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Courthouse Block Suggested as Bus, Taxi Stand Center . ........ !-,-. -, . . - . , - - A plan to restrict -all downtown bus ' and taxi stands to the courthouse side of High street, between Court and State streets, will be presented to the city council next Wednesday night by Mayor R li. Elfstrom and , City Manager J. L. Franzen, Elfstrom stated yesterday. - '- The completed plan, to which the city manager has devoted much MODS Let me rise to protest the pro posal to make the street in front f the courthouse a bus terminal. As reported, the east side of High street between Court and State streets would be reserved as 8 bus parking zone; and that the bus company would build a shel ter for passengers along the en ure block, presumably on- the The objection is that the city thould not be required to furnish a parking space forbuses on the streets; and that the shelter will .be an eyesore, an obstruction to the view and to pedestrian traffic Why should the city set -aside permanent parking space of such , dimensions? Why cannot the buses do as they do in Eugene along Willamette street, continue their cruise without parking? There is convenience to bus users lb make transfers ; at a common point: but if the bus company wants a terminal let it provide one for itself on its own property. That was the announced intention of the owners when they acquired the property. If street parking space must be . provided, let it be outside the central busi ness district and let the bus com pany provide a waitihgroom in a building off the sidewalk. What a spectacle it will be for the courthouse to be hidden be hind a shelter or canopy all along High street. What a "front" that will be for our new million dollar courthouse when1 it is builtthe new building to be a backstop for bus station! Surely the city council can spare the county that humiliation. Just as suggestion : why not make the space around the city hall a bus terminal? Another-huddle of responsible , parties is is order if only to undo the plan which was evolved and announced this week, v . - Woman Dies in Gas Chamber i - ; SAN QUENTIN, Calif, April 11 tVCalmly and with her head erect, 59-year-old Louise Peete Judson died today in the San Quentin prison gas chamber, ex ecuted for murdering a woman who had befriended her. She walked calmly, bead erecV ' into San Quentin prison's green tinted gas chamber, smiled from behind the glass and paid with her" life for her second murder. Mrs. Judson was executed for the 1944 murder of Mrs. Margaret Logan, 60, Pacific Palisades, to whom she had been paroled after v nerving 18 years of a life sen tence for the 1920 murder of Ja cob Denton, Los Angeles engineer. Coal Output at. 59 of Normal ' WASHINGTON, April 1 The coal mines administration re ported that soft coal production crept up to 59 per cent of normal today with the return to work of 30.000 additional miners. They had been idle in the safety stoppage which followed the Centralia, 111, mine explosion. . The CMA said 1,860 mines are now operating, 168 more' than on Thursday. Weather Max. cs ts SI - 60 7 Min. 31 M 4t 4 Preclp. .at DO M traee jOO Portland Sn Franc laco . Oiicaro Xrw York Willamette river 1 feet. FORECAST ( from CS. weather bu Ivan, McNrj field, Salem t: Contin ued fair weather today and tonight ith v idley fof during early morning. HijEhest temperature today TO. Low est tonight 3i. Animal Crackers By WAKEN GOODRICH "Ofeay, to you look like a rug now get up and do some work around here." time and effort, Elfstrom - said. may place some taxi stands just around the comer oar-Court street One-hundred-seventy-five add itional parking spaces will be created in the downtown area by this consolidation of bus and taxi rones, the mayor said. . . . Plans to Erect Shelter' - Oregon Motor Stages has agreed to erect a shelter to the city's specifications and at the bus com pany's expense, to protect the public in wet, cold - weather and against the sun in summer. May or Elfstrom said. He estimated the cost of such a shelter at about $5,000, In return, a ' franchise, probably for five years, will be recommended for the bus . com pany. -. ' ; ; A change in operation of pub lic rest rooms-at State and High streeU is also anticipated by the mayor, who said that a concession might be rented adjacent! to the rest rooms and that the conces slonaire would be exempted from paying rent if he would take ade quate care of the rest rooms. Company Officials Consulted All changes have been dis closed by the mayor and city manager with county, bus and taxi company officials. j Bus and taxi .zoning as outlined by Mayor Elfstrom yesterday in corporates one of the alternatives described in his first-of-the-term message to the council and is sup ported by City Manager 1 Fran- ten a study. Plane Rushes Boy to Hospital To Remove Pin EUGENE. April 11-taVA non stop United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Portland