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Newspaper Page Text'Vets' Village,9 Ready for Occupants Tues imiimmy hot if (Sfory in Column - 7) S j - - - : - e (Story in Column 4) OUN - -- ' 1 "'""'-- - "V'f NINETY-SIXTH YEAB 22 PAGES The Orecjon Statesman. Salem, Ore.. Sunday July 21, 1946 Price 5c No. day JK DID 1651 f . "".';- J .. V "J . i' ji- r i i .r " -i' -2'-"-!4.i OTP 33jDjQ3 CPCDGDl Over a quarter cntury has pasel Sine th ltth amendment Larminf rectrieUoa of suffrage on account of aex 'waa adopted. Most Moplc have aaauised that tht .vic tory terminated th battl for -equal riIht,, but that la not o. Lett draraaUc, but none the le .teoe. has ben the struggle for 'a cr.tUitJonal amendment estab lishing absolute equality before the law for the two sexes This orveidiriet got to a vote in the aenate Friday for th first time. The result waa 38 for to 15 against, so the amendment failed for lack of a two-thirds vote. Stmrtgeat opposition to t h 1 a amendment comes from women themselves Led by the League of Women Voters and the American Asaorsltion t University Women, the opponents point out that such ;svn amendment would Immediate ly nullify all special protective jid beneficial laws In behalf of woenen ad girls. These include laws ar4 regulations covering hours and conditions for women In industry, laws protecting inter ests of wives and widows. Other women's organizations, like the duainess and Professional Women, are gtrocg aupporten of Uie amendment. They think that all special legislation binds worn sen to an inferiority status which ittoey are eager to throw off. They 'want to stand on an equal basis tn society tmt under the laws. Such is the divMon of opinion; and one nay easily appreciate the predx-ament of the all-male sen rate when it came to considering and voting on this measure. With one group of women lobbying one - way and another group in the ep poaite direction, the senator, with the gallantry traditional to his sex. doubtiens- found it hard to pick ;and choose. I am quite sure the supporters of the amendment would be greatly shocked if some xecaicitrsjit senator took them at their woird and applied the equal rights doctrine as he would on ob jectionable male lobbyists and told them to "go to hell." After ail it Is difficult to defy I the facts of life w hether based on biology or ancient custom. You can't even by constitutional amendment erase the fundamental of woraen and children first" when a ship is sinking. , Young Prowler In Sweet Home ALBANY. July 20 Raid Hall Bradshaw, lt-year-old prowler Jn a Sweethome hardware store, was killed instantly early today when shot in the head by Kenneth White, owner of the store and acting police chief. Linn county officials said Brad shaw had been living here for several days since coming from Colorado. Harlow Weinrich. dis trict sttomey and Mike Southard, sheriff, were continuing the In vestigation on the supposition that others were involved in the burg Wy. White, who was not held by police, said he was awakened about 4 a m. by noise in the store Idanha Youth Struck by Car, Dies Instantly DETROIT. July 20 Larry Col lins. 11, Idanha, was killed al most instantly her tonight when h waa struck by car reportedly occupied by Calvin Cannon, ; also of Idanha. Collins and a friend Billy Peter son Idanha Whd- 1vS eeportedly also hJt but not Injured seriously, were returning from boy scout camping trip on Boulder creek near hear. They were walking to ward home when hit about mile from this city. The dead boy la the son of Bud Collins, who operates the gro cery tn Idanha, about six miles east of here. 20 Die in Army Bomber Crash PANAMA, Panama. July 2MA) Twenty crewmen aboard two U-S, army flying fortresses were be lieved to have been killed today' when the planes collided near Coiba Islaad, off the Pacific coast of Panama, and plunged Into the. sea. An army announcement . said that First Lt. Kmer Drolshagem circled the scene for three hours i without sighting any survivors. Later three unidentified bodies were recovered. The army said the collision oc curred when the bombers swept; down to Investigate what appeared to be a life raft floating on the water. Silvcrtoii Maii Said Suicide EILVERTONjjuly 20 Fred Gear hart, 43, operator of a local upholstery shop, shot himself be tween the eyes tonight with a 21 calibre rifle, deputy sheriffs said. Mrs. Sylvia Gearhart, his wife who wss ia a living room adjoin ing the shop heard the shot but said that Gearhart waa dead by the time she reached him. Other survivors include four children, Loraine, 12: Sylvia Belle, 10; Roy, 7, and Fred, 9. Funeral ar rangements are being made by the Ekman funeral home. Shot to Death Hardware Shop which is below his living quarters. He said he entered, the store and saw the youth standing with a knife . in his hand, so he fired three shots, all of which hltt&rad shaw in the head. Entry had been gained by for cing a basement window, cutting