: : - . i . ; Truck Loses Battle Of Behemoths - " " -AVSZZT , ?: , ..... ? era3 Portland school report a reduc tion of 1.085 pupiU on the opeiung day as compared with year ago. Corvaili schools were down about 100. These decrease occur. It may be noted at a time when the demand fur housing is exceedingly heavy, whit h would indicate a bulge in ptfpulaticn. In Corvallis for in stance, it is almost a miracle to be able to locate a house or apart ment for rental. The same is true in &lem, yet we anticipate little increase in total school enroll ment when school opens next we-k. One reason fpr this is the low birthrate of the 1930 s. That serves to hold down the school popula tion of today. This condition will not change for a year or two wfien the crop of war babies comes of school age. After that the graph of school enrollment I will flatten out again in conformity with the long-time trend toward small fam ilies. The return of men from mili tary service, their marrying and setting up in housekeeping en large the immediate demand for housing. But another and substan tial reason for the persistent hous ing shortage is the large national income. Housing demands reflects the level of prosperity. When times are good people want to buy or to build homes; they want more living space and, can afford to obtain It. When times are bad houses bectme Vacant, though the number of people to be sheltered doesn't decline. Signs of "for sale" and "for rent" become numerous. many families, but living fa con-' lust be,or th A a 11 -ear northbound freight train vertnrned th track (above ) at aoat z:i9 p.m. wrdncMir wnen it strncE tac rear m im Tenicte, which was slopped astride the railroad tracks 12th street at mate street. William F. Aalt, Portland,, driver of the badly dam aged trvck. Incurred a broken nose and was taken to Salem Deacon ees hospital where hla condition la reported aa good. (Phot by Kenneth II ant. local taxi driver, who was on the scene when the accident occurred.) . Lew Wallace's Statement Reinstated --With Quotes The statement In behalf of Lew Wallace, democratic candidate for congress in the second congressional district, will appear in the voters' pamphlet as the statement of the democratic state commit tee and not of an individual. This was decided; when George G. Reinmiller. Portland, secretary of the committee and other Wallace supporters agreed to the condition imposed by the board of review which Wednesday heard Reinmil Valley Bride Dies in Wreck, Groom Injured Mr. Luke Brittan, 20, of Mt Angel, died at 930 pjn. Wednes day In the hospital at Bend as th result of injuries received in an automobile accident near Mil IScan, 28 miles east of Bend an hour previously, according to in formation received by relatives In Mt Angel. Her husband of 12 days was In a serious condition Wednesday night but was believed In no im mediate danger. The Brittan were returning from their wedding trip and had notified relative they would 'be back today. St. L. L. Hirtil of the state poee said at 'Bend Wednesday ndn. cause of the ac cident was unknown pending an investigation.. The injured couple was brought to the hospital by Mrs. Frank Hayek of Portland who reported the Brittan car had passed her aolidated. Families move in with "in-laws"; they double up in d At-ilino: those at the low end (Cootinjed on editorial page) Funeral Saturday For Independence Accident Victim INDEPENDENCE. Sept. 11 Funeral services for Gilbert Rose. who died Tuesday as a result of injuries received a few hours earlier in an automobile crash at North Dallas Junction will be held from the Smith Mortuafy Satur day at 2 p.m. ' Survivors are th widow and two children all residents of In dependence. Emmett Mills, also of Independence, driver of the automobile involved, suffered se rious cuts and bruises and is in the Dallas hospital. Mills was north bound from Dallas was attempting to pass the truck which was west bound on the Dallas-Salem highway. The automobile was crushed and the truck overturned. Edward Forrest York, drjjver of the Pope and Talbot logging truck was un hurt. Animal Croclicrs Bv WARREN GOODRICH fW Sun S4 ' "My gosh, what's that?" Mrs. Brittan was the former Dorris Burger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burger of Mt. Angel, who left for Bend upon receipt of word of their daugh ter's death. Brittan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Brittan of Woodburn who also left for Bend with their son and daughter, John and Mrs. Lester Wells. Besides the widower and her parents, Mrs. Brittan Is survived bv two sisters. Fannie and Agnes of Portland, and a brother, Bill, In California. Competitive Bus Servicte Favored PORTLAND. Sept. ll.