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OODEH OODODO o o o on ooo o o o 'oc' o Food Prices Take Long-Awafted Brop Consumer Resistance Culs Butler Sale CHICAGO. Sept 1 2 -TV Prices of several , basic foods took a tumble in primary market today, arresting an advance which had earned quotations to new record high for seen consecutive days. Butter, hogs, wheat, corn, oats and lard were among the food Items which declined. Measuring the price drop in wholesale commodities, the Asso ciated Pre averages of 35 items fell to 194.35 from 194.99 yester day. It was the first decline in eight days.; The bane year 1926 equals 100. Butter for future delivery dropped 3 cents a pound, the daily limit, on the Chicago mercantile exchange. Closing price on No vember was "3 cents- Eggs drppped the 2 cent daily limit, October ending at 56 cents. CuImh1 hit hrm criticised for letting a commercial development take place in the vicinity of the state capitol group. But keeping out what is undesirable is bnly half the battle for civic beauty. Preserving what we have is the other half. Nothing in the environs of the capitol w so attractive as the dignified facade of the First Pres byterian church. The stately col umns of its portico, its steeple pointing skyward, its sturdy walls of brick all joined in harmonious resign make it a fine type of ecclesiastical architecture, a fit neighbor to the public buildings of chic center. It wouldbe a public loss, to have the church lorn down at any time within its useful life; and to raze it to make room lor another building of the state group when other ground is available would be nothing short of a calamity. -The church wtas designed by the late Morris Whitehouse of the firm of Whitehouse and Church, designers of many of the build ing of the northwest distin guished for beauty. It follows the simple style of the New England meeting-house, simple in line, chaste, well-balanced, very def initely church. Its location shows it to excellent advantage. The alternate location which the church expects ultimately to oc cupy will lack the vista the pres ent church enjoy. While I happen to be a member of this church I am writing mere ly as a citizen interested In pre-M-rving architectural beauty. The proper environments for the state capitol Is a border of semi-public buildings such as schools, churches, libraries, fraternal halls, etc., surh as we pow have in large measure. I feel confident that aside from monetary consid erations the state highway com mission will be unwilling to doom this dignified structure to a pre mature deft ruction, and am cer tain the public will1 not approve. Hurricane to By-Pass Coast MIAMI. Fla , Sept 2-ifi)-A violent tropical hurricane with winds above 140 miles an hour near the center began to recurve toward the northwest late today and assumed a course which the weather bureau said removed all danger to the llands of the Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico. Its 20-mile forward speed will take the storm past San Juass Puerto Rico, long before the bat tleship Missouri, with President Truman aboard is scheduled to sail past that city. SLEEP SICKNESS IN SOUTH NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 12HAV Federal and state health officers Joined tonight in move to com bat an outbreak of sleeping sick ness, believed to be a very rare type, which has taken the lives of two children and killed more than 2,500 horses and mules in southwest Louisiana. Animal Cracltcrs By WARREN GOODRICH A don't know what you Mt in her. She wouldn't look good on a Lily Dache creation even," TO5 mo oxii j For the first time in two weeks wholesale beef, lamb, veal and mutton prices were reduced at New York! Declines averaged about $1.00 a hundred pounds. Retail demand was reported slackening with kosher buying "almost ft a standstill." - PORTLAND, Sept. 12-W)-The 2-cent increase in butter prices put dollar butter on one Portland counter today. A specialty delicatessen upped its price to $1 a pound. Most gro cery stores, however, were selling Grades A and A A from 90 to 97 cents. Some stores reported consum er resistance. Margarine sales were reported booming. Margar ine prices dropped 5 cents a week ago. Sweetnome Bank Robbery ! Suspect Held PORTLAND, Sept 12-i(PV-The arrest in Hugo, Okla.. of Joe Berry Bishop, 27, an ex-convict, in connection with the ' $38,000 robbery of the Sweet Home bank Ust month, was announced here today by the FBI. . ; v - Bishop, resident of Lebanon, hear Sweet Home, for six months prior - to the robbery, will be brought to Portland for trial after arraignment m Oklahoma City, said Howard: I. Bobbitt in charge of the FBI here. Two gunmen cleaned up tellers' cages and a safe on August 29 and fled eastward on the Santiam highway in a stolen automobile. The automobile was found a few miles away. It was pointed out that Bish op's description does not tally with either of those given of the actual hold-up men. . He was charged with the hold-up, how ever. Bobbitt said Bishop was mar ried and the father of two chil dren. He sold his home and shortly afterward made numer ous large purchases. Bobbitt said attention was 'attracted to him through these purchases. He was arrested at the home of relatives, who had been watched by FBI agents. Slot Machine Iii SiiellVLap Elimination0 of slot machines and other similar devices in Ore gon, whether they pay off in cash or trade, is now squarely in the lap of Gov. Earl Sneli, Attorney General George Neuner said Fri day. Neuner said he bad sent di rective to all district attorneys in the state outlining ' those sections of the law which prohibit games of chance and had no doubt but that most officials would act. "In counties where officials fail to perform their sworn duty," Neuner said, "the j law provides thai only upon the governor's or der can my office carry on the prosecution of violators. Neuner made it plain that he would act on a directive from the executive department The attorney general said he had received no direct informa tion from county officials' but newspaper reports Indicated that in several counties the officials already have moved in on slot machines and other unlawful de vices. Salem Men to Hear Stassen Several Salem men. indicated Friday that they would travel to Portland tonight to hear Har old Stassen, former Minnesota governor and presidential aspir ant who will speak at a public re ception to be held in the Crystal room of the Benson hotel from 7:30 to 10 o'clock. Those scheduled from here to attend the reception are Robert Hamilton, Steve Anderson, Rich ard Wicks and Lawrence Oster- ftnan. Allan Carson has also indi cated he will attend if sufficient ly recovered from a recent attack of malaria. , Most of Mid- i Schools to Open Willamette valley schools will reopen Monday, September 15 with some few exceptions result ing from harvest or, other local conditions. A few Marion and Linn county schools are now in session having opened Monday, September 8 and several Polk county schools will not open until September 22. Schools which reopen Monday besides Salem - Include Silverton, Woodburn. Mt. Angel, Aumsville, Stayton, Keizer, Salem . Heights, Gates, Hubbard, Gervais, Mac lea y, Halls Ferry formerly Riv erdale, Bethel, Fruitland, Labish Center, Fox Valley, Lyons, Brooks, all in Marion county. Hayesville will open Septem ber 22. Independence -in Polk county Campai NINETY -SEVENTH YEAR Fairview Bid Over First Razing of Capitol Street r One ef 27 houses la the vicinity of way for a $2,000,000 retail business development there, the dwelling In photo above Is the former Chadwlek family home Where Stephen F. Chadwkk lived daring his term as acting governor of Oregon from 1S77 to 1S7S. The home was occupied by Chadwlcks ontll the late Mary Cbadwtck died abeat 20 years age, ownership of the place later falling te the Episcopal church. Located at 402 N. Capitol at, at the Center street corner, the soon-te-move occupant Is the Walter Sogge family. (Statesman photo by Don Dill, staff photographer.) Bids Sought on Wrecking, Moving 27 Dwellings Imminent moving or wrecking of 27 Salem dwellings, now lo cated on the site of a future two block business center at Capitol and Center streets. Is closer today with a call for bids by Graben horst Bros., local realtors who handled buying of the properties for Pacific Mutual Life' Insurance company. ' ' ' ' Bids will be accepted -until 0 p.mv September. 