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CD O E3 O 0 6 D O DO OOOO (Story in Column 3)"!, Lightner at Series 1 A1 Llfhtaer, 8 T A T 1$ M AN sporta editor, will attend tKe Werld Seriea la New Tartu in exclusive aide-light steriea aa is aerfea will appear au an saga 1 ef YOVR HOME NEWSrArtSU Pisavowaii ov soyieu O Oil ODD OOO OdOb OQ OL300 O ODO v AircacKs on 11; ru mi. an Br Jhn M. Wghtewer LAKE SUCCESS. Sept. 26-0P-Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister KKJNDDD 1651 AIKirei VltnuiMJ w; uiun t . . - - ---- tery of State Marshall with hi "warmonger" campaign against many other American leaden, newspapers and institutions. . At the him time he took note of reports that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had been put up by Secretary of State Marshall to chal . t ....... . ...lA.tA A familiar assertion of union leaden is that the big corporations like steel aid motor companies could pay substantial wage in creases without Increasing . the gelling pricei of their products. And it fa true that very often the earnings .atatesmenU show, large gains in earnings. There are cer tain facton, however, .which need to be considered before Jumping to the conclusion that wage in creases itould be absorbed or that profits are too high. For Tone thing, as Dr. Paul BUs of the U. of C showed In a recent study published in the Ore gon Business Review, much of this profit he s gone Into inventory, ft has taken more money to car- rraith business. And the value mt this lnventorr is subject to Price swings. In the event of price Jjeclines which most people art ure will , come in time the com pany will suffer loaces on its In ventories. That was true In wool en manufacturing after the first war, to cite one instance. The tedy decline in wool prices meant continued losses to manu facturen. Thus the profit which have been absorbed in inventor lea mar be washed away with price recessions. There is still another factor to be considered and that la the Increased cost at machinery. In manufacturing and In farming and mining, machinery weafs out. Good accounting calls for setting ud depredation allowance the theory being that by the time the machine Is worn out there Is replacement money in the tree ury. But if the Identical machine ztow costs twice at much to re place then a full depreciation fund proviaes lor omj mu uie-cuai. Actually many corporations Lava had to to to the capital (Continued on Editorial page) Bids Opened At Woodburn W. C Smith, Inc., Portland con tracting firm, , submitted the low aggregate bid of $439,983 for con struction of four buildings at the Oregon state training school near Woodburn when bids were open-' ed in the board of control office here Friday. Smith bid $131,449 for construc tion of a boys' cottage, $113,885 for a schol building, $109,093 for a vocational work shop, and $88. 645 for a school building, in sep arate bids. j A low bid of $109,983, for con struction of the school- building only, was submitted by Julius Johnson, Portland. The bid was eat aside because board of con trol officials considered Smith's aggregate bid more attractive. Actual reward of the contract will be decided by board of con' trol members at a meeting here next Tuesday, if the bid is ap proved Gov. Earl Snell will sum mon the emergency board to meeting later in the week for fi nal action, it was Indicated. If the contract ia awarded next actual construction will start start within a month, officials tf cf the Smith company said. Smith recently received,, the contract for construction of four buildings at jairview home. Animal Craclccrs ; ' By WARREN GOODRICH Tlajinj coy, or are yoasuleep? CUP SCEEOOQS On 4 Buildings ! frVV wn rva 1 ri vn 1 i 1 1111a ri anil lenge sine VMiunsKj ukiuuui when he seeks committee action on them in the United Nations. The Russian told a news con ference he hacf heard jgthey are getting ready another member of the American delegation" to re ply to him, and he added, grin ning, rWe shall wait and see." Called; News Conference At the 2 ',4 -hour news confer ence, which he himself called, VI- shinsky both renewed and expan ded his accusations or a vast at omic war plot in this country aimed at Russia. Twice he sidestepped opportun ities to disavow a Russian press contention that President Truman is after the "laurels of Hitler" and he let the Impression stand among several hundred reporters that he did not, in fact, disap prove. - Dalles leered Of one f his favorite targets. Vishinsky said U. S. Delegate John Foster Dulles a republican leader "instigates such a poli cy toward the USSR which can not but lead to war." At another point Vishinsky said he consider ed that Dulles to "a great extent influences the foreign policy of the United States." The ! Russian then demanded that all such "instigators" be "en chained" in. prison as criminals. Vishinsky embellished' his as sault on nine Americana he has charged wfth "war - mongering" and added William C. Bullitt, for mre U- 8. Ambassador to Moscow, and Publisher Frank Gannett to the original nine. Vishinsky devoted particular emphasis to the twelfth man on his list, Walter Winchell. He cal led him the "new American Bar on Munchausen," and