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mm CUP As another crop season ap proaches farmers are becoming alarmed over the lack of ferti liser. During the war the War Production board allocated sup plies and protected the require ments of agriculture. This control has been abandoned. Instead UN'RRA ha commandeered all nitrates for export to countries it is ht-lping to get 'back on their jwt. This leaves the American farmer holding an. empty fer tilizer bag. Aware of the need of Oregon farmers for fertilizer for the pro duction of numerous crop the state, college extension nervice got busy some months ago and se cured authorization from govern ment agencies for the alumina t,ht here to manufacture 5000 tons of ammonium sulphate for local diftribution. Of this some 1500 tons has been delivered. Thin was being manufacturer at a Ions and the RFC which has been financing this plant protest ed, since this was not the primary purpof-e for which the plant was built. Now a plan is being worked out to raiae the price to $49 a ton which will cover the produc tion cost; but it require the ap proval of numerous government agencies before it becomes effec tive and the fear is 'that this ap proval may come too late. The eeneral public is little aware of the need and value of fertilizer in crop production, par ticularly for specialty crops such as our growers make most of their money from. We grow large quanties of grass seeds for exam ple, like ryegrass and fescue grasses. Nitrogen-bearing fertiliz er is required to bring the yield to a profitable level. Sugar beet seed requires the use of 100 to 150 lbs. of riitrogen per acre. Pro duction of Vegetables for canning and freezing (Continued on editorial page) Dispute Halts All Loading at Portland Docks PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. 20.-(A) -A month, old dispute between shippJng cargo checkers and the HawaUan-American Steamship company threatened tonight . to . spread throughout the port of Portland within 24 hours and tie up all loading. R. E. Ferguson, manager of the Waterfront Employers here, an nounced employers had set a Thursday 5:00 p. m. deadline for members of the supercargo and checkers union, CIO, to work ships as directed or arbitrate their grievance according to their contract. Ferguson said unless the work ers complied the employers would cancel the agreement.- All ship ping here would be affected if pie agreement is broken off, union officials said, Loading of two Victory ships has been halted since late last month in the dispute over the number of checkers to be em ployed. Hirobito Sees War Carnage TOKYO. Thursday, Feb. 21.-OP) Iliiohitn, on the second day of his first postwar inspection of the area around Tokyo, Wednesday viewed some of the human wreck age of his country's lost war. At repatriation centers In Ur aga and Kurihama he saw gaunt survivors of his shattered navy the wasted frames and pinched faces of men worn down by ma laria and malnutrition on the lost inlands of the Pacific the ragged, hungry hopelessness of civilian repratriates. Those who were strong enough stood erect and bowed as the em peror passed, or knelt humbly on their beds. Many were too weak for any gesture of reverence. Animal Crackers By WAPREN GOODRICH "Things are beginning to look all right... the world mutt be in an awful mess!" CW t Sun Sm4.r.f 2-Zt Landlords to Establish t ' i ' Voluntary Rent Control With the purpose of heading off federal rental control by establishing voluntary regula tion of rentals a group of 25 owners of rental properties in cluding apartments and houses, met at the Quelle cafe Wednes day and organized a Home and Property Owners' association. J. F. Ulrich, realtor and apartment house owner, was elected presi dent and Ed Piasecki secretary treasurer. Owners of 200 living units were represented at the m-etipg. The procedure planned is to name an appraisal committee on which war veterans will be rep resented to appraise rental val Retired General Pictures Army As Undemocratic, Feudalistic WASHINGTON, Feb. retired Brigadier general who was a West Point classmate of Gen. Mark Clark today described the army as "undemocratic and unAmericah a feudal-? istic organization carried over into the atomic age." ' The description, and others just as pithy, was applied by former Brig. Gen. II. C. Hold- ridge in testimony before the house military committee. Criticizing the army's advocacy of universal military training, the 53 year old retired Washington general made these other refer ences to the military branch: "It is always one or two wars behind in its thinking." It is "trying to railroad this legislation through on a wave of postwar hysteria." "Army has not looked at itself in the mirror for 150 years. Its "most prominent characteristic is its medieval caste system which sets up unsurmountable barriers between the officer aristocracy and the enlisted man ... It pro motes class consciousness and class cleavages." Its judicial system "is not a system of justice at all but a system of military discipline and punishment carried over from the days of Gustavug Adolphus by way of the British army." "The army leadership is' class