20, on "any. or all" of the houses, according to a classified advertisement, appear ing in The Statesman. The struc Labor Camp May Lie Idle Over Winter Salem's farm labor camp near Salem airport probably will lie dormant and unoccupied this winter, it was stated Friday by Guy Hickok, chairman of Salem Agricultural Housing, Inc. The camp will be evacuated September 25, by order of the U. S. department of agriculture. Jay Schreckendgust, camp man ager, said Friday he had received notice from the USDA's Portland office directing him to distribute eviction notices to the camp's tenants September 22, directing should be cherries growing dur 25. Eviction proceedings will be instituted September 30, on those families who have failed to move, Schreckendgust reported. Proposed transfer of the prop-' erty from government ownership to, Salem Agricultural, Inc., will probably take place after six' months, Hickok said, but there is no assurance it will be done be fore departure of the camp's ten ants. About 70 families, or 300 per sons are living at the camp, ac cording to camp man a g e r Schreckendgust The property is expected to be taken over from war assets 'administration ' by Marion county court soon, then transferred to the Salem housing organization. Weather Max. S9 S4 - S7 . SI Min. SI S3 9 Preelp. .SO .so .00 -trace 1 -00 Salem Portland . San Francisco Chicago New York as 15 Willamette river -3 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today with cooler daytime tem peratures. Highest temperature today 80; lowest . Weather favorable for nearly all farming activities except foe wind which may Interfer with dust ing. ' will also reopen September 15 while Dallas, Pedee, and, Mon mouth will delay opening until the following: week. Amity and Dayton in Yamhill county will reopen September 15 as will Lebanon in Linn county where all high schools will be op erating September 15. ... Opening September 8 .in Mar ion county were Roberts and Ha zel Green. Former district schools which wfll be Dart of the Salem system this year include Rickey, Auburn, Swegle, Pringle, Liberty, : and Middle Grove. First six grades will be housed in the local build ing while junior high school stu dents will be transported to Sa lem. - ,, ' Willamette Valley Doors Monday 10 PAGES :-.r -4.t ;-?-. pn a ; 1 . Capitol and Center streets, soon tures must be removed from the premises within 60 days after transfer of title. Certified check for 10 per cent of price bid must accompany bids. Most of the families resident in the area have already moved way, according to the realty firm, following notice to vacate given recently. All must be out within 60 days from notice of vacation. According to a recent survey by The Statesman, most of the families in the area plan to re No Aid Needed for Girl with Broken Ann in Accident State' police Friday night re ceived a call telling them that a girl had suffered a broken arm in an automobile accident near Friendly Farm on highway 99E North of Salem. They arrived at the seene of the accident and found just what the caller had described a girl with a broken arm and an ac cident. However, the broken arm all neatly done up in a cast. Cars driven by William Dombush, Salem routeTfand Captola Purdy Salem route B, had collided, caus ing minor damages to the autos and none to the occupants. The girl, Marie Hlrsch, Helena, Mont., told state troopers she had brok en the arm a few weeks ago. Welfare Aid Rise Granted PORTLAND, Sept. 12 -(TV The state public welfare commission today authorized a 10 per cent increase in food allowances for Oregon's 25,000 'old-age and blind pensioners. Administrator Loa Howard said the action, taken because of the increased cost of living, would increase the average check $2. It will not apply to those in hospi tals, nursing or boarding homes. Miss Howard said the commis sion also is studying the possi bility of increases for general as sistance and dependent children in November. There was no commission meet ing in today's action, members being polled individually. Rail Strike End Frees Steel Mill PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12-UP)-An agreement to end the week old strike of United State Steel's "Captive" Union railroad, calling for a wage increase of 15 cents an" hour, was reached shortly be fore midnight tonight by ne road and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Railway-'Trainmen. Communists Start Bid For Power in Italy WASHINGTON,. Sept. 2-W-Diplomatic officials reported to night that Italian communists have launched their long-awaited "battle for Italy". These authoirties say that the spreading strike of a million workers, the socialist demand for a vote of no confidence in the De Gasperi government and other recent developments appear to be part of a communist campaign to capture Italy for the Soviet half of Europe. , POUNDBD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Area Nears A. te be