was called into the Eugene .municipal airport here this afternoon to pick up a two-year-old Roseburg. Ore, child, who earlier, in the after noon had swallowed an : open safety pin. The child of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Menkins of Roseburg swal lowed the pin and at 4 pjn. he was rushed here from Portland The United plane was called in and awaited the ' arrival of the speeding car with the fretting en lid. ' c The plane carried the child to Portland where an emergency operation is expected to be per formed at on of the hospitals there. FDR Memorial Rites Todays HYDE PARK, N. Y., April 11 W) Visitors from many parts of the. nation will gather tomorrow before the portico of the old Roosevelt family home to com memorate the second anniversary ox the death of their wartime leader. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fifteen minute of the program will ' be broadcast . over .three na tional networks ' (NBC, ABC, MBS) at 4:30 p. m. (EST). President Truman will speak jrom Kansas City. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevel t and former treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau will broadcast from Hyde Park. Barometer High As Weekend Nears Salem's fair weather blends with that in other parts of the state today as the weather sta tion at McNary field predicts its continuation through the week end. - ! R. H. Bald ock, state, .highway engineer, - reported "no material changes in Oregon's road condi tions. Bridge repairs are expected to be completed on the Willam ette highway, two miles east of Goshen, during the weekend. BCS SERVICE DELAYED " OKLAHOMA CITY, April 11-(ffy-For 12 hours today Oklahoma City was without local bus and street car service because ' em ployes' of the Oklahoma Railway company refused to cross the picket line of another -union. Service was resumed in mid-afternoon. Construction to Begin Monday On Nut Growers' Co-op Plant Construction of a new plant for Salem Nut Growers Cooperative will begin Monday at 2860 Cherry ave, with the Halvorson Con struction Co. in charge. J. J. Gallagher, cooperative manager, announced Friday that the building contract was award ed to the Halvorson firm on Its low bid of $129,960. Gallagher said an additional $70,000 will be spent on equipment, spur track and other facilities. The new plant will replace the nutgrowers ' facilities which burned to the ground last fall. Offices, which have been main tained at Valley Motor Co. since the fire, will be moved a a NINETY-SEVENTH TEAR Recluse Ousted 5 V . I- V 1 PHILADELPHIA; April 11 Miss Anna Qulnn. 82-year-old spln . ster, sits with her cat before being taken to Philadelphia General hospital until a guar dlan . can be named for her. Authorities removed ber from her rubbish-filled home ef 25 years because, they said, they wanted no part of a "Collyer incident.' A neighbor promised to care for the cat (AP Wire- photo to The Statesman.) Couneilmeii Watch Pinball Demonstration Invited to the headquarters of the Willamette Amusement com pany, 2134 Fairgrounds rd.. Mayor R. L. Elfstrom, . City Manager J. L. Franzen and several city coun cilmen and Clay Cochran, mana ger of the Salem chamber of com merce, inspected pinball machines Friday evening - and listened to explanation of their operation by Curtis B. Ferguson, and Numa J. Arnold of the amusement com pany.: "i City Manager Franzen said he had "no recommendation" to make to the council, that they had seen the machines in operation. Aldermen at the. demonstration showed little receptiveness to any proposal which might be advanced to allow pinball machines to be Installed in Salem establishments. One machine was described as having no cash pay-off, with win nings paid in free games only. The claim was made that the device is legal. It was described as Iden tical to one-ball machines operat ing in Portland. - Reds Hold Out On Saar Vote MOSCOW, April llHCtfVFrance hammered In vain tonight at lone Soviet opposition barring imme diate approval of economic inte gration with the Saar, and For eign Minister Georges Bidault ac knowledged dejectedly "we must wait.' - - ; v ' . Bidault insisted that Russia's V. M. Molotov give the foreign ministers council his views on the French proposal to establish a commission at once to work out details of integrating the economy of the coal-producing Saar with France, but Molotov refused to yield He said he wanted more time to think it over. - The proposal was agreed t yes terday by both the United States and Britain. " New Bids Sought for Detroit Dam Housing; PORTLAND, April ll-(ifp)-An-ether attempt to begin construc tion of temporary housing facili ties and . utilities at the !