The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, October 21, 1944, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textt ,page,tv;o Willamette to et Athletic JField in Deal " The option offered Salem Fri- :- day for the purchase of Bush's pasture by - Henry V. Compton, " vice president of the ' Pioneer Trust company, representing A. l N. Bush, and his sister. Miss Sally - Bush, specifies that "the c ity shall, extemporaneously with the; exe s' ration of such deed to it, execute f to Willamette university deed of ;, conveyance ... to si tract of land, I fronting on .Mission street .. . - without consideration. , r .. Said v tract of . land, shall contak not r less than seven nor more than 10 - acres and shall be so conveniently located within said tract as to af ford a site for. an athletic field for I Willamette university and for high schools in this vicinity." ! The deed may contain -a provi- sion, if the city shaU so elect, that failure of the university to use : the tract as an athletic field for : a period of three years, the tract reverts to the city. Although , the letter from Mr. ' Compton suggests that the devel opment be named "Asahel Bash park" it requires only that what ever name given 'be "appropriate to constitute the same as a mem- orial to Asahel Bush, sr., the fath ' er of A. N. Bush and Sally Bush.1 , Members of tne special com mittee, which Friday agreed to ; recommend the purchase to the . council Monday night, are Albert H. Gille, chairman, Milton; I Meyers, E. J. Scellars, W. I. Need- ham and David CHara.; i ' No requirement as to method of payment is made ' In the option -offer, members, of the committee pointed out Friday. Lack of Labor Hits Nut Crop FOREST GROVE, Oct -20-(ff)-Filbert and walnut harvesting in Washington county may be bit by the year's meet acute labor -shortage, Roy L. Davidson, farm labor assistant, said today. .Walnut picking, just beginning, will require about 1500 workers, Davidson reported. The :.' filbert harvest is fast reaching a peak. High school students may be re cruited to 'help in the , county's 5000 acres of walnuts. The farm labor office saif""only ; 160 Mexi cans would be on hand. - An average of 50 tons of nuts daily in the last week and a half was reported by the Ralph E. Dugdale drier at Cornelius,1, Y'" ..Jit" - ;V Cranberries' Harvest Good MARSHFIELD, Oct 20 -JP) Harvesting of Cranberries in small bogs is nearly completed, growers said today, and pickers are mov ; ing on to larger areas. Shortage of help is not so acute now as at the '; season's start, but part of the crop probably will be lost, they report er ; : : t ',:.. - Officials of the Coos Coopera i tive, Bandon, estimated this year's crop at 35,000 boxes, of which 40 per cent has been produced so far. j A mechanical picker, which .j harvests 300 pounds of berries an hour, was demonstrated here by I 'its inventor, William Hoyt, Aber j deen. Wash. , j j Medford Doctor Guilty tOf Narcotics Selling MEDFORD, Xre., Oct 20 -() Dr. R. W. Clancy, Medford phy sician accused of dispensing tiar I eotics illegally, was found guilty, today on four counts of violating j the Harrison narcotics act. ' . I A federal court jury, which earlier heard a witness testify that ; he was a drug addict and had pur : chased drugs from Clancy, con victedL the physician .after - four hours deliberation. Sentence will be pronounced Monday. Oil Heating Meeting Set for Portland ; PORTLAND, Oct. 20-P)rC. E Lewis, MUwaukie,.Wis, president of the oil heat institute of America,-will be main speaker at a Pa cific coast conference for the oil heating industry, here tomorrow. ; , Both members of the Oregon Fuel Merchants association,' spon sors of the meeting, and non-mem : bers T9 invited. Fred Jliller Appointed Assistant to Nennet Appointment of Fred A. Miller, district attorney of Clackamas county, as assistant attorney gen- t eral : of Oregon was announced ; here FridSy by Attorney General : George Neuner. . - Miller has served as district at torney for Several terms but was not a candidate for reelection this f year. - - ' j . Home From Hospital' : BROOiaS Mrs. Earl Holmes ; is convalescing at her home here, ' following a major operation. Her j