Twenty-Four Die Enstcihtly as B-17 Crashes into East Coast Ppak ! W (Story iL flumn it) OT0 FWL OTOTIMmS W II i Welcomed Instead of Pinched9 2nd eto Said i in Prosrie NINETY-SIXTH YEAH IS PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salem. Or.. Wednesday. July 10. 194S Price Sc No, 18 t OtP SCH3DDQS MUNDID 1651 Pitr the ooor congressman at he mks to test the political cur rents before voting again on OPA's extension. He lacks the dandelion seed ball which a lover uaes to test the affection of the ke woo "He loves me. he loves me not" But by long ex perience he cultivates the art of holdin a wet finger to see the way the wind is blowing. There is the telegraph score, for example. When an issue like OPA is hot the telegrams come in showers. His secretary will soft them and total the number: ao many against Your smart con gressman, however, will not ac cent the numerical count as de cisive. He will study the text and the signature. He can smell out the '"canned" variety from the spontaneous expressions of opin ion. Usually he can determine whether the shower is prompted by a trade association, a labor union, a farm group, a consumers' council, a retailers' league, a vet erans' organization or is the un sumulated comment of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Doakes. Finally he must weigh the two piles in terms of totes at the next election or in terms of genuine public interest based on knowledge if he is trying to be a statesman. A Washington reporter supplied the Oregcnian with the count of messages on OPA from members of the Oregon delegation. These were the ratios: Senator Morse 5-35 for OPA, extension; Con gressman Norblad 70-30 for; An ge:l 80-20 for; Ellsworth 20-80 againjt: Stockman 5-95 against. The lumber-conscious fourth dis trict and the livestock and grain producing constituency (Continued on Editorial Page) State Employe Group Asks f Bargain Right The Oregon SUte Employes as sociation Tuesday petitioned Gov. Earl Snell to recognize that group as the bargaining representative f c r all 7000 employes of the state, ' under the National Labor Rela tions act. The petition safd that "in cer ta.n essential respects public ad ministration is different from pri vate employers x x x so that the same application of the National Latx'r Relauons act x x x cannot be expected x x x " But it added fh;.t "ample latitude exists x x x fr ariiwng hi infoim;il under stand r r xxx which x x x may fc-- fully respected and kept in g.d .faith." Th employe? association is in-ri-jernir t of other affiliation and 1 :n i-rp'ir .jted under laws of the St;.'-, the p-tition pointed out. 'iff ret of the association said rrn miiei ship approximated 3000. The pf t.tion was figned by Floyd Qi.ery as pt evident and Max F. Ri.ger ai secretary, and its pre sentaton w as by Forrest V. Ste vit, executive secretary. W'alkrr Injured In Fall. from Tree MT. ANGEL. July 9 Joseph Walker, prominent local hop grow er, (Buffered shoulder and skull fracture early this morning when he .fU from a ladder while pick ing cherries. He was taken to Sil ertn hospital where late this eening he was still unconscious. Walker, who is 64 years old, was cn the ladder when a limb broke. He felT hitting his head on the truck en which the ladder had been mounted. The accident hap pened at 8:15 am. Tuesday at the Wal-ker ranch two miles south east of town. Animal Crackers P, X'ACPEN GOODRICH Het can't hold his nectar." 4 C .if e San Syndic! gA m.. . mum, , L . ! YOU AU 1IALLT I WELCOME ! In Salem I (Oregon's Capital City) We're mighty happy to have you as a visitor in our city, and we want you to enjoy your stay to the fullest. We hope you'll tarry awhile. Youll find such agencies as our Chamber of Commerce eager to help you in any way, and our police department will cooperate to the limit. We know you'll cooperate with us in the same way. Have a good time and let us know if we can help. FRANK sMINTO, Chief f Pellee, (Our civic clubs parti cu la ry want to welcome you. The Salem Kiwanis club issues you a special invitation to its luncheon every Tuesday noon at the Marion hotel.) Welcome cards like the one above. en Salem s eus-state visitors today