TO
Anyway, It Really Qui Be Done
sfcesrtJetsa waa evtaee4 bci ehemfcU declared Utat
klxa-rrase alwaaln eeeld fee predaced free lew-grade clay. Bat
, Um Ua was ghrea ckaaee ander Um argeaey ( war. Wedaes
. day a Sate U rd Maetf. Mmwi kere la C J. eae. saetaJ-
twrteal tafiaMf at the galeae alaaslna-rraaa-clar alaat. toealag
a-rvr aaaaa of Um flnt ejaallty alaaUna. having t ae real avail-
a ale para aJaadnaat. (Theta y Bill Keett, SUiessaa Uff abe
' tagraaaer).
Salem Alumina Plant Passes
Final Tests; Quality Product
Made Out of Low Grade Clay
The Salem alumina-from-clay plant had passed iU test today.
"We're now turning out quality ttuff - - we've proved that high
grade alumina can be produced from lew grade clay." declared W. R.
ey fried, project manager of the Chemical Construction company.
The Salem plant w as one of four op? a hens on which th fed
eral government spent millions of dollars during World war II to
Otf-'
An arpeal net been addressed
to Dr. Paul X Raver, Bonneville
administrator, urging him to re
; fua to sign any contract with a
private utility unless the con
tract contains a provision requir
ing the company to sell its pro
perties at a fair price to public
agencies in areas where the peo
ple have voted in favor of public
power. The appeal is signed by
Charles Baker who says he repre
sents directors of Interstate Elec
tric, a recently-formed coopera
tive, and IS PUDs and coopera
tives m Oregon and Washington.
Interstate Electric is the coopera
tive which recently made a ten
der to purchase Pacific Power
end light.
The request may meet with Dr.
Haver's favor because previously
be has made somewhat similar
conditions for signing long-term
contract with private utilities.
Portland General Electric, for ex
ample, has never been able to
get a long-term contracts neither
has ML States Power except with
extroneous and objectionable con
ditions. Inserting any such requirements
as Baker requests in a sales con
tract ts extra-legal and an exer
cise of arbitrary power. The Bon
neville power act reads: j
Subject to the provisions of
this act and to such rate schedules
mm the Federal Power commission
may approve, as hereinafter pro
"VldcdV the administrator shall
negotiate and enter into contracts
lor sale at wholesale of electric
energy either for resale or direct
corjumption,
' (Continued on Editorial Page)
DEBT UMJT BILL SIGNED
- WASHINGTON. June 26 -tV
TiTT'F'nn reducing the legal debt
limit of the United States govern
ment from S300.000.000.000 to
grrS.000.000.000 was signed into
law today by President Truman.
Animal Craclccrs
P WAREEN GOODRICH
T fan dancers cleaned
mm oaf o sfocfc now T m
otng after the balloon dan'
err trade"
.
. evolve new processes or making
alumina the raw material for
aluminum. The alumina is a pow
der obtained from clay after ex
haustive chemical processes, and
is "even purer than many me-
idtcinal chemical.' Seyfried de
clared.
Made laU Alaaa Crystals
Mott of the clay lias been
brought in from Washington
state. Cleansing and filtering pi
resea i educe it to alum crystals,
with the product then being
channeled either for use as alum
ina or for ammonium sulphate
( fertilizer ) .
Several tons of alumina daily
are now being produced, but so ;
far as ascertainable there now
are no plans to Mep up produc
tion to the once-contemplated ca
pacity of 50 tons daily. Present
production is being stored.
Fa tore Matter of Conjecture
The alumina plant recently was
given a new lease on life by the
recontruction finance corpora
tion, to permit production of am
monium sulphate for fertilizer
until next January I Around 200
tons of fertilizer are now being
made each day.
Plant employment approxi
mates 225.
With alumina experiments now
having been proven successful,
but with war-time need no long
er urgent, the ultimate future of
the Salem plant is only tonjc
tural, officials said Wednesday
CPA Rejects
Sulem Building
H. E. Rohland's application for
per mission to build a $11,741
store building in Salem was re
jected by the civilian production
administration Wednesday, it was
reported from Portland. R oh land
now operates a department store
at 1981 N. Capitol st.
