Rate Set for
JBtis Drivers
tvA rate of $1 per hour.tbr drivers
' of :Oregon Motor Stages city buses
in Salem. -and Eugene had- been
established today by action of the
regional war labor board. The aev-?
eai t five vote, with labor' ballot
' ing 'affirmatively along with on
rublic , member and, two. industry
members, was for a'. plan which
" upsets the coppany's histotj,c sys
tem of. computing wages on a mile-
Vge basis., . ".,' . ;.!-t' ' '
V" A nescalation clause awarding
starting rate to be raised each six
' months until the regular pay
schedule of $1.15 att hour for over
the -road drivers has been reach
ed, was vested over the 'disapproval
.of labor. ,-; . ? ,
..' The plan, adopted by the board,
jrovides for payment for on-duty
;ime includinftv,l$ rnjtnutea. before
Sid 15 minutes after the end of
t e day's regularly assigned sched
i)e, jainus ,; the ... longest , layover
period, not in excess of two hours
, xor me over-tne-road. qrivers.
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Salem Stores
Making Plans
For Closing
- Should' the news of victory in
Europe be received on Sunday or
a holiday after 12 noon, Salem re-
: tail establishments will remain
closed the following business day,
but if it comes after noon on Sat
urday or any,6ther day prior to
a holiday,- stores will close the
balance of the day and -open the
" following regular. business day.
Radio , announcements will be
made in the name of the Salem
Retail Trade bui-eau as to closing
and opening hours. -
All retail advertising in the
press on .the full day of closure
will be qfi patriotic nature and
no merchandise is to. be mentioned
In advertising,
The'bureauV which is arranging
- for signals from sirens which
: were designed to warn the popu
lace of possible approaching air
. raid, has suggested that fur and
. jewelry stores remove all mer
chandise from windows, that all
i ' merchants discourage use of tele
phones, leaving lines open for
communication within. the store.
Beauty salon operators are ad
Vised to complete whatever' work
Jheyare doing as quickly as pos
sible' and to-takVho new custom- -rs;
soda fountains and - lunch
counters to complete 'service that
.: has been begun as soon as possible
i and to take no new customers,, .
? Every member of the Saleoi -Rsfil
lau rraae bureau sWJtadiMdndafy
' umain .uit aoor or waow cau
;.' to be used V-day explaining' why
his business establishment is
r. closed, Ed Schreder, president of
the bureau, said Saturday. '
.' The cards now "printed and
.' ready for distribution, may be ob
. tamed from Valley , Motor C04
i Center and Liberty streets; Ack-
lin Bootery, 105 !Torth High street;
Miller Mercantile Co., Court and
Liberty streets; Man's Shop, -416
j State street; J. C. Penney Co., 160
! North Liberty street, or Schreder
.' 4-Star Market, Commercial and
State streets. (See also news story
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MAR I N ES CO ASHOR EU. S. Marines march past shattered palm trees and wreckage ai
Caam to establish a beachhead at Afat early in the successful invasion. '
Balkan front Bulgaria orders
German, troops to leave and her
formal withdrawal from the war
was expected hourly; Russians' re-'
capture Bessarabia, pursue Ger
mans into Carpathian mountains
toward Hungary, roll toward
Bucharest T" ' 7" '
Northern , France Allies pour
across, peine river r on 200-mile
front, push toward Luxembourg
and : Alsace-Lorraine, . mop up
Paris. .
Southern France American
Seventh' army races' up, Rhone
valley drives to within five milae
of -Italian frontier. 1 - i. .
Portlanders Collect
800 Tons of Papers
PORTLAND, Ore4 Aug. 26 -(;p)
Residents of Portland east side to?
day contributed more than 800 tons
;, of . newspapers, ; magazines and
cardboards " ton the waste - paper
V drive for the benefit of crippled
"': children. West side collections a
i week ago totaled 300 tons ;
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Lord Louis Mountbatten, allied commander-In-ehlef in southeast
Asia (left), confers with Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, British
i- ground forces commander In northern France, at Montgomery's
head Quarters in Normandy. Official British photo. (AP wirephoto
vis'siciiat corps radlophoto.)
