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oop'ono OOOO DDIZ3 O o o odu ooo o a o o o a o o o o o do Weather Mix. Min. Pre. . 2 .ti . M 4 um .S3 SS .as .st u m ' .st m m Salem .. Portland ban Fiancfcc ChK-aro Nrw York Wdlamrtt rtvar IS (ML FORECAST tfrora VS. weather bu reau. McNary fWW. 5am : rogjy this moinins, cloudy this afternoon and a little rain before evenins Hiiheit W day SO. lowest tonight 43; genaiauy favorable for farm work. RJCDCDDCl POUNDDD 1651 The Oregon Statesman. Salem. Ore.. Wednesday. Oct 22. 1947 Price) 5c No. 171 Sh ffl n Salem school district li doing a better job of financing it short term needs before new -tax mon ies come in than U the city of Sa lem. The schoolboard arranged to borrow from banki $150,000 at an interest rate of VM per cent. The city of Salem has merely regis tered Its warrants, and they draw ft per cent Interest. A few years ago in a similar situation the city borrowed short-term money from the state at a rate of one-half of one per cent. Total warrants outstanding for the city amount to nearly $200, 000. The school district reduced its borrowings after receipt of a state apportionment but will have to In crease them before tax monies come in from the new levies, which will be in November or early December. The principal deficiency for the city is in the street improvement fund, which amounts to about $150,000. This is due to the exten sive paving program carried on during the summer. It will be funded by the issuance of Ban croft bonds, where property own ers elect to pay for improvements In instalments rather than in full. It is poor business for the city to be allowing interest to accrue on its warrant at a 5 per cent rate. It could borrow at as low a rate as the school district, or it could fix a much lower rate than S per cent on its warrants, and they would still pass at par. The council should take immediate steps to correct the situation. Search Parties Fail to Locate Lebanon Man LEBANON, Ore., Oct 21 - (JF) Ground and air searching parties returned from the Cascade slope southeast of hers late today and reported no trace of Joseph B. Alley, 55, Lebanon, missing since Sunday. Hope of finding the hunter alive was waning among the veterans woodsmen who DartidDated in the third search today, but a party of 75 to 100 men and outer soy Scouts was preparing to enter the woods again at dawn tomorrow. Brian Sanders and Judd paid- win new a Ugnt pianc over am snow peak .sector 20. miles east of Lacomb, where the hunter was last seen Sunday morning. They hoped to sight smoke signals. A ground party of 25, directed by a brother-in-law of the missing man, J. A. Rucker, found no trace of Alley. Alley's companions. Wade and Ward Pyle of Lacomb and J. A. Tturkrr of Lebanon, said they searched Sunday afternoon, but had to abandon the hunt mat eve ning because of dense fog. State to Get Park Addition PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct 21 -JPi The Ore eon hieh commission planned tonight to accept a 6,023- acre federal forest tract adjoin ing the state's Silver Creek Falls park area. Ravmond Hoyt regional direc tor for the national park service, submitted n"e and t com mission authorized its attorneys to prepare the formalities to be completed at a future meeting. Hoyt announced the offer was . : af -wiwoui cnarge or any strings attached." The name of the late Merle . R. Chessman, a former member of the commission, was approved for the new Columbia river ferryboat to operate be tween Astoria and Megler. De Gaulle to Seek Return to Power PARIS. : Oct.1 21 -ffy- Gen. Charles De Gaulle's new French peoples party (RPF) will call for new parliamentary elections as soon as it has majority support in the national assembly to pave the way for the generals early return to' power, a party spokes man said tonight The spokesman, Diomede Cat roux, declared the RPF now has majority support in the French assembly. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "l distinctly aid 'bring home NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR 12 PAGES High Lights Dot High Street ,r Li:I&?X ..... -d 1 1 - II I li Clearing skies ever Salem Tuesday stallation mt new street lights on recently widened Hlxn street. Shown working en ens ef the new high-candlepower lights made by General Electric are Neal Nlsvet 2091 Berry st, holding tit step ladder, while Rudy Prael, HO E. Superior at, applies protective lead paint In background, across High street, is another of the new lights without scaffolding- around It Twenty such, lights will be Installed In the four blocks from Ferry to Center streets and are expected to be In operation by the end of the wek. Each light has powr of 10,001 lumens. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff pho 5a Hem Woman KiQSed -Untjer TeighiJraiii - A woman tentatively Identified by city police as Mrs. Lillie Fisher, 74, of 62S S. Liberty st, was killed about 9:35 Tuesday night when strucq by the engine of a slow-moving freight train at Minto siding, about one mile south of Salem on Oregon Electric tracks along South River road. 1 Mrs. Fisher, who police said had been in ill health, was report ed missing from her home by a private nurse at 8 p. m. Tuesday Description of the woman and clothing she was said to be wear ing resulted in the identification early this morning. Her husband, Oratio II Fisher, was in Portland and had not yet arrived here to make identification. The engineer said the woman walked out of the darkness on the west side of the tracks .into the path of the train and, he thought, toward the engine. Daniel Jenk ins, Portland engineer of the SP&S train, said, "I saw ..some thing just ahead of the train, blew my whistle and applied the emergency brakes." He stated his speed as about 12 miles per hour. The woman's outer apparel consisted only 'of a dress and a light sweater. Her body was drag ged 68 feet along the tracks, mu tilating one leg caught under the front wheels and badly lacerating the face. Much of her clothing was ripped off. No personal effects of the grey haired woman were found by state police or by Deputy Marion Coun ty Coroner Virgil T. Golden. A police check with several nearby residences revealed no missing persons or recent visitors of the evening who might be Iden tified with the victim. The train, bound from Albany to Portland, continued its run at 10 JO p. m. Scio High School Vote Slated Nov. 5 ALBANY, Oct. 21 .-Formation of Scio union high school by joining with residents of eight other Linn county districts, will be voted upon at an election Wednesday, Novem ber 5. Protest filed by Oak View district 78, made the election call mandatory by the Linn boundary board. J. M. Bennett Linn school superintendent, is secretary of the boundary board-. The eight districts which will vote upon the proposed union with Scio union high school are Rich ardson Gap, 9; Shelburn, 71; Oak view, 76: Shindler, 83; Bilyeu Den, 22; Franklin Butte, 77; Arnold, 65; Prospect Mountain, 100 Scio has already voted to accept the other eight districts. Necessary to ap prove the proposal is a majority vote of all voting in a majority of the districts. HAYDENS CAR STOLEN District Attorney Miller B. Hay den was on the lookout for a stolen car early this morning his own. The car, he told city police, was taken from the 400 block of Center street sometime between 8 and 11 p. m. Tuesday. allowed workmen te resume In Farmers Not Wasting Food, Says Peterson The concept that food is being wasted on the farms or that far mers are engaging in wasteful feeding practices was rejected Tuesday by E. L. Peterson, state agricultural director and recently r pointed by Gov. Earl Snell as acting coordinator for the food conservation program in Oregon. In a statement here Tuesday, Peterson said, "For many years our agricultural schools have been teaching and demonstrating how to secure the most economical use of feeds in the production of live stock and livestock products. At today's prices for feeds ev: ery farmer is most conscious of every pound of feed which goes to his animals or poultry. Peterson said consumers like wise are conscious of food usage because of food prices. The short age of foods to meet world wide demands is a condition for which no one is to be blamed," Peterson continued. "The task of each of us is to make what we have go as far as it will and to secure the fullest possible utilization of what we have to the end that our coun try may contribute its fullest to the relief of human suffering everywhere. 92 of Chest Fund Pledged With $7,657 remaining to be collected for Salem Community chest s minimum goal of, $100, 000, chest workers Tuesday were still in the campaign which has so far raised just over 92 per cent of a goal' which is 20 per cent ov er last year's. No additional divisions reported over the top yesterday. Last week the women s, i professional, mer cantile and automotive divisions topped their quotas. Carl Hogg, Salem chest presi dent who conducted the meeting of chest leaders Tuesday noon in the Marion hotel, reiterated that the full $100,000 goal must be raised to provide 'minimum bud gets for the seven local organiz ations and 10 state agencies de pendent upon community chest. He announced the campaign will continue until it is over the top, The day's audited report show ed actual collections and pledges totalling $92,343. Chest workers were called' upon to meet again Friday noon in the Marion hotel. jtitra. Truman Asks Leaders to Meet Thursday WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. -(yp)-President Truman sent a hurried call today for a meeting with con gress leaders Thursday on Euro pean winter aid, and well-placed administration sources predicted a special session will be discussed. - The president wishes to explore further the possibility of an agree ment on the desirability for an early meeting of the lawmakers, two