said he was famous - fori, "his utterly absurd Ilea." p British Plan to End Mandate In Pailestine - LAKE SUCCESS. Sept 16 -UPl Britain declared today she is willing to end her Palestine man date rule. The British at the same time envisioned an early with' drawal of their forces from the strife-torn Holy Land unless the United Nations assembly finds a solution acceptable to Jews and Arabs alike. ! Russia took the offensive on all other fronts of the assembly. Fiery t grey-haired Andrei Y. Vishinsky blasted at the British statement on Palestine with the comment that he was "afraid? it meant the "ultima tie withdrawal of Jews from Palestine" and if that was the case the soviet re action is "negative I The soviet bloc, acting in con cert on widespread fronts, relent lessly attached the United States. Greece, South Africa, the size of tne u. N. budget, and opponents of the Russian campaign on "war mongers. , The British laid down their views on Palestine in a 1,000 word statement in which they said clearly that they must plan for comnlete withdrawal of Brit. ish troops and administrative personnel from Palestine ' "at an early date" unless the assembly can find an answer which will satisfy both Arabs and Jews. The only condition on which they would remain in Palestine. the British said, would be under U. N. authority and only then u Jews ana Arabs agreed. Reaction came quickly. Inform ed sources Indicated the Jewish agency for Palestine was dis pleased; the Arab delegates In the .assembly showed some satis faction 1 but reserved specific comment. Weather Min. Precip. Salm SO .00 48 M aa- m 44 .00 Willamette river -41 ft. S-ORCCAST (from US. woather bu reau, McNary Meld. Salem U Fair to day, highest temperature 60 degrees, lowest SO degrees, weather favorable Max. 7 Portland 7S San trantieco - 79 Chicago sa New York SO Agriculture Department, Grain Marts Trade Blame for Spiral A hot controversary over high grain prices broke out between the government and major commodity exchanges tonight at the twin questions of how to aid Europe and how to curb the cost of liv ing claimed the continued at tention of the capital. The agriculture department had asked grain marts to double the margin (down payment) required on transactions in futures on the theory that this would curb specu lative advances. J. O. McClintock, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, came back with a statement that the department was barking up the NINETY-SEVENTH TZAB 2 Hurt as Limited Derailed Two men were Injured when nine cars of a southbound South ern Pacific passenger train were derailed a few minutes after leav ing the Salem station at midnight Friday. ; None of the passengers was in jured and only two of the nine cars derailed were passenger coaches. The train was the West Coast Limited, SP No. 15. Scene of the accident was opposite Fair view home. The injured: Daman "Curly" Stimson. 6P baggageman of Portland, -who was taken by a Salem ambulance to Salem Deaconess hospital with bis head bleeding. Hospital attaches said he had incurred only, head cuts and was not seriously in- jured. ?' 1 George Miller, railway mail clerk of Portland, who suffered painful hip. and back injuries, was taken to Salem General hos pital where his condition was not immediately reported. The derailment apparently was caused by an open switch. Cars immediately behind the locomotive were uncoupled and the engine Itself continued on the tracks undamaged, for about a mile, according to Engineer Vic tor PartipU of Portland. The first seven cars all for baggage, mail ana express, were completely oil the mainline tracks, tangled In the siding tracks alongside. Two cars, including the one from, which Miller was extricated, were on their sides. One telephone pole was snapped off and another leaning. ' . The two-passenger coaches im mediately behind the first seven train cars were a few feet off the rails but upright Passengers were shaken but apparently un injured. & Loot-Hwitihg Deputy Sheriff Hits 'Jackpot? Deputy Sheriff Ervin Ward was off "treasure hunting" in another section of Marion county Friday. Friday It was four brand new tires and 14 phonograph records; Thursday it had been $1,000 worth of musical Instruments, fished froms Mill creek near Turner. Ward said the tires and records were spotted by George Cline, box 326, Brooks route 1, near a farm lane between Brooks and Mt Angel. There the deputy "beat the brush, round no other merchan dise, tentatively identified the tires as having been stolen recent ly from Al Fisher's garage In Sil verton. , v At least the tires were in a dry ditch, Ward j commented. Wallace's Tomato Plants Prosper in Radioactive Soil NIW YORK, Sept. 2 -iffy To mato plants treated" by Henry A. Wallace with radioactive) fertiliz er showed a 30 per cent 'increase in weight yield over plants grown with ordinary fertilizer, a spokes man for the former vice presi dent said today. j Wallace conducted his experi ments this year on his 118-acre farm In suburban Westchester county. The radioactive substance con stituted about one - trillion th of the total fertilizer bulk used by Wallace. The spokesman said Wallace obtained the radioactive substance from V neighboring