pen poo otzjoo dc3 oacjo o coo ODD DOD OOO OOOO 'DP New Gates Highway Section to Open Soon 'TSfiOtt mm- OUNDI 1651 NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR 10 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Ore-' Wodnoadcry. Sept 10 1947 Price 5c No. 142 2 5L-(Deadly fiflissing. as tExcwsDODD auras Faiirview Project BacK on . . BoairaFs Agemidla .... iMV - With the first releeited ectin f t e North Santiam hlfhwar iae to open to the public thU month, final road wek over the $45,000. 4'i-mile atreach east of Gates la being rushed by the Kaekenberc Constru&ion Co of Portland. In photo above Al Benson Is operating a huge i5-yard LeTourneau craper at a point tyt miles east of Gates on a slightly higher level than the present road. A railroad crossing will be eliminted at tbis location. Edward Pinkston has charge of the road construction between Gates and Niagara, where rolling and oiling are now in progress. (Statesman photo by Don Dill, staff pbUgrapher). Poor Korea still suffers from a broken back. It is broken politic ally and economically at the 38th parallel twhich divides Russian and American occupation.' Its plight is probably worse than when Japan Instead of its pro fessed "liberators' governed the country. And there is less hope of evacuation on of foreign tropps than there is in Japan, the late enemy nation. The division stems from the Yalta conference where to tempt Russia to enter the Pacific war, President- Roosevelt consented to terms in the far east which how arise to plague, our administrators and the Koreans and Chinese as welL These ! terms recognized Russia as Sharing with China in ownership of the Chinese Eastern railway in Manchuria and in util ization of Dairen and Port Arthur and divided Korea for occupation t the 38th parallel. Russian and American troops took their positions north or south of this line, but the allied control commission which was to frame a new government for Korea and Mipervlse it in a transition period has been deadlocked from the be- ri nrung. Failing in direct negotia tion. the United States proposed a conference of several powers in terested in the Pacific: but Rus sia has now refused to participate and the parley is postponed. . Now our government will move to establish a Korean government for southern Korea and will plan to spend money for Korea s ceo nomic rehabilitation. North Ko rea had most of the country's in dustries and raw materials for manufacture, the south was chiefly agricultural. So it will be necessary to build the south up industrially to make it self supporting. Russia evidently is determined to out-sit the United States, trust ing that our country will get tired f keeping troops -in Korea. Then through communist penetration Russia would hope to get control cf all Korea which would gjve it a position well advanced down the coast othe western Pacific. If this deadlock continues long Korea will be divided into two countries. Its broken back may not be mended for an indefinite 7 Tno-Thircls of State Building Fund Spent A total of ..$4,252,627 of the 16,000,000 state building fund al located for construction and bet terment of. state institutions has been expended or obligated, Roy Mills, state board of control sec r-tary, reported Tuesday. Of this amount $2,568,951 rep resents new buildings at the Ore gon state hospital here. U.S. OVER: 143.000.000 WASHINGTON, Sept 9 -&)- The nation's population passed the 143,000,000 mark in April, the cen sus bureau reported today. Animal Craclccrs By WARREN GOODRICH "I hear he even been turned down 1st bait" Cbicao Sas-Tma SfB4ital 33 Jews - D n ju red as British Clear Vessel Clubs, Hoses, Fists HAMBURG, Germany, Sept 9 trops fought in a bloody pitched battle aboard a transport ship today before the British succeeded in landing on German soil the last or the "exodus 1947" Jews who set out two months ago for Palestine. The battle occurred aboard the ful disembarkation from another transport, the Empire Rival. Tonight British to Ask U.S. Take Over Occupation Bill WASHINGTON. Sept. 9-JP) The United States agreed tonight to listen to pleas from hard-up Britain that this country pay more of the bill for feeding and re habilitating Germany. A year ago-the wartime part ners agreed to operate . their two occupation zones as an economic unit and split the costs 50-50. Diplomatic officials now indi cate the British want to cut theirJ share down to. around 15 per cent. leaving od per cent 10 me uniiea States. ' . . In any event, the war depart