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Newspaper Page TextI PACT mm I IlAlitfi.l A1TM m By Frank jenkins UNDER tho tcrmii of Proldont T r u m n's WACK-PRlCE fornnilu, 131k Stool's atliko In settled on the bnsls of 1U1 cents an hour UP or tho workers and $5 u ton UP lor tho company. CIO Oomi Murray announces this morning that collcctlvo bar. gaining with tho rest of tho stool industry will begin toduy and an "unqucilublc" CIO offlclul predicts Hint agreements will be rviiclicd with ALL the key stool compiiiilos by tho middle of next week. RESPONDING .to then (und o t h o r expected) devolop- .......... It... Mum Vnrlf itlnf'U ftv mi-itta, Mu a.. cIiiiiiko crackles with excitement Securities oro aucrca m blocks of 1000 to 7000 shores nd are SNAPPED UP. So heavy Is tho truding thut the ticker fulls two minutes behind at times. Price gains run to two or moro points, with strike ttoublcd stocks leading tho pro cosalon. 11 was ono of the big gest Snlurduy's in tho past seven years. Tho miirket reporters com- ... . I,u.w..lrtlt,n fitwl Invf-llt- incut forces seemed to derlvo new encourugemcni irom ine ma ministration's PAY-PRICE for inula." . , MEANWHILE U..,,l,r IdinliliOIiH of Ala bnma. ono of the Bonnie FARM leaders, says: "Tho administra tion's revised economic policy ...111 I.W.H.....M. IrninnnlMllutv t ll Will HIWIIIUOM price of everything the furmer "nl.' nri,ia falunlf lennllv): "tt I. Inevltiiblu that there ...in i... .1, nur: ANI'.KIi move menl to protect the farmer from thoio uuraens. n iMvub'An m a nnmocrat " Senator Cordon of Oregon, a Republican, says along the same lino this morning: "When any important price i-ti....i.in m lUinrhi-rt. a con sequential effect is started that PYRAMIDS OS It goes, wnen Mrl..n xt utCi-1 ill illLTCaRCd. the end price (meaning the price the consumer pnysi u" ui , A I mnrn KICHV mm ,.. .... , I'Tramlnlli Hint Into UlC nflCB of a binder and see If the farmer can pay for It at the present price OI HIS proaucin. WHAT both . Bankhcad .- and " " Cordon mean Is Uiat the powerful farm bloc In congross ...ill unu nn Into action to tfCt ITS SHARE of the higher prices that will rosuiv irom ws wage-price formula. When It Is ALL OVER (with prices and wages again stobl fired) we shall find that wc nave merely moved up to a now and tjtri.iLn iiiunl nf WHSflS and prices, with everybody (except ft lOW U11IUI lUIIUlt.-3 ki.i.w.. mi-ipf. DOLLARS Hint will BUY. LESS. . : TNFLATION? OF COURSE it's Inflation. No- body but a moron coum con- tend otherwise. rjORTUNATELY, wc In Amer " ic have the greatest produc- tlon plant In the history of the world a plant practically un impaired by tho ravages of war. IF wo can get our Immense POWER TO PRODUCE to lunctlonlng again (by breaking the deadlock that had developed in Industry), IF we can maintain COMPETITION when the flow of goods reaches large propor tion, wn run HANDLE the in flation that already stares us In IIia tnnn VOLUME production will re duce costs, and competition will bring prices down. So, If his "new" wngc-prico forrauli breaks tho log jam and gets tho flow of production STARTED it will get us out of the bad fix we had got ourselves into. DDT Nobody will be any belter off. We'll simply find that we're handling moro dollars that will BUY LESS. The lesson of the whole flare- tin In tills: Nothing Is easier, in periods when tho inflationary spiral is working, than to GET MORE MONEY. If you have power enough, moro money can always bo hl-Jocked out of somebody. Getting more buying power, MORE THINGS, is quite another matter. That has to be dono the hard way by producing more things at lower unit cost. yHIS writer has a personal A hunch that if President Tru man had it all to do over (know ing whnt ho knows now) he WOULDN'T disturb a wage- price line that had already been moro or less stabilized. ' Young Slays 'Bandit' Father Leak Gives Russians A-Bomb Tip Canadian Government Holds 22 Persons; Probe Promised By HARRY T. MONTGOMERY OTTAWA, Feb. 10 (fl'; Can ada, which sharos atomic bomb secrets with the United States nd'Greut Brlluln, moved today to prevent recurrence of a leak of "secret and confidential In formation," This information, an authoritative source said, went to the Russians. A complete bluckout was