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Gov. Hon Walgren of Washing
ton had rejected tuuntions for
building new facilities for the
new state penitentiary at Walla
Walla. He proposes that a new
penitentiary be built to replace
tie present one. The press report
did not give his reasons, but I
think I can supply them. The
present institution is old and the
plant which once was a consider
able distance from the city now
has the city growing, right up to
it It M i mistake, the governor
I eels, to put more money into that
plant la its present location.
' The same reasoning applies,
only with greater force, to Ore
gtfti's penitentiary. It is older and
as more fully enveloped with habi
tation. Instead of putting more
money into the plant at its present
location the state should move out
to new location and build from
scratch. Then we would have a
modern plant, removed from ur
ban surroundings.
This is not a new idea. Senator
Isaac Staples, long senator from
Multnomah and later from Tilla
nook counties, a great friend of
the state institutions, urged years
ago that the penitentiary be re
located. The state will gain noth
ing: by waiting longer. It ought
to act, through the legislature, and
select another site for ultimate
relocation of the prison.
The present investment in plant
Is not large, if reasonable depre
ciation be charged. In IS years
only, two structures of consequence
have been built, a new cell block
and a dining-halL hospital. Prison
labor did a great deal of this
work, o the out-of-pocket cost
was not great The program of im
provements contemplates exten
sion of walls and remodeling of
the old cell block, which would
merely pile up more investment
fca an old and now poorly-located
plant.
The only way to get the change
made U to present it to the legis
lature and push it vigorously.
Portland School
High Court Asked To
Rehear Arguments
Tax
Contending there is ample existing authority for Portland
school board to call an election. Attorney General George Neuner
and Multnomah County District Attorney Thomas B. Handley
Wednesday petitioned the state supreme court for a rehearing of
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Many Attend
Services for
Noted Engineer
Standing room at the rear of
the church was taken snd s
number of persons were seated
in the chancel of St Paul's Epis
copal church behind banks of
Cowers as state and cijty paid fi
nal respects Wednesday afternoon
tsCB. McCuHough, state bridge
engineer and civic worker who
died Monday morning following
heart attack.
Zven one of the Latin-American
countries on whoee Inter
Asnerican highway he had de
signed bridges was represented
among members of the engineer
ing profession who came from
ever the state for the rites.
Members of the bar. of state
highway and other commissions,
Oregon officials and employes
and neighbors heard the Rev.
George H. Swift, rector of the
church where Mr. McCullough
had served as vestryman, read
the Episcopal scriptural service
and pay tribute to the deceased
as engineer, man of brilliant in
tellect generosity, fellowship,
democracy and deep religious
convictions.
Richard D. Barton s-ng "Now
the Laborer s Task Is O'er' and
Son of My Soul" to the organ
accompaniment by Ruth Bedford.
The flag of the United States he
erred as a captain in the engi
neers during the first World war
draped the brown casket.
Portland High School Students
Demonstrate Against Governor
PORTLAND. May SWyD-Greups ef high school students pa
raded through downUwB streets today in a demonstration against
Geveraer Earl Snell.
Several aehoels reported demonstrations daring the lanch
hear. At Commerce high, youngsters paraded with banners say
ing "Down with Snell." "We want sports' and "Strike."
A crowd of about 10 surrounded the Multnomah hotel
where Governor Snell was attending a meeting, but failed In their
attempt to Interview him. After he left they broke up around
downtown streets, crying "We want Snell - - out!
The demonstration stemmed from Snell's refusal to call a
special legislative session which the Portland school board asked
to amend a 1137 tax law and permit a special school tax election.
Wlllard B. Spalding. Portland school superintendent de
clared he woulil not condone any demonstration, and said he had
attempted to ftead off students' plans.
NINETY -SIXTH YEAR 12 PAGES Scdem. Oregon. Thursday Morning. May 9. 194S
Price 5c
No. 37
Apadtrtmemitis Being Constructed
At City Veteran Mousing Colony
the mandamus proceedings in which the court held that the
election could not be held.
The school board had sought to force the election in order to
bring a $1,750,000 school tax levy before voters.
The petitioners' stand indicates that, a special legislative session,
sought by the school board after the supreme court's adverse decision,
is unnecessary.
The petition declared:
"That part of the supreme court opinion which we are asking
the court to eliminate or clarify
evidently was induced by the fact
that the 1937 legislative assembly,
by its enactment of a new section,
repealed a preceding chapter of
the laws of 1915. . ?"
