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f Supreme Court Opens Way for Parking Meiers Morris Injunction Dis solved No Delay in Installation Looms The stale supreme court to day paved the way for the city of Salem to install parking meters, reversing a circuit court injunction which had prevent' ed the city from entering into a contract with the Michaels Art Bronze company to install the meters. The installation, it was Indi cated by city authorities Tues day, will be as soon as the meters can be shipped to Salem. Dr. Henry E. Morris, representa. tive of the Salem Retail Trade bureau, who brought the suit, said the fight would be carried no further. Mayor I. M. Dough ton and all three members of the traffic committee of the city council, namely, Aldermen Ken neth C. Perry, Albert H. Gille and G. F. Chambers, believed there would be no delay. The .contract that the mayor and City Recorder Alfred Mundt al ready have authority to sign calls for installation within 65 days after execution of the docu ment. Popular Vote Favored Further reinforcement o f parking meter sentiment is popular vote last Tuesday in which the people rejected an Amendment to prohibit meters In Salem, recommendation for their installation by a special traffic safety committee of coun cil and non-council members, and recommendation of meters by the city planning and zoning committee. Dr. Morris, attacking the meter contract, averred it was an unlawful scheme to let the parking meter company profit from use of the city streets. and that the city council's ("warding of the contract was an unlawful exercise of police power. He charged also that it was a violation of the local bud get law in that the city had not budgeted for meters. Duncan Reversed The supreme court opinion, written by Justice Arthur D Hay, reversed Judge George R. Duncan of the lower court. The supreme court held that the council must be free to legislate In exercise of its police power; and that regulation of traffic, .(.which Is the object of parking jj;ietcrs, is a police power. '(Concluded on Page 9, Column 8) Packing House Strike Ordered Chicago, Nov. 12 (U.B The United Packinghouse Workers' union (CIO) today directed its members to prepare to strike within two weeks against the nation's meat industry. A directive was sent to all union locals by Ralph Helstein, union president, following a week-end meeting at which 200 union representatives formulted policy for possible strike action. Helstein told the locals that negotiations with the big four packers, which began last Au gust, were not proceeding sat isfactorily, but that they would continue until every means had been used to get a peaceful set tlement of wage demands. Helstein said the big four packers Armour, Swift, Cud shy and Wilson as well as all other packing houses with which the union has contracts, would be affected by any strike action. He said the representatives at the conference voted unani mously to prepare for the strike Aaction. "Although we desire in every way to avoid the necessity of a itrike, the interests of our mem bership require that conditions of work and income be suffi ciently adequate and secure as to permit them to live decently," Helstein said. 70 Killed in Quake In Andes Foothills Lima, Peru, Nov. 12 (IMS Seventy persons were killed in an earthquake which struck the foothills of the Andes Sunday, reports from the stricken areas disclosed today. Eyewitness reports said earth shocks of considerable intensity continued Monday. Thirty persons were killed at Pomabomba and 40 at Sihuas, where reports said some vic tims had disappeared, possibly Into fissures torn in the earth. Villagers in half a dozen other lettlements fled for' safety into open places when the rumbling started, eyewitness accounts said. They returned to find their homes in ruins and are living In Improvised shelters In the open. An eyewitness at Molle bama described a cloud formed Itf.f gases rising from the fis-uresv Capital jkJoiuL 58th Year, No. 268 GOP Balks on M-Drafted" Law Making Washington, Nov. 12 (JP) Republicans stipulated today that President Truman will have to go down the middle of the road in his legislative proposals if he wants their cooperation in the new GOP-controlled con gress. From Senators William F. Knowland (Calif.), and C. Way- land Brooks (111.), came asser tions that their fellow republi cans will not accept what Know land called a "PAC-drafted' law-making program and what Brooks labelled "completely so cialistic proposals." Senator Wayne Morse (R- Ore), said he interpreted the election results as indicating that the American people "want their officeholders to avoid the extremes of both reactionary and leftist points of view and mark out a constructive middle of the road course of action which will bring a high degree of stability to the nation." Unity of Purpose Senator Knowland declared "We need some of the same unity of purpose that has marked the development of our nonpartisan foreign policy in solving the country's grave do mestic problems," Knowland told a reporter. We don't want the n.ition to swing either too far to the left or too far to the right. We want to keep it on an even keel. And we don't want any PAC-drafted legislative pro gram shoved