clamped uown today lollowuig the government s uisclosuro oi tho leuk. There was no official comment on the nuturc oi the Information divulged, but this wus said by reliaolo sources to Involve many phases und pre sumably to include atomic aula. There was no indication, how- ovor, that the secret of tho atomic bomb Itself was in volved. Russian Ambassor George N. Zarouzln was in Moscow. In his absence the embussy's second secrctnry, vault u. l'av lov, said there was no com ment. 22 Rounded Up Tho disclosure of tho move cumo lust night ufter tho Royul Canadian mounted police, strik ing suddenly, had rounded up 22 employes and former em ployes of Cunadian government departments and agencies. 1'rlmo Minister W. L. Mac Kenzio King announced tho ap pointment of two royal commis sioners to head a tnorough in vestigation and promised the government would Institute prosecution "in coses In which the evidence warrants It." In his announcement, the prime minister mentioned neither atomic energy nor Russia, but authoritative sources, which cannot be named, said both were con corned, Mother Freed In Baby Death ) . . . 1 ' A - .I.'' Herald mt&3Nta$ i Telephone 8111 ' PRICE FIVE CENTS K' " MATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1946 Number 10747 , I C & K" : iv iirm On Pauley 1 Quake Damages Building 0J A asplng hole In the wall of the Fry Packing company building was erldence of Seattle's heavy earthquake. Bricks from an 80-foot section toppled on machine shop. AP wirephoto. BOSTON, Feb. 16 (P) Twcn-ly-thrcc-yoar-old Mrs. Rose Car lan of Chelsea went about her household duties today without the cloud of a charge of man slaughter hanging over her. A Suffolk county grand Jury freed the young mother yester day of tho charge brought in connection with the death of her 6-month-old son, Ronald, central figure in New England's kidnap hoax last November. Tho baby's body was found under a built-in cupboard in the family home 18 days after Mrs. Carlan, wife of James J. Car Ian, then on navy duty on the west coast, reported the infant had been snatched from his car riage. Police said she Invented the kidnap hoax four days after the tot died on November 24. Columbia River Highway Opened PORTLAND, Feb. 18 (VP) Traffic was moving again today over the Columbia River high way east of here, slide-closed for 11 days. A 00-foot log bridge spans a gap cut in the roadbed by the rock and earth mass which cov ered both the highway ond the Union Pacific tracks near Mult nomnh Falls. Autos began traveling over the bridge yes terday, and state highway- com mission engineers said there were no weight restrictions. Soviets Claim Peace Periled LONDON, Feb. 16 ' (P) Sov iet Russia, told the United Na tion today 120,006 Polish-troops under British comrdand remain ed in Italy and that they consti tuted "a possible threat to peace, calm and order on the Yugoslav Italian frontier." The memorandum did not re quest action by the security council, but it came a day after Britain had received from Po land . a demand '- that Polish troops in Italy and Britain be returned to their homeland. The British foreign office had esti mated at 107,000 the number of Poles in Italy. The United States, meanwhile asked the council to settle the dispute over the Levant with a declaration expressing confi dence that it would be negoti ated promptly and that French and British troops would be withdrawn "os soon as practica ble." Syria and Lebanon have charged that the troops endan ger peace, and therefore are a subject for council action. Verdict Delayed On Negro Issue Persons Interested in the dis cussion of sale of city property on Commercial to be used as a colored folks' rooming house, were advised today by Mayor Ed Ostcndorf that no decision will be reached on this problem at the Monday, February 18, meeting. The mayor said today that the zoning and property com mittees, named to iron out the situation, were not prepared to give a decision at the time previously set. Routine city matters will come up Monday night. j Japanese Government Acis To Control Shaky Economy PHILADELPHIA. Fob, 18 (IP) Shouting "stick 'cm up" in imi tation of n movie bandit, 10-year- . old Paul Croccttl accidentally shot his father to death as he romped with other children