ment which Is in charge of the occupation, announced that the two countries will talk things over In a conference early next month. The senate appropriations committee will get some advanced details at a special meeting Sep tember 20. Portland Starts Drive Against Slot Machines PORTLAND, Sept MVFort- land law enforcement agencies indicated today they would en force the Oregon law banning slot machines and all payout devices Attorney General George Neu- ner recently ruled that all such devices were contrary to state law. However. thousands of punchboards, slot machines and pinball machines were being op erated. District Attorney John B. Mc- Court of Multnomah county, said he would not sponsor whole sale raids "at this time," but would act on complaints brought to him. k Robert Chessman To Succeed Father ASTORIA, Sept 9 -(-Ap pointment of Robert B. Chessman as publisher of the Astorian Budget, succeeding his late father, Sen. Merle R. Chessman, was an nounced by the board of directors today. The son, recently discharged from the army after five years service, had been associate pub lisher since his father became ill few months ago. He also was named president of the Astorian Budget Publishing Company. He said there would be no change in policy o personnel. 14 Plead Innocent In Vote Fraud Trial KANSAS CITY, Sept 9-A)- Fourteen persons, indicated by federal grand jury in connection with alleged vote frauds in the 1946 Democratic primary elec tion pleaded innocent today at arraigment before Federal Judge Albert A. Ridge. They were given 10 days to file motions. Twelve of them, includ ing a state legislator Joseph M Tanner and several county em ployes, were charged with vote fraud conspiracy. Two others are charged . with attempting to tam per with the grand jury during its investigation. BOXCARS ALLOCATED WASHINGTON,. Sept 9(JP)- The agriculture department said today that the Association of American Railroads has allocated 500 boxcars to be used in mov ing cover crop seeds from the Pa cific northwest into the southern states. v Smother Resistance - CTWewish refugees and British Runnymede Park after a peace British official said a powerful bomb was found in the Empire Rival's hold. The bomb was cap able of blowing a six foot wide hole in the ship's bottom. Hundreds of the Jews fought all the way from the grim holds of the Runnymede Park to dock-side railway train to avoid entering the country they de scribe as the graveyard ol mil lions of their kinsmen. By official British account at least 33 Jews, including 13 wo men, were wounded m a two hour melee in which the British used clubs, fire hoses and fists to down resistance spurred by eader who exhorted them to fight to tne death. Three British soldiers were of ficially reported hospitalized by injuries at the hands of jews who fought with such improvised wea pons as broken bottles and clubs tipped with barbed wire or razor blades. At least one Jew hurled knife., The Runnymede Park with It 1,485 refugees, was the last to dock of the three ships which carried 4,311 Jews from Haifa, near where 54 days ago the Brit- lsn captured tne Exodus 1947 when the Jews tried to crack the Palestine coastal blockade. Whale Frolics Off North Bend NORTH BEND. Ore.. Sept. 8- WA 30-foot whale put on show just off the North Bend city wharl here today. bpectators said the monster was so close that barnacles on it were visiblei This is the first time wnaie nas Deen Known to cross the bar and come five miles up the narrow channel. Porpoises have been seen in the channel before. Railroads Plead For Emergency Freight Rate Rise WASHINGTON, Sept. -()- Facing a host of opponents, 699 railroads today battled for an emergency 10 per cent freight rate increase at once while ship pers demanded that the inter state commerce commission take no action without a formal hear ing. ine railroads want a 27 per cent total boost with authority, to apply 10 per cent of it while the commission takes testimony on the whole case. Vice President Jacob Aronson of the New York Central railroad asserted, that 10 per cent "will Just about offset last week's "15 cents an hour ar bitration wage award to the rail road's nonoperating employes plus increases of the last two months in costs of materials and supplies. Board Tackles Problem of Non-School Use of School Buses; Request Denied By Robert E. Gangware City Editor, The Statesman Board members of Salem school district 24, . tackling the problem on non-school use of the 17 school buses now operated by the