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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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. ..
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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.-
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