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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1946)
l Co) EE) EIEMJ) mm Lnivy Lr LflT UtD ODDS II ,.f Don Good of the state veter ans' office took a crack at Salem for tailing to handle the problem of veterans' housing. He said the chamber of commerce had failed to establish a city housing infor mation center and that more; ef fort wu srtcnt in eettin Camn Adair into this Jkrea to provide profits for. merchants than has been exerted to remedy the hous ing; shortage. . If Don feels that way, it's a good thing to get it off his chest. It may Jab the community into fresh awareness that may lead to action. I believe. : however, that his complaint shows exaggeration. Some months ago the chamber of commerce i initiated effort to ward getting more housing for veterans. This led to the appoint ment of a committee by the may or, and the committee's work is bearing fruit In the housing de velopment jj-in southeast Salem which will 'provide well over 100 bousing units; As far as View construction is concerned houses are springing tip all over The acute phase of the housing problem will be pret ty wett solved by falL Private building Js doing the job as fast as the supply of labor and mate rials will permit. I certainly do not agree with Coode's criticism of commercial construction which may deprive builders of house materials. All such construction is now Screened "by CPA, and non-essential work Is not permitted. It certainly Is Important for veterans to have fob a well as (Continued on editorial page) TnimanMay Seize Farm Machine Plant By the AmrliU4 Press The U. SL conciliation service made another effort yesterday at fettling the Allis-Chalmers strike and government seizure of the cation's st rise bound farm equip ment plants loomed as almost a certainty if these efforts fail. la view of the world need for Increased food production, the disputes in the farm equipment Industry have become the moM critical facing the nation and have been receiving fhe attention ef top government officials. President Truman teld his news r conference Thursday he would not hesitate to seize the J. L Case and Allis-Chalmers plants if such -action is necessary to get farm Machinery production. He added. however, he hoped It wouldn't ! ate i necessary. Vote Sought By PGE in If sOs, klas.lil Voters petition signed by 20g MmuM wee filed with the. West (alesn city recorder . Saturday asking that there be placed on the November ballot a proposal that the Portland General Elec tric be granted a franchise to replace, the one which expired la 139. !' W. X. Hamilton, PGE division manager, said, the company, which pa been operating in West' Salem enry by permit, "had no other alternative.' because ef the "de laying tactics of the West Salem City council. to place company perauons on a sound basis. PCX said the majority of West fZalem dtixens were PGE custom ers. Signatures were declared to have been obtained by PGE em poyea. J V AVC to Drive for Million Members WASHINGTON. June -() Bidding for 1,000,000 new mem bers, sponsors of the fledgling Asnerican Veteran Committee ef World war II keys toned their proposed platform, today, on a plan for worki government. The three-prong sd program. divided into International, nation al end war veterans' affairs, will be effered at the first national eesivention of AVC opening in Tj Moines, Is., nest Thursday. Animal Craclccrs ByWATJSslGOOOCICH "Ihafg what yon f ef for criinf a. full $arduw can." - I- Where ManMade Barrieh Will W ' " " I I This plsele shews the approximate level ef the new Detroit dam te be eenstracted on the North San Uaas river. The arrow paints to the sign (enlarged hi the Inset) -which already Is la place. It says "Crest elevation 1S7 (feet) Is tit ft. abeve tale point. Kichway werk also Is nnderway, and plans are completed for a colony ef persons connected with the hag project designed t aid In harnessing the waters ef the Willamette valley. (Phete for The SUteamaa by Mike Waldroa). Bride, 79, Puts Hubby, 18, To Work Pulling Weeds LOUISA, Ky June t-JP)-Pronounced man and wife by the county Judge, a 79-year-old grandma and her 18-year-old groom returned today to their home in the isolated back coun try and, by the bride s admis sion, to a "honeymoon in the corn field. "The weeds is just takin us there," Mrs. Mattie Lyons Large Sprouse explained, adding that if she and her . new husband. Delbert Sprouse. didn't get busy they "wouldn't, have any corn." Mrs. Sprouse and - Delbert-. Shorty" to his friends soberly stood before Judge J. F. Well-' man; in the Lawrence county circuit court room this rooming to have him "say the words. Delbert, clad In faded blue denim trousers, a work shirt without tie, and unbuttoned Jacket, fidgeted. The ceremony climaxed a se ries of difficulties which had beset him