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Imtw, Mr. rUsh. following the tatter's appearance In the how
rimg at Um iUU fair. The nightly bocsenhow, considered the most
srreWal ever held at the fairground, haa been held aver far
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Tba stock market, trading In
which ia a secret ui of aeveral
million Amertcarta. had aeer at
tkckt of ancirut pectoris in tlte past
U-n tisr This: followed some two
months of chronic valvular leak
age. It - s the angina that
brought frarters. investors, spec
ulators . up " with a Jeik like a
lMsswe1 ra I f and trutdr- them won
ier w bat hit them. Oddly entnigh
the firt sharp twitrh came with
a blue chip tKk. American Tele
Intone it Telegraph, a prime fa
vorite of conservative inventors.
Investment trust and such. Suc
reedinc spasm of pain were felt
In indutriL. rails and specula
tive bonds. Minor bracinics have
ten rx-ted in recent days, with no
assurance yet that the floor haa
t-en reached
Rirwe the acute drop of Sep
tember 3. the mot vertical of any
since 1937 and reminiscent of
latustrophes which runH in
129 and 1930, am..T-uis and pro-few:on-!$"h-ive-
tried thir turn
at di-gnosinc the mu.. The "for
eign situation" was given a try
fit. until it was. printed out that
Ljk'ttdon markebJ were firm. The
j).llpe -couldn't be attributed to
Mteaknes of holders becau
raonths ago OK; SEC banned pur
chase on margin. Fears of new
Labor troubles seemed rather
rrtulou: and last winter and
sprir.g when labor disputes were
leal the market kept forging
ahead.
The mot ingenious explanation
cf the market drop and the least
accurate was that of Congres
, mn Sabath i4 Illinois who blamed
it on manipulation .
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Group to Fiht
3 Per Cent Tax
PORTLAND. Sept. 1-iAf -F.. A.
Wi-Cornack. Eugene, former state
siitr. today told of formation
' of a ctenmittee to fight a Novem-t-r
ballot proposal to levy a 3
ler cent gross income tax.
Sponsoring Townsend , groups
re criducSingj the gros 'income
tax in Oregon. McComark said,
j rn?r to pushing it on a national
aca.
Waller W. R. May. Oregon, City
jubhsl.er. is secretary-manager of
the anti-tax group and Walter
II Eans, Jr.. Portland 'attorney,
tiurer.
OPA Ready to
Start Driveion
Black Market
WASHINGTON. Sept.
OPA's enforcement crew, 'training
for a tough winter campaign to
crack black markets, laid plans to
day to use squealing small viola
tors to trap the big shots.
George Moncharsh. deputy OPA
administrator in charge of en
forcement, said corner butcher
caught peddling black market
meat will get off easy if he tells
where he got It.
For the bkg operators, he prom
ised. It will be a -rugged'' winter
and spring. The "screams expect
ed from all over- the country
aren't going to. atop the drive,
he said.
Earl W. Clark, regional adminis
trator for OPA . in Chicago, said
there that Porter got assurances
of cooperation, in making mat
price control!, work. :ii - i p r
OPA loeka for moat price cell
ing violation in meats, sugar,
automobile. lumber, building ma
terials and rent. Moncharsh is set
ting up special mobile squads to
operate in each of these fields.
Betting Heavy
At Racetrack i
Not a banner day, so far as at
tendance was concerned. Satur
day at the state fair saw some
other records broken.
At - the racetrack, $72.35(1 was
wagered through the pari-mutuel
windows, to bring th week's to
tal (n pari-mutuel on the auto
races, today) to $310,000, in com
parison -with $138,000 in 1941. '
The fair dance closed its week's
run on a high note, with 1300
dancers at the party.
Animal Craclccrs
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Monday S3.0
Tsesday l.7t4
Weshseaday .... 2.202
Thsuraday .. 22.302
Frtdar . 2111
Katurday ... ..
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17t,42t 11M71
Hops, Peaches
Need Pickers
With several hop yards closing
down because of mildew on the
hops and with 90 per cent of the
local peach crop on the ground
the worker shortage in the Salem
harvest area is becoming critical,
the farm labor office reported Sat
urday. '
This morning transportation will
be available at the office. from 6
to 7:30 o'clock to transport work
ers to peach, hop, prune and bean
yards. Saturday 38 trucks came
to the office for pickers and sev
en drove away empty. Approxi'
mately 10S men, -45 women and
140 youths were supplied by the
ffice.