screening of a ventilator to crawl up into the main floor of the store, the sheriff said. Articles found on the body were identi fied as stock from the store by White, state police stated. Bradshaw'a mother, Mrs. O. C Dorsey, Brigham City, Utah and; his brother Robert; Shelley, Ida ho were notified by authorities! The body is to be taken to Grand Junction, Colo, lor burial. Smaday meUrisU wUl with dlffl ; eulty find the new Salens veter- , , ana! colony, first cottages f : which Will be ready ef eccapan ; cy Tuesday. Drlvtag down Seath , 14th street te Creea street, one may fallow2 Creea street te 14th . street far a view ef the still -unfinished village above which ' eveataally will hease 172 fam- Uies. Workers on the project j have sag rested that metorUts :i do net attempt te fallow the I work roads through the village; J reachlag U'wUI be hard eoeogh . oa atomebU sartngs. Joe Hop- kins, manager of the Saleaa tcU eraaa' eeleay (left) has the task ' of sorting the handreda ef plead- Uvg letters which earn In from ! veterans seeking housing. ' He . does net Judge, merely divides i them lnte 1 "with two or more S ehildrea." fwlth eae 4 child." : feoaples, ; and "single," : and I then presents them to a com 1 mittes which mast determine who is most In needStatesman rboios by B1U Seett. (Story oa .pare IX). ! ' Probers Order Coffee Check File Produced WASHINGTON. July 20 - -The senate war investigating com mittee ordered the justice depart ment today to deliver its files on a $2500 check described by Rep. John M. Coffee (D-Wash.) as a "campaign contribution' an ex planation bluntly termed by Sen ator Brewster (R-Me.) a ''belated alibi." i . I 'The senator said that Paul A. Olson, former secretary to the Washington legislator, probably will be asked to testify also. f The committee awaited, with out much hope,' for-a response from : its surhmons to Chairman May (D-Ky.) lot the house tnlli tary ctanmittee to explain Tues day his wartime Intervention on behalf of a munitions combine. i Brewster's office made, public tfsnscripts of. two letters as cop ied from pbotogrsphg which ap peared i in (the Tacoma, Wash., News Tribune on March 5 of this Ear from i Coffee and Olson to vind Anderson, contractor, dat ed in May. J41 l There was no mention of any exchange of money in either let ter. V i. -, But In Tacoma, Wash., Coffee acknowledged that he was the re cipient of a $2300 check frost An derson.' termed it a campaign con tribution, aad said that the Jus tice department had investigated and found fno basis for action. He said he would "welcome" an Inquiry, j j. J- - PolicOutto T Get Speeders j l Speeders beware! ji ' Salem police are under strict Instructions! to pick up all motor ists exceeding 20 miles per "hour on the city's main streets, and all motorists with loud enough muf flers to create annoyance In the City. " i i . ' Police Chief Frank A. Mlnto ordered the; crackdown Satupday, and within a few- hours seven speed-violators already were on the police blotter for traveling 35 miles per hour. Each posted $5 bail. i ,. T , The chiefs notice on speed en forcement Added. "Pay strict at tention to noisy mufflers, especial ly trucks On South Commercial street" j Captured Marines Said Released MUKDEN. July 20 -V Un confirmed and unofficial reports said today i seven marines who were captured by Chinese on July 13 had been released. . Government quarters have laid the kidnaping to communist guerrilla, but marine headquar ters at Tientsin have merely call ed them "armed Chinese.1 CONTOT TO COME THEOUGH A convoy at Fourth Air Force vehicles will pass through Salem from the south Thursday. Salem police ' haw been requested to furnish an escort for the caravan. OurjScnators V7on t Conferees Agree On Revival WASHINGTON, July 20 -CT) Senate-house conferees agreed to night on compromise legislation to revive OPA until next June 30, with a complex formula for hand ling price controls for various food items. In agreeing on the bill. Senate Democratic Leader Barkley said the conferees voted to restore fed eral rent controls without changes. Previously the senate had voted to eliminate federal controls where states had entered this field, but the conferees struck this out. Barkley said this would be done with major food items which the senate had proposed to re move entirely from price, controls: Controls would go back auto matically on Aug. 20 on meats, dairy products, grains, cottonseed and soybeans, and food and feed products made from them unless a three-man decontrol board de cided before then that they should be reim posed sooner or should remain free of controls. If the board fails to set the con trols are reinstated. Commodity Ceilings Price ceilings on genersl com modities would go back into ef fect immediately after the bill became law, at the level fixed by the OPA. 4 Poultry, eggs and tobacco would remain free of ceilings until the secretary of agriculture and the proposed new