since he originally ap Second Treatment Foi Cherry Fly Declared Essential The cherry fruit fly is in full flight and It 4s time for applica tion of the second treatment in counties coming under the state control area order, reports A. J. Fleming, supervisor of the fruit fly regulatory work for the state department of J agriculture: Because weather conditions have been unsettled, applications of the second treatment Is necessary, he said. ' In Marion. Linn, Polk and Yamhill counties, spraying or dusting Is compulsory. U.Ne to Discuss Atomic Bomb NEW YORK; June M)-Tbe atom bomb, potentially the most explosive Issue In the world, to day, goes before the United- Na tions with convening Friday of the commission for control of atomic energy. 1 ' ' Ordered by the UJ. general assembly to "proceed with the utmost dispatch, the commission seeks means to channel atorrj energy to peaceful ends and eli minate all weapons adaptable to mass destruction. Bernard M. Baruch. United States representative, will take the floor at the opening session to outline the atomic policy of this government. Board to Consider Klamath Base Action ALBANY, June 8 -(P)- The state board of higher education may act Monday on acquisition of the Klamath Falls marine bar racks for a college. Chairman WU (ard L. Marks said today. The board's monthly meeting wlU be held In Portland Monday. Weather Un. Mln. Preclp. 41 JH U .03 SO .01 71 trace SO .00 Ptilmnd . . . . , 70 San FraAdsce . M CtUcaaro 81 New York 1 Wlllarrvrtl nver .1 ft. FORECAST ( from U US weather burean. MrNsrjr field. Salem): Partly cloudy today. toniJit; aigltect temper ature 70 degrees. J 3 it V - plied for the marriage license earlier in the week. There were blood tests, he had to make a second trip to see County Clerk W. H. Moore be cause he lacked his parents con sent, and a third trip because he didn't have enough money for the license. But Delbert persisted: The note of permission from his par ents, signed by "Charlie and Georgie Sprouse," said: "We have give Mr. Delbert Lee Sprouse up to be the husban of Mrs. Mattie Large." : Rebuffed again because he lacked the $5 for the license, Delbert returned over the rug ged country road to Gladys and borrowed the license fee from his bride-to-be. After their marriage, which the three-times-wed bride af firmed by a scarcely audible "I do," the couple left the court house, Mrs. Sprouse in the lead, Delbert tagging along behind. Spanish War Vets to Meet June 24 to 26 The 39th annual department (state) convention of the United Spanish War Veterans and Auxil iary will be held in Salem June 24-28, It was announced Satur day by Joe Wood, chairman " of the convention committee. Registration Will be Sunday, June 23, and there will be a me morial service that same evening at the First Methodist church. The first Joint session of the camp and auxiliary will be at the Elsi nore at 10 a.m. Monday, June 24. The national commander-in-chief, Halsey Leavltt of Washington, D C, is expected later that day. Headquarters of the convention will be at the Elks' temple. FtOSECUTiON K.ESTS TOKYO, Sunday, June P Joseph B. Kennan, international war crimes prosecutor, left by plane -today for the United States for a rest and to attend to per sonal affairs. Aides said he would return in about 30 days. Food-Processing Plants Swing Into Stride for 1946s Season The food - processing industry throughout the: northwest is grad ually gaining momentum for the 1346 season, reports Indicated to day, and many of the plants al ready have finished spinach and other early packs. Others now are readying. for a Start later. Conditions were variable with the Salem area companies reach able Saturday for comment, . but all Indicated they were anticipat ing an urgent need for workers within a few weeks. Blue Lake Producers has been freezing peas and strawberries, and dehydrating potatoes both for the manufacture of alcohol and for famine relief. The spin ach pack is finished. Beans and corn will be handled later. Hunt Brothers is barrelling strawberries for jam. The firm's first major pack will be cherries, expected to start s about June 1ft. Also to be canned are pears, prunes, beets and corn. Held Murdoch is preserving strawberries. Cherries are expect Harness Water V :, j DETROIT DAM I v v ttnisiwCiton Msjtcf j . lMr Serven of fKt fJCsTIl ratnjMftKIBT i j At Kn c or vtnsm - Senators Say 0PA Change to Cost $8 Billion WASHINGTON, June 8 -VP) Four dissenting senators estimat ed today that revisions in the price control law recommended by a majority of the senate bank ing committee would cost con sumers nearly $8,000,000,000 the first yearAnd indirect costs, they contended, would dwarf, that figure. They declared that a year's spiral of inflation could-easily result in a 50 per cent general price rise which would cut in half the value of $145,000,000,600 