"The 1917 law is the only law of
this state relating to the particular
type of election involved in this
proceeding. . . .
"We therefore submit that all
the necessary and Jurisdictional
preliminary steps for the election
in question have been complied
with, such election may be con
ducted by the board of directors
of the school district as it was
clearly Intended it should be by
the i 1917 legislative assembly
whith enacted the only law appli
cable to such elections, which law
now exists in Its original form."
Grain Ceilings
Raised to Aid
Famine Relief
WASHINGTON, May 8-()-The
government announced jumps in
the ceiling prices of wheat, corn
and other grain and livestock
feeds tonight In a new effort to
remedy the food situation at home
and abroad.
The increases of 25 cents a bu
shel for corn, 15 cents for wheat,
five cents for oats, nine cents for
barley, and 10 cents for rye, will
become effective May 13.
The government will end pay
ment of a 30-cent per bushel bo
nus on corn, offered to get the
grain off farms for famine relief
purposes, after next Saturday.
The SO-cent wheat bonus will
continue until May 25, as origin
ally scheduled.
U.S.-Red Korea
Talks Collapse
SEOUL, May 8.-i-American-Soviet
negotiations for establish
ment of a provisional Korean gov
ernment collapsed tonight over
the issue of free speech for Kor
eans. The Russian-American commis
sion which had been meeting here
for seven weeks adjourned with
out fixing s date for resumption
of negotiations and the Russian
delegate parked its bags for de
parture. A U. S. army press r el esse
blamed the breakdown on a Rus
sian demand for a political purge
of all leaders who had ever voiced
"honestly and openly" their pref
erence lor immediate inaepen
dence.
With the first dwelling unit un
der construction this week at the
Salem veterans' housing colony
site near Oxford and South 16th
streets, speculation among local
housing officials and among the
350 families applying for apart
ments there mounted as to how
soon the first tenants can move
in.
Contract date for completion of
the 144-unit housing colony is
August 10, but officials here are
urging contractors to complete
their work building by building
to that first houses may be ready
for occupancy as early as June 1.
Housing leaders hope to arrive
at a rental figure as low as $25
to $35 per month.
Willamette university officials
are hopeful that enough houses
will be ready by July 1 to ease
housing conditions for the sum
mer term.
Furniture is stored here for all
but the 20 units most recently
This four-apartment unit Is first house under construction at the
veterans' housing colony site on South 16th near Oxford street
(Photo by BUI Scott Statesman staff photographer.)
and four-room apartments will be
equipped with ice box, kitchen
and laundry sinks, kitchen and
heating stoves for coal and wood.
davenport and lounge chair, kit
chenette table and two or four
granted the university. The three chairs.
Three- room apartments "will
have twin beds In one bedroom
and a double bed in the other.
All beds come with springs and
mattresses. Each apartment In
cludes a bathroom.
Truman Urges
Traffic Safety
WASHINGTON, May &-JF)-President
Truman, taking up the
cudgels for a cause he once cham
pioned in congress, called upon
the nation's traffic chief today to
halt "murder" on the highway by
barring "nuts and morons' from
the driver's seat in a plea for
uniformity In state automotive
requirements.
The chief executive's appeal for
action to curb the nation's road
death toll now mounting to the
equivalent of three army divi
sions s year was laid before the
opening session of s three-day
national highway safety conference.
Nearly 7500 Vets
To Debark Today
By She Associated Ptchs
Nearly 7500 service personnel
from Pacific and European theat
tres arc scheduled to debark from
eight vessels at thre U. S. ports
today.
Ships arriving:
At New York
Gen. G. O. Squier from Leg
born. Pomona Victory from Le
Jiavre.
At San Diego
Destroyer Southerland, trans
port Bollinger.
At San Francisco
Mangold from Manila, Dane
from Guam. Washburn from Sa
snar, Randall from Pearl Harbor.
Animal Crackers
P WARREN GOO061CH
Sailor Heir
Back in U.S.
w" . o in,, ' " i'i
OAKLAND. Calif. May &-JP)-John
Ochsner. 19-year-old navy
seaman heir to a $2,000,000 oil
fortune, arrived at the Oakland
airport this afternoon and into the
arms of his mother, Mrs. Hilda
Ochsner. He said he was "all
through" with Marguerite Human,
the girl who stowed awsy on s
government liner to meet him in
Honolulu.