-OPV-Over th protest of the city public util ities commissioner, th city coun cil voted today to intervene at a state public utilities hearing In Sa lem September 23 on behalf of West Coast Trail ways. Trail ways petition to establish intrastate bus service on the Pa cific highway ls opposed by Pa cific Greyhound company, but backed by several southern Ore gon towns. The city council! said it favored ' establishing competi tive bus service. Surplus Sugar Said Shipped from State PORTLAND, Sept. 11-ufVMost of the stored beet sugar that Or egon officials ' wanted distributed to housewives for canning i (one, the national OPA said today;! So much of Oregon-Washington sugar supplies have been shipped out, reported the OPA, that tome shipments will have to come Into the state to fill ordinary Septem ber demands. i John Gotten Elected I Salem AVC Secretary John Cotton was elected secre tary of Salem Chapter, American Veterans Committee, at Its meet ing last night in the YMCA. Cot ton will fill resignation vacani until regular elections In October. The group last night rounded out plans for its share in the nation wide AVC "Ring the Bell" mem bership i campaign, September 18 jo October 17. x , lers appeal from the action of Secretary Robert S. TarrelL Jr., who rejected the statement The board was composed of Governor Earl. Snell, : Superintendent of Public Instruction Rex Putnam and Assistant Attorney General Rex KimmeL : Farrell's rejection was ( on the ground that the law did not pro vide for publishing th statement of an individual as was proposed In behalf of Wallace, and for the further ground that th matter was not 'acceptable under th statute. The board after hearing Secretary Parrel 1. Reinmiller and Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney of Port land who appeared to support the Wallace case, directed that if the individual statement were port In quotation marks with the date thereof it should be published. It did not sustain the secretary of state's objection to the substance of th statement. The appellants assented to the condition of the board and Secretary of State Far rell then accepted It for publica tion. ? : TH statement criticised' th re publican candidate. Congressman Angell as an isolationist, and at tacked his voting record. . Rein miller declared The voters ar entitled to know how their repre sentatives are voting. : Sen.- Mahoney denied that Jhe statement came wi&un the legisla tive ban as being libelous or de famatory, "hd quoted his own statement in th 1942 pamphlet when he ran against Angell. (A "statement from Secretary Farrell appears on page four of today's Statesman). ; Local Women Received Gifts WASHINGTON. Sept 11 m The maritime commission's list of Women receiving presents for act inx as sponsors of ships, including those given gifts valued at $100 or more: Albina Engine and' Machine Works. Portland, Ore. Mrs. Rob ert S. Farrell, Jr Salem, Ore., w m M. W t " . ... v . . .... gren, Olympia, Wash watch, $135. Oregon Shipbuilding Co.; fort- land Mrs. Asa N. Ward, tray and album.' $103. Canby, Ore.; (the following received cigarette box and album costing $104) Mrs. Eva Ostrom. i Woodburn. Ore.; Miss Nancy Merki, Willamette Univer sity, Salem; Mrs. Edmond Corn stock, Salem. ! Included in the Oregon sponsors receiving cigarette box, picture album and war stamp corsage val ued at $118 were: Mrs. Ellen M. Owens, Newberg: Mrs. Esther S. Wilson, Salem; Mrs. G. H. Smith, Willamette University. Salem. ' II - - j-1 . .. OB IS (Story In Cfduiiiti 74J) 135 Negro Gils Jailed Afpsr M Fighting Continues 4 Hours j FLORENCE, S.CJ, Sept ll-- On hundred a n thirtytfive southern Negro soldiers, most of them recently returned from over' seas, were arrested here tonight and lodged In two local Jails after Police Chief J. A. Price said they participated in mob fight with police officers at the railroad sta tion. Chief Price said over-100 of th soldiers, milling about the station while the train on which they war