f J 1 f 6 1 Vandenberg ayAMnMy tit Monte Essential to Foreign Polipy Shortages Stymie Completion of Houses -I a - Q A-r. Ji 1 . ',j tr i - . ..... fibwUtn f nunr lie km still arc bldlnc up eomp Arr some mt the bemes bclnr built for veterans b stewed br sbortace. Lower right Is a part T lb balldlns for Cecil Clark. It was bernn nearly a r Clark bad a smaller borne built into which his M to IS per rent. Clark now Is selJinr the one pi f the year. Lower left photo Is a brifbter side t with little experience in carpentry. Is makinc ra st West Salem, and if he can set plamblnc and h (Story on bonsln oa page ). (Photos by Don Ol letioa of scores of houses In the Salem area. Abere y Dr. E. E. Getxlaff. route 4. on South 12th, all e luxurious home which C.1E. Denhem has been ear are. and was so hampered iby scarcities that ,-imily could move. Finding; -costs Increasing: from ctared here. Denhem hopes to finish It by the first o the housing- picture G. Van Hess, a war veteran pld progress building his own home at 1191 Eighth eating fixtures be hopes to finish It within a month. 11. Statesman staff photographer).! CRT THDCDDS: Failure of the Friday night con ference of school officials to solve the-problem of educating the 170 grade school children residing in the farm labor colopy near the Salem airport has driven the par ents of the children almost to the point of desperation. A com mittee of them called at The Statesman office Saturday and left a communication which we j.nnt in our Safety Valve column today. It is a plea for action which Marion county can answer only with action: and that must not be further delayed. These children occupy homes on government property situated in the Rickey and Pr ingle school dis tricts. They are eligible to attend the school in their district, as much entitled by law to attend ance there as the child living next door to the school house or who has Ivied in the district all his life. In fact, the law compels at tendant unless the element of distance interferes. The scchoolboards of the two districts say they haven't room in their Khixilhuuwi and no funds budgeted to provide teachers. However, space is available at the colony, and the practical plan is to set up a school there. Mrs. Booth, county superinten dent. hs worked hard to solve the problem. Baffled by refusal of the school boards concerned to take action, she intends to call a meeting of the district boundary buard to see if the area can .be transferred to the Salem school district. However, the latter says lis budget is all committed for the current year. Some sword must be found to rut this legal Gordian knot that keeps these youngsters cut of school. Five weeks of school are alreadj passed, and It will be dif ficult at best to bring them up to grade in the time remaining. The responsibility rests on the school districts, on the group of business men and farmers who set up the colony to provide farm labor, on this whole community. We must not longer neglect the duty that lies at our door. Read the letter in today's Safety Valve anoVsee if you are not moved to demand action. British Eye Road Across Africa, Vast Naval Bases LONDON, Oct. IJM-fl3 Reorganization of Britain's lifelines to the Orient may include establishment of tremendous military bases on both the east and west coasts of Africa linked by a 3,000-mile super-highway bisecting the dark continent. 15 The shape of this gigantic Imperial defense program was out lined today by Whitehall, colonial office and war office sources as an imposing il group of middle east- Army Engin eer Animal Crackers Py WARREN GOODRICH 44 Under the circumstances you'll have to eat fish and like it!" Tells Details of Santiam Dams . PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 19 -(P) Col. O. E. Walsh, district army engineer, told details today of the three dams proposed for construc tion on tributaries of the South Santtarn river. Public hearings on the propos ed dams will be held at Lebanon November 9. . ' . i - The largest would be the Green Peter dam on the Middle San tiam. seven miles east of Sweet Home. It would be 316 feet high, storing 255,000 acre feet from a drainage area of 279 square miles. Of earth and rock construction, it would cost 113,200.000 and could include power installations for production of 21,000 kilowatts if the dam were made 25 feet higher. Smallest would be the Jordan dam on Thomas creek, seven miles east of Scio, 120 feet high, of earth and