in wartime pavings of individuals and businesses. In a tart minority report on the price control extension! bill. Banking Committee Chairman Wagner (D-NY) and Senators Downey (D-Calif), Taylor CD Ida ho) and Mitchell (D-Wash), declared that changes voted by a majority of the 19 -member group write a "death sentence for effective price, wage and rent stabilization." "It is our considered judgment. they said, "that adoption of the bill as reported would be as dan gerous to the economic safety of the country as. the Immediate ex piration of the existing laws. Gun Accident Kills Motorist SWEET HOME, Ore., June 8 HP-Howard G. Hadley, 52 Eu gene, was killed this afternoon when a rifle in the tool compart ment of his car was discharged accidentally while Hadley was preparing to change a flat tire. Deputy Coroner John Summers reported. Summers reported Hadley was driving east toward Bend and had pulled off the highway about t miles east of here on the Santiam highway, i His body was found by Mrs. Walter Powell, a rural mail carrier, about 3:00 p.m. slumped at the rear of the auto. The rifle i was a .32 calibre and was in trie compartment. Sum mers reported. ed to be started late this month, followed by berries, apricots and other fruits. California Packing and Oregon Fruit Products are yet to get underway. Beans will comprise a major item for the former. The latter will start on cherries around June 18. Starr Fruit is freezing and packing strawberries and goose-' berries and will handle cherries next. Producers Cooperative is put ting up gooseberries and ' straw berries for freezing, and will start soon on cherries and berries. Paulus Brothers has been can ning gooseberries and s t r a w berries, and will can cherries, berries, pears, prunes, beets, beans and carrots. United Growers have completed spinach and the .first run of rhu barb, and now is running straw berries. Beets, carrots and prunes will be canned. K e 1 le y Farquhar is freezing strawberries. Klavy Ceveafls Mew Speedl Exceedliinig WASHINGTON. June S . -VP) A l00-mile-aa-heur airplane engine, dabbed the "Flying Stovepipe, has been successful ly flown, tbsf navy revealed to day. Originally planned te power guided missiles (pilotless flying bombs) the revolutionary ram Jet engine has no moving parts, weighs only 7 pounds and looks like a long piece of pipe. Bat It develops between 2000 and SOOf horsepower as much as a conventional bis; bomber enxine. The ram Jet engine has been flown only in pilotless experi 3n NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 24 27 Saved By Leaps Into Nets DUBUQUE, la., June fr-(Sun-day) -(i"P)- Three persons were known dead and Fire Captain Harold Cosgrove estimated at least IS others perished in a fire which gutted the six story Canfield hoteiJ early this morning. At least 19 persons were hos pitalized with injuries? The fire had been brought un der control and firemen were searching the charred wreckage for bodies of any victims who might have been trapped in the hotel. one of the dead have been identified. Cosgrove said that when he ar rived at the burning hotel people were at the windows screaming for aid. He reported 27 persons iere saved by leaping into nets, and 30 were brought out of the hotel by ladder. At least three or four persons were killed, Cosgrove said, when they jumped and missed the net. Grange Kohn, hotel clerk, said 129 guests were registered at the hotel. Georgia to File Suit to Disband Ku Klux Klan ATLANTA. June t -iP)-State Attorney General Eugene Cook said today Georgia would file a civil suit to dissolve the Ku Klux Klan "within the next few days." Cook, who was directed by Governor Ellis Arnall to break' up the Klan in Georgia, said he was convinced his department had gathered, sufficient information to wage a successful fight against the hooded organization. The attorney general also an nounced at a press conference that he intended to ask U. S. At torney General Tom Clark if the department of justice had infor mation which could help the legal fight against the Klan. Cook stressed that his action against the Klan would be to re voke' the Klan's Georgia charter. Leprosarium Said Prison SAN FRANCISCO, June -VP) MaJ. Hans Hornbostel, Batten hero whose wife developed lepro sy while in Japanese prison camp, was back "In San Francisco today after escorting his wife to the Carville, La., federal leprosarium. He said they were both shocked to find she would have to live behind a steel wire fence and has lost her right to vote. "It's the most damnable thing I ever heard of," he said. "The state of Louisiana is treat ing these intelligent, good Ameri can people like so many criminals or insane." BATON ROUGE, June 8 -(JP) Sen. H. Alva Brumfield has in troduced a bill in the state sen ate which would permit leprosy patients at the U. S. marine hos pital