traveling stODoed a few min utes, attacked en maxse six mili tary policemen in , an attempt to free five fellow passengers th MP'S said they took into, custody (because of disorderly conduct on the train,. An rt In Jail The fight started about I p.m., Price said, but it was not until almost midnight before the situa tion was brought completely un der control and all of the soldiers were lodged in jail cells to await hearings before city recorder to morrow on charges of ' disorderly conduct resisting; arrest, ; and in terfering with an officer in dis charging his duty." Feliee Knocked Down When the military police re sisted the mob attack, several were knocked down by 'the on coming crowd which continued its attack until riot guns and the as sistance of railway police and lo cal police officers brought the riot to an end. Price said. The soldiers then were lined up and marched single file through the streets of Florence to the jail about mile from the station. Mine Owners, Lewis Handed Plan by U. S. i WASHINGTON.; Sept tl -JP) Th coal mines administration handed a set of proposals for a new contract to John ju Lewis ana ine sort coal operators today and asked them to try It for size, If Lewis and the operators like it, or can use it as the basis for an agreement of their own, the bituminous coal mines which the government has been operating for nearly four months can be re stored to prlvat ' operation. : The contract suggestions, based on th government's own agree ment, signed by Lewis and Secre tary of Interior J. A. Krug end ing the 39-day strike last . May 29,- suggests an 18-month agree ment, expiring April 1, 1948, but permitting reopening of discus sion of wages with 30 days' no tice. . r May, Solons Dicker For Hearing, Date WASHINGTON , SeiR. ll.-OPV- The senate war investigating com mittee and Rep. Andrew J. May D-Ky) were unable to get to gether today on a definite date for th congressman s testimony on a wartime munitions combine de spite reported turn-for-the-bet- ter in the Kentuckian's. health. May's lawyer sent word that th lawmaker's physician thought he would be well enough to tes- tify here by September 75. The Weather Procip. .so , .Max. Min.. Saleas TS 4 Portland ... TO SO San rranelseo SS so Chicago 14 - 4 .00 New York ; , 7t 71 4W Willamette rtvor -II feet. rOKtC A ST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary ftetd. Salem): Mostly cloudy today, tonUfht. licht Bcattered howers. Hlabest temperature ,70. Low est S Vets to See Surplus Cover A sample of the long-discussed surplus sleeping bag covers which now are on sale by the war as sets administration in Oregon will i I . . i - m . i uc inuwn vm nirniurii ui iiic mar ion County Federated Veterans Council at its meeting in Legion hall at 8 p.m. today. Chairman Don Goode announc ed the sample cover is one of three recently r purchased by a world war II veteran of Woodburn Post 48, who will bring it to the coun cil session. Formation of the coun cil to bring pressure to bear on WAA on behalf of veterans de siring to make individual pur chases of sleeping bags and other surplus items Twas . followed re cently by WAA'i announcement that the covers would go on sale at $4.68 at both Umatilla depot and Swan Island, Goode said. J 721-POUND MAN DIES - ! PITTSBURGH, Sept 11 -OP) John Porter, 721-pound circus "fat man" whose bulk required two beds to be welded together, died today at Allegheny hospital. SOUNDSD 1651 rnNETY-SDCTH YEAR 12 PAGES Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, September 12. 1943 Pric 5c No. 143 Price Of Flour To ncrease Taken by Death WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -(VP) Flour millers were granted a price increase" of 20 cents per 100 pounds today and OPA said the result would be a retail increase of one to two cents on a five pound package of flour.; OPA officials tpld reporters that the millers' , Increase is tem porary and should not increase retail bread prices. Earlier the price agency raised Its ceilings on work gloves, cer tain cotton rugs, and window and picture glass. , It also abolished price lids al together on a widely assorted list ranging from razor blades and television sets to baby car riages and motor scooter!. In ad dition, it prepared to Increase sugar prices soon. The flour Increase third since June 30 was granted because millers