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d o cjnua cn o o o ope ooo onoo oa ;- odejo o odo O 3 O OOD O O c i Steel SMke Dip TDgtuteini ' Mew Tax CaaH: FdsW PtoSsedl POUNDBD 1651 1, V r inOTTT-SEVENTH YEAR 20 City Council to Choose Between 'Manual, Automatic Parking Meters on Monday Hollywood' answer to Britain' ! limit of 25 per cent realization on i proceeds of imported films was : one of anguished reprisal. Motion Mcture roducers put an embargo n exoort of sound Dictures to I Britain. That was what the pa j pers told. Backstage dickering is said to be in progress however which may result in a modification i f the new conditions. Lacking ! enough domestic production Brit 1 fsh theatres may be forced s dose if they cannot obtain foreign : (American) films. Foreign sales have accounted for sizable chunks of Hollywood' ! profits: so producers- there must : be making diligent effort to re j coup losses which they face. It Is : not in the cards to make that re ; eovery through increased charges ' at the box office. Theatre admis i ron prices are high enough. Any 1 material advance would cost pat I ronage. losing money for exhibi- tor and producer. There are two way of solving ; the problem. One is by cutting i expenses. There must be room for rout-cutting. Salaries for vir ( tuaily all who are connected with i the movie industry from Louie Mayer on down through stars of ' first to fifth magnitude and on ; down to scenario writers, stand-ins ; and stagehands art quite dijpro i portionate to the contribution they : snake. Lush profit from the easy I multiplying of movie film for mul I tiple production have made possi ble the exorbitant salaries. The i excess has given Hollywood the : character of modern Babylon, In moMtland the emphasis Hrmr to have been on making ; costs (Continued on editorial page) Forger Plies Trade Within Prison Walls i ATMORE, Ala , Sept. iTbey've transferred Harvey -George to Kiltty prison, and a lot icf the boys here are pretty blue. : Harvey waa a good guy, and handy with a fountain pen. He not only fotged his own ticket to free dom in 194, but when he was re turned to prison, he forged paroles lor 1 other convicts, state records show. Prison Director Frank Boswell said Harvey was a clerk in the Look keeping department of Ala bama state prison here. The penal ; penman, he reported, usually jrhaiiKed the release dates on par ities, but occasionally altered name and number, resulting In release of the wroiy - convict. This irri tated the prison administration no ;nd. ; Eighteen convicts have been re captured since the parole racket was discovered two month ago. One man, serving 30 years for 'second degree murder, remains at large. i Meanwhile, accommodating jHarvey has been sent to Kilby prison where he will contemplate las l:fe-entence for murder. Fair Calendar ( Soaday, Final Day 7 a. am. Gates open. 1:1S p. as. Auto race on Lone Oak track. su am. State fair foUies of 1947 at grandstand and rodeo-horse show la stadium. Animal Crachers By WARREN GOODRICH j "Here a chance to 'enlarge oar vocabulary" Th Oregon Expiration of 6-Month Trial Period Near With only! two days remaining before the city council must de cide if it will keep or reject the manually operated Mico parking meters used here for the past five months! , motorists in one downtown block were using the first shipment of an automatic type and expressing general sat isfaction with them. The Mico teeters were installed on a sixmontns trial Dasis, ana the city must notify the manu facturer 30 days in advance as to final, decision. Many argu ment regarding the two general types are expected to appear1 in the council session Monday night in city haUYi as they did before the first meters were ordered. Critkian Voiced Criticism has been voiced from several quarters on the manual meters. Chief of Police Frank Minto told the council that the mechanisms-had been badly af f ected by rain and that he was obliged to keep four men doing nothing but servicing meters. The automatic Park-O-Meteri, installed for , the prevent only in the recently widened 200 block of North ' High street,- are also on a six-month trial basis. Police of ficers said none have yet been reported out of order. Coin Blot Treable Several drivers were having trouble finding the proper coin slot, a situation which ha oc cur red on both meter type. An out-of-state visitor, as well as some Oregon residents, noted with pleasure that the automatics were more familiar, as they are used in several other cities. A woman who said she was a housewife and "very unmechanl cal" thought the new meter were "very