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PACE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Thursday Morning. April 18. 1946 Illegal Lumber JDraws Inquiry In Northwest SAN FHANCISCO, April 17 West eoest black market lumber Stealer oUy Wn Um object of M of ke largest isrvestigations undertake by IK OPA in thi trim am e -eleel Cray, OPA district enforcement attor ney. Je o t the fcsaaber out o that Ikwwi can be built.' ' The investigation extend throughout the great northwest lumber product area and in lolves aU handlers from taw mill mmr r te purchase by retail buy- "Our pre Mem k the past has been lark of funds U finance a eooBprefeensive Investigation, 'Cray explained. "With the alloca tion e4 jl,CoO,OM h congress for eatiest-wide canasiatgn against Che lumber black market, we are skew ready to muve" j The gymnasium, with a 21-foot Irate -biulders. heeded by Ber- ceiJing. will be 60 by 90 feet. It Skard E. Enes. preiismt of the a- iU provide for volleyball, bad aciatMNk, axd R. C. Khn. ewecu- minton, basketball and other five 'seeeetary, decWred they are games, and also may be used for snahje -o purchase atick of lum- large dinner gatherings, up to 3 Of trs swthwest nuHs, although they paid recent trtpo to the mill eountjry . ccr.firmed that millions f fH 'are available at black market prices. j TODAY AMD FRIDAY l . -""l enotsH iciit CO FEATURE ARNOLD ' freitces ' RAFfTRTYj J Kadle'a rn-sWw la Use Serve! - .1 &4M A MlrtMaake ef Mystery! Jack RA1XT - Am SAVAGE I ' lav "SCARED STIFF" Satawt' WUTHZRXNG HEIGHTS" NEVER BEFORE A TEAM SO GREAT... lit . NEVER BEFORE a picture so Wonderful'. TT n i v EDM r i m sr ar m im?zm HAL B WAUIS0 Salartiay li Dynamic Youth Speaker. Hollywood wanted Christ and became one of America foremost Sal. Nile Bally, Sunday Afternoon, 7:30 P. II. 3:03 P. II. j Siingirig and Speaking Singing and Speaking City Armory First Baptist Church C0 YWCA Purchases Lot Ad joining Present Site, Plan Expansion (Story also on page 1) Simultaneous with its announcement of new building design, the YWCA board of directors yesterday disclosed its purchase of an adjoining house and lot to provide temporary housing during : the construction and to provide for possible future expansion. - The 40 by 82 foot lot was purchased from Mrs. Frances Ramsden for $15,000. It faces Winter street and adjoins the present YW site, upon which the new building will be erected, at right angles. Entrance to the new structure, will be on State street. 1 Swlamlac Tl The swimming pool, to be 28 by 80 feet under 16-foot ceiling, will be beneath the lobby at the entrance. On the main floor, in addition to the lobby will be offices for all staff members, a large lounge (which may be used for large meetings or may be divided into three small club rooms), the pub lic rest room, the, canteen, a large recreational room, the standard gymnasium, a sick bay, a smaller gymnasium for lighter sports, and all showers, lockers, dressing rooms .and other facilities for the Pol nd gymnasium. persons, or for lecture rooms. It will have a removable stage. Hoosemstber's Suite On the second floor will be 11 double and five single rooms to ; be used by residents (younger , business women 18 to 25 years ot , age for periods of she to 12 months). AL?o on the second floor ' will be theJ housemother's suite, 1 community kitchen, laundry and 1 parlor, and storage rooms and i other facilities. ! 'The third floor will have 13 I double and five single rooms to accommodate the overnight room ers and stranded persons request ed to be housed by other welfare agencies. Also on this floor will , be an apartment for the janitor . and his wife, and dormitory space. Plant Growth Shown in Film Actual growth of plants was shown by top-motion pictures Wednesday night when Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Judson had invited a few garden enthusiasts in for the evening. J The pictures were .taken at the New Jersey agricultural experi ment station and were shown by Ben Newell, assistant cofinty agent. The immense difference in plants deficient in minerals from plants with complete food was featured. The growth in 24 hours t was shown in seconds. So interested were those view- ing the pictures that Mr. Newell j promised to try to obtain them ! for a showing at some future garden club meeting at Salem. TREES BLOOMING LATE CORVALLIS, April 17- (JP) -Oregon fruit trees wintered in good condition and are blooming late, getting added protection from frosts, Oregon State college extension service reported today. (- Fe-- ,rr FEIIEI'S BUNK ".SAM WOOD mm WCWD g YOUTH FOR CHRISTi resents Jack Schiller City Churches Plan Vacation Bible Schools! Vacation Bible schools fori Sa lem children will this year oper ate in several local churches June 3 to 14, with the Rev. JVM. Goodheart as director, it was de cided Wednesday; by the school committee of the Salem Minis terial association. ' , The committee is now consid ering ' applications of various churches for the schools which will be located in six or more churches in different sections of the city. Studies in Bible, music, missions and handicraft will be offered both weeks in sessions from 