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Scdam. Oracjon. Saturday Morning. May 4. 1946
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No. 33
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; X recall in meetings of the state
- board of control a few years ago
which I' attended as a member.
when there was discussion of
state office space in Portland,
State Treasurer Scott - made the
prediction several times that
: there would never be another of
fice building erected In Portland.
At ma i ume numerous ouuaings
were in bock or had been
over cy mortgages, mere was a
surplus of office space, the build
ings were yielding a very low
return on the investment after
taxes. Scott thought, and with
reason at the time, that In view
f the relations of cost and con
struction -xes,.nd rentals no
body woukl 'nave the money or
the disposition to invest in office
buildings. -
Came cot the war, but the
"postwar, and .we find office
buildings sprouting like dande
lions in the lawn down in Port
land. Equitable Savings Sc Loan
is rushing plans for a new multi
storied office building. Another
corporation is going to build a
14-story building, full block -sized.-which,
will be bigger than any
office building in Portland. The
department of agriculture will
take most of this space. Another
12-story medical office building
is set for early construction.
. i Duno the war government
agencies crew like Jack's bean-
stalk and filled up the gaps in
Portland office buildings. Though
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Death Claims
John Marshall
John S. Marshall, 86, native of
Illinois and resident of Salem
since 1S1, died at a local hos-1
pital Thursday. Funeral serv ices i
will be held at 2 p jn. Monday
from Gough-Barrick chapel.
- Marshall had been chairman of
the democratic central committee
here for several terms and was
mayor of Lewiston, Mont., for
two terms before moving here. He
had also been a member of the
Swegle school board.
(See story on page 7)
TEOOPS OCT OF SYRIA
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Britain and France reported to e Jf of hls ,ba" head W8S 0"
the United Nations security coun- dered ve? 'ro court;
cfl tonight that all their troops m f1 today s second session of
had been withdrawn from Syria
Kniv f fiHtir
forces- would be evacuated from
Lebanon by June 30.
Animal Crackers
By BARREN GOODRICH -
l he flies are something
, - awful around here!"
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penitentiary In 8aa Francisco
(Below) Guards creep along beneath eellblock windows to fire Into building where convicts,
armed with machine gnn are holding most of prison officers. Note fire burning In foreground,
which Is believed to bavo started from tracer bullet" fired by convicts. (AP Wlrephotos to the
Statesman.)
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Line to Start Rolling Next Week
First pre-fabricated peacetime
houses to be manufactured in
the northwest will be moving off
the assembly Jijfllhe Keith
Brown lumber yard: here next
week at the rate of two a day.
Approved for federal housing
authority loans and for priori
ties, a model of the two-bedroom
house will be opened to the pub
lic at 7 o'clock tonight at 145
Court st., beside the Keith
Brown Building Supply store.
Livin groom, combination kit
chen and dining room and bath
room are included in the 28
by 24 M -foot house. Streamlined
built-ins feature the structure,
which completed will sell for a
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Under iOIltrOl
Hillside fire which broke out
Thursday along the S. P. Sc S.
railroad tracks near Buxton was
reported under control early Fri
day by Nels Rogers, state for
ester.
Rogers said the fire was con
fined largely to ferns and brush
and covered approximately 200
acres. No other fires were report-
ed by the state forester, who said
Friday's cooler weather had re-
duced the hazards prevailing
earlier in the week. There was
some fog along the coast.
Nip Defendant
Believed Mad
TOKYO, Saturday, May 4-()-Propagandist
Shumei Okawa, who
'"f1 . . ,u." r !
warume mciaior, maem ioju, on
the international military tribunal
arraigning Japan's 28 top flight
w" "jl?"?,:
Chief Justice Sir William Webb
issued the order. He said it was
necessary to have an examination
by two psychiatrists to determine
whether the tall, grinning defend
ant was mentally capable of
pleading.
Houses Delivered
To Colony Site
First of the prefabricated apart
ment houses for the Salem-Wil-lamette
university veterans col
ony on South 16th street were
delivered here Friday. A crew of
workmen went onto the Job at
once.
One hundred forty-four family
dwelling units have been allocat-
ed to the city, 82 to Willamette
university.
