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Playground Dress-Up Day Draws Children riiTrsn KI Historic r I si - -'ft r 0LP S33DDS e The northwest has won a nota ble victory in securing termi r.uj t Seattle for a flight via AU.vka and the Great Circle route to the orient. The Initial r"'mmndatifn of a CAB fxiiti irer v for the flight to be bd at Chicago-New York, thence via Minneapolis and Fxl mfdpn to AJaska and the orient. 7 t.f l.m.ted the flights to thia Uster route would have been to . ry-p the northwet which has been a bare for commerce with the far east ever since its nettle merit The Statesman was one of the firM papers to protest thia dea! and to agitate for a north-w'-U.iri flight Thursday the CAB announced it would grant Nnhwet Airline, the logical ot-ra'cr, a permit to fly not only cer the route lii at recommended but aiso out of Seattle. Naturally me on th:s paper are highly gratj f.ei w ith this decision which in sure for the northwest a part in the commerce by air with the or- lT.t. IVrtland in disappointed be ra ki- the Tight i not based J';r. '. : v at Portland, but the eon-re-tir. r.orth is eayy. We will be quite well served by the Seattle tae fr better than if our peo ple had to fly back to Minneapo lis or Chicago to get on a Tokyo bound plane. For us In Oregon there . the alternate of flights by -United Airlines (Continued ' on Editorial Page) Senate Votes U.S. Adherence To World Court WASHINGTON. Aug 2-Ay- Thte fpr if -.oted 60 to 2 today fori American aiherance to the world etH.rt Herirg the last major busi- STAYTON. Aug. 2 Jimmy r- frm th;.t rhamheis docket I . . tr f? r r,-r ,-,K the av to f,n..l ad- Bi,,M of styln. drawing a little J.r'.mr! i.f the 79th congre- "j wagon in wruch was riding a T nte wi far i;n exres if , be-ribboned kitten in a cage, took t.r r e-,-..Hrv tA-o-thnrds support i gt ari(1 prje t the Stayton Pet for !f jrm lut:on tamping ip- n , , . . . . , . . . .. v , Parade held Friday night in con- prtr n p: Tinpation tn the new ' lera: tr burial et up a an adjunct 1 ncttion with the annual Santiam o the I'r.tf-d Nation Hoie ac--giie-n Festival. tier v. r,M nerwary. - T Charles Posvar of Stio, lead- SeriVr- Siiptead (R-Minn)i ing a fawn and stopping to feed and Ij.rer (R-NDi, ho oted1,t from a botlle from time to -r ' Arrrer.t-n acceptance of i,me. took first place in the pet the V N charter. cat the only j division, with'' Louis Davles, vr.te ic.n the court proposal. , Stayton. set-unrf. and Harold and A-ead of the final ote. the sen- j Jack Snoddy cf Aumsville third, air rejected 48 to 11 an .mrn.1- j Sevfn ynsxniK trm Gates mert protKed by Senator Milli- j Jud Uugh and Herbert km -R-Cn.o. which would have Ham ,on Kaf and PricllU MU. oen e.: tre rr.urt Jurisdiction in j ,r nd aien Shelton t,k first case :rw-ing this country un- m lh. ,loat djvl,ion with Bruce e--7w nece.ry for dec.Mon j,h1jppj nt Mehama second, and if found in tieaties and conven-.J-mei, afu1 Catherine McGill. tor... to uhich the Lnited SUtes st u thlrd IP r ' ' Animal Crackers By WAR8EN GOODRICH y XT re ha "What kind of butterfly do you plan to b when you grow up?" r-TV I - . :f i , -W i I I II til r . . 'kill ..v:'::::S' 'I - ! III -! "if s. ' - -t"-; j -.1 Z' 1 t -f af ' i ml : i 1 i ! ' Children love i dreaa np and Use? get the eKane Friday ftniH at tke annual Dress Up Day staged by the Salem playgrvands. Over 309 children entered this event at the seven neighborhood playgrounds. Pictured during the festivities front left to right arc: (Upper left) Top row: Sandra Smith, Mary Jean Mefford, Judy Mefford. June Wiggins, and Dean Denhem; Bottom row: Stuart Smith. Carol Wiggins. Jaeqaclinc ? Gorman, John Little, and 'Marl dene Halvoraen. (Lower Right) from upper left Bobbie Walker, Loren Porter. Sharon McKinstey, Deannm Walker, and Jimmy Me Kinney. ( Statesman-MeEwan photos) (Story on page 19) Jimmy Bates Prize Winner In Pet Parade The parade nuiuded 31 entries ranging from a trained skunk to goats ridden by their young own ers. More than 1500 people lined the six blocks of march with Robeit Wood, jr., managing the parade. The grand parade, to be man age by John Christennen,- . is scheduled for 2:30 Saturday af ternoon, to be followed by the bean serving evpnt from the world's largest bean can. The latter affair is sponsored by the Stayton Cooperative cannery. The j outdoor dance closes the festival ; nt midnight. General Falkenhorwt To Face Firing Squad BRUNSWICK, Germany, Aug. 2 -(4")- Grim and expressionless, Gen. Nacolaus yon Falkenhorst heard himself sentenced todsrj to death before a firing