daughter in - law, Mrs. Jessie ; Holmes is caring lor ner. , Too Lets to Cbssif y tltL A hrm mnnA hai and barn. . runiiinf water, elc bfment. fur- eaca. J ktndi fruit. Zi. Phone 5-22 : or cu e a, mia. 96th Received Basic Training At Adair Under Gen. Bradley CAMP ADAIR, Ore, Oct. 2(H)-One of the units that took part in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's the 85th division was trained The division, first trained by ganized at Camp Wadsworth, 1 ended before it ever got into, Jan. 17, 1919. '- ' Seven years later it was reborn division in the northwest Reserve officers in this section were as signed to regiments set up in Port land, Seattle and Eugene. Second Rebirth " . - "7 Pearl Harbor set the stage for its . second rebirth. Maj. Gen. i James L. Bradley, a Missourian who .was graduated from .West Point'in 1914, was named to head reorganization in May, 1942. When the unit was activated Au gust 15, 1943, General Bradley said: "We will welcome obstacles thai we may glory in overcoming them. We will welcome the 'rain and the mud. Wt will be as tough mentally as we are physically. This is the kind of a division we are going to be: well trained, ready and anxious to fight; not for our own personal glory or advance ment, but for the honor of the di vision and the service of our coun try." Net Oregea Outfit More than 75 per cent i of the personnel came from the midwest and southwest, but the division drew soldiers from throughout the nation, all the territories, and 38 foreign countries; When 'training was completed at Camp Adair in April 1944, Illinois had nearly 2000 representatives, Texas 1200, Japs Name New Terms On Relief Supplies WASHINGTON, Oct 20 Japan has again expressed win ingness to send a ship to a soviet port to pick up relief supplies for imprisoned allied nationals, but has made new demands concern' ing safe conduct for the ship. Disclosing this today. Undersec retary of State Stettinius told news conference mat wnen tne supplies are moved will depend upon negotiations with the Rus sians, over Japan's new stipula tions. . ., ' . - A jWiJjwfeH invasion of the Philippines here. Ma. Gen. Guy Carlton, was or SC, on Jan. 5, 1918. World war combat, and it was disbanded on " ' " for the first time as a reserve Slot Machines Declared OK: " s - 1.: I' ' ' i ': '" PORTLAND, Oct 20 - (vP) - The Oregon state liquor control com mission decided today , not to at tempt to prohibit licensed estab lishments from installing slot ma chines. , Fifteen new licenses, originally authorized on the condition that slot machines not be placed on the premises, were issued without any restriction. "It is not our place", declared Administrator. Ray Conway, "to regulate gambling, sines the state recognizes it is legal in horse and dog racing. Commissioners declared, how ever that some taverns were re quired to install the machines in order to obtain larger beer ship ments. FDR's ,Dog Fala Gets Republican Competition PITTSBURGH, Oct -20-(- President Roosevelt's little dog Fala had republican competition today. Fluffy, a Canadian sheep dog wearing an "Fm for Dewey" sign about bis collar, greeted Gov. Thomas X. Dewey on his arrival at the station here. . . "He's conducting a 'one-dog campaign for Dewey," explained owner George Washington Nicola of Pittsburgh. Stockman Coming ' WASHINGTON, D.C, Oct 20- (P) Leaving Washington ' tomor row, Rep. Lowell Stockman will arrive in Oregon soon to help his wife launch an attack transport in Portland 'and to campaign for reelection. . i FULL TEXT The Proposals for World Security, submitted as a result of the conferences at Dumbarton Oaks Th XBk TV.. V.;MtM . us nviw ivw tutu iuuiuuii k- 1 , , . , - s -1, . , , No other newspaper on &s Pacific Coast, so far as is known, i: has ; printed the complete text of the Plan for fiie permanent j UNITED NATIONS. The Statesman does so as a service to its readers, so they may read and study the tentative plan " for an international organization to preserve peace. LE.IITED COPIES ' . BSwxsJaads .cad ct Lis Crtzca Bids Opened ; For Nev' Plant Bids on the construction of a combination market; milk and re ceiving dairy plant in Salem for the Dairy cooperative association will be opened Tuesday in Port land. Five Salem contractors, Henry Carl, Barbara Bros Ed Viesko, Erwin Batterman and Halvorsen Construction company have se cured copies of the plans and in dicated they will probably enter bids.