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o) (Story in Column 4) W .S Iff f rn tor i - -"crr , ji ( v? r -.--.' . f.',jt..V AT THE CORSE OF STATE AND HIGH la Salem, three Willamette froth Mndy paid a debt, Incarred when their elaM failed to win the annual freshman glee eentet Jean Brewn Salem, ate everything on a luncheon mena except traffle jam, while two fraas-aklrted eoeda ' f rom Portland, Barbara A. MacDnffee (left) and Uarilee Olson, turned "stop" and Mffe tijrnals, fore and aft, to wta plenty of attention from loncb-hoor motorists. Sophomores wen the sen -f est last week, their eatchy "flxht" son beinc warbled by winners and losers alike at last nl-ht eage game where see- d4 pUce iianiers also took to place seniors took to the ky millraee Monday as their penalty for gin rummy in the middle of State street as penance. (Statesman-McEwan CRT SHEDS mDQDDCl 'There is an obvious parallel be tween the present and the period immediately following the Civil war which the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, falling today, brings to mind. Then as now the country was emerging from a long and bloody war. The terms of ' "unconditional surren der" as applied to Germany and Japan had their origin in the blunt terms of General Grant in the Civil war. Then as now the de feated section wss prostrate, and the errors cf the policy of recon- t strucltaa as developed by the fire eaten, ol the north following Lin coln's death survive in smoulder ing sectionalism to this day. Carl Sandberg, biographer of Lincoln, writing of the problems arising with Lee's surrender at Appamatox, notes this: . "Joseph Gillespie of Illinois, on asking what was to happen in the south after the war, heard Lin coln say that some thought that certain heads ought to come off. But if it was left to me, I could not tell where to draw ; the line between whose heads should come off, and whose heads should stay on.' Re had been reading of Da vid's putting down a rebellion and David's nephew, Abishai, crying ' that a man ought not to be par doned because he had cursed the Lord's anno in ted. David's reply (.came: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries unto me. Shall there any man bo put to death this day in Israel?' " The same problem arises in Ja pan and Germany today how (Continued on Editorial Page) Auto-Truck Crash Kills Molalla Man OREGON CITY, Feb. MJP)-K collision on the Molalla-Oregon City road near Mulino yesterday was fatal to Joe Ray Philpot, 23, Molalla, police said ioday. His auto and a truck driven by Norman Lien, Banks, collided. Two Molalla girls riding with Philpot Gloria Westberg, 19, and Nina Sumpter, 29 were Injured. Sets Public Hearing On River Berthings PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. U-0V The coat guard announced today a public hearing will be held here Wednesday on the berthing of about 200 war shipping adminis tration vessels In the Willamette and. Columbia rivers. Animal Craclccrs By WARREN GOODRICH J-jnicr, where art you 7" . - . i the fler to parodr the melody. The City-Invoked Rent Control Again Studied Local rent control was being discussed again in official circles today as a means of bringing down Salem habitation costs and as an alternative to OPA restric tions, believed to be "on the way" now to Oregon's capital city. Mayor I. Dough ton said Monday, at a conference, that be began to 'receive complaints of jumped rents shortly after the expiration of a city ordinance last November At that time it was maintained the city's authority to restrict rents was solely a war time prerogative-Now, it is con sidered possible .the existence of an emergency , tnay. provide new authority. J; Bringing OPA controls to the city might well discourage a con siderable amount of building. It was declared Monday, although most builders will automatically come under some type of rent control by virtue of federal build ing requirements. Sitting in on Monday's confer ence with the mayor were E. D. Potter, president of the Salem Board of Realtors; Alderman R. A. Forkner, realtor; Leo N. Childs, realtor and member of the for mer rent control board, and Clay Cochran, chamber manager. Power Station Blast Kills 2, Results in $19,000 Damages; PGE Investigating Cause Investigation continues today in an attempt to learn the cause of a blast of fire in the Portland Gen eral Electric company control room at liberty and Trade streets which Sunday sent two employes to their death. Power company officials de clared Monday night they be lieved they might yet determine