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SAN TRANCISCO. Sept 27 -4V Went coast ship operators and
the AFL masters, mates and pilots today accepted Invitations to at
tend negotiating sessions in Washington to avert a threatened new
maritime strike.
The Partfie American Shipowners a sorption decided 'to send Its
secretary' and a legal representative. Soon afterward the MMP, in
a stop-work meeting, ai reeled
Capt. C, F. May, vice president and
west coast spokesman for the
union, to attend the meetings.
"The membership decided to
rend me to Washington to protect
our interests," Capt. May said. "I
shall try to do that but I shall
also put in a strong protest against
our having to get everything in
Washington. We would rather do
our own negotiating right here."
A spokesman or the PASA
earlier had said its secretary, Wal
lace I. Brown, and Marion Plant,
of the legal staff, would fly to
Washington tonight
The MMP is seeking a 30 per
SSQSjlDB
Phihp H. Parrbh. chief editorial
writer for the Oregonian. will Join
a small party of American edi
tors who on the invitation of Sec
retary of Wat; Patterson will, tour
Germany. Italy and Austria to ob
rrve the operation of military
government. Travel will be by
airplane or a round-trip schedule
cf 25 day.
Painh is n ex client choice
because he h a fine background
of km ledf of foreign .affairs
and intellectual honesty. Yet in
such a hurried and necessarily pre
arranged trip -about all he .or any
one can get is a collection of hur
ried impressions. One can visit a
bombed city and see with a fair
degree of accuracy the extent of
the damage; but to appraise gov
ernment intelligently in situations
as complex as Germany. Austria
and luly more time than 25 days
would be required. The trip can
hardly be of more value than a
conducted tour in the USSR;
shortness of time alone will pre
vent thoroughness of study.
Now that the war is over I ques
tion the wisdom of these government-conducted
tours for Jour
nalists. During the war , they had
place in the drama of the war.
Just as did bond rallies and cere
monial ship launching?. But the
Job of reporting is so involved and
technical and requires such spade
-work and multiplicity of contacts
that a quick tour by editors be
comes a very superficial affair.
The home papers and the reading
public roust continue to depend on
the reporting of those experienced
In the field: and the editor sitting
at home will form his opinions on
the basis of the information as
sembled by working reporters.
: The Chicago Tribune: has a
policy of not accepting invitations
Joe
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OPA Official
Readying Rent
Control Offices
Don C. Wilson of Corvallis. dis
trict field rent representative of
OPA. Is in Salem arranging for
opening of Marion county rent
mnlml offices. Quarters former
ly orrupied by local draft board
Nn 1 in the armory will be used,
the draft board now having quar
ters w ith jitate selective service in
the B rev man block.
Wilon unnnunml Friday that
Clare A Iee. one-time state in
surance commissioner, will" be the
rea rent representative in direct
charge of the local office. In ad
dition there will be an Inspector,
an interv lewer and a clerk typist.
RegiMration of local landlords
will start Tuesday at 10 a m. in
the big drill room of the armory.
Four experienced clerks will come
cJinwn from Portland to handle this
rentrstjon.
: Wilson was formerly publisher
of the Benton County Independent
at Corvallis,. He has instituted
OPA rent rontrol office in sev
eral Oregon communities In the
r two ears.
cent wage increase. Its contract
with the employers expires at mid
night next Monday. While no di
rect strike threat has been made,
Capt. May has said his men
-might go fishing" if an agree-?
ment is not reached before their
contract expires..
Another contract that of the
CIO international longshoremen's
and .warehousemen's union, ex
pires at midnight Monday. The
union has authorized a strike if. a
new contract is not signed by that
time.
Hop Picking Continue
In Silveiion Area
, SILVER-TON Hop growers
whuwr yard have not yet horn
oiini'lftH are sending out a plea
tot pickers to assist in the harvest
yet a little Irwiger as, all picking
is experts to be finished by Oc
U4.er 4 Thi i the first time in
roiny eaonj that hop-picking, in
tfe S-iv-r1on ar-a ha stretched
Iriito the month of October.
