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' f -Jv. fit V, POUNbBD 1651 NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 20 PAGES Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, January 27. 1946 Price 5c No. 263 Q QZIUJ.C8 A ' t ' 1 ' 4 1 r s ' sv ' '.' -' J K i ' i -.- ' 11 i ' - V ; Kit"-- VOLUNTEERS FACE MOUNTAINS OF CLOTHING Left te richt, Frmnclf Chambers, Fsol Irwin, Hani on EUin and Kobert Bowes, pall clothes from the top of pile of elothes collected lit the UNR1A elethlnff 4riro to pock them for thlpaient te Enrepc. They ore port of the volunteer: workers who have been work In nlfbUy In the K. L, Elfitrem warehouse. (Fboto by Bill Scott, Statesman staff pbotorrapher) - i tf ana Next month there will be pub lished a new edition of a "best teller." In fact it is THE best Feller in literature which has held the record for centuries. It is the New Tefctament in a new. trans lation. It will be followed about four years hence with a new translation of the Old Testament. This revised translation of the Bible was authorized in 1930 by the International Council of Re ligious Education of which 40 Protestant d e n o m i n ations are members. The object of the translators has been to eliminate the archaic language and inaccur acies of the familiar King James version, and. Still retain its sim ple, clear Hterary style. The first official copy of the new transla tion will be presented to Capt Harold E. Stassen, president of the Council of Religjous Educa tion, by Dean Luther A. Weigle of Yale Divinity school on Febr uary 11 at the annual meeting of the council in Columbia, Ohio. The story of how we got our Bible is a fascinating one. None of the original manuscripts is in existence. The earliest extant date from around the fourth century. The study of these manuscripts and translating the books from the ancient Hebrew and Greek languages into modern tongues has long absorbed the time and thought of able scholars. Deter mination of the canon of scrip tures, the decision as to which of the Hebrew and Greek relig ious writings i-hould be included in the Holy Bible was made by church, councils; and not all Bibles are the same. The first printed edition of the Bible was the Vulgate, the Latin translation made by St. Jerome about the -wid of the fourth cen tury. It was printed at (Continu ed on editorial page) Chinese Strife Is Slackening PEIPING, Jan. 26-iip)-Near the close of the second week of oper ations for executive headquarters implementing the cease fire order, both sides in China's civil strife seemed agreed today that fighting has slackened and the situation improved. Nevertheless, executive head quarters bolstered its staff in or der to send more mobile teams into the field where agreements have been reached between Chi nese central government and com munist local commanders in com bat areas. It Is planned to expand the original eight truce teams to as many as 23. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH mm knock off two dollars on this pair if you'll take (he mother-in-law too." Final Collection Scheduled for Clothing Drive Final collections for the UNRRA clothing drive will take i place in rural communities, churches and other collection depots today and Monday. v j j No shipments have been made from the' R. L. Elfstrom ware house since Sunday because of the lack of help in sorting and packing the clothes, said Floyd Scamster, drive shipping and packing chairman. Groups of volunteer workers have been busy nightly sorting and packing the clothing," Seam stcr said. "We need more help and we need it badly." The warehouse is located in the alley back of the Portland General Electric building. A-Bomb Used On Japs Only Sample-Mac SAN FRANCISCOy Jan. 2 (JP) Charles E.' Moore, Sao Francisco industrialist, saidyostorday Gen eral MacArthur had told blm In Tokyo that America ts equipped with atomic bombs equivalent to 20,000,000 tons of TNT or a thous and times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. Moore, In a talk before the Com monwealth club yesterday, related his conversation with MacArthur in the general's Tokyo headquar ters as follows: "The general said warfare is no longer warfare it is question of civilization. This is what he said with no restrictions as to secrecy: " The finest explosive in the world is our TNT. But that bomb dropped on Hiroshima was equal to 20,000 tons of TNT. It is al ready obsolete. We are now ready with one that Is equal to 20,000, 000 tons of TNT'.". Added Ships Bring Troops HONOLULU, Jan. 26 -P)- An unexpected increase in available shipping has made possible! a new speed-up of demobilization in the mid-Pacific, Stars and Stripes said today. The army newspaper predicted that most servicemen eligible for discharge through April 30 would be in the precessing center here "within the next two weeks," and that if the ships arrived on sched ule, most would be en route home by next weekend. It said enlisted men with 