conscious, ultra-conservative, ab solutist," and the army itself of fers "an excellent breeding ground for totalitarianlsnut ' SeptUplet Story Puts Netvsmen On Cold Trail PARIS, Feb. 20 Report ers of various nationalities comb ed the left bank of the Seine tonight for a woman with seven new-born children. The furor began soon after a tipster for an English news agen cy telephoned the "scoop" to his superiors without, apparently checking on Its accuracy. Several hour and many ques tions later they returned, con vinced that the reported birth1! septuplets was another "duck," as the French say for a phoney, but not until the residents of tiny Rue Galande had a glorious time agitatedly denying knowledge of any such event. The patron in one bistro said it was news to him, but if Cana da can do something like that so could France. Wasn't that Cana dian family really French, mon sieur, after all? YUGOSLAVS MOVE TROOPS ROME, Feb. 20.-i-Yugoslav troops were reported by the Gior nale del Mattino to be moving to ward the Morgan line, in Venezia Giulia today as an allied com mission of experts prepared to in vestigate the situation In the area claimed by both Italy and Yugoslavia. Materials, Men Already Gathering at Pacific Outposts in Preparation for Coming Atom Tests By Don Whitehead KWAJALEIN, Feb. 20. There Is a strange story unfolding today in the sunwashed remote ness of the Marshall islands as a Joint army-navy ta.sk force pre pares for "operation crossroads" the atomic bomb tests against sea power. . Kwajalein no longer is merely a lonely Pacific outpost or a way station on the aerial routes link ing Asia and America. It is a busy, vital, exciting place where every one present knows he will have a ringside seat at one of the greatest experiments of all times. "Crossroads" is a magic word here. Preparations are being rush ed and No. 1 priorities are com monplace. More and more officers and mm are arriving daily to help with the spadework. Arrange mom arc being made to help ues In case of question of the rentals charged. Members of the association agree to abide by the decision of the committee. The membership list will be ex tended as rapidly as possible. "We hope that this voluntary action will curb any excessive charges? in Salem so that OPA control will not be necessary," stated Ulrich. "We have asked Mayor Dough ton not to call in the federals until we have a chance to get this; organization set up. Our group will have representative board of M,ven directors besides the special ap praisal committee and we hope to work out the problems that are arising over rentals. ; Fortas Fails to Recall Ickesi WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-P) The ; senate naval i committee's hearing of Edwin W. Pauley's no mination as undersecretary of the navy was recessed late today until Tuesday to allow time for arrival of additional California witnesses. T. S. Petersen, vice president of the Standard Oil company of California; H. D. Col lier, member of the board of that company, and Vic Rosetti, i presi dent of the Farmers and! Mer chants National Bank of Lbs An geles. ' Abe Fortas supplied no defi nite corroboration or denial to day of the accusation leveled by his ;) former chief, i Harold L. Ickes, against Pauley. Fortas, then undersecretary of the Interior, was. third man at a conference of Ickes and Pauley in 1944 when, Fortas said, the two topics of democratic campaign funds and a government oil suit were discussed. ' But Fortas told the senate na val committee he could not re member whether Pauley linked the two "on a contingent basis" as Ickes has asserted and Pau ley has denied. j The controversy also brought these developments: 1. Secretary of the Navy For restal indicated there have been discussion of Pauley's succeed ing to the secretaryship when Forrestal resfgns. ! . j 2. Senator Stewart (D-Tenn) asserted the democratic party Is "seriously split over the nomina tion" and called upon Pauley, "out of common decency to withdraw his own name." , Mediator Ends Transit Strike LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. 2lPf UP)John Murray, United States labor department conciliator, an nounced early today that union and management representatives had reached an agreement to end the 18-day transit strike which had I crippled this j Pennsylvania community of 60,000. "The agreement will be sub mitted to the union membership at 9 a. m. (EST) for ratification. Both union and company' repre sentatives are to be commended for the fine job they have done In working out this agreement.'' supply the atomic bomb test fleet when it moves in. Already, men gather each night under bright stars and surf-silvering moonlight to speculate what will happen when the new atomic bomb explodes over the target fleet in the waters of Bikini atoll 230 miles to the northwest. "K guy can't help but wonder, even if he Isn't scared," said tow headed young George L. Michael of Harlan, Ky. Eniwetok, as well as Bikini, will be evacuated, because, ; even though it is 180 miles from Bikini, winds might strew it with radio active particles. No one can fore tell what will happen, so no one is taking any chances. The islanders know that