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.1 Due to late publicity of the sad
plight of Navajo Indians the
American Red Cross rushed
mergency aid, residents of cities
and towns collected contributions
f foodstuffs for shipment to the
reservation, and congress ' has
passed a i bill making relief ap
propriations available. Now
doctor, head of a hospital serving
the Indians, blames, the Indian
bureau with Inflating the story
of Navajo destitution in order to
obtain larger appropriations. The
prime need, says the doctor, is to
abolish the Indian bureau and
apply education, health, law en
forcement and social security "to
all citizens, including Indians."
Despite this counterproposal the
evidence seems ovemhelming as
to the sheer physical needs of
the Navaios for food and; cloth
ing. The source of their trouble
If reduction some yean ago in
number of sheep - thai may be
fed on reservation lands because
overgrazing was causing erosion
and reducing the annual grass
; crop. Unfortunately nothing was
provided . to take the place of
eheep-rsising for support of the
Indians. During, the war the
younger Indians went Into ser
vice' and their allotment checks
helped maintain the folk at home.
When the war ended they found
little employment since only 10
iter cent, can sneak Engusn. ana
soon starvation stared many In
dians In. the. face. I
A correspondent of the Chris
tian 5 Seience Monitor, writing
from New Mexico gives this re
1 port:
"Witnesses have returned from
; the vast Navajo reservation that
spreads it gaudy but arid 18,
000,000 acres over northwestern
New Mexico and northeastern
Arizona. . , . They, tell of a
bleak, snow-covered" land, of chil
dren barefooted in the snow, clad
only in ' ' '
(Continued on editorial page)
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South Section
OfPluladelphia
PHllADELPHIAi Dec
An exDlosion at the Gulf Oil cor
poration refinery rocked a large
section of South Philadelphia to
night but police, reported there
were aDDarentlv no casualties.
" rvimrvanT officials refused to
admit newsmen or photographers
to the blast cene. City police and
firemen were advised everything
was under control.
The company also declined
comment on the. extent of dam
age or the cause of the blast
The explosion wrecked an oil
pumper and tank in the refin
ery's boiler room near gate 19
of the sprawling plant at 30th
street and the Penrose Ferry
bridge. The blast w was followed
by a fire which lit upHhe area
for 10 minutes juntii thecompany's
own fire fighting crews - brought
it under control.
A dense smoke hung over the
refinery more than an hour after
the blast at 9:15 pm, (EST).
Stubborn Blaze in
Hotel in Portland
PORTLAND, Dec. 27 -)- The
fourth-story Fourth avenue hotel
in downtown Portland caught fire
tonight and the Portland fire de
partment ordered equipment to
- turn out for a three-alarm blaze.
The fire,origin undetermined,
at once, ate between walls of the
building, giving time for every
one to leave the structure.
All hose equipment in the down
town section was pouring streams
of water into the hotel, but smoke
from' the: stubborn blaze contin
; lied . to issue from the building
at 8:55 pL m. -?
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Indicative of the recent trend to decentralise downtown shopping districts Is the rapid growth of the
Holly weed area at the intersection ef Fairground road and North Capitol street. Pictured are three
new business bulldinxs belnr built in that area. Shown with the cement forms still in place (top) is
ne being built by Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Marx at 1S95 Fairgrounds rtL. which will house a garage or
apt agency. Located at the intersection of Fairgrounds road and Hunt street is a single story, tri
- angle-shaped store building of Frank Chattes (center), while Just across the street Is the two storied
Hans Hansen baildntg (lower photo) which will have two business or shop spaces, and the upstairs will
be either offloe or apartment apace. (Photos by Don Dill. Statesman staff photographer.)
Heat Wave Sets
All-Tinie Highs in
Los Angeles Area
LOSj ANGELES," Dec. 21-VPh
This city and its surfside neigh
bor, Long Beach, shared honors as
the hottest . spots in the patfbn
today, the weather bureau report
ed. Each community had an early
afternoon temperature of 87 de
grees. :
Beaches in the area had a sum
mery aspect, fwitn tnousanas 01
bathers seeking relief in the
breakers. Redondo Beach life
guards reported nine rescues.
