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MS n Hoicard Hughes Flies Again 1 cinri KV , i ' li ft ' A ' &Ti f it it 1 i Proposal koes To CTXVER CITT. Calif.. Sept 19 Hewarsl Ilaghea. sporting a tache acquired daring his long eeavalesceaee after his fiery crash la as experimeatal plane, sits la the pilot's compartment ef a eea- vertetl B-ZS. t befere taking far New Tark. (Ar wlrepheU) OtP TPS) CEOS Censorship is a dangerous tool. I knew that when I signed bills In 1941 living the secretary Of state authority to bar from the voters pamphlet matter of cer tain type. The exercise of that authority by Secretary Farrel I in the case of copy submitted in be half of Lew Wallace, democratic candidate for congress from the second district. Is an unwarrant ' ed exerca. of censorship, j going far beyond the purview f the 1941 statute. Appeal has! been taken by the democratic state committee to the board of review and it Is my prediction that the materiat will be admitted. j The language of the law relat ing to ineligible matter is this: "Any tatement or other! mat ter, favoring or opposing any can didate and offered for filing and printing in the voters' pamphlet, which, in the opinion of the secre tary of state contains any b Kenfi vulgar, profane, scandal ous, libelous or defamatory mat ter, or contains any ; language which in any way incites, coun seLx, promotes or advocates! bat red, abuse, violence, or hostility toward, or which tends- toi cast ridicule or shame uponj any per son or group or groups of persons by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship, or any language or matter, the circula tion of which through the mails is prohibited by congress, shall be refused and rejected by the secretary of state. ... Now look at the matter which the secretary of state, says vio lates this law. The statement In behalf of Wallace attack the in cumbent Homer Angell as an "isolaticrfuM." It Uses the words "as further evidence of Homer Angells isolationist sympathies." It quotes from a sermon by Charles Morrison, editor of the Christian Century which Mr. An gell had had included (Continued on editorial page) Sujirrme Court Denies Market Case Rehearing The state supreme court Tues day denied a petition for hehear Ing of the case of the Public Market company against the city f Portland, involving damages against the city. This case was before the supreme court for con siderable time. The court held for the Public Market company.' Board Delays Klamath Base School Verdict LA GRANDE, Sept HWJrVThe state board of higher education today decided to delay a decision on a proposed school at the Klam ath Falls Marine barracks until the new chancellor can consider the problem. j Dr. Paul C. Packer, who: attend ed his first meeting as chancellor today,, said he would confer with institution presidents and board secretary C D. Byrne as soon as possible. i Members said there would be no Pfsibility of opening Klamath Falls branch of the state system until the winter term. -'j ! A $3 a month Increase In dorm! lory room and board charges was voted because; of increased; op ef sting costs. Enrollment estimates reported by various Institutional heads were: Oregon State college, 6SO0 University of Oregon. 5200; Ore gon College of Education, 300 Eastern and Southern Oregon Col leges of Education. 700 each; Van- port center, 15O0. Tb board also approved e tabiiahment of air force ROTC at the University and Oregon Stat. i ' : . Chest Drive to Start Sept. 17 The official pre-campaign kick off breakfast for the 1046 Com munity chest will be held Tues day morning. September! 17 at 7:30 In the Mirror room! of. the Marion hotel. This was announc ed following meeting of the chest committee Tuesday noon, i A. C. Haag is chairman of the pre-campalgn and handed out con tributors cards of the large doners at the Tuesday meeting. The chest campaign this year will open Oc tober 1 with T ink ham Gilbert as general chairman. Truman Pushes For Merger Plan WASHINGTON, Sept lO.-iPh President Truman pushed for army-navy unification today in major conference with heads of the United States armed forces. He called Secretary of the Navy Forres tal and Adm. Chester W. Nimitx. chief of naval operations. to an hour-Long discussion of the matter, along with Secretary of War Patterson and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1 Lone Teacher Needed to Fill City School Staffs for New Year All teaching positions in the SXalem schools' except one are filled with the hiring of five new teac hers, Frank B. Bennett, school superintendent said last night at the bi-weekly tchool board meet ing. Four resignations were ac cepted. A girls' physical educa tion Instructor Is still needed at the high school. The