what brought about the great short circuit which claimed: the lives of Lyle E. Davis and Alvin C. Steinka and wrought damages which mounted toward $19,000 when a damaged piece of equip ment shorted Monday morning causing a second fire. Davis, chief operator at the sub station, who had been with the company approximately 10 years in Salem and prior to that had worked in Portland, and Steinka, his assistant, were experienced el ectricians, doing -a routine. Job when the great short occurred, W. M. Hamilton, Willamette val ley division mnaeer for PGE, said. The widow, a son, 14, and a daughter, 10, survive Davis, who died in a hospital shortly after he was injured. Steinka, who died seven hours later, is survived by his widow, a son 3, and a daugh ter 2, a sister, Irene Barnes, route 7, box 402, and his mother, Cora A. Steinka, S3, missing from her home since December 28. Sunday service interruptions varied from a moment or two, to 30 minutes, M hours and three hours, while Monday's was brief, Hamilton placed the loss is the Sunday fire at $12,000, that in Monday's, which resulted from test operations of a damaged 17,-OOO-voH generator, he estimated at about $7000. SHIPYARD HUMS AGAIN PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. Oregon Shipbuilding corporation yard hummed again today as work started on three big cargo-passenger liners for Alcoa. Construction is expected to swell the present Davroll from 1050 to nearly 3000 by March, yard officials. J I - I 1 1 i freshmen placed third. Fenrth losing. One group of losers played photo) Sailor Killed In Car Mishap At Chemawa Raymond Leo Heath, a sailor from the naval hospital at Camp Adair, died Monday In a Salem hospital: from Injuries incurred when a car in which he was rid' lng crashed into another machine at Chemawa junction. The car, driven by Frederick D. Lindsay, also from the hospital, had been chased by Salem police at high speeds from inside the' city, offi cers said. Lindsay was also injured seri ously and was moved to the na val hospital Monday from Salem Deaconess hospital. Mrs. Arthur Wilson, Salem, who was riding in the other car driven by her hus band, was treated for facial lacer ations at Salem General hospitaT but her Injuries were reported not serious. - - r : The sailor's car had been re ported missing from In front of the Ladd and Bush bank by Ir vin Weathers, Keizer district, shortly after the chase began. Naval officials withheld names of hometowns of the two men. OFFICES. BANKS CLOSE ' All city, county, and state offi ces, including the state liquor store, will be , closed today In honor! of Lincoln's birthday Banks will also close their doers, Aged Accident Victim Dies ! Edgar J W. Myers, 75, Of 1320 Chemeketa st, resident of the Sa lem community; since 1929, died Monday, four days after he had been struck by an automobile at 2100 S. Commercial si His wife preceded him In death Sept 23 1945. i Funeral services are to be held Wednesday, February 13, from the W. T. Rigdon chapeL the Rev. Wlllard Hall officiating. Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Cora Keough, -and a nephew and niece, John A. Keough and Edna A. Keough, all of Bakersfield; Calif. Byrnes Sees Tangible Gain In Huge U. S. Loan to Britain NEW YORK. Feb. ll.-WVSec-retary of State Byrnes said tonight thatv the projected $3,750,000,000 loan to i Britain would provide "tangible, firm gains for the Unit ed State? nd for the rest of the world." "What we gain is the chance for expanding world trade, for free dom, for goods and money to flow where they may, for a prosperous world and not a lean world," Byrnes said. His address was pre pared for the foreign policy associ ation and for broadcast In part by ABC. It was the president's first Weather Max. Win. Rain trae trae J01 JOO J00 li)B Eugcn . Portland -4t ST SS S7 29 aa .4S .41 47 San rranctaco S3 wlllametU rlvr .7 ft FORECAST I from US. -Wfrnlhrr bu- . McNry field. Salem): ; Partly cloudy today. Highest temperature S3 degrees. j NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES Industry Assails Shackles Changes in High Command Near, , Newsmen Told WASHINGTON, Feb. ll-itfVt Snags of an undisclosed nature. delayed again today the an nouncement of a revised wage price policy designed to curb strikes, but the White House con firmed that changes in the eco nomic high command are in pros pect No names were mentioned by presidential secretary Charles Roes in telling newsmen of the prospective changes, but reports have circulated that OPA admin istrator Chester Bowles, strong advocate