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i - Weather ST. LOUIS a church One a thriving Oregon com munity and now just an obscure but beautiful old church, Marion county's St. Louis is the subject of another of Stuart Bush's stories of bygone days. The illustrated historical article will appear In tomorrow's Oregon Statesman. Min. ItlfM ... Portland San Francisco Chicago iw York as traca WllUmettv river feet FORECAST (from VS. ether fci rtau, McNary field. Salami: Partly cloudy today and tunlt'U. Huh tm lralur today U. low toniaM as. Wcahtr ui b favorable for aneaf farm acti)U toda'. POUNDOD 1651 NINETY-SEVENTH YEAH 10 PAGES Tlx Orocon Statesman, Salem, Ore.. Saturday. October 18. 1947 Price 5c No. 173 Matt n S3 7S j Bakers Agree toLimit &ruin Uses Bill Bevens Honored at Breakfast Club Fete :- 'At - , f t: ; 17. : -Give?- L n A a : 'U :; m - . ' . '4y J v 7 ' , , A 'i.? ir - OCP SQHUIB - CarunJbsioner William A. Bowes of Portland who attended meet ing of the American Public Works association at Jacksonville, Fla., reported it was the conclusion of those attending that there is not enough space in metropolitan areas for either on-itreet or off etreet parking, that the more park ing space is provided the more ears are attracted. The solution suggested is fringe area parking with quick shuttle service down town. The conclusion is pretty well corroborated by. studies of Salem's long-range planning commission. The cod of land downtown is too great to yield returns on an in vestment basis at charges within the reach of the users. Building costs are too high for construc tion of parking garages. Changes in costs might make the venture profitable, but not now. So park ing is confined to the streets, to the apace not yet built over, and to a few garages where the build ing Investment is relatively low. Space may be augmented by con version of antiquated buildings or their removal, or by going out to the fringes. The Kipplinger magazine for September quotes an expert on this subject, Walter H. Blucher, executive director of the Ameri can Society of Planning Officials, who would remind planners: The cheapest form of locomo tion is still our legs. If we have to move people, the best way to : move them la on foot The second best way might be on bicycles. The third best way is certainly by mass transportation facilities. On ly after that by means of the pri vate automobile.' The automobile for' personal transportation is an American luxury. Our people can afford the cars but they can't afford the apace in congested areas which their cars require for continuous parking. More and more both street and off-street parking should go for use of the ; short time shoppers and to service cars, and let to all-day workers. For the latter, the priorities listed by Blucher are applicable: Shanks' ponies, bicycle, public transporta tion systems. QUICKIES "WeU watch The Statesman want 4s Uaae-rrew there prob ably will he reward e-fferecl far thai babalL" Jjjj; Fleyd (BUI Bevens), who calls Hubbard "still my real heme' although he's proud to be a resident of Salem new, la ahewn being presented , a suitcase in Salem Breakfast elnb ceremonies at the Marian hotel Friday morning wliea upwards of J0 men paid tribute to him for his pitching record with the New York Yankees in the World Series, rresentinf the gift Is Harry Collins, president ef the Breakfast club, and te the right are Mrs. Bevens, the only woman in attendance, and Gov. Earl Snell who felicitated the Yankee star on behalf of the State. la the background (left to right) are Secretary of State Rob ert 8. Farrell. jr., and Jack, Wilson, manager ef the Salem Senators, and with his head she win behind the suitcase la Al - Lifhtner, sports editor of The Oregon Statesman, who was the only Oregon sport writer to cover the World Series and who eend acted s ques-tlen-and-answer period with Bevens at the Friday ceremonies. (De tails on sports page). (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photo grapher. .. ; :,; Mouse Blamed in Traffic Accidentj SALT LAKE CITY, Oct 17-(ff) -A mouse was blamed for a traf fic accident today. .Mrs. Hattie Woodburn, 61, donned an old jacket entered her car and began backing from her driveway. Her car swerved suddenly and 1 col lided with an automobile driven by Floyd Losse, 41. Asked to explain why she lost control, Mrs. Woodbury said something ran up her sleeve and inside her dress. A crushed mouse was found in her clothes. . k Brazil to Break With Russians RIO DE JANEIRO, Brarilj Oct. n-(JP)-A high government, source said --today that Brazil will break diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia as a result of Moscow's failure to apologize for an attack in the government newspaper Izvestia upon President Eurico Caspar Dutra. Izvestia