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U MUNDBD I6SI NINETY FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. January 29. 194S Price 5c No. 264 Drp jSedDaftoir Kequest, .ssaaw 'r-r---, WDCDIE A committee created by th last legislature selected Dr. John Mc Loufhlin and the Be-m. Jason Lee as the two whose efiigies should represent Orefon in Statuary hall in the national capitol. A legisla ture some 20 years ago made similar choice but appropriated no money for the sculpturing. The same lack exists now; and until funds are contributed or appropri ated the Oregon niches will re main vacant. Oregon's pride may have suf fered, though not preceptibly so, by the omission of any of its own nominees from this morgue of greatness, but it is doubtful if the country as a whole has noted the vacancy.. Here in Oregon there was 80.. gtnaiitl awareness of de linquency until the energetic Mrs. George T. Gerlinger pressed the matter at tne last session oi me legislature. I confess I have no enthusiasm over this project to rear statues to these worthies in the national arcade of fame. Mott visitors to statuary hall come away with confused impres sion. A collection of statues of the great and the near-great and the once-great, measured by the scale tf local prominence, in marble or bronze of dubious art, statuary hall is an ill-remembered stop on a guide's tour of the national cap itol. More likely to be remembered Is the bronze plate on the floor marking the spot where John Quinry Adams, serving as rep tesentative after his one term as president, was stricken with ririilvaifl In 1A4ft frtr itiiflrv Kali w - - - - - - - - - - -j v. its onrr the meeting place of the oue of representatives. With due rwpect to Dr. Mc- Loughlin and Jason Lee, if truth be told they are unknown, nation ally; and if their figures are set there, the names will not register n the consciousness of the vast majority of visitors to this gallery ef slate-selected (Continued on editorial page) Thursday Last Day To Donate Oothing Thursday, January 31, will be the last day on which the UNRRA clothing collection depots will ac cept clothing, according to an an- nounevment made Monday by Fred Sterrett, drive chairman. Final pickup of garments from the various depots will be made Thursday by trucks, and the col lection depots will close and ac cept no more clothing after that date, he said. Depots are located In all -churches, fire stations, Safe way stores and at the Portland General Electric Co.. 237 N. Lib erty st. I Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH lAUSMlNS Tm all right, really-4 aU Ways cry when fm happy." .EH" tr1' PEARL HARBOR, Jam. Zt At which four years age was dotted with the sosoulderlns; wreckage f great ships scores ef aircraft carriers, LSTs and ether craft are shown drawn p te basy docks la ene of the first detailed photo ever released of this vital mid-Faclfie base, la Washington today, the story of the holocaust of Dec. 7, 1141, la which J00s soea eJed, will be told br former Saaresne Co art Justice Owen J. Roberta before the Pearl Harbor lnvesttgatloa commit tee. It wu Roberta who beaded the probe of the tragedy here soon after the Japanese struck. (AP YVlrephoto to The Oregoa Staleanaa) Roberts Says .Ian Denied Hawaiian Chiefs WASHINGTON, Jan. 2B.-VP)-Former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts testified today that his Pearl Harbor investigat ing commission knew the Hawaii army and navy commanders did That Empty Place Will Just Have to Stay Empty Now If you are wondering what to put in that empty bracket de signed for a number plate on the front end pf JWtXtJ niwer is nothing. And mat goes for ad vertising, your old number plate. or your name. An order barring use of the Uracket vacant this year because license plates were issued only one to a car, and that one for the rear has been issued by Secretary of State Robert J. Farrell, Jr. 4t was understood one or more promotion firms had been study ing the 400,000 or more empty brackets in Oregon with a view to using them for various advertis ing campaigns, a la bus and street car. Creamery to Enlarge Plant j At Mt. Angel MT. ANGEL, Jan. 28.