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O OLD ODO 0OOO DDO O DO O ODD OOO ODDO OD ODDO O O IFdDoolSiryle - .- - - . Plaon POUNDDD 1651 DO j 33 ay AbaoDdleoDedi KINrrY-SEVENTH YEAR GOP CRT 003103 KM) ' i The movie of Miss Winsor book "Forever Amber" has drawn the fire of clergymen who de nounce it as destructive , of sound ;. morals. In Philadelphia the Ro man Catholic neirarchy put the atres under Interdiction for a year If they showed -the picture' by banning attendance of Catholics. The show was picketed by those who objected to its being shown. A petition was circulated in a Mew York community under Ca tholic, Protestant and Jewish aus pices in protest against the. film and got 6000 signers, i From reviews of the movie the atory of the Restoration period in England, notorious for its loose morals, was quite thoroughly de odorized, in. order to get it past censors. Even so it runs afoul of clerical' disapproval. From a strict box office stand point the protests and interdiction may serve to advertise the film far more than it deserves. Film -critics have had few-words of praise for it as a theatrical pro duction. The movie may be trav , cling on the bad reputation of the book which was pretty much of a rotten mess. And the fresh pub licity may increase theatre atten dance and revive demand for the book itself. 1 The clergy feel a responsibility i for public morals but sometimes ' they fail to use the best method for . protection of morals. In this - age of personal' freedom, church censorship and boycott may be ef fective with parishioners but they are apt to draw resentment from non-members. The sounder me thod would seem to be warnings against pictures and books Judged salacious without resort to publi cized threats of - boycott , . State May Get River Road As Highway i Probable request for trje state to take over South River 'road as a secondary highway in exchange for the recently abandoned por tion of the Pacific highway north of Jefferson was disclosed Friday by Marlon County Judge Grant Murphy.) Judge Murphy said such a trade is permissible by mutuai consent under a commission poli cy and that the court would prob ably take action sometime in the future. The South River road, now a county road, comprises 8.8 miles from Salem city limits to the In dependence ferry, which is to be replaced by an inter-county bridge, thus providing a direct link with a state highway at In dependence. The seven-mile sec tion of highway 99E between Steiwer hill and the county line at Jefferson became a secondary state highway last .month when the new Steiwer hill-Albany sec tion of the main highway was - opened. ! The river road. Murphy said, is expected to be next in line after the Salem-Silverton : highway for aid under a 15-year federal pro gram of improvement The commission's! policy as to such an exchange was adopted last May. CARRIER IN MOTHBALLS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3-UP)-The aircraft carrier Shangri-La, veteran of the Okinawa campaign and a participant in the Bikini atomic bomb tests, was decom missioned today and formally .consigned to the Pacific reserve mothball fleet Animal, Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Look, baby. It ain't just yours. ALL the hens are' getting that much." The Plan On Docket "WASHINGTON, Nov. Thm rmubliean hifih command sidetracked the $4,000,000,000 tax slashing bill temporarily! today but it will get a high ball signal on the legislative mainline in January. Chairman Knutson (Rj-Minn) of the house ways and means com mittee, author and ardent advocate of the bill, told reporters after a conference with Speaker Martin (R-Mass), "I rather expect the bill Will go over in January." I He emphasized, however, that when he does introduce the bill it will stipulate that the tax slash for 48,500,000 individual taxpay ers be effective! January 1, 1948 the same date in the measure he had hoped to press through at the special session of congress begin ning November 17. Knutson, who had been plugging for the tax action ahead of for eign aid legislation, called On Mar tin following these developments: 1. Martin told reporters it was his "personal inclination" to post pone the tax bill until the regu lar session. ' j 2. House republican leader Hal leck, of Indiana, backed tip Mar tin with a statement saying "there appears to be no slackening in re publican determination to bring about tax relief. However, there appears to be no demand that it come up in the special session. 