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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
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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
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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.