moved or wrecked to make main in Salem. A number of them have purchased other property, while some will continue to rent. The projected trading center is estimated to be an investment of approximately $2,000,000. About one-third of the area along Cap itol street, east toward 12th, is to be in buildings, backed by an off street parking area. A Sears Roebuck store will occupy the frontage between Union and Mar ion streets, while other chain and local stores are negotiating for space in the block between Center and Marion street. Sid Stevens to Stay at Helm Of Cherry Fete Sid L. Stevens, Salem Jeweler, was reelected president of the Salem Cherry Festival association at a meeting of the group Friday night in the Cherrian room of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. Members also voted to change the name of the organization to the "Salem Cherrylsnd associa tion," a decision prompted by complaints by Cherrians who said the old name implied that there should be hcerries growing dur ing the festival. In other action, the organiza tion decided to hold the 1948 fes tival on July 18, 19, 20, and 21, identical to the time of the 1947 celebration. New officers elected Included Mai Rudd, first vice-president; Mrs. Glenn McCormick, second vice-president; Mrs. Arthur Wed dle, secretary, and Fred McKin ney, treasurer. New directors, for a three-year term, will be Jack. Cutler, Dave Holtzman, Kenneth Perry, Wil liam McKinney, Stewart Demp sey and Linn Smith. Elected to two-year terms as directors were Sid Stevens, Mai Rudd, Graham Sharkey, Mrs, Glenn McCormick and Mrs. Arthur Weddle. Chosen to serve as directors for a one year term were William C. Dyer, 1947 King Bing, Irwin Wedel, Rex Kimmel, William W. Chadwick, Ralph Nohlgren and Fred Mc Kinney. Emory P. Sanders was appointed business manager of the association. Firemen Credited With Saving House LIBERTY, Sept. 12.-Arrivai of a Salem fire truck in record time is believed to have saved the residence of Forrest Kaeser on old 99E highway here Friday, when parks from burning garbage ig nited a small walnut dryer. Neighbors recruited a bucket brigade in which eevn the rervices of a state policeman were used, and kept the fire under control until the city fire truck arrived. The walnut dryer was de stroyed along with a large num ber of boxes and a nearby small House used for sleeping was dam aged. Stassen Promises 2 Cabinet Posts to West PENDLETON, Sept. 12 -fP)-Harold Stassen, republican pres idential aspirant, said here today that the Tait - Hartley labor law "is good law" and better than "no legislation." The former Minnesota governor said the "remarkable growth" of the west makes it imperative that "the next GOP cabinet'" have two members from the west. One of these should be the secretary of the interior. The other he left open. 1 JIB. 4 " i 9) MftffllM (M vvl lUir lily Ore Saturday, Sept. 13, 1847 Hurdle Board Okehs 3-Unit Dorm For Employes The state emergency board will meet here Tuesday to con sider the lone bid of $208,994, for construction of a three-unit em ployes dormitory at Fairview Home, submitted Friday by W. C. Smith, Inc., Portland, and already approved by the board of control. The bid was telephoned to board of control members In Pendleton Friday and their ap proval was relayed back to Sa lem. At a previous Joint meeting of the board of control and state emergency board, a bid of $40,980, also by W. C. Smith, Inc., for a six-unit dormitory, was rejected by four members of the emer gency board. At that time the dis senting members tentatively agreed they would vote for con struction of a three-unit dormi tory provided the bids were rea sonable. The three-unit structure, of brick construction, will have a capacity of 48 persons. The board of control had estimated the building would cost about $250, 000. Barret and Logan, Portland, were the designers of the struc tures. Abduction of Wife Reported In Silverton SILVERTON, Sept. 12 Oregon and Washington state police are conducting an extensive search for Georgia Bowes of Silverton, who was reported by a witness to have been forced into a car by her estranged husband, Bud Bowes, Goldbar, Wash., at gun point here early Friday morn ing, according to state police. Forcing his wife into the car, state police said Bowes sped away from Silverton, outran a state police car in a race from Ore gon City to Portland and es caped into Washington. The car was last seen traveling through Vancouver, according