the atomic bomb is to be dropped. Of ficers have explained to them carefully, in simple terms, what is planned. Pauley Parley NINETY-FIFTH YEAR U PAGES Salem. Oregon. Thursday Delay Due In Phone Walkout Mediator Claims Progress in CM. Strike Talk By the Associated Press Threat of a nationwide tleup of telephone service was delay ed, at least temporarily, yester day and a federal mediator re ported "substantial" progress to ward settling the 92-day-old General Motors strike. The head of the National Fede ration of Telephone Workers ap pealed to government officials to intervene in the federation'! wage dispute with the industry, prom ising not to strike until "after we have talked with you." But a group consisting of 17 of the 50 NFTW affiliates represent ed at a Memphis, Term., strategy meeting, pressed for more direct action, with its leader contending some delegates wanted an early telephone strike date set. Best So Far In Detroit, Federal Mediator James F. Dewey said yesterday's negotiations session between the General Motors corporation and striking CIO United Auto Work ers was "the best so far" and that substantial progress had been made toward reaching agreement. Dewey said the negotiators dis cussed "everything" at issue and that another meeting had been scheduled for 10 a.m. (EST) to day and would "probably contin ue straight through." Detroit Sans Milk Meanwhile some 400,000 fami lies in Detroit were left without milk deliveries when an estimat ed 1300 employes of four large dairies quit work in a wage dis pute. The CIO United Dairy Workers are demanding 10 cents an hour more wages, retroactive to Sept. 1, 1945, and an additional 10 cents hourly to be paid i on approval by - the wage stabiliza tion board, providing such ap proval is forthcoming within 60 days. Otherwise the labor picture re mained without important change, with some 970,000 Idle in con tinuing labor disputes. Pope Pius Hits At Imperialism VATICAN CITY, Feb. 20 CP) Pope Pius XII declared today that modern imperialism "carries in It germs which endanger the very foundations of human inter course" and called upon the Rom an Catholic church to take a militant leadership in preparing a : basis on which human society "can rest securely." The pontiff, speaking in i a world-wide broadcast, expressed grave concern over the "unbri dled tendency toward expansion" now evident in the world. The pontiff once again stressed the "supranationalism" of a uni versal church as exemplified In the 22 nationalities now repre sented in the college of cardinals, and urged the world "which everywhere hungers and thirsts for unity" to rally around it ROAD CONDITIONS NORMAL Most Oregon highways offered normal travel conditions Wednes day, despite light snowfall in cen tral and eastern parts of the state Tuesday night. State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock reported Wednesday. The Bikini folk are preparing to leave, perhaps never to return. They accepted philosophically the selection of their coral Islands for the tests, and on March 1 navy ships will begin moving them and their household belong ings to the island of Rongerik, 135 miles to the east There they will be re-established in new homes provided by the Americans. Kwajalein bears no resem blance to the shambles across which the U.S. seventh infantry division charged on Feb. 1, 1944, to storm the Japanese garrison holed up in pillboxes, foxholes and concrete and steel Emplace ments. Lawns have been sodded and neat paths outlined with spark ling white coral rock but the Island's 4000 Americans can't for get that battle. The U.S. ceme tery's row of crosses are still too new and too white. MUNDHB 1651 Cabbies Organize for Drive r r V f- t WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Taxl-drlring war veterans (shewn above erg Mixing la Chicag ) bivouacked in Camp Slmnw, mm unnsed army camp est the MUhestera atsktrts, tonlrM n4 snapped a eam palsrn for federal aid ba getting- back licenses frem tbelr city. They plan t parade around the capltol tomorrow In the 159 black and cream-colored taxlcabs they drove here from Chicago In a three-day trip through snow and sleek Japs Complain Soviet Holding Nippon Troops TOKYO, Thursday, Feb. 21.-(P) -Authoritative allied sources said today that General MacArthur's headquarters has forewarded to Washington the latest of "several" official Japanese government re quests for allied help in repatri ating Japanese from Russian-occupied areas. Headquarters acted merely as a forwarding agency, these sources said, pointing out that any future action is up to Washington. Only a trickle has reached Jap an from Korea and the Kuriles, and Tokyo newspapers said that these "escaped." A virtually com plete absence of information here about Japanese in Manchuria Is increasing anxiety among local relatives. Newspaper interviews with "es caped persons" from the Kuriles have described relatively good living conditions, however, with ample food supplies and only lim ited internment. So far as is known, these mark the first official Japanese govern ment communications with Wash ington on international matters. Ickes Plagued by Offers for Column, Talks, Memoirs WASHINGTON, Teb. JO.