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UNDOES gtp same . y PtDODOa President Truman is getting far more than he bargained for when -he urged congress to enact a law pfrmitting ,him to yet up fact finding boards in labor disputes. The house of representatives has voted to consider a bill pointedly fcimed at curtailing the privileges ff organized labor. The bill is a long way from becoming law, but "the vote to consider it does show the temper of the majority of congressmen. On iues as critical a this it is important to have the text of the measure before giving it a blessing or a damning. The news paper summaries have been too brief to afford information for proper Comment. The sponsorship by "southern democrats" and rc publicans is not initially reassur jng. because many of the "south ern democrat" think in terms' of a pre-iiidustrial age. of broad cotton plantations and cheap lu bor. Our country simply cannot go back to - that era, charming though it be in romantic fiction. The gjst of the bill as given in press summaries is to bring labor unions within the scope of injunc tion suits, to outlaw violent pick eting, and to give the right to fcuFand; recover from employers or? workers in case of violation of contracts. The bill also sets up a national mediation board and bans str ke during a 30-day per iod allowed for the board Is in- ehlig(ti Ml. It I lot readily apparent how this bill if made into law would affect the current wave of sUrikes. Th re is danger in hgislati ig in the heat of controversy lei-t poor rather than constructive legisla tion erpeige. The Smith-Cor nally law is I an example. Sprung from a desnle to curb wartime r rikes it actiiirtily set up machinery which was used to call nany ti ikes. No one speaks a good word for it now. The Smi h of that authorship is (Continued on editorial pfcge) Pauley Denies Financial Plot Behind Oil Suit WASHINGTON, Feb. l-) Two wjitnesses asserted today end Edwin W. Pauley flatly de niedthat Pauley tailked to them bout campaign contributions from oil interests as reasons why the government should lay off le gal action to get title to sub merged lands. In hearings before the senate naval affairs committee on the rumination; of the California oil manj and former secretary-treasurer, of the democratic national rommittee to be undeiecretary f the navy, the day's sequt-nce v. as this: Secietary of the Interior Ickes was asked whether Pauley had told him a suit for title would be ' bad politically" arid that Pauley could "raie several hundred thousand dollars" from California orl men if he could assure them the suit would not be filed. Ickes .aid the answer was "yes." Pauley, retailed to the stand where he already had denied yes terday that he gave Ickes any ouch argument, said the secretary "must be confused -I'm sure he wouldn't do It deliberately." Norman Uttell, foimtr assist ant attorney general in charge of the public lands division, made a lmilr charge. Snrll to Oivc Medal to Draft Hoard Member Oov. Earl Jsricll will present to elective 'service peroimel, who ruve served as local and appeal i-osrd members for two years or more, medaU awarded by con tries at a public meeting next Wednesday night at the American! legion Cpaitol Post No. 9 hall at Chemieketa and Cottage streets. Sponsored by the American Le gion, the ceremonies will begin at 8 o'clock. Animal Crackers By WAPREN GOODPICH " don't know, but I can tell you one thing when it ttarti to hatch Pm getting out of here!" Chi Sua tM-i T1 Andrew Dennis To Die Today Morning Breaks Without Word From Goverjnor Andrew W. Dennis, 45, Port land railroad worker, is scheduled to die in the state penitentiary gas chamber here at 8:30 a.rk today. At an early hour this fnorning. Gov. Earl Snell had not announc ed any commutation .of sentence. Convicted of slaying Mfs. Anna Belle McNallen, 52, his imother-in-law, in her Portland apart ment Jan. 29, 1944, Dennis has three times been saved frLm exe cution. An appeal held up the first execution. Then Dennis was sentenced o die November 15, but the state supreme court inter fered when it found that no death warrant existed. To obtain more time to study the case, the gover nor granted him a reprieve from the third sentence a week ago. It has been 11 '4 years since an Oregon governor -has commuted a death sentence. Theodore Jordan, Klamath Falls Negro, and Harry R. Riley, Burns, saved by action of Gov. Julius Meier on July 3, 1944, are still in the prison. Jor dan k i I lef I a Southern Pacific din ing car fonductor, and Riley killed his wife and father-in-law and wounded his mother-in-law. Grain Shortage Grows, Ration Return Looms WASHINGTON, Feb. 14JP) A grain shortage so threatening that some officials are talking of the possible necessity of a return to rationing of meat and other I animal foods will come up for full-scale cabinet discussion next Tuesday. This was disclosed by Secre tary of Agriculture Anderson to day. He talked with a reporter just after a preliminary discus sion with President Truman at the White Housa)oday. He rnet with Secretary of . Commerce