teachers accepted by the board are Henry R. Juran, to teach senior high school physical education; Harvey Harris, former instructor at Eugene vocational school, for vocational shop at! the senior high school; Eva Hughes, physical education at Parrish Jun ior high; Mrs. Lily Hall. Highland grade school, and Mrs. Lorraine Kent McKinley elementary school. Resignations were accepted from Donald Dawson, Leslie jun ior high school industrial . arts teacher; Mrs. Margie Rebt-ntiorf, McKinley teacher; Mrs. Helen Ad dison, Highland, and Philip Haines, who was to teach high school physical education. . The search for teachers has been unusually difficult for i the past few weeks," Superintendent Bennett told the board and ex pressed gratification at having procured an adequate teaching staff.. . ! ; No enrollment estimate can be accurately made yet Bennett said, because of - the number of move ments in and out of districts and from one district to another. - ; The Pringle district school board attended the meeting and suggested that Salem city schools might operate a school system for the 127 children of. school age, nearly twice the normal comple ment of the Pringle district, which are among the families living in trie airport barracks. No action was' taken Council t By Robert E. Gangware Assistant CHy Editor. The Statesman I New and revised zoning for a greater Salem with emphasis on new business stones will be rec ommended to the city council next month by the city -planning and zoning commission. I Zoning commissioners complet ed their study ; of zone trends in relation to recently annexed i Sa lem : city territory last night at their meeting In city hall follow ing two public hearings, 11 and ap proved 10 major zone establish ments and six changes in the city's toning procedure law. They recommended the follow ing zoning: 1 1 NORTH AREA Business zone (III) in new city area between Silverton road and Southern Pa cific track north to ISO feet be yond Highway avenue, then north to city limits in 280-foot strip along east side of Pacific high- way. Industrial zone (IV) in new city area entirely owned by Val ley Packing Co. : Extension or business zone (III) to depth of at least-ISO feet on both sides of Fairgrounds- road Chanced U Residential ' t : Change industrial (IV) Ho rest dential (II) xontwom alley south of Madison street to zone line north of Norway street. Area al ready is primarily residential. i Extend business, zone (III In Hollywood section to line 100 feet north of Madison street and west to present business zone. 9 ; . ; SOUTH AREA Business zone (III) extending 250-275 feet; on each side of South Commercial street and Liberty road from old to new city limits, except to re tain residential zone in Bishop's addition just soutlv of old city limits: ,J '- Business zone (III) for entire recently annexed South 22nd street area, and for the present II-speclal zone in that vicinity aouth and west of, Turner road. . EAST AREA Establish busi ness zone (III) from 12th to 18th streets on both sides of State street to depth of 150 feet or ifcpJi lot, whichever Is greater. Annexed Area Residential I j Residential zone (I) for all newly annexed city area in east : Extend present business zone (III) and convert o-III present u i -special zone to aepm or juu feet or depth pf lot, whichever il greater, at corner of 17th and Center streets, and change from residential zone (I) to business zone (III) property extending 109 feet east on Center from present zone III. i ! The commission also recom mended the following changes in zoning procedure, which like the 10 suggested zone changes, must be adopted as ordinances by the city council to become effective (1) Eliminate clause requiring City officers to serve "personal no tice on property Owners before establishing a new zone. (Com missioners figured such notice would cost the city several thou sand dollars in, zoning the new areas.; Requirement for public hearing, however, is retained.) j (2) "Personal notice to con tinue in zone changes initiated by property holders Instead of by the city, but such notice be de fined as posting of a letter bear ing the last known address of the property owner, ; Filing Fee Changed (3) Increase filing fee for zone change request from $10 to $35, to compensate city for advertis ing; expense j k (4) Government-owned' 'prop erty to be eliminated from per centage requirement In petition for or remonstrance against j a zone change. (Commissioners said it takes passage of a law to indi cate desire of a government agen cy, as Individuals cannot speak as "owner.) ! (S) Establish a special type of busniess zone to accommodate property owners requesting ia change for a specif ci purpose, such zone not to permit at