-- Even In a retirement, curmud geon Is a busy, busy fellow. Drop In at Harold Ickes' Sutler hotel office suite anytime for proof. Racing frantically about the room is Miss Ellen Dowries, long time Ickes' secretary. She relaxed long enough to ex plain what the trouble was. Seems people won't let Ickes alone. "All sorts of offers," sighed Miss Downes. "Writing, radio, column, memoirs, everything." This line of conversation was stopped by a knock at the door. A well tailored gentleman stepped In. You could almost hear his check books rustle as he walked over to await his turn. They're after Harold, all right. Board of Control to Take Action on Bid Possibility of a readvertisement for bids for construction of a patients' dormitory at the state hospital farm was seen Wednes day by some state officials as they speculated on what action the state board of control might take at its Thursday meeting to con sider the low bid of $511,940, which is 00 per Cent over the state engineers' estimate of cost. Board members were silent as to what action is contemplated. Friendly Act Costs Salem Woman $14 Sometimes hospitality doesn't pay, and when it doesn't it's an old story to police. Mrs. L. G. Prescott, 243 S. 15th st., Sunday befriended a strange woman who said she could not find lodgings anywhere in Salem, by letting her sleep on a daven port. On Wednesday Mrs. Prescott told local police her davenport lodger had disappeared, and so had $14 from a purse left at heme when Mrs. Prescott went out shopping. Morning, February 21, 1948 Jack Yon, Salem Boxer, Dies After Fight in Armory Jack Von, 180-pound Salem fighter, died last nlgfat in a local hospital from what Is be llcved to have been Injuries suffered In a boxing bout at the armory with Bobby Ford, 178 pound Portland negro. Cause of death was not stated at the hospital and hospital attendant said an autopsy would be performed Thursday. Von was rushed to the hos pital Immediately after he lost via technical knockout to Ford In the fifth round of their bout. He died 29 minutes after en tering the hospital, attendants said. (Full details on sports page). Cotton Garment Plan Aimed to Aid Production WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (JF) The government tonight outlined a new program designed to in crease production of inexpensive cotton gaments by fifty per cent. It provides for Incentive price increases to textile mills so as to boost output of the type of fabric needed for such scarce ap parel as men's shirts, shorts and pajamas, women's dresses, and work clothing. The program also aims at re stricting production of less es sential but currently more profi table fabrics. The plan was outlined at a news conference by officials of the OPA and the civilian produc tion administration after a day long discussion by government and Industry representatives. Officials could give no overall estimate of how much retail prices might be increased under the new program, but said the price of men's shirts, for exam ple, might be boosted by from five to six cents. Riley Recommends Release of Housing PORTLAND, Feb. 20.-VP)-Re-lease of 2000 more Vanport hous ing units for use of veterans else where was recommended today by Mayor Earl Riley's emergency housing committee. The committee said the Vanport project would retain 1230 vacant units which it considered a safe margin for the area's needs. Richard Cutler Elected to Head New World War II VFW Post Richard C. Cutler was elected commander of a new post for World war II veterans Wednes day night, when 38 ex-servicemen met in VFW hall 'to form Meadowlark post No. 6102, Vet erans of Foreign Wars. The new post will be officially instituted and Its officers In stalled at a public meeting in VFW hall at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March S, with an Oregon City VFW drill team officiating. A delegation from Marion post No. 681, Salem's long established VFW post, also .will take part in the program. Last night's organization meet ing was conducted by the district VFW commander, Virgil Bolton. No. 284 to Capitol - 4 " i English Hear Power Politics Dividing World LONDON, Feb. 20 JP) Har old MacMillan. former member of the Churchill war cabinet, de clared in parliament today that relations between the major pow ers are "alarmingly strained" and questioned whether Russia "has made up its mind to dominate the world." The conservative MacMillan, who served as resident minister at allied headquarters in North Africa and later as secretary for air, asserted In a foreign affairs debate that the wartime alliance of Russia, Great Britain and the United States "is virtually, if not formally, In abeyance." "Whether we like it or not," he added, "the world Is being divid ed Into different political and economic interests. New group ings of mino- satellite nations around one or the other of the big three have taken shape." Democrat Files For Congress An Oregon City democrat, Ru fus E. Wood, filed Wednesday in the state department for repre sentative to congress from the first Oregon district, at the demo cratic primary election May 17. Other filings Wednesday: Jack W. Donin, Portland, dem ocrat, for state