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T 1111 Locals 'ill In the army since March 1 of this year, enlisting through the Salem army recruiting station, Pic. Leland Reimann is here spending an 18-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Reimann. The soldier, who is a former Capital Journal car rier boy, received his basic training at Sac field, San An tonio, Texas, and was stationed there at the time of being grant ed his furlough. A drill instruc tor and flight marcher, he re ports to Egglin field, Fla.. where he will be given a permanent assignment. Dance lonite Crystal Garden. 239 Refinish your own floors! Rent a floor sander from Wood row's. 440 Center St. 239' Painting, decorating. 7552. 245 Insured savings earn more than two percent at Salem Fed eral Savings Association, I3il South Liberty street. Refinish your . own floors' Rent a floor sander from Wood row's, 440 Center street. Taxil Valley Cab Prompt service. Phone 8624. Classes in handicrafts and various cultural fields will be under way soon through the Salem YWCA. First class organ ized is one in Spanish, the group to meet October 15 and there after on each Tuesday evening i'or 10 weeks. The class is from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock at the YW, with Theodore Mcrritt as teach er. A nominal fee is charged The class is for men and women both and is an intermediate-ad vanced one. Announcements will be made later regarding other classes. World famous Akron Modern Trusses, correctly fitted. Private fitting room. Capital Drug store 239' Dance tonite Crystal Garden 239' River silt and fill dirt. Com mercial Sa"d and Gravel. Phone 21968 Refinish your own floors Rent a floor sander from Wood. row's,440 Center st. " DcLuxe Cab. Phone 8050. See complete line Color Per fect wall paper at Sears. ' 7x9 used walk-in cooler, com plete with meat racks, shelving, 1 reach-m door, 1 h.p. compres sor. Burton Refrigeration Com pany, 3050 Portland Road Phone 24060. W. M. (Jack) Bartlett, con sulting engineer for the Oregon committee on post war readjust ment and development, will be guest speaker during Thursday's luncheon of the Salem Lions club. Complete stock Kern-Tone the miracle wall finish at Sears. Dance every Saturday. Sil verton Armory. Woodry's Or chestra. 242' Winona Chalet Restaurant and Drive-In now open. Ital ian food as you like it. Chicken and steaks. Only 2 miles from heart of town on Salem-Dallas Highway. Open. 5 p.m. For res ervations phone 25190. Start your 3 child in music Phone 7186. to 6-year-old fundamentals 242 Fall bulbs, full selection, fine quality Jary Florist, 365 Court Dance tonite Crystal Garden 239 Air, Steamship tickets, Kugel, 735 N. Capitol. Phone 7694. 239 Certificate of assumed busi ness fiame for Capitol Bowling u Alleys, too rerry sireet, nas "been filed with the county clerk by Robert . Keel and Walter R. Rosten. Retirement of the for mer name Perfection Bowling Alleys was filed by the same persons. Dance tonite Crystal Garden, 239 This Funny World Pauline Smith, 2270 Hyde street, reported to police Tues day that two wedding rings had been stolen from her home dur ing the week-end Insurance: Becke, Wadsworth. Hawkins and Roberts, Guardian building. 239 Dance tonite Crystal Garden. 239 Rummage sale. Octnher in 11. Salem Truth Center, 262 North Cottage. 239 Salem Hardware company will be closed Thursday due to remodelling. 239 One-half acre tracts. Good soil, located East. Price 5395 and up. Easy terms, buy now and have a location to build your future home. Graben horst Brothers, Realtors, 134 South Liberty. Phone 4131. 243 The time permitted for appli cants for the fire department to file for the civil service exam inations expires at 5 p.m. Wed nesday, City Recorder Alfred Mundt reminds prospective fire men Written and physical tests will be given October 15. Appli cants who pass the examination will go on the eligibility list of the department and some vacan cies will be filled immediately. Eola Acres Florist. 5730. 239 Lulz Flower Shoppc, 1276 N Liberty street. Phone 9592. 239 Dance tonite Crystal Garden 238' Normandy Manor Steaks, rare prime ribs of beef, pan fried chicken, Virginia baked ham, roast Oregon torn turkey. New Orleans jumbo prawns, Dancing every evening except Mondav. Music hv Wailv lnH and orchestra. Phone 5585 for reservations. 239 For Sale Full set men's hat blocks. 147 North Commer cial, room 9, after 6 p.m. or Sun day after 1 p.m. 239 Mel Robinson Tuesday filed with the civilian production ad ministration an application for authority to set up a $3500 building at Mill City that will be used for a post office. J. W. Copelatid lumber yards in West Salem asked permission to spend $1500 to replace a building de stroyed by a wind storm last December. Dance tonite Crystal Garden 239' New shipment of toilet tissue at Englewood Grocery, B75 North 18th. 242 Waitress, full time, no Sun days. Golden Pheasant. 