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ODD o,OD Odd OOOO DDD C3C3 O o 0- 000 000 oai New Section off 99 E to Open October 1 1651 POUNDI NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR 24 PAGES Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning. September 21. 1947 Price 5c No. 152 i ..s' .... 1 -I ra:i i-t4nr 44"e Dtro-IktflzoQD Me .nf.i- Clliii-' ' ... . -' p m T 2S iParacllnaoSDsfts Prop MUD October lit will mark the end of the whlrlls dervish trip to Albany from Salem alone old, dancerons hlfhway f9E and the opening of - thenew, wide. atraUbt 99E. Befinnlnc abont tea miles south of 8a m the new road is sbowa stretehlna straiarht ahead and the old road tarninc to the left aroand Steiwer hllL Shown (lower. left photo) . eheekiof the barricades is Carl pi Nncct. Portland, eoa atraetioa foremaa for , Warren and Northwest, Ine eoastraetioa 13Q008 romnrirg l;- tk. fmlMt of the contribu tions of the negro raco in Amer , tea has been in music. The negro spiritual is one of the authentic originals, whose quality is rec ognized in the highest musical circles. Modern Jaa finds root In the rhythmf and accents and stridencies of ; African natives. Beyond this the negro has made little by way of original -offering n th riiltfir hf America. One of the greatest of modern historians, perhaps ine jeaauig one, Arnold J. Toynbee, whose -Study In History" in its .attempt mt snalvita and synthesis of hu man history is one of the pro- xouna worn oi wi mi mii tHat th htero in America may bring a fresh and stimulat ing Interpretation i of Christianity to the west. Toynnee is concern ed with the play of religious in fluence in our nistory and asso ciates Christianity with the cur rent nnr-h. This is what he says with reference to the possibility of negro kindling uie coia grey ashes of Chrufianity:' Th Neero has not. indeed. brought any ancestral religion of his own from Amca to capuvaie the hearts of his White fellow citizens in America. His primi tive., social heritage was of so f rail a texture I that, save for a few shreds, it was scattered to the winds on the impact 01 our "Wertern Civilization. Thus he came to t America spiritually as well ar physically naked; and he has mit the emergency by cov ering jhis nakedness with his en slaver"' cast-off clothes. The Kegro has adapted himself to his new social environment by re discovering In Christianity cer tain original -meanings and values which western Christendom has long ignored. Opening a simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, be has discovered that Jesus was a prophet who came Into the world not to confirm the mighty in their seats but to exalt the humble and meek. The Syrian slave immigrants ; who once .brought Christianity into Roman (Continued on editorial page) Hop Harvest to Finish This Week Salem area hop harvests will probably finish early this week, the Salem farm labor; office re ported Saturday; Most of the lar ger yards in this area ended pick ing; late last week, said Gladys Tumbull, local farm labor assist ant: However, trucks from several yards will pick : up bop workers at the farm labor office this morn ing between 6 and 7 o'clock. Animal Crocltcrs By WAWN GOODRICH -HW trail WUlb... iWfcr G3ed Cross Estimates 84 IDead, Missing as Gale Ends Europe Nations Set Estimate of Need at $16 Billion UJS.'Askedto Foot Bill for 4-YearPlan PARIS; Sept. SO -VP- Repre sentatives of 14 nations, winding up two and a half months' discus sions of the Marshall plan to aid Europe economically, today ap proved Unanimously a recon traction program under which the United States will be asked to foot a bill of at least 416,285, 000,000 during .the next four years. -, .. - The program ;rwiH'-bo signed formally Monday afternoon in the French foreign - ministry's "clock room,' when an abstract of the conference report will be releas ed simultaneously by the 18 par ticipating ! foreign ministries and the U. S. state department. After the signing, a British "king's messenger" will leave by plane for Washington to .deliver a copy of the program to U. S. Sec retary of State George C. 'Mar shall, who first suggested in an address " at Harvard university June 5 that Europe: agree upon a plan. The report, with an accom panying letter, will be banded to Secretary Marshall Tuesday. The original bill for reconstruc tion of the participating nations was $22,499,000,000. A conference spokesman said the delegates de cided to reduce this by $3,394, 000,000 for machinery and other capital equipment In accordance with a suggestion of U. S. Under secretary of State William L. Clayton, the international bank for reconstruction and develop-' ment (world bank) will be asked to underwrite the capital equip ment item. Grains Still in Price Plunge By Tbe Associated Press Wheat, corn and oats continued their marathon plunge on the na tion's major markets Saturday heralding a possible puncture in the record high cost of living. The tumble in grain prices fifth in the last six days on the world's largest exchange at Chi cagowas f accompanied by de clines during the last few days