--'. dam construction camp will be made April - 23 with opening of new bids. .The army engineers last month rejected bids aa too high. house on the Cherry avenue site within 10 days, Gallagher stated. He said construction will be substantially complete by August 31, in time for the cooperative to handle this year's nut crop E. J. Allen of Woodburn this week succeeded A. L. Page of Jefferson as president of the co operative, following an election by the board of directors. It was announced that Page asked to be relieved of the presidency after holding the position for 22 years. Frank E. Way, route 6, Salem, succeeds Allen as vice president. Gallagher was renamed manager and : Hazel Ingalls secretary-treasurer. A I r 10 PAGES Company Calls off WASHINGTON, April ll-JP-The leader of the long distance workers in. the nationwide tele phone strike tonight wrote off as "dead" the '. tentative agreement they had reached with manage ment the ; only major step that has been taken toward settling the strike. John J. Moran took that stand when reporters told " him of a statement by George S. Dring, of the i long lines division of the American Telephone it Telegraph company. - ' Dring said that if the union failed to accept the settlement plan definitely by midnight "the tentative agreement of the com pany will be withdrawn. Then I suppose we will have to start all over again." Moran, speaking as "president of we American union of Telephone Workers, said: "We're not rains' irt nrrcnt hv midhight, of course. We'll Just nave to stand by and see what happens now." The tentative agreement - be tween the A. T. Si T. and the long distance union included a plan to arbitrate demands, in cluding wages, for these workers. However, their union is only one of 49 in the National Federation of Telephone Workers and the policy committee of the federation ruled that the proposal "did not coniorm to union policy. Jobless Pay Out for Phone Strikers State unemployment benefits are not available for striking Sa lem telephone workers. i This was made clear In f at unemployment compensation com mission ruling Friday, after Unit- m mm - a m ea xeiepnone employes of Oregon officials in Portland the day be fore had charged the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Co. with an attempt to encourage anti-labor legislation by evading Oregon's law prohibiting v state reimburse ment o striking workers. Union members here and else-; where in Oregon had received Job termination slips dated April 7, opening day of the strike. Only 14 Apply Paul Gurske, unemployment commission member, said' in Sa lem last night that In the state only 14 striking telephone work ers, all in Portland, had applied for Jobless benefits and that all were to be notified officially they are disqualified because they are on strike.. ' Salem union leaders emphasiz ed Friday there was no local move to apply for Jobless pay and that Job termination slips the Salem workers received are ex pected to be turned fat to state union neaaquarters. it was Inti mated that the state affiliate of national federation of telephone workers might bring charges against the PT&T under unfalr labor practices law (which for bids discharging workers because of strike activity). Pickets Withdrawn While 24-hour picketing of the Salem telephone building- con tinued, pickets were withdrawn vesterdav from th rnmnnnr shnn in West Salem. Union leaders said only four foremen made use of the shop and unless union obser vation detected other use of the West Salem building the pickets would remain off and Join the downtown picket roster. Day time picketing in Independence and Dallas'1 also continued yesterday. Headaches Prove Headache to City ; First Aid Crewmen When you're busy, think of the first aid crew. Called at 3:10 pjn. yesterday to 15th and Cross streets, where Darrel Sexton, route . 6, box 257 A, Salem, had been struck on the head by a falling rock, while working on a sewer, they admin istered first aid and were in formed of a second mishap at the sewer work site. Another falling object had struck Odis Williamson, box 1000, Salem, another workman, on the head. He was treated and advised to see a doctor. Proposal Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning, April 12. 1947 (St Lddd Merry-Go-Rounders at Richmond School s 1. Ifi ) LS Wheeee! Areand gees the Richmond school merry-ge-roand propelled by Its makers, the first graders in a pre-voe to last night's school carnivaL Fart ef first grade project In connection with art and readlne elasses the merrr-eo-round la mad n1 nMl In kAAl -k v k tt .i. ander the supervision at Mrs. ki a mm a aa . usscrsaii, janitor, onown nains ne gay car eosei u uiana Bacon, Dee Ann Cooper, Janet Chapel, Jndy Baker and Diana Hrabets. while Keith Barres and Dean MeCargar are twe of the boys doing the work, j (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) (Story page 1) Scout Circus Traffic Plan Set for Tonight Anticipating a large crowd for its annual Boy Scout circus at the state fairgrounds tonight the Sa lem Lions club yesterday mapped its traffic control plan with the aid of city and county traffic of ficers. Sheriff Denver Young,; head of the traffic committee, asked Sa lem residents to cooperate in the plan to avoid traffic tieups by using only the 18th street en trance to the fairgrounds. Lions members will aid city police and sheriffs deputies in directing traffic. Nearly 200 scouts from Dallas, Albany, Stayton and Mehama ar rived yesterday and last night at the fairgrounds and pitched tents for overnight camping before the circus program gets under way early today. Several , hundred scouts will parade through downtown Salem today, starting , from I Marion square at 11 a. m. Officials again called attention to the change in time, as the parade originally had been scheduled an hour; earlier. Musical units in the parade will be 'the Sweet Home scout band and the Parrish and Leslie junior high bands. Unions Defy No-Strike Law NEWARK, N. April iHflV Criminal and civil court; actions were started today in a 'test bv striking New Jersey Bell Tele phone company switchboard op erators of the constitutionality of this state's new anti-public utility strike legislation. At the same time 4,600 dial maintenance workers, members of an independent union which had returned to work when the legis lature passed an amendment U the law three days ago, received new instructions, from their union president, J. Ji Curtin, inot to cross picket lines of the 12,000 striking operators. Policeman Hit In Gun Battle TOLEDO, April 11 -()4 Police were searching the brush north of Siletz today for a 2S-year-old Indian who vanished after a gun battle in which a deputy ! sheriff was wounded. Sheriff Timoth Welp said he and Deputy Jack Waterman went to the home of Boyd Bensell yes terday to serve a warrant charg ing insanity. The sheriff said they were greeted with rifle fire, one shot wounding Deputy Waterman in the shoulder. When they returned after treat ing Waterman's "injury, Bensell was gone. He lives in the Siletz Indian settlement. Bounded 1651 1 155DU 1 T 'Lev aJ.W iil Carmen Jennlsen. first grade teacher, and with the aid af Walter t A Anti-Strike Law Complaint Topped By Harried Hubby C R A W F ORDSVILLE, InL, April 11 Hff5)- Indiana telephone operators, kept at work by a new state law barring strikes or lockouts in public utilities, have been telling patrons of their dissatisfaction. First they began by telling a caller "the Indiana public util ity law is unconstitutional" and then accepting the call.' Then they added: "I'm work ing against my will. A Crawfordsville man came up with an answer to this last one today when he told an operator: 'i "That's nothing. Tie been do ing that for 30 years." Salem Man Shot In Chinese Raid PFC Erie Ivan Jackson, son of Mrs. Marna Johnson of San Fran cisco, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Auman. 1495 Marion st., Salem, is reported as among the UJS. marines wounded bv Chinese communists near Tan ku, China recently. Young 'Jackson, 19 years old. attended Salem high school be fore moving to San Francisco, where he enlisted. The report did not tell the extent of his injuries. Bova Push Cabin Over Cliff ; to Repay Damages OREGON CITY. April 11 HPV Four boys who shoved a summer Lcabin over a cliff just for fun are $100 to pay for damages.- Judge E. I. Pope issued the or der despite the request of Oregon Iron & Steel company, owner of the cabin, not to make the young sters pay. Cherry Festival Plans Aired at Service Club Leaders' Meeting Representatives of 15 Salem organizations last night were en thusiastic over prospects for re viving the Salem cherry festival as a community project this sum mer. Formal organization of a festi val corporation is expected to take place April 24 or 25 after these and other local groups have taken up the festival matter with their membership. William C. Dyer, Jr., president of the Salem Cherrians, said the Cherrians, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Retail Trade bureau and Salem Saddle club already are definitely interested in the festival project. He enumerated among suggested festival projects displays of locally made products, public dances, water carnival, street concessions, parades and hobby shows. Tentative dates would, be July 17-18-19 to coincide With peak Price 5c ru h) LTL Solons Irate Over Wallace in LONDON, April, 1 1 -CSV Henr A. Wallace said tonight President Truman was embarking on a doc trine of "unconditional aid to anti soviet governments. The former vice president advocated a 10 year $50,000,000,000 world spend ing program as a substitute pre scription for peace." Wallace urged world control of atomic energy and weapons ' of destruction, internationalization of strategic areas including the Dar danelles, Suez canal and Panama canal and a movement toward national - disarmament and crea tion of a world security system as other elements of his plan for peace. On Capitol Bill WASHINGTON, April 11 -OP) Angry criticism of Henry A.Wal lace, touring critic of President Truman's $400,000,000 Greco Turkish aid program, arose on Capitol Hill today as ' the senate debated the bill without reaching