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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1946 Capital Journal ESTABLISHKl) 1X88 SALEM, OREGON An Independent Newspaper Published Evry Afternoon Except Sunday b1 444 Chemeketa St Phones Business Office 3571 News Room 3572 Society Editor 3573 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited In this paper and also news published therein. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RAT5S: BY CARRIER: WEEKLY, $.2(1; Monthly, $75; One Year, $9.0(1. BY MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly. $.60; Months, $3.00; One Year $0.00. United States Outside Oregon: Monthly, $.60: 6 Months, $3.60; Year. $7.20 Cost-Plus Rent Control A third proposal for local rent control to appear before the council in a month has been introduced by and referred to the ways and means committee pending further study and consideration, which will include consideration by service clubs and other interested groups for whom copies of the measure are being prepared. The first of the three ordinance bills, modelled after Salem's original rent-control plan, was introduced a month ago. Referred to the ways and means committee for possible alteration, and was sidetracked for the simpler one suggested by Chairman David O'Hara which, in turn was supplanted by a second O'Hara proposal sub stituted for the other two at Monday night's council meeting. O'Hara's new plan is, if anything, less complicated than the first. It sets up the office of Rent Arbiter in the person of the city treasurer, who, upon application of either land lord or tenant, shall determine the fair rental value of any house, apartment, room or other shelter used as living prem ,ises, subject to an appeal to the Board of Review of three members appointed by the mayor. It the premises were occupied by tenants during any part of the year 1942, the rent to be charged shall be the highest rent collected during that year, "plus such an increase as will produce to the landlord a net return of not to exceed 8 percent interest per annum on his capital investment therein, whether the rental is by the day, week, month, year or longer period." Where prem ises are new or not rented out during 1942 the Rent Arbiter, on application of either the landlord or tenant, and upon five days notice in writing, shall fix a rental rate for the premises, which wiil produce, "as nearly as can be calculated, a net return of not to exceed 8 percent interest per annum on the landlord's capital investment therein." For his services in fixing rentals the Arbiter shall charge a fee of two dollars, which shall be credited to a funcj to be used for the administration of the rent control service. The Board of Review of three members named by the mayor shall hear all appeals from decisions of the Arbiter. Members of the board must have been residents and voters of Salem for a period of five years. One would be a land lord, one a tenant, and the third neither a landlord nor tenant. It is further provided that every landlord shall file with the Arbiter a copy of any eviction notice served upon a tenant within three days of the date of said notice, and if the Arbiter "shall find that any attempted eviction is based upon the refusal of a tenant to pay rental for the premises involved in excess of the lawful rate" the landlord shall be guilty of violation of the ordi nance and subject to the penalties provided. All violations of the ordinance shall be tried In the municipal court and upon conviction violators shall be punished by fines of not to exceed $100, by imprisonment of not to exceed ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment. Under such a system there could be no standardization of rentals for premises providing similar accommodations and conveniences, because of variance in the capital invest ments of landlords, which would fluctuate widely with the age of the premises. An elaborate apartment built during the era of low prices several years ago would, because it represented a smaller investment, command a lower rental than a much inferior apartment built at present day high prices. Likewise the very real factor of convenience of loca tion with respect to the business area or slate buildings could not be weighed in determining rental values by the formula prescribed. Like the first O'Hara plan, this second proposal has the advantage of being simple, immediate in its relief and cheaply administered. It does not, however, affect all land lords or tenants alike. It would provide a means of check ing the operations of rent gougers, but is no substitute for the rent controls provided by OPA in dealing with the ordi nary rent profiteers. It should not be used as a weapon to discourage the installation of OPA rent controls in the whole Salem area. Veterans Win Point The protests voiced by Salem war veterans, coupled with the thousands of other complaints from all parts of the country, have resulted in the announcement by the war assets administration of a revised plan to make the priorities of veterans in the purchase of war goods amount to somc thing. The heat generated by the local vets in demanding a 'chance to buy individual sleeping bags from a lot of 41,000 advertised for sale at the Hermislon ordnance depot has won for them a set-aside order which will make the bags available in lots of 25, and inauguration by WAA of a plan .designed to give veterans in all sections of the country a 'direct choice in the future disposal of surplus goods. Robert M. Littlejohn, war assets administrator, has re pealed a plan to establish a veteran's advisory committee in each of the agency's 33 regional offices, with memberships .including representatives of all veteran's organizations to pe selected by the national headquarters of each of those organizations. I It will be the business of each of these advisory committees to see to it that veterans are given the opportunity to see, "inspect, and buy such of the surplus war goods as they Tnay have a legitimate interest