Del Monte Said Likely
To Get Naval Academy
ASTORIA. Ore., Sept.
senate Hub-committee on naval
affairs today inspected possible
sites along the Columbia river for
the proposed west coast naval
academy, but spokesmen . indicat
ed there was little chance of eith
er Washington or Oregon receiv
ing the school.
The committee indicated the
Del Monte. Calif., site was likely
to win final approval. .
The Weather
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Salem, Oregon, Sunday IMornlno;, September 8, 1946
Price Sc
No. 140
Mockets ;-Replttiy$ Navy Big Guns
Spitzbart
Askis Ne
Fair Site
! By Isabel Child Kosebrangh
City Editor, The Statesman :
As attendance figures for the
81st Oregon state fair approached
the hitherto astronomical 200,000
Saturday, Fair Manager I Leo
Spitzbart described himself as
"embarrassed." !
' Some of i the failings of the
statewide agricultural show Which
has drawn to date approximately
.1(17.000 persons may be corrected
as the fair once again becomes an
annual event, but others will! be
come more pronounced until an
entirely new fair plant is con
structed, Spitzbart declared, j
TODAY AT THE FAIR
Gates epea t a.m.
Ticket sales far ' afterneen
aaioaaobiUr races atari 1:3 sjii
1st frant ef grandataad, all seats
anreserved. , ' y
A ate race qaallfying, grand
stand. 1:3 a.sn. .
Aate raees, graadatand. t:tt
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Horse shew, stadlunm, t p.m..
still snaay reserved and kex
, teats available.
Night revoe, grandstand, t
Ne daneeJ
; Gates 1 eteae mldalgbt, eea
eladlng 1 1st Oregon sute fair.
Embarrassed by the long queues
at ticket-sellers' windows every
day of the banner week, embar
rassed by the litter of paper,
broken balloons and heal f-ea ten
food on the midway and by a
dozen and one other features of
the fair which a larger staff with
better training and more experi
ence may be able to' overcome,
Spitzbart said his greatest chagrin
ws in the lineup for rest rooms,
floors of which were sometimes
half-flooded with water when pa
tient fair-goers finally reached
them. He sympathized, too. he
said with the livestock men's re
quests for better water, and sewer
service . In , barns. Disappointed
persons who were unable to see
horse show or night revue because'
of lack of stadium and grandstand
accommodations have a right' to
grumble, he ; declared. I
Expreases Hope j
This may j be the time to ex
press a hope some "of us have
held for a number of years: Now
that we are no longer the biggest
county fair : in , Oregon, perhaps
with the public on our side we can
become the largest ! state fair In a
state which can outdo any of the
other 47 In fariety and quality of
the stuff it produces,' Spitzbart
said. : ; . .
"Our present state fairgrounds,
with 40 and 50-year-old water and
sewer system, with I buildings in
capable of housing all the entries
and commercial exhibitions, is a
desirable industrial site, which, if
sold while property is especially
valuable, might go far toward pur
chasing a 200-acre site for the
larger state fair jOregon can sup
port. : ; ; .j
"The new? grounds should be
readily accessible without traffic
tieupa 1 such I as we jhave experi
enced this week. They should have
a plant which can be operated ef
ficiently by the type of staff; we
must employ on seasonal basis.
Keate Street Highways
"Whenever I the new grounds
may go near Salem, we know there
is likely to be -some other new con
struction shortly, but streets land
highways could be routed to make
the approaches more satisfactory
than they are today.' Sewer and
water systems could be laid which
would take lrare of needs of; the
larger fair which very apparent
ly is on the way. We can provide
more .eating; places on these I old
grounds, but without heavy ex
penditure we cannot do much to
improve the rest room situation
here." ' ; ; M
GuideffiMissiles Featured
In Newest Capital Ships
By Elton C. Fay
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1-VP)-Th United States, racing to main
tain its naval supremacy, already is building the world's first atomic
age capital ships armed with main batteries of robot rockets in
stead of guns. )
The navy disclosed this tonight in a somewhat terse announce
ment that the 45,000-ton., battleship Kentucky and the 27,000-ton
battle-cruiser Hawaii would be
"guided missile warships', Both
ships were started as conventional
design .'vessels, - but constructionM
was . arrested when the rocketsju
and atomic bombs of the final
phases of world war II marked
the arrival of a new day in war
fare. . i
The announcement by Vice Ad
miral E. L. Cochrane,, chief of the
navy's bureau of ships, was spar
ing of detail but left broad impli
cations. It was patent, however, that
the announcement marked the
end of an era the age of the
rifled gun in the main batteries
of American naval ships. That
gun came into general use by the
navy soon after the close of the
Civil war. .