at us as it has been in the past." Brooks said he wondered whether the president's concilia tory bid yesterday for a politi cal truce on pressing national problems would be more last ing and effective than Mr. Tru man's appeal for the same sort of cooperation when he took office 19 months ago. Socialistic Program When Mr. Truman first be came president," the Illinois senator said, "he asked for co operation from the congress. Then he proceeded to present and tried to force through com pletely socialistic proposals. The people have spoken and they have said they don't want that kind of program." Without dissent, republican leaders pledged their efforts to ward continuing present foreign policies unchanged. But Sena tor Elbert Thomas (D-Utah) said the test of full republican co operation with the president on this score will come when treaties are placed before the senate. Many democrats thought Mr. Truman's statement indicated he is turning away from the course "a little left of center" he previously had marked out for himself and would mollify some of the elements in his own party, as well as the republi cans, with fewer New Deal type proposals. Russia Recruits Youths for Industry Moscow, Nov. 12 Wj The la bor organ Trud announced to day that the government had launched a nationwide drive to recruit youths for industrial training to provide a large pool of skilled workers for fulfill ment of the new five-year plan. Body Found in Aurora Tentatively Identified No inquest will be held over was found in a semi-decomposed condition in a shack by the Pudding river near Aurora and has been tentatively identified from cards on his person as Floyd Laverne Waterman, 206 S.W. Montgomery street, Port land. He carried a registration card, social security card and painter union cards all bearing that name. He was estimated as about 60 years of age. His body was found in the shack Monday by L. W. Owen on the farm of Owen's grand mother, Mrs. Missouri Loverall, route 1, Aurora. The old shack was a considerable distance from the house. Owen had gone there to find some parts to repair his automobile and found the body lying in bed, a leather belt strap around the neck with the buckle secured under the chin. Deputy Sheriff Garvin and State Police Officer Hunt who investigated were uncertain as to whether it was suicide and Dr. William H. Libdeck pathologist at the state hospital, will view the body at the morgue tonight in an effort to ascertain the exact cause of death. From names found on the man's person efforts are being made to tstablish whether the S?MS?tXl Salem, British Labor's Program Stated By King George London, Nov. 12 (Pi King George VI, in a parliament-opening speech presenting the views of his labor government, called today for legislation con tinuing conscription for the British armed forces and for na tionalization of Inland transport and electric utilities. The monarch presented his message to parliament after a traditional ride through Lon don's streets during which he was guarded against any possi ble attack by Jewis extremists by every policeman Scotland Yard could spare more than 5000 al' told. Opens Parliament The king's speech marked the opening of the second parlia ment since labor took over the reins of government and took place amid pre-war pomp and ceremony of centuries-old tra dition and the reality of the most elaborate and stringent precautions since the 1939 and 1940 bombings attributed to the Irish republican army. The royal message, prepared by the labor government, set forth government views on both foreign and domestic affairs. The king urged negotiation of a peace with Germany under "conditions which will foster true democracy, will guarantee the world against further at tempts at world domination and will remove the financial bur den which occupation has laid on my people. (Concluded on Pane 9, Column 7) Churchill Raps Russian Tactics London, Nov. 12 (U.R) Win ston Churchill renewed his charge in commons late today that Russian armies "based upon a despotic form of government are being maintained in Europe in vast strength and mostly on a war footing." Sperkmg as leader of the op position, Churchill said that "more than one-third of Europe is held under Russian control." "The Soviet military frontier is on the Elbe, and it is impos sible to forecast what the future and fate of France will be," he said. Churchill said that the British and American armies in Europe meanwhile had "melted away as is inevitable in the case of gov ernments resting upon the peo ple." "No fruition has yet attended peace negotiations, even about the smaller satellite enemy pow ers," he said. Churchill said the opposition remained unanimous with the government in supporting the United Nations, even though that organization so far had not fulfilled its hopes. "The foreign secretary has done his best, and we have giv en him whatever support is within our power, even some times supporting him in events which caused him embarrass ment in other quarters," Churchill said in paying trib ute to Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin. 