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Sodom. Oregon. Friday Morning, February 21, 1947
Prico Sc
No. 282
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Before the legislature met I of
fered a prediction that the appor
tionment of the basic school sup-
port fund would prove a vexa
tious and controversial problem,
and so it has developed. Sixteen
million dollars is a lot of money
to divide, and the formula for its
division is of intense interest to
school districts most of which had
looked toward this fund as the
solvent for their financial ills
Now they find it is not a cure-all,
though in many cases it will be a
real boon.
sue should arise between Portland
and upstate over the apportion
ment. The big city is the natural
tw PortianH trhr.r.1 a.,thoritie
have not helped their case mate-
r.ally, because they haven't man-
aged their represenUtion very
well. First they proposed a for-
mula which wouldn't hold up un-
der mathematics and leave any-
Ihinu fnr em 1a I i7atirn and er-
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ond they are backing an appor-
tionment by congressional dis-
tricts. a purely artificial basis
quiit- ill wiiii uic jhiii- i
cipie oi a general suite iunu nu
iwit-iur uisuiuuuuH.
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i nen ine comparison snows
that Portland pays the lowest
school tax or any nrsi-ciass ais- ,
trict. and while it has the excuse
for this year that it wa, den,ed I
a chance tor a special election Dy
a freak omission of the law
in previous years it rode
on lean rations for schools. '
But the ineptitude of the Port-
land school authorities is no prop-
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Blasts Cut Pipe
Line Near Haifa
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I"" company s pipeline in two to I
four places near Haifa today aod
a purported spokesman for Irgun
r.fhr v.olenre were "..r Idier'
reply- to Bnt.sh restrictions ;
against Jew sh mmigration to the
holy land
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romo oiasis, moriar urt mna
the chatter of small arms were
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neara inrougnouv i-si "Km '
the area of Haifa, principal Pales-
tine port and scene of forced j
evacuation of would-be Jewish !
immigrants
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Inilian-Owned Timber I
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BltlS tO Ife Opened Here i
PORTLAND. Feb. 20-uPV-Bids
will be opened at Salem March
11 on some 29.000.000 board feet
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U. S. Indian service announced I
today.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
"Now down two feet end
over one-eighth of cot inch."
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Blast Kills at
Least 15, Hurts
More Than 100
LOS ANGELES, Feb 20 -iP
A tremendous explosion blasted a
one-story brick building into
smoking rubble today, killing at
least 15 " person, jolting the en
tire downtown district and break
ing windows in houses and office
buildings TO blocks away. More
than 100 were injured.
Shortly after the explosion at
9:45 am., which leveled the
O'Connor electroplating plant. As
sistant Police Chief Joseph Reed
told reporters he
f eared the 1
?eaih ls miht "nf fr,?m 30
DUl y nignuau ouuaozer
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power shovel and other workers. committee. However, a major
probing the debris, could find but ty of the changes cannot go
15 bodies.
The plant was located at 922
East Pico St.. about a mile south-
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Plant Doing Government Work
J. J. O'Connor, head of the
electro-plating firm, told report-
late today: "We were doing
mrul,ns r. " uvrl"'I,
Jou c? wb,a bfPPened- He
declined toamplify the statement ,
but that f warc department ,
representative from San Francis-
to was investigating.
. The revet herat inc enrilnsinn
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which also demolished three near-
by residences, was followed by a
fierce fire. In a mile square area
ouu nouses rrt uamagca in wnai
ponce aescriDea as tne worst
siiuiiirni a 1 1 1 or iiit uisajirr since
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IJMJ. when more than UU were
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Earl H. Richardson, chief of the f
city fire prevention bureau at- ;
: .tHI,ic.l.7n t p
along i the plant, when inspected only
'two weeks aeo. was found to be
iriouvea tne explosion 10 cnem- t
two weeks ago, was found to be
practically free of gas hazards.
Elevators in some buildings '
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several diiars away were ism-
med in their shafts by the force
! of the blast.
