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H , t 00 8CEGDD0S iilMHMBMiiliK,. pMk .K.itk. jyi ! i lie Weather O t Now we are. getting the writlm precipitate of Bernard DeVoUs recent visit to the northwest. He told u two month ago in his reg ular contribution to Harper's mag azine "The. r'ay Chair" that be headed thii way. Newnppers reported hi visit in Portland and Astoria: and now the September! -Harper's tarrir his report. Hi-; iorian and literary Critic, DeVoto Is one ft the most trenchant writ ers tA the day. Dr. Marcus Whitman finds a Champion in DeVoto; not to the Ogree of endorsing the "Whit man myth" so-called, but recog nition that he was "a great man,, lmrt at gre-it man as the Male .f Wakhmgton and Oregon say he si . . . 1 suppose in all our his tory ' no nan has worked harder tx more constantly: trf have M-rved the United State more elflessly at a crucial time and none is owed a greater debt by the modern West including Wash ington." But DeVoto turns hi sharpened hafts of criticism at the markings lor lack of them) at Wailatpu, site of the Whitman mission near Walla Walla, and on other histor ical markings in Washington. Ore gon and Idaho', tie jibes at the be whiskered moderns whooping It up in commemoratiorf of the "Pio neers" hen they show little in terest In accurate marking of his torical alien: -I wonder If it is either Judi cious or profitable to leave Wailatpu so squalid, a bare hill side and a weed-choked pasture, a rendeivous for neckers, the monument a mere target for their whiskey bottles." 1 Oregon fares tittle better as DeVoto reports his search for (Continued on Editorial Page) Stocks Take Sharp Slump OnN.Y.Mart NEW YORK. Sept t -(AVThe tk market today suffered an other one of Its sharpest slumps for II years, i toppling leaders 1 to better than IS points to a new average low since August. 1945. A ruh of offerings flooded the exchange, floor tn the first hour, putting the high-speed ticker tape behind for several minutes for lengthy Interval. Transfers of 2.830.000 shares compared with l.g70,000 Friday and were among the best of 1946 Reason for the fresh relapae again varied. Among these, brokers-said, was the growing belief in Wall Street that last week's re lapse may have been the signal for a b-ar' market. Some analysts aid that mount ung labor - disputes Inspired further j, liquidation. Oth ers thought the iull cloudy inter national picture jwas a factor. The Asaoriatejrt Pre CO-stock rcnptiur was off 3 3 points at 63 9. hirh equalled the low of Aug. 23. 1943. International Busines Mach ines drtpped IB;1 points. Hiram Walker 11. Caterpillar tractor 9. rVhenleiy 8. Dupont 71, Eastman Kodak r7. Bethlehem 6. U. S. fcteel 5 V Union Pacific 3. South ern Parfrfic 4. Goodyear 44. U. ft. RuMber 44, Chrysler 4S.. Montgomery Ward 4S, and Amer ican Telephone 3 (Stcxk quotations page 8), Housing At Adair Boosted Conversion of the abandoned Camp Adair which once held 40.000 men into temporary hous ing for war veterans and their families is the object of .redoubled activity by trie League of Seven Cities today. Reports will be rushed to the war assets administration, which now holds Adair as surplus prop erty,, to request a freeze" of at least part of the base and to out line the needs of nearby commu nities for tht housing which Camp Adair barracks might supply.! No sate of Adair surplus has yet been advertised. S Nerblad at Meeting . These developments came Mon day morning in a meeting at the ramp of delegations from the WAA and from Salem. West Sa lem, Independence, Monmouth. Albany. Dallas and Corvallls. P. M. Robinson, league. . chairman and Albany Chamber of Com merce manager, called the meet ing. Rep. Walter Norblad, who at tended, pledged his support. I Salem representatives, i includ Ing C Burr Miller, presdient of the chamber of commerce, report ed that general sentiment favored Use of buildings at the camp, after remodeling them into family and bachelor residential units. WAA will be asked to postpone sale of any buildings or equip ment at Camp Adair until it ean consider .fully the league's plan for establishment of an extensive housing colony there. ' Douglas McKay, Salem delegate who dur ing his army service had been adjutant at the camp, stated that a community could best be de veloped in that part of Adalr cen tertiig around the hospital, where utilities, theatres, post office, hos pital and other' suitable facilities already exist. Dlataaee