on the living room floor. Detective Thomas Lonnon reported. Nicholas Croccttl, 46, contract ing carpenter and father of 10, died yesterday of a - shotgun wound In tho nock. He had Just returned from a hunting trip ' and placed the shotgun against a wail to piny "piggy back" with another con. TOKYO, Feb. 16 (JP) Under prodding of General MacArthur, the Japanese government took Us first drastic steps today to control the shaky economy of a beaten country plagued by in flation and black. markets. Three Imperial ordinances vlr tually froze bank accounts, re quired conversion of currency into new bank notes by March 7 and restricted distribution of foodstuffs to authorized chan nels. A public relations announce ment from General MacArthur's headquarters underscored tho ac tion with this explanation: "It was in response to dissatis faction oxpressod by SCAP (su preme commander, allied pow ers) with failure of tho govern ment to carry out provisions of his directives Drescrlblns that suitable measures be taken to- control Inflation and to insure adequate distribution to the peo ple of limited supplies of food, clothing and other necessities of life." , Kyodo news agency said that Japanese economic observers predict the note issue of the Bank of Japan, which skyrocket ed to more -than 60,000,000,000 yen ($4,000,000,000) will be com pressed to about ' 27,000,000,000 yen by the currency conversion order. ' Dr. Hlhachtro Kimura, private financial expert, told Kyodo he believed black1 marketeers and brokers would be dealt a severe blow and the living for working people would improve. He add ed "there will -be no serious ef fect on the working class. The new government regula tions abruptly will limit legal in come - amid rampant inflation. This undoubtedly will cause dis- comiort until prices decline in ndlnstment , Individual Japanese will have uiiuieu Binaries' tuiu resinciea bank withdrawals as- their only currency, consequently will be unauie to meet nigh prices. But expropriation of food will ?lve the governmcht tighter con rol by which it hopes to ham mer down primes. The food ordi nance, provides for government expropriation of staple foods such as rice, wheat, barley and rye. Candidacy Filed By Henry Semon SALEM, Feb. 16 OP) Henry. Semon, democrat of Klamath Falls, filed his candidacy for Klamath county representative in the stats legislature with the secretary -lot. state's office here Saturday. , Other filings Included Circuit Judge John R. Mears of Port land for reelection to Multno mah county circuit court, de partment No. 5; and Robert L. Welch, LaKeview republican, for district attorney .of Lake county. Vet Killed In 4-Car Pile-Up OREGON CITY, Feb. 16 ffl A pile-up of four cars and a oil truck on the Pudding river bridge at Aurora killed a navy veteran, injured four persons, and tied up Pacific highway irainc today. John K. Burke, driver of one of the cars, was killed. An oil truck-and-trauer upset across the highway, causing one-way traffic through the area for four hours. Four occupants of a car which crasnea into the trucKs wreck age were taken to a hospital. They were James Griesenauer, 18, Portland; Helen Mcllwain, 16, Silverton; Doris Mcllwain, 18, Silverton; George Hicks, 19, Kansas uny, mo. Students Decry British Policy CAIRO. Feb. 16 fP) A thou sand university students shout ing anti-British slogans paraded through downtown Cairo with out police interference today as Ismail Sidky Pasha attempted to torm a new Egyptian govern-ment. The demonstrators , cried "Down With Nokrashi" as they passed the Saadist party head quarters. There Mahmoud Fah my Nokrashi Pasha, who re signed as premier yesterday, was conferring on whether he should accept a role in the government of Sidky, an independent asked ty King i arquK to succeed No krashi. v . Man Jailed On ' Contempt Charge PORTLAND, Feb. IB P) A 30-day sentence for contempt of court was meted Robert D, Lampkin, 33, Champoeg, . by Circuit Judge Frank J, Loner- gan today in a case arising out of a jury ' tampering charge. Defense attorneys for Law rence R. Oglevie, charged with murder in the slaying of Dep uty Sheriff Al Bowe, told the court that Lampkin attempted to Influence selection of jurors. A mistrial was ordered in the Oglevie case and it was set over to the March term. Boy Injured On S. Sixth Larry Lee Horstman. 