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German Chiefs
Plead Innocent
To War Crimes
Jackson Opens Prosecu
tion With Demand
For Conviction
Nuernberg, Nov. 21 U.R) The
20 nazi leaders facing the Unit
ed Nations bar of justice plead
ed innocent today to charges
of waging aggressive war
against humanity. One after
another they rose before the
tribunal and stated "not guilty"
to the four counts of the indict
ment. Justice Robert N. Jackson,
chief American prosecutor, then
opened the prosecutor's case
against the core of "broken
men" with a ringing demand
for their conviction as a step
toward prevention of future
war.
Jackson disclosed that he has
documents to prove that Ger
many planned war against the
United States from the east, at
. the same -time instigating a Jap
g anese attack from the Pacific
I approaches.
These plans, he said, followed
f . signature of the axis pact by
Germany, Italy and Japan in
1940.
Jackson told the four-power
tribunal sitting in the Palace of
Justice that the nazi leaders
ft were symbols of evil. They
' must be found guilty, he said, to
show the world that interna
tional greed and cruelty can
not go unpunished.
Goering First to Plead
Hermann Goering, top man
of the list of defendants, was
first to plead. Looking at a
prepared statement, he said
curtly "not guilty."
Austere Hjalmar Schacht.
nazi financial wizard, said "I
am in no way guilty." Waller
Funk, former economics minis
ter, said "I do not consider my
self guilty."
Goering then attempted to
address the court but was halt
ed. After the other defendants
had stepped one by one to the
dock microphone, Goering again
arose as though to speak. He
was quickly silenced and sat
down sulkily.
Rudolph Hess Says "Ncin"
Rudolf Hess when called said
"flein." British Lord Justice
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence said
"That will be entered as a plea
of not guilty." Spectators
laughed for the first time, and
Sir Geoffrey threatened to clear
the courtroom.
Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl, Ger
man army chief of staff, snapped
"I have a clear conscience. Not
7 guilty." SS Gen.Trltz Sauckel
said "I declare myself in the
sense of the indictment before
God and my people not guilty."
The court permitted Ernst
Kaltenbrunner, former nazi po
lice chief who is suffering from
a cranial hemorrhage and can
not attend the trial, to reserve
his plea until a-later date.
Motion Rejected,.
Before pleading, the defend
ants tried in vain to escape trial
by challenging the authority of
the court.
Sir Geoffrey announced that
the tribunal had rejected a
joint motion by the defendants
which claimed that the court
was illegal because there was
no basis for it in international
law.
As Jackson relentlessly drove
home point after point in his
21,000 word denunciation,
Goering frowned and slumped
low in his seat. All the defend
ants except Rudolf. Hess, Bal
dur von Schircach and Schacht
wore earphones to hear the run
ning German translation.
Ernest Kaltenbrunner took a
sudden turn for the worse to
night, and a physician said
"there is nothing that can possi
bly be done for him except wait
and watch him die."
Byrnes Explains
j Troops in China
Washington, Nov. 21 (IP) Sec
retary of State Byrnes said to
day that American marines are
in strife-torn North China be
cause of a promise made to
the Japanese government last
August to help in the surrender
and repatriation of Japanese
soldiers there.
This was the first disclosure
of a pledge to, the Japanese to
use American forces in China
to help get Nipponese troops
home.
Heretofore, the U. S. govern
ment position has been that it
was helping an ally, the govern
ment of Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek, to rid China of de
feated enemy forces.
Questioning of Byrnes started
at a news conference when he
was reminded by newsmen that
two weeks ago he had said
that plans were under way for
withdrawal of the marines from
China.
He said that his information
now is the same as it was then.
Hemingway Seeks Divorce
Havana, Nov. 21 (U.PJ Ernest
Hemingway, novelist, today
filed suit for divorce in the
Havana court. His wife Is Mar
tha GeLlhorn, SU Lous, also a
writer.
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Chinese Drive
25 More Miles
Info Manchuria
'By the Associated Prs
Chinese nationalists reported
ly gained 25 miles today in
their push into rich Manchuria
against light Chinese commun
ist opposition, while the reds
forecast early flareups in cen
tral China and a comparative
lull settled over bleeding Java.
Chungking communists re
ported 100,000 government
troops were massing along a
110-mile front against two red
armies in Honan and Hupeh
provinces of central China and
predicted "large-scale" battling
soon.