LEGION CONCLAVE Iff JULY
PORTLAND, May 3 (JP) The
state American Legion convention
will be held here July 15-17
rather than Jury 29-31 as origin
ally planned.
-(Above) PeLiee and Coast Guard boaU speed aroand Alcatraa island
bay m gnards and proners battle for supremacy f "the Roek".
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HOJtie ASSeitl
little less than $5000. Four men
can erect it in four days. A 1214
by 24 i -foot garage wilt have a
4 by 12 -foot storage l room in
one end. fL
Painted and finishedfplywood
Interior and exterior, thorough
ly insulated and waterproofed
the house has generous win
dows. The sample, which Is to
be open for inspection f from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. and froth 7 to B
p.m. weekdays, excepfj Satur
days when it may be seen from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. is fitted for
electric heating and appliances
but is adaptable to othesr kinds
of utilities. -'.
W.U. to Crown
Queen Toddy
Queen Paula I will be "crowned
by last year's queen, Bejry Han
auska, at 1 p.m. todayi to role
over the 40th annual May week
end on the Willamette campus.
Coronation will be pretfeded by
the formation of a daisy jthain by
40 sophomore women. : f
The queen's breakfast! Will be
held from 8:30 to 10:304.m. on
the lawn near Chrestof pottage,
with committees from thf fYWCA
in charge. ;.
Afternoon's activities Wfll fea
ture a track meet betweji - Wil
lamette and Whitman.
The May dance tonight tin the
gym will climax the weekend
festivities.
19 Counties Reject
Retirement Piaii
PORTLAND, Ore., May h-(P)-
Nineteen of Oregon's 36jjciunties
have rejected the state's hew re
tirement plan for public employes,
to start July 1, Max M. Manches
ter, retirement system ; cashier,
said today. He reported f7 coun
ties had accepted the J plan:
Clackamas, Columbia, Curry,
Douglas, Grant, Harney, Jackson,
Jefferson, Klamath, Lakers Lane,
Linn, Marion, Shermanj Tilla
mook, Umatilla and Washington.
Among cities which have;ipprov
ed are Portland, Salem, . Eugene
and Astoria. ; '
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Hit by Power Raliou
CHICAGO, May 3-(P-Chica-go's
business and industrial acti
vity staggered today under the
full Impact of drastic power
rationing edict. Office bnildings,
along with other commercial es
tablishments, were limited jto the
use of electricity between 12. and 6
pjn. today. The order Svll be
eased, however, to provi4 elec
tricity to office buildings f from 9
am. to 1 p.m. starting tomorrow.
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Lone Point of
Dispute Bars
Bus Strike End
PORTLAND, May 3 -(PK
sibility of action tomorrow in the
dispute between Oregon Motor
.a .no
mechanics was reported today by
the union.
Assistant Business Agent T. S.
Besiun id Conrni.tnr niK.r
Goodwin HvlH him that h hH
ocir k. t
offer tomorrow morning. If It is
made it will be submitted to the
union membership Sunday, Be
giun said.
A- L. Schneider, company man
ager, said a recent conference at
Salem had settled all major
points except the wage scale for
over-the-road drivers. The com
pany's highest offer was $1.27g
an hour and the union's lowest
scale-down of Its original $1.40
demand was 1.30.
New Bus to
Start Today
New bus service on the Suite
and Chemeketa street runs was
announced Friday by Bill Nelson
and C. B. Costa, operators, to be
gin Monday.
The State street bus will begin
service on a half-hourly schedule
at 6:15 am. and run until 6:45
pjn., with hourly service after
wards. Last bus will leave the
city at 11:45 p.m. Hourly service
on the Chemeketa street run will
begin at 7:15 p.m., with the last
bus at 11:15 p.m. The buses will
follow the routes of the regular
Oregon Motor Stages.
Sunday service will begin at
8:15 a.m. but the schedule had
not yet been set, Costa said.
Washington Forest
Blaze Believed Held
YA.COLT, wash.. May 3-P)-Weary
crews of firefighters held
hope that the three-day-old Bell
mountain fire could be kept with
in its approximate five-square
mile lines tonight. Men patrolling
the braze do not feel certain they
have it under control, he said, but
unless the wind springs up they
believe it will be held.
