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k ' rflv BI ENOS AIRES, Feb. 26.4-Twe pcrsem were killed bb4 eight wound . ed whea rival factions clashed la the Argentine presidential elec tion. The nua standing (white shirt) la track got a ballet thrown hie shoulder while the three men on the floor were more seriously evaded. (AT Wlrephoto) TFQDOIIg - "i II Concluding "The DanuW-ns" Deliveries are again being made of -Arthur KoeiUer's "The Yogi and the Commissar." ' Francis Hackett writes in the Saturday Review that the publisher, Mac millan, let It go out of print last year --"not having enough pa per for 'Forever Amber' and oth er important books!" Yet this thin volume is as Hackett calfc it "a brilliant and remarkable; crit ique," in many ways the roost or iginal of the products of the four writers born in old Austtfo-Hun" gary whom I have been discuss ing. . ,. ! Koestler was once a commun ist but was disillusioned after liv ing in Russia and studying the metamorphosis of the US$Rfrom a government of workers and peasants to a tight burejaucracy c ompleUiy.-oon'UoUed by a small party organization. The iportion of this bookon ""Soviet Myth and Reality" and "The End of! an Il lusion" should be required read ing for Americans, particularly for workers and leaders in work ers' organizations, while te sub- hapter on "The Perspective of Soviet Expansion" tnight tkielltbe read by political leaders aind ed itors. Koestler summarises his study thus: !M "Soviet Russia is a State-capitalistic totalitarian autocracy. It Is progressive in Its economic structure and regressive in every other respect. Politically, cultur ally, in the relations between rul ers and ruled, it is reactionary compared with most capitalist democracies. It pursues an xpan tionist policy which, (Continued on Editorial Page) Trades, Labor Group Opposes City Manager Unanimous opposition to the city manager plan to be presented at the next election and j!to the local rent control committee, re cently formed, was expressed at a meeting of the Salem Trades and Labor Council, Tuesday night Reasons given for opposing the manager plan were that city of ficials such as the treasurer and the recorder would be appointed instead of elected, and thatcoun cilmen would be elected front the city at large and not from specific wards. " .1 The rent committee was oppos ed in favor of federal control be cause the committee woujld not huveVnough enforcement power. Ed Stack, a representative! of the State) Federation, from Portland, attended the meeting. 1; Animal Crackers' By WARREN GOODRICH "Sally Rand snatched me Ull-headsdr I French Order Spain Border Closed March PARIS, Feb. 26. -UP) -The French government, declaring that the present situation in Spain constitutes a "danger for interna tional security," today ordered the French-Spanish border closed, ef fective Friday, March 1. The government was reliably reported planning to follow up this "moral gesture" by calling upon the United States and Great Britain to join France In an in tematioruil crackdown on the re gime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. ' The closing off the border, or dered amid increasing; popular demand for action against Franco, amounts to breaking off of ec onomic relations between France and Spain. French ; officials, however, ad mitted that their step alone would be of little practical, effect unless accompanied by tkmu in Wash, ington and Londdni'V'. Informed circles said the French government wifhfff th RfXT. few days would repeat a suggestion it made last December that the United States and Britain Join in diplomatic rupture with Spain. Pacific College Head Files for State Senate Dr. Eromett W. Gulley, presl dent of Pacific college at New berg, J Tuesday filed for the re publican nomination for state senator from the 10th district, Yamhill county. The position is now held by Sen. W. E. Burke, who recently announced he would not' seek re election. State Representative Eu gene Marsh, McMinnviQe attor ney and speaker of the house at the 1945 legislature, also has been mentioned as" a probable candidate to succeed Burke. Other filings Tuesday: J Donald W. Densmoor,' Albany, republican, for state senator, 2nd district. Linn county. Ben E. McDonald, Portland, re publican, for state representative, 3th district, Multnomah county. TRADE RATE ABOLISHED SHANGHAI, Feb. 2 Abo lition of the official foreign rate of exchange of 20 Chinese dollars for one U.S. dollar was acclaimed by business and banking circles today as the first step toward resumption by China of regular foreign trade. Baldock Recommends Full Lighting for Highway Tunnels PORTLAND. Ore., Feb; Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock today recommended to the state highway commission full; lighting for tunnels on Oregon highways so motorists need not use their headlights. He asked authority to ojxn bids on lighting of the Arch Cape tunnel and the Elk ton tunnel. Chairman T. H. Banfield re ported it would be five or six years before a proposed west side route through Wilsonville from Hubbard to Portland would be ready. To aid a traffic problem on a" curved hilly Pacific highway section between Canby and Ore gon City, he announced plans to add a third lane for trucks only. The commission told a; delega tion from Washington and Tilla mook county courts a proposal for a 10-mile cutoff straight to Portland from the Wilson river highway would be considered later. The commission awarded five ; I, . ' . ;! 