The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, September 18, 1947, Page 1, Image 1

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Hi Oregon Statesman, Salem. Or Thursday. Sept. 18, 1947
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I ' BOSTON. Mass. When I got
nff the train in Boston I found
that summer! was still here
temperature 88, 'with high hu
jnidity. The paper says the cu
mulative, above . normal for the
month is 99 degrees and for" the
year 509, to the natives are en
titled to say this is above normal.
Shortly after noon Boston's
famed east wind got to working
and the temperature dropped 22
degrees to levels more comfor
table to an Oregonian.
i I had a little business over in
Quincy, and my son-in-law and
daughter, who; are domiciled here
for a year, drove me over. It is
one of the substantial: cities
which make up Greater Boston,
'and was the home of the famed
Adams family. The Fore River
shipyard, wnicn i nau iicu u
1941, is thert and has a great
record for production of warcraft
loir Uncle Sams navy.
i While in Quincy I noticed a
laign "Hinghara" on a bus and re
called that my immigrant an
cestor, shortly after coming to
this continent in the early. 17th
century, had settled In Hingham.
As it was only about six miles
away we drove down and found
It a quaint town at tfe head of a
email cove, full of houses and
other - buUdiogs which betray
greet age. The distinguished fea
ture of. the town is the ."Old Ship
Church" which stands on little
knoll. Erected in 1681, it has the
distinction of being the oldest
structure In the .United States in
cot tinuous use.
It gets its name from the fact
that it was built, by shipbuilders
who
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Butter Price
To Drop Cent
In Portland
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept FL-
(VButter prices will drop one
cent a pound at the wholesale
level here tomorrow, the 'first re
treat In the steady climb began
last spring. ? i
' Trade sources attributed con
sumer resistance and sharp de
clines in eastern markets.
Wholesale i prices will be 88
cents for gride AA and 82 cents
for grade BV The retail prices
here have ranged from 90 to 98
cents the past few days.
Bogs at L ithe north - Portland
livestock market dropped 50 cents
to $31 per 100 pounds today.
By The: Associated Preat
The government cut. sharply
Wednesday its grain and flour ex
ports to shortage areas abroad,
while consumer resistance to
soaring living costs spread to
more cities -at home.
The agriculture department set
November export allocations at
"K8.E00 long tons - - or 29,914,000
bushels --of wheat, flour in
wheat equivalent and grain sorg
hums. This is 35 percent i below
October allocations and 43 per
cent under, j the July-O c t o b e r
monthly average.
Earlier, Senator Aiken (R-Vt),
chairman of a special senate ag
riculture subcommittee, forecast
food prices would remain at pres
ent levels or go higher until next
summer.
Light Frost Due
In Valley Areas
Frost is expected to blanket
lower sections of the Willamette
valley tonight, the weather bu
Teau predicted Wednesday, al
though the thermometer will only
dip to 38 degrees. The frost will
be general over the entire state,
as a cold wave continues to move
southward from Washington, ac
cording to the forecast.
Creeks to Ask U. S. Prior
To Increasing Army
ATHENS, Sept. 17 -JP) The
size of the Greek army will be
Increased from its present
strength of 130,000 subject to the
approval of, the United JStates, It
was announced officially tonight.
The number of men to be add
ed was not disclosed, but the
council recently was reported to
have decided on aa -increase to
180.000 or 200,000 to guard Greek
borders against guerrilla attacks.
Animal Crackers
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MarshatlPropases Veto
Russians
Surprised
By Move
By Francis W.-Carpenter v
NEW YORK. " Sept. " 17-WV
Secretary of State Marshall,
making a slashing attack on Rus
sia,? seized the Initiative today in
the, United Nations assembly
with a bold new plan -to rebuild
the deadlocked - U.N.. peace ma
chinery. '.
To the obvious surprise and
confusion of the entire Russian
delegation. Marshall proposed a
curb on the big power veto and
creation of a "little assembly"
commission to maintain everlast
ing vigilance over world peace.
