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- It I . i - t T !: V A i . ! i i : ! - (Sstorry in ! C o J u m ti 4 Waslhimigtop Eaton PFFF UtD auDCg on WHiieal!: Last Wednesday the original manuscript, of Lewis Carroll's SAlice la Wonderland" was sold at auction in New York. It brought $50,000, the bid of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadel phia, famed collector of rare : books. Oddl enough, it . was Dr. Rosenbach who had bought the same manuscrift when it was sold by Mrs. Reginald P. Hargreaves, t Sotheby's auction- rooms in London in 1829. She was Alice LideLL the original for whom the book was written and its leading character yarned. Then .the man-? uscripl brought 15,400 or $75, 219, half again as much as in the late sale in New York As Alice exclaimed "Curiouser and curiouser!" only she said that after she had eaten the small cake- andi her height was increas ing. Perhaps the manuscript this last'lT 7tm has been fanning it self with) the White Rabbit's fan which made Alice shrink to a height ofjlwo feet. "She dropped It hastily. Just in 'time to save herself fromi shrinking away al together. Maybe the manuscript, which consists of 92 small pages done in hand print -rather than cursive script, should imitate Alice jest it lose its value completely. ' It Is nor reasonable- to con clude however that Dr. Rosen bach got a bargain, and. that eventually the price will work' its way up to the earlier figure. Tor "Alice in . Wonderland" has attained a fame far beyond the imaginings of the bachelor lecturer in mathematics, the Rer. Charles Lutwidge Dodg- sod, whose alter ego as Lewis Carroll composed the book in the . early 1 SCO's as Christmas gift to a dear child In memory of a summer day." I must make a confession and that is I never .read "Alice in Wonderland during my child hood. I read at It, but the (Continued on editorial page) Delegates Pick Portland Boy to Lead State C.E. Walter Frultiger, Portland, was elected state president of the Oregon Christian Endeavor Union at the Saturday attcmon session . of the annual convention here. Marjory. Boon, Portland, was elected recording secretary, Joe Bates. Beaverton, treasurer, and Dorothy Howes, Forest Grove, -past president, was elected to the position of-executive advisor. Of ficers were installed by Dr. Wal ler Meyers, Beaverton, at the Wening" session which followed the annual banquet at the Salem . high school, j ' The Columbia Union from eas tern Oregon won, the Youth , March award for largest attend ance at the convention and at the afternoon "Youth March pa rade which proceeded through , the state capitol with most of the 100 delegates. , The Marion Union of the or ganization won the .Paul Brown cup which is awarded to the most efficient union. ' V j The high school speaking con test was won by Charles Baker, Pendleton.) who received as a prire a scholarship to, the summer CE conference st Turner, in Au gust. Second place winner V; Elaine Budlong, Portland, and third placer was won by Bob Ma ratXm Beaverton. j Morning 'sessions included cont ference periods and an address Tfcy Dr. Fraak F. Warren on "Lefip Look at Ourselves. Discussion groups on the subject of "Social Issues - Facing Youth Today' 1 were held in the afternoon. Tor Such a Time as This" is to be the Subject of an address i hy Dr. Warren at the closing ses-' i S'Ort. of; the :. conference , Sunday afternoon. "The convention com munion service will be held in the morning at 8:15 at the First "Presbyterian church, and dele gates will sttend the church of their choice, (Additional details on "page 2.) Soviet Reported ; Fortifying Kuriles LONDON.! April e-iVA spe cial dispatch to the Sunday news- . paper. News of the World, under Sapporo, Japan, dateline, said tonight that the Russians were fortifying the Kurile islands air- . Olds and I thai ."giant' coastal guns? w e f; e pointed j towards ' American-can trolled 1 Hokkaido, f The dispatch by Correspondent JL Noyes Thomas said the inior- gnation was; gleaned from refu gee Dgotoiredl OLYMPIA, Wash., April 6.-(,P)-Wheat began- to move from Washington tonight as the commoditjr credit corporation resumed loadings after circumventing an embargo lowered by state agriculture director Fred Martfn. 1 In a last ditch effort to stop shipments until an inventory of itate stocks is cempleted jApril 12, Martin last night asked Governor Wllirrn in tlnhnh Sertarv Wins Award ; ' i.. " ' ' , ..