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o oo o Weather Up-to-the-Minute M. Mln. Freelp. : M .00 .10 .( YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER roll off the press In th morning TODAY with more up-to-the-minute news than, in any ctbet morning newspaper in the valley. And it still should reach carrier route .subscribers by 7 a. m. Please call 9101 if you are 'not receiving your- STATESMAN by SaJeaa 14 M 7S S3 m ia 15 11 1 M 3.1 feet. Portland - San francisco Chicago ).ew York : Willamette river . FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu Nw. McNary field; Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight with brief clearing in afternoon. Little change In temperature, highest IS: low IS. Favor able weather for all farm activities ex cept dusting. I mat nour. WINETY-SEVENTH YEAR 16 PAGES Tit Oregon Statesman, Salem, Or Friday. August 8. 1947 Prlc Sc Nov 114 mm POUNDDO 1651 pmm U " i V Globe-Circling Odom in NewBuildingforOneof City's Oldest Industries IfX -JL ' r I If-, -.."? - - . - r ij,, ' Among- expanding Salem Industries is one f the city's eldest, the W. W. Bssebraafh Co. fowidry on Sonth 17 th street, where the new Rosebrsnrh bal'dinf pictured above Is beta erected across the street front present foundry baildinrs. The new structure will house light metal fabricating; operations. Long-contemplated, the new building was delayed by wartime material shortages. (Statesman photo ? by Don Dill, staff photographer.) (Story and additional pictures no page 1.) ' , We pity the ' poor British who face fresh rigors of Jiving for Jack of purchasing power-in. market that are able to supply them with things they need, j But there is a reverse side to the shield, and that lis of concern to Americans. For the curtailment cf imports of foodstuff, tobacco, lumber, cotton, film jwUL be lary ly at the expense of the U S. producers. f Statistics show to what degree cur prosperity is due to our large export trade. Lower the boom on that and you lower a boom tm domestic prosperity.; At the cur rent rate of production it would not Uke long. with declining de mand to have our producers and manufacturers wallowing in sur pluses of cotton, wheat, tobacco, etr. . i The June- reports indicate that the period (of foreign trade ex pansion had passed its peak. Our exports declined 13 per cent un der the May figure. Most authori ties foresee a fn1her rfecline from the rate of $10 billion a year which exports h&d been hitting. Europe is not the j only part of the world which is exhausting its supply of American dollars. Latin American countries which in dulged in free and easy spending cf their accumulated balances see th bottom of the barrel .coming up. Canada is losing dollars and Argentina is putting controls on Imports. The Marshall plan is making little progress so there is no immediate prospect of making new loans of magnitude to Europe. Congress will look with rather a fishy eye on any extraordinary loans to Latin America. Faster than we think we may be getting to the end of the road. A decline In exports will not be ruinous for us. It should (Continued on editorial page) Animal. Cracltcrs . . By WARREN GOODRICH i f um you'll have to carx , the baby." - '' "7""' 'tic -eerssssj vssSSS aylorereTS07 A' J ;.i' lr ' - i.. - . - ' 4 --- Sf Haflghes,: Brewster :; Battle im Stalemate ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 7--vVP)-The' Hughes-Brewster battle came to a stormy,, inconclusive close tonight after Howard Hughes flung out fresh accusations "of "lies? apd "ulterior motives" In a senate in vestigation of his war contracts. x - - , ; Senator. Brewster (R-Me), chairman of the senate war Investi gating committee; stood on his .denial that he had offered tq call off. the inquiry if Hughes would agree to merge his Trans World Airline with Pan American Airways. . And-by agreement, of-the two antagonists, the committee closed that phase of its inquiry after two tense days --the sworn charge and its sworn denial standing on the record. Ferguson told . reporters each side "has had all it wanted to say and the matter is closed." H'iH Tarn to Contracts He said the committee will turn tomorrow morning to the investi gation of Hughes $11,000,000 car go plane contract, and then go into the $22,000,000 photo recon naissance plane contract One of Hughes' parting shots was the accusation of "ulterior motives'' in the inquiry. He quo ted a senate agent as having said, "WeTe out to get Elliott Roose velt." ; The agent he mentioned, Fran cis Flanagan, investigator for the senate war investigating commit tee flung; baclv a -denial. That was only one of many charges and denials, all under oath, batted back and forth be fore subcommittee poking Into $40,000,000 in wartime plane con tracts 4he government rave mil lionaire Hughes and industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. . ; Spectator Protests - : This also happened t In - a day that produced threats to clear the hearing room, a