35 months of service were ordered into the Oahu army personnel center today, and that those with 34 months would be called Mon day, f Salem Girls to Guard Coveted WU Freshman Glee Pennant Four Salem girls at Willamette university have been designated as guard of honor for the covet ed pennant to be presented to the winner of Freshman Glee, annual class musical competition sched uled for February 9 at the uni versity. The girls are Rosemary Min gle, Caroline Carson, Lillian Hoffman and Glenna Fayo Mil ler. (T Complete manuscripts of the songs to be sung in the contest are to be submitted to the Judges by February 2. Herb Lucas, Salem, stage com mittee chairman, has announced that a new wooden platform will be erected in the gymnasium next Saturday, thus giving the four classes an opportunity to practice on it during the week before the Glee. Prof. W. w. Herman Clark will L 'Proof Against By Iranians LONDON, Jan. 2f-tfVlranff delegation tq the United Nations asserted in a new note to the se curity council tonight that soviet interference in Iran's affairs "can be fully proved." The new note, dated Jan. 26, was disclosed shortly after Pre mier Ahmed' Qavam Es Saltaneh, a long-time friend of Russia,' was elected new premier of Iran. Ahmed Qavam announced he would seek! direct negotiations with Russia on the dispute with the ; soviet union, giving rise to speculation that his government might withdraw or defer action on the complaint put before the security council. S In the new 2000-word note, it was understood Iran's delegation acted on its Own initiative, Li re plying to yesterday's soviet : let' ter opposing security council con' sideration of Iran's complaint, on grounds that! the soviet position in Iran was : legal under soviet Iranian treaty, and favoring; di rect negotiation with Iran. Ah Iranian; spokesman said his delegation had not. yet received any mew instructions fit;m Teh' ran, but such instructions might be sent over the weekend. The security council is slated to dis cuss; the Iranian question Mon day. - I . , - Today's Iranian note declared "The refusal' of the soviet gov ernment to allow passage of Iran ian security forces through part of Iranian territory; is clearly a breach, of the tripartite treaty of alliance of 1942, and the declara tion of Tehran, by which the al lied powers undertook to respect the territorial integrity, sover reignty and political independ ence of Iran.? I Sovietj Army PEIPING, Jan. 26 HF) An ex change of farewell message of good will - between Chiang Kai-Shek and the Russians in Changchung lent emphasis today, to reports that most of the Red army would be out of Manchuria by the first week in February. 1 j The generalissimo, message to "the brave and gallant soviet of ficers and men" was read for him yesterday by Madame Chiang Kai Shek, who went to the Manchurian capital to decorate 100 Red army officers. I ' "It was for the purpose of pro moting early . realization of total peace and also in pursuance of a policy of concerted 1 action with other Allied nations that your troops have come to our north east," Chiang said. announce the winner of the pen nant as in the past; three years. Entertainment for the period be tween class presentations and an nouncement sof the Judges', deci sion will be arranged by Roger Fogelqulst, Salem. -1 , . Programs have been designed under the direction of Pauline Bristlin, Oregon City, and her committee of Wes Iledeen, Ti gard. Wash, and Eileen Grenfell, Portland. ' I t ". Tickets will be distributed soon to participants and student body members whoj ore -not . in . the Glee. On the . ticket committee are Bonnie paugherty, Salem, chairman, Janet Givson and Shir ley Kenagy, Salem, and Elva Grant, Portland. I .., . ! Marilee Olson, Portland,-chairman, t Mary Pppe, Stayton, and Ruth Laff, Portland, comprise the publicity committee. 1 4J 4 Leaving 3 Jet Planes Trans -U. NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-(tf))-The transcontinental flight record was shattered today by three U. S. army jet-propelled planes, which streaked from Long Beach, Calif, to LaGuardia field at speeds approaching that of sound. All three planes were Lockheed P-80 pursuit ships. The one piloted by Col. Willjam Hi Councill, flight test official from Wright Field, . O, flew nonstop and covered the 2470 mile distance in four hours, 13 minutes and 26 seconds 584.82 miles an hour. Two others stopped at Topeka, Kans for refueling. Col. Councill figured his top cpeed during the flight at 660 miles an hour, which ho calculat ed to be about 30 miles less than the speed of sound at the high levels he flew. Previous Record ' . The previous transcontinental flight record, 2464 miles from Burbank, Calif, to Floyd Ben nett field, Brooklyn, in five hours and. 27 minutes, was established last December 11 with a Boeing B-29 bomber. Even the two pilots who stopped for fuel at Topeka today beat the old record by comfortable mar gins. Capt Martin