Wallace and representatives of Secretary of State Byrnes on the matter yesterday. The grain shortage situation has far-reaching implications for both domestic and export supplies of such foods as meats, lard, dairy iind poultry products, and flour, bread and cereal. The situation is such that an unfavorable spring and summer crop season could reduce produc tion of meats, fats and oils, and butter to a level where a return of rationing would be necessary ! to assure equitable distribution at home and to meet minimum ex port requirements. Chile Strike Called Today SANTIAGO, Chile, Saturday, Ftb. 2 -yp)- The Chilean confede ration of labor announced ft had called a partial strike for 6 a.m. (5 a.rm EST) today and a gen eral strike beginning Monday. The strike will continue until nitrate unions which recently wci dissolved by government decree tire recognized , as legal, the union said. The announcement came after Juan B. Rosettl, socialist laeder, had stated following a conference with Acting President Alfredo Duhaldr that a new cabinet would "posMbly be named," and that socialists might hold four port-lolios. Judge Page Rebukes Methods Used to Obtain Divorce Decrees tin Conrad France Stalf WiiU-r, The StsUcmsn The divorce situation at pres ent in Marion county is the worst in county history, Circuit Court Judge E. M. Page declared Fri day. Judge Page's remarks came af ter he sentenced Giles C. Raymer to one year-in the county Jail and fined him $500. After deliberat ing less than five minutes Wed nesday, a jury found Raymer guilty of false swearing In a pre vious dhorrie hearing. Raymer, who has eight children, swore that he had j none, to gain a di vorce, j In passing sentence, Judge Page said thU tie integrity of the courts must j be maintained, and that the courts must protect themselves from an increased leaning on trie part of the public toward fnlijiifation. "Many divorces these days are being nbtaimjd by false testimony ,-.nd often bjy deliberate agree ments between the parties," the jinfl'e s;nd. "t hope that the Ray mtr sentence will prove that the NINETY-FIFTH YEAR Barracks Salem io Take Possession of Flying Field PORTLAND, Feb. l-(JP) - Au thorization for Salem to take over that portion of the army air base which comprises; the city airport was received today by the Port land army engineers from the chief of engineers at Washington, the field custodian. The surplus property adminis tration approved the immediate transfer pending execution of a format permit, engineers said. They added that Salem's letter of authority is in the mail and due to reach city officials Monday, First to Regain Field Salem is the first Oregon city to regain actual possession of its airport, taken over by the army, the engineers' office said. ' The city built the airport and leased it to the army for the war. The engineers reported the per mit gives Salem immediate posses sion of the "landing area and air port facilities," which they said excludes barracks buildings : and land leased and purchased from private owners on which they were erected but includes the run-r ways, apron, taxiways, hangar, field lighting equipment and oth er! equipment necessary to main tain and operate the field. , The airport must be kept open toj public use, engineers quoted the permit as saying. United Airlines is the only present user but a num ber of private operators are re ported ready to use the field as soon as the city takes over. Norblad Avers Vet Medical Change Due Veterans will soon be able to choose their own doctors and their own hospitals, was predict ed by Walter Norblad, Oregon's newest congressman reported in a telegram to Glenn Wade, Salem Deaconess hospital public rela tion man, and Joseph B. Felton, justice of the peace, last Friday. The congressman wired that he had been, assured by veterans' ad ministration officials in Washing ton that an announcement would be made soon that veterans will be permitted to choose their own doctor for treatment instead of the present necessity of traveling to the nearest veterans' hospital. Norblad expects that the policy "will be extended to hospitals very sooh." In his last radio speech before leaving for Washington, Norblad spoke of the need : for initiating this change in policy. AFL WINS AT CANNERY Cannery Workers local No. 670, AFL, won a national labor rela tions board election ; conducted among woikers at Paulus Broth ers Packing Co. Thursday even ing. NLRB Representatives Cal kin and O'Connell from Portland conducted the election together with plant representatives. courts are not to be trifled with," he added. Declaring the divorce rale out rageous. Judge Page said that there has been a growing lack of appreciation of marriage vows on the part of young people coming to court. I" - He placed the burden of de creasing the divorce rate upon the people themselves, saying, 'The courts can do little to save a mar riage that is brought into the law chambers for argument" In pointing up his words, the judge stated that five years ago he handled about eight divorce cases per month, but that now 50 divorces