This was the fourth consecutive
day in which Los Angeles temper
atures have exceeded 80 degrees.
today's 87 made this the hottest
December 27. on record here and
the hottest day since the 87 de
grees of last Pctotjer 19.
Long Beach's 87 degrees like
wise was the hottest for any De
cember 27 in 21 years of record
keeping there.
Police Officer
Slays Attacker
PORTLAND, Dec. 27-;P-James
7. Ward, 54, attacked a policeman
once too often tonight. He was
shot to death by special officer
Holland G. Bowers, 69.
Bowers said Ward and his son,
James L. Ward, 34, attacked him
as he made his rounds in a ware
house area, and that he fired in
self-defense.
Ward once killed a "Linn county,
Ore4' policeman , and served two
years for manslaughter, and later
served a short period for hitting
a Portland policeman in resisting
arrest
Bowers said he had been shoved
off the sidewalk by a rowdy group
and that in trying to quiet the
group, he showed his police badge.
Ward attacked at once, he said.
The younger Ward was held un
der 83,000 bond and William
Brown, detective captain, "said a
charge of assault would be filed.
TOLL HIGH IN CHINA FIEE
NANKING, Sunday, Dec. 28-An
The newspaper Hsin Min Pao said
today 500 Chinese were killed or
injured in a fire which destroyed
four steamships and numerous
Junks at Hankow) More than 70
bodies have been recovered so far.
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Help Hollywood
Reds Plan New
Attacks on U. S.
Marshall Plan
PARIS, Dec. 27 -JPh Well-in
formed political sources said to
night the communists are prepar
in a new coordinated move against
the Marshall plan in France, .It
aly, Greece, Turkey and Austria
and the French government is
expecting the action to begin in
March. '
The formation of a communist
state in northern Greece was the
preliminary move for more fer
ious action coordinated by .4the
Cominform (Communist Interna
tional Information bureau), said
this informant who is closely
linked with the French govern
ment , .
The form the. communist drive
will take was still a matter of
conjecture, he added, but it may
be a new widespread effort to tie
up France and Italy especially
with a new strike, wave in an ef
fort to hinder European recovery
and neutralize the effects of Amer
ican economic aid. .
The significance of March as
the period of action, he continued,
is that is the month when many
Europeans expect congress may
complete action on the Marshall
plan. It is the month in which
many Europeans will be cold, hun-
and in a bitter frame of mind
er a hard winter. It also is the
nth when Gen. Charles De
Gaulle la expected to intensify
his campaign for dissolution of
the national assembly as a step
in his' projected rise to power.
Rain to Continue
In Salem Area .
Continued rain and higher day
time temperatures were foreefst
for the Salem area throughout
today, and Monday -. by - the 13." S.
weather bureau at McNary field
late Saturday-night but night
temperatures are expected to re
main near the freezing mark.
- Slightly less than a half inch
of rain .48 of .an inch' fell
Saturday in one of 'the wettest
days during December, the bureau
reported. The downpour, how
ever, had. its good .feature when
if dispersed a heavy fog which
had blanked this area continu
ously from Christmas eve until
until Saturday- morning.
Docatnbor 28, 1947 Pries)
District Grow
State Car License'
Tax Office Work
iTiroueh Saturday
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Two state departments the
state tax commission and state
motor vehicle division were
operating at high gear Saturday.
A long line of applicants for
1948 automobile licenses was in
front of the motor vehicle de
partment when its doors opened
at 8 a .ml, while at the tax com
mission a large staff of stenogra
phers were addressing state in
come tax returns subject to filing
before April 15.
This was the first Saturday the
state motor vehicle department
has operated with a full staff since
the 40-hour work week for pub
lic employes became effective
following the 1947 legislature.
BENTON OFFICIAL DIES
CORVALLIS, Dec. 27-0D-E. H.