'! Oregon's Law Schools '
jj May Be Consolidated i
Jj PORTLAND, Ore, Aug.
i! The board of governors of the
; Oregon state bar . today author
j. ized President Joim ; Fy Kilkenny
J to name a committee to study ad
; vlsability of consolidating the
'- state's law schools.
I Mrsf Frank 3Ieyers
Dies in " Portland
Mrs. Frank (Bertha M.) Meyers
; of Portland, daughter of Mr. and
, Mrs. Albert Falk. jot , Woodburn,
died at Providence hospital In
- Portland on Friday u
Funeral services are to be held
from Trinity Lutheran church at
T Mt Angel Monday at 2 p. m.
Automobiles Collide
Automobiles driver by LeRoy F.
Thomas,; Camp Adair, and E. R.
. Davie, Sweet Home, collided at
the- Intersection of High and Che
r. meketa streets shortly before 5
p.nw Saturday, slightly , lnj uring
, uavie s . mee and, bumping the
- head of Mrs. Davie, city police and
," first aid men saidv . ' '
Hudns
Has Silver
A .,
Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago today
George C (Chet) Huggins es
tablished in Marshfield the firm
which oas today become one of
Oregon's largest insurance busines
ses. Today in Marshfield with an
open house the firm is celebrating
its silver anniversary.
In 1924, his brother Charles H,
(Chuck) Huggins went to Marsh
field to join him in the general in
surance business and while Salem
was celebrating its centennial in
1940 the firm bought the business
which had been operated here by
the late William Burghardt
Both In busines and in political
Oregon the Huggins brothers have
made their names important The
elder, who has served in the state
legislature, is well known In Sa
lem. The younger, former mayor
of4 Marshfield, has since coming
to Salem in 1940 served on num
erous civic boards and was direc
tor of last Year's successful Red
Cross war fund campaign.
Naval Head Dies
' HALIFAX, Aug. 26 MaJ
Gen. L. F. Page, 60, commander
! in chief of the Canadian Atlantic
: command, died at the naval hospl
tal here today after an illness of
several weeks.
Road Group!
Will Receive
Bids for Jobs
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Sealed bids for six western Ore
gon projects representing approxi
mately $150,000 worth, of .work
will be received by the state high
way commission at its next meet
ing, Monday, September 11. iin
Portland. . :..
At the same session the commis
sion will offer for sale obsolete
equipment including a 1-yard
P & H shovel, RD8 Caterpillar
tractor, Jumbo Carryall scrapers.
Adams road maintainer and Killi
fer road ripper now at the SaUm
shops of the highway department.
Bids for the equipment, for used
telegraph line .materials, for the
building at . Bandon formerly.: oc
cupied . by the Kof fee kup cife
there, for Lindsey Inn buildings' at
Lindsey creek on the Columbia
river highway 10 miles 'east j of
Cascade Locks and 10 miles west
of Hood river, and for L68-afcre
tract of, land about a mile east; of
Tolixio, will be received, at that
same session. j
Details as to jobs and materials
and properties for sale are obtain
able at highway department of
fices in' the state office (building
here along with proposal blanks
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SONO-TONE
HEARING CENTER
August 28 .and 29 V
MARION HOTEL
IwaitUHr smIc m mtiosnmct
row Iwnnc In 2 m torn
Caa c imwt how aecfe heuimt
kmt tkBptxL, n4 hmbf or mot yon
mi haria u4. Me cbsrs of U
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ma Allies
Gain 22 Miles
SOUTHEAST ASIA COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan
dy, Ceylon, Aug. 25-(p)-'Allied
troops, driving the enemy back
south along his route of conquest
in northern Burma, have ad
vanced more than 22 miles down
the Mandalay railway from their
base at Mogaung, a communique
announced today.