240 Insurance Kenneth M. Potts, 208 North High. Phone 5981. The nine member council of the Chemeketans will meet in the offices of the Portland Gen eral Electric company Wednes day night at 7:30 when officers will be elected. The council, se lected at a recent conference, includes Paul Deuber, Leah Gei ger, Adolph Greenbaum, Ken neth Jennings, Robert Keudell, lieorge Lewis, Harold Mclchert Dorothy Middleton and Bessie Smith. Dance tonite Crystal Garden 239' Rummage sale, 650 k Marion, in alley, Thursday, Friday, Sat urday. 241 Watress wanted, day work White's Lunch, 1138 South Com mercial. 239 Practically new electric fan Call after 7 p.m. Mildred R. Brooks, 160 Salem Heights ave nue." Phone 22518. 212' Permanent positions open for two salesladies. Hours 9:30 to 5:30. Apply Worths Depart ment Store, J77 North Liberty Dora Rumley, formerly of Price's Beauty Salon and Oral "Addy" Steppe, have purchased The Beauty Box, 412 Guardian Building, corner State and Liberty. 241 Ask Renewal " Of War Powers Washington, Oct. 9 JP The war and navy departments an nounced Jointly today they will ask congress to renew some of their broad wartime powers to negotiate cost - plus - fixed fee and other contracts without ad vertising and competitive bids. Under Secretary of War Ken neth C Royall and Assistant Secretary W. John Kenney of the navy issued a statement say ing also: 1. Revised plans for emer gency procurement already are under study to protect the gov ernment from "unscrupulous contractors" in the event of an other war. 2. Foui other government agencies have been asked to join the services in a study of war time Drocurement practices, with .the idea of adapting to peacetimu some of the short cuts in dealing with industry which were devised under the pressure of war. The agencies are the maritime commission, reconstruction fi nance corporation, treasury procurement office and general accounting office. Legislation to empower the army and navy to continue to negotiate contracts directly was introduced last summer with ad ministration backing. Congress adjourned without acting on it. Governor Earl Snell has ac cepted an invitation to attend charter presentation at a ban quet of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at Lebanon, October 21. The Jeycee group was re cently organized with 28 mem bers. Guests are expected from Salem, Eugene, Corvallis and Albany. Harry Johnson, principal of Salem senior high school, will discuss the new school bill at a meeting of the Brush College Grange ai the schoolhouse Fri day night at 7:30 o'clock. A box social will also be held and the hot lunch program for the school discussed. The E. J. Burton home In the Brush College district was vis ited by the Gray Diggers Mo torcycle club of Salem recent ly wit ha race and climb fea tures of the day. Another meet ing is planned for the same lo cation in the near future. Tenderfoot badges were awarded 10 members of troop No. 1 Boy Scouts at candlelight ceremonies at the Hotary hut Tuesday night by Howard Hig by, scoutmaster and Chester Lu ther, club committee chairman. Receiving pins were Donald Perlich, Norman Lss, Scott Page, Bob Luhtre, Jeff Walton, Ste phen Merchant, James Hum phrey, Wally Carson, George Al len and Michael Deeney. Jerry Romine was named Rotary scout of the month and will be a guest a; the club luncheons. Miss Eleanor Stephens, state librarian, will be in Bend Thurs day tc speak at a teachers' in stitute and will appear before the Central Oregon Library as sociation Saturday at Redmond. Organization of the sugarless cookers 4-H club was completed recently at the home of Mrs. Gladys Cage, leader, in the Mid dle Grove district. Officers are Carroll Hilfiker, president; Jan ice Scharf, vice president; Joan Scharf, secretary; Shirley Page, yell leader, and Yvonne Goode, reporter. The next meeting will be held Monday at the Scharf home. Approximately 35,000 pairs of Arctic shoe pacs, declared surplus by the army, will be sold to commercial and priority groups by the Portland War As sets footwear division. About 2000 are 16-inch and the rest 12-inch. Samples may be in spected at the Umatille Ord nane depot or the WAA Swan Island office, Portland. Among the Oregon soldiers receiving their discharges from the army at the separation cen ter at Fort Lewis October 6 were three from this section of the Willamette valley. The dis chargees were Pfc. Zean K. Smull of Dallas, Staff Sgt. War ren R. R. Soflley of Lebanon and Pfc. Jack R. Duggan of Mill City. Speakers at the meeting