nice and much easier to to operate than - the manual." One young man, after finding the coin iot, backed away warily a the meter purred and the time indicator went up. He said he liked the automatics "swell, but the darned thing scared me." Salem Patient In Wrecked - Ambulance - PORTLAND, Sept. -()-A Portland couple escaped possible serious injury tonight when their automobile was crushed from the rear by an ambulance enroute here from Salem. The ambulance patient was only shaken. Police said the automobile oc cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Lengfield was shoved several hundred feet along southeast Union avenue and had to be tow ed away. The patient in the am bulance was identified as Jesse Brosius, of Salem, . who police said was transferred to another ambulance and taken to the Good Samaritan hospital. Brosius waa reported by Port land hospital attendants to have been injured in an accident at Stay ton. Cecil Abbot, of Salem, the am bulance driver, reported he was making an "emergency run" and had the siren operating when he came onto the Lengfield car, swerving to avoid a direct colli sion. I The Good ! Samaritan hospital reported the ; ambulance patient was not in seriou condition. The Portland couple suffered bruises and minor shock. only Squirrels, Jays - Threat to Nut Crop PORTLAND, Sept'8HT- Ore gon nut grower today appealed to tne state game commission to save tnem from the squirrel and blue Jays... il. . Claude Sersanou.' spokesman for the filbert farmers, told the commission. "The squirrels are eating more nuts on my 90-acre farm than the blue jayi, and I figure the jays eat 500 pounds a day." The commission ordered an In vestigation to see if special squir rel and Jay-hunting permits snouid be issued. Harold Stassen to - Skip Salem Visit Presidential aspirant Harold Stassen, . former governor of Minnesota, will not be able to accept the invitation of the local American Legion to speak in 'Sa lem this week due to previous committments in the east. Steve Anderson, Salem, who at tended a Young Republican board meeting in Portland Saturday night said that Stassen would con fer with labor and organization leader in Portland Saturday, PAGES however. ., Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, September 7. 1947 Memphis 'Miss America' Title Nation's Comliest Given Kiss --"' ' . - ' i - .. . - - : : v -P - . J N - - r.' , ' t' ' , . . , . .4. ?.xzsk ..f, ik t ' a i ii, i mm''.m i - i M mht: i,..ri. ifMvi.Ki GC4 ATLANTIC CITY. Sept. 8 Barbara Je Walker (center). Miss Mem phi and new "Mis America", get kisses from Georgia Cunning ham, Miss Tennessee (left), and her twin sister, Dorothy (right), Miss Chattanooga, while looking en at rear are Pam Camp (left), Mias Arkaasaa, and KlUy Bailey Miss Mississippi (right). The kis ses came after Mlse Memphis wen MHe America talent award at AtUnU City. (AT WlrephoU to The fttoteesaaa, K r- Miss Oregon Gains Spot in. Semi-Finals ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept -WVBarbara Jo Walker, a five feet, seven inch, 21 -year-old brunette from Memphis, Tenn., tonight became "Miss America, 1947" scholarship for any school of her A crowd of 18.482 persons, largest In 26 years to see the beauty contest, shook the large convention Walker was named from among 54 girls representing 39 states, 14 cities and Canada. In runner-UD positions to the new Miss America and the schol arships they won were: Twenty-two-year- old brunette Elaine Mary Campbell, daughter of Bernard T. Campbell, city edi tor of the Minneapolis Time, $3, 000; Margaret Marshall, 18-year- old honey-blonde from ioronio. the first girl from outside tne United States ever to be a finalist. $2,500; Peggy June . Elder, 18, a chestnut-haired girl from Gads den, Miss Alabama, $2,000; and Laura Jean Emery, 18, and a blon don. from Salinas, Miss California, fi.o- .... U.S. Senator Kenneth Mciteuar (D-Tenn) was among the first to greet the new Miss America fol lowing her crowning by the re tiring beauty queen, Marilyn Buferd of Los Angeles, Miss Ameirca 1946. Miss Walker was so surprised by her selection as the new queen that she . could do nothing but smile happily as pageant officials crowded around her for the crowning, ceremonies. Miss Oregon, blonde Jo Ann Amorde Sutherlin, Ore., school teacher, advanced to the semi finals with 14 other beauties and wai among those receiving awards.. Luck, Judgment Play Important Roles in Calf Selection Event . i ' , sr , CM Girl Wins and with the title won a $s,ooo choosing. hall with applause when Miss Hop Growers Plead for Help In an effort to speed up the hop