In livestock prices and a long list of commodities. f--1 After soaring to an all time peak on Tuesday, the Associated Press wholesale price index of 35 commodities went into a steady slump for the remainder of the week. ( Dairymen to Air Price Rise Pleas at Hearing PORTLAND, Sept. 2HP)-Dair-ymen will air their demands for milk price Increases at a hearing set by the state director1 of agri culture, Ervin L. Peterson, for Oc tober 6, here. Producers and distributors con tend the milk price order issued June 1 for this area does not al low them sufficient profit mar gin. The fixed minimum is 17 cents a quart, retail. . i i Women Sponsor Sales Tax Panel The proposed sales tax will be the subject ' of a panel discussion Thursday at the Salem Chamber of Commerce rooms, under spon sorship' of the Salem League of Women Voters and the legislative committee of the Salem Business and Professional Women's clubs. Speakers will be Dr. W. H. Dree sen, Corvallis, speaking for the tax, 2nd Monroe Sweetland, Mo lalla newspaper publisher, against the tax. Mrs. Harold A. Rose brauih will b moderator. if company which has been bnildinr the road since July, 1945. Grace ful arches (npper left photo) mark the new bridge across the Wil lamette river about four miles downriver from Jefferson. Short ares of steel and cement during; the last two years slowed up open ing of the new highway by many months. The aerial photo (right) clearly shows how the new highway will facilitate travel from Al bany and other Willamette valley towns with the elimination of the Rail Crossings Still Minus Signals Year After Tragic Deaths of 3 Boys By Marguerite Wright Staff Writer, The Statesman Three teen - age Salem high school boys' were killed a year ago last night when the brand new pickup truck they occupied was struck by a southbound Sou thern Pacific train 'at the Madi son street crossing. The tragedy which snuffed the lives Of Richard H. Albin, Rich ard A. Emmons and Norman D. Schofield immediately prompted much talk about "doing some thing to decrease danger at rail road crossings within city limits. Today, a year later, little has been done to Improve the hazar dous conditions brought about by trains going through Salem's bus iness . and residential districts. In September, 1946, student members of the Salem high school safety council said they would reiterate to Southern Pacific of ficials their 1945 request for wig wag signals to herald the ap proach of trains ' at Madison, Pedestrian Dies, Result of Wreck Injuries Julius Middleton, 05, of 624 S. 12th st, died at a local hospital about 11:45 p. m. Saturday from injuries suffered when he was struck Friday -night at 12th and Oak streets by a car driven by Fred M. Olson, 351 N. Cottage St. Middleton's death was the fifth traffic fatality in Salem this year. He was taken to the hospital about 1p.m. Friday by the Salem first aid car and hospital authorities Saturday described his condition as "very critical. He received severe internal and head injuries, according to the hospital report. Olson pleaded innocent In mu nicipal court Saturday to a charge of driving with defective brakes. He was released on $10 bail, and his trial set for October 3 at 1:30 p. m. "i " O'Hara Predicts Small Turnout at . Special Election Despite intensive voter interest and extensive campaigning by op ponents and proponents of ' the proposed 3 per cent sales tax and two-cents-a-pack cigarette tax, balloting at the October 7 special election may be less than 50 per cent of the registered voters. This was the . prediction of elections in the secretary of state's office, Saturday. O'Hara said he based his forecast on a registra tion total made recently, com pared with an average of registra tions in thel ast general election and other previous special elec tions. He ventured that the 1947 special election vote would, drop about 5 or 10 per cent. O'Hara said the special election would cost about $75,000. of which counties would pay $50,000 and the state $25,000. - BISHOP TO UMATILLA PENDLETON. Sept. - 20 -UP James F. Bishop, who has been Marion county 4-H club ' agent for the last four years, was ap pointed to the same - post in Umatilla county, today. Bishop will succeed Ernest Lathrop, who was transferred to Wasco county. lift -. r1-"'1-"- .... Two Intersections Without Stop Signs Court and D street main - line rail crossings. The council had asked for crosing danger signals after a 1945 survey showed 1,300 pedestrians and 1,033 ; vehicles crossed the tracks at D street be tween 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. Bob Sharp, present head of the safety council, told the States man last week - Southern Pacific officials at the time seemed to wonder "What do you expect 'us to do about it?" The Salem common council re solved Sept. 10, 1946, to ask the Southern Pacific to install signals at Court and D street crossings. Five such signals were already in service, eight more were need ed. The estimated cost of the in stallations was $32,000. October 7, 1946, the city coun cil instructed the city attorney to request Southern