I Bine Smoke Soars High
A a blue-black column of
smoxe oar en nunoreos oi leet in
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the air. inhabitants of nearby i
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houses stumbled out of their col
Psed dwellings
some with
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;, rtukn trVped SdT j
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William Tynan, battalion fire1
ho Mw tn explosion, said
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district 'seemed to go up
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we ye seen of the atomic bomb
explosions.
l.ce'f!TfrreCTPanir- 5? "
;'C!1S, .nt.ngenu of
marines and soldiers converged
the hectic scene 8
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SALEM Bl'ILDING OK EH ED
PORTLAND. Feb. 20--Nor-
a" s pJowe'lrsw was authorized
by the federal housing adminis-
traton today to build a five-unit
nriiv wuiiuing on r air
grounds Road, Salem. The Salem
Woodworking c o m p a n y was
granted a permit to erect i
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SAYS LYNCHERS CONFESS
GREENVILLE. ' S C. Feb. 20
(-Sheriff R. H. Bearden said
today he had obtained signed ad
missions from 11 Greenville taxi
drivers to taking part in Mon
day s lynching of a 24-year-old
negro near here, but was push
ing his investigation in the hope
of rounding up other possible sus
pects. WOOD SCHOONER SAFE
ASTORIA. Ore, Feb. 20.-0Fr-The
vessel Catherine II, last of
the wooden hulled schooners on
the west coast, reported late to
night it was outlet danger from
leaks and would continue down
the coast to San Francisco. The
steam schooner earlier had re
ported two leaks in the hull and
rudder trouble.
'Utter Desolation9
That's what JastJee Janes T.
Braa4 of the Oregoa npreme
eeart says he found la Ger
oaay oa arriving there to sit
as trial Jadge oa aasl war
erfases. Ia The Statesmaa oa
Suday.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. t$.-(At-Thia Is a ceneral view f the wreckacc
f two-try building destroyed by terrific explosion la
downtown Los Anceles, killlnf at least 15 persons and injnrins
more than IN. Bare spot at left of this picture Is scene of actual
explosion Itself (arrow). ( AP Wire photo)
Army Accepts
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WASHINGTON, Feb 20 -f.4)
-The army moved tonight to
sit on courts martial and to
make other reforms in its sys
tem of military justice, which
has been a target of criticism.
Another change will end the
mandatory sentence of death or
life imprisonment for rape.
Secretary of War Patterson
announced that the army has
accepted most of the recom-
mendations made by a commit
tee of the American Bar associ
ation and the house military
into effect immediately because
congress must amend the arti
cles of war.
Death Takes
C. V. Galloway
Of Tax Group
rmries v. oauoway, . mem-
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. 28 vears ril Thursdav in
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tered two weeks ago. He had
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jn jjj health for several years
Galloway who headed the tax
comm
sion. w
yamh
reeiv.
Minnville college and the Uni
versily ot Qrejon. and entered
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,tate serv ice in 1902 when he was
ine commissioner in earner
years was a farmer and orchard-
ist on the original donation land
claim of his parents, and was a
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erable time. He is survived by the
widow and a daughter.
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mil J rai v .rz n. tiiirvciina uitu
year
' early in January.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Macy & Sons,
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Morse Says Labor
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WASHINGTON. Feb.
Seator Morse (R.0re) com-
plained today that labor unions
are not cooperating in revising la- ;
bor laws, and warned that if he
has to choose between no legisla
tion and bills which go too far,
"I'll vote for legislation that goes
too far."
A witness before the senate la-
bor committee. President Josepn
issions property tax divi- iu"" , 1 J 1 u..." . r
- - , uswego, attorney ior me Lagut mem nc
nfn,JVe, Tan i of Oregon Cities, and Inkster. ers' union and Standard Oil Com- :
111 county (Jan. 6, 18.8);, , .t Rll r,anv of ralifomia
oH hi eHuralion at Tr- m--v-w. v.. - . r------------
A. Beirne of the National Federa- ' FIRE DESTROYS rRL'NES
tion of Telephone Workers, hinted CHICO, Calif., Feb. 20. (JP)
that this union might not go on i Fire today destroyed two ware
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sonally. I would be inclined to
arbitrate." Beirne said.