He told newsmen he was "un
der orders not to answer; ques
tions" about the Honolulu charges
of Intimacy with a minor girl
there which his mother declared
a rrame-up.
were
BALING WIRE SHORT
PORTLAND. May 6 -Pi- A
shortage of wire bale ties 500 to
800 tons less than the amount
Oregon ranchers need was re
ported by the department ofagri
culture production and marketing
administration today.
Russia Snubs
Council Meet
NEW YORK, May 8 -(-Soviet
Russia snubbed the United Na
tions Security Council today on
two counts on the Iranian issue
and the council then postponed
consideration of the case.
Great Britain's delegate, Sir Al
exander Cadogan, bluntly charac
terized the absence of Soviet Del
egate Andrei A. Gromyko from
the council chamber as an "eva
sion of responsibility or obliga
tion." The 10 sitting delegates adopt
ed a resolution proposed by Ed
ward R. Stettinius, Jr., United
States delegate, calling on Iran to
report by May 20, or sooner if pos
sible, on the withdrawal of Red
troops from Iran.
$6000 Ceiling
Set for 50 of
Vet Housing
PORTLAND. May -JP)-A
ceiling price of $6000 and a rent
si ceiling of $45 a month was
set by the federal housing ad
ministration today for half the
veterans' homes to be built in
Oregon under HH priorities.
The ceiling applies to only half
the rentals and half the sales
Others may cost up to the nationally-set
$10,000.
The Oregon office has protested
the $8000 ceiling. Walter Hufch-
inson, executive assistant, report
ed, on the ground that construe
Uon costs make a $8000 house
inadequate. During the rest of
May and June, Oregon west of
the Cascades will be eligible for
1371 sale units and 524 rentals.
Hotel Building
Permit Refused
PORTLAND. May t -UP)- Con
structi on permits were refused
for $913,616 worth of Oregon
building plans today, while 16
projects totaling $615,800 were
granted approvals.
Among projects rejected by the
civilian production administration
office here wore an $80,000 Hotel
Senator building planned by W.
W. Chadwick, Salem; $28,000 for
additions to the Immanuel Luth
eran church, Silverton.
Approved plans included: $51,
000 for alterations to the Corval
lis branch. United States National
bank of Portland.
New applications filed today
included $23,000 for church build
ing by Central Lutheran church,
Salem.
Terminal Pay Sought
For Enlisted Men
WASHINGTON, May 8 Py
The house military committee rec
ommended today that enlisted men
be given the same terminal pay
benefits accorded officer, but that
in the future the payments b
dropped for everyone.
Men already discharged, but
who served after September 8,
1939, would be eligible for the
payments upon application with
in a year from the date the legis
lation becomes law.
PHONE STRIKE AVERTED
DETROIT, May 8-;P-OfficUls
of the Michigan Bell Telephone
company announced shortly be
fore midnight that a threatened
Thursday walkout of 3000 De
troit operators and clerical work
ers had been averted following a
day-long negotiating session.
MILK HEARING TO RE-OPEN
PORTLAND, May 8-P-A milk
price hearing will resume tomor
row when the state department
of, agriculture is expected to hear
fresh arguments from producers
and others.
TIME CHANGE VOTE DI E
PORTLAND. Ore., May 8 -(JP)
City council will decide next Wed
nesday whether to adopt daylight
saving time. Mayor Earl Riley
reported today.
Senators Smash
WIL Record with
Thirteen Straight
They did it again, and this
time for an all-time Western
International league record!
Salem's soaring Senators, an
unbeaten ball club this WIL
Byrnes Asks
Big 4 Meet to
Admit Failure
Coutity To
Add I Two
Depu
ties
campaign, last night thumped
Wenatchee, 8 to 5 in 10 innings,
for their 13th consecutive win.
The victory broke the existing
record of 12 straight wins at
the start of a season set by Yak
ima's 1938 team.
Salem rallied for three runs
In the ninth and three more In
the tenth for last night's deci
sion. Steve Gerkin, in a relief
role, won his sixth straight pit
ching victory. (Complete details
and box score on today's sports
pae,)
How to pet Clean
Window Panes
Bust the Old Ones
PARIS. May 8.-W)-Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes proposed
abruptly tonight that the confer
ence of foreign ministers recog
nize Its failure to agree on terms
for Europe's peace treaties and re
fer their differences to a 21 -na
tion peace conference June IS.