fteesned Barrier Some Salem delegates said the base at 25 miles is too distant from Salem to provide much housing relief for Salem proper. especially with new automobiles till scarce. - Committeemen selected to ; re port the league plana to WAAJ in elude Mayor Cliff Knodell of Al bany, chairman; Douglas McKay, vice chairman; Ray DeVoss, Cor vallis: George W. Cooper, Mon mouth; Mayor M. J. Butler. Inde pendence; Mayor Guy Nugent, West Salem; Mayor Hollli Smith, Dallas: William Eaime, Salem manager of If. S. employment service, and Col. George . Sandy, state director of veterans' affairs. Zoning Board Ilexirins Set For Tonight Salem's city planning and zon ing commission tonight will con duct two 'public hearings on zon ing in city ha!L At 6. JO p. m. the commission will hear general comment on toning of the recently annexed city territory. No formal zoning action has yet been Initiated for the new city areas. At 8 p. m. a hearing will beheld cn the pruped establishment of a business zone on a Trade street lot between 15th and 16th streets where Portland General Electric proposes to locate a small substa-tion. Animal Craclccrs 8 WARREN GOODRICH . mRelax-ril b right with you just as soon as I fix my 'nails." Republicans Keep Hold iri Maine Ballot PORTLAND. Me, Sept. 0 UP) Republicans' captured all major, office at stake in today's early Maine election their sixth "clean sweep" in a row. Senator Owen Brewster, mem ber of the war investigating and Pearl Harbor committees, - and Gov. Horace Hildreth won second terms by heavy margins. Also reelected were Reps. Rob ert Hale, Frank Fellows and Mar garet C. Smith, to third, fourth and fifth terms, respectively. i; Bwwster saw the results as "in dicating a continuance of the re publican trend." ., 575 Oregon Vets J Get Added Fiindsr Approximately 873 Oregon vet erans will receive an. additional $30,000 during the year beginning October 1 in compensation for dis ability in peacetime service, ac cording to James Harris, veterans administration contact officer la Salem; He said the recently; in creased rates will be applied auto matically, making it unnecessary for veterans to make Inquiries, SOUMDBtD 1651 ! Willamette river -3 feet. FOHBCAST (from US. weather bu reau. MrNary field, Salem): Clearer today and tonight. Hiehet tempera- J ture today 811. Lowest temperature j lonigrtt 4W Foreseen tflNETY -SIXTH lYEAB 10 PAGES Salem, Oreaon, Tuesday Morning, September 10, 1948 Price 5c o. 141 Vacationers Become Valuable 'i ' ' as. v ii(iaw""es faa f rm Hop stickers are gatherinr frem far and near and maay more plekers are badly needed te see the Willamette valley hop erep safely : harvested. Shows art Mr. and Mrs. H. I Worley ef Lengriew, Wash whe are picking at the Mitoma yard near Independence. ; Werley Is a native ef Amarille. Texas. His wife Is from Miazteaota. I Werley Is a seeestd rigger la a legging eazop bat while the weeds - were cleaed dae te fire precaatlonary meaaares, he sad ,hls wife f picked heps. Maay ether vacationers are similarly eagaged. ' I ' HI , - lit (SUtesmaa Farm lhote)4 Appeal From Bah on :o !'- 1 '- Vote Statement "George C, Reinmiller, secretary of the state democratic j central committee, Monday; filed i an ap peal from the decision of Secre tary of State Robert S. ' Farrell. Jr., i which rejected a statement submitted for tlie voters' pamph let in behalf of State Sen. Lew Wallace. Portland, who li oppos ing Rep. Homer Angell ! in the third congressional i district rsce this falL ;j 'i. ,jf i - , Appeal board members, expect ed to consider j the1 appeal this week, are Clov. iEarl Snell, 1 Attor ney : General George Neuner and Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public, Instruction. " - Farrell had ruled that the state ment was filed; by an individual, not the party, and that it "smears' Angell in a manner not permitted by the voter pamphlet law. State Sen. Thomas Ma honey, Portland, however, said he himself had in troduced the law and its intent is merely to ban publication of mat ter i defamatory ' to religious and racial groups. Mahoney is work ing with Reinmiller in the appeal. Waodhurn Schools Delay Fall Opening WOODBURN, Sept 9 Open ing of Woodburn district schools was postponed . tonight from Sep tember 18 to September 23; at a special meeting of " the school board. Representatives of grow ers and canneries asked the post ponement so that students may continue work. : i Local Option Aliases f