---. r f - -'v tT y -A -A Mariasi Merange, ass s date pre feaaor ef French at Willamette anlverslty, whose ' selection as winner ef a $1500 fellowship for graduate study was an nounced yesterday at the state meeting of Oregon division, American Association of Uni versity Women., (Story on page 2) . Poles to Press Case Against Spain at U. N. By, Francis W. Carpenter NEW YORK, April t--The Spanish Issue, raised unexpected ly by Poland, seemed likely to night to be the next problem to plague the United jiajipns secur ity council jxlsi 'when that Infant peace agency hoped for a quiet period to put its rules in order. The Polish embassy in London announced this morning that the Warsaw government had in structed Dr. Oscar Lange, Polish delegate to the security council, to Jay before the council the Pol ish view that the United Nations should break off relations with the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The decision of the Polish government was taken in view of the' fact that the present regime in Spain is endangering interna tional peace and that peace is in divisible," the embassy Announce ment said. Hours after the London an nouncement, members of the Pol ish delegation here said Dr. Lange had not received official notice of his government's decision. Jerzy Michalowski.i Dr. Langc's advisor, said that in any , event there would . be no statement before Monday. Thus it was not determined here whether Dr. Lange would dump the Spanish question on the council table; Tuesday or would wait until the council has adopt ed the rules of procedure sched uled to be taJcen up at that time. FETSIIXO BILL TO TRUMAN WASHINGTON, April t-JF)-The so-called fanti-Petrillo" bill establishing criminal penalties for compelling or trying to compel radio broadcasters to submit to "featherbed" employment prac tices cleared the senate today and went to the. White House. County Tax-Foreclosed Land Sold During Real Estate Boom By Conrad Prange SUff Writer. The SUtnman Practically all city and Sounty tax-foreclosed lands have been sold in the current real estate boom in Salem and throughout the county, says County Recorded Her man W. Lanke, custodian of the bulky deeds and real property re cordings that back him up. Salem's well recognized prop erty boom and expansion seems to be pushing city development in all directions, most noticeably to the northeast, Lanke's files of re corded subdivision plats show. With the county's population now estimated at close to 100,000 the boom definitely is not con fined to Salem alone, according to Lanke who points out that big gest development outside the city is taking place in the Niagara Mill City area where the proposed by -.C Wallgren to telephone Secretary of Agriculture Anderson to : re quest CCC delay loadings until the end of next week. "It would seem the corporation could respect our request until we complete an inventory,?;; he said today. CCC officials told Martin this morning they would edge around the embargo, enforced since Thursday night by his stoppage of wheat inspection, by sending their own inspectors into the state. Since CCC handles foreign re lief shipments, the order meant Martin had lost an important part of his. battle to halt, export of wheat. Martin had charged most wheat leaving the state was go ing into relief channels. This left Washington's $200,000,000 poultry and .livestock industry in a criti cal position,' the had maintained. U. S. to Request End to Canada Wood Embargo WASHINGTON, April 6-(P-Two western congressmen said today the state department has agreed to seek approval of Cana dian embargoes on timber to in crease supplies of housing mate rials In this country. Senator Mitchell and Rep. Jackson, Washington state demo crats, said in a statement they received the assurance from As sistant Secretary of State William Clayton at a conference earlier "today; ' "Peacetime continua t ion ef (Canadian) wartime embargoes on log exports has meant that Pacific northwest mills, especially those producing plywood, , had been operating on a t part-time basis even though full-time. pro duction would Hot produce suffi cient ' : housing material,', their statement said. ' Mitchell 'and Jackson; said con gressional hearings on the housing shortage" have shown a "danger ous' lack of plywood. Death Claims Jasper Hewitt, State Pioneer