The nationalist army news
paper Ho Ping Pao reported a
25-mile gain to the Peiping
Mukden railroad town of Hing
cheng, 60 miles northeast of
the Shanhaikwan gateway to
Manchuria.
A Chinese cabinet spokesman
said negotiations with Russia
seeking soviet cooperation in
moving nationalist forces into
Manchuria were continuing in
dicating that Russia thus far
has made no move to help, al
though recognizing China's full
sovereignty there.
Yamashita Trial
In Manila, Japanese Lt. Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita listened
approvingly as his chief of
staff, Lt. Gen. Akiro Muto, came
to his defense in his war-crimes
trial, denying Yamashita's re
sponsibility for atrocities. Muto
remarked in passing that had
the American invasion of Luzon
come a month earlier than it
did, it would have won the
whole island "with one blow."
In the wake of recent "ser
ious outbreaks" in Balavia, the
allied Netherlands East Indies
command today ordered gun
waving native troops under
Dutch command to withdraw
from the Java capital.
Comparative quiet was report
ed in Soerabaja, where Indone
sian extremists and allies have
been battling.
CIO Calls for
Strike at Wards
New York, Nov. 21 (IP) Sam
uel Wolchok, president of the
United Wholesale Retail and
Department Store Employes of
America (CIO) today announ
ced the union had called a nation-wide
strike of Montgomery
Ward & Co., employes for one
week, beginning next Monday.
"Our plan is not for a long
strike," he said. "We are going
out for one week and then from
time to time repeat the opera
tion." Wolchok, who made the an
nouncement at a press confer
ence, said the union was "will
ing to call off the strike" if
S e w e 1 1 Avery, Montgomery
Ward board chairman, accepts
union proposals mailed to him
last Friday.
In these proposals the union
offered to drop demands for a
closed shop and check-off and
to submit other proposals to
arbitration.
"Unusual" strike methods
which would affect an estimated
75,000 employers of the com
pany are planned by the union,
Wolchok said.
The plan for a week-long
strike and possible repetition
was devised by the union, Wol
chok said, because "we want to
impress the average man the
average citizen in the United
States with "Mr. Avery's labor
policy and his entire doings to
ward labor as a whole; with his
reactionary methods in dealing
with labor."
Wolchok said that the com
pany had engaged in "lockouts"
and "dismissals of active union
members" in Chicago and Albany.
UAW Strike on
Motors Begins
Prematurely
Detroit, Nov. 21 (IP) The
CIO's United Auto Workers un
ion began its long-threatened
strike against General Motors
Corp. today in support of its
demand for a 30 percent wage
rate increase.
Timed for 8 a.m., PST, the
strike apparently began prema
turely in at least one plant
Buick Motors in Flint, Mich.
and at the stated hour UAW
CIO headquarters said the strike
was "in effect."
That announcement came
from Vice President Walter P.
Reuther, who had headed UAW
CIO representatives in the
weeks-long negotiations with
General Motors over the wage
demand.
A company statement said
162.000 enployes were idle. This
indicated that the strike, so far
as production workers were con
cerned, was complete in all
plants. General Motors pre
viously said it had 162,000 pro
duction employes.
200,000 Affected
The strike, pitting the na
tion's largest labor union against
America's largest operating cor
portion, affected by company
estimate 200,000 production
workers. The UAW-CIO has
used a figure of 325,000 as the
number to be involved.
Since the end of the war,
GM's employment has been
heavily reduced, and the dis
crepancy in union and company
figures lay apparently in the
union's reference to its mem
bership totals as the basis for
estimating the number affected.
Picket Lines Formed
Workers streamed out of oth
er GM plants at the 8 a.m. dead
line. At AC spark plus in Flint
a picket line assembled almost
immediately. At the Cadillac
plant in Detroit workers also
marched out into the streets.
A UAW-CIO sound truck had
been playing music before the
Cadillac plant for a half hour
before the walkout.
Despite crowds on the street,
a general calm was reported
from Flint. There was no ap
parent haste in the departures
from, the plants as men and
women walked out of the gates.
Congestion before the ATC
spark plug plant was so heavy
at one time that the pickets had
trouble keeping on the move.
Strikers joked and laughed with
one another. Many men were
wearing hunting caps and jack
ets; Michigan is now enjoying
its annual deer hunting sea
son. One picket's sign read: "Join
now, support the picket line."
Others said :"30 percent or
fight;" "No more buck passing
this is it;" "No wage increases
for scabs join now."