squad by a British and Norwegian mili tary court which convicted him of complicity ip the murder of allied commandos in Norway. The 61-year-old German was commander of the German occu pation in Norway. f A i 1. U.S. Proposes 11 -Nation Meet WASHINGTON. Aug. 2-OP) The United States has proposed a 11 -nation conference August 15 to decide how the allies should split millions of dollars worth of Japanese reparations, diplomats aid today. The American note suggesting the conference was reported to propose that Russian removal of Manchurian industry be taken Into account In determining a fomula. Reparations commissioner Ed win W. Pauley estimated that more than $2,000,000,000 in Man churian industries had been in Capacitated" by Soviet removals. Rogers Warns Of Fire Danger A warning to be cautious of fire in forests over the weekend was issued by N'ela Rogers, state forester, Friday. He said the hu midity would probably drop to near the danger point and wind was expected in some sections of the state. Humidity between 20 and 30 pc r cent was expected. Logging opera tions are forced to close down when the humidity reaches 35 on windy days and 30 on oth ers, because of the dry condi tion brought on. The forestry! office said late Friday that the only new fires re ported were less than a acre in area and were either out or under control. Worst period this season was that of July 18-20 when four fires were recorded, Rogers said. Kings Valley and Salt creek in Polk county, one near Prineville and one in the Smith River burn in Douglas county were the four. The Weather Max. ... IS .. M ... 1 ... 0 Min. PTctp 4 .OS 53 .00 54 .00 .00 Salem . Portland . Sn Francisco Chicago Nw York 75 SO trace Willamette river -3 2 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weatlw bu reau. McNary field, Raleml: Continued clear skies today and tonight. Highest temperature U degrees. I. f tit 44 1 NINETY -SIXTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salem. Oregon. Saturday Morning. August 3. 194S Probers to Contin Inq uines WASHINGTON, Au. 2-0P- The senate war investigating" com mittee served notice tonight it will seek out and expos any "in stances of disloyalty and dishon- esy on the part of public offi cials. The committee announced its purpose in a statement following closed session held to plan its work during the adjournment of congress. Earlier in the day El is ha Walk er, Investment banker, had told the committee about an unpaid $5000 note signed by Chairman May (D-Ky) of the house military committee and linked the con gressman's name to the affairs cf Murray Garsson. munition mak er, as long ago as 1141. The committee decided against holding further public hearings until after Sept. 1 "except for an emergency.' It announced that: 1. The first case to be heard publicly after that date by the full committee will be on the re sults of Its Inquiry into defective 4.2-lnch mortar shells which killed American soldiers. 2. "Second priority" win be completion of its investigation of the Alaskan highway which will require field studies by a sub committee. 3. "In its public hearings, the committee will undoubtedly deal publicly with cases of war pro curement in all of the principal industries." Chairman Mead (D NY) has said that these will in clude the automotive, aircraft. aluminum and shipbuilding indus tries. Walker, senator partner of Kun, Loeb At Company, New York, said he made the loan to May. Later he told reporters the suggestion the loan be made to May came from Garsson. after Walker had shown "hesitation" over advanc ing the money directly to Gars son. British May Drop Mandate On Palestine LONDON, Aug. 2-tff)-A foreign office spokesman gave indirect support today to the possibility Great Britain might resign her mandate over Palestine if the United States declined to cooper ate in the new plan for dividing the Holy Land. The spokesman said he "would not deny" Britain might resign her mandate. He made it clear, however, that execution of any proposals for the future of Pale stine did not necessarily depend on approval of the Arabs or the Jews. Sources close to the Jewish agency in Paris, meanwhile, charged the British had made "a deal" with the Arab league, pledg ing evacuation of Egypt in ex change for Arab support of an eventual settlement giving Bri tain a major military base In Palestine. JERUSALEM, Aug. 2-P)-Po-lice announced tonight the arrest of Itzhak Yesternitsky, described as the No. 2 man in the terrorist Stern gang, and British troops wound up their four-day house-to-house search of Tel Aviv. Dwight Schannepp