3. Mr. Truman told his news conference that his message to the session beginning November 17 would embody no tax recommen dations. ! Globe-Circling Cub Planes to Cross Oregon ; , ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov.. 7 (JP)- Pilots of the two 'round-the-world midget planes announced today that they would return to the United States via Edmonton, Alta., instead of attempting to fly non-stop to Los Angeles from Annette islands Pilots George Truman, Los An geles, and Clifford Evans, Wash ington, D. C, said their revised route would take them via the Alaska highway. Because of un favorable weather they do not expect to start the flight until Sunday or Monday. Scheduled stops will be Edmon ton, Spokane, Seattle, Portland and Eugene, and then southward to Los Angeles, ' The two airmen have covered close to 20,000 miles in their cub planes since leaving Teterboro, N. J.; August 9. Tornado Toll 4 In Louisiana GOLDEN MEADOW, La, Nov. 7 -(JP)- Fall tornadoes, which skipped about over Louisiana and east Texas overnight, left a toll of four dead, a baby missing and possibly a score of persons In jured. Property damage was estimated at many thousands of dollars as the storms roared down on scat tered communities, razing nearly two score homes. - One hard hit section was the little French speaking. settlement of Galiano where two women were killed and a dozen homes of trap per and fisheri folk destroyed. - A companion tornado early to day demolished 20 homes and damaged- scores of others at Orange, Texas. One house, that of Luben Mire, was blown away in the Galiano community, Sheriff Barker re ported, while : a frightened child was found hanging by his night clothes from a protruding nail on a cistern after the storm. The child apparently was unhurt. Salem Residents Win Low License Numbers Two Salem residents, Mrs. Mary Wenderoth, 660 N. Cottage it., and Carl Christensen, 2355 Laurel st, were among 100 Oregon car own ers to receive low 1948 auto license numbers in the state license department drawing here Friday. Mrs. Wenderoth received num ber 37, and Christensen 47. Victor F. Frey, ML Angel, drew number 38. Jim Marcus, Grants Pass, re ceived the coveted number 1 plates. ' Wealher Max. .. M .. 62 .. 64 ... 52 Milt. 4M BO 42 41 Precip. JS .19 .00 J3 trace Salen Portland San Francisco Chicago New York 59 51 Willamette river 5.8 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy to day and tonight with occasional light showers. High temperature today 59, low tonight 40. 12 PAGES January Oregon Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Saturday. November 8. Tax Slash Bill Temporarily Eager 4H Clubbers Flock to Receive Achievement Day Prizes if ' $8: r zj " rt y i Tt jv KZs 'f t. -w It was payday for Marlon county 4-H dab members and Anthol Riney, eoonty clnb agent, was paymaster Thursday night In Salem after the annual achievement day program. Seated with Riney Is Elmer Jeskey, Aurora farmer and vice president f the Marion Ce-nnty leaders association. Lined np at the pay window far prize money, ar livestock checks .which were ready are (left to right): at extreme rear, Wayne Johnston, Ray Girod and' Henry Gtrod. Bank Building Renamed After T. A. Livesley The 11 -story First National Bank building, Salem's "skyscrap er" landmark at Liberty and State streetsreceived a new name Fri day. It was designated the T. A. Livesley building by administrat ors of the estate of the late T. A. Livesley, who built the building some years ago. Until last year the Salem branch of First Nation al bank occupied the main floor of the building; since the bank moved to its own new building at Liberty and Chemeketa streets, the ground floor space has been vacant until this week when sev eral offices were moved there temporarily from the Guardian building which burned Monday. Administrators of the Livesley estate are the Bank of California and his sons and daughters, Tho mas D. Livesley, Roderick M. Livesley, Mrs. Stuart Bush and Mrs. C. W. Paulus. Board of Control fleets Wednesday; Hall in Portland Gov. John Hall left Friday for Portland where he will remain until Tuesday night or early Wed nesday. The first meeting of the reorganized . board of control, originally set for Tuesday, has been postponed until Wednesday because of Armistice day falling on November. II. The governor said he would not fill the two vacancies on the state emergency board until his return to Salem. One appointee will suc ceed Governor Hall and the oth er the late President of the Sen ate Marshall E. Cornett. The law provides that Hall's successor shall come from the house of rep resentatives and Cornett 's suc cessor from the senate. Statesman Photographer Wins Award from Associated Press Staff Photographer Don Dill, whose photographs of major news events and representative of Sa- lem and vicinity are a daily fea- titr f Th Oreffnn Statesman. Friday was awarded third prize in an Associated Press northwest regional news photography con test Dill's winning photograph was used by The Statesman to herald the fishing season last April. It pictures Bob Browne, 104 E. Wil- son st., getting up sleepily tne clock says 4:02 ajn.) and toying wiui uniiisu puie mm tie tuutciu plates getting an early start at opening of the fishing season. The realism of Browne's yawn is no less realistic than the sock he holds in his