gravel, storing 53.000 acre feet and costing $1,900,000. The Wiley creek dam, five miles southeast of Sweet Home, would be 205 feet high, storing 42.000 acre feet from a drainage area of 53 square miles, and costing $2,600,000. j The three South Santiam dams would store 350,000 acre .feet from 402 square miles, costing $17,700,000 at present estimates. Pro cress In Ship Strike: By the Associated Press I Assistant Secretary of Labor John W. Gibson and U. S. Con ciliator Frederick Linvingston an nounced last night that "very substantial progress" had been made in adjusting difference be tween striking maritime unions and ship owner representatives at a conference at the offices' of the American merchant marine institute in New York. In Pittsburgh an early end of the 26 day old power strike ap peared as a possibility. George; L. Mueller, president of the striking independent association of Du quesne light employes, expressed the belief the 3200 strikers would vote in favor of arbitration at a general membership meeting! In Pittsburgh Sunday. ern experts and leaders, in both military arid political fields, gath ered in London for a series of conferences, i Behind the 1 planning lay i the British decision to withdraw from Egypt, the manifold political trou bles of the middle east and the costly leson of world war SI that the; Mediterranean link is far from Invulnerable. Colonial" Secretary Arthur Creech Jones! disclosed that r plan is being discussed to set up in Nigeria; on Africa's west coast. a huge installation similar to that which Whitehall sources earlier had said was being considered for the east coast colony of Kenya. Creech Jones, confiding: his re marks to colonial activities; i did not elaborate ; on the plan but from an Informed military source came the disclosure that if the two coastal bases are established, defense advisers will then recom mend construction of an arterial highway linking them across Equatorial Africa's deserts, jung les and swamps. Portland Man Dies in Wreck Neai Brooks ! A head-on collision claimed the life of L. Glen wood Wheeler 40, of Portland, at about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, approximate ly three miles north of Brooks on U. S. Highway 99 E, investigating state police report. One-way traffic was enforced by police for about an hour and a half, while wreckage of the cars, which were virtually demolished. was cleared away. Wheelef was a passenger with Robert P. Lewis, also cf Portland, who reportedly lost control of his car as he passed a log truck head ed south, and Sideswiped a second auto before colliding heatf-on with a car driven by Frank Borwieck, Vancouver, Wash. Borwieck and his companion. Mrs. Jenny Bond, route 1, Or chards. Wash., J were still confined to Salem General hospital this morning. : Mrs. i Bond incurred lac erations and possible internal in juries and Borwieck incurred lac erations, the hospital reports. Lewis and another passenger, L. Dykstra, i Vancouver, Wash, were treated and released from Salem General hospital last night. Lewis incurred !: a broken collar bone, Dykstra a minor knee fracture, authorities at the hospital said. Uninjured were the two women riding; in .the sideswiped car. Demands WarTalk Stopped WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -(A) Senator' Vandenberg (R-Mlch) tonight described "America's bi partisan foreign policy" as one of peace, not war, and predicted it will succeed "unless it is scuttled here at 5 home." 'Asked the flat question whether war with Russia some day, is in evitable, Vandenberg replied, that it must not be allowed to be come inevitable." He decried American groups which over- zealously seek ot make their own peace ideas impressive by using war as the frightening alterna tlve." i "I wish we could quit talking bout 'war'.' he said, Vandenberg expressed his views In an interview here with George Cushing of radio station WJR, Detroit, for a Columbia broad cast. "Is it a fair description," Cush jng asked, "to call this new bl partisan American foreign policy a 'get tough with Russia' policy?" Those were the words used by Henry A. Wallace in the critical New York speech which led to his ouster from the cabinet. 