of holding whatever new line is established, would take over as stabilization administra tor. Increase Being Studied Meantime It was disclosed by an informed official, who declined use of his name, that among the proposals considered during the day by the government was that a 17 Va per cent increase in the na tional wage scale be permitted. Coupled with this was the sug gestion that price relief would be granted manufacturers and em ployers to permit them profits av eraging 1936-39 levels, after the 17'zi per cent wage increase had been Included in their costs. Price "Shackles" Hit The over-all proposal, however. was but one of several forntulart reported under discussion, during day-long conferences among top officials. Meantime, a major segment of industry that "shackles of price control" be removed from manu factured goods. The demand was made In full page advertisements timed to appear this morning In Washington and New York and sponsored by the National Associ ation of Manufacturers. Students Win Theatre Price VERNONIA, Ore., Feb. 1 The two-week picketing of a the atre by high school pupils who demanded a special non-adult ad mission price ended successfully today. j Jack Riley, a student spokes man, said the theatre owners had agreed to a 404cent price 10 cents below the adult charge, and that Mrs. Zelma Dow, Joy theatre manager, had also promised "bet ter" shows. ! The teen-agers locked' arms around the box office January 24, forcing a shut down of the only theatre in this small lumbering community. 4 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. A fire which roared through a two-story house early today after a stove exploded trapped and burned to death four children of Mr. and Mrs. George Locher. Flames thwarted their father's rescue attempts. speech on the proposed multi-billion dollar loan and trade agree ment made public Dec 6 and now awaiting congressional action. Byrnes said he believed some of the most significant American benefits would come from the pledge to support U. - S. Trade goals, contained In the British "white paper," Issued simultan eously with the loan proposal. The "white paper" calls for a collective assault by the United Nations on all trade barriers to promote a freer flow of goods in postwar world commerce. It will be the basts for an American-spon sored world trade conference this summer. "By this commitment, the Brit ish take their place at our side as our economic allies and not our economic enemies." Byrnes declared. He added, however, that the British can not participate in the program for freer trade unless the loan is approved by congress. MUNDBO Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Price Adjustment Is Demanded Bv Milk Producers PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. ll.-fyp) -Portland milk producers, in a brief filed with the OPA, said late today their "patience has run out in waiting for a" time when price control would be rian&ved," and demanded a "satisfactory adjust ment by the last day ,in Febru ary." The brief was signed by the Portland Independent Milk Pro ducers' association. Farmers' Dai ry, and the Battleground Dairy men's and Dairy Cooperative as sociations. It purported to repre sent the entire Portland milk shed south to Eugene and east to The Dalles. An immediate increase to $1.15 a pound was asked for butterfat. Dairy interests have contended they are losing money by keeping up the fluid milk supply (grade A) under present controls. UNO Chooses Tentative Site In Two States LONDON. Feb. 11. -(F)- The United Nations assembly commit tee chose the Fairfield county. Conn.-Westchester county, N. Y., area tonight as UNO's permanent home, by a vote of 22 to 17 but the close vote Indicated a possible hard fight over the choice when the question comes before the full general assembly. The decision came after a last ditch fight by the French delega tion which had scattered ,L a t i n American and strong Arab sup port to delay selection of a perman ent headquarters. The French had made it known they would have preferred the San Francisco bay area. China, Russia and British com mittee members all cast affirma tive votes. U. S. delegates abstain ed from voting. The special site inspection group which visited the United States recommended New York City as the interim location but also re ported that Atlantic City and Bos ton were available. Homma Given Death; Appeal Denied in U. S. MANILA, Feb. ll.