Big Guns
By Wendell Webb
Managing Editor, The Statesman
The big guns in the power issue
unlimbered for action in the house
at 10:15 a.m. today when the
move to override the governor's
veto of senate bill 99 will come
up for final action.
The bill was re-passed by the
senate 27 to 3 Wednesday, but a
determined battle is forecast to
day in the house to thwart at
tempts to win the two-thirds
margin necessary to enact the
measure into law. The bill previ
ously passed the house 46 to 14.
Crux of the measure is the pro
posed abolition of a law which
lets the state take over a private
hydro-electric project anytime on
two years' notice. Under the bill
to be debated today, the state
could not acquire such a utility
during the life of its license ex
cept by condemnation.
The house today also faces a
heavy calendar otherwise 22
measures being up for final pass- j and justices of the peace by set
age, including the one to bar . ting up a system of salaries based
fireworks and the cnatea too, is oa population and requiring Jhat
Amendments
To Road BUI
Are Proposed
An apparent hope of reconcil-
mg auirrtiices uriwroi v
nenis ana opponents oi irue so-
called freeway bill (senate bill
1911 ft-u rait et m miHIir hear-
in before the senati and house
roads and highways committees
i.t ni.M in the hn,, rhamher
Proposals to settle the differ-
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ences came in rebuttal laixs. : voie in eacn municipality is n
: Fred Inkster. Oswego, favoring j essary to effect a merger, but the
I freew
ways, suggested an .mendacities can vote at separate elec-
t to bar their establishment tions so long as they come within
infill Iff Udl IIICTII C2l0LMtIJIIIIll i
in cases wherein existing high-
ways have more than 10 tourist-
catering businesses to a mile, and
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The joint legislative committee
will consider the bill next lues-
day. Several speakers opposing
the measure last night were
sharply critical of the highway
commission.
-i r rt ihnu favnrinc the
v,uoi ! . "
bin wag Howard Merriam of Eu
ci, fP .r a C
ene- peasing ior ii cit a v.
Koenr. t-oniana cnaraocr m
. Uama TtevA PAHlanH"
mcilT, nuiait ,
ui.k.lr GolAm .KvK.r- Al-
VJUJT Illiaun, iv i. ..... 1
len Wheeler, Eugene; William
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operates a store south
ot slem; Patrick O Leary, Wood-!
burn chamber: Joe Davie5. Oak
Grove representing the Oregon
Prop.rty RiKht., association; C L.
MiddIet0n. Portland, representing
,K ,7-.-. ,,r wo.
T, i mnon Cimono - Viroil I.antrv 1 trwiav hv a tentatlv
I reDresentine the state motor ine agreement, wnicn aaas iu
Grove representing the Oregon ' rornia, Oregon, wasnington, An- suu,vuu,uuu, wnere r-resiueni iru
ProDertv Rights association C L. zona and Nevada. The union's man had set $37,500,000,000 as
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Lyman Ross, representing the j
Washington County Farmers Un-
nn- Harrv fearre Harkr Knw i
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chamber; Eric Enquist, mayor of ,
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Ar.uUla ana. ulse ralmer !
wh r fnrl and
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In Search for Plane
Local fliers of the civil air pa
trol will help in the search for i
a single-engine Navion plane,
"NC86098," which was reported
missing last night by the civil
aeronautics administration after
it left Red Bluff. Calif., Sunday
at 4:45 cm. en route to Beaver-
ton. Ore.. Lt. James E. Cannon of
the Salem CAP announced. The
pilot was thought last heard from
Sunday at 7:45 p.m. by Eugene
airport radio operators who heard
a plane report it was lost in that
area, Associated Press said
houses containing almonds and
dried prunes valued by company
I officials at more than $1,000,000.
in Power
set for a busy day with an identi
cal number of issues.
