- 1.- ' s. COO o D JO ODD OiOO ODQO OQ ODDO O ODO ODD OOD ODO: apita ares For day ,1-1 r i IPren 'III Jt r, r State ' Wuneral Mora i POUNDBD 1651 i- i -i" L '' ' - r f i ! I .Hi CRT SHEjjQB In Chicago last Monday, i 'two sisters ' got to quarrelling, i The older who was employed in. an office accused her younger sitter, a high school student, with hiding her cjothes and lending dress to ; a friend. The argument got biitter, slighting references were made e bout boy friends. The younger sister in a rage grabbed a pair v of scissors, flung them at e her sisterL' The open blade piercecl the , girl's! breast near the heart ' and she Quickly bled to death. Came the police to arrest the youhger girl, (fame reporters and photojera pherst ' rijji . I refer to thestory not to stress that iisters should, not quarrel; or that fit is dangerous to tharow weapons when one is in a pas sion, f but to show how largely our lives are circumscfibedfiby . the Ultimate routines oi living. Our papers are full of thvatt of war nd problems of pte .of trendjs in business and in legis lation. Yet for the vast majority of people the major concerns; are earning a living, and birth land death) and marriage, a new dress, a new automobile, a vacation trip. Tne, the larger issues of ! in flatiojn and prices and employ- ment affect everyone, but the in dividual is largely concerned with the details of his own living. Oth er matters are beyond his reach or his capacity to affect, but each day he must face the problems of life within his own range, in his home or In his office or on his Job. The Bible says, "a man's toes shall be those of his -own howse4 hold"; and his lriends too,. beef use of the limited range, of his jmo- - ciatiens. , There is thus revealed the ne eessity of instruction and training In the business of living, In the re lations, . (Continued on Editorial Page) i I . ' Hxilloween Eire -BumslWoman, Destroys Home PORTLAND, Nov. l-P--One young woman; was burned ctiti cally and her parents and a neigh bor suffered less serious injuries and. burns w$en a fire believed , set by HalloWeeh pranksters de stroyed a home here early Xoday. Betty Jean Thralls, 21, was res cued from a bedroom clothes clos et by hr father, James, 44, when he re-ehteredf the house and ii tor cated his daughter. It was jbev lieved she had stumbled intotjthe closet lp an attempt to escape, taking the wfong door and col lapsing to the? floor of the cldset. Chief Fire Investigator William Curtis said "there is no doubt jthe fire was delihei&tely set." m Pranksters Blast Spokane City Hall SPOKANE Wash., Nov. lr(fP)- A blast heard more than two miles away iocked the Spokane Criice stationland city hall in the te hours of palloweeri last night but lef police with na clues oth er than the conviction that a high explosive was responsible. ;ii The explosion, touched oiij in refuse cubicle in an alley , next to the police station, buckled a half-.inch stee plate in the cubicle and damaged a frame door and the wall of the police drill hall. i - i ; i ! Youth Confesses to. Setting Eugene Fire i -EUGENE, Nov. 1 -Ph A 16-year-old youth has been remand ed to the Juvenile division of jthe circuit court here whUe author ities check ms statement that he set the $200,000 fire that de stroyed the Eugene Mill and Ele vator Co. a week ago. In the presence of state and! ci ty officials the youth signed the statement after he surrendered to police. I i j-' Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH, "I thought you tii your old -man was-1 j juggler heck, day body cm blow bubble guau"i 1 1 I i 1 r Special Seats Installed in House Of Representatives; Private Rites Held for Farrell, Cornett i . Oregon was prepared ; today for its final tribute to its three top officials who died in a plane crash in the rugged vastness of southern Lake county last Tuesday night. Special seats were installed in the Capitol's house of repre sentatives, where final rites, will be held at 1:30 plm. Monday, and a public address system was readied for the rotunda and corridors where 1,005 persons are expected to augment the 700 vWho will fill the house chambers to capacity. , Football Scores Corvallia Hi 20, SHS 6. Oregon 34, Idaho 7. i Oregon State 13, Stanford 7. So. Cal 19, Washington 0. Calif ornia 6, UCLA 0. I Linfield 26, Whitman 6. Army 65, Wash.