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note crap game rui as TOQDDCa i One evening -last week at about closing time a woman t ame into The Statesman office and aked 1o nee a paper containing church rotires. She wag keeking the name t't a pastor of a particular denom ination. When she failed to find the name on the notice our Mrs. Armold helped her out and the 'woman called up the pastor to appeal to him for assistance. She had hitch-hiked with her chil dren, a boy and a girl, from Se attle and gotten as far as' Salem. She knew no one here but did know there was a church of her preference here so called on its pastor, lie heard her story, took the boy home with him for the night, arranged accommodations for the mother and daughter at the TWCA and the next morning arranged with the welfare office for the family's return to Seattle v.here they would be entitled to receive proper assistance. She had left Seattle in a panic of fear be cause of a drunken husband. The point in the story which is significant is that in her distress he appealed to one who from ' his profession could be expected to have a sympathetic interest in her plight. Her faith was not mis placed. Without doubt preachers "and priests many times are im- -poserfc on because of their known benevolence; but rarely or never do they fail to listen with sym pathy and understanding. Lack of this basic human inter est is offered as a criticism of the professional social, worker. Hers is a job, with set hours. Persons re not person, but "cases" numbers or a folder in a file; a grist to be (Continued on editorial page) Truman Backs Gen. Bradley In Legion Fight WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 - JF) - President Truman backed Gen. , Omar N. Bradley "to the hilt" to iay in Die veterans' administra tor's feud with the American Le ion over the handling of veter ans problems. John Stelle, national command er of the Legion, said in a letter to all congressmen yesterday that there had been a "tragic break down" Id th ycterani adminis tration under" Bradley . Presidential secretary Charles "5. Ross told reporters today: "I should like to say for the president that General Bradley "as the complete and unqualified support of President. Truman. "The president doe not feel hat Mr. Stelle in his attack on Jradley is speaking for the Amer can Legion. "The president considers that "General Bradley has done a fine ob under extremely difficult con 'itions.. In other words, he is jacking General Bradley up to the hilt" Morse to Talk at Salem Meeting February 15 Sen. Wayne Morse will speak t the abnual banquet of the Fed rated Patriotic Societies of Sa-c-m Friday, February 15, at the .larion hotel. Eex Kimmcll is chairman .of the lanquel committee, B. E. (Kelly) ')wens, 'president "f the organiza tion, said Saturday as he an- ounced plans for the dinner. TAKF OVKR LA YARDS WASinNGTON, Feb. 2 -JP) -President Truman today directed Secretary of Agriculture Ander son to include the Los Angeles Union Stockyards company among the plants to be taken , over by j the government in the meat pack ing industry strike. t:w caiunkt in chile SANTIAGO, Chile, Sunday, Feb. 3 (T't A new cabinet was sworn into office early today, following a week of tension and riots The new cabinet took office af ter a split in the labor front, with the socialist party withdrawing its support of a nationwide' strike ordered for Monday by the labor confederation. sssboth- Animal Crackers By WACREN GOODRlCfi "The little dean are as good as gold. I hate to think 't's because there are so many switches in this tree." t (tie " wv Oiclf Sun Svn4f 50 Saved as Blast Touches Off Blaze In Ohio Institution CLEVELAND. Feb. -(7P)-Twelve of the 62 occupants of Jen nings Hall, Catholic home for the aged, died today in an ex plosion and ensuing fire which I swept through the one-story frame structure. Coroner Samuel R. Gerber reported all 62 occupants of the home had been accounted for and that: a final check disclosed Saff ord Avers Brass Plots To Hide WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-JP)-Capt L. F. Safford told Pearl Har bor investigators today that "there is the appearance" of a war and navy department conspiracy to blot out receipt of a tip-off oh war with Japan. j The naval officer, in charge of intelligence in naval communica tions in 1941, based his assertion on hat he described as the. dis appearance of records on j mes sages intercepted by . east j coast radio monitoring stations for the month of December, 1941. v In disagreement with numerous earlier witnesses, Safford insisted he had seen an intercepted and decoded Japanese message, three days before the