1 j : ' ir ; ... - , NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 12 N.Y. Bus ut Called Oflf rr ' t ' icxas. Loiii8iaiia Traiiimcn Due 1 To Quit Saturday j' By ! the Atrteiatod Frees The nation's strike picture brightened j eiterday when ' a threatened city-wide walkout of New i York j transit workers was called off and strikes of city workers : In Houston, Tex., and bakery employes In Detroit were settled. jr At the same time, however, a strike of Texas and Louisiana trainmen on the Southern Pacific lines was set for Saturday. Meat Pay Boost A reverberation of last month's nationwide meat strike came with government authorization of a 16 cents an hour pay boost for the packinghouse workers and an in crease In meat ceiling prices which a government spokesman said would average about lVi per cent at the retail level. The major developments: 1 Mayor William OTJwyer of New York announced that a threatened strike among the city's 34,000 transit workers, scheduled for after midnight, had been averted when the CIO transport workers, union withdrew its de mand for recognition as exclusive bargaining agent. 2 A six day old strike of 700 city workers in Houston, Tex., was settled after several thousand AFL sympathizers declared a "holiday," made a demonstration march to the city hall and forced a shutdown of some of the city's normal functions. Bakery Tie-op Ends 3 A two day bakery drivers strike ended in Detroit when members of the AFL bakery driv ers union accepted a compromise wage offer for a $2.50 increase In the basic weekly wage and a $5.00 hike in the guaranteed minimum. 4 William E. B. Chase, spokes man for the: railroad brother hoods, said at Houston, Tex that 3,500 engineers and trainmen on the Southern Pacific lines in Tex as and Louisiana would strike Saturday as the result of a long standing dispute over grievances and awards. Internees in Hawaii Freed WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Secretary of War Patterson an nounced today1 that action has been taken to release civilian pris oners in Hawaii from military control. These prisoners had. been con victed by military court during the period from Pearl Harbor to October 19, 1945, when martial law was abolished by direction of President Truman. Military authorities in Hawaii will notify the attorney eeneral of (Hawaii of heir intent to termin ate military control. The secretary's announcement came after he was advised of the U. S. supreme, court's decision di recting release of two prosiners tried by military courts in Hawaii in 1943. and 1944. Weather Max. 1 - 82- 49 S3 Mln. S) S7 S3 lUIn Salcat Eun Portland At Seattle 40 San Francisco . (1 17 Trace Willamette river 4J ft FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salrm): Intermit tent lifht rains today and tonight. Highest temperature S3 degrees. contracts to low bidders: Douglas county State project, new bridge over Coffey creek on Tiller-Trail secondary highway. C. J. Eldon, $15,050. Douglas county Milto-Tiller section of Tiller-Trail highway, federal project, 5.79 miles of grading, surfacing and oiling. C. J. Eldon, 9150,319.50. Hood River county Wood worth Acres-Parkdale section of Hood River highway, federal project, 12 miles of improve ment Babier Brothers, Portland, $73,359.50. Morrow county Lexington South Springs section of Lexington-Echo highway, federal proj ect, 9.93 miles of .improvement Newport, Kern ! St Kibbe, $93, 625.50. Morrow county-South Springs Umatilla county line section of Lexington-Echo highway, federal project, 9.95 miles of improve ment Newport, Kern & Kibbe, 83,498.80. Walko PACES Landings Reported in Manchuria By Richard Cushlnr - CHINHSIEN, Manchuria. Ttb. 21-Delayed)-(VReports that additional thousands of soviet troops have landed at Dairen and Port Arthur In Manchuria were publicized today by high Chinese military circles but were unconfirmed by other sources here. . : j The 'troops reportedly were shipped from Vladivostok. The Chinese sources said this was further indication the Russians intend to stay In Manchuria. : As correspondents' reports of complete soviet j domination ef Mukden filtered : here, Chinese and foreign observers said they find nothing to indicate any semblance of soviet withdrawal from Manchuria.! They declare that, in' fact, the Russians are buying Japanese houses and Simpson Named HS Football Coach; Fpllis Selected Principal ij i Al Simpson, Medford high coach, was appointed Salem high football coach, and Glade Follis was- named temporary principal of Washington school, at a meeting of the school board, Tuesday night. Simpson was approached by letter and accepted the position before board approval. He has been coaching both football and 1 basketball at Medford for the War Veterans Protest Marine Base College EUGENE, Feb. 26-(P)-An as sembly of 250 to 300 war veter ans today protested! establishment of a Junior college for