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Blah Kb!- la three eemmanltiea where the formation ef a anion hifh school district Is being con
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ear which Turner and Aumsville have Indicated they woeld prefer to locate the anion high school.
Startoa farors ait near its own city limits. (Photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.)
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Motber'a. day Jvai tome round
rain, and folk wearinf carna
txns will go to church en masse
today. Mothers will beam over
remembrances from children a
gift, a greeting card, a telephone
call; maybe they will weep a lit
tle and reaHirm Jn their own
mi mi that motherhood gives a
supreme satisfaction.
It's an old occupation, this
business cf being a mother. The
human race wouldn t last very
Jong M women ceased to become
mother. But while the funda
mental of biology remains con
stant, women do change. Just now
and how much they have changed
In the last 50 years was the sub
ject cf an interesting article In
the New York Times magazine
cf two weeks ago.
To begin with they are taller,
skinnier and Kive bigger feet than
the women of 5& years ago. To
day's woman does not affect the
hour-glass figure ' ahe's more
streamlined, broader shoulders,
narrower hips, thicker waist, more
slender legs. Color of hair ana
res Is darker than It was a balf
century ago, and hair of Ameri
can women turns grey earlier.
Women today eat less food, but
they live longer. Now their life
expectancy at bfrth is 89 years in
stead of 51 as cf 1897. They out
live men by six years on the
average.
On the psychological front wom
en do not cry as much as they
did (not even in novels), they
are lea sensitive personally, are
less conservative and, according
to one authority leas "feminine
They are teas slavish to style
(Continued on editorial page)
rrxxx. mills walkout
PORTLAND, Ore, May ItHJPl
The plant of the Oregon Steel
mills here was picketed today by
the CIO United Steel Workers of
America and a union spokesman
aid the 300 members walked out
due to a breakdown of wage ne
gotiations. Anxmd Crcclccrs
6VWAERENGOO0RICH
MLef$ go ow to the, ladief
bathing suits and. have a
tight lunch? -
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Affected by Merger Proposal
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Aumsville 9Tur tier Reject
School Site Choice Plan
AUMSVILLE, May 10 A proposal . to . ask state arbitration on
the question "where to put the union high school?" for Aumsville,
Turner and Stayton, if there ia one, was turned down here tonight
by a 5 to 2 vote of the combined school boards of the three towns.
- Board members of Aumsville and Turner voted solidly against
the two Stayton representatives, who had suggested that the state
Swollen River
In Idaho Near
Top of Dikes
BONNERS FERRY, Idaho, May
I0MVAn observer here for the
weather bureau said tonight that
A lot of bad seepage" was push
ing through under dikes guarding
this town of 1,500 and the 40.000
acres of surrounding farm land
as the rising Kootenai river reach
ed a stage of 30.39 feet, less than
two feet under the tops of some
of the dikes. --.;-.-vv'
,'W. O. Rosebraugh, who makes
the official readings for the wea
ther bureau, said that heavy seep
age was occurring In four difr
ferent districts and said, trucks
of the aviation engineers were
hauling dirt to many places to fill
In bad spots. - ,
He said a dozen men had been
working all day on one bad "boil"
at the dikes, attempting to stop
the seepage with sandbagging.
GM Penalizes
450 Unionists
DETROIT, May lflK-General
Motors Corp. revealed today that
it had assessed the largest mass
penalty in Michigan CIO history
against 450 employes - who left
weir joos Apru zt to attend a
labor rally.
Layoffs ranging from two daya
to IS weeks were given the work
er, most of whom were employed
in the Chevrolet forge plant in
Detroit.
They were among 13,000 Gen
eral Motors workers who Joined
an estimated 60,000 union sympa
thizers in a giant rally in down
town Cadillac square to protest
pending congressional labor legis
lation. -
'Flying Lifeboats9
May Aid Rescues
1IOBOKEN, N. J, May 10-fVP)
Survivors of sea disasters may be
rescued one day by "flying life
boats," which would shed their
wings on landing and speed over
the seas powered by a small gaso
line engine.
Tests on a hull which will fly
as well as stand up in heavy seas
are under way here, a spokesman
at Stevens Institute of Technology
said today.
The 36-foot glider craft would
be towed to the scene of a ship
sinking or plane crash at sea by
a power plane. It would be cut
loose and glide to a landing. Then
the wings and tail would be jetti
soned, and the lifeboat would be
powered by a gasoline engine.