at future time the location of another business. (6) Clarify setback line require ments to include appropriate lim its for corner houses. I Only three persona appeared in the public bearing on annexed area and overall zoning. Virgil Golden and George Grabenhorst advocated the 250-foot depth for business zone along South Com mercial street, and Roy Harland requested the business zone ex tension on Center street Change Approved In the other hearing last night nobody appeared to favor or proi test establishment of a business zone on Trade between 15 th and 16th street where Portland Gen eral Electric seeks to erect a sub station. The commission approved the requested change and ordered It forwarded to city council for action. The commission also ap proved a plat for Thompson's ad dition east of the city between Monro ald Osborn avenues,, formed by property owners Mr.1 and Mrs. Leonard A. Thompson j and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Over- w POUMDBSD ' 1651 fJINETY-SDCTH YEAR 10 PACES Salem. Oreoon. Wedneeday Morning-. September 11. 1946 . Price 5c No. 142 Shortage Of Meat Mounting A large percentage of the retail butchers In Salem declared Tues day they may not have enough meat to last the rest of the week and that most of them will defi nitely be out of meat after the weekend with the exception of lamb and sandwich meats. One local butcher , ordered 38 cuts cuts Tuesday and received three. Lamb is plentiful, however butchers report a dropping de mand. There has been a shortage of pork in most shops. Now veal and beef are expected to be added to this list By The Associated Press Meat went back under retail price ceilings yesterday but most cities faced a severe shortage which packers arid wholesalers predicted would grow progres sively worse for the next few weeks. George Dressier, secretary of the National Association of Meat Dealers, said many butcher shops were planning. to close for a week at a time to accumulate supplies for a few days' operations.' A spokesman for the National Res taurant association said the pinch of supplies would affect restaur ants in about a week. The dwindling livestock re ceipts in the nation's principal markets caused widespread lay offs of workers. About 5000 were laid off in Omaha and nearly twice this number in Chicago. About 4000 Pittsburgh packing house workers were told they might be "furloughed. Yugoslavs Mgvree To Pay Pammages '! " i Indemnity Terms Still Being Disputed x WASHINGTON, Sept )0-JP)-Yugoslavia has tentatively agreed to pay damages for the loss: of five lives in the, forced crashes of two unarmed American transport planes, the state department disclosed today. ''";! Thus far, howeverMafehal Tito's government has not consented to pay an additional indemnity for the loss of the planes which were attacked by Yugoslav fighters. Rent Control Board Named By Don A three-man board of review. to function under the recently passed city rent control ordinance, has been appointed, Mayor; I. M. Dough ton announced Tuesday. J. F. Ulrich, Steve Anderson and Keith Powell make up the board Ulrich represents landlords;, An derson the tenants and Powell is appointed as having no interest either as a landlord or tenant, in compliance with the ordinance. First requests for rent investi gations are handled by the city treasurer, Paul H. Hauser. If eith er landlord or tenant Is dissatis fied with the finding, an Appeal may be made to the board of re view, which makes the final de cision. j Ulrich Is an apartment house owner, real estate and insurance agent and president of the Salem property owners' association. An derson, a war veteran and (attor ney, ; Is .secretary of the Salem housing authority. Powell is ipresl dent of the Salem Federal' Sav ings and Loan association. ! Appeal Set on Barred-Voters-Pamphlet Copy Consideration of the appeal of George C. Reinmiller, secretary' of the state democratic central com mittee, . from a recent decision of CMlinr nf Ktata RnKkApf fi Car- rell. jr., rejecting a statement for it0" w" n?ad T"T"3r- !whn the voters' Damon let In behalf of "- . New Board to Rule On Building Colic Mayor I. M. Doughto'n has ap pointed a board of appeals in ac cordance with a provision in the city building-code. The three mem bers are G. R. Boatwrightj Lyle Bartholomew and E. E. Batter man. Announcement of the ac- State Sen. Lew Wallace, Portland, probably will get under way early next week, Governor Ear( Snell announced here Tuesday. Wallace Is the democratic nom inee for representative in congress. 