war veter ans at the marine barracks in TTIamath Taltc. y The group, meeting on the Uni versity of Oregon campus where they are enrolled, announced a petition would be prepared and circulated1 among veterans oppos ing the plan. The petition will be circulated tomorrow, a veterans committee announced, and then forwarded to Governor Earl Snell. The veterans conducted an open meeting in Gerlinger hall and speakers said they opposed diver sion of the money needed to es tablish the temporary school at the southern Oregon barracks because the funds could be better used for permanent improvements and ex pansion at the state's established campuses. Veterans told the assembly they were opposed to the regimentation of their returning buddies and de clared the veterans who are most concerned should be consulted. first Ford Signs 18 Cqnt Raise Contracts DETROIT, Feb. 26 -VP)- .The Ford Motor company and the CIO United Auto Workers tonight signed a contract calling for an 18 cent an hour raise for 103,000 Ford workers throughout the na tion. ; The agreement, subject to rati fication by Ford UAW locajs and due to run until. May 30, 1947, provides both company and union security clauses, according to statements by the two parties. Koreans Praise Soviet Control, Ignore U. S. SEOUL, Feb. 26 -(-Korean communists served notice today they were ready to contest for political control of all Korea alongside their comrades in the northern zone of Russian occupa tion. The central committee of the Korean communist party issued a statement praising Russian policy in the north, and ignoring the representative democratic council set up to advise Lt Gen. John R. Hodge, commander in the southern (American) zone of oc cupation. Iihor Council Keacinrift Milk Price Resolution PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 26-fP)-The Portland central labor coun cil today announced it had re scinded a previous resolution pro testing a request by Portland area dairy producers for price in creases for grade A fluid milk. The labor council's resolution drew the criticism of affiliated union milk: and dairy truck driv en which Insisted on an investi gation before the council formally opposed the price rise. . OUND BID Salem, Oregon. Wodnosday Morning. Fobruary 27. 1946 IhiDDiia Troops property and are sending for their families. Some iibftfi-vcrs here comment 4hat the Russians are biding their time, awaiting a riinncf to obtain economic iimces'ions from the Chinese. On inform ed Chinese expressed the opin ion that the Rursianis want not only part Interest In key rail lines (as provided in the Yalta and Moseow agreement) :mit also in factories along these lines. Reports reaching Chinhsien from Mukden bay that Chinese communists on three sides of the city are carrying Russian made nub-machine guns. Russian troops, according to these report, number 5000 to 7000 as compared with 10,000 central government troops In the city. 4 past two years, winning the state championship in football two years ago, getting into the semi finals last season. His basketball team at Ashland won the state championship in 1944. His pres ent team is district favorite this season. (Additional details on sports page). Parker Lineberry's resignation at Washington was made effec tive Friday and Follis will take over the position that he once held in addition to his present statistical work, for' the rest of f the school year. Other board action. Included appointing a budget committee to consider the budget at a meeting March 7. Members of the com mittee are; William Phillips, Wil liam En tress, Frank Spears, Mrs. Elmer Berg and George Graben horst A policy was established that married girls would not be sub ject to provisions of the compul sory school law even though mi nors, and a motion was passed to make the present teachers' bonus a part of the pay structure. A schedule of fees for outside students in vocational classes was adopted so that charges could be made for materials used by vet erans in apprenticeship training courses, payable by the veterans administration. A limit of $2000 was placed on remodeling of a house adjacent to Leslie school grounds to be used as a caretaker's residence. Flax Growers Ship Tow Carload East JEFFERSON, Feb. 26-(Special) The Santiam Flax Growers asso ciation has shipped a carload of tow to the Klearflax Linen Looms of Duluth, Minn., and a carload of fibre to the Ludlow Manufactur ing company of Boston, Mass. The fibre is the first shipped from Oregon since the war and has been graded according to Eu ropean standards, assuring it com petition with the European fibre. It is from the crops grown . by J. E. Parrish, Mac Hamby, G. A. Robison, . C. Mixell and Albert Hoefer. Building Plan Meets WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-i4')-Housing Administrator Wilson Wyatt declared today that an "in tegrated" lobby is battling vital phases of the administration pro gram for 2,700,000 new homes by 1948. He told a news conference a tolegram barrage had, been laun ched at congress by organizations seeking to have "price ceilings raised all over the lot." Both branches of congress were busy on the housing program. The senate voted a $410,000,000 