for initial Infractions of minor traffic law such as overparking.v In the above picture, Stan Arn old, San Francisco Chronicle newsman, is shown in his borne-bound Jeep getting a card from Officer TC W. Hewett The cards will be given any out-state motorist who stops long enough - - not Just to violators. The idea was initiated by the Kiwanis club. (Statesman McEwan photo). Sailor Discovers 4 ! Persistence Pays Off in Reverse I ' ' PORTLAND, ,Ore July MP) A sailor decided today thai per sistence pays Sometimes in re verse. ' When the sailor first reported ttiM two men had stolen his $1, 000 diamond and ruby studded wi istwatch, detect ives i; Just wrote it down in the fileJ But when he started pester ing the detectives, repeating his complaint, Detective Leonard Shaffer thought the sailor's name sounded familiar. Itvvas. Shaffer found the name tn the "wanted list" from f San Francisco, on a grand larceny charge for stealing a diamond and ruby wristwatch from a San Francisco woman. The sail or is in Jail. Labor Camp Boys Offered Scouting Scouting activities wiljl be of fered to boys at the farm i labor supply center through Cascade area council personnel, I Lyle Leigh ton, Boy Scout executive here, assured the camp's manage ment Tuesday. Leigh ton and a group of boys plan to go to the camp the night of July 18 to offer a program and Initiate an organi zation there. Parents with boys of scouting age are being notified through the camp bulletin board of the proram, invited to attend and urged to cooperate. Illegal Aliens Pouring into U.S. At Rate of 60,000 Per Month MIAMI, Fla., July fl-(yp)-Smce the end of World war II, millions of aliens have turned their eyes and hearts toward America Sand now are pouring into this coun try Illegally at the rate of 2,000 a day. t That is the estimate of U.S. At torney General Tom Clark, who said that of the 60,000 who ; en tered this country unlawfully io. a month, 30,000 were arrested by the immigration and naturaliza tion service, perhaps better known as the border patrol. i In the southeast, with its long coastline and proximity. to islands of the Caribbean, the number -of aliens arrested has jumped 800 per cent in eight years. In 1938, the border patrol S ap prehended 803 aliens In the At lanta district, which includes eight southeastern states. In the last six months, the number! to taled 3,138. The border patrol, a part of the immigration and naturalization service, has increased its staff in the southeast from 50 agents, in 1938 to 110 now. I ' These men, highly-trained and well-equipped, patrol 60,000 miles a month in the area between I the eastern boundary of Louisiana and the northern boundary of In lien of police tags, are being giv Munitions Firm Favors Denied By Patterson WASHINGTON, July (vP Secretary. of War Patterson ac knowledged today' that he had given his personal attention to the wartime complaints of Illi nois munitions makers at request from Rep. May (D-Ky)f but firmly denied that he had! done them "favors." S In sworn testimony before the senate war investigating commit tee, Patterson injected new de velopments in the Inquiry into the industrial combine s complicated operations and profits. f : He stated that he went to May's office at the congressman s sum mons a few days after govern ment payments to the Erie Basin Metal Products company had been ''frozen to insure recapture of excessive profits. At the congress man's office, he conferred , with two men ,whom he said he could not Identify. (Additional details on Page 2). CAA State Office to Be Efttabliflied in Salem The state office of the civilian aeronautics authority is to be set tip in Salem, Paul Morris, head Of the airports division of CAA. said while here on business early Una wee. The office, which is to have a personnel of some 10 per sons, is to be set up in the school Administration (old high school) building. : South Carolina. This area ranks next to the Mexican border in the number of aliens arrested. - DeLacy Leads Washington Primary; Utah Labor Vote Shifts to Incumbent I Costlgan Falling 1 Behind in Balloting I SEATTLE, July 9-(P)-Rep. Hugh De Lacy moved ahead of Howard G. Costigan tonight In the Washington state primary election after trailing in the early returns from a first district con gressional race distinguished by a political disagreement in the Roosevel t : family. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger back ed Costigan; her brother, James, threw his support to the incum bent With 150 of the first district's 771 nrecincts renortinsf. De Lacv had polled 4,722 votes to 4,355 for Costigan. Other candidates lagged far behind. Army Major Joseph D. Explosion Scatters Wreckage HOLYOKE, Mass., July 10 - (Wednesday) -(JP) Twenty-four persons, the enure crew ana pas senger list of an army B17 bomb er flying from Goose Bay, Labra dor, to Westover field, Chicopee, Mass., kere killed instantly late last night when the craft crashed into 1200-foot ML Tom. The public relations office at Westover field said the dead in cluded three members of the ar my crew and 21 passengers, prob ably army, navy and possibly even civilian personnel. It withheld names until next of kin had been notified. The bomber exploded upon im pact, the field's public relations officer said, and wreckage was scattered in small pieces within a radius of 200 yards. Victims Mangled Some of the victims were man gled beyond recognition, and pieces of bodies were scattered. The leg of one was found in a tree. . The explosion set fire to nearby trees, but a pouring rain that be gan within minutes of the crash "probably "averted a forest fire," the officer said. The plane was overdue at West over field and crashed In light rain and haze. The four-motored ship was a stripped B17, with its armament removed. Mile-long Walk Police and firemen, aided by crews from Westover, labored through the night to extricate the bodies. Their task was doubled by the rain and by a mile-long walk up a steep hill from the nearest point which vehicles could reach. More than 700 persons lined ap proaches to the scene as word of the crash spread. Many of them had seen the ship explode from an amusement park at the base of the mountain. 16,000 Citizens To Ballot on Annexation Annexation of territory which may add more than 1,000 acres and more than 5,000 population to the city of Salem Is in the hands of fewer than 16,000 citizens elig ible to vote in the special annex ation election July 19. So said city officials Tuesday when a tally of the nearly-complete census of voters taken in the nine proposed annexation areas adjacent to city limits showed that only about 560 residents outside the city may vote on the issue. In addition, about 15,000 Salem cit izens may vote on the nine an nexations separately. The decision of annexation rests on relatively few citizens because only registered voters may cast ballots, and most of the residents just outside Salem either have never registered or have not re sided in the area the six months required for registration. Check of the outlying popula tion to determine eligible voters in each of the nine areas has been conducted by the office of City Engineer J. H. Davis. Salem Milk Prices Go Up 1 K-2 CenU Quart Salem milk prices are up a cent and a half and two cents today. Local dairies, following the an nounced increase of prices throughout western Oregon, are delivering milk at 16 Vst cents in stead of 15 cents. Most stores are selling single quarts of milk at 17 cents. Roberts, leader in the early re turns, trailed with 2,642. In the senatorial race, where Hugh B. Mitchell of Everett, the appointed incumbent, was far ahead in the democratic chase and 'former Mayor Harry P. Cain of Tacoma had an overwhelming lead on the republican side, there was an unexpectedly heavy show of power by the republi cans. Second district, Jackson 440, Peterson 24, Lennart 167. Third district. Savage 116, Nor man 62, Nelson 26, Wright 11. Fourth district. Gcrrick 74, Smithson 54, Coe 32, Holmes 553, Fifth district. Little 247, Etter 204, McKay 53, Horan 389, War ren 159. Sixth district, Lyon 574, Coffee 1422, Tollefson 1505. Tar shall Switches Jobs Relief to Chinese Slashed By Jaba M. HlgbUwer WASHINGTON. July 9. -LR President Truman named John Leighton Stuart, a 70-year-old Presbyterian missionary and edu cator. to be ambassador to China