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7 1 WWM JUuid SI' 01 hub rail era DETROIT- Sept.l would to concludejthat'be- 1 wundbd mwi ri 'plants are' all down because of NINETT-FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES TOKYOSepC24.HEniperor Hifohitf-the Jate'st abdica Scdem, Orjon, Tuesday Mornlncj. September 13. 1S45 Prlc-9c No. 153 "t'-f 5 what one reads in the papers about tion rumor; vanishing into the thth air whence it reported today to be arranging an unprecedenied visit to General MacArthur. i '-f laoor troubles.

Only a lew plants are shut down--the Ford works being the largest- It- is anbrehen- 1 i Whether the "emperor meets for the first time the alien boss sioii 'about the immediate future ODD 'gitr rather than nresent difficulties! of his smashed empire, as Japanese sources say, a new V-; which bothers most of'the Indus-" series of drastic U. S. decrees showed that neither Hirohito nor his government had much control. Over Japan fate. plants "are working Jobless rri MacArthur ordered the Japa Mfmm nese "government to strin busily, but largely, on reconvert sion and accumulating stocks of parts.

Materials are not yet in juu juppiy anjj gome iike chromic acid are lacking. The big task of 4' moving machines out that, were A I exclusively, on war work and mov- QIC Pay Bill gent and price controls and ration all critically-short commodities to head: off wide hunger and suffering among Japan's 1 000,000. people. i -vj lng' motor car machinery in is 1 full progress. MacArthur 4 froze, all Japan's 3SOrJ3eini Duu.Airoiiiiinid 11 GDisoflcre trade abroad, except for approved exports imports.

rr ".1 ot an eyeful of reconversion Jtodajf. atThe-' big gear, axle -and iorze" division of Chevrolet' The iCiieyator i Moveiuent Growfc tie zorpade the import or ex Bemni: Leave Woods; Sa -1- -r piaol -was almost tb war work. Tools' for car-mak- lfoDeini(5es; port of bullion, currency and negotiable Japanese 'assets -tempor- way. 'X MAAmT 9vt SL ins were' millprl .1111 in lfltl onrl To StopMeasure ilJiitil Strikes End He prohibited; any Japanese 1841, moved mariy into "open PSDlslKlFsEelhesS atomic 'bomb research' or. atom-l mm air storage under tarpaulins or 1 exposed to the weather.

New tools WASHINGTON, Sept 24-()-A Thirty-five hundred men' in i the Salem tradini area left in, new assembly splitting and-pla'c-: ed all research' laboratories of the empire Under4close and continual" allied contrpl. lines formed. movement developed in the house ways and means committee todaV to put the 1 unemployment com- PORTLAND, Ore 'SepiL 24-AP) Quiet replaced tit" I reverse "practice now way is astounding. Here are great MacArthur. tore down all Japa their jobs in forest and inilLMonday or.

will leave, them when thej AFL" Lumber Sawmill Workers' strike has been called at.eyAra 4Howlar e'Tipples from the pebble" tossed into the stream of the northwest's lumber industry might reach herej was. a pensation bill on the 'shelf rf until usual hum of buzzsaws and cries of timber today in near nese' government news' barriers. men now icue oecause oi suxH.es (Continued on editorial page) ly 500 logging; operations' and woodworking plants stripped the Dome! agency of its Sksrapei: Hit; eiAttempt8 to alk Up' Noted NEW Sept 24-(ff)-Fif- return: to work. monopolistic privileges and threw The committee held a closed- matter ior conjecture aionaay the news field open to all comers Dean among building trades workers. Acheson Most of the residential building foreign as well as Japanese.

4 --1 I Micl liigan State teen thousand elevator operators and maintenance workers in some door session and circulated afterward that there was even strong sentiment for killing outright the measure calling for liberalized pay to the Jobless. Suc action would be the severest con underwayt here will be halted some contractors said. hit bythe AFL northwest lumber strike. The union, which' Hsted 60,000 workers idle, declared the strike "100 per cent jAn estimated 85 per cea( of the. lumber industry in Washington, Idaho and Montana was tied up.

Other mills are ClO-af filiated. Aimed at a minimum $1.10 hourly wage, the strike be gan at 12:01 a. m. Monday. By mid-morning, pickets were Wilis State Post Public? School 1875 Manhattan! buildings walked off their jobs today.