The second Marshall plan for
the world hit the assembly with
tremendous impact.
It was the first crack in the
firm stand of the five great pow
ers Russia, the United States,
China, France . and Britain
against repeated outcries of the
small and medium nations , for
revision of the UJJ, charter.
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, - Soviet
deputy foreign minister and
chief Russian delegate In the ab
sence of Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov, was obviously caught
off-base by the tough pronounce
ment from Marshall. Vishinsky
had a copy of the Marshall text
before the speech was delivered
and Just before the assembly be
gan word got around that Vishin
sky had cancelled - his policy
statement set for this afternoon.
The Russians refrained , from
Joining . the burst of spplause
which greeted Marshall at the
end of his 25-minute talk.
' The assembly called off Its aft
ernoon meeting to, give the dele
gates of 35 nation time to 'study
the American pronouncement
which was delivered witjh the full
blessing of President Truman.
(Additional details on ! page 2)
Ric Predicted
In MiUt Price
PORTLAND, Sept. U7 - () -Milk
industry representatives
were told today to take 'the lead
ership in -any move tpr higher
prices and not place the blame
for such action on the Oregon
milk control board.
Dr. D. L. De Loach, professor
of agriculture economics at Ore
gon State, said the milk board's
duty was to fix minimum price
policies protecting the producers.
He predicted an increase in
milk prices and told the affiliated
milk committee, composed of
producer, consumers and distrib
utors, the grain market and labor
situation has forced cost of pro
ducing dairy goods to an all time
high.
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La Guardia Said
'Slightly Worse9
NEW YORK, Sept. 17(-The
condition of former Mayor Fior
ello H. La Guardia, 64, was re
ported ."slightly worse" tonight by
his physician. Dr. George Boehr,
who said "there have been no in
dications of improvement."
Dr. Boehr said:
"Mr. La Guardia has remained
in a deep sleep with only occa
sional brief lucid moments dur
ing which he took little nourish
ment. His pulse has grown some
what weaker. There have been no
indications of improvement and it
is not .expected that he will re
gain full consciousness."
Food Costu
By Margaerlte Wrlfht
. Staff Writer. The Statesman
Breakfast lunch and dinner, the
average Salem family is spending
around twice as much this month
for the same food It bought in
pre-war Septembers. ' - f
These approximate figures,
brought out in a special congres
sional Investigation into living
costs last week, plus a flood of
price comparisons by the press
associations, find harried house
wives and national leaden
scratching anew for explanations
and solutions with no solution
in sight
Although actual comparison is
hazardous because of the variety
of brands, and the normal spread
of prices in various stores, the
current tags on 12 common food
items in Salem would seem to
bear out the statistics recorded na
tionally: ' Cheese was 29 cents a pound in
1939, -it's 60 cents today: brown
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Bobby soxers at Salem senior nigh school (top photo) have taken the long dress style to their hearts,
and almost to their ankles, as shown above "oy Martha Osborn, route 2, left, and Beverly Siewert.
rente 7, both Juniors. Registering their ' disapproval in typical male fashion are. left to right, Allan
Gilchrist, 2148 8. Cottage st. Junior; Jim Sandefer, 1380 Center st, and Earl Eshleman, 494 3, Win-
' ter sL, both sophomores. Incidentally, new male fashions decree men's trousers to be at ankle length,
sack as Eshleman Is displaying. On a more serious side of the changes wrought by the beginning
of school, motorists have been warned to exercise Increased caution at school crossings. Shown
In the lower picture are first and second graders of Bosk school crossing 12th street at Mission streets
Wednesday noon. Acting as traffie monitor at far left is Barbara Allen, 1315 S. 15th st who Is In the
sixth grade. (Photos by Don DilL. Statesman staff photographer.)
Unions to Cut Food Costs
By Quantity Purchases
DETROIT, Sept. 17-UP)-Forty
Michigan locals of the CIO United
Auto Workers joined ' today in a
cooperative plan for carlot pur
chases of food aftd other com
modities for sale to members at
cost in what union officials called
sn all-out fight against inflatloa
President Walter A. Reuther
said locals would be asked to
authorize loans of r one, dollar a
member. - vV ?