attack, which in cluded the words "east wind, rain." Those words, under a Japa nese code known here, would have advised Tokyo's agents abroad of a break-with the United States. Safford said "I prefer not to answer" a question as to whether he now believed that General George C. Marshall, wartime chief of staff, directed destruction of the message. He said he had had a third-hand report to that effect and "reluctantly" told about it in a naval inquiry last year. He startled the committee ear lier with a statement that last year a representative of Secretary of the Navy Forrestal tried to get him to change his testimony at previous inquiries on the winds code. Old Age Relief Risiiifflih State Relief payments In Oregon for January, 1946, aggregated) $1,113, 190.59, as against $949,904.25 for January, 1945, State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott reported tere Sat urday. j Old age assistance payfnents in January this year totalef$797,987 compared to $648,640 in January, 1945. General assistance for Jan uary, 1946, aggregated $226,452.07 against $185,169.82 in January, 1945. Relief (administration and payroll expense) for January, 1946 was $88,751.32, compared, to $80, 095.43 in January a yearago. , Unemployment comperis a 1 1 o n benefit payments for January, 1946, totaled $1,393,345.97 as against $15,538.34 in January, 1945. Go-Ahead Signal Due Soon on North Santiam Highway Project By Isabel Chllds City Editor, The Statesman The contract for grading and surfacing the 3.53-mile Gates Niagara section of the North San tiam highway probitbly will be awarded tomorow or Tuesday. And the signing of that contract will be the go-ahead signal, on the first lap of a $27,000,000 pro ject expected to keep that area humming with construction ac tivity over a period of years. It is a foregone conclusion that the Kuckenberg Construction Co. of Portland, which entered the low bid of $387,929 on the Gates Niagara Job, will receive this first contract, But the highway commission was required (by federal agencies which have; a hand in the development) to de lay the actual awarding until certain authorizations had been secured from the Southern Paci fic, which operates a logging line beyond the Detroit damsite up to Idanha. Last of those was ob tained late last week. Work prob ably will start within another week. The state has until July, 1947, to complete the road. Extension Near Within another month the fed eral bureau of public roads prob ably will take first steps toward extension A this rerouted high way from Niagara to a point be yond Detroit, building in all some 14 miles of hard surface roadway. Both the Gates-Niagara state built highway and the Niagara Detroit forest road will be wider (nothing narrower than 22 feet and in places 28 feet wide) and less curving than that which now serves the area. The old highway, which opened to vacationists and motorists some ,of the loveliest of the north a deatn ton of iz. Previous esti- mates were that the toll might reach 40. Seven persons still remained in hospitals but the condition of only one was listed, as critical by the coroner, Five other occupants were given emergency treatment at local hospitals but later were sent to homes of relatives or friends. The flash fire quickly engulfed the tar paper and thin frame walls of the structure shortly after an explosion at 11:13 a.m. (PST) Lpss was reached by Elmer Cain, second assistant fire chief of Cleveland, at $30,000. The! one story structure was completed June 1, 1942. Some of the aged residents In the home perished when they be came hysterical and resisted res cue efforts, it was reported by Sister Hyacinth, who said: "I was; in my office and the nuns were having prayer period in a neighboring building when I heard the explosion. I rushed into the hall. The smoke was so den t couldn't see my hands in front of me. I rang a bell to alert the house and then tried to help get occupants out. In two minutes after the explosion ev erything was on fire. "The sisters felt they would suffocate, but kept trying to pull the occupants out of their rooms. In one room I saw a woman wait ing calmly while firemen tried to free her from approaching flames. Just as firemen were about to reach her, her hair burst into flames and she perished. UNO Urged to Take East Site NEW YORK, Feb. 2 -P A 40 to 50 square mile tract of land on ihe New York-Connecticut border was recommended, today as first choice for the site of an interna tional city in which the United Nations would establish headquar ters. . New York City was suggested as interim headquarters Until the in ternational capital: was construct ed, in a report by a UNO site com