district itself, Tuesday night re jected a church application to rent a bus and decided that' other requests will be considered sep arately. Although the board set no pol icy on bus use beyond . pupil transportation, members were agreed that under no condition could the district rent a bus at less than the actual cost of operation, including depreciation and wages rnd expenses of drivers. The board rejected Central Lu theran church's request for a bus to haul Sunday school pupils on grounds thr such use might lead to numeroJS church requests. Labor Law Backer Wins Pennsylvania Seat in Congress ALLENTOWN, Pa., Wednes day, Sept. 10-W-RePUDlican Franklin H. Lichtenwalter was elected to Pennsylvania's eighth district seat in congress to day, beating down opposition 'of organized labor which cam paigned for his democratic op ponent, Phil H. Storch, advo cate of repealing the Taft Hartley law. At 12:45 a. m. today returns from 158 of the 214 precincts gave: Lichtenwalter, 48,116. Storch, 32,218. Storch, president of the Le high Valley Newspaper Guild, CIO, termed the labor bill "a vicious piece of legislation against the working man." Lichtenwalter, speaker of Pennsylvania's house of repre sentatives, answered Storch's assertions by stating the law is bi-partisan legislation. Legislators Barred from State Boards Oregon legislature members are definitely barred from serv ing on state commissions or in other administrative capacities. the state supreme court ruled Tuesday. In the final action of long standing litigation, the court unanimously affirmed Circuit Judge George Duncan of Marion county in holding that State Rep. Earl Hills acceptance of a fish commission appointment by Gov. Earl Snelt was void because Hill had not resigned from the legis lature. Chief Justice George Rossman wrote the opinion based on a con stitutional provision prohibiting anyone from serving in more than one branch of the state gov ernment at the same time. The state filed the suit against Hill on information of District Attorney Miller B. Hayden of Marion county contending that the constitutional provision was clear and that Hill's service as both legislator and commissioner was an aggravated violation. Similar suits originally were filed against Hill, State Sen. W. H. Straycr, Baker, member of the state board of geology and min eral industries, and Senator Merle Chessman, Astoria, member of the state highway commission. Strayer died before disposition of his suit while Chessman resigned from the highway commission. Chessman died two weeks ago. Frankness Pays Red Light Runner FREMONT, Neb., Sept. 9(JP) "Why did you drive through the stop light?" Police Court Judge R. A. Winkelman asked a college freshman. "I was in a hurry and wanted to save time," was the forthright answer. "I admire you for giving an honest answer," Judge Winkelman said. "The fine is $1 and court costs. But I'll suspend the $4.95 in costs because of your honesty." Weather Max. Min Prerip. JUlem 7 M .n Portland 67 83 .15 San Francisco 64 55 .00 Chicago Bl 69 trace New York 76 68 .00 Willamette river -4 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem t: Mostly clear today and tonight. Illfhett tem perature today near 75. Lowest tonleht, 43. Weather will be favorable for farm ing activity today. Business Manager C. C. Ward recommended purchase of three additional buses which are now available to the school district but noted that the $25,000 budget ap propriation for buses already has been exhausted by the recent ac quisition of five buses. The board authorized purchase of the three buses provided a suitable method of financing can be arranged. Harry Scott's supplies commit tee was authorized to act on awarding contracts for fuel oil, gasoline and lubricants, after bids from nearly all major oil companies were opened.The bids were not immediately tabulated. ' Superintendent Frank B. Ben nett told the board "we are about as ready as we can be for the opening of school Monday," after board approval on teacher con tracts brought the district's teach Emergency Board May Be Called Friday The state emergency board will be called to Salem next Tuesday to consider new construction at Fairview home if the state board of control this Friday finds bids for the three-unit project satis factory. This was decided Tuesday by the control board, following last month's controversy with the emergency board members over Fairview construction. In com bined session then a proposed $400,000 construction of a six unit dormitory