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roup Oqjiu to Save mm Separator Plant alem OBafttieiry voir S Br luM Child City Editor, The Statesman Unwilling to accept as final the announcement of Keith Brown that plan for construc tion of a half-million dollar bat tery separator plant on hi com pany ' property had be-n dropped, representative of la bor, veterans and the real es tate profession met In Salem Chamber of Commerce rooms rooms Thuriday night and will meet there again today. They hope to map a way out of the tangle of misunderstandings and led tar they feel ha discour aged but should not poil the I.ijT industrial development. 70t VeU Unemployed More than 700. veteran are unemployed in this area, it was (Wshired at Thursday' meeting. The proposed battery separator plant of the Cascades Plywood Corporation would employ gome ICO men oon and! might later juivt about double that payroll. It operating reputation is good and iU business desirable. DO3 SQBTJQS One of the loser tragedies goes on in Europe lesser only in comparison with the death and wounds of war and the horrors of concentration camps. This is the evacuation of unwonted peo ple from their ancestral home. In the effort to purify the na tional strain, alien elements, no matter how long resident in a land, are being driven out. It is like our own Japanese relocation except on a permanent basis with out the menace i of-war. The nazis are defeated but the nazi ideas of du-tir.ction due to race, lan guage or national origin persist. In Poland the Germans are be ing roughly expelled both from Poznan, part of old Poland, and from the portions of old Germany like Silesia and East Prussia which have been annexed to the new Poland. The lands of the dispossessed are being given to Poles. Czecho-Slevakia is ridding its self both oft Germans and Hun garians. Hitler used the Sudeten Germans as an excuse for seizing western Crecho-Slovakia. Now the Czechs are driving them out. President Truman at Potsdam as sented t the admission of 1,750, 000 of these Germans into the American zone of Germany. De niaree Bes, writing in the cur rent Jamie of the Saturday Evening rout, reports: "This Czech expulsion program is hard and ruthless, inflicting bitter hardships upon millions of hyman being, some of whom de serve a better fate. . . . "I spent a few days in the Sodenten-land while this area was Still occupied by American troops. This is the border area where Germans were concentrat ed. Some of our soldiers told me how (Continued on editorial page) Wreck Victim 'Very Critical9 Mrs. William Ogle, 818 N. Lib- rtv at usa In "terv rrruYt condition Thursday night at Sa lem General hospital where she has been confined with injuries suffered Tuesday night in the bus-truck crash at Steiwer hill involving 38 members of the local Eagles auxiliary. The bus driver who figured in the accident, Paul Hart, 645 Fer ry St., also had a poor .day and si; as reported in "not very good" condition at the same hospital Thursday night. The other- two hospitalized vic tims improved Thursday. Mrs. Reva Davidson was still at Salem General and Mrs. June Wallace a-as discharged to her home from talem Deaconess hospital. Animal Crackers By WAfcPEN GOODRICH 00000 'A - 1 "Come now, which one of .you has one eye closed?" Neither the council, which de layed action on a zone change application Monday night, nor the resident of a nearby neigh borhood who objected to es tablishment of the plant fully understood the implications of their actions, the men who gath ered at the chamber last night believe. This morning, after cer tain preliminary preparations, they will meet again to map a campaign which they believe may draw the two groups into unified and satisfactory action. Wives Fall to Sign Meantime, no official pro nouncement' concernin g the technical legality of the original Ietition for1 zone change has come from the planning and zoning commission to which it was referred. However, a check of the petition shows that it was not signed by the wives of two of the property owners, who hold their lands in entirety, and that, therefore, only approxi mately 40 per cent of the own ers are on record as seeking the Drowns NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 21 Vice Adm. Theodore S. Wilkinson, for mer commander of the third amphibious force of the third fleet, who drowned here yes terday as his car plunged off a ferry into the Elizabeth river. Adm. Wilkinson Drowns as Car Rolls Off Ferry NORFOLK. Va., Feb. 21. .