In the village of Ingyinon they
were about a mile and a half
north of Pinbaw, a station on the
railway 24 miles southwest "
Mogaung. Some 60 miles farther
south is the Japanese base of
Katpa and 160 mUes beyond Kat
pa lies the railhead of Mandalay
itself. -
'Housewives Specials
To Operate j Monday
The "housewives specials', bus
ies which take homemakers into
the bean fields to help save the jna
tion's foodstuffs, will operate
again Monday, the farm place
ment office announced Saturday
Cloudy days halted the j maturing
process Just long , enough to i al
low women to get their' ihomes in
order. r .."!P "
Buses will take their passengers
from regular pickup stations! at
16th and D street, D and Capito!
12 and State, 12th annd Mission
Law Office Closed '
The Law Office of O. W. Em
mons, 180 N. Com!., will be
closed until Sept. 15. I am in
the. Middle West on business.
O.I W. Kmmoni, Attorney
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Dcn'l Lei Ilin Doun This Chrislnns!
Gtt your gift "over there" on timeby planning- to
: have it in the overseas mail, bzx between September
15th and October 15th!-
Tonll have no trouble finding presents that win be appre
ciated . if yon do yoor Christmas shopping here.
CHRISTMAS CARDS NOW ON DISFLAY
COOKS STITiOIEDl CO..
370 State ' ; , ' , Phone 4401
and from the placement office; be-
Tiiunibnaij
. , By the Associated Pros
CHUNGKING, Aug. 26-UP)
Japanese forces striking ' north
ward from the LuichoV Peninsula
of Kwangtung province in an ap
parent attempt to cut the railway
linking KwanesL and Kweichow
ON the HOMEERONT
ly BAEZL CHHD3
The "unidentified "drunk man
left in the , care of unidentified
drunk woman story brought lots
of telephone calls'1 to Salem first
aiders the past week. . ,.
However, they are not always so
nonchalant about their patients.
Friday afternoon at the Grand
theatre, children , and adults lined
up to see the great international
favorite fairy tale that my little
friend, in the slums of a big city
all in good faith used to call "Snow
White and the Seven Drips." Two
children fainted and were taken
home and the first aid men felt
sorry for them . . I sorrier because
they had to miss the show than
because they fainted. .
Saturday afternoon, Auntie
Brooks (in the directory she's Mrs.
Mazy Brooks) took a dose of the
wrong kind of medicine and first
aid was hastily called. Had she ta
ken very much of the chloroform
ittwould have killed her, but what
ever the amount She swallowed it
didn't put her 'good humor to
sleep.: ,
First aid men appreciated ft
and -her . . "she; seems a mighty
nice' person, said they. ,
provinces, broke into the town of
Limkong Wednesday night and
street fighting -is. in -progress- for
that Important highway hub, the
Chinese announced tonight,
a&eanwniia stern xignung 'was
in progress southwest and north
of Japanese-captured Hengyang
in; HtTnanoext province, to the
norths and, the Chinese continued
to attack Jn Hupeh pravlnce
around the Yangtze river port of
Ichang, westernmost enemy bas
tion In central China, y i t , , ;"
A Chinese communique said
Japanese counterattacks "17 xhHes
south of Hengyang in 'the direc
tion of Sungpo were repulsed and
that Chinese forces from the arer
south of Siangsiang, 60 miles
north of Hengyang, had reached
the Hengyang area and were en
gaging the Japanese there. .
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Italy Labor
Fooriy
ROME, Aug. 26 - (JP) George
Baldanzi,; representing the' CIO;
and Luigi Ahtoninl the-AFL; in
Italy to - survey : the labor situa
tion, declared today Italian wages
and salaries must be raised imme
diately, vn . jV'. '-'"
The two arrived yesterday -un
der the plan of major British and
American trade unions to - help
trade union men in Italy re-estab
lish their organizations.
They mentioned the case of an
operator earning $6 monthly.
