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o o p o o p p ti o o o o o o p o O C ODO n o o o o (Story in Column 5) Tilimjfs-Eye Fusio-of City SJioics Serene Salem Backed by Hills atesmau r 1 J iMoat I6SJ V , ' .1 NTNETY -SEVENTH YEAH 10 PAGES Th Oregon Statesmen. Salem, Or- WtdaMdar. um It. If 7 Pric lc Jta. TI : mm Spoils 1 ( - i i ! V Hi i n jfj .'iiiy; - if ,:: JV'Vj ' ".aaj"!" I Shipment q To Pons Ceases Club Owner Guilty iMarein of Of l atum Murder vo Votes Life Sentence Recommended by Jurv Iv 1 1 IC Hi 1 1 r " a Screac and peaceful lies Salem amid its meadows, hills and streams. This aerial photo taken Monday from the Goodyear blimp "Volun teer" shows the proximity of Salem to the fields that provide its wealth; Willamette university and capital buildings that rive the city beaoty and culture; the Willamette river and factories that make Salem's commerce. The Volunteer during the war flew as the L-17 out of Moffllt field. Calif covering the safe passage of many convoys along the coast. Ability to hover has made the blimp popular for air-sea rescue, aerial advertising, photography and sur veys. Huge commercial airships are being planned by Goodyear for operation In the next few ears over ocean routes and carrying 112 to 3 OS passengers. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) jobless Exceed Jobs at West Salem to Local Employment Office yote june 39 On City Budget For the first time in any June, since 1940 the Salem office of the state employment service is experiencing a surplus of job-seekers, it was reported Tuesday. Manager William Baillie said that about 500 applicants are pas sing through the office daily. "Nothing like this has happened at this time of year in a good many years. Last year at this time the office had about 600 jobs listed with no Some two weeks vago I wrote about the dynamic character of communism today, its aggressive ness, its self confidence and the failure of democracy to hold the Initiative it had in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Jf one wishes to pursue the subject further he should read "The True Meaning cf the Iron Curtain by Ernest O. Hauser in the June 14th issue of Katurdav Evening Post. It is Traffic Ligbt , At Fairgrounds Road-99E Set takers," he said. Most of the work hunters are out-of-state in-migrants I here by rumors of a "big dam go ing in, students out of school seeking summer work, and some local laborers caught in a be- tween-jobs period. Industries Slow Usually this surplus is absorbed n,mti I 1 , , I i Li a I oy local lumoenng, pacxing ana WEST SALEM. June 17 West Salem's city budget of $65,400 will be submitted to vote .of the people Monday, June 30, as chang- lured tonight by members of the vides for transfer of $240 from that any agreement here "J .u : 11 j ... k. t nfnt UDOn th CfX uic nuscTiincvus iuna vo nw l water maintenance fund, the coast." amount to be used for a $20 a No agreement oeiaiis month increase in the pay for closed but the conciliator Indlcai- I t vt. mi m m DY oy-p" SAN FRANCISCO. June 17 (41 j Refusal of a CIO union to men j sailing "article, in the absent- ii a contract agreement with, ship- owners, spread a creeping para lysis among wet clit port to day, tyiiiR up at lciist 10 hi. ' shore activities remained ioitnal. ! At Portland, the Ames Victory failed to depart for Seattle, the j Boixe Victory for S;n Francisco , and the Jeremiah S. Bla-k for Japan. A grain-laden ship. drtin"d for j Yokohama, and a himhrr ship, j ready to leave for Dublin. Ire land, were held at Vancouver, Wash. The steamship Alask.i. with more than 200 passmen s. was unable to leave SeattJe for the north. Vessels Delayed A "sit in" by the CIO . union, the marine cooks and stewards, tied up two ships in San Fran cisco. The steamer Santa Adela was due to leave lor Mexico and the Matson freighter Hawaiian Fisherman for Honolulu. Also in San Francisco, a newly arrived department of labor trou ble shooter, Nathan Feinsinger. met with representatives cf the union and the Pacific American Shipowners association. Finsmg er reported late tonight that the union of cooks and stewards has reached a tentative agreement "on all major issues" with the shipowners, with "only a few questions of procedure remain ing." "At this moment," Feinsinger id. "it looks like the east and west coast problems are not ne cessarily