Animal Crackers
By WAEREN GOODRICH -
Hunters oft to
Woods As Deer
Season Opens
Oregon hunters, spurred both by
the sporting instinct and the meat
shortage, will begin their deer
reason at dawn today and con
tinue to stalk through October 25.
To supplement hard-to-get ham
burger, each hunter is entitled to
kill a single blacktail or mule deer
having not less than forked ant
lers. Traffic through Bend and other
forest entry points Intensified to
day, according to Associated Press
reports, as what la expected to be
a record number of nimrods took
to the woods.
Forestry officials urged caution
with matches and cigarettes, and
hunters were again warned 'to
shoot at deer not at each other.
Logging operators have closed pri
vate roads leading into several
Washington and Yamhill county
areas. Only a few other scattered
areas are posted,
Trail ways to
Wind Up Case
West Coast Trailways bus line
officials Indicated Friday that pre
sentation of their ease for opera
tion of intrastate bus set-vise In
Oregon will be completed before
the state public utilities commis
sioner Monday.
Pacific Greyhound Lines, which
oppones Trailways application
for the new service. Is expected
to begin presenting it evidence
I next, week tn the hearing before
j Commissioner George H. Flgg.
I Among witnesses called by
j Trailways on Friday, the fifth day
! or Hearings, was M. C. Frailey,
vice-president of Pacific Grey
hound, who testified that Grey
hound owns 40 per cent of the
stock In Dollar Lines, a smaller
stage system serving Oregon, and
has an agreement with Standard
Oil Co. whereby it may acquire
from Standard the remaining 60
per cent of stock at any time. i
Sterilization
Controls Ruled
Neither the superintendent of
the Oregon state hospital nor oth
er hospital physicians are author
ized to perform "a sterilization
operation ; on a paroled patient
upon consent of such patient or
his guardian. intead of present
ing the caee to the state board of
eugenics. Attorney General
George Neuner ruled here Friday.
Neuner said the statutes make
rro provision for such operations
upon patients who have been pa
roled and that , such statutes are
not to be extended by implication.
-IS Oar Si lnii f
" . . . Tremendously weal'
thy he practically controls
the baby-sitting industry
hereS
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Pennanl Dace Tied
Cards drop crucial game to
Cubs 7-2 Friday night as
Brooklyn rests. For details cf
the nip and tuck National
league pennant race read the
Statesman 8 pert j Page
NINETY-SIXTH YEAR
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Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning, September 28, 1946
Price Sc
No. 157
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OPA Admits Defeat
In j Struggle to .Roll
Menu Prices Back
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WASHINGTON, Sept 27-OP)
OPA ee needed defeat today In .
It battle te rail bask prices !
seat Sbeals hi restaurants to
Jane 30 levels, and at the same
time Uek ceilings off a long list
f canned and 'rosea f raits and
vegetables. ;r
Responding to bitter pretests
frena betel and resUaraat men,
bust ef whom had threatened;
to close their eating places If!
the 5 meat rales were kept In i
t eree. the price agency I an-
nennced that the prices ef aaenn ;
meat Items will be boasted next
week at a conference with
spokesmen far the National
Restaarant association.
OrA' alse took the price Hd
eff honey, both domestic and.
Imparted. '
6 Texans
Perish
Meat Prospects
Poor. Claims
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Decontrol Chief
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27 -jr
Chairman Roy I Thompson of
the price decontrol board pre
dicted tonight that the meat, short
age will last "some time" and
manyj western cattlemen voiced
similar views, t;
Thompson declined to intimate
what the board - might decide on
the decontrol petition being pre
pared by the packers.
