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r A i MS ffiP '1KB QDOUg 17 Cents New:Jrice ' .: ' ; ' . tn Salem faucet A 5 -' rTi . t I I r . r ) t 1 t V " V J y- : This news from the Wall Street Journal: r '" ' "LJMA A. dollar - famine: has rtmck Vi elevated edge of thi world. . - P "Pain and excitement -are evi dent in Peru, as in "neighboring a Chile. Ecuador and Bolivia. U. S. exporters' eager to supply ares to- the millions w ho compose this market are increasingly thwart- j d - - - - - ,--' " -, Peru's dollar deficit is perhaps i JessniignilicantJor its own sake than as part of a globahsituatlon.' i The United States is importing ' far Jess than it is exporting j there should be no surprise that other nations run"iout of dollars" -. i Exports from the United States during 1947 will run from 818 to $18 billion; while imports are es timated at S3 billion for the year. This leaves a gap of $3 to $10 bil lion. That is why: there is a dol jr - Jar famine in lima and why oth er countries scrambling for . oIIars to use In paying for goods. The-pinch lvharp because im porters have bought goods ex pecting to have U. S. dollars- to --pay when the goods arrived. Now docks are piled high withr the goods While local Importers sweat to get hold of exchange, v- This dramatizes" the coming " crisis in world trade, which ap- pearslto -be joing through the " same pattern aspost-World War 1. A world is hungry for U. S. goods but lacks the' means ac ceptable to Americans to buy them with. The present- gap between ex ports andlmports will be covered this way: parjt by U. S. loans and l- contribution which will run into "bCljons; part by ise.of credit bal- - ances in Nework or transfers of gold; part by spending abroad by Americana. This is a similar for mula to what was followed after the first World war. But eventu ally both the government and pri vate lenders (wearied with lend ing to' foreign creditors; fold sup ply was not adequate to balance the purchase accounts. In this - country surpluses piled up, prices went down. Central Europe col lapsed wider Its burden of i . . ; (Continued on Editorial Page) India Arms as Tension Grows NEW DEPHI, ' Mtr JHffr- Heliable but uncotifinned reports of gun nmf""f,' troop movements . ru4 rliamic communities arnv- ln themselves for conflict spread here, today on the eve of in most inonaentous weeks in India's his tory. "'- " ' ' . . i On Monday Lcrd Louis Mount batten, Bntain's last viceroy in a century and a half of rule, will disclose to India's political lead ers bis majesty's1 government blueprint for transferrinf power to the Indiana. : ; --: . --- : Sine it became- known the British blueprint would: be im parted June 2 tension has been rising. Reliable sources said gun running has grown up from Bur ma and Afghanistan. Jeeps have been purchased in large numbers and driven into Indian states. Large collections of arms were 'reported being made in some of the princely states. Truck Kill Woman Crossing Highway 99-W f McMINTrVTLLE, Ore., May 31-li!p-A truck struck and killed Mrs. D. M. Bryan. -85. Lafayette, last night as she crossed the highway 99-West from her parked car to a fruit stand near the Day ton junction, i i State Patrolman James Burns said the truck driver was Robert Fisher, Hubbard. . - 1TEADSTAKT FOE JUNE. ' The number of prospective June brides was increased con siderably Saturday when, after holiday closure of the county clerk's office, seven marriage licenses were issued during the morning. Animzl Crschcrs i By WARREN GOODRICH- , fWcmusn't remark about others' looks, dear . . pcr hapt we are grotesque to I X VxA ' Salem's milk and milk prod ucts prices dropped today follow ing a new minimum price scale if sued by State Agriculture . Di rector . E. L. Peterson Saturday after a recent nine-day bearing in Portland. " . 1 Eighteen-cent ' milk Is ' 17 cents oer quart a of today, A. R. Hurl burt,; dhri ion manager of,tlie ralry' Coooerative in Salem, de t tared, commercial 'cresm fell from" 21 to J 6 cents' per half-ptnt "nd whipping,- formerly- 34 cents ner half -pint, is now 24 cents. Skim and buttermilk Is 11 cents oer quart' Portland Prices ta Tall .