decontrol board agree that controls on them should be restored. Petroleum also re mains free of controls until the decontrol board and the OPA ad ministrator agree to restore, ceil logs on .It. f - ; ; k Shortly before the committee completed its work an influential official said President Truman had indicated he reluctantly would accept such a compromise. Whether the ceilings would be those in existence on last June 30, when OPO expired, or whether they would be fixed at some other level would be up to the price administrator to determine, Bark ley said. Dfctcoaat Te Be Added The conferees agreed also that the administrator, m establishing maximum prices for wholesalers or retailers, should permit the current cost of purchase to them plus the percentage mark-up or discount in effect on March 31, 1048. That represented a change in the date, from June 29. Standarda set up for the de control board would let It re store controls If: The price of a food item has risen unreasonably above the ceiling price In effect June 30, plus the smount per unit of any subsidy paid prior to June 30. The commodity concerned is scarce and reeontrol is "practica ble and enforceable.' The public Interest will be serv ed by such reeontrol. The compromise version of the bill will go first to the house and then to the senate for considera tion. Vet Receive Hot Tip on Rait Cart, Locomotives B. L. (Buck) Bailey, 241 N. High St., war veteran now em ployed at the Moore Bicycle shop. 237 N. High St., recently inquired of the war assets administration what equipment they had avail able, for recreational transporta tion. His reply Saturday from the WAA listed 54 railroad flat cars with parts missing on some and and several locomotives. Council Expected to Consider Withdrawal of City Services from Unincorporated Areas By Kebert E. Gangware Assistant City Editor. The Statesma Immediate effects of Friday's special annexation election on outlying districts remain to be seen, but the city council is ex pected to reconsider soon the long-delayed action of withdraw ing city services from outside areas not incorporated into Sa lem by the election. Although the .council had or dered a few months ago that city water and sewer services would be withdrawn outside Salem. City Engineer J. H. Davis had been instructed to delay any definite action until after th annexation election. I The engineer Saturday said that In the two areas which voted gainst coming into the city, con siderable water and sewer .facili ties are now provided by the city. ' ' ' - 4 '--. - v -. ' .... . ' ' ' ' T. '1 . 1 . . - i 4 f' 1 , - p: r i - - - ' i . - . CoL Seward F. Eeese "1 1 J v V Frof. John L. Kalght WU Law Dean Chosen; Kniglit To Head School Two changes in the Willamette university faculty were announ ced Saturday. Col. Seward P. Reese, former faculty member at Syracuse , university . and lately Judge advocate in the army air forces, has been named as dean of the law school Prof. John L. Knight, assistant to the president has been named to the post of chancellor of the Ne b r a s k a Wesleyan university, Lincoln, Neb., the Associated Press reports. Col. Reee who was recently released after serving 4Vi years in the air forces, has been in the office of the chief attorney of the veterans administration. Professor Knight, who has been at Willamette since 1943. and as sistant to the president since Feb ruary of this year is at present a guest lecturer at Denver univer sity. School of Theology. Willam ette President G. Herbert Smith praised the work . of his 31-year-old assistant. He said he has no successor Jn mind. (Additional details on. Page 2.) Radio News Oked For A-Bomb Tests ABOARD THE USS MT. Mc KINLEY, Sunday. July 21. -i)-Navy Captain K. M. Gentry, com munications officer of the cross roads task force said today there would be no shutdowns of news and radio circuits during next Thursday's (Wednesday U. S. time) underwater atomic bomb test. The possibility of a shutdown had been raised because a stray radio signal was blamed for the ?remature explosion of a magnes um bomb during a test last week. The Wealher Mas. Min. Frerlp. Salem ls jm PorUand . . .103 SO XtO Ban Francisco , SS SS trace Chicago S4 73 trace Willamette river -2 S feet. FORECAST (from Us. weather bu reau, McNary field. SaJerni: Fair to day and tonight with alighUy cooler temperatures. Highest SI degrees. Areas which did not come In are the district south of Hoyt street between South Summer street and the SP tracks and the district north of Locust street be tween Valley Pack property and the Willamette river. Seven other districts were taken Jnto the city. Police Chief Frank A. Minto said! police coverage of the new area, aggregating nearly 800 acres northeast, east and south of form er city . boundaries, will begin as soon aa formal proclamation of the annexation is made next week. Extension of police coverage will mean larger "beats' for the three squad cars and