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so rdnnoro boo' Christmas Party Presents a on o d d ci o o n . o o a o o o c OOO O O O CI C3 a o .h:.ww--" 1 POUNDBD ;!651 1 ... , . - . w w t 1 NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR 14 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 17, 1947 File Se No. 228 . Laid for New Salem Bridge Drive n 5 ' -UT ' :t y.-j...-,. a w. Groundwork i'Mimii'-' Jf -JM ili. .T -Sllll. 1 .' tltese are tome .of the brand new, Salem-made toys which will be ' given to 1,000 children Wednesday, December 24. at the Salem Elks ! club annnal Christmas party for children. The party includes a 1 movie, and tickets are being distributed at Sunday schools. Earl : Bennett of the Elks club and Carl Elmlund of Salem-Willamette j Supply Co., ire shown unloading the toys, which were made dur ; W volunteer night hours put in by SO employes of the firm. Union members employed by the F. O. Repine Co., volunteered to paint the toys. (Statesman-MeEwan photo.) (Story and picture on ; page 6) TbDIl in 2 Military Airplane Tragedies i -v TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. loMiiPJ-At least 12 men were believed killed tonight when a B-20 Superfortress from Davis Monthan field here crashed and burned during a takeoff. Twenty men were aboard the plane but eight were believed to have escaped. 5 Major D. D. Burke, public relations officer at the heavy bomber base, said in an official statement rutPGuos The adjournment of the London " conference of foreign ministers j, without a single agreement on peace treaties fori Germany and Austria and without even talk of another ; meeting widens the cloavage 'between east and west Heretofore there was the slight bond of hope that by patience and compromise agreements might be reached to terminate the old war With Germany. What has tran spired is to intensify the unde clared., war between Russia and the western powers. On almost every issue it was the USSR against Great Britain, France and the United States. The effect of this stalemate will be serious. Germany and Austria will remain occupied by foreign troops, their own political future uncertain. The separation of east ern from western Europe will re tard economic recovery for both twoaitw of thi resulting difficulty in exchange of goods. For all theJ people of western Europe aespair will ensue. Why, they will ask, should we rebuild our ciues ana - nr homes to be blown tcr bits in on imnndin clash between the United States and Russia? These people who have lived for cen turies along the highways of con-rui- rrard clash at arms as inevitable, with their lands th battleground. Tar Americans the continuation of the cold war means a continua tion! of our burden of support in western Europe and a continua tion or even expansion . of our military expenditures. Since the split was -in large degree occa sioned by Russia's' opposition to (Continued on jwuionai rage; 99EWidening Plan Delayed OREGON CITY,. Dec. 16.-(jP)-PrnnnuH wiriminir af the Pacific highway south of here from two to four lanes faced a delay today. Bids on the $600,000, job were tn K railed this month, but J. M. Devers, state highway commission attorney, saio the commission naa wn nnikla in apt titl 'from all property owners along the 5.3-mile route. - 1 He said attempts to gain the land were continuing, with the hope of completing the project by next fall. Postoffice Cancellations Continue to Set Record; Letters postmarked at the Sa lem postoffice Tuesday totaled 136,000, .compared with 118,000 on the same day last year, according to Postmaster Albert C. Gragg. The day's large gain followed Monday's slight decrease from the corresponding day in the 1948 Christmas mail rush. Rites Saturday for Returned Soldier .... i - - ? . SILVERTON Funeral services for Pvt. Cleo. Blair, whose body has been returned from Germany, will be Saturday at 10:30 ajn. at the. Eckman Funeral home. The Rev. Arthur Charles Bates of the First Christian church will offici ate, and burial will be in Miller cemetery here. 0EP III. v' J that mere were "some dead and some survivors in the crash. However, Patrolman Waiter Sheets of the Arizona highway patrol said he saw eight survivors stumble from the flaming wreck age of the plane.' On Trainlnr Flight The plane was attached to the 49th bomb squadron of the sec ond bomb group and had just tak en off on a routine long distance navigational training, flight to Varnam field, Jamaica, British West Indies. Unofficial reports indicated that the four-motored plane encount ered difficulty a moment or so after the takeoff, started to turn possibly to return to the base and plummeted to earth. The craft burst into flames after contact with the grpund. - . .1 ; NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 16-(A patrol bomber and a fighter plane collided 100 feet in the air today as they came in for landings at the Norfolk naval station, killing six of the bomber's seven crew men and the pilot of the single seat fighter. Fighter Caught Fire Naval spokesmen said the Cor sair fighter struck the. right wing of the bombing plane as both ap proached the landing field from the same direction. The Corsair caught fire and its pilot burned to death. .. .The bomber crashed on its back and partly buried itself in swam py ground 300 yards from the Corsair. Ens. Joseph William A kins, USNR., 21, of Kings port. Tenn., was the sole survivor. Columbia River Tug Damaged PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 16.