The cattlemen's forecasts gen
erally! represented - disagreement
with President Truman's : state
ment that the normal fall run of
grass-fed cattle to market should
soon improve the supply, but they
were not unanimous. tl
Amid it all. the democratic
party executive committee quiet
ly dropped its proposal to take
the matter, up with the decontrol
board.; " . - f;.
! Robert E. Hannegan, party
chairman, who was directed by
the resolution to consult with the
decontrol board and other offi
cials, announced he stands "100
per cent" for Mr., Truman's state
ment opposing meat price in
creases or removal of ceilings.
One bright spot for housewives
was a war department order re
ducing: by about one-fifth the
amount of meat the army de
manded earlier this week from
federally-inspected packers. Hut
the quartermaster J general. Ma).
Gen. I T. B. Larkln. j announced
that the army is considering pur
chases 'from some non-federally
Inspected plants state-Inspected
packer. -'!''
McAdoos Sell
Gervais Paper
GERVAIS Mr. and Mrs. I.
V. McAdoo, publishers ' of the
Gervais Star since June 1, 1928,
Friday announced the 1 sale of the
paper to Mr. and , Mrs. H. G.
Nielson.1 who take possession Oc
tober 1, The new owners same
to Oregon from California a short
time ago, and Nielsen, a veteran
of World war II, worked on a
Corvallis paper before coming to
Gervais. Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo
declare i they have no definite
plans for the future but intend
to continue residence in the Wil
lamette ;valley. & .
Canadian Appointed
Willamette Instructor
R. C : Bert rand, Vancouver, B.
C, has been appointed instructor
in philosophy and English at Wil
lamette university, President G.
Herbert Smith announced Friday.
Bert rand took his B. A. and M. A.
degree at the University of British
Columbia.
McArlhur Tells Story! Behind
Air Force Destroyed at Manila
TOKYO. Sept. 27 VUnrler
cover cnrroversy over destruc
tion off American planes on the
ground In the Philippines on the
first day of the war prompted
a statement today from General
MacArthur, who declared he
never had heard of a proposal
to bomb Formosa preventively
and that the. air force was
doomed anyway.
MacArthur broke his silence of
nearly five years on the incident
in response to assertions contain
ed in a newly published book,
'The Brereton Diaries," by Lt.
Gen. Lewis H. Brereton. who then
commanded U. S. air. forces in
the Philippine.
! According to excerpts received
in Tokyo,. Brereton wrote that
he asked Lt. Gen. Richard K.
Sutherland, MarArthur's chief of
staff, for permisison to attack
Formosa, but that authorization
was withheld so long his small
force of available bombers was
destroyed on the ground by a
Japanese; air raid.':
Asked ; for comment on the
Brereton I book. General Mac
Arthur, now supreme commander
of allied-occupied Japan, issued
400-word statement
"General Brereton never re
commended an attack on For
mosa to me and I , know nothing
of such recommendation having
been made . . . it must , have
been of a most 'nebulous and
superficial character, as no offi
cial record exists of it at head
quarters." MacArthur stated. ,
MacArthur declared that "tac
tical handling of his (Brereton's)
air force,; including all measures
for protection of his planes on the
ground, was entirely in his own
hands," but "I attach no blame
to General Brereton or other
members of the command for the
incidents of battle. I
"Nothing could have saved the
day for them. They, lost, but with
no discredit."
In Flood
SAN ANTONIO. Texv Sept. 27.
(flH A11 army bomber dropped
emergency rafts to- an undeterm
ined number of persons marooned
on rooftops south of here late to
day as the crest of a flash flood
which had taken at least six lives
surged toward the gulf of Mexico.
Chief of Police Bruce Weather
ley said that while only six bodies
had been recovered, there were
at least seven other bersons unac
counted "for.. This included :four
miljtary policemen previously list
ed as dead.
. Residents routed from their beds
by the fast-rising waters of the
San Antonio river after midnight
were returning to their watersoak-
ed homes as darkness approached.