some of the walk ing patrolmen, he said. The city council will meet at 1 pm. Monday to canvass the votes which gave a big majority balloting and votes of the outside to annexation of all areas in city Increase In Bread Price Due An increase in Salem's bread prices was predicted last night by G. W. Hillman. manager of the Cherry City Baking company. He said that an expected rise in Portland bakers' prices, reported by the Associated Press, would probably be reflected locally as Safem bakers usually meet Port land price?. Ernet Smith of the Smith Bak ing company said that rising flour costs, the result of the end of OPA subsidies, would necessitate increased prices for bread. Bread prices in Portland would be increased three cents a stan dard family loaf by next week, Hanson Meinke, attorney for the Portland bakers' union, stated af ter the union had accepted a new wage offer of a flat 15 per cent increase yesterday. Meinke said n increased labor cost of about 20 per cent and an increase in cost of flour and other ingredients would force the high er price. Dean Bryson of the bak ers' union said the new contract permits reopening of negotiation If the department of labor cost of living Index rises five points. One pound loaves, which are now most of the daily bake, would be 13 cents a loaf, a two cent in crease, and the 1V4 pound loaves would be three cents higher, Meinke stated. Lewis Griffith Dies; Rites at 10:30 Monday Lewis D. Griffith, AO, clerk of the state land board here for 10 years, died in a Salem hospital Saturday after a two months' ill ness. Griffith was bom near Sa lem April 12, 1896. the son of the late Dr. John Griffith and Kate Dalrymple Griffith, and at tended Salem schools and Oregon State college. After leaving college he was employed by the Charles K. Spaulding Logging company here until 1931. The next year he waa employed by the state land board as examiner. Griffith was a veteran of the first world war and was married to I la Spaulding, daughter of, the late Senator Charles K. Spauld ing and Mrs. Lor a O. Spaulding, Sept. 14. 1922. Besides the widow, he is sur vived by two children. Lorah Kate Copenhaven and John Spaulding Griffith. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Kate D. Grif fith. Salem, and two brothers, Wallace Griffith, Marion. Ala., and Dr. John J. Griffith. Salem dentist. Deceased was a member of the Presbyterian church. Capital post American Legion, Kiwanis Club, chamber of commerce and Phi Delta Theta. Funeral services will be from the Rigdon mortuary at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, with concluding services at lit Crest Abbey mau soleum. CHINA PEACE HOPE LOST NANKING, July 20-JP)-FBilure of the prolonged American efforts to bring peace to China was con ceded privately by diplomatic and other qualified sources tonight, although Dr. John Leigh ton- Stu art, new U. S. ambassador, de clared hope still existed for re suming negotiations. sreas which favored annexation of all but two areas. Some committee recommenda tions may be made then or at the next regular coundl meeting August 3 by the special annexa tion committee made up of coun cilmen and citizens, which has functioned since the first of the nine areas petitioned for annex ation a year ago. Alderman James A. Byers Is chairman of the com mittee. County Assessor Roscoe Shel ton Saturday had not yet deter mined if the newly annexed areas will be placed on the 1846-47 tax roll as part of the city. Ordinarily the tax roll would have been com pleted by this time of year but due to certain unavoidable delays, computing of the roll was late this summer, Shelton said. Tops at Eggs could have been fried in the northwest Saturday, and were that Sunday wouldn't bring too much change. But probatly. a little "-for the better, the weatherman said. j ! ! Deaths and heat prostrations were recorded at widespread' points; extreme caution wss beach-bound carr already were taxing highways almost to a max imum. It was 105 degrees shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon in The Heat Wave Mill Was Oa Early Today Frl. Sat. Ft I. Sat :!a. Tl SO :Mp. M ! :J. TT SS :! SS )t:Ma. 1J ST T:Mp M fl ll:SSa. SS SS ' i:Jp. II tl lt:M p. S3 M t.Mp. T l:M. S t l:Mp. Tl T7 t:Mp. St ,lt3 ll:Mp. Tl Tt :! p. IN 3 Sal. Sun. 4:1$ p. 1Z 13 12 Jp. ST C4 I 11 a. S4 Salem three degrees higher than KridUiy and within three de grees of the all-time record set five yeurs ago lut Monday, lint Salem whs almost cool compared with Medford where 115 degrees smashed all previous marks. Roaebuig registered 109, hugene and Arlington 105. Portland: (downtown) 103, Pendleton 101. But the sun wasn't partial it streamed heat into Washington state, too, where North Dalles posted 109, Walla Walla 103. Yak ima and LaCrosse 102, Kllensburg 101, Hoqvam 100, Spokane 98, a w m 9 siuf &. ww kjjwivoiiv Seattle 0, Bellingham 86. Boise recorded 100 Two persons were treated for heat prostration in