-(Speclal) The Mt. Angel Cooperative Cream ery which had a volume of $1, 803,416.15 busines in 1945, today authorized its board of directors to enlarge the plant and obtain equipment to handle class B milk at an estimated cost of $50,000. More than 250 members attended the annual all day meeting. Members of the board of direc tors were reelected and Frank Hettwer, secretary and manager of the cooperative, was reemploy ed. The annual patronal dinner, at which 2000 persons were served when last held in 1941, will be resumed again in 1948, members decided. Charles Bochsler, George Kruse and Alois Kirsch were reelected directors, holdover members are E. C. Eastman and O. R. Over lund. The directors later met and elected Eastman president and Kruse, vice president. The nominating committee, elect ed for each year for the next year's candidates, includes Joseph Schmidt, Joseph Schnieder and Alois Dude. (See story on page 2). Silverton Auto Victim Is Dead SILVERTON, Jan. 28,-(Special) Mrs. Velma Dunn, 52, died Sun day as the result of injuries re ceived in an automobile accident Saturday night. Funeral services will be heldat 2 p. nv Wednesday from the Ekman Memorial Fun eral home and burial will be in Pioneer cemetery. Mrs. Dunn was born Oct 12, 1894 at Gervais. Survivors are the widower, Leslie Dunn, four chil dren, Blanche Faulhaber, and Florence Valentine, Portland; Les ter and Icel, at home; three sis ters, Mrs. Dai5y King, Portland, Irene and Imy of Olympia, Wash. 0k. 1 this veritable birth-place C war not get intercepted Japanese code messages but felt they, were am ply warned. '. " Roberts said the presidentially appointed group Which he head ed did not itself see the "magic" messages by means of which top Washington tofficials got advance knowledge of many Tokyo moves. Amid frequent clashes with re publican members of the senate house ' committee currently in quiring Into the Dec. 7, 1941, dis aster he added that he "wouldn't have bothered" to read the mes sages If they had been' made available. f Roberts also told the committee' today: S -.4 -'""-i 11. The White House made pub-; lie the Roberts commission's full report without any ! omissions. - , i 2. The commission never loca-! ted any f winds" message, or pre-j Pearl Harbor Tokyo broadcast in the "winds" code to Indicate a break with the United States. ; Before hearing Roberts, the committee heard Capt Ellis M.; Zacharlas of the navy testify he predicted to Kimroel that theJap-i anese, if they -decided to fight, would open with just such an air attack on the fleet as they deliv ered on Dec. 7. Zacharias said that; in a conversation with Klmmel in March, J941, he also predicted the attack, if it came, would be on a Sunday. '' Kimmel has testified he recalls no such 'conversation. : Nab Portland Theft Suspect WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-4VA man arrested here as he stepped from a train at Union station car rying $5000 worth of gems and ring settings In i leather valise was booked today In connection with a Christmas day robbery al Portland,! Ore., police Lt Joseph W. Shimon reported. Lt Shimon said the man, Theo dore Lucas, 27, Portland, Ore., was held for investigation In the robbery ot a Portland Jewerly store. He said Lucas carried more than 500 precious and semi-pree ious stones and 200 gold and plati num ring: settings. LONERdAN CANDIDATE , Pat Lonergan, Portland, Mon day filed; in the state department here for state representative, 5th district, j Multnomah county, at the republican primary election next May. He is now serving his first term In the house. M- Code Schneider Discloses Change In Three Salem Bus Routes : Mr V i-- . ! ! New schedules and a few re- street Northbound from State routings will be made effective ; and Commercial, east . on Court, by the Salem i City (bus) lines j and thence over present route. Sunday, February 3, lt is an- j Chemeketa Route From State nounced by A. L. Schneider, gen-; and Commercial, north on Com eral manager. ; j mercial, east on Chemeketa to The official said the schedules f 24th street, and thence over pres- riv4, departure time at the 1 State and Commercial' terminal, i The new plan, he said, was work ed out in cooperation with the Salem city council and its traffic committee. ; ' Changes in routing include; Capitols Route From Lana and Silverton road over present route to Church street, then south on'Church, west on Chemeketa, south ion Commercial to State Siege State In Chile Follows . Street Rioting SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 28.-(JP) -A 80-day state of siege was de clared in Chile and censorship was imposed tonight after a fight between members of the Chilean Workers federation and police in which four persons were killed and 68 Injured. Vice - Admiral Vincente Bieligh was named min later of j the interior to carry out provisions of the decree. Bernardo Ibanez, general secre tary of the federation,, said a call for a general nationwide strike would be issued immediately to protest the attack, in which shots were exchanged. A crowd gathered on Plaza Bulnes I in downtown Santiago with police standing on the .side lines. Carabmeros (national po lice) officers asked speakers to moderate attacks on the govern ment and thus- precipitated the fight i '.