'The conservative party can not accept any responsibility for Potsdam, as matters were taken out of our hands in the vital phase of these talks." Shack Near the remains of a man whose body cards carried afford a true iden tification of the man. Apparently he had been living in the shack for several weeks. Deputy Sheriffs Henderson and Ervin recall that on September 8 they had received a report from Aurora that an old man was dying in a shack near there and had been ill in bed for sev eral days. They made a trip to the shack but found no one there and beat up the brush for sev eral hundred feet around, but located no one, so they left. Jack Hayes of Dallas, whose mother's name was on one of the cards in the man's pocket, was expected to come to the Barrick-Clough morgue and in spect the body. He told state police that some months ago he was in a hospital alongside a patient under the name of Floyd Laverne Waterman. However, attaches at the morgue think the body so badly decomposed physical Identification would be doubtful. As a last resort finger prints will be taken in an effort to secure identification. Oregon, Tuesday, November 12, 1946 Ik " " rrr, J ' o WjWmmmmwmmitmwmwmMmmriminrMMmmmmmMM nihil Armistice Day Scenes in Salem Wreaths hon memorial monument by women representing v Union Veterans; Genevieve Olson, VFW post 66 Mrs. Merle Travis, Capital Post No. 9, America Corps; Mrs. Charles D. Roblin, DAR; Mrs. Ben R American War Mothers; Mrs. Jessie Sanders, Gol Mrs. May Snyder, Kingwood American Legion p colors (below), feature of the Armistice day para Nurse Training Fund Offered to County County Judge Grant Murphy, who is a member of the board sitting in connection with handling the finances of the Marion county health department, advised other members of the county court Tuesday of a proposal made by the Commonwealth Fund of New York to give a grant of $75,000, or $25,000 a year for three years, to set up a training course for public health nurses in con nection with the local health de partment. The present health department was set up here many years ago under the aus pices of the Commonwealth Fund and was largely financed by that fund during its initial stages, so the fund always has had a kindly eye on the Marion county department and rates it very high among the health de partments of the country. (Concluded on Page 9, Column 6) Sharp Rise in Price of Soap New York, Nov. 12 (IP) A sharp rise in the prices of many soaps, one of the major scarcity items, began to appear today in the wake of the abolition of OPA price ceilings. In Boston, Walter McKee, vice president of Lever Broth ers, one of the major soap manu facturers, reported his compa ny's products were being in creased immediately by "ap proximately 50 percent." He said raw materials fats and oils had increased from nine cents a pound under OPA to 21 or 22 cents a pound. . Other trade sources said price increases were inevitable. In Cincinnati, spokesmen for the Proctor and Gamble Co., and the M. Work Co., who ask ed that their names be with held, declared ingredient costs had risen as much as 100 per cent since the removal of price ceilings and labor costs had ris en 50 percent since soap prices last increased five years ago. Warmer Weather Breaks Cold Spell fBy the Associated Press) A wedge of warm air from California saved western Ore gon from a plummeting ther mometer last night, the weather bureau reported 'today, but de spite that aid temperatures gen erally were below freezing. Eastern Oregon, with no southern help, reported 19 de grees at Baker, 20 at La Grande, 25 at Bend and 26 at Pendleton. Klamath Falls reported 26 de grees, Medford 27, iugene 28, Roseburg and Salem 30 and Portland 34. oring the nation's arious patriotic State Abandons Adair Barracks The state board of control to day abandoned plans to transfer three to five barracks from Camp Adair to Salem for tem porary use by state offices. The board said there is con siderable opposition to the plan. The buildings would have been placed in Waverly street, be tween the capitol and state of fice building. The buildings were to have been used by stale departments which will have to vacate the capitol when the legislature con venes. These departments, which are occupying space which the legislature will nee for committee meetings, now will have to try to find space in downtown Salem. The board instructed its sec retary, Roy Mills, to prepare a bill for the legislature to in crease permanently the assess ments ftr the state restoration fund from $50,000 to $100,000 a year. The assessments for the fund, which is the slate's insur ance system on its own proper ty, now are $100,000 a year, but only on a temporary basis. Warmer Weather But Still Freezing (By the Associated Press) Temperatures in the great plains snow belt moderated to day as skies cleared over most of the western states, ending a siege of unusual pre-winter cold. The weather bureau reported that snow from the week-end storm ranged in depth from one inch in southern Minnesota to six inches in parts of Nebraska and Colorado, with daytime temperatures slightly above freezing over most of the area. Last night's low temperatures were slightly higher than those of Sunday night when below zero readings were recorded. The official low was three de grees above zero at Sioux Falls, S. D. Temperatures over most of the country were near