-VP)-Lt C-en. Masaharu Homma, self-styled op ponent of Japan's reckless war policy, was convicted today of re sponsibility for the notorious Ba taan death march and other atro cities, and sentenced to die before a firing squad. Soon afterward the supreme court announced in Washington Its refusal to intervene in his case. The usually suave, English speaking Japanese commander t in the Philippines was stoic and glum as the U. S. military trial commission announced its verdict, the death sentence. Brides, Babies Arrive on Queen Mary .'r- I - V'-'nK " ' t- ,. V - ' '-'-j i, ii ,ii r 1 1 1 iill m nil i i T- i i g-m mrnrttH'".'i Til iig-jai urn 'i'.i nT ' rn wit i :W YORK, Feb. 1L NEWCOMERS TO U. 8 At left. Mrs. Horace FendergTaas feeds ber son. Stephen James, 1 year, en pier here today after debarking from liner Queen Mary t start Journey to Rosebcrr, Ore., to Join bosband. At right Norse Mrs. George Wallace holds Thomas Hooker, Jr., 21 months, who is bound for Los Angeles, while In basket are Patricia Dors Cohn (left). months, bound for San Jose Calif., and Frances Karsman. . months, en route to Ios Angeles. The Queen Mary brooght MM brides and ICS babies. (AT WlrepboU to The Oregon Statesman) IA51 Morning. February 12. 1948 as- Allied Concessions To Reds Confirmed In Secret WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. iA concessions including outright rxisiiesslon of the 700 mile chain of Kurile islands off the Siberian const from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in return for Russia's entry into the war against Japan. This direct tie-up between the Soviet agreement to fight Nippon and the concessions was disclosed officially for the first time with publication today of the text of the secret pact exactly one year after the three leaders signed it at Yalta. The document said the Soviet union would go into the fight "on condition that:" The Kuriles be "handed over" to Russia; The Mongrolian people's repub lic be preserved as an independent state; Russia's former rights in the far east which were "violated by the treacherous attack of Japan in 1904" be restored. These in cluded: 1. Return to Russia of southern Sakhalin and adjacent islands; 2. Internationalization of Port Darien and restoration of the Sov iet lease on Port Arthur as a naval base; 3. Joint Russian-Chinese opera tion of two railroads providing out lets to Dairen. i The pact conceded that the pro visions on outer): Mongrolia, the ports and railroads required con currence of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. U. S. Opposed To Indonesian Investigation LONDON, Feb. ll-(P)-The United States flatly opposed to night a Russian and Ukrainian de mand that the United Nations se curity council investigate the In donesian situation. Speaking for the American gov ernment, Edward R. Stettlniui, Jr., said that any action at this time might upset efforts of the Dutch to restore peace. Dn V. K. Wellington Koo of China promptly announced his government had no objection to such a commission, urging that it might be "helpful" in furthering harmony among the nations and dissipating doubts about Java. The former US. secretary of state told the council that the American government believed Russia and the Soviet Ukraine had failed to present evidence that an investigating commission would serve a "constructive pur pose." The Ukrainian foreign commis sar, Dmitri Manuilsky, had opened today's debate with a proposal that the security Council send a five-power commission Russia, Britain, the United States, China and the Netherlands to Indonesia. No. 276 Document Premier Stalin exacted three major House Chiefs Agree to Push Housing Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. CflP Almost complete agreement on legislation to carry out President Truman's vast homes for-veterans program was reached today by house democratic and republican leaders. After housing administration Wilson W. Wyatt gave notice that the executive agencies are restor ing almost a wartime system of controls in the housing industry. th legislators decided to unite in pushing a bill which would: Provide $600,000,000 in subsidy payments to encourage higher out put of scare building materials. Extend for a year beyond June 30 the government's power to allo cate and grant priorities on build ing materials. Give veterans preference in ob taining the proposed 2,700,000 new homes in two years. The republicans balked, how ever, at the Truman-Wyatt plan to put price ceilings on the exist ing 40,000,000 dwellings, leaving this issue to be fought out on the house floor next week. Wyatt delivered an appeal for his "premium payment" plan. It will