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I i ! 1 I ' ! ji ji I- :l : ! j i jl dwn nn ULI U 1 mm, mum CDDCB Two years ago the streets of Salem were swarming with men in uniform. Camp Adair was at U peak of population. Soldier, ailors and marine were coming md going constantly. One year ago the number of nen in uniform was much small er. In ;fact there were very few young men left in Salem. Camp Adair was virtually closed. Our men had really gone to war. Today the streets me alive with young men. Mort of them wear, not the uniforms of the armed services, but discharge buttons in the lapels of their coat's. They have come home from the war. The transformation has 'been like the ebb and flow of the tides. The men were here; they wrere gone; now they are back. In a swelling current they have returned in re cent month. For many of them the first period of the homecoming has passed. They have luxuriated in the old ' home, enjoyed mother! cooking and laughed at father's old Jokes. Th efy have renewed acquaintances. They have gotten back their land legs after long sea voyage, their civilian habits after living! for many months un der army aind navy discipline and conditions. The welcome . over, now the youth are facing the problem of finding employment. The war interrupted their lives for a period of years, right when they were laying the foundations either in education or in starting their careers. Most of the return ing service men feel an urgency to get into something where they may catch up on the time taken out for fighting. It is not with them Just a matter of getting a Job: it is an' eager search (Continued on Editorial Page) ILS. to Divert Wheat to Aid Foreign Lands WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 Darker btead, less tasty pastries, and far leiss whiiky and beer were decreed for Americans today as Presi'dent Truman moved to share this country's short wheat supply to avert what he called "mass starvation" abroad. Further, a reduction in the na tion's high level of meat and LONDON', Feb. 6 Eight thousand tons of wheat will be sent almost Immediately from the I'nlted State to Austria aa the first step of an emerg ency relief program, the Euro pean IN ERA office said to night. poultry production was requested as an additional means of making more wheat available for bread for the hungry Jn other lands. The president, in a statement declaring the world faces a ser ious food crisis, called upon store keepers and other distributors to institute informal rationing of foods thatj may be scarce for the months immediately ahead. Although he did not list foods expected to be short, he undoubt edly referred to bread, flour, bak ery products, breakfast cereals and other grain products. Borman Reported Hiding in Patagonia MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 6HP)-A group of Argentine refugees, calling themselves "the Associa tion de Mayo," said tonight in a broadcast over a Montevideo ra dio station that a German subma rine landed Hitler chief deputy, Martin Bormann in Patagonia. The broadcast said Bormann was only one of several passengers landed by the submarine. Animal Crackers By WACREN GOODRICH "Dorit stand there -go col' cm electrician!" NINETY-FIFTH YEAR nn JvL Upholds Court's Verdict TOKYO, Thursday, Feb. l-(Jt)-General MacArthur today upheld the death sentence imposed in Ma nila on Lt. Gen. Tomokuyi Ya mashita, the Japanese whose sol diers perpetrated the rape of Ma nila. He directed .the commanding general in the western Pacific to "execute judgment upon the de fendant stripped of uniform, dec orations and other appurtenances signifying membership in the mil itary profession." Yamashita, condemned to die on the gallows for condoning wide- MANILA, Thursday, Feb. 7 (AVGenera! MacArthur has in structed army headquarters here to carry out the hanging of Lt. Gen. Tomoyukl Yamash ita tn secret. IX Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer said today. Newspaper men and photographers will be barred, spread atrocities in the Philip pines by troops under his com mand, had lost an appeal to the U.S. supreme court and final au thority was in MacArthur's hands. Date of the execution presum ably will be announced by Lt Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer, command ing" army forces in the. western Pacific. "It is not easy for me to pass penal Judgment upon a defeated adversary in a major military campaign, MacArthur said, how ever. MacArthur said the "Tiger of Malaya" had "proven field merit." But MacArthur was not able to find "some mitigating circum stances on his behalf." The supreme Allied command er added that it was appropriate to recall that Yamashita was ful ly forewarned of the personal consequences of such atrocities as his troops committed in the Phil ippines. On Oct 24, four days after Americans landed on Leyte, Mac Arthur recalled, he had publicly proclaimed that he would hold the Japanese command in the Phil ippines liable for any harm which might result from failure to give prisoners or internees proper treatment. Break Looms In Filibuster WASHINGTON, Feb. . -(P)-Scnator Russel (D-Ga). chief strat egist