PORTLAND, Ore., April 6 WP) Dr. Jasper L. Hewitt, 88, president of the Oregon Pioneer associa tion, died suddenly late this af ternoon after suffering a heart attack at Laurelhurst park near his .home. ; He was a life long leader of the Methodist church in Oregon and active in state .pioneer his torical j activity- and the YMCA here. , Hej was born Nov. 5, 1859, on his' father's land donation claim near Wheatland in Yamhill coun ty. His parents, Henry and Eliza beth Hewitt,! came to Oregon with the wagon train of; 1843. He attended Willarhette university while his father operated a river ferry at Salem. A daughter and a son survive. Two brothers. Dr. L. L. Hewitt, Dayton, and Harry Hewitt, Sa lem, also survive. The funeral service has not "yet been arranged. dam has sent property prices soar' ing. MA big development is taking place in that end of the county without a doubt, Lanke declared. "Up to how, though, it had been the most undeveloped section," he added. '. The recordings seem to Indicate that the current wave of property buying and selling is even greater than that recorded after the first world war. The reason for this, Lanke declared, is that in 1919-20 a "coollng-off period of about two years took place before a land price boom occurred in Oregon, h From vthe very first recording In the county In 1854 up to 1939 the total number of real property recording came to 153,300. Deeds totaled 82,600 and mortgages 70, 700. The 'first deed was recorded Aug! 11, 1854, and the first mort gage on Jan. 9, 1855, Lanke said his records show. NINETY-SIXTH YEAR Wilson Arrested At Depot i Escapee Came From Salem On Freight Train Glenn Wilson, who esaped from the state penitentiary last Tues day night, was arrested by Eugene city police as he got off a freight train there about 12:55 Sunday morning. He offered.no resistance, the police said. He told the Eu gene officers that he had come from Salem on the train. He was wearing a blue suit which state police said they were unable to account for as none had been re ported as stolen. There is still no report on the whereabouts of Byron Dyson, who escaped at the same time with Wilson and three other convicts who were apprehended by Salem city police. Wilson, 21, was serving a 10 'year sentence from Multnomah county on charges of larceny and rape. He was indicted with Dy son on a charge of knifing a fel low convict last January but was acquitted, when tried separately. Dyson was serving a life sentence on conviction of the knifing charge. Escaped Before Wilson originally entered the pen in June 1942. He escaped from the institution in February 1945 and was returned shortly after wards. The five convicts pried the bars from a window while returning to their cells from a prison movie. They climbed out the window, ran across the grass and climbed a 12 foot steel fence. They were missed after a cell check-was made fol lowing the raovie at about 8:45 p. m. i Te Creawell The search switched to the Cot tage Grove and Creswell areas early Saturday night after an un identified woman driver told po lice aCottage Grove that a man resembling one of the escapees asked for her car keys at Cres- well, The woman told Cottage drove police -that she was parked at a small cafe near Cresweli when the, man asked for her car keys, say ing he wanted to move her car be cause it blocked his own. State po lice at Eugene said the woman told him she would move her own car. No other cars were parked at the cafe, she told police. When she arrived at Cottage Grove she identified the man as one of the escapees, state police said Sen. Mead Has One Less Tooth BUFFALO, N. Y., April 6-OP)- A 59-year-old man attacked U. S. Senator James M. Mead (D-NY) tonight in a crowded hotel lobby as the senator left the Erie county democratic committee's Grover Cleveland dinner at which he had just spoken. Police Detective John Green, who was assigned to guard the senator, said he was walking just behind Mead when the man rose from a sofa and struck Mead in the face with his fist. Green sa"id he grappled with the man and sub dued him until a police car ar rived. Associates of the senator said he suffered a cut lip and lost a tooth in the affray, but quickly regained his composure, i Eastern Sugar Strike Delayed By the Associated Press A strike scheduled to begin last midnight at seven east coast sugar refineries which produce 70 per cent of the nation's cane sugar supply was postponed un til at least late Monday pending outcome, of further conciliation attempts in Washington. Meanwhile, a six-day bus and trolley car strike against Detroit's municipally - owned system was settled yesterday, subject to un ion mass and file approval, and union men said service might be restored by tonight. The sugar walkout was post poned at the request of govern ment conciliators who proposed a fact finding board be employed. The unions have asked a 15-cent hourly wage increase. 