protest from a youthful spectator, and hints of contempt action against Hughes that never blossomed: 1. The man who makes and flies planes and produces tools and movies said he had been call ed a "playboy" and "eccentric" but never a liar. He stacked his rep utation against Brewster's on that score, saying the senator has a witation as a "trick shot art ist." 2. Hughes challenged Brewster to repeat under oath that a TWA hostess ha'd confided she was afraid to be on' a plane alone with Hughes. Brewster didn't immedi ately, but is expected to return to the stand later. Stasseri Plans Visit to Oregon Expected in Oregon In Septem ber is Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and active candidate for ' the - republican nomination for president He will visit the Pendleton, Roundup for two days, then spend a day or two in western Oregon. - Backing the Stassen candidacy in Oregon is -a group of young republicans, most of them veter ans of the last war. No organiza tion has been perfected yet but the group plan to get together at Bend on August 23rd to lay plans for Stas sen's reception in Oregon and for his campaign for delegates to the national con , " -Jf Churcliill to e Attlee's Plea for Power LONDON, Aug 7 HSV Winston Churchill gave notice tonight that his conservatives will try to throw out the labor government's request for what be called "unlimited and undefined powers" to deal with Britain's economic difficulties. The big labor majority overrode conservative criticism of the gov ernment's emergency program to-1 night in a test vote, 318 to 170, however, which apparently fore shadowed defeat of the Churchill motion. The vote came on a rou tine adjournment motion. "So far as I can make out" Churchill said, "this bill invests the government with totalitarian power. They can spend all the money they, can ever filch from the pockets of the hard working people of this country." , Seamen to Insist ' On Closed Shop ? SACRAMENTO. Calif., Aug. 7 UP)-' Big Harry Lundeberr, boss of 60,000 AFL . seamen, declared today, his sailors would man no ships without a closed-shop con tract "regardless of the Taft Hartley act." "There will be no American ships manned by AFL seamen sailing after September 30 (when the existing contract expires) un. less the Sailors Union' of the Pa cific has a closed shop agreement and the men are hired through the hiring hall," Lundeberg told a reporter. v Oppos Mass Evacuation Nears for Residents in Capitol Street Trading Center Zone; Futures Undecided By Winston IL Taylor ) Staff Writer. The Statesman In the midst of a housing short age, residents of one concentrated area of Salem are getting ready for a wholesale change to differ ent dwellings. But nearly half of them don't know yet for sure, that they'll have a house to occu py when the time comes. That is the answer obtained this week in a survey by The Statesman of the two-block area bounded by Capitol, Cented,' Un ion and 12th streets. . It is here that a modern business center, reportedly to cost in excess of $1,500,000, is to be constructed by Pacific Mutual Life Insur ance Co., a project which meets with general approval of the peo ple who must move. , The houses now in the area number 27 and contain 32 dwell ing units. None has yet. been va cated, and no ' occupant has re France Chicago-Paris Trip Completed In 14 Hours PARIS, Aug. 8-OP)-Villiam P. Odom landed his twin-engined bomber at Orly field here today at 9:08 a. m. (3:03 a. m. EST) on the second leg of an attempt to break the. round-the-world solo flight record set by the late Wiley Post in 1933. " Odom had taken off from Chi cago at 12:93 p. m. EST yester day, giving him an elapsed time of 14 1 hours and 10 minutes for the flight to Paris. He had paused briefly en route at Gander, Nfld., where he took on 1,200 gallons of gasoline.' Odom corrected a short circuit in - his automatic pilot during the trip to Gander from Chicago by flushing out a corroded junction box with a fire extinguisher. Enroufe from Chicago, the Bombshell flew 325 miles an hour at 19,000 feet The 27-year-old former British ferry command officer established a world's non-solo globe-circling record of 78 hours and 55 min utes in the same plane last April with Milton Reynolds, Chicago pen manufacturer, as a passenger and T. Carroll Sallee as flight en gineer. He hopes to complete his solo flight in 90 to 94 hours. Post's record is 186 hours. Local Man Shot In Head; Police St Fremont R. Stevenson, 265 N. Commercial st. Is held in the city jail pending further investigation on a charge of assault while armed with a deadly weapon and John Snyder, same address is in a Portland hospital in a critical condition following shooting which occurred Thursday night at Stevenson's address, police re cords show. Hospital officials said Snyder would probably be oper ated on early this morning. Snyder, shot in the head, ac cording to signed statements in police records, was first rushed to Salem Deacpness hospital by the