The ministers conference ap
peared to be breaking up In dis
cord between the soviet union and
the western powers, and a mem
ber of the American delegation
said that while it probably would
last into next week, there seemed
little hope of resolving the ; major
differences.
Byrnes proposal won prompt
support from both Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin of Britain and
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault
of France.
Molotov was said to have dis
agreed, asserting that the big three
decision in Moscow required the
major powers to draw up com
plete Joint drafts of treaties for
submission to the 21 -nation conference.
Dock Strike
SEATTLE, May t -(F)- The
Boeinff Aircraft Co. felt some
thing like the man who painted I J
himself in a corner when it look- llCUOIIlIIlCIlUCLl
ed over skylights in its plant No.
S M .
no louna were was no way cam roivriorn xra -jtv-
w nil. I nrw. XJ t le rF Mori.
time Unions, representing more
ever, u nao soivea me proo-em than 160,000 workers, today ap-
ana wouia xnocic out one or ev- proved a committee recommen
ery 24 panes maintenance dation for a Joint nationwide
workers can then reach through m,ritim itrik startine June 15
me noies ana wasn me otner uae at 12:oi a.m. (local time.)
or the other panes. Alter that n- .m th tHU
they'll merely have to replace the
900 broken sections.
Poultry Feed Famine
Said Critical in State
would be to halt a drive toward
new and more devastating
world war" by shipowners and
"American reactionaries." High
er pay is another specified goal.
The convention voted that to
day's decision be referred to
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar 8 -"- membership of the seven parUci
Oregon poultry men face a poul- I pa ting unions
try feed famine for their flocks
wttnin a tew aayi, u t :. neeney, c,, 7V C-m
manager or the Pacific Co-oper- "-J"" '"- r
tZe 1 ?.UCZ? Jif; Elects Mrs. Hilmer
tne intensive gram purcnasing Mr mlmeTf guperinten-
program of the commodity credit Ant c9im nnmnKi
corporation i "0"ve-ceuiiiK h-.ilal , -i-cted vice Irei-
Marion county's budget com
mittee i Wednesday authorized an
additional deputy sheriff and
deputy district: attorney, boosted
the health department funds, pe
titioned the legislature to make
he county surveyor an appoint
ive of Cicial (instead of elective)
and recommended to the county
iuii ixi"icuun ui mc court
house building; fund in the next
three years.
Judge Grant jMurphy called the
next budget session for 9 a.m.
Thursday and predicted the com
mittee will conclude its work by
noon. !
Authorized 1
Authorized ih committee bud-1
get approvals iWednesday were:
A second deputy district attor
ney, toj be pajd $2400 annually
from county funds.
An additional deputy for the
legal department of the sheriff's
office at $2304 salary, to pro
vide 24-hour i coverage In the
sheriff's; department. (Part of the
increase to be defrayed by reduc
tion of the Janitor iiil crew which
now provides a part-time sheriff's
deputy at night.) j
Health j Department
A $10,200 increase In the
health department budget to per
mit widened activity but no ad
ditional personnel. Total budget:
$60,350.1
Increase from $840 to $1340 for
predatory animal control which,
with matching state and federal
funds, will provide a full-time
county hunter, i
Appropriation; of $1400 for bal
ance of this year and for next
year i this county's share in
supporting officerJ and enforce
ment program in the new four
county cherry fruit fly control
district
British ILoaii
Passes Test
WASHINGTON. May 8.-(;p)-By
a scant five votes, the adminis
tration today won its first bjg test
on the $3,750,000,000 loan to Brit
ain and: drove ahead with new
speed striving for senate passage
tomorrow. S
In a nip andj tuck battle, loan
supporters voted down, 45 to 40,
an amendment ;by Senator Mc-
Farland !(D-Artf) that Democra
tic Leader Barkley (Ky) said
would have "m winded the death
knell" of the financial agreement
with Britain.
Tomorrow the; senate will vote
on a motion by Senator Edwin C.
Johnson (D-Col) to halt senate
discussion on the grounds that it
is a revenue-raising bill that re
quires prior house Action.
Gas Next
To Be Cut
In Crisis
Railroads Lay
Off 400,000 Due
To Coal Strike '
WASHINGTON. May 8-GP-A
far flung dimout was urged by
the government tonight, and
steps weie in preparation for nation-wide
lationing of manufac
tured gas ns the coal strike crista
moved rapidly toward perhaps
the most momentous showdown
in the country's peacetime his
tory. I . ;
The civilian production admin
istration called on electric com
panies in more than a score of
eastern and mid western "Vo'al-
burning states to put into effect a
rationing system, starting with a
"brownout" and progressing to a
blackout of all except the most
vital services.
