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Rescue Party Keaches Scene of Trans -Atlantic Airplane Cvash CdDourt: Connie EJairs LegDslatoirs Finnm State B(Dair(dl JIdDlbs Opinion Af feels Chessman, Strayer, Hill; Appeal to High Court Expected State legislators - - including. three immediately affected --cannot legally hold offices on state boards or commissions. Circuit Judge George Duncan ruled Thursday in a three-page opinion. The decision specifically barred Sen. Merle Chessman of Astoria frm continuing as state highway commissioner. Rep. Earl H. Hill of Cushman from being state fish commissioner, and Sen. W. . Strayer of Baker from being on the state OtP Sams THDOuQCg Marion county has been ac cumulating a fund for building a courthouse. Out of the regular budget $75,000 has been set aside annually. The fund now amount to $225,000 Th court plans to continue the set-alde another three years, which would bring the total to $450,000. When the plan was adopted three years ago it was realized that this is a- slow way of build iri up mi arlcu'iiite fund and it was staled at the time that it muM leiortte deniable or liec e iv to lequest a pecial levy r.e the six pr cent limitation to speed up the accumulation. Tht point has now been reached. Heently the bar a.Mx iation. aware of the growing urgency of the need for new courthouse fa cilities, tendered It help to the cfvihty court to put such a propo sition on the ballot this fall. A hearing was held on Septerp Ur 10th ahd another one is scheduled for September ,27th -when the matter will be consid ered further. The county court naturally want to know the sen timent of the public before call ing for a vote on the question. Out of all the discussion comes a plan to ak the voters of the county to approve levy of S200.OO0 a year for each of the iiest three yean. This would pro vide $600,000. which with the $450,000. accumulated out of the regular budget woo Id make a total of $1,050,000. The millage Increase would be a little over four mills When the plans for a new courthouse were drawn nearly ten years tio the ct estimate was $550,000. Undoubtedly a re vision of the plan to provide a larger building will be advisable. This, with the greatly ircreaed cit of construction makes the sum of a million dollars not any too large for the county a re quirements. At the hearing on the tenth taxpayer suggested using exist ing (nth Continued on ediitorial page) Harvest Help Continues in Great Demand 'With canneries Continuing eak production, a dorn crops in har vest and the valley area's filbert harvest set to begin nest week, r.early every classification of farm and tannery worker re main in great demand. local farm lhor and carinrry officials Said Thuisdity. ! H tier are increaing for corn pM kers In the Cm and Iland, Jef ferson arid Turner distiuU and for onion harvesters in the Labish art a. and the pi line, hop, bean arid blackberry crop continue to draw on the local labor supply, ffiial said Trucks carrying farm woikers leave between 6:30 and 7am daily from trie Salem farm labor office. Canneries are operating at peak capacity, now ro-aring the end of the second wet'k of the prune pack. Other rna)or production it if corn and b-ets, with cauliflow er, broccoli. grern peppers and thr vegetables also being can fed. Animal Crackers Br WAPPEN GOODRICH 2 board, of geology and minerals. It was understood the case would be immediately appealed for a final decision by the state supreme court. Appeal Anticipated J.- M. Devers, counsel for the state highway commission who appeared for Senator Chessman in the proceedings, said he would confer with Chessman Monday He indicated that he and Rex Klmmell, essMant attorney gene ral who was associated in th case for the other defendants, an ticipaled an appeal would be made. ' The defendant had contended that they automatically lost their legislative offices when they ac cepted the commission posts, but under Judge ; Duncan's decision their situation are in the re verse they remain legislators but are "not legally holding" their other offices. Cases Consolidated The case originally was brought by She) ..ton Sackrtt, publisher of the Con Bay Times, who chal lenged the legislators' right to two state offices, under article 3, section I or the Oregon constitu tion. Sackett a case was thrown out of court,; however, on the grounds that private citizen could not institute such a rase. It was revived by action of Mil ler H. Hayden. Marion county