3rd district Multnomah county, at the November election. The appeal board Is. composed of Governor Snell, Attorney General- George Neuner and Rex "Putnam, state superintendent of public instruc tion. Farrell held that the statement wai a "defamatory" attack on the record of Representative Homer Angell, republican opponent of Wallace, and was filed br an Indi vidual rather than by a political party, in violation of the state election laws Ammunition Explodes As Firemen Quell Blaze Ammunitions , exploded around city firemen as they worked to extinguish a blazing building Tuesday at 5:30 n.m.. at 1110 S. Commercial st,: owned by K. A. Adams. Living quarters In, the rear of the building were razed along with several guns, but ma chinery In the carpenter's shoD at the front of the building was only damaged by water. v - NO A8n TfcAY. PROBABLY PITTSBURGH. Sept 10 -UP John Berger was willing to over look it when his wife, Anna, smoked a corncob pipe in bed. But when she turned to Italian stogies that was too much. Ber ger said In his divorce suit filed in common pleas court today. OWEN ROBERTS ELECTED PHILADELPHIA. Sept lOMJPi -The Protestant Episcopal church opening Its 55th triennial conven tion today voted Owen J. Roberts, former U. S. supreme court Jus tice, presiding officer of the house of delegates. SCHOOL POSTPONES OPENING LA GRANDE,! Sept lO.-OTVAn 1-day postponement of fall term opening at the Eastern Oregon College of Education was report ed today by President R..J. Maaske. Dormitory unit are not yet completed. The Weather Max. TS as gates Portland San rrsncisce M Chleaco ,. 7S New York ... SS Mln. Preetp. as so 7 19 M J09 ' trace WiHlamette river -S i feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNarr eM. Salem): Clear to day, I tonight, with fw hlfh clouds. Highest temperature today li, lew iS. ment was prompted by a request. from City Engineer J. H. Davis, who pointed out the recently-born necessity for such a board in the greatly Increased construction now in progress here. j : As the building code specifies, one appointee, Batterman.i is a contractor; one, Bartholomew, is an architect and the third, Boat wright. Is an engineer. Silverton Pup(s to Be Excused for Farm Work SILVERTON, Sept. 10. -4- The Silverton school - board will not postpone opening date of schools but all students who wish to con tinue in the harvest fields for an other week will be excused, board members announced Tuesday. All teachers have been -hired, early registration indicates that enrollment will be as large as last year, and the first teachers meet ing has been set for Saturday af ternoon. ; S JEWS AVOID CONFERENCE LONDON, Sept. 10 -P)-40nly representatives of Britain! and the seven Arab league states at tended, the opening session of the conference on Palestine today, but -hopes were raised that Jews might decide to participate later. Undersecretary! of State William L. Clayton told a news confer ence. . Clayton has said several times that the United States is willing to end the dispute over the crashes if the indemnity issue is settled satisfactorily. He emphasized to day, however, that the negotia tions, being carried on in Bel grade by Ambassador Richard C. Patterson, Jr., are far from con clusive to date. He declined to disclose the amount of the Indemnity asked by the United States. Other quarters said it was "somewhat less than $400,000." Valley Industry Needs 7,000 Housing Units The Salem office and county branches of the V. S. employment service have revealed in a sur vey that more than 7000 housing units are needed In Marion, Polk. Linn and Benton counties If var ious forms of industry are going to have the number of employes necessary to operate them. Counties and .their housing unit needs are as follows: Mar lon, 3600 to 4000; Polk, 600; Linn, 1500 and Benton. 1000. In addi tion it is estimated that the North Santiam canyon! from Lyons up through Idanha j needs 150 units and In the Lebanon-Sweet Home area 550 could be used. If housing were available the lumbering industry could be step ped up IS per cent, it is esti mated. In connection with this report, P. M. Robinson, Albany, chairman of the league of seven cities, which is attempting to acquire a portion of abandoned Camp Adair for conversion toi veterans' living quarters, stated Tuesday that he will seek the aid of all existing agencies and Oregon's congres sional delegation to secure the project Gov. Earl Snell also pledged his support to the acqui sition of the project. Shipyard 'Tokens' In Probe - -i WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -(P) Mrs. William D. Leahy received a $2516.17 diamond bracelet and some 6000 other women in all walks of life collected smaller tokens for christening the mer chant and naval ships built dull ing the war, the maritime com mission reported tonight First lady and woman welder were on the list, along with wives or daughters of diplomats, con gressmen and other officials