watch factory where it is a by product in the manufacture of ra dium - treated watches. wauaces ' experiments rwere disclosed after a Japanese agri cultural expert repdrted crop in creases in the vicinity of Naga-f sakJ, target of the second atom oano two years a so. i wrong tree; that the government itself had sent prices up by buy ins arain for exDorti - McClintock spok jfor the Chi cago Board of (Traded the Minne apolis Grain Exchange and the Kansas City Board of Trade. He said the markets would ask a con gressional investigation of the whole situation. . Earlier agriculture department officials said the market officials had shown no interest In rais ing margins, but McClintock told a news conference the govern ment's proposal had not been turned down. He said no decision had been reached. 10 PAGES P enclaves OSC Gridders ?SVM.- Salem's awn R. 8. "Spec" Keene, assembled Friday morning for the take-off of the Oregon State college football team en their flight ta Salt Lake City where they will play the fJnlve ralty f Utah tonight. Others In the picture include Caaeh Lon Stiner, next to Keene, who la new OSC director ef athletics, and Dr. Ball, team traper, with hat and coat fifth from left (Photo by Den Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Courthouse July 1949; City Participation Opposed Planners Cite Otter Needs For City Funds Prior and more urgent de mands upon the city's limited bonding capacity were cited by Salem officials as reasons for not favoring a proposed city-county building as they met Friday noon with county officials and a sub committee from the long range planning commission. ; While members of the Marion county court expressed no ob jections to such a plan, accord ing to Douglas McKay: chairman of the sub-committee, they em phasized that finances and other preparation for the project would have to be simultaneous by both governmental units. Suggested as Items for which the city must preserve: its funds were sewerage system ! and sew age disposal, inter-county bridge and utilities expansion for the rapidly growing population. They reminded that the i present city hall can be used practically for several years.' (: Present at the meeting were County Judge Grant Murphy and Commissioners Roy Rice and Ed Rogers, Mayor R. L. Elfstrom and Manager J. I Franzen, McKay, Paul Wallace and C. A McClure of the sub-committee and Henry Crawford. $180,000 Taken, 4 British Killed in Jerusalem Holdup JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 -UT) Between 20 and 30 young men believed by- officials to be mem bers of the' Stern gang, staged Palestine's most spectacular hold up today, killing four British po licemen, wounding seven others in a Tel Aviv street battle and carrying off $180,000 loot in a white jeep. Bags containing $420,000 of the total haul of $600,000 were dropped In the subsequent chase. Two of the gang were believed wounded and two suspects seized. The raid was carried off with military precision ' when the striking force of four youths in the white jeep drove up to Bar clay's bank in Tel Aviv's busy LAllenby road before noon, just as the money bags were being loaded into a guarded armored car. Police Slow Taft's Drive to Oregon GEARHART, Sept 26 -PJ Senator Robert A. Taft hurried too hard to the Oregon repub lican clubs convention today. Circuit Judge Walter Tooze, who was driving Taft was halted twice by policemen be tween Tacoma and Gearhart He got a $15 fine at Tenino, and a "slow down" warning at Chehalis. Tooze's explanation i that he was rushing the senator to Gearhart cut no ice. "We're here to see that the senator gets there safely," re plied the patrolman ; as he handed out a ticket ! The) Oregon Startman. Salem. Leave Salem Airport for Utah : .r--' - - i at far left wares goodbye to the Construction Scout Paper Drive Scheduled Sunday, 20 trucks Ready If experience means anything. it will rain here Sunday, regard less of weather predictions. That's the opinion of Gardner Knapp, Cascade area council camping chairman, as he makes prepara tions for another Boy Scout drive for waste paper. He claims it has rained on the day of every paper drive so far. Twenty trucks have been do nated for the pickup, to start at 12:30 Sunday afternoon, and mem bers of 26 troops will participate. It is expected they will consume about 1,000 bottles of pop for their share In the job. Proceeds from, sale of the paper go to camp building and maintenance. Knapp and Ralph Johnson, Cherry City district civic service chairman, urged that papers be stacked and tied on parking strips to avoid their blowing in the wind. Volcano Erupts In West Java B ATA VIA, JAVA, Saturday, Sept. 27 - OP) - West Java's mightiest volcanic mountain cloud-capped 9,700-foot Gedeh erupted with a roar today for the first time since 1809. A Dutch spokesman said lava was pouring down the craggy slopes of the mountain but that the thickly populated truck farm ing apea surrounding Gedeh, 45 miles southeast of Batavia, was not endangered immediately. Trie eruption had been expected and the populace warned several days ago to leave the immediate vicinity. Gedeh, sometimes known as Goenoeng Gedeh, was the scene of a disastrous eruption in 