seasonal. Senator Cordon Returning Washington, Nov. 12 (P Senator Cordon (R., Ore.) who returned to Washington a month ago for a minor eye operation, is en route home today. He ex pects to arrive there tomorrow. am Price F'' Cents warriors were laid al the Salem groups: Rose Garrett, Sons of 1, auxiliary; Ethel Welch, Spanish War Veterans; n Legion; Mrs. Glenn Adams, Woman's Relief andall, American War Mothers; Mrs. George Pro, d Star Mothers; Angle Layton, Ladies of the GAR; ost; Justina Kildee, Salem Rebekah lodge. Mass de, were borne by veteran and auxiliary groups. Blue Lake Plant Gets Approval Portland, Nov. 12 (Pi The ci vilian production administration today approved a $116,208 ware house and machine shop for the Blue Lake Producers' Coopera tive at West Salem. The CPA also approved con struction of a $175,000 cold stor "age plant for Wing Orchards Inc. at Medford. Other approvals: Additional education facili ties, Corvallis school district 9, $90,000: publishing plant, For est Grove News-Tribune, $22, 000; office, N. E. Irvine, Leba non, $20,000; laundry, Dictz Newland, Eugene, $3000; one story building, Shell Oil com pany, Klamath Falls, $14,860. Disapproved was a $175,000 shelling plant at the Northwest Nut Growers at Dundee. Other denials: Storage building, P. J. Leavitt, Springfield, $17,879; restaurant, E. M. Fritz, Detroit, $4200. An appeal was filed by the Northwest Oil company at Cot tage Grove for a $3000 repair shop. New implications: Service sta tion, V. L. Holgale, Sulhcrlin, $11,000: alterations, A. K. Wil son Motor Co., Grants Pass, $1155. Teachers Institute Hears Plea For Racial Tolerance Over 900 educators of Yamhill and Marion county heard Edwin C. Berry, executive secretary of the Urban league of Portland, urge the adoption of a proper approach by everyone to settle emotional aspects of inter-racial adjustments in the feature ad dress of the annual teachers' conference hold Tuesday in the senior high school auditorium. "There is no hanging by the neck in Oregon, but we lynch men spiritually by denying civil li b c r t i e s , " Berry affirmed "America has persistently avert ed her eyes from the caste sys tem." The speaker struck at extra strains and stresses placed up on the Negro race in a land that boasts of freedom of opportuni ty. "Burdens are placed on the Negro person when he has to make adjustments that favor the white, and he has to learn the ethics of adjustment," Berry added. The program was opened Tuesday morning with a gener al assembly in the auditorium. Announcements and presenta tion of guests were made by Lynn D. Gubscr, superintendent of Yamhill county schools. Short talks were delivered by Dr. Rex Putnam, state superintend ent of public instruction, and U.S. Opposition Kills Proposed New Food Fund United Nations to Re ject $400 Million Asked By La Guardia Lake Success, N. Y., Nov. 12 (P) Reported United States op position today virtually ruled out any likelihood that the United Nations would approve a proposed $400,000,000 emergen cy food fund to help meet Eu rope's food deficits after the expiration of UNRRA. Shortly after Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson indicated in Washington that the United States would oppose the pro posal put before the United Na tions yesterday by F. H. La Guardia, director - general of UNRRA, informed quarters said members of the U. S. delegation to the general assembly also were opposed to the plan. On National Basis Although the delegation took no formal decision as to how it would vote on the Issue, the members were understood to have taken the position that any further aid to Europe after the expiration of UNRRA should be handled on a national rather than an international basis. This was Interpreted as mean ing that the United States would in the future handle her own relief distribution in Europe, even though the government might be willing to receive in ternational advice as to where relief should be allocated. Under La Guardia's proposal the United Slates would be ex pected to contribute 49 per cent of the total $400,000,000 or ap proximately $200,000,000. It was generally agreed that the plan would not be put into effect if the United States refused to 'ake part. To Pick Recipients La Guardia said 111 a part of his prepared text which was omitted in delivery yesterday to the assembly's economic com mittee that he expected the United States to withdraw from further international relief dis tribution so it could "pick" and "choose" the recipients. This, he said, appeared to be a move to use food as a "politi cal weapon" against countries whose actions were not approv ed by the United StatiA La Guardia said such an altitude would jeopardize the whole structure of the United Nations. The American delegation was understood to have taken the following attitude on those oili er problems at this morning's caucus: Oppose Spanish Rupture Re-affirmed its unanimous op position to Polish and White Russian resolutions calling for diplomatic and economic rup tures with Franco Spain. The delegation was said to have tak en the position that the United States should strongly condemn the Franco regime, but that the assembly should take no action which might fail or cause a civil war. American Citizen