OOOO P'CT? E-). E3 O ed o o o o a ooo o i 1C3 O O O E3 o Garl Hits Record in Jet Plane EH? Weather Mas. flu. ttXmm Portland San rraoctaco M M fMcaeo M tS New York at n tea M Wljlanwtt rirf : 1 fC FORECAST 4frm t. . weathar W reau. MrNary (MM, Salem : Continual fair today and tomorrow wu hifttaat temperature today IS lowest M. A t frmon wtnda will Interfere with Suat Ini; otherwise favorao.a for alt farm ing activities. POUNDID 1651 tU D C3 OOQ 0 0- SDeakinc at a luncheon in Bend last Friday Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska suggested that, in stead of independent statehood for Hawaii, the island territory be added to one of the Pacific coast states, and he mentioned Oregon as the one to absorb the more than half -million inhabitants of the mid-Pacific Hands. We're sure'the idea will not ap peal to the Hawaiian who clamor for statehood: and wc are doubt ful if Oregon wants to become rm phibious as to territory. In fact the links between Oregon and Hawaii are so few that the civil aeronau tics examiner recommends turn ing down applications for a direct airline flight between the north west and Honolulu. It was not always thus however. The early history of Oregon is re plete with instances of contacts with Hawaii. The ships rounding the Horn very often put in at the Sandwich islands, as Hawaii was then called, lor water or for re pairs. The first press to cbme to the Oregon country was brought from the mission in Hawaii and un at Lanwai mission in Idaho. Hawaiian, or Kanakas, were fre- J quently brought in as laborers or servants. The name "Owyhee," an j older spelling for 'Hawaii, was given to a river in southeastern Oregon and Washington because two Sandwich islanders were murdered on the river by Snake river Indians in 1819. The British, schooner Jenny brought in 'two Sandwich island girls arM Capt George Vancouver had to arrange for their (Continued on Editorial Page) U.S. Consults Greek Liberal; No Cabinet Yet ATHENS, Aug. 25-;p)-Dwight P.Griswold, administrator ot the limited States aid program, visited Themistokles Sophoulis at his sub urban home n Kiphissia tonight nd stressed the need for political unity if the American mission is going; to succeed, an authoritative source said. . ' j ' ' J The source said no "pressure was put on Sophoulis, 86-year-old leader of the main branch of the Greek liberal partyr who stead fastly has refused to join a coal ition government under premiser designate, ' Constantin Tsaldaris, chosen' 'King Paul 'to form a tw cabinet after the government of Premier' Demetrios Maximos fell last Satuiday. Griswold urged Sophoulis to aid In achieving some sort of solution to Tsaldaris problem in order .to expedite the mission's work, the ource said. His visit came as Tsaldaris appeared- Stymied in hit effort to bring liberal party rep resentation into a new cabinet Sophoulis indicated, the source said, that he was willing that Tsaldaris' populist party should receive most of the cabinet ap pointments if he would be named premier, ' Sophoulis was said to have told Griswold that he was the, only person in Greece whose name and influence could persuade a major ity of Greek guerrillas to surrend er under amnesty terms. Picking Wage Boost Allowed Depending on the condition of their individual yards, Willamette valley hop growers may adjust the picking wage scale up to 5 cents per pound, it was announced Mon day following meeting of the valley's hop labor aidvisory com mittee. - Presided over by State Labor Commissioner William E. Kimsey, the committee decided to allow the boost from the 3'A-cent ceil Ing set in July. "Considerably chanced picking conditions and variation in the various yards and districts,!' was cited by the com mittee as the reason for the change. LUZON FIGHTING "YET MANILA, Tuesday, Aug. 26-(P) Ambush and counter-ambush mark the continuation of civil strife in central Luzon, with mill tary. police reporting today the death of a Hukbalahap commander Oliveros in a surprise night police raid on his hideout headquarters Saturday. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Hmrnm, thats funny no CW m SjnciHj. W$ life line" MUROC, Calif., Aug. 25 -AV The navy's jet-propelled Douglas Sky streak boosted its own World aid speed record to 650.8 miles an hour today. Marine Maj. Marion Carl of Hubbard, Ore., and Putaxent River, Md., piloted the tiny, scar let plane four times over the three-kilometer course at the ar my air base here, where only last Wednesday the rame plane, set a mark of 640.7 miles an hour The plane hit its, top speed on the first run, which was clocked at 652.642 mph. The second run was figured at 649.358 mph. The third run came up again slight ly with wind, to 652.579. On the final run, aK&inst the wind, the time was 648.730. Witnessing the flight and root- 1 ' , i -, A :' 1 i 4 r ut 1 MAJ, MARION CARL ng for the tall major was Cmdr. Turner F.