- " ' Hans . (Curly) Hrfstetter "said that prices of Curlys Dairy' milk Products would fo'low the tame trend. Port'cnd prices were pre dicted to approximate the same level. Peterson's -order has no direct bearing on the . newly reduced orices, as he raised the minimum price from 15 to 17 cents pes quart r,n milk in the Portland area only. However. Salem prices generally follow , the Portland trend. Pre viously milk has been selling at .1 cents above the minimum or 18 cents. - i -T .. .The 17-cent -price is based - on milk testing, 35 per cent butter fat The ruilng also requires that 5 and 10 per cent-milk and heavy cream shall have the minimum butterfat content stated on the label or the can. New Payment Basis . Payment to producers by dis tributors will be $1 per pound of butterfat plus $10 per hundred weight of milk. The butterfat content-solid .payment - basis will supplant the former fat pay basis, Peterson squelched the' addi tional charge , for . homegeniied milk, and for milk with special caps and denied a request to dif ferentiate . between . store-purchased and delivered milk prices. Automobile .; ...... . ... . - ' Tops-Plane as Holiday Killer - By the Associated Tnm The violent death toll in the ngtion! three-day. Memorial day observance swelled to at least 277 Satuaday- -and the automobile as sumed its customary role as the chief killer. , y -f - Highway deaths row to at least 114 after having been pushed temporarilj into the background by major airplane crashes that took 84 lives in New York nd Maryland. A total of 38 drowned and 31 others lost their lives from miscellaneous causes attributed to the holiday observance. , Oregon's two fatalities resulted from a -motorcycle accident in which Jerome Lucas of Salem was killed and a truck-pedestrian accident near Dayton in which Mrs. D. M. Bryan, Lafayette, was fatally injured. The over-all count of fatalities indicated : violent deaths would exceed the 2 92. to 11 in last year's four-day Memorial day holiday. After Hours Ordinance Ilcld Unconstitutional PORTLAND, Ore, May: 31-CP) -This- city's "after hours", ordi nance,: which police contend is necessary . to prevent crime, ..wait ruled , unconstitutional today : by Circuit Judge Alfred P. , Qobson. The ordinance forbids anyone "without lawful business" to ap pear ion the street after midnight J udge Dobson ruled that allow ing 'arresting officers, to deter mine what is "lawful business" is a violation of the 14th amendment guaranteeing due process of law. 15 DIE. IN TRAIN WRECK ; PEIPING, Sunday, June lCT) -The newspaper Hsin Min Pao said today IS persons were killed and 22 injured when a train on the Peiping-Mukden railway struck a communist laid mine north of Lutai, 33 miles northeast of Tientsin, : 1 j r i New residential areas blossom In the fields east of the Oregon state fairgrounds as new homes are built In the above picture are two new houses being built by A. G. Hamilton on Lanslog avenne off Rollins avenue. Seven houses already have been f wished by Hamil ton and more are. bebtg planned. ' irciCTY-scvcrrn . teab mm Dry 6 is 'New ' By Ed Lewis .' , ' -Z Staff Writer, Th Maxtman - . - Salem has withered its way through the driest month of May. ever recorded here and a hot one,' too, which' caused great damage to the year's crops in the Salem area and in the -valley, , McNary field, ,U. S. weather bureau reports.- May, 1920, with .23 inch, was the runner-up dry month. Only .18 inch ' of rain . fell; last month,: .14 of it on the 31st .0 1 on the Jth. and the. 29th., and" J2 on the: ninth. Prevailing winds were northerly, not strong. Strawberry- damage mounted to 30-40 per cent spring grain 25 per cent and expected flax. yield was dropped about 25 per cent because of intensive heat and rainfall lack. Cherries and prunes were not affected as were the other crops, the weather, bureau saiL . - . Unusually high temperatures wer highest on the 23rd, when 93 degrees Was recorded. Previ ous hottest May was 94 degrees on the 13th, In 1939. The mean monthly temperature was 60.06, compared with 56.3, the normal mean. Average daily maximum was 75.2 and the min imum average was 46. Coldest temperature was 36 degrees on the 10th. There were eight clear days, 1 partly cloudy and 10 cloudy days in Mary. , Scattered light showers were forecast for all of Oregon today by the weather' bureau but were not expected to greatly interfere with farm work. '. ? Salem Accident Victim Dies Jerome Allen (Jerry) Lucas, 19, who lived on route 8, box 1030, in the Keizer district died at 6:48 a. m. Saturday, in Salem General hospital without regaining con sciousness after what state police said was a 234-foot skid on his motorcycle some 15 hours previ ous, on Friday afternoon about three-quarters of a mile north of Salem. -Cr v : "' ' ; ''i r He was the son of A. J. Lucas of the Keizer district and -of Mrs. John Stettler of Salem. A broth er, Donald, of ' Salem, also sur-vivearf.