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t The Stotetman. Salem, Ore.. Wda day. October 30. 1948 GOP Fights for 10 More Seats To Gain Control of U. SSenate By D. Harold Oliver Aoaoctated Pre Political Reporter WASHINGTON. Oct. 29-WVThe next senate will have at least 15 new faces no matter how the elections next Tuesday turn out. Six incumbents werer defeated for renomtnation and nine other re not m&fclng the race. Thirty-five senate ships from 34 spates will be decided. The repubbesujt hold 10 of them, the democrats 24. and the progressives one. The present senate lineup is j M derm-rrats, 39 republicans and j Weg. Virginia. Idaho. Nevada, the prdtreive. . ; Washington. Wyoming, Montana VT Irrr ""T irT and Wisconsin. Seats contested in confidently they of 10 memfcers if they are to re gain the -ontrol they haven't held j far 14 years. They claim a fair j chance f achieving it. The demo-1 crats maintain Will rrmMfi en top. Bet Cfcaoces Listed Republicans say they have their best chime for gains in New York, Foeuwylvania, Ohio, Massa chusetts Missouri, Delaware, ICE CEEAII All Flavors, N r'i Limits, Qts. dd C SAVHIG CEIITEB Sales and Weal Salem these states are now held by democrats except that in Wiscon sin which Is occupied by a pro gressive. Maine has already reelected a republican, Owen Brewster, and two democratic candidates are un opposed, John J. Sparkman in Alabama and Theodore G. Bilbo in Mississippi. 4 for Unexpired Terms Of the 36 seats at issue this year, including Maine, 32 are for the full six-year term and four (Alabama. Idaho, Kentucky nad Virginia) are for unexpired terms still having two years to run. In addition, two elections are being held in Connecticut and Ohio for unexpired terms in the Have yea ; That Am roposoa tax MMares win NOT be som property tsaesT Don't you faccvo iff The truth Is . . . Tax measures mean tax liens on your PROPERTY and ON YOUR INCOME. TOO! Have yoo boea told . cm be rtaaacee ty "iwr plus laeonte taxea" m wtt HOT ma adoluoo ai us kntM? Don't you believe If.1 The truth Is . . . The so-called "surplus Income tax revenues" now In tho State Treasury will pay for ONLT ONE THIRD OF" THE FIRST YEAR'S TAX! After that sum la spent, we'd IMMEDIATELY start paying INCREASED INCOME TAXES and INCREASED PROPERTY TAXES, TOO! Have yon aeea told . . That tfea propoae4 Basic " boo! Btli will NOT dt sew property Us T Have ymm theea told . . That fusts front the KM BrfcMl BlU wilt o rt to radscs tb local aehooi kow4 l luT Have yssi keen told . . Don't you beJevo If! Tito truth Is . . . Tho Basic School BUI proposes a NEW and ADDITIONAL, tax of FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS! Don't you bci'ovo it! Tho troth lo . . . Local achool boards would he PROHIBITED from using any of tho Basic School Bill's tax money to reduce local achool taxea. present senate running only from election day until the . new con gress meets, California will chose another for the; same period by means of write-in votes. Unless there is a special ; session, these winners will never sit in the sen ate, but will draw pay. f Here are major party candi dates in the western state with (x) denoting incumbents: i Stats j I ' : ' ' Arizona 4 - I (en; E W. McFarland () (r)! Ward Powers California j 1 d Will Rogers. Jr. ! trj W. M. Knowland () Idaho ., (d) George E. Donart si (rjs Henry Sworshak j Montana i - I d Lief Krtckson 1 r Zsles Extern ! I Nevada I - h 1 id). B. X Bunker I r) i George Ma lone H New Mexico i t I (d) Denis Chaves (x) f. Utah - 4 j (d), Abe Murdoch f (x f (rl Arthur Watsins I Washington i ji (dt Hugh Mitchell () : r, Hmrry Cain f Wyoming ? f id) J C .O'Mahoney It) (r) i M B. Henderson. " ! -h 1 'I' 1 ' 1 il! Deth Claims G. W. Tlmriribn George Thurmon, 74, of 918 N. 5th sU lifetime Oregon! resi dent and one of the first pepper mint growers in the Labish area, died Monday in a Portland" hos pital, following a short illness. He and Mrs, Thurmon lived in Salem since his retirement two years ago. The sonj of E. J. and Elizabeth Thurmon, who crossed the plains from Missouri and Arkansas la 1852, he was born Sept. 12,11872, at Silvertort, and married $arah Towne Sept, I, 1898, at Salem. The widow survives with a daughter, Mrs. R. Wi Nusom,Clat skanie; a granddaughter, Mrs Jack Sather, Corvallis; j two great grandchildren, Pete and Beth Sa ther,. Corvallis; three sisters,' Mr. Susan Remington, l! Salem; I Mrs. Kate Porter and Mrs. Charlie Wat son, both of Silverton. and a broth er, John Thurmon of Silverton. I StU wiU "ualun Uxm" eteen Iwp CtsUtets and small oo? Don't you believe it! The truth la . . . Tho Basic School Bill has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with equalizing assessment values. (line's we piMtj mora! VjooH tX the TAG before tsar Uvtsg saeases ato geiss; 1! Teor BossMt tssea are geiaf IPJ Avorsgo sslsrle at !