MAN SUCKED INTO JET PLANE
-MUROC, Calif., Sept. 17 -VP)
Maurice G. Bricks, 37, an air
plane mechanic, was drawn head
first into the air intake of a 0-85
jet' plane! at ' the army air field
her yesterday and killed. Offi
cials at the field said Bricks was
standing four feet from the huge
plane when he was sucked into
the intake during an experimental
test. -
sugar, cents,, now II cents: co
coa, ib., 12 cents, now 25 cents;
coffee, lb., 20 cents," now 41 cents;
com flakes, large box,, 9 cents,
now 15 cents; gelatin,', package, i
cents, now 15 cents; mayonnaise,
pint, 20 cents, now 40 cents; oleo
margerine, lb., H cents,' now . 32
cents; peanut butter, lb., 10 cents,
now 29 cents; rolled-oats, lb., 4
cents, now 11 cents; salad oil, pint,
20 cents, "now 45 cents: tea, lb.,
45 cents, now 84 cents.
Butter and steak at $1 a pound
and eggs at $l-a dozen have not
yet appeared on local store coun
ters. But, if predictions by. Salem
dealers prove accurate, it may not
be long before peak eastern rates
are affixed to price tags here.
Surveyed briefly, the . reasons
for th; current local tariffs for
butter, eggs and meat all lead back
to one basic cause: The wheat and
corn situation short crops, large
exports, and extensive speculating
on the grain market -
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Forrestal Takes .
Oath of Office as
Defense Secretary
WASHINGTON Sept. 7(JPh
James V. Fprrestal took the oath
today as the nation's first secre
tary of defense 'Without .awaiting
President Truman's return to
Washington --and Mr. Truman
explained that he had directed
Forrestal to do so because of the
international situation.
The president, enrdute home
from South America on the bat
tleship Missouri, did not elabor
ate ' on this " remark ; but aides
quickly explained that he did not
have anything particular in mind,
just the general international sit
uation. By taking the oath, Forrestal
assumed, direction of : the army,
navy and a separate air force, as
provided in a 'law passed at the
last session of congress.
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Eying Past Wi
The status of wheat and corn
on the Chicago exchange is felt
by the Marion county farmer
buying feed for his : cows, the
creamery who pays him 94 cents
a pound for premium butterfat,
and the shopper who shies at 93
cent butter. -.Speculators
who bought butter
at .72 cents three months ago and
are now selling it at current prices
are another factor to reckon "when
tracing the rising price tag.
What Is true for butter holds
for eggs and meat. Higher' priced
laying mash means a markup on
retail eggs. The farmer who has
to pay $5 for 100 pounds of
chicken feed should sell seven
dozen eggs of all grades to equal
costs. At the current rate of
68 cents a dozen-for top grade
eggs 'many farmers feel they can
not make it Consequently, . local
poultrymen already 'are trying to
dispose of their chickens faster
than a healthy balance can allow.
If the farmers' chickens become
Limit in 'Rebuilt' U.N.
Reds Wait
For Stalin
Comment
, NEW YORK, Sept n-JP)-So-Viet
Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky said today
he would soon answer Secretary
of State Marshall's slashing at
tack on Russia in the United Na
tions assembly.
. He apparently is waiting for di
rect instructions from Generalis
simo Stalin.
Informed observers believed
the Kremlin line would produce
charges that the United States
was violating the U.N. charter
with an attempt to usurp the
powers of the veto-bound secur
ity council.
These sources expected Vishin
sky to hurl back at Marshall a
sweeping accusation that the
Washington government was try
ing to create "a second security
council" without the veto and
thus force Russia to accept ma
jority decisions without recourse.
The Russians were said to feel
that Marshall was putting forth
the "baby assembly", plan as a
test and should that fail the U. S.
then would be prepared to pump
full force for strict limits on the
Veto.