was turned down, but opponents indicated they would consider a smaller project at Fairview, The control board approved yesterday a request of M. B. Clotterbuck, superintendent of the state deaf school, that the insti tution be permitted to join in the motor vehicle driver training program now in operation in many of the public schools. A state car, equipped with dual control, will be used in the train ing program. Upon advice of the attorney general the board approved trans fer of approximately 414 acres of CCC land to the state forestry department. The land is located near the forestry division offices in East Salem. Crews Needed On Mechanical Hop Pickers Recent increased used of me chanical hop-pickers, by Salem area hop growers, in an effort to harvest crops ahead of heavy fall rains, has created a need for 50 workers on the machines, it was reported from the Salem farm la bor office Tuesday. lit addition to several thousand human pickers, the machine la borers are needed to work day and night shifts, said Mrs. Gladys Turnbull, farm labor assistant. Pay on the machines is 80 cents per hour tor day workers ana VO cent for night work. Although men are preferred, women will be accepted and there are also openings for older youth. Mrs. Turnbull said. No experi ence is necessary. Placements are being made through the farm la bor office. The hop harvest is in full swing and, benefitted by recent light rains, is boosting the pickers' daily wage average In the yards. Mrs. Turnbull said. She pointed out the visitor at a yard who earned $16 in a single day. The filbert harvest Is expected to get underway next week. Pendleton to Start Roimd-Up PENDLETON, Ore., Sept. 9 -(P) With thousands of visitors in hol iday mood and colorful western garb . roaming the streets, Pendle ton's 36th annual round-up opens tomorrow. Blanketed Indians, row pokes wearing five-gallon hats and high heeled boots, and "dudes" in store clothes of similar style brought western color to this central Ore gon agricultural city. Bars, res taurants and other businesses were Jampacked. and hotels and tourist camps have been turning away customers for days. More than 200 cowpunchers were on hand to seek the $30,000 in cash offered to winners. They will work with some 2000 head of horses, steers, calves and Brahma bulls. ing staff to within three appoint ments of ,completion. The super intendent 4 said teacher prospects were on hand for the last-minute vacancies and he expected to fill them this week. Bennett disclosed that elemen tary school hours this year are altered to change closing hour for first and second graders from 2:30 to 2:45 p. m. in order to give teachers slightly more time with the affected classes 'and to make a better school bus schedule. The board voted to sign for the district a street paving petition affecting Mill street from 23rd to 24th streets on the north side of Richmond school. It was indi cated the project would be un dertaken by the city next year, if the petition is satisfactory, and that the school share of cost would approximate $1,000. Russ Skip Capital Ships In Global Police Line-Up By Francis W. Carpenter LAKE SUCCESS, Sept 9-iJPj-Russia's long-awaited ' Pattern for a global police force without battleships or carriers was made public today by the United Na tions. , The Soviet plan called for a maximum force of 12 troops di visions, 1.200 planes and five or six cruisers. It ignored any need for the capital ship contingents advocated by the United States, Britain, France and China in their original estimates. There was no explanatoin of the omission of battleships and carriers in the statement from the Russian delegation to the U. N.'s big five military staff committee. Informed sources ' speculated, however, that the Russians ne glected to propose capital ships because they have insisted on Playhouse Gets Full-Tiiiie Tenants ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Sept 9-(;P) Mr. and Mrs. Clay Heady today were installed in their new home a child's play house which is only 6Vi by 8fe feet. The Headys were not able to obtain an apartment. So a friend, Henry Bruckspen, offered them the use of his daughter's play hourse. The little girl, Stacia, thus became the city's youngest landlady. Hazing Awaits President as Equator N ears ABOARD U. S. S. MISSOURI WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, Sept. JMlVPresident Truman took a brisk workout aboard this leisurely, cruising battleship to day, getting in trim for the age old "crossing the equator" hazing ceremonies on Thursday. As a humble polliwog, the chief executive and 1.600 others who have never "officially" crossed the line, will have to go through the more or less harrow ing initiation rites. Is he worried? He wouldn't ad mit it to reporters. "I've arranged for everybody to get their share, including my daughter," Mr. Truman chuckled. His daughter Margaret and Mrs. Truman are accompanying the president back to Norfolk, Va., from his good will visit to Brazil where he addressed the Pan American conference. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, the president's chief of staff, threw out some ominous hints of what "Polliwog" Tru man may have coming. Leahy is Senior Shellback aboard. He won his spurs as a midshipman aboard the U. S. S. Oregon sailing around the Straits of Magellan during the Spanish-American war in 1898. Leahy laughingly acknowledged to reporters that he bought im munity from1 punishment by do nating a barrel of beer for the Oregon's Crew. Street Name Changes Asked Advisability of a new name for Liberty road will be suggested to Marion county court among other street and road name change recommendations by a group of local city, county, postal and utilities officials. The group met Tuesday night in city hall to go over a long list of duplications and near-duplications in street names within fast growing Salem residential areas, with an eye to removing dupli cations as an aid to agencies serv ing Jhe public, such as the post office. Milton Meyers presided over the meeting. State School Dorm Rates Increased PORTLAND, Sept. 9-;p)-Slu-dents in state schools will pay $2 more monthly to live in dormi tories this, fall, the state board of higher education decided at its meeting here today. The board also gave the medi cal school at Portland $25,000 for surgery department development and adopted a new travel policy providing for the payment of railroad fares for faculty mem bers attending professional and other meetings. equal contributions from the powers and because Russia has only four old battlewagons and no carriers. By equal contributions, the Russians want the nations to chip in man for man, plane for plane, ship for ship. The United States, supported by others in the big five, wants coma r able contributions, such as the nation with the greatest force of carriers contributing more carriers, the largest army con tributing more men. It was reported the Russian figures were submitted to the ultra-secret military staff com mittee six weeks ago. While the Russians did not explain why they released Chem for publica tion now, it was noted the as sembly will meet next week and the slowness of work on the pro posed armed force is certain to be discussed. Nehru to Place Hindustan on War Footing -NEW DELHI, Sept 9r-(JP)-Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru declared in a radio address to night that the government of the Dominion of India was confront ed With a situation "analogous to war" and that it would meet the "serious crisis . . .on a war basis." Nehru asserted that the military "still are masters of the situation" and 'moon would be. "more the masters" in dealing with the cri sis he described as threatening tne future or the nation. He did not specify what mili tary measures would be taken to end the communal fighting, loot ing, arson and carnage that have laid waste great areas of the par titioned Punjab and, in the last few days, paralyzed his own cap ital. . Thousands of Moslems, fearing death at the hands of inflamed Sikhs and Hindus, fled today from the twin cities of Old and New Delhi, where an estimated 1,000 have lost their lives in bru tal massacres in the last three days and where gunfire still was heard by night and day. The 1,000 estimate was from official sources, but one civil of ficial said the total dead and wounded might reach 10,000. There was no accurate count amid the confusion attending murder, arson and looting. $100,000 in Banks Listed as Dormant PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. -JP) Sheriff Martin Pratt today listed $100,000 in dormant bank depos its in a public advertisement that is the first escheatment-proceedings by the state under a law pas sed by the 1947 legislature. The sheriff listed 800 accounts of two banks, the first national and the Canadian Bank of Com merce, and said none of these had depotits or withdrawals for- a period of seven years. Accident Victim Found Near Canby CANBY, Sept. 9-MVApparent-ly v ictim of a