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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1947)
V . . JML . X JML . JU KINETY-SEVENTH YEAH 10 S933JJQS roe mora The papers have told of the coming ol Avak .Hagopian from far-off Syrai, or Lebanon, by air from Cairo to attempt to cure by divine healing of the son of ' wealthy Armenian, a wine mer chant in California. "Avak the Great" he is called, in his native country, where his reputation , as a healer is widespread.. "Trust in God and in me. You will be well," he said to Vaughn Arakelian who for 27 years has suffered from paralytic convulsions. Another healing quack, one may say; and so he may be. But did you see bis picture in the papers? If you did, were you not struck with a resemblance? The oval, benign face, the long flowing locks of hair, the thin beard ... doesnt be look like - - ? And the cloak, like one of Bible times, did it not quicken the likeness? , Once before, a long time ago, another Healer emerged from ob scurity in that region of the globe. His power came from God, too, co it was said. To Him came the lame, the halt and the blind seek ing cure. Books that have sur vived tell how people pressed about him Just to touch his gar ment. And at the mansion in Califor nia caravans of afflicted have come hoping that Avak the Great may work Jor them a miraculous cure. . This Avak does not claim to found a new religion. He is an Armenian Christian, so he says, of the Gregorian sect, which has an old, faraway sound. One may be a decided skeptic about this business of divine healing; but as he studies the picture of Avak the word of scoffing dies on the Hps. There is great healing power in mental suggestion, but whether it is ef fective in such a strange disease as epilepsy which seems to be the young man's ailment X cannot say. -But if Avak fails one must hesi tate to say "1 told you so. That picture . ... no, of course it could not be ... . fMig' Tourney Slated Today Any boy from 6 to 15 yean of age who can knuckle down to aim his shooter at marbles Is urged by John Gardner, director, to be at Leslie field today at 2 p. m. for the Salem Lions club city marble tournament. No entry fee Is required. .. , : Wieners and runnert-up in each of two divisions, 6 to 12 and 13 to 15 years inclusive, will be given a trip .to Portland to compete in the state tourney and a free ban quet at the state meet. Stale prises are a bicycle and trophies. ' Contest judges are Robert Brady. Bruce Van -Wyngarden and Gardner, of the Salem Lions club. Sugar Stamp Date May Be Moved Up WASHINGTON, May fc9 -UP) The next sugar ration stamp may become good earlier than July 1, the originally scheduled date. Cuban sugar is piling up in east ern seaboard refining centers and the government may change the effective date of the 10-pound stamp to expedite buying of the commodity, agriculture depart ment officials said.- Animal Crackers BVWAJNGOOD0CH 'Lf move someplace where there a little more shade? V : PAGES 0,000 TwYheyM $'65,Q0 i V n. 4uk L-. fire which destroyed the North Salem Turkey hatchery Friday left standing only the heavy firewalls; ne ef which looms charred In the top picture above. .Leonard's Sapper club building, showing " at leftH was undamaged, as were other adjacent buildings. At lower left a section of hatching trays shows in the debris which included 80,000 turkey eggs. At right, three city firemen fighting the fire are (left to rifht) James Hall, Walter Bromley and Walter Lake. (Statesman photos by Dm Dill, staff photographer.) v , Apartment Also Razed in Mid-Morning Blaze Br Robert E. Gang-ware . City Editor, The Statesman - - Eighty thousand turkey eggs in various states of incubation went up in smoke Friday when the North Salem Turkey hatchery at 3085 Portland rd. burned to the ground two hours duration. ! . . " v- : : Owner Glenn F. Powers and Operator Donald A. Heinz estimated their combined losses at $65,000, of which $20,000 worth of eggs was fully covered and the remainder in building and equipment invest ment partly covered by insurance. In addition, loss of all personal belongings of Mrs.- Naomi Hale who occupied the lone apartment in the building, was estimated at $2000 with no insurance cover age. - ' -i The building's two firewalls and speedy work by Salem fire men kept the 10:45 a.m. , blaze from spreading to adjacent frame buildings, . including the .former Leonard's Supper club and ; the William Sumner - garage, the B. B. Sne! grove used car office and H. D. Gordon's Oregon Sales Co; office. .: r ,v-v; J Foreman Discovers Fire Hatchery Foreman Ralph Hollis discovered the fire in an interior hatching room wall as he brought a load of - new eggs into the building. Jle emptied a hand fire extinguisher into the blaze before it burst out of control. Mean while, employe Louise Gibbons and neighbor Gordon notified the fire department and tenant Mrs. Hale and her daughter, Heinz wife, fled the burning building. Operator Heinz, in bed with in fluenza this week, was not at the scene of the fire. I Gordon and Snelgrove hastily removed 20 vehicles from the used car lot and the Virgil Wilson family took its furniture out cf an apartment in the office build ing just north of the hatchery. Origin of the fire was unknown. Firemen, including rnany .off duty men who rushed to the scene, had all - four trucks from central fire station and a pump er from the north station. - j Chief Almost injured : Fire Chief W. P.