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O O 'OOP OGDi ODDO 'D'Q DDDO' O C !! Keizer to Ballbt on School Bond Dssue 75.000 Addition to KEIZER, Auf. 15.-A proposed $75,000 bond issue will be voted upon in Keizer school district 88, Tuesday, August 19, the money to be used for the construction of a new unit in the permanent school building plan. The ' board of directors had considered the erection of a qu onset hut as a temporary mea sure to alleviate overcrowding, the district previously having voted sufficient funds for this move. However, it was subse quently determined that more space will be needed than would be afforded by a quonset hut and that its erection as a permanent building might Jeopardize the district's share of the basic school support fund, which amounts to considerable portion of the ' Students of population trends will find the census bureau's esti mates of population changes since 140 of interest. The most sig nificant fact, which the bureau notes in fts statement, is the ereat westward movement." Al ways in evidence since the begin iun( of white settlement on the Atlantic coast. It was greatly ac celerated during the late war. the increase in the three western states in the six years between J 940 and 1946 being estimated at one-third, . a truly phenomenal growth. The growth pattern for the coast states 'remains about the ame: California got mot of the new settler. Washington second. Oregon third. But the patios of increase are more favorable to Oregon. California led with an In crease of 58 per cent Oregon was second with 33 per cent Wash ington was in third place with a rant 30 per cent The shifting of lumbering from Washington to south wet Oregon should extend this trend, but the impending de velopment of the Columbia basin project in central Washington will give a big spurt to that state. Certainly here in Oregon we cannot complain of being "back ward when growth comes at such rate. In fact, it might be more comfortable if it tame less rapid ly. Then there would not be the scramble for housing andXbe headaches for schools, cities, util ities to provide plants to care for the increase. We should realize however that is not enough to attract popula tion. They must the majority of them, ! find economic opportunity here. Otherwise they get disgust ed and move elsewhere, or they become dependent on welfare doles. We have some of that in the current immigration despite the abundance of employment The newcomers provide increased competition in many lines of re tailing and service business; but tney also become consumers,, thus increasing the local markets. If relations can be kept in balance and the immigrants can estab lish themselves securely then the growth is healthy and benefits flow through the entire communi ty- The rate of increase will surely taper off; but western business dare not sell the Pacific coast sttort Instead it must look for i ward to continued growth and to a persistence of the problems at tendant on growth. Trains Collide in Columbus Station' COLUMBUS. O., Aug. 15-?V The Cincinnati limited plowed into the side of the American to night at Union station, derailing two Pullman cars and one chair car but injuring only one passen ger severely enough to require boFpatalizaUon. Both are Pennsylvania railroad trains. Engineer Marcus Klug of Cin cinnati said his train, the 13-car Cincinnati Limited, was moving only about five miles an hour' when it struck the coupling be tween the second and third car from the rear of the New York bound American. Animal Cracttcrs By WARREN GOODRICH "Ma $ay$ next week w $tart win . ' Q S SyiUk4 School Sought annual operating budget of the district A. E. Waldorf is chairman of the Keizer school board and oth er members are Ralph Sipprell, and Andrew Beardsley. Gene vieve Oldenburg is a clerk of the board. The election will be held be tween the hours of 2 and 7 p. m. Citizens of the district for 30 days whose names are on the current tax roll are qualified to vote in the bond election. The population of the com munity of Keizer has increased in recent months so rapidly that it is considered almost certain that the; 11 teachers who csred for the school enrollment last year will have to be increased, if class rooms to accommodate them are found. Succumbs Dr. 8. B.: Laughlin, for 23 years a professor at Willamette uni versity, iwhe died at his home Friday after a prolonged Ill ness. Dr. Laughlin, Longtime WU Professor, Dies Dr. Sceva Bright Laughlin, member of Willamette university faculty from 1923 until his retire ment a few months ago, died-here Friday following a prolonged ill ness. The educator also had served as a member of the -city council and was a past master of the Sa lem grange. 