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V it- ' - 1 x PAGE TWO The OnSGOIf STATESMAN, Scdeta. Oregon, Sander Morning. August 23, IMS Plans for New Construction Indicate Brisk lley and Salem; Business for Willamette Va Housing Shortage One of Major Problems By Carel Cepelaad - SUit Writer. Th BtatanM If present plan for iwvr- con struction in the Willamette val ley can be used as alcalde, Salem can expect to enjoy postwar pros perity to the fullest decree. Estimated populatien-of the city now is around 38,000 -people; its present corporate limits, compose seven square miles. Currently there are around 3509 working people in the food industries MO work in lumber and ' forestry products, 850 in paper, and paper products; there are 410 textile workers and 2600 state employes. By the end of next year, build- Guild Throws Off 'No Strike' I i Pledge in East CHICAGO, Aug. 15 The American Newspaper Guild's ex ecutive board" tonight rescinded its wartime ""no strike pledge" and voted to place the union's re sources behind its laid off St Louis members, employes of three newspapers involved in a carriers union strike. 1 Milton Murray, guild president, said the board's action in with drawing the "no strike" pledge did not mean the editorial era ployes would join in the carriers' strike. He maintained that the publishers of the newspapers, the j Post-Dispatch, Star-Times and Globe-Democrat, had locked out the guild members. Ali editorial employes but a few deskmen at each newspaper office were laid off without pay for the duration of a strike called by the AFL Carriers union, local 450, fvhich has been picketing the three; news plants since Aug. 16 to force acceptance of a national labor relations board ruling granting the carriers collective bargaining rights. Pressmen (AFL) refused to cross the picket line. ' r "These newspaper employes, who with 22,000 other guild members had scrupulously ob served the wartime no-strike pledge are made the victims of irresponsible and reprehensible action by newspaper 'manage ments who sought to use them as , a club to break the strike of an other union," the board said in a statement issued by Murray. . , "Such action at moment when President Truman' pleaded for continued industrial, peace in the critical reconversion period exhibits (a rutblessness and lack of principle which is more to be deplored; because it "originated with managements whose major concern should be that of com munity leadership," the' statement said. Nazi Medals Put On Display SPOKANE, Aug. 25-)-More than a dozen of Herman Goer- ing's famous medals went on dis play today at the Spokane police station, a police stenographer said. Harry Indahl, back with the po nce force after being discharged as a master sergeant from the army, said he found the medals in Goering'i room at Berchtesgarden when members of his third infan try division searched Hitler's Aus trian retreat Some of the medals in the daz sling array were pinned on fan cy white uniform and others in satin-lined boxes. "The uniform couldn't have be longed to. anyone but Goering, Indahl said. "The pants Were a bout six feet around the waist' ing permits, and data from the. of fice of the chamber of commerce, show tint the number em ployed residents in Salem or its J immediate environ might be dou bled. Influx Expested The - Willamette valley project probably will employ around 12, 500 people in the valley for three years. The Detroit dam Included in this project will cost around $29,000,000. ' - f Effect of this influx, of people and money, to- the valley will make a marked showing in Sa lem. It is expected to more than double the amount of paychecks cashed in the Salem, area, and the city and adjacent areas will need three times the amount of living quarters and three times the in crease of the present service force to accommodate these workers, Clay Cochran, manager of the Sa lem chamber of bommeree, said his data indicated.-' : . '-" Local construction also will add to the increase in population here. Many Salem firms have planned expansion programs. Construction Pl&naed ; They include, among others: The National Battery company's new manufacturing plant in West Salem. Property for this has al ready been purchased, the con tract let and construction for part of the buijding already has been started. The American Can company has purchased property at the corner of 14th and Oxford sts., which will extend to one-half block east of 19th street to one- half block south of Howard street. About 500 construction workers are expected to start on the job when materials become available. The Douglas McKay Chevrolet company will begin building an $85,000 building on North Com mercial street, one block north! of their present location, probably1 in November, they reported. Shrock Motor company's new $45,000 building