harvest,, at least two Salem area hop growers will bring trucks to the farm labor office this morn ing at 6 a. m. to haul pickers to their yards. They are the John Roberts hop ranch and Rogers and Bishop com pany, both situated on south Ri ver road. Drive-outs also will be acceptable at the yards. During the first part of this week the office will place corn pickers in Woodburn area fields at the wage scale of 75 cents per hour. The filbert harvest is ex pected to start next week, accord ing to the farm labor assistant, Mrs. Gladys Turnbull, at a pick ing rate of 3 cents per pound. ASKS CONTROLS RESTORED DETROIT, Sept. -()-Walter Reuther asked President Truman today to recommend immediate restoration of price controls if a special session of congress is called to act on the European crisis. ' . , k L. v. r. . 1 1 -t Price 5c No. 140 Rain Fails To Deter Fairgoers Despite one of the coldest, wettest days in the Ore on State fair's 82 year old history. 23,552 persons, of which 16.027 were paid admissions went through the gates Saturday, the fair attendance office reports. Total attendance for the first six days totalled 2M.53 perseos, still aboat l.eoa above the at tendance record set In ltC, fig nres snow. Paii-mutuel take for Saturday, the last day of horse racing for the 1947 fair, stood at $67,325. compared to 172,379 for fair Sat urday of. last year. Total pari snvtuel receipts for the six days of racing this year eclipsed the 1948 total by approximately $25, 00. All fair exhibits will remain Intact through closing time of the 1947 fair tonight. Manager Leo Spltsbart announces. The clos ing follies show tonight at 8 o'clock and the auto races this afternoon at 1:15 o'clock will take place at the grandstand rain shine, he said. By Lillie L. Madsen Farm Editor, The Statesman While a steady downpour on the next to final day of the 82nd Oregon State fair, moved the bidders in the Milking Shorthorn consignment sale from the out side ring to the under-cover pav ilion, bidding slowed somewhat to COMPARATIVE ATTENDANCE 1948 ..?7,J7l 18.232 .11,488 ..24458 .2Z45t ,..2927 1947 first day ... Second day Third day . Fourth day Fifth day . Sixth day . 82.848 23.748 35,233 31.834 28J33 23,552 Total 293.828 284483 bring a total of $10,720 for the 32 animals sold. Females of the sale averaged better than $360 each, with the five bull sold falling somewhat lower. The grand champion cow of the showring, brought top price of $375 of the auction. She was bought by Earl Mathew of Pay ette, Jdaho, and consigned by Veltie Biles of Gold Hill. Biles bought; the junior champion show animal, consigned by Harold Lundquist of New berg for $385. The FFA team from Molalla won the Judging trophy from 30 teams in Saturday's finals, with Dick Reid the high point youth. Silver ton was second and The Dalles placed third- Yamhill county came third. Washington county 4-H won the livestock demonstration compe tition. Clackamas county was fourth and Linn county eighth. Marion county won second in the miscellaneous demonstration class. Dollar Dinner contests closed Sat urday. Winner In the junior di vision was Norma Jean Otto of Eugene, and in the senior divi sion, Betty Peterson. Four registered dairy calves were awarded Saturday to high scoring 4-H boys as a climax to 4-H livestock activities not only at the Oregon State fair but for the year. The Jersey calf, to be presented at the Pacific International was awarded to Eugene Nygren of Linn county. The calf was given by George Horning of Clackamas county. The Ayrshire calf went to Jim Madsen of Gresham and was donated by the Ayrshire asso ciation. The Guernsey calf, from the D. S. Pruitt herd of Eugene was won by Dale Palmblad, also of Gresham, while the Holstein calf went to Wayne Norman of Linn county and was donated by Bernard Cornelius Vandecoevering of Mt. Angel (Additional details on page 4) r- 7 uv' ''-,. . ! -s':"' ' ' : Jost ray luck," cried Doneva Nell Shepard, aged 11, of Portland (pietored at left) when asked new she came to draw both number ones In the Thursday Holstein Calf selection event at the state fair. The 'drawing gave Doneva first chance at picking the animal she wanted from the IS being sold to 4,-H, FF A and Veteran groups. The purchasers were all approved by their organizations. Doneva la pic tared with the calf she chose. William McKlnney, extreme right In above picture, FFA director In the high school, assisted his twe FFA students, Gerald Brog (left) and Jim McDowell In selecting their calves in the calf selection event. Gerald was the only youth who bonght twe calves la the affair (Larson photo for The