The Red Cross was prepared to
house and feed 650 persons at res
cue stations in downtown San An
tonio. Damage Estimates High
Estimates of property damage
ranged from $1,000,000, to 8,T
000,000 as the waters of the cloudburst-swollen''
stream spread over
bottomlands to the south. The sky
was clear and the United States
weather bureau did not expect
further downpours.
Weatherley said lit would be
days and perhaps weeks until the
final f toll of lives could be de
termined. State police and military planes
flew over the flood area spotting;
marooned persons. I. The ..gravest
immediate danger was to residents
in the Berg's mill section 12 miles
south of here. -.'!
Waters Reach Alame
I At the height of the storm.' wat
er swirled inches-deep about the
famous Alamo but did not get
Inside1 to cause damage. '
; Also fighting the torrential rains
was . historic Fort Sam Houston,
which during the war was known
as the world's largest military in
stallation. J :
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Kevin Agrees
With Stalin
LONDON, Sept. 27-CP)-Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin. agreed
tonight with Prime Minister Sta
lin that "no further, war is likely
at present," but added that no
peace Is possible without an end
to the present "war of nerves."
Bevin's terse statement came
three, days after Stalin said the
world .was in no "real danger"
of a new war a pronouncement
which gave hope to a world weary
of continuing disagreement be
tween least and west and at
tacks 'and counter attacks by the
Moscow radio and the western
prea. ; , .
Wreckac
e oi
Plane Found
LEBANON. Sept 27 - (Jf) - A
cougar hunter today reported find
ing the wreckage of an FM-2 navy
fighter - plane which : disappeared
April 17, 1944 on an Alameda,
Calif., to Seattle flighL
The plane, found on snow peak
22 miles east of here by Frank
Merritt, Crawfordsville. yielded
the skeleton of the pilot
A salvage crew was dispatched
to the scene by the Tillamook na
val air station to bury the wreckage.
Heavy Log Load
Costs Coos Bay
Truckfcr Permit
A log truckload 21 tons over
the legal limit which reportedly,
also exceeded permitted limits byj
jj iff ; in jengui, inree ieei tn
height and one in width, cost
Cecil J.- Hammond of Coos Bay
his log hauling permit State
Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock
announced Friday.
Hammond's truck showed a
gross weight of 53.3 tons, the
heaviest" ever weighed by Ore
gon highway commission weigh
masters, i
Baldock stated that' while the
commission has cooperated to the
fullest with the logging Industry
during the past years bf emerg
ency by allowing additional tol
erances, "now the present limits
are the maximum that can be
authorized, with due considera
tion to the safety of the public
and the protection of bridges and
otner rugnway faculties."
The Weather
Ma.
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Preetp.
Kaleaa
Portland ' ftt M .00
San francisco 1 48 JM
Chicago .. s B7 .no
New York S3 C3 .SO
Willamette river J frt.
FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today and tonight with rising
temperature. Hishest temperature, 7ft,
lowest 44 ,
Hollywood Studio Pickets Attack Automobile
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept 27 Pickets at Warner Bros, sttidle In Borbsnk.' Calif, vainly try te halt an auto
mobile from puslnf through their lines in the first violence In a new strike at seven major studios.
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U.S. Accused
Of Interference
In Danube Issue
HAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept
27-j5)-Russia tonight accused the
United States of direct interfer
ence in the intemalT affairs of
countries involved in. traffic on
the Danube.
The Soviet Union charged that
the United States' refusal to re
turn Yugoslav and Czech vessels
held by American occupation au
thorities was i made to put pres
sure on these two countries In or
der-to "obtain her alms In south
eastern Europe."
The soviet blast came after the
United .States submitted a pro
posal' to the United Nations eco
nomic ' and social council for a
conference to be held between
Russia,' i America .. and southeast
ern European states In : Vienna
not later "than November 1 to "re
solve problems -. now obstructing
the resumption of international
traffic on the Danube river.