Salem first aid car and later escorted by state police in an ambulance to Portland The weapon used in the shoot ing, a .38 calibre revolver which witnesses told police was being carried by Stevenson in a holster preceding the shooting,' is being held as evidence by city police pending further investigation by District Attorney Miller Hayden, who investigated witnesses follow ing the shooting. Witnesses told police that they heard arguments before the shoot ing allegedly concerning Steven son's wife. One woman witness stated to police that she had cpme up the stairs of the hotel to the floor n which the shooting occur ed and . that she was threatened with the gun by Stevenson as he stood at the top of the stairs, ar guing with two men. REFERENDUM IN COUNTY CORVALLIS. Aug T.-MVThe proposed establishment of a San tiam soil conservation district will go to referendum vote October 22. Farmers in southern Marion .county will participate. ceived definite notice to leave. It is. understood that the sales con tracts generally call for 30 day's notice. From revenue stamps filed in the Marion county recorder's of fice as a result of the property sales, it is estimated that the amount paid by the insurance company to individuals aggre gated approximately .$393,000. Most of the residences were owned by their occupants. Of the large majority of residents inter viewed, only two noted their -intention to move from Salem. Most have already purchased new homes, and several others Intend or hope to. Three have, plans to rent nouses or apartments, With few exceptions these oc cupying families are of two mem ber size. Largest occupancy is by a seven-member family, followed by one six-member group, and a President V Loyal A. Warner, Salem, elected Than day night as president of the reorganised Marion Countr Community Chest which plans to start Its annual drive In October Loyal Warner Elected County Chest Chief Reorganization of the Marion County Chest was accomplished at a meeting in the chamber of commerce last night. A budget of $16,31 for the county outside of Salem was adopted and plans laid for an agressive canvass of the countjy during the chest period in October. Officers elected were Loyal A. Warner, president, Ray Glatt, Woodburn, first vice president; Ed Royer, Silverton, second vice president; H. L. Braden, secre tary nd Tinkham Gilbert treas urer. Walter Bell of Stayton is the retiring president Others elected to the board of directors are Reber Allen, Silver- ton; R. G. Ahrens, Mrs. Agnes Booth, Turner; H. J. Baldwin; De troit; Walter Bell, Stayton; Man ton Carl, Hubbard; Fred Dental,, Donald; Stanley deJardm, Ger- vais; Mrs. Loron Geisy, Aurora; Lloyd Girod, Idanha; Kenneth Golliette, Mehama; Lee Highber- ger, Aumsviile; Lee Kos, Mill City; S. J. Smith, Ross Coleman, St. Paul; Lester Shields, Jeffer son; Ed Stolle, Mt. Angel; M. D. Woolley, Woodburn; Carl Hogg, Henry Kropp, C. A. Sprague, Sa lem. Active work will be performed to complete the organization of every community in advance of teh solicitation time. 20 Missing on Alaska Plane KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. Army and navy planes and sur face craft joined today in a wide search for a navy PBY-5-A which has been missing with 20 persons since lat night on a flight to Dutch Harbor, 600 miles to the west. The Kodiak-based plane car ried 15 passengers and a crew of five. Hopes for a safe water landing were dimmed by reports of heavy seas along the route. Stormy weather , handicapped today's isearch. Navy headquarters reported that the plane last reported it w; on the beam 150 miles from Dutch Harbor, at the eastward end of teh Aleutian chain, at 10:45 p. m. with six hours gasoline supply. The ceiling was low and there was about a mile's visibility. few with four and five persons . each. While negotiations in the area have been in progress for several months, a few renters have been in the area less than two months. Most persons in the affected blocks Have occupied their houses from three to seven years, but Mrs. Florence Catterlin Irwin has lived 65 years continuously at 465 N. 12th st. and Ralph W. South wick has lived 55 years at 1179 Marion st With the exception of the two bouses completed earfy this year, just prior to sale negotiations, the area comprises generally build ings more than 30 years old. One long-time resident recalls when the rest of his block was an orch ard, and another remembers when average traffic along the main Southern Pacific tracks here was three trains daily. Regardless of attachment to Farrel 1 Asks Inco Closed Until Automatic-type Meters Low in Latest Bidding City Manager J. L. Franzen announced Thursday, that the Magee-Hale Park-O-Meter com pany, Oklahoma City, Ok la., had submitted a low bid of $15.50 each for the 60 automatic park ing meters proposed purchased by the last council meeting. The meters will not be ordered, how ever, until after approval of the bid by the council at its next meeting, Franzen said. The