-OP)-Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilk inson drowned today when his automobile plunged from a ferry Into the Elizabeth river, but the veteran of South Pacific amphib ious warfare saved his wife's life by shoving her from the car a second before it sank. Mrs. Catherine Wilkinson, wife of the; 57-ycar-old officer who dis tinguished himself as commander of the third amphibious force, third fleet, said Wilkinson lost control of the car and when he realized they were going off the front end of the ferry he opened the door, yelled "jump'' and shov ed her out. Mrs. Wilkinson was removed to a naval hospital for treatment. Wilkinson's body was recovered from the car by a diver. The admiral was unfamiliar with the car, having borrowed it from a friend, his wife said. A court of inquiry will be appointed to investigate the accident. Mayor Asks Rent Control Investigation A letter asking' for an investi gation to determine whether or not federal rent control is needed and feasible in Salem was direct ed Thursday by Mayor I. M. Dough ton to Walter A. Durham, rent director for Portland district OPA. The city council early this week instructed the major: to ask for the checkup. y ... J " ' " '"'i 1 X '-" 'z FBI Reveals Stocks of Anns, Dynamite, Maps Found in Raids By Brack Curry WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-vV The FBI disclosed that the smash ing of America's wartime fifth column uncovered huge stocks of weapons and explosives, thousands of short-wave radios and photo graphs of Panama canal defenses and other vital installations. The federal bureau of investi gation itself used the words "fifth column" in making available to a reporter these figures to show how dangerous aliens were hob bled and their weapons of sabo tage and espionage taken from them: From January 8, 1942 to the present, FBI agents have recover ed from the homes and businesses of these aliens 307,506 rounds of ammunition and 4826 firearms and related items. In addition to supplies of buck shot, shell caps and reloading de change; 50 per cent are required. .The council had not been In formed that the time element was paramount In securing the development for the city, nor did the persons who signed the objection realize what type of plant was contemplated, mem bers of the group which met Thursday night maintained. A far less desirable industry could be set down today only one-half a city lot behind What would have been the front line of the plant which Cascades Plywood wanted to build on the Keith Brown industrial sites and no action of the neighborhood could stop It. Willing to Assist 1 1 Brown announced Thursday that he and his associates were ready to drop the whole thing, but that they "would be willing to assist Cascades;; Plywood in securing, another site. Charles W Tax vice president of the plywood concern, indicated that no other site had yet been selected. Truman Adds ances WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-(4V Confidence that American mili tary secrets are safe Was express ed by President Truman today while Secretary of State Byrnes renewed similar assurances. j The senate atomic energy com mittee held a session with Byrnes behind locked doors. Afterwards Chairman McMahon (D - Conn) stated, "Secretary Byrnes repeat ed to the atomic energy commit tee today his previous press con ference statement that the state department has no information regarding 'the implication of any American officials in the Canadi an investigations.'" McMahon told reporters he as sumes that the absence of infor mation in the state department that any Americans are involved in the Candian affair applies to all other departments too. The president told his news con ference that United States secur ity measures always have been adequate and he considers 'they still are. - Mr. Truman's comment came amid a barrage of questions prompted by disclosure that Rus sia had obtained data on atomic energy and. radio location in Can ada. Universal Ban On Draft Asked WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -iTi-President Truman called imparc tical today a house military com mittee move to sidetrack univer sal military training legislation in favor of a campaign to outlaw peacetime conscription throughout the world. The president expressed 'his views at a news conference when asked for his opinion about the proposal gaining strength in the committee. The president gave no reasons for his belief it would not be prac tical to -try to outlaw universal training everywhere, and in the absence of an explanation House Republican Leader Martin of Mas sachusetts said he would continue his fight for an International ban. Rosson Planning Vet Job Campaign Hugh E. Rosson, state veterans' director,' announced Thursday he Is . planning' a campaign in co operation with Governor Snell's office to ' bring attention . to the need for employing returning servicemen. By securing cooperation of em ployers much can be done to solve the problem, Rosson said, and pointed out that there are more than 70,000 veterans returning to Oregon, i vices, the BI seized 2340 sticks of dynamite,: over 2800 dynamite caps, 3787 feet of dynamite fuse and over 1700 pieces of other ex plosives. . More than 3000 contraband shortwave i radio receiving sets were uncovered along with more than 4200 cameras and all kinds of photographic equipment. Other contraband articles nab bed, from enemy aliens included code books, hydrographic, naviga