Also rejected were a request
for building a $22,000 poultry
building in Albany, filed by Ray
W. Archer and E. D. Heyarly.
and application for a $40,000 high
school at Wheatland, filed by
Western Mennonite School.
Weather May
Delay A-Test
ABOARD USS PANAMINT.
Thursday. June 27-OP)-Haze,
clouds and rainsqualls led scien
tists aboard the Panamint to pre
dict possible postponement of the
atomic test, as they sighted the
Marshall islands this morning.
The observation ships Pana
mint. Blue Ridge and Appalachian
are due at Kwajalein at dawn to
morrow and will proceed toward
Bikini, site of the July 1 test, the
same day.
Zoning Commission May Get
Two New Requests for Changes
Request for two more city zone
changes may reach the planning
and zoning commission tonight
when the group convenes at t
p.m. in city hall to conduct a
public hearing on the proposed
change from zone II to III at
State and 14th streets.
Petitions were filed Wednes
day with the city recorder, seek
ing to establish business zones
(class III) that would permit the
Electric Cleaners on Highland
avenue between 5th and Church
street! and the Lester DeLapp
truck service to expand their
facilities.
NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 12
Vets Seek
Stronger
Labor Bill
Spanish War
VeteransEnd
Encampment
A demand from Oregon United
Spanish War Veterans that labor
unions be incorporated under fed
eral law was on record today. In
closing hours of the 38th annual
encampment, the "boys of '98"
unanimously adopted a resolution
condemning as "disloyal and sub
versive John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers. A. F. Whit
ney of the Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen.- Alramey John
son of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers. Joe Curran of
the National Maritime union and
Harry Bridges of the CIO long
shoremen. The resolution, directed to de
partment commanders of the
American Legion. Veterans of
Foreim Wars and Disabled Amer
ican Veterans, asks thee organi
zations to Join the USWV in
petitioning congress for legislation
to force "all labor organization,
associations andor corporations,
whose activities are essential to
the welfare of the nation" to be
incorporated and to require that
officers and members of such or
ganizations and officers and
stockholders of such corporations
be liable under both civil and
criminal law "for jeopai dizing the
public safety."
Express Appreciation
In another resolution, the en
campment asked Governor Snell
to integrate the emiloment set -vice
with the Mate department of
veterans' affairs when it is re
turned to the state Hesoluttons
expressing appreciation to the
Elks club, where most of the ses
sions were held, the Elsinore the
atre, where Joint meetings of vet
erans and auxiliary were conduct
ed, to host organizations, chur
ches and newspapers.
Statesman employes were de
lighted with the special "note of
appreciation" sounded by the
USWV band. Ranging in age from
62 (one member lied about his
age to Join the army in 1898) to
80 years, the band personnel has
played In a variety of military
organizations befoie getting to
gether as a veterans' group.
Cervalli Chosen
Curvallis was chosen as the
site for the 1947 encampment,
with the date to be set later.
F. W. Humphreys. Oregon City,
who was elected state command
er Wednesday without opposition,
was chtn-en delegate to the USWV
national encampment in Milwau
kee. In the only contested race
Alfred L. Marnman won by
three votes over Carl Thompson
for state inspector. Both are from
Portland. f
Other new officers are F. M.
Rich,- Poitland. senior vice com
mander; and John Simmons,
Klamath Falls, junior ice com
mander. New officers of the auxiliary
installed at Joint services with
the veterans, are Zidonia Quick.
Portland, state president: Austia
Barnesberg. Klamath Falls, sen
ior vice president; and Lena
Veach, Eugene, Junior vice presi
dent. Fan-Makers Named
New officers of the Military Or
der of the Serpent, fun-making
branch of the organization, are J.
D. Carleton, Portland, grand Gu
Gu Grandississimo: Bob Carter,
Azalea. Grand Datto; Mark Rolf
son. Portland, Erick Anderson.
Newport, Guy Lewis, .Newport.
Frank Pliska. Albany, Slick and
Slimy Keepers of the Ophidian.