per month are average. Of these about 75 per cent con cern marriages contracted within the past five years. Most divorces today are secured by the easy method of default, when one of the parlies does not contest the suit. The two main reasons why most divorces are contested at all, Judge Page stat ed, are custody of children and property rights. ' Deny City At Airport 10 PAGES j Solam, Legion Attacks Bradley WASHINGTON, Feb. t Gen. Omar N. Bradley, faced with an American Legion demand for his removal as veterans admin istrator, fired back tonight . a heavy barrage of figures to show progress in his "short six months of stewardship." And, answering a news confer ence question, Bradley said a "scrap" last week ver a hospi tal site preceded the blast cut loose at him by John Stelle, na tional commander of the Ameri can Legion. ' The question of a hospital site at Decatur, 111., in Stelle' home state, also came up in a telephone conversation Wednesday, Bradley said. But he added that he did not think that this talk with Stelle had "much to do with this attack." Free for All Other veterans' organizations and congressmen were horning in on the free-for-all row that broke out when Stelle demanded today that congress investigate what he termed "neglect" of veterans and a "tragic breakdown" in the han dling of their problems in the veterans administration. In New York City tonight, Stelle said he did not necessarily seek removal of Bradley, and that it the general could! do the job he would have Legion support ' wyf-i i 4 ' Ike Unfamiliar WASHINGTON, Feb. I rPH" Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army 1 chief of staff, said tonight he was unfamiliar with American Legion charges against Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veterans administrator, but added that if Bradley needs support, he will support him. Salem Building Permits Soar January was the largest month in the issuance of building per mits since the month the new state rapitol building was begun in 1938, when total permit valu ation was over $700,000. Value of permits issued last month was $459,571.25, of which $414,955 was for new construction. Largest permit issued during the month was to Douglas Mc Kay for a $94,000 garage build ing on North Commercial street Permits Issued Friday included one for a $4000 residence at 2645 Brooks st. o Donald J. Stiiggow one to Ed. A. Morris for two ga rages at 725 S. 1 3th st. at $1000, and an alterations permit to Au gust Fetsch for $900 changes tb a house at 725 S. 18th st. Red Cross Set County Quota Over-all quota for Marion county chapter In the American Red Croiw fimd campaign open ing March i is $66,000. Later,! quotas for individual divisions within the local drive will be an nounced. Dr. E. E. Boring is the general chairman for the campaign in Marion county. First of the week ly luncheon meetings for division chairmen was held Friday, Dent B. Reed, co-chairman of the cjrive presiding. Instructions were handed, out to all division heads. Justice George Rossman, chapter chair man, gave : a short talk on the great need for Red Cross services during the coming year. VATICAN CHARGES RI SS1ANS VATICAN CITY, Feb. 1 -7P)-The Vatican City newrpaper Os-i servatore Rom-rno today charged Soviet authorities with religious persecution In the Ukraine and accused the Soviet radio of car rying out a . "hate campaign against Catholicism." DONALD IIKI.SER HI.KS Donald E. Ilclser, The Dalles, Friday filed in the stale depart ment here for representative In the state legislature from 'Wasco county at the republican primary election. He is new a member of the house. - ; : I FOUNDDD 1651 Oregon, Saturday Morning, February 2, 194S Prnsirlbir Mtai Good Medicine 1 . SjW-U-V V" '-AM I rait. ;i 1 fcfl T ' 7 i ? V" til ' SANTA FE, N. M Feb. 1 Mrs. Australia io tier ailing Husband. TKf t BUurlce P. Vought, 21. Fort Wayne, Ind at Bruns General hospiUI here to help him recover. She is shown feeding him. AP Ulrephoto U The Oregon RUteoman.) Sewer Service Problem Faces Fairground Site The problem of providing sewer service for Salem's new veterans' colony If and when it may be established on a little used portion of the state fair grounds appeared close to solu tion today. But city housing au thority " members - liad several disturbing hours over it Friday. Chairman W. J. Braun said he expected to confer Monday with officials of the Interstate Trac tor & Equipment company to determine whether that concern is actually planning, as has been stated by competent authorities, to pay for extension of city sewers to its new building on Sllverton road. If that Is the plan, the one main could prob ably serve the housing project, Braun said. Under original plans, the 90- Lake-Watcher Gives Up as Sounder Sinks MEDFORD, Ore., Feb. 1 -7P) Federal Geologist F. W. Cater today washed his hands of Crater lake and its bashful burps. He gave up his lonely vigil which began Jan. 24 in the lodge on the lake rim and radioed for the Crater Ike national park service crew to come with its "sno-cat." Cater said he noticed Wednes day that the