to Wash ington state police. Silverton police said they had learned that Bowes and his wife had been separated for some time. Mrs. Bowes, they said, left Bowes several weeks ago and went to Spokane, but he followed her there. She left Spokane and came to Silverton a few days ago in another attempt to elude him, police reported. Leslie Moen, Silverton, who was walking home with Mrs. Bowes when Bowes drove up, said that Bowes threatened to kill both of them with what he be lieved to be a Luger pistol. He then ordered her into the car and sped off, Moen said. Flax Fiber Industries Seek Export of Present Stockpiles By Ltllie L. Madsen Farm Editor, The Statesman . A request that Oregon's con gressional delegation seek dispos al of the present flax fiber stock pile to foreign countries was voted by the Oregon Flax Fiber industries at a meeting held Fri day at the Salem Chamber of Commerce rooms. Fred Schwab, Mt Angel, sec retary of the organization, called the meeting at the request of the seven co-operative flax plants still operating in the Willamette valley. Purposes of the meeting as ex plained by Schwab were to "study the rumor that Oregon fiber was not good enough for German fish nets, encouragement of the ap pointment of Ed Dodd, present as sistant secretary of agriculture as secretary should Clinton An derson resign, and. to ask the state to-do all hackling, cleaning of tow and to desist from growing flax until the present fiber stock is disposed of." A letter was read from W. D. B. Dodson, Portland Chamber of Commerce representative in Washington, DC, stating that Oregon flax had been "found un suitable for German fish nets." Elaboration indicated that Amer ican dollars in Europe were scarce and being used chiefly for food. The flax group requested its officers to ask Dodson for the source of the information; Infor mation from the U. S. department of commerce, read at the meeting Price UMW Chief Signing of Required Anti-Red Statement CHICAGO, Sept. 12-W)-John L. Lewis today blocked AFL compliance with the Taft-Hartley act. at least for the time being, thereby closing the doors of the national labor relations board to all 105 unions with 7,500,000 members. Lewis opposed the signing of affidavits disavowing mem bership in the communist party, agement relations act. Since the AFL executive coun cil, comprising 15 officers of the AFL, had to act unanimously in order to comply with a ruling of General Counsel Robert N. Den ham of the NLRB. Lewis oppo sition was enough to stymie com pliance. The other members were pre pared at one time to sign the af fidavits, members of the council said. AFL President William Green told a news conference that the council "could not conform to the Denham ruling." "The council decided that the Taft-Hartley act is reprehensible, vicious and destructive of the workers' civil and legal rights," Green aaid. While the AFL president would not predict that a fight over com pliance would develop on the floor of the AFL convention in San Francisco beginning October 6, It was conceded by other labor leaders here that the whole is sue now would shift to the con vention. In the Interval, however, there remained the possibility that the Denham ruling might be reversed by Denham, by the NLRB. or by the courts. In which case the AFL executive council members would not have to sign affidavits in or der to make the member unions eligible to use machinery of the S NLRB. Car Registrations Top 500,000 for First Time in State Motor vehicle registrations In Oregon have topped the 500.000 mark for the first time In the state's history. Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., announced Friday, Vehicles of all types registered in the first seven months of the year total 501,594, a 14 per cent increase over the same period in 1948 and a new all-time high. Passenger cars accounted for 384,520 registered vehicles, over 40,000 more than the number op erating on Oregon streets and highways at the end of July last year. Fees on registrations through July 21 totaled $4,768,813, an increase of 20 per cent ARAB LEADER SLAIN JERUSALEM, Sept. l-(JPt-Sami Effendi Taha, secretary general of the Arab labor fed eration, who has opposed the leadership of HaJ Amin El Hus seini, exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, was assassinated tonight" with a submachine gun at his home In Haifa, an official announcement stated. showed that 3091 tons of flax had been imported into