recently declared that Dutra was subservient to the United States, and made other at tacks -offensive to the Brazilian army , and government The Mos cow Literary Gazette in another article Mid President Dutra was a "crab with claws" who followed the lead of "the United States borse with hooves.w $2,000 In Cash Burns In Farmhouse Blaze OREGON CITY, Ore, Oct 18 -UPy- A fire started, by an exploding oil heater destroyed the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Woody today, along with $2,000 left in a purse in the house. A fireman rescued one coin purse containing $200 in cash, but could not find the other. Precipitation Fails to Dampen Homecoming Enthusiasm at WU AH fun, and no business, will be on the ticket for Willamette university alumni who return to the campus this week end for the annual Homecoming events. Other than affairs planned by individual living organizations, alumni events will be concentrat ed into this evening. Following this afternoon's football game will be informal reception for alumni in Lausanne hall, then at 6:30 p. m. a dinner in the Lausanne cafeteria. Steve Anderson of Salem, presi dent of the alumni association, will preside at the dinner meet ing. Dr. G. Herbert Smith, uni versity president will give a re port and the Rev. Brooks Moore, pastor of First Methodist church here, will be introduced. Final event will be the alumni Group Stores Close Armistice Day Members of the Salem Feder ation of Patriotic Societies, meet ing at the Chamber of Commerce Friday night voted to send peti tions to merchants in Salem and surrounding cities requesting them to close November 11, in observ ance of Armistice day. Salem's Retail Trade bureau de cided recently to keep all stores open on Armistice day this year, contrary to the usual practice; but in line with Eugene and Portland. To Join Other Cities . Bureau president Mai Rudd Fri day night said "Salem merchants are tired of taking it on the chin, while Portland and Eugene stores are permitted to open." Rudd said local merchants felt they should remain open until such time that Armistice day is declared a na tionwide business holiday. About 50 'federation members, representing 22 of 30 Salem organ izations which make up the fed eration, were present at Friday's meeting. Group president A. L. Strayer said that the petitions would be prepared as soon as pos sible and probably would be sent out early next week. The group made preliminary plans for an Armistice day par ade, street decorations and speeches to be delivered at vari ous meetings and over the air. Fi nal arrangements for the ob servance will be made at a feder ation meeting at the chamber of commerce next Wednesday at 8 pjn., Strayer said. The group also made initial plans for its annual banquet to be held in February, 1948. Offi cers for the new year will be elected at the gathering. dance in the campus gymnasium at 9 p. m. Winners in the home coming sign contest will be an nounced at the dance. - Friday's heavy rain all but de stroyed many of the signs decor ating the Willamette campus for the homecoming. A cement walk was laid earlier in the week for traffic from entrance gates to the grandstand at Sweetland field where last week the spectators as well as football players waded in mud. The campus Bearcat cavern, or dinarily closed, will be open be fore and after this afternoon's game to accommodate the home coming crowds. Homecoming week end opened with yesterday's campus decora tion and the students' traditional "noise parade" through the city. 2-Layer Cakes, Single-Crust Pies Promised WASHINGTON, Oct 17 - OP) -Bakers promised today to feature smaller loaves of bread and one crust pies, wherever they can, as part of a broad save-food-for-Europe program which President Truman called "right and neces sary." And the citizens food cammit tee, which got the pledge of cooperation from the bakers, said it expects housewives and restaur ants to go along on such things as single-crust pies and two-layer cakes. The goal for this part of the drive to help Europe throug'h the winter is a saving of 3,000,000 bushels of wheat a month. As for the general program, Mr. Truman told 90 members of a national conference of editorial writers who called at the White house: "We are not doing this for cred it We are doing it because it is right and necessary." That was his answer when one editor asked whether this coun try "is going to get any credit for all the help we are giving the rest of the world." The administration is trying for a total saving of 100,000,000 bu shels of grain by next July. Brewers, distillers and others al ready have agreed to do their part CIO Re-elects PHilip Murray; Lewis Blasted BOSTON, Oct. 17 -P)- Phillip Murray started his eighth year as head of the CIO today by