The house Thursday passed
senate bills transferring functions
of the world war veterans aid
commission to the department of
veterans' affairs; letting the board
of health administer cancer re
search funds, and asking the Unit
ed Nations for a free flow of in
formation throughout the world.
It also passed its own bills to sub
ject to state taxation whatever
publicly-owned property is held
on lease or is under contract to
buy, and adopted memorials ask
ing congress to increase by 50 per
cent the gross earnings-of veteran
trainees, and to make part of
Vancouver barracks a national
monument
The senate argued for an hour
and three-quarters before defeat
ing, by a vote of 18 to 12, a bill
introduced by Sen. Alan Carson of
Salem to eliminate the "fee sys
tem for payment of constables
Flan Set
To Allow
Merger
A bill constituting the final
step to pave the way for the
merger of Salem and West Sa
lem, when and if such is desired,
was ready for introduction in the
legislature today.
The bill, signed by the Marion
county legislative delegation and
Rep. Lyle Thomas of Dallas, spe
cifically provides only that cities
having a river as a common
boundary shall be deemed to to go to Portland Tuesday to lo- ! independence by next year s dead
adjoining. But its avowed pur- j cate accompanied by th British may turn control
pose gjoes beyond lU wording. Councilman Earl Burk and Fred over to provincial governments.
Most Be Adjoining
Under Oregon law, annexations
and mergers can be effected only
when areas are adjoining. The
new bill is designed to remove
all technicalities regarding boun
daries of the two cities for which
it was drawn.
Informed of the bill by The
Statesman last night, Mayor R. F.
FJfstrom of Salem said this city's
officials would be glad to con
sider a merger plan whenever
such is desired.
Mayor Walter Musgrave of
West Salem said the city council
there would study the program.
Itep. vv. w. unaawicK, one ui
i me sponsors oi me new cnaunnt
measure ana iormcr ouitriu may
5 l :3alem " t
id Thursday he was hope-
- bill eventually would bring
hi rKinSn. of the two
or, sa
ful t K
! about the combining of the two
! municipalities.
! Ke.rte Vote. Possible
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Under existing laws, a majority
i uie same year.
Drawing of the bill to be intro-
! duced in tne nouse rooay was
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! Bnnrni'M meaurec which were
Gov' Snell
Thursday, providing means for
Mill City to incorporate.
Oil Refineries
Strike Averted
LOS ANGELES, Feb 20 -(Pi-
i A rt nlr o t h 'i 1 thratnMl narfllvcii
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' et tranennrtatinn anH inHntrv in
w- i -
five western states was averted
i was averiea
nT" , T "ovlsi" L7 HvS7 InowJ
ance of $17.70 a month retro-
active to Jarr 1, is subject to the
I vote of 22.000 workers in Call-
month retro-
. m . a
memoersnip win vote on tne oner
within 72 hours.
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later. Richf eld Oil agreed to ts
tai-mm anH it i nvtwu-leH in cervo
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-Shell, Union, Tidewater
As-
sociated and Texas.
New School Gym
Plan Authorized
Construction of Salem school
district 24? $109,600 gymnasium
and heating plant at 795 N. 14th
ua a 1 1 1 h ot i rl hv th r i t v n -
gineer s office yesterday. All local
obstacles have been cleared for
some time, but the school dis
trict has experienced past diffi
culty in obtaining approval of the
civilian production administra
tion. 6-YEAR TERM BACKED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -(y!P)-A
six-year presidential term, with
no reelection, will be pushed by
Oregon's Rep. Stockman. He said
he would continue backing the
plan which he thinks would give
presidents a freer hand.
tissue Set
the offices be elective. Sen. Will
iam E. Walsh of Coos Bay ob
jected to a section of the bill
which provided that justices in
county seats shall be lawyers, on
the grounds it could not be en
forced in small counties.