- Caldwell, jr., of Ar- ington, Va., who last week, fly- ng the same plane, - set a new record of 640.7 miles an hour. ' The navy permitted newsmen to watch today's flight, but you had to look mighty sharp to see anything. The plane flashed j at terrific speed across the 1.88 mile course, trailing a long piume oi black smoke. Major Carl made two of his four passes under 50 feet and the oth er two only slightly higher. Major Carl, 31, who downed 18 Japanese aircraft in the Pacific theatre and got an assist on a 19th, holds two navy crasses for valor in the skiee over the Solomon is lands and at the battle of Mid way. (A son of Mrs. Herman Carl, the major is a graduate of Oregon State-college.) v : Traffic; Water Death Toll 16 Over Oregon By th Aaaoclated Prera The death toll from weekend drownings and highway crashes rose to 16 in Oregon Monday. Traffic Dile-UDS claimed 10 Uvea, three of them yesterday as week enders returned to Portland. Near Government Camp on . the-'Mt. Hood loop highway, Detective and Mrs. George - H. Cawood were killed in the collision of their automobile with a truck. William Scott Hawkins, 20, plunged to death in his car from the Sunset highway. A- head-on collision at the Clackamas river bridge north of Oregon City Monday killed Ralph O. Brown, 76, of Camas, wasn. Thirty - miles south of Pendle ton. Ermal Trump, 34," Pilot Rock, was killed as he drove to wort yesterday, and Mrs. Ohmer Sehaeffer, 56 Glendale, CaJif., died in a Roseburg hospital , fol lowing a Sunday crash. Six deaths Saturday and Sun day were from drowning. Ernest Johnson. 28. drowned in Langdon lake northeast of Pendleton, alter raw boat overturned. Gail Kinchelow, 18, Portland, drowned while swimming Satur day nieht in the Clackamas river Norman Schmaltz, 14, Salem, tumbled from a log to his death In a lake near Salem. Melvin Porter, 13, and Raymond E. Jones, 9, both of Vancouver, Wash., drowned while wading in the Columbia river. In traffic accidenw near Port land Sunday, Earl Russell Stone, 38: Carl R. Copeland, 44; cope land's 12-year-old son, Ramine; and Valjean Lapp, 14, were lulled. The body of William Henry Rauthenberg, 51, MeMinnville, was recovered Sunday from Devils lake. He had been in the habit of fishing the lake alone. Park Fountain Show Slated Twice-Weekly Salem area residents who didn't see the Waite memorial fountain in Willson park in night operation during the recent summer band concert season will be given the opportunity to watch the fountain at 8 p. m. Tuesdays ana naas, beginning today, park officials an nounced Monday. The night oper ation will continue while the wea ther is good. DIPLOMAT RESIGNS WASHINGTON. Aug. 25 -UP-Ecuador's ambassador to the United States, Dr. L. Neftali Ponce, resigned today in the wake of a one-shot revolution which overthrew President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra and set up a new military government in Ecuador, INTRINSIC VALUE WAUKESHA, Wis., Aug. 25-(P) Police today found a new type of slug in the municipal parking meters a gold wedding ring. NINETY -SEVENTH YEAR Salem i Annexation Election Sei; Milk Standard Reduced By Robert E. Ganrware City Editor, The Statesman Legislation setting Salem annexation elections October 7 for six areas adjacent to north and south city limits and reducing the city icquirements for butterfat content in milk to state and federal stan dards was adopted by the city council Monday night in city hall. The milk ordinance amendment calls for adherence to the state butterfat minimum requirements of 3-2 per cent as against the long standing city standards of 3.8 per i cent. It passed after considerable discussion among the aldermen, local dairymen and city-county health officer Dr. W. C. Stone, and over the strenuous protest of Al derman Albert C. Gille. Dairymen Hans Hofstetter and Arthur Hurlburt maintained that the existing milk law would have forced the price of milk up one cent because of a June state milk control board ruling that does not consider the difference in but terfat standard between Salem and the rest of the state. They said all other Oregon cities con form with the state law on but terfat content. Not a Health Problem Dr. Stone stated he did not con sider the lower butterfat standard a health problem and it was stressed that the fat content is not the only nutritional substance in milk. Gille, however, asserted the fat content should remain as it has been even if it meant higher milk price. The dairymen said the milk control board policy is figured