Park-O-Meter is the auto matic type originally recommend ed by the city manager before the installation began last spring. ine action to accept Dias lor an other type of weter came after Police Chief Frank A. Minto told the council that the present met ers "are giving us a lot of trou ble" and "are falling to pieces." Auto Driving Course Slated At High School Salem High school will teach students to drive automobiles in a new course scheduled for the first time this fall. Driver training will be an elec tive course emphasizing safe driv ing and it will be open to stu dents who first obtain learner per mits, according to Harry B. John son, curriculum director for school district 24. In preparation for teaching the new subject Floyd Siegmund and George Brant of the Salem high faculty will attend a teacher train ing, course in driver education August 11-15 at Lincoln High school, Portland, sponsored by the state system of higher education. Johnson said Hiram Smith of the school . staff here took a similar training course last year at Cor vallis. Driver training courses in Oregon high schools have been en couraged by the state education departments. , Among education aids for the driver course will be a dual con trol automobile, Johnson said. McNary Field Blind Landing Equipment Due The civil aeronautics adminis tration in Seattle Thursday opened bids for construction of the instrument landing System and approach light lane at Mc Nary field here to find that the Wickes Engine and Construction company, Des Moines, Iowa, had a low, all or none, bid of $20,764. The awards are to be made by CAA, and only expense to the city of Salem will be for clearing of some tcees from the area east of the field. The city also furn ishes one small building, already on the field, for the project. Other companies and the total amounts of bids opened Thurs day were: Walter Devekma, Phoenix City., Ala., $25,048; Bren nan Construction company, Port land, $21,194J"K. H. Blower, Port land, $21,160," (all or none); Alan Yonker, Portland, $22,010, (all or none);- C. A? Pike, Enumclaw, Was-h.,t$22;985r and Electronics Associates, Bellingham, $23,11 1. property through long residence and in spite of the scarcity of housing, the people whp must move generally see the new de- velopment as a step in the growth of the city and of special benefit to the district surrounding the two blocks. The buildings, hoped to be ready late in 1948 for use by Sears Roebuck and Co. and other chain and local merchants, not yet announted, wjll face on Capitol street. Extending approximately halfway to 12th Street, with a sep arate market building at 12th and Center, the stores, will be backed by a large off-street parking area. Purchase of the properties was handled locally by Grabenhorst Bros., realtors, and a residential to-business zoning change was granted by the city early this summer, without protest from the area or adjacent property owners. minff Facilities Added 50 on Home's Waiting List; Addition to Pendleton Hospital Okehed by Board I ' SALEM, Aug. 7-(AP)The Ute frntrjeency board Wed nesday for the third time rejected the bids for Fairrlew Home's three - structure building; project, following; which Secretary of State Robert S. Farreil, jr? declared that he be Jieved.the home must receive no more patients until it can house and care for them. j - Dr. Irvin Hill, Fairview superintendent, had announced that more than 50 persons, including 35 infants, are on the waiting list for entry to the home, white Farreil declared that f he would ask the board of control atits next meeting to rJo . the-roster at the home until such time as Dr. Hill' would declare it capable, of receiving more wards. With little discussion, emergen cy board members, and the board of control in joint session accept ed the $966,000 bid of the McCor mack Construction company, Port land, for construction of a treat ment hospital at Eastern Oregon State hospital, Pendleton. At the same time they rejected a bid of $792,740 for new patients' cottage, employes' dormitory and laundry buildings at Fairview home. The rejected bid from the W. C. Smith Construction company, Portland, was larger than a bid for the same Job rejected earlier this year. Dean Walker Dissents . The only dissent "on : the state hospital contract was by Senator Dean Walker, Independence, who declared that much as it might be needed, he could not conscienti ously 'approve expenditures for large public building' projects while the public was in real need of housing. . Walker, with Senators Mar shall Cornett Klamath Falls, and Carl Engdahl, Pendleton, and Representatives F. H. Dammasch, Multnomah county, and Robert Gile, Roseburg, voted down the Fairview proposition. Then, after the Pendleton hos pital had been given its build ing, Gile asked for a reconsidera tion. On the revote, the other four stood adamant Authority Questioned The argument centered not only around the cost of the pro posed employes dormitory, but also around the authority of the emergency, board to do more than reject or approve the recommen dations of the board of control as to building projects. : In a closed meeting Thursday morning the emergency board agreed to support a plan for con struction; of the patients cottage and laundry. The board of con trol, with Farreil as spokesman, maintained the emergency ' group could consider ; only the three structure plan recommended by the governor, secretary of state and treasurer, . who comprise the board of control. 