related. It is to be hoped PORTLAND. Ore. June 17 A first degree murder er dict with a irt-omrrverMlAtion of life imprisonment was tetumcd tonight br a cirrviit court Jury xgamM Patrick Ravmond. night club operator, in the fatal hest irig here of Sea Captain Fiank It. Tatum. Hilleiiia. Mj-. The Jury teliterj.tcd me than four hours. Pamnd wll le sentenced Friday at 2 00 pm, the court frnrKHinced. Pnecuting Attorney Dan M. Dibble. aciting "it was the final kirk adminc let -1 hy this defemiant that eaued the death of Captain (rank It latum" In tlte brawl l.t Januaiy, akrd the death enaMy Earlier the defence had been denied a directed erdtet of manslaughter, a charge to which l of Raymevrs cisfeaH aide pleaded guilty. The prosecution said the f gt.t followed a drinking bout, and aecued Raymotwl of dirert.r.f his atdea to rob the tinnnioui Tatum. then dipoa e-f body in a fashionable west stdo resi dential distort. They car.Ie ed dumping the body rrr cl ff, uhere it wm found a woik later. The trial testimneiy revealed Captain Tatum as a free spend ing and frequent patron cf t-.e ur-licensed ctub, described by TieeuUng attorney as a "clip Joint A waities t4d cf hear If g the officer pleading, as If a little loy, for during the was sprawled in a rtvair wrtn Raymond standing over him. Woman Rescues Groceries, Self From Train's Path CANBY. Ore, June 17 -OTr-Mn. W. J. Olson was recovenr.g tonight fmm shock after leaping with a box of groceries from her stalled automobile and seeing a Southern Pacific freight train smah the car at a crossing at Barlow. Fred W. Smith. Portland, a witness, said he saw the car halt with the front wheel on the track and saw Mrs. Olson Jump from the car. carrying a box of gro ceries. The Canby woman fainted after the cranh and a physician driving nearby revived her. Smith said his car was struck by a wheel of the demolished automobile. WASHINGTON. June 17 JT) The re today upSeld P.-e,-drat Trus&M'a vet 9 by a ha-a breadth snarr-ia n4 sul'awt the r publKam $4,000 tnrtwt Us-Uirrg UlL The Ut r-ertje-txi Iwur tberety m threw tnut the IM presiSeeiUal rasv. paiga. Speaker lUrUn (LMsm) an. nuunced lr wCl be no VJr atmp to wnte Us re-1 c.rg legisUtion ra 147, and h o-. r la red: "ArparrtUy tre demarrsU ha tttle interest in rv."Urg r Uirea and redwrtcg tse w e nf someone to he!p h.m " VSJSS "l f-ght and bow Tatum ! J ' KeM ssa-irr The COP-cWiuna'.ed house tt -ed 2t4 to U7 to vertwrB V-4 predern ve. byt Oue feU short 4 the two-ris maturity required. Tr-e tH cctgtnany paaed t houae 27 J to 1 17, Jat one ht of a t-o-thirds majority. Tt hous arremt-d th bcmae-SNPri oarr.prcn till later ZZ"3 te ft. Voung to enm4 were I2J -pvt: trans and 1J Aetnortata. Standir ty Mr. Trusnaa tt 1)4 denvrats, ta repMUltcam, ftepa. Carl AmAt raee. C Kme.nta and MU 94 WiaroRun. sn4 l Amrftcan labor tnetnbr. f,t$ MarranSoeti f New XmX. Rural School Board Races Still in Doubt the water maintenance Trintf tf iVtm Amount tai.t construction wors. isaiuie aaia. i ... j . . InsUIlaUon of a triffic signal But manv of these industries such "T"IU" I "'AZ!"! i Y,r. l""C.r.r .i' ,:r ! as -"n"?.e.. nve ,acnei Stevens dissenting. Coffrier ob- ,.r- rinort on his return to "X' "i " "U,"K Mlu ,uun ,n. nu , --T- - ---"- ,. wi uuw num. wuu some are weeding out and re- uus country r uuR c.t- street sought by Salem city coun- Diacini. incomoetcnt workers, he Li vt. ontimlsm by by-passin Europe. Hauser quotes an English con servative fearful of the trend: "Those communists, by Jove, of fer ideas and methods yet un tried! They've got something!" Russia, says Hauser, has spread the notion that "communism is coming and that everything else Is going. Behind the iron curtain Hauser found the people generally had - accepted the new dispensation, . some of them relieved not to have to think for themselves any more. In western Europe where free doms linger, "people seem to be milling about in great confusion." To quote: "It is hard to say just what they are looking for, but evidently they added. Another noticeable item, Bail- lie said, is the increased number (for the first time since 1939) of qualified women seeking domes tic employment. The office placed cil, was approved Tuesday by the state highway commission, meet ing in Portland. Cost of -the pro ject will be borne equally by state and city Salem s delegation before the meeting David O'Hara , and Daniel Fry of the council and lr":L i t ! r c- Ti rS.