French Foreign Minister Bi
dault and British Minister of
State McNeil withheld comment
vntil they consult their govern
ments. A British spokesman said
that the speech required thorough
study.
First Snow of Season
Hits Wallowa Mountains
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PENDLETON, Sept. 17--A
light snow first of the season
fell at Meacham and through the
Blue and Wallowa mountains to
day, and the thermometer dipped
to its lowest point since last
April.
Pendleton recorded a 45 de
gree minimum early this morn
ing and was told by the weather
bureau to expect a 35 to 39 min
imum tonight
NO CLUES IN ESCAPE
EUGENE, Sept. 17 -VP)- Two
escaped Lane county prisoners
were still free tonight and Sheriff
C. A. Swarts reported there were
no clues leading to any route tak
en by the young men. Frederick
Hendricks, 27, and Melburnr E.
Jenks, 27, overpowered the night
jailer last night as he opened a
cell door.
fryers the supply of eggs de-'
creases, and, failing to meet the
demand, forces prices up.- This
leaves the consumer no alterna
tive but to grit his teeUi and fork
over more for his omelet ... or
do without.
Salem consumers are paying
from less than 80 cents for short
ribs to over 8()ents for the high
er priced cuts of beef and pork.
They are eating less meat and
buying it with a wary eye on the
family budget local butchers re
port Last fall people were still
meat-hungry after the war's lean
diet; they. bought roasts with little
concern for prices. Today, women,
are shopping for meat by the
dollar instead of by the pound.
. There is no such thing as
"cheap" meat. Not so very long
ago butchers were giving away
I weet breads to customers who
owned pets. Now sweetbreads sre
la delicacy as expensive as pork
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Pork will' continue In the upper
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Architects
Trading Center Site
PORTLAND, Sept 17-;p)-The Oregon chapter of the Ameri
can Institute of Architects was on record today as opposing construc
tion of a shopping center near the state capital group in Salem.
The architects voted disapprovaLof the proposal last night
Robert Fritsch, chairman of the public relations committee, said
the resolution opposed encroachment of the shopping center on the
edge of the proposed six - block
capitol group. Copies will go to
the Salem city council and the
state board of control.
Fritsch said the architects have
been watching for all such com
mercial encroachments on civic
centers and park areas and re
commending changes to prevent
deteriorating the value of such
projects as the capitol group area.
There were no Salem represen
tatives at the meeting.
Walter Church, Portland, is pre
sident, and Frank Rohr, the sec
retary. The Salem shopping center
which an Oregon architects group
in Portland criticized this week is
planned as a $2,000,000 business
development from Capitol street
toward 12th street east between
Center and Union streets. The
space is to be occupied by a large
Sears Roebuck store and other
retail stores, as well as a large
parking area. The 27 houses now
in the area are to be moved or
razed in the next two months, ac
cording to Grabenhorst Bros.,
realty firm which handled the re
cent acquisition of the property
by a California concern under
taking the "development of the re
tail : center there.
AFL Union Files
T-H Act Test Case
WASHINGTON, Sept 17-)-
The AFL Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers disclosed today it had
filed with the National Labor Re
lations Board a formal "test case"
on the non-communist affidavit
issue.
The case is the first preceeding
challenging the ruling of the
Board's general council, Robert N.
Denham.
Denham ruled that all top na
tional offices of the AFL and the
CIO must sign affidavits saying
they are not communist. Unions
in both the AFL and CIO have
protested the ruling.
Turkey Raisers Elect Colton
Man at Annual Meeting in Salem
By Llllie L. Madaen
Farm Editor. Tha Statesman
W. T. Geurts of Colton was
elected president of the Oregon
Turkey Improvement association
at its eighth annual meeting held
at the Salem Chamber of Com
merce rooms Wednesday, and
closing with the annual banquet
Wednesday night at the Marion
hotel, with Dr: A. I Strand,
president of Oregon State col
leKe, as speaker.