Asks Free Danabe
U. S. Delegate John G. Winant
told the council that the Yugoslav
and Czech vessels, which he ac
knowledged were being held by
the Americans, would be returned
when some: working agreement
had been reached between the
United States and soviet occupa
tion authorities and the govern
ments of Interested states "which
will permit the unrestricted
movement of those vessels
throughout the entire course of
the Danube." - j
Called Ultimatum
Nikolai Feonov of Russia, lash
ing out at the United States, de
clared that the U. S., proposal ask
ing the council to arrange a con
ference on the question was "put
forward in terms of an ultima
tum." "It's like putting a pistol at a
person's head," the soviet dele
gate asserted.
King George II
Enters Greece
ELEVSIS AIRPORT, Greece,
Sept. 27-P)-King George II re
turned to troubled Greece tonight
after five years of exile, arriving
at this war-battered airport only
12 miles from Athens in a Bri
tish plane bearing the Royal
Greek colors.
He willlmake his entry tomor
row Into Athens, where the police
Issued strict orders banning toss
ing of-flowers "or any other ob
jects" along the route he will take
on his return to the palace he
left In 1941 lust two days ahead
of the advancing German armies.
TACOMA BUS STRIKE NEAR
TACOMA. Sept. 27.-(P)-Mem-
bers of the motor coach employes
union, number 758, voted over
whelmingly today to strike against
the Tacoma Transit company at
4 a.m. October 1, unless the com
pany will renegotiate a new con
tract before that time, It was an
nounced by Robert A. Crlbbs, bus
iness agent for the union.
MTDAIK BLAST KILLS PILOT
ALL - HALLOWS - ON - THE-
SEA, England. Sept. 27-OP)-Geof-frey
De Havilland, daredevil test
pilot, was presumed killed at dusk
tonight in the explosion, 10,000
feet In the air. of a radical new
Uilless jet plane he had hoped
to fly to a new world's speed rec
ord.! , I
KAISER. FKAZER PRICES SET
WASHINGTON. Sept 27 -W)
Rounding ; out its price ceilings
for passenger automobiles, OPA
today fixed list prices for the new
Kaiser special at S1045 ana lis
companion car, the Frazer, at
$1785. Doth ceilings apply to
four-door sedans
Transit
Halted
Pittsburgh
System Re
By Power Strikers
PITTSBURGH, ; Sept. 28-ttP)
" Operation of PI ttiburgh'i
streetcars was completely halt
ed early this ; morning for the
second time within 48 hours
as a result of mass picketing
by members of a striking pow
er union.
Members of the independent
union, in picketing the barns,
disregarded a warning Issued
last evening by the AFL-Pitts-burgh
central - labor union
which said it would "not tole
rate any interference" of street
cars and buses operated by
members of its affiliates.
The streetcar motormen and
bus drivers are members of an
AIT. union.
Adair Housing
Plans Pushed
The League of Seven Cities will
confer Monday afternoon in the
state library building: with offi
cials of the federal public hous
ing authority and the war assets
administration, in the hope of
getting action to acquire a por
tion of, Camp Adair for veteran
housing.
An official from the regional
FPHA office In Seattle wrote
George E. Sandy, director of vet
erans' affairs and a member of
the Camp Adair committee of the
league, that he would come to
Salem Monday to help the group
take steps to acquire that portion
of Adair not already sold or al
located to other agencies.
Cities comprising the league
are Salem, West Salem, Albany,
Corvallis, Dallas, Independence
and Monmouth.
Minors High oh
Accident Rolls
Seven per cent of Oregon mo
tor vehicle drivers who are 20
years old or less are Involved in
19 per cent of accidents resulting
in traffic, deaths. Secretary of
State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., re
ported Friday.
In the first eight months of this
year minors were at the wheel in
42 accidents which claimed! 56
lives.