1886. Auto Heiress Among Three Indicted as Dope Ring Combine NEW HAVEN, Cona Sept 26 P) The daughter of a famous pioneer automobile manufacturer, her husband, a retired naval com mander who served in two wars, and a private detective have been indicted here on charges, re spectively, of buying and selling narcotic drugs. The two men were arraigned before Federal Judge Carroll Hincks in federal court here today on secret indictments voted earl ier in the week. Charged with Illegally buying drugs were Commander and Mrs. Fitzhugh Green of New Canaan. She was identified by U. S. At torney Adrian W. Maher as the daughter of the late William C. Durant noted automobile manu facturer. Green, himself, a graduate of Annapolis, Polar explorer, and author, served in both wars in the intelligence service. He leaned in court on a cane aa a result of Ore.. Saturday. Sept. 27, 1947 cQtft ueonoiiflinices Safles Taj 1 large crowd ef Salem residents May Start Comity Board Plans Choice Of Architect A possible July. 1940, start on contrurllon of Marion county's new courthouse was forecast Fri day at the first meeting of a re cently appointed courthouse com mission. The group elected County Judge Grant Murphy as chair man. County Clerk Harlan A. Judd serves as secretary. Along with speculation as to starting dates, type of building needed and financial problems, discussion centered around selec tion of an architect The secre tary was authorized to correspond with firms experienced in such projects. The board, all of whose mem bers were present, is subject to call. Members are ; the county commissioners and judge, Charles A. Sprague, Ray J. Glatt of Woodburn and Karl Steiwer of Jefferson . Prosecution of Eisler Urged WASHINGTON, Sept 2tt -(&)-A recommendation that Hanns Eisler be prosecuted for perjury and passport fraud climaxed to day three days of hearings by the house unAmerican activities com mittee into the German born Hollywood composer's stay in this country. Eisler acknowledged that he joined the communist party in the '20 s, but said he was never ac tive and soon dropped out When he was admitted to permanent re sidence in the United States in 1940 he swore he was not a com' munist In a brief formal report the committee did not mention Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt who requested an opportunity for Eisler and his wife to "defend themselves" in 1939 when their entry to the country was being considered. a back injury sustained during the battle of Guadalcanal. Mrs. Green, now in a private hospital in Hartford, will be ar raigned, said Maher, when her condition permits. Although the specific sale in volved in the indictment occur red on June 21, narcotic agents said the Greens had been buy ing drugs for several years and that the total involved in transac tions probably totalled close to $75,000. Green, who is 59, pleaded nn nocent today and was released on $2,500 bail pending 4 hearing on October 27. Sandard works of reference list him as co-author with Charles A. Lindberg on the latter s book, "we," and also as having collaborated with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and others. Arraigned with Green and pleading guilty to a charge of sale was Clemens Deisler, 69, of New York City, employed by a famous detective agency. Price) Sc Solon Stalls Presidential Candidacy GEARHART, Ore, Sept 26-()-Senator Tait (R -Ohio) to night outlined a billion-dollar-a-year program of welfare) legiaw la tion which he said the republican party "will and should proceed" at the next session of congress. j He added, however, that such a program must ba free of, federal bureaucratic controls and administered at staU and local levels on the clearly de- fined basis of federal "assistance and not regulation." . Taft told reporters meanwhile that he would not be ready to announce on October 16 his de cision whether to make . an active campaign for the republican presidential t nomination. t Previously he had been expect ed to disclose his intentions at a meeting of the Ohio Federation of Republican Women s Clubs in Co lumbus Oct 16. Turning to the subject of wel fare legislation tonight In an ad dress delivered before the Repub lican Club of Oregon. Taft said his whole program in the field of wel fare "in the end may add to the expense of government by a billion dollars a year." Taft outlined the field of neces sary welfare legislation as: Old Age Assistance This, he said, is now "inadequate," and the whole federal system should be reviewed to develop "some plan for coordinating it with supple mentary voluntary plans" in priv ate employment "We can consider, however, , he said, "as one possibility, volun tary federal insurance In addition to the basic social security."