28 PAGES , 1 Britain To Back Big4 Meet Plan WASHINGTON, April 6 1 In an effort to break a deadlock blocking peace pacts for five European countries, the JUnited States was reported reads, today to dump the future of Italy's pre war colonies into the lap of the United Nations. This disclosure came from re sponsible diplomatic officials on the heels of a London announce ment that Britain will back Sec retary of State Byrnes' surprise appeal for a spadework meeting of the council of foreign ministers in Paris April 25. r There were indications, too, that France would endorse the proposal for the meeting one openly acknowledged by Byrnes as designed to cut through the stalemate surrounding a final wartime accounting for Italy, Finland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Russia thus far has remained silent on the plan. Previously, the soviet union had urged postpone ment of a 21 member nation con ference on treaties for the five countries on the ground that in sufficient progress, has been made by the four western powers to ward agreement on the issues involved. r Geisha House Tip Leads to Jap Treasure TOKYO, April 6 -JT)- A geisha house tip which found its. way into American military govern ment circles led today to the dis covery of a large hoard of prec ious metals hidden in the mud beneath Tokyo bay. An informant who saw two truckloads of ingots dumped into the bay last July to conceal them from occupation forces said that Japanese army officers supervis ing the job had estimated there was 30,000,000,000 yen ($2,000, 000,000) worth of gold, silver and platinum in the lot. Lt. E. V. Nielsen of Stamford, Conn., an officer in the 32d mili tary government, located the hid den hoard and himself brought up the first ingot, a 75-pound hunk of platinum. , "They are so locked together in the mud that we could not get any more up today, but we will resume operations Monday with diving suits and modern equipment," Nielsen said.. " The dock area meanwhile has been taken over by armed guards of the 1st cavalry division who are keeping a close Watch until recovery is completed! Jets Set Coast Speed Record LOS ANGELES, April -"P)-Two P-80 jet fighter planes set new speed marks from Seattle to Los Angeles and Burbank today, completing the 950-mile flight in two hours and seven-- minutes and two hours and 14 minutes. Lt. Col. Robert L. Petit, who left Seattle at 11:31:34 a. m., made an emergency landing at Jiockheed air terminal at 1:38 p. m. Capt. Mack A. Mitchell, . in the other plane, continued on to the Los Angeles municipal airport, where both had been scheduled to land. He arrived at 1:51 p. m., after leaving Seattle at 11:37:59. The fastest previous Seattle-Los Angeles' flight was made last Dec. 11 by a B-29 plane which landed at Burbank In two hours and 53 minutes. Weather Max. ... S7 57 Min. 3 35 32 36 45 Rain Salem Eugene . Portland Trace - .00 Trace .00 83 Seattle 59 San Francisco 58 - Willamette river 1.1 ft. FORECAST (from US. weather fli reau. McNary field. Salem t: Increasing cloudiness today, followed by light rains this evening. Highest - tempera ture 93 degrees. MM POUNDDD 1651 I ;' Salem. Oreqon. Sunday Morningv- i Tremendous Power o f Tidal Wave Graphically Described By Former Salem Resident The great tidal wave in the Pacific, which cost the lives of at least 100 persons, in the Hawaiian islands : alone. i was graphically described in a letter received here from Harold . Lot t Is of Hilcr, former Salem resident, who now manages the S. H. Kress store in that stricken city. , j 1 . j The letter, written to his mother; Mrs. Martha LotUs of Bush st., described April 1 as "about the most awful birthday I ever had" and said "it (the wave) couldn't have been an April Fool's fjoke." Lottis related that he was at the store early on the eventful day, and that he was just sweep ing out the remains of a sudden .small wave when "police came by requesting everyone to move back as another wave might come 4n." He said he then went to the roof of the store, three floors in height and overlooking Hilo bay, and noticed that the ocean had moved far out exposing the bot tom of the bay which ordinarily was deep enough to accommodate ships. - Tossed In a Heap "In about five minutes it (the sea) started to move in, not as a wave exactly but In one body like water in a flat large pan, and then in a few minutes half of the Hilo business district just- broke up and moved away before my eyes. -Stores across the street were just lifted up and tossed in, a heap on top of stores on our side of the street-" When the wave receded. Lottis found his store full of "mud, rocks, fish and - merchandise." much of the latter damaged His was one of the few - structures to remain standing. Most of the lives lost, he said, were of people living along the beach. - - - Many people lost everything except what' they had on." Dispels Fears Lottis, the brother of Wareer Lottis and the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Foster, all of Salem, concluded with: "Don't worry about us; there probably won't be another tidal wave for many years." feus Walkout Scene Quiet It was still "Whose move next?" in the Salem bus strike scene as the new week dawned with no ne gotiations started Jn either Salem or Portland. "It's still a deadlock," said R. J. Davidson, company superin tendent here. He said that peo ple had apparently learned of the strike because phone calls that had swamped the offices Friday bad slackened off Saturday. Downtown parking problems were relieved somewhat with the order bjr Police Chief Frank Minto that motorists might park in the unused downtown bus load ing zones. Taxicab owners re ported about a one-third increase in daytime business, Saturday, as a result of the tie-up. Salem Suburban lines and the West Salem bus continued to op erate and pick up local passen gers along their lines. German Occupation to Cost U.S. Taxpayers $200 Million Yearly By Wes Gallagher BERLIN, April 6-P)-The con tinued decentralize ted rule of Ger many by the Allies is likely to cost American taxpayers $200,660,--000 a year in the judgment of au thorities here. 1 The figure is the estimated bud get cost of supplying the Ameri can zone with food and oil suffi cient to maintain a subsistence standard of living. France is the chief opponent of centralization, and there Is no sign that she is receding from her position. Lt. Gen, Lucius D. Clay and his military government staff have been making the utmost effort to slash this U.S.-zone budget, prun ing such essentials as school books, films, ate, for reeducating the April 7. . 1948 SSttJJlM IPSA! j . ' . I -; " r . I ' i j 460 Solons Seek Spot f orlFarm Parity Boost WASHINGTON; Aprfl 0 -JP)- Farm state legislators today dis closed a plan to put new wrapping on their j controversial proposal boosting farm parity prices. In the hope of forcing white house ap proval. They told newsmen they will try to put it Into the OPA extension bill already loaded with several administration - opposed amend ments when the measure comes before the house the week; of April 14. j Key members of (the house banking rommittee, how ever, said they believe ; they can heed the plan off. j The senate has Included the farm parity increase In a minimum wage measure approved yesterday. But President Truman: has an nounced he will veto the legisla tion if the house retains the par ity provision. ; : First' Lady to Play Hostess To Bridge Club INDEPENDENCE; Mo, April 6 The Tuesday bridge club is meeting at the White House this week, ladies and whoops! It's the biggest thing that's happened since one of the! 20-year) members be came first jlady of the nation. Bess Truman's invitation to the ten other members of her bridge club two weeks ago to come visit at the White House set the girls agog. The entire membership j ac cepted with alacrity. But nobody "had a thing! to wear." ' i - j . The bridge club has been meet ing every-other-Tuesday for near ly 20 years. They have lunch, then play bridge and chat mostly chat, according to one of the members. ; When Mrs. Truman entertained the club In Independence, "every thing always was just right," her friends said. j So now, with a final tilt of a new spring bonnet and a last-minute shopping dash, her; friends