The senate Thursday approved
14 of its own bills, including those
allowing interest on school debts
to be charged against tuition; pro
hibiting courts from sidetracking
cases in which the judge has been
accused of prejudice; requiring
water districts to make a monthly
analysis of water; and raising fees
to practice medicine from $5 to
$10 a year.
The senate also passed, and
sent to the governor, m house bill
granting cooperative associations
privileges of right-of-way for
drainage and irrigation purposes,
and adopted and sent to the house
a joint memorial asking congress
to confine its acquisition of forest
lands to those paid for by cash.
Sen. Ernest Fatland of Condon
condemned the present practice
by which congress takes timber i
West Salem Vote
Approves Tieup
For Salem Water
WEST SALEM, Feb. 21. -West
Salem property owners today ap
proved the city council's plan to
handle the local .water problem
when they voted 219-31 to auth
orize a mortgage agreement for
$12,000 to finance a tieup with the
city" of Salem water mains.
The tieup will be by meant of
an eight-inch pipe line suspended
from the Marion - Polk county
bridge. Work will start as soon as
material avaiiahl. anH ran rw
: rmnpti 50 riav aftor artu.nl
worjj- js started J. L. Franzen Sa-
lem city manager, has assured
, west Salem.
, Won-.- Mto,.. nin.
Gibson and A. N Copenhaven,
members of the local water board.
2 Million State
Office Building
Recommended
Committee recommendation
Thursday that the state board of
r,tml K n..tKnri7.H .A
$2,000,000 on a new state office
building, across Court street from
th at end of ,h- slai-hr.iive
1 e ?st end ' tne sUltn"Uhe
' 8rounds- apparently presaged final
P,pa.rem'r ' Pr!saed r,nal
I The k n will be ud in the house
. Tl?e b.lU Wl11 u.p .In tll' no.us
Tor Tina art ion nrnna hi v Mrnnv
Th " h.-TfJ n orioinailv wa io
cost $1,000,000, but higher labor
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struction of the five-story struc-
ture would be started soon.
Mills said the highway commis-
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the public utilities commissioner
onefoor. he stateljce a half ;
floor, and that the board of con-
trol might also have space. The
ret of the space has not been
allocated.
The money would be borrowed
from the school fund, and would
be repaid by rentals charged de
pa rtmerrrS""uieg the building. The
maximum inlire.t would he 31.,
per cent, and would be repaid in
pe
30 years
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! rloiise V otes
$6 Billion Cut
! WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.WP,-
The republican-controlled house
Th , repub.,can-c
voted tonight to
mg in the next fis
ry to hold spend-
scal year to $31,-
'arAnmxyv i w i j a t-
roc ooitom.
The $6,000 000.000 slash recom-
mended by the senate-house bud-
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democrats. Rep. Margaret
Chase Smith (R-Me) and Rep.
Marcantonio (AL-NY).
The issue now moves to the
senate, where a majority of re
publicans favor a $4,500,000,000
budget slash to protect army and
navy funds, instead of the $6,
000,000,000 cut.
Monmouth Man Hurt
In All tOIlloblle Accident
George Robert Myers of Mon
mouth incurred a fractured riijht
arm and some broken ribs last
night when he lost control of his
car and it left the Salem-Dallas
highway about one-fourth mile
west of the Bonneville power sta
tion, investigating state police re
port. Myers wa taken to Salem
General hospital in the Salem
Deaconess liospital ambulance and
the attending physician said his
condition was "as good as can be
expected."
for IKIeavy
stands from one county and gives
the state title to logged-off land
in another county in exchange.
Four new bills were introduced
in the senate, including measures
regulating and licensing frozen
food lockers and redefining "con
tinuous service" in state employ
as "not interrupted lor more than
10 years," instead of five.
Committee reports Thursday
presaged additional arguments
later. The house group of state
and federal affairs recommend
ed do-pass on the bill to give
eastern Oregon two highway com
missioners and increase the com
mission from three to five mem
bers. It also recommended pass
age of bills to spend $2,000,000 for
a new state 'office building in
Salem, and let state employes
have group life insurance.
The house food and livestock
committee voted to Introduce a
bill permitting county courts to
order bangs disease testing pro
grams and prohibiting an untested
beef herd from being on land ad-
joining a dairy nerd pasture.
British Pave Way
For Freeing India;
Date Set for 1948
LONDON, Feb. 20.-(T)-The
sel oeimne aaie junf, ivto
' nateo: a greai grunoon 01 me
' almost 200 years of rule over
I people.
! Prime Minister Attlee, in
commons listening in strained hi- 1
lence, indicated that unless quar-
reung modems ann ninaus ie-
solve their differences over writ-
in a central charter for Indian
announced tne appointment
I of Admiral Lord Mountbatten,
whose mother was a granddaugh
ter of Queen Victoria, to succeed
Field Marshal Lord Wavell as
viceroy in March despite contin-
I uea proaaing Dy opposiuon leaaer
i Winston Churchill as to why Wa-
veil was being recalled.
An informed source said the
"whole purpose" of Attlee's state-
ment was to "produce agreement'
between Moslems and Hindus.
who have refused to work togeth-
er in drafting, a constitution for
( independence.
i Mew Delhi disnatche said ob-
servers there believed Attlee's
statement was strongly favorable
I the consress Dai tv inasmuch as
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congress leaders long have in- '
6isted that a Britlsh . withdrawal i
sjsted that a British . withdrawal
w.?-ul?. 'ndUfe 8 S"nfe f ''TrponS1."
bility" conductive to a settlement,
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' p ",s" w"';"lunu nrr ,n 1,1 r ive. sneuu,
. regaraea as piacauna ine coii-re&s
! ieader, Jawaharlal Nehru, who
i W!? reportd Kon lh4e Wa"
veil was an-obstruction to a set-
tiement with the Moslem league,
Ronald Jones
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Farmer Union
By Lillle L. Madsen
Farm Editor. The Statesman
i nonn i , r eu. iu.-nuna.u
ALBANY. Feb. 20.-Ronald E
' Jones of Brooks was elected pre-
ident of the Oregon Farmers un
lion for the third consecutive year
Friday at the closing session of the
state convention. Gus Schlicker of ! lowered it to earth o gently the
Turner was made vice president, descent required 50 minutes.
The secretary is to be chosen by i Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner, com
the directors. i mander of the proving ground.
Resolutions adopted included was enthusiastic over success of
those opposing further peacetime the test which disproved German
military conscription, importation calculations that 'chutes could not
of dairy produce, grain and meat, be used at an altitude of more
and the reciprocal trade act in its than 150,000 feet on the theory
present form. Other resolutions
; sought elimination of the most-ta-
vored nation provision, and re-
j duction of the sugar allotment by
brewcrs and soft drink manufac-
j turera an 8ccordin j
! creased allotment to housewives.
i t . . i
in a special report on ine in-
th(T1arrn union rec.
I ' " "-. mini ui
l ommnded limitation of filbert
imports, because "competition is
now greater than the filbert in
dustry can stand and the $30,-
000.000 invested --n e a r 1 y ail
within 150 miles of this conven
tion - - will be lost if something is
not done."
Confidence was exDressed In
David E. Lilienthal ejul the con- A bll) declaring "nuil and void"
vention urged his confirmation as i the $3,785,000,000 nationwide ac
chairman of the atomic energy cumulation of portal pay claims
commission. ! and barring any in the future
The Calapooya local In Linn wa approved today by a senate
county earned the coveted annual judiciary subcommittee. It may
block - and - gavel award for all o before the senate next week
around progress. : Tn bill would outlaw present
I claims arising from activities per-
. formed outside the working day as
VANCOUVER GETS STEAMER understood by contract, ctwtom or
SEATTI E Feh 20 -rpv-nire.t nVMdinz, and bar such
wfj ' claims in the future,
overnight steamship passenger 1
service will be resumed between ! . mT
here and Vancouver, B. C, on j Work OIlTlnINary Da 111
June 22, first since November, a a , o. . i i i
1941, operators
.tors announced today.