-iL.i0 Housing Short at Detroit .u u i r 1 WkJ UIUCIO ilUl V ' nave yincuicu tunts iiccu lur traffic control. The commission recently had rejected a plan to jected to raise of the wage of one employe without a similar raise for other employes, while Stevens also objected to the fact shipowners in conference with the CIO radio operators, w er one which has not reached an agreement to replace the eon tracts which expired June IS. -Censlderable rraresa wrw YORK. June m i that raising Barrett's pay to $200 nesday) -V A conference, sees- a a a. I . .. ft f I 1 a. M STaB montn would maxe nis pay ine to end the snipping armmimr than fimf rst Inli W I , l tsA- v tmi John IL Porter, who gets $195. Transfer of the item in the about 50 of these in Salem homes budget was recommended by a last week, he said. been coming into the. office recently are those involving heavy con- Gibson, assistant secretary ol u- ..Hwt that "considerable progress" had been made toward a settlement.. carate conferences with the which Councilman Earl Burk was union officials and representatives of east and gull coast smpu.. ers were held last night after, a flat embargo had been imposed on New Paulus Ginnery Ready To Start Pack special committee headed by Councilman Don Kuhn and of a member, Of the budget of $63,400. a total of $17,245 is in excess of the 6 ,h "'"IT: " r" struction work at the Detroit dam signal lights at Hollywood and 1 . "' , ? l.Jt ""'"y" all rail freight snipmenu '"""V' kt Market and Canitol .ul D and state construcUon labor, building voted upon by the people. - American shins In U. S. ports and sailing of the luxury liner America, largest U. S. passenger vessel, had been postponed, un ion spokesman claimed 700 ships are affected by the sit-down. Market and Capitol and. D and Capitol streets Because streets enter the Holly wood intersection from five direc trades work and casual or part lime employment. j nousing!?. i g- i . shortage at the Detroit dam site ,recracker Unlinancc tions, the installation will be j slowed dow.n p1?",,1,0 Violator Fined S15 complicated, O'Hara said, but that area considerably, Baillie " , SKX ? ihLihJZ adequate control. The commission hiehwav ensineers nromised an understated . 1 , c J 1 , 1 w. ju. rvimsey, state laoor com The year's first arrest for shooting firecrackers in the city found the new ideal; to most of them, the war itself and the whole postwar mess have merely dis credited the old ideals, including democracy a term which draws many a bitter laugh from so ma- plans to make . further study of other intersections needs, he said. missioner. the curtailment The commission accepted bids I operations In the Salem arejf this season the demand lor working permits by persons under 18 a par . reported that despite of Salem was made Tuesday by I Steering Wheel Prove ilment in some cannery ty police, and Bill Robertson, I . .t i . r The new $650,000 Paulus Dm. thers packing plant in southeast Salem will begin operation Thurs day morning on a cherry pack. plant officials said Tuesday. Although the structure, locat ed at 14th and Oak streets, is not quite completed, most of the can ning machinery has been moved in. Superintendent L. D. Kitchen said. It Is hoped to have the buil ding finished within a few months. Beginning with cherries, the new plant wiu operate tiratgm through the canning season, pack ing .berries, beans and fall parka. Kitohen said. The cherries are be- ing Drougni oown irom ine uaues and are sporadic In quantity but "very good" In quality, he added. About 200 workers will begin operating the cherry line Thurs day morning. By Mart avertle Qlims Valarr Ke S4 . TUm aaeRa Membership of Mario crtuMy's first rural srhool board. rurty school policy making group of the future, remains In doubt at in- j So cloa a the 4 in t complete returns continued 9 tere. strained bouea tat Ret.t- trickle in from remote districts. Ican Lawder IU:rk of tr, Baaed upon tnremplrte returns demanoxj a rciTlnn Hew in The Statesman cffW. Sylvrs- eser. the recwM cwfirmed t ter Smith. St. Paul banker. M ttiU j original Ul.y. leading for the tone 1 ptmt t orv. I A sbowt w-rrt fmm t d-tr Howerer. Albert Kowash of He'.W ortaue a-d -Seii the fmal n Paasi hs Incrsaaed his h4d enj antwuraevd. A'J of Orrg second place. John