Castle, 65, who had planned to re
tire next year from the Benton
county school 'superintendent post
be had held for a quarter century,
died suddenly .last night of a heart
attack. r
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1947 Construction Sets All-Time High
In State; 1948 Promises New Record
Oregon's construction program
soared during 1947, despite high
cost of materials and increased
wage scales, according to the
postwar development and read
justment commission's latest re
port to Gov. John H. HalL Pros
pects are. that conditions will
show further improvement next
year, .the report predicted. .
The report said, construction
has not been restricted to any
particular area although the met
ropolitan district : made the bet
ter showing in the . matter of
dollar value. '
Alterations alone for this year
in Portland aggregated expendi
tdres of $7,193,768, with a total
for this ' year and last of $12,
430,600, the commission said. For
the. first week of December alte
ration permits exceeded a value
of $1,089,883.
Although .there were 600 fewer
permits for new dwellings this
year, there were 25 more apart
ment houses . than in 1946 which
almost evened the -two ' years.
No. 238
Coca Cola
To Start
Construction of a Coca Cola bot
tling plant, to cost around $125,000
exclusive of machinery and other
equipment, will start tomorrow, it
was announced Saturday by Will
lain R. Moore, manager of the Sa
lem branch of the Coca Col Bot
tling Company of Oregon.
The plant to be built by E. Z.
Batterman, will be on the cosopa
nys property on 12th and 13th
streets between Cross and Wilbur
streets. It is to be one story, .of
steel - reinforced concrete, with
22,000 square feed of floor space.
Moore said the plant, with an
new and modern equipment,
would have a capacity of 1.OOCOO0
cases a year (2,000,000 bottles a
month), and would serve all of
Marion, Linn, Benton and Polk
counties and parts of Yamhill and
Clackamas counties. A distribu
tion depot recently opened at Al
bany will be retained.
The Coca Cola company ac
quired the territorial - franchise
from the Gideon Stolz firm two
years ago, but has done its bot
tling for this area in Portlands The
new-vbottling plant here is sched
uled to be finished within four
months.
GreekRelief
Said Diverted
To Luckman
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-0P)-A
house group cast a critical eye
today at the state department to
see how much money if any it
fa spending to sell America on the
IMarshall plan for European aid.
The committee also is interest
ed in finding out how the citizens
food conservation committee got
Its spending money.
A house subcommittee on exec
utive expenditures, it is headed
by Rep. Chenoweth (R-Colo.).
ne tola a reporter today nis
committee's Investigators are at
work on two probes; to find out
where Charles J. Luckman s food
conservation committee got $500,-
000 to spend, and what expenses
there have been in connection with
publicizing the Marshall plan.
Chenoweth said investigators
have discovered that $500,000 for
the food committee was taken
from the $350,000,000 Greek and
Turkish foreign relief fund voted
by congress last spring. .
The transfer went through the
general accounting office, he add
ed, and was passed on by Comp
troller General Lindsay Warren.
I don't know lust how Warren
Justified if Chenoweth said, "but
we have been told that he decided
the relief fund was sort of give
away money anyway! and could
just as well be spent by the food
committee.
"If that sort of thing is to go
on, we might as well quit legis
lating up here in congress. We
can just give them the money,
and they can spend it i wherever
they want"
Soviet Terms New
Greek State 'Noble'
MOSCOW. Dec. 27 -UP) -The
trade union newspaper Trud, in
the first published comment in
Russia on the proclamation of an
independent communist state in
Greece, said today the undertak
ing was "noble" and represents the
desires "of all Greek patriots."
' (The Moscow radio broadcast
that a "national committee for aid
to the Greek people" had been
set up in Bulgaria.
(A Sofia dispatch said the com
mittee had telegraphed congrat
ulations to the communist Greek
state proclaimed by guerrilla
chieftain Markov. Vifiades and
had promised "every moral sup
port" .
Building permits for 24 factories
were issued with a. value of
$3,103,163 which, added to the
1946 permits, - represents $5,066,
935 for buildings alone, without
equipment' Last year permits
were issued for 55 factories.
The report said there had been
a rush to build warehouses (402
in the past two .years) for - the
accommodation Of truck transpor
tation and -storage facilities. These
represent $9,176,540. One indus
try which has - been active the
past year, with little publicity, is
the production of pre-fabricated
houses, the report continued.
