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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. December 1, 1953 PAGE SEVEN , ; 4 4J X , !, r .' ! - ' i i ' S ' t 1 ? A . V i . . v i. K h f 4 i 1 S i K 1 i " i ' i ' t i i V oca Nws Briefs - Trackers Meet Tonight A meeting of the Marlon-Polk coun ty local of th& Truck Owners and Farmers' Protective association will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the armory, j The organization will take such action as it deems advisable on the refusal of the joint roads and highways coml mittee of the legislature to consider-proposad amendments "to the track and bus law. Earl Chappel, chairman, x Baid yester day a supply of initiative peti tions for repeal of the law would be on band for signature and distribution. v Dance U-Park tonight, under new management. 7-piece band. 15c. Stamp Society Meets The Sa lem Stamp, society will meet Fri day night at-T:30 o'clock at the city Y.M.C.A, C. S. Douglas, vice president of the organisation will exhibit his practically complete collections of Akron, Macon and Constitution covers. AH collectors whether members or not, are in cited to attend and bring their collections. ; No Friday Yrotrrmaa The Fri day night program hi the Y. M. C A. lobby will be dispensed with this week. The Philharmonic sym phony orchestra. In preparation for its first concert of the season next Thursday night, will hold a special practice at the Y on that night. Mrs, Wright to Speak - The Causes and Cures of Poverty" will be the subject for the vsnr oyl vice, Sunday afternoon at 8:30 ociock at tne First Evangelical church, Marion and Summer streets. Mrs. It. L. Wright will be the principal speaker. Miss Fran ces Maurer, contralto soloist of Portland, will give the special mu sir. You v cordially, invited to attend. Chemeketa Players play tonight, Speeding Charged T. Breed love was arrested yesterday on a charge of speeding" according to city police reports. He was re leased on his own recognizance ifter' being cited to appear in municipal court today. Miller Improving It. G. Miller, who underwent an operation at the Salem hospital Tuesday, is re ported to be Improving satisfac torily. Held, Investigation - William Mannon, whom city police ar rested Wednesday night for inves tigation, remained in jail yester day. Police declined to reveal the nature of the investigation. PriUbett in Town Laurence Tritchett of Seattle is spending the Thanksgiving holidays with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. PhilliDs and j family in Salem. OPEfJSEHIOfll DEMT BUND Five Killed as Guns Blaze Opening of Warfare Between Gangs DETROIT, Nov. 30 (.ip) Saying It with bullets and skull-crushing blows, Detroit's gangland has de clared an open season on rival bad men and even veteran, gang-wtee policemen who usually know all the answers decline to predict whefe it will end. , A bystander, unwise in the ways ot gangs and gatgsters, was shot to death Saturday night in an. at tempted hold-up of a betting es tablishment by three youths. Since then four men have been slain and another taken on a one-way ride that barely failed of its purpose. Each case was" noted by police as an Incident In the first outbreak of gang warfare here since tho summer of 1932. Most notorious of the victims was Verne Miller, the one-time Smith Dakota sheriff who found ""the end of the outlaw trail in a flitch at Detroit's outskirts last right. Federal officers had called him the "toughest of the tough," but his skull bad been crushed, his unclothed body trussed up in jack-knife fashion. lie had been dead for at least 24 hours. At almost the same time Miller was slain, his sweetheart, Vivian Ob ltuary Scbern At a local hospital, November 39, Faye Sebcrn, wife of W. B. Sebern, at the age of 22 years. Survived by one son, Leonard Clelland; daughter of Mrs. E. Johnsrud. sister of Juanita, Dor othy, Robert and Wllflam Stall ing!!, aU of this city. Funeral ser vices from" TerwilllgCr Funeral Home, 770 Chemeketa street, Sat urday December 2, 10 a. m.. Rev. Caanell of Amity officiating. Matthews, was sentenced in Chi cago to a year and a 'day after admitting she and another girl had harbored and aided Miller in escaping when police sought him there. Miller's body remained un claimed in the county morgue tonight. . Police considered and then dis carded a theory that Miller, sus pected of being one of the ma chine gunners who mowed down five men at the Kansas City Union station last snmmer, had been im-, ported to kill Abe Axler and Ed die Fletcher, lieutenants in De troit's purple gang. Miller, they finally