mittee to the United Nations gen eral assembly in London. Dr. Stoyan Gavrilovic, commit tee chairman, said at a news con ference at the Waldorf Astoria that the report also recommended Hyde Park, N. Y, and the Blue Hills and North Shore area! near Boston as possible sites for the permanent headquarters of the United Nations. west's forest lands, is being re placed largely with federal funds. Some $300,000 of this first state contract probably will be ; borne by the; federal government. The Job is being done principally to provide an outlet for the millions of feet of logs which can hi mov ed daily from that area and which now travel over . a railroad, which will be at least shortened when the Detroit dam is built. To Take 4000 Mea f The dam In the principal item " In the; $27,000,000 project. Its building, it has been estimated, will cccupy 4000 men for at least three years. Because waters of the dammed lake eventually will lie beside the town of Idanha, further relocation of the highway is expected to accompany its con struction. ! l v'. 'AM 'Y l'Fl I - ' 1 ' ' , ' ' I - - IFa Mt. Jefferson's snowy peak rises beyond the forested hills over the scenic North Santiam highway (top), where realignment and highway construction are to start shortly. Loads of tors (bottom) wUI travel oat of thf North Santiam country over wide, hard-surfaced highway When the state and fed i eral bureau of read project are completed. m asm i ' : ' NINETY-FIFTH YEAH 20 Recover 4 Bodies In Snow Gruelling Climb Exhausts Party ; Seeking Victims ELK MOUNTAIN, Wyo. Feb. 2-P)-The bodies of four of thd 21 victims of a United Air Lines' plane crash on 11, 162-foot Elk mountain were brought down by dog sled tonight. The men who made the gruel ling climb fell exhausted on the ground at the completion of the trip. Airlines officials planned to return after the other bodies to morrow. Members of the party said all of the bodies had not been found but expressed the belief that they could be located tomorrow. The bodies of the passengers aboard the Seattle-to-New York plane were found frozen in gro tesque positions over an area of a quarter-mile radius by 25 men who braved 30-below-zero weath er and driving winds to recover them. "I have never seen such a pa thetic sight in my life," said one member of the party. "They're ly ing around, partly covered with snow, among trees coated with ice." Picks and shovels were used to remove the bodies from the snow and ice. The bodies then were lowered about 1000 feet down a steep incline to the waiting dog. sled. The barks of the army-trained Alaskan Huskies could be heard before the sled with the four bod- j ies came in sight at the base camp, j Peter R. Gallagher, postal in-! spector from Cheyenne, said 80 j per cent of the mail aboard the, plane was recovered. , . . y ; HURT IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Feb. 2 -Serious injuries were suffered here today in an auto-bus collision by Lester Sheeley, 53, democratic Congressional nominee in 1044, and his wife, Eileen, 31. Hospital at tendants said their condition was "good." Weather Max. .. 41 .... .. 4 .... 42 Min. 37 6 95 37 Rain .11 .3S .01 .54 M Salem .. Eugene ... Portland Seattle San Francisco . 92 Willamette river 5.3 ft. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field; Salem): Moctly cloudy today, widely scattered show ers. Highest 4J degrees. Scenic Road i ff PAGES Salem. Faces Murder Weapon CINCINNATI. Feb. 2.-ir-Edward Lee Dunn (right). 24. former marine who is chatted with murder at Cincinnati. in the stran gulation death of his wife he twice married, clasps a bible and cries when suburban Police Chief Charles Frits shows him the stocking with which the wife. Hazel, 27. was strangled. (AP Wire-photo.) Silverton School Believed Ready To Open Monday SILVKRTON, Feb. 2-(Special) "Indications are that we will be able to open Monday for rlasscs again in the Eugene Field build ing," A. B. Anderson, superin tendent of tchools, said Saturday night. The school was closed Wednes day following fire in the heating plant which made it impossible to heat the grade school build ing. Final announcement will bo made over station KSLM Sunday night at 8:13, Anderson added. Anderson said that the boiler man and the electrician gave ev ery indication that their repairs would be sufficiently completed by Sunday night to permit open tn'iV Monday. Close to 600 pupils are enjoying the enforced vaca tion this week. Rural Traffic Toll Reported Rising ' Rural traffic deaths increased 48 per cent in December over November, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., reported here Saturday. Of the 43 persons killed In traf fic accidents in Oregon during December, 29 or 67 per cent, were killed in rural districts. Nine fa talities resulted from accidents in the city of Portland, one in Sal em, two in Albany and one in Hubbard. Site of Project 4 , 7 4 ft. '9$ssstw 's 1 : OUNDBD 1651 Oregon, Sunday Morning. February 3. 