? The system should be extended to cov er agricultural laborers and' do mestic servants now omitted." Unemployment compensation Continuation of full state control of unemployment payments, but with states ''encouraged to increase the sums now available in view of the permanently higher eost ef living." Work Relief This, be said. should be limited only to emer gencies. llealth Taft flatly rejected any plans smacking of socialized med icine. He proposed a state-aid plan, estimated to cost about 1200,000,000 a year, by which the states could obtain free medical and hospital assistance for "all those unable to pay for it" It also would encourage the forma tion of voluntary health funds. State Treasurer Leslie Scott delivering the keynote address at the GOP convention, declared op position to a sales tax today. In a -Surprise statement tucked Into his discussion of Oregon s place in national affairs, Scott said that the state treasury already has adequate surpluses. A sales tax. he said, would only mean - more spending. ' ' "If we build up such a fund at Salem it would Just bring pres sure groups there to get the money and they would get It' he told some 225 delegates. Oakland Theft Charge Added PORTLAND. Ore., Sept 26 - UP) - The $31,000 Oakland, Ore., bank robbery was charged today to , two men already accused of a $58,000 bank , robbery at Sweet Home, Ore. They were Joe Berry Bishop, arrested at Hugo, Okla., and brought here for trial, and Henry Clay Toilette, held at Bakersfield, Calif. A third man, not accused in the August 29 robbery at Sweet Home, also was charged with par ticipating in the Oakland rob bery last May. He was named on the complaint as Sam Scribner, arrested in Bakersfield, Calif. The Oakland charges followed a agents to the Oakland area, where he told them, money had been hidden. The agents did not dis close what they found. Los Angeles Dock Strike Threatens LOS ANGELES, Sept 2t -VPh The Waterfront Employers Asso ciation of California announced tonight that all shipping and dock activities in Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors will be halted at midnight Sept SO until the ques tion of representation of foremen and supervisors is settled. Claiming that strike actions of International Warehousemen s and Longshoremen's union have caused a "chaotic condition" I at the har bors, officials said that the com panies "have concluded that, they must temporarily suspend activ ities until the questien of representation ox (these) employ es can ba determined." Now 157 Decision on Boy Cyclist Ti Dies in Wreck At Woodburn WOODBURN. EeDt 26 Geral Trembley, 11, was 'Instantly killed land his companoi I Felix Schwar nn, ii, critically Injured abcut 7:30 Friday night when a bicycl they were riding was struck by ay car driven by Francis W. McMa han, Tacoma, Wash., on highway 99E one mile south of here. Tremblay is the son of Mr. and 1 Mrs. T. a. Tremblay, 149 6th st and Schwerzln the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Schwarzin. 257 Settle- meier st, both of Woodburn. State police who Investigated the accident reported McMahass and his wife saidlhey were driv ing north at about 35 miles oa hour when the boys riding the un lighted bicycle suddenly loomed up in the1 middle of the highway. McMahan laid he was unable ta swerve the car because of a hea vy stream of traffic coming from the opposite direction. According ' to police he skidded his car Ql feet in effort to stop, but struck! the youths, throwing them backt against the windshield and pushed tne bicycle about 109 yards down the highway, , j McMahan was cleared ef all blame by Investigating officer and released immediately, . Schwarzin was taken to Dea coness hospital with serious in juries, but a statement of his con aiuon was umviuiun. Reds Suggest Withdrawal of J Korea Troops j SEOUL. KOREA, Sept 26 -JF1 The Russians suddenly proposed today that they and the Ameri- cans simultaneously withdraw, their military forces from Korea at the beginning of the year ano) leave the Koreans to form thi own government ; since the two occupying powers have been un able to agree on a unified regime U. S. authorities had no im-4 mediate official comment but some highly placed Americans) quickly speculated that the Rus sian maneuver was designed to) keep the Korean issue from com ing before- the United Nations and might also signify that the Soviets now regarded their North Korean puppets as ready to try to install a communist government for tne) whole country. i In Washington American diploe ma tic authorities viewed the Soe viet withdrawal proposal as not intended seriously but as merely a propaganda attempt to Influence) the issue before the U, N. t i Hospitals Request Higher Fees for j Welfare Patients 4 - PORTLAND, Sept 26 -TV Aa Oregon Association of 'Hospitaler request for higher fees foe care ef welfare patients was taken unde consideration today by the statav public welfare commission. The hospitals' representativa said increased costs made the larg er fees necessary. The commission appointed a committee to Study it, but pointed out that its own ex penses, too, are growing. The state plans to spend 6761,793 for wel fare needs next month plug matching federal and county funds and the aversge cost per case la up. , -If '- . JL . Highway Officials -1 Elect lialdoclc . NEW YORK, Sept 16 - (JT) Robert H. Baldock,' chief en gineer of the Oregon state high way department . was elected president of the American Asso ciation of State Highway Officials? for the coming year St the group'i convention here today. A. F. Winkler, chairman of the Montana state highway depart ment commission, was elected gf1 regional vice president t A