tion and aeronautical maps of all sections of the United States coasts and Panama. Since the. beginning of world war II, 16,062 enemy aliens have been arrested in the United States and its possessions, including 7043 Germans and 5428 Japanese. Since January 8, 1942, the FBI has searched 25,881 homes and businesses pi enemy aliens fort contraband articles. , I Safe NINETY-FIFTH YEAH 14 PACES Lumber Ceilings Revised Construction Grades Raised, Premiums Cut WASHINGTON, Feb. 2MP The office of price administration revised mill price ceilings today on Douglas fir, western hemlock and true fir lumber, and said that revisions raised some ceilings and lowered others. The OPA announcement said the new regulation was designed primarily to stimulate production of lumber needed for home con struction. The new order provides: 1. Increases ranging from $2 to $10 per 1000 board feet for basic grades of lumber used in home construction, except for common boards. 2. Elimination of premiums for special grade and grain specifi cations which OPA said were sel dom charged before the war "but which might have been charged considerably during the war." These premiums ranged from $1 to $6 per 1000 board feet, OPA said elimination of them will largely offset the price increases granted in basic construction grades. 3. Lower ceilings on some items not used in construction which are cut from the same part of the log as certain construction items, such as flooring. Negotiations Reported in India Mutiny BOMBAY, Friday, Feb. 22-(JP) Negotiations seeking the surren der of mutinous seamen of the Royal , Indian navy barricaded 4r the bullet-pocked castle barracks in downtown Bombay were re ported in progress early today while civil rioting in support of the sailors subsided. British military forces here were reinforced, meanwhile, by the arrival In Bombay of HMS Nith, an armed escort frigate which the harbor master said normally caried a complement of about 200 men. Naval headquarters! said addi tional reinforcements' were ex pected shortly. The Times of India, a leading Bombay daily newspaper, told of reports that the men actually were surrendering weapons at the barracks but this was not con firmed by official army sources. However, firing in the long range rifle and machine gun duel be tween the mutineers and British Tommies who surrounded the barracks had ceased. Savant Favors Diet o f Weevils NEW ORLEANS, Feb 21-i-Dr. Edward S. Hathaway, profes sor of zoology at Tulane univer sity, said discarding flour because it has weevils "in moderate num bers is a wasteful practice. "These weevils are just as clean. Just as nutritive, Just as whole some as the very flour itself," he commented in an official Tulane release today. "Just this morning," he contin ued, "my wife opened a sack of flour and discovered it contained the young grubs of weevils. There was absolutely 'nothing wrong with it I was in favor of using it." His wife threw the flour out Missing Airman Declared Dead SILVERTPN, Feb. 21-(SpecIal) Mr. and Mrs. Albert Grlnde have been notified that their son, Sgt Lee A. Grindc, has been officially declared killed in action. He was formerly reported missing In ac tion over Borneo on June 20, 1945. Grinde was a radioman and waist gunner on a bomber with the 13th air force in the Pacific. He was born in Silverton June 16, 1925, and graduated from the Sil verton high school, following which he attended Willamette uni versity. WOMAN LEGISLATOR FILES State Rep. Rose M. Poole, Kla math Falls republican, filed her candidacy Thursday for reelec tion. She is one of the two wom en state representatives. ' The other, Rep. Anna M. Ellis of Gar ibaldi, also filed for reelection this week. Salem, hm& sisft Dispute Ties Up Bay Ships SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21-fl) The International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's union (CIO) announced late today that Pacific coast dock workers have voted, 13.979 to 1120, to strike "on or before April 1" In support of then wage and working condition de mands. Louis Goldblatt, union secretary, made the announcement as the loading of two ships at San Fran cisco piers was halted in a union employer dispute over the hiring of union checkers to direct long shore gangs. Goldblatt, in a long statement, accused the employers of plan ning a "well-laid scheme to di vert public attention from the real issues." The statement said the employ ers had carried on "a persistent attack on the ILWU, marked by insolent disregard of government directives, stubborn refusal to con summate contracts in accordance with those directives, and general provocation of the ILWU and its members." Threat of Portland Dock Tie-up Averted PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2-IP)-Threat of an immediate tie-up of the Portland waterfront appeared averted tonight as employers ex tended to 8 a.m. Monday their deadline for checkers to return to work on the basis of the number set by ship