- Later after the fighting subsid ed and while the wounded were' being, collected, the crowd soaked union banners and newspapers with blood which lay In pools on the pavement, and hoisted them on polec at standards. Among the blood-soaked ban nera were those calling for the election iof Elias Mafertte, recent ly nominated as the communist candidate for president A statement by , the I federation referred to 12 dead and "hun dreds" Injured, but the Associa ted Press was able to confirm only four deaths and 68 persons injured.! McKay to File For Senator In Primary MaJ. Douglas McKay, Salem, announced here Monday that he would file shortly as a candidate for stats senator from Marion county ai the republican primary election j next May, but in case of his election would not be a candidate for president of the senate at the 1947 legislative ses sion, j McKay formerly served as a member! of the state senate but Tesigned when he entered mili tary service. He was succeeded by Frederick Lamport, also of Salem, who wa$ elected to the office on a pro tem basis by the Marion county court Lamport, was not expected to seek reelection. "Because of the fact that I have been out of the senate since en tering military service I do not feel that I should be a candidate for president of that body at the 1947 legislature," McKay said. He only recently returned to civilian life. Soath j Commercial Raote From State and Commercial over present route to Lincoln and Fir, then south on Fir, east on Super ior, south on Commercial and thence' over present route. Individual schedules of these and the various other routes will be detailed In advertisements to I appear in The Oregon Statesman ! on Wednesday, Thursday and ! Friday of this week. Reds Ask Council Adjourns Until Wednesday Without Decision LONDON, Jan. 28.-(P)-Rus-iia asked the United Nations security council tonight to shelve Iran's appeal to the United Nations or ganization and let the two nations solve their, dispute, by negotiation after Iran's chief- delegate had charged the Soviet union with in terference in the. internal affairs of bis county. Without reaching a decision, the 11-nation council adjourned a three hour debate on Its first major is sue until 3 p. m. Wednesday. , The Soviet vice commUsar of foreign affairs, Andrei Y. Vishin sky, declared that Iran chanrges had been "raised by a government no longer in power, and the claims have not sufficient grounds for action by the council." "It is much too early," he de clared, "to yay that the parties to the dispute cannot come to terms between themselves. The re fusal to continue negotiations came from the Iranian side and not the Soviet side. We were and are pre pared to continue these negotia tions." Just before Vishinsky spoke, the Iranian chief delegate, S. H. Taqizadelv charged that "there have been a number of interven tions In Iranian affairs by Soviet authorities." In effect, he asked the council, which is empowered by the UNO to settle disputes by peaceful or military means, to prevent further "intervention." Second? Wife Of Hero Sues For Annulment i MANILA, Tuesday, Jan. 29.-() -A' petition asking annulment of her marriage to MaJ. Arthur Wer muth, "one-man army" of Ba taan, was filed in the Manila courts today, signed by Mrs. Ol ivia Josephine Oswald Werrauth. She was a nurse on Bataan, and said in her petition that she mar ried Wermuth in Manila on Dec. 7, 1941, 'not knowing that he had a wife in the United States. (Wer muth was married on June 1, 1935 to Jean Wilklns of Chicago.) -.Her petition stated that Wer muth was ordered to rejoin his regiment less than 24 hours after the marriage, when Japanese at tacked the Philippines. She said she joined Wermuth in the last desperate days on Bataan, where 'she acted as a civilian nurse un til the surrender, and then fol lowed the death marchers north to Camp ODonnell, hoping to aid her husband. The petition stated that the pair lived together as man and wife on Bataan in the period before surrender. Maj. Wermulh Denies Marrying Manila Girl TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Jan. 28. - (4") - Maj. Arthur Wermuth, the "ope man army of Bataan," said tonight that a wartime mar riage In Manila, alleged in an an nulment petition filed there today, is "news to me." "I don't know a thing about it" he said. Asked if he knew the pe titioner, who gave her name as Mrs. Olivia Josephine Oswald Wermtath, he said, "no." Patterson Asks Draft Continue WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-(T)-Secretary of War Patterson said today that continuation of the draft is "of vital concern to men overseas." Reporting to a news conference cm his four-week world tour, Pat terson said he found that most soldiers with two years' Service or more are eager to get home but "there are very few who are not willing to do their duties as sol diers." Patterson also said announce ment will be made in a few days on the