Members of the Salem volun
teer company of the 2nd Oregon
regiment held theirflrjt reunion
since the Spanish war. Only 30
of the 108 original members are
still living.
The delegates refused to ap
prove a resolution for increase of
Spanish war pensions because
the question is being studied by
the national organization. They
approved a resolution asking con
gress to order the navy to re
condition the c4d Battleship Ore
gon and iet urn it to its berth In
the Willamette river in Portland
The Electric Cleaners project
would change a SO by 50 plot
from zone I to III. The DeLapp
project would require change
from II to III of a small tri
angular plot at the north city
limits south of Locust and east
of Myrtle streets, adjacent to the
Paulus Bros, warehouse property.
Several remonstrances have
been filed with the city in pro
test to the proposed change sou
ght by Mrs. Elizabeth F. Marcus
at 14th and State streets where
erection of a service station on
the northeast corner is contemplated.
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Spanish
Question
Unsettled
NEW YORK. June 28 -Soviet
Russia invoked the veto three
times tonight during a stormy
and confused session of the Uni
ted Nations security council
which ended in a complete dead
lock on the future status of the
Spanish question.
After almost six hours of the
bitterest debate ever heard at the
council table, the weary dele
gates gave up their efforts to
tied a formula defining the terms
under which the case would be
kept on the agenda.
Council Adjourns
The council adjourned subject
to call of the president after the
veto of Soviet Delegate Andrei
A. Gromyko had blocked action
on proposals offered by Austra
lian Delegate Herbert V. Evatt
and the delegates had rejected
subsequent suggestions of Gro
myko. This left the exact status un
clear In the case based on Po
land's charges that the Franco
regime threatens world peace
Evatt said, however, that the Is
sue was still on the agenda and
that the "moral condemnation"
of the Franco government Still
stands.
Reds Black Motion
The council gave up its efforts,
for the present at least, after Gro
myko used the veto for the third
time to block a motion by Evatt
providing that the case be kept
on the agenda "without prejudice
to the rights' of the general as
sembly to take up the case later.
Firm's Cherry
Pack 2i Times
Previous Year
Kelley Farquhar & Co tins
season will pack two and a half
times as many cherries as last
year, officials of the company
stated Wednesday.
The management made it plain
that despite reports of a barrel
shortage, the big cherry crop of
this season waa anticipated and a
surplus of barrels accumulated
well in adv ance of packing time.
Cherries still are beirig taken
from all growers to whom the
company has made commitments
and by the time alt are packed
the total will be 250 per cent of
last year's, it was announced.
In order to fill their commit
ments, however, it has been nec
essary to turn away pome inde
pendent growers who have
brought in cherries, officials said.
They estimated Wednesday that
the amount or . cherries already
packed is 150 per cent of last
year's total. Kelley Farquhar
takes cherries only for brining by
the barrel, not for canning.
Willamette U. May
Hold Night Classes
If Vets Subscribe
President G. Herbert Smith of
Willamette university told Mar
ion county veterans' service com
mittee officials Wednesday that
night school courses may be held
at the university next fall If vet
erans indicate the need.
A sub-committee of the vets'
group was assured by President
Smith that action definitely will
be taken to set up night classes
next fall if veterans want them.
On the three-man committee
are H. C. Saalfeld, Marion county
veterans' service officer; Wayne
Smith, training officer for the
Salem office of the veterans ad
ministration, and Don Good,
contact officer for the state de
partment of veterans' affairs.
Veterans interested ara advised
to contact any of the three com
mitteemen. LORAIN E SAl'L WINS
CORVALLIS. June 26- P) -Loraine
Saul, Marion county, won
the original class in the 4-H club
poster contest, and her poster was
on display at the 4-H summer ses
sion today.
3 JEWS SENTENCED
JERUSALEM, June 27 A
military court today sentenced 30
members of the militant Jewish
underground organization Irgun
Zvai Leumi to 15 years imprison
ment for carrying firearms and
explosives.
POUNDBD 1651
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Ore- Thursday.