operators. Originally, 5 p.m. today had been set as the deadline by the waterfront employers association here. Continuation of OPA Urged by Farmers Union HILLSBORO, Ore., Feb. 21. -(JP) The state farmers union, conclud ing its 36th annual convention to day, urged that the OPA be con tinued "on the basis of Its old line policy". The group also endorsed a pro posal for a world disarmament conference, but specified that the United States should not disarm unless all other nations do like wise. Other resolutions: (1) Praised Serf, i Wayne Morse (R-Ore) for his "sincere liberalism"; (2) en dorsed the Willamette valley pro ject and the proposed Columbia valley authority; (3) recommend ed that an office of lieutenant governor be created for Oregon; (4) approved bureau of reclama tion statutes setting a 160-acre maximum for farms on federally financed reclamation projects; (5) backed the government full em ployment bill; (6) went on record as opposing peace-time conscrip tion, i Ronald Jones, Brooks, was re elected president. Paul Youngman, Newberg, was named vice presi dent succeeding Wendell Bamett, Gervais. Harley Libby, Jefferson, was reelected to the board of direc tors and Henry Johnson, Beaver ton, was named a new board member. P Board of Control Postpones Action on Building Bids, U rgent Need for Structures Stressed No decision on the fate of Ore gon's state buildings construction program was reached by the state board of control Thursday, but various opinions were advanced during the meeting. The: immediate issue is wheth er to ! build the first project 360-bed patients' dormitory at the state hospital farm, low bid for which exceeded the estimate by 80 per cent and indicated an in flationary trend which may dras tically curtail the $10,000,000 building program. Final action was poatponed due to the absence of Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., who is recuperating from an operation. But action is expected within a few days and it appeared the board might approve the project and delay much of the rest of the program. OUNDBD I65I Oregon, Friday Morning, February 22. 1946 WaDkoiiflft EM dk Degnan Child's Arms Found hi m lit CHICAGO, Feb. 21. Lieut. John Olson of the Chicago police force holds the cloth wrapped arms missing from the body of Suzanne Degnan. Chicago child who was kidnapped and slain above the sewer in which they were found. ( AP iYVlrephot to The Statesman) School Lunch Bill Bans Racial Discrimination WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-(P)-The house voted todty to make the federal aid school lunch program permanent but specified that negro and white children shall benefit alike from the $50,000,000 annual government outlay. The anti - discrimination provision, sponsored by Rep. Powell ((D-NY), a negro, cost the lunch plan some southern votes on the final 275-101 roll call. As It goes to the senate the measure is stripped of a proviso, which had been approved by the house agriculture committee, to authorize the U. S. office of edu cation to spend $15,000,000 addi tionally per year to supervise the lunch program and help plan chil dren's diets. Congress has been appropriat ing sums annually to help states furnish lunches for school chil dren. However, there never was any basic legislation and continua tion of the program has been a question year by year. The bill provides for dollar-for-dollar state participation at first with accelerated state payments to a point where the states will be paying 80 per cent of the lunch coats by 1950. If state take full advantage of available federal funds the program will grow from $100,000,000 in 1947 to $250,000, 000 in 1950, Flannagan said. FALL FORTE APPROVED WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -JP)-A senate sometimes balky over Presidential . appointments quick ly approved today the choice of Paul A. Porter to be OPA direc tor. Weather Max. . sa . S3 . u Mm. M S 44 Rain 41 .IB .14 M M Salem . Eua-ena Portland San Francisco (0 Seattl -.. BS Willamette river S.5 ft. FORECAST (from US. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, few scattered rain ahow era. Little change In temperature. Highest today SB degrees. ; Charles R. Schmiedeskamp -of Oswego, explaining his low' bid of $511,930 (which compares with the $325,000 estimate) told the board that wages and prices are stabilized now and there probably wiill not be lower prices for four or five years. State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott suggested that the hospital might temporarily relieve its overcrowd ing by obtaining surplus army buildings from the Salem airport, although Scott said he didn't think much of that idea. Dr. J. C. Evans, state hospital superintendent told the board: "It is urgent to start construction at the earliest possible moment. We now have 2719 patients, and last month we got 131 new pa tients, so you can see how over Sftrolk .;"oftScD Wilson Found Not Guilty of Assault Charge Glen Wilson, state prison