'Friendly firmness' -"It is not accurate." j Vanden berg replied. " 'Friendly firmness' is the correct phrase. : ; Wallace was not mentioned di rectly in the broadcast, but Van denberg assailed "appeasers" and "missionaries of confusion here at home. . . . I hear much more war talk here than I did in Paris. ... "In my opinion, if it happens it will come from some tragically unfortunate incident which may well be the result of somebody's miscalculation as to how far we will tolerate some policy which either threatens our own security or which violates our conception of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Ask Parties Support Vandenberg pleaded for a unit ed American foreign policy, sup ported : generally by members of both major parties, "so there will be no delusion abroad that we are vulnerable because we are at the mercy of Internal divisions. On Saturday's Gridirons (Other Scores en Sports Paces) UCLA 13 California 6 Oregon 0 Wash. Stale 0 USC 28 Washington 0 San Jofte? St. 26 Idaho 14 Yale C. Cornell C. North Carolina 21. Navy 14. Si. Mary's 33. Ford ham 2. Amy 48, Columbia 14. Georgia 33, Oklahoma A&M 13. Tennessee 12. Alabama 0. Mississippi Stale 48. USF 20. Northwestern 14, Michigan 14. Montana 20 Mont. St. 7 Stan fort! 33 Santa CI. 26 Linfiehl 6 Col. Pug. Scl. 6 Whitman 21 UBL 13 Georgia Tech 2. La. State 7. Iowa 13. Indiana 9. Illinois ?7. Wisconsin 21. Pardee 14, Ohio State 14. fexas 20,; Arkansas 9. Texas A AM 74. Tex. Christian 9. enver 29. Utah J4 Portland 13. Arizona State 0. OP A Attorneys File Demurrer In Koehler Suit A demurrer by OPA attorneys was filed in Marion county circuit court Saturday in the injunction uit brought several weeks ago Henry B. Koehler, local land lord, seeking to enjoin OPA from establishing rent control in Mar ion county.: Defendants demurred to Koeh ler's complaint on grounds that it does not state sufficient facts to constitute a suit, that the court has no jurisdiction over the sub ject of the suit or of the defen dants and that Paul A. Porter, ad ministrator of OPA, is not named as a party in the suit but that his presence is necessary to determine the case. The demurrer Is signed by Dav id London of the chief appellate branch of the OPA,, Francis E. Harrington, Portland, OPA dis trict enforcement attorney, and by Howard Bergman, special trial attorney of OPA from Portland. Defendants named are E. J. Ed munds,! state OPA head; Jackson Moore, state OPA rent control di rector; ' and J Don C. Wilson and Carle A. Lee, field representatives for OPA. At the outset of the proceed ings one day after local landlords began j registering with OPA, Ralph 1 T. , Moody, attorney for Koehler, said that main conten tions in the complaint are that OPA expired last June 30 and that when congress voted to extend jit, it was extending an act that no longer existed and that rent con trol here Is Illegal because this area has not been designated as a defense housing area. Shoe Controls To Continue WASHINGTON, Oct, 19 -UP) Estimating the present shoe short age at 550,000,000 pairs, officials emphasized today that price ceil ings will be held on leather and footwear as long as possible de spite the decontrol of livestock. "If we pulled off controls now, leather and shoe prices would skyrocket," an OPA authority told a reporter. He explained that the controls on hides can be retained even though the cattle from which they come i are decontrolled under President Truman's onder. School Districts to Talk of Unification MONMOUTH, Oct 19 Direct ors of 12 Polk county school dis tricts ' will meet at Monmouth high school here Friday, Novem ber 1. at 8 p.m., to consider pro posed consolidation. Districts in volved are Monmouth, Independ ence, Parker, Buena Vista, Airlie, Valley View, Highland, Hopville, Oak Point, Antioch, Suver and Mitletoe. Special notices have been sent all school directors. The proposed consolidation was recommended by Dr, C. L. Huffaker of the Uni versity of Oregon. NMD 1651 NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 20 PAGES Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 20. 