Yosuke Malsuoka Dies,
Former State Resident
TOKYO. Thursday, June 27-(P)-The
death of American-educated
Yosuke Matsuoka, former
foreign minister was announced
Yosuke MaUaoka
today by the international tribun
al before which he was on trial
with 27 other accused war crim
inals. The 66-year-old defendant
ForreNtal Wary
Of Merger Plan
WASHINGTON. Jur
Secretary of the Navy? Forres
tal. in a cagily-worded letter,
said today he would help attain
the "objectives" of President
Truman's army-navy merger
plan but Capitol Hill looked
for plenty of controversy about
the specific details.
Forrestal's letter to the presi
dent, dated Monday ii releas
ed by the White House today,
was not nearly so unreserved
as Secretary of War Patterson's
June 18 letter pledging "whole
hearted support."
Little Traee of
Missing Cons
State police and other authori
ties followed slim leads Wednes
day night, but no trace ejf the
three escaped convicts who : fled
from the state prison annex Tues
day afternoon developed. -
Closely checked were two' re
ports of stolen automobiles in the
vicinity Tuesday night. Clifford
Willard reported a car taken from
his garage In Aumsville and Fred
O. Peter, route 2, reported a car
stolen from Lebanon.
The missing convicts are La
Verne F. Keller, 21. Frederick E.
Cleveland, 25, and Alfred W.
Strain, 26, all short-termers.
Blaze Guts
Attic of Home
Fire gutted the attic and up
stairs rooms of Mrs. Catherine D.
Weiss' home at 1615 D st. Wed
nesday evening. City firemen
from the east Salem and central
stations brought the blaze under
control after pouring water Into
the flaming house for nearly an
hour.
Flames and smo.e enveloped
the roof as firemen were called
from the nearby east Salem fire
house about 7 p m. Two pumper
crews fought the fire.
Damage was considerable but
no immediate estimate of the loss
was made. Much of the furniture
was removed to safety by neigh
bors. Mrs. Weiss, a widow, lives
there alone.
VA Calls Meeting of
Slaytoii, Sublimity Veta
Veterans of World war II liv
ing on farms in the Stayton and
Sublimity areas are Invited to a
meeting at the Stayton city hall
tonight at 8 o'clock. Representa
tives of the veterans administra
tion and the state division of vo
cational education will discuss
the new agricultural training pro
gram for veterans.
The Weather
Max.
Mm
Preclp.
SaJcm . 5
Portland
San Francisco 1
Chicago M
New York 92
44 trace
at cn
u oo
5 SO
7 .00
Willamette river -9 feet.
FORECAST (from US. weather bu
reau, McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today, tonight. Frequent light
showers. Highest temperature S3 degrees.
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A - ; f -if -j
ttemai
June 27. 1946
died in the isolation ward of To
kyo Imperial university hospital.
He had been suffering from tu
berculosis, arthritis and other ail
ments. The tribunal president. Sir
William Webb, announced that
Matsuoka's name would be
stricken from the indictment as
a result of his death, an3 all
charges removed.
Matsuoka was a one-time resi
dent of Oregon. In 1893 he at
tended Atkinson grammar school
in Portland, and in 1902 graduat
ed from the University of Oregon
law school with honors. His last
visit to Oregon was in 1933, the
same year he strode from the
League of Nations chambers in
firotest over the League's hand
ing of the Sino-Japanese con
flict. Matsuoka wrote two newspa
per articles, for an Oregon news
paper in 1934, one of which wasJ
prophetic. He wrote:
"Japan has proclaimed to the
world that she regards with dis
favor the activities of western
nations in China which tend to
thwart the recovery and devel
opment of friendship between
China and herself and the main
tenance of law and order in the
Far East."
Highway 99E
To Be Widened
At Woodburn
A bid of $139,892 by Warren
Northwest, Inc.. for widening 1.18
miles of the Woodburn section of
Highway 99E was opened Wed
nesday by the state highway
commission in Portland and pass
ed on to the state highway engi
neer with power to award the
contract.
Several project bids were re
jected as excessively high. In
cluding a $1,057,370 bid by Gen
eral Construction Seattle, for
straightening the CfHmbia river
highway by six miles oK roadbed
embankment from Troufldale to
Wahkeena Creek.