194S Marion County Idle Now 3000, State Reports Marion county's unemployed climbed above the 3000 mark and payments all over the state hit a new million-dollar peak for the week that ended Saturday. Approximately 1300 compensa ble state claims from the county were filed in the Salem office this week and between 800 and 800 GI claims, the Oregon unem ployment compensation commis sion reported. Approximately $787,000 went out over the state in 46,530 checks under the state system, while $245,000 was paid to 12,345 Oregon veterans under the GI bill of rights, the com mission stated. Benefits delayed by determina tion of new claims for 1946 ac counted for part of the peak load to laid-off workers, but claims of both civilians and veterans have been rising steadily since V-J day. By the end of next week most payments will be back on a current basis. 4000 Claims Not Valid Of 49,354 new 1948 claims fil ed, benefit rights of 46,830 have been computed. More than 4000 claims were found non-valid, mainly because of failure to earn the $200 minimum required for the base year that ended Sep tember 30, 1945. Claims have been received from 22,000 veterans in Oregon under the GI bill of rights. About two-thirds have reached the com pensable stage, and the number of new claims is approaching 2500 a week. Jobs SU1I Scarce With job openings dwindling and with the claims load spread ing over the state as reported by 26 local employment offices, of ficials see little chance of a fall ing off in claims before March or April. A compensation commission spokesman pointed out that un employment figures in that office actually represent only about 60 per cent of the total number of unemployed in a given area be cause unemployed farmers, do mestics, public employes and small business employes are not eligible to file a claim. Andrew Dennis, His Execution Thrice Stayed, Goes to Death Denying He Committed Murder Andrew W. Dennis, whose exe cution three times was stayed, died in the gas chamber of the Oregon prison Friday, protesting to the last that he was innocent of the murder which led to- his death. Dennis, 45 year-old railroad worker of Portland, was convicted of slaying his mother-in-law, Mrs. Anna Bella McNallen, in that city on Jan. 29, 1944. Mrs. McNallen was strangled in her apartment Death came to Dennis less than an hour after Gov. Earl Snell de clared: "I cannot find justification sufficient for executive interfer ence with the decision of the jury and the courts." The governor had deferred the execution for a week while he studied an application for commutation to life imprison ment Dennis' second stay of execution came last November when the state supreme court held that Cir cuit Court Judge Martin Hawkins of Multnomah county, who presid 4 Syria .to BirDiug Newest Protest To UNO Coumcil Appeals Against British, French Troops in Levant LONDON, Feb. 2.-(iP)-Another international political issue loomed tonight before the United Nations security council, whose 11 members are hearing debate on Russia's complaint that pret ence of British troops in Greece is endangering world peace. Faris Al Khoury, chief Syrian delegate to the United Nations., said he intended to appeal to the security council on Monday against the presence of French I and British troops in the Levant. "Wt have always been willing to discufs the situation directly," he said, "but no approach-has been made to us and we have therefore decided reluctantly to appeal to the United Nations." On Dec. 13 France and Britain signed an agreement providing for joint '"evacuation by stages" of troops from Syria and Lebanon. France announced later that it would keep troops in Lebanon until the United Nations decided on the organization of "collective security" in the Levant, and pro tests came from both Lebanese and Syrian officials. At the same time the Arab high er committee announced in Jeru salem that it had sent a request for United Nations intervention in support of self-determination, liberty and independence in the Holy Land. Meanwhile British and Russian delegates prepared for the second round of their debate on' Greece, scheduled to be resumed Monday. Crash Victim Dies Saturday Fred Shadwald, 82, 1040 Hood st., died in a local hospital early Saturday after be was critically injured in an auto accident, Fri day night. He was reported to have been hit by a car driven by Robert