-P- An outbound tanker collided with a towed ship in the Columbia riv er today, damaging a tug to an amount estimated at $10,000. The tug, Columbia Queen, one of two towing the tanker Rincon Hills from Astoria to Portland, was owned by Columbia Construc tion Co., Vancouver, Wash., and operated by the Shaver Transpor tation company. ' The outbound tanker, Rhode Island, apparently was uninjured. Damage to the towed ship had not been determined. War Bride from World War I to Arrive in Portland PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. ISJf) -miss Amy Graham, 50. of .Ches ter, England, will said from Eng land Thursday as a war bride of the war that ended 29 years ago. She met Kindle C. Satterlee, 31, Portland, in Liverpool in 1918, when he was a private, first class, in the U.S. army. Then Satterlee married her friend, Ethel Tenfold, who kept up a correspondence with Miss Graham until two years ago when Ethel died here. Satterlee assumed the correspondence and last April he proposed. Her passport designation is "war bride." She will arrive in "New York December 27 and in Port land New Year's eve. . Satterlee will be at the rail road depot hoping he can recog nize the woman he last saw 29 years ago. Weather Max. Min. Preclp Satoa Portland San Francisco si 44 54 28 49 J - XI S4 J3 43 j00 14 M Chicago Nrw York 39 Willamette river 9 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNarr field. Saletnl : Cloudy with rain showers today and tonight. uign today u, mm tosugns 4a. Organization Formed to Promote Local Project By Winston IL Taylor SUtt Writer, Th Statesman A new highway bridge which will serve state-wide traffic as well as solving the -immediate Salem-West Salem bottleneck will be the prime object of ah organization formed here Tues day night. Mayor Walter Musgrave of West Salem was selected as president, with Salem Mayor R. L. Elfstrbm as co-chairman of the group, to be tentatively known as the Greater Oregon Democrats Try To Halt Slash In Foreign Aid WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-W-House democrats launched an 11th hour fight late today to restore $88,000,000 slashed by the house appropriations committee from the emergency foreign aid pro gram. Rep. Cannon (D-Mo) assailed the committee's scissoring of the $597,000,000 program as "picay unish, cheeseparing economy. Rep. Mahon (D-Tex), declaring that "you cannot ignore Europe and look after the best interests Of the U. S. at the same time," de manded: "Does anyone think General Marshall would be so concerned unless he had in mind the military security and the' national defense of this country?" Besides reducing the total sum asked by President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall to help France, Italy and Austria through the winter, the appropri ations committee proposed that China - - included in the program at house insistence - - be dealt out Zone Hearing Set for Medical Office Building Plans for a second new medi cal office building for Salem caused the city planning and zon ing commission Tuesday night to reset a public hearing for zone changing to permit a building near Salem General hospital for the medical clinic of Qrs. F. K. Power, W. E. Buren, Vern Mill er, S. M. Lance field and A. T. King. Commission members said tney understood plans for a -similar building were in the offing to house the eye - ear - nose - throat clinic which, like the other clinic, was burned out in the recent Guardian building fire. Dr. M. C. Findley of the second clinic. How ever, said last night no decision has been reached on building., The commission changed "-j to Monday, January 5, at 7:30 p.m. the hearing which had been scheduled for last night but which could not be advertised in .time because petitions requesting zone change were not filed until this week and the percentage of prop erty represented by signatures re mains to be checked. The clinic, building would be built by Salem General hospital on its property on the north side of Center street east of 24th street, if the residential zone there can be changed to a class III-x zone restricting use of the property to medical building. Commissioners examined a sketch and mock-up of the pro posed building prepared by Ar chitect Robert Wilmsen of Eu gene. One of two wings on either end of the building would have a second story, the remainder be ing entirely on ground level. STRIKE IN SICILY CITY ROME, Dec. 16 -(P)- The pro vincial chamber of labor at Ca tania, Sicily, declared a general strike effective at midnight to night in a demand for unemploy ment relief. Closed' Labor