Sentenced by Poles Warsaw, Nov. 12 (IP) A mili tary tribunal sentenced Mrs. Irene Hamal Dmochowska, a United Stales citizen, to five years' imprisonment today on a charge of conspiracy against the Polish government. She formerly was a translator for the American embassy. She had been under arrest since Au gust 23. She testified at the trial that she tried, without suc cess, to help the killers of a Polish political leader to escape from Poland. Dr. Frank Parr, executive sec retary or the Oregon Education al association. Tuesday afternoon the educa tors heard a panel discussion on the teacher's part in community life with members of the panel representing the home, church, education, and business and professional worlds. Appearing on the panel were Waller . Snyder, education, Rev. Joseph M. Adams, church, II. E. Barker, labor, Wendell Webb, profes sional world and Mrs. Gladys Turnbull, rep resenting the home. A solo was given during t ho afternoon by Mrs. Muriel Jcrnd stedt, of the McMinnville school faculty. A combined skit and fashion show was presented in "The Teacher, A Human Be ing," with Mt. Angel teachers making up the cast. Dr. O. R. Chambers, of the department of psychology at Oregon State college, gave the closing address on "Teacher Personality." U.S. Insists on Inspection of Army System Molorov Asserts Reduc tion Proposals Can Be Harmonized New York, Nov. 12 (P)- TJie Italian government noti fied I lie foreign ministers council today that it is "con sidering with keen interest (he possibility of direct nego tiations with Yugoslavia" to settle the problem of Trieste's future. New York, Nov. 12 OP) Fresh evidence that Russia may even tually afiree to some form of international inspection to en force disarmament, Including elimination of atomic weapons, was seen today In an assertion hy Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov that Russian and Ame rican arms reduction proposals can be "harmonized." At the same time he declar ed that an armaments race has already started, and he urged prompt action by the United Na tions to stop II. From Secretary of State Byrnes came a promise that the American government, which is insisting on an inspection sys tem, would have more to say on disarmament "at the premier time," and British Foreign Sec retary Bcvin declared that in the effort to obtain worldwide arms reduction "my government will not fall behind." Review of Treaties The three spoke last night at a dinner of the Foreign Press association after completing their first review here of five projected axis satellite peace treaties. Rcporls on their work to date showed them to be still stalled on all major issues ran ging from control of Trieste to free navigation on the Danube river. One source of proltviged dis pute between the United States and the Slav states appeared to have been removed, however. Diplomats reported Byrnes had informed the foreign ministers' (Concluded on Page 9, Column 5) Return Danube River Barges Washington, Nov. 12 U.fi) The United States returned 400 Danube river barges to their eastern European owners be cause it was impossible to reach agreement with Russia about free navigation on the Dan ube, Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today. Return of tile barges to Yugo slavia, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia was announced by Sccrelary of Slate James F. Byrnes al a big four foreign ministers' meeting in New York yesterday. The craft were captured by Germany during the war, then taken over by U.S. occupation forces when Germany surren dered. U.S. forces had held them pending an agreement for free navigation on the Danube. Yugoslavia had denounced th action as diplomatic blackmail. Acheson told a news confer ence that tli is country never had questioned the ownership of the barges. He explained that this government simply was trying to work out an agreement with Russia and the Dauubian nations whereby countries on the upper Danube would De free to use the lower Dttmibc and vice versa. But this was impossible, Ach ersun said, because Russia and some of the Danuuc nations re fused to attend a meeting to dis cuss the proposed agreement. Hence, the United States de cided to return the barges. Prices of Copper, Lead, Zinc Opped New York, Nov. 12 (.-Pj TTie price of domestic copper was in creased to 1 7 1 : cents a pound today hy the Kennceolt Copper Corp. .Corp., the lending United States producer. This was an advance o 3!a cents a pound over the now abolished OIJA ceiling price. Both lead and zinc prices also were shoved upward to 10Vz cents a pound by major produc ers. The St. Joseph Lead com pany was the first to announce advancing its lead prices by 2V cents over old OPA levels. The Weather (Released by U. S. Weather Went her Bureau Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Clear tonight, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. Lit tle change, hi temperature. Low est temperature tonight. 32 de grees. Maximum yesterday, 53; Minimum toduv, 30. Mean tem perature yesterday, 40, which was 7 below normal. Total 24 hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m. todav, 0.00. Total precipitation for the month .67, which Is 1.36 inches below normal. Willamette river height 1.1 feet.