sound recording in strument in the lodge was iot Working. The recorder was at tached to a 1500-foot cable con nected with a microphone-like instrument suspended to a raft in the lake. He summoned park rangers with his radio and, in another perilous survey of the steep crat er side, they discovered a heavy snowslide had broken the cable about 500 feet from the water and the raft end of the cable slid in(s the lake. The gvogolist said fuither watching for the strange smoke clouds belched from the lake last fall will be postponed until spring. Col. Joe (Canton Denies Political Aspirations PORTLAND, Feb. 1 -(-Portland's former mayor, Col. Joseph K. Carson, said today he would rot be a candidate for any poli tical office this year. Carson, mentioned as a possible democratic candidate for gover nor, said he could not afford the time or the expense. "What I am going to do is to practice law, and do it just as vigorously as I know how," he declared. POSTAL RECEIPTS RISE Salem postal receipts or Janu ary topped the. same month in 1945 by more than $400, for a total of $52,236.11, Postmaster Al bert Gmgg announced Friday. January. 1945, was gretiter than 1U44 by more Uisii'syoOO. Pric A A J J PairieU Anne Vought, 21, flew from family dwelling units offered to Salem anctWillamette university by the federal public housing administration were to have been served by the fairgrounds sewer. However, that is a state system and the city engineer advised the housing authority Friday that it could not serve both fair and veterans' colony in stormy weather. Salem is one of the first 12 cities in the Pacific northwest to have an application for tem porary war housing for veter ans' use approved by the fed eral public housing administra tion and has been allotted the largest number of family units, Jesse Epstein, regional director for FPHA, said Friday in Seat tle. Willamette university is one of 17 educational institutions of fered the housing. City Allocated Car Tax Money The city of Salem has been al located $46,424.14 as its share In the municipalities' 6 per cent of state receipts from motor vehicle and operators' licenses, gasoline taxes, motor carrier fees and fines, during 1945, Secretary of Stat Robert R, Karrell, Jr, an nounced Friday. Funds aggregating $827,660.31 have been distributed. Portland headed the list with $305,803.31. Salem was second. Eugene's share was $31,198.89; CorvalJis' $12,604.87. Approximately $78,612 was ap portioned to towns under 1000 population. Before they may ex pend monies appropriated to them out of state funds, the towns must first qualify by submitting to the highway commission for approval plans for expenditure of such funds. Marriage Education Urged at Farm Program; Reports Given By Llllie L. Madsen Farm and Garden Editor Education for marriage was rec ommended as a necessary course in Marion county by Mrs. Floyd Fox, reporting for the farm home and rural life committee at the farm program conference Friday at the chamber of commerce rooms in Salem. Mrs. Fox ex plained that Marion county court records show that there were al most four divorces to every five marriages in the county in 1945. Rex Hartley, Jefferson, was chairman, and approximately 200 farmers attended. W. G. Nibler, county agent, opened the meeting with the report that $21,000,000 was grossed by 5200 farm families in Marion county In 1945. Increased efficiency to balance production rost more nearly wilh market price wais sUebd by Will Mat 5e No. 268 Captain Tells Of Jap Code By William T. Peacock -WASHINGTON, Feb. 1-(.P)-A naval officer testified today that orders went through the navy de partment after Pearl Harbor for all personnel to! destroy any per sonal notes concerning events preceding the attack. The officer, Capt. L. F. Saffotd. also declared the war and navy departments got "72 hours ad vance notification of the attack on England and the United States" through interception of a Japa nese "winds" code message on Dec. 4, 1941. "It meant war, and we knew it meant war," he told a senate house committee investigating the Japanese attack. Safford gave this story of the "note destroying" order: On Thursday or Friday after the Sunday of Pearl Harbor he was called to the office of Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes, chief of naval communications. Safford was head of the Intelligence unit of communications, AH other section heads were there and they were told there was a "whispering campaign" against Adm. Husband E. Kim mel. Pacific fleet commander, and Adm. Claude C.