Portland Group Asks
Truman to Change Time
PORTLAND, May 3 JP) The
President's council today asked
President Truman to order day
light saving time nationally.
The council, made up of the
heads of civic groups, said in a
telegram that fuel, power and
food supplies are at a low level
and would be conserved by the
time change.
Alcatraz
Fortress
Beseiged
Earlier Plea for
Truce Refused
By Prison Chief
SAN FRANCISCO, May
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Prison guards, who had been
creeping through the main cell
block to get within gunfire range
of the rebel Alcatraz convict.
! were withdrawn tonight, leaving
the desperate men to make the
decision between turrender and
death
A prison official said on the
telephone
We're leaving them alone to
night to talk it over
Not a sound could be heard
from the prisoner's stronghold
Thus far, the desperate bid for
freedom had cost the lives of two
guards. Fourteen others were
wounded. .
There was no indication of the
casualties within Die silent cell
block
Bid fer Truce
Earlier this evening, the con
victs had made one bid for
truce. One of them telephoned
Warden J. A. Johnston:
"We want to make a deaL
Johnston replied:
"We'll make a deal when you
throw your weapons and ammu
nition out.'
That was the last word from
the men.
There appeared to be little hope
of starving the men into submis
sion. One officer, who had been
on the island, said the prisoners
early In the riot had seized
kitchen and presumably taken
food supplies. The prison guards
now hold the kitchen.
Milnr Albert A mnAiilt nvarlne
1 public information officer said
! that Warrant Officer Charles L.
Bunr. of Memphis, Tenn.. had
desperaaoe8 out
I Mounted Roof
I He mounted the roof, drilled
three holes with an electric chisel.
lowerea an anu-ianx grenaoe
" length of string.
I "Buckner heard some of the
convicts scream then to be let
out. Then he heard a rifle shot
There were no more screams."
Major Arsenault said Buckner,
Pacific combat veteran who
holds the Silver Star and Purple
Heart, continued dropping gre
nades into the cell block. Major
Arsenault estimated he dropped
150 of them.
Leon's Requests
Permit to Build
Application for a $30,000 annex
to Leon's. 234 N. Liberty U has
been filed with the civilian pro
duction administration by L. I.
Balch and C. F. Foulger, operators.
The plans call for the building
to be at the rear of the present
store and to be of concrete ex
terior and wooden interior con
struction, with a basement and
mezzanine in addition to the main
floor.
Another application filed with
the CPA by Henry Schultalber,
Woodbum, is for a six-unit auto
court to cost $12,000. Units are
to include three rooms and a ga
rage.
Reds Plan Lottery-Loan
For Reconstruction
LONDON, May 3-;P)-The So
viet government called on the
Russian people today to invest a
month's pay each in a reconstruc
tion loan of 20.000.000,000 rubles
(nominally $3,774,000,000) to be
retired by-them through an elabo
rate state lottery system. Non
winners will be able to redeem
their bonds at face value 15 years
after issuance. Both bonds and
prize money will be tax-free.
SEEK CITY-OWNED POWER
TOLEDO, Ore., May S-iA-The
water and light commission has
written Bonneville administrator
Paul J. Raver asking a meeting
to draw up an agreement per
mitting a city-ownedi power sys
tem here. Chairman Stanley
Thomson said today.
Weather
Max.
71
72
Min.
43
47
Rain
Salem
Eugene
Portland
J00
J00
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M
75
Seattle
SI
San Francisco 62
Willamette river 1 3 rt.
FORECAST ( from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary Held. saiem: -amy
cloudy with highest temperature, 70
degrees. Light variable winds.
To Resign
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sU E. Allen. Grants Pas, rhalr
man ef the repabllcan state cen
tral committee, whe said teday
he wesld resign May tl dne ta
the pressure ef his law practice,
lie called a meeting ef the 144
member eemmlttee fer that
date, according te the Associat
ed Press.