train, the body of a man tentatively identified as Loyd Orien Abies, 50, was found be side Southern Pacific tracks two miles south of here late last night. Indications were that the man walked into the path of a south bound train, said Corner Ray Rilance. He was seeking relatives. Pilots Take Credit for Quarter-Inch Rain CARLSBAD, N. M., Sept. 9-UP) -Claude McCausland and Herb Webber, pilots of Carlsbad, claimed credit today for a quarter-inch" rain that fell Sunday after a cloud milking experiment. They treated a towering thun derhead with ' dry ice, and the rain started a few minutes later. Hurley for President . Boom Inaugurated ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.. Sept. 9-(JPy-A boom was started today for MaJ. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley of Santa Fe for the republican presidential nomination. Hurley was secretary of wdV under President Hoover and am bassador to China and personal envoy for President Roosevelt Blasts Rock 'Island Queen' In Pittsburgh - PITTSBURGH. Sept. i 9-HJPh The toll of dead and missicg ia the explosion and fire of the ex cursion boat "Island Queen wa listed at 21 tonight as firemen continued to rake the blackened hulk of the once-proud steamer for additional victims. Seventeen persons were-' in jured when twin explosions rotk- , ed the five-deck steamer today, turning it into a flaming funeral pyre for the crew members trap ped inside.' Edward L. Schott. 40, .of Cini cinnati, president of Coney Island, Inc., which owned the steamer, said a list supplied him bv Pitta burch police indicated 21 dead or missing. I Bodies Recovered Only six bodies have been re covered. Two have been identi fied as those of Mary Jones of Cincinnati, a negro maid, and David Heath, of Cincinnati. Tour bodies were at Allegheny county morgue, m badly charred that it was doubtful whether they could ever be identified. The cause of the explosions was unknown. Andrew Charles, assistant sup erintendent of police, said th? boilers in the vessel were found intact An earlier report had blamed the tragic blast on a boiltr explosion. . Schott said he had no idea what caused the holocaust. ! . , -I haven't had time to lock Into It," he said. "Right now my principle concern is the crew id their families." , - i He estimated loss to the boct alone at $600,000. which he stid was "pretty well covered by in surance. Partable Lights Rlrger Fire Chief William Davis said firemen would search the sunken hull of the once-proud river steamer tonight if they could do so Without danger. PortsH- lights were rigged to aid tr. search and- acetylene torches wei Drougnt to the waterfront. Earlier, Davis had ordered til firemen from the boat becaus the hull was shifting and threat ening to break sideways as tt slipped Into deeper water. Ttm shifting may delay the search un til daybreak. Two mighty bla?t rocked the boat. Fire wrapped the big steamer from prow to fan tail with incredible swiftness. y Court Sustains Death Sentence The state supreme court Tues day affirmed a decree of the Multnomah county circuit court in the case of Wardell H. Hender son, 25, Vanport negro, under death sentence for the slaying r f Walter H. Poole. Jhe murder.ee curred in Vanport December 24, 1945. The opinion in this cae, also written by Chief Jusi:-e Rossman, upheld Circuit Ju . Frank Lonergan of Portland. K- r derson's only hope of escar '--g execution under the decree Vf the lower court and opinion "f the supreme 'Court is to obt&: rehearing in the latter court ..r clemency from Governor SWA. Downtown Firemen To Get Lounge Room Remodeling of part of the dow n town Salem fire station's fii?t floor, to provide a lounge tocn. office and quarters for night cap tain, is underway at the city hall. The firemen's lounge room will be at the south end of the build ing, behind the office and a room where the captain on night duty will sleep and receive all night calls. Manila Darkened a Mouse Electrocuted MANILA, Wednesday, Sept. 11 -W-The lights went out last night in this capital city of more than 1,000,000 residents. Manila Electric company service men went looking for the caue. found a mouse had wandered into a main circuit breaker and caused a short circuit Portland Warehouse Destroyed by Blaze PORTLAND, Sept. spectacular fire destroyed a ware house full of furniture and stalled traffic on the Burnside bridge over the Willamette river here today. About $75,000 worth of furni ture was consumed in the $100,000 fire, said Leonard Fishel, owner of the warehouse )