9 to 11:30 a jn. Monday through Friday. Schools will be' organized into kindergarth, primary and Jun ior age groups. Committeemen of the associa tion are the Rev. Chester W. H a m b Li n, chairman, Dr. J. M. Adams, the Rev. Robert W. Coul ter and the Rev. Goodheart. General Short Gets Summons DALLAS, April 17-(P)-Deputy U.S. Marshal E. R. Goss said he served a summon! on Maj. fjen. Walter C. Short,- former Pearl Harbor army commander, lit a suit for $50,000 : damages filed against Short and several other army officers which alleges false imprisonment. Goss said the suit was filed-by Gunter Herbert Walther, Anna Walther and" Carl Torsten Arm felt, all of Oahu, Hawaii. The plaintiffs allege they were falsely imprisoned following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, Goss said. General Short is irT-at his home in Dallas and was not available for com ment. 6 Ships Expected At Ports Today By Ui Associated Prcsa More than 4100 returning serv ice personneL aboard six vessels are expected at two east and west coast ports today. Ships and units arriving: At New York Claymont Victory from Brerher haven; Mexico Victory from Le Havre; Maritime Victory from Le Havre; Williams Victory "from An twerp. At San Francises I Cape Gloucester; from Pearl Harbor; Arthur Middleton from Pearl Harbor. Teachers Elect Lillian Petersen SILVERTONl Apjll 17-(Speci-al)-Lillian Petersen was elected president of the Si(verton Teach ers association at the annual meet ing held Tuesday night. Other officers are vice presi dent, Mrs. Nellie Wattersen; sec retary and treasurer;, Mrs. A. Jar nigan. I ;i Jerry Saylorj executive secre tary of the Public fcnployes Re tirement system was the speaker of the evening, explaining $k system. j J Strike toj Close Salmon Canneries? 1 is SEATTLE, April !J7- (JP) The $5,000,000 Alaska salmon canning industry will , be strikebound tit midnight SatuCday,i the Alaska Cannery Workers jjnion (CIO) announced tonight. Although spokesmen for the Al aska Salmon Industry, Inc., sarid negotiations were continuing dai ly. President Prudehcio P. Mori of the union's Seattle local fatd the negotiations were at an erjtd and "further attempts are useless in view of the employers' refusal to discuss our demands for a 30 per cent wage s increase." him but he chose youth orators. i I ; j 1 Iturbi Finds Daughter Dead After Suicide BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 17-(P)-A .38 calibre bullet, the explosion of which set her raven hair aflame, early today ended the turbulent life of Maria Iturbi Hero, 28-year-old daughter of the concert pianist, Jose Iturbi. Her slender body, clad in green pajamas, wag found by the Span ish maestro, lying on his bed, after he had spent an evening en tertaining a little group of friends and relatives, at her request, with an informal piano concert in his home. Det. Sgt. Arthur H. McBain said the death of Mrs. Hero de pressed after a prolonged litiga tion with her father and her di vorced husband, concert violinist Stephen Hero, over custody of her two children was "clearly a case of suicide." Local Groups Consider W.U. Area in Park No definite action was taken Wednesday about the Willamette university area in Bush's pasture as the result of a meeting of two city council committees, the park board and university officials at the tract, according to Alderman Albert H. Gille. He said the committeemen re ceived a good idea of what Wil lamette wanted in the way of area and that the proposed area would need to be moved about 80 feet east because of its prox imity to the Hill property. T. D." Thompson, state parks engineer, agreed to furnish drawings of the area, for submission to the council at its next meeting. An additional possibility is the widening of Mission street at the northern edge of the pasture to 100 feet to accommodate parking of students using the field fa cilities, he said. Twins Born At Silverton a SILVERTON, April 17.-(Spe-cial)-Twin sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Dorgan at the Silverton hospital April 15. The one weighed 5 pounds and 12 ounces and the other 6 pounds and two ounces. Other births reported at the hospital during the week were sons to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hein of Molalla. and Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Lynn both on April 15; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Green of Beaverton, April 13; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van dehey of Woodburn; April 14; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Terhaar, Woodburn, April 15; and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Baker April 15. Portland Traction Sale Postponed PORTLAND, April 17-tfP)-Sale of the Portland Traction company was postponed today by Federal Judge James A. Fee in a referral of reorganization proceedings of its parent company Portland Elec tric Power company, to the spe cial master in bankruptcy., A bid of $7,500,000 had been entered for the property by the Portland Transit company, a new organization headed by L. R. Adams, San Francisco. English Laborites Plan To Nationalize Steel LONDON, April 17 Brit ain's labor government said