will 'get under construction -within the next two weeks, at the corner of Church and Chemeketa streets. Expansion of business has required the new structure, the firm said. Large Store to Open The new Hamilton Furniture company building will cover nearly half a block on Chemeketa street between Front and Center streets. : W. W. Chad wick will enlarge both the Senator and Marion ho tels, including more room- space and dining room accommodations. The Greyhound bus anticipates moving into a new building when plans can be completed. The Oregon Pulp . and Paper company already has "resumed work following the $230,000 fire last week, and will begin imme diately the reconstruction of the damaged parts of the building. , Quarters Enlarged The Oregon Flax Textiles will move , into enlarged quarters in the Bonesteele building on the Portland road within the next 60 days, they reported, and also has acquired two acres in West Sa- Too Late to Classify . TOR SALS: BartleU pesr $1.00 Duahei. u pick. Ph. TOM after s P.M. .FOR SALE: Extra eteaa 1935 Ford v-. w inflow coup. Sea at Holly mooi Theatre between 9:00 A. M. and IS M. Sunday. i 4 (. lem for the erection of a rug weavmg plant Both the Deaconess and Salem General i hospitals plan expansion programs. ' i Plans and specifications for new state buildings, the aggregate cost of which will be $4,400,000. will be completed within the next 90 days, it was announced recently. Funds for the buildings Jwere;ap propriated by recent legislatures. Construction dates have not been announced. ' j " I Of course, .the big need now is for housing. A conservative es timate sent to the - chamber of commerce gave the figure at prob ably 500 new homes needed in this area. Real estate men and cham ber of commerce officials, already besieged with calls for houses and all other types of living accommo dations, i placed 'another conserv ative estimate" at around 1000 homes, t '" ': Already, several other busi nesses, in addition to those men tioned here, have built new quar ters, and still others are either planned or under construction 7000 Doctors To Be Released SHREVEPORT, La., Aug. 25-() Approximately 7000 doctors are to be released from the army in the next nine months, Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La) said today! he had been informed by Maj. Gen. De- ward Ft Witsell, acting adjutant general.' . - ' t ; ! However, Witsell's letter to Brooks stated, there will be an initial lag in discharge of medical officers i over other officers "be cause the sick and wounded re main in hospitals long after the battles are over." ; Where local situations require, General Witsell wrote, application for release of particular doctors may be made by authorities in local communities. Nips Protest Cutting Liaison MANILA, Sunday, Aug.' 26 -(P) Japanese imperial ; headquarters radioed! General MacArthur today that communications have been cut between Russian-loccupied Ssinking in Manchuria and Tokyo. The message requested MacAr thur to advise the Russians to permit use of the communication "because it is needed for the exact and speedy execution of the terms of the instrument of surrender." Freight Tangle Ties Up Great Northern BERTHOLD, N. D., Aug. 25-UP) inirteen freight cars were smash ea up or aerauea ana traffic on the Great Northern railway's main line was tied up about nine hours after a rear end collision of two extra freight trains west of here A. . A A a m i "II a.m. toaay. no one was injured. M. L. Gaetz, division sun erintendent said both trains were eastbound. Fire Fighters Taken From Rocky Ledge REDMOND, Ore, Aug. 25-y. Two fir fighters, who clung on a rocky ledge for more than two aays witnout food or water, trapped by the savage Mt. Jeffer son blaze, were rescued today. The men, John R. Peterson, Red- mond, and Arville Hansen, Sisters clambered up a rock slide above Two Spring camp Wednesday af ternoon to escape flames driven by a sudden wind shift Russians Hold Captured Jap Banner is. 1 rt J ik.( V, : ' - S c I: csi .j? y- Russian soldiers look ever a banner captured from the Japanese by ; Soviet forces In Manchuria. ( AP Wlrephote via radio from Moscow). Highway Commission to Study Plea for Increased Hourly Pay The state highway commission. Scheduled to meet in Portland Wednesday, will have as one of its maio items of business the appeal of the Oregon State Employes association for an increase in the base labor rate for highway workers from 71c an hour to 85c an hour. The request is made in a letter sent VjLSA ffk rl 51 11 rllP ehgineer, by Forrest V. Stewart, Pilots Warned, INorasseng ers NEW YORK, Aug. 25 CBS Correspondent Bill Downs i said today in a report from Okinawa that a general had told air trans port command fliers there that they would not be permitted to take ; war correspondents with them in the aerial occupation of