Said Missing Since July 25 Judge I. M. Schannepp, em ployed in the state highway com mission legal department here, Friday received word that his son, Dwight Schannepp, member of the air force, has been missing since July 25. No details were included in the telegram. Citizens of Salem's Recently Annexed Areas Added to Gty Tax Rolls for Current Year By Robert E. Gangware AaaUtant City Editor, The Statesman New Salem citizens residing in the seven recently annexed areas will be on the city tax roll this year. Final decision on the taxpaying issue was announced Friday by County Assessor Roscoe Shelton. At the same time, precinct and ward changes and a host of oth er decisions being forced by the annexation of some 800 acres and 1,000 population in last month's election were drawing to a head. Shelton said his action is based on a ruling by the state attorney general that residents of territo ries annexed to a city any time before the assessor turns over the roll to the tax collector in Octo ber will be placed on the city tax roll for that year. Full effect of tax change occa sioned by the addition of approx Scene of Mob Ht's - , - . 11 , .... . .U-.:15L ATHENS, Tena Aug. 2 Crowd after mob violence flared late (AP wlrepbete) Unknown Man Killed by Car, Driver Held A man about 80 years old Iden tified only by the initials "G. K. P." in his hat band, was killed al most instantly near midnight last night when struck by a car at Union and North High streets as he was crossing the street. The dead man carried no Iden tification other than in the hat, which was purchased from a Sacramento, Calif., store. Several police officers said they had seen the deceased on Salem streets re cently. Mart el Shannon, route 2, box 170, driver of the car officers said struck the man, was held In the city Jail on an open charge. Law rence Osterman, deputy district attorney, said specific charges would probably be placed against Shannon today. Mary Holt, Shannon's cousin, was the only other witness to the accident Social Security Bill Approved By Congress WASHINGTON. Aug. 2-A") Congress headed off a $2,000,000, 000 rise In 1947 old age and sur vivors Insurance taxes today, as both houses shouted approval of a compromise social security bill freezing the tax another year at the present one per cent level. As it went to the president's desk, the measure provided ap proximately $150,000,000 addition al annually for 2,000,000 needy aged persons, 75,000 blind, and 772.000 dependent children. This would amount to about $5 a month additional for each aged and blind person and $3 for each dependent child. Without the "freeze," the se curity tax would Jump automati cally January 1 from one per cent to 2.5 per cent againsjt employes' pay and employers' payrolls. The compromise, worked out last night by a 14 -member con ference committee, was approved overwhelmingly on voice votes by both houses. It broke a long dead lock on old age benefits provisions of the bill. EARLY BOr PICKING STARTS OREGON CITY. Aug. 2-lP-First early hop picking will be gin in a yard near Donald Tues day morning, the county agent's office said today. Pickers will move into other acreages before Aug. 20. imately 800 acres and 1.000 popu lation to the city could not -be immediately estimated, although it is generally considered that ad ditional taxes from the new citi zens will not be sufficient to bring about a general reduction in city tax rates. Taxes, of course, will be in creased for the new city taxpayers in annexed areas, the increase probably averaging a boot 50 per cent. City taxes passed on to these new city taxpayers probably will amount to more than 20 mills. Salem school district. No. 24, which previously had extended beyond city limits into parts of the annexation areas, now will absorb all newly annexed terri tory of the city,' as prescribed by law for first class school dis tricts. The territory was former ly in Keizer, Hayesville and Sa lem Heights school districts. Most other decisions affecting INDID 1651 Violence in Election Warfare gathers around MeMlna eoanty jail epea warfare en election night. Note West Salem Taps 4th Water Source WEST SALEM. Aug. 2 -The pump was being installed In the city's fourth well at the coiner of Seventh and Patter son street tonight and it was hoped the recent drought would be relieved still further when it tarts operation Saturday. Blue Lake cannery, which shut down during the water shortage when beans were not available to can and thus left more water for residences, is operating tonight and will con tinue all day