an effort to nullify the wage hour law. Ballots on a strike authorization will go to longshore mem bers in California, Oregon and Washington next week, the com mittee announced. Strike action was unanimously recommended after an all day conference. Harry Bridges, ILWU president today disclosed that he had ap pealed to President Truman to intervene In the west coast water front labor difficulties to avoid an otherwise "inevitable" shipping tieup. ' Frank P. Foisie, manager of the waterfront employers of the Pa cific, asserted that contract ne gotiations had been merely, sus pended because of union contract violations resulting in ship tieups in Port Gamble, Wash., and Port, land. Bridges contended that the rea son for the breaking off of the negotiations was a "flimsy pre text" because "the employers won't give us an answer to our proposals, and in six months of negotiations have failed to make a single proposal of their own." "It all resolves down to the fact that the waterfront employ ers want to operate outside the wage hour law," Bridges told the Associated Press. "The negotiating com m 1 1 1 e e which has told us it had no power to negotiate, and that the industry was broke, likewise told us that if we would commit ourselves not to enforce the wage hour law un der our contract they would ne gotiate. We might even get a raise." The ILWU telegram to President Truman charged that the employ ers had "refused" to pay $3,000, 000 in retroactive wage increases dating , back to October, 1944, as ordered by the war labor board. Agency Sale No Affect On Politics, Snell Says Sale of his automobile agency interests at Arlington will have nothing to do with his political plans, Gov. Earl Snell declared here Thursday night. The gover nor said he was not prepared to announce whether or not he would be a candidate for re-election this year. Some GIs Propaganda occupation of Germany for 10 years by United Nations trooos, and most said they believed the U. S. military government was not tough enough with nazis (71 per cent) or ordinary Germans (62 per cent). Twenty-two per cent of the men questioned said they believ ed the Germans under Hitler had "good reasons" for the persecu tion of Jews. Another 10 per cent of the soldiers said they were un decided on the issue of German aati-eemitisra. The -influence which the Ger man excuses for the war had on the GIs was sharply reflected throughout the poll. Nineteen per cent of . the men said they be lieved Germany had either-some orj a good deal of Justification for starting the world conflict and another 11 per cent said they aaed with some of the German explanations why Germany went to war.: Twenty-nine per cent conceded they had grown, "more favorable" toward their former enemies since they had been in the country. "Working with Dr. I. H. Md dington, a scientist In the radio phMm laboratory at the I'nrrer siity of Sidney, we contacted the moon reveral Umi In October or November. 1911," said Osborne, who is doing, secret research work for the American govern ment here. - "I'sing experimental high pourrrd radar equipment, we di rected It at the moM and aim t Immediately Identified pulses which were rhfrked and rt rhecked. The time interval was 2.4 seconds. Osborne has experimented with electronics and radar for many years and predicts rocket trips to the moon within the next It years. Price 5c No. 2S1 Vets Housing Co-op to Build 30 Unit Court Construction of, 30 housing units in a 132 by 320-foot apart ment court at 2500 N. Church St will be undertake t next month by the new veterans' housing cooperative, it is predicted by Vance MacDowell, a leader in the project. The announcement followed disclosure that the new group has purchased the North Church street lot from Edf Gorman and has contracted to buy 23 acres from James Smart In the Orchard Heights section of north Polk county. The latter 1 property will be site of 32 one-family houses. . The support of local union la bor, regardless of the fact many cooperative members will be tak ing a hand in the building work themselves, was promised by Al Brant, representing the local Building Trades council, at a meeting of the cooperative last night ( On Sunday, several members of the cooperative, some with their families, will inspect the Orchard Heights property. They will leave together at 3 p.m. from the Far mers Union headquarters, 343 N. Commercial st Applications for the apartment court units are still being! taken by MacDowell at the Farmers Un ion. Detailed information; also may be obtained from Don Good at the state veterans' affairs of fice and from Carl Greider Sat the U.S. employment service office. Kaiser Offers Steel Solution NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-D-Hei ry J. Kaiser, west coast steel pro ducer and industrialist, suggested' in a formal statement tonight that a solution of the steel strike could be reached by granting workers an increase of approximately 18l4 cents an hour plus an incentive bonus for high production. T Kaiser has accepted the 18Va cent increase proposed by Presi dent Truman as a compromise be. tween U. S. Steel and the CIO for his Fontana, Calif., plant U. S. Steel has offered a basic wage increase of 13 cents an hour. The statement underscored the word "japproximate" in speaking of the 18 cent increase, but add ed the words "provided a bonus clause based upon high produc tivity is included." Freshman Glee Pinn. Underway A variety of alumni activities will be added attractions to draw' former Willamette university stu-f dent back to the campus on the day of Freshman Glee, Saturday, February 9," Sybil- Spears Mc Leod. alumni secretary, announc ed Thursday. A meeting of the alumni asso ciation is scheduled for 4 pjn. that day in Collins hall. A get- together for alumni in Chresto; cottage and a dance in the gym', are scheduled to follow Fresh- man Glee proper, the annual i inter-class song rivalry. y.