on 3.5 per cent butterfat content, which is what their dairies would use in the future. They pointed out that they must now pay far mers the same price Portland and other valley dairies pay and still nut milk on the consumer mar ket at the same price as the milk which has only 3.2 to 3.5 per cent butterfat. Elections Readied Also oassed last night was an ordinance prescribing annexation elections for the following areas: fAi North -from Locusto Stark street and the south line of gra vel company property front the Willamette river on the west to eastr end of Tryon addition.' (B) North of Locust street to the gravel company property. from Tryon addition to Cherry avenue on east. : - (C) North from Locust street to eravel comDany property between Cherry avenue and area .west of Pacific highway annexed xo cny last year. (D) Small area soutn or noyx street and west of South Sum mer street. fEi South of Hoyt street be tween the (D) area line and South 25th street, running generally down Prinsile road to Fairview home and to the Southern, Fa cifie tracks. (F) Southwest of present .city boundary to Madrona avenue, be tween South River road and Sa lem Heights avenue and the east end of Laurel Springs addition. City Mast Add rove No vote need be taken in tne latter area as , property owners there have signed 100 per cent for the annexation. Last signer was the city of Salem, as author ized bv a vote last night to cov er the city's radio tower property. City voters, however, must bc cept that proposed annexation, as they must approve each of the others, before annexation is com olete. In addition registered vot ers in the other five areas must vote in favor of the annexation to bring each to completion. , (Additional council news, page 2) Adult Class Starting Set Adult education classes will be gin here September 15 at Salem high school, according to George Porter, director. - . Classes being offered for college credit, Under the extension prow-am of state higher education will commence September 29, he said Monday, r ' Many intermediate courses are being offered on a college level or less than coilegeMevel. Porter said. He advised those interested to call 2-5172 Veterans who " are required to take the courses or who desire to attend should contact the local veterans administration office, 167 S. High st. immediately to receive the necessary papers. Those al ready in, onithe-job training will be processed through the adult education office in the school ad ministration office, Porter said. Oxbow Dam Plans Changed for Now BAKER, Ore., Aug. 25-JP)-The Idaho Power company, delayed in its attempt to build a dam across the Snake river in eastern Oregon, intends to construct a dam across the Snake 90 miles west or buss, Idaho. C. J. Strike, company president, said the firm's application with the federal power commission does not mean abandonment of the pro posed Oxbow dam in eastern Ore gon, although the Bliss site will be given priority. Tiji, The Oregon ; olumbia Road Plan, Footpaths Gain Approval PORTLAND, Aug. 25 - (JP - A scenic artificial lake and a tourist parking pavilion at Multnomah Falls between separated lanes of the new water-level route of the Columbia river highway were ap proved today by the Oregon high way commission. The commifsion action gave state highway engineer R. H. Baldock authority to go ahead with work on the new route link ing Troutdale and Dodson, near Bonneville. From Troutdale east to near the falls, the road will be a modern expressway. Water from the falls stream will be dammed to form the lake. State Parks Superintendent Sam , Boardman reported crews have completed clearing brush from the scenic route between Crown Point and Hood River and will continue to The Dalles. Construction of ten asphalt footpaths for school children along hazardous sections of the state highways, expected to cost $38,700, was approved after some initial opposition. Chairman T. H. Banfield warned that the program will result in de mands for footpaths from "Wash ington to California" but joined in the approval. The paths will be four feet wide. The list included: At Sweet Home along the South Santiam highway; a strip along the Corvallis-Albany highway. -' A long range footpath program Baldock said would cost an esti mated $500,000 was outlined, and Banfield said until more money was available only the most haz ardous conditions would be cor rected. A park proposal to buy 44 acres of timbered land near Otter Crest for $4,000 was rejected. Low bids submitted on pros pects included many that were substantially higher than engin eering estimates and award of the Jobs were postponed until Thurs day. Boys' School Building Bids To Be Sought