FIRE HYDRANT CLIPPED
Water was all over city streets
hi southern Salem Saturday after
noon when a fire hydrant was
broken off at High and Miller
streets by a car which went out
of control while driven by Glenn
Edward Prime of 298 W. Miller
st. Prime posted $100 bail on a
charge of destruction of public
property. ;
Off
ion
board of education be asked to
appoint a three-member board to
choose a location for a union high
SChOOl. 'V- '"l- :;:"tr. -U
- Stayton" Has offered its 2l-acre
site, just outside the city limits,
acquired - within the las five
years.
Statistics compiled by the Stay
ton Chamber of Commerce indi
cate the community ; is the nter
of school population for the area
and also of the assessed valuation.
Sentiments expressed by Tur
ner and Aumsville residents claim
the acreage near Stayton, is too
close to Um and have expressed
choice for a location farther out
in j the country, near . Crawford
school or the sheep shed, a fa
miliar landmark on the road from
Turner to Crawford schooL !
Gun-Toting Solon
Judged Insane
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 10-(JF)
Admitting "I've just had a little
trouble finding the spot I belong
in," gaunt Jimmie Scott who re
turned from 30 months service
with the army in the Pacific to
become a state representative
from Holdenville, Okla., today
was judged mentally ill after the
shooting of State - Senator Tom
Anglin on the floor of the Okla
homa senate.
Three physicians found Scott a
victim of paranoia, and County
Judge C. J. Blinn signed the com
mitment order which places the
veteran in the care of the veter
ans administration which will
send him to a hospital.
AGRICULTURE CUT DUE
, WASHINGTON, May 10 MJf)
A cut of at least 33 V4 per cent In
the agriculture department bud
get was reported in the making
today in the house appropriations
committee.
Bast off 13,000 Students io Attend CCemsiI Om(Hlnira
ScnooB
Prep
By Conrad Franre
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Chemawa Indian school will
hold weekend graduation exer
cises tonight and Monday for
what will probably the last time.
Superintendent M. W. Evans said
Saturday.
Under an order from he VS.
Indian commissioner's office in
Chicago, received . by Evans late
las week, the school is to ' close
May 24. Unless last-minute con
gressional action restores Indian
bureau budget cuts in legislation
which haa already passed the
house and is now before the sen
ate ,the historic Chemawa institu
tion will cease operations, Evans
sa(d.
Baccalaureate ceremonies will
be held tonight at ,7:30 o'clock in
the school audiorium . with . the
Rev. John F. Goodman, chaplain
of the Catholic St. Mary's Boy's
School at Beaverton, as principal!
speaker. Commencement exercises
will be held a 2:30 Monday after
noon. Speaker will be George La
Vatta, Shoshone. Indian of the In
dian affairs- district office in Port
ice Faces
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Release
- "If ; the interior department
budget remains the same as it
passed the house, the bureau of
reclamation Salem office will be
discontinued June 30," Lee Mc
Allister, project planning engi
neer, disclosed Saturday.
McAllister, who returned Sat
urday from an instruction meet
ing on the reclamation program
at Boise, said the appropriation
approved by the house of -representatives
allows no funds for in
vestigation. The Salem office is
planning headquarters for the
Willamette valley project, as well
as for diamond drilling and other
work, for all of western Oregon
except around Medford, for west
ern Washington and central Ore
gon. Preparing for possible closure,
transfers to other civil service
jobs are being arranged, where
available, for the SO employes on
the staff here. Most are highly
trained technicians, McAllister
said, and the payroll for 1946
waa $286,000.
Four Overtime
Parking Tickets
Rate Police Tow
Latest developments' in Salem's
packing meter indoctrination oc
curred Saturday when a car reg
istered to Harlan W. Knox, Port
land, was towed from a city street
after four overtime parking tick
ets : were awarded the car , in a
period of' five hours parking at
the same locations r- ;
The ; driver later came to w; the
police station, paid for four - $1
tickets, then paid towing and
storage on the car in order to
obtain its release.
Chief of Police Frank A. Minto
states that it is a standing police
department policy . to tow cars
from the street after four over
time parking tickets have been
issued. This is the first such In
stance since parking meters were
installed here. ,
Brazil Revolt
in Bud
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 10-4A)
An army general announced to
day that a budding plot against
the government of President Euri
co Caspar Dutra was smashed
with the arrest of a number of
sergeants. t
The announcement, made at a
news conference by Gen. Zenobio
da Costa, commander of the Rio
De Janeiro military region, made
no reference to the political color
of the alleged plot, but the news
paper Diario de Noticias said ear
lier that its aim was to restore
for President Getulio Vargas to
power.