5-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Horstman, 2128- Applegate,.-was critically injured at 1:30 today when he walked into the path of a. car operated By tier a id E, Lewis, 4850 Shasta way at the S. 6th and Martin intersection. The child, with his father and aunt, Mrs. Roy Huggins, 2138 Radcliffe, had been shopping in Parks grocery on S. 6th. The family car was parked across the street and larry jee was a lew steps ahead of his father who was carrying a dox oi croceries. City police, investigating the accident, said Larry Lee was struck by the middle section of Lewis' front bumper and hurled 25 leet into tne opposite lane of traffic. Cars stopped im mediately and fortunately the boy was not nit Dy anotner machine. Lewis, according to police, Im mediately applied his brakes and rushed tne boy to mnsiae Hos pital. Officers said Lewis made every effort to stop and give aid. No charge had been filed against him early today. The accident occurred at ap proximately the same point where Mrs. Mary Frain was fatally injured three weeks ago at S. 6th and Martin. She was Dicked ud some 250 feet irom where Larry Lee was struck. Power Walkout Appears Certain TACOMA. Feb.: 16 (IP) Ta- coma's electric power tieup ap peared definitely scheduled to start at 12:01 a. m.: Monday when the i Electric Worker's union informed the city coun cil at noon today it consider ed the city s demand for a 30- day notice of intention to quit, under -the war labor disputes act. invalid. Mayor Harry Cain countered by asking whether the union would submit to arbitration by a group of seven, three from labor, three from A. business, these, six-to select the seventh. The union promised an-answer by 5 p; m. today, .. Police Round Up Mental Patients KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 16 tP) Order was restored today following the roundup of most of more than 100 mental patients who escaped yesterday during a strike of employes of the city's mental hospital and roamed the streets looting stores and homes, Police announced that all but about 15 of the inmates were ac counted for by last night, and that the situation was brought under control, -',.; ' , : WEATHER . -February 16, 1946 Max. (Feb. 15) .. 41 Min .22 Precipitation last 24 hours ...T. Stream year to date ... 9.65 Normal ....7.69 .Lajt year ...6.75 Forecast: Showers Sunday, Appointed Knock-Down Drag-Out Job Ahead President Leaves No Doubt He Expects Confirmation WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (JP) President Truman set the stage today for the senate's toughest political battle since the 1937 supreme 'court fight by sticking uncompromisingly to his nomin ation of Edwin W. Pauley for undersecretary of navy. Reluctant senate democrats saw a knock-down, drag-out job ahead, but Mr. Truman left them scant choice about taking sides after his emphatic declara tion he expected Pauley to be confirmed. In reaffirming his complete confidence in Pauley, Mr. Tru man turned aside inquiries yes terday about his political plans for 1948, remarking that the question was a little-previous. It was reminiscent of the way President Roosevelt used to parry questions about his third and fourth term intentions. New Evidence Intimating that new evidence may challenge Ickes' charges against Pauley,' Mr.- Truman predicted flatly that the Califor nia on man will be confirmed. ne added; moreover, that JNavy Secretary Forrestal recommend ed vtbe- appointment, and that Mr. -Roosevelt had Intended to make It. " . forrestal quickly issued a statement saying that when Mr. Roosevelt asked him to consider Pauley for the appointment, he replied he would prefer H. Struve Hensel, assitant secre tary. Forrestal added he told Mr. Truman, - after Mr. Roosevelt died, that he would "be agree- aoie . to me mauley appointment. Senator Walsh (D-Mass.) said memoranda left with the senate naval committee by Ickes in support- of his charges against Pauley had been examined and photographed by representatives of the nominee. Walsh said that Senator Tyd- ings (D-Md.) had requested per mission for the examination of the papers. Chairman Paul A. Porter, of the federal communications commission, has btn appoint ed OPA administrator to suc ceed Chester A. Bowles, who has been shifted to a new post. AP wirephoto. 