-Lee 13. Notre Dame 27, Navy 0. South. Meth. 14, Texas 13. Michigan 14, Illinois 7. 1 Utah 13, Colorado 7. Georgia Tech 7, Duke 0.; Throngs Pour into Record-breaking crowds poured $103,660.56; into Marion county's current tax: collections during the past four days, immediately upon receipt of their 1947-49 tax: state ments, Harold Domagalla, chief tax deputy in the sheriffs office, reported Saturday, i j . Taxpayers to date have totaled 1,925, compared with the 496 who last year paid in $29,684.89 in the first four days of collections, said Domagalla. Part of the difference was attributed to the later start, almost one week, this yearj . : First day receipts; .last Wednes day, Were $11,345.04 from 179 tax payers, compared 'with a first-day count in 1946 of $822.17 from 24. Although the tax office will be closed Monday due to the holiday, Domagalla expects the long lines in the courthouse hall to return for several days, v following monthly payrolls.-Three pet, cent discount is allowed until Novem ber 15 for payments in advance, and after that monthly interest of two-thirds of one per cent will begin to accrue. The total current tax roll is nearly $3,000,000 on 37,714 statements, : DAV Building Bids Sought Bidding and specifications for the new Disabled American Vet erans Laving Memorial Duuaing were approved by trustees and the citizens' committee Saturday in the office of Lyle P. Bartholo mew, architect and it was an nounced that bids would- be ac cepted from now until November 12. Work is expected to start shortly thereafter and the build ing finished perhaps by April. The citizens committee also an nounced that a drive fori funds was beginning immediately and that donations could be mailed to the first National bank j or to James Callaway, treasurer at "975 N. 18th st. The citizens' committee includes James Beard, Guy Hick ok. Douglas McKay, Linn Smith, Milton Meyers, Leo Childs and Roy Houck. - j UAW Officer Scorns Oath DETROIT, Nov. 1 -UP Vice President R. J. Thomas,; appar- ently .standing alone, refused to day to sign a non-communist affi davit along with other members of the CIO United Auto Workers executive board. Scorning l th Taft-Hartley act, Thomas said he had "no inten tion" of giving the required oath that he is not a communist. The veteran UAW official's refusal led him into , dispute with J' fellow unionists over his rights under the union's constitution. j At the same time the rights of the UAW's 850,000 members to benefits from the national labor relations hoard remained uncer- 4-.;. irn., v. TatTiHioo ort Tax Money County Coffers the NLRB is inaccessible to unionshP to nave the names for con- t ; -itt T ciHrntinn h .tnmAmn. dtvi that whose officers fail to sign affi- davits. British Object to U. S. Palestine Plan LAKE SUCCESS, Nov.fMAV Britain was reported authorita tively today to. have objected to the UJ5. suggestion that the Brit ish government continue to be re sponsible for preservation of law and order in Palestine until the proposed independence of the Arab and Jewish states next July. Under the suggested UJS. plan if the assembly approves parti tion, Britain would be responsi ble for preservation of law' and order until the Jewish and Arab nations become sovereign coun tries on July L , L r The bodies of all three execu tives will be at the services Gov. Earl Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr., and Senate President : Marshall Cornett but they will hot lie in state. Private commitment services will be conducted for Governor Snell at Belcrest Memorial park here following the state funeral. Private Rites Held Meanwhile, private rites were held at Portland yesterday for Secretary of State JNrrell. De spite the family's request that no flowers be sent, St Mark's Epis copal church was filled with flor al offerings, and a steady line of friends passed the closed casket in tribute prior to the! requiem mass. Governor Hall arid many other state officials were among those attending. Burjal services will be conducted in Portland af ter Monday's rites here. Final tribute also was paid Sat urday, at; Klamath Falls, to Sen ate President Cornett and to Pilot Cliff Hogue, who was with the three state officials on the