chal lenging the nation's leaders to jail profiteers and inviting American employers to bargain without fed eral intervention. Re-elected by cheering, shout ing delegates of the 6,000.000 member congress, Murray said he "prays" for labor unity. He dis counted any immediate hope of it however, and turned sarcastic words toward AFL President Wil liam Green and his own one-time associate and the original CIO leader, John L. Lewis, noting that they had blocked recent attempts at CIO-AFL merger. Murray told the convention which has pledged itself to "un precedented" electioneering for la bor in 1948: "In the presence of rising living costs, the Taft-Hartley law, lack of adequate housing, lack of ade quate social security, lack of vet eran's legislation, and with reac tion in the saddle, we must go for ward militantly, constructively and intelligently seeking the eradica tion of all these evils." 4-H Girls to Model Dresses Twenty-five Marion and Polk county girls will model their 4-H club fall fashion dresses at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Sa lem YMCA for Jane Gibbs, 4-H stylist of the Simplicity Pattern company. The show is open to the public. The models will be: Marion county Sally Klein, Donna Lee Klein, Lois Holmquist Aumsville; Doris Lane, Rosemary Austin, Shirley Bingenheimer, Liberty; Betty Wintermantel, Jeanette Gilmour, Paula Smith, Jefferson; Lucille Jaquith, Vic tor Point; Joann Fabry, Sharon Laverty, LaJune Rahtz, Maxine King, Auburn; Barbara Anderson, Nancy Hageman. Margaret See ger, Salem Heights; Bernita Je key, Aurora; Karleen Drager and Mary Lou Hatch, Cloverdale; Mar tha Hooper, Pioneer. Polk county Glenna Gage, Bridgeport; Velma Dyer, Dallas; Eva Osborn, Falls City; Shirley Paschke, Orchard Heights. Wallace, Carney Agree to Truce PORTLAND, Oct. 17 -(P)- Lew Wallace, Oregon democratic na tional committeeman, said today he and Byron Carney, chairman of the party's state central com mittee, had buried the hatchet Wallace said he would withdraw his suit charging the election of state central committee officers was illegal. He said a new elec tion would be held November IS. The truce was reached at a meeting called by George Friede, Allan Hart and Verne Dusenberry. Phones Disrupted By Rains The Willamette river was ex pected to reach its crest at Salem early this morning as a heavy rain fall continued in this Vicmity Fri day, .washing out a section dt one city street, putting telephone and j power lines out of order and flood-H ing some highways. The WiUamette is expected to reach 11 or 12 feet this morning. Flood stage here is 20 feet. The river had risen more than eight feet at 7 a.m. Friday morning. At Jefferson, the Santiam river passed the flood stage of 13 feet early Friday morning, was 14 feet at noon and then began falling and dropped to 13.3 at 4:15 in the afternoon. Rain carried an earth fill on Sardine creek Friday morning, but traffic was still moving over the North Santiam highway, ac cording to a report from Detroit. Fast Repairs Made A section of the South River road 300 feet north of Wilson street was washed away Friday night hut city road crews made fast repairs and the road was opened immediately to one-way traffic at the slide. The old sec tion of the Pacific highway 99E was partially inundated as the Santiam river surged two feet above flood stage at Jefferson, Ore., but began sinking again. Fears that log rafts would break up In the lower Willamette were eased by the weather bu reau forecast that the river would not pass flood stage below Salem. Telephone Lines Down Driving rain also played havoc with telephone lines in Salem Fri day, with 15 grounded cables re quiring servicing last evening. Harry V. Collins, Salem division manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., said as many as 721 telephones were out of or der at one time. Line crews for the telephone company were at work all day and during the night, with an extra line crew coming in from Portland Friday evening to aid them in re storing telephone service. Cable trouble was reported in several sections of the city. Squirrels Blamed Collins said much of the trouble had its start during the good wea ther months when squirrels gnaw ed at cables and started pinpoint breaks. Rain beating subsequently on these aerial cables, Collins said, caused the grounding and service interruption. The Portland General Electric company here reported its service crews were kept busy repairing lines from main lines to residen ces. Numerous transformer fuses, soaked by heavy rains, burned out and were replaced. One Inch of Rain , The U. S. weather bureau at McNary field reported that ex actly one inch of rain fell Friday as compared with 1.59 on Thurs day. Friday's total brings the month's figure to 6.77 inches 