Naval design men, talking in
formally, pointed out that the de
structive power of capital ship
can be Increased enormously! by
use of far-reaching missies homed
to the target by electronic beams
or drawn there by the attraction
of the steel or heat in the target
itself.
There is no indication that
atomic pile power plants ' have
reached the point where they can
be installed as propulsion units in
vessels. However, lessons learned
from the atomic bombs exploded
against the fleet at Bikini un
doubtedly will Influence super
structure design. The results may
be emphatically streamlined top
side structures designed to reduce
the effect of the enormous wide
area pressures produced by atomic
bomb blast.
Slavs Adamant
Oyer Boundary
PARIS, Sept. 7 P Yugoslavia
served notice on the peace .confer
ence tonight she would refuse to
sign a treaty with Italy if! the dele
gates approved the Italo-Yugoslav
boundary recommended by the
foreign ministers council,, and the
conference ended its sixth week
embroiled In bitter territorial dis
putes, r
The Italian political and terri
torial commission overwhelmingly
rejected a Brazilian proposal: 'to
defer decision on establishing the
Yugoslav-Italian frontier after
Yugoslav Vice Premier Edvard
Kardelj denounced the proposal as
one aimed at giving Italy all she
wanted. j s 4
The Yugoslav vice premier de
manded a major portion of the dis
puted Venezia Guilla area and; an
economic link between Yugoslavia1
and the projected free territory of
Trieste.
Truman Delays
A-Bomb Test
Indefinitely
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.WP)
The deep underwater atomic bomb
test, tentatively sf t for next spring
was Indefinitely postponed today
by President Truman.
Whether It ever will be -held
was left indefinite, though the an
nouncement laid stress on the idea
that only -considerations of the
"near future" were involved in
the decision and the White House
pointed out that the order, was not
an actual cancellation. -
Mr. Truman's statement, as the
reason for the decision,' mentioned-only
the fact that a great mass
of Information on the nature and
effect of nuclear .fission blasts al
ready has been built up from the
five previous atomic explosions.
It said the president's military and
civilian advisers have concluded
that the data the new test would
produce Is not necessary at this
time.
Greek Said to j
Wed Elizabeth
LONDON, Sept. 7 -CP)-Rumors
of a romance between Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip! of
Greece spread across the realm
tonight .despite official denials.
Court circles said the prince was
one of Elizabeth's '"circle' of
friends,' and now a guest of the
royal family at Balmoral castle
in Scotland. But they denied that
he and the 20-year-old heiress
presumptive were engaged , to
marry.
A flood of rumors was started
by the London Star's report of an
impending announcement of an
engagement. The Star, saying
the engagement would 'be an
nounced to the nation at a "time
considered suitable 'by the king
and his advisers,5 added that "un
til then Buckingham Palace will
continue officially to 'know noth
ing: 'of the romance."
New Catholic
Athletic Field
In Prospect
. An 'athletic field for Catholic
high school students was foreseen
by local 'lay Catholic leaders fol
lowing reported request for va
cation of certain areas in the Vine
yard addition between D and Cen
ter street, east of town, made for
the archdiocese of Portland.
That the move for an athletic
field in that section was the fore
runner of establishment of an en
tire new Catholic school plant was
scoffed at by local Catholic lead
ers. Both Salem Catholic parishes
have plans for new church build
ings within the next five or 10
years and St. Joseph's, the down
town parish, has not yet com
pleted construction of its parochial
school.
When the Portland archdiocese
observed the -centenary of the
coming of the first Catholics to
Oregon, a diocesan building fund
was raised and a long-range build
ing plan considered by leaders of
the archdiocese which takes in
all west of the Cascades in Ore
gon, but just now parishioners are
more interested in new churches
for both parishes.