not be used to subsidize pres ent production, he said, but will apply only to materials produced over and above present output 3 Candidates File For Place On May Ballot An Astoria democrat who seeks the state senate seat now held by republican newspaper publisher. Merle R. Chessman, and two Will amette university law graduates were among the candidates filing Monday with the secretary of state for places on May primary election ballots. Gordon Sloan announced he would seek the democrat nomlna tlon for the senate in the north coast district Melvin Goode, Al bany republican. Just out of navy uniform, filed for district attorney, Linn county, and W. W. Balder- ree, Grants Pass republican, in cumbent filed for state represent ative, Josephine county. Both Goode and Balderree are graduates of Willamette. R. C Frisbee, Baker republican, filed for state representative Price Sc Fuel Low Because Of Strike Mayor Orders City's Business Wheels Stopped By the Aisocutted Prsa BiiMne nd amusement places in New York - - world's large Vi Hty - - -)ed their doors at mid nijcht Monday night in an unpre cedented uction ordered by Mayor Wtlliiim O'Dwyer as the result a fuel fchortige caused by a struV of tugboat workers. The mayor's drastic move or dering closing of all commercial, business and industrial establish ments and all theaters and night clubs followed the tugboat work ers decision to arbitrate the-r wuge dispute. There was no im mediate evidence of a return to work. Power Strike Set Today New York's emergency order came as Pennsylvania's governor issued a last minute appeal to de fer a threatened power company strike affecting 2.000,000 persons in Pittsburgh today and a U. S. conciliator trying to settle Phila delphia's transportation walkout reported his department wss "evoking a plan which we think may offer a solution" to the wort traffic Jam in the city's history. ! Prior to Monday's proclamation'. In New York O'Dwyer had order- ed closing cf the city's schools and ' dimming of street lights to sa dwindling fuel supplies, which-' normally are towed to Manhat tan by tugboat from. New Jersey ; Public utilities, transportation, communication and health servi ces were- excluded from the un precedented closure order, along with food and fuel establishments, dwellings, and city services such as police and fire departments. 50.0l More Are Idle Altogether the nation's total workers on strike or-tadiroctiy idle In disputes remained near tl , 1,453,000 mark- - up abenit 50,- i 000 over a week ago. In Detroit the CIO United Auto Workers advised 175.000 striking . production employes st General ; Motors to "hold your lines"! In de mands for more than 18ty cent . hourly wage Increase. Telegrams , sent to all GM locals said that the union Would not "permit the cor- ; po rati on to use the settlement i with the CIO United Electrical Workers to compromise UAW de mands." In other strike disputes. West- ' em Union operators in New Yerk City returned to work; at least 11 men were Injured and six arrest- i' ed when police broke through a : picket line at the Conestoga Transportation company, Lancas ter, Pa.; and the busy port of Bos ton approached stagnation as TOO warehouse employes struck at 11 storage plants, five of them filled with foodstuffs. Let It Snoio In Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1M?-It snowed in two sections of Los An- . geles today while the sun was shining over the remainder . that's as rare, brother, as if it had cleared up cloudy after a warm frost or a dry drizzle. It was only a five minute flurry and the snow pellets melted as ' fast as they hit It even sprinkled in a couple of. areas, but Old Sol beamed bright ly above it all. Truman Will Not Run, Paper Savg CHICAGO, Feb. 11. -W,- The Chicago Sun says in a dispatch by Thomas F. Reynolds of its Washington bureau that "high ad ministration sources" reported to night President Truman has made "a private declaration that he does not wish to seek the presidency in IMS." RECOMMEND STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. H.-ff) A coastwise negotiating committee for the International longshore men's and warehousemen's union checkers and supercargoes voted unanimously today to recommend a strike on or before April 1. Home Needed For Aged Man Attention of ' The Statesman has been called to the need of n aged man for a borne. The )lace where"he has been stay ing has been sold and be faces eviction. There must be rom place in Salem where he i be red for. If one knows of such a place, call The SUtesman, 9101. rV