high ranking White House aides said. Mr. Truman last week spoke of the possibility of such a step. It would be aimed at providing em ergency funds for food and fuel. - It is generally accepted that If such a session is scheduled it would be around the first of De cember. Conferees will include most heads of committees who will start hearings in mid - November on short and long term aid proposals. Fe-ultryless Thursday Meanwhile Americans who have been asked to save grain for Eur ope c o ntemplated their third "poultry less and eggless Thurs day while officials wrestled with proposals to amend this feature of the voluntary conservation pro gram. Charles Luckman, chairman of the citizens food committee lead ing the drive to save 100,000,000 bushels of grain, met vith poultry and feed men who have argued tha t a poultryless day actually saves no grain. Luckman said anyJ conservation measure. It was learned that the Poultry Federation proposed by January 1 to (1) prevail on poultry men to cull our 100,000,000 birds and (2) pledge breeders and hatchers to a 25 per cent reduction in hatching chickens for the broiler and fryer trade. To Exceed Distilleries Savings An industry official said this saving would exceed that to be expected by closing down the dis tilleries on October 25. Luckman will meet with his executive board tomorrow to consider the fate of "eggless and poultryless" Thurs days. . Luckman will speak over the Mutual Broadcasting system at 1:30 p. m., (PST) tomorrow in a direct appeal to local food com mittees organized by mayors of cities of over 10,000 population. Prices of Wheat Rival 1920 Mark CHICAGO, Oct. 21 -(JPh Wheat prices on the board of trade con tinued to climb higher today to the highest prices since during and shortly after the first world war. Wheat futures for December de livery advanced 3 cents more to $3.10, the highest since 1917, and then backed up $3.08 4- at the close. In the cash market. No. 2 red wheat brought $3. 16' 4, the highest since 1920. Rain Slows Construction Of State Buildings f Construction of new state build ings, particularly at state institu tions in the Salem area, has been slowed because of recent heavy rains. Larger structures are under construction at the Oregon state hospital, Fairview Home, Boys' school, and Cottage Farm. Local CAA Officials Approve $80,)00 Airport Development Salem airport expansion plans received the approval of civil aero-" nautirs authority officials of this area Tuesday, and City Manager J. L. Franzen announced he would proceed with formal application for CAA approval in Washington of the $80,000 program and with a supplementry bid for federal aid in construction of a city airport ad ministration building which would cost about $70,000 in addition. Both the federal allocation of $45,000 and city funds of $35,000 are already available for the $80, 000 Improvement project which would include airport road paving, runway improvement, new short taxi-way, two or three small hang ars, an apron for the proposed ad ministration building, water and sewer line extensions. The city manager said the CAA men here indicated they were in accord with the entire "master plan" but that detailed necifica tions will have to be suom..ted to Washington, D.C., after approval here by the city council. With city money remaining from Dveon SiwpeirsooiiDc Paftsia Solonns TdtaO ' esslon Talk Revives as Kleett - Called State Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Oregon's Fair Trade Law Boxtops, His Stock in Trade do ijou need extra l noonlwurAiOIf)? A y'l i COLLECT BOX TOPS f uH U AND LABELS NSSr: 7 !f!!lS54x III America's spirit of free enterprise Is demonstrated by this youth, Da vid Black mer, Salem route 4. box 125. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth F. Bbckmcr, shown tacking his offer to buy bex tops, labels er coupons as needed In the numerous promotional contests now sweeping the country, to the Leslie Junior high school blackboard. 'David resells the items to contest entrants. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) U.N. Establishes Balkan Watch by Vote of 40 to 6 NEW YORK, Oct. 21-(P)-An overwhelming majority of the Unit ed Nations assembly backed the United States and Britain against Russia today and created an 11 -member U. N. commission to watch over the Balkans. The vote was 40 to 6. Eleven nations abstained. The Russians served notice for the second time in this assembly Wreck Claims Second Life McMINNVILLE, Oct 21 In juries suffered in a head-on auto bile collision south of here Sun day night claimed a second victim early Tuesday morning, Patrick Sullivan, 54, of Portland. He had been brought in critical condition to McMinnville hospital, along with two other men. Ernest F. Waterhouse, also of Portland, was killed in the wreck, on highway 99W nine miles north of Ritkreall. Sullivan was a pas senger Jn the Waterhouse car. The party was returning to Portland from a hunting