-Roble narrow ly escaped injury when falling cornice of the hatchery building grazed his leg. Fireman Walter Edwards incurred an arm burn. When a telephone pole crossbar burned off, live wires added dan ger to the fire fighting and elec tric service was interrupted up to an hour in some parts of north Salem. Powers said last night he would POUNDBO 1651 Salem. Oregon. Saturday Morning, s Salemni EHI Y t in a furious blaze of less than plan to rebuild a hatchery, prob ably at a different location.- He established . the hatchery "in 1937 and leased its operation to Heinz four years ago. - Loss in the fire was heightened by the fact that most incubating stock represented 'breeder stock for turkey gowers of this area, instead of future poult shipments out of the area, ' One grower, William McDaniel of Dallas, was lucky in having claimed his 1600 poults about 10 minutes , before the fire broke out. Appraisal Due in Keizer District Survey and appraisal of proper ties involved In right-of-way for Cummings lane, in the Keizer dis trict, for which county road status has been requested, was ordered Friday .by the Marion county court, following a public" hearing. Report of the study will be made Wednesday. Assumption of the road, extend ing west from North River road, is sought in a petition by 24 persons out of 31 owning property , along the road. Twenty-seven have signed deeds relinquishing .right-of-way- if- the road is taken over, while the other four remonstrated against such a change. : : ' :,y. .. ; ; Taxi Stand to Replace ) Four Parking Meters - Hoods will be placed over four parking meters in the 200 -block of North High street to allow taxi stands until a permanent arrange ment can be made, City Manager J. L. Franzen stated Friday after a conference with taxi company officials. No permanent decision for either taxi or bus terminals has been . made. May 10. 1947 Mum ire Fire -.r r 1 if i ! Indian Agency Faces Closure All employes of the Grand Ronde-SHetz Indian agency, here and at the reservation, have been placed on terminal leave status this week upon orders from the bureau of Indian affairs, Earl Wooldridge, agency superintend ent, said Friday, . v. No office held or reservation supervision remains, said -Wooldridge,' although some of the six employes are remaining on duty to clean up final details. Final disposition of the agency is uncertain, pending develop ments in congress relative to funds budgeted -.for . the interior department, under which the In dian service operates. , ' Meter-Tamporing Charge Levelled ; Jack L. Evans of 1144 Madison si, is the first person to be ar rested by Salem police on charges of tampering with a parking me ter. Evans was released Friday afternoon upon posting $10 bail Chief of Police Frank A. Minto stated that patrolmen have been alerted' especially - for - such of fenses and that violators will be prosecuted. Maximum penalty for tampering with meters is $500 fine and a 80-day jail sentence. atcEleiry Judge Criticizes Laraine Day, But Allows Divorce to Stand LOS ANGELES, May 9 -(P) Validity of Actress Laraine Day's divorce from' J.l Ray Hendricks was : upheld today in .superior court. At a result, - her, marriage to fiery baseballer Leo Durocher will remain unrecognized in Cali fornia, and - she will not be con sidered ' divorced from Hendricks until end of the Interlocutory period next January. Superior Judge In gall W. Bull, ruling against a colleague, made it plain that he was ' not . passing on the legality of Miss Day's sec ond divorce from Hendricks, ob tained last January 21 in Juarez, Mex., or upon her relationship with Durocher, but he commented that he considered the Mexican decree "a nullity." 