Japan. j -: 1 1 Powns did not identify the of ricer, but quoted him as saying to the pilots, "You'll take no war correspondents with you; those are orders from general head quarters." "Any airman disobeying these orders will be courtmartialed,' Downs quoted him. . ? Tin was known to ctans and Romans. the Phoeni I' : ' : r- : ;.r Fighters Malte Emergency Landing on Japan Air Strip By Spencer Davis f OKINAWA. Aust. 25-( Two fifth air force pilots set their Lightning fighter planes down on a Japanese airstrip on Kyushu today te land on Nippon borne sou since Merchant Fleet 3 1 ! i ! PORTLAND, Ore-, Aug. 25-JP- Merchant fleet operators are will ing to allow the war shipping ad ministration to operate their ships fr the next six months, but pri vate owners should then be back oh the ocean lanes, Hillman Lued- demann, vice president of McCor rnick Steamship Company, said to day. I Lueddemann, chairman of Port land's civic committee on port de velopment, told . Oregon senators Guy Cordon and Wayne . Morse that nine coastwise ships are now available and about 33 ready for intercoastal tradei Others will be ready in 0 days, he declared. The committee .proposed a traf fic manager fori the port after members of the waterfront em ployers association heard the Ore gon senators ask for more facts on harbor shipping. Coffey Announces Legion Candidacy ; MIDDLETOWN, Aug. 25 (ffn-Martin V. Coffey of Middle- town, O., former national Ameri can Legion vice commander, to day announced his candidacy lor national commander of the Le gion. ' - The election will be at the na tional Legion convention in Chi cago November 20. j Coffey is the fifth man to an nounce his candidacy,. The other four are John Stell of Illinois, Vilas Whaley of Wisconsin, Fred Johnson of Alabama and William J. Danforth of Texas. executive secretary of the asso ciation. 1 Comparisons are ojffered in the letter with wage rates in Oregon cities and counties.! This shows that the average rate for nine cities in Oregon is 86.7c per hour fof common labor, and - for ten counties 85.2c. Fori semi-skilled the state highway rate is 76c, for cities 94.3c, for counties 95.3c, and for skilled labor the state " high way rate is reported at 82c, the city rate $1.06 and the county rate $1.07. I Complaint also is made that the allowance of 10 cents an hour additional for work away from home does not compensate work ers for the extra expense, and recommendation is offered that a definite" subsistence 'allowance or reimbursement for actual ex penses be made. . , The appeal is based on living costs facing workers, and is sup ported by report of job termina tions, wmcn amountecr to 7 per cent of total maintenance person nel in one month, i The communication from the employes association was trans mitted to. commission members for study and the subject will be taken up at the meeting this week. to become the first Americans hostilities ended. Tbey were Lt. CoL Clay Tke, jr, of Phoenix, Arix, commanding" the th fighter group, and Flight Officer Douglas C. HalL of Ana- Iowa. . . ; t The fliers had been on a recon naissance mission and were head ed for their home base on Oki nawa when Hall's, plane develop ed trouble in its ; fuel system. Without hesitation, Tice led ; his distressed wingman in to a per fect landing on Nittiagahara air strip on the eastern shore of cen tral Kyushu. : The Americans talked with Ja panese officers and enlisted men on the field for-almost two hours and 45 minutes while waiting for B-17- Fortress rescue plane to brine gasoline for Hall's craft Friendly, Not Defeated "The Japanese appeared friend ly and affable," said Tice on his return to Okinawa late this after noon, "but la no- way- did they act as if they had been defeaWI. t "They were meeting us? he added, "on an equal basis." Hall told his commanding offi cer he did not have . sufficient fuel to return to base, Tice said, so contact was made with the res cue plane, which was ordered to pick, up fuel at Ie Shima- and bring it to the airstrip so . Hall could fly out Soldiers Approach As they approached the airstrip they saw several Japanese fliers about the field, but ' when f they landed, the Nipponese hadi dis appeared. The American fliers sat In their planes for a short time as other Lightnings circled overhead and then headed for home. Then Tice climbed out of his plane and walked over to a parked .Japa nese medium bomber. As he did so a Japanese officer and several soldiers approached. "We didn't know what was go ing to happen, said Tice. We both checked our guns and wait ed. The Japanese officer had a big sword. As he came closer we saw him smile, fighter planes. They patted the .56-caliber machine guns as if they . considered them effective weapons they wished they pos sessed, Tice reported. Wetddnt Sell S weed Attempts of Tice to bargain for the Japanese officer's