3.86 inches above the normal Oc tober total of 2.91 Inches. The bureau, however, forecast a let up in the rainfall today, predict ing partly cloudy weather with occasional rains. The Wheatland ferry north of Salem stopped running Friday due to high water and was tied up on the west bank of the Wil lamette. The flag at Marion coun ty courthouse was torn to shreds by high winds. Plane Crash Kills 2 OREGON CITY, Ore., Oct. 17-0P)-A red Stinson Voyager plane crashed on the Ernest Kruse farm near Stafford tonight killing both occupants. State police tentatively identi fied the victims as Wilmer L. Hadley and P. K. Johnson. The plane was believed to have taken off from the Beaverton, Ore., airport. Rumor-Inspired 'Shortage' Causes Women to Flock to Hosiery Counters; Supplies Normal By Marguerite Wright Staff Writer. The Statesman Rumor - inspired runs on nylon hosiery in some Salem stores are causing an artificial, temporary shortage, a survey indicated Fri day. Several store managers said shopping by Jittery women in the last few weeks has depleted stocks which would ordinarily be ade quate. A few said that so far no shortage has been caused in their stores. Every store questioned report ed their allotments of hosiery (based on previous sales) had been coming in, although some times slowly, and one chain store executive who buys in the open market said he had received a large shipment this week. Talk that government stockpil ing of nylon was decreasing the retail supply of hose has been pre He Watches '5. : I X u- r When Oregon rain comes by the barrels, as It has for the past few days, Lester R. Thoma 1595. Roosevelt at. Is the man who watches the Willamette river to record Its rise Had falLJThomaa, who la employed by the I'. S. weather bureau, makes only enrreading a day at the cauae station, located on the river lost north of "the Salem Boat House between Chemeketa and Center streets, during normal time, but wflh fall rains, winter snows, -or spring freshets he takes read Inrs from two to eicht times a day, and night He is plctored above writing down the reading taken ses over the wheel at the bottom which fills with water piped from the Willamette. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Stalin Blames U.S., Britain for Disputes Disclaims Thoughts of War-Making WARSAW, Oct. 17-jP)-Eight labor members of the British par liament tourinat Europe declared tonight that Prime Minister Stalin had told them in Russia that he had no thought of making war and wanted to settle political and economic issues with the United states. The Briton, headed by Konni Zilliacus, said Stalin added that if the U. S. and Britain did not desire until they regain their reason." Zilliacus said he and the seven other members of parliament, on a visit to Moscow to study Russian trade unions and factories, were flown in a special plane to Stalin's villa at Sochi on the Black sea. There, Zilliacus reported, Stalin voiced a desire to reach an under standing between the east anri west and dissipate fears of a new conflict. Stalin Quoted The parliament group quoted Stalin as saying in a two-hour in terview: "We want as close trade rela tions with Great Britain as pos sible. We are interested in the de velopment of trade relations be tween our two countries. "The sooner the two states agree, the better for good part ners in common work. "Just as the soviet union has always stood for improvement of political and economic relations with all countries, so it now stands for such improvement beginning with the United States and Great Britain. Able to Carry on "If, however, they do not want to improve their relations with the soviet union, we shall have to do without them. We shall nev ertheless be able to carry on. "We will wait until they regain their reason and understand co operation between nations is ne cessary. We can wait. We are a patient people." valent, and even though there is no known basis for such reports, such rumors have served to empty some cities of nylons, a local buy er just returned from Washington said. . But rumors are not the only reason the supply of nylons does not meet the demand. Dark-colored sheer stockings suddenly have become the vogue and wo men are buying as many as eight pairs at one time to replenish their light-colored hosiery wardrobe. In addition, only 10 per cent of the nylon industry is equipped to knit the sheer Sl-gauge hose, now in style. As more machinery turns to the production of sheers, more nylon yarn will be made avail able since the lightweight stock ings do not require as much yarn as heavier gauges, trade sources point out A new DuPont plant is sched uled to begin production of nylon the River Rise from a measuring tape which pas of the picture, and Into a deep well to settle differences, "we