trip near Corval lis. State police said the accident occurred when Waterhouse at tempted to pass another car and met a .vehicle driven by Tom Burbee, 30, Portland, and also occupied by Laurence Christian, 25, Lebanon. Burbee and Christ ian were both reported in "satis factory" condition at the hospittal tonight. the $50,000 bond i.sue of a few years ago for the airport, plus pos sible revenue from sale of the east side hangar at the airport, Franzen was hopeful of obtaining the fed eral aid (at the same 56 per cent rate as provided for the general improvement) necessary to build and administration building. In such a building the city would maintain its airport office and rent space to United Air Lines and others seeking terminal facilities. Hangar space for navy air re serve use was not considered, Franzen said, because no requests for such space have been made since the possibility of navy flying headquarters here was mentioned two months ago. He added that an army air reserve unit now is pre pared to operate here with existing airport facilities. The development plans were re viewed yesterday by city officials in conference with CAA officials, including Airport Engineer H. O. Varty of the Seattle office and J. V. Fryberger, assistant district en gineer in the Salem office. that although elected to member- ship on the Balkan watch they would have nothing to do with this new U. N. body. This added another to a string of U. N. or ganizations which the soviet un ion has declined to Join. Poland also refused to participate. The western powers scored two other smashing victories: 1 The assembly rejected a Pol ish resolution demanding imme diate recall of all foreign military personnel and missions in Greece. z ine assembly rejected a so viet resolution calling for with drawal of foreign troops from Greece and for establishing a commission to supervise econo mic aid such as provided8 un der the Truman program to that country. The assembly directed that the commission be made up of the five great powers the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China plus Australia, Brazil, Mexico, The Netherlands, Pakis tan and Poland. 7 Die in N avy rn n i r lane L-rasn ARGENTINA. Nfld., Oct 21.-(JP)-A United States naval plane landing at this Avalon peninsula base crashed into the harbor to night, killing seven of its 11 occu pants. The plane was said to have come in too low and struck the water of the harbor where .United States authorities have built a huge de fense base. Four of the passengers were saved but rescuers were unable to help the others. The wreckage of the plane had to be left in the harbor until morning. It could not be learned whether the occupants of the plane were civilians or service personnel. Fires Destroy Almost 300 Buildings in Maine GOOSE ROCKS BEACH. Me., Wednesday, Oct. 22 -IP)- One of Maine's most destructive woods fires was controlled early today after razing almost 200 buildings, mostly summer cottages, in the Goose Rocks, Cape Porpoise and Wildes districts of Kennebunk port. Two score other fires burning in various parts of the state con sumed almost another 100 cot tages and homes. Companies May Set Minimum Price on Items The state supreme court Tues day upheld the constitutionality of Oregon's fair trade law which permits manufacturers to set min imum charges retailers may place on their products. Edwin Schreder, proprietor of Schreder's 4 Star market in down town Salem, was defendant in the original suit which the Borden company, a national milk products firm, filed in Marion county cir cuit court and which Circuit Judge George Duncan dismissed. Lower Price Cited Borden's complaint stated that although the company had fixed the minimum retail price of Hemo, a dried milk product, at 59 cents per pound, Schreder - had been charging only 53 cents over a five year period. Justice Harry H. Belt, author of the supreme court opinion, re versed Judge Duncan and ordered that he issue an injunction pre venting Schreder from selling the product below the 59-cent mini mum fixed by the Borden com pany. Schreder contended the fair trade law was unconstitutional in the circuit court but abandoned this contention in the. supreme court-appeal by the Borden com pany. The vote of the court was unan imous. "Nat Judicial Question" "Much has been written about the soundness of the economic the ory reflected in thil kind of legis lation as affecting publie welfare," Justice Belt wrote, "but that is a legislative and not a judicial ques tion." Justice Belt held it was within the jurisdiction of the legislature to enact the fair trade act and the duty of the supreme court to con strue It so as to effectuate its pur pose. Road Board to Buy Property Next to Church Construction of a $25,000 build ing in Waverly street to house ex pansion needs of the state highway department, as well as purchase of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house at Chemeketa and