district attorney, with the state as th plaintiff in what amounted to a test suit. The three actions were instituted separately, but consolidated for trial. Judge Duncan, in interpreting the state constitution, declared mat us irgai enect is to sav that 'no legislator shall exercise any of the function! of an ad minittrative of fkeV and that "the result is that defendants could not legally accept nor hold said administrative office." Praise Defendants Hit opinion termed the three defendants as "men of recognized ability and integrity who nave generously served the. public in Oregon without expectation of adequate financial compensation;' He added, however, that "the question presented Is solely a matter of law. and the positive prohibition expressed in the con stltutional provision precludes any other consideration." Chessman as highway commis sioner and Strayer as member of the mineral board receive no reimbursement other than actual expense incurred. Hill as fish rimmissioner Is entitled to $5 a day and expense when he Is engaged In fish commission busi ness. . Survivors Reported At Wreck Communications Severed with Rescue Team Stocks at New Low for Year NKW YORK. Kept. l-yVTh stock market plumbed new depths for the year today with many leaders dropping $1 to $8 a year under heavy selling pressure. Upwards of $1,500,000,000 was sliced from stock values on the slide, with the total decline since the May 29 year's high now near $20 billion. 3 Sellers dumped shares during the noon hour in a flood that left the stock exchange's high speed ticker as much as seven minutes behind floor transactions. Sales for the day were 2.R90,0OO shares. Concern over labor and political trends received much of the blame for the day's selling in brokerage circles. ! GANDER AIRPORT, NFLD., Friday)-Sept. 20-tP)-A rescue party led by a doctor from the U. S. army air base at Argentia last night reached the wreckage pf a Belgian transatlantic airliner which crashed 20 miles from here Wednesday, morning with 44 per sons aboard.. I TVsr m w A, (MmArli aia isinrri SJlViV mm V -s a a r. va e va concerning the number of sur vivors, but search planes pre viously had reported seeing sev eral persons moving about near the wreckage, which , lay In dense woods. Th first party to s reach the wreck, led by a Dr. Martin, was flown in by seaplane to Gander lake. - : v t ! Another larger rescue party, consisting of 30 to 40 men, was in route ltd the. scene. Traveling Up the southwest Gander river to a point whence the wreckage could be reached through a mile of dense I brush. Reaeaers Rushed j Personnel from U. S. air bases at Gander and Stephen vine as well as Argentia was recruited to id in the rescue work. Plane flying over the crash Scene, during the night to drop supplies and food reported they could see the lights of the rescue party below: : A search party Immediately Started from Gander on the diffi cult trek through the densely- wooded, unoccupied I territory to the wreck near 30-rnlJe-lonf Can der lake. The -plane, carrying 37 passengers and seven crewmen, trashed on a flight from Brussels to New York. Plane Lands Near Keen ; (In New York the coast guard Said a PBY plane landed on lake four or five miles from the site of the- crash, and that a res cue team was working toward the scene. Two army rescue planes also' were to be landed nearby. (The transwprld pilot, on flight from Boston to Cairo, said he saw three persons beside the wreck and four others walking about four miles away. All waved vigorously to the plane and ap peared "very active,? he said. Tree Knocked Dew i (TWA said the pilot reported that the Belgian Sabena Airlines craft burned, but appeared to be in one piece, and that tree were knocked down for a distance of about 500 yards. . j (The coast guard said the five survivors seen by Its search plane included two men, two women. and a child.) The four-en gined airliner made an instrument approach In fog to Gander airport yesterday, at 3:37 ,m. EDT. flew over the field once, and then disappeared. Wea ther hampered the first aerial searchers, but th skies were clear today. , ; Grand Jury Indicts Artiago One true bill and ftve not true bills were returned by the Marion county grand Jury Thursday. Martin Artiago was indicted on a charge of contributing .to the de linquency of a minor and is held in the. .county jail in lieu of $1000 bail. A i v .; ; . Not true bills were returned on Raymond Norton, charged with as sault and battery; Clarence Wil liams, contributing to the delin quency of a minor; Corlus Foun tain, threatening the commission of a felony; Robert Knight, as sault and battery, and Ted Wilks and Pauline Wilks, charged joint ly with knowingly making false application for a duplicate certifi cate of title to an automobile. OU NDBD ,1651 '....!' NINETY-SIXTH YEAR II PAGES Salem, Oregon Friday Morning, September 20. 