Restaurants
Threaten to
Close Doors
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Most of Salem's eating en tab
lishments will close before the
end of the month if the OPA does
not allow them price relief, loca
restaurant owners agreed at
meeting last night with officials
of the Salem Culinary alliance,
Increased food costs and oper
ating expenses have made a raise
of at least 20 per cent in prices
necessary, they said. Wage rates
have gone up 50 per cent since
1943, It was pointed out
Robert Lehman of the Spa res
taurant was elected chairman of
committee to appeal to the prop
er OPA authorities for Inveitlga
Uon and price reliefs. Other com
mittee members are Herman Pink,
Meadows; Archie Elliot. Black and
White; Dee Bacon, Salem, Coffee
shop, and Cecil Doty, Smoke shop.
The Culinary alliance has
pledged full cooperation and sup
port.
School District
Move Pondered
Marion county district bound
ary board Friday took under ad
visement until May 31 the ques
uon of removing a 30-acre area
from Pringle school district Into
the Salem school district.
Pringle School Board Chairman
J. D. Adams, proteting the pro
posed change, declared It would
take $13,809 assessed valuation
off his district. A vote on trans
portation of school children in
that district Is scheduled for
May 23.
The change would bring 14
families Into the Salem dUtrict.
Mac Arthur Rules
Out Ilaloyama
TOKYO, Saturday, May 4T-
Ichiro Hatoyama, at the very mo
ment he was to be proposed as
Japan's next premier, today was
ordered barred from all public
office by General MacArthur. ,
MacArthur's headquarters, in a
biting statement, termed the pres
ident of Japan's dominant so-
called Liberal patty an "unde
sirable person" whose past record
had paved the way for the un
opposed march of the military
clique" to power.
LaCuardia Leaves Meeting
Of UNRRA 'Pcncil-Pushets'
WASHINGTON. May 3-T)-F.
H. LaCuardia, UNRRA director
general, disgustedly walked out
on a meeting of the combined
food board today when "pencil
pushing statisticians," as he called
them, showed up instead of offi
cials with authority.
LaCuardia protested that he
cannot "feed people on statistics
and paper wheat," called for an
other session next Tuesday, and
served notice that -he expects "the
head representatives of each
country to attend."
Secretary of Agriculture An
derson, the American representa
tive, was out of town, but La
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Coiniseirve ' CaD
y By Ui Auoctatrd
A deeper slash in the nation's railroad pa Monger service was
decreed yesterday as a coal conservation mcavure as threat of
nationwide railroad strike came from new quarter. 1 ,'
The office of defense transportation or dried a SO per cent
reduction in passenger service on trains powered by coat burning
locomotives effective May 15.
About three fourths of the na
tion's trains use coal for fuel.
Te 'Actually Strike
In Chicago, three railroad op
erating unions representing con
ductors, switchmen and locomo
tive firemen, notified the railroad
managements they wanted daily
wage boost of $1.20 in addition
to a daily hike of $12$ granted
them last month by an arbitra
tion board. They said a strike
would "actually occur" unless
their new demands are satisfac
torily settled.
Only 24 hours earlier, the Bro
therhoods of Railroad Trainmen
and Locomotive Engineers broke'
off conference with the carriers '
ea lieu in an enort to avert a
sllike of their 280.000 memlxri
scheduled for May IS. These two
brotherhoods also demanded wai(e
lnflju Irk arltilitfn f thm lit
cents hourly boost recommended
bv . n,iHontiat fwi.r....i.r.
w -
board.
MUU te Strike
Meanwhile, trans world
trans world at
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line pilots scheduled a strike for
next Tuesday that would affect
international as well as domes 1 1
service and public transportation
was paralyzed in Ixs Angeles by
strike Of AFL. transit workers
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War Surplus
Sale Scheduled
In Salem Soon
Eighty lots of miscellaneous
hardware and related items at the
treasury warehouse, 27S0 State
t., will be offered for sale by bid
to dealers, the-War Assets admin
istration's Portland office an
nounced today. L
There will be a pre-sale Inspec
tion period from May $ to 15
with sealed boxes at each lot for
the receipts of bids. These seals
will be opened and the successful
bidders announced at 10 a m. on
Wednesday, May IS.