U.N. Subcommittee Fails
To Reach Ap-eement
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y May 10
A United Nations subcommittee
failed to agree tonight on pro-;
posed orders for a committee
which will Investigate - Palestine;
this summer. The issue now goes
back to the 11-member political
committee of the special United
Nations assembly.
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land. Exercises originally were
planned for May 16.
James Chocktoot, of the Klam
ath Indian reservaion, has been
chosen as class valedictorian.
Levy Wilson, Lopway, Idaho,
from the northern Idaho reserva-i
tion, and Reginald. Tullee, of he
Yakima reservation in Washing
ton share the salutatorian speak
ing honors.
Superintendent Evans will in-j
troduce speakers at both programs
and will present diplomas to the;
14 graduates. Giving the invoca
tion at both ceremonies will be
the Rev. Allen Wilcox, protestant
chaplain on the campus, and the;
Rev. Louis Rodakowski, Catholic
chaplain, and assistant pastor of
St Vincent de Paul church ih
Salem. . I
Founded in 1880 in Forest Grove
and moved to Salem five years
later, the Chemawa school is the
oldest and one of the largest of
its kind in America, Evans said!.
Only Carlyle Indian school iri
Pennsylvania, alma mater of the
legendary Indian footballer. Jim
Thorpe, was older than Chemawa
before .it .went out, ol existence
Transfer
Nipped
for
Closure
Big Joke
PAWTUCKET. R. I May 10
Samuel Hyder (above) waa
fined $2 and costs here for dis
turbing the public by laughing.
Fine was assessed by Judge
William M. Connell, a fellow
roomer at the YMCA where
Hyder resides. (AP Wlrephoto
to The Statesman.)
Laugh Irritates
Police Chief,
Fine Results
PAWTUCKET, R. I., May 10
(JF) -Samuel Hyder, 57, who
laughed himself into court, was
still laughing today while await
ing a. decision on reopening his
case that cost him $4.60 on a
rescuing" charge. ,
Police Chief Leonard Mills, who
said he warned Hyder to stop
laughing when there was noth
ing to laugh , about, ordered his
arrest yesterday for guffawing in
the business district.
.Friends describe Hyder's laugh
as "hearty and infectious peel
ing off in high-pitched waves."
Chief Mills said it, is funny the
first time, "even the second and
third."
"But, Mills added, "he has be
come obnoxious. The businessmen
are sick and tired of it, and say
it is raucous and disturbing."
The . chief and Hyder met on
the street today. The chief smiled,
and Hyder reared back and let
go with an echoing guffaw.
Judge Connell will decide who
gets the last laugh.
Army May Place
Commie Draftees
In Separate Units
WASHINGTON, May 10 -()
The army may put drafted com
munists into separate units to
keep them under surveillance in
any renewal of selective service,
officials said today.
A problern of what to do with
communist draftees in the event
of the draft being revived in a
future emergency haa arisen from
a war department order provid
ing that officers and men found
to be communists may be barred
from the service, or discharged If
already In service.
Officials explained that com
munist draftees probably would
be handled in somewhat the same
way as conscientious objectors
were during World War II.
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Graduation Exercises omidlay
several years ago, Evans stated.
From 12,000 to 13.000 students
have attended Chemawa since its
beginning. Thev come from tribes
scattered over Idaho, Washing
ton, northern California, Western
Montana, Alaska and Oregon. A
few have come from the mid
west and the Dakotas. Many of
them came from tribes now fad
ed into history.
Most of the school's early stu
dents were direct descendants of
members of tribes figuring prom
inently in early western history,
according to Oscar Lipps, former
superintendent of .the school from
1927-31. Now retired at 38 Park
ave., here, Lipps remembers that
tribes represented on the campus
included , the Nez Perce Indians
who greeted the Lewis and Clark
expedition and aided early settlers;
the dreaded Sioux, Custer's last
foes, and Silctz, Wasco, Chinook,
Grand Ronde and Yakimas tribes
which dealt with early pioneers
of the Oregon territory.
Lipps revealed that this is not
the first time Chemawa stood in
danger of being closed. On pre
vious attempts, he said, the late
Talks in
Bay City
Proceed
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1(MP)
Members of United Telephone
Employes of Oregon remain out on
strike, though two other inde
pendent unions have reached
agreements today with the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany. Oregon telephone workers are
still negotiating on so-called dis
crimination clauses against union
officials state.