decided, ranked too high In the underworld to undertake such a routine gang killing. Whoever did it, the bodies ot the two purples were found in Axler's car along a roadside in .nearby Oakland county last Sun day morning. Numerous rouge stained cigarette stub3 provided police with the theory that a wo man, or women, hadIurcd them to their deaths. The body ot Walter (Red) Tylc zakreseaped convict, was found Tuesday at a roadside iu Macomb county. His was the only death linked definitely with the ill-fated hand book hold-up of last Saturday, for police named him as one of the robber trio. Support for the the ory that someone was attempting to kill off the three robbers came from Jules Doretti, a confessed member of the trio, who told of being taken for a ride the day fol lowing the hold-up, shot several times and lett for dead. Police saw many signs of a con nection between the slayings of Miller. Fletcher and Axler and were working on two major theories. One was that some clique with in the purple gang was attempting to shoot its way Into control. Another-was that a Toledo gang has gone to war over profits from the illicit narcotics trade in Detroit. Just where the death of Miller fits into cither picture, they were tot certain. They do know, however, that the underworlds of Detroit. To ledo and Chicago knew Miller had been killed long before his body was found. sra lis ira in ran Failure In Backing Lipman Said Reason; Loan to Be Self-Lquidating Failure to secure backing here for a proposed million dollar pro ject at the outset of Its formation, Will Lipman, former Portland merchant has switched final plans for construction of a lara linen mill to Portland. These facts were revealed yesterday when It was reported a $1,760,000 PWA loan had been approved for the flax and linen industry of the state. The granting of the giant loan, oa a self-liquidating basis, was announced Wednesday In Wash lngton and Immediately brought reports that the linen mill will be constructed in Portland, Instead of Salem as was originally in tended. "This. Industry Is In a form ative stage yet and with Its full realization, plants in addition to the Portland mill will be con structed In other cities," officials of the United States National Lin en Industries, Inc., said yester day. It is understood a large portion of the loan will be used for the construction ot the mill and ret ting and scutching plants. A por tion of the funds will be used for the supplying of flaxseed to the Willamette valley farmers for sowing. A vast acreage will be required to supply straw for the factory, officials indicated, although they did not estimate how much land the plant would draw from. At the time of the formation of the plans it is understood Lipman approached the Salem chamber of commerce for funds to defray ex penses of a trip to Washington. Local merchants were not in clined at that time to underwrite the 35.000 to 26,000 expense. : Quartet of New Treasury Aides i f . i y "v" K 1 VM ' I j VV;r; , i if (, i vvffe if vf ii mint l HLi.ni ' These four men figure In the reshuffle of the D. S. Treasury Department which got underway with the appointment of Henry Morgeathau, Jr, as Acting Secretary during Secretary Woodin's leave of absence. Top left, William McBeynoIds, named Administrative Assistant: lower left, Herbert Gaston, Special Assistant in charge of public relations; top right, Herman Oliphant, General Counsel, and Earie Baillie, "fiscal adviser." AH are directly responsible to Acting Secretary Morgenthau. Pittinan Sherman Pittman, aged 81 years, In this city, Thursday, No vember 30; survived by one son, HI C. Pittman of Chebalis, Wash.; daughters, Mrs. C. M. McMahon of Portland and Mrs. W. W. Loomi-j of Roseburg. Funeral announce ments later from Clough-Barrick company. Walsh Perry Walsh, at Seattle. Washu Survived by one daughter in Call fornla. Funeral services in charge ' of Elks and American Legion. An nouncements later by Clough Barrick company. Bohrnstcdt tjbe Elizabeth L. Bohrnsteat, at te residence. 