To Investigate For hours the sidewalks outside Regi stration i-iS some buildings were crowded Over Protests gressional rebuff to President Truman since entered the White House. with office' workers who were Detroit Strike undecided I whether to tackle the The committee set showdown stairways. They spilled into the votes for tomorrow. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24P)- When the committee adjourned Salem public schools' registra streets and police had difficulty keeping the way clear fori vehicles.

i 1 Dean G. Acheson's nomination as 'undersecretary of state got 69 to its afternoon session Rep. Knutson ol Minnesota, senior committee Russians Ask Repatriation of Red Nationals Finally, many workers went republican, told newspapermen: 1 approval from the Senate today after hours debate on whether he had "rebuked" General Doug home. I i "The committee probably will tion was. up Monday from the; 5013 1 recorded the first day of the new school year a week ago, and three schools had not sent in corrected registration figures.

i 1 Cabinet i work at both Keith Brown Building Supply; and Oregon Pulp-and Paper plants' (where the sawmill I was down 1 Monday) may; continue for two weeksjj but stock' at place will not guarantee further operation. I Garages Change Over Garages here which have done a heavy business in servicing logging: trucks, turned their attention to; pleasure automobiles 'and oil companies checked off a big piece of business for the duration of the strike. i Unorganized and CIO mills (there are some of the former and none of the latter in the immediate Salem vicinity) continued to operate, but raftsmen who. wear the AFLj button left the river or remained only to fish. i Mills Listed I Black Rock and Snow Peak, log stationed at plant gates, but watchmen and maintenance men were allowed to enter one to shift Union officials reported net the slightest hint of violence and said none was anticipated.

A 21-man strike policy committee will gather in Portland Thursday to consider possible request and to watch the strike's progress. The AFL calleoV the strike after a three-maA conciliation commls-sion named by Secretary of Labcv Schwellenbach failed to Iron out the wage dispute. 1 ITEL SIIOKTAGE. SlJQt i take the position tomorrow that las MacArthur. with thousands of workers out on Senator Wherry; (R-Neb), who As the Empire State building's 72 elevators stood idle, long lines of office jworkers stood waiting for a chance to "phone upstairs." Two television engineers of the strike it is impossible to tell wha Included in the group not heard the unemployment situation is.

DETROIT, Sept 24-W)-The state of Michigan entered Detroit's troubled labor situation as a variety of disputes and layoffs continued to keep persons idle. Asserting he had reports that "not more than 25 per cent" of the strikers at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. plants in Detroit favor tbe, month-old jtrike there. Gov. Harry F.

Kelly ordered an investigation into efforts made to end it and the attitude of the 4500 idle workers. Pointing out that the strike had been repudiated by the United from was Salem high school. LONDON, Sept 24-(P)-Russia cast the lone opposition vote, said Acheson had. He lost 66 to 12 a move to send the nomination back to the foreign relations commit where constantly en National Broadcasting company. Delano, Uhrig tee.

rollment kept 'ahead of the adding! machine operators, McKinley and Richmond! schools. Majority leader Barkley (Ky) and Chairman Connally D-Tex) tonight raised an entirely new Issue speeding the repatriation of soviet nationals at the conference of -big five foreign ministers, swinging discussion farther away from the, main problems of European peace settlements. At Leslie, the new figure was 560, an increase of 25 from the of the foreign relations committee Thomas Buzalski, 38, and-Joseph Lombardi, 1 45, got to their work on the Empire State's 85th floor half) an hour before the strike began. With them they took two beds, a stove, an ice box and a locker full 'of food. "We're prepared to stay three days," said Buzalski.

Plead Guilty to Robbery Count aid Acheson hadn't. Senator I Johnson (D registration of Monday, September 17; at Parrish, 939, up 44 from last week but still behind last Colo), said it looked to him "like ging I operations in Polk county Workers (CIO), Gov PORTLAND. Ore, Sept -With one-fourth of cityi homes dependent upon sawdust and onef third en other wood for heat i fuel dealers todar viewed the: northwest lumber strike with alarm. Wood how on mill premises is hof and will not be handled by teamsters and other unic men. i a tempest in teapot." year's first day total of 950; Wash This development apparently' came as a surprise to American ernor Kelly said: "I am interested in finding out if it really Is the wfll and wish of the majority of the strikers." and British delegates, who earlier found themselves stymied with the Russians over the question of Iress Glamors ington, 179, an increase of Garfield, 1 189, up 33; Bush, 419, up 11; Eiiglewood 398, down 13; Highland," 383, an increase of 18, and Grant, 182; down 3.