CaonDp Site oi M ud, Strife By Marguerite Wright Staff Writer. The Statesman Prisoners or squatters opin ions differ on the status of 11 families existing in the officially-closed farm labor camp near the Salem airport,' but It is agreed .the entire situation is unhappy. ' ' The U. S. department oi agri culture ordered all residents to vacate by September 25 and later the camp was,, taken over by Sa lem Agricultural Housing, i Inc. (a group of businessmen, process ors and growers which provided funds for the purchase of the former airbase property) tor transient workers during the har vest season. Gradually most of the families moved out and Mr. and Mrs. John Gornik were installed by the housing corporation as care takers of the camp. - Members of remaining families interviewed recently asid -they Bridge association. Nearly all of about 40 persons from Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties who attended the meet-, ing in Salem Chamber of Com merpe took the floor to second plans for the promotion of such a bridge, which would tie in with the North Santiam artery. Not to Bother With Locations It was explained that the asso ciation will not concern itself with possible . locations,- but will leave that phase entirely up to the state - highway department, which has prepared tentative plans which would involve struc tures at any street from Che meketa north to Division. Other officers elected last night were Ben Maxwell, Salem pho tographer, as secretary, and Fred Gibson, former Polk county com missioner, as treasurer. Named to the board of directors, to re main open for future selection of persons from other vitally affect ed communities, were Mayor Hollis Smith of Dallas, Lynn Gubser of McMinnville, Edward Majek of West Salem, and Paul Wallace, Douglas McKay, Hedda Swart, C. A. McClure, E. Burr Miller and Guy N. Hickok, all ol Salem. New Bridge Vital Need Various speakers urged the ty ing in of the bridge plans with the Willamette valley's needs in expansion of heavy Industry, population growth, tourist trade and military use and asserted the new bridge was a vital need to replace the 30-year-old. struc ture described by Russell Beutler of West Salem as "ridiculous and dangerous." The association, setting its regular sessions for the first Tuesday of each month, plans to progress, oy means oi peuuons, contacts with service clubs and official municipal bodies and del egations before the highway com mission. (Additional details on page 2) Western Union Offer Rejected PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16 -JF) The Western Union Telegraph Co. tonight offered it 50,000 AFL employes a 1947 bonus of about S22 - each and a wage increase which the union immediately re jected ass "insulting." The company proposal, first since negotiations began last Sept J6, terminated a. meeting arranged by the U. S. conciliation service in hopes of averting a nationwide telegraphers - strike next Tuesday two days before Christmas. More than Century Separates Smiths LEBANON. Dec. 16 -UP)- The Smith kids will have a Christ' mas party here next Monday and among guests will be: Jim Smith, age 105. and Jim Smith, age 6 weeks. The elderly Smith is a Civil war veteran now living at Water loo. He will bring along his younger brother, Ben, S3. The youngest Smith is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Smith, Albany. PCA TO BACK WALLACE NEW YORK, Dec. 16-(P-The Progressive Citizens of America announced tonight It had voted to urge Henry A. Wallace to run as an independent candidate for pres ident and that as- a result Dr. Frank Kingdon, PCA co-chairman, resigned from the organization. were being treated like prisoners now. Camp gates are locked at 10 p m. Electricity has been shut off. There is no hot water. News paper deliveries have been or dered stopped. Residents are al lowed no visitors. They are not allowed to take garbage cans out of the .muddy camp for dumping and they are not allowed to bring firewood into the camp. They said the operators of the camp threatened to shut off the water supply. The families interviewed said they came here for , farm labor. Now, some claim, they can find no jobs, are living on relief, and cannot find landlords, who will accept . children. ' There are' two to five children in every family, some of them attending Salem schools whenever they can get transportation - volunteered by neighbors. Several heads of fam ilies there have jobs and say they Intend to move as soon as other housing la available. Tariff to- Pireseinrii 'nti-lnflatioini Piaon ) Uroiiffnedl West (Sermmainiy UeM Meao4 Marshall Talks To Bidault on Tri-Zone'Plan LONDON, Dec. 16.