The steamship Princess Kathleen,
a wartime troop carrier, will re
turn to service.
Fire Today
Rep. W. W. Chadwick, Salem,
chairman of the house local gov
ernment committee, said his com
mittee would redraft the county
zoning bill in an effort to meet
objections to it;
In addition to senate bill 99 and
the fireworks bill, the house also
has up final action today meas-
ures to let congressional commit
tees make nominations for vacan
cies in congress; reduce standard
income tax deductions; create a
state irrigation board, and let the
game commission sell deer tags
separately from hunting licenses.
Among 10 of its own bills for
passage in the senate today are
tions valid and permitting Joint
dty-rural fire protection districts
where a saving can be made.
Twelve house proposals will be
voted on by the senate including
one levying a $1 an acre tax on
nurserymen for research.
The house will resume at 10
a.m. today, the senate at 10.-30.
(Other legis. news page If)
Britifh today for the first time
ior Kening oui ci inaia ana aeig-
iir.-i empretN oi inaian to liquidate
that rich subtontinent of 400,000,000
a historic Ktatt-mcnt to a house f
Baby Dies of
Burns Incurred
In Cook Stove
The four-months-old daughter
cf Mr. nnd Mrs. R. A. Reynolds
0f tne farm labor camp died in
a hospital last night from burns
wf)1(.h sheiiff Denver Young said
apparently were Incurred fiv
nour previously when she was
! piat.ed mlo hot cook stove by
a .vt.ar-oUl neighbor boy.
Mrs Rf-vnnlrin ws ouotd Hr
I Sheriff Yrung as saving she had
' t;iken her three other children to
the nearby home of Mrs. Homer
Adams, a sister-in-law, about 2:30
p.m. yesterday and had returned
immediately for the babv which.
i she had left on a bed in the Rey-
1 . e GuidedJ th bab,y;
muffled screams, Mrs Reynolds
i i i c-i imm-
muni saia rne 101a rurn. ,
Young estimated the. child had
been in the stove about 10 min
utes. He ssiid that stove had
glowing coals and that the baby
was severely burned about the
feet, head and shoulders..
Funeral arrangements are In
charge of Clough-Barrick com
pany. 'Chutes Work
68 Miles High )
wniir, DAnuo, m r.D, u
(JP) Sixty eight miles above th
New Mexico desert ribbon pam-'
chutes took over the warhead of
a German V-2 rot ket todav and
; they would burn from friction.
Army ordnance research with
the rockets has been somevvhut
, handicapped by damage or de-
struments when warheads struck
the earth, and In two instan
the warheads never have
i i -x4u . ...
, mutrin . uuirr urm en hinvw
I UD dAcent have nt lee too
successful
Ban Agreed o
Portal Pay Suits
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-GTV
uj mpm J.
M-tn
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i
J
Sen. Guy Cordon Thursday ad
vised Gov. Earl Snell that he had!
received definite assurances that
actual construction work on Mc
Nary dam, on the Columbia river
near Umatilla, would be started
not later than April 1. t
TRAIN PASSENGERS FLEE
TOKYO, Friday, Feb. 2l.(y
Police halted a train 15 miles out
side Tokyo today in a routine;
search for black market operators.
To their astonishment, 90 per cent
of the passengers fled through)
I doors and windows, leaving 400
bundles of food behind,
j
CARS CRASH. NONE HURT
Cars operated by Douglas Hel
der, 2146 State st and O. E. Boat
wright of Evergreen avenue col
lided at Hood and Summer streets
at about 10:30 p. m. Thursday,
city police report. No one was In
jured. ! Weather
Max.
SI
... sa
.. &
n
Min.
1
42
43
14
Prectp.
Salem
Portland
San Franc uk-o
.00
.60
trae
-SA
Chicago
New York : IS
wmameiie river . feet.
FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field, Salem i; Partly
cloudy today and tonight. little
change In temperature. UiaUoat iodav
SC Lowest teaUght am, ,r ...!, .