360 Leslie street, No vember 28. Survived by , widower, Albert C Bohrnstedt, a daughter Mrs. Alberta Pemberton of Long Beach, Cal.; two brothers, R. L. Trestrall of Portland, and W. C, Trostrail of Long Beaehl Funeral services will be held from the chapel of RIgdon's mortuary Fri day December 1, at 1:30 p. m. Rev. S. Darlow Johnson, officiat ing. Interment . Belcrest Memorial park. "W 'y- . McKenzie Donald Hugh McKensie, at the residence, 1393 South Commer cial street, Monday night, Novem ber 27, aged 72 years. Survived by widow, Emma of Salem; daughter, Mrs. Graee Thomas of Raymond, Wash., and a grandson, Donald Osborn of Raymond. A member of -the Presbyterian church. Fun eral services from the chapel "of W. T. Rigdon and Son, Friday, De cember 2, at 3 p. m.. Rev. Groyer C. BIrtchet officiating. Interment BelcresTMemorial park. ( Coining Events December 1 Local or ganization of truck ownerf, la auditorium of chamber of comnicrce. ;- December O Salem Boy Now campaign? unit la na tional moremeat, ends. jjccembr X& lrcsejita tloa of MMcssiah, armory. WHEAT LEAGUE WILL 5 ME Ml III TliKSGIlE DAY QUIET IT CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (JP) Under the sunny skies of a springlike day, tho nation's offi cials who remained in the capi tal observed a quiet Thanksgiv ing. A drowsy calm settled over the White House. President and Mrs. Roosevelt were at Warm Springs to eat turkey with the patients at the health resort. Only Mrs. Anna Dall and her two children, "Sistle" and Buzzie"- were in the executive mansion. j Several other cabinet members were away from Washington. Se cretary and Mrs. Woodin were In their New York home. Acting Se cretary and Mrs. Morgenthau had gone to their Dutchess county, New York, estate for the holiday. Other cabinet members were observing the day with their fam ilies at Thanksgiving dinners, re ceiving friends in the afternoon. Special Thanksgiving services at the churches beckoned to all of Washington. At St. Patrick's Ca tholic church, diplomats of Latin American countries and numerous governmental officials assembled for theo bservance of the Bilver jubilee anniversary of the Pan American mass. Later, the Army and Navy re lief ball summoned society to the Willard hotel. Newly found jobs through fed eral agencies provided the funds for numerous Thanksgiving day dinners in families that previ ously had found subsistance from relief rolls. Federal funds, too, aided the numerous private relief agencies in providing dinners for those still unemployed. Civil Works Set up to Hide Failure of Public Works is Declaration of Al E. Smith NEW YORK. Nor. 80 (;p) Alfred E. Smith said today the public works administration was broken down and that the civil works program was set up to hide its failure. "Instead of acknowledging the failure of the public works ad ministration," said the former governor, "... this crazy top heavy structure, choked with red tape and bureaucracy is being left as it is, and out of it is being created the civil works adminis tration to raise relief wages and get more people to work during the winter. 'Half way between a lemon and an orange is a grapefruit; halt way between a public work and a relief work is a civil work. Up to now the federal establish ments only recently scheduled SCMFS SHSTED M GIFT After one of, the most eventful years for the wheat grower in Te cent times, members of the East ern Oregon Wheat league, among me state s most active farm groups, will meet In Moro. De cember 8 and 9 to review the ev ents of the past and plan for the future.. Since its inception, this wheat growers' organization has been known as one that ! not con tent to meet and pass resolutions to be soon forgotten, but instead it provides machinery for follow ing up Its recommendations s o that each passing year finds much of its program being put into ef fect by tho state and to some ex tent by tho nation. Business of the convention will be handled again this year on a committee basis, announces Charles Smith, Heppner, secre tary of the league. These have been reduced "to four major groups made up of 183 of the leading growers from every sec tion of the Columbia wheat basin. Growers head these committees with representatives of the state college of agriculture as secre taries. One Killed, One Hurt in Attack By Enraged Bull SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 30 (JP) One man was gored to death and anothe., who went to his rescue, was seriously injured by an enraged bull near Marshall, south of here last nigh. Bapesta Favre, 56, was dead when his friend, Frank Pupo, 70, rushed into the pen to beat the animal back. The bull turned on him, breaking four ribs and punc turing a lung. He was expected to recover. The bull was sent to a slaugh ter houce. Betty Co-Ed is Centenarian Now OBERLIN. O.. Nov. 30. (JP) Betty Co-ed will be 100 years old Sunday. The -first Institution or nigner learning to adopt co-education, Oberlin college, founded Decem ber 3. 