Man Killed in
Gun Accident
ALBANY, Ore., Sept 1-(JP)-Grant
R. Dimick, 23, was fatally
wounded tonight when a shotgun
discharged acefdently while he
was climbing over a log while,
hunting east of Tangent.
Albany city police reported
Dimick was hunting wth his
brother, Royal H. Dimick. The
brother said Grant slipped as he
crossed a log.
The victim, an electrician was
recently discharged from the navy
after four years' service. He died
in the Albany General hospital.
The widow and an Infant
daughter survive.
REAL ESTATE DROP NOTED
PORTLAND, Sept. 7-0P)-Fig-ures
released by the Multnomah
county assessor today show a drop
in real estate sales during August.
The total value was $10,565,153, j
compared with 13,33,jmu in July
Schools
I
To Start
Sept. 16
j By Ed Lewis
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Early registration for attendance
in Salem public schools, opening
Moonday, September 16, Is urged
by F$nk B. Bennett, city school
superintendent. All students be
tween the ages of 7 and 18 years
are required to attend school reg
ularly,! excepting those from 16 to
18 who are regularly employed,
who must attend school on a part
time basis. Junior and senior high
schools will be open' for registra
tion Monday through Friday.
School busses will run their nor
mal schedules on September 16,
Bennett stated in a directive is
sued Saturday. Elementary pupils
will register only September 16 at
the school they attended during
the 1945-46 school year.
Elementary principals will be In
their buildings from 1:30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday,
September 9 and 10, to confer with
parents of children new to the Sa
lem schools and those entering the
first grade, the directive states.
Children entering the first grade
will be required to present a birth
certificate or other evidence of
age.
The junior high schools and the
Senior high school are open for
registering students Monday
through Friday
Every reasonable consideration
will be given to the senior high
school students who. having reg
istered on or before" Saturday,
September 14, actually continue in
the canneries through September
due to - the labor emergency, Mr.
Bennett said. For their conven
ience, students who plan to work
beyond the opening days of school
are advised to register before Sep
tember 16.
Trave in State
At New High
Secretary of State Robert S.
Farrell, Jr., Saturday announced
that during the first seven months
of this year Oregon motor vehicle
drivers had polled up 2,500,000,
000 miles on the highways of this
state which establishes an all-time
high for gasoline use.
The previous record for this per
iod was in 1941. July itself was
the fourth record-breaking month
in gasoline consumption with sales
of about 37,500,000 gallons.
The sale of gasoline from the
first of the year through July has
netted the state almost $9,000,
000 in taxes. This amount prob
ably will pass the $15,000,000
mark by the end of the year, Far
rell said.
Greeks Impose
Strict Controls
ATHENS, Sept. 7 -Drastic
emergency measures were reirrv
posed over a wide area of Greece
today to meet what Acting Pre
mier Stylianos Gonatas said was
a rising tide of Leftist violence
which was "not exclusively an in
ternal matter.
Gonatas made the statement as
he announced the cabinet's 'deci
sion to reinvoke drastic emergency
measures, including the establish
ment of military cpurts empower
ed to impose the death penalty, to
meet violence which he said was
increased since last Sunday's ple
biscite recalling King George II
to the Greek throne.
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Walkout
Scorned
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept j7-t-Represeniatlvea
of the Depart
ment f Laber and flarry Lande
ber. leader ef the stria in r tail
ors' union of the PaeJfle (AFT.)
tonltht broke sp a . three-hoojr
meetinr wilhaat . taoasnrinr av
settlement is the three-da y-14
maritime strike. j
The only eommeat from the
participant fram Aitat See
rery mf Lahar Phillip Ilanisaac
-I have tharoasM dfcwaaod
he strike HaaUn with Mf. Lan
ds berg and shall report lmmedl-
alelr te Secretary Sekw f Hem-
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ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 7-JP)-Marilyn
Buferd. "Miss Califor
nia" to the judges, flashes the
smile that today won . her the
title "Miss America of 1946".
California Lass
Crowned 1946
Miss America
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, Sept 7
(A1) Twenty-one-year-old Mari-
lySi Buferd, wearing the ribbon of j
"Mi.s Call for tiia." tonight wa j
chosen as "Miss America" of !
1946.
Rebecca Jane "Becky" McCall.
"Miss Arkansas." was second : in
competition for the beauty dia
dem. - y-
"Miss America." a , blue-eyed
brunette from Los Angeles, Calif.,
and a dramatic student at the
University of California at Los
Angeles, receive! the crown of
her beauty title from Dr. Guy E.