-Tout Portland builders are also said to be interested. Claussen . & Claassen, Portland architects, .will receive the bids for the new plant Greek Guerrillas Speed Nazi Rout ROMS, Oct 20-(jP)-Greek Guer rilla forces were credited by the allied high command today with aiding in speeding the withdrawal of the Germans through northern Greece toward Yugoslavia, while British troops occupied the legen dary city of Thebes, 32 miles north west, of Athens.-' A reliable Cairo source aid the Germans , were evacuating ; .the large Island of Lemnos in the northern Aegean sea, leaving pro bably the equivalent of two divi sions spread out over western Crete, Rhodes, Coo, Leros and Melo. f ' Chinese Holding Nippon at Bay ; CHUNGKING, Ost 20 Chinese troops are holding the Japanese at bay in the vicinity of TaJungUang, 23 miles north of the, imperilled provincial city of Kweilin, Maj. Gen. Chang Tung Chuen, a Chinese army spokesman said today. The Japanese have sent a col umn from, Hingan in an advance east of the Hunan - Kwangsi rail way to n point 23 miles northeast of Kweilin, however, Hingan, on the railway, 35 miles northeast of Kweilin, is now a base for enemy drives to the west, southwest and south. . Hangar Will Be Built I REDMOND, Oct 20 -P)- Con struction of a' hangar at Redmond civil-air patrol airport will begin Sunday, with most of the work to be done by volunteers. ci-cs. , ' -; , i. IIP' 111 II u urn mmi of LIU k (By the AaneUted Prtatl . Western Europe Americans capture Aachen; Canadians ad vance five miles in new offensive north of Antwerp. - SsssU Russians and Yugo slavs capture Belgrade; ' Berlin reports Russians 12 miles-within East Prussia; Russians make new 9-mile penetration' of . Hungary from- south while, " another force captures, Hungary's: third ' city, Debrecen. "" ' ;S ? ' -Greece "-British occupy The bes, as Germans continue norths wardilight . Tltalyeavy fighting,, with slight .allied gains in some sec tors. . , . 'r Pacifle --'Americans, 250,000 strong, consolidate beachheads on Leyte in Philippines and move inland as Japanese- gather resist ance; one front-line, report says Tacloban airfield captured; 1 heavy air umbrella protects 'in vading troops. Cluna -Chinese halt Japanese 23 miles north of Kweilin, and recapture two Japanese .points; Japanese, fearing American in vasion," reported fortifying, area between . Shanghai : and Hang- chow Bay. Flying Rules May Be Eased PORTLAND, Ore., Oct 20 -(P) A Portland newspaper quoted a civil aeronautics administration (CAA) official today as predicting that restrictions on private flying along the Pacific coast would be relaxed. t ' : :. The newspaper said it was told by Paul Morris, regional CAA manager, that both the CAA and the interdepartmental air traffic control board favor easing the ban which now bars private planes from a ISO-mile strip down the coastline. Morris said the CAA expects re strictions to be lifted enough to permit student flying and certain essential private flying, in the barred area, the newspaper said. Lasi Times Today KHCRAFT TUS FUST or BJITTLCI T- DON AMCCHE . DANA ANDREWS CHARLES BICKFORD STARTS i pV DaM tw writ nm n CO - f 2 I. nil M tfm cwiar CLi totZ fioy U.Ss Interne On Philippine Near Liberty 'WASHINGTON, Oct -In vasion of the Philippines brings liberty one step nearer for Amer ican soldier and civilian prisoners in. eight camps operated., by , the Japanese to the Philippines.