Bentton County Ballot 1 CORVAIXIS, Sepil 9-VPPii-Uoners to ' place before Benton county voters in November a pro posal to ban sale of alcoholic bev erages failed, by 27 signatures. County Clerk A. J. Moore report ed today; Of 1,085 names submit ted, T7 were valid. ; i f Hop Pickers in . Great Demand To Save Crops .. Black mold, shortage of pickers and fickle weather have, caused hop growers in and around Salem to send out an SOS for Salem resi dents to help the Salem farm labor office reported Monday, Already, the W. W, Graham farm in the Mission Bottom area ha had to abandon 15 acres of hops because of the mold. Other growers report that unless the crop isv harvested in the next two weeks the loss will be tremendous. Pickers say hops are weighing well.. ! ;- ;-.-, Busses leave for the fields every morning xrom tne iarm lanor oi fice at HI Chemeketa st. Two Returned To Alabama on Crime Counts Sheriff L. F, Horn and Sheriff Barganier, both from Alabama, left Salem Sunday for Alabama with two prisoners released to them - on extradition orders by Marion county Sheriff- Denver Young. Horn took with him William Hub Rogers, wanted on a 40-year- old murder charge, and Sheriff Barganier - took Omar Buford Rogers to face a larceny and jail break charge. i Omar B. Rogers, accused by his ex-wife of stealing $5 from her purse, had been arrested and in terned in the Butler county, Ala bama, Jail, but escaped and made his way to his uncle, William Hub Rogers, who lived at Gervais, lo cal sheriffs deputies said. The two Rogers men were arrested after an investigation by a deputy sheriff and an FBI agent in Mar Ion county. SHIPMENTS UNHINDERED WASHINGTON; Sept. t-CP) -The United States government made it plain t today that it will not Intervene to halt UNRRA shipments to Yugoslavia because of the forced crashes of two Amer ican planes in that country last month.- " d Enrollments E Increase Schools; Meetings Are Se School vacation is definitely, on the wane. Two parochial schools open reg istration today, junior and senior high schools already are register ing pupils, and administrators of other schools throughout ; Salem are bury with last-minute prepa ration for school openings next Monday. ' . ; Hack-to-school j themes feature local store displays, and many of the approximately- 6000 ; Salem school children are being outfitted and gniomed this-week. Public school enrollment is ex pected to equal and poesibly ex ceed last year4 enrollment ; of SiOO. according to Superintendent Frank ft. Bennett who said yes terday that rereat annexation of new city area has little effect be cause much of the territory had been part of school district 24. Catholic i s c h e o 1 registration plans were announced Monday: as follows: Sacred Heart academy, accepting only high school pupils, to register any day from today through Friday between 10 a.m. and noret or 1 and S p.m.; St. Jo seph's, for first eight grades, reg istration at same times . as the academy; St. Vincent dePauTs registration3 from 10 s.m. to t p.m. rriday. 5 .1 i-f J For this school year: Sister Mary Gladys is superior f the acad emy; Sister Mary Veronica; direc tress of St, Joseph's,1 and Sister Mary Ermelindis, directress of St Vincent's. . Registration at elementary schools is set fer Monday morn ing. Night school registration will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednes day, September IS, in the Salem senior high school. Regularly em ployed youths Jn the 16 to 18 age group are required by; law to take part-time school' work that amounts to at least 180 hotfrl per year. r - " :. . i . Superintendent Bennett said the public school teaching staff t this J'ear has two additional teachers, ike last year, about; 49 of the teachers are new to the: local school system. The new teachers will meet tot introductory instruc tion with- the superintendent at 1:30 pjn. Thursday in the public school administration' building. Ten members of the staff, who have returned from military serv ice In the past year, will be start- pected for Salem's u Plants Improved ing their first since the war. full school year Tbey xe Mildred Christensen, Sylvia Kraps, Mil dred Pearce, Loren Mort, Harold Hauk, Verne 1 Gilmore, LaRue Richards, Edmund A. Carleton, Raymond Carl and Marion Davis. Major staff i changes, Bennett reported, see Carleton as principal of the high school and Harry B Johnson, former principal, as curw riculum director. Only other new