Salem, little Donna Whitley of 1783 Saginaw st. and sn unidentified woman who was overcome at 1230 Slate St. Death Blamed oa Heat The Portland coroner blamed heat for the death of Valentine Emery Raney, 55, while he was working at an auto wrecking yard. Two prostrations were listed. There was one heat prostra tion in Spokane. Logging operations on the went side of the Cascades were halted Saturday when the humidity con tinued below 30 per cent, Nels Rogers, state forester, declared. The fire on the Smith river burn near Scottsburg, Douglas county, was under control with no new fires reported, Rogers, added. It destroyed an estimated 8.OO0.00U feet of timber. Rogers suid fne conditions were fairly satisfactory. Many forest closures were pie dlcted. Bridge Swells Sht In .Portland, steel girders or a Willamette river bridge expanded so much in the heat that the bridge draw could not be opened until flreboats sprayed them with water to contract the metal. In Salem, youngsters and some oldsters, too continued to swarm the local swimming pools until it appeared there was hardly enough water to go around. Soda fountains and other dis- tnsaries of cold drinks did land- pensanes office business throughout Satur day, and people on downtown streets went about their business in shirtsleeves or less. Pacific Fruit and Produce com pany reported three carloads of watermelons sold in two days. Water Deaaand Daables Demand for water in the city was about double of normal, ac cording to Carl Guenther, water commission manager, who gave aarance, however, that plenty of water was available even if pres sure goes down in some localities occasionally. Through the master meter in one day went 12,000,000 gallons of water, as compared with the 5 or 6 million gallons recorded as an average. To cool off. it might be said now that temperatures at Tilla mook and Brookings on the coast Saturday went to but 80 and 65 degrees, respectively. Bill Modifies GI Insurance WASHINGTON, July 20-(-House acceptance of s e n at e amendments sent to the White House today legislation liberaliz ing war-service insurance for Gl's and veterans. The legislation is designed to give government service insurance for the same features as commer cial policies. It permits lump sum payments, ends restrictions on the naming of beneficiaries, adds to tal disability coverage, and pro vides a flexible system of con version from military to civilian type Insurance. 1 tedlff on just about every inland street the prospects early this morning; urged in the tinder-dry woodsi Military Men Blamed for Pearl Harbor By William T. Peacock WASHINGTON. ily 20-i4n majority of the congressional Pearl Harbor committee, layijr.jf, solely to military men the failutn which contributed to the 194 1 rif anter, declared today that the lit) President Roosevelt and his cal 1-4 net 'discharged their responib2i-4 ty with 'distinction, ability' aindj roresighl. That finding in an elght-ra report signed by two republics house membersbrought a shir uisxem, nowever, irom repuDl.CTi Senators Ferguson (Mich.) s,aI Brewster (Maine) of the 10-member committee. , - In S separate report, ' they as- serted that Mr. Roosevelt "was responsible for the failure to Vn I'sntiwi a vi j. sail ui W 1 force Continuous, efficient and p4 propnate cooperation"- In Wasn ington "in evaluating informs t;Hn and dispatching clear and positive orders to the Hawaiian cornmsn ders." . - j jt The majority reported that jtii committee has found no eviderica to support the . charges, made lie fore and during the. hearing, tlt the president, the secretary Met state, the secretary Of war, orjjne secretary of navy tricked, pfo voked, incited, cajoled, or coerced Japan into attacking this natjon in order that a declaration of it s might be more easily obtained from congress." , j Ferguson and Brewster r!e clared: "The failure to perform the responsibilities indispensably essential to the defense ense of Pearl the fotrbw'insj Harbor rests upon civil and military authorise "Franklin D. Rooevelt4-ireitt- dent of the United States and tn- mander in. chief of the arrftw navy. . . Snd 1 ""Henry L Stimson secretary ff war. I Frank Knox secretary I eg rtne) navy 1 "George C. Marshall general. chief or stall or the army, I "Harold R. Staik aJjn chief of naval operations. "Leonard T. Cerow majos gn- era!, assistant chief staff Of plans division (Additional Details on Page 3 j Lo8C8 Bet, TaliCM 7 1 Over Son's' Rout SEATTLE, July 20 -JV FJr.ett Martin lost a bet and now he's delivering newspapers while! son Ronald, . 13, vacations on grand father s ranch In Wyoming, Discovered carrying the Times from door to door, Martini I 40. said he bet Ronald the Ibr.y couldn't handle his route tjhrea months without a com plain U1 Ha placed a paper carefully lns;de screen door and added: "I jlost as you can plainly see. i f Animal Crachcrs By WARREN GOODRICH J 1 a I S ! a My goMhi l ve bn ktdnapptd. i flfcsraiffa) Asa sVwaW!