addition of Australian and other empire troops to General Douglas MacArthur's forces In Ja pan. " Weather Max. -44 44 Min. Rain 11 .42 S3 XX as jds S JU 44 trace Salem Eugene . Portland Seattle .. .43 .43 San Francisco .64 Willamette river S.S ft. FORECAST (from U.S. weatt-er bu reau. McNarv field. Salem): Partly ' cloudy today with occasional light tains. Highest temperature 49 degrees. Salaried Ford Help Get Raise Workers Not Under Contract Given 15 Boost DETROIT. Jan. 28. - P) The Ford Motor Co.. which was grant ed the CIO United Auto Workers an. 18 cent hourly wage increase, today announced a 15 percent wage boost for 19,000 salaried and hourly employes who are not covered by the union's contract. The announcement from Presi dent Henry Ford II came as the UAW-CIO squared off with Gen eral Motors Corp. In a fight over that firm's bargaining "faith" and simultaneously launched another wage increase drive in the auto industry. The Ford raise will be retroac tive to Jan. 1 and will include 4, 3S3 foremen of the company who will be transferred from an hour ly to a salary basis in negotiations with "other labor organizations," the company announcement read. The union disclosed its new wage drive in the auto industry as the national labor relations board opened its hearing to deter mine whether General Motors has refused to bargain in good faith over the UAW-CIO's wage de mands. The NLRB hearing was marked by brief tussles between red haired Walter P. Reuther of the UAW-CIO and red-haired Harry Benjamin of General Motors, who frequently objected to Reuther's method of answering questions tinder direct examination. Having settled 30 per cent wage demands with Ford and Chrysler on the basis of 18 and 18 cents an hour Increases, or about half the amount originally demanded, the UAW-CIO announced today it was perfecting plans to press wage increase demands on other companies, including car manu facturers, suppliers and equip ment manufacturers. City Rumors Organization Of State Bank Rumors that application may be filed for organization of a stale bank in Salem were floating in state banking department offices here Monday, A. A. Rogers, state superintendent of banks said, but refused to mention any names in connection with the report. Such an organization was "on paper" but lacked signatures lste in 1945, it had been understood here. The new crop of rumors fol lowed recent announcement by the First National Bank of Port land that it would erect a new building for its Salem branch and vacate quarters now used for its banking operations at Liberty and State streets. Both Salem banks, the First National and the United States National, are parts of statewide banking organizations, with par ent institutions in Portland. Witness Describes Horror Of Nazi Extermination Camp NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 28 -Iff- A blonde French widow who spent days and nights of terror at the Oswiecim extermi nation camp today told the in ternational military tribunal that children were tossed alive into cremation furnaces because the nazis "ran out of gas" for the camp's execution chambers. Mow. Marie Claude Vaillant Couturier, S3, communist mem ber of the French constituent as sembly who spent two and one half years In concentration camps, gazed coldly at the ranking nazis in the prisoners' dock when she took the witness stand and began telling a story of horror that kept even the prisoners spell-bound. -One night," she testified, "we were awakened by horrible cries. The next morning we learned from men working in the gas chamber that they had run out Arbitrator 1 Li X DETROIT, Jan. Zl James Dewey, experienced ..strike mediator, arrived here .frem Washington last Blent, charged wit the aty of arbitrating the Geaeral Metors-UAW strike. Doctors Plan To Construct Office Building Following the example of pro fessional men In Portland and other cities a 'group of practising specialists i Salem plan the erec tion of an office building for their own occupancy outside the cen tral business district Dr. Charles Campbell and Dr. Robert F. Wulf head the group. Two other doc tors will become associated with them In the enterprise. The lot at the southeast corner of Center and N. 13th streets has been purchased as a location. The tract has 109 feet on Center street and 100 feet on 13th street,,,and is now vacant It was owned by Fannie R. and Margaret R'; Mul key of California. Sale was made through the Leo N. Childs agency for a reported consideration of $5000. The building will be excleslvely for medical purposes and nut as a hospital. It will be of attractive modern design, using concrete as material. Pietro Belluachi,; Port land architect, will be the design er. A zone change is necessary but preliminary inquiry among neighboring property