Snavely of Washington. DC. ex
ecutive director of the Association
of American colleges!.
The California five-foot, eight
inch beauty appeared: tonight in a
light blue bathing suit, and later
in a cerise midriff gown of crepe
with sequins, and wearing a pend
ant suspended against her throat
from earings. i
In the final talent; competition,
she presented a brief dramatic
piece.
Miss Buferd.. who said she
wanted a scholaryhip "to further
my education in dramatics," won
a $5,000 scholarship along with
the beauty crown. The first runner-up
received a scholarship for
$3,000; second, $2:500: third, $2,
000, and fourth, $1,500.
The new "Miss America" is a
native of Detroit, Mich. She said
she enjoys drawing arid sewing,
and In sports, swimming,, riding
and fencing.
PITTSBURGH STRIKE SET
PITTSBURGH, Sept. T.-iA-A
strike of power company employes
in Pittsburgh and its heavily in
dustrialized environs tonight Was
called to begin on Tuesday; Sept.
10, at 12:01 a.m. unless a settle
ment of wage dispute is negotiat
ed by that time.
Sigma Tans to
Join Sigma Chi
A petition by Willamette uni
versity Sigma Tau fraternity for
membership in Sigma Chi nation
al fraternity has been approved
by the Sigma Chi national con
vention in Chicago, Ralph Morri
son, secretary of the national fra
ternity alumni association' in Port
land, has been advised. (
Sigma Chi is one of the frater
nities founded at Miami univer
sity, Oxford, O., called the "father
of fraternities." All three frater-;
nities on the Willamette campus
are now national organizations
and all are Miami-founded fra
ternities. !
L. C. Fairham, a veteran, Is
president of the local Sigma -Chi
chapter. The oldest fraternity on
the campus, it was organized as
Sigma Tau in 1919.
ti DIE IN AFRICA CRASH
LONDON, Sept. 7-(P)-A Bri
tish South American Airways
plane crashed a few minutes af
ter taking off from Bathiirst
(Gambia), West Africa, today,
killing 23' persons, l the company
announced here. The plane was
going to Brazil and; Argentina.
(By the Associated Pre)
A spokesman for the Amerina
Federation of Labor : j nigh
termed "ridicTtous an AFLj mart
time leader's threat to seek, a serv
ers 1 strike, as the greats t shin
Ding shutdown In Arnerican his
tory slowed the industrials pulse
of the nation. j
The general striker-threat cam
from Paul Hall. New n York port
agent of the Seafarerk Interna
tional Union (AFL. I
Hall declared that" 1f thf gov
ernment attempted to. mne, any
of the hundreds of strike-ibound
ships in US ports "we wilt rail on
all organized labor ,to ' conte out
with us." ' I ' j .
No Troops Contemplated '
Philip Pearl, director of the in
formation section of i the AFL.
headquarters in Washington, said
he had been assured the govern
ment did not contemplate) uing
troop to man ships and declared:
"This scarehead df a general
strike threat' is rididiiious fon its
face and has no basis! in fart.
The third day of the strike of
90.000 members cf th Sif anai
the Sailors Union of the Pacific
Joined by an estimated 400,0O
allied nhtpworkers. dock hanfis and
CIO seamen t found onfiioa
spreading inland from the nation's
hushed seaports. j
Railroads Tied Up j
The ' Association of American
railroads said between 15.000 and
20,000 loaded freight cars were
tied up because of the strike. m.
This added to the shortage 'of
rolling, equipment desperately
needed to move the gram harvest,
already piling up on the grHund in
some mid western areas f of. want
of freight cars.
Nuclear Power
Plant Possible
NEW YORK. Sept. r-..r-American
scientists told the Uni
ted Nations atomic energy" com
mission in a report made publie
tonight that ' a nuclear power
plant with a capacity output of
73 000 kilowatts probablv -could be
built and fully equipped for 25,
000.000 in a normal locality, in the
eastern United States. j
The normal operating cct at
capacity, however, will be approx
imately 0.8 cents per kilowatt
hour as compared- with a coal
power plant which Couiibe set
up for $10,000,000 under the ram .
conditions and operate at l a coat
of 9.65 cents per kilowatt lour.