of forces opposing the bill to set up a permanent fair employ ment practices commission, indi cated tonight that a break -ma v be Imminent in the long filibuster against the measure. "We have lumitted a plan to the other side." he said after conference of FEPC ODDonents. "and they appeared to be -satis fied. Russel indicated that the plan, details of which he said he had promised not to disclose, might bring the matter to a head tomor row and put the bill "out of the way one way or another within a week." The filibuster ha extend ed over a four-week period. Plan to Change Board of Control Expected at Next Legislature j Reports circulating around the statehouse Wednesday forecast a 1947 legislature proposal for the establishment of a full-time state board of control composed of three men not holding elective st'ite offices. Such a board, It was said, would handle such state business problems as purchases, construc tion and supervision of state in stitutions. Sponsors of the proposal refer red particularly to the Minnesota law under which the board of control operates as a distince unit of the state government and free from the dictation of regularly elected state officials. Persons who have studied the Minnesota law saicf it had operated very satisfactorily. Several other states have similar laws. In Oregon the board of control h i ; ; : ) ' POUNDDD 1651 12 PAGES Santiam Roads Closed. New Slide on Columbia Wind Velocities dropped and the weather cleared occasionally Wednesday in Salem! and vicin ity, but the effects of Tuesday's storm j throughout the state mounted. , ' f j j! Latest ' development was the closing of both the, North San tiam and South Santiam high ways last night, according to a state police report. A dirt slide at Upper Soda closed. U.S. route 20 and; heavy snow on the sum mit closed state route 222 there. The ! state highway depart ment earlier bad reported , 12 inches ;of new snow at Santiam junction, making a total of 10S inches jof snow. f-j . f Hope to Reopen ;i - Heavy i wet j snow near the summit also closed the Willam ette highway between Eugene and Klamath Falls Wednesday afternoon, but; snow removal crews pt the state highway de partment : hoped to reopen the road during the night t ! Because the coast highway slide at Garibaldi did not cover the entire road es at first feared, one-way ' traffic was getting through Wednesday, A Slide at Mansan ta closed i the same rotate but traffic was!; detouring via the! Netanicum Jand Wolf Creek jtyghwlays. . . j Detour Provided I I The jwest side Pacific high way was closed by; high water at the St Joe undercrosslng near McMinnville. A detour Was provided. : The j Bellvuei-Hopeweli high way at Deer ! Creek' and the Kings Valley highway south of Dallas also were closed by high water, j Rickreall Creek: over flowed !it banks and went over the Salem-Dallas highway near j Oregon Traffic Deaths Jump 1 42 in 1945 ! ; ,!if h I ! X I - Traffic deaths in Oregon jump ed 42 per cent in 1945,? when 349 persons were killed asj compared with 24$ killed in 1944.! Secretary of State Robert S. : Fprrell, Jr., disclosed here Wednesday. He estimated that a grand total of 45,000 traffic accidents would be reported fori theS year when all records are in, compared with the j 32,047; accidents jinj 1944. i Vehicle - pedestrian. collisions claimed the heaviest ; toll of 1945 fatalities as 119 pedestrians were killed. This is an increase of '58 per cent over the toll of, 75 pedes trians in 1944. - j : jj ! Grade ; crossing accidents ' took 14 lives in 1945 s against 24'jlri 1944. Eight bicycle riders were killed in 1945 compared with 10 In 1944.1 Of the total j fatalities, 116 occurred in Urban areas and 233 or 67 her cent in rural areas. i j i 1 ! -KOAD REPAIR DELAYED ) County road crews ItHi over the county reported set-backs in their road maintenance schedules due to the heavy rains, said County Judge Grant Murphy, f Wednes day! Repairs on the roads neces sitated by the recent heavy rains has j been slowed, down jf consider ably, said Judge Murphy. is composed of the governor, sec retary of state and state treas urer whose individual iffice re sponsibilities have increased ma terially during the past few years. It was argued that jbyf creating the proposed new' board the pres ent members would j have more time to devote to the affairs of their respective departments. The governor, : secretary 'pt j state pr state treasurer would not be bar red from serving on certain com missions. !; 1 4 I : It! was expected that the new proposal Would develop concider able opposition both j with In and without the legislature. Opponents will argue that the governor, sec retary of state and state treas urer, by ;virtue of thei depart ment duties, are best informed on state affairs and should j continue as board of control members. I Salem, Oregon. Thursday ;! t Dairy but traffic was going through. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. t-JV) Heavy snows in the mountain areas of the Pacific northwest tonight snarled railroad sched ules land halted highway traffic as high winds moved ' inland front storm pounded coastal areas. Trains oil the Great Northern, Northern Pacific were running as s late as 14 hours behind schedule in the snow bound Ida ho, Montana and in North and South Dakota. The , Union Pacific's main line p into Portland from Salt Lake City was still blocked by a land slide in the Columbia river gorge. Trains were being rerouted over the Washington state side Of the river on Spo kane, Portland and Seattle rail road1 tracks. New Slldef Another huge rock and earth slide in the Columbia river gorge east of Portland tonight endangered? work crews of the Union Pacific railroad struggling to clear 50,000 tons of slide blocking the mainline between Portland arjd Salt Lake City. A foreman said no workers were injured asf tons of rock slid across U.S. (highway 30, onto the railroad tracks and tumbled intd the rjver for the second time', since jthe first slide tum bled; from the towering gorge walls. j The Liberty ship Henry Aus tin,! which roke loose yesterday while being! towed from San Di ego to Portland, reported this afternoon that she was 80 miles south of the Columbia river mouth under her own power,, with tug escort Marion-Polk Social cieuce Teachers to Have Training Class Social science teachers of junior and senior high schools of Marion and Polk counties will have a two ! day "in service" training school Friday and Saturday, Feb ruarys 8 and 9 at the old high school building, 460 N. Church St., in Salem. The faculty for the special all day meetings will include Dr. Rob ert E. Anderson of the state de partment of education; Dr. J. W. Ellison, history department at Ore gon jState college; Dr. F. Glen Macomber, educational depart ment at University of Oregon; and Mildred Williams, vice principal of Theodore Roosevelt junior high school in Eugene. Reds Reiterate UNO Support LONDON, Feb. Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov tonight pledged Russia's unswerving support of the United Nations as the frankly acknowl edged means of insuring her own peaceful economic development MWe need a lengthy period of peace ' and insured security for our country," Molotov said in an election speech broadcast by the Moscow radio. "The peace-loving policy of the soviet; J union," he added, "is not some transient phenomenon." On the premise of a guaranteed peace,j! he challenged: "capitalist" Europe and America ' to an eco nomic! development rare which he said communist Russia would not lose. !' 8UNSPOT VISIBLE PORTLAND, Feb. -()-A radio-Interfering sunspot may be seen through smoked glasses, Ro bert E. Millar, Portland astrono mer, said today. He described it bs a dark blob in the fun's north ern hemisphere. WAGE POLICY DELAYED I WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. -JT)-OPA Administrator Chester Bowlef disclosed today that the administration thus far had been unable to agree on a new wage price policy and that announce ment bf the formula might not be possible until late 'this week. CLOTHING DRIVE ALA TOKYO I TOKVO, Thursday. Feb. 7-(I')-A fiveS-day city-wide search to confiscate stolen Japanese mili tary food and clothing will begin Feb. 12, newspapers reported to day. Morning. February 7, 1946 Oregon Dam Plan Approved State officials here were elated Wednesday by word from Wash ington, D. C, that many Oregon project are included in the list Of northwest flood control and harbor developments for which the house appropriations commit tee has approved allocation of $276,614,250. The largest projects in the list called for. $2,018,000 for Dorena reservoir knd $1,500,000 for De troit rcsenoir. The committee-approved bill is for army engineer work schedul ed for the year beginning July 1. Besides Dorena and Detroit, these projects were listed: Rivers and harbors Columbia river between Vancouver and Bonneville, $39,000; Columbia river at Bonneville, $805,800. Rivers and harbors advance planning Depot Bay, Ore., $1000; Snake river. Ore., Wash, and Idulio, $500,000; Columbia river, Ore. and Wash., Umatilla (McNary) dam, $600,000. Flood control planning Quartz creek reservoir, Ore., $130,000; Sweet Home reservoir, Ore. $100, 000; Coquille river basin. Ore., $12,000; Nehalem river basin, Ore., $2500; Arlington, Ore., Al kali canyon, $4000. Captain Avers Saf f ord Wrong Oh Wind' Code By William T. Peacock WASHINGTON, Feb. &-UT)-Navy CaptA. D. Kramer said to day he saw only one "apparent" Japanese "winds" code message before Pearl Harbor and it im plied only a Japanese break with England. In a dramatic moment of the hearings by a senate-house com mittee investigating Japan's Dec. 7, 1941, attack, Kramer disputed point by point testimony of Capt L. F. Safford that an intercepted message in Japan's "winds" code gave Washington 72 h o u rji ad vance notice that Japan intended war with this country. Kramer said it was not true, as Safford tesUfied, that such a message was intercepted Dec. 4 and that Kramer wrote on it a translation: "War with U.S., war with England, peace with Rus sia." There was an "apparent" winds message on Dec. 8, Kramer said, but it involved only Japanese British relations. Atom Droppers Due For Repeat Performance WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 - UP) - The 509th