4 Klamath Boys Confess Thefts Four Klamath Falls school boys, ranging from 14 to 17 years' of age, have admitted to juvenile officials that they pil- ierea a numDer oi small articles from three local stores while playing hookey from classes yes terday. The boys said they had visited Wards, Sears and Penney's, and nao taxen a camp stool, a solder ing iron and other small articles. They were arrested by city po lice in an alley off Main street following a call from a merchant wno saw them packing new, un wrapped articles in a box. and under questioning at the juvenile office admitted the pilfering. uuc ui uiu uuys is iiuw neia in detention for violating- a na- role and the -other three were released to their parents to await court action. Blaze Fatal To 4 Persons ROSEBURG, Ore., Feb. 16 (IP) Us? of fuel oils to kindle fires cost the lives of four Suth- erlin residents and destroyed two homes in that area Friday night, leaving two persons burn ed in Sacred Heart hospital, Eu gene, where their condition was reported as "fair." The dead are Harold Fugate, 35; June Davis Brown, 23; Fu gate's daughter, Caroline, 4, all of whom succumbed in the Eu gene hospital, and his son, Nath an Arnold rugate. 14 months. whose body was found in the emoers ot tne butnernn nome. Injured were Mrs. Evelyn Fu gate and their son, David, s. State police were told by oc cupants of the Sutherlin public housing unit, located opposite the t ugate home, that they were attracted by screams and saw occupants emerging, their cloth ing afire. Those-who gave as sistance said they were told oil had been poured on coals in the cook stove. . An explosion result ed, drenching all occupants of the small, one-story dwelling. - Ambulances from .Oakland and Roseburg took the injured persons to the Eugene hospital. Glenn Fugate, 10, was the only occupant of the home to escape unhurt. The fire at the Fugate home occurred shortly after 6 p. m. and was followed four hours later by a fire of similar origin at the Jack Du Bois home, a mile south of Sutherlin. No one was injured in the latter fire, but the dwelling and all con tents were completely destroyed. Police Beat Back Pickets LANCASTER, Pa., Feb. 16 () Transit strikers reinforced on picket lines by other unions were beaten back by club swinging police today as Cones toga Transportation company renewed partial service with volunteer workers. Five strikers were arrested in a free-for-all at carbarn gates as two score police cleared streets for a block to let buses through. Three or four of the more than 150 pickets were seen to fall to the pavement in a wild exchange of blows but none was admitted to hospitals immediately. It was the 11th day of the transit strike called by local 1241, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes AFL on 25 contract demands, including a 20-cent-an-hour pay boost. Body Of Prominent Lawyer Found Near Luxurious Home Two Other Firms Sign With Union Aluminum Settles For 19-Cent An Hour Wage Boost WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 The Bethlehem Steel company announced today It has signed an agreement with the CIO for a general wage Increase of 181 cents an hour covering some 7S,. 000 workers. By HAROLD W. WARD - WASHINGTON. Fih IB im' Settlement of the strike against the U. S. Steel comoratinn followed quickly today by agree ments ending disputes Involving 38,700 Republic steel workers and 14,000 employes of the Aluminum Co., of America. ' Republic, the nation's third largest producer, signed with th CIO Steelworkers union on the same basis as U. S. Steel an 181 cents hour pay . increase. Aluminum went still higher in reaching a settlement with the union on- a 19-cent an hour wage hike. A source close to negotiator : also, predicted an early accord between the union and Bethle hem Steel company, which like- ' Republic is one of the major "little steel" producers those independent of U. S. Steel. Negotiations also were under way with Youngstown Sheet and Tube and other companies. Call Meeting While government agencies watched eagerly for signs of further breaks in the nation's strike situation, union leaders called a