ill fated flight, with the Elks lodge conducting brief ceremonies for both. Floral pieces were removed to the memorial shaft on the Klamath county courthouse lawn as a tribute to veterans of the last war. ' .. Cornett is to be buried at his birthplace in Burning Springs, Ky following the state funeral here. His body Is to arrive here via train at 6 sn. Monday. No Honorary Pallbearers There are to be no honorary pallbearers for the three officials. Active pallbearers for Governor Snell's committment at Belcrest were announced , Saturday as friends of the governor's son, Lt. William E. Snell George C. Al exander, George A. Arbuckle, Ed win C. Bishop, fJaniel J. Fry, Jr, Carlton J. McLeod, all of Salem, and Albert H. Currey, "Eugene. The state funeral is to be broadcast over all Oregon radio stations. r I Ministers at Rite Salem ministers of the denomi nations to which the three Ore gon executives were devoted will conduct the service the Rev. George H. Swift of St Paul's Episcopal church, the Rev. Brooks Moore of the First Methodist church and the Rev. Lloyd T. An derson of the First Baptist church. Sigurd Nillsen, Eugene, former ly of the University of Oregon school of music faculty, will sing "Tne Lord's Prayef," with Donald W. Allton, university school of music, organist I State officials and members of the legislature will be seated on the lower floor of the house chamber. Governors to Attend " . Governors of California. Wash ington, Nevada and Idaho, and former governors of Oregon will be among the scores of officials attending. Most of Salem's public offices and functions will be closed all day Monday, proclaimed a state wide day of mourning by Gover nor Hall. ' Except for emergency depart ments, state, countjr and city gov ernments will be inactive. The post office and most other federal agency offices will remain, open. Bank's will be closed.; Stores plan to close from 1 to 2 plm. , Salem public .and Catholic schools, Willamette university and Salem college and ; academy have announced classes will be held Monday ' morning but not. during the afternoon. Other public schools in Oregon are to remain in session but have been asked to hold appropriate memorial ices. ' serv- Hall Asks Group To List Candidate's For Sec. of, State PORTLAND, Nov.1 1 -(P)- The state republican central commit tee has been asked -by Governor John H. Hall to submit names , of candidates for the 'post of secre tary of state. , ' i- T' K I " i Mrs. John Y. Richardson, vice chairman, said Governor Hall chairman, sideration by tomorrow and that she has , telegraphed committee members to. submit : recommenda tions individually - rather r than convene in a special meeting. ; The governor is under no bounds to name -m secretary of state who is endorsed by the com mittee, but under the Oregon party system it is customary. for the" executive to follow closely! the advice of the state group, i M ; Weather Max. Min. Pradp. Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago . SS .. 4S ; M . M ' M i M ' . tl M J4 55 U ttaee . 5S 45 M New York Willamette river 4.4 feet. ' FORECAST (from VS. weather bu peau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy to partly cloudy today and tonight with scattered shower in the morning. I and Intermittent light rain la the aiter- aeon and evening. . NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR 20 English ! Labor ites Defeated LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 2-(P-Britons, their belts tightened and fun cut short, turned on the labor party in municipal elections yes terday and gave the conservatives what tory leaders jubilantly called an "overwhelming" victory. The voting j was to fil 3,266 seas on borough councils in 392 cities and ' towns of England and Wales, which did not include Lon don, j On the strength of nearly com plete returns, i labor early today bad lost nearly half the 1,475 socialist-held seats at stake, gener ally to conservatives and indepen dents, and had given up control of 24 city councils. Conservatives more than doubled their previous 618 seats. ; j Although af labor spokesman said the setback was only tem porary, unquestionably Prime Minister Atlee's party had suffer ed its first serious defeat since its landslide licking of Winston Churchill's