principal is Mathilda. Gilles at Richmond school. The entire pub lie schools' faculty will meet in the high school auditorium at 9:30 mxn. Saturday. Bennett said. Considerable work has been done in the public schools during the summer- Major improvement projects were summarized by the school office Monday as: Senior high -Installing acoustical mate rial in cafeteria and stairways, to be completed early; next week; Leslie New bicycle shed, softball field lights installed, athletic field and track improved; McKinley Small classroom added, four addi tional lots cleared for playground; Pa irish Painting and calcimining of entire main floor; Richmond Basement classroom added; Oling er Grading completed for new athletic field, seeding and track cindering set for this year. Russian Char ges Assailed LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept. 0 OP) The United States and Aus tralia today vigorously assailed the Soviet Ukrainian charges against Greece and Great Britain in the United Nations security council, and Australia capped the barrage with a demand that the council drop the case forthwith. The council, however, adjourned until 3 p.m. (EDT) tomorrow without acting on the Australian proposal, fierschel V. Johnson, United States delegate, rejected virtually all of the Soviet charges and attacked the "casual manner" in which the -Ukraine had cast doubt on the Greek plebiscite. : It was ; one ' of the strongest peeches. Johnson has yet made to the council. POSTPONEMENT OF UNO MEET RECOMMENDED LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept. 9 (rV-Scretary-General T r y g v e Lie tonight recommended to the 31 United Nations that the general assembly be moved to Oct. 23, as suggested by the foreign minis ters council after receiving assur ances from the. big powers that they - would not request a third postponement. BRITAIN RENOUNCES REPARATIONS CLAIM PARIS. Sept. 9 m Britain and South Africa Joined today in an assault on Bulgarian territorial claims against Greece in a sharp debate in which the Soviet Union was accused of offering western Thrace to Bulgaria as a "bonus for aggression." The charge was made by South African Delegate J. R. Jordan as three peace conference commis sions plunged anew into explosive territorial dispute and another commission heard Great Britain renounce her claim to SI 1,000,000, 000 reparations from Italy. The British said the claim was ad vanced only to help delegates "as sess the merits Of other claims." As the 21 -nation European peace conference entered its seventh week all commissions! except one were in session, striving to meet an Oct. 20 deadline for completing approval of five treaties. Britain Moves To Halt Influx Of 'Squatters' LONDON, Sept. 9-P)-The British government planned swift1 but itill undisclosed action tonight to halt a , swelling, commu.nut sparked "squatter" campaign' that threatened seizure of privately owned dwellings by the sc6re. At 1 leaset 17 London; buildings. including two blocks of luxury apartments.' were commandeered by house-less families who set up housekeeping. London's communist party called on the government to make "the considerable number of luxury flats and large mansions" no va cant available for working class homes. Mercury Goes Back up; 92 in Salem Monday September sunshine sent ther mometer mercury into summer levels Monday. It was 92 in Sa lem. Portlanders noted an airport reading of 84 degrees and western Oregon . was generally warmer than east of the mountains. Rose burg had 91, Medford and Eugene 90, Arlington' and Pendleton 80, LaGrande 75 and Baker 71. - General forecast for Tuesday was fair and warm.. Kenneth Bailey Execution Set for Friday Morning Arrangements for the execution of Kenneth William Bailey in the lethal gas chamber at the state penitentiary early Friday have been completed by Warden George Alexander, he said Monday. Bailey, an ex-convict, was con victed of first-degree murder, in connection with the slaying of Sgt, T. R. Chambers, state police de partment operative, when he and Robert Duffy were cornered in tra? basement of a schoolhouse at On tario, April 29, 1943, SHIP GOES AGROUND " SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9-OP) Military personnel aboard the 10,800-ton . transport Bardstown Victory were Jostled this' morning when the vessel; went aground briefly on the Faralloh islands off the Golden Gate but none of 1159 soldiers was injured. Dock Strike Threatens Steel, Flour Production j By The Associated Press j Hopes for! peace on the nation's strike-bound waterfronts suf fered a setback last night with announcement that CIO seamen would demand pay raises matching anything won by AFL, sailors in their strike against a "pay cut" decision by the wage stabiliza tion board. The statement was made by Joseph Curran, president of 90.000 national maritinw union (CIO) workers, on the eve of a WSB meeting in Washington to reconsider a cutback to $17.50 a month Mt ordered in ' AFL-nrgotiated raises amounting to $22.50 on the west coast and $27.50 in the east. ; The ruling, based on a $17. 