meeting for Thursday in Pittsburgh to ratify the steel pact. . However, CIO headquarters here said workers could return to work immediately wherever contracts are signed, without waiting for the ratification. ,. A spokesman said the union con fidently expected virtually all of the 750,000 strikers to be back on the job by the middle of next week. . ... ;.v Jubilant Administration leadeys '-were ... jubilant-over the termination of ' the dispute, for they looked for k salutary reaction in the strike bound automobile and electric manufacturing industries. "Big Steel," as U. S. Steel i.i known, has long been considered the bell-wether of American business and other enterprises were expected to follow, as in the past, the broad general pat tern it set. The end of the 25-day-old U. S. steel strike was announced last night on behalf of President Truman by Reconversion Direc tor John W. Snyder. The settle ment was on the basis of an 18 1 cents average hourly wage in crease previously recommended Dy tne president, witn tne cor poration getting a compensatory $5-a-ton increase in steel prices. r Way Opened The settlement applied only to approximately 130,000 U. S. ' Steel employees, but it opened the way for the return to work of some 620,000 striking CIO steelmen employed . by other companies. : CIO President Philip Murray announced that collective bar gaining will begin with the rest . of the industries today, and an other unauotabie ciu omciai predicted that agreements would be reached with all tne key steel companies by the middle of next week, u was made plain, now ever, that strikes would continue at all these .companies ' until agreements have been signed. U. S. Steel meanwhile was reported already heating its furnaces back up, and some CIO men said the corporation would . be ready to resume making steel by Tuesday, although iuu pro duction probably will- not be reached for two weeks. Officially the U. S. steel strike will end at 12:01 a. m. Monday, February 18 the same hour to the minute that It began on Jan- , uary 21. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 (P) The nude body of William H. Bonsai, 40, prominent attorney and politician, was found in a pool of -blood in the driveway of his luxurious home last night after a neighbor heard sounds of a terrific fight, and snouts for police. Inside the house, police found evidences of a bloody struggle that led from the expensively furnished living room where a fire still burned on the hearth and a radio played, to the din ing room, kitchen and den, where furniture was smashed and blood-smeared. They also discovered a note which read: "Bill, I am going out to dinner. Will see you later." . The attorney's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William N. Bonsall, who lived with him, were lo cated b y police in Carmel, where they went 10 days ago for a visit. They told police they could shed no light on the slaying. Clair . E. Pusifer, 19, a navy machinist's mate who had been living at the Bonsall home oc casionally for several months, declared he stayed with a friend in a downtown hotel last night. "I can't imagine who could have done it, he said. The attorney, who was grad uated from the . University of California at Los Angeles, was a member of "the Los Angeles county republican central, com mittee. ' . ' A neighbor, S. W. Weaver, said he heard sounds of a fight, then a call "help police." He telephoned officers, then ran for the Bonsall home, finding the victim but no trace of his assailant. - . The death weapon, investiga tors said. apparently w a s I length of Jead pipe, found near the body. INCREASE DENIED PORTLAND, Feb. 16 () The state CIO council turned thumbs down today on a bottled milk ptyce increase asked by dairymen. - The afl recently took the same stand. The district OPA is now considering studying the proposed boost. Arriving In United States Daniel V. Morrison, T4. Lakeview, arrived on La Grande Victory due in Se attle February 16. -, - Vein V. Maharry, SSgt., Tulelake,: arrived on La Grande Victory due - in Se attle February 16. - Claude H. Johnson, Sgt., Dunsmulr, Calif., arrived on USSR Victory due In New York February 15. ' . O. Anderson,- T4, Klam ath Falls arrived on Sea Tiger due In New York, Feb ruary 14.