C. Smith of Kidder, Mo, another army test pilot from Wright field, covered the distance in four hours, 33 minutes and 25 seconds, and Capt. John' S. Babel, a fighter pilot of the 412th jet-propelled fighter group at March field, Riverside, Calif, made it in four hours, 23 minutes and 54 seconds. Average Speed Babel, who stopped four min utes at Topeka, made an average speed of 561 miles an hour. Smith stopped six minutes at Topeka and averaged 540 miles an hour. Most of the time the planes flew at altitudes of 35,000 1 to 41,000 feet CoL Council's non-stop flight was considered in some quarters as a sign that the problem, ot long flights In jet-propelled planes bad been solved. As recently as last summer the' problem1 of fuelling jet planes for long flights was reported far from solution. Col. CounciU's plane was equipped with oversized fuel tanks. The others had regular tanks. Wife Slaying Confessed by California Man LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26-jP-Capt Gordon! Bowers, of the sheriffs homicide detail, an nounced tonight that Arthur Eg gers, 52, had signed a confession admitting the slaying of his wife, Dorothy, 42. Her nude, headless, and handless body was found near a mountain highway Jan. 2. Capt Bowers refused to reveal details of the confession, except to tell newsmen that murder charges will be filed against Eg-1 gears Monday. Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, ac companied by several deputies and Bowers, lef tonight with Eggers to renew a search for the missing parts of the body. Bow ers said Eggers promised to lead the party, to a distant - canyon, where he had buried them. EKgers. a ' sheriffs deputy in nearby Temple City for 22 years, was arrested last Tuesday. Stocking Shortage to End Within 3 Months WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 The stocking shortage should wind up in two or three months, a civ ilian : production administration official said today, when the rush on nylons subsides. "We: believe that the increasing volume of production can catch up with the big pent-up demand in two or three months," the offic ial said. 15 TROOP CARS DERAILED MARTINSBURG, Mo, Jan. 26. -Fifteen cars of a navy troop train carrying 450 officers and en listed men from Norfolk, Va, to California were derailed here to night Two sailors were slightly injured. CHINESE BURN ONUM PEIPING, Jan. 26. -tfV The smell of burning opium . spread over Peiping today as 950,000 ounces of the contraband narcotic worth more than $2,000,000 was publicly burned by command of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. READY MADE HOUSES -LEBANON, Jan. 28-CP-Work on the first of a series of pre fabricated houses is under way here in a program backed by the chamber of commerce to relieve the housing shortage. Break Record S. Russia Says US Promised Her Jap Isles - LONDON, Jan. 26-W)-Thc Moscow radio said tonight that the United States and Great Bri tain had promised Russia the Ku rile islands of northern Japan un der terms of the Yalta agreement The broadcast noted what it sai'd was U.S. Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson's . recent statement that he believed no definite 'commitments were made at Yalta, and said Tass, official soviet news agency, had been "officially authorized" to disclose that Russia would get the Ku ril es, southern Sakhalin and ad jacent islands. VOn the question of the Kurile Islands, Mr. Acheson is definitely wrong," the Tass statement was quoted as saying. "At the Yalta agreement of the threo powers, signed on the 11th of February, 1945 (which was then not published for very un derstandable reasons), it was clearly set out that after victory pver Japan the Kurile islands would be handed over the the UJ3.S.K. j in addition.: southern ijduci aM-tho djocent Islands wffuld return to the uys.SJt Nothing Permanent In Decisions at Yalta WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -(Aj Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson' said at his news confer ence this week that agreement had been reached at the Yalta meet ing of the big three for soviet occupation of the Kurile islands. There has, however, been no in dication from American officials that agreement was reached at Yalta for permanent possession by Russia of the Kuriles. Civil Service Chief Named Employment of William G. Coleman, who prior to entering military service was senior class ification ; analyst personnel de partment; war production board, Washington, D. C, as full-time director of the state civil service board, was announced here Sat urday by J. N. Chambers, board chairman, ' Coleman telegraphed that he would accept the position and would report for duty March 15 provided he is released from the navy by j that time. He will re ceive a salary of $5000 a year. Coleman also has served as merit system supervisor, Louisiana mer it system; council; merit super visor of - Missouri; research as sistant school of public