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Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning. September 21. 1947
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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
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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
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. , . . .
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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.