left hand or the gear on the foot of the bed. Dill's picture placed third in the non metropolitan sports photo section. Dill, a West Salem resident, has been The Statesman's, staff pho tographer the past 14 months. He joined the local staff not long af ter his discharge from the army where he had done military pho- Group Acts to Preserve Bush Home as Art Center By Maxine Bar en Members of the Salem Art association took definite steps toward preserving the Sally Bush home and barn as a" cultural center for Salem at a meeting Friday night in the First Presbyterian church. The open meeting was called by association president, Mrs. W. E. Anderson, who along with other local Arsons interested in art and cultural landmarks, fear the historical structure may be de Adm. Mclntire To Visit Saleni I Vice Adm. Ross T. Mclntire, na tive of Salem and graduate of Willamette university, soon will visit here, he said in Portland yesterday. The retired naval officer who was the late President Roosevelt's personal physician is in Portland meeting with Red Cross officials in regard to the forthcoming new blood bank program which he is heading for the American Red Cross. A civilian blood donor cen ter in Portland is contemplated. Mclntire told Associated iTess in Portland he would come to Sa lem after completing his schedule in Portland. Woman Killed in Wreck; Rushing to BrotherVDeathbed CORVALLIS, Nov. 7 -Ut- The crash of a car driving to a death bed killed Mrs. George Witham, 57, and left another woman, Mrs. Floyd Starr, in critical condition today. Melvin McCaleb, a nephew of the two women, was driving them to Burnt Woods where his father the women's brother had just died. Their car collided with another on the Corvallis - Philo math highway. McCaleb and four other persons were also injured, but not as ser iously. All were from the rural area outside Corvallis except Mc Caleb, a resident of Burnt Woods. p jL f X FT KC tographic work in China and oth er areas. I 11 I ii Trent Season Opens 1347 Price 5c In front of table, Marraret Anderson, FJdon Beatler, Marjorie Drager (receiving her check), Howard Watts and Marvin Cage; second raw. Donna Lee Klein, Karleen Dracer, Jeanette Gilmonr, Betty Jean Vest Patricia Ahrens and Yvonne Goode; third row, Janice Kicaes. Betty WlntermanteU Donna Wlederkehr, Robert Beatler and Wayne Goode. Mrs. Donald Bassett. club leader, ap pears la back at extreme riant. (Statesman McEwan phota) stroyed to make room for a city park which is being constructed near the buildings. The buildings are located on the Bush pasture property which was willed to the city for a public rec reation park. City crews nave been busy clearing the land since last summer. Committee Appointed Appointed to a committee to avert the destruction were DaVid Duniway, Oregon state archivist; Mrs. Norman Hoffman, art in structor at Willamette university, and L. R. Hamlin, secretary of the art association. The committee will formulate a letter to be sent to the city coun cil. City Manager J. L. Franzen and the Chamber of Commerce historical committee, requesting the structures be left intact Use far Bam Also Duniway said the buildings were considered the most beautiful on the Pacific coast in their time. The association would like to use the barn as an art center for local cultural group meetings and art exhibits. The present art associa tion grew out of the old Salem Art Center which was supported by WPA funds before the war. Members also suggested that one or more rooms of the former mansion including the furniture be acquired by the city so that it will be assured that parts of the home remain intact. Discussion was also held on raising funds to make the buildings fireproof if they are set aside for the art groups. Yule Garb for Salem Planned Salem's downtown streets will be festively decorated for the Christmas season, probably by December 5, President Mai Rudd of the Salem Retail Trade bureau said Friday. New and more elabo rate and colorful decorations are to be placed across the streets and on lamp posts this year, he an nounced. Final decision on the contract is expected to be reached next week. In addition, said Rudd. all busi ness firms In Salem's 25 down town blocks have been polled for information regarding frontage, location and decoration, needs in order to speed decisions on future observances. Mrs. Ford Spends 300,000 per Year DETROIT, Nov. 7 -(fh- Mrs. Henry ' Ford, widow of the auto manufacturer, told a probate court today that it costs her $300,000 a year to live and maintain her es tate. She was granted that amount by. Probate Judge James H. Sex ton, who signed a routine wid ow's petition on Mrs. Ford's be half. - Ford left an estate estimated at the time of his death as in the neighborhood of 1500,000,000. No. 193 Chadwick Tells Intention to Seek Reelection Early announcement of his can didacy for reelection to the house of representatives next year was made Friday