Pacific to install wig wag signals at Madison, Tile, Market and Mission street cros sings, and to draft an ordinance restricting train speed. Today there is a wig wag signal at the Market street intersection. There are no such signals at Tile, Madison, Mission or D street cros sings. Not even a common stop sign slows traffic on Madison and D street crossings. Two major recommendations made to the city council last year by a special committee appointed by the mayor to study traffic The coroner's jury report on the fatal accident four days later re commended that wig wag signals be installed at intersections of all railroad crossings in city limits. Soviet Press Blasts Truman MOSCOW, Sept. 20 - (A) President Truman was the object today of one of the bitterest at-? tacks ever made in the Soviet press against any United States official when an article in the weekly Literary Gazette accused him of "straining for the laurels of the corporal of Munich." It was written by Boris Gorbatov. It described Mr. Truman as "a person who loves bow ties, who wears his pants shorter by two inches than accepted standards and who is otherwise unnotable." "Under the Republicans, Wall Street rules America, Gorbatov said. "Under the present govern ment. Wall Street prepares to rule the world." Lebanon Child, 4, Rescued After Being Buried in Mud at Bottom of Mill Pond LEBANON, Sept. 20 Lucky to be alive, little 4-year-old Jimmy Houston is recovering in Lebanon hospital today following a near-tragic ordeal at the bottom of a log pond here Friday morn ing. This morning, 24 hours after his brush with death, Jimmy was coughing up bits and- mud and bark he had accumulated ; inside him during his stay of several minutes at the bottom of the pond. He owes his life to Lewis Fenner, a workman, who pulled him from the mud, and to the Lebanon fire department emer gency crew . who worked two hours pulling life back into his seemingly lifeless body. Jimmy is the son of Mr. and old road's many curves. The overpass over the Southern Pacific railroad Is located about four miles south of Jefferson. Entering the picture at lower left is the old highway and five sharp curves are pictured. The new highway cuts across the picture and leads to Al bany at the left and to Salem at the right of the picture. (Photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) safety have come to nothing. The committee, headed by Ken neth Perry, suggested the city employ a traffic director respon sible to the council and the city manager. Part of the duties of the traffic director would be recom mendations regarding adequate installations to insure public safe ty. Also urged was the appoint ment of a special committee to study railroad crossing hazards and to cqnfer with Southern Pa cific officials for the purpose of hastening action toward the elim ination of all 12th street grade crosings and the use of Union crossings and the use of Union City Manager J. L.. Franzen. who was not here a year ago, told The Statesman last week that no traffic director was ever em ployed and no such committee appointed, and that 'something will have to be done" about the railroad situation. La Guardia Dies in Sleep NEW YORK, Sept. 20 - JP) -Fiorello R. LaGuardia, 64, the volatile little man who was mayor of the nation's largest city for three terms died today in his sleep, the victim of a long and wasting illness. LaGuardia's strength and re markable energy had been ebbing since last June when an opera tion disclosed an incurable pan creas condition. Tuesday night he collapsed at his home and since then had been in a coma. Foreign dignitarities joined with American officials and public in expressing messages of regret at the passing of New York's native born "Little Flower;," who directed food ship ments to hungry millions in other lands as former Director Gen eral of UNRRA. Ike Mentioned as Demo Candidate WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -UPy-Senator Pepper (D-Fla), consid ered by some as a possible candi date for the post himself, said to day General Dwlght D. Eisenhow er would suit him as the demo cratic vice-presidential nominee, "if that meets the approval of the president." Eisenhower, prominently men tioned as a possible republican presidential nominee, was propos ed recently by Rep. Smathers (D Fla) as a running mate for Presi dent Truman on the 1948 demo cratic ticket. Mrs. Roy Houston, 510 W. Caro line St., Friday morning about 9 o'clock, his mother spruced him up and his brother Michael, age 2, to go shopping. She' set them out on the front porch. Ten min utes later they were gone. The boys wandered four blocks down the street to the fenced-in Lebanon Lumber yard, entered the yards by the truck road (the only entrance) and began playing on the edge of the big log pond there: Soon, Mrs. Joseph Bennis, who lives across the street from the pond, happened to wander out in to her front yard and saw Michael jumping around on the pond bank. As she watched, he fell into the water. Mrs. Bennis immediately called Martial Law in Area, Casualty Reports Grow NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20-JP) A rising death toll from the fear ful hurricane that swept the east ern gulf coast was counted to night as ebbing waters permitted a survey of casualties and de struction. Twenty-three bodies were re covered in the Biloxi-Gulfport vicinity of the Mississippi coast resort area, where the storm was deadliest The Red Cross reported as many as 84 persons dead or missing, emphasizing that the re ports were not verified. The Gulf port chief of police was quoted as saying 100 bodies were ex pected to be recovered from the ruins of smashed Pass Christian. At Biloxi, concern was felt for the safety of many Mississippi coast fishermen who were re ported to have scurried to Louisi ana marshes when the hurricane bore down. Cosman Eisenbrath, Biloxi newpaperman, said that a coast guard plane had made con tact with 40 of the fishermen, who were safe, and 'were searching for about 160 others. In New Orleans, 4.000 volun teers were called to stem the in flow of flood waters pushed up by yesterday's storm. Damage to New Orleans prop erty, the area's crops and the fish ing industry was counted In the tens of millions. An emergency appeal was made for doctors and nurses at Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis. Rex Thomas, Associated Press report er, said at Gulfport that damage in those two communities seemed to be much heavier than at Gulf- port. The entire coastal area was under martial law tonight as the storm, which earlier had blasted across Florida, blew itself out harmlessly in northeast Texas. Slavs Encroach On Italian Area TRIESTE, Sept. 20 -JPy- Allied military government sources said today that Yugoslav troops, mov ing last night when nobody was on guard, took over a section of road from the Italians on the new frontier near Caporetto. The sources said the Italians were reported to have offered no opposition when the move was discovered today except to' warn the Yugoslavs to advance no fur ther. The -surprise action,- at a curve in the road about 200 yards inside Italian territory, placed the entire highway within Yugo slavia. to Fenner, who rushed over to the pool, waded in and pulled Michael out. The child then informed him that his brother Jimmy was also in the pond. Fenner dived three times in search of the missing boy. On the fourth try he pulled him loose from the mud at the pond's bot tom. Jimmy, witnesses say, must have been at the bottom of the pond for at least several minutes. The Lebanon fire department emergency squad arrived and set to work with resuscitating equip ment and after two hours suc ceeded hv reviving the boy. Hos pital attendants took over, anr1 Jimmy is in "very good" con dition, U was reported late today. MANILA, Sunday. Sept 21 - parachuted from a lost U. S. army transport over northern tji.nn have been found safe, one was killed and another still is missing the 13th air force announced today. ' . ' Major James T. Cribble, senior air force officer aboard th nini notified the air force directly from uie crasn. rie saia uie aeaa man was "killed in bailing out The army personnel were mem bers of a baseball team of the 13th air force, returning to Lu zon from games at Tokyo and Okinawa. Previously, the air force had said 29 men were aboard and that' 26 had been found safe. The air force announcement said the pilot of the ill - fated plane himself had telephoned from the mountainous Bontoc ar ea, about 175 miles north of,. Ma nila. Bontoc is 2 miles northeast of Cordon, near where the wreck age of the plane was spotted in the Cagayan valley. A ground party was immediately dispatched to the Bontoc region. A party was nearing the wreck age, and two liaison type spotter planes landed at the scene, which is near-Cordon in the Cagayan valley 160 miles northeast of Ma nila. Twenty - six 13th air force planes were flying criss - cross search quadrants along the route the plane took from Okinawa in stormy weather yesterday. The valley, up which the 37th infantry drove in the closing pha ses of the Japanese war, is one of the most favorable areas in the Philippines for parachute land ings. Wallace fGlad To Work with Communists9 CAMDEN, N. J., Sept 20 -(Jfy-Htnry A. Wallace, who said today he is "most happy to work with. socialists or communists or with any group that wants to pro mote understanding with Russia," told an audience here tonight "Leaders" of Russia and the U. S., "follow policies' which are de signed to make one or the other the supreme world system." "'Communism is not my. way of life, but socialists and communists have a right to their beliefs and the right to express them." the former vice president told an afternoon audience at nearby Trenton. "I have nothing against communism in the United States if it does not work to overthrow the government by force." And he added at a press con ference "the very few communists I have met have been very good Americans." Town Meeting On Sales Tax Arguments for and against the proposed sales tax, to be voted on October 7, will be aired in a pub lic town meeting at the Salem high school Wednesday at 8 