Eassmataen, UUvr vvt4 ta cxetne who picked up 11 vrtei tn Hub- the vet, bard alone, has reosed ahead ef 1 rnAslSri! la iTniman in Doubt' Herman Pehfusa of Ketrer. mr 2. and Walter It. rVO. Starlon. rone $. were urtopnuaed for po sition on the board. Margaret Riches, clerk of the Turner district, and tugene Tin ley, former member of the ron hl gn achool board and Marxm county fox breeder, have alter nated the lead tor the sees 1 po- On I-abor Bill Fate on two projects in Linn county, Grading, resurfacing and oiling of 2.89 miles of Crabtree Creek-years of age is about on Scio section of Albany-Lyons I with last year, Salem route 8, box 350, paid a Trap for (Jllltl in VJ&T i. uiie iiiciru in municiuai ny men and women in Europe secondary highway was awarded today. An American administration in Bavaria admitted that what we have , (Continued on editorial page) ROBESON TO REST ENFIELD, Conn., June 17-(P) Mrs. Paul . Robeson said today that her singer-husband would take a year's rest from the con cert stage upon completion of his current tour in Panama "in de ference to his health." Animal Crachcrs By WARREN GOODRICH a V W a ,m a to veme jane, uresnam. on a bid of $132,267. Work on the Fos- ter section of the Santiam high-! way was given to Frank M. Par sons, Forest Grove, on a bid of $27,923. WORLD FLIGHT STARTS NEW YORK, June 17--The first round-the-world passenger flight in aviation history began at La Guardia field today when a Pan American World Airways court, ine young man was ar rested when he was seen to light iand throw a firecracker in the 300 block of State street, police said. CORN PROSPECTS POOR DES MOINES, la, June 17-UP) "There is now little hnpe that most of the rich flooded bottom land in the southern half of Iowa An 18-month-old child, found bv city nolice in a precarious posi tion In a parked auto, was claimed by Its mother a short while after police took it from the car Mon day afternoon. Cries attracted at tention to the car, where the in fant was found with Its feet caught in the steering wheel and its head hanging next to the floor. CI)Kt Swa Srasicaia pit mShe just chatters on and on human fashion clipper took off with 21 airline, can produce a corn crop." the publishing and pubuc officials I Iowa weekly weather and crop aboard. I bulletin said today. Oregon Getting I 5ivotri.Mfrrv' , j a-, rwrc r Commission Rules Lommission uiicrs compromise For School Zone Ordinance PORTLAND, Ore, June 17 -PI Oregon has enough taverns, clubs and beer and wine package stores, the Oregon liquor control com mission ruled today in refusing new licenses. LAVKDRY PERMIT ROI CIIT PORTLAND, June 17-P-Ap- proval of plans for a $125,000 laundry building at the Oregon Fairview home near Salem was asked today in an application filed with the housing expediter by the state board of control. Ministers Elect Dr. Huntington WASHING TO. Jjm 17 -Jt) Presidert Truman, winder nse the repvtlaraia naTr;y in r great his Us bs'l -elt. re turned la the rarta! ir.at awediy twarided wlwher try ll again m labr taX t sition. Latest Inrrenparte U.ly ( i ne fresMeni. learmg inwrv from returns gathered by The j university wbere reotntvd Statesman ere test ortdenu. g ves ( hooary degree tar. 1 is Ui Rirnes a six vU Wad nrlPorl'r ", savent trade wp frf Finley with 1 c4es cast la Sun- ' Trr n4 V ft 1 tUwd in InmenrtleW rriurrt 1 Hartley Stwaissaiv. He has tabulated by The Statesman. Fred , "7 sr.san.gm so nu r-i r- At pTtncrlon. the prerlVtl vtred his belief today that lts vetsal training e4 the nati ytsuth was "i military rere ij" la the welfare 4 the rsuettry a the tre eg the wti. Schwab of ML Angel niwi to have a sate lead for the tone 4 position. This Is due In large mea sure to the o erw helmirg tna)tr Ity given rum in his hrene pre cinct of ML Angel and the rub stantial -ote cast far him ta oth er districts. First meeting of the new rural schorl board will be held Thurs day. June 28. in the office of Ag nes C Booth. MarWi school supenn count of the vote Monday. June 23 by the lUr? T7-. rtM T!ll county boundary board sittirg as ILXtCIlSIOn 13111 a canvassing board. (Additional school election news pate 10 ) House Passes arson county w - f - 1 trT f Kent Control ote win be made Dr Seth R. Huntington, pastor j Ministerial association at a picnic meeting held at the Oregon tate school for the deaf Tuesday