today, (reports indicated tonight that General George Marshall, present ambassador to China will continue to work with Stuart as Truman's mediation represents tive). But even before the senate received the nomination tough new problems were piled up on the China scene. UNRRA Director riorellof La Guardia announced suspension of all shipments of supplies except emergency foods to China after receiving a protest from more than half the UNRRA staff members In China that goods were not reach ing the right people, that ports were jammed with materials and that "political use of relief sup plies were being charged. Message One -Sided The Chinese embassy in Wash ington said in a statement tonight that the message of the UNRRA staff members to LaGuardia "is obviously one-sided" and that it would be "inadvisable to draw any hasty conclusion form it. A statement by UNRRA head quarters said La Guardia had warned Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek three days ago that he would take such action if the ports were not cleared of relief supplies already delivered. Dark Horse' Named Stuart's nomination came as surprise to those authorities here wbo had expected or weeks that the post would go instead to Lt Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer. The latter served during the latter part of the war as United States mili tary chief in east Asia. Simultaneously with the nomi nation of Stuart, Mr. Truman sent to the senate the nomination of Robert Butler, St. Paul ship builder and banker, to be ambas sador to Australia. Earlier the White House had announced com pletion of arrangements between Acting Secretary of State Ache son and Australian Foreign Min ister Herbert V. Evatt for raising the ranks of the legations at Washington and Canberra to em bassies. Cherrians Get Vote of Thanks The Salem Cherrians received a vote of "grateful thanks" Tues day from Chet Wheeler, an offi cial of the Albany Timber car nival, for their part in the queen coronation ceremonies prior to the July 4 events. A letter to W. W. Chadwkk, Gherrian king bing, said the Salem group . "reserves a big hand" for its "color and marching" which helped make the coronation a "huge success.". Vast Wealth Proves Too I Much for Oscar the Seal DEPOE BAY. July 9 -(TV-Os car the seal died of overeating. aquarium officials reported today after a post-morten. What Oscar overate was money, tossed him by visitors unfamiliar with the health requirements of a seal. The autopsy disclosed 186 pennies, five dimes, four nickels, three rocks, two copper military buttons, and a piece of shale. Anti-Strike Measure Vote No Handicap SALT LAKE CITY, July 9-tVP)-Rep. Walter Granger (D) leaped into a four-to-one lead for renom ination tonight as returns from 267 of 513 precincts gave him 8063 votes to 2008 for Edward Mc Polin In the hottest race of Utah's pri mary. Apparently labor was backing the incumbent, only one of three democrats in congress' whose terms expire this year to have opposi tion, despite his approval of Pres ident Truman's anti-strike legis lation. McPolin, a newcomer to na tional politics, counted heavily on the labor vote. Both Sen. Abe Murdock and Rep. Will Robinson are unopposed for renomination. , Candidate Brunette Rita Haar ef Salens, ene ef 16 candidates fer eaeea ef the Oregon' flax festival which will be held in ML Angel Aag- st 9-11. Salem Entry In Mt. Angel Queen Contest MT. ANGEL. July 9 Rita Haar, 20, daughter of T. D. Haar. 1580 Center st.. will represent Salem as candidate for queen of the eighth annual Oregon Flax festival, to be staged In Mt. An gel Augut 9-11. Sponsored by Vince's Electric Shop of Salem, Miss Haar is an office employe of the Oregon Pulp Ac Paper Co.,; who is acUve in bolwing and swimming. Nine other valley girls repre senting Portland, i Oregon City, Woodburn, Silverton and Mt. An gel are candidates for queen. William Chadwkk. King Bing of the Salem Cherrtians, will offi ciate at the festival coronation ceremony. The Cherrians' King Bing has performed the corona tion at-every flaxi festival here except 1940 s when Charles A Sprague, then governor, offi ciated. Jews Favor British Loan WASHINGTON, July 