authorization to finance removal of wartime structures to site where homes are needed and con version of barracks and other buildings. The measure, designed to provide 200,000 temporary homes for ; veterans, now goes to the housei The house opened debate on a bill dealing with residential price controls and subsidies to promote construction with three republi cans assailing it. aternau Price Pauley To Consider Retreat Nominee to Take Proposal 'Under Advisement' WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. P) Edwln W Pauley showed definite lntertt today In a UKKrstiii that he withdraw us nominee for under secretary of the navy provided the senate naval committee clears his name. ' He told Senator Saltonstall (R Mans), who made the prdposal in the crowded hearing room, that he would "take that under advise ment." When the committee recessed, he obtained a verbatim copy of the senator's question, evidently for further study. The examination of the Califor nia oil man, formerly, democratic national reasurer. now is in its third week with the end not in sight. Controversy over the ap pointment has been bitter. Saltonstall asked Pauley to con sider the situation faced by him and by the navy department as a result of the dispute. Then the senator inquired whether, "as a patriotic American citizen," Paul ey would consider withdrawing his name if the 'committee gave him a clean bill of health. "You need not answer that un less you wish," Saltonstall assured him. Pauley stared at him gravely. "I would want to take that un der advisement," he said. "I might say that the suggestion is not uni que. I have read it in almost every newspaper tnat I have seen, but I am still here." Defense States Case in Oyster Bed Fraud Suit PORTLAND, Feb. 2fl-;p)-The attorneys for. three Salem men charged with mail fraud In the sales of Coos Bay oyster beds, de clared today the trio was conduct ing a "constructive enterprise" and not a swindle. Attorney Edwin D. Hicks gave the opening statement for the de fense as the trial went into its second day. Attorney Earl Bef nard, representing P. E. Blackmon of Portland fourth defendant said his client knew little about the oyster industry ; and merely carried out the others instructions. Mason Dillard, deputy U. S. at torney, in his opening statement for the prosecution, asserted the four men took in $500,000. He ac cused them of buying tidelands for $450 an acre and selling them for $50 to $200 an eighth-acre on a claim that a tract that size had brought $280 profit on one oyster seeding. 1 Cows to Take Over Camp Adair Tract CORVALLIS, Feb. 26-(-The government has divided Camp Adair's 55,000-acre military reser vation Into five sections for graz ing only, and will lease them to the highest bidders, officials said today. No crops may be planted in the sections, nor may farmers use abandoned houses or structures still remaining. It was unofficially reported the army does not plan to dispose of the built-up section of the big camp not Included in the graz ing area for the present. Rep. Sumner (It-Ill) declared that "the communistic Pat ma n Wyatt housing program" attempts "to extend OPA's communist controls." Rep. Smith (R-Ohio) likewise declared it "communis tic" and said it would allow "bu reaucrats to seize the home build ing industry." Rep. Brown (R Ohio) contended it would give Wyatt "dictatorial powers." Rep. Patman (D-Tex), spon soring the bill, replied that it alms to provide homes for veterans in stead of permitting the use of scarce materials for "amusement places and honky - tonks." Rep. Sabsth (D-Ill) asserted that "it is high time some builders- begin to take an interest in this nation and homes for veterans." Meanwhile the National associ ation of Home Builders, in con vention at Chicago, received a proposed resolution from its pres ident. Joseph E. Merrion, urging that the Patman bill be deferred No. 289 Nominated WASHINGTON. Feb. t Jullui A. Krur, wartime chief ef the war production board, selected by President Truman to fill the Secretary of the Interior post vacated by Harold L. Irkes. Soviet Taking Jap Machinery In Manchuria MUKDEN. Feb. 23.-(Delayed)-(P)-Some of the heavy machinery that made Manchuria a Japanese arsenal has been removed to Rus sia under terms of a big three agreement, the Soviet command ant of Mukden stated today. The agreement was reached at Yalta or - Berlin "it might have been either," he said. (This was the first authoritative confirmation of persistent rumors that the Russians were seizing Japanese Industries as war booty, and the first hint that such a pol icy if such it is might have had its inception with the big three.) (Secretary pf State Byrnes told a newt conference in Washington, however, that as far as he knew there never was a big three agree ment permitting Russia to with draw Japanese Industrial equip ment.) Hundreds of former Japanese war factories lie idle, vacant of both men and machines in Muk den. The Soviet commandant, Maj. Gen. Andrei Kovtoun-Stankevitch, said only "perhaps" when asked if the Russians had shipped off any of Mukden's machinery. But he was more specific as to Man churia as a whole. First Returns Give Tamborini Lead BUENOS AIRES.Feb. 2.