Transit Tie-up
In Capital City
Washington, Nov. 21 u.R)
Washington's city-wide street
car and bus transportation sys
tem was paralyzed again today
when operators and mainten
ance men of the Capital Tran
sit company walked out in a
dispute over wages.
It was the second tie-up in
the nation's capital in two
weeks, again leaving hundreds
of thousands of government and
other employes dependent on
taxicabs or private autos to go
to and from their jobs.
The operators, members of
the Amalgamated Street and
Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employes Association,
(AFL) voted to walk out after
13 days of negotiations between
the union, the company and U.
S. labor conciliators brought
only a recommendation for fur
ther arbitration on the demand
for a 30 cents an hour pay
boost.
De Gaulle Forms Coalition
Compromise Cabinet
Paris, Nov. 21 U.R Gen. Charles de Gaulle succeeded today
in forming a compromise cabinet, including communist ministers,
with himself as chief of government, chief of armies, and director
ot national aeien.se. The cab-
inet was composed of six social
ists, six popular republicans,
five communists, two independ
ents, one radical and one mod
erate. De Gaulle announced the
makeup of his coalition cabinet
after a week of political jock
eying which precipitated
France's gravest political cri
sis since the liberation.
Compromising with the com
munists who had demanded one
of the three. top posts in any
coalition cabinet, de Gaulle
named a number of party lead
ers to new posts in his gov
ernment. Communist Charlei Tillon
was named minister of arma
ments under de Gaulle as di
rector of national defense. The
communist party secretary,
Maurice Thorez, was appointed
one of four ministers of state
without portfolio.
The other ministers of state
were Vincent. Auriol, socialist;
Francisque Gay, popular repub
lican; and Louis Jacquinot, navy
minister in the retiring cabi
net. De Gaulle announced the
makeup of his cabinet at mid
afternoon after a busy day of
conferences with its members
and other political leaders.
,1.
Army Figures at Pearl Harbor Probe (IP) Maj. Gen. Walter
Short (left), army commander in Hawaii at the time of the
December 7, 1941, attack, and Col. Bernard Thielen (right), of
the war department 'staff, a witness, confer in Washington on the
congressional Pearl Harbor investigation.
Payroll Savings Plan
Pushed in Bond Drive
Special emphasis in the victory loan drive this week Is being
laid in a push to put the industrial division and payroll savings
plan over in a big way. Quota in the industrial division is $250,
000 in E bonds and the first two individual organizations have
reported their quotas complete, these being Keith Brown Build
ing Supply company with a $7,
500 quota and Paulus Bros.
Packing company with a $2500
quota. The Keith Brown com'
pany has been the first indus.
trial firm to complete its quota
in seven of the eight bond
drives.
Dent B. Reed heads the indus
trial division as chairman, Bar
ney Van Onsenoord is co-chair
man, and aides are Henry
Kropp, Edward Majek, Wililam
Dolf, Fred Starrett, Marion
Curry, A. C. Shaw, Stearns
Cushing and Al Brandt. The
committee states that several
other firms are nearing their
goals and reports indicate that
this division will complete its
quota before the deadline of the
drive.
(Concluded on Pace 12, Column S)
Tojo's Trial Set
December 1
Tokyo, Nov. 21 U.R Japan's
top war criminals, headed by
Pearl Harbor Premier Gen.
Hideko Tojo, will be brought
to trial in Tokyo on or about
Dec. 1, Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's headquarters disclosed
today.
Col. Alva C. Carpenter, chief
of MacArthur's legal section,
revealed that Tojo and all the
surviving Japanese war lords
responsible for the sneak at
tack on Pearl Harbor will be
tried by an American court
here.
He indicated that Tojo may
be the first to stand trial, al
though the exact order of the
defendants has not yet been de
termined. Carpenter, who has just re
turned from the Manila trial of
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, said
the Tokyo tribunal will convene-as
-fioon -as -possible after
the arrival of Joseph B. Keenan,
the chief American prosecutor.
Carpenter said the exact date
of the trial and the order in
which the Japanese war lords
are to be prosecuted will be
announced after he confers
with Keenan.
Strike Penalty
Bill Sent House
Washington, Nov. 21 (IP)
Legislation penalizing labor
unions that violate no-strike
contracts was sent to the house
today for prompt action.
The rules committee voted to
send the bill to the floor despite
cries o'f opponents that it would
"stab labor in the back."