Tentative approval was given
a $413,000 widening project for
99E between Canby and Oregon
City and a $300,000 bridge at In
dependence where only ferry ser
vice now connects with the South
River road into Salem.
Salem Rents
Said pSeaiidaP
"The rent situation in Salem is
rapidly approaching a national
scandal" and national OPA rent
control should be established here,
or if not available at once, local
control should be set up, chapter
27 of the Oregon State Employes
association has notified the Salem
city council.
"Ministers, returned veterans,
state employes and business men
not Interested in renting or selling
real estate" are suggested for lo
cal board personnel. ?
The resolution for chapter 27,
is comprised by state printing de
partment personnel, further sug
gests that employes of firms em
ploying five or more persons be
required to report any rent raises
which hava occurred since remov
al of rent controls (a local board,
not OPA, functioned here during
the war), and that landlords be
required to show justification for
such increases.
Half of Nation's Butcher Shops
Closed by U. S. Meat Shortage
By the Associated Press
The severest fresh meat short
age of modern times grew worse
yesterday.
It hit the legitimate butcher
shops, black market and restau
rants. The thin run of livestock to
market, already at a record low,
dronned off still further as the
senate debated the fate of the
OPA extension bill.
A survey of the nation's cities
brought from everywhere the
same report: "Uttie or no iresn
meat." In some cities, even . cold
nit were hard to find in normal
channels. Poultry and fish, how
ever, were relatively plentiful.
Tha National Assooiauon oi Re
No. 78
ToinrQ
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LDin)
0 'Daniel
Threatens
Long Talk
WASHINGTON, June 26 -(yp)
Senator O'Daniel (D-Tex) threat
ened a filibuster today to pie
vent passage of the OPA exten
sion bill before the present act
dies Sunday midnight,
"I think it would be swell,", he
told a reporter, "if the American
people could wake up Monday
morning under the American
form of government they've been
out from under so long."
O'Daniel's desk was piled high
with papers . apparently ma
terial for a long, long speech
and he said that "more will be
arriving if its needed. I hope to
get help if its necessary."
Failure to enact the OPA bill
before the deadline would cause
all price and rent controls - to
lapse. They could be reinstated
again when the measure finally
is passed.
But O'Daniel's filibuster would
thwart a strategy urged upon
President Truman by labor lead
ers and others. This is to veto the
OPA bill, with its limitations on
the agency's jKiwers, in the hote
that congress would then approve
before Sunday an emerg
ency measure continuing the OPA
as Is.
Democratic Leader Barkley
(Ky) recommended the measure
to the senate today as "the best
bill possible under the circum
stances." Payrolls Take
1.3.6 Jump in
Marion County
Marion county payrolls report
ed to the state unemployment
compensation commission were"
13.6 per cent higher in the first
quarter of this year than In the
corresponding period last year,
commission officials reported!
Wednesday.
Their,. report showed also t&at
the total reported payroll In
uary, February and March rpre
snted a 7 per cent decline from
tha payroll of the preceding quar
ter. The first quarter payroll was
listed as $5,662,983.
Multnomah county's 38 per cen
payroll decreasefrojj. a year ago,
however fereagnT the statewide
payroll comparison down to a
23.6 per cent decrease from iast
year's first quarter.
Compared with last' year's first
quarter, Clackamas county gained
20 per cent. Linn gained 2.8 per
cent, Polk 3.5 per cent and Yam
hill, .5 per cent.
Ninth Baseball
Player Dies
SEATTLE, June 26-;P)-Chris-tian
Hartje, 30-year-old on Spo
kane's Western International lea
gue baseball team, died tonight in
a Seattle hospital to raise to nine
the number of players killed or
fatally injured in the crash of the
team's - chartered bus from the
Snoqualmie pass highway In the
Cascades Monday night.
State police patrol officials
said a gasoline station attendant
across the Cascades from the
wreck scene told of an automo
bile in which passengers spoke of
having sideswiped a bus-. The at
tendant, however, was uncertain
of the last digit in the license
number.
tailers reported half the nation's
butcher shops had closed their
doors.