in Portland by W, W. Chadwick, Marion county state representative who is proprietor of the Senator and Marion hotels here and a director ,of the Ameri can Hotel association. Chadwick was formerly mayor of Salem. He is now in his third term as a state representative from here. He also announced he would run for first Oregon- congressional district to the national republican party convention in Philadelphia next year. Chadwick was in Portland yes terday attending a hotelmen'b committee meeting, a cording to committee meeting, according to candidacy statement Smith Misses Soviet Parade MOSCOW, Nov. 7 -rVy Russia's traditional military-civilian parade thundered through a sleet-beatedl Red Square on the 30th anniver sary of the Bolshevik revolution today before a distinguished audi ence of Soviet leaders and for eigners, but conspicuously absent were the ambassador and repre sentatives of the. armed forces of the United States. Reviewed by Defense Minister Nicolai Bulganin, who; declared in a speech that "warmongers" of the capitalist system were "making plans for a new imperialistic war" against the Soviet Union, the pa rade was characterized by a com plete absence of any foreign-made guns, tanks, trucks or other equip ment , U.S. Ambassador Gen. Walter Bedell Smith said it was "too cold and wet and there is no signifi cance to my not being there. Marines Reserve Unit Chief to Give Armistice Day Address Maj. Leonard Hicks, command er of Salem's marine corps reserve unit, the 4th 103mm howitzer bat talion, will be -principal speaker at Tuesday's Armistice day cele bration here. The annual parade will be at 10:20 ajn. from Marion square to the county courthouse. The address, at 11:10 ajn.. will be given at the courthouse, or at the armory in case of rain, fol lowing a rifle squad salute and the laying of wreaths at the World War I doughboy statue. The parade, headed by Lt. Col. Eugene Laird of the army reserve, will comprise three sections mili tary, including company B of the 162nd infantry, national guard, and a color guard from the ma rine corps reserve; patriotic or ganizations, including veterans and auxiliaries; civic, with school children and Boy Scouts. Partici pating bands will be from the senior high school and Leslie and Parrish Junior nigh schools. Announcement of the program FDD)(dIavir3 Committee Abolishes Ban as Scheme ' 'Comes Home to Roost' in Washington WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -OP- roultryiesi Thursdays were abolished suddenly today sent here by angry growers in for-Luckman campaign. The citizens food committee announced that, effective immediately, it's OK to eat poultry on Thursdays, though the "voluntary. ban" on egg consumption on that day will con tinue. ' . Officially the committee used the word "moratorium. explaining that the poultry ban was merely Suspended while a new program, estimated to save. 56.000,000 bushels of grain, is tried out by the poultry industry. But no one in Washington ex pected the Thursday ban ever tc be reinstated. Officials feared they would be literally deluged with chickens. Fowla Arrived Yesterday crates of fowl began arriving on the doorsteps of Pres ident Truman and Charles Luck man, food, committee chairman, to dramatize the chicken raisers' protests with live "squawks." Growers complained bitterly that hens kept on the farm for lack of buyers were eating their heads off, gulping precious grain needed in Europe. They sent the birds here with the explanation that they couldn't sell them and could n't afford to feed them. Against this storm of chicken feathers, Luckman hitherto had refused to budge and Mr. Tru man had backed him up. New Plan Found Until today, Luckman had in sisted that poultryless Thursdays j were vital tq the grain-saving program, although- he said that any- time anybody came up with a better way to save grain "well be glad to do it" Later this after noon, it was announced that such a plan had been found. Luckman joined with Secretary of Agriculture Anderson in a statement hailing the new pro gram, which they said has been approved, by the president. No Eats on Thursday Consumers will still be asked to forego the use of eggs on Thursday, the committee said, but it continued: "All restrictions on the con sumption of all types of poultry are suspended while the new pro gram is given a chance to show that it can bring about the sub stantially increased grain savings which are planned." Under ' the newly , negotiated program, the statement said the poultry producers and four major farm groups have pledged them selves: 1. To reduce the number of broiler chicks by 33 per cent below normal seasonal levels by January 31, 1948. Kedace Baby Chicks 2. To make a reduction of 7 per cent in the production of baby t chicks for all purposes be tween February 1, 1948, and June 30. S. To make a reduction of 12 per cent in turkey poults as com pared with 1947 levels. 