G. R. Boatwright, Salem, will supervise structural engineering on the new cell block at the state penitentiary, and bids are to be sought for four new buildings at the state training school for boys at Woodburn following action Monday by the state board of con trol. The proposed new buildings at Woodburn include a shop build ing and a cottage for SO boys to cost $82,000 each, a $79,000 school structure and a $75,000 gymna sium. The board refused to ap prove a superintendent's home es timated to cost $21,000. Board members said costs have increased from 10 to 20 per cent since estimates of the. cost of the buildings were made six months ago. The construction project at the state penitentiary which Boat wright is to supervise will house approximately 400 prisoners with one in each cell. Estimated cost is in excess of $400,000. Other bids will be asked cover ing a three-unit employes' dor mitory 1 at Fairview home. This structure, half the size of the $400,000 dormitory which was re iected by four members of the state emergency board, also would be made cheaper in other re spects. Canada Fire Sweeps Dock PORT ALBERNI, B. O, Aug. 25. -(JP)-Fin of undetermined origin swept uncontrolled through the water front of this Vancouver is land port tonight after destroying a $1,500,000 government assembly dock and warehouse which housed about 600 tons of plywood. Caught at its moorings at the dock was the 10,000 - ton British ship Sampeb, which was ablaze and believed lost with its load of 600,000 board feet of lumber. VANCOUVER, B. C.,-Aug. 25. (CP)(P)Flames which razed five buildings in the False Creek in dustrial district tonight were un der corltrol after causing damage ' estimated officially at $300,000. 12 PAGES Statesman. Salem, Ore.. Tuesday, Fir Blast Prepares Way for J v. v. . St. ' J wvv -a-A i v - i Rains Aid Corn Crop But May Be too Late CHICAGO, Aug. 25-P)-Rar,R came to the parched corn fields of the midwest over the weekend and today, checking a 15 million bushel a day los which corn has suffered since the start of this month. Moisture broke the drought throughout the main corn belt from Indiana to Nebraska, and it was accompanied by relief from the searing heat which had pun ished the corn crop time July.! ' Corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade reacted to the rain news by declining sharply. Final quotations on corn for future He livery were off eight cents, the limit admitted in one session, Sep tember $2.38 Vi a bushel. Csh prices dropped several cents. c .,ifWt murh of Nebraska's drought-hit com was nast savins'. The weather bureau said tern- peratures would begin rising again in the corn belt by Wednesday, but with "no immediate prospects" for return of excessive heat. AUSSIES CONDEMN 138 TOKYO, Aug. 25-IVAiilral-ian courts have tried 756 war crimes suspects and convicted 524 of them, allied headquarters de ported today. One hundred thirty- eifiht of the oonvB'ted men were condemned to death on the gal- lovs. August 26. 1947 onelh) Weft .1.1 By the Associated Pres The midwest passed its week long heat wave on to the cast Mon day and the corn belt finally got its much wished for rain but in many sections it was too little or too late. Far to the south a tropical storm caused widespread but generally minor properly damage at Galves trfn, Tex . over the weekend but blew itself out in heavy rainfall Monday. The storm, with winds. of 63 tn "0 miles an hour, unroofetd houses,, blew in windows and lipped down power lines in Gal veston, where one mn was killed by electric shock from a falling power line. While cooler weather over spread the upper Great Lakes and i the northern Flams states, tem- pcratures rose to high levels in the 1 ohl va,,y. i Ohio vally. North Atlantic and ; r-ngianu SNYDER "DOING NICELY" John Snyder, victim of a sjioot ing at the Blain hotel here on the night of August 7, was reported by Associated Press as "doing nicely" Monday night in Good Samaritan hospital, Portland, I following the removal of the j bullet from behind his right eye Idurihg an operation Saturday. Price 5c SDDDS Tiri New Road This exnloalon (top left photo) Friday evening blasted nearly 4. 