CIO Asks Aid of ScKwellenbacii emergency control of. Europe inland waterways. ForConstitution Diplomatic quarters were un Willamette valley Lumber; company, Dallas; Cobbs tit Mitchell, ValsetzJ Winlock Handle' company, Silvertan; Capital Lumber company (still operating Monday night) Oregon Pulp Paper Company's 'sawmill operations; Cascades Plywood, Lebanon; Albany Plywood; Santiam, E. H. Clarke, West Gate and Cascaola Lumber companies and Oregon Plywood, Sweet pome, and the Corvallis Lumber company were listed Monday by Lumber it Sawmill Workers' offices in Portland as mid-valley mills affected by the strike.

Lockout' Over In Argentina able to explain immediately how the repatriation' question was in Truman Gives Dd Gaulle C-54, Wlio Gets Bill? l. Charles Delano and Joe Uhrig, who. Monday pleaded guilty be fore Circuit Judge KM. Page to a variety of charges growing out of the robbery of the Ernest Handy residence near Woodburni will be sentenced Thursday morn- ing. Delano, whose attorney asked that be treated as a Juvenile since he declares himself to be only 16 years of age, was indicted on and pleaded guilty to the rob4 bery of the Handy place of $400 cash and $1083 in checks, the larceny of Handy's automobile anc the burglary of the Handy residence.

Unrig, Jointly indicted with Delano on the robbery charge, said he would make a showing jected into the discussions at this SPRINGFIELD, Sept- 24-ff- state, 1 Seiiibrity Said Out of Control I I Sept 24 -ff)-A veterans' letder said today Charging the halt of operations at i BUENOS AIRES, Sept A plea by retired navy leaders that constitutional government be restored in Argentina won ac 4 WASHINGTON. Seot Mrs, Glover claim today from the powerful the Springfield Plywood corporation plant is a "lockout on the company's part," CIO officials today wiredj Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach to intervene. The ClOj union has maintained it has enough men to operate the selective Service is running "hog- Under-AgeVets Given Status '1 It WASHINGTON, Sept llMJPf-Boys and girls who fibbed about age to get in the navy, marines, coast guard and WAVES will be forgiven and paid off now. president Truman today Signed a congressional measure that will allow these underage patriots the same pay and treatment accorded honorably discharged veterans. The navy department previously had ruled that It lacked authority to pay the usual benefits.

Congress quickly authorized the payments. It was told that the army already overlooked false age statements in such cases. President Truman 'gave Gan. Charles De Gaulle of France a C-54 transport plane, delivered in afternoon press and from political forces united in opposition to the wild" in its interpretation of "super-seniority' 1 for returning State Dept. to Dies Yesterday Remoh Holland Glover, wife of military government of President war veterans.

1 Edelmiro Farrei. A similar statement signed by Pans today, but Just what appropriation covers such a gift is a bookkeeper-and-lawyer mystery. plant without; AFL employes, Ralph Glover, died unexpectedly Thursday morning as to exten uatlng- circumstances. WASHINGTON, Sept 24 high navy officers on active duty was expected to be published soon. A high military tribunal rep James W.

Cannon, general counsel for the- Veterans of Foreign! Wars, declared in an interview:" i "Selective service now has gone far beyond what congress ever a ue White House: The gift was "in line with a precedent set by the late President Roosevelt who walked out in a Jurisdictional dispute. Defending the corporation's action, General Manager Frank L. Mollis said, that! "out of our 300-man crew, a maximum of 82 men reported to work since the walkout We cannot run without a balanced crew; of skilled work- who gave planes to Winston Churchill, Generalissimo Chiang Kak at the family 1794 Court st, Monday night Daughter' of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Holland, she was born at Oregon While she was a small child the family came to Salem where Mr.

Holland became manager of the flouring milt Her mother was widely known in this area as a singer. BattleWounded Due Home Soon rimanded Geo. Arturo Rawson for participating," in uniform, at the Anarch of liberty and the constitution," in. which 500,000 persons participated last Wednesday. shek and the king of Egypt intended.