Summer streets, in the block where a pro posed highway building may be erected, was authorized in a late night session of the highway com mission Tuesday, according to As sociated Press. Closing of Waverly street to traffic has already been slated be cause of the projected construc tion of a tax commission building in the area. The fraternity house Is in the block bounded by Chemeketa, Summer, Center and Winter streets, where recent proposals of 1 m pe d 1 n g state contraction brought strong protests from the First Presbyterian church. Cordon Appoints Joseph Forniick to Attend West Point , Joseph D. Formick, Salem high school graduate in 1944, was noti fied Tuesday by U. S. Sen. Guy Cordon of his appointment to West Point military academy, subject to examinations. Formick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Formick. 2460 E. Nob Hill st. He served in the army for about two years, including some time on Okinawa, and is now employed here by D. A. White and Sons feed store. Cordon also appointed three Portlanders, plus four alternates from Portland, according to As sociated Press, for academy en trance in July, 1948. New York Dealers Report Run on Sugar NEW YORK, Oct 21-P)-Hea-vy buying of sugar, reminiscent of the rush during the war - time shortages, was reported by retail dealers today. . The sudden increased demand was attributed by many storekeep ers and wholesalers to be a "scare" and they said that although stocks now were ample they would be unable to keep up with the de mand if it continued. - Movie Critic Links Agency To Spy Chain - WASHINGTON, Oct 21 Testimony that secrets of Amer ica's newest supersonic plane went straight to communist party head quarters in New York gave a sur prise twist today to an uproarious congressional hearing on subver sive influences in Hotly wood. ' The story of alleged espionage, told by Movie Critic John C. Mcf fitt, all but stole the spotlight from Actor Adolphe Menjou who tes tified that there are "many, many dangerous directors and actors" m the west coast movie industry. Moffitt asserted that the FBI now has the plane-secrets case) under investigation, but FBI head quarters had no comment tonight. The witness testified that Jc hn Weber, head of the literary depart ment of the William Morris theat rical agency in Hollywood, and others "with strong leftist lean ings," tricked Chalmers "Slick Goodlin into writing a story abectf. his experiences in flying the aw force's new supersonic speed plane. the XS-1. - Test Pilot rretesU Moffitt said Goodlin at first protested that although he was civilian test pilot for the Bell Air craft company, he was under mili tary supervision and that anything he wrote would have to be approv ed by military Intelligence. "Then Weber told Goodlin, Why, of course, but first let 'us see what you can write and we'll see if it is practical for publica Xori,n Moffitt continued. "The young pilot (Goodlin) was foolish enough to comply. He gave) them, I am told, an article con taining much confidential ir.l ur ination." i Said Sent to Cemmonkts ' ' ' MofM said Weber got the tnkU and sent it to New York commun ist headquarters. In Hollywood, Weber denied Moffitt's charges and called them a "malicious invention." - Commenting on Moffitt's testi mony, air force officials here said tonight that if Goodlln's article had contained anything "seriously" se cret, action would have- been take under the national defense act, . Big Salaries G to Keds I Menjou, who described com munism as "an Incredibly serious) menace." was Joined in assailing subversive influencesby the vet eran novelist Rupert Hughes. Hughes said, too, that Hollywocd movie producers have been "un jutifiably lax" In paying big sal aries to men "they know to bo communists." Charles J. Katz, Los Angeles) lawyer, was thrown out of the) hearing roam when he made a bid to cross examine Moffitt at th start of an afternoon session. Bart ley C. Crum, San Francisco attor ney, almost was tossed out a few minutes later. Chile Breaks j With Russia, Czechoslovaks SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 21 - W The Chilean government an nounced tonight that it had brcki en diplomatic relations with th Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. An official said Chile's action was "intimately related with the communist infiltration" in the na tion's southern coal zone re cently the scene of labor unrevt which Chilean authorities have attributed to communist agitation. It was understood that the government's decision remove any pOMibility of th communist party in Chile having contacts with Moscow or the new com munist international Informatioe) bureau In Belgrade through dip lomatic officials. It means the ousting not only of Soviet diplomats but also the only remaining official reprenentatne of a country regarded as being in the Russian orbit QUICKIES "Boy. eh, bay! I can hardly wait until we muse another SUtesnsma Waa Ad next enthr-- -