1 "The conduct of the parties in No. 38 Senators Back July Tax Slash WASHINGTON. May 8 -UP) The senate finance committee vot ed today to cut income taxes by 10.5 to 30 per cent next July 1. Over a full year's operation. committee experts estimated, the bell would save individual tax payers $4,000,000,0001 They would reap only half of that" saving, however, in the last half of 1947. The smallest taxpayers will get the biggest percentage reductions if the bill clears the senate, gets the, approval of the house and President Truman, -and goes on the law books. "New withholding rates would take effect July 1. The bill approved by the sen ate committee is an amended ver sion of house bill No. 1, intro duced by Chairman Knutson (R- Minn.) of the ways and means committee, and passed by the house. . The mosj important change is the effective date. Here is the schedule of reductions aproved by the senators: 30 per cent off for persons with net Incomes (after exemptions and deductions) of $51,000 or less. From 30 to 20 per cent off on Incomes between $1,000 and $1, 396. . ' :20 per cent reduction from $1, 396 to $79,728. 15 per cent reduction from $79, 728 to $302,396. 10.5 , per cent off above. $302, 396. The 15 per cent bracket was an innovation of the senate com mittee. The house bill carries the 20 per cent cut bracket straight through from $1,396 to $302,396. . - ? r-y - : -' Board Outlines New Zones for School District Rezoning of Marion county's non-high school district was com pleted Friday by the county boundary board. Members of the boundary board are County Judge Grant Murphy, and County Com missioners Ray Roberts and Ed Rogers. Mrs. Agnes Booth, coun- ty school superintendent, is sec retary of the board. The non-high school district In cludes all school districts in the county which do not maintain high schools. The rezoning was made necessary by various dis trict consolidations which have changed the status of some dis tricts, by changing the distribu tion of the school population. Non-high school district zones as determined are as follows: Zona 1 Rybll, Champorir. Butte rilie. Aurora. Whit. Donald. Arbor Grove, St. Paul, Tour Corner. Broad sere. BeUe Pst. Whony. Fairfield, St. Uuls, Grva(, Eld rids. Ptonocr. PrkrvtiW. Whiakey Mill. North How ell. Zone J Mission, Clear Lake, Keizer, waconda. Buena Crct. Lake Labish, Bayesville. Hazel Green, Brook. Cen tral Howell. Labish Center. Willard. Oak Ridge, Pratum. Frultland. Bethel. Macleay. v Zone Robert, Riverdale. Riverside, Protjeci, Rosedale. Pleasant Point. Sun ny side. Clover dale. Ankeny. Sidney. Talbot.- Looney Butte. Marion. Craw ford. North Santiam, Salem Height. Zone Silver Fall. Brtnh Creek. Union. McKee. Craasy Pond. Monitor, Mt. Angel. Harmony. 11 axel Dell. Beth any, Evergreen. Centerview. Valley View, Union Hill. Mountain View. Crooked Finger. Brier Nob. Noble, Scotts Mills. Thomas. Evans Valley. Zone S Witrel. Shaw. Rock Point. Sublimity, West Stayton. Independence, Oak Glenn. Howell. Fern Ridge, Me hama. Oakdale. Taylor, Elkhorn. RECORD WHEAT CROP SET " WASHINGTON, May 9 -VP) The - first - billion-bushel winter wheat crop in the nation's history was . predicted in an agriculture department report today- this case," the Judge remarked, "does not meet the approval of this' court, but that does not con stitute ; grounds for setting aside the interlocutory decree. . "Leo Durocher is not a party to this case. The court cannot take Judicial notice ot his con duct," . Miss Day and Hendricks were divorced here January 20. The following day the actress and Du rocher flew to El Paso, she ob tained a second decree in Juarez, and they were married in El Paso " When they returned the next day, Judge' George A. Dockweil er at a conference told them that their marriage. would not be rec ognized 'here California law re quires a year between granting of an interlocutory decree and issuance of final divorce papers. Price 5c Attempts To Limit Plan Fail WASHINGTON, May 9 -UP)- A precedent-shattering $400,000,000 measure to bolster Greece and Turkey against communist domi nation was passed by the house tonight, 287 to 107. On the final roll call. 127 re publicans and 160 democrats vot ed for it. Against the measure were 93 republicans, 13 democrats and Rep. Marcantonio (AL-NY). Congressmen of both parties guarded it successfully from all attempts to deny the administra tion the right to use troops and military material in the effort. Other attempts to limit the pro gram also were defeated. Final approval followed four days of turbulent house debate dominated by angry legislative reaction to Russia's postwar ac tivities, opposition cries that President Truman's program might mean war, counter claims that it would stabilize peace. The measure returns now to the senate where it originally passed April 22 by a vote of 67 to 22, for action on minor changes made by the house. The measure was favored by Rep. Norblad and opposed by Rep. Stockman, both of Oregon. Restrictions on Union at Stake In Phone Offer SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 -UP) A new barrier to settlement of the telephone strike in the far west arose today when the five state Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company rejected a union demand for a blanket provision guaranteeing re-employment