It lias mixed things up until neither business nor the labor union knows where it stands." The treasory: Not informed: it's The American Legion, on the a White House matter. The' army, threatgh a press cf- men, but We are trying to zind other hand, is going along with Maj, Gen, Lewis B. Hershey, selective Service director. She was married to Ralph; Glo fleer: We dont know. They've a a solution to our problems." Union and company officials met last week but made no set Haile Selassie Asks Colonies ver on Jan.

11, 1905. She was a member of the Order of Eastern lot of funds overeat the Whit House that we don't know anything about The state department: Ask the tlement The state department will take over disposal of American war surpluses overseas with the dual assignment to aid stricken countries and gain trade concessions for the I United States, president Truman has decided to transfer disposal control to the state! department' "as soon as practicable," reconversion director John' W. Snyder told the' seriate war investigation committee to-day. Declaring "we can't expect dollars" from dollar-starved nations, Snyder I said this country would be willing to swap surpluses for "commercial and1 military LEBANON MAN LIBERATED WASHINGTON, Sept 24-(Spe cial)PFC Charles M. Brown, son of Mrs.

Delilah Brown of route 1, Lebanon, Orej has been liberated from a prison camp of the the war department today! White House. CAIRO, Ilaile Selassio of Ethiopia has sent Star and the Episcopal church. Survivors, besides the widower, include a sister, Constance Thomp, a daughter, Maxine Hammond, and granddaughter, Constance Hammond, all of San Francisco. Funeral arrangements, in the care of Clough-Barrick Co, had not been completed this morning. WASHINGTON, Sept The war department said today most of the 3000 battle casualties still hi the Pacific will be brought home.ln 60 days.

It added that all other transportable casualties in the area can be expected In this country by I Most of the wounded will be brought home by hospital although some will come by air. Both hospital ships and planes also are beingused, MaJ. Gen. C. P.

Cross, chief of transportation, added in a statement, to bring back American prisoners of war who are in need of medical attention. Anti-Japanese Acts Reported WATSONVILLE, CalifV Sept 2 4.H;P)-This community had its first recorded case of hostility against returning -Japanese before dawn today, when unidentified persons hurled a blazing, flare toward the Buddhist temple, which is being used as a Japanese hotel. The flare, set fire to shrubbery but there was no other, damage, Chief of Police Matt Graves said. The hotel guests included three Nisei servicemen on furlough and many families who have sons in the armed forces. Test pa Well Proves; Empty the London conference or xoreign ministers a demand that Eritrea i and Italian Slomaliland be turned over to EthioDia.

reports from Ad- A C-54 costs upward of 1250,000. Jews Fleeing Into Palestine Discharges by Mail Proposed A WASHINGTON Sept 24-(-The CIO proposed today that soldiers eligible for discharge be sent home immediately and their formal releave completed by mail. Clinton S. Golden, chairman of the CO I veterans 'Committee, explaining the suggestion, said the paper processing could be completed while the man is at home. I dis Ababa In the Egyptian press said today.

The "Lion of Judah" was quoted PORTLAND, Ore, Sept 24-CV Abandonment of Its Clatskanie No. 1 test bil well and plans for JERUSALEM, Sept 24-(ffV-Ad by one newiipaper, Al Misri, as drilling a second well about is here were an miles west of saying he sought the territories "not as a bonus because we have been fighthn: the axis 10 years, hut because they belong to the nounced-today by the Texas com pany. "no there was At 5650 Ethiopian empire and were stolen feet or gas" In the Oil showing trom us. Jewess Tells oi7 Edous amidis Aluminum Co. Asks 4 Plants i WASHINGTON, Sept 24-(ffV Reynolds Metal company has offered to Immediately take over operations at three government owned aluminum reduction mills, including the Troutdale, plant and the huge Hurricane, Ark, 'alumina plant it was revealed today.