1 i Dr. Laughlin served Willamette as professor of economics and so ciology from 1923 to 1935 and was professor of sociology and anthro pology from 1933 to 1946. The veteran educator was born at New Providence, Iowa, Oct 18, 1881. He received his AB and AM degrees from Perm college at Ow- kaloosa, Iowa, Oct 10, 1905. Later he continued his studies at Haver- ford, Harvard and the University of Chicago and received his PhD at the University of Iowa. Started Teaching la Iowa Dr. Laughlin began his teaching career as principal of the Plea sant Plain academy in Iowa in 1908. In 1907, Dr. Laughlin joined the Iowa public school jrystem and from 1908, to 1910 was principal of Akron high school. He served as superintendent of schools at Larch wood, Iowa, from 1910 to 1913, and i as - teacher of English at Friends Boys school at Ham Allah, Palestine, until 1913. In 1914 Dr. Laughlin joined the faculty of I Culbertson - Stockton college at Canton, Mo., where he served as head of the history and social science department until 1920, when he moved to Park col lege in Parkville, Mo. From this school he transferred to Willa mette in 1923. Authored Three Books Dr. Laughlin was the author of three books "Missouri Politics During the Civil War,- "Will the American Farmer Become a Pea sant" and "A Handbook for Thesis Writing." ! A nationally known Quaker, Dr. Laughlin was a prohibitionist and a member of the Grange and Far mers union. He was founder and national chancellor for Delta Pi Gamma Mu and a member of Phi Delta Kappa and the Pacific So ciology society. Surviving are his widow, the former Lillian C. Goodall, to whom he was married in October, 1913; a daughter, Mary P. Laugh lin of Philadelphia; two sons, John S. Laughlin of Champaign, lit, and William S. Laughlin of Cambridge, Mass.; two sisters, Mrs. Vena Morton, of Mesa, Ariz., and Mrs. May Caylor of Omaha, Neb.: and ' two brothers, Melvin Laughlin of New Providence, Io wa, and Owen Laughlin of Chi cago. Announcement of funeral serv ices will be made later by Clough Barrick company. Pre-Fall Warning Given I to Splashers Fines and jail sentences await drivers and car owners not equip ped with fenders or splash guards by the end of August, Secretary of State Robert S, Farrell, jr., warned Friday. The new! regulation, by the 1947 legislature,; applies to all personal or business cars, motorcycles, trucks, other than logging; buses and trailers. Violators are subject to a maxi mum fine of $100 or 30 days im- piisonment in the county jail. f -.' . V A. ' t ' r v V " ' : - , ' -) . ' ''''-" NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR k , m r r $1 Million State Emergency Board to Give Ruling Tuesday The combined low bids of Sound Construction and Engineering Co., Seattle, for building a nurses' gon state hospital -here were accepted f riday by tne state Doara oi control. They totaled $1,088,121. Awarding a contract to the Seattle firm will not be considered Tuesday at a joint meeting of the control officials and the state emer Court Indicts Krupps as Nazi ar NUERNBERG, Saturday, Aug. 18,;p)Tne Krupps, Germany's gunmakers for 133 years, were indicted as war criminals today! Two years after the collapse of the third reich, American prose cutors presented to an ail-American court a 50-page biircharging the giant Ruhr gteelmakjng and armament firm, with waging ag gressive war, plundering peace ful countries and exploiting slave labor to an inhuman climax. Twelve men were named as di rectors of the $2,500,000,000 Krupps concern during the crim inal years under Hitler. Number one defendant is Al fred Krupp von Bohlen und Hal bach, son of Bertha Kruppy heir ess of the Krupp fortune. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, sum ming up the charges against the steelmakers said the U. S. would prove that Alfred Krupp and his associates were nazi party mem bers. SS men. confidants of the gestapo, contributors to Hitler's party coffers, instigators of re armament and breakers of the Versailles treaty. He accused Alfred Krupp of carrying on the policies of his fa ther, Gustav, who is now senile and cannot stand trial. Of Gustav, the general quoted him as once saying, "Even the al lied snoopers" failed to notice how, he beat the provisions of the 1919 peace treaty and rebuilt Ger many's potential for war. While Krupp was forwarding Hitler's war aims at home, the in dictment continued, the concern carried on "espionage atrocities." "As part of a nefarious design," the, general said, "two months be fore the actual invasion of Hol land, Krupp advised the foreign ministry not to awaken suspicion by withholding visas and prevent ing inspection of guns on order which Krupp had no intention of delivering." The trial is scheduled tentative, ly to start late in September. Gerhart Eisler Guilty of Fraud WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -(P) Communist Gerhart Eisler, 52, al ready under sentence to serve one year for contempt of congress, was convicted in federal court to day on charges of passport fraud. Sentence was not pronounced pending disposal of a defense move for a new trial. Conviction carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. ' Eisler was charged with fraud ulently concealing his communist affiliations, the fact he had used aliases, and that he had been in this country previously when he applied in 1945 for an exit permit to return to his native Germany, Labor Demand Gains Momentum as Harvest Season Advances Locally An enlarged and immediate de mand for labor, in both regular and seasonal employment was reported Friday by Salem offices of the state employmenliservice and the farm labor division. Ex cept for the unknown future sit uation as to crops on which pick ing has just started, however, the harvest labor supply was called "almost adequate." First call of the season for wom en cannery workers, with 75 sought, was taking the efforts of the employment service office, which noted also a rising demand for cooks and waitresses. Mana ger W. H. Baillie said journey man carpenters were much de sired, for both private and govern ment projects, including the De troit dam area. Baillie said there is a continuing scarcity of stenographers, typists and other office help. Meanwhile, from Independence came word that many thousands 10 PAGES . i home and a ward building at Ore gency board. Bid for the ward building was $732,321 and for the nurses' home (based on an alternate) $355,800. Basic bid for the nur&es' home was $387,100. The low bid on the two structures is approximately $35, 000 above the original estimates. Four bids were received. Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr., argued that if . .only one building was constructed the nurses' home should have priority. .The ward building would have a capacity of 300 patients and the nurses' home 106 persons. Both structures would be of concrete and brick construction. Plans for the ward building were prepared by Sutton, Whitney and Aandahl, Portland architects, while plans for the nurses' home were drawn by Lyle Bartholomew, Salem ar chitect Legislative appropriation for the ward building is $275,000 with remainder of construction funds to come out of the $10,000,000 state building fund approved by the voters at a special election in June, 1945. A majority of members of both the board of control and emergency board must vote in agreement before the contracts can be awarded. Three buildings at the Fairview home, recently recommended by the state board of control, were rejected by the state emergency board. This was a group construc tion project RioVotcBacks Mediation of Paraguay War RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil, Aug. 15 (iT") The inter American confer ence of 20 nations, here' to draft treaty for hemispheric defense, opened formally this afternoon with an address by Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra af ter a preliminary organization ses sion had voted to support media tion of the five-months old Para gayan civil war. One of the principal points of issue in the conference, .the vot ing procedure In the projected mutual defense trearWo be draft ed, appeared headed for prompt solution tonight when U. S. Sec retary of State George C. Marshall said the United States was'willing to accept a . compromise of its stand that a two-thirds majority should be decisive. Marshall said the U. S. delega tion now would favor application by two-thirds vote of all "' treaty enforcement measures except military action. The Brazilian president spoke to the delegates, seated about a horseshoe table, from a podium behind which were draped the flags of all 21 American republics although Nicaragua