of all striking workers when the strike ends. Don K. Crenshaw, joint chair man of Salem telephone local un ions, said Friday night that no additional ' striking workers have returned to work since a few went back; early In the week. ; ' r Crenshaw t said - William Lock- wood, Portland, a union leader at the San Francisco parley with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., wired him that the company offer as of Friday provided for: A .weekly raise of $4 in Port land. $3 elsewhere: no discrim ination against "scabs' by union members; no obligation on the part of the company to put em ployes back to work until or un less they are needed; abolition of toll maintenance seniority practice; elimination of union bul letin boards; company restriction on time taken off by union of ficers for union work, and Im mediate acceptance of the offer with no subsequent negotiations. NEW YORK. Mav 9-UPV-Lons? distance telephone service across the eounlnr remained "snottv in- day, the American Telephone and xeiegrapn co., reported, witn only i.auu or trie 20,000 striking long lines union members resuming? work desDite a settlement of their dispute. 14-Year-OIcI Bride Deserts Preacher Husband, Age 61 WINCHESTER. Term., May 9 (A3)- Sixty-one-year-old R. S. Holt, a farmer-preacher, said to day his 14-year-old bride had thwarted God's will and" turn ed against him since he had been jailed for the marriage. The union, he said, was "God s will" and was arranged In heaven and "one of these days she's go ing to be sorry." Holt, is being held In jail here under $6,000 bond on charges of abduction and violating the age of consent. The charges were brought by the guTs father, Joe Rolman, who told reporters: . Id rather have buried her from the hurt of it" Willie Approaches Heaven 'In Style9 ST. MARTINVILLE, La., May 9-(iip)-Willie Francis made his second trip to the electric chair today, wearing his Sunday pants and his "Sunday heart." The same chair which spared his life through a mechanical failure a year ago, and set off a long legal wrangle, took it this time. "Ain't going ' to wear : no beat-up ' pants to see the Lord,' he had said.' "Been busy talking my .way into heaven for the past year. Them folks expecting mo to come In ttyle." - - Weather Salem . . Portland ..., San Francisco Chicago New York -Max. . S3 Mln 7 50 ' .M SO JM 31 .00 .. 50 37 jOO Willamette river -.2 feet. FORECAST' I from VS. weather bu reau. MrNary field. Salem): Clean to day and toniyht. Hih-t temoerature today ,70. Lnet tonight -40. Weather today favorable for dusting and pray ing. General fair weather expected un til Wednesday, when light showers are liseiy. Spo lisor V . 1111 WASHINGTON. May 9 Sen. James. E. Murray (D-Mant) who Introduced a' mild labor reform bill la the senate today designed to meet possible ob jections of President Traman Board Favors e- - . .. v ! . 5-Day Week for State Employes A shorter work week for state employes is ready for state civU service commission consideration, expected within a few, days' fol lowing Friday's endorsement by the state board of control of a five-day,' 40-hour work week. State officials said the -change from the present '5 i -day sched ule calling for 41 to 44 ; hours' work would require only a few additional employes. The civil ser vice body has authority, under a 1945 legislative act, to establish the shorter work week. Under the proposed five-day plan some state departments would close Saturday and others. required to be open by law, would operate In the forenoon with skele ton crews. Most employes would work from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Mon day through ' Friday, and those working Saturday would- . have Monday off instead, i . ; -The board of- control nrevlous ly turned down a 5", 4 -day 40 hour week, members asserting mac sucn nours would result in confusion. College Speech Teachers Meet School and college speech edu cators from throughout' Oregon meet today on Willamette univer sity campus for the annual Ore gon Speech association conven tion. : Dr. Herbert E. Rahe, Willam ette speech department head and association president, will con duct business , sessions and elec tions, and study chairmen will conduct sessions on audio-visual work, speech correction, public speaking and drama. The latter' will Include a playlet presented by a University, of Oregon act ing class. . ; ' , Entertainment at a luncheon' In Lausanne hall will Include talks by Loretta Fridrich, Stearns Cushing . and Desmond Long, members, of Salem Toastmaster and Toastmistress clubs. - Gierry Festival To Incorporate Articles of incorporation were filed Friday for the Salem Cherry Festival association, whose board also approved Friday the employ ment of a full-time promoter for the revival of the fair this sum mer. . - . . , Listed as