of the Salem Toastmasters Tues day night were W. M. Hamil ton, Edwin McEwen, Howard Roberts and Louis Meyer. A. D. Long was toastmaster for the evening and George Moorhead critic. To promote interest in Cub and Boy Scouting,' the Salem Rotary club each month will honor the outstanding Cub and Boy Scouts in the Salem area. The boys so honored are pre sented at a meeting of the club. Chosen to appear Wednesday were Johnny Humphrey, out standing Cub Scout, and Gary Romains, outstanding Boy Scout. Choice was made on basis of popular vote and awards. Robert G. Turner, Salem, and Jeanne White, Vanport City, have been issued a marriage li cense at Portland. A license was is-sued at Vancouver, Wash, to Raymond Buchholz, Sheridan, and Fawn Johnsen, Salem. Nation's Timber Critical Declares Anderson Washington, Oct. 9 UP) Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson told the nation's forestry leaders today that never in history have the problems of forest conservation been "more Clouds Curtain Meteor Shower Star gazers in Salem and else where in Oregon who looked to the sky late last night for flashes of a meteor shower promised by astronomers were disappoint ed. . In most of western Oregon, skies were partly cloudy to cloudy, hampering qualified ob servers while in central and eastern Oregon the clear skies were practically blotted with too much moonlight and no light streaks of burning-out meteor particles were sighted. Astronomers expect the chances of sighting the shower will be best at midnight tonight when the earth moves to with in 132.000 miles of the tail of the Giacobini-Skinncr comet, source of the meteor particles flashing as they burn out in the upper atmosphere of the earth. Record Prices 4-H Livestock World record prices were paid in the sale of 4-H club livestock at the Pacific International Live stock exposition in Portland Wednesday, including purchase by Henry Thiele, Portland res taurant man, of the grand cham pion fat lamb at $25 a pound. It weighed 87 pounds and brought $2175 and was owned by Charles Colegrove of Junction City, and was of the Soughdown breed. Runner up in the bidding was the Jolly Joan restaurant. The highest previous price paid for a fat lamb at the Portland show was $3.50 a pound. The reserve champion, a Hampshire owned by Robert Leth of Independence, brought $2.50 a pound. Jerry Wipper of Turner sold his second place Southdown lamb at $1.25, and also his grand champion pen of three lambs at 80 cents a pound. Wanda Banick of Brooks sold her first prize Dorset lamb at 35 cents. Floyd Fox, Jr. of Sil verton sold his first prize pen of crossbreed lambs at 27 cents. The champion hog of the show, a 230-pound Duroc owned by Gary Holmes of Halsey, brought $3.50 a pound, or $805. The reserve champion sold for $1.80. Howard Watts of Silverton sold a 207-pound Chester White at 37 cents. Eldon Jaquet of Sil verton sold one weighing 192 pounds for 29 cents, and Watts also sold another at 28 cents. In beef cattle Henry Thiele bought the grand champion Hereford at $3.25. It was owned by Henry Jaeger of Condon and weighed 740 pounds, bringing $2405. Keith Brown of Carlton sold a reserve champion Shorthorn steer at 85 cents a pound. Salem Court News Circuit Court Additional divorce deernn filed Include R. R vs. Blanche A. Main. Hazel vjt. Kenneth W. Austin. 11000 to plaintiff, Hazel va. Clifford A. Wilson, custody of four children to plaintiff. Grave vs. Del He Rodriguez, three minor children to remain in custody of Juvenile court pend ing further disposition. Order In Marl Mumper vs. Pearl 8. Matthes and others allow motion to strike certain parts of complaint. Complaint for divorce by Betty May vs. Hubert Texas Snoddy alleaes cruel and inhuman treatment. Married April 5. 1941, at Vancouver. With. Demurrer overruled in Free Methodist church of Woodburn vs. Anions J. and Tillie Pokorney. Answer filed In Lilene Frier vs. Ralph DeVilbiss. Decree in Thomas D. vs. Freda M. Llvesley ftives custody of two minor chil dren to defendant and 175 a month for support of each, Order overrules motion to strike In Paul A. Porter vs. Karl T. Murphy. Following additional Jurors have been summoned for the October term: Lurllla U Strlcklin. O-raldine Woodrotfe. lone C Goode. Bur barn A. Stumbo and Rod ney Martin, all of Salem; Florence Writs nt. Fairgrounds precinct: Frederick M, C. EdmundJson. Sslem Heights; Alvln Otto Kruii, South Silverton; Mary Ringwald, Croisan; Frank Junvwlrth, West Oer vais: Johana Hull, East Woodburn. and Trlfon Opria, Silverton Hills. Property agreement and default order filed In Bernice L. vs. Robert R. Akers. Decree In Beatrice M. vs. Herbert L. Miller gives custody of child to plaintiff and conflrma property settlement. Answer