- Three - new manuftc curing
plants for finished motor vehicle
batteries ' have been ' established
in Oregon during the past -12
months. The commission empha
sized that Oregon Is now leading
the nation in the production of
these items for the motor trade.
Two nationally known mail or
der houses receive their batteries
from Oregon sources.
It also pointed out that sev
5c
Building
Missing B-29 Sighted
Through A
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 27
OP) - The missing B-29 Super
fortress, the "Clobbered Turkey,"
was sighted today on the north
ern Seward peninsula, a mes
sage received at Ladd field head
quarters here said, but the Arctic
night' hid any detail! tonight on
what had happened.
The bare message gave! no de
tails of any kind. Hope had
waned during four days of search
of the Arctic area by military
planes from three bases, flying
over an estimated 143,000 square
mile of territory. The plane was
piloted by First Lt Vern A. Ar
nett with seven other men
aboard and left here Tuesday on
a long range mission.
The plane was the sixth B-"9
reported lost in the Alaska Aleu- -tian
and Arctic operations since .
Lieutenant Arnett's B29 burned
after a takeoff crash in Decem
ber, 1946, with all the crew es- -caping.
The B-29 was sighted this aft
ernoon by the pilot of a P-51
flying out of Nome, one of the
three bases from which search
House Shortage Laid to
Allocation
PORTLAND, Dec. 27-CTVA
hearing was told today that "gray
of materials have contributed to a
City Commissioner William A.
needs 30,000 new housing units.
"The gray market must be
must be made more efficient Land
values must be kept normal. Spec
ulation must be eliminated." -
Hillman Lueddemann, president
of the Portland chamber of com
merce, declared that Oregon was
not receiving enough materials,
since many eastern manufacturers
allocate their output on .the basis
of the 1940 census. Oregon has
grown greatly since then, he said.
Senator Harry P. Cain (It
Wash), who conducted the hear
ing, said the committee wants to
correct any unfair material allo
cations. Walsh Ponders
Presidency of
Senate Race
COOS BAY, Dec. 27-iP)-State
Sen. William E. Walsh of Coos
Bay said today he might seek the
presidency of the state senate in
the next legislative session.
The republican" senator, who
will run for reelection next year,
reported that be had been asked
by various groups to seek the
1949 senate presidency, waisn
was in the running for the presi
dency of the last senate session,
but was overcome by the late
Sen. Marshall Cornett
Walsh said today that he has
been offered much more support
now than he had in the last ses
sion. No southwestern Oregonian has
ever been elected president of the
state senate. Some political
sources here werejeven speculat
ing that the democrats might help
Walsh's chances by not nominat
ing a candidate for the senate
from Coos-Curry counties. Such
an action would virtually assure
Walsh's election to the senate and
his chance to run for the presi
dency. 'Christmas SKip'
Selection Made
SEATTLE, Dec. 27 - '() - The
steamship Gretna Victory was
named today as the Pacific north
west's "Christmas ship" ?to Eu
rope and a carload of food arrived
from Montana to add to the many
other contributions to fill its holds.
I The 10,681-ton ship, due here
from Japan about January 26, will
load here, at Tacoma and Portland
with 60 carloads of food and cloth
ing far Europe's distressed peo
ples. I .
eral new food processing plants
were constructed and started ope
rations this year. One of these
was erected by Paulus f Brothers
in Salem and cost $800,000. Oth
er heavy investments were made
by the Del Mar Cannery com
pany at ' Warrenton and the Co
lumbia River Packers.
- The report estimated that con
struction state-wide in 1947 (with
only- partial returns reported
will exceed $100,000,000.
This is free enterprise, the com;
mission saio, ana aoes not in
clude public works nor . construc
tion outside municipalities where
no building permits are required.
In Portland the total value of
building permits issued was $38,
171453. -This covers through three
weeks of December. For the en
tire year .1946 the value of per
mits was $34,548,685.