in purchasing. They will see to it that veterans are given due notice of pending sales, ,are given an opportunity to inspect samples at convenient points and that quantities are broken down into small lots that a veteran or group of veterans are financially able to handle. No longer will individual veterans be frozen out ,of the priorities to which they are entitled in buying up surplus goods by such subterfuges as selling in huge lots, limited advertising of sale dates and confinement of sales to a few central depots which bar veterans from a chance to inspect the offerings because of distance. "Provisions of surplus property legislation which apply particularly to veterans were enacted for their benefit," Littlejohn said. "From now on the veterans themselves are going to have a lot to say about how these sales are to be administered." allow more space on the main floor for use by the operations department. Parental Problems By Beck "TM li saoo avEN5( you coat. Jl "ir" I J .if lll lf DUST THE WHOLE ROOM IN i 04: ' !" ' l! ,':'! WSM HALF THE TIME VOO WASTE J3 ' ' .'I1 - ' '''I V LOOKING FOR A FEW SPOTS H Sips fotr x3e By Don Upjohn It begins to look the way Yu goslavia, Russia and a few oth er countries who were helped out of their plight during the late war are talking about and acting against the United States, that the best way to make an enemy is to do a friendly act. We have long known that the best and cheapest way to get rid of a pest was to loan him five bucks but we didn't know he'd want to go to war about it. The decontrol board has spoken and early kickbacks seem to indicate that nobody is satisfied. We presume that when meat gels back under con- Novelties In the News (By the Associated Press) Holding the Bag Hays, Kas., Aug. 21 UP) Mrs. Van Hartman was mystified when she reached into her ice box for a sack of eggs and pull ed out a bag of silver coins and pennies. Just then her father, R. S. Maxwell, telephoned to ask an xiously if she had carried home the Lutheran church collec tion the night before by mis take. He had concealed the money in the bag, and next morning found himself counting eggs instead of cash. trol again it'll be like it used to be under OPA, no meat. O well, maybe some day, who knows? The city prowl cars are now picking up so many people for traffic violations looking over the police blotter of a morning makes a chap wonder who the other guy was they missed. A lot of folks are being picked up for having no muffler and in a way, one can't hardly blame one for going out without a muffler these hot days can one? Not for Art's Sake Michigan City, Ind., Aug. 21 iP) Patrolman Art Menke pushed through a beach crowd of males, aged 6 to 76, to find a shapely, red-haired girl pos ing in the nude for a photog rapher. "This is for art," the photog rapher told him. ' Nope," Menke decided, "I'm Art and it's not for me," and look the pair to the police sta tion where they were booked on charges of indecent exposure. We've heard so much about a gal named Sioux City Sue from coffee shop juke boxes the past few weeks we wish whoever it is in love with the gal as indi cated in the song would hurry up and marry her and get her out of circulation and in the kitchen where she belongs. Every time the 5uke box goes into operation he says he's go ing to marry her, but apparently can't quite get to the point. All reports Indicate there's going to be more livestock, agri cultural products and the things that make up a fair, at the com ing state fair than has ever been shown before. From the pictures we've seen Leo Spitz bart also has lined up a lot of cheesecake to be shown at the night show in addition to the cheeses and cakes to fce shown in the exhibit buildings. Which leads us to believe there'll be plenty of time during the day light hours to look at the cheeses and cakes on exhibit and let the boys concentrate on the other in the evenings. Already we've heard a num ber of the boys who have been buying hamburger to feed dogs most of the summer admit that Labor day week they plan to turn their money over to the purchase of hay for horses. Nobody complained about three syllable words today. Maybe we'll have to take time out and look up another one. Nail Dealer Held Portland, Aug. 21 UP) John Garvey, charged by the OPA with selling 10 kegs of nails for $4S instead of $12.56, was released on $500 bail yesterday by the U.S. commssioner here Garvey is one of 10 men charg ed with price violation in the OPA drive last week. Bank Plans for Additional Space Building permit issued by the c?ity engineer's office reveals plans for a $25,000 program of alterations at Ladd & Bush branch of the United States Na tional bank which due to neces sity caused by increased oper ations will shunt some of the working force to the second floor. The bookkeeping department, which includes about 35 of the 120 employes at the bank, will be moved to the second floor, ?tates Linn C. Smith, assistant vice president, a second story vault will be put in and an ele vator installed. The move will A plant lo manufacture syn thetic gasoline and diescl oil from natural gas is being con structed in Texas. Give Your Car a BRAKE INSPECTION Remember: All cars ex cept '46 models have been in operation for 5 years or more. It is advisable at regular intervals to thor oughly inspect your brakes, linings, shoes, cyl inders, cups, drums, lines, in fact, entire braking sys tem, and put your brakes in first-class condition. You will find the facili ties and men experienced in this line at your serv ice at LODER BROS. Oldsmobile Dealers 4B5 CENTER SALEM Onr ISth Tear in Salem STEVENS DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELRY Exquisitely carved pair . . . Rings of rich 14k gold. Terms If Desired 339 Court St. R3 OMtomi 1 By GLENN BABB i(Fi ForelKti Affairs Analyst) All the noisy acrimony of the Paris peace conference thus far has been concerned with trifles compared with a clash of wills between the western powers and Russia which has been going on in the classical manner of