Included In the offering are
vises, wrenches, fire extinguish
ers, leather belting, dies, gauges
abrasive cloth, fuses, electrical
connections, pipe covering, circu
lar saws. Jointer blades, safety
valves, steel drills, surveying ac
cessories, loose leaf binders, am
munition boxes and other Items
Holy War Near
In Palestine
JERUSALEM. May 3-)-M"re
thah 1000 shouting Arab youths,
held fn check by British troops
armed with tommy guns, stoned
police and troops today in a rio
tous demonstration during the
general strike railed by Arabs
protesting American and British
recommendations on Palestine,
LA, Reuters dirpatch from Cairo
quotea ADaui ttanman stuam
Pasha, secretary-general of the
Arab league, as saying tonight
that "proposals are being made in
Arab quarters" to declare Pale
stine a battle zone and proclaim
holy war.)
WILSON WYATT TO 6 TEAK
PORTLAND. May 3 -)-Wilson
W. Wyatt, national housing ex
pediter, will speak here June 19
at an open forum. Mayor Earl
Riley announced today.
Cuardia protested that no under
secretary or assistant secretary
was sent in his place.
"I am willing to stand abuse,"
he said, "but I refuse to be trifled
with by the combined food board
on a matter of such Importance
where human lives are con
cerned." Later LaCuardia told women of
the Congressional club he felt
"sick, sore and disabled" when he
"found no head of any country
there." i
"Instead, there were pencil
pushing statisticians there," be
said. "I asked for bread and they
gave paper. I didn't remain."
Linen Strike
Delayed, Union
Meets Tuestl
A otrike ef woikers at the Sa
lem Unen mills was pontpimrd
until after a meeting to I hell
Tuesday, James J. FiUimons,
superintendent, Sfcld last niht.
Strike was to have been caUed
tltr th0 ,iday ,hlft since no
rbitration agiwment had . been
retched. ,
Fttzimma said the meeting
would I held to clarify "cetta.n
pointi at ifttue between the corn
j pany " "
1,1 th "t" between . tl
Miles Linen company anl U
union the company has ben al
lowed until Tuesday at 4 99 p m.
to accept arbitration by the tex
tile woikera after a meeting with
company tf finals Tiif after
noon. The ea tension Is tt allow
tli company lo familiarle lUr.f
with new wage stabillatin board
regulations, Herbert Barker, sec
retary of tl trades and lain r
council, said. ,
Norblad to Eat
Rejected Food
WASHINGTON, May t -CTV
Rep. Norblad (R-Ore) announced
today he will make a meal In the
house dining room tonvtrrow of
food he said t)e navy dumped as
"garbage."
Returning from Oregon, he d.
played samples of food salvaged,
he said, from the navy dump at
Astoria. In the assortment were a
can of luncheon potk, a fsn of
lemon juice powder, a ran of de
hydrated cranberries, a tax af
breakfast cereal and a can af
powdered milk..
Norblad declared It was mil
good, unspoiled food, and. "Just to
prove It, I will eat It at lunch In
the house dining room tomorrow.
Truman Signs
Dam Measure
WASHINGTON, May
Many Pacific north western proj
ects, mostly In Oregon, were In
cluded in the $333,003.00) b.Il
which president Truman revealed
today he had signed, for army
engineers to resume peacetime
flood control and rivers and har
bors programs.
The measure allocates $2,M,-
000 o the McNary (Umatilla)
dam on the Columbia.
Other projects Include:
Flood control, Detroit reservoir.
Ore., Willamette river bank pro
tection. Ore., $450,000.
Advance planning. Quart! Creek
reservoir. Ore, $130,000; Sweet
Home reservoir, Ore., $100,000;
Coquille river basin, Ore., $12,-
000; Nehalem river basin, Ore,
2500.
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Vgifttratioji Total
Twenty-seven of Oregon's l
counties Friday had reprtel
their registrations of voters fur
the primary lection May 17 to'
the secretary of state, with the
remaining counties ' expected to
report early next week.
Figures indicate that there has
been no mater Ul reduction in the
number of registrations despite
suspension of wartime indiuttlsl
ctivllles.
Our Senators
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