want everything about their out fits "to be just right" for their weekend at the White House, j Bridge? Oh, they Can play that at home. TAX PAYMENTS GROW ; j State income tax payments this week; were substantially larger titan during the corresponding period a year ago state tax, com missioners reported Saturday. The deadline for filing 1946 re turns, based on 1945 Incomes ex pires April 15. . Germans, and confining the bud get purely to food and transport necessary to maintain a minimum standard of living. But $200,000, 000 remains the rock-bottom fig ure of the project. : ' General Clay said: "The Amer ican zone has never been self-sufficient by Itself. It Is lacking in natural resources except; wood and potash. It cannot raise, enough food to support itself, and most of Its Industries were of the. assembly-line type with raw material coming from other TOnes.- ; With a decentralized Germany these raw materials art not coming from other zones. As a result the American zone has a permanent deficit that must be made up by America or the Germans will face starvation. .- ! No. 10 Universal Policy Set By Ernest BU Taeeare ' CHICAGO, ! April -(.-President Truman today "called. Upon the nation to keep itself militar ily strong in order to preserve the. peace and protect the weak front "coercion or' penetration."! Climaxing the nation's greatest Array dsy celebration, witnessed by an estimated 1.000,000 per sons, the president, spoke aL Sol dier field with General of the Army Dwight DJ Eisenhower, chief of staff, and: Secretary cf War Robert , P. Patterson beside him. - s I . Proclaiming a new universal . foreign policy, he declared thati ; the United States will insist upon ; its right. - to project ' itself in any situation where outside rifalries might endanger the peace and se curity or any ; nation. . Strong Language - - i ; In the, strongest language' he has- ever used as Franklin D. Roosevelt's successor as democ racy's spokesman,! the' gray haired Missourian told thousands Ift Chicago's; Soldier field: ( "We cannot one day proclaim our intention t to prevent unjust aggression and oppression fn the world and the next dly call fcf Immediate scrapping of our mili tary mights -' ; ; t " . i : Naming names, he declared that the United States would ex pect Great Britain, j Soviet Rus sia and other countries to pursue, peaceful objectives" in the orient in return for United States rec ognition of their "important?" ec onomic Interests in that area. UJS. In Orient i The United States will have to be dealt In in the orient.' he em-; phasized,: because of its own in terest in peace and security there. Our '"universal foreign policy, Mr. Truman asserted, must guide our relations with every country, no matter bow remote it is front our shores. j i ; I ' The United Nations which ke said the United States would back "to ithe j utmost," - have a . right, he declared flatly, to insist ' that the sovereignty and integrity " of the near and middle jeast countrtes must not be threatened "by coercion and penetration through outside rivalries which might "erupt mto conflict," j ; Chiang Cracks China Red line MUKDEN, April e.--lUna'ft new U. S. equipped first army ,; breaking through Chinese com munist lines after a two-day bat tie, have driven within 70 miles pf Changchun, Manchuria cap ital, pro-governmenjl reports here said today. ; ! ! There was no indication' of fut ure resistance which, the.bat?e hardened first army must, hurdle. ,. quickly if it expects to reach Changchun before the scheduled departure of the Russians April i4. y i Delayed dispatches said, how ever, that the first real battle be tween the, rival I government and communist .forces in Manchuria had been fought earlier thfa week r. at Kayuah, 43 1 miles south j of Szepingkai, and was a victory for s the fh-st army. Smallpox Hits Seattle Jail SEATTLE, April 6 -(- Coro- : ner John P. Brill; Jr., tonight or dered an immediate investigation ' of the' city jail following the small pox. death of James Car roll, 63, this morning in King county hospital. , ' Brill said records showed Car roll was booked as drunk and ' disorderly April - S. and was transferred to the hospital j 18 rhours before his death.-: "We are going to find out why a man who is ill with small pox is booked as drunk and disorder ly," said Chief Deupty Coroner C L. 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