194$ Price 5c No, ISO 0 II LfuUu rnrK OPA Reviews Rollback Policy as Restauranteurs Promise Fight IP -The vet made me cut down on my drinking. Only on jtvery six months." WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -iA- OPA backed away somewhat to night from a previous stand-pat decision on its order rolling back price of restaurant meat meals, after officials of the Industry had promised "a fight to the finish." The price agency said it was reviewing it restaurant price policy- "because of widespread pro tests from the Industry," but indi cated it would insist on further proof pf hardship before raising ceilings. . Price Administrator Paul A. Porter said OPA is making every effort to give restaurants the same consideration as other industries. Ills statement came out after George R. Le Sauvage. chairman of the government relations com mittee tf the Natural Restaurant association, told a news confer ence: : "As soon as a restaurant owner is cited (for violation of the or der), we will file an injunction suit to restrain OPA. We will help them all we can. PENDLETON, Ore.. Sept 1$U (AVRrstaurant committee here to day, voted to close the citys cafes when present food stocks are ex hausted unless the OPA's price rollback is amended. 9 I The committee reported that operating costs and food prices have mounted since 1943 and made OPA ceilings based on that year unprofitable. Truman Mav State Policies WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. -CP) A specific presidential statement on foreign policy was reported under consideration tonight in the aftermath of a teletype exchange between President Truman and Secretary of Stat Byrnes in Par is over the Wallace affair. The president and his seer tarr of state communicated "with each other for 20 minutes. Aft erward word came from Paris in dicating that Byrnes' concern was not diminished by the president's action In applying a temporary gag to Secretary Wallace, embat tled critic of present U. 5. foreign oolicv. Byrnes and his aides were said to feel that only a clear-cut pro nouncement from the president definitely supporting either Byrnes or Wallace, could dispel existing uncertainty and confu sion. Truman Confers Subsequently Undersecretary of Stafe William L. Clayton, Byrnes' chief lieutenant here, hurried over to the White House and con ferred for about an hour with Mr, Truman. The president's top pub lic relations advisor, Press Sec retary Charles G. Ross, also sat In. The president ts known to have told some cabinet officials In trie last few days that one thing they could count on was his 100 per cent backing for Byrnes and the kind . of diplomacy he has been conducting. Before his meeting with Wal lace the president let it be known to friends of Byrnes that he be lieved the solution would be tat isfactory to Byrne. Gar Unsatisfactory That It was not satisfactory, however, was seen here in the reaction of diplomatic officials and reports frcm Paris. Byrnes' position, which he may have expressed to the president today, seems to be based on me contention, say these arpiomais, that nothing Mr. Truman has done so far has. actually convin ced other governments that pyrnes can speak with full 'luth prity about what American pol icy is today or what It will be to morrow. . Ross told newsmen that "mere Was ho deal or anything renem bling a deal" between Mr. Tru man and the secretary of com-' merce leading to Wallace's "con clusion" to make no more state ments or speeches until after the Paris peace conference. Crater Lake Lodge To Close Today The state highway commission will keep its roads to the south and west entrances to Crater lake open all winter, for the first time since before the war, the commission said today after being advised that the park would be open ail win ter. Crater Lake lodge will close to day, but eating facilities probably will be supplied during the win ter if a satisfactory bid is received for the concession. Rooms will be available this winter in a govern ment dormitory. Work Rushed on OCE Housing Units MONMOUTH, Sept, 19 Work is being rushed to complete fed eral housing units for the Oregon College of Education campus by October 1. The first section is ready for occupancy and veterans and their families are moving in. Registration for the school i Sep tember 23 and 24; returning' stu dents' will enroll September 25, j and classes will open September 28. V" ' Eight Killed in Crash of Navy Plane If' W W w i w 4 v x 1 " . cVI--" ?