to day it plans to nationalize a large part of the nation's iron and steel industry, and a con servative spokesman charged Prime Minister Attlee was "act ing like Hitler." The tumult touched off in the house of commons indicated the proposal would be one of the most controversial of all the gov ernment's public ownership pro jects. JAPANESE ACQUITTED GUAM, April 16-Delayed);P) Japanese navy commander Hikaru Cho was acquitted today by a US. military commission of charges of beheading an American on Wake Island in 1942. ROAD STATUS UNCHANGED No material changes were noted in Oregon road conditions Wed nesday, R. If. Baldock, state high way engineer, reported. )PENS :45 r. M. CO-FEATURE Abbott and Costelle "The Naughty Nineties (J3?L JOHN WAYNE ,dJ Gold Rush Fever Soutji Africa With Large Strike By R. F. A. Dewdney JOHANNESBURG. South Af rica, April n.-Jpy-A wild gold rush and feverish speculation buying swept South Africa today with the reported rediscovered secret of a fabulous strike in northwestern Orange Free state. The gold fever was fanned to epidemic proportions by an nouncement by Western Hold ings, Lt., a mining firm, of de posits yielding 62.6 ounces of gold per ton of ore in early tests - - about $2,170 a ton. The us ual yield here is a quarter ounce per ton. For years the secret had been locked in the graves of two for gotten prospectors who were said to have found a rich; de posit near the surface close to the little village of Oendaals Rust. Spec alitor Rush Speculators rushed to the area near Odendaals-Rust, while in this capital business was vir tually at a 'standstill as many joined a mad scramble to buy property in the neighborhood of the -strike, (On the London stock ex change, Johannesburg gold min ing shares soared to record highs. In the first hour of trad Lions Hear Talk on Cancer Cancer is an increasing public health problem. Dr. Roscoe C. Wilson declared Wednesday be fore Hollywood Lions club in a talk supporting the current drive for cancer funds. The cancer in crease, he explained, is due partly to the increase in the numbervof older people and partly to the reduction in deaths due to many other diseases. If discovered in early stages. Dr. Wilson stated, most types of cancer can be cured. He said the funds collected by the cancer committee here and elsewhere are to be used in aiding indigent persons affected by the disease and in supporting centers for the study and treatment of cancer. Butte Copper Strike Neara Settlement tl BUTTE, Mont., April -(resettlement of a nine day old strike at the Anaconda mining company Too Late to Classify FOR SALE by owner: Lovely fur nished home on Breys ave. Inquire 551 N. 2Ut at. if i1 1 J (imaaajmss if) s I M1 V ,F AIKINO FOt IT IT NAMI w oj Ss y ' t Spreads Over ing the market valuation of se curities of the seven leading South African companies jump ed by $50,000,000. News of the strike captured the imagination of speculators, and trading was even more excited than yester day when the first announce ment was made.) The area near the village Is filled with people milling about in search for property in scenes reminiscent of the wild days of California and the Klondike. Option Money Farmers who once had diffi culty scraping a bare living from the unproductive soil now are gathering option money running into millions of - pounds. The streets of the little village are crowded with people , offering $4800 or more for tiny plots which once would have sold for $20. Fortunes were being: made and lost within a matter of minutes as prices fluctuated wildly. In Johannesburg, typists, merchants and brokers joined the rush, and there was scarcely a person to be found without a story of good or bad luck. Prices steadied somewhat during the day, but the floor of the exchange was jammed. properties in Butte, where mob rioting was rampant last "weekend, appeared close at hand ( tonight, federal labor conciliator Robert C. Williams announced. Williams said an agreement has been reached which "looks very encouraging. Think Firsi GOOD STOCK OF PARTS FOR IMMEDIATE SERVICE WASHERS REFRIGERATORS Our A'eitr Up-to-Date Service Shop Is Located At Our New Farm Store M. ontomery Corner Trad and High -svsMjvasviav 4 Qjmic always lll-NIINH l Us 1 1 11 JT V -TX S S S 1 S X E. II 1 V63 y Am- , si WLMK. jkpl: "Distributed by Gideon Slolx Comparay Ford Lays Off 45,000 Due To Shortages By the Associated Press Civilian ' Production Adminis trator John D. Small reported yesterday (Wednesday) that the soft coal strike had dealt recon version a "serious setback." In the automobile manufactur ing industry, the Ford Motor company announced weekend shutdown affecting some 45.000 production workers because of a parts and steel shortage. Small said lack of fuel had for ced the closing of "scores : of plants' and that the coal strike was "increasing the injury: done by the recent steel strike." Small asserted a survey showed steel production was dropping steadily, that some railroads may be forced to curtail service in the next two weeks and that 15 small brick plants, whose output was essential to new housing, have been closed. 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