In Bruce O. vs. Frelda A. Burns asks custody of child to defendant and dismissal of complaint. Trial of State vs. Olen Moody which had been set for Tuesday afternoon has been postponed to next Monday at 9:30 a.m. Complaint by Lola May Stoller vs. C. E. Stoller and Salem Federal Savings it Loih association asks that Interests of parties to certain realty be determined and lien of the loan association fixed. Arguments are being heard by Judge George Duncan this afternoon in Borden Company vs. Edwin Schraeder. Order oy Judge Karl C. Latouretle ot Oregon City filed here in state on relation of Ruth Blackwell vs. Kenneth K. Black well and others holds defendant Kenneth Blackwell In contempt of court with a 12 months' Jail sentence from which he may purge himself by payment of JS25 In 20 days and delivery to plaintiff of specified personal property. Jury school for October term was heard by Circuit Judge Z. M. Page Tuesday morning, first trial by Jury being State va. Bremmtr set for Thursday at 9.30 a.m. Probate Court Emil Orant named administrator of the estau of Beatrlct Grant who suffered fatal injuries Ut an, automobU accident July T. Shortage Most critical. Anderson blamed the limber shortage on "this na tion's continued failure to man age its forests conservatively." In an address prepared for the opening session of a three day forest congress convened by the American Forestry associa tion, he suggested this three point "action program" to cope with the problem: 1. Public cooperative aids to the private forest land owner, particularly the small owner. 2. Public control of cutting and other forest practices on private lands, sufficient to stop forest destruction and to keep these lands reasonably produc tive. 3. Expansion and intensified management of public forest lands federal, slate and com munity. Anderson said the saw-tim ber growing rate is shrinking at such rate that the annual cut, together with natural losses, al ready exceeds growth by 50 per cent. "Wc need a margin of grow ing stock for national security. for unforeseen emergencies, for new usp-i or, he said, we will need a i additional margin for eventual export if the nation is to play its part in helping to meet world requirements for timber. "Today we haven't any mar gin. We have less than no mar gin. The nation is operating its forest business in the red." To focus attention on the long-standing and now critical lumber shortage, the forestry as sociation called the congress to day into its first session since 1905. U. S. Tanker Hits Mine London, Oct. 9 (U.RI Lloyd's shipping registry reported to day that the 10,441-ton Ameri can tanker Signal Hills hit a mine 36 miles off Leghorn, Italy, and is being towed to port in a disabled condition. There were no reports of casualties. DcMolay Mothers club will hold its regular no-host lunch con meeting in the Masonic hall Thursday. Chemeketans will go to Hon eyman Park region for the com ing week-end, spending some time in the park area and the scenic sections along the coast. Dorothy Middleton is in charge of this trip. Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Brown, mother of Jesse J. Thomas and Leona Brown, both of Salem, were held from the Newberg Methodist church Wednesday afternoon. She died unexpectedly at her home Sun day. She is also survived by her husband, Joseph H. Brown and two other sons, William E. and Henry A. Thomas, both of Beaverton. Ronald E. Jones, of Brooks, stale' president of the Farmers' Union, will speak at a meeting of the Keizcr local at Quinaby hall tonight. George McIIwaln named administrator of the estate of Helen Mcllwaln who suf fered fatal Injuries in an automobile ac cident July 7. Bernice Baldock and Dorothy Middleton are named appraisers of the guardianship estate of frr-d. Car). Lavalle and Darline Crltes to replace Rosa A. Morgalt and Lydia Grant. Petition In the Abraham Peterson estate by Peterson, executrix, asks permission to sell the old Woodburn Bank property ap praised at 11500 but for which offer of 13000 has been made. Petition also auk right to make partial distribution of J 1000. Final order to M. O. Ounderson, admin istrator of the estate of John W. Davey. Harold A Trask named guardian of Emma Marie Hamilton Trask. Order in Laura Keffler Barry estate directs Arthur Lefler, executor, to turn over to the treasurer 17 representing be quests of II each to Sherman, Winfleld. Joseph. G norce B., Paul and Billy Barry and Vnda Brooks, the cnecks never having been cashed. The treasurer Is directed to hold the money in event the heirs change their minds. Final decree Issued to Edgar Dodge, ad ministrator of the estate of Elmer J. Dodge. Final account of Oliver Fuestman on the estate of A. H. Fuestman shows bal ance of (4399. 