Saturday, O. E. Snider, manager, told a States man representative. Ethiopia Asks For Colonies In East Africa PARIS, Aug. 2 D Ethiopia asked the peace conference today to award It Italy's Est African cloonies of Eritrea and Soma 11 larvd, which she said were "wrung from her by Italian aggression." The first nation to make a claim to the 21 peace-drafting countries against the colonial empire Mus solini forced with arms, Ethiopia through her chief delegate. Vice Foreign Minister Aklilou Abte Wolde also said she expected to receive reparations from Italy. Other early victims of Musso lini's and Hitler's aggression Czechoslovakia and Poland de manded security in the future. The round of speeches followed a battle between the big and small powers over whether the post of conference chairman should be permanent or rotate among the four major powers. The small powers argued for a permanent chairman, suggesting President Georges Bidault of France, but Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov of Russia led opposition to this, and the rules committee adjourned a three-hour session without a de cision. Zoning Problem Is Up To West Salem Council WEST SALEM. Aug. 2 The zoning problem of this rapidly expanding industrial city on the west side of the Willamette river will be discussed at the August meeting of the city council Mon day night. Traffic problems and controls will also be reported up on by the committees for police and traffic to which they were referred at the July 1 meeting of the council. the new' city areas rest with the city council which Monday night will receive a 10-point recommen dation from Alderman James A. Byers' special annexation com mittee. Among -committee recommen dations are: Discontinuance of ci ty water and sewer service after Jan. 1. 1947, to residents of the two large areas which voted against coming into the city the South 12th street area and the area north of city limits between the Willamette river and Valley Pack property; immediate realign ment of city ward boundaries; "automatic" discont inuance of city fire protection of the outside areas; consideration of all new area as class I residential proper ty pending study by the zoning commission; renumbering of hou ses and marking of new boundaries. No. 109 at Athens. Tenn.. this morsilng overturned cars In foregroand. Election Riot Quelled, Vets Patrol Town ATHENS, Tenn.. Aug. 2-(A-Former GI's who backed up their ballots with bullets and w on to a raging six-hour battle that left 18 wounded and the county jail in shambles patrolled strife torn McMinn county with rifles tonight to maintain order. Sheriff pay Mansfield, leader of an opposing faction in, a feud of the polls, left after the veterans routed him and his deputies from the Jail with demolition blasts early today, after besieging them with fire from pistols, shotguns, rifles and at least one machine gun. The bloody battle grew from a ballot count dispute In yesterday's bitter election contest between a GI slate and candidates of a long dominant office-holding faction. As proof of their victory at the ballot box and with guns the GI's tonight displayed a written statement from the secretary of the election commissiim that: "Next Monday at 10 a m. I will sign an election certificate teiti fying that the GI ticket was elect ed." The victorious veterans late in the day turned law and order in Athens itself back over to Police Chief Herbert Walker but affirm ed they were still "holding con trol" of the county and maintain ing 'order. OPA Grants Priee Raises On Foodstuffs WASHINGTON. Aug. 2-AV The OPA today raided retail price ceilings on bread and bakery prod ucts, flour, breakfa.t cereals, mac aroni, noodle, corn meul and hominy grits. The increase, all effective im mediately, are: Bread One cent on loaves weighing up two pounds with proportionate price hikes for larger loaves. Bakery products Bread-type rolls, one cent a dozen. Biscuits, crackers and cookies, IS per cent. Flour About one cent a pound at re tail. Breakfast Cereals (all kinds except corn flakes, puffed rice and puffed wheat) one to three cents a package. Macaroni and noodles Two cents on eight-ounce box es, one cent on smaller size. Corn meal and hominy grits One to two rents a pound. The OPA said the new ceilings on bread, bakery products and flour are temporary. They will re main in effect until the new de control board decides whether ceilings should be restored on wheat and other basic grains which are now exempt from con trol. OPA also announced that mill ers' ceilings on corn meal, corn flour, hominy grits, brewers' grits and other corn products made by a dry-milling process have been increased $1.10 per 100 pounds. 