1946 Pike Sc No. 171 rj(0) Don PanfoflD Limit On Spending Junked Buyers' Strikes To Increase CHICAGO, Oct. 19-OP-The re moval of OPA controls has sent the price pattern -for most major items in the American food budget into a dizzy whirl and there were indications today of growing con sumer resistance to those products which turn up with a higher sales tag. The impact of sudden decontrols hit the markets an erratic blow and it was too early to tell how the food dollar of the near future would compare with its buying power of last week. The prices of all livestock shot up, despite an avalanche of receipts, and record SEATTLE. Oct. 19-P-Seat-, tie housewives, who have organ ised to force high prices down I by a boycott, have joined forces with a similar group In Portland, , their leaders said tonight. "We have been In telephone communications with the Port land women, Mrs. R. F. Horan, one of the leaders said, "and we find they have been In touch with a New York group. We hope te work together and in terest ether cities." highs were established in some markets before a downward trend set in. ' Reports of buyers resistence to higher meat prices came from many cities. In some instances, resistance was building up against higher prices for dairy products. 4 The American meat institute, saying prices would be higher un til demand , is met, urged house wives to "shop around for the best buys." Some dealers refused to buy meat at high prices and the president of the New Jersey Inde pendent Butchers' association urged consumers to ''strike" until meat prices come down "within reason." i . In Helena, Mont., housewives started a chain telephone call movement advocating buyers strikes against butter prices of 89 cents to $1.00 a pound. A simi lar campaign among women's groups was started against a two cents milk price boost to 18 cents a quart in Portland, Ore. Brown Pleads Guilty, Fined For fHazimr' A fine of $50. and costs was meted out to James, Brown, 760 ti. Winter St., after he pleaded guilty in Silverton justice court Saturday to charges of assault and battery involving the recent hazing of student John Day, 3355 D st. Brown appeared in the Marion county sheriffs office voluntarily Jesterday, returning from Corval is where he is attending school. Dudley Slater, 370 Rural st, who was involved in the same com plaint, , was fined , the same amount 1 last week in Silverton justice court, and Douglas Yea ter, jr, j 1930 N. 18th st, named in one of the warrants, is report ed to be in California. The . complaints against the three were filed recently by Mar ion County District Attorney Mil ler B. Hayden. They charged that the three allegedly paddled, Day, a student at Salem senior high school. Maze of Ballots To Face Voters Nov. 5 By Wendell Webb Managing Editor, The Statciman There is going In be a little confunion in Marion county on November 5, and perhaps after ward. But even so, it probably won't be quite so noisy as the next 15 days during which candi dates for election will come out staunchly for home, mother, peace and a return to the meat standard. The confusion, come two weeks from Tuesday, will arise when an unsuspecting body strides to the polls to exercise his right of franchise and be handed a fist-full of white sheets of paper ranging in size from 6 by 7: inches to 9 by 24 inches. If he lives outside of Salem he'll get four such sheets, if in Salem only three. The four will include (1) the general ballot for state and county offices, state measures, non-partisan and judiciary posts and whatever local ' candidates are running; (2) the ballot to determine whe ther there should be a three year tax levy to provide $600,000 for a new courthouse; (3) the ballot for precinct committee men by parties, and (4) the ballot on whlher a public utili ty district should be formed outside of Salem. No Local Vote on PUD Salem won't get that fourth ballot, but there have been no complaints about being slighted. It's the PUD issue, for good or bad, which adds particularly to the slight daze the day may bring. If it carries, also for good or bad, the daze may last days. If it doesn't, the supreme court might clear its calendar on time. The PUD problem, in the main, centers on the fact that 17 of the county's 56 precincts (outside of Salem) are split part of each being in corpora ted areas and part in unincorporat ed. Under a state law, ballots on the same issue must be Iden tical within precincts. Under PUD regulations, ballots for in corporated and unincorporated areas must be totalled separate ly. Ballot Proves Difficult The question which faced County Clerk Harlan Judd, therefore, was how a PUD bal lot could be identical within i any given precinct and yet be kept separate for Incorporated and unlncot prated areas. Judd took the only course whUh seemed feasible - some PUD ballots for uh overlapp ing precincts carry a line "out side city" and some "inside city," with each voter getting one or the other and the vote being totalled separately. The rest of the PUD ballot Is identical. So far as is knon. there has been no