CPA prepared another order
authorizing gas manufacturers at
their discretion, to curtail service
to consumers.
Simultaneously, the Association
of American Railroads announced
that 400,000 men employed in in
dustries served by the railroads
have been laid off as result of
the Fti ike.
The civilian production admin
istration urged utihty companies
to ration electricity drastically in,
states east of the Mississippi ri--ver
and in Minnesota, Iowa and
Missouri.
Salem to Feel
Effects of Rail
Embargo Soon
An embargo on express to be
carried over coal-burning rail
roads, with exception of the
standard commercial type of per
ishable and extra-valuable arti
cles goes onto goods leaving Sa
lem at 12:01 a.m. May 10, A. O.
Long, Railway Express agent
here, was notified Wednesday.
All types of express may still
be directed to any point on the)
PORTLAND. Ore, May
Northwest lumber wilt jam all - ;
available storage " space and
many mills may be forced to. "
close as a result of the freight
embargo starting Friday, lum
bermen predicted today, "i
Drices for famine relief overseas
has practically shut out feed"
makers from the grain markets.
dent Of the Oregon States Nurses
association during the three-day
Portland meeting from which she
returned 'Wednesday.
BAPTISTS ELECT CATES j Several Salem nurses and sup
Local Baptist leaders have been J ervisors attended sessions of the
attending sessions of the state meeung.
Baptist convention in Portland,
which ends today. Delegates yes
terday-elected Ray Cates of Sa
lem president of the state men s
council.
cAtUrwi. yoa might
rci $tepp9d
Many Mouse Candidates Are Unopposed
By WendeU Webb
Man fins aditor. Tb Statesman
Twen(y-nine Incumbent state
representatives seeking re-election
are unopposed for nomina
tion in the May 17 primaries, and
17 of them already are assured of
re-election barring write-in
campaigns by virtue of facing
no opposition in November.
There are 131 candidates seek
ing party nominations for the 60
seat house 75 of them in the
5th (Multnomah county) district
where each party will nominate
13.
Fifty-three of the 60 current
representatives are seeking re
nomination and election this year.
The seven not on May 17 ballot
hou5e are James Gleason (d) of
Portland A W Mevrra frl of
Milwaukie, William T. Johnson j W. Chadwick, Paul Hendricks,
(d) of Corvallis, Fred Himel
wright (r) of Joseph, V. B. Sta
ples (r) of Ontario, Truman A.
Chase (r) of Eugene, and Speak
er of the House Eugene Marsh (r)
of McMinnville. Chase and Marsh
are seeking senate seats.
Of the 17 apparently assured
of re-election, 16 are republicans,
one a democrat. Of the 12 others
assured of re-nomination but
facing opposition in November,
nine are republicans and three
democrats. There were SO repub
licans and 10 democrats in the
last session.
Twenty-four of the 53 incum
bents seeking another term sre
opposed for nomination in the
primaries. These Include Marion
county's delegation of four: W.
H. R. Jones and John Steelham
mer; Polk county's Lyle Thomas;
Yamhill county's Carl Francis,
and Jack Bain of Clackamas, as
well as. Fred W. Adams of the
17th (Coos-Curry) district who
is opposed by former Represen
tative Stella CuUip.
Members of the last legislature
who have no opposition for nomi
nation in the primaries and no
one seeking to oppose them on
the November ballot include:
Fred Hell berg (r), Anna U.
Ellis (r). Earl Hill (r), John
Snellstrom (r), Robert C. Gile
(r), Carl C. Hill (r), O. H. Bengt
son (r), Frank J. Van Dyke Or,
Donald E. Heisler (r), Giles L.
French (r), Henry E. Peterson
(r). C. L. Lieuallen (r), Art W.