to register and vote. What Is Happening To Oregon Poultry? The inside story of efforts to unravel enough red tape to permit the continued existence of the Northwest's poultry in dustry is told by Wes Sullivan, news editor of The Oregon Statesman, who draws on the records of Ervin L. Peterson, state director of agriculture, for an authorative review of a critical situation. The story is on page 6 of YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER today. ments and has not yet been in stalled In an airplane. The tests have been conduct ed with the "stovepipe" hurtling throach the air on its own, after betas; boosted to working; speed by rockets. Flight speeds, char acteristics and technical data were radioed back from the en gine In flight to the researchers conducting; , the e x p e r 1 m ents ' through a complicated electronic "telemetering" method. ' The Johns Hopkins laboratory which aided In the development said the engine has been "suc cessfully flown at speeds ex NU N DBS D 1651 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. AFL EOsirDDii 12 Disqualified From Jobless Pay Benefits At least a dozen claimants, in cluding five veterans, living in the Salem area were disqualified this week by the state unemploy ment compensation commission for failing to report farm earnings while they wAye drawing bene fits, commission officials reported Saturday. All 12 may be prosecuted, the commission stated. Four of them were claimants who had wage credits in other states Washing ton, California and Michigan. The five veterans were cut off by the commission from receiving read justment allowances and their cases will be turned over to the veterans administration for fur ther action. All five were regis tered with the Salem office. "We are making every effort to prevent payments to those with earnings' or to others not entitled to benefits under the law," ex plained Administrator Silas Gal ser, who added that many other cases were being Investigated on reports from employers, local em ployment offices and the public. Speech School M. Regisl tration Begins Today Registration will be conducted at the state school for the deaf today for 156 Oregon youths who are enrolling in the special state sponsored summer school for children having difficulty in read ing and speech and those requir ing lip reading. Dr. V. D. Bain, director of the school which runs from June 10 to August 2, stated Saturday that capacity enrollment has been reached. The faculty numbers 16 specially trained state educational experts and remedial instructors. Three out of state instructors arc Harriet Dunn of the Univer sity of Michigan speech depart ment; Mrs. Melba Fickllng. presi dent of the California society for the study of speech therapy, and Dr. La Verne Strong, director of elementary education at Pennsyl vania State Teachers college. . Pupils will be given an oppor tunity for expert and intensive training in a busy, wholesome environment designed to encour age social development and max imum progress in the field of their special needs, Dr. Bain stated. Hessian Crown Jewels Found In Railway Station Locker WASHINGTON, June S-VP)- dime-in-the-slot railway station locker gave up a fortune in Hess ian crown jewels, the army re vealed today as it wrote a new mystery thriller chapter In the tale of the gems of Kronberg castle. The army flew to jail near here the colonel, from whom it said it got the locker key that unearthed the greater part of the $1,600,000 loot, and his Wac captain bride. The jewels the army said "practically all" of the gems now have been found were put on display at the Pentagon army headquarters. Torn from their regal settings, the diamonds, emeralds and other stones had lain in a plain card board box in a locker in the Illi nois Central station in Chicago as authorities gave lie detector I i ceeding 1400 miles per hour," Developed under - the code name "Bumblebee," the engine scoops np air which Is com pressed by the speed of the Jet. mixed with fuel and ignited. The burning gases shooting from the rear end of the pipe develop a terrific thhisC Because' it takes oxygen from the air, unlike the V-2 robot bomb engine which was to carry Its own, it could pack a heavier explosive punch or have a long er range, the navy explained. The main disadvantage of the "stovepipe is that It works at Salem, Oregon, Sunday. June 9, CIO Offered Added Port Time With Pay By Denglaa B. Cornell WASHINGTON, June 8 -VP)- The immediate threat of aa AFX. seamen's strike blew over today but a new government maneuver to stop CIO sailors from walking off ships June IS began generating union opposition. ' The AFL, sailors union of the Pacific halted a strike vote ard began taming wage-hour issues spokesman lor the owners re ported "definite progress." That happened in San Francis co. Apparently it scuttled