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SP AGENCIES TO CLOSE
Southern Pacific agencies
Chemawa and Gervais are to
discontinued November 15 be
cause of a lack of business, Geo
rge H. Flagg, public utilities oim
mlssloner, was advised by rail
road officials Friday. j
TIN FOUND IN CANADA !
VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. ! 27
('CP)-Frank Woodside, manager
of the British Columbia Chamber
of Mines, today confirmed re
ports of the discovery of tin! at
two mines In the province. 1
President to
Reconsider
Project Cuts
0 WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-MV
Bowlng to I the outcries of cong
ressmen whose district would
have been affected. President Tru
man has agreed to reconsider his
economy order on waterway pro
jects, legislators said today.
They said! he had directed stab
ilization director John R. Steel
man and budget director James
E. Webb to look over the program
again with a . view to . allowing
more expenditures on flood con
trol and navigation. '
f, Congress voted more than $500.
i)00,000 for ; these project) in the
current fiscal year which started
July 1. As part of his Economy
program, Mr. Truman had or
dered August 2 that no more than
$185,000,000 be spent.
: This led to a protest I meetir
of congressmen and other at New
Orleans Isst week. A resolution
was adopted there proposing that,
unless the presidential order was
rescinded, the congress meeting In
January should pass legislation to
"annul the order and prohibit rep
etition of similar enroachment of
the executive on the legislative
appropriation powers.
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200 Stage
BjiIfHour
Skirmish
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept 27 -OTy-Fierce
fighting broke out late to
day at tpe gates of Mero-Gcld-
tlvri f nlla araasli esss uAVaa
j ss kuuu ei m w vi gttri a ru
terlng thte lot for the late shift
attempted to run a massed line
f picket. f I
Nearly 1200 persons j. engaged! in
the meloe, which Culyer t- city
police reqjuired nearly a half-hour
to quell. j .
" Pickets smashed windows on
automobiles,, yanked open car
hoods nd Jerked; out 'ignitk,n
wires, ajid tried unsuccessfully to
overturn, six of 15. carsj runnins;
the line: - I
Taken to Hospital j j
One picket was hurled fo the
top pf a enr Bnd di-rfrd in
side i studio gates. Another was
knocked down bv a car. J and re
moved to a hospital. A n)n!-strik-er
was hospitalized for a tut hand
from flying glass.
It was the most serious'clash of
a day marked by rock-throwing
and other violence with 23 pic
kets arrested by nfghtfalii as the
7000-member conference of.studio
unions conducted the second day
of what it calls a lockout, but
what producers label a strike.
Pickets Dlspnrse ! i
Police dispersed pickets' at one
of seven major studios being pic
keted, under a court order limit
ing pickets and requiring that
they not be abusive. 3i
Kaiser Given
Aid by UeS. to
End Monop
Legislators
Appeal Case
! Notice of appeal to the state
supreme court in the rases of
Earl H.. Hill. Merle R. Chessman
and W. H. Strayer; are on. record
today in the Marion county cir
cuit court files. !
The notice of appeal from a
judgment of Marion County Cir
cuit Judge George Duncan hand
ed down September 19, In which
Judge Duncan ruled that the
three defendants could not legal
ly hold their legislative offices
and commission or state board
offices at the same time, was
filed last night by Rex Kimmell,
assistant attorney general.
Judge Duncan's decision barred
Sen. Chessman of Astoria from
continuing as state highway com
missioner, Rep. Hill of Cushman
from being state fish commis
sioner and Sen. Strayer; Baker,
from being on the state board of
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New Rates Due
For Foreign Mail
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2j -(JT)-Air
mail rates from Mm 'United
States to all foreign countries will
be slashed around November 1 and
a uniform rate for'each of;tlie five
continents will be established, the
post office department disclosed
tonight. The new. rates ptr half
ounce will be:
To South America, 10 qents; to
Europe. 15 cents; to Southj Afirca,
25 cents; and to Asia and Aus
tralia, 25 cents. North Africa will
receive the European rat.