"Based on 1947 construction
operations . there . is little doubt
but that next year win establish
a new high record," the com
mission's report concluded.
doh : ITlew Vera mea
laskan Gale
operations have been carried on.
The weather bureau here said
Visibility had probably been lim
ited to approximately 350 feet
by blustery snow in the area
where the B-29 was sighted.
Ladd field officials said this
might have accounted for the pi
lot's failure to give any details.
, Clearing weather was forecast
tonight however, and all prepa
rations were made to drop doc
tors and emergency supplies by
parachute there if needed, or to
fly a light plane or helicopter
to the scene. Temperatures have
ranged down to 20 below In the
area. ;
The big plane was. found near
the position from which it was
last . heard, at noon Tuesday.
Search operations began Tues
day evening.
The Seward peninsula is the
sector of Alaska stretching far
thest westward toward Siberia,
cutting the Bering sea from the
Arctic ocean.
Ladd field was awaiting fur
ther information from the iso
lated area.
of Materials
Joint house-senate subcommittee
markets" and unequal allocations
housing shortage here.
Bowes estimated that this region
squeezed out," Bowes said. "Labor
Mac Offers Aid
To Philippine
oonZone
MANILA, Sunday, Dec 28-P)
-uenerai MacArtnur today iter
ed "any aid needed" to the Phil
lipines in recovering from a dis
astrous typhoon which left 51 per
sons dead or, missing. .
The Manila , press called the
Christmas day storm the greatest
calamity to the Philippines since
the war" and "th worst typhoon
in 42 years" in this countryhere
typhoons are seasonal occurrences.
The major casualty figure was
tne 3Z persons still listed as miss
ing from the sunken Danish liner
Kina, but the fulLxtent of the
disaster still was hidden by ma
tured communications between
this hard-hit capital and the rav
aged central Philippines.
; The mayor of Legaspi, a city of
41,000, said the city was "almost
totaly destroyed" by the winds,
which hita top. velocity of 110
miles an hour. there and 120 miles
elsewhere.
Ijtcena, the archipelago's co
conut capital of 21,000 population
southeast of Manila, had hundreds
of homes wrecked. Reports from
there said it would take at least a
year for coconut plantations to
recover. Two . deaths there In
creased the total of deador miss
ing to 51. In addition to the 32
missing from t the Danish ship,
Kina, 11 were dead or missing in
Laguna province, just north of
Lucena; five were dead in Manila
and one in Cavite, southwest of
Manila.
Woman Hurt
In Car Crash
Near Salem
Mrs. Jesse Marble, Shelton,
Wash, was in Salem General hos
pital, today with serious injuries
suffered Saturday afternoon when
the car in which she was riding
collided with another auto driven
by Marylyn Fay Draydoff, Inde
pendence, route 1, on Lancaster
drive, about one mile northeast of
Salem.
Mrs. Marble was taken to the
hospital by Salem first aid atten
dants who reported she was suf
fering .with a broken right arm, a
laceration of the left knee and
head and chest injuries. Hospital
attendants late Saturday night
said x-rays of her injuries were
not yet completed, but that she
was in" "fair" condition f
Her husband Jesse Marble, who
was driving the car, received a
minor leg injury, but was released
from the hospital after treatment
The Marion county sheriffs office
said the collision occurred about
2:15 p.m, in the 1900 block, just a
short distance south of the inter
section of Lancaster road and the
Salem-Silverton highway.
A state police report of the ac
cident was not available, but it
was not believed that anyone else
was injured in the collision..
Weather
Max.
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Min.
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41
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S3
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Frertp.
Salem
Portland
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
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39
"Willamette river 1.1 feel.
' FORECAST (from weather bu
reau, McNary field. Salem): Meetly
cloudy today and tonight with occa
sional light rain . shower throughout
the day and llfht rain beglnnine late
totiicht and continuing throughout
Monday.