temporarily has been denied an Invitation to the conference. PORTLAND TAX VOTE URGED PORTLAND, Aug. 15-VPy- Two city commissioners recommended to the city council today that a 2 mill tax for five years to finance a new city office building be sub mitted to Portland voters next May. of pickers will be needed in the hop yards when the late harvest gets underway in the week of August 25. The Independence Hop Growers association, 148 C. st, already is placing workers and its officials report most of the Inde pendence area growers will com plete picking of early clusters this week. In the Salem area Friday, Farm Labor Assistant Gladys Turnbull said picking of prunes and late peaches has just begun, and the labor picture in general this week shows "labor supply spread even ly and almost adequately." Her office, at 361 ChemekeU St., has 25 orders for prune pick ers, with family groups to drive to the orchards especially needed. The crop is "fair to good in both quality and quantity," she said, and concentrated principally in Liberty and Orchard Heights dis tricts. Picking is still good for black POUNDDD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, " T" 1 ' Hospital Bicf, Approved 1 f Dip Q.l Trapped In Mine WHITEHAVEN, England. Sat urday, Aug. 16 -P)- Sixteen miners were known todiy to have been killed and 95 others still were trapped in a deep undersea coal mine which was swpt by an explosion last night. 1 A bulletin issued by the national ' coa! board said ventilation in the , 135-year-old William mine had j been restored ' and there whs no sign of fire. ' A rock barrier blocked a mine passage for 250 yards. Rescue teams made up of miners from the area were striving to reach - the trapped men. J. G. Helps, area manager of the national coal board, said at least three separate rock fulls blocked the main passage in the mine two miles from the pithead. The pithead is on the shore in Cumberland county at the north west corner of England and the workings slant downward under the sea. Little Hope Officials apparently had little hope that the men would be brought out alive. Most of the ambulances standing at the pit head were dismissed. Hundreds of pH)ple, including white-faced wives and children of trapped miners, blocked roads leading to the colliery beside the Irish sea. Return to Homes After the coal board's statement was Lssued shortly before dawn, many began walking slowly back to their homes in the dark grimy town of Whitehaven. After hearing of the difficulties fn the' path of the rescue teams the many residents of Whitehav en, a town accustomed for gene rations to the hazards of mining, felt there was little chance of the men being rescued. The explosion spread panic through Whitehaven. It appeared to be Britain's worst mine dis aster in years. Vote for FDR Cuts Delegates To GOP Meet PORTLAND, Aug. 15-UP)-Ore-gon republicans, who've been electing their senatorial candi dates steadily since the first world war, were a bit upset to day. The republican national com mittee ruled that Oregon could send only 12, Instead of 15, dele gates to next year's GOP na tional convention. Oregon won't get the three extra delegates al loted to states which vote re publican. But California, Nevada and Washington, which have a democratic senator now; will. National Committeeman Ralph H. Cake said he would protest. The trouble is that Oregon elect ed two senators in 1944. "Bonus delegates" go to states which vot ed republican in the last presi dential election or for a republi can senator in a later election. Oregon voted for Roosevelt in 1944. And there hasn't been a senatorial election since then. SALMON RUN STARTS PORTLAND, Aug. 15-fjTV The fall salmon run is underway at Bonneville dam, where the army engineers counted 1,980 chinook and 1,378 steelhead passing the fish ladders yesterday.. berries in the Mt. Angel area, with cabins furnished, she noted, and beans are still plentiful in the Stayton, West Stayton and Marion districts. More drive-outs are needed for early hops, while truck transportation is available from the farm labor office each morning. t In another comment on farm labor Friday, Russel M. Adams of the state farm labor headquarters in Corvallis described this sum mer's migrant workers ih Oregon fields, saying "many are new comers, aren't broke, much pre fer Oregon to their former mid west locale and are 'looking for places to settle down here." Adams called at the local farm labor office after interviewing Salem area bean field workers up on completion of a Washington county farm labor survey. There, he said, several crops are overlapping,- causing high demand for labor. I Salem, Ore., Saturday, August ft T Sots Welcome New Brood i -k' 4 " S 11 VTi ( m.' AM :) Ai NEW YORK. Aug. 15 Mr. and Mrs, Elmo Wehnert (left) ef Blodg ejtt. Ore., greet their new brood ef three infants after the babies were flown from Copenhagen, Denmark. Mrs. Wehnert takes !