Statesman.) Proposal to Exceed Vetoed $4 Billion Bill WASHINGTON, Sept Chairman Knutson (R-Minn.) of the houre wava and means com mittee announced today Repub licans will renew their drive to cut taxes, as soon as congress reconvenes, and that the slash probably will exceed the vetoed $4,000,000,000 bill. He said the committee, which initiates all tax legislation, will be called to convene in Washing ton November 4 and "toe subject of tax reduction will undoubted ly be considered" at that time. One committee member Knut son reported, is proposing a clash in income levies of as much as 50 percent for small incomes and 20 percent in highest brackets. May Change Brscket Knutson commented: "I very much doubt if we will be able to hold the line at 30, 20 and 10.5 percent reductions." These were the proposed reductions of the vetoed bills, for low, middle and high incomes, respectively. Writing from his Minnesota home in response to an Associated Press inquiry about Republican tax plans, he said: "The tax fight we waged in the first session of the 80th congress was merely round one. The bill will ring for round two as soon as the second session convenes in January. An overwhelming ma jority of the American people de mand tax relief. Note Other Reduction "They know that Canada and the United Kingdom have already had two such tax reduction since the end of the war and they re sent Mr. Truman's obstinate od- position to any reduction for the individual taxpayer." President Truman on August 20 forecast a record-smashing trea sury surplus of nearly $5,000,000, 000 for the " fiscal year ending next June 30, but he said the money should go to debt retire ment and to a stand-by fund .to meet any domestic or world emergency. The president twice vetoed ef forts of the Republican-dominat ed congress earlier this year to trim individual Income taxes by $4,000,000,000. College Starts Campaign to Obtain Housing With little more than a week before new 'Willamette university students begin? arriving September 17, university official and coop erating Salem? churches and or ganizations this week are pressing a citywide "campaign" to obtain rooms for men students. In addition to students whose living quarters already are ar ranged, President G. Herbert Smith of the university stated Sat urday, about 150 men remain to be housed. He pointed out that hous ing needs of the university will be considerably eased next February when the men's dormitory now un der construction will be open for occupancy by 224 men. Salem residents who are in po sition to offer rooms for rent by Willamette students are urged by Dr. Smith to notify university of fices. Willamette's 1947-48 year will get off to its start at 9 a. m. Wednesday, September 17, with an assembly in the university chapel for all new students. Other orien tation activities and new students' examinations will occupy the re mainder of Wednesday and Thurs day and Friday. Actual registration is scheduled September 20 for new students and the following Monday for return ing students. Regular classwork it to begin September 23. 1 r isrm New Premier i V'r:.vJ ATHENS. Sept 8 ThetniitokU. Sophoulis, liberal Greek politi cal leader, who Is expected to be sworn In Sunday night aa head of a new coalition cabinet to geverar Greece. Greek Cabinet For Guerrillas ATHENS, Sept. 8-(P-Infor- mants said tonight that a new coal ition cabinet being formed to gov ern Greece would offer a general amnesty to all guerrillas and would guarantee them jobs II the fiffhtihe ruiur rnlnf on In th north ern part of the country ends within a month. If the attack by leftist units against Greek army trop are not stopped, however, the government will wage what the sources de scribed aa a "relentless fight against the criminal minority," The cabinet, the. Informants added, plan to hold general elec tions as soon as possible. The new cabinet, headed by lib eral Leader Themistokles Sophou lis is expected to be Sworn in Sun day night. The new administration then will ask a vote of confidence from parliament on Monday and request a parliamentary adjourn ment until November 1. Air Conditioner Helps Skunk to Distribute Odor . , -. .. ' SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept -MV A bewildered skunk disrupted Savannah' autumn festival street dance. While hundreds fled, the strip ed visitor sought refugee from the commotion. He also fell back up on a skunk's traditional defense. There followed a delayed ex odus from the basement Sapphire room and Colonial room of the DeSoto hotel, where the odor was whipped through the air-conditioning system. v Hotel