p.m. under the sponsorship of the Ore gon Educational association. It was announced here Saturday. Charles A. Sprague,- editor and publisher of the Oregon States man, will act as moderator at the debate. F. H. Young, Portland, manager of the Oregon Business and TETfeJlesearch, Inc., and Rep. Frank Van Dyke, Medford. will speak in favor of the tax. Oppo sition speakers will be Richard Neuberger, Portland author, and Rep. Lyle Thomas, Dallas. The proposed tax was passed in the 1947 session of the Oregon legislature and referred to the people at the special election. The debate will be transcribed and broadcast over station KSLM at 9:30 p.m. the same evening. Police Checking Drivers9 Licenses Salem police are cooperating with state authorities by check ing motorists' drivers licenses to determine if they have been re newed under, the new state law. Chief of Police Frank A. Minto announced Saturday. Minto warned all drivers li censes numbered between SR-99,-000 and 5 R-132,000 must be re newed this month. . Permits bear ing numbers below 5R-99.000 have already expired, Minto said. We have not intention of al lowing drivers on city streets with no license or one that has ex pired," the chief said. Taft Favors Western Cabinet Representation SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 20 (tfVWestern states, particularly ..hose along the Pacific coast arc entitled to greater representation n the president's cabinet and oth r high United -States policy mak ng offices. Sen. Robert A. Taft VR-Obio) declared here today. - Twenty-five Of 27 tmn .K Bontoc, 24 miles from the scene of Football Scores - Oregon 27, Montana Stale 14. California 33. Santa Clara 7. Penn State 33, WSC 6 Idaho 27, Col. Puget Sound 7, Texas 33, Texas Tech 0. Iowa 59, N. Dakota Stat 0. Missouri 19, St. Louis 0. Texas A&M 48. Southwest. 0. Villanova 60, Kins Point 0. . Mississippi 14, Kentucky 7. Ia. State 31, la. Teach. 14. Freshmen Set Registration Record at TO . By Jerald Malkev TIPYf CorTPndnt. Th Statesman " Willamette university's annual hectic day, freshman registration, was completed late Saturday af ternoon with a record-breakins' total. Registrar Harold B. Jory set an official estimate of J77 freshman students, not counting transfers ' from other schools. The largest number of new stu dents in the history of the uni versity crowded the professors' ta bles for signatures and lined up to pay their registration fees. Last year, the freshman class totaled 329, of which a large percentage were veterans. The number of frosh veterans this year is con siderably smaller. Law school students registered yesterday totaled 80. though at least 115 are expected to sign be fore classes begin this week. ' With football players, who reg-r istered ear Vf because of a heavy practice schedule, and transiera, ' the total for the first day was) 487 students. . A wide variety of student sp pearance was In evidence, rang-' ing from a bare-footed Hawaiian boy to long-skirted co-eds. All freshmen wore, either the tradi tional cardinal and gold caps os hair ribbons. Monday evening all new stu- dents will attend a formal re r ception at President G. Herbert Smith's home from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, the campus YWCA id giving a "little sister" party at tha First Methodist church. Th utn. evenins? an all itudmt rnllevt skating party st the Capitols ntku is scneouied. I - A student body barn dance atl the school nm FrMr tnr thml purpose of meeting the 23 newi pruicssur wa announced oj nu aent nody first vice President Don Douris. , . . . ' - t ( Radio Installed Dn Fire Truck ( ah. Aixoto-s stepi. za mstai- lation of a two-way radio on the new Mt Angel fire truck h s bcenf completed and operation of equip-; ment will begin this week, it was announced Saturday. ! The equipment operates on fre quency modulations with titrs-' mitter and receiver. It will per-' ate through tne present Mt. Aneel facilities which connect wi'h ir Salem city radio station. Sa'tns station KGZR will identify Mt, Angel as number 231. Calls relayed through th? ML Angel central to Salem's rrrt o station will be transmitted to U new Mt Angel fire equipmtnt when it is on calls. Bids Received on Wrecking Project Several bids for houses in the two-block area northeast of CapU ' tol and Center streets, to be oo cupied by a trading center, were received by Grabenhorst Bros., lo- , cal realtors, during the past week, they said Saturday evening when the time for bidding closed. No decision was announced as to when the sealed envelopes will be opened and action taken. According to the terms, bidding: could be for single houses or for all 27 in the area.' The buildings must be wrecked or moved from the grounds within 60 days from time of transfer. Weather Max. T Mtn. Prwla. Salem It -8 M Tt 43 .00 S3 4t M M S4 txctt M S) M -31 feet- - ' Portland San rranciaco Chlraro New York Willamette river FORECAST (from VS. weather bu--eau, McNary field. Salem): fair to lay and tonight Highest temperature) oday near 75, lowest tonight near 44k Weather will be favorable lor ail tuim -cUvttSH today.