now are producing white flour and sag are required to buy and use more wheat . Retail bread prices should not rise, OPA explained, because they now are under a temporary In crease of one cent loaf granted in August The increase is tem porary, th pricing agency ex plained, pending completion of cost 'study. Mexicans to Honor Holiday With Fiesta Mexican nationals will be Join ed by Interested members of the Salem public -when they celebrate their Independence days next Sun day and Monday, it became ap parent Tuesday and plans for the fiesta were revealed. Secretary of State Robert S. Far rell, Jr., announced that James Mc- Gilchrist statehouse guide and raconteur of Oregon stories, would show the Mexicans through the capitol Sunday morning after they have attended an early mass. An interpreter will be with the party Sunday afternoon at 2:30 a pro gram including both Mexican and North American features is to be held at the farm labor camp at the airport An eight-instrument band. members of which played and sang together In their Hidalgo home, is on the program, which is Jointly sponsored by the; Salem branch, American Association of univer sity Women, and by El Circulo, Spanish club of the city. i Need Great for Hop Pickers A family of live has averaged $50 a day picking hops at an In dependence yard and yesterday in their first six hours made $40, the local farm labor of fie re ported in Its daily plea for addi tional hop pickers Wednesday. The "heavy! pickers are Mr. and Mrs. Matt Campbell and their 9-, 11- and 13-y ear-old children. Despite the fact that bean and prune picking is virtually at a standstill, the need for hop pick ers is greater than ever, th farm office indicated in citing its or ders from hop ranches for thou sands of, pickers representing from 50 per cent to as high as 300 per cent more "pickers than now em ployed at the ; individual, hop yards. ; Beans are nearly all picked and 'prune picking is down be cause there is an overload at the canneries, it was reported. ..,. .: y : ..... . , t . , J- I t 1. -' ft if ; v m V, J t r ABILENE, Kan.. Set 11 Mrs. Ida Stover Eisenhower, mother of Gen. pwighfj Eisenhower, died In her home, here today. 8 be was 14. Death was attrib uted to a heart i attack, (AP wlrephoto) j iHtipvairdl SMte mm aw - j. board to direct U. S. Abandons Claim for Italy Reparations PARIS, Sept. ll-WVAmerican dcleeates in two statements to the conference today assailed soviet-supported Bulgarian claims to Greek territory and announced that the United States wanted no reparations from Italy. U.S. Ambassador 6 France Jef ferson Caffery saidj the United States rejected Bulgaria's claims on Greece, but had considered with "full sympathy" Greece's counter claims, which are opposed by Rus sia, lie said the United States sug gests that "some arrangement for demilitarization .of the Bulgarian side of the frontier" be studied to "meet Greece's security require ments." I U.S. State Department Repre sentative Willard Thorp told the Italian economic commission that while the United States wants no reparations from Italy, it does not intend to continue pouring out aid to the Italians only to see it go out again to meet claims of other na Mothers, Babies To Face' Camera For Salem. Movie Some future movie stars may make their debuts Friday morn ing when children are filmed at 10:30 at Willson park for the Life In Salem" all-color picture to be shown at a local theatre later ' In the month. Wayne A. Clayton, director of the produc tion, announced her! Wednesday. All children brought to the park for the occasion will get into the picture, Cayton said, indicating that interested mothers might also be shown. 1 A service club, a hopyard, wom en golfers, a city commission, chamber of commerce . board meeting, wrestling, state employes leaving offices and similar fea tures of the capital; city's life have already been caught By Max Hall WASHINGTON. Sept. 1 1 -(-The wage tabiUzauVn flatly- refused to back down tonight on its veto of seamen's pay increases in the fate of the AFL maritime strike and a CIO walk cut threatened for Friday. j "No further action Is contemplated by this board." Chairman Willard W. WirU announced to a tense news conference land a nation of paralyzed ports. The decision apparently moved the maritime crisis directiy the White Hons door. Piesidcnt