Court Orders Courthouse Bill
Placed on November Ballot
An order by Marion county
court placing before county voters
an additional courthouse tax levy
pf $200,000 per year for three
years, outside the constitutional
six per cent limitation, is on rec
ord today.
The court yesterday ordered the
county ' clerk to place the issue
on the ballot for the November
5 election, following a public
hearing in which C. A. Ratcliff,
170 Ratcliff dr., voiced the lone
protest to the taat measure. He
reiterated his earlier stand of en
couraging the court to make use
of an existing surplus of more
than a million dollars in county
funds cash balances.
County Judge Grant Murphy
stated that Marion county needs
the surplus as a working balance,
and the court overrode Ratcliff 's
protest. The court order made It
clear that the $600,000 levy would
be in addition to the $75,000 an
nual levy now being raised for
courthouse construction fund. To
gether the levies would raise
$1,050,000 and provide for build
ing and equipping the new struc
ture in 1949, Judge Murphy said-.
In the hearing Murphy reveal
ed that six county departments
now are housed outside the court
house, for which the county pays
$050 in rent each month.
WASHINGTON. Sent. 27-,TV
A government order giving scarce
soda ash to a Henry Kaiser alu
minum plant came tmd-r aj senate
committee's scrutiny today amid
contentions It will curtail j output
of glass and other home-build!nc
materials. . jj - ' - , .-
Senator Ferguson f R - Mlrh.l
who brought ud the matter at rur
nlus property hearings of tfie war
Investigating; committee, said he
was advised that one 'rewtjlt wilt
be closing of a glass plant In To
ledo. j j -
Civilian; Production Adrr.lr.is
tratnr John D. Small, however,
took jhe position that congress
had handed down a . mandate to
promote competition fn the slu-'
minum Industry, ard tha)t new:
firms should be he!ped In getting
lender way. In this, he was sup
ported by Senator Mead f DfN.Y.).
Ferguson developed testimony
from Small that a CPA order re
aulring deliveries, of soda ash to
the Kaiser aluminum plnt In
Louisiana was issued "tk-o or
three weeks ago."
Senator Mead (D-N.Y.) direct
ed that Small prepare , fo(r the
committee a "strong statement""
dealing with the order and show
ing whether It contributed t end
ing "monopoly." It Is his view.
Mead said, that the government
should not only sell fti aluminum
plants to competitors of eitllting
aluminum producers but Shruld
aid -them in getting into produc
tion. !
Pastor Offers Free
Transportation fp
Sunday -Service
STANTON, Sept. 7 R v Wil
lard Buckner, pastor of thi Stay
ton Baptist church, has a unique
wny in which to bring 'tr eiders
of his congregation to Kiinkiny
school. Several months igA the
churrh purchased a 32-pafriper
bus,i formerly used by the Silver
ton ! school district. Each 5inrlay
morning, between the hruisj of
9 artd 10 o'clock, finds the minis
ter behind the wheel, pickinjg up,
on an average of 25 and 10 pas
sengers between Stayton 'West
SlH.vton. Nhrth Santlam aijid way
poinjts. Old and young aliiettake
advantage of the service. Sccord
ing ) to Rev. Buckner. The past
summer, the bus was used n (sev
eral, "camp" trips. Upon one 4cta
slonj when the vehicle, which, hag
seenu "better: days," needed icme
repair work. Reverend Buckner
turned mechanic.
Lewis Underffoeg
Appendectomy j
WASHINGTON, Sept 27 !mP)
John L. Lewis, head of the Vni
ted Mine Workers, "came thrdugh
all right" today in an emergency
operation for appendicitis, ? his
physician-son reported. I
Later Dr. John L. Lewis,! Jr.,
staff( member at Johns Hopkins
university hospital and a forfner
navy surgeon reported his father's
condition was good. The opera
tion was performed by Dr. Jc.hn
If. I.yons witn Dr. Lewis stand
ing by.