Company spokesmen said that
tentative agreements have been
made with two' unions which rep
resent 18,500 employes of Cali
fornia and Nevada. No settlement
report has been received from
Washington telephone organiza
tions. Announcement Reached
The company announced agree
ment had been reached with the
Federation, of Women Telephone
Operators in southern California,
a group of 11,000 opeerators and
traffic employes. Several hours
earlier Conciliator Omar F. Hos
kins arrounced a tentative agree
ment between the company and
the United Brotherhood of Tele
phone Workers. The UBTW rep
resents about 7500 exchange
maintenance workers in Califor
nia and Nevada. v
, Both proposals were based on
a company offier of $4, a week
and $3 a week wage increases,
respectively, m metropolitan and
non-metropolitan areas, plus
agreement on language of so
called non-discrimination clauses.
Metropolitan Area
Telephone company negotia
tions declare one metropolitan
area in all Oregon, consisting of
Portland, Oswego, Milwaukie and
Oregon City. Salem's offer, then,
stands at $3.
Balkan States
Block Inquiry
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May 10
(flVThe United Nations security
council faced a Russian-backed
Slav revolt tonight against main
taining an international watch on
the Balkans' troubled frontier
areas.
A heated clash between Rus
sia and the western powers prob
ably will come Monday when the
security council convenes at 5:30
p.m. (EDT) to .reopen Greek
charges of "outside" guerilla ac
tivities against Greece's frontiers.
Yugoslavia, Albania and Bul
garia have announced they would
refuse to cooperate with the in
terim group designed to watch for
Balkan border flare-ups, and
would oppose any inquiry across
their frontiers.
Truman Advised
Against Portal Veto
WASHINPTON. May 10 -(VP)
President Truman Is being urged
by some congressional lieutenants
to sign the bill outlawing most
portal pay claims as a political
offset to an expected veto of la
bor disputes legislation.
. Influential democrats who did
not want to be identified publicly
told a reporter today they now
are firmly convinced Mr. Truman
means to veto whatever labor bill
comes to his desk. A highly
placed White .Housee official said
Mr. Truman has not yet made
a decision on whether to sign or
veto the portal pay bill.
'
Sen. Charles McNary interceded
on behalf of the Indians. In the
present crisis, the Associated Press
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Chemawa Superintendent
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GRANTS PASS, Ore., May lMi?VThe body of an elderly moun
tain feud killer who told a friend he knew the posses would finally
get him was buried .today at the wilderness spot where he took has
own life, State Police Sgt E. R. Boardman reported tonight
Sgt Boardman said the simple burial service was conducted in
the forest by Curry County District Attorney Hugh Gearin, with
Sheriff Arthur Sabin and three '
mountaineer acquaintances of
John Mahoney as witnesses.
The prospector, who eluded
posse officers four days in the
wilderness he knew from years of
trapping and seeking gold, killed
himself with the same rifle as he
slew Robert Fox. 40, last Tues
day, Sgt. Boardman said.
Led by Rancher
The officers were led by An
drew Huggins, - rancher, to the
spot where they found Mahoney's
body. Sgt Boardman reported
Huggins told how the prospector
stumbled to the ranch at oawn
yesterday. They ate breakfast and
lunch together and the miner then
calmlT admitted he had shot Fox
over lone-time differences and
left saying, "Well goodbye, this
is it." Huggins told of hearing a
shot soon after Mahoney walked
out of the cabin into the forest.
Trekked Seven Miles
The state police sergeant. Sher
iff Sabin and District Attorney
Gearin hiked the seven miles into
Lthe mountainous Siskiyou range
to the Huggins ranch early tnis
morning to verify the report of
the aged Mahoney a suiciae.
Reds Accept
U.S. Formula
For Korea Talk
LONDON. May "10 hWV The
Moscow radio said today that So
viet Foreign Minister V. M. Moio
tov had accepted American pro
posals on Korea and expressed
hope that the two powers now
could hurdle the obstacles which
for a year have blocked steps for
creation of a democratic provis
ional government In Korea.
The radio said Molotov sent a
letter to Secretary of State Mar
shall acceptintf an American for
mula. for determining what Kor
ean representative should be al
lowed to appear before the Joint
U .-Soviet commission on Korea,
and stating: '..'..