composite group of the U.S. army air forces which dropped the atomic bombs on Hi roshima and Nagasaki will repeat the performance on the target warships at Bikini atoll next May The group, with about half the personnel of its wartime organiza tion. Is undergoing special train ing for the test at Roswell Field, New Mexico, a wartime base used for training B-29 crews. Fir Given Top Priority On Building Schedule PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. A federal housing agency action granting "top priority" to the Douglas fir industry production schedule and perhaps a wage and price adjustment to prevent any disruption of operations was re ported by Mayor Earl Riley to day. Mayor Riley said a letter from Wilson Wyatt, national housing administrator, had advised him of the recommended policy by the agency in an effort to spur build ing of homes. NAZI PUPPET SUICIDE BELGRADE. Feb. 6 -A)- Gen. Milan Nedic, Serbia's premier during the nazi occupation, com mitted suicide by hurling himself from a third floor window of the prison in which he was held as a war criminal, the ministry of interior said tonight World Judgi T ' '.. -., ... , " (Story on page 2) Green H. Ilaekworth. U.S. jurbt. elected to the International court of Justice by the UNO as sembly and security council. Technicality Halts Vote on Anti-Strike Bill By Clair Johnson WASHINGTON, Feb. '-()-The house tentatively approved a broad new strike control bill late today but adjourned without fi nal action on the measure. A technicality raised by Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich) blocked a conclusive roll call vote on the far-reaching legislation offered by Rep. Case (R-SD). Hoffman demanded that the bill, with all its numerous amend ments, be read to the members before they voted. The case bill would set up a national mediation board with power to step into major labor disputes and forbid strikes or lockouts for 30 days. It would permit wide use of court injunctions in enforcing the cooling-off period or , In prevent ing violence. It would outlaw vi olence in picketing, ban boycotts and provide for civil suits against either side breaking a contract Sherwood -Mayor J. E. Morback Dies SHERWOOD, Feb. 6-OP)-J. E. Morback, 78, mayor of Sherwood for 30 years, died at his home here last night He came to Sherwood nearly 60 years ago. He first was in the mercantile business, later han died insurance and aided in or ganization of the Citizens' bank. Funeral services have been set tentatively for Friday. Survivors include the widow and three daughters. Premium Flax, Growers' Aim At Santiam Annual Meeting By MARGUERITE GLEESON Valley Editor, The Statesman JEFFERSON, Feb. 6.-(Special) -Grow premium flax and forget about the state buyers. This was the consensus of opinion among the between 30 and 40 growers at the third annual meet ing of the Santiam Flax Growers here tonight. Arthur C. Page, president, had been notified this week the territory this year. But whether the state would or would not buy did not seem to be both ering any of the growers, or at least it was not evident in any expressions of opinion, which seemed to revolve around the quality of the flax grown. It was informally decided to seek a signup of at least 1000 acres of flax before attempting to operate this year and 377 was signed among the few members present The most pessimistic ex pressed confidence that far more than the 1000 acres would be signed in plenty of time. Alfred Lentschner, manager, read a prepared report in which he voiced his confidence in the Industry. Concerning a drop of price he pointed out that a one per cent higher fibre yield would offset a reported drop of five No. 272 Russians Give In To Britain Soviet JJaeks Up on Major Conflict Points By John A. Parris ' tONDON, Feb. -(M-The Unit ed Nations security council to night ended the critical Soviet British dispute over the presence of British troops in Greece after Russia yielded on every major charge made ng.iint British poli cy In Greece. Soviet Vice Commissar Andrei Vishinsky declared In a statement to the council that he would not Insist on a declaration that Brit ish troops In Greece were a men ace to world peace, as he had originally charged, nor that those troops should be withdraw imme diately. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin then announced Britain would ac cept a formula for settling the dispute which was drafted origi nally by the United States and in troduced tonight by Russia. It provided for having the council drop the case with a statement by President Norman J. O. Makin of Australia, and pass on to the next business. Bevin and Vi.shinsky immedi ately shook hand amidst applause from members of the council and the audience. The Russian and BriUsh leaders, who had battled through many tense hours of four council debates on Greece, stood up, their hands clasped for all to see. Solons Delay Pauley Case WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Democratic members of the senate naval committee decided late to day to delay until next week any further hearings on the disputed appointment of Edwin W. Pauley as undersecretary