9-fP) Chairman Bl.n.m (D-NY) of the house foreign affairs commitlc appealed to Uie house taitlay to approve the $3,750,000,000 Hntish loan In a move designed to cm- set possible loss of hou.e votes for the loan because of British h si dling of the Jewish pixiblem. Bloom had the hotine clerk read statement by Rabbi Stephen S. Wi.e, a leader of the ZionUt movement. Wise said: "Whatever be the wrong doings at the British government in Palestine cannot alter my convic tion that the British loan is im peratively needed." rank II. Spears Fimerxil Thursday. Funeral rites tar Frank H. Spears, who died at his home here Monday night, will be con ducted by the Rev. George H. Swift in St. Paul's Episcopal church at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Concluding services will follow at City View cemetery. The W. T. I Rigdon company is in charge. Spears was secretary-treasurer of Hawkins Ac Roberts. He, died at the age of 58. Cherry Crop Weather Damage Less Severe Than Anticipated With less than half of the cher ry crop yet unpicked growers feel today that weather damage was not as great as had been feared. Royal Annes suffered less from cracking than Lamberts or Mont morencys, growers said but many admitted cracking was not "too bad" in the Lamberts. Wind and sunburn had damaged the fruit but the grade is not bad in the opinion of many growers. Polk county, where orchards are higher on the average than in Marion, has two thirds of its crop left to harvest and a call for 150 cherry pickers was issued for this morning by John Pfoff, farm la bor assistant with headquarters in Dallas. They consider cracking has been no problem so far. Truman Supports Leave Pay By Edwla B. Haakln WASHINGTON, July 0 )- A so-called "anti-inflationary" plan for staggering terminal leave payments of about' t3, 000, 000,000 to some 15,000.000 veterans reach ed the senate today with blesing from its military committee and President Truman. "This will be teady for .senate action before the OPA bill is fin ished." Senator Edwin C Johnson (D-Colo) told reporters after the military committee gave approv al. The payments part in cah and the bulk in treasury bonds pay able five years after the veteran's discharge and beating 2'i r cent interest are a substitute for ari immediate rah outlay fr tri rmbal leave pay already approved by the houwr by a 37 to 0 I "Il ea H. Cash t'p U 5 The substitute ia ln!cnle! fo grant all enlist d men and vtum en at the tate of 2' l for earh month of service, ! time M-nt , on leaves, except that rafh would be paid only on claim cf le than $50, with nunc exctptinriv while the five-ye;ir bonds vvuli I be issued for pavments some' $50. The bond payment would be I made to all enlited men and wo- men already riischaiged and to those still in service who are dis charged before July 1, 1947. Officers Get Bends Payment by bonds aIo wimld be made to officers diM-haiged between the time the law en acted and July 1, 1947, iepUiiiK the cah payments they no re ceive. The leave to be paid fur uiulrr the plan Is all that h.i ai.uel .-m am tied ; I., since Sept. 8. 1939, the the first naval reer called up. Ashland Man Claims Votes In Senate Bare Southern Oregon residents Kit ing Salem Tuesday reported that Farl T. Newbry. Ashland repub lican. jow cl.iimt 12 pledged vote for president of the Mate M-n.ite at the 1947 legitl.itiv e --mi.i. This Is four shoit of the iiumlMM' required to elect. Other candidates for the itenate presidency are Marshall Cornell, Klamath Kail, and William Walh, ' Hay. both of vhm are roll-ov er memix-m of tii' senate. Cnrnett announced his candidacy for president of the senate during the lant legislative session while Walsh entered the contest a short time later. Friends of John Hall, Portland. contend that he has more than the sufficient number of votes pledged for speaker of the hou pf representatives. Hall has beet) a member of the house for ev eral terms. BKIGADE' HALTS BLAZE A two-man "bucket brigade" put out a small trath fire at the new Fisat National bank building site Monday night. A city policeman noticed the blaze while walking his beat, walked to the central fire station half a block distant and together