-(iTVSecre- tary Marshall met tonight with French Foreign Minister Bidault in what authoritative informants said was the beginning of in for mal "exploratory" talks on the merging of western Germany into a single zone of occupation. In Germany political activity reached new heights as German political leaders discussed creation of a western German state with a new capital in Frankfurt. Foreign Minister Molotov flew toward Moscow to deliver a report to Premier Stalin and the power ful politburo - - a report which was expected to result in quick action in the soviet campaign against the nhification of western Germany and the Marshall plan. FRANKFURT. Germany. Dec. KHiTVThe principal political leaders of the British and Amer ican zones took stock of the break up of the foreign ministers confer ence today and agreed on the ba sic plan for the creation of a west ern Germany. Meeting behind closed doors. without the communists, the lead ers of the Christian Social union. social democrat, liberal democrat and centrum parties announced the leaders of the two zones had accepted an invitation to a confer ence with the British and Amer ican zonal commanders, probably Saturday. Rain Relieves Freezing Fog From the freezing fog of early morning, Salem warmed up Tues day to 91 degrees and came out wetter by .40 Inch of rain, ac cording to the U. S. weather bu reau at McNary field. The freez ing mark was reached at 4 a.m. Heavy rains in the last ltt hours before Tuesday midnight totaled .13 inch. The state highway department reported normal winter road con ditions prevailing in most sec tions of the state. The Santiam highway was said to be almost bare of snow with a few icy spots and some frozen slush. Columbia Basin Fluid Advances GRAND COULEE DAM. Dec 16-A-Passagt into law of the proposed flS.584,000 supplement tal aprpopriation for the Columbia basin project would mean re supmtion of work on the west canal, the Bacon siphon and Long Lakes dam, a bureau of reclama tion suokesman said today. The amount was part of an ad ditional 131,839,000 recommend ed to the house by its a propria tions committee at . Washington otda 7 to keep work under way on four big western reclamation projects. , FOSTION OF BUILDING FALLS WASHINGTON. Dec. 17-(Wed- nesday)-AV-At least one person was reported killed and a dozen others were Injured near mid night in the collapse of interior portions of an old eight-story apactment building In downtown Washington. The families live in army bar racks partitioned into small rooms. There are no sinks, no individual toilet facilities. Cold water is hauled from hydrants scattered throughout the camp. Wood stoves provide heat, kero sene lamps provide light Except for one man who is un employable because be can't walk, everyone said he was will ing to work. Some said they had offered to pay rent and cost-of utilities but were refused. Several men said they had offered to keep the - camp cleaned up In preparation for the next season but that their, services were de clined. Meanwhile, garbage de cays In haphazard piles until someone voluntarily carts it away against regulations. William Linfoot, spokesman for the housing group, gave his equally unhappy side of the story. He said Mrs. Gornik had tried to find other housing lor the camp residents but that they re Decorating Tree at Courthouse i. t - f f A Salem fire department ladder annnal deeoraUesi ef the living county cearthense" lawn Tuesday, tree. Official ceremonies and tree day evening. (Statesman-MeEwan phete). Fishing Boat Capsizes in Atlantic; 7 Die MANASQUAN INLET, NJ, Dec. 16 -iJV)- Seven persons were lost in the gale-swept Atlantic to day as the fishing boat Paramount V capsized 500 yards from shore after battling stormy seas in a race towards the safety of Manas quan inlet Caught in a rip tide just as it was about to nose into the inlet, the ship was toppled by a giant wave which crashed into its side. Nine survivors were rescued from the icy waters. Three bodies were taken from the sea, and the coast guard said the four still missing probably had been trapped in the ship's cabin. Idaho Dam Urged To Boost Power PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 16 -WV A proposed ,327.000,000 multi-purpose dam at Albeni fails on the Pend Oreille river in northern Idaho today won the backing of army engineers. Both the Seattle district and. north Pacific division engineers urged construction as "essential at this time to meet ursrent nresent and immeate prospective hydro electric power needs of the Pacific northwest." A total of 251,000 kilowatts would be added to the northwest power pool. fused to move. He said they had been offered potato-picking jobs in the Bend-Redmond area but did not want to leave the valley The gates have to be locked so that no one will move into the camp at night, he said, and elec tricity had been cut because no one was paying for it. The regu lation about garbage cans is to prevent government property from being stolen, he explained. The intention of the housing corporation is to clear the camp and keep it cleared until It opens exclusively to transients during the next harvest season, Linfoot emphasized, and the present resl dents will be forcibly evicted in January if necessary. Meanwhile. "This is better than living in a tent," one woman said. "At least we have a roof over our heads and a floor under our feet We can send our kids to school and keep them off the