N. L. Bennion, Coryallis, was
reelected secretary-treasurer with
directors to include Loren John
son, Scappoose; C. H. Coyle, StJ
Paul, and Paul McDowell, Sher
wood. Unfair freight rates, turkey
market outlook and the mid-1
west's development of its own
egg and poult business were the
high interest points of the day
time meeting.
Efficiency In poultry produc
tion will determine the future
for turkey production in the
west, said Marlin H. Simonson,
brackets and go higher because it
is corn-fed, a Salem meat dealer
predicted. Beef will tend to re
main more stable, he said, but ex
pensive grain feed may mean
there will be little fed beef avail
able by next spring. Grass-fed
beef should stay in price ranges
obtainable to the average custom
er, he forecast.
The local outlook is paralleled
by national prospects which have
evoked statements from men. like
Senators Taft (r Ohio) and Kil
gore (d W. Va.).
Kilgore, in a gloomy report to
congress lust week, said at was
no longer possible to depend on
the law of supply and demand to
keep prices at reasonable levels.
He recommended the government
restore price controls unless in
dustry takes action to anchor the
floating costs of living.
Commenting upon suggested
price controls, a Salem creamery
man said such a program would
bring about the most extensive
Oorjo
Flood Waters
Raise Toll in
Jap Disaster
TOKYO, Thursday, Sept 18-
The U. S. army reported today that
flood waters were pouring into
five northern and eastern districts
of Tokyo while fresh reports from
the typhoon disaster pushed the
unofficial casualty toll to 3,370.
Already U.S. troops in assault
boats were at work rescuing
thousands of Japanese from the
flooded Kanto plain east of Tokyo,
and landslides to the north had
added new dead and Injured to
the list.
Residents of five populous dis
tricts were evacuated, and a first
cavalry division report said new
flood waters of "serious propor
tions" were expected to swirl
through this sprawling capital.
The flooded districts were Kol
wa, Kameari and Honden in east
ern Tokyo, Komatsugawa in the
southeast and Nishiaran in the
northeast
Kyodo news agency reported
new death toll of 1,162, an increase
of almost 400 over previous fig
ures. It added 2,050 were missing
and 158 were Injured.
Do They Have Singing
Commercials in Poland?
WARSAW, Sept. ll-(JPhVf S.
Ambassador Stanton Griff is won
the battle of the squatters in the
embassy today.
The ambassador kept his four
radios going day and night in his
battle to force 10 .women, one
man, one dog - and one cat from
quarters In the embassy building.
The squatters, preparing to de
part, complained of headaches.
DesMoines, Iowa, of the Norbest
Turkey Growers association,
adding that the midwest was de
veloping Its own poultry and egg
production center.
Resolutions passed at the meet
ing included one asking the state
department of agriculture to
rescind the regulation requiring
that all poultry shipped into Ore
gon have a certificate from the
state showing freedom from New
castle disease. Other resolutions
asked the government to raise
the margin in grain future's trad
ing to 50 per cent of the value in
the transaction; opposing the sales
tax as a production tax on feed
supplies used in production of all
poultry produced; thanked Sena
tor Wayne Morse for his efforts
in behalf of the turkey Industry
In obtaining an increase in sup
port price for turkeys last Jan
uary, and anked that directors ap
point a turkey marking commit
tee for promotion of Oregon tur
keys. (Additional story on page 6)
stilly, FutuiiaHIy
black market eering the country
had ever known. As proof, he
cited examples of black market
prices offered for butter during
the war.
Joining Kilgore in supporting
restored price controls, CIO's
Walter Reuther, president of the
United Auto Workers, is also pro
moting a national buyers' strike
"to smash the profiteers."
Senator Ta'ft's answer to the
cost of living problem Is: "Eat
less and eat less extravagantly."
Secretary of Commerce Averell
Harriman agrees with Taft that
consumers ihemaelves are at fault
since they "bid against each oth
er for food."
Other observers, like Business
Week magazine, point at Wash
ington and claim that government
buying of grain is the basic cause
for high prices. .