-months-old Ursula Geromin from arms ef American Overseas Air lines Stewardess Ruth Vickery. Purser Gustav Beck holds Erhard Gehrmann, 16 months old. while Olga Holm. American Embassy employe, who accompanied the children, carries Roslta Ann Is, 14 months. Orphaned by the war, the three Danish children were re cently adopted by the Oregon farm couple. (AP Wlrephoto to Tbe Statesman.) " i Delay ed-Act ion Skunk Isolates Local Policeman It wasn't exactly ih his line, but city poundmaster) Joe Irish, got the call and he delivered the goods, too, when city police received a report Friday night that there was an odorous in truder in the home Of Mr. and Mrs. Alden Bowes, 1938 Hazel ave. The unwanted visitor was a skunk, spotted by Bowes as he was working in the basement. Irish didn't have much rouble on the case, felling the striped cat with a single shot from his policeman's revolveij and the only odor was from! the burnt powder caused by th shot The only odor, that is, until Detec tive Ernie Finch wejnt over to inspect the creature to see if it were dead. Latest reports last night were to the. effect that Finch wasn't too popular around the police station any more. I First Automatic Parking Meters Due Within io Days City Manager J. L. Franzen re ported Friday that the first of 302 automatic parking m e t e r s, for which a contract has been sign ed with the Magee-Htle Park-O-Meter company of Oklahoma City, be installed in about JO days. In stallation will begin on State and Cottage streets near the Elks club. The rest of the meters will be installed on Court street between High and Church, on High street between Chemeketa land Ferry, on Center street between High and Commercial streets and on North Commercial, North Liberty, and North High streets between Center and Marion streets. All but those on High street between Chemeketa and Ferry, where present street-widening work will make angle parking possible, are to be for two-hour parking. 3 Die as llOlmph Hurricane Lashes Mexican Coast i i TAMPICO, Mexico, jAug. 15-(;p) -At least three persons were kill ed and 19 injured in the 110-mile-an-hour winds that flashed the coast south of here, j Two of the dead and five of the injured were reported from the the Cerro Azul oilfields near the coast 95 miles to the: south, di rectly in the path of! the storm that howled out of the gulf of Mexico. i The report came her from Gen era I Tamayo, military commander at Cerro Azul via private tele phone wires of Pemejt, the gov ernment petroleum monopoly. Derricks were toppled and tanks and machinery were heavily da maged, be reported, i i IS, 1947 Price x. ; n x; 'y :ih Soviet Demand For 'Big 4' Jap Pact Rejected WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -UP) The United States has told Russia politely but firmly that the Japa nese peace treaty will be written by a conference of many nations, not just the "big four" and the Soviets can take it or leave it The move apparently is design ed to avoid a deadlock ' over Japan like that which has delay ed descisions on the future ' of Germany and Austria. The American position was laid down in a note made public by the state department today which rejected a soviet demand that the Japanese treaty be worked out by a council of foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Brit ain and China alone. Similar machinery, but with France instead of China taking the fourth hand, was worked out at the Potsdam conference to draft treaties for Italy and the Balkan satellites of the nazis, and for Austria and Germany.