50-a-month award to CIO seamen last June, resulted in a strike which idled half million, men and tied up every seaport in the country. i Strike leaders raid only a restoration of the cut would end the walkout, j The paralyzing shut down threatened to bring a curtailment of operations in steel and flour, mills. Storage space is reaching a saturation point. Rail .shipments to seaports have been embargoed since Friday, j i Navy crati took 887 passengers off the marine Tiger'which arrived in New York from Puerto Rico, and three army tugs and eight military police in the role of longshoremen brought in the army . transport George . W. Goethals, from Bremerhaven and Southarrjpton. s ! 1 Efforts of UNRRA4 Director F. H. La Guardia to free relief shipments were countered liy the international longshoremen's as sociation (AFL) whose vretident. Joseph P. Ryan, said: "No ships will be loaded Jy my men while the seafarers international union "(AFL.) and the sailors union of the Pacific (AFL,) are still on strike j j N. Y. Caught in Pincers I NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (JP) Simultaneous strikes by 25,000 AFL drivers, and seamen and dock workers, did these things today to ' New York City's .7 fe million population: ; Cigarets were rationed to one pack a day per cWtomer. i Candy production declined 10 per cent. Milk dealers predicted a one-third cut in deliveries, j A chain store official said 2,000 stores would dp. by tonight AAtP said its 500 outlets would shut down Saturday, If the strike continued, for lack of merchandise. ! Major bakeries were down to a week's sugar supply.. The city's largest sugar processor,. National Sugar Refining company, laid off 1,000 employes and shut down for lack of raw sugar. ; Twenty-five soft drink bottling plants closed. 1 City authorities announced plans to hire 2,000 additional police to cope with the situation. i Railyards were jammed with 5,000 loaded boxcars. . Hundreds of transocean travelers stranded by cancelled sail ings; incoming passengers brought ashore by navy barges; other makeshift means. Mayor William O'Dwyer placed blame for the general situa tion on the union, local 807, international brotherhood of team sters (AFL), saying "The trucks would roll in -an houi ' if the union would, negotiate with motor carriers. He maintained the city's supply of food and medical necessities was "adequate," and said he personally guaranteed the city's food supplies. I The mayor had suggested an 18-i cent hourly wage increase. The union seeks a 30 per cent increase and the operators have offered a $3 .weekly raise. Police Locate Car Pronto in Radio Search Less than a minute elapsed be tween the time Rudy F. Calaba, 1520 Pearl st., telephoned police that his car j had been stolen from the 400 block of Court street, and the apprehension of Francis Mul queen, stationed with the army at Ft Lewis, Wash., jwho was driv ing the car; at Liberty and Che meketa streets yesterday, official police, reports showed. The police radioman at head quarters broadcast the missing car message as he listened to a telephone report from Calaba at 4:01 p.m. Policemen in a squad car radioed back to headquarters at 4:02 p.m. that the car and driv er Were in custody.! Mulqueen is being held in jail. pending possible filing of charges. Sweet Home VVnm IK AC 0 ii uuiuu avsvu In Home Fire SWEET HOME, Ore., Sept. 9 - UP)- Mrs. David Hall, 63, was burned . to death and her husband seriously burned in a rescue at tempt this afternoon when flames spreading from a bucket of oil on the kitchen stove destroyed their home. Firemen- said Hall dashed from the home when the linseed oil he was boiling burst into flame, roll ed on-the grass to extinguish soil flames on his clothes and then re entered the house to attempt his wife's rescue. He was driven