con vict was found not guilty of a charge of asaault with intent to kill Thursday in Marion county circuit court The case was heard by Judge George Duncan and 10 of the 12 jurors concurred in the verdict Ten witnesses for the defense, all of them inmates of the prison where the alleged assault took place, indicated that Wilson was not at the scene of the crime when Louis Francis, also an Inmate, was allegedly tripped and stabbed by two fellow prisoners. A stipulation from the testi mony of Byron Dyson in a prev tous trial in which Dyson was found guilty of the same charge. also bore out the Wilson defense. Earlier in the Wilson trial, how ever, four state witnesses had identified Wilson as the man they saw trip Francis Just before the other convict stabbed him. Wilson, taking the stand in his own behalf, denied any complic ity, stating he was talking with his brother at some distance from the scene at the time of the stab bing. Dyson has not yet been sent enced. crowded we are. It's a tough sit uation." Dr. Evans suggested that con struction of the proposed treat ment hospital at the state hos pital might be delayed until the custodial building and two ward buildings are constructed, as they would take care of 900 patients. Gov. Earl Snell suggested con struction might be delayed until unemployment becomes more se vere, pointing out that the build ing program also was designed to provide employment when need ed. Scott answered that "our need for patients' facilities is more im portant than providing employ ment" The governor did not Indicate what his final decision might be, while Scott said: "I'm almost of the opinion that the welfare cf the patients pushes us ahead." No, 285 NFTW To HahWork March 7 Py the Aociatl Preia A kti'kr wes called last r.ig-B by 150.000 f the nation's tele phone worfefrs. A r.ew wage dispute in the ccl industry appeared possible ar.J the General Motors automoue tieup continued deadlocked. The walkout of the telephore workers was called for 6 aon. in all time Ults on March 7 by tha Indeptr.iient National Federation of Tt ! phone Worker?. The tele-phone federation's exe cuu'e board, meeting in Mem phis. Tenn., voted unanimouj-ly for a strike of 17 union affiliates claimig 150,000 communications workers. President Joseph A. Beirne ct the federation indicated the tel phone strike, if bejun, would have for-reaching effects because "the otter 33 affiliated unior.a will ;t;pft picket lines to be established by striking unions.'1 He Kud. however, the federa tion -At uld continue talks sim company fend federal officials in efforts to rettle the dispute. A tb!e coal wage dispute appefcied as John L. Lewis callt d a Muh 11 meeting of his AFL Unittd Mine Workers policy com mittee. Lewis may seek wast boost? ict the 500,000 Unitf J Minors through this commute-, which 'hiis auUiority to reopr the rr..nci' contract with the c:t coal fitrj.tors. Truman Admit s Giving Douglas Bid lo Cabinet WASHINGTON. Feb 21 -(JT, -PreMOnt Truman today firnly snuffed out reports, which haa flared since the big strikes sU ti ed, that Secretary of Labor Schweilenbach possibly would t replaced. i Schweilenbach, and Secretary sf Agriculture Anderson too, will re main where they are, Mr. Truman told his news conference Just long as they care to stay. This ruled out the possibility that Schweilenbach might be named to the supreme court to succeed Justice William O. Douglas if the latter would swap his $20,000 a year lifetime seat on the court for the $15,000 salary and relative in security of the cabinet The president confirmed that ha has discussed the interior pott with Douglas but gave not the slightest Indication that Dougla had agreed to accept it and the general opinion at the Capitol was that Douglas was out of the pic ture. . McAllister Frowns On Political Future PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21.-JT Maj. William M. McAllister, Med ford, former speaker of the stats house of representatives, said to day that his future plans incluae "no politics." He has just returned from Ger many where he was in charge cf the military government's legal section at Bremen. , McAllister said he would return to the practice of law in Jackson county. He and Mrs. McAllister, the former Jean Middleton of Sa lem, hae a &on, 12, and a daugh ter, 10. 'IVoplW Court' Send Hysto Rjii to Prison HELSINKI, Feb. 21-(P)-A spe cial "people's court" today found former President Rysto Rjti guilty of leading Finland into war with Russia tt the : side of Ger many, and sentenced him to sen 10 years in prison at hard labor. Seven other former government officials similarly convicted were given varying terms of imprison ment FILIPINO SOLDIERS KILLED MANILA, Friday, Feb. 22 At least four Philippine army sol diers were killed in a clash to day with 400 peasants at San Isi dro in Nueva Eciia nrovlnce. BO miles north of Manila, Philippine army authorities announced. The peasants reportedly used oistol. rifles and machine guns. Pric 5c