94. Tax determined at (17.41. Eva Lundren has been named executrix of the SBOOO estate of E. A. Kaiser and appraisers are D. B. Cooley, W. D. Evans and Ruby B. Hughes. Albert Imery has been named excutor of Ihe estate of Sarah Lemery and jp pralsers are Alex Manning, William Lelch and John Wise. The estate includes $3500 In Marion county and real property in Montana. Police Court Violntlon of the balc speed rule: Crys tal Hyland, Eugene, lib. LaVern Hardv, 1370 Market. Harold E. Norton, route 8. Clarence Russell Thompson, route 4. Frank J. Schampter. route 2. Turner. $7.50. Louise K. Taylor, Sclo, $7.50. Wilbur Jur gens, Lebanon. $7 50. Kathryn M. Loatza. route 5. Charles E. Stoller. route 6, $10. Elmer F. Mage), Oervals, $10. Excessive speed: Robert Schwilchenberg, ififi North 14th. George Washington King. 290 West Lafelle. Having no driver's license: Otto V. Brown, 414 North 14th. Illegal reverse turn: Phyllis L. Belike, 10 Abrams. Violation of the noise ordinance: Bar old J. Johns, route 3 13 Reckless driving: Richard Dick Harllng. route 3. Irene Ulja, Portland, $35. Driving while operator's lleenst revoked: Richard June Harllng, route 3. Marriage Licenses Ctrl Willis Kuescher, 25, mill man, Keith Brown, and Lee Hafner, 31, of flea dark, both Salem Harvey Emll Gemini. 27, fanner, and Aldena Von Flue 26, domestic both la ve r ton. Rilea Unable To Command Headquarters for the 41st in fantry division, national guard, which since organization of the division in 1931, have been in Oregon, will probably go to the state of Washington, along with the appointment of the major general to command the divi sion, according to reports from national guard circles. Gen. Thomcs E. Rilea, adju tant general of Oregon, and as sistant divisional commander when the outfit went to the Pa cific in 1942, because he was the only general officer of the division still on duty when the division was mustered out, had been slated under a verbal agreement to command the divi s i o n. However, unofficial sources, reliable, but unquota ble, state that army physicians have declared Rilea unable to pass the physical examinations for field command, which would automatically relieve him of command of the division. Under the newly adopted na tional guard plan command headquarters of the 41st were to rotate between Washington and Oregon every four years with Gen Rilea to be the first commander. In a verbal agree ment between the military lead ers of the two states, Oregon was to receive the command post and headquarters while Washington received two briga dier generals, the assistant di vision command and artillery commander, according to one Oregon newspaper. The two states then had agreed to reverse the situation, but a deadlock developed because Washington military men now refuse to agree to allocation of the artillery command position to an Oregon officer. It also is reported two Ore gon officers. Col. William D. Jackson of Portland, and Col. Harold G Maison of Salem, have been ordered to report to Wash- ington, D. C, for examinations for brigadier general, the rank of the two secondary posts. Apples Kept on Trees by Spray Washington, Oct. 9 W Com mercial fruit crops in Washing ton and Oregon this fall are not being allowed to do "what comes natcherly." The agriculture department admitted this today, and claim ed, moreover, that some apples can be frustrated almost indefi nitely. It is done with a hormone spray, which the department ac cidentally discovered three years ago. A plant expert said approximately 40,000 acres of orchards in Washington and Oregon are being sprayed this month, most of them by "dus ter" planes. The spray keeps fruit from falling off the tree when it is ripe. This virtually eliminates ground damage, which other wise makes culls of as much as 50 percent of some friut crops. The most common spray, a department scientist said, is naplhalene acetic acid. The trick is this, the scientists explained: At the base of the stem of all fruit, there is a layer of cells. These deteriorate as the fruit ripens, automatically dropping it when it is ripe. The spray slows down the de terioration of the cell. The fruit ripens, but the bomb-release cells don't find out about it right away. The acid can keep fruit on the tree as long as two weeks after it naturally would drop, the department man said. War Criminals (Continued from Page 1) On the council's table lay requests from Field Marshal Wilhelm Keilel and Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl for execution by a firing squad instead of the pre scribed hanging. There also was a request from Gand Marshal Erich Raeder to be shot instead of serving life imprisonment. Several Days