-v f-'yf'"- ' - ' The attendinj; physician said Lucas Incurred . a v cerebral " con cussion, skull fracture and an in tracranial hemorrhage. ' V The funeral is being arranged 'by the Howell-Edwards chapel. ; Veto Would Kill Tax Cut for Year, f--Sent Taft Avers ; -WASHINGTON, May -JPt Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) said to day that if President Truman vetoes the tax reduction bill con gress is expected to pass in final form .next -week, , that action probably will kill aqyincome tax cut for this yea.rv , - But the senator told a reporter: "I don't see sense in a veto, tin less the. president does it out of pure stubborness. We are going to have enough surplus to take care of tax reduction and make a payment of at least $2,000,000,000 on the debt From a - political standpoint " even if there were a deficit, the- president could tolame it on the Republicans." 'A j M Record 20 PAGZS Smouldering ,1 v; I- J V PORT DEPOSIT, Md May 31 Fifty-three persons; one ef them an Infant in of an Eastern Airline DC-4 transport plane. Sailors from Bainbridge Naval wreckage. (AP Wlrcphote te the Statesman.) (Crash roundup ea page 2.) are Reduction for State Expected " PORTLAND, May 3"l-(ffr The4 state welfare commission today slashed ceneral assistance and o'd age allotments and divided its fci - per cent to be spent for the: fiscal year Beginning July 1 and- S3 per cent, in the following year. v Commissioner! said they expec ted an increase of welfare reclp' tents so - that general assistance payments will decrease from S3 7 to S45 monthly and old age as sistance from $42 to $40 monthly. Payments -for dependent children and the blind would remain un changed. . ' '. 'V 1 ' - The biennial fands, ag :(Jstab lished by the state legislature, are expected to total approximately $20,495,550 with $7,026,429 of the total coming from the federal gov ernment Amounts budgeted for counties next year included: Marion $1,331,000. - . li(lwe8t Drought Return Forecast WASHINGTON, May l-V?r The ; agriculture department to day warned that destructive droughts and dust storms will re turn to the Great Plains sooner or later, -z probably within - five years," - , 1 -; When they do come, they are likely to be more severe and more destructive, ; the,, department said, in a bulletin Issued today. Aggravating the danger, the bulletin sait is the ' fact that many farmers are plowing up sod to grow, wheat at present-day advantageous prices. Weather Mix. Min. 56 SI 44 Preclp. S3 jn J04 Portland i . San Franciaco Chicago J. . ss ..79 New York 71 so .00 FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem) r ciouay today and; tonight with- a- ew light scattered shower. ' Little change In temperature with , highest today 70. Lowest tonight 60. Weather will be favorable for dusting and spraying this morning but winds, will be too strong for dusting In the afternoon. Showers wiU not seriously Impede farm work. well Foundations and flooring for 15 new houses are shown above la dif ferent stages of construction as another Carl B. Damaske project is started on Fisher road at Sunnyview avenne. Damaske, head of Progressive Builders, has Just finished 42 hoases In another area on Sunnyview avenne. The current project, aaay be expanded to 4t houses. POUNDDD Th Ongan Statesanan. Salanu- Orocon. Sundar Ji Wreckage of Eastern Airlines Transport Plane n - .... S f - Communists 'In Control' Of Hungarian Cabinet r BUDAPEST,; May 31-P-Appolntmenti of Pro-Communist Lajcs Dinnyes as prime minister succeeding the ousted Ferenc Nagy was announced by the cabinet today f A. . A. it . wa n meant we soviet army uip Hungarian troops. . The high, official, who cannot faced exile or arrest for his Views, i declared the communist pay was now in 100 per cent control" and,' expressed the fear that "Hungary is lost as far as the west is concerned." Neif Eleetien Dae Anotherjofficlal who, had Just come from a cabinet meeting an nounced orally that new. general elections would be held in Sep-. tember elections' which anti communist politicians said prob ably would be held under laws guaranteeing sweeping left-wing