conservatives in the 1945 parliamentary election. , Returns from 385 of the 392 municipalities j showed: Conservatives gained 631 coun cil seats, lost ,17; labor gained 42, lost 683; liberals gained 46, lost 46; communists gained none, -lost nine; independents gained 170, Drunk Snake -si MissesStrike i HOUSTON, j Tex Nov. 1-0P-The coral snake wasn't dead, it was just dead drunk, Robert A. Vines discovered to his consterna tion today. Vines Is director of the Houston museum of natural history. The deadly reptile, a gift to the mu seum, had arrived in a liquor bot tle which still contained a small amount of liquor. ' As Vines started to transfer the snake to a preserving solution, it revived and struck at his arm. The fang hit his cuff. Vines killed the reptile, a member of the cobra family, with a book. Man Found in Gov. Hall's Car PORTLAND, Nov. l- -James B, Fox, 23, Is free on bail today after being found by police in an automobile ' belonging to Gov. John H. Halt Fox told police, who were sum moned to an intersection" near the governor's home here, that he mistook the car for one owned by his brother. He couldn't open it with his keys so he' smashed in a window and tried to start the vehicle by letting it roll down hill.1 He ran into a parked car, then said he fell asleep, i i.l X DTE IN ATE CRASH BREMERTON, Nov. l-(P)-Two men were killed and a third was injured late today in the collision of two small j planes over the end of the runway as they came in for a landing! at the Kitsap county airport west if here. Pilot of State Officials' Plane ! .1 7 i Described as 'Capable KLAMATH FALLS. Nov. l-(P) Civil Aeronautics Inspector J. T. Feeney today described Cliff Hogue as a "capable flier" and said he did not see how the Klam ath Falls pilot could have been at ' fault in i the crash which Claimed his life and those of three top Oregon officials. Feeney, who' Is taking part in the investigation Into the accident which brought death to Gov. Earl Snell. Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jn. and Marshall Cor nett, senate president, listed sev erar possible causes on the basis of what is known. These include engine failure, structural . defects of the plane, wins icingand fuel shortage. Only a week before the fatal crash near Dog lake, 70 miles east of here, Feeney flew with Hogue to five him! an examination to qualify as an advanced examiner for the CAA. The inspector, said the pilot! passed in "fine shape." Feeney's statement was made in connection with reports since the accident ! that Hogue had been penalized for! CAA violations. A formal 'hearing In the air plane Crash has been set tenta tively for November 13, accord ing to Leon Cuddeback, CAB re- PAGES Tho Orocjon Statesman. Salem. Oregon, Sunday. Phone Company's Coaxial Cable Nears Salem ' 1 M r " - & , MSB Marslial Tito Expels Two ISMlflOM r L.S. Reporter ' BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. (Jf) Two American, newspapers correspondents a man and his wife were ordered expelled to day from Yugoslavia, leaving only four foreign reporters from west ern nations In Marshal Tito's country. I . j A government spokesman said Arthur M.3randel, correspondent for the New York Times, and his wife, who writes for the United Press under the name of Mary Lester, were being expelled be cause "their writing has not tend ed to create a better understand ing between our two countries." A militiaman, who awakened the Brandels at 7:45 ajn told them: "I am instructed by the min istry of the interior to inform you that you have 24 hours in which to leave our country. I am also instructed that if you do not leave we shall take the necessary steps." He did not explain what these steps might be. 15 Bodies Taken From Plane Wreck KETCHIKAN, Alaska, ov. 1 VP)-ln the face of a wind-driven snowstorm, a rescue party began today the difficult task of bring ing the bodies of the 18 victims of a pan American World! Air ways plane down the rough, pre cipitous side of Annette island's Mount Tamgas. The coast guard party at the scene of last Sunday's crash re ported late today that 15 bodies had been recovered. EARTHQUAKE IN PERU LIMA, Peru, Nov. 1 -P)- An earthquake killed, at? least j three persons and caused heavy damage in some Andes mountains cities cf Peru today. Reports said the loss of life might be even heavier. met Cuff Hogvc gional safety chief. Cuddeback said he was preparing a list of witnesses. The bearing probably will be in ' the Klamath county rourthowev he said. . Flier 'p7y7 . : ) Ty. : , - ' ssv-..