Truman, who has taken toj action is expected to produce some plan for jhandling tr crisis. No body professed to. know what this plan will be. . The board voted down propos al to slip the hot potato into the hands of the economic stabil ization director, Dr. John R. Steel man. Wirtz said he did not know, therefore, whethtr Steelman would have any authority to over rule the board if he should wish to do so. The board reaffirmed its deci sion of last month which brought on the strike-p by a 4 to 2 vote, the two labor members dissenting. The CIO National Maritime Un ion announced tonight that its na tional council will meet tomorrow in New York to consider striking on Friday morning. The CIO un ionists now are generally observ ing the AFL picket lines. San Fruiiciro . SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. li-(A') All Pacific coast shipyards as well- as ports will be "closed Truck Drivers To Return to Work in N. NEW YORK, Sept. II-6iFVUn. ion leaders pledged tmiht that thousands: ct striking AFL) truck drivers would return to wuk .to morrow as high ffi-iiLt of th International tirotht rh4Td ,rt Teamsters intervened in a str.k they cslled "the worf rank ar.d file revolt in teamiters' history." International Predent Damel J. Tobin ordered 10.000 sympathi zing strikers in New Y.irk and r.'W... .1 i..- ixew jersey not invoifed in contract negotlatlont to by their crn tracts, or, in to get bark on the Job- The rrder did not affect a bit:' effect. 13 001 tight" fomorrow as a result of i other Idle truckmen, memoem t.1 th wage stabilization board's re jection of the maritime workers' demands, Harry Lundeberg, j secretary-treasurer of the AFL Sail ors Union of the - Pacific, j said tonight ! "The metal trades council (AFL) has pledged its full sup port," he declared after a meet ing with the maritime strike com mittee. "We will pit ket the ship yards and dorks and the metal trades workers will back us." Lundeberg, said shutdown of the shipyards would begin at midnight tonight in the San Fran cisco bay area! and would spread to other ports -"throughout the nation as soon as we tun get in touch with our other, locals." Commenting on the stabilization board's action, Lundtberg atet l ed: . 1 . , , "I didn't expect anything else from that senile board." Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Sept, 11-6P Picketing of foreign ships in the Columbia rivejr harbors will be gin tomorrowL members of the AFL Sailors' union of the Paci fic voted tonight after the want stabilization board refuied to change its policy in the maritime wage dispute. locals mi. 22 and Sift in New York City. They are sink;rg to enforce demands for ' a 30 ter cent wage boost In a new con tract with truck operators.! Mayor, William 0'Dwyr. w ho had appealed to Tobin "for r!:f from the critical tie-up of food aid fuel deliveries f-w the city's 7'i million populatl.m. ordure! police protection for th return ing truckmen. j A few hours after Tobio' di rective was announced at hs In dianapolis headquarter. Inferra tional Vice President John por.I.n said In Jersey City, N. Jt that 5000 striking truckers In northern Jemey! would return ta work to morrow. Delegates Visit '0 Chest Projects In Portland I State arencies partlcfpatiing lt Salem's Community "Chest. I funds were visited in Portland on j Wed nesday by a delegaU m ot tur Salem chest workers. Ttrikhara Gilbert, who heads thit fail's! cam paign for. money, with Herbert Barker, secretary of the city's la bor council,, R. L. Ra!rw, ietre tary of the retail clerks' tir.iV n and C. A. Kelts, YMCA exHuUv. were escorted on their' call ty Elda Russell; secretary of the Ore gon Protective society.. J Miss Russell, forme rrf superin tendent of liillcrest school here, discussed her own organiiuiuon's work with children with th gr up and then took them to the offu of th Catholic CharitiM, to Al bertina Kerr nursery, th provi dent Home for Infants, Whit Shield home and offices of th Boy' and Girls' State aid s.riety. The men reported thereive impressed with the number ,t Marion county residents who have received service from jthes " establishments and with the typ of service given. Polio myelitic Light In Marion County Marion county jhad but one case of infantile paralysis reported this summer, which Contrasts greatly to the large numbers reported in other