back by the flames, firemen said. The oil was being prepared to apply to the floor of a trailer house which Myron" Hall, the cou ple's only son, was building. As ; Brief WASHINGTON. Sept. 10 CTue 'day) iAh-OPA price tas returned to the nation s meat counters to day amid, widespread cntnplairta of shortages and talk of still high er prices among agricultural de pa i tment officials.! The price lid was clamped dews again last i midnight, after meats had remained eontrol-frse rsnee June 30, when the old price eorstrel art expired. However, tn the r.ciy protests against scarce suppl.es, agriculture! department officials said rationing of meat is not l.ke ly. Moreover, a department spokes man discounted talk of a severe and prolonged shortage dc la nr4 it is too early to say whether such a scarcity twill arise. Meat ex perts in the department, rie said, are inclined - to beUeve that trae present shortage may lat no lor.g- ' er than a month; Or so. Rationing Impractical . 'It w6uld be I impractical and even impossible, he added, to set up rationing for such a sbijrt pe riod, j i While no official statement on the point was available, several experts expressed j te view tht the government would b mor likely to raise ceiling on live stock, or remove them altogether, than to resort to rationing. . Officials of the j office of priea administration have said ration ing is unlikely unless a "very dire situation results. f Meanwhile OPA announced that prices for restaurant meals in cluding meats will stand uctJ Sept. 18 at the levels of the week of Aug. 31. i Bean Prices Increased At the same time OPA an nounced a rise of tl per hundred pounds for baby lima beans and. $1.50 for all other dry edifci beans.' reporting' that the increa? at retail will be about three cents a pound. " i Officials of the agriculture de partment generally concede thr the new rtilings for hos are net high enough to encourage heavy feeding of corn at present prices for the grain. But they believe that when the new corn- crop be comes available, the situation may change. A tight pork sitiJaUVm h been predicted to last well into 1947. ' - ; s These officials expect the beef supply to be increased consider ably by marketing, of western range cattle in late September. Posters te Be Available OPA reported that new pnsters showing the meat retlmics shrsud be available at every meat counter Tuesday morning, j- Price lids returned one day ear lier to canned meats, lard and shortening. , OPA reported that canned meat prices were rol.ed back to the June 30 levels, lard was 5 cents a- pound hifher. while most food oils and fats were up about . one cent a pound trr standard container. I Many cities throughout the na tion reported that the return of price .lids on fresh meats cease . as an empty gesture because rt.e cases and counters of manv butcher shops were bare ef popu lar cuts. Oregon PeachesTwo Kinds 3TT .' v - ''"rf 'V' - V - s v 'L $ That peaches are "peaches' this year Is demonstrated above by three-year-eld Liada Lee Chris toff erson, dangfater of the George F. Chrls teffersons, who reside near Hsyesirille, The slx-yesr-old, twe-acre peacb orchard en the farm will yield 150 bushels this year. Bat no matter hew good the peaches are they sneve rather slowly this season, peach men report, becaase of the sugar shortage. (Statesman Farm frole). t Missing Girl Found; Maid Held by Police TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Sept 9. -P)-A four-day search for 3-year-old Madeline Tobias ended when the brown -eyed L'tUe blende was found in a humble home here today and she was restored to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip To bias, of Kansas City. Police took into custody 22-year-old Mildred Louise Everett, a for mer inmate of the Ohio g-.rls in dustrial school, who was quoted by Robert Vance, chief of detec tives, as admitting taking the child from the Tobias home, in which she had been employed as a maid, giving as her only excuse: I love the little girl and wanted her for my own. Danger of Forest Fires Continues ' State forester Nels Rogers lion day warned that the forest fire hazard has not ended and he. cited a late weather forecast indicating higher temperatures i and lower humidify in the Cascade mountain area later in the-week. Rogers ; said he has not yet made plans for lifting forest closures. QUICHES t j: ' -The SUtesmaa Want Ad said be was a Pointer bat he says It . Isn't polite."