Under the measure, approved
19 to 9 by the house military
committee, any unions striking
in violation of no-strike agree
ments, would lose their collec
tive bargaining rights for a
year. It also would relieve
the employer of any ooligations
to the union, and make the
union liable for civil damages.
The bill would amend exist
ing law to put unions under the
corrupt practices act, the same
as corporations. Under this
clause, a union would be pro
hibited from assessing its mem
bers for political contributions
or making such contributions in
a national primary or election,
violation carries a fine of $5,000.
A union officer also could be
imprisoned for a year and fined
$1,000.
The bill eliminates from the
wartime Smith-Connally labor
disputes act the sections author
izing government seizure of
struck war plants and setting
up machinery for strike votes
among employes of war plants.
Bill to Authorize
Aluminum Purchase
Washington. Nov. 21 U.R A
bill to authorize the reconstruc
tion finance corporation to pur
chase up to 1,500,000,000 pounds
of primary aluminum has been
introduced by Senators J. Wit
liam Fulbright (D., Ark.), Guy
Cordon (R., Ore.) Wayne Morse
(H., Ore.), and Hugh B. Mitch
ell (D., Wash.).
The aluminum would be in
excess of current needs and
would have been produced in
government-constructed plants,
Purchases would be made in
amounts and times as "will best
promote the development of an
expanding commercial market
for primary aluminum."
Red Cross Files
on Japs
Tokyo, Nov. 21 OJ.B The
Japanese army withheld infor
mation on more than half of its
102 prisoners of war camps in
Japan and Manchuria and fail
ed to account for 7000 allied
prisoners and internees, the In
ternational Red Cross charged
today.
The Red Cross, in a report
which also told of the execution
of a Swiss missionary and his
wife by a Japanese firing squad
two years ago, disclosed that
actually 34,000 prisoners were
taken instead of 27,000 report
ed by the Japanese. Names of
many of the dead and missing
never appeared on Japanese
war prisoner lists, the Red
Cross said.
The announcement came as
Gen, Douglas MacArthur stern
ly ordered the Japanese gov
ernment to submit complete in
formation on the location of
bodies of dead prisoners of war
and other allied personnel be
fore Dec. 15.
'Meanwhile, the common
grave of three unidentified
fliers believed killed when their
torpedo bomber crashed near
an airstrip was found at Osaka.
Residents said two of the
fliers died of burns last July
30 when their plane, believed to
have been a navy Avenger
bomber, crashed near the Arami
air strip. The parachute of the
third man failed to open, Jap
anese said. A plain wooden
marker at the graveside said
"tomb of American pilots July
30, 1945."
IN
Army u"ares
::.cd Surplus
Official notice that McNary
field has been declared surplus
by the army was received by
Major C. H. Westover, com
mandant, Wednesday from Dep
uty Chief of Staff Richardson,
in charge of public relations at
Washington.
Word came several days ago
through Leo Devaney of Port
land, state director of aeronau
tics, that the airport had so
been classified, but official no
tice was lacking until receipt of
the message by Major Westover.
Only One Unit Trained
The airport was taken over
by the army by lease from the
city early in the war. The only
unit trained at the Salem field
during the war was the 356th
fighter squadron of the 354th
tighter group. The headquar
ters unit of the squadron has
recently arrived back in the
States but the squadron itself
is still with the European army
of occupation.
Officials representing the sur
plus properties agency will
probably be in Salem some time
next week to arrange for dis
posal of the government prop
erties at the airport.
Interim Use Sought
Civilian use of McNary field
can be brought about much
sooner by application for in
terim use, which has been au
thorized by the city council
than by waiting for termina
tion of the government-city
lease, says authoritative infor
mation received by Alderman
Tom Armstrong, chairman of
the council committee on airport
and aviation.
Arrangements for termina
tion of the lease must go through
the chief of engineers and then
through the district engineering
agency that made the original
lease.
Application for interim use
prior to termination of the lease
was authorized by the council
by resolution introduced by
Armstrong's committee.
Instrument Landing
Bids are to be opened by the
Civil aeronautics administration
in Seattle December 10 for in
stallation of an instrument
landing system and approach
light lane at McNary field. In
tention of the CAA to make the
installation was made known
here last summer.
The work in general consists
of constructing a 13 by 15 by
10-foot wood frame transmitter
building; a 45 by 6 by 7-foot
wood frame antenna shelter
with support; an 8 by 12-foot
wood frame glide path building;
two 5 by 7 by 5 14 -foot wood
frame transmitter buildings;
erection of two 20 by 20 steel
mesh counterpoises; installation
of 11.600 feet of control cable
and 9600 feet of power cable in
trench or duct; and the installa
tion of 14 neon approach lights
and one course light. Also in
cluded among other items are
the installation of transformers
and pads; the erection of fences,
clearing and alternative items
for the antenna shelter. No
radio transmitting equipment
will be installed.