night. Dr. Charles Durden. pastor of Calvary Raptit. was named ire president and Capt. R. B. Lesher cf the Salvation Army, was desig nated secretary-treasurer. Offi cers will be installed and take over their duties September 1 Dr. J. M. Adams Is the retiring president To Real Estate Pout WASHINGTON. June 17 -0 Tti houM rtamped tta final ap prosal today ea a b 'J evte-rvlir rent rtr.tr 4s wr,t.l neit Mrn but permitting 1$ percert In crease if tenants oJi tarty sgree to ry thrm In rr j m tor leasee ei tending -.roug Iftl. The tall, w hch a'.ai tree bu.M- Rrappointment of Claude H Murphy as State real estate com- misslter was announred Tueaday ing materials fnmm mort re rraxtr. by Gov. Eatl Snell. Murphy has now gt to the senate, served in Oils rapacity since June j The product f a rnate-hous 14. 1$3$. His new terra rovers a .conference comrrullee. ut ats four-year period. Prior to ccenir.g Ironed cvt d.ffrrrnces bet-eeq v-m to Salem Murphy was engaged In ww chambers the meagre the real estate busineas at Aibary houe arcrcsal after a UM.u for sever si years. A modified plan to facilitate the establishment of schools and play cept in the "most exceptional cases. v To qualify as a "most excep tional" case, the applicant must "show beyond question that the public interest and adequate ser vice under the law demand the issuance of any particular lic ense," the commissioner said. Chairman Hugh R. Kirkpatrick grounds in residential xones won announced a new policy would the endorsement of the Salem permit no more licenses for "dis- nlannine and zoning commission pensmg alcoholic beverages" ex- Tuesday nieht The commission in effect regis tered its disapproval of an or dinance bill now under city coun cil consideration, which would permit school and church build ings in any residential area by amending the present zoning law. The council had referred the bill to the zoning body for its recommendation. After hearing . the stand of school district 24 favoring the bill, as presented by Superinten dent Frank -B. Bennett, and dis cussing protests against the bill received by several commission members individually, the com' mission adopted a compromise re commendation. Commissioners called attention to an existing but seldom-used provision; of the zoning code which i permits the city council, at its Weather Salem Portland . San francosco Chicago Mix. - n - 72 M 6 7fl Mln. Preclp. SS M SS M 59 trace S3 .00 59 AO New York Willamette river J feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary ifcld. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight, with Uule change in temperature. Highest today is. lowest tonight SO. condiuons favor able for farm work today. No marked change in temperature espected before Friday or baturaay. discretion following a public hear ing, 10 a now in eitner class I or II residential zones buildings for "municipal, educational, religious. philanthropic, fraternal or other ' institutional uses." The commission will recom mend to the city council that the only change in the zoning code be the addition of public play grounds and parks to these items which the council may permit af ter hearing. Bennett told the commission that growth, and changing centers of population will require new schools, central to the heavy pop ulation centers within Salem school district. He asserted that in many instances of projected new school facilities, a few persons in ine neighborhood can stir up enough opposition to prevent the now-necessary change of zone, and added that the alternatives left and school locations in in dustrial, business or remote lur al areas. Silucrton Welcomes New Police Car ... fa Hurry cf rrctrits against the rett increase pmiiioa. With rer.t rcmtrols dse t e pi re alucrther cm Jane )3 u- remgres cts by then. ppo. U the measure dwirvt1 The wwaswre was arx ed ky a starSIr vcAe e 111 to 'I. SILVEETON Xabert Borland, city amauger (left), and Tartar Graasalrkla. etdef af tUm (rUai). smile happily aver the new pal ice ear btbt by tk pee pie af SUvertM fee U pmOtm The expense af aykeep will be eared far ky Um dly Itaelf. (Lsxsra pbetaj ECCORO rtOODt Dt E BURUNGTOX la. Jane lT-vJT) Hea-y ratna forerast far the nest 24 hours ta the Miaa.aa.pr4 rtvsr s aliey ill rru!t ta rerarj fi"d Ing rcevStUone V--t-Vean C, U. Tucker, U. &. snrteoroioC bere. said lonlgt.t. --I Our Senders i i -