1833, in the heart of the wilderness by the Rev. John J. Shepherd and Philo Y. Stewart, a former missionary, will observe its centennial with exercises In Fin ney chapel. GUESTS AT-BETHANY rethanY. Nov. 30. Thanks giving day go est s at the Hans Tnt.iK.nn home, were Mr; and Mrs. George Brown and daughter Don na Lee, Mr. and Mrs. R o s c q e n.nchv Tid sons Harland and Neal and . MranA.MttfcMcCn.lc&. Reforestation Is Monday Topic Of Garden Club Salem Garden club members will consider reforestation meth ods and plans at their meeting at the chamber of commerce Monday night. Speakers will Include Lynn F. Cronemlller, state forester, and Ernest Infer, club president. Cronemlller will exhibit pic tures of the disastrous Coast range forest fire of the past summer and explain plans that have been made to salvage timber In this area. Mr. Infer will describe re forestation as practiced in Switz erland. Mos' Coughs Demand Creomulsion Don't let them get a strangle hold. Fight germs quickly. Creo mulsion combines the 7 best helps known to modern Bclence. Power ful hut harmless. Pleasant to take. No narcotics. Your own druggist a authorized to refund your mon ey on the spot if your cough or cold Is not reucTea py vreomur With the approach of another Christmas season, bomemakers once more take up the search for attractive, useful and economical gifts, preferably something that can be made at home. Mrs. Azalea Sager, extension specialist in clothing and textiles at Orecon State college, suggests an attract ive scarf for each member of the family as one partial solution to the problem. A knitted scarf and beret to match will please the lit tie tot, the grade school or high school girl, while the older mem bers of the family will often wel come a gay silk scarf, Mrs. Sager says. Scarfs, by the way, are be ing worn short, not more than a yard long, and tied up closely around the neck. Two strips of plain silk mater ial one-third yard wide and a yard long can be combined to make two good looking scarfs, Mrs. Sa ger says. To make them, take two strips of cloth of different but harmonious colors. Mark the cen ter of each strip; that is, 18 in ches from either side. Then mark the center of this. Connect this point to a point on the opposite side at the center 18 inch mark and at the outer edge. This makes a triangle 18 In ches at base and 15 inches on either side. Each strip will cut three triangles and two small end triangles measuring 13 by 9 to 15 Inches. Intermingle the colors and sew the triangles together again so that a flat 6frip remains; the two small end triangles and cen tral triangle of one color, the In termediate triangles of the sec ond color. Sew the two sides to gether. Then press it so that the side seam is in the center of the scarf instead of at one side. Sew up one end. Turn the scarf in side out and blind stitch the open end. CII5TISSIE F SEALS OK TODAY 250,000 Seals Mailed Here; Mrs. W. C. Jones is General Chairman for consolidation, have "been in creased to Include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA, an NRA, a cue, a tva. ana holc, an RFC and now we have a CWA. "It looks as though one of the absent minded professors had played anagrams with the alpha bet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously Inventing a new game for the nation, a game which beats the crossword puz zle the game of Identifying new departments by their initials." Smith's attack was made In an editorial in the .New out look, the same issue of which contained his demand for "sound money" and a return to the gold standard, made public earlier. To effect the civil works pro gram, the editorial said, Harry Hopkins "has been given a new title and $400,000,000 of Mr. Ickes' money, and has been in structed to take 2,000,000 men from relief work and put them on civil works and to put 2,000, 000 more men on new civil works projects to be devised over night. "No one has as yet described Just what a civil works project is, except that it is some sort of minor construction or repair work which does not require the service of a contractor, which can be finished before Feb. 15 when the money gives out, and which does not involve a great deal of supervision or material. "One thing is obvious, and that is that without a complete reorganization of the public works administration there will be no more public works under way on Feb. 15 to absorb the civ il workers than there are today to absorb the relief workers. The more we string out of the public works program, the less men are employed at any one time, and the surer we are not to put enough priming in tho industrial rump to get it working by itself. . "The civil works program will certainly afford an alibi for the incompetents In the public works administration, and will perpetu ate the delay and red tape which