Resignation of
Lovett Accepted
Washington, Nov. 21 (IP)
President Truman today accept
ed the resignation of Robert A.
Lovett, assistant secretary of
war for air, effective Decem
ber 8.
Lovetl's resignation was sub
mitted Sept. 6 at the time Hen
ry L. Stimson retired as secre
tary of war.
In a letter to Lovett, dated
yesterday, the president wished
him success in his return "to
private pursuits."
The Weather
(Relased by the United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and vicin
ity: Cloudy today and tonight
with intermittent lgiht rain to
day and tonight. Intermittent
light rain Thursday with morn
inn fog. Max. yesterday, 38.
Mln. today. 31. Mean tempera
ture yesterday, 32, which was 3
below normal. Total 24-hour
precipitation to 11:30 am. to
day, 0. Total prclpltatlon for
the month. (.40, which Is 1.72
Inches above normal. Willam
ette river height, 10.1 ft.
Leahy Denies Hearing F.D.R. Say
That U.S. Might Not Fight If
Japan Attacked Philippines
Richardson Says Knox Told Him He Was Relieved
As Commander of Pacific Fleet Because He Had
"Hurt the Feelings of President Roosevelt"
Ellen Glasgow,
Famed Author, Dies
Richmond, Va., Nov. 21 (IP)
Ellen Glasgow, nationally known
author, died today in the Rich
mond home where she had lived
most of her life. She was 71.
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in
1942 for her latest book, "In
This Our Life," Miss Glasgow
first won fame in the early
1900's with her book, "The Voice
of the People."
Washington, Nov. 21 (IP) Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy tes
tified today he had no recollection that the late President Roose
velt said in October, 1940, that the United States might not fight
even if the Japanese attacked the Philippines.
Leahy, chief of staff to President Truman and Mr. Roosevelt,
said he had heard no such statement at a White House luncheon on
October 8, 1940.
Admiral J. O. Richardson, who then was commander-in-chief
of the fleet, had testified previously that Mr. Roosevelt said at the
luncheon in response to a query as to whether this country planned
to enter the war that "if the Japanese attacked Thailand or the
Kra peninsula, or the Dutch East Indies we would not enter the
war; that if they even attacked the Philippines he doubted whether
we would enter the war, but that they could not always avoid
making mistakes and that as the war continued and the area of
operations expanded, sooner or1
later they would make a mistake
and we would enter the war."
Rep. Murphy (D. Pa.) asked
Leahy if he had heard the presi
dent refer to the Philippines in
any way.
"I did not," the fleet admiral
replied.
During the course of his tes
timony, Adm. Richardson quot
ed the late secretary of the navy
Frank Knox as telling him he
was relieved as commander of
the fleet in 1941 because he had
"hurt the feelings" of President
Roosevelt.
Senator Ferguson (R. Mich.)
asked Richardson, who said he
had argued previously with the
president against keeping the
fleet in Pearl Harbor, if he knew
how he might have hurt Mr.
Roosevelt's feelings.
Never Was Sent For
"It would hurt my feelings if
a senior subordinate under me
disagreed with me and I couldn't
make him change his mind," the
admiral replied firmly.
Richardson said he had com
plained to Knox that in all his
experience he never had hoard
of a commanding officer being
relieved "in the same manner I
was."
When he asked Knox why, the
admiral said the late secretary
replied that "The president
would send for me and talk the
Ready to Go to War
Richardson testified earlier
the navy assumed on October 10,
1940, that the United States was
ready to go to war if the Japan
ese retaliated against a proposed
plan to stop Japanese shipping
The former commander of Hie
Pacific fleet resumed his testi
mony before a senate house com
mittee Investigating the Japan
ese attack on Pearl Hurbor as
the inquiry brought out these
other developments:
Richardson told the investi
gators today that discussion of
the plan to halt Japanese ship
ping never carried out had
prompted him to send a message
to Admiral Thomas C. Hart, then
Asiatic fleet commander, con
taining 10 "assumptions."