-. The prison camps .nearest to American forces now ashore at Leyte island are two at Davao, on the island of Uindano one mili tary and the other for: civilians. Five camps;' three civilian and two 'military, are; located on the main- island' of Luzon. The prhr- fnT civilian camp is Santo Tomes university in. Manila. One -mili tary camp is at Puerto Princess on the island " of Palawan, the southwesternmost of the group. The location of the camps was reported to the American Red Cross last July. I Other camps maintained by the enemy include six for mflitarr prisoners - in . Formosa, Lt Gen. Jonathan Wainwright command er of American forces at the time the Philippines fell, has been re ported at : one of the Formosa camps. Vet Hospital Named Amputation Center ' PORTLAND, Oct 20 -tfV Vet erans hospital here has been nam ed amputation center - for . the northwest by the US veterans ad ministration, Lt CoL Paul L Car ter, head of the Portland medicl and surgical center, said today. Returning service men from Oregon, Washington,- Idaho, Mon tana, Nevada and Alaska' win be cared for at the hospital, which is already one of six tumor centers in the country. Dr. Carter said. Portland Officer Will Visit Albany Lodge ALBANY Camp Phillips aux iliary USWV, are making prepar ations to entertain the department president Mrs. Lolo Skelley, Port land, at the regular meeting Oc tober 29. Several other departs ment officers are expected to be guests the same afternoon. . , - CO-FEATURE - A hilsrioas Musical Dsde Ranch Holidar. - SUIIDA7 Cmthm bf rANDBO 4, SsiMAM - . ' " FEATURE - wmJ t&GS&L Story So Motto CHmo PocW t Stao Ktmnia Snt. m4 lama OlIthbHOlIE-FRONT By EAI3. CIIHD3 : A voting woman .who . lives - in the apartment house we call home and works at The Statesman (and it isnt our roommate) now signs her last name, indicates sex, color and age even in the- letters she1 writes to her brothers and sisters; It came about like this. Not long.: ago : she went - Into a store owned by persons she considered longtime.: -cquai&tances. Their family had known her tamuy, etc The proprietor called her by her first name, -asked concerning a brother in the service, introduced her to his newest clerk and tola the clerk that the young woman worked at The Statesman. .The clerk responded, with a smile, that they had once lived in the same small town and had , menus m common.. V The'YW purchased a $1 Item and wrote a check for it She was tucking her fountain pen away when the clerk said in that cool, crisp voice we tried unsuccessful ly to- develop when we were at- temntins' to sell goods behind a counter fTm sorry -111 have to ask: you to nut your address on that" PS The check was good. 50 Danes Taken in Raids by Gestapo STOCKHOLM, Oct 20-Cff)-The Free Danish press service report ed today . that - the nazi gestapo. conducting v a series ' of raids throughout Denmark, since Satur day, in an attempt to smash the underground.: have arrested at least .50 -persons. STARTS by ALIX COTTUES C0-FE&T0DE ''' y "--Z e " ii i i i ' M i illinium "k 'S-rV '-' ' GC3QG0CaO OUTT F T7E3G OGA to thrill yen wf :h Irita powtr txsd rcestesteil ... 1 3ri:Mi Fight Inside Cesena , ROUE, Oct 29-Pighth army troops clashed with the Germans today In Cesena, a fortress town and junction SO miles southeast of Bologna on - strategic highway nine, as the allies forced ; small gains all along the rocky, muddy north -Italian front . The allied communique, told of continued heavy fighting, but there was no suggestion that the allied farces were about to smash out of their dreary positions for the long awaited conclusive strug gle with Field Marshal Gen. Al bert Kesselring's nazi troops. On the Adriatic : coastal sector troops of the First German para- chute division withdrew slowly and with repeated counterattacks. General Motors dub Holds Dinner Here ; Dealers and their representa tives and newspaper end radiomen of the Salem area were guests Friday night at the Marion hotel for the second meeting of the mid valley General Motors club. Fol lowing dinner, . films showing some of GWs postwar plans ant an application of informatiom gained in recent customer search surveys were presented. Police Pick Up Escaped Prisoner ! Charles Frank Ivey, 24, was picked up by state police Friday, while hitchhiking near Eola and asked to report to the Salem office to check for non-possession of a draft can. ' ; While looking through U1C lCtUtUS UiC UAiMWdCU UUI he was an escapee from a trusty gang of the Portland police and had ' been at large since May 11, 1943. Ivey has been returned to the Portland police.. TODAY Ednari 6. IIOOIDSDI! lyi::i cari 1 VICTC3 HcUGLEH ,1h, "V. I t 1 '.A WANT dec trie rn: ov electrie u, k. i-im w !! ty autOL'.i c nomow coo o tuct a, rz .i : water heater. I none ti' ;