owners in dicated a ready assent for a struc ture of the type planned. The difficult parking problem downtown is given as a reason for going outside the central district Sparse Snow Reported At Salem Airport Snow was reported in Salem Monday for the first time since April 19, 1944, according to weath er bureau records. The snow which fell at the airport melted as fast as 'it fell. The last snowfall of any consequence was a fall of approximately five Inches which was recorded on Jan. 25, 1943 The total snowfall for that year was 22 inches. of gas and had hurled children alive into the furnaces." "When a convoy of Jewish women arrived, older women, mothers and those who were weak or sick were sorted out and taken immediately to be gassed," the witness said. "Women 20 to 30 years old were sent to ex perimental blocks." She explain ed that nazi doctors In these blocks worked i on experiments Intended, to devise a swift sure means of sterilization. Additional concentration camp horrors were described by other witnesses as the French continu ed their case against the nazis. Francois Boix, veteran of the Spanish civil war on the loyalist side who worked in the identity section . of theu prison under SS photographers, told of the hang ing of an Austrian Jew at Mau thausen while the camp's Inmates watched and an orchestra played a popular tune. Schedules i Meetpgs In Detroit Meat Reappears In Stores; Steel Strife Stymied By the Associate Press A special government mediator appointed by Secretary of Labcr Schwelletibach last night flew ts Detroit and promptly summoned General Motors corporation iu4 United Auto Workers (CIO) offi cials to a Joint: meeting to take pliit'e today. James Dewey, the mediator, a former, member, of the j labor i!e partment's conciliation civ.e, predicted the VS-day-ld strike would be settled within jthis we a, la ether major developments ia the nation's industrial j disputes, meat industry j workers begaa sending out supplies to 'fill empty butcher shop shelves, and the CIO-UAW announced It plannt to press wage ' demand, against Hudson, Packard, Continental Mo tors, and Briggs Manufacturing companies comparable to the Foiel and Chrysler increases negotiated last week. Steel Strike I'acaaaged Although no specific action ws apparent in the steel strike, which sent 750,000 United Eteelworkers of America (CIO members eft their jobs and has now made some 40,000 more Idle for lack it steel supplies, at least one Wash ington source indicated the strike might end "within a week, or sq." Steel industry spokesmen cs tioned that the' 'iulo Industry steel's biggest customer would be hard hit by a 6teel famine in a matter of days. Forecasts from four large industrial areas Mich igan, Miskouri, Ohio end Conneti cut indicated: another 750.0H1 would be idle if the steel strike continues a month. Gayle Armstrong, government director of the Seized meat pack ing plants, said livestock receipta were substantial and packing house operations were "proceed ing smoothly He predicted meat would be moving In normal vol ume "soon." Bus Hearings On Fact-finding hearings were re sumed In WashingbHt in the IVi.n xylvania bus wage dispute uhuh resulted in a two-month strike re-ct-rrtljr In 18 northeastern tUIrs and the District of Columbia. A truce which terminated a strike of CIO maintenance woik ers in Flint, Mich, schools was extended indefinitely. The strika closed 43 of the city's 44 schools two weeks ago. The board of edu cation Is considering a compro mise proposal granting them $40 bonuses at the end of the fiscal year. Another CIO union announced yesterday its members would strike at 2 p.m. today at the Cater pillar Tractor company, Peoua, 111., over wage and other demand. Grant W. Oakes, president of the United Farm Equipment and Met al Workers union (CIO), said the plant had between 16,000 and 18, 000 employes covered in a con tract which will expire Feb. 22. Annual Industrial Banquet to Be at Lebanon Feb. 11 LEBANON, Jan. 28 (SpecW) For the first time since war time restrictions were invoked, the annual industrial banquet will be held by the Lebanon chamber of commerce this year an Febru ary 11. Among prominent out-of-town guests expected ! are Gov. Earl Snell and members of the state board of control as well as busi ness men who have Interests in this vicinity. Col. W. B. Greeley, formerly secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumberman's associa tion, will speak and William Welch of the Crown-Zelleabach corporation has been Invited to be toastmaster. SALEM MAN PKOMOTED Promotion of Major Alvin J. Crose, Salem, to lieutenant col onel, Oregon state guard, was an nounced here Monday by Briga dier General Raymond F. Olson, acting adjutant general. Crose has been assigned to the 12th battalion. headquarters here.