-( ;v i Tx.i GRANITE FALLS. Wash.. Sept.- 1.-Navy men examine wreckage of a PBY, found near Granite Falls. Wash., which carried eight men te their deaths. The plane crashed while on a short flight from Hand Paint naval air station to WhMby Island after a flight from Kan Dirge, Calif. (AP Hirrphote). ' (Story on page S). Churchill Asks France, Germany Shake Hands ZURICH, Sept 19.-;P-Winston Churchill urged today a part nership between France and her traditional enemy Germany as the first step in creating a United States of Europe whose "friends and sponsors svould include both Russia and America. Frankly admitting to a Uni versity of Zurich audience that such a proposal "will astonish you," Churchill called also for an ultimate "end to retribution" in dealing with the beaten reich. He said ' the world dwells "strangely and precariously under the shield, I will even say the pro tection of the atom bomb" because It is in sole possession of the United States, but he foresaw dis integration of civilization and pos sibly "the globe itself" If the atom bomb become a weapon for war ring nation. Warning that "time may be Short," Churchill said It was im perative .that the creation of a United States of ' Europe within the framework of the United Na tion organization begin at once, with Vie first "practical step" the Information of a "council of Eu rope." France and Germany must take th lead in such an effort, he saw Highway Work 25 in Arrears Of Schedule The government ban on use of steel for highway bridges and rls ing material and labor costs are principal factors In the slow-up of Oregon post-war highway program It was asserted Thurs day by R. H. Baldock, state high way engineer. Baldock said the three - year highway program la running about 23 per cent behind schedule. First contracts were let 11 months ago and although It was expected that $20,000,000 worth of contracts would be let in the first year, to date only $13,000,000 have been let. the engineer stated. "I think we ve done pretty well n view of the tremendous diffi culties," said Baldock, adding. We re going ahead with what grading and paving we can, but it may be several months before we, can get going full scale." Congressmen Back Byrnes7 Soviet ! Stand lAfter Pacific Inspection Tour Editor's Nol! William T. Arbogart. head of th Associated PreM staff cov ering Ute houw of represvntaUvss, ac companied a delegation from the house military rommlllM on s 40day tour of th Pacifie and the far Hast. In the following story ho reports some of the lawmakers' conclusions. i. By William F. Arbegast ! WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.-(A) Support for Secretary of State Byrne' soviet policy was pledged today by touring lawmaker back from a six weeks far eastern in spection tour. The attitude of theX-group, a five-man subcommittee of the house military committee, was ex pressed by Representatives Sikes (D-Fla) and Short (R-Mo) as the committee at arted preparing a formal report on- its 38,000-mile trip. "We must support the position 6f Mr. Byrnes in his dealings with Russia," Sikes told a repot ler. There Is no doubt in my mind that the committee. In Its formal report, will stress the necessity of a strong soviet policy in view of What we have seen In the far east." "We must be firm but fair; we must starting .getting tough," Short said. "We cannot reduce our defenses any further and we must Strengthen them in the Pacific as precaution against Russian Ag gression." All the committee member ur ged that United States military bases in Alaska be strengthened and that Island bases used during the war in the Pacific be bolstered and retained. Rep. John E. Sheridan (ID-Pa), chairman of the group, said the committee's formal report will stress the necessity of maintain ing strong defenses In the Pa cific. He emphasized that the committee's position is. not one of belligerency toward Russia but kdded that "from what we have seen, we cannot afford to take chances." Others who made the trip in cluded Rep. Leroy Johnson (F Calif) who went only part of the way. The full journey