engineers counter-attacked with spray-guns filled with perfume. The skunk? he disappeared. Portland Zoo Monkey Again Gains Freedom PORTLAND, Sept. --The freedom-loving i Rhesus monkey, recaptured yesterday after a week's chase by police, was out of the zoo again today. ' An attendant reported the ani mal escaped the same route , as before, jumping through cage door a the man entered at the , feed ing hour. , at Stdte Fair V V K "V l Plans Amnesty 1111 1 1 " v 1 I Officials Give Prediction of Long Walkout PITTSBURGH, Sept 8-CPHThei Carnegle-IlUnoi. Steel Corp.' president today gloomCr warned that a wildcat strike of plant rail road workers which already Jim Idled 15,000 production employee and bit deeply into; sorely needed steel production "may not end quickly." j; As first peace effort in the work stoppage of some 1.800 ra.il road workers proved fruitless, C Ri Cox,, Carnegie-Illinois pre dent, said the strike: ) ; -.,. May not end qukkly sine it is our understanding many of the demands are regarded as un reasonable and others not readily susceptible of solution." j Kegrels' Walkeat - H His remarks were contained I a lengthy statement to non-striking employe in which he ex pressed "deep regref that they "once again must suffer through loss of employment" in a dispute In which they were ftot directly involved. The strikers, who valkffH rait yesterday, are members of the oroinernooas oi itauroad Train men and Locomotive Engineers. They work for the Union railroad, U.S. Steel subsidiary which does lmer-piani naming ror Carnegie Illinois. IT. K- Steel's tan ttmrlurinir subsidiary. I Strike Unaathorlsed Both th ntinnal niliv, diation board and; A. F. Whitney or Cleveland, president of the BRT, have called the .strike un authorized. The workers' demands) have not been outlined specif ical- v ly but reportedly include a 50 cent hourlv mv increaM narks'- covering among other fringe items) a lour-wrcK vacation lor zo-year workers. I - - The walkout will eaus a com plete shutdown of baic opera tions in four. Carnegie-Illinois Pittsburgh district mills and tho firm slowly was reducing to zero level in these plant today. Cox said the stoppage will cost production losses of 19.000 tons bff finished .steel daily enough to produce 1,000 automobiles or vast a uan titles of other manufactured items now in snort suppiy. British Clamp Secrecy Lid on Jewish Ship HAMBURG. Germany. Sunday. Sept 7 -t (At - War-Uke secrecy blacked out all official news her early today as the scheduled hour passed for .the arrival of the first of three deportation ships return ing 4,400 Jews of the exodus, 1847 to. Germany. , Newspaper correspondent were barred from the heavily, guarded dock area. i During the day the three Britiala transports, with their naval escort, anchored at a rendezvous in i he Elbe estuary. There the Britiah were reported to have removed some of the leader among the refugee, possibly to disorganize resistance when the time tor land ing came. I The anrrhorage was reaiched on the 57th day after the Jews had embarked secretly from France for Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947, formerly the S. S. President War field, a Chesapeake Bay steamer. The voyage of the Jews, who were without -visas, ended when the) British intercepted their ship -almost within sight of the Holy Lane. ( Textile Mills Plan Wage Cut ROME, Ga, Sept. 9-(Jf, A wage-reduction of five cents :Jn hour in three textile mills in Ge -gia has been proposed by the A. O. Julliardcompany, manufacture a of cottongrey goods. . - j Kenneth Douty, Georgia direc tor for the Textile Workers Union of America'' (CIO), said the com pany demanded a wage-cut to off set operating losses at Aragon, Rome and Dallas, Ga. He described the proposal as "the first of ita kind in the entire company, and added: We consider it outrageous." Saturday Second Wet test. Day of !47 Salem residents and visitors at the state fair ' opened their um brellas and skipped over sizeable puddles Saturday as .66 inches of "Oregon mist" fell from the skies between noon and midnight the second wettest day of the year, j The year's highest total of rain was recorded on March 8, when 1.44 inches fell, according te the weather bureau. - .1 Weather Max. Kin. 44 44 SI S3 Preclii. SI S!- trace Salem Portland 4 SI 69 17 San Francisco Chicago .... New York S3 70 Willamette river -t ieet . FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem l: Consider able cloudiness today with scattered showers, clearing tontht Hifit tem perature today, near 70; low tontfht, near 45. Winds will interfere with dust ing operations throughout the day.