-Bloch, com mandant of the 14th (Hawaiian) naval district, and it must he ftopped. He said he had a cleUr understanding that th orders came down from Adm. Harold Ir. Stark, chief of naval operations. "It seemed a perfectly loxital and fair order at the time," Saf ford fcaid. Army Expands Family Order WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -fV The war department announced tonight that dependents of all ranks of army personnel will be permitted to join them overseas, contingent upon - the necessary housing, food and medical care being available for them. The non-commissioned officers to which the original order ap plied were master, first, technical and staff sergeants. The soldiers who want to have their families with them must agree Jo remain overseas for at least a year after their depend ents join them. First priority will be given the dependents of those servicp men who are willing to remain overseas for two years. Groundhog May Get Noe Wet in Timid Peek Spring is just around the corner if the tradition of the groundhog and his shadow are believed. It is considered extremely unlikely that the little rodent will be able to see his shadow today as cloudy skies and occasional rains are the prediction of the weather bureau. iam Teutsch, assistant director of extension, OSC, and also by the 13 conference committee chairman reporting surveys made in recent weeks. Increase in quality rather than in quantity was stressed by all. Teutsch predicted that a surplus production was approaching, with a likely 10 per cent decrease in farm market price and a 15 per cent lower gross income than dur ing the war years. However, he believed with favorable we.ither the net income in 1946 would be double that of pre war years. Expansion was recommended In only a few commodities. In many crops, advice was to maintain about the same production, while in many more, recommendation was to reduce production. (Additional details will appear in Sunday's Oregon Statesman.) Searchers Surmount Icy Peak Sled Dogs to Aitl in Removal Of Dead Today By Richard K. 0Ma!ley ELK MOUNTAIN, Wyo., Feb. 1 The bodies of the perscng aboard a Seattle to New York United Air Lines plane were found late today on Elk mountain where the plant crashed early yesterday. "Tho bodies were widely scaU tered over a slope of the moun tain about 1150 feet from the tcp and the plane appears to hava disintegrated,' said Stewart Eng land, a civil aeronautics author ity official from Cheyenne, who was a member of the searching party. "The bodies were only slightly singed and there were no indica tions that the plane burned. England said. No count was matl of the bodies, but England said there waa no possibility that spy of the 18 passengers and three crew members escaped death. T Rcmave Bodies Ofiirlals of United Air I Jives began making plans for ijemovsl of the ixxlies from the mountain tomorrow. A truckload of sled dogs from Fort Robinson, Neb , was en route to Elk mountain in charge of Capt. Murray Trump, to assist in the operation, it was announced at Fort Warren, Wyo. England, Allan Carbutt of El mo, Wyo., and Rjy Lefforge ef Elmo, told of the difficult 11.000 foot climb to the wreckage through deep anowditfts and ovsr crusted snow where they had to hack out footholds. Missed Wreckage The party climbed t J 1.000 feet without discovering tht wreckage and began circling the area when one of them met Edward Hick and his brother, Joe, oal minora from Hanna, Wyo.. who disco ered the bodies 1000 feet lower en the peak. "They wtre standing beside an engine that had fallen from a cliff and tbey told of finding the bodies scattered over a wide area,? Garbutt Kid. r Janitor Claims Police Abuse CHICAGO. Feb. 1 H?V Hectr r Verburgh and his wife, who were held without charge for two days for questioning in the Suzanne Degnan kid nap-killing, today fil ed two suits asking $123,000 dam ages from 18 police officers. Verburgh, 05, a janitor, charged false arrest and brutal treatment and asked $100,000 d-tmagr. He alleged that police "beat, struck, bruised and otherwise physically abused and tortured him" ar4 blind-folded plainUff. end plac pd handcuffs on the wrists ef plaintiff, with his handj behind his back; and with a rope or other device attached to said handcuffs behind his back, maliciously sr.d wickedly raised tht plaintiffs body off the floor." Draft Need Denied By! Navy Recruiter WASHINGTON, Teb. 1 fl Capt. C R. Donabo, the nay'e director tf recruiting, said tody that "we don't need tht draff to man the fleet. . In a news conference, Donh said ihe regular, recruited strength of the navy totaled 331 334 on Jan. 25. The goal is 500. 000 by next September. The navy is adhering to its se lective service call of 1000 a month. Inductions, however, hae been running below the quota, Donaho said. MILL CITY ROBBERY Some money and a quantity j meat were taken from the Fan grocery fn Mill City, ThurdJ night, according to; an mvestigL tion conducted Friday by the Ma ion i"ounty sheriff s office. Uh ' successful attempts- were mar i' to enter a service station and j restaurant according to the ra i port mfi(le Friday night. Sutt police aided in the investigation. PORTLAND BASE gl'RFLl'S WASHINGTON. Feb. l-iT-The army air forces has notified Senator Cordon (ROre) that Port land army air base will be de claied excess to air corps neecia in the near future. Weather Mix. Salrnt i Mori land . .. . . j Srttl ... i Sum InnrtAHl M it l 1 33 . Mt I Willainrt? river 3 1 ft I roW AST (from U S. v4iir fcu- I McNary field. Salrn.i ( In my vviln Ul1-rmittrnt light r.n. MnCr i at to Mrontf ulnda tudiv. H.i t temperature today. St eeerees.