victories and clinching me Diooa- - iie$i communist coup. Aetien Condemned WASHINGTON, .May 31 Officials predicted today the Unit ed States will take the strongest possible political . measures to condemn ' and if possible, modify what some privately called Rus- laia's "bare - faced grab" of tne nmcrnmnn of Hungary. . - Knrnm economic measures, si It appeared unlikely that the United States would be able to ac complish much, , however, since Hungary is occupied by soviet troops and completely In the sov iet zone of domination in eastern Europe. Truman Signs ReKfef Measure WASHINGTON, May" 81-P-President TmmaftV signed the $350,0004)00 foreign relief bill to-, day and dug further, into the work 'that piled, up while he vis ited his ailing mother in Missouri. His schedule is now so. heavy, Presidential Press . Secretary Charles G. Ross said, that the once-projected summer vacation in Alaska has been dropped. The relief act signed today au thorizes assistance to Italy, Greece, Hungary. Austria Poland, China and Trieste. ; Simultaneously, the president issued an executive order vesting his authority over the funds in Secretary of State Marshall. jr. a,i iiianiwirf J fcm iiii ii i win 11 niw in ' i Hin 165! 1. 1847 anna, were killed near Port Deposit, Md fa the crash Training center art shown searching the smoalderlng and a terrified Hungarian official a a - . " would now pe lnvueq , xo train ana . i' be named because he said he him- Coal Contract rn ii 'ii x aiKs collapse -. X.- J WASHINGTON. . May Sl.-OV The threat of a new' nationwide soft coal strike became heavier today as contract talki between JohnJL Lewis and .75 per cent of the operators collapsed over a 35 cent an, hour pay rise demand. . The break-up cl negotiations heightened the prospect that a mine walkout July 1 might pro vide the first test of -new legisla tion to -deal with national emer gency strikes and curb union ac tivities - - if President Truman signs it. ,: '. The northern and 'western op-r erators announced, as the talks were suspended indefinitely, that had offered a 15-cenL hourly increasesrhlch they said follows the wage pattern in steel, autos, and- other basic industries, but that Lewis spurned it Miller Store to Openin Albany ALBANY, ' -May Sl-(Special)-The Ferguson Men's and-Women's Wear stores at 301-J W. Jit st, here, will- open, as the newest unit of the expanding Miller Mer cantile company Monday. Purchase by the Portland firm was announced this week by Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Ferguson, who opened the men's store near ly nine years ago and merged it with the women's wear- store when the latter' was acquired from Mrs.. Dena Sternberg in 1941; " The Fergusons' will continue to operate their Workmen's Clothing store at 420 W. 1st st , - ' Manager of the Miller store will be Carl Miller, formerly of For est Grove.- fining Lansing, avenne are new .a ls.J a 1 a a ' j f - - ! 11 " - - - : -V m.t- . .f ' - .VI;'.-' '.- ' t 'V -'r' ? t." .'' - ' ", . " " .. ' . : -- ' ' 1 - '. ' A . V . A ' - . 1 1, . v . - i r -. ' -" ..i;-''?; -i-i '' w -- w v . . .: aoove picture , oeuig consunciea oy r. n. iiarcvun, naicm con tractor. Part of a large project the house shown sbeve will seen be finished. Other homes built by Harceurt a Lansing aveace V are already occupied, (lledse phetos by Dan Dill, Statesman staff 'photographer.) Prlc 5c i j 4 I I J v. . Liouidatibn of eran aaiem Finn Eif ectetF . The .weekend moving among groundfloor tenants of. the Guardian : building ' completed inore' than a shuffling of. desks and - apportionment of -, office space;: "With ' it ' comes announcer ment f the ; liquidation of the veteran H&wkins Sr Roberta. Inc business and the continuance of IormeT oepartrnentsrider in- dependent, owners hJpe. The build ing has been altered to meet th requirements ox tenants tmder the rearrangement,-and Monday will see the several businesses ; op erating In. their permanent quar ters.' '-I,'. ' ' v --..- , In the' change, the former de partments of Hawkins St Roberts become! independent under the folldwiiig ownerships: : Becke it Wadswprth general v Insurance; Charles A. Evans, farm loans, rep resenting Prudential Insurance Car A.- A; Larson, real estate. They will occupy 4 space as for merly at 402 State st.