( BtOWN! Taae-bM pay to gaiag DOWN! With tacmsea geiag lewar, ta to a lax twr easea will gm tower, to. Tka ttoM tax aaesasres atast a psld toe by Hirmil prepartr tosas. DO TOC WANT TBCSff CAN TOU ArrOBD TNEMT Veto NO aU TAX KEAS vwtw. vote! jHaggamakmaBmsassmah t OKCCON TAXFATBU fKOKRATION , WeaMest, Kama Ms. a Carvatlia, Oresea Itawr NeweU, Secretarr Vetsj Property Owners Vie ! ! i ' I? ; j SEATTLE, Oct 28 -Op)- J. D. Vance, attorney and member of the American Veterans commit tee,, today) tpld Bill iCorbett. I trus tee for ait apartment housed ope rators' grbtip, TdSj dos mrf best to see that; you ( land in Sheriff Callahan' ijall,' ifter Corbett announce he would hold vacat ed apartments vacant until OPA ceilings are; removed. I The pioneer apartment group filed articles of incorporation at Olympia today. Prosecutor Lloyd bhorett had announced he would file criminal conspiracy charges should members of the group car ry out announced : intentions to refuse to tent vacated apartments. G. A. j Wall. I father of.: the group's oi-iginal "no rent" reso lution, said that at its next meet ing he would seek to hmvk the policy confined to civilians? who were not war veterans. ' j 3 'Toitniiies' Die! in Palestine Blast I JERUSALEM, WedneidayJ Oct. 3Q-jvy-mre uritim soldiers were killed nd 15 wounded early this mornini when a road ctflvert was dynamited under a military convoy, Palestine police announced;-today. f I The blast occurred ati5:40a4n. in the Sheikh Jarrah quarter of Jerusalem Police said the dyna mite charge apparently Was elec trically detonated. . ( The first truck in the convoy was destroyed and jj another I was damaged when it ran j into the wreckage.! , jj j j CHOIAWA APPOINTEE I Appointment of Roscoe J. Wein inger of Wood burn as head of the trades department of the Chema wa Indian j school was announced yesterday by; ML-W Evans, school superintendent. Weininger, for mer vocational coordinator for the Hower trade school in Akron, Ohio, succeeds Erling C. Benson who recently retired. u i J 1 a Kl - A Don't miss tho fun , - j LEARN THE POPULAR DANCES in special teen-agers classes starting November 1 Cone in tcda er call 612S ABTHUB IIUOIHIY DAIICE STUDIO 155 SOUTH LIBERTY ! ! Mrs. Yeater Dies, Funeral ! Set Thursday MONMOUTH Funeral will be held Thursday at 2 pjn. ; at the Christian church here for Mrs. Eleanor Alice Yeater, 73, who died Saturday at the family home in Monmouth after a long illness. Born at Yoncalla Nov. 13, 1872, the daughter for Oregon pi oneers, she was married to C. C. Yeater May 19, 1895 and they lived at I Pleasant Hill and on a farm west of Monmouth for some years before establishing the family home ' here, more than 1 20 years agd. ! ' V ' Mrs. Yeater was a member of the; Neighbors of Woodcraft, of Sunbeam Service club, and the Christian church. Mr. Yeater died in 1932. Survivors include a daugh ter Mabel V. Pollan, James C. Chatzauk; sisters, Mrs. Margaret Bayne, Corvallis; Mrs. Virginia Chamberlin, Corbett; brothers, L. P. OwenJ Ellensburg. Wash., R.IV. OWen, Portland, and T. A. Owen, Lebanon. i The Keeney Funeral Home ; of Corvallis will direct funeral ar rangements. Rev. W. A. Elkins of Keizer will officiate. Burial will be in the Yeater cemetery near Monmouth. Walnut Growers Seeking Pickers Harried walnut growers rushed tho Salem farm labor office with work orders for pickers Tuesday. Adverse 'wfather ; has ''caused re luctance am one regular Workers f to pick, labor office officials said. but the situation is now critical and pickers are needed if the wal nuts are not to rot on the ground. Labor office spokesmen said that growers have upped the wages from one-and-a-half cents per pound to an average of two cents. Transportation 1 furnished, but drive-out pickers can choose their area around Salem at will, officials said. Small Hits at t i ' - Recession Talk WASHINGTON, Oct, f 29.