took In Al aska, Honolulu, Kwajalein, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima, Japan, China, Korea, Siam, Okinawa, the Phil ippines and Australia:. Snell Appoints MCourt to Fill Handley Post , 1 i Appointment of John B. Mc Court of Portland as district at torney for Multnomah county jto succeed the late Thomas ; B. Handley, who died Monday, was announced Thursday by Gov Karl Snell. McCourt, who served formerly as a deputy district attorney and as a member of the state legisla ture, will fill the unexpired teim to which Handley was appointed by the governor in March, 1943 when James R. Bain became clr cuit judge. . J McCourt was sworn in Thurs day afternoon In Salem by Chief Justice Harry Belt of the state supreme court. McCourt was recommended for appointment by the Multnomah county republican central com mittee. McCourt will serve only until after the November general elec Uon, unless lie should o a can didate for election and be elected. Handley was the republican candidate to succeed himself, and the Multnomah county republican central committee Is expected to name McCourt to Handley 's place on the November ballot. The democratic candidate for the of fice Is State Sen. Thomas R. Ma honey. TEXAS IS A BIG PLACE ORANJE.STAD, Aruba, Nether lands West Indies, Sept. 19-iF)- Two 25-year-old German air force and army men were apprehended by Dutch police yesterday when they swam ashore from an Amer ican tanker on which they had stowed away at Leila vie. They were under the impression they were in Texas when they landed. NIEMOELLF.R TO VISIT U.S. JTHICA. N.Y., Sept 10-'1-The Rev. Martin Niemoaller, vice pres ident of the German Evangelical church who was interned by the Nazis for eight years for rebelling against Hitler, will visit the Unit ed States this fall, an associate said today. , , MINER KILLED IN BLAST McCOY, Va., Sept. 18 - (ffA- A deep-level gas explosion at the McCoy mine of the Great Valley Anthracite Coal corporation where 80 men were working killed one miner today and Injured two oth ers. The victim was listed as John Howell, 49, of Parrott, Va. John L. Lewis Demands Meat For Miners WASHINGTON. Sept. 19 -(A) John L." Lewis Jumped Into the fight against meat price' control today amid gloomy agriculture department predictions that the shortage will get worse. Lewis blamed ' "bureaucratic control and price fixing policies of OPA" for the short age. He said it is causing "grave unrest" among the coal miners and forcing mines to close in Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia. Operator reported, however, that no mines in the first two states have closed for that reason, althouKU complaints have been heard. George H. Ksser, president of the Virginia loai operators association, said five mines there closed for a day or more as a "token protest' Lewis telegraphed his demand for removal of meatj controls to the decontrol board ahd Secretary of Agriculture Anderson. A hoard official explained that no further action can- be taken there unless Anderson - and the OPA turn down a decontrol request and the matter comes before the board officially on appeal, Anderson, at Albuaueroue. N. M., forecast that the meat short age will be worse by next spring than It is now. By then, he esti mated, consumption will be down to the lowest level reaching dur ing the war a rate of llfl pounds a year per person. Pay Rise Granted In East SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19-0 A conditioned hope that the mar itime strike on the west c"t might be ended by nuoo tomor row was expressed tonight br the west coast section of the CIO Committee for Maritime union. A special press release expressed the hope following a pro-lunged ! ses sion dealing with the pay txt won today by CIO seamen on U.e east coast. 1 j - Th release stated; ! The west coast section ".of the Committee for Maritime Unity late tonight announced that tr.e three striking unions, the Mari time Firemen, Natioi.al Marirme union and the Union of Miritime Cooks-and Stewards would hf id membership meeting up arid down the west coat at nu to morrow to consider and make rer- ommendationa ori the Jame L. Fly arbitration award. ; 1 Ask Uniform Ware ij I i ."The CMU exprcixci the hope that by noon tomorrow the U S. maritime commission or the ship owners would give aituranee that the Flyawari, calling f r equal pay for equal work throughout tr.e maritime industry, would be ap plied. j-: "It was stated following a meet ing of the west coast section of CMU that if such assurance w s given the c urrent mar:tinie stnsa would be ended. 