adminis tration, University of Chicago, and in a , similar capacity at the school of ; administration, Univer sity of Missouri. President of Oregon Jersey Breeders Given Scroll, Re-elected at Salem Luncheon Meet Br LOUe L. Madsen Farm Editor, Th Statesman M. N. Tibbies of Independence was doubly honored in Salem Saturday by Oregon Jersey breed ers when; he was presented a scroll expressing appreciation of his work for Oregon Jersey men and then re-elected president of the' state Club. The scroll was presented by Walter Leth, Dallas, former na tional Jersey club director, at the luncheon. Leth explained that the honor went to Tibbies because of his work as an officer of the club as well as in producing the high est tested sire of the Jersey breed. It was signed by all Jersey breed ers attending the meeting. Also re-elected at the afternoon Bemedaled P"""".-" '-jWKT'Trr rr 'WOBSSSBBSSOBJSOSlSlBslBBSWOSSSB TOKYO, Jan. 26 Gen. Walter Krenger, awarded the distin gabhed service cross and an oak leaf cluster to the distin guished service medal by Gent era! ' MacArthor today. Gen. Krensrer's sixth army spear- ' headed Mac Arthur's attack from the sooth Pacific threogh the Philippines. Canadian Vets Invade Hotel, Defy Eviction VANCOUVER, B.C, Jin. 26 ( CP) -Approximately 100 former servicemen, members of the vet erans branch of the Canadian Legion, marched into the aban doned Hotel Vancouver and sat clown, determined, to stay and run i for themselves and other stran ded veterans. The group marched in orderly fashion from Canadian Legion headquarters through the main door of the hotel. No attempt was made to stop them. Robert McEwen, leader of the group, told the gathering he hopes five or six hundred more veter ans and sympathizers will join the sitdown by Monday. "Maybe well run it at a loss but well have apartments at least," he said. "To heck with the rent Once we get in maybe some organization will want to take it over and run it for us. This thing has been kicked around from pil lar to post for the last six months. so we're just going to move in. "We're staying in here until we are thrown out bodily," McEwen said. Two police officers arrived a few minutes after the building was' taken over but they took n action. County Orders 2 Recreation Areas Marion county court Saturday, acting on the petition of the Izaak Walton league of Salem, ordered two recreation areas set aside in Marion county on tax-delinquent lands. Area No. 1 Is in the Gates dis trict and includes 100 acres along the North Santiam river about three-fourths of a mile above the Gates bridge. Recreation area No, 2 includes about 50 acres of land further up the Santiam in the Niagara area at the old dam site and about three miles below the proposed new dam site. business session were vice presi dent M. G. Gunderson of Silver ton, and secretary-treasurer, Jens Svinth of Grants Pass. The club opposed the combin ing of official testing and associa tion testing as proposed by the state dairy association at its re cent annual meeting. Resolutions were passed expressing apprecia tion to the state department of agriculture for its assistance to the club, and to the Marion hotel for the meeting place. Vote car ried to meet with the California and Washington clubs in an effort to change the national by-laws so that the western director will be chosen by the breeders of his dis trict rather than the club at large. Barrie Gassett of Cove, 15-year-old high school boy, was y AW Agrees To ClhiirysBeir, Foird . Mage Imicirease By the Atsoriated Pres The second of three major automobile mannfacturins; -o concerns announced it had reached an agreement n wage with the CIO United Auto Workers j esterday, bringing t four the day's total of encouraging labor developments. The striking CIO Meat Workers union did an about face and urged Its members to return to work Monday at government-seized plants; the dispute between Ihe Ford Motor Co. and the CIO-UAW wan ended, and the nation" chief railroads and 18 of the 20 railroad labor unions agreed on wage arbitration. Three Suburbs PetitioningCity For Annexation Petitions for annexation to Sa lem are in circulation in three suburban districts. Sponsors should have an opportunity to file them for consideration at any special election called this year to expand the city's boundaries. This is the belief of the special annexation committee of the city council, its chairman, Alderman James Byers, said Saturday. Therefore, he explained, the com mittee at a meeting this past week decided to postpone calling of a special election. Notices are being mailed out this week that city water and sewer service will be discontinu ed outside the city April 2. All such notices must be posted by February t. the council has or dered. ,( Signers of acceptable petitions (representing at least 10 acres of land or 25 adjoining properties) will be served until a special election has been called. Petitions are outstanding in the