--Civilian production chief John D. Small today cautioned the nation against talking itself into a busi ness recession. He declared an industrial de cline "is not inevitable" If labor and management use 3 common sense, reasonableness and restraint. Taking cognizance of predictions from some quarters that reces sion may start within the next few months, Small told a news conference: "It looks like an atmosphere is being built up in thinking that way. But, a recession il not in evitable if we keep going as we are now. All this talk creates fears. If repeated enough times, people will begin cutting down, retrenching and won't go ahead with their plans and we will have a recession." ? WSB Reported On Way Out WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -() The administration is considering scrapping the wage stabilization board when the OPA's master price decontrol program is releas ed, a person close to government planning said tonight. The OPA plan is expected to be announced Friday, November 1, the official said. However, to avoid anyj label ! of politics, the decision may be withheld until after the November 5 elections. Wage controls would be retain ed in at least a half dozen major key Industries in which prices still remained under ceilings, probably including coal, this in formant said. Road Board i i Passes on Bids PORTLAND, Oct 29-jJP)-The state highway commission award ed six contracts today and re jected all bids on two others. No bids were received on one con tract. J The commission also denied a Union Pacific Railroad claim for $134,571 damages resulting from a slide in the Columbia river gorge that interrupted traffic last Feb ruary, f Among contracts awarded was: Wheeler county Service Creek Kimberly rock production project on the John Day highway; A. H. Saxton, Corvallis, $23,200. Portland Rotarians Hear C. A. Sprague PORTLAND, Ore, Oci 29.-iP) Former Governor Charles A. Sprague told a Rotary club audi ence today he opposed the old-age and disability pension bill on the November ballot but favored the basic school support measure. The pension bill only "trans fen! purchasing power from one group to another," Sprague added. He said that "we want good schools and good schools coat mon ey"! in backing the school measure. ( i : ; j Indictment Returned i " Against Mrs. Broadhurst ONTARIO, Ore, Oct. 29.-VF-A Malheur county grand jury to night returned two indictments charging Mrs. Gladys Lincoln Broadhurst, 40, and her cowboy chauffeur Alvin Lee Williams, 23, with first degree murder In the shotgun killing of her husband W. P. D0c) Broadhurst, 51, well-to-do stockman. r Re-Rent Strike i . i ' Case Located PORTLAND, Oct 29 A navy officer took up the battle for veterans today as the first Portland landlord publicly an nounced refusal to re-rent an apartment until OPA controls are lifted. Lt. (jg) James - McKernen, ac companied by members of the American Veterans' Committee, reported the apartment was in a duplex owned' by Mrs. Nettie K. Llndley, secretary; of the Property Owners' union, and that ts to be vacated next month. It bore a sign osted by the owner, 'Vacant on account of unfair rent control. See your OPA for a place to live." McKernen, an overseas veteran, said he has tried tincx September to find a. place. Hit wife has re mained at Tacoma, Wash, while he searches In off-duty hours from the Swan Island navy station. 5 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK FLAGSTAFF, Ariz, Oct. 29-iJP) Five men were killed and four in jured, two severely, in the col lision today of a Santa Fe freight train and a railroad motor sec tion car. The accident occurred before dawn about 19 miles east of Flagstaff. r Food Retailers Gain Praise of Local OPA Man Salem area food retailers were praised Tuesday for their record of upholding OPA price control. Said Robert Lantz, chairman of the local price control board of the office of price administration: "Food retailers in the Salem area have maintained an exceptionally high degree of compliance throughout the period of price control on food products." Lantz said that price inquiries at the board office numbered about 25 per day and that con sumer complaints in September disclosed five OPA violations. In a survey of 90 food retail ers conducted since September; 1, Lantz stated, 13 violators were found; of 15 apparel merchants, four violators were found. One furniture violation of ceiling also was detected in the only store sur veyed, he added. PINEAPPLE PRICE UP SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 29(JP) Hawailan Pineapple Company an nounced price advances