4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1946
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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."
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Parental Problems
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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
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from natural gas is being con
structed in Texas.
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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.
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