U. S. from Europe in 1947, indicating that there is no general surplus. A committee was appointed to meet with Penitentiary Warden George Alexander and L. J. Law, who heads the state flax plant at the penitentiary, to formulate a program to be presented to the state board of control requesting that the state do all hackling, grading of fiber and cleaning of tow as well as to discontinue growing flax temporarily. A cen tral sales' agency will also be dis cussed. Named to serve on the committee were Clinton" Christner of Molalla, Rufus Kraxberger of Canby and Lester Bunning of St Paul. The president and secretary will also serve on the committee. This same committee will make a study cf a proposed processing plant for experiment in flax at Oregon State college, and should it see fit discuss the purchase of additional equipment for the col lege to carry on the experiments already started. Jen Harmon, in charge of flax growing and pro cessing experiments at the col lege, stated that the Benton coun ty plant now not in use had been offered for sale for $17,000. . W. J. Enschede of Hillsboro was elected president to replace R. H. Mitchell of St Paul who has moved to eastern Oregon, and Fred Schwab was renamed sec retary of the organization. Repre sented Friday were Mt Angel, Washington county, Springfield, Jefferson, St Paul, Molalla, and Canby. Sc No. 14 J required under the labor-man Pickets Jeer Taf t on Tour In California SANTA CRUZ. CaUf Sept II -(TVSenator Robert Taf t (R. Ohio) walked Into a meeting el the California State Bar tonight amid bona of 200 CIO and AFL pickets to assert that ! "the peo ple do not propose to let union leaders run the government ef the United States." As Ta ft Senator Murray (D. Mont.), Rep. Halierk: (R.-Ind.), house republican floor leader, and Rep. Madden (D.-Ind.) pa raded onto the stags of the jam packed auditorium, they were greeted with resounding cheers, Taft co-author of the Taft Hartley labor lawit was caKed a "union-busting labor bill on placards carried by some of the pickets t hided Murray, an op ponent of the act as the latter walked in with him. Taft earlier declared that high prices may be the chief issue in next year's politics! campaign. The answer to the high cost of living hr "eat less, and eat lea extravagantly he adJed. 6-Jet Bomber Ready to Test SEATTLE. Sept 12 4Wv- A new experimental Jet-propelled bomb er, the size of a B-2d auerfortresa and with sharply sweptback wings and tail surfaces, will begin giound and taxiing tefts soon. The new Boeing X3-47 Strato jet has sharply turrei-bck or in verted wings and tail surf area. Four of the General Electric built Jet engines are mounted in pairs under the inboard sections of the wing, with smother out near each wing tip. The plane has a tandem type landing gear with small outrigger wheels. What was alio described as 18 Jet - assisted takeoff units stud the rear fuselage f r added power. There is only one bomb bay. compared with the two on a B-29, but it Is longer! than thote on a superfortress. Motor Scooter f Driver Injured ) Richard Strom, Sa'ein, wa? riously Injured Friday, r about 10 p.m, when his n skooter collided with car dr ;.t ir n by Neal EL Bloomenstein. rc?5 Rivercrest dr., near the state t n itentiary on East State street ac cording to state police. btrom was taken to S ' uenerai , nospital wm por fractures of the skuHi. leg pelvis, state police . reported. ; pital attendants were unabl give a definite statement Strom's condition. re d o if Drunk Charge Laitl as Man Overturns Car ! ! Albert Thomas Tracy, Salem route 3, was arrested by ataU po lice Friday night and taken to the Marion county jail on I charges cf being drunk on public highway. State police said they found Tracy about 10 p.m., in his overturned car on Madrona avenue and high way 89 E. He was uninjured, po lice said. Yugoslavs Hold 2 CIs WASHINGTON, Sept 12-UPh The United States has lodged "a vigorous protest? with Yugos lavia and has called for the "im mediate release" of two Ameri can soldier sand seven British military personnel seised by Yu goslav authorities while fishing on a stream in the Trieste area. It has not been established wheth er they were in the Yugoslav zone of Trieste. DR. KING HONORED NEW YORK, Sept. 12-OVDr. Albert T. King of Salem was among 782 distinguished surgeons from 10 nations received Into the American College of Surgeons at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel tonight. Vetdes : i