Llndberg (r), William Niskanen
(r), Burt K. Snyder (r), Manley
BODY-SNATCHERS CAUGHT
ROME,; May 8 -(IP)- The Italian
news agency Ansa said in a dis
patch from Milan today that two
of the 12 persons arrested in con
nection with the theft of Benito
Mussolini's body had confessed
their participation and said 11
duce's body now was hidden "in
secure place
J. Wilson (d), E. W. Kimberlinc
(r). (Total 17.) BILL. TO RETURN DEAD VOTED
Non-incumbent candidates In WASHINGTON. May 8 -UP)
the same category Include: Congress save final approval and
Earle Johnson (r) Corvallis, sent to President Truman today a
Herman P. Hendershott, jr. (r) I bill authorizing return of the na-
Eugene, Martin P. Gallagher Orltion'a war dead to this country
Ontario. (Total S.) for burial. The war department
Members of the last legislature I would return and bury the bod
who have no opposition for nomi
nation but against whom ravil
party candidates have filed to
assure opposition In November
Include:
E. H. Condit (r), H. H. Cbind
gren (r), J. S. Greenwood (r),
M. M. Landon (r), Ned H. Calla
way (d), W. W. Balderree (r),
E. Riddell Lage (r), Vernon D.
Bull (d), William B. Morse (r).
R. C. Frisbie (r). Rose M
(r). Henry Semon (d). (Total 12.)
(House lineup on page S.)
ies of any war dead whoee-imme
diate family requests such action.
Weather
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degrees.
ipera-
Garbape Men Say
Food Drive Effective
PORTLAND, May 8-(AVPort-land
garbage collectors told the
state food for famine committee
today that since the famine relief
drive started, the amount of dis
carded food has! dropped notice
ably. Bread sent from restaurants and
bakeries as hog food is about 75
per cent below normal, they said.
ITALY'S KING TO ABDICATE
ROME, May 8rOP)-King Vitto
rio Emanuele will abdicate before
the June 2 plebiscite to decide
whether Italy shall be a monarchy
or republic, Falcone Lucifero,
minister of the royal household,
said today, but the abdication doc
ument has not yet been drafted.
Milwaukee railroad west of Chi
cago (and Including Chicago), on
the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific this side of an Including;
St Paul. Minn., and on the Un
ion Pacific to Huntington. Ore.
The Southern Pacific and SP St 8
railroads, oil burning lines, are.
not affected by the order. Long
said.
Office of defense transportation
permits for carload shipments of
articles riot specifically listed
among the exceptions may be ob
tained through direct communica
tion with ODT, If emergency need
is proved. Long said. He advised
shippers with less .than carloed .
lots to make arrangements lo
cally. '
House Building
High in Salem
' SliKhtly over 70 per cent el
the total valuation of construc
tion and repairs for which the
City issued building permits dur
ing April was in new residential
construction, the city engineer's
monthly report showed Wednes
day. Of the 134 permits totalling:
$288,248, the valuation placed cn
new Salem houses totalled $204 -850.
Of the remainder, $58,750
was for non-residential building;
and $23,698 for miscellaneous re
pairs and alterations. Fees col
lected on the permits amounted
to $573.85. t
FARMHOUSE PRIORITY
PORTLAND, Ore.. May -iAi-Farmers
may obtain (Priorities
only for farmhouses, not other
buildings, the department of ag
riculture production and market
ing administration said today.
Clubwomen Favor Military
Training, Strike Machinery
Maxlne; Bnren
Women's Editor; The Statesman
PORTLAND, May 8.-(Special)-Oregon
Federation clubwomen at
the 36th annual 1 convention held
for three days in Portland went
on record as urgmg more satis
factory machinery for dissolving
differences of labor and manage
ment. It also urged the study of
proposals to provide for adequate
defense and military training.
Several Salem women appeared
on the program at the Wednesday
session. Both the fcoorninx and aft
ernoon meetings were presided
over by Mrs. George R. K- Moor
head, Salem, state president.
During the morning session
Myra Montgomery, Independence,
state treasurer, In her report call
ed attention to the cooperation of
the Salem Woman's club in pre
paring state federation directory.
Mrs. C. W. Stacey, Salem, state
legislative chairman, reported
work done toward the health and
physical fitness law for Oregon.
Mrs. C. A. Rat cliff. Salem, inter
national relations chairman, call
ed attention to a fund to rebuild
the Philippine Federation club
house in Manila.
I The afternoon speaker was Mrs.
Walter Argow, secretary to the
Oregon Prison association.
A .banquet at the Multnomah
hotel was held in the evening and
attended by Gov. Earl Snell, oth
er state and city dignitaries. Dr.
Catherine Bain, of children's bu
reau. Washington, D. C, was the
speaker. Gov. Snell presented a
citation to the "Oregon mother of
1946." Mrs. O. H. Mansfield of
Milton-Freewater.