streets. Sure, it's tough but I've seen worse." U track helped get smderway the Christmas tree eav the Mariea with placing ef a star atop the lighting are planned far Thurs Courthouse Tree Illumination Rites Set for Thursday Annual ceremonies connected with lighting the big Cherrians' Christmas tree on the courthouse lawn will take place Thursday night from 6:45 to 7 o'clock. Marion County Judge Grant Murphy will pull the switch dur ing the program, throwing on the more than 1.000 lights on the tree. Cherrian King Bing William Dyer, jr., will speak on the his tory of the tree and the Cherrians. Mrs. Josephine ' Spaulding will sing Christmas carols accompa nied by Mrs. Alfred Schram. KSLM will broadcast the pro gram. The tree has been lighted every year since 1913 except for a few years in the late world war. The globes are being strung on the tree by a crew from Vince's elec tric and Walton-Brown electric firms. Russ Start to Trade Rubles MOSCOW, Dec. 16-JP)-Sovlet citizens went to the banks today to exchange their old rubles for new ones under the currency re form program, then toured the stores to buy food, clothing and other items, some featured at low er prices with the end of ration ing. s The lowered prices hit the col lective farm markets immediate ly. The lower prices in the state stores forced Ihe farmer to drop his prices ih :order to meet the competition. The government newspaper Izvestia hailed the. inauguration of the new currrency program and the end of the old dual system of "ration" and "commercial," or non-ration, stores as "a way to wards further strengthening of the Soviet state and a new growth of the people's welfare." Anderson Offers To 'Name Names' WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -P)- Secretary of Agriculture Anderson offered today to supply congress with a list oT traders in the com modity futures markets of the lawmakers will first legalize his action. Anderson suggested that con gress enact a law broad enough to permit disclosure of the names of all traders on commodity mar kets, including members of con gress as well as officials or toe executive departments. Present law prohibits disclosure of such information by the com modity exchange administration. Chances for 1 ; Congressional ! Passage Slim 4 WAXHINfTTOV TW 111 ax The senate agreed unanimously today . to consider tomorrow a modified anti-inflation bill offered by Senator Taft (R-Ohio), but chances remained doubtful for full congressional action before the special session winds ud this week- end. Taff bill.. 11k tha am whLrh lost out in the hotue yesterday, provides for "voluntary agree menta" by industry to hold down we cosi ox uving. On the house side. Speaker Mar tin (R-Mass) put two "its" In hie comment: "We will do evervthin nocaiblat to put it through the house during the special session if the senate passes it and it It arrived in the house in time." A voice vote of the senate bank ing committee approving Taftfa measure set up another legislative, test of strength similar to that fat the house when the GOP high! command met defeat in the pre sentation of the Wolcott bill on a "take it or leave if basis. I Although the house chna a "leave it," Taft told the commit-, tee ne beueves the senate "ought to do as much as It can hfnr Christmas" on the less controver sial points of the COP program to curb the cost of living. Taft termed his bill a "stop-gap" measure. The Taft measure calls for vol untary industry-wide agreements to- distribute scarce commodities pnder temporary suspension t anti-trust laws and. extension oft export controls and authority oves transportation.. ' 2 Army Ships Endangered in North Pacific SEATTLE. Dee. Ill tsi tk master f the disabled armyt. transportation tanker. F4 taney, adrift in the north Parifir dioed late today the vessel's pre-" pvuer was turning over slowly, and that his position was about ' si3 miles southwest of Adak, ia the Outer Aleutians. , Two ships were being sent to aid the stricken vessel. j A rmort tv Cant rv c,.h,. Seattle and Portland, showed the vesset naa armed about 104 miles since the nxAAmr vaa tm n and her propeller damaged lata' yesteraay, tnc port of embarka tion said. The crew of 42 aboard was reported aa "welL" Last night 40-mile winds were reported la the area. i A second vesset the armr rar. go boat FS-243, with a reported crew or 20 aboard, was also la difficulty In the north Pacific The cargo boat hit a rock near Herbert ilsand in the Aleutian in a storm. Physical Culture Expert Challenges Horse to Contest PORTLAND, Dec. 18 - (TP) -A confident proprietor of a physical culture studio today challenged Old Baldy of Waterloo to a tutf of war contest. The muscle man. Johnny John son, figures his 173 pounds can succeed where the 225 pounds ef Chester Fitzwater failed. Fitzwater, the Lebanon strong man, was upended from a reclin ing position when he and Baldy tugged at opposite ends of a 300 foot rope Saturday. Johnson proclaimed: "In my studio several of us can push up 600 pound weights with our legs." 1 aaaaaV M