-JF-Unofficial returns from two pro vinces in Argentina's presidential election gave Jose Tamborini, democratic union candidate, 1503 votes to 806 for Juan D. Peron, labor party leader. The votes were from 10 boxes in the western province of San Luis and seven boxes in San Juan province. San Luis province was generally, regarded in pre-election forecasts as strongly favoring Tamborini. Meaales Epidemic Hits Silverton School EILVERTON, Feb. 26 - VP) -Grade school attendance here has been sharply hit by a measles epi demic, Principal M. B. Ford said today. He reported more than half of the second graders absent and many out in the third grade. Up per grades also reported a few cases. Opposition for further study and saying it "would enmesh the industry In red tape." The association was one organ ization singled out by Wyatt for criticUm because of Its stand against subsidies. The adminis trator said he would address the convention. Wyatt and Patman want $600, 000,000 in subsidies to encourage home-building. They also seek price ceilings on all existing dwellings. These proposals were rejected by the house banking committee but Patman hopes to write them into the bill from the floor. The measure in its present form would provide price ceilings only on dwellings still to be built. It also would continue until June 30, 1947, government authority to allocate scarce building materials and would give preference to vet erans in building and renting. 5c Krug To Get Ickes' Position Wcfet Senators Disappointed At Selection By DoNfUa B. CoroHl WASH INGTON, Feb. 28 .) Jii.' i i Albert Krug, who ran tr.o u fiioriiM'tion board "fhrnufh n. noirtg of the war and bg!r niry t nronverion, was i cYtA by Iiiitmt Truman today to ke Mnrtstry of the interior. It vo a fturprue selection, r lH'id to a news confrifrxa Oio.tiy After word of the rln.iro hh . nnd leaked out ; t tro Mf -ti Mr. T rum ..ii said Kiug. 38 yti r-i.ld native of Wisconsin, n-w h b'm-.s consultant to private firTPi. would enter the cab:r.t Murih 13 F-rst there is the matter of rr.r fi;m:tu.n by the senate, v. hub htt stirred up trouble for m rrt Truman nominations. Wanted Westerner Some western senators, nrr h: uanttd a wefcrner named iv the vacancy, expressed surpiii iird n measure of disappointment tt the- choice of Krug. But rmr upd forward immediately rvith p.ny hints that they mig'-.i ppe confirmation. Cfairman Hatch (D-NM) cf the senate public lands commii te. to which the nomination g, ti ki reporters "I am dis(. lH,rui" that Mr. Truman did not irnrfiM- a man familiar uitti the problems of our western states.'' Hatch edded that Krug met h first specification, that the new interior secretary be a man -f "intelligence, integrity and ac.i ity." Cordo Says Senator Cordon (R-Ore) m-I that Krug "has made an out standing record in the war ptv rluction board, and U he rcpetU he is certain to please." Yet u senator said he was non-plu?;" at the appointment and had hop ed the job would go to a mn from west of the Mississippi. North Salem Duplex Burns Tuesday Night A two family apartment hc-e at 365 Talor st., two blocks ke yond the city limits at the end f N. 4th street, burned to the grourd last night, while the occupant were at a neighbor's house. A shift In wind direction cou pled with work of neighbors pie vented the fire from spreading u, adjoining buildings. The forestry department ft re truck answered the call and aided in saving the adjacent building. The city fire department was un able to answer the call because i a council ruling preventing them from fighting fires outside the city limits. Mr and Mrs. Louie Towry, w ho had lived in the new building ftr several weeks, had gone to a neighbor's house at the time tho blaze was discovered about 9:30. They lost all their personal t lohgings. Abner J. Dunn, owner of tho house, set the valuation at nr.rro than the $1500 for which tr.e building and furniture were in sured. He was unable to deternuno the cause of the fire, pointing Out that the building was new and had been wired by a licensed elec trician and that the stove was ne v and the flue was cemented in. A building about 20 feet from the apartment contained about 3) rabbits, which were taken from the building by neighbors, r.or.e being injured. CrRFEW IN FALE8TINE JERUSALEM, Feb. 26 - Sjpt -British authorities clamped a cur few tonight on all civilian traff.e over most of Palestine's roads be tween 6 p.m. and 6 am, after announcing that armed Jews had wrecked 20 and damaged two RAF planes last night in attack on three airfields. Where to (Jo ... Who to See Where to Write . . To aid servicemen and the;r dependents In finding out w here to seek various types of infor mation. The Oregon Statesman is republishing In folder form the lists of official sources, sub jects with which they are con cerned, and the names and ad dresses of those in charge. The folders are available without charge at The States man office, and also will be made available for distribution to all veterans' agencies and or ganizations, and U others inteV ested in assisting veterans in folding the answers to their problems. 1 YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER