West Salem pimcMBr
Labor Scene Bright
For Smooth Harvest
-We a t h e r A 1 Id wi n g
Br Conrad Prange
. . SUM Writer, The SUtecman -
Doubled farm . labor supply, an earlier growing season and
controlled migrant-worker availability forecast the smoothest crop
harvesting season in Marion county since 1941.. The Salem farm
labor cilice indicated Monday. S
For the first time since before the war, Salem area farm work
er supply is meeting the demand, said Mrs. Gladys Turnbull, farm
(ft?
STOCKS
Announcement was made Sat
urday that the plan of reorgani
zation for Portland Electric Pow
er Co, had failed to receive the
necessary two-thirds vote by
bondholders. It did receive a
majority vote from them and from
the prior preference and first pre
ferred stockholders. The plan had
been worked out by the trustees,
Tom Delzell and R. L. Clark, and
bad been approved both by the
SEC and by Judge Fee who has
jurisdiction In this bankruptcy
proceeding. That it should fail
now is a genuine disappointment
to those who have hoped for a
termination of the case, which has
beeoAin the court for over eight
years.? - . "
The (plan contemplated .paying
bondholders part of their claim
in cash and part in common stock
cf the Portland General Electric
Co, now the only operating sub
sidiary; and exchanging shares of
common stock to holders of prior
preference and first preferred
stocks in the ratio of six and one
third shares to the former and
ter. The oH second preferred and
- ta ,;rH
common would De wipea out.
"When consummated the Portland
Electric Power Co. would be dis
solved, leaving the-Portland General-Electric
an independent ope
rarang company.
Most of the dissent from bond
holders came, it is reported, from
Boston and New York. One has
a suspicion that the adverse vote
-was prompted by a desire to put
harder squeeze - on the stock
holders. When one considers the
fact that for years the bonds were
kicking around at 12 or 15c on the
dollar and that now the plan en
deavors to meet the demand for
principal and interest in full the
outsider is apt -
(Continued on editorial page)
25 Infants Die
As Medics Gain
Against Illness
PHILADELPHIA, May 5 -VP)
Twenty-five babies have died
since March 1 of a mysterious
form of diarrhea for which doc
tors say there is no known, cure.
Twenty of the deaths were
blamed on an outbreak at Allen
town, Pa., while five others occur
red at Samerville, Pa.-
- At Temple university hospital
here, where 13 sufferers from
X astro-en ten tis have been brought
from Allentowm a spokesman said
special staff of doctors and
nurses working in a- carefully
isolated ward apparently are mak
ing progress in their battle.'
PORTLAND, Ore, May 5 -(JP)
Fourteen infants are under treat
ment for epidemic diarrhea at the
city isolation hospital here, the
city health department reported
today. Theepartment reported
several youngsters had been suc
cessfully treated and dismissed.
San Francisco to Vote
On Keeping Cable Car
SAN FRANCISCO. May S-OPi-Whetber
San Francisco's historic
cable 'cars will be junked or kept
in service fwHl be decided by the
voters;
The board of supervisors decid
ed late today to put a charter
amendment dealing withHhe cable
cars on the November ballot.
Animal Crackers
. By WARREN GOODRICH '
"Stop mauling me you .
yoa . . raf."
U$ Chief Su 9rbc f-
i labor assistant. Last month the
office placed 4.259 workers as
compared with 2,228 in April,
1946. That early seasonal crop
work Is advanced by three weeks
over last year is indicated by the
fact that 233 farmer work-orders
were filled during February and
March as against only 143 in the
same time a year ago. .
Demand for Women Falls
Over half the current farm
workers are being used in the bop
fields for hoeing and training.
The remainder are in strawberry
and other be fry cultivation, mint 1
larm clean-up work.
The bulk of the labor increase
is made up of men in real need
of employment, Mrs. Turnbull
said, 'plus college students and
part-time workers. Supply - of
women workers is level with last
year, but farmer demand for them
has decreased as male help be
came more plentiful. Demand for
student labor also has fallen off,
she said.
Migrants Moves Controlled
At least 85 per cent of the work
ers placed by the office are local
people, -Mrs. Turnbull said, and
the rest migrants. Migrant work
er supply will be on a controlled
system this year, thanks to. a
coast-wide availability plan work
ed out last winter, she stated.
Sixteen lnformr tion centers
have been established in Oregon,
Washington, Arizona, Idaho. Ne
vada, Utah and California to chan
nel migrants into areas needing
them at the proper times. The
Salem office will determine the
migrant need here for any given
period and send the information
J emergency farm la-
bor , headquarters in Corvalhs.
From there the information finds
its way into the scattered infor
mation centers which pass it on
to migrants.
Piatt to Lower Losses r : : V
This plan, Mrs. Turnbull be
lieves, will insure a stable, pre
dictable migrant worker reserve
which can, be tapped ', whenever
needed, important result : to the
local . food industries, she said,
will be to provide a steady flow
of food harvests to local, fruit and
vegetable packers, eliminating a
lot of waste and financial losses.
Such a plan, she pointed out, is
setup to avoid situations like last
years local cherry harvest mix-
up, when : hundreds of migrant
workers were in Salem Just be
fore and immediately after cherry
picking but none during the har
vest, t
A serious weather change could
nullify this season's early start.
she said, 1 with the exception of
strawberries, which will ripen and
hit the market early regardless.
State Demands
Fire Permits
-Any burning operation in an
uregon , xorest - area requires a
state permit, beginning today, fol
lowing issuance of a proclamation
Monday by Acting Gov. Marshall
E. Cornett.
Permits are to be Issued by fire
wardens or rangers under the
ban which followed the state for
estry department's report' that
dangerous fire conditions exist in
many sections.
The state order also requires
logging operators to install spark
arresters, keep fire fighting tools
on hand, provide watchman ser
vice and take other precautions
prescribed by the state forest code.
i . w
Meters Collect
81,607 in Week
Police Chief Frank A. Minto's
report, on the second week's park
ing meter coin collection shows
$1,607.10, Including $9.10 in dimes.
added to the first week's collect
tion of $682.10.
The 91 dimes included in last
Friday's pickup show need for a
reminder that the meters are maae
to acccept nickels and pennies
vi ii j una uiai lutcni piece
gives the meter-user only 12 mm
utes parKing tune, as would a
penny.- -
The collection consisted of $524
in pennies, $1,074 in nickels, the
dimes and. 74 slugs.
In-Again, Out-Again; Youth,' 15,
Missing from Lane County Jail
EUGENE, Ore.,
the second time
May 5.-(fl-For
in less than a
month 15-year-old Herbert Hig
gins' has escaped from the Lane
county jail. -
The first time was on the night
of April 27 when Higgins drew a
pistol and held six officers at gun
point until he made his escape in
a stolen automobile. State police
caught him and brought him back
the same day. .
This time about 6 p. m. Mon
day, he merely walked out when
NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR
$25,000
m by
2 Gunmen
OAKLAND. Ore, May 5.-UP-
Two silent gunmen lined employ
es and customers against a wall
and escaped with . an estimated
$25,000 to $35,000 from tfte E. G.
Young & Co. bank here today.
Police search for the pair cen
tered in the upper Willamette
valley, north of here.; They fled
in that direction and two hours
after; the holdup an automobile
resembling the one in which they
escaped was found three -, miles
north of here. . '
Two i customers were in the
bank when the pair entered. One
flourished a pistol. The , otfter
wore a revolver western style in a
hip holster.' Using hand signals,
they ordered those in the bank to
face a rear wall. Then they in
dicated to Cashier E. G. Young
that they ,wanted money. They
stuffed currency and coins, into a
black. bag.
State police booked exits to the
town, a center of the turkey in
dustry, population about 500. The
FBI was called in because the
bank is a member of the federal
reserve system. a r
One man was described as be
ing 35 years old, medium stature,
dark complexioned. He wore a
mask. The other was about 30
years old, slightly taller than his
companion. He had black hair,
long curls and prominent side
burns. He was- very slender.
State police said they believed
the fugitives had acquired a brown
Chevrolet sedan after abandoning
the escape car. :
U. S. Aid Seen
For Non-Red
French Regime
Fp aIr I May S.VAhigh
ranking , American official source
said tonight that the United States
was preparing for possible increa
sed aid to the ' tattered French
economy provided Premier Paul
Ramadier can hold together his
new non-communist coalition gov
ernment. . - -
This statement was made after
a French cabinet minister assert
ed that President Truman's pro
gram for aiding democracies un
der threat of communist domina
tion had prompted Ramadier - to
oust the five French communists
in the cabinet.
.The American source said that
top officials in the United States
embassy were drawing up a de
tailed report on what sort of as
sistance the French regime will
need and how much could be ex
pected from the United States.
. (At "Washington, a state depart
ment spokesman said it had no
information on. the reports from
Paris and no comment on them.)
French officials said their im
mediate need was for wheat to
mainatin the current daily bread
ration of 250 grams. , .
PARIS. Tuesday, May t.-UPh
The , socialist federation of the
Seine department, made up 'of
Paris and its suburbs, condemned
today by a vote of 7,367 to 3,814
the new policy of the French so
cialist party and ' demanded the
resignation of Premier Paul Ram
adier, a socialist
Prisoner Admits
San Quentin Break
SAN QUENTIN. Calif., May S
CPH-Warden Clinton Duffy of San
Quentin prison was informed to
day by Sheriff Guy Hickman of
Polk county,, Arkansas, that a man
under arrest there has identified
himself as Alfred Paine, who es
caped March 29 from San Quen
tin, where he was serving a life
term for murder.
Paine and Norman Jacklin, Los
Angeles robber, escaped the pris
on together. Jacklin was captured
March 31 after a gun battle with
police of ' Klamath Falls, Ore.,
during which his companion, be
lieved to have been Paine, made
his escape.
one of the guards left his cell door
open.' .;
Higgins, a Goshen youth, was
awaiting grand jury hearings on
three charges; stealing an auto
mobile, escape , from arrest and
carrying a concealed weapon. -He
admitted to city police last
April 30, five recent Eugene bur
glaries including the looting of the
Montgomery-Ward store of over
$8,000 in merchandise and jewel
ry on April 24. City police recov
ered the loot and stuck Higgins
back in the county jail. - '
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Convicts
Sought in
Mid-East
NEW YORK, May 5-GTV-The
United Nations assembly by over
whelming majorities late today
denied the privilege of its floor
to the Jewish agency for Pales
tine but ordered its key political
committee to give the agency a
hearing.
The special Palestine assembly
climaxed four days of -wrangling
on Jewish : representation with
those decisions. - ' -
Lester B. Pearson, of Canada,
chairman of the political commit
tee, immediately called his group
to meet tomorrow at Lake Success
to begin actual work on setting up
a committee of inquiry on Pales
tine. Arabs Ask Hearing
Simultaneously, the Arab high
er committee officially requested
permission to speak for the Arabs
of Palestine.
JERUSALEM, May 5-P)-Pal-estine
police manned gun-bristling
road blocks tonight all the way
from Acre eastward to the green
plains where the river Jordan
flows, in search of more than 180
convicts reported still at large
from explosion - shattered Acre
prison.
British soldiers were withdrawn
at nightfall from the gigantic
man-hunt, covering the northern
third of the holy land, after their
day-long dragnet had, failed to
trap more than a handful of the
fugitives.
However, police armored pa
trols and horsemen continued to
comb highways and towns in the
vicinity , of Acre, Nazareth and
Galilee. ti
Underground Claims Job - -
Sixteen persons were killed dur
ing or in connection with the 'at
tack, British announcements said.
Indications were that 216 pris
oners 33 Jews and the remainder
Arabs fled through a six-foot
hole torn in the wall.
Irgun Vzai Leumi, Jewish un
derground ' organization, claimed
responsibility for the attack, in a
broadside, over, its secret radio
station. '
Youth Admits
Theft of $151
A 14-year-old Mt Angel boy
admitted to sheriffs deputies the
theft ot $151 in cancer drive
funds from the Mt Angel lumber
yard office over the weekend, it
was announced Monday night by
Denver Young,- Marion county
sheriff.
Deputies arrested the boy in Mt.
Angel in the early evening, and
he was being held for county ju
venile authorities. Sheriff Young
said .the boy had spent some of
the money tor fishing tackle and
hidden the remainder underneath
the farmers union building and in
the depot rest room at Mt Angel.
The boy had forced a back door
lock to enter the rear of the
office building, it was reported.
Meanwhile, the sheriffs office
continued investigation of theft of
about $250 worth of household
furnishings from an unoccupied
house : on the Stayton road five
miles south of Silverton. The
house is owned by Elsie Patton,
Silverton.
Ships Search Sea
For Lost Airliner
VANCOUVER, B. C, May S(JF)
The sun-swept waters of the Gulf
of Georgia, close off Gabriola is
land, today were the ' center of
a widespread sea search for the
missing Trans-Canada Airlines
transport and its 15 passengers
and crew ' members, now missing
seven days.
" The 'frigate HJiI.CS. Antfgon
ish is using anti-submarine gear.
Other searchers combed the beach
of the island-spotted sea.
RED CROSS FUND 'OVER TOP
-WASHING TON, May 5-)
The American Red Cross an
nounced today that its 1947 fund
appeal for $60,000,000 has been
oversubscribed by 25.5 per cent,
a total of $75,322,700 having been
donated.
Weather '
Max.
Mln. Preetp.
41 .M
45 jOO
,46 . J00 i
41 J60
Salem
Portland
San Francisco .
Chicago
SI
79 .
S3
M
Mew York
90
Willamette river 3 feet
FORECAST (from US. weather bu
reau, McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today and tonight with cooler
daytime temperatures. Highest today
70. Lowest tonight 45. Agricultural out
look: Weather becoming unsettled but
favorable conditions for dusting and
spraying will continue through today.
POUNDBD 1651
Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning., May 6, 1947
: i
Stassen Flays 6 Negative9
Approach to Greek A id
WASHINGTON, May 5-()-Harold E. Stasyen criticized Presi
dent Truman's program for Greece and Turkey today as "negative"
and declared that this country should "develop a positive, construc-
Specifically, he declared that "we should not finance, arm or
advise an all-out military offensive" against the communist-led
guerillas in Greece. but should try
instead to win them over through
an economic program which
would bring prosperity.
The republican presidential as
pirant told a news conference,
however, that he is supporting the
senate-approved version of the
president's $400,000,000 Greek
Turkish aid program largely "be
cause it is a matter of bipartisan
foreign policy." ' -
Stassen also assigned to Mr.
Truman a share of the blame for
the failure of the Moscow confer
ence of foreign ministers to ar
rive at any settlement of German
and Austrian peace terms on the
ground that at Potsdam the big
three spoke only of reparations
in "vague terms", without giving
"the slightest indication" of how
these terms were to be inter
preted. Two Hopyard
Workers Die
In Boat Upset
INDEPENDENCE, May 5 Two
young hopyard workers drowned
Sunday afternoon when a small
boat in which they were riding
upset in the river, backwaters of
Haden slough near camp 3 of the
Clement Horst bap ranch 2&
miles north of here.
The dead are Davis Antone
Blackwell, jr., 12, son of Mr. and
Mrs.' David A. Blackwell, and
James Cockrum, 20, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Omlie M. Cockrum.
The bodies were recovered
about a half hour; after the acci
dent. Resuscitationwas attempt
ed by Dr. C. A Fratzke. The
Blackwell boy's father was only
other occupant of tthe boat when
the accident occurred.
' Both victims were members of
families working on the ranch in
recent weeks.
Funeral services: for Cockrum
are set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the
Walter L. Smith mortuary here.
Burial will be in Twin Falls,
Idaho; where the Cockrums lived
before coming here two months
ago. A native of Oologah, Okla.,
the deceased leaves the parents
and "three sisters, Rosalie, Fay and
Mrs. J. L. McBride.
The Smith mortuary will an
nounce funeral arrangements for
Blackwell later. i
GOVERNOR CONFAB' iTODAY
SEATTLE, May ! 5-F)-Ten . of
the 11 western states will be rep
resented at a governors' confer
ence here Wednesday to discuss
reclamation budget ruts and the
governor of the jllth had ex
pressed himself as "in full ac
cord" with the objective of the
meeting.
Housed Furnishings Co
A Salem elty fireman Is shewn swinging his axe mm the reef of the
Chester Callahan house, 1172 Seventh st. West Salem, which was
virtually destroyed by flames Monday morning. Nobody was In
the house when the fire started, and the blase was well under
way when firemen were called by a neighbor. The fire was pre
vented from spreading te adjacent bouses. (Statesman pheto.)
nchises f
!
Senate Slashes
Labor and FSA
By 100 Million
WASHINGTON. May 5-;p)
With an economy coalition in con
trol, the senate tonight passed a
labor department-federal security
agency appropriation totalling
$1,676,198.080 or about $100,000,
000 less than President Truman
The bill, which is $8,388,000 less
than the house voted, now goes
to a senate-houi-e conference com
mittee where differences will be
ironed out.
Iloase Group Cots Budgets
A little earlier in the day, the
house appropriations committee
whacked $162,893,515. or 23 per
cent, off the President's budget for
the state, commerce and justice
departments and the federal
courts.
More than 90 per cent of the
total in the senate bill is made
up of benefit payments and grants
to the states for such purposes as
railroad retirement, old age as
sistance, aid to children and the
blind, unemployment compensa
tion and vocational rehabilitation,
Marshall Pleads for 'Voice'
The house appropriations com
mittee decreed a 22 per cent re
duction for the state department,
including complete elimination! of
the "Voice of America" broadcasts
and all other parts of the depart
ment's foreign cultural relations
program.
Acting quickly. Secretary ! of
State Marshall and Walter Bedell
Smith, U.S. ambassador to Rus
sia, joined in personal pleas; to
more than a score of congressional
leaders of both parties to keep the
"Voice of America' 'speaking, par
ticularly to soviet Russia.
The committee made the fol
lowing other cuts: 33 per cent for
the commerce department, 2.7 per
cent for the justice department
and about 20 per cent for the fed
eral judiciary.
iiiROiirro says thanks
TOKYO, Tuesday, May 6.-P)-Tired
little Emperor Hirohito,
who won back his flag while los
ing his political powers, paid his
fourth call on General MacArth
ur today reDortedly to express
thanks for both developments.
VIENNA STRIKE DELAYED
VIENNA, Austria, May 5-UP)-A
threatened general strike of Vien
na workers in protest against food
shortages was postponed tonight
by the executive committee of the
federation, of trade unions.
or Merger- Move
Price
Strikers
Settle in
5 States
1
By the Amociated 'Press
Settlement of the telephone
strike in five midwest states with
17.500 northwestern Bell Tele
phone Co. employes getting an
average $3.60 weekly raise was
announced late Monday night by
Gov. Luther W. Youngdahl . of
Minnesota. , ' .
In " Washington the5 American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
boosted slightly its wage offer to
striking long distance operators,
but the operators'- union represen
tatives rejected it.
Gov. Youngdahl said the North
western Bell employes would re
turn to their jobs in Minnesota.
Iowa, Nebraska, North and South
Dakota at 7 a. m. (CST) Tuesday.
Agreement Today Possible
Federal conciliators at Wash
ington said the top pay increase
proposed by A. T. & T. still was
$4 a week, which a union official
said was not good enough.
The conciliators declared "some
satisfactory progress" had been
made in the four-hour night ses
sion and added that a settlement
Tuesday was "quite possible."
Meanwhile, members of some
unions which settled their differ
ences Independently were report-
ed returning to work, ,
Chicago Milk Cot; . -u
In other labor developments
throughout the nation, , a dairy
workers walkout cut off most of
Chicago's milk supply; negotia
tions began between the CIO
United Auto Workers and the
Ford Motor Co.; a strike closed
the Hudson Motor Car Co. In De
troit, and the UAW rejected wage
offers made by the Budd Co.,
Philadelphia auto and .train body
makers.-
Court Convicts
Nazi Marshal
VENICE, May 6P-A five
man British military court today
convicted Field Marshal Albert
Kesselring, former supreme Ger
man commander in Italy, of two
counts of war crimes against the
Italian people." ; ' i
Although invited by Judge Ad
vocate C L. Stirling to plead for
clemency, Kesselring's counsel. Dr.
Hans Laternser, refused to do so.
He said Kesselring had defend
ed "the ideas for which he stood,
not hfs person. He expressly ask
ed me not to address the court
any further.", , . -
Kesselring, who was command
er of ' all German forces on the
western front for a time In 1340
before taking command - in the
south, went on trial Feb. 17, ac
cused of having ordered the re
prisal killings of more than 1.000
Italians, including school children
and 2-year-old babies.
Up in Smoke
. WEST SALEM, May 5 The
t .ouse and all personal belongings
of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Callahan
and . E. B. Callahan were de
stroyed by fire Monday morning
at 1173 Seventh st here. 4
The Callahans, who were In
Dallas when the blaze broke out,
estimated their loss at $7000. The
blaze apparently started about
9:30 a jn. in the kitchen, where
there was a fire in the stove.
An attached garage also was
destroyed, although the Callahan
car was not in it at the time of
the fire. J. M. Franz, a neighbor,
discovered the fire after it had
a good start. i
. Salem's fire department sent
two trucks to the fire, employing
a pumper for about IS minutes
until the nearest hydrant could
be located. 1 ,
Among property lost was $400
worth of police equipment, in
cluding hand weapons. E. B. Cal
lahan is a member of the West
Salem police force, and his son,
Chester, was on the force until
he recently became associated
with the State Farm Insurance Co.
Daiibiiry Jail
Under Strike
DANBURY, Conn, May SA
A hunger and work strike is un
derway at the federal correction
al institution here, a prison offi
cial said tonight, adding that no
further details could be made
available at this time.' . - .
About 500 inmates are confirm
ed in the institution. James V.
Bennett, director of the federal
bureau of prisons, said the prison
ers were ."protestmi food."
(Story in Column 8)
5c
No. 34
By Marguerite Gleesen
Valley News Idltor, Tie Statesman
WEST SALEM, May 54-In
uciDauon ox an earrr vat ui
the proposed merger with Salem,
West Salem city councilmen to
night laid plans for extension f
all existing city franchises to the
maximum of 20 years and passed
for first and second reading an
ordinance granting the maximum
term to Salem Electric company.
Other franchises mentioned
were those of West Salem Bus
line. West Salem taxi and Sani
tary Disposal company. - 1
The booster pump ' to be used
in connection with! the emergency
water supply from Salem; was di
rected by the West Salem city
council to be powered by Salem
Electric Company power. The
pump is located on the Salem
side of the bridge and Salem
Electric power is available, mem
bers stated. f
Hydrant Ordered I
. . . :f '
Taking notice of the distance
from a fire hydrant which hind
ered fighting of the early mominf
fire today, the council ordered
installation of a hydrant at Sev
enth and Patterson streets. . C S.
Edwards, manager of the: Flan
Textile company, said the com
pany would furnish 200 feet ct
hose and build a hose house to
house the hydrant.
First meeting of the city bud
get board was set for May 19 and
new members named. The com
mittee includes O. C. Brown, Ro
bert Forester, Jack Watson. Har
old Reinwald, Phil Kerber, Verne
Axelson and Robert .Covert,
Request of the West Salem Li
ons club , to use the tity - hall for
its, twice-monthly" meetings wa
granted with the condition that
the club do its own "pdKcin.
Consideration of providing funds
for participation in the; Saiem
school district summer' play
eroutid oroieet was reauested fcr
West Salem Lions club.
Old Hall Use Slated
Vacation of the old city hall
because of the city's need of stor
age room was voted. It has been
used recently by the Gra-Y beys.
Councilman W. C HeUe. , city
property committee , chairman.
iwas directed to inventory1, stored
city property. 1 -
Purchase of a short wave radio
for the police station was ordered
upon report of Dr. A. F. Goff
rier, of the police committee, that
the privately owned set previous
ly used was not available.
, W. L. Huckabay, city building
inspector, has directed owners of
th liinlr varri that in- the
building upon the property bad.
been built without a permit, it
must be removed. 1 ,
Request for additional land cm
either side of the railway right-of-way.
was . made by the city
along second from Kingwood to
Edgewater. Julian Hague was
granted permission to remove two
locust trees on his property.
Street Name Talked
j - A request from the Salem post-'
office that a 150-foot street, Lin
coln, be renamed because the
name is used for a Salem: street,
was referred to the street commit
tee. Request that this street be
named Van was made by the Van
company which. It was stated, oc
cupied the entire .length of the
street. . !
Request for permission to hold
a series of Bible meetings in the
city hall in June was tabled.
The water fund of the city is
overdrawn by $4,553.98, jit was
shown in the cityaudit report for
the first three . quarters of . the
year as given Jayv Al Lamb, city
auditor. Report of .Robert E. Pat
tison, city recorder and clerk of
the water board, showed gran
collections for the water depart
ment of $5,676.60 .and a total of
$413.50 in fines, collected, j
Disease-Free O vstew
Planted Along Coast .
PORTLAND, Ore., May! 5-
Planting of a new type of dis
ease free Jaoanese oysters in Ore
son waters has been completed by
th Oregon state fish commission.
The seeds were olanted in Til
lamook; Yaquina, Winchester and
Coos bays.
BRITAIN TO OWN TRANSPORT
.LONDON, May 5 The la
bor majority in the house of com
mons adopted tonight a bill to
bring under government owner
ship all forms of Britain's inland
transportation, including railroads
and bus and truck lines, despite
a threat that the conservatives
would repeal the measure if they
ever regained power.
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