1 "You are not authorized by law to bring in any other recommen dation or to tell us how to ope rate the laundry," Farreil declar ed. Snell supported him. Treas urer Leslie Scott was absent . Resolution Drawa . But the emergency board, ask ed by the control board to con sider granting an emergency $45,000 appropriation to meet in creased costs of maintenance and office staffs at state institutions under the new 40-hour -week rul ing of the civil service commis sion, sat down and wrote a reso lution to the effect that the change from a to a 5-day week or to 40 hours Is; soj; great it should not be undertaken without legislative consideration. Dean Walker, -who worded the resolu tion, maintained the legislature did not realize it was giving the civil service . commission such powers when it created that bodyt Griffith, MacNaughton Resign as PGE Directors POT LAND, Aug. 7,-aVFrankt 1 mi x. uruiiui ina l. d. uc Naughton retired today from their positions as chairman and direc tor, respectively, of the board of Portland General Electric com pany. Successors will not be appoint ed. The company expects to have a complete new board once reor ganization is. finished. . f Salem Bread Prices . to Raise .Cent per Loaf A one-cent increase in Salem tread prices .Thursday raised the large lVa pound loaf to 19 cents and the pound loaf to 14 cents, i The cent increase affects other bakery products except potato and raisin nut bread which remains at 20 cents per loaf. PUTTER PRICE TO RISE PORTLAND, Aug. 7 -Ah But ter prices are expected to climb another cent tomorrow in Port land, making grade AA 78 cents a pound for retailers and grade A 77 cents. ..'!.-.- i lioster , C7 ' : r- r 1 - r Coronation to i , - .'Is Start Mt. Angel Fete Tonight .' MT. ANGEL, Aug. I The grand opening of the ninth An nual flax festival is slated for 9 o'clock tonight when colorful coronation ceremonies will be' conducted by the Salem Cher, rians at the entrance to the St, Mary's auditorium and will be followed by the queen's ball in the auditorium and a modern dance in the St Mary's gym nasium. One admission ticket; will admit the bearer to both dances. King Bing Willfam Dyer. Jrl i of the Salem Cherriarw. j will ! crown Jeannette Hoffer, Mt An4 j gel, queen of the 1947 fla fes- tivaL Attending her will be the,: five-member royal court of Flax- aria. Crown Princess Lola Tra viss and Princess Monica Duda, both of Mt Angel, Princess Ar lene Zuber, Woodburn and Prin cess Chukke Brokke. Silvertoitj Little Delores Schmidt will be ring bearer -and Jimmy Berch told, crown bearer. Shir'ey Walk er, 1946 Flaxaria queen, will pre sent her scepter to the new rulerj :'j Mrs. R. O. Appleby will act as official chaperone.. . -i Mayor Jacob ' Berchtold will give the address- of welcome and -solos will be sung by Mrs. Frank Moffenbeier, Portland and Ber- 1 nard Smith, St PauL The Four i Guardsmen, vocal quartet. Silver ! ton, will also sing. i Queen Jeanette and ptlncesses.! Chen-ian escorts . and chaperon will lead the grand march to the 3 St JUary's gymnasium where the queen will open Jhe dance, to re turn later to the queen's bail at the aduitorium. Festival highlights on follow ing days of the festival will be Saturday. Auniit 10 am. ' conducted tours through the Mt Angel flax plant Mt. Anrrl creamery, Farmers Union Oil company. Farmers Union ware house, St Mary's church, Mt Angel academy and normal school and Mt Angel college; 12 noon, dinner at St Mary's dining hall by Catholic Daughters; 2:30 pm, grand parade followed by - a speaking program at review inj 3 stand; 4 p-nx, minor sports j Main street; p.m, supper . in 1 at, Mary's dining hall; t pm, outdoor show by Vancouver Rec reational center . anif5 Orein Journal Juniors, followed by the j waiuing ui prizes. Sunday, August 10: 1 p.m., kiddies' parade followed by speak ing program and 2:30 p nx, base bale game at Ebner field Mt, Angel vs. Valsetx. Heat Broken After 135 Die CHICAGO, Aug. 7-0f-The mid west's longest and most severe I heat wave was virtually broken inursaay as aeatns attributed to the heat and humidity rose to 133 across the country. Cool, dry air from Canada pro vided the relief, however, and the sun-baked corn belt, still was in j need of general, soaking rains. ; After four successive days of 100 - degree heat- temperatures I were in the mid-eighties in most L midwest states Thursday. Heat deaths included 44 in Chi- cago and 40 in St Lours. Oct Senalsrs -led iir-aTJo-Trr-Tii iai arwn i -- ct rpr r p m