"I hvpe that thus there no long
er exists any reason for delaying
the convening of the joint com
mission" Molotov has proposed
that the commission open its ses
sion in Seoul on May 207
The commission broke up In
May of last year over Russian In
sistence on qualifications for Kor
eans testifying before the com
mission that would virtually have
restricted such Koreans to com
munists and their supporters.
19 Degrees in
Central Oregon
By the Associated Press
Central Oregon, . where mer
curies suddenly dropped to the
freezing mark, was counting up
crop damage today.
Frost nipped vegetables for the
first time Friday night, when the
thermometer skidded to 19 de
grees at Madras, 20 at Bend, 28
at Lakeview and Klamath Falls.
More frost was forecast , for last
night. -"VV-- .-
Wheat ranchers In the central
Oregon region reported their
crops hit
w m tm mm-wm v ana w m m
reported last week that Oregon's
Representative Stockman favored
appropriation cuts which result
ed in the closing orders.
Another problem connected
with the school's shutdown, Super
intendent Evans revealed Satur
day, is providing for the Indian
orphans houred by the school.
From 75 to 100 children, with no
homes to return to, had previous
ly remained at the school during
the summer months, he said. Their
cases would have to be worked
out- with various states' welfare
organizations before May 24, he
added.
Disposition of the 447 acres of
land, 100 head of dairy- stock and
over 100 buildings has' hot been
determined. Evans said. Evans
was appointed superintendent of
the school July 1, 1943, to succeed
Paul T. Jackson who joined the
war assets administration staff, in
Seattle, Wash. Evans came here
from a three-year stay at the sub
agency of the western Navaha res
ervation near Grand Canyon, Ari
zona. Prior to that he was em
ployed for four years on the Tima
reservation in southern .Arizona. .
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Tug Sinks in
Straits; Crew
Of 8 Perishes
SEATTLE. May 10 -6T)- Dark
ness tonight temporarily halted
hours cf . searching for four est
eight men lost when the unwieldy
68-foot tug. W. II. McFadden.
sank mysteriously in the Strait
of Juan de Fuca some time late
Friday night or early this morn
ing. A coast guard veel which
found the lifejacket-clad, crushed
and bruised bodies of four crew
men at midday returned to its .
berth at nearby Port Tow mend
and prepared to stand by Sunday
as coast guard planes scan the
entire straits area.
Investigation of the tragedy
caused aathorities to revise their
initial theory that a sudien storm
wrecked the war surplus craft aa
it headed through the compara
tively narrow passage toward the
pacific en route to New Orleans.
The tur ws first thought to
have entered the straits during
the afternoon or early evening;
when high winds swept in from
the west, with gusts up to
miles - an hour. A later che k
showed, however, th$t the Co
horsepower vessel4 did not pas
through the Ballard locks at Se
attle until later Friday. . -
Berserk Horse
Breaks Loose :
In Airplane
EL PASO, May 10-C-A wlM
horse rode the heavens between :
Mexico City and El Paso Satur
day. The .crazed animal, attempting
to kick a hole in the side of the
four-engined cargo ship, terror- r.
ized the plane crew for two hours 1
before the plane reached here and -made
an emergency landing at
Ed Anderson field. ; .
The giant craft en route from
Mexico City to Long Beach, Calif,
with eight valuable race horses as
cargo, had just left. Monterrey
when . Joseuto, - a two-year-cld
owned by Carlos Gomez of Mexico
City went mad. v. . -'
"I waa at the controls," said
Capt C A. Ryan of American
Air Lines, "when I heard a crash
behind me and the ship began
shaking. We expected to find
hole in the side- of the plane any
minute,' exclaimed - the pilot,
mopping his brow. . ;
The valuable, high-strung ani-
mal leaped and kicked . it way
through three stalls as the clan -
rusned on xor an emergency
landing here and was wedged be
tween a sail and the side of the)
ship when the-plane rolled o a
stop. ' . .. .
Oregon Mother
Of 1947 Feted
PORTLAND." Orel Mar 10-P-
Mrs. Myrtle E. Lee, mother of
four crown sons, teacher and act
ive in Baker youth programs, to
day was presented a citation hon
oring her. as "Oregon Mother cf
1947."
The award was made by the
American Mothers committee cf
the Golden Rule foundation at the
annual luncheon of the Portland
federation of women t organiza
tions. Early Demise for Sugar
Rationing Proposed
WASHINGTON. May 10 -iJPi
Senator Vherry (R-Neb) pro
posed tonight that sugar rationing
be ended this summer if croc
weather and plant operations are
normal. -
Our Senators
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