diplo macy, behind the closed doors of foreign offices. The great powers are locked in a test of strength and nerves over one of the oldest issues of world politics, the straits question, or, to use the popular name, the Dardanelles. Since this involves one of the primary elements of world mas tery and strategy, since it touch es one of the most cherished am bitions of the Russian state for three and a half centuries and since it may determine control of the vital middle east, there is a grimness about this clash be yond anything yet developed at Paris. Change in U.S. Policy The other powers involved have been pulling and hauling at the straits question at least since the beginning of the nine teenth century, some of them longer. But now for the first time the United Stales has de clared itself in on the game. No thing in the post-war period has shown so significantly how far the United States has moved from the policies that guided its international conduct during the period between the first and sec ond World wars or so definitely emphasized the conviction of the American government that this country can not remain aloof from any contest involving a shift in world forces. The issue is this: Russia has served demands on Turkey, the guardian of (he straits besides the Dardanelles these include the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmora which Deither Tur key nor the western powers find acceptable. These are, first, that the Black sea powers alone take over control of the straits and, second, that Russia and Turkey jointly assume their defense. Black Sea Powers The Black sea powers are Bul garia, Romania, Russia and Tur key. Since the first two are held firmly in the Russian orbit and Seek to Unseat Senator Bilbo Louisville, Ky., Aug. 21 OP) Petitions to unseat Senator Bilbo (D., Miss.), to "outlaw the Ku Klux Klan in the United States" and to pass a federal anti-lynching law have been signed by several hundred phy sicians attending the convention of the National Negro Medical association here. The petitions were circulated at the convention session yes terday by Edgar G. Brown of Washington, director of the Na tional Negro Council. He said they already had been signed by 400,000 persons all over the country. One of the petitions, criticiz ing Bilbo's recent radio broad cast in which he urged "red blooded Anglo-Saxons in Mis sissippi to resort to any means to keep all negroes from voting in the primary election," asks that the U.S. senate deny a seat to Bilbo for "disorderly behavior." CIO-PAC Meets Defeat In New York Primaries 'By tho Associated Press) An upsurge of republican organization strength in some sections of New York City was noted today in. the results of Tuesday's primaries. Organization-backed candidates beat down attempts by Reps. Vite Marcantonio, 7 More Gamblers Nabbed Portland, Aug. 21 UP) Con tinuing their raids on alleged gambling centers, city police arrested seven men for being behind barred doors last night, bringing the week's total to 140 seem destined to remain, Turkey would become a permanent min ority of one in any Dardanelles councils. And the second de mand would mean that Russia would move in alongside Turkey in military occupation of the shores of the straits. The junior partner in such an arrangement would have little chance to hold his 'own. Acceptance of these terms would mean fulfillment of a dream which Russian rulers have held since Peter the Great three and a half centuries ago determined to break through the bonds of land and ice that held Russia away from unhindered access to the seven seas. Never perhaps in all history of the glacier-like spread of Russian territories toward the warm wa ters has any of Peter's success ors looked upon a prospect so inviting as that spread before Stalin. American Labor, and Adam Clayton Powell, negro democrat, to capture the republican nomi nations for congress as well as those of American Labor and democratic parties. Two years ago they were successful in winning all three places on the ballot. And Rep. Joseph Clark Bald win, republican, denied GOP or ganization endorsement, failed of renomination. In Delaware, democrats in convention renominated James M. Tunnell to the senate and Philip A. Traynor to the house. Utah republicans, in a run off primary, apparently had chosen Arthur C. Watkins, Orem fruit grower, as their senate candidate against democratic in cumbent Abe Murdock. Wat kins was far ahead of William L. Baker of Provo on incom plete returns. In New York, Marcantonio and Powell won democratic nominations and were unop posed as American Labor candi dates. The democratic nomi nation was a close squeeze for Marcantonio, however, despite Tammany backing. He won over Patrick J. Hannigan by a vote of 9778 to 9216. Frederick V. P. Bryan took the republican nomination from Marcantonio, and Grant Rey nolds won it from Powell. Baldwin lost the 17th (Silk Stocking) district nomination by 5 to 1 to State Senator Fred erick R. Coudert, Jr., who was supported by the republican or ganization. Baldwin aides contended he was denied organization support because he voted for some ma jor New Deal measures. In another race on which much interest was centered, Rep. Augustus W. Bennet, lost republican renomination to Mrs. Katherine St. George, a distant cousin of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two years ago, Bennet ousted Hamilton Fish, a veteran of congress from his seat. Aside from Bennet and Bald win, republican congress mem bers from New York who had opposition were renominated. nQLlolnxna . fl t - in southern Asia. THE NEW Oaron SINGLE PACK A wonderful new bearing , f, iai a mam Ligniweignu FREE hoi Batterlei mnd transmit- .manilM ter all in one ease. Na tural In (one. Writ tor FREE BOOKLET -HtARING IS BtUEYtNQ OTA K ION Ofr SALEM AHA i'-iw.ri st pk vinna 1 PiMWMnilmjiailMnrinHHfnM. I er about the Ota Hun Auddeu.II ! BENT a.:::.: b"fo m- YOU i : - j BUTI Cmwlniww tea. DO YOU HAVE MONEY TO INVEST? 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