Required American military govern ment officials said before the meeting began that the council probably would need more than one day to reach a decision on all the appeals. A communique was to be Issued after each meeting. The council met in closed ses sion in the same room where Roland Freisler, former presi dent of the German's people's court, sentenced to death Mayor Karl Goerdeler of Leipzig and scores of other Germans for the July, 1944, plot against Adolf Hitler Decisions on the appeals were being made personally by the council members without pre vious "discussion" sessions of the four-power legal directorate or the council's coordinating committee. Named to Flax Board Rufus Kralzberger,Canby,was appointed by Governor Earl Snell today to Oregon flax and linen board, succeeding Sen. Howard C. Belton, Canby, resigned. Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Little Chance of Store for Surplus Sales Here Marion county's Federated Veterans' council, which in a com munication to the War Assets Administration office in Washing ton, D. C, asked for the establishment in this area of a veterans' store were giving little hope that the store would become a real ity, at least, in the near future in a recent letter from Eugene T Brennan, acting director, veter ans division. The council, trying various means of assisting veterans in this area in securing surplus property at WAA sales, had sug gested a store patterned after the government-operated retail store opened in New Orleans the third week in September with $5,000,000 worth of hard-to-get surplus items, ranging from saws, hammers, rakes, vacuum bottles, to household hardware, stationery supplies, toilet soap, jewelry, drygoods, chinaware and silverware and clothing, placed on sale. In reply to the council's tele gram suggesting such a means of disposing of surplus property in this area Brennan had to say of the New Orleans experiment, which he noted was undertaken in furtherance of the adminis trator's desire to make more readily available to veterans more surplus goods of sorts they find it difficult to get else where: "The New Orleans region was selected as the site because it possessed a combination of in dispcnsible requirements for such an experiment. These in clude adequate facilities and personnel and, above all, suffi cient stocks, in attractive varie ty, of the goods desired." Further commenting on the government operated store in New Orleans described by an editorial in the September 21 Veterans' Edition of Army Times as "an unqualified success" and one that "can and should be re peated in as many sections of 1 he country as possible" and es j ' Jlishment of such stores else- nere, the acting director of the veterans' division, WAA, stated: "The results of the experi ment are being studied in all their aspects to determine whether and to what extent it is practicable to try it elsewhere. Operating costs are being ana lyzed and the impact on the overall disposal program is be ing studied. Obviously no gen eral application of the plan is possible." Lie May Land Atomic Control New York, Oct. 9 M" The first public hint thatTrygve Lie, United Nations secretary-general, might take a hand in the slow-moving atomic energy dis cussions raised far-reaching questions today as Bernard M. Baruch held firmly to the Amer ican plan to harness the atom for peace. Lie dropped the hint during a short speech last night just be fore Baruch was awarded the Freedom House plaque for his services as the United States member of the United Nations atomic energy commission. However, Lie later told news men that he had no intention of intervening immediately. In accepting the honor, pre sented by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Baruch maintained that the American plan, which Henry A. Wallace, former secre tary of commerce, has bitterly assailed and which has been re jected by Soviet Russia, is "gen erous and just." To the applause of three cab inet members and some 1500 diners, Baruch bluntly declared that "no amount of deliberately created confusion shall prevail" against the American plan he outlined last June 14. His audience listened quietly and carefully as he struck at Soviet Russia's stand that the control inspections insisted on by America would violate na tional sovereignty. Meat Prices (Continued from Pnge 1 Tiie seething controversy over the meat decontrol issue raged across the nation, with a series of political charges and counter charges. Find No Conspiracy An intensive investigation hy the justice department and FBI has found no evidence of collu sion or conspiracy by industry to create meat shortages, it was revealed today. High justice department offi cials said the inquiry yielded nothing to substantiate charges that cattle growers and pack ers were creating artificial shortages in order to destroy OPA and get higher prices. They said any withholding of meat or cattle was a normal economic reaction to the lower prices prevailing since price controls were restored last month. At any rate, they did not find that packers had much meat. At the same time, it was learned that at least two cabi net members are urging Presi dent Truman to reverse admin istration policy and abolish meat controls immediately. Mr. Tru man believes the meat situation will ease up soon and refuses either to raise or remove ceil ings now. Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1946 1 1 Veterans Heirens Sent To Insane Ward Jolict, 111., Oct. 9 (U.R) William Heirens, 17, convicted slayer of six - year - old Suzanne Degnan and two women, has been ad judged mentally unbalanced and will be transferred next week to the Menard state penitentiary for the criminally insane, it was announced today. Warden Joseph Ragen of the slate prison here disclosed plans for Heirens' transfer after the youth stoned an armed guard yesterday in the prison recrea tion yard. Rugcn said that the transfer had been recommended by the slate psychiatric classification board and Dr. Roy G. Barrick, state criminologist. Heirens, serving three consec utive life terms, has been under constant study by Dr. Barrick and members of the psychiatric board since he entered the pris on last September 6. Yesterday afternoon, Heirens was in the prison yard with oth er prisoners when he suddenly began hurling stones at a guard in one of the towers, Ragen said. He told a second guard who ran to his side that he had hoped to provoke the tower guard into shooting at him. $78,434 Pledge To Chest Drive The Salem Community chest lacked three percent of being filled Tuesday noon when tha last official report luncheon was held with the Kiwanis club. However, Tinkham Gilbert, campaign chairman, expressed the opinion that there was more than sufficient money in sight to complete the job by next Fri day when a final report will be made. When the 12 divisional lead ers had turned in their reports Tuesday total subscriptions were $78,434 or 97 percent of the goal of $80,085 established at the outset of the drive. Seven of the divisions have reached their quotas with some to spare. These are the automotive, con tractors, mercantile, profession al, utilities, West Salem and wo men's. West Salem leads in the matter of percentage with 125 percent. Rev. Dudley Strain of the First Christian church, giving the inspirational address, said the success of the chest cam paign was an excellent exam ple of community enterprise and suggested other projects could have similar backing with good results. He said the primary concern of the chest was not in the money itself but in the good that could be accomplished through the various agencies in volved. "Everybody benefits," the campaign slogan, was a true one, Rev. Strain declared. Neuberger Loses His Suit Portland, Oct. 9 VP) Courts are without authority to force the state legislature to reappor tion its membership, a three judge court ruled here today in a case brought by Richard L. Neuberger, Portland. The judges Walter L. Tooze, jHincs W. Crawford and Alfred P. Dobson of the Multnomah county circuit court held that although legislative acts may be unconstitutional, legislative membership may not be unseat ed and all its acts outlawed merely because that body failed to follow a directive "which we would have been powerless to enforce." The ruling was on a case brought by Neuberger to pre vent the county treasurer from paying a justice of the peace in accordance with a 1943 legisla tive act. Neuberger's complaint alleged that the constitution's legislative apportionment pro vision had not been followed and hence the legislature was illegally constituted. He argu ed that Multnomah county was entitled to 12 state senators and 22 representatives instead of the present 6 'A and 13 Vi, and other populous counties were en titled to similar increases. "The failure of the legisla ture at the session next follow ing an enumeration of the in habitants to apportion senators and representatives, did not in validate subsequent legislation," the ruling held. "Assuming that the constitutional directive is mandatory both as to the per formance of the act and as to the time thereof, the failure of the legislature to follow it does not nullify all legislative action. The duty to act as enjoined by the constitution is a continuing duty, but not one which tha courts may require to be dis charged." Salem visitors this week are Mrs. A C. Spencer and Mrs. Charles Bragg of Oakridge. it