a pos sibility that both AFL and CIO seamen might be on strike simul taneously on all coasts by mid June. , . Produce Plan Here to Washington, govern ment conciliators stepped up ef forts to dissolve the CIO end of the maritime crisis. They produc ed a plan to give sailors time off with pay in port instead of a shorter work week at sea. To provide something definite for discussion, they suggested reten tion of the present 56-hour week at sea and a day off with pay for every 14 days afloat. The mediators dropped the pro posal Into negotiations between east coast ship operator and the committee for 'maritime -unity. which is bargaining for the big CIO National Maritime union and six allied unions. Awaits Acceptance Neither the men who operate the ships nor those who man them showed any inclination to accept the plan as a complete solution to the issue of working hours the biggest barrier in the way of an agreement. They took no official, public stand. And negotiations contin ued. But union spokesmen said the proposal ignore their funda mental demand, for a cut in the 56-hour 'week at sea. One said privately the strike would not be caUed of until there was some modification. Fraud Charged In Italian Vote ROME, June 8-JP-A monarch ist leader charged today there had been fraud in the plebiscite in which Italy chose to be a repub lic, and demanded Allied review of balloting that doomed the reign , of King Umberto II. Monarchist demonstrations, meanwhile, subsided today after causing two deaths and a score of Injuries in Naples, and rioting in Rome and Palermo. Federal police said the death toll was only two, and Minister of the In terior Giuseppe Romtta declared the entire country was quiet. tests to the colonel and his wife shortly after their capture. Maj. John B. Salb, assistant chief of the provost marshal gen eral's criminal investigation divi sion, said the locker was opened last night with a key supplied by Col. Jack Durant. who with his bride, CapL Kathleen B. Nash Durant, was brought to Washing ton today. Army officials said the two have Confessed removing the jewels from the castle of the German royal family of Hesse Darmstadt. They are expected to face court martial charges, and ..officials mentioned "looting" and "mis appropriation yesterday in dis cussing charges that, might be In volved in the case. These officials said the amount Involved was the biggest in any such case in U.S. army history. (Story in Column 5) high speeds only. Catapults or auxiliary rockets ' are eel te boost It vp te its efficient epe rating Speed. The navy envisioned rase Jets of the fat ore. nat as the sole power plant ef an airplane, bet to take ever the high spefd range after ether methods had pushed the plane te a beat miles an near. Hinting at even mere faatas tic speeds and power In models) still behind the curtain of se curity, scientists who helped de velop the ram Jet ' commented tersely te newsmen, "we are) Just starting.'' 1946 Price 5c No. S3 with we&t coast shipowners. A Tinman Note Expected to Be Case Bill Veto WASHINGTON. June t House leaders alerted members today to be on hand for a special message from President Truman next week,, and ChainnA Saba tlx (D-Ill) of the rules committee said he expects it to be a veto of the Case labor disputes bill. Sabath would not msk a flat prediction but said - his idee ef what is coming is based on a conversation be had with the chief executive. House. Democratic Leader lio newsmen, however, that he had "no positive knowledge" of what the president will do. At the White Hbuse. Presiden tial Secretary Charles G. Ross confirmed reports that Mr. Tru man would send congress a labor legislation message explaining whatever stand he takes on the Case measure. Greek Riots Follow Decree ATHENS, June 8 -CP) -New dis orders were reported in Greece to day in the wake of the royalist government's drastic decree pro viding death sentences for action against the state, and the com munists charged in a formal state ment that the step could leal "only td civil war." . The ministry of public order, as serting that 198 persons, includ ing 17 gendarmes and three sol diers had been slain in armed at tacks since April I, said roaming bands of communists had created a "desperate" situation la the Edessa district of western Mace donia in new outbreaks. Threat to Arrest Petrillo Collapses ' ST. PETERSBURG. Fla June 8 -JPy-Th threatened arrest of James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musici ans, under the Florida sedition act, collapsed today after hanging over the delegates to the annual convention for a week. tomey, who said he had been investigating remarks the mu sicians' chief made Monday, add ed that after reviewing, ail evi dence he had found "nothing said by Mr." Petrillo was a violation of the criminal laws of Florida. Our Senators 14-3,