challenge of such ballots on the ground of illegality, but such a potibility remains. The precincts so involved (those transcending municipal boundaries) are Aumsville, Aufc rora, Donald, Eait Gervais, Wet Gervais.l Eat Hubbard. West Hubbard. Jefferson. Eat Mt. An sel, Went Mt. Angel. Scott Mills, St. Paul. Stayton. East Stayton. West Stayton, Sublimity and Turner. Split Vote May Aric Several other questions in re gard to the PUD issue also have arisen, such as what would hap pen if one precinct within a town vote for it and one against It (such as could happen- In Wood burn or Silverton), and to what extent it could be dis approved and still become effec tive in certain localities. The answer to the first ques tion is: The total vote in any municipality is conclusive as to what the entire, municipality will do about it precincts with- ' in municipalities cannot art on ; PUD separately. Combined Vote Count The answer to the second question: If the combined vote of all 56 precincts (both Inside and outside municipalities) : shows a balance against PUD, there will be no PUD in any part of the area regardless of each precinct's vote. If the com bined vote is favorable, and municipalities favoring PUD would be in it (if one is or ganized by the state hydro-electric commission) and if the en tire unincorporated area of the county votes for it that area al so would be in It. But the un incorporated area ciild become part of It only In toto-not ny separate precincts. Anyway, from the number of ballots which Marion county voters will use next month it appears the Boy Scouts could well put on another paper drive , later on. India Moslems On Rampage COMILLA, East Bengal, Oct. 19HP)-Jtsidents Qf this eastern Bengal city who are caring for victims of communal violance de clared today that the Moslems who comprise a majority in this area are waging "undeclared civil war" against the Hindu minority. More than 5,000 refugees from Noakhali have streamed into this Tippera district city bringing with them gruesome tales of mur der, rape, arson and looting. The refugees say the Moslems are making determined efforts to wipe out every member of the minority community ' or compel them to embrace the faith of Is lam, j 1 Aircraft Carrier to be Parked at Courthouse Don't be alarmed if you see an aircraft carrier near the High street entrance to the county court house Monday. For 1 30-foot long model "jeep" aircraft carrier is part of a dis play of navy equipment which Is here with the recruiters of men for the naval reserve unit being established in Salem. A complete radar unit and a model floating drydock are also included in the mobile unit. STRAYER RITES Tl'ESDAY BAKER, Oct. 19 -(vF)- Funeral services will be held here Tues day for State Sen. William II. Strayer, veteran Baker attorney. Burial will be in the family plot at Mount Hope cemetery. Long-Standing Complaints Over Election Laws Cause Marion County Clerk to Draft Changes By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer. The Statesman Rumblings of discontent among Oregon county clerks and citizens over certain long-standing sore spots in the state election laws may come to a boil a4.the county clerks' convention in Portland in November. Marion County Clerk Harlan Judd, in spearheading an attack on certain "obsolete and antiqua ted" sections of the present elec tion laws, is this week sending a draft of proposed changes in the law to all county clerks in Oregon. He intends that they be studied by the clerks prior to the conven tion. ' The changes which Judd advo cates include: 1. . Changing time of the pre cinct committeeman ballot to the primary election from its present position at the general election. 2. Place justice of the peace and constable elections on sepa rate ballots instead of on one bal lot as .they are now. 3. Place no precinct name on the general ballot thus creating a general ballot that would be iden tical in every precinct. Stubs could' be numbered consecutively when printed to facilitate count ing the amount to be sent to each precinct. 4. The county clerk to make duplicate cards for voters'registra tions at the clerks' office. Thus one card could be used to compile a master index file and the other card could be filed as to precincts. The precinct cards could be kept in loose leaf lock binders and sent out precincts at election time in stead of the present typed poll books, eliminating the necessity of typing up of poll books at each election. 