Meat supply in Salem markets
is not expected to show much im
provement by week's end, but the
$lim supply at present is better by
comparison than the supply In
most cities throughout the coun
try. The Midget market reopened
this week but predicts a sellout of
its OPA quota- of meat for the
July 1-15 period in three days.
McDowell's market is closing each
day as soon as its daily quota is
sold. In most markets there is
veal, lamb and luncheon meats
available, but beef is scarce.
Price 5c
Treble
Damages
Sought
Prielices SaiI
Interfering With.
Construction
SAN FRANCISCO. June 261-
-The government tod3ysued 40
far eastern lumber companies
i seeking a total of $9.0 13.530 in
treble damages for a'-lcged OPA.
violation resulting in "artificial
lumber shortages" and "exorbi
tant charges" flo contractors and .
builders all over the country.
OPA said it i was the first mas
legal action to bring into the optn
hindering the efforts of business-
men and homeseekers, including
veterans, who have been bargain
ing desperately to obtain bvildrrg;
materials. - ? .
Involved are some 65,649,123
beard feet of lumber.
The mils were filed simultane -
ously in U. S. district court in
San Francis o, Lcs AngeIrar.J
Sacramento, in California; Phoe
nix, Arizona; Seattle, Spokane and
Tacoma, in Washington, and m
I five Oregon courts.
' - Largest single suit was. filed at
: Tacoma, Wash., against the Twin
Harbors Lumber Co.. of Aberdeen,
j Wash. There, the OPA sought un
, specified damages which it esti-
mated to run to 525,000.
j Oregon Firm " . , "
! One other major suit seeks
I $370,000 treble damage-against
! R. G. Robbins Lumber Co , of
Portland, Ore. '
OPA said the suits were the
climax to a long standing attempt
by congress to get to the bottom
of a lumber bottleneck that has
been delaying the nation's post
war rebuilding program.
In an effort to head off any
criticism that "OPA is intererr
ing with recognized business prac
tices," Lumber Enforcement Chief
Ralph Colub said:
Tricky EvMlena'
'"It is of vital concern to tha
government tht the several new
ly develoed type of evi'-n be
halted and that the morjt is
sues involved in the triiky eva
sion we charge be male a RUt
Golub listed as some of the
alleged "rackets" the fallowing:
1. The diversion of lumber;
I. C, the shipment of lumber to
the ' shipper himwelf at lummy
addresses, to be held for bar-
gaining. '
2. Re-saw lumber without re
grading. 3. Refusing to produce standard
size lumber such as 2x4't and
turning out exclusively 2x4 14
which must then be remiliedat
the cojt of the building contrac?". '
The fractional odd-size in thin
case Is traditionally used chiefly
for barge building and brings 111
more per thousand feet. -
4. Upgrading of materials.
5. Charging customers for more
lumber than was actually de
livered. 6. Unlicen?ed retail sales.
7. Flagrtint over-ceiling sales.
8 Cutting short lengths.
(Additional details on parfe
I .
School District
ote Confirmed
Warren Calloway was elected
zone three director of the Marion
county non-high school district,
a canvass of the June 17 vote by
the board at It meeting Wednes
day showed. Raymond P. Smith,
route 2, Woodburn, was named
to serve out the unexpired term
of Mlcheal Weinacht who has
moved out of zone I.
Earnest Werner of Central
Howell is chairman of the board
which met in the office of Agnes
Booth, school superintendent. The
budget was accepted as recom
mended. It provides for expendi
tures of $127,065.
All property in the county not
in a high school district is in
cluded In the non-h i g h school
district
Redin Defense
Denies Charge
SEATTLE, June 26-UP-The
defense contended there is "not
a scintilla of truth" in espionage
charges against 30-year-old Nico
lai Redin as the first day of the
soviet naval officer's trial ended
with Federal Judge Lloyd Black
denying motions for dismissal ot
the case.
The government's key witne,
Herbert Kennedy, a shipyard en
gineer, took the stand just as the
day's session ended too late for
testimony the prosecution con
tends will prove Redin conspired
to obtain secret information from
Kennedy about the United States
destroyer tender Yellowstone.
Hi'
i j
Our Senators
lis lost