sections of the country. Dr. W. J. Stone, county health officer, said Wednesday. Dr. Stone point ed out that September 7 is re garded as th date after (which a decline in summer epidemics of polio may be expected. The 'few cases of malaria reported were re currences, and I no new cases have been noted. , Chiefs of Staff Report Recommends U. S. Prepare for Atom Bomb Attacks By Howard W. BUkeslee Asaociatod Proas Scieneo Reporter CHICAGO. Sept 11 A hitherto : secret section of th atomic bomb report of the Joint chiefs of staff, recommending preparedness -against nuclear fis sion attacks on the United States, was read to th American Chem ical society tonight by Col. Brad ley Dewey, president of the so ciety. ; ' " Dewey also declared that . A- bombs, instead of ; destroying civilization, might shorten future wars. But h favored using them to outlaw war. Colonel Dewey, rubber coordi nator in the war, was an official Bikini bomb test observer -this summer, and member of both the president's and the joint chiefs of staff evaluation boards. paragraph of the joint chiefs of staff board's second preliminary report which I , might say the powers that be in Washington saw fit to delete from the pub lished version, and which dele tion I am now free to make known."' . "National security, this section reads, "dictates the adoption of a policy of instant readiness to defend ourselves vigorously against any threat of atomic wea pon attack at any time and ad herence to this policy until it is certain that there can never be an . atomic war. One enduring principle of war has not been altered by the advent of the atomic weapon. Offensive strength will remain the best defense. Therefore, so long as atomic "I quote," he said, "the last bombs could conceivably be used headed sense." against this country) the board urges the continued production of atomic material and research and development in all fields related to atomic warfare." j Dewey said: "I personally place great Importance on j the words 'which conceivably could be used gainst this country. To me these words highlight the real prob lems which face mankind how, to outlaw war and how to use the atomic bomb in achievement of the necessary goal." He asserted that before Bikini tests people had been deluged with sensational and grossly ex aggerated tales of the I destructive effects of nuclear fission. "It is my purpose,"! ho added, "to take it out of the realms of fancy and into the field of hard- C of C to Print Report Of Long-Range Planners Salem Chamber of Commerce will distribute copies of the city long! range planning commission's annual report, to be published next month, it j was decided at last night's chamber directors' meet ing Jrr the chamber office. Extent of the distribution was not decid ed, but it was considered advis able to exceed the 5,000-copy dis tribution of last year's planning report. ! ' . 7 Opening of Silverton Schools Delayed Week SILVERTON, Sept. 11 Open ing of Silverton schools has been postponed from September 16 to September 23, fin compliance with the wishes of the hop and prune growers, A. a. Anderson, school superintendent announced today.1 Builtling of Garage I Denied hy CPA AppealHo the Washington, D C," office of the civilian productKrr administration for permission to" build a $26,500 garage at Indepen dence was denied Armund F. Ful mer Wednesday, Associated Press reported from the Portland OPA headquarters. It was reported also that application had been received in Portland from H. Hart! Mo tor Co. for a $21,000 addition in Independence. j Col. Qenard McLaughlin Named to Army Position Appointment of Col. Ciena rd McLaughlin, Portland, as inspec tor general for the Oregon mili tary department? was approved by Gov. Earl Snell Wednesday, Bri. Gen. Raymond F. Olson, acting ad jutant general, announced. His station will be m Portland. GREEK VIOLENCE REPORTED ATHENS, Sept 11 (.P-Gov-ernment announcements reported tonight that at least 10 perjena had been killed in a new outbreak of violence in Greece, and Acting Premier Stylianos GonaUs indi cated that extreme leftist leaders might be prosecuted for "An archy." The 'DKEAMBOAT DELAYED , HONOLULU, Bept, ll-m- take-off of the "Pacusan Dream boat" for a flight across the roof of the world to . Cairo has been delayed for several days byj the discovery of a gas tank. leak.