and shoe and leather factor! Forecast By. The Associated Press , The greatest! strike-forged crisis in the anrfals of V. S. shipping gripped the nation last night mm the wage stabilization board de ferred action on maritime work ers' mass protest against the ag ency's partial veto of a pay hike for AFL seamen. j The board meets at 10:30 ia m. (KST) today In Washington to study the grave threat to govern ment wage control policy. The sixth ! day 6f the strike already described by shipping quarters as the costliest in mart time history found some of the nation's basic industries facing shutdown due to the loss of titaj exports and; imports. Mills turning out flour, steel and cement to flU huge oversees orders were forced to pile their output in warehouses with empty space 'vanishing rapidly. Freight car loadings for sea ports were banned at the outset . of i American Railroads, already struggling to relieve a shortage of about 100,000 cars a weA. In New England, sugar reftnera. es were running low on raw materials. At New Orleans a .spokesman said the Henderson Sugar Refin ery Inc., will be shut down with in two or three days unless MfJtOG bags of raw sugar aboard the SS Cape Nun tare moved inU the plant. Pickets, on the Krie canal, at Albany, N. V,., ha tied up 400,000 bushels of grain moving down from the Great Lakes est barges. j In Washington the,. WSB heard additional testimony! ail of rt supporting the demand of 90.000 AFL seamen . for award of the full $22.50 a .month raise won on the west coast and $27.50 in the east and then announced a second meeting for today to tudy the matter. The controversy was provoked subject in accordance with Its j by the board's August 23 decision customary procedure." to limit the AFL raises to $17 30 Mrs. Eleanor Ro4evelt. wife ofi month, the same amount grin t the late president received two CIO seamen In their campa.gn gifts valued at $800. Mrs. James i for wage increases lat June. I F .Byrnes, wife of the M-cretaryj of state, also received two glft?' One, a tray and an album of pic tures, was valued at $lh02.12 by the Permanent Metals'coiporation of California. shipyard workers In virtually every case the ship building company reported that it paid for the sponsor's gift from the profits derived, from building the vessel. The commission's 130-page re portfWMS prepared at the request of the senate war investigating committee. " "The committee's Interest In the matter," said a statement of Chairman Mead (D-NY), "arose fronu complaints received that wives and female .relative of of ficials in the maritime commis sion were frequently named as sponsors and. in wmf cases, that the SHme individual had acted as sponsor of more than one vehsel. . . "The committee, of course, will continue its investigation of this Three Stolen Cars Located by Police Three cars stolen from Salem owners Tuesday were all located by police within a three-hour per iod of the tame day and within a three-mile radius Of each other in the Keizer district, city detective reports indicate. All cars were stripped when recovered between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. The autos were Owned by Ralph Hollis. route 6, Salem; Harold E Sherman, 835 D St., and George Ryland, 1098 E st BRITISH ARREST 111 JEWS JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 -0T) British troops a r res tedS 101 Jews and wounded two today during an intensive hunt through the Tel Aviv and nearby Ramat Gan for saboteurs responsible for killing three persons and injuring at least 12. ! Plan to Finance Courthouselo ear on November Ballot ! A nrnnhut to finance construc tion of a new Marion county courthouse in 1949 will appear on the county ballot In the: No vember general election. It I was assured' today' after the Marion county court In the absence of protests at Its public hearing; yes terday, ordered Its special legal committee to draft the necessary tax levy ballot order. While reiterating his previous ly announced r : advocacy of rais ing $200,000 in taxes during leach of the next three years to bring the courthouse Construction fund to $1,050,000, County Judge Grant Murphy Indicated that study would be given certain financing proposals advanced ' at the hear ing by Ci A. Ratcliff, 170 (Rat- cliff dr. I v i Ratcliff voiced the opinion that cash balances In various county funds, representing receipts-" over .budgeted estimated receipts, now total almost a million dollars and that this surplus might be! used in present budgeted funds while new tax collections be applied to the courthouse building fund. This, Ratcliff said, would elimi- pointed i out, funds but the nate the necessity of voting a spe cial levy to exceed the six per ITIll lUIUUIllUli, , Judge Murphy