5 Stuart Symington, surplus ditional British troops were reported en route to Palestine tonight in an effort to Intensify safeguards against the illegal entry of Jews from neighboring countries. (In London, the Ally Sketch re ported Tuesday that strong British reinforcements already had reached Palestine Thty have been sent I to enable the British government to keep a grip on public order, now gravely -menaced by rival claims and agitation between Jews and Arabs," the Sketch said.) Anlmd CtczUctg azS asMooDis lnJeire SQaimi im By WARREN GOODRICH Clatskanie well, but although disappointed by the outcome, the company has: not given up hope of finding oil in that area, an official said. I The new jwelLjto be known as Cooper Mountain No. 1, will be located halfway between Tigard and TiHsboro. 12 Prisoners Escape In Portland Break PORTLAND, Sept 24-(P) Police tonight hunted 12 of 17 Multnomah county prisoners who escaped from a seventh floor jail cell block and dropped through a utilities shaft to the basement and freedom.

Five of the men were recaptured, including Robert Breckman, straight at Franz Hessler, SS (elite guard) unterstArmfuehrer and pa- lis By William F. Frye LUENEBERG, Germany, Sept young Polish Jewess, inexplicably reprived at the last moment from' death in the gas cham- property administrator, told the senate Mead committee the Reynolds offer was for. a temporary contract to continue production at One, Dora Szafran, testified the SS woman guard Juana Borman set dogs on prisoners while another, blonde Irma Grese, beat them with riding crops. Mrs Litwinska said that beatings at prisoners by guards were and that there was no apparent system for administering punishment r-. She accused one of" the women.

tber Of the notorious Oswiecim con 32, described as a life-termer being held after recently escaping mills now operated by the Alumi-. the Oregon state prison at Salem. SALEM MAN ATTACKED PORTTlAND, Sept 24 -Charles H. Slade, 40, route 5, Salem, today told police he was attacked by an unidentified person who struck him. on the head with a bottle and took his watch.

Hospital attendants said Slade suffered a fractured skuIL 300 Iron Fireman Workers Ask Strike Vote PORTLAND, Sept 24-(AVMore than 300 workers at Iron Fireman Manufacturing company yesterday voted to petition the national num Company of America. The Alcoa contracts expire Oct 1 and the Reynolds company wants control to prevent dispersal of skilled Appointment of Hess To D. A. Post Delayed labor relations board for a strike Isle Forster, of beating to death with a rubber truncheon a young I "That is the! murderer who destroyed thousands of innocents," she I Then the. bust Into tears, and had to be taken from the courtroom to regainj her composure.

Wlien -she was able to resume, she related that she herself was sent to the gas chamber and "yellow fumes" were actually entering the room when her name called and she iwas removed. "Later Hessler covered me in a blanket and took me on a motorcycle to the hospital," she said." Other witnesses identified one after another of the prisoners; as helping choose gas chamber Victims and beating or otherwise mistreating internees, J' i 1- I I I WASHINGTON Sept 24 A protest against appointment of Polish girl who stole a potato. AUTO LOOTINGS KISS More' than $150 worth of automobile accessories, and clothing disappeared from a half centration campj; today dramatically accused! one camp official with slaying "thousands of The woman, Mrs. Sophie Lit-winska, had testified before the British military court trying 45 naxia for crimes at the; Oswiecim and Belsen camps that woman inmates were forced to line up naked before camp officials making selections; for the death chamber. 'Asked by.

the. prosecutor, Col. TJfi Backhouse, If she recognized any of the prisoners who took part in the selections she leaped to her feet in the witness box and pointed vote. j. Negotiations for higher wages since' April were unsuccessful, Neil Broady, business representative 'of the International Associa Wax.

When savage blows from the V7catber San Iranciace Eugene Salm Portland XTa. 41 4S Henry L. Hess. La Grande, as U. S.

district attorney, today delayed confirmation by the senate. truncheon caused the girl to defe tntm Jt- 7 zVx -it n. cate involuntarily, Mrs. Litwinska dozen automobiles on Salem tion of Machinists' (AFL), report Chairman McCarran (D-Nev) so Seam ed. said, the woman guard forced her to eat the excrement drove her out of the senate Judiciary committee.

FORECAST from U. 8. wcath bu streets Saturday night city police were notified. Hollywood and the downtown area were scenes of the declined to say who had filed the A strike would be for a new contract with raises retroactive to of the kitchen and continued beat reau. McNary new.

batemi: uowt te morning with warmer afteroooai Ccms dovjrif went jia to me! my friend! protest which will delay the vote tcmparaturca about May 1, Broady said. ing cer until she died. for a week..