000 ton of roek from a bluff (middle left photo) over the North Santiam river two miles east of Niagara and 3'j miles west of the site for the Detroit dam. The Knckenberg , Con struction Co. of Portland, which Is relocating: the North Santiam highway from Gates to Detroit, used 5,501 pounds of dynamite to make way for the new high way which is to be at river level here, then rise over the next few miles to the top of the 356-foot-hich proposed dam. Middle right phots looks down from the 175-foot bluff en hea vy construction equipment as earth was parked on railroad tracks as protection a few min utes before the blast. River shows in background. Lower photo shows the crushed rock and separated boulders (later dynamited) - which spilled over into river, as clearance work began to reopen railroad this week. (Statesman photos by Don Dill, staff photographer.) Monday City's Second Hottest Salem residents experienced the second hottest day of the year Monday as thermometers climbed to tl degrees recorded by the McNsry field U. S. weather bureau. The hottest day of the year to date was recorded on May 23 when the temperature reached S3 degrees, the weather bareau said. A cooler $S degrees is forecast for today with continued fair weather today and tomorrow. Matliias Kroiiiling Dies at Hubbard HUBBARD. Aug. 25 Mathias Brown ' Kromllng, 75, one-time Hubbard postmaster and for 30 years a clerk -4n the Hubbard postoffice, died at his home here Sunday night after a long illness, the last five months of which he was confined to bed. Funeral services will be Wed nesday at 2 p.m. . from R info's Mortuary in Woodburn with burial in Hubbard cemetery. The widow, two sons and a daughter, sister and two brothers survive. Ben Kromling of Salem is a brother anoV Mrs. Amanda Diraick of Hubbard is a sister. .. Additional detail 1 page T. No. 123 r3 If awm 9 Indonesia Battles Growing QUITANDHINA. Bratil. Aug. 25 -Py- A five-nation conference group of the Interamerican fere nee reached a tentative five point agreement tonight On meth ods of dealing with armed at tacks on an American nation front within or without the western hemisphere. The group, which has been at work constantly since Saturday, reported it had agreed on these points: ) ' 1. Every nation in the hemi sphere has the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense. Source No Difference 2. There should be no differ entiation between an armed at tack instigated by an American nation against a suiter country and an attack by an extra-continental power. ' 3. In case of armed attack, na tions of the hemisphere may as sist the invaded nation indivi dually or collectively on an em ergency basis. After such assist ance has been given. inter-American consultations may be held. 4. A cease fire order will be employed in cases of aggression and will be issued by '"consul tative organism of the inter-American system, such as the Pan American union. K h 5. The establishment of a hemi sphere "security region" for de fense of the hemisphere, i . ; I The "security region. I origin ally contained in the 1939 declar ation of Panama, will be ex, panded to include Canada. French Veto Beds LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. .-- France today vetoed a Hus- slan effort to set up aa 11-nahon truce commission to check on the security council's violated cease fire order in the Dutch-Indone-; sian conflict - The council then went ahead and took two alternative steps aimed- at settling the dispute: 1. The council tendered its good offices to both sides and stood ready, if asked, to assist In a set tlement through a council com mittee of three members accep table to the disputants. Consols -to Report 2. The delegates called on cs- reer consuls in Bate via to report directly to them on what has hap- penea since in coaso ur ororr was issued here Aug. I. Alexandre- Parodi, of France, told newsmen he vetoed the Rue- sian proposal because it was a i question ef "competence.' J It was the second rrencn veto in United Nations history and tb 20th veto in alL Soviet Russia has invoked the big power- veto It times. The first French veto was -cast June 28, 146, in tho Span ish Case. t Java Flfhitng Heavy BATAVIA, Java:. Aug. 25-441 Indonesian and Dutch military headquarters . reported heavy fighting in the area south of Sal atiga, 30 airline miles noith, of Jogjakarta and the closest Dutch approach to the Indonesian caf ital. An Indonesian communique said the Dutch used tanks and armored cars in. a two-sided at tack on Patemon, a village in the area of Tengaran, five miles south of Salatiga. The Netherlands communique announced its armed forces were starting "strong clearing actions'" on all sectors. . Air Reserve Awaits Navy Whether Oregon's naval air serve unit will be located at Salem airport or some other site between here and Portland will have tobst decided by navy officials from Washington, D. C, It was announ ced Monday by airport manager Wallace Hug. Hug, who Monday evening re turned from Seattle where he con ferred with regional naval air re serve officers, said he had been in formed that local reserve officials have no authority - to select the airport location. Hug added that the officers spoke favorably of the Salem airport.- Our Senators ft Los! 6-5