Candelaria Heights and Buena Vista district in an area south of the city limits and east of Com mercial street and in the Capi tola area, .Byers said. Petitions for annexation have already been filed from Lone Oak village and adjacent territory, from the un derpass area, the Valley Packing Co. area and the City View ceme tery area. Sweet Home Plywood Mill Strike Ended Settlement of the four-months-old strike at the Oregon Plywood corporation in Sweet Home was announced Saturday and the ply wood plant is scheduled to re-open tomorrow for maintenance and re pairs pending full production. Em ployes affected total 157. Dan Hay of Dan Hay and Asso ciates, who represented employers, said the new pact provides for "an increase of 15 cents an hour straight across the board in keep ing with the recent industry set tlement." The union was represented by George Willis and Paul Tapp of local 2517. C. P. Richards, secre tary of the Willamette Valley dis trict council, represented that or ganization. U. S. Conciliator George Brew er presided at the Saturday meet ing at which an accord was reached. awarded the Jersey calf for 1945 which was presented by W. T. Putnam, jr., of Hillsboro. L. S. Lorenzen of Dayton will give the 1948 calf. Button Hutton of KALE was toastmaster at the noon luncheon attended by 150 members and guests. Dr. U. G. Dubach, Oregon State college, and Charles A. Sprague, former governor of Ore gon, were the speakers. Intro duced were E. L. Peterson, state director of agriculture; O. K. Beals, of the state department; Ralph Morgan, state supervisor of vocational agriculture; Floy Wol burg, of Oregon State college; L. J. Allen, assistant director of 4H clubs, and M. G. Gunderson, vice president of the Jersey club. The Chrysler corp.' annoumc-m-nt, Issued jointly with the un ion, ystid they h;d achieved "com pltc agreement" on wage pi vitjing for and 1 8 cent houily itu-niihe. Less than three hours earlier. Ford and the union an nounced its wage dispute had tet-n settled with U9e granting of un 18-cents-an-hour boost. Decision Reversed The CIO United Packinghouo Workers of America, who at fir-t decided to remain off the job de spite government seizure of strike bound plants, reversed their de cision after Secretary of Agricul ture Anderson told their presk dent he favored putting into effect any wage increases which might be recommended by fact finding board now holding hearings. How ever, they added they; were net calling off their Strike. The other union involved, the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of Amtr ica, had ordered its 53,000 mem bers back to their Jobs when the plants were seized at 12:01 a. m. yoterday (Saturday). From Washington, seizure of -four strike-affecte stofardo was announced by thedepTmt pf agriculture. The yards are lo cated at' West Fargo, tt. D., South St. Paul., - Mimw Fort Worth, Texas, and Milwaukee, Wis.. At the same time the department said that the Hunter meat pack ing plant at East St. Louis, 111, previously taken over, had beo released. Agree to Arbitrate Meanwhile, in Chicago, the na tion's major railroad and 18 cf the 20 railroad labor unions agreed to arbitrate wage demancs affecting 1,250,000 workers. On the other side of the labor picture was the: huge week -old steel strike. In addition to the 750,000 CIO United Steelwoiker idled by the strike, called over a wage dispute, 35,000 workeia in related industries were off the job. Silverton Woman Critically Injured SILVERTON, Jan. 2-(Special) Mrs. Velam Dunn was reported in critical condition at a local hos pital following an automobile ac cident Saturday night She was crossing the street from the Sil verton greenhouses where she is employed, with her daughter when she was struck by a car driven by Vernon Brewer, 19. She incurred' head Injuries and a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee. Zset, 7. was reported only slightly hurt but was kept in the hospital because of shock. US Supplied More Than Half Non-Axis Shipping WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 The United States merchant fleet came out of the war, an official tabulation showed today, with more than half the ships and near ly two-thirds of the gross tonnage among all non-axis nations. The United States Maritime commission countel 5529 ships cf 1600 gross tons or more ao of last September. Their total tonnage was 40,080,002. LEE PATTERSON FILES Lee Patterson, Portland, Satur day filed in the state department here for state senator, Multnomah county, at the republican primary, election in May. Patterson fa now serving his first term in the state senate. Weather Max. SS J6 - 2 - O MM. g Rain Salcat . Ruffrnc . Portland Seattle .. Trace San Francisco . 3 Willamette riw 13S It. FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. VcNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today with mom in fog. tttti change in temperature. Rtftnest tdar. 44 decrees. Gentle vartanh) ohsda ofj