- But American diplomats repeatedly found themselves., stymied by a Russian "veto" under procedure that required a unanimous vote of the four. - . In the 11-natioo. conference the u. s. seeks, decisions would be made by a two-thirds vote. - Transport Plane Falls into Ocean MONTEVTDO, Uruguay, Aug. 15 (A5)-A transport plane with 12 persons aboard fell into the sea off Montevido just before mid night Tugs which sped to the scene pulled three injured persons from the water early today but nine others were missing. The plane, a 14-pa.senger Sik orsyk, belonged to the recently organized Transports Aereos and Cargueros lnternacionales of Montevido. Aftsembly Selects Nicaragua President MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 15 -(jpy- Dr. Victor M. Roman Y Reyes, 70, was named president of Nicaragua: today by the new constituent assembly chosen in the August election. The new president,' educated as a physician in Philadelphia, was named Nicaraguan foreign minis ter last year and held that post until his selection as chief execu tive today. He has served as con sul at San Francisco, as minister of hygiene and as a senator. Resuscitator Arrives At First Aid Station A new piece of first aid equip ment an EJ resuscitator, arrived at the East Salem station Friday, city first aid men reported last night. The apparatus, a combina tion inhalator. recessitator, and aspirator, cost about $600, aid men said, and will be wed in cases of drowning, gas asphixia Uon, and electric shock. No. Ill IF To Affect Most City Markets Pay; Demands Basis for Local Walkout Threat Salem's approximately , 50 union -meat cutters Friday night voted to strike against local meat retailers if the tin lon-eought $63 a week 'pay scale is not agreed by meat markets before next Thurs day night. Union land management state ments indicated that both parties are prepared to stand pat th meat cutters in their request of 865 for a 48-hour work weekend the operators in their offer of 163. The journeyman's wage scale under contracts which expired August 1 has been $35 for a 48 hour week. The union-demanded increase would amount to about 21 cents 'per hour, or IS per cent;: the opera tori' offer to nearly 1? cents per hour or IS per cent: Market operators here also are prepared to force the issue into national labor relations chann' under the Taft-Hartley bill whic becomes law August 22. it was dis closed last night by Dan Hay. rep resenting Steen Brs.. Hoffman and Schreder meat markets. Seeks Veie mu Offer Hay said the purpose of this ac tion would be to provide for a vote by market - employed meat cutters on their employers' last offer. Hay said his clients position coincides with that of seven ether independent meat markets repre sented by. H. E. Carlson. Representing Salem Meat Cut ters local 291, Herbert E. Barker said the 1 63 request is based on the Portland new scale which) pays $63 for only 40 hours work per week. He also said the unioa members had compromised with employers on a vacation clause, agreeing to a two-weeks vacation after three years employment, as against a requested two weeks af ter two years and the present con tract stipulation for one week's vacation after one year of employ ment. " ' ' -.. . ; ... Eagene Seale Lew Hay' statement noted that Eu gene meat cutters who receive $57.50 for' s 48-hour week did not reopen negotiations at the recent completion of the first year of the two-year contract Barker said the breakdown in negotiations and strike possibility involve all but four Salem meat -markets the only local mar kets not union shops. Agree te Scale Barker said that Safeway Stores, through their Seattle offices. agree to the $65 scale and the com promise vacation clause?" but are ' at odds with the local union over a clause which at present forbids Sunday work. He said Safeway, wants the clause eliminated. Hay said, "It's true Safeway may be willing to offer' $65, but small independent meat markets would find it a hardship to in crease wstges that much without increasing; meat prices which al ready are at a high level. 8100,000 Set As Chest Goal Salem's 'community chest cam paign committee Friday estab lished a 147 goal of $100,000 and set its pre-campaign, period for September 16-30. ; The goal is '25 per ; cent higher than last ; year's goal. The com mittee selected Al Loucks as pre campaign chairman. The "all-out drive will begin October 7, it was announced by A. CT Haag, cam paign committee chairman. Weather Max. - - 7J 4- SJ Mm. si S7 SS 87 Precipe M trace .00 00 trace Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago ....... New York 78 Willamette river -3 S feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bo reau. McNary field. Salem I : Parity cloudy today and tonight; highest tem perature today near SO, lowest tonight M. weather wiU be favorable for U farm activities except winds will in terfere wiUi dusting in the after noon. 5c Our Senators IIS1 Los! r