are holding back and bedevilling the real public works program. The public works crew can now take a long winter's nap, undis turbed by the necessity of issuing statements as to how many hun dreds of millions ot new projects have been approved and as to why more men are not at work?" Today the Christmas seal sale opens officially throughout the nation. Two hundred fifty thous and seals have been sent out to homes in Salem and hootbs will open December 9. The sale will close the night of December 24. Preparation for the sale has been extensive and Includes the services of many volunteer work ers. Miss Elizabeth Hogg with assistance of commercial students at Salem high school mimeo graphed letters to be sent out with seals to the residential dis tricts. Addressing the envelopes were Mrs. J. E. Bllnkhorn, Mrs. Estill Brunk, Mrs. Roy Locken- our, Mrs. Paul Kills; Mrs. Glenn Holman and Miss Constance Cart-mill. Assisting with final prepara tions for mailing were Mrs. C. C. Haworth, Mrs. Ray Pemberton, Mrs. Lestle 8parks, Mrs. Daniel Schulze, Mrs. William Schnltz, Miss Bertha Preul and Miss An ita Cook. Addresses hare been given dur ing the past two weeks at club meetings by William C. Jones, Rev. S. Darlow Johnson, Helen Louise Crosby, Dr. Vernon A. Douglas and Mrs. David Wright. Mrs. William C. Jones is gen eral chairman of the city sale, Mrs. David Wright Is educational chairman, Mrs. H. B. Reilly han dles publicity and" Mrs. Victor Griggs Is In charge of booths. Other members of the commit tee in charge are Mrs. George Rhoten, Mrs. J. E. Bllnkhorn and Mrs. J. Ray Pemberton. Rev. Johnson, president of the Marion County Public Health association, is acting as advisor to the committee. Mehazna Students Present Program For Thanksgiving MEHAMA, Nov. 30 -The school Thanksgiving program and pie so cial given Tuesday night at the Bchoolhouse was largely, attended. The pies netted $41 which Is to go on the piano debt. Some special features of the program were a dance and Russian song by Ger trude Wolfkiel; Spanish dance by June Dickson; Dutch dance, Violet Tltse and Mac SmaUwood; Japan ese dance, Delia, Mae Humbracbt, Lola Stevens, Marvin Harris and Frances Smallwood. Another cler er feature was a skit of Who's Afraid ot the Big Bad Wolf and a one-act play, 'Ask Me Another," by Roy Phllllpl. Mary Mooney. Ed gar Ledgerwood and Maurice Cothren. CLIXIC NEXT TUESDAY SILVERTON, Nov. 30. The last pre-school clinic before Jan uary will be held Tuesday after noon at the Eugene Field build ing. The regular Immunizations will be given for those who wish them. MEN fig BREAKFAST 6 a.m. or After BEN'S CAFE 158 S. Commercial St. Now under new management. i 1 now who k Quality Men who appreciate fine workmanship and good style who demand com fort a3 well as s m a r? t appearance will recognize these shoes as excellent values at these prices. In both brown and black calf leathers. Exceptional Values Buster BroWn 5hoe Store GUESTS OF SCOTTS SILVERTON, Nov. 30 Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Scott and Mrs. Paul Noulett (Louise Scott) came to Silverton to spend their Thanks giving vacation with Mr. Scott's and Mrs. Noulett's mother, Mrs. Charity Scott. Mr. Noulett was formerly with the Jenkins gro cery at Silverton. The Scotts also lived here formerly. Mrs. Scott will be remembered as Miss New- house. Both the Scotts and the Nouletts now live at Vancouver, Wash. L. G. PRESCOTT Experienced Watchmaker and Jeweler ALL WORK GI ARANTEED 423 Court St. Salem Dr. J. Vinton Scott DENTIST Office Phone 60S4 S04-5 1st National Bank Bldg. Salem, Oregon-, . Home Phone 8559 Rev. Luella M. La Valley Former Salem Pastor OPENS Her New Church Sunday, December 3 PYTHIAN HALL 348 X. Commercial, between Court and Chemeketa Sts. Services at 2 p.m. GIFTS f or MEN f """'' " CHARLIE CHAN Chinese Medicine Company HEALTH HERBS or kidney, bladder. S. U. Kong stomach, catarrh, constipation, glands. Every Ailment Disorder 122 N. Commercimal St. Over Salem Hardware Store Dally 9 to 6; Sunday 9 to IS Consultation Free Vacuum Cleaners and Floor Waxers to Rent CaU 60 lO, Used Furniture Department 151 North High for an old-fashioned Christmas We believe that Christmas gifts this year are going to be of the practical, sensible, wearable variety and we bought our Christmas stocks with that thought in our minds. More items for $1 and less . . . more novel ties . . . more for your money ... all these await you here now. Quality, safeguards your investment and as sures his satisfaction. See Our Windows The Man's Shop Where Women Do Their Christmas Shopping 416 STATE STREET r aTTittfT'dmafia-