representative, 5th district, Multnomah county. Oliver E. Smith, Portland, democrat, for state representa tive, 5th district, Multnomah county. Farmers Urged To Back CVA HILLSBORO, Feb. 20-(P)-Her- bert Peet, executive secretary of the Columbia Valley Authority league, today urged members of the Oregon Farmers' Union to support CVA as a means of en couraging "unified development ol the Pacific northwest" The Seattle officer of the league organized by a score of Wash ington and Oregon groups declar ed opponents of the CVA plan "sought to cloud the merits of the program" by claiming it threat ens local and states rights. Peet said the CVA would ope rate on federal authority already possessed. He told the members the Pacific northwest has 42 per cent of the hydro-electric power potential of the U. S. The new post decided to restrict membership to World war II vet erans for at least two years. Meetings will be held on the first and third Tuesday nights during March and April and. be ginning in May, a permanent meeting schedule of the second and fourth Tuesdays will begin. Other officers elected last night were: Senior vice commander, R. W. Chase; junior vice command er, J. A. McCarthy; quartermas ter, E. Paul Burgman; post ad vocate, Eugene Strickland; chap lain, G. R. Boltjes; surgeon, Carl Keuscher; trustees, G. McCarrolt (three years), S. E. Washburn (two years) and B. G. Kelso (one year). Price Sc 'Amazed' ' Al Canada Release Moecow Radio Declares Data 'Insignificant' LONDON, Feb. 2u-OV- Huwia acknowledged tonight that Canadian citizens had git en "innfcnifirant secret data" to Miel representa tive in Canada, but declared that the position taken by the Canadian government w a s rr4 MMkM not SKI arl4h ttmmA- ii null ! ly relation between the te countries. A Rusfcifcn statement, broadcast by the Momow radio and heanl here by the Associated Press and the Soviet monitor, said the Soviet milllfcry Attache in Ottawa had been it-called because of the "in admissibility" of the actions cf members of his staff. Dut it es presMd "lima merit" that the Cm- nadlfcn ccvemment had published It M;itrment on the leakage ct Information last Feb. IS instead of previously asking an explana tion from the Soviet government "as is txpecte-d between countries maintaining norma! relations." The radio said the statement was L-eing handed to the Canadian charge d'affaires in Moscow. First EoMlan Word The broadcast was the first word to come from Russia since Prim Minister MacKenzie King an nounced in Ottawa last Friday that highly secret information had been divulged to a foreign mis sion, later euthoritatively identi jtied as the Soviet embassy. "It wr.s ascertained." the Mos cow statement said, "that the data concerned such technical details as were not needed by the soviet . order in view of the fact that in the USSR higher technical achiev-mnts are In existence and which may be found in pub lications on radio-location and similar subjects as well as in the well-known pamphlets of the American Smythe on atomic en ergy. In view of this Is would be ridiculous to assert that the com munication of such Insignificant secret data could create any dan ger whatsoever for the security of Canada." The Moscow statement said the ambassador and other members of the soviet embassy In Canada "had no connection whatsoever with the matter.". Press Campaign The statement that called at tention to what it said was m campaign "hostile to the sovitt union, which had started in tho Canadian press and radio simul taneously" with the MacKenn King statement last Friday. "One must recognize," the statement said, "that the above mentioned unbridled anti-soviet campaign was part of the plan ct the Canadian government, and is aimed at inflicting political harm to the soviet union." Canadians Lash Back At Moscow Motives OTTAWA, Feb. 20 UP) An official government spokesman who declined to permit further identification declared tonight that the Russians were making "political capital" out of the Ca nadian espionage case. Shortly after receipt of a Mos cow broadcast charging that Can ada in handling its "spy" Investi gation was encouraging an anti soviet campaign, the spokesman declared: "The soviet statement started out as an admission of guilt suf ficient to cause the withdraws 1 of its military attache and then proceeded to minimire the whole matter and sought to 'make po litical capital by imou'Jng mo tives to the Canadian govern ment." Harbor Probe Ends Hearings WASHINGTON, Feo 20.-OP,-The Pearl Harbor Investigating committee wound up tday three months of open hearir-a prelimin ary to an attempt to ' -pon5i-Hlity for the success of Japan's Dec. 7, 1941 attack. The 10 member senate house group has until Juv 1 to assess the evidence it has received and prepare a report on what circum stances enabled Japanese air raid ers to catch Hawaii's denders napping and knock out 18 ships of the Pacific fleet. Weather Max. ST - 54 Kin. Rain IS Trac 39 .Oft 39 M 42 M Salem, ugene Portland ::pttl" ... S3 BS San Francisco SO Willamette river 15 ft. FORECAST (from U.S weather bu--rau. McNary fteld. Salem): Cloudr '"day, occasional light rain. hlftMM temperature today M decrvea.