H. Ruch, 265 N. 21st st, at Hood and Capitol streets.' Ruch was cited by the investigating officer for failure to give the right of way, to a pedestrian. Shadwald is survived by two brothers; Frank of Duluth, Minn., and Adolph of Rogers, Minn., two sisters, Mrs. George Lemery, Sa-iJ lem, and Mrs. Mary coster, roiey, Minn., and several nieces and nephews. Announcement of fu neral services will be made later by W. T. Rigdon company. Utilities Meet In Silverton SILVERTON, Feb. 2-(Special) A mass meeting will be held at the Eugene Field auditorium Mon day, February 11, at 8 p. m. in the interests of forming a public utilities district in Marion county. Charles Stricklin, secretary of the state hydroelectric commission, will be prerent and will hear evi dence in favor and against the formation of the district. Purpose of the organization is to provide machinery for the ac quisition of power and light fa cilities for the generation, trans mission, distribution and sale of electrical energy to consumers in this district. The proposed district includes 842 square miles, all in Marion county, but does not In clude Salem. ed at the trial, had failed to issue the required death warrant He was then re-sentenced to die, the date being set for January 25. First reprieve was to permit an appeal which the supreme court denied. Dennis, who entered the gas chamber clad only in shorts and without the customary mask, told reporters that Portland police had "railroaded" him to execution and declared "this is an awful miscar riage of justice. Some day the state will find they done the wrong thing. I did not commit this crime." He was calmly smoking a cigaret as he dictated the state ment Attendants said Dennis rested weU the previous night With him most of the time in his final hours was the Rev. S. Raynor Smith, protestant chaplain at the prison, who baptized the condemned mnn into the Methodist faith. j There wer several appeals ion No. 269 Navy Admits 'Unrestricted' Sub Warfare WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 The navy disclosed tonight thkt it Kccepted the total war chal lenge .f the axis by ordering "un restricted" submarine warfare against Japan, using the wo'f pack system to rip Nippon's ..na val and . merchant service u pieces. In a ries of statements and news conference by Vice Adm Charles A. Lockwool, wartirr e commander c-f submarines in the Pacific, these facts developed: 1. Within a few- days after Pearl Harbor the chief of na! operations sent out the instruc tion.: "Execute unrestricted air and submarine warfare against J;.p.n." 2. The Japanese, near the c!o of the iir, built three aircrafv carrying tbmarines intended fvr attack on the Panama canal, car rying a total of ten ptanci, each capable of handling a 1500 pour I bomb. These subr have betn brought to Pearl Harbor frr study. Two of them are gii t 5500 tonners, one a 3000 ton crsf. 3. Submarines built to cany plains which could carry an atomic bomb or submarines Cip tble of launching lbuzz-bomb with atomic warheads are n t impossible. 4. The submarine can sun i e the threat of the atomic bomb. 5. During the Pacific war allied 1 submarines sank 1944 ships sr.d -killed 276,000 Japanese, on the basis of Japanese figures. The United States lost 52 submarine (seven of them by definitely known accident or deliberate ob struction) with 3505 men. 6. At thf end of the war Japi had 51 submarines left, the Unit ed States 240. Senate Presfdencv Raee Speculated PORTLAND, Feb. 2-()-Tl e presidency of the Oregon sena:e for the January 1947 session v.; drawing speculation today. S-ii. William A. Walsh of Cor Bay declared here he is out t drum up the 16 senators needed to give him the l.tle. Sen. Marshal Cornell of Klamath county hit' been working MrsLitentJy on h canrlidacy since the 1945 session.! Another po.s?ible applicant, who has made no public announce ment, is Sen. Earl T.1 Newbry cX Jackson county. file for the convict Including thoe of the trial judge and Ue distrii t attorney in the case. Dennis claim ed he was convicted only on cir cumstantial evidenced The body was claimed by a brother for burial. The statement by Governor Snell said: "I have studied and Investigated the Dennis case with care and deliberation. The jury in the cir cuit court unanimously held for first degree conviction. A motion for a new trial was made and denied. The case was appealed to the supreme court, whkh upheld the lower court "A second appeal to the supreme court was made. Subsequent in formation and communications have been reviewed and weighed, and I cannot find justification sufficient for executive interfer ence with the decisions of tha jury and courts." Price 5c 1