a test vote. Senator Eastland (D-Miss) de clared that Wallace "has attempt ed to induce the friends and allies of his country to desert her" and thereby "force us to sail the peri lous seas alone." Sen. Pepper Defends When Eastland said Wallace had been invited to France by Jacques Duclos, leader of the French -communist party. Senator Pepper (D-Fla) interrupted to declare that other French lead ers also had Invited Wallace. Senator Lucas (D-Ill) told re porters: "I regret that Mr. Wallace has seen fit to go into England and France at this time and make the statements he has made j when this grave and serious question is :being debated." of tourist traffic and favorable weather. Dyer said. Mai B. Rudd. Retail Trade president; who con ceived the revival, also'" spoke. - Principal forerunners of a fes tival. Dyer asserted, are assured working support from member ships of some 50 Salem civic and social groups and the underwrit ing of festival finances by local businessmen's pledges. Groups represented last night in the chamber of commerce of fices were Active club, American Legion post 9 -and auxiliary, American , Veterans -committee, Salem Chamber of Commerce, Cherrians, Credit Women's club. Disabled American Veterans chap ter 6, Eagles lodge 2081, Engle- wood Women's club, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Reserve Officers association; Retail Trade bureau. Salem Heights Commu nity club. Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary 681 and Zonta International. Blast London no. 14 Ready for In House i WASHINGTON, April l-ijr-Tbe house labor committee ap proved tonight a far-reaching new bill to ., curb strikes - and th powers of unions generally. . The senate labor )mmittee at the same time adopted a . ban on the closed shop in the general measure it has under considera tion. Senator rTaft-.- R.-Ohio), committee chairman, announced the action after an all-day session in which .the members went through less than half of the tig; bill. . - - The house committee, put off until tomorrow morning a single, routine vote which will send it bill to the house floor -for action next week. It has approved the bill section by section, however, including a provision to cope with strikes af fecting the welfare of the entir luuon. Oatlaws Closed Short The measure would outlaw the closed shop and, with some ex ceptions, ban bargaining on art Industry-wide basis. It woull permit the union shop If boll employers and employes want it. ; The closed shop requires a company to hire only union workers. The union shop lets it hire anyone it pleases, but the new employe must join the unicti shortly afterward. Chairman Hartley f (R.-NJ.) told reporters the bill would "break unions down to1 a com pany level. . v Baose BD1 Stiffer ' s - i Far stiff er than a tabor bill now under consideration by the senate labor committee, the . house measure lists a whole new set of labor,, practices that wouM be branded "unfair" practices, of both employers and employes. Here is the score on the princi pal provisions of the two bill. Question marks indicate provi sions not yet reached by the sen ate committee. Bn industry-wid Utki: Hou enve; irutt ?. yj? iamiX hoB: He yw: senate Permit union shop: Koum ; Mn t . Ban forrmea bargaintns: Koum' vh: Senate Mmr. Ban jurisdictional atrikxa: Houac jr: M-nat ?, Change NLRB setup: Haute ye; sen- tU yea. Liat union "unfair" practice: Bona yw: aenat yea. ' oram employers tree speech: yes: senate qualify lied. Posterity to Get Case of Dirt UMATILLA, Ore, April 1 l-;pl The first spadeful of earth turn ed over in- construction of Mc Nary dam will be. preserved for a historical display. Mrs. Cornelia M. McNitt, widow of Sen. Charles L. McNarr. for whom the dam is named, will do the official ground-breaking with an aluminum shovel. The dirt will be placed in a suitably en graved aluminum path Then shovel, pail and dirt will go into a safe, to remain there, until McNary dam is dedicated. They then will be placed in a display case to be incorporated in Mie uam. Debate Drain Man to Head Stayton Schools STAYTON, April 11 Albert T. Arnold has been named superin tendent of schools to succeed George W. Ayres, who resigned recently. Arnold will move here as soon as a residence is available. He has been superintendent at Drain for the last five years, and formerly taught in SUverton and r Amity. Bertha- McDaniei, mathe matics teacher in Stayton hih school, went to school to him when he taught seventh grade in Silverton and Mrs, Kenneth Far well of Stayton went to school to Arnold when he taught in Amity. Lucille Rusk to Rule Gervais Fete' s GERVAIS,' April 11 Lucille Rush' has been chosen high school May queen and Clara Manning, maid of honor. Members -of the court: are Martha DuRette, Doro thy Hampton, Amy Lou Espe, Betty Sue Johnson. Mary Jane Hall and Shirley Klenskl. . Wallace Johnson is business manager of the affair which will be held May 9. Loy Cramer 'wiE ha assistant xnanr " r