4. To make a IS per cent re duction in the production of ducks, as compared with 1947 levels. It is estimated this will save 350.000 bushels of grain. 5. To reduce the poultry popu lation of the United States through a careful culling of flocks, by 136,000,000 chicks by January 1. This would reduce the total humber of chicks on American farms to 400,000,000, the state ment said, and it is estimated it will mean a saving of 30,000,000 bushels of grain. 30 U.S. Planes Damaged In Philippine Typhoon MANILA, Saturday, Nov.. iiJP) High winds from a typhoon caused damage officially estimated today at $120,000 to Clark Field, center of United States air force activi ties in the Philippines. . Air force headquarters, in mak ing the estimate, said 30 aircraft were damaged on the ground and buildings and temporary housing were blown down by the 72-miles per hour wmd last night. FOREIGN AH BOARD URGED WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -CP)- A special house committee recom mended today that a new govern ment corporation be set up to han dle all foreign aid. - was made Friday by Robert K. Powell, Armistice day chairman for the Federation of Patriotic Societies. Downtown business firms will generally remain open Tuesday, according to officials of the Salem Retail Trade bureau, who said protests from veterans' organiza tions had been acknowledged but that previous action was not re versed in view of the fact that the day has not been declared a national business holiday. Many stores are expected to close dur ing the parade. All governmental offices, except emergency services, will be closed all of Tuesday, as well as the public schools. No mail deliveries will be made. Past commanders of Capital post 9, American Legion, , will meet at 8 ajn. Tuesday in the Gold Arrow cafe for their annual Armistice day breakfast Claude McKinney; is slated to become president, succeeding Allan Carson. amid the cackles of chickens a Hens-for-Harry, Leghorns- General Denies Wartime Try at Hughes' Loan WASHINGTON, No. 7 -JP) A fast - talking retired air force general vigorously disputed today testimony that he tried during the war to borrow $50,000 from plane maker Howard Hughes. He did say be tried to borrow this amount from him earlier this year. - The general, Bennet E. Meyers, also told a senate war investigat ing subcommittee that while he was on an official inspection of Hughes California plant ih 1944, Hughes offered him a post-war job in which be "could write my own ticket" as to salary. The witness also testified and his petite blonde wife backed him up that Mrs. Meyers slipped an envelope containing $900 into the. pocket of Johnny Meyer, Hughes public relations man, in repayment of travel and hotel ex penses. But Meyer ;took the wit ness stand briefly and flatly con tradicted them both. ; Meyers testified that he opposed the granting of a f 10.000.000,t.00 contract to Highes In 1944 to build photo planes but had been over ruled by Gen. H. H. Arnold and after that went along like a good" soldier. - Anna Pauker Top Diplomat For Romania BUCHAE5T, Romania, -Nov. T WV Anna VPauker, seasoned wo man cornmifciist leader and one of the architects, of the newt Interna tional communist information bu reau, became Romanian foreign minister today In ' a cabinet re organization which considerably tightened leftist control of the government. (She is believed to be the first woman ever to head foreign ministry.) Mme. Pauker succeeds Gheorghe Tatarescnu, who migned yester day with three other non - com munist national liberal party min isters after parliament had voted no confidence in Tatareseu. Mme. Pauker, now 51, is one of the tional communist leaders. ' wi woman in .err) a if the most Important, tf not the cmei O) rector of communist ktrat- egy in Romania since the Russians occupied Romania in 1944. . . i Blizzard Hits Minneai MINNEAPOLIS, Now. 7 -(4. Minnesota's first taste of 1,947-48 winter weather came today in a large helping of blindingf snow and high wind which slowejd -traffic, closed 'some schools attd dir rupted communications, fj Winds ranging up to 45 miles an hrair drove the storm In a northeai-t i -ly direction across the eastern half of the state. Snow ranged in depth from four, to six inches. Drifting was reported at numer ous points. In Minneapolis and St Paul the storm struck as 8 a.m. CST, and so increased in fury that within an hour visibility 'as reduced to 150 yards. It began to pass into the Lake Superior region shortly after noon and by mid-afternoon the snow had diminished to flur ries. MRS. YOUNG APPOINTED Mrs. Frederick W. Young, Port land, vice-chairman of the Mult nomah county republican central committee, Friday was appointed by Gov. John Hall to the ?ttte wage and hour commission to succeed Mrs. C. W. Hay hurst, who died recently. " QUICKIES "I see year brother-in-law reads The Statesman Want Ads be just moved Into the room yea offered far rent! oolis a. 4 i