incorporators of the non-profit organization were Sid ney L. Stevens, president, Mai B. Rudd, treasurer, and Emory P. Sanders,. director 'At Friday's meeting the board discussed' arrangements for indus trial and agricultural . exhibits, and appointed Rex Kimmell to secure a location. Named to In terview applicants for promoter were Graham Sharkey, Mai Rudd and W..W. Chadwick. Box Recovered From School Theft A strong box containing checks, stamps and two watches, stolen April 28 from Parrish junior high school .by safe- burglars, was found in the Sandy river near Troutdale by a fisherman, state police at Milwaukee report Con tents .were intact. This is the first trace reported to date of the loot stolen -at the- same time that $1,010.12 was taken from Parrish and $189.23 from' the Salem sen ior high school .when safes in both buildings were robbed, on the same night. STRIKE TO END IN 9 STATES NEW ORLEANS, May 9 -VPi Harry B. Lackey, district manager of the Souther Bell and Telegraph company, announced tonight that the 33-day-oId telephone strike in nine southern states will end of ficially at 6 un. tomorrow. .- Democrat Backing Assured WASHINGTON, May MJfyln a stormy night session of the sen ate, a group of 11 democrats to night introduced a complete sub-' stitute for the union-curbing bill the chamber has been debating! two weeks. ' , Senator Murray (D-Mont), of fering Jt on behalf of himself and ten colleagues, said it meets President Truman's suggestion on labor legislation and cover other matters as weU. But he did not specify that there was any presidential agreement to accept it, nor indicate whether adminis tration officials had a hand in its preparation. His action followed an unusual session which Mr. Truman held earlier today with seven cabinet members and other aides on labor legislation with, the president's official famHy reported split on whether he should sign or teto the anti-portal-pay bill. Joining with Murray in rpon soring - the substitute labor bs-. putes bill were Senators Pepper (D-Fla), Elbert Thomas (Utah), Chavez (NM), Green (Rl). Kil gore (WVa), Olin D, Johnston (SC), Magnuson. (Wash), Myers (Pa), Taylor (Idaho) and Mc Grath (Rl). y Murray said one section meets Mr. Truman's recommendation that machinery be - provided "whereby unsettled disputes con cerning the interpretation of an existing agreement may be re ferred by either party .pa a final and binding arbitration." He said another provision would strengthen the U.S. conciliation within the labor department. The pending ' bill would create a hew mediation agency apart from the labor department. : The senate e rtier adopted amendments to make unions lia ble for damages in jurisdictional strikes and . secondary boycotts, and to deny bargaining rights to a' union If any worker is a com munist or sympathizer or could "reasonably be regarded as one. It defeated an amendment by Senators Ball (R-Minn) and Eyrd (D-Va) which would ( have out lawed the union shop and all eth er forms of compulsory union membership. It also had rejected proposals to permit employers to seek injunctions for stopping the jurisdictional strikes and second ary boycotts. Rogue Slayer Said Suicide GRANTS PASS, Ore, May 9 W)-. The Josephine county sher iffs office said today that John Mahoney, 85-year-otd quarry of posses searching the Siskiyo mountain wilderness, was report ed to have killed himself. The Rand ranger station reported it had been told of . the death by Andy Hogan, a resident cf tits- wild backwoods. A separate report, telephoned by the. Agness forest ranger sta tion to the Curry County Report er, said that Mahoney committed suicide at a mountain cabin just six miles from th - spot where Robert Fox died Tuesday, leaving a note naming Mahoney as his slayer.' Deputies were dispatched to the scene. - Reds Bow to U. S. Stand on Korea LONDON, May 10 -VP)- Th Moscow radio said today that Rusfia has accepted certain Amer ican proposals for consulting Ko rean representatives concerning the formation of a provisional government in Korea. The broadcast said the accept ance was contained tnr a letter from Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov to Secretary of State George . C. Marshall, who had hinted earlier that unless Russia specifically agreed to consult all Korean political elements on the question the United States might boycott a scheduled May 20 meet ing of the joint U. S.-soviet com mission m Seoul. Read Asks Dismissal of City of Salem Lawsuit Harry Read of Salem Electric filed a motion Friday in muni cipal court for dismissal of the city of Salem's lawsuit against hist, charging illegal installation of guy wire along city streets. Ths motion is based on the defendant's contention that the ordinance governing the charge" is not con stitutional . t- ; Our. Scaalcrs J I7cn Wk "3-1