-i- K A V' HA " - ' t v Y - Ji7 m BURIED (AjCrXBLE Salem win have the latest In eosnmanleatteiM transmission facilities ia leas than a year wheat a atw eesvUI cable pre jeet is eeoapleted by Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. Barfed five feet underground, the cable will have fear pairs ef coaxial tabes capa ble of transmitting 6M simaHaneoes voice messages per pair. Other wires 1 the cable: will carry voice channels, jticnallms anal radio network programs. Shewn splicing at one at the, l.tOf. loot Junctions Just off Salem rente 4, above are, left te right, John Berry, Levis Fravel and George Daniels, all of Portland. Belew is Russell Han son, Portland, in charge of splicing In this section, standing 'by one of the signs warning of the buried cable, (f botes by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) (Story on pagje 13.) County May Add 4 Election Precincts, Judge Reports Possibility that four new elec tion precincts will be created in Marion county was voiced Satur day by Marion County Judge Grant Murphy in announcing a Wednesday meeting; with Salem City Recorder Al Mundt to change precinct boundaries following re cent annexations to the city. Tne Z p.m. meeting will con sider the present size and popu lation of present city border pre cincts, and the effect which addi tion of new area would have. Mur phy reminded that some of the voting districts are already high ly crowded and that geographical division would probably be the method used to relieve the situ ation. The county now has 89 pre cincts, including Salem's 33. . . .. . Police Recapture Three Escapees Three youths who escaped from the Oregon state training school about 8 p.m. Saturday, and later stole a car at Hubbard, were cap tured in the ftolen vehicle in Sa lem by state and city police three hours later. The escapees Were Ronald Charles Lincoln, 15, John Leroy Toycen, 14, and Edward Albert Hammer, 16, The stolen .car be longed to- Clyde Greenup, 1346 Lee st., Salem, state police said. , ureenup noucea uie car was missing aboat 11:10 p,m., and called the state police, who picked up the boys'. trail about 11:45 at Brooks and followed them into. Salem where they were , arrested. County Welfare Aid Below Estimates Operatioh of Marion county's welfare program at a rate $32,000 under early estimates was report ed' Saturday by County Judge Grant Murphy. Expenditures, actual for the past four months and estimated for November .have been approxi mately $68,000, said Murphy. Es timate for the year's needs was $240,000. November 2. 1947 1 I 77i Police Quell Near Riot in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, i Nov. 1 -iF) A rally protesting the house com mittee on unf - American activi ties investigating communism-in-Hollywood today evoked a near riot in the Shadows of Indepen dence hall j punctuated by scuffling, booing, stench bombs and shouts of "send them back to Russia," More than 130 policemen parad ed through the milling throng of 2,000 . gathered to cheer and to hackle the rajlly sponsored by the Progressive pitizens of America. There was no police club-swinging but several noisy objectors were forcibly removed from the scene.. - - ; . . ,. The 40 - minute! long meeting was held under sanction of two federal courts which, reversed a decision by he city of Philadel phia refusing the PCA members the right to use : Independence Square. The placid square, front ing on Independence hall, should be used only for pairiotic gath erings, the cty contended. The PCAstaterrient said the rally was-fieljd to demand "aboli tion of the Washington investiga tion into communist infiltration in Hollywooq." j I i ; , ! ' Moslems Enter Kashmir Capital NEW DELHI, Sunday, Nov. 2 (JP) The Pakistan radio said to day Moslem! patrols yesterday penetrated tljie streets of Srina gar, capital of the princely state of Kashmir, which is being de fended by India. , . The raoio I quoted this report from a . communique , issued by what it called the "free govern ment of