"I fail to understand why work
ers are earning less now than un
der the Germans and fascists,'
said BaldanzL "It is a fantastic sit
uation. In is an indictment of de
mocracy." '
Baldanzi is vice president of the
CIO textile workers union in the
United States and Antonini is vice
president of the international la
dies garment workers union. -
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w- Drive
Well W&ised. French Rather
.Farmers Sell All
Produce Saturday '
Seventeen farmers who brought
produce to Salem public market
Saturday returned home with emp
ty trucks and still buyers clam
ored for melons, eggs , and poul
try, members of the market com
mission said. Stalls- in the new
market building would have ac
commodated i 10 more producers,
they said.
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Denise Thioellet. ef Paris, shews the type of bathing halter which
French girts in Normandy are making ef the mettled green pars
vhute silk brought to France by. American paratroops. (AP Wire
photo). ...
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The finn of HUGGINS INSURANCE AGENCY is this weekmarldng its quarter
century mtlestono. . ; ' '"
Tho, agency was established at Marshfield,' Oregon, ""at .fce. close of World
War I on August 27, 1919.
The business was expanded to Salem? ln-lts Centennial; year of 1940 as. sue-"
' cessors to the old. insurance, firm & Burghardt, T
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.We take u .ojprrtunity ta express our thanks and appreciation to the people
- of ; Willamette Valley and Qujhwestern' Qregaf regions served by our two
y -. i .itt- i i it i5-.t.j VL.': ijt"
oiuces xor weir generous patronage, wmcn nas ouui mis ousuiess to its present
position as one of CegoQ's bulstoiiin
, ; ' GEO. C. HUGGINS
I Too Late to Classify A
e LAWN MOWER. Beds, tables : and
chairs. Phone 4291 for appointment :
FOR SALE by, owner S rma.; on
beautiful corner. Call 8557 for Infor
mation. . , w .. -.-.: , .r' ;.
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If ; you cro well
. . IALL is Well!
That fast sboat says eh? -After
all, good health comes
dote to belag oar most precious , -'.
asset. And aerer was that so cms
ai now, when the nation needs .
. . the full measure of our energy ,
aad efForc If you aren't quits op
f par, why not consult your -
". physidan--Mii'iThenbringhis
prescription her to be fiued; "" v
Cet well-aad KEEP well!
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Cppilal Drcj i:rc
Cor. SUte A Liberty rboae Silt
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I - position ca one of Cfregon'a ; ,
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Tolthe Future!
t-f'iteenyears ago we chose Coos Bay
rto look for an alert insurance agency to '
represent us in that region.'
. We appointed Geo. C. "Chef Huggins
-: and Chas. H. "Chuck" Huggins, and in
.1940 the agency expanded to Salem to
represent our companies in this territory.
Our plan was (and still is) unusuaL ,
We accept ONLY the best fire insurance
risks, which have fewer losses, and thus
" reduce the net cost of insurance for own
ers of such preferred risks. Like any liew
.plan no matter how good it required
considerable effort to establish.'
The point we want to make is that Chet
.cmd Qiuck Huggins became convinced
: that the GENERAL OF AMERICA plan .
was best for their customers. They knew
V?,- it would provide better insurance at low
er cost They also knew it would require
a lot of hard work. But they tackled the
" job - with sleeves rolled up, and you
policyholders know the result for you.
. In those days GENERAL OF AMERICA
ranked 64th . among capital stock com
panies in volume of premiums written.
Today it ranks 16th largest in the United
States. ' 1 . .
It is through the hard work of men like
Chet and Chuck Huggins all over Ameri
ca" that this record growth has been
achieved. We honor them on their 25th
anniversary. It is the American way for
men like them to take the Initiative in
bringing to the people of this nation BET-i
TER THINGS AT, LOWER COST.
v Just as long as this spirit prevails Ameri
ca can look forward to a future 'of hope
and promise. ; ' " 't
President
GENERAL INSURANCE C. OF AMERICA
GETfERAL CASUALTY CO. OF AMERICA
FE3T NATIONAL firS. CO. OF AMERICA
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