of the navy. Senator Tobey (R-NH) outspok en opponent of the nomination, understood that . the hearings would be resumed next week, but the democratic majority was di vided on that issue. Some of the democrats made it clear they believed President Tru-i man should be requested to with draw the nomination. Others were not convinced a retreat was indi cated in the face of the criticism directed against Pauley, Califor nia oil man and former treasurer of the democratic national com mittee. TAKEN TO CLEANERS PORTLAND, Feb. 0 -()- The Portland Heights cleaners an nounced today the firm was go ing out of business because an OPA order reduced its prices be low a profitable margin, but the OPA answered that the prices were too high and if hardship is occasioned, application for ad justment may be made. reported the board of directors that the state would not buy in cents in price. He cited the Boston firm which is seeking a quality fibre, the tow businefs which amounts to salvage of which no other flax concern takes advan tage, and other favors enjoyed by the Santiam plant. Change In the fiscal year to conform with the calendar year and employment of an understudy for Lentschner were approved by vote of the members. The under study was asked because of the large amount of work the man ager does and the fact that there is no one who can do all of the tasks which are his Job at this time. Harry Asbahr was reelected director and Paul Druishella was a new man elected. Holdover members of the board are Charles Hart A. C. Page and Walter Shelby. Price Sc 465 Off Stricken Vessel Hope Still Held Survivors May Be Located KITt lllKAN, Alaska. Feb (', -The coast guard said tor ikM 32 -tt iMins wcic not accounted U-t v.hn survivors of the wreck tt the mcr Yukon were 'landed t Sf 'U Jhr report said rescue veni h.'.d brought 463 people off the giomiord anil broken Yukon to Sovr.id and that no more es u i :; fr uas expected, but that hr held out that some Tmil lx..:ts might arrive with some or all cf those not yet accounted Ur. No bodies had been found, the cort guard said. The passenger and crew liu were being rechecked at Seward in kn attempt to determine if s i vbo had been listed actually h;.d bn aboard when the Yukon sa'l rd fn.m Seward Sunday night tn it tragic last voyage. Tht- pilot of an army airplare whu-h flew the first disaster pi. -tints to Seattle said it waj "10 digues below zero when we l't An borage hlay and must ha N en lse to zero off Sewarri The pilot, Lt. Roy C. Briten Honolulu, said the "beach" ip n which many of the Yukon's peo ple took refuge "is enly a 10 io 20foot area" at the foot of a 5000 foot cliff. "The waves beat up on it" said. "How anyone could survh long in that water I don't know Two Killed in Illinois Strikes, Tugboats Tied By the Associated Press Two fatal shootings in an hU nois railroad strike fracas and a call from the office of defers, transportation for army and navy authorities to man Kew York hi bor's strikebound tugtwats miikr 4 the nation's postwar labor pictui yet-terday. Lawrence C. Tamer, fedcifcl manager of the struck tugboat f;- cilities, .ent out a request ff army and navy help to rotor shipping after representatives ef 3500 striking AFL longshoremen voted against returning to uorH on government-seized boats. Two men were killed and three others were wounded In a burtl of gunfire at Grldley, 111., after the strike bound Toledo ? Peoria and Western railroad moved a coal train out of its strikebound Peoria, 111., yards. Sheriff Earl Richards of Bloom ington. III., said he had been in formed the shooting followed throwing of rocks at trainmen when the train stopped at a cro.. ing. At redria, W. C. Reiser, vie president cf the Brotherhood rt Locomotive Firemen and Engine men, asserted "our strikers were shot down in cold blood by em ployed gunmen of the railroad." Russians Urge Arabs to Action LONDON, Feb. MAVA Mos cow broadcast quoting the maga zine New Times today declared that the war had brought "the changes necessary for the Arab countries to obtain national sov ereignty," and In soviet Armenia, a high official said Armeniacs wanted "the return of soviet Ar menia, forcibly occupied by Tur key." The Moscow broadcast quoting the New Times 6aid "important changes have also occurred in the relations of forces between th great powers who consider them selves involved in a solution C the middle east problems." It said Arab countries wer striving for lndMcndence, end that the United St was be coming active in te middle eat, particularly in "economic pene tration." PALACES ENDANORttD LONDON, Feb -()- Occu pants of Buckinphrm Palace and Marlborough House, where Dow ager Queen Mary is in residence, were warned today to move to the back rooms while engineers attempt to remove the fuse from the first of three urtexploded German bombs In St. James park. Weather Max. 47 - 47 - 4S S3 .. 4 Mln. lUtn Salem Eugene Portland San Franciaco Seattle 44 .M 3 1 44 39 J 44 M J8 Willamette river 59 ft. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau, McNary field. Satem): Mostly "loudy today, occasional light fhowara. Little temperature chance. Htglttrt todav 48 rfearees