shall wait Burma Freedom Contract Signed LONDON, Oct 17 - iff) - K treaty under which Britain's rule of more than a century over Bur ma will be terminated formally in January was signed here to day by the prime ministers of the two countries. The pact under which authority will be transferred to the new Federal Burmese Republic, was signed by Prime Minister Attlee for Britain and Prime Minister Thakin Nu of Burma. . British spokesmen said the con tract related to defense, finance, economics and other legal and contractural obligations between the two countries. Peterson Named to Aid In Food Conservation Gov. Earl Snell, in response to President Truman's request Fri day announced the appointment of E. L. Peterson, state agricultural director, to cooperate to the full est extent possible with the feder al government's food conservation program. Governor Snell said Oregon is much concerned about the damage that might result to its Important poultry industry. yard this year but no substantial increase in pounds of yarn sold to hosiery mills is expected until spring. Since some mills expected new yarn before then, they already have used much of their old stock piles, forcing a decrease in out put. Meanwhile, until further de velopments, Salem hosiery deal ers expect the supply to continue at the present rate, rumors to the contrary. In reply to another rumor that ammunition and arms have been "frozen" by the government a Washington spokesman said that no government agency now has the authority to freeze ammuni tion. As for automobile tires, sales have continued at a normal rate, local dealers said. One Salem salesman reported he sold two tires to customer who feared a shortage. Vessels Ride Out High Seas By the Aaoocia'd Proas Another storm, now 1.000 mftea offshore, was moving eastward to day toward the Pacific northwest, still groggy from three days or coastal galea and heavy inland wind and rain. ,r The weather bureau, which originally expected the new storm to arrive on the heels ofxthe last, said its force probably would not reach the coast until Sunday. A storm that endangered ves sels, cloned the CoIumbiaV river bar, grounded some commercial planes, and halted the Oregon Washington ferry service at the Columbia river mouth, swept in land yesterday afternoon. Gusts of wind up to 50 miles an hour raked western Oregon and Washington cities. In Seattl a 40-foot smokestack tonoled at the American Can Co. waterfront plant and crashed four stories to the street striking two cars and wrecking utility lines. The full violence of the storm struck Portland In mid-afternooa and moved eastward toward th mountains. Portland, despite .64 of an inch of rain in hours and 33-mile-an-hour winds, re ported no damage. The weather bureau said a new storm was moving eastward and wouia reacn Portland and ether inland areas probably Sunday. DUUeaaed XT Located ' COOS BAY; Ore, Oct. 17 The coast guard cuttr BonKsrn located the distressed LCT-140 off Newport Ore, Fnday right and took her in tow. The LCT. bound from Martinez, Cab f to Seattle ith six men and a $100, 000 cargo aboard, had run out of fuel hours earlier, the coast guard said. Coast guardsmen aiid tho cutter would probably head for the Columbia river with thd 120 foot craft in tow. - "x Wind at tS mph : . '. -X Winds, roaring up to 85 milesr an hour earlier Friday, abated at night as the cutter faund the dis tressed ship. The una clipper Conquest, whose owner appealed for coast guard assistance, managed to re pair its rudder at sea and headed for the Columbia river under its own power. . Americans to WW -mr-m-m Hpnr5 Ivlirrci hor 11 T Trail iciia; j. tT 111 INDON. Oct l?-,PUPrfnr Elizabeth's -I will" when thm promises to love and obey Lt. Phil ip Mountbatten will bo broadcast to American listeners under plans aDDroved bv Buckingham nalar. it was disclosed today. An inconspicuous microphone will be installed inside Westmin ster Abbey to pick up the cere mony, scheduled to start at 11.30 am. (3:30 ajn.. Pacific standard time)' November 20. Merrill Mueller, head of the Na tional Broadcasting company's of fice here, is in charge of plans for a pooled broadcast He said 14 VJS. radio men would participate in a two-hour program, to include descriptions of the processions from the palace to the abbey and from the abbey back to the palace. Five of the broadcasters are NBC men, four are from the Columbia Broadcasting system, three from the American Broadcasting Co, and two from the Mutual network. TROLLEY KILLS OFFICIAL -PORTLAND, Oct 17 -.PH Her man Von Schmalz. farmer US. commissioner at Burns and for mer Harney county district attor ney, was fatally injured tonight when a Portland Traction com pany trolley struck him. Animal Craelccrs By WARREN GOODRICH "Wow ya tomia', Edirr Jel? m. S