8100,000 J)rive-in Theatre Planned Plans for the construction of a $100,000 drive-in theatre for Sa lem were announced -Thursday by j Albei t and William Forma n, rper- ; a tors or trie Grand, State and Lib erty theatres.. A 20-acreJ tract of land has been purchased, It was declared, and the new project will feature all the latest Improve ment In outdoor theatres. Loca tion was not announced. Arbitration Award I NKW YORK. Sept. lSMfll-AJr though east and Gulf cotjhip operators today agreed to an arbi tration award which gives the Ci ) National Maritime union pr,'y pay with the AFL ' seamen, the maritime strike continued. Earlier today James L. Fly, fed eral arbitrator, had awarded NM'J seamen salary increase of 3 to 4.30 a month and with the de i sion had said that the award. w an adequate basis for al! shippir g activities .to be resumed without further delay. ; ! . Must Have Contract As they agreed to the award the operators said they t-t w no ne cessity for. continuation of th strike. , However, Paul Palnl, chairman of the NMU strike cmn- ml tire, w as quoted by another NMU spokesman as! spying j "the arbitrator's award is not a con tract and until we have a. sigrrd contract the strike will continue." Frank J. Taylor, chairman 1 1 the negotiating committee for 39 ship companies and agents, said in reference to Ihe Fly award: "We accept this decision ren dered by Mr. Fly and sincerely hope that it will lead to- a sperjy ending of the maritime chaos ... Owner Disagree "A great many of the wage in creases' and other items covered in the award have already hm offered to the NMU. While there are many points in the award w.tn which we disagree, r.evexthes the Industry pj edged itself to abide by the decision of the arbitrator." Fly said that the award "pro vides a basis for th settlement of the entire conflict by eliminat ing - problem between the NMlf and Atlantic and Gulf coast oper ators." He said the award did r. t involve the West coait, but ? that other pending dicisions would be announced within a ueek. ! The award. Fly said, due affect the wet coast situation to th ex-i tent "that it affords basis for a buck-to-work movement." j 13,000 VET BONUS I RGf D ! CHICAGO, Sept. I?-t?iTh AFL Brotherhood of Sleeping Cr Porters today urged i congress ' to grant all veteran a bonus of 13,000 each.- Reds Pleased as U. S. Lowers ' M r- ensatidn Payment Demand at inn Comp The Weather ' Max. Min. Precip S3 41 .M . S3 SO .00 S3 ST .00 .... S7 so m .... 2 M .00 Salens .... Portland . Kan Francisco 'hicaro ....... New York Willamette river -3 1 feet. FOKECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. MrNary field. al-mi: Partly cloudy today and tonight. Highest tem par atur S3. Lowest 44. United States and France gave up today their demands for 100 per cent compensation fori property losses of allied national in Italy, and a soviet delegate to the r.uro pean peace conference declared the move was a "pleasiint sur prise." I This action toward eliminating one of the obstacles to agreement with the Russian came after the United Slates served notice on the Slav bloc that it regarded the Dig Four agreement on Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav frontier as "one decision" that must stand together or not at all. These were the main develop ments in today's commission meet ings at the pence conference which also saw the military com mission complete its work on the Italian treaty by 'adopting the Big Four agreement limiting fleet personnel to 22.500 men and the air force to 25,000. ' me move on compensi claims was the first American compromise with Ruvia on ar.y question since Secretary of Com merce Henry A. i Wallace's speech last week criticizing t V: S. policy toward Russia. (Through it. the United States and France desert ed Britain on a question which may ' recast the j whole economic aspect of the peace settlement. The United States, which already has waived claims for reparations from Italy, now may be in bet ter position to attac k other i na tions' claim oh Italy. Arid Rus sia may be better placed to ! opV pose full compensation of United I Nations property losses In Bal- k . i nun countries. Previously, the United States, France and Britain had sought full compensation for lot or damaged property of allied na tionals in Italy, while Russia asked that such payments be re stricted to one-third of the value.