100 Hurt in Train Wreck BAYONNE, N.J., Aug. 2 fl)-A passenger -Jammed commuter train plowed into the back of an other passenger train at the West Eighth street station on the main line of the Central railroad of New Jersey tonight, and police said "more than 100 persons were injured and the trains turned into twisted and smoking wreckage. A witness said he saw two bod ies, those of the engineer and fireman, removed from the engine of the oncoming train, which was bound from Jersey City to Freehold. Prico 5c i Congress Adjourns WASHINGTON, Aug. im The 7th congress, which wrrsU'ed with vat Issues cf war and r conversion, passed into history tonight. ' j i The una! adjourned atf IXt p.m . and the house at 3:42 pra. (eastern standard time), ending the congress' second session tvhich. began last Jan. 14, It was the frft lime In eight years that co-igreis has gone home in mid-summer, f In the senate, the summation if Democratic Leader Berkley j(Kji) was that "on the whole, a rnjagr j ficent miii of legislation was e le aded. " Hark ley termed this f ccd - gress "one of the hardest wotk-. ing, bxt one of the hardest e Of the h4rdSl Ti roN, Aug. i-k&A. worked." WAS11JNUTUN, AUg. Z The 79th congress convened) Jrt. 3. 1945. with the country fighting Its greatest war and Frjnkjin D. Rooteveit about to start his ff-"?1 term as president. It adjourns a year after victory (but with thenar officially stjjl i) and a former member, Harry H. Truman, in the White lfjucf Ita major actions In the ir.tef national field were on Joining Ui United Nations and the H ot id bank and fund, and authorizing t.T.7&0.000,000 loan to Britstf . f Its major domestic atti-ws were on modified continuance of pri5e controls and the draft, atomic! en ergy cofiirol. Income tax reduc tion, a $600,000,000 emergency homing program, gwernmehtil reorganization arid congresiiimal reforms. ' 1 J It appropriated some 9.Vfv- OOO.fKKi, but rescinded about $(;- 000.000.000 after the fightiru ceased. Independence Bridge Plans Laid at Meet j A tentative agreement to buijd ( the Independence bridge acrs ; the Willamette river was reached at a meeting of interested fib j sens and county and state of fir ' cials in Independence Friday., (i I Calling for bids tin the struct ' ture to cost about ICtO.OOO foreseen for May. 1947. if plfcM ' proceeded as expected, Grkr.i Murphy. Marlon county judg said He added that if bids were too high construction w j probably otponed. -if A location obout ?: i fet SOtpH 0 W4 Sltgi ild'M-k. state of Monmouth aent;o i geted by K. II. Bald' highway engineer, whose atft Mill make preliminary surveji before the location is decided fp joint approval of the Folk Wfl Marlon county courts and Vie state highway commission. Mis phy said. !J Afrremonl was reached win financing the bridge with the de cision that the state should py half of the coot and the counties a quarter each. Polk county court asked for a 12 year period to pfy its. hare and the Marion court said It part could be paid im mediately from its post-war con struction fund. ' fl Dean Walker.- Independence, who acted as chairman of fhe meeting, asked for I Immedif le construction but Baldxk stjd that such a course wai not fmf -ble with present higp contri tion cfw-t HuldcKk said the ;ijhi proved highway to connect ! V br idge with the ViHta Sprle. : overcrossmg would cost an adp -tional $1,311,000. i In addition to Judges Murptjy and VanWell. Commissioners E. L. Rogers and Roy Rice of Mi ion county and Commmioners U L H. Brant and Fred Gibsonif Polk county attended. In adc n aoci- vers, 3t. . pJM- i. 04Jr 1 reorei- tion to Baldock. J. M. Dev G. Smith, Hedda Swart Stevenson, Glenn Paxson, Cutler and J. W. Cat tr el I rep sented the state highway cofrif- mission. W. Barnum. president of the- city council: James Hati. street commissioner; Glenn Smith; postmaster, Ralph Kletzing, Deifc Walker and R. M. Walker repre sented the city of Independence. Flax Contest Kntrjj Date Now Aug. 6 MT. ANGEL, Aug. 2 Entfy j date for the flax contest hftf leen changed to August , Waltf f Kruse, secretary-treasurer of tf association, has announced. Prize totaling S33 will be awarded lo the top four growers and all entries must be tied! In bundles at least four Inches In diameti with the grower's name and a dres attached to qualify. i Judges of the flax grown -r 1940 will be Leo Dernytt, Salem Gus DeVos, Springfield, and Rtt4 fus Kraxberger, Canby. , 1 : Our Senators ' Won-- , , ; ('-."..- ( " l'i" 1 -. l -4 I 1