however, that all general fund are earmarked for specific purposes and cannot be used otherwise, and that the gen eral fund'ln a county as large as Marion requires j a substantial working balance. ! - Citing background of the new courthouse plan, the judge stated that the present building levy of $75,000 per year was initiated in 1939 when taxes were readily paid, liquidation of county-held lands was rapid and county I ex penditures were limited by lack, of materials. This levy was to produce $450,000 for a courthouse in six years, Murphy said, ; but growth of county business land high building coats now make ne cessary the additional $600,000 levy if the building la to go up In 1949. i i Walter Wlnslow heads the legal committee drafting the new ' levy order, expected to reach county court for consideration later this month. j War Memorial Group Asks Membership Organizations throughout Salem are being aked by the Salem War Memorial association to con tribute ideas and to join the asso ciation which proposes to seek the erectionof a community building as a living memorial to war dead. A $5 membership for organiza tions is offered by the association for dual reasons: The fee ' will help finance costs of securing pre liminary surveys of campaigning Tor whatever type of building is finally approved and similar costs. The subscription entitles each member organization to represen tation on the association's board of directors and so to a guidinghand in the project. Individual memberships are $1 each, and fees from this group also will help finance postage and the educational program. Pioneer post, the all-women post of the American Legion in Salem, and the Salem Business & Professional Women's club are as sisting association heads in send ing letters to the various organi zations of the city. ?Kingf ish V Kin Trails in Vote BATON ROUGE. Sept 10P) , -In Louisiana's 1 democratic pri mary today, George S, Long, bro- l ther of the Senator Huey P, Ior.g. apparently lost hir bid for a seat in congress. ! The incumbent, A. Leonard Allen, with lit of the. eighth district's 288 boxes count ed, got 9,541 votes to Long's 4 379. A third, candidate, Henry E. Har land, received 625 in the part.al count. Five members of congress seek ing renomination gained large ma jorities. They are Alien, and Reps Henry D. La read e, seventh dis trict; James H. Morrison, sixth; F. Edwird Hebert, first, and -Charles E. McKenzie, fifth. West Salem Student Ake1 to Register WEST SALEM, Sept. 10 West pupils and any he district are er at the cen ng Wednesday Salem, first grade new students In requested to regis tral school build or Thursday between the hours of 1 to 4 p.m. Information need ed for registration Includes the date and. place of student birth. date of Innoculation and, wher ever possible, birth certificates of nrsi graaers. . Silverton Counrilmen Scorn Keelertion . . SILVERTON.. Sept 10 Three councilmen whose terms exp.re this year; will not be candidates for re-election. .The fourth, Al fred Adams could not be reached Tuesday. Refusing to seek re-election are Mayor" George Christenson. Tom A. Anderson and Jonas Byberg. who stated definitely they wnuld not be candidates for re-e!ecUon.' Adams was appointed three years ago by Mayor George Chris- . ten son to fill the unexpired term of E. Jfc Boesch who mdved to Monitor. i Widow 4f Colin Kelly Aftkfi Body- Keturneil ''MEDIA, Pa., Sept. 10.-(yP)-The widow of Cspt. Colin P. Kelly, Jr., today expressed hopes that the body of the legendary hero of the tense days immediately after Pearl Harbor will be returned to this country so that "Colin III will be able to visit his father's grave.' VI8IIINSKY CHALLENGED HAVANA, Sept 10.-(P)-Ama- deo Pacifico, president of the Giu seppe Garibaldi Halo-Cuban dem ocratic association, today challen ged Andrei Y. Vishinsky, soviet delegate to the .Paris peace con ference, to a duel for the Russian's slighting remarks about the Ital ian army at . a recent conference session. JEWS TO BE PROTECTED . PARIS, Sept. 10.-OTVA peace conference commission adopted 7-to-5 today over Russian, French and Slavic states' -objections a Romaninn treaty clause designed to protect Jews- and other minor ities In the former enemy coun try from future discrimination. NewHarilware- Store ' Planned in Weat Salem WESTSALEM ,Sept 10 Jack Watson' and Ruas Armstrong, both recently. Jrom Portland. wUl open the West Salem Hardware. new Marshall Wells store. Friday, September 1J, at 1111 Edgewat er st Watson is living at 570 King wood and Armstrong, who ha been with the Division street hardware store In Portland, plana to build a residence here. , Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH r 4 " "I fast know i's been kid naped by a bulb tnatcher