Stations Asked
To Guide B-29
WASHINGTON; Sept 7, -:-Weather
planes and radio station
, were alerted today by th army
air forces to guide the B-20 "Pac
usan Dreambyat" In Its attempted
10.000 mile flight acroas the! Ncrth.
pole from Honolulu to Cairo:
Wind velocities and other data
will be radioed from B-17 Weath
er planes operating from Hawaii.
Alaska, Greenland - and Iceland,
officials said. Routine reports will
be. relayed by radio stations at
London and Foggie. Italia, j
"The Dreamboat" piloted by CoL
Clarence S. Irvine, is scheduled
tentatively to leave Honolulu oai
ar s
Hearing io Form,ulat County ISuiBdieig Fund Tax Pflah
Br Casu-ad Prange .
Staff Writer. The Statesmaa
Direct action to provide a hew
courthouse for Marion county! by
1949 may develop this week,
The form of an additional tax
levy sufficient to bring the long-
discussed courthouse issue to a
head will be determined after a
public hearing at 10 ajru Tues
day by the Marion county court
which already has announced its
intention of getting the matter
on the November ballot ' -
Any Marlon county resident
may express his opinion on the
new courthouse levy during the
meeting in county court chambers
at the courthouse. Also present,
besides the court, -will be a Mar
ion county bar association com
mittee appointed to assist the
court with legal details involved.
Walter Winslow, Salem attor
ney, heads the legal committee,
assisted by George Rhoten and
Lawrence Brown.
The crux of the meeting will
be outlining a courthouse con
struction tax levy in addition to
the one already in effect, Wins
low stated. Because this added
levy will come outside the con
stitutional six per cent limitation
law it will have to be submitted
to the voters. j
The present building levy. Ini
tiated in 1944, provides for a to
tal of $450,000 by levying $75,000
per year for six years. To date
$147,858 have been raised from
this source.
At Tuesday's meeting support
will be sought for the county
court's announced intention j of
raising an' additional $600,000 ! by
1949 to provide the total $1,050,000
considered necessary for the con
struction. Under this plan it
would be necessary to levy $200,
000 in each of the next three
years in addition to the present
475,000 annual levy.
: If such a tax plan is approved
at the opening meeting it will
be drawn up by the legal com
mittee and presented to the coun
ty court for a final ballot ; or
der. Possibilities which Winslow
considers unlikely to pop up at
Tuesday's meeting are petitions to
transfer the county .seat to another
town or to force tne county court
to submit the general proposal for
a new building on a county ballot.
Either of these unlooked - for
measures would require a peti
tion signed by two per cent of
the county's Jegal voters, Wins
low declared.
As the local option measure for
prohibition will not appear on the
county ballot because of insuffi
cient petition signatures, the only
other bill, still in petition form,
seeking a place on the ballot is
the proposed formation of a Mar
ion county people's utility dis
trict. I
The district would include vir
tually every municipality in the
county except Salem. The forma
tion proceedings are governed by
the people's utility district law.
Petitions will be submitted to the
state hydroelectric commission af
ter being verified by the county
clerk.
No deadline for the petitions
has been set yet, County Clerk
Harlan Judd said Saturday: Ac
cording to the utility district law
a special election would be held
not less than 50 .nor more than
60 days from the date the com
mission determines that the pro
visions of the law have been com
plied with as regards the peti
tions. This means that September
15 would be the probable deadline
for filing - if the special election
wens to coincide with the general
election, Judd said.
The number of petitions re-.'
quired to place the measure on
the ballot (as set by the law)
is five per cent of the greatest
number of votes any candidate
received for justice of the su
preme court in the 1944 election
in the various county precincts
in which the petitions are circu
lated. That figure has not yet
beeh determined, Judd stated. '
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Ship at Manila
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MANILA, Sunday. SepL B-uPf-A
series of explosions, followed
by fire, ripped through the! after
part of the. United States lirie car
go ship Star Knot this mornirg as.
it lay anchored in Manila, bay,
awaiting discharge of cargo.
The crew abandoned the ship,
but reboarded her. togethei- with
fire boat crews of the. army cavy
and Manila port authority after
the explosions ceased. Fitecraft
were still pouring chemicals into
the afterhold. hours later, j
Capt. Thomas Dorso- said the
explosions were caused by some
300 cy Under s of acetylene aid ox
ygen to a refrigeration hold-
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