sword met with failure. The fighters and the B-17 left the airfield together for the re turn trip to Okinawa. Bean Picking Platoon Short The bean picking platoon of Mrs. Isabel Kitrina 867 S. 14th street, is short a number of per sonnel vitally i needed to accom plish its assigned task. The pla tbon is picking ' in the- field of George Reese's which is in such a location that workers have diffl culty finding his place, hence ex tra help sent out from the farm labor office to his field invariably wind up picking in another place. Mr. Laird asks that anyone living In the district south of State street and east of 12thv wishing to assist in Mrs. Kitrina's platoon to call her at telephone number 5363. The farm labor office will be open Sunday morning from 6 until 8 to facilitate placements for the day's picking. 1 1 Stepped. Sainted "At about 20 feet he stdpped and saluted," Tice went on. "Hall and I returned his salute. Then he came up and offered his hand. I shook hands with him and so did Hall. . j f Efforts to converse with the Ja panese without interpreters prov ed futile until a Japanese soldier brought out a small English-Japa nese dictionary and Tice indica ed from it that a B-17 was a ing with fuel for them. . When the B-17. piloted by Lt Edward D. Hawkins of Bounti ful. Utah, arrived at theairstrip the Japanese helped transfer the fuel to the fighters with portable fuel pumps. Aate C Rations The B-17 crew gave the Nip ponese a box of C rations and they "ate it like they were mighty hungry" said Tice. i j . The Japanese appeared more interested in the B-17 than in fee i n lw la r I Fersek i jss'ts ran wrx win: 'vi iy in MwMiifiirswinut t i TOMORROW IIOIIDAY August 27th -Sf MP Bjuwawsw-. - la Fersea OlAcrVH 10 Small trees. Heavy crop, - Slur! Ficldng Ilonday 3 miles West on Orchard Heights road from intersection of Wallace ltd., Polk County. ; Uiflians Friiil Banch Rf. 4tBox 415D ' ? - -Phone 17F3 , m mm HIIHI1M - .. . 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' va a m ira i . v m m uM m .m Ml ft w nir v ft W ' mm Salem s Only Theatre Restaurant ; One Slock Nortk at Underpass ftead te Fertlaad 1 r rriv-l A. Innan Admits (hvn Failure to Win GcodWiU ; SAN FRANCISCO, Auf. Tokyo radio tonight beamed an ' English language nroadcast' te the United States wnicn saw ja pan admittedly failed In its snort t mAt Hh rood will of the na- hii( m Asftk continent and th southern area." i The Japanese were unable to "win the hearts of the Chinese. "Burma, too, was a- most unfor tunate case,- v added the FCC monitored broadcast. And the same "unfortunate" situation prevailed In the Philip pines, the East Indies, Indo-China and India. - " -'-' tj -,-' We tried to. hurry things too much," Tokyo said. : "We were irritable and in a hurry.' We did not have the capa city to wait for -things to take their own due course .... if we had only grasped their, hearts, this war would , probably have terminated dif ferentiy." , ORIENT TKADK FLANKED . , PORTLAND, Aufc2HP)--Port- cials today laid plans for a cam paign In Washington, DC, to se cure a share of trade, with the orient Portland businessmen who owned properties In China before the war are going back and plan toj invest large sums in the orient, chamber officials said, f Hokkaido Is Japan's northern most home Island '" - Gulf Readies For Hurricane DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 25-4V Texas' 500-mile crescent-shaped coast was battened down tonight in preparation for a tropical hur ricane last reported whirling at 110-mile-an-hour force in the di rection of the populous area south west of Houston. 1 The U.S. weather bureau re ported in its latest advisory that the storm would strike between Port Arkansas and Freepprt late tonight or early SundayT Hundreds of tourists 'hastened from gulf resorts. Most residents remained in their homes. Tides rose, winds increased -and barom eters fell. Army and navy planes were ziown to safe areas. Mt Aconsagua in Chile is the tighest mountain peak in the western hemisphere 22,834 feet high. ' ! i TninnGLE ! ECG PRODUCER i tfc palatable, (cSmitifkaRy j b-ih Vitamin IxilaBOMi'for. I Supptm tk hiqh podxdnfl 1 leyra with Unit nquktmH ( for wort sxtra grods a oa. V w la 1 14 swesly.. I s-vaatce I I a. mTm I i . v I -' Big Shipment Of New Decca and Victor Records "Land of the Loon" ' Randy Brooks "Shame On You" Lawrence Welk "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Sankx Fe Trcdl" Judy Garland fThere Must Be d 0' Connie Bosweu 'Some Sunday Mominq" Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest "Fuzzy Wuzzy" Milt Herth.and the Jesters '.- Rhapsody j in Blue Boston "Pops? Orchestra Gershwin's "Pofgy and Bess. By Charlie Splvak Gershwin Show Hits ' By Diana Shore i ' ill- , - ' ' - -t f t . ' S ; . :' ." !. 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