today on canned pineapple and pineapple juice, ranging from 8 to 10 per cent. Too Late to CUsaifr '41 DE SOTO Business Cotfps. MS souta at. WANTED: t children cared for. or far In my horns. Writs Box 7M States man. NEAT Appesrtnc young woman with ear and know lad of city, full or part time. No aelllnf. Excellent re muneration. Prions 9AM. i WiliMJu M AetlM II.p.l., CawMr -MYSTERY MAN SALEII DOTAQT CLUB SPONSORS faEE rarer i Nation-Wide Comedy j Stage Hit St 1 Edwin Maxwell VioU Fr.yM ?J One Ilighl Only - Tuesday, Nov. 5, 8 p. n. SALEII HIGH SCHOOL AUDITOniUII All Seats Reserved $1.M - $2.48 - $1.8 - $1.29 (Tax Ineladed) j On Sale at Maple-Keeae Sporting Goods, 272 State Address Man Orders. Eabert Fenlav Salem Rotary Clab. Salem HALLOWEEN DANCE Fun Frolic - Celebrate With CiE. Bird and His Music Dance the Night Away the Velvet Rhythm Way Featuring Dorothy Marshall, Vocalist 0CT0DEO 31 ' SILVERTOII ARIIORY Dancing 9 to 12 P.M. j Silrerton. Oregon . County Health Program Held The Marion county health de partment last night opened a pro gram on food sanitation, conduct ing a food handlers' conference with 44 Silverton restaurant own ers and employes in Toney's res taurant Silverton. Dr. W. J. Stone, county health officer, discussed personal hygi ene and disease control in connec tion with food handling, and Verne C. Rierson, Portland., sani tarian of the state board of health, discussed cleaning and steriliza tion of dishes and utensils. A film was shown. Leon Skelton of Mult nomah county health department, was a guest at the conference. Mrs. Ciiri8t.aii8m Dies at Hospital Mrs. Lydia Amelia Christ ansori, 64, of 775 N. Cottage it. died at a local hospital yesterday. She hod lived hero 28 years. Funeral ar rangements have not yet been an nounced by the Howell-Edwards chapel. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Boxrud and Mrs. Inga T. Benson, both of Sslem. and Mrs. Anna Purdy of route 1, Turner; three nieces, Mrs. Ruth Rue of Newberg; Mrs. Geraldine Men of Ada, and Mrs. Frances Everest of Langlois; a nephew, Kenneth Pur dy of Turner. . 17-year-ohl Salem Youth Held on Check Charge A 17-year-old Salem youth was in the county jail here last night' after his arrest by city police for passing bogus checks in ' local stores, according to late police re ports. Officers said that a second man, Nolan Uagler, was being held in Portland on a similar charge, pos sibly connected with the local check-passer. MAT. DAILY FROM 1 T. M.- NOWI Hunt Stromberg JANE LOUIS RUSSELL-HAYWARD l ' ''' J " V -, XI Re Issue H ; co-nitr Olivia I ' . 'Zl Se lUvlUand J j Dart Niven "HAFTLES" -OPENS 8:45 P.M NOW! MUSICAL FX'N! THRILL CO-HIT! ROBERT LOWER Y THEY MADE ME A KILLER" OPENS 8:45 P. Now! Thrills! Gary Cooper "NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE" Technicolor s I la Technleol WILD BILL ELLIOTT "LONE TEXAS RANGER" Mrs. Oshorii Dies At Local Hospital Mrs. Mary Oaborn, 76, of rou'e 2, Salem, died late Monday night at a local hospital, where h had been a patient since Augukt 25. Services are in charge of the Clough-Bafrick company. She was born August 13, 1870, in Canada, and is a member of the Evangelical church. - Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mabel Fowler, Jefferson, and a niece, Mrs. Ruth Bradford, route 1, Gervais. No Word Received Of Escaped Xiuil'e No word had been received ear ly this morning of either of three convicts who escaped from the state penitentiary during the month. Penitentiary authorities, state and local polite all reported no knowledge of the whereabouts of Henry Harold Wannebo, 18, who escaped October 24; Clayton S. Holland, 24-year-old trusty who walked off October 18, or of Ward Ervin Hix$n, 33, another trusty, who left on October 11. 17-1 kar-old nor nrxu A 17-year-old boy was held fur juvenile court after his apprehen sion in a stolen car by city police early Tuesday morning aiiid an ot her juvenile, thought rwmKibly to have been his companion, was re leuwed by police to his mother yet terdM. - I I : from COMPACTS CARATS uf i.sn U TO 1 1000) it's BROWNS Salem's Leading Credit Jeweler A Optician 1 AMERICA'S MOST VERSATILE c 0 I AHA I I j a a mma jmr Pumm 1 1 . I 4r Stars f Steti Screen and Mb 5A1EM ARMOR1 Saturday, IIov. Ini Dancing 8lo 12 Adm. 1.50 In. Tir 1 3.. . ; Starts TONIGHT! ?0 Those wonderful f sweetheart, .L- 1 Jt wiiw ivuiun c i let love I just happen! s 'H1 . fve! I. 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