He had testified yesterday
the late secretary of navy Frank
Knox told him and other offic
ers at a conference October 9,
1940, that President Roosevelt
had suggested establishing a line
of ships to halt Jap shipping to
the western hemisphere in the
event Japan moved against the
British as a result of the re
opening of the Burma road set
for October 17.
As he concluded his testimony
just before noon, however, Rich
ardson volunteered the state
ment that "I never bore any re
sentment toward President Roo
sevelt" because of his removal
as fleet commander.
"He was the constitutional
commander in chief of the army
and navy, I was one of his senior
subordinates, there was a differ
ence of opinion, I was relieved of
command of the fleet, had I
been constitutional commander
in chief of the army and navy, I
would have taken the same ac
tion," he said.
Richardson told the commit
tee he was ordered lalcr to re
port for duty on the navy de
partment general board which
advised the secretary on build
ing programs.
No Issue on Thanksgiving Day
Owing to Newsprint Shortage
Because of the shortage of newsprint, more acute
now than at any time during the war, there will be no issue
of the Capital Journal on Thanksgiving Day.
In addition to the greatly reduced newsprint quota im
posed by the WPB control, the paper mills, because of short
age of manpower and war material, have imposed an addi
tional reduction of 10 percent in the fourth quarter con
sumption. It is questionable, in view of the increase in circulation,
whether enough newsprint will be available before the year's
end, to print anything but token editions, and this during
the heaviest advertising month of the year. Every possible
economy in paper is necessitated during the crisis.
All advertising during the emergency will be accepted
only on an optional day basis. Insertions cannot be guaran
teed on any specific date nor can desired space be assured.
Ads should be sent in early in the week with preferred date
given. Copy will be handled in the order received. National
advertising has been accepted only on this basis for the
past three years and it is now necessary to ask similar
co-operation by local advertisers.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL.
Ike for United
Arms Services
Chicago, Nov. 21 (IP) No
country fears a strong America,
says Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er, and "no decent preparations
of our own will be regarded sus
piciously by others, because we
are trusted."
"A respectably strong Ameri
ca means to others a willingness
on oUr part to bear our full
share of the burdens of preserv
ing peace not an intention to
resort to force for our own en
richment or advantage," the
newly designated army chief of
staff said last night.
Speaking at the American Le
gion national commander's din
ner, the five-star general urged
that the nation maintain strong
military forces, emphasized as
necesary univelrsal military
training and favored unified
country's fighting forces.
Gen. Eisenhower told the Le
gionnaires in his speech, which
he had termed "one of the most
important of my career," that
"a strong America is a trained
and integrated America. No
where is that integration more
necessary than In our armed
forces.
"Every consideration of effi
ciency, economy, and progress
.in research demands the closest
possible unity among all our
fighting forces, all the way from
the bottom to the top. This great
and necessary purpose, I be
lieve, can be best achieved by
unified control at the top' .
Truman Orders
Transit Seizure
Washington, Nov. 21 (IP)
President Truman today order
ed seizure of Washington'!
transportation system by the
office of defense transportation.
Charles G. Ross, press secre
tary, made the announcement
shortly after noon P.S.T.
Washington bus drivers and
street car operators had been in
"continuous meeting" since 3
a.m., thus suspending all local
transportation service.
Only a few minutes before
the president acted, the workers
had shouted down a proposal
that they return to work and
arbitrate their dispute over
wages.
The ODT, Ross said, was In
structed to take over the prop
erties of the Capitol Transit
company, operating the Wash
ington system.
This was the second transit
ticun in Washington in two
weeks, and with it had come
possibility that the capital's taxi
drivers might quit, too.
Oregon Can Tax
Indian Estates
The state of Oregon has
right to levy inheritance taxes
on bequests left by Indians, At
torney General George Neuner
ruled today for State Treasurer
Leslie M. Scott.
Neuner pointed out that prop
erty of Indians is not subject
to state taxation, but he said
an inheritance tax is not taxing
an Indian. Rather, he said, it is
levied on the transfer of prop
erty from the dead to the living.
The case involved the estate
of Mrs. Young Chief, a deceased
Umatilla Indian.
Norman Armour
Resigns As Envoy
Washington, Nov. 21 (IP) The
White House reported today
that Norman Armour, ambassa
dor to Spain, is retiring from
the forciRn service. Charles G.
Ross, press secretary, told a
news conference Armour is ex
pected to return to Washington
within two weeks.
American diplomats who
know have told reporters the
U.S. may further indicate its
dislike of the Franco govern
ment by leaving Armour's post
unfilled, possibly for some time.
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