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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. . .
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""Henry L Stimson secretary ff
war. I
Frank Knox secretary I eg rtne)
navy
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"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
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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
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