Kashmir," set up by the invading Moslems: . i , , i. . FLYING BOAT FLOATS LONG BEACH, Calif, Nov. 1 (JP)- The world's largest aircraft, Howard Hughes' flying boat, which took five years and $25, 000,000 to build, was floated in the harbor : today tor the first time. Price- 5c No. 188 YrASHTNGliON, Nov. 1 -Uf- President Truman's top economsr advisers called today for contin uation of present federal taxes to pay the costs of long-range aid tp urope.;"-L-"-32r - Also they advised i partway return to wartime inflation con trols and said that by doing so the United: States could safely support the -Marshall aid plan and still reduce the national debt, A report to the president from his economic council noted: The. main fiscal Impact of a foreign aid program is its effect upon tax es." ,. In calling for some renewed -anti - inflation rules, it said: "Serious inflation of grain and food prices is already here.". Unless the nation does assume a vast share, of the requested $22,000,000,000 program of long range European aid, the presi dent's council of economic advis ers added, "industrial paralysis' abroad will wreck the hope for . stable prosperity here and over seas. " "Outright Gifts" I'rged The council urged "outright gifts,", as well as loans, to meet some : of - Europe's emergency needs. And it called on the U. S. taxpayer to pay the way through continued high tax rates. ' - It hinted at price controls over grain, steel and other goods in world scarcity, declaring that con gress should provide "at least the minimum powers to attack rising prices directly, if less drastic mea sures fail. Steps in the council's program to curb inflation include: 1. Allocation . of grain, scarce foods, steel and other world shortage commodities . among U, S. industrial users. V Inventory Controls ' 2. The ."curbing of speculation and hoarding; of goods" which presumably means federal pow er to govern : down payment re quirements on the commodity ex changes, plus inventory control ox the wartime type. 3. Export controls, which will expire February 29 unless con-' gress renews them. 4. Penalties to discourage "mis use or excessive use" of scarce essentials and measures to pro?-.' mote "efficient transportation and distribution." - : ! 5. The expansion and ''aggres sive use" of credit controls. Con sumer cred t j control expires at midnight to light. The council made no recom mendations for consumer price ceilings or. rationing, implying that- allocations and price con trols, if adopted, should be re stricted to producers and distri butors as a means of channelling scarce goods into essential for eign and 'export uses. 'Burgerlike Dairy ' Food Product to ' Compete with Meat FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Nov. 1 -iJPy- Development of a low cost burgerlike meatless dairy food product with a protein content ap proximating that of lean beef was announced today by the Univer sity of Arkansas. The new food, described as pleasing to the taste, contains dried milk products, yeast and other in gredients which the university did not identify. It does not contain meat or eggs, it was said . Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, uni versity president, said the food was developed by Dr. Barnett Sure, nutritional , chemist of the college of agriculture and a dis coverer of vitamin .! The product can be used "in any recipe calling for ground meat uch as croquets or loaves, or combined with spaghetti ; or vegetables," the university said. Stale Forest Fire Damages Small Preliminary reports released by the state forestry department indi cate that the total area of foresL brush and grass land burned over up to October 1 in state and asso ciation protective units Was 6,500 acres. Nels Rogers, stati forester, said this was one of the most sat isfactory seasons that the State has ever experienced. The total acreage burned over included 2,742 acres covered by pre-season fires. . West Salem Council Postpones Meeting ' WEST SALEM, Nov. 1 West Salem council meeting, scheduled for Monday, November 3, will be held on Tuesday because of the state holiday Monday. ! All West Salem business hous es will be closed between 1 and 2 p. m. Monday, Mayor Walter Musgrave announced tonight. '' I ' Return to .... i : . j, I Advised