The government's Commodity
Credit corporation probably is the
biggest buyer of wheat on the
Chicago board of trade; It has
2Die;Gale
Sweeps
Into Gulf
MIAMI, Sept 18-aV(Thurs- v
dav)-Florida millionaires ana!
farmers alike with their holdings
were left badly buffeted and
shaken today by a vicious week
old hurricane that lashed 15t
miles across the lower peninsula
and into the Gulf of Mexico. .
The howlinf storm strurk tha
rich east coast resort area be
tween Miami and Palm Beach
about noon yesterday. It raged
through the productive citrus and
vegetable growing interior to the
west coast with winds ud tn 1?Q
miles an hour.
It left an aftermath of at least
two deaths and millions of dol
lars in Dronertv damage: Devaa.
tat ion, however, apparently was
less than had been feared. :
Commnnicatlons Cat
Communications generally were
shattered by the creat winds and
full reports of its effect were
lacking.
One man was electrocuted at
Palm Beach. Another was shot
to death by Miami nollce to stoo
looting of storm-beaten stores. Six 1
otners were arrested. I
Nine persons- were reported
missing in two boats off the Gulf
coast ' ' 1
After slashing the west coast
city of Fort Myers beginning
around 8:30 p. m. (EST) with
winda up to 100 miles an hrr,
the center of the terrifying blow
swept into the open waters of the
Gulf of Mexico before midnight.
Carre L'nlikely (j ' '
Weather forecasters at New
Orleans said it was unlikely to
curve inland again.
It was the mightiest storm to
strike Florida,, in a decade. It
came from the Caribbean sea.
birthplace of deadly winds, and
was first detected a week ago.
Com)! Hons 'Deplorable' j ?
Although no casualties were
reported conditions were de
scribed as "deplorable" in the
Lake Okeechobee vegetable grow
Ing area In a report radioed from
Miami by Havana and New York.
The communication, the first
for hours to the outside from the
east coast metropolis also said
that two luxurious estates and m"
large casino at Pompano on the
east coast "disappeared into the
ocean" t the height of the storm.
Court Appoints
New Courthouse
Building Board
In a resolution, declaring that
work on a new Marion county J
courthouse probably would start
"in 1949 or soon thereafter," th
county court Wednesday an-v
nounced the make-up of a court
house building commission to act
"in all phases of planning and
const ruction." j
The commission will consist of 1
Ray J. Glatt of Woodbum, Karl?
Steiwer of Jefferson. Charles A. J
Sprague of Salem. County Jik'
Grant Murphy, County Commis- i
sioners Roy J. Rice, and E. L. Po-1
gers, with County Clerk Harlan1
Judd as secretary. ' f
The court's resolution, pointing;
out that bond Issues autr-crwexl
in 1944 and 1948 will have pro
vided 81,000,000 for a court hour
by Jan. 1, 1949. said the- inter
vening time should be used 'in
careful planning, and termed Judd -and
the three citizen - mcr.be rs
of the new committee "well t ug
lified" to advise with the court
regarding such plans.
rROJECT KENT TO RISE
PORTLAND, SepU 117 -OV
Rents of some 1.500 familie , in I
will be Increased an average d
$2 in November under a! nation
wide order.. j- I
purchased 8,242.588 'bushels be
tween August 29 and September
5. Not only as the biggest buyer,
but because the government ag
ency lays down the law tor tno
exchange ot grain futures in Chi
cago, the Commodity Credit cor
poration could force prices down,
some commentators claim. Prices
could be limited by limiting mar
gins and increasing gross mini
mums, thereby decreasing credit,
they say, - --
Suggestions that the govern
ment stop buying wheat "for ex
port are Judged unsound by many
economists and politicians who
say that food provided by the
United States : can help starving
nations remain independent
Reason, explanations and pro
tests a rent helping much right
now, however, and it would not
be at all surprising if Mr. and
Mrs. Willamette Valley reverted
to the Victory Garden psychology
ot wartime and start raising every
bit of food the law allows. ,