-T. A. Rob erts, who--was vice president -of the corporation, will also : have his desk there, but will devote his time chiefly to management of his own properties. - :' V Tb take care of its greatly in creased business Salem Federal Savings and Loan association will occupy space in th center of the building with an entrance at 120 S. Liberty st, while its former quarters at: 130 S. Liberty st, will be takeii over by a branch office of Commonwealth; Ine-of Portland. . r - -- . - - (AddiUeaal details on page 2) "'i--' ..'t. . ;,' WvVv' Gad wa Sticbhtl in : Toas tmastcr Talk SPOKANE, May 3 l-(JP)-Ed ward F. , Harris of Spokane won : the Pacific northwest zone speech con test of Toastmasters International tonight and will enter the national finals August 12 at Minneapolis. . Dr. M. E. Gadwa of Salem, Ore., finished second and will be an al ternate to the national finals. Other contestants tonight were Charles Bryant of Tacoma. Gray don W- Smith of Twin Falls, Ida ho, and "George D. Anderson of Great Falls, Mont . ' l homes of the. type shown in the a iaa . a a a ars l 7:.. Ka. 57 Strike in Tviter r BeltAgain LEEDBTV, Okla, May; Jl -Jp A tornado ripped into this north western - Oklahoma town of COO tonight and Jack Ssdo. telenhon operator, said "Leedey m ar three quarters destroy ed." sapp, uiking over a makeshift circuit set up outside th town, said a warning sounded over a fire siren and a loud speakers be fore, the storm struck apparently held down loss of life. ' - - - ' J. ".hadyhate' found fire bodies," Sapp declared, adding: we uont snow now many more were killed or, hurt but ww believe the loss of life w .-u.fi because we cleared the people off "' aueia oexore me lornado hit Need Medical SappUea We need ambulances and doc tors and medical supplies as. fast aa we can get them, though, and as much other help a we can get" ::- - The twister tore Into Oklahoma' from Higgins, Tex and for a time Its route followeoT that of a deadly tornado April 9 which killed near ly 200 persons in Oklahoma and Texas. . - -. . The new storm struck near Ar nett, Okla, and Gage. Okla, and then veered south suddenly to rip into Leedey from the north. In Twister Area At Higgins. where the new tor nado formed today, the April twister killed 34. injured 300 and i virtually levelled the town of "50 population. Then the April t tornado went north and tore Woodward, Okla apart, killing 102 and levelling the; town, . j ' : V's'--..: "--- Today's storm, howeverjnstesd of swinging north toward already : stricken Woodward, went scuth to hit Leedey, well out of the path of the April Si tornado. . Sapp aaid the dead were in a temporary morgue at the Leed ey school house. Tht titj was en tirely without lights or power and rescue work was hampered. . Baccalaureate SemceTt r Graduation week ceremonies for the 625 members of the class cf 1847. at Salem high will get uh- derway this evening at & p. in. in.' th school auditoriian when th Rev. Seth Huntington, of the flirt Congregational : church, delivers the Baccalaureate address. ' -Th. Rev. George Swift of St. Paul's Episcopal church will de-' liver the invocation and the high school choir. will sing an anthem." Seniors will wear the graduation garb "of caps andhgowns. The pub-. lie SM iavitedr , . . V -. Monday at 12 JO the seniors will hold-their "farewell assembly.' Thursday evening at ' p. m. the senior banauet will be held at th Marion hoteL Theme for th cUn-1 ner Is "Over' the Rainbow." Com-'' mencement " exercises arc slated I for Thursday evening la th hign: school' auditorium with Dr. JDaa Poling. Jr, as speaker. , Barren -fields and pastures east of the Oregon state fairgrounds have suddenly become pnm resi dential areas during the last two years. , - ' - , - Carl B. Damaske, head of Pro gressive Builders.' aided in th ; housing expansion by building 42 houses on Sunnyview and Parki avenues and recently , began ? construction of 15 houses on at : 10 acre tract on Fisher road off Sunnyview ' avenue.- The" houses will be modern in design with five rooms and unfinished upstairs, t All are built on a sort of mass ; production basis without neglect- ) ing individuality . Two other contractors building . In the area are ,F. W.'Harcourt ' and A. G. Hamilton: -? ' Lansing ' avenue, - branching - off Rollins avenue, is being surfaced ; with blacktop and is keeping par with , the line of houses marching out into the fields. . Harcourt and Hamilton win build fewer homes than Damaske, but each house will have a differ ent design. " Czr S:zsl:rs -