Typh
Gvil Defense
Corps Asked
To Lend Hand
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 -UPS- New
York, calling approximately ball
million men into emergency
serVice, tonight was feverishly
engaged In the monumental task
of digging out of a record snow- .
fall plastered on the city, by a
storm which took 58 lives ha
northeastern states. ;
Throughout the city thousands
of men already were at worst
clearing ' streets . and restoring)
services of all kinds, and 100,000 A
dty employes had been ordered
to report to work, i I
At1 the same time an appeal
went out to 330,000 members of
wartime civilian defense workers
to pitch in on the job also, t
Mayor William OTJwyer took
over leadership in the giganti
effort in a matter of minutes af
ter he returned by plane in th
midst of a California vacation.
His first action was to lummca
an emergency conference of top
city officials. "I
Kaged 154 Hears I
The peralyzanc snowstorm rac
ed 154 hours yesterday and last
night, dumping 29 J inches of pre
cipitation on the city and eclips
ing the ZO-lnch record of th
historic twe-day blizzard of 1888.
Casualty figure!, were still
growing tonight as reports of ad
ditional deaths attributable to th .
storm continued to come in from
several states. The latest figures
were:
New York 14; New Jersey
25; Connecticut f; Pennsylvan
ia 2; Massachusetts 6; Rhode.
Island 2;' New Hampshire 2;
Maine 1.
Dm is ExertiM I
f A great many of - the deaths
were - laid to , heart attacks in
duced by undue exertion in fighf-
ing anowdrifts and-strong winds.'
yor OTwyer, rushing homo
to take charge, arrived by the
first commercial plane to land atN
Lapuardia . airport since early
yc
ortly after summoning his
key of tidal, he appealed for all
vehicle owners except those en
gaged in movement of essential .
goods to stay off streets tomor
row so as not to impede snow
removal operations. -:y
Cars - Snow-Lacked ' -"r ' - '
Meanwhile, the board of edu
cation directed that school yards
be thrown open for storage of
stalled vehicles removed from the
streets by city workers. Thous
ands of such vehicles were still
snow-locked late today but many
were being dug and towed out.
Wallander said the dty had ob
tained use of service and Red
Cross ambulances to augment
dty forces! Earlier, health offi
cials had said only eight ambu
lances were available in Brook
lyn, with a population of 2,700,
000. - ,
Food Sitsatlon Gsed
Markets Commissioner Eugene
G. Schultz said the food situation
was "good" with milk and gro
cery truck deliveries nearly nor
mal, -f
Emergency crews 9 plowed
through mountainous-' snowdrifts
on New Jersey's route 23 to brine
coffee and food to hundreds ma
rooned all night- in cars and
buses. Motor plows were unable
to make their way to the stand
because 1 the , cars blocked the
streets.
Army Engineers
Spend $30 Million I
On Slate Projects !
PORTLAND, Dec. 27 -JP) The
Portland district army engineers
spent $30,43716 this year, CoL
O. E. Walsh reported today.
He said new flood control work
cost $6,818,995. Emergency and
regular maintenance of dams took
S389.852.
Col. Walsh listed the major ex
penditures on big projects as:
Snake river in Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho, $133,918; McNary
dam, $2,823,765: Lookout Point
reservoir, $969,237; Dorena reser
voir, $2,100,939; and Detroit reser
voir, $2,236,727. All of the reser
voirs pre in the Willamete val
ley flood control .project.
17 Deaths, Day's .
Toll in Palestine
JERUSALEM, Dec. 27-OPr-Ha-gana,
the Jewish defense army,
lashed back at the Arabs today
and .Palestine's sputtering com
munal warfare claimed 17 more
.lives 10 Arabs and seven Jews.
The day's .killings brought to
386 the Associated Press death
count in Palestine since the Nov.
29 United Nations decision to par
tition Palestine. The tally for the
entire middle east was 507.
POWER SALK INCREASES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 -iP)
The Bonneville administration in
a year-end report today said pow
er sales - increased $2,006,644 in
the 12-month period ended last.
June 30. ."
FUNERALS POSTTONED
NEW YORK, Dec. 27-P)-Ed-ward
J. Devlin, president of a
large New York funeral concern,
estimated today thaf some 300 fu
nerals had to be postponed be
cause of the city's record snow-falL
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