with one fireman, earned water in buckets to put out the fire. Picking started Tuesday In the 45 acre orchard of Jotiah Wilis near Falls City, Pfoff reported Fred Gibson- fix miles north west of Salem in Polk county, has harvested half of hi crop. With lots of Royal Anne cherries, Gib son has most of them still on the trees. He h.is harvested 20 tons of fruit and estimates he has as much left to pick. F. Glen McDonald, Keen wood ranch, one of the larger rherry orchards In the Silverton area, reports heaviest weather damage felt by the Lamberts while Royal Annes practically escaped Injury. He will finish Lambert and Itoyal Annes today and picking Mont moreneys wilt start Friday. Dam age to the latter is nominal. Senajorij Ifnnd AdmiiiiMrafioii (lit IfssrMi. - J . ouurii ai iffc verse WASHINGTON. (July 9.-4 JT The administration suffered stunning reverie ih the OI'A Ut ile ton i hit when the seriate vote!. " ' w puiijaw any future price ceilings on f meat; poultry, ggs and foods made from them. This anion tore iblg holes In ti e i pending rofnproml.e bill to re. ! vive OPA lit modified form for ' one year.: Many senators predict-" ed that If the action stirks. Pres ident Truman w.ll vet the OPA I rivival bill, just as he did an e- i tension measure raised; befere expired June 90. i The prohibitions against th ceilings on meats end (the ctjher foods was offered bjr Senau Wherry (R-Neb) and was becked by a majority cftf,e republican ana some democrats. A mend awe) I t)efeate4 Previously J he senate, had vctl down, 51 to 125, another amend ment by Senator! FJmr Thoenae (D-Okla) to exempt livestock erl poultry and Uvelr rswj by-prr1-ucts from future price tontrc$. The 49 to 2 Vote by which the Wherry I amendment wis adnmedi boded ill toe future administra tion efforts td eliminate it In rrin promiting the bill ithkhe hose. i Aitnough h4ie members hmxm gone on record agaidat lifl.ng meat c.ntrol, the senate had Ap proved the continuant e of ti ceilings cnly 'on toice iotes pjt , viously. With the record mw made, administration leaders f pet d.fficulty in reversing tr. decition. ' i ' ' At tempi rah4 I f ' After this suceesj. Wherr sought to pufch h immediate ici a supplements! amendment hfK would add milk, butter! and 14,r products to the . Hit r, which n new control placed. I I HoMeveir, tl.e Senate quit uV.tJ noon tomorrow without acting; 4 either. I snu iiav vjron Turned Blgtk f f T I ii y June Kaius Muih c.f Willamette leal ley's , second hay i rop is turning out Itr e tame as the jfirsl crop in ear: June, namely, to quotf farmery . ' black " Almt 75 per tent of tie June crop, chiefly clov er, ie , caught in early June rains befloie jit (!ud le harvested J A lairs I ni entage of ;that whijh as laged gicen via sar but br tf I the lM!e and baled rrojfc suffi(e'fc Ham Saturday night Srr'srerjt'y ;lii little damage but! the rjaurt i Monday afternoon was) SO s'tei .f.f aiul heavy, partirular!V in - the eat end of tlir county. f that c r iileiahle 1 a mSge' resulted. 1'tim ei wee turning hay 'f uelay m an effort to dry it rapi y, CnmSon closer and grss ft suffered some, in certart set.,e of the valley ilo. l.xtnt rf I S3 will not te known until later .n the veek when combitiirig l legui. A nurhljer of grats i4 farmers plan to begin harvest n Friday. Mm Ii vf the grits ha1 Us be moved early beraus of havy winds and rams, aithoign will be harvested stan.ng. wtjm t (siinvcr, Graham ItaiH'h Purchased SII.VEKTOM,!july i-The Cir ver St Graham IJ-acre Hereford, ranch a mile south of here kn Waldo I fills road was skd is-hf for $15,000, it was anndisnced 1 y is anndisnced ty Will Gtaham. I yer bfj Dtr it; rer. tld and i. i will ri've frlm Karl Garver fend Will Cfaham. Alexander ; Meyer Mich., is the biy wife and four stfs the eat to estsblish tls-ir hrir.e and orate the tench. Carver M . i. i. . i ...i.. vjviitiiv whip iivf wvtiai nuvr rroiterties in Marlon rosnty, keep, their Hereford un'Jl this f l M hen a sale wlJIj be. held Tlie Wrallicr i et. t1S .. SJ M h. rre. Portland Smn t rincMr SJ H New York , St " Wlllamvtle rivrr ! fef rrau. MrNarjr tlM, kaleml : ram v cloudy today, Mifhvat tn.pattu). dVfrera. Our Senators Urn I " 1 i