5. Prepare both registration cards so that a change of address or of precinct could be noted on a new line and precinct copy re moved and filed as the voter changes address. 6. Change from a "party" pri mary to an "open" primary and have no party designation on reg istration cards. Thus a voter could vote any party in the primary elections, and candidates would declare party affiliation only upom filing declaration of candidacy. 7. Cities over 2000 population to conduct elections in their area and keep their own registration files. Because of the state's increas ing population and economic and social changes, agitation among county officials for streamlining of election laws has become more intense, Judd said. Most of the proposed changes are being suc cessfully adopted in other states, he declared. Before any of the proposed changes could lec-ome law they would have to uri-e in and be passed by the state legis lature, Judd said. WASHINGTON, Oc ft -The administration l'r.Kht j ,r,.f President Truman's w,o f c Q limit on federal pob;!c work r" Jects with an order !!oiri 14 agencies to spend an ettrs l, 000 000 nn cotitru ti n in tf.e jtur ending June 30 . This will let thee ssiHr ator.e spend a total ot 1.2 ),riM).mi. and more lnnears are on t.e wav for additional agnr!r. The order was Utue1 br reron verion djrertor Jc hn K I Me-! It does not lit specif. c pro tt that is up to the stenre. It means the I2.I0O OOO.Ow e-onmy program mpf.ed lat A" it tf Ireident Truman it at et J tially out the window, Impesecf MaraUrlant That program alL'd, srrrg other things, for hArl;ni d n eral public work e;f"l.t..r t 1900.b00.000 In toe rurrrnt f . I year ecmpared wlt!i I,fi ' Omj . 'I approved by rongre. It irr.t .l a 60-day moratorium on g em inent projects and Crdered a ul ing out f t the le imortnt irn Congressmen beMowei ; vi hn some of their p-t projects v. ere hit. And there already had Un some vthitling av sy st the re strictions. The lid on fl '""1 f r trol expenditures wit tilled to ward Thursday from 133,000 tvCO to $130,000,000 ! lieod Central Reviewed Steclman said in sUlemer.t f night the budget bureau u :e viewing limits on the interior in payment's reclamati'ft Uitki, the commerce drartmr.t. ar.d Civil works of the armv -r, , t. which include rivers aihd hart re as well as flood enfrn imprr ce ments. ! "It is espected he sa d, -that final action on thl rrinram tsit be taken nest wee. j The agencies g.ven the ff.ro, 000,000 clearance Unight are u. navy. Interior, agriculture. J..M.ce, treasury and state d;utrr.-r ta leterana adminlstfa'i n, federal works agency, reconduction fi nance corporation, maritime rt m mission,' Tennef.ee valley author ity, Panama canal, rational s1v, ory committee for aei ntitir. n! war department m:l;tary brr. r Hamilton to Retire from PGE Position William Munroe Hamilton -t urday announced hi p'tjnn t r i -tirement as Salem diniiri frar& ger for the Portland fierier! I .r -trie Company, position whUh tm has held for 34 year. Ite w.il leave the. company's service Janu ary I, 1947. His suecesKor h-t r been appointed. Hamilton began; working f PGE in 103, after Uliin a cr le pondence sc hool rixire in e er tricity and came to Salem in lt)Z. A dependable rttc le Irr, he three times president of the cf um ber of commerce, predet.t c f no tary, a boy scout director, K;rjf Blng of thar Chertian and li a member of the HlkM lodge. His father, a rfvtl em it r, moved went frotm lltrr.utt r.'a birthplace. Battle Creek. Mi-h, a few months after he was born. Women Mentioned In Windsor Theft LONDON. Oct. 19-VS'.t!.n.l Yard looked Into the ; poiLiit today that two well-groomed ret tery women, guesti at recent ?!y fair society pa.rt.es. my have helped Contrive the ahrettd Mi.- 000 theft of the Duches of Wind sor's jewels. I Secrecy shrouded the :ioten. e 72-hour-old lnvetigin. but the yard did not preclude the visi bility that the women, thui f-r unidentified, might hate g-r..I the necessary information f. r the wily "tat burglar." CI RH W ON IN JERt ftAf I f JERUSALEM, Oct. ! -i4'i- The rtritUh slapped a hoje rutfew i n the Jewish quarter of Jetu)tni today because of "seilous reru desrence of Jewiih terrottttie ac tivity In; the Jeruaalem area 6ut Inf hours of darfcrn " Tlic Weather Mas. ateas - M fort land . M Kmn lianclMO a? C'hicaso )....,.. Nrw Vuih : SI WillanM-H tlvvr - J f FOHM AMTIllnm I' 1 flr htu, Mt Nar)r flV -!? 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