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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1948)
fcTU Qragon, SqturaVry. March It, 1141 Grand Jury Dismisses 3 Pinball Cases The Marion eowntjr grand Jury Friday damiutd charges against three prion4 aeeuaed OC illegal tnball machine operations aad n lie ted three other persons. The Jury returned not true blla m the case ot John S. and Betty Duniavy, Brooka, and Mary Lannev. Silvertoa. The Dunlavyi were arrested by Marten county sheriff laat fall and charged with operatfeeg a pinball machine for profit by exchanging tokens for money at their Brook nook cafe. Mra. Lanners, owner ot Mac'a place m Silver too. waa charged with eathangiag slugs for cash. True tiUs were returned againat Richard toft. Satem, charged with aaasult with Intent to kill, being armed with a dangeroua weapon, and Elmer Haab and Fred Frisco on a larceny charge. Eorf ia charged with atrtking Mil Lillian Gardner. Salem, with a flaahlight in her Ivm on Febr uary I Haab and Frico are abused of tealing a stationary poer umt, motor and gas irri gation pump from the atate peni tentiary February I. The men ate being held in the Multnomah county jkil and will be returned to SaJean within a few days. 2 Women Hurt as Car, Train Hit at Salem Crossing Two Salem women were taken to Salem Memorial hospital early thia morning suffering from cuU received when the car in which they were riding collided with a train at North Commercial and South atreeta, city police reported. Driver of the auto. Donna Mar ray. 2110 Haxci ave., sustained a severe laceration of the right an kle, and her passenger. Mrs. Helen Stevenson. 220 Fairgrounds rd., a cut right knee. Another passenger. Geneva Ramsden, 1448 Broadway St.. was uninjured. Police said the car and a Spo kane. Portland and Seattle com pany switch engine, met in a front end collision about midnight The front end of the car was com pletely demolished. The women were still under a phyaician'a care at the hospital at 1 a.m. thia morning. BfiEIGE Tonile Dallas Armory Glenn Woodry's Orchesira 14 - Peoplt -14 Featuring Kaj flutter Vera Each Adequate Heat Rain Due in Drought Area SAN FRANCISCO. March 12 - (JP) The weather bureau today I forecast some weekend relief for northern and central California's ! drought as rain began falling in I the north. I The bureau expected the storm to extend to the San Joaquin val I ley and possibly southern Califor , nia tomorrow. Lt. Hill New Commander of Seabee Unit Lt. William C. Hill, atate board of aeronautic engineer, was nam ed commander of Salem's Sea bee reserve, succeeding Lt. Cmdr. Hollis Libby, at a meeting of the unit Friday night. Libby, who organized the unit about a 7r ago, announced he was retiring from his position as engineer with the state highway commission and wished to relin quish his command of the reserve at the same time. Hill delivered the principal speech at Friday's meeting, giving a resume of Oregon's airport de velopment from 1921 until the present time. Lt Cmdr. M. S. Hubbard. Sea bee reserve officer representing the 13th naval district with head quarters in Seattle, also addressed the group. Hubbard outlined the progress of the Seabee reserve in the 13th naval district pointing out that it may soon become an or ganized unit like the navy reserve forces. Members were shown a moving picture of a recent navy antarctic expedition on which Seabeee test ed new equipment and wearing apparel that may be uaed in war fare in sub-arctic weather. Mrs. Hubbard, 99, Taken to Hospital SILVXRTON. March 12 -(Special)- Mrs, Clara Hubbard, 99, well - known Silvertoa resident for the past 93 years, was taken to the Silverton hospital Friday in serious condition. Mrs. Hubbard, who has been living, with her son near Marqaum recently, celebrated her 99th birth day September 28. She was born in California and moved to Sil verton In 1885. Newspaper PiM To Change Hands NEW YORK. March lZ-iJP)-Ht-gotiations for the sale of the news paper PM. owned and published by Marshall Field III. became known tonight. Thomaa J. Murphy, executive vice - president of the New York City chapter of the CIO American Newspaper Guild, said that the prospective buyer was Clinton D. McKirmoci. San Diego, Calif., Newspaperman. Murphy said Mc Kinnon earlier today had present ed the guild terms under which he would continue operation of the sfternoon tabloid paper. Too Lair lo Classify and " GALV. PIPE TolWt, mU new. Rt 7. Box 431 -L McCain Ave. raff Silverton Rd . Salem S-TVB RHU-CO radio. 23. good cond Phone S3g APT F0RrRENTT large. 1 rm . un fum . at priv bath KM N. Cora l. Coal Walkout Threat Hovers WASHINGTON. March 12-UP-John L. Lewis hinted today that another nationwide soft coal strike is s round the corner unless mine owners meet his pension demand. The United Mine Workers' pre sident sent letters to the 400,000 coal diggers in the U.S. bitumin ous fields telling them the opera tors "have dishonored the 1947 wage agreement and defaulted under its provisions affecting the welfare fund." Such language might cause the miners to decide they are no longer "willing" to work. The contract, signed last July 8 and hailed by the UMW as the finest ever obtained in the coal fields, carries a clause pledging the miners to work only so long as they are "able and willing." Board Urges Dams Include Fish Ladders PORTLAND, March 12-yP)-The state fish and game commission declared today that Willamette valley dam construction will hurt game fishing, and recommended counter - measures to lower the damage. The commissions, in a report required by law on all public works programs, said that 90 per cent of the migratory fish which now spawn in Willamette valley rivers will be blocked. They recommended that two ad ditional fish ladders be built at Willamette Falls in Oregon City, and that 1.543,160 legal - sized fish be planted annually in the region. One ladder should be built at the same time at Detroit and Meridian dams, they said, and the others before any additional lock con struction. A $1,034,000 project to build three fish hatcheries was also re commended. Friend in Need Is Friend in Jail WASHINGTON, March 12-(-You'll have to take thia alow: Melvin Davis, 23, was arrested for speeding today. He explained to police that he was in a hurry to get $25 to help a friend who had been arrested for speeding. The friend got out of jail when his father posted bond. Davis remained in Jail. He couldn't raise the collateral. Envoys Finish Final Draft of Europe Pact BRUSSELS. Belgium. March 12 -(;p-Delegates of Britain, France and the three Benelux countries adopted today the complete draft of a treaty setting up a western European union as a block to com munism. The pact when ratified binds Britain, France, Belgium. The Ne therlands and .Luxembourg to an automatic joint defense against at tack ia Europe. Although Ger many is said to be mentioned by name as a possible aggressor it is by no means limited to defense against Germany alone. Its draft ers are convinced their agreement will ultimately attract at least the tacit support of the United States. The complete text will not be made public before the treaty is signed here Wednesday by the five foreign ministers, the negotiators said. ' Mac Eliminates News Of Political Campaign TOKYO, Saturday, March 13- (JP) A policy of "attempting to avoid controversy eliminated all political news concerning General MacArthur from the army news paper and the armed forces radio broadcasts in this zone today. The policy was announced after the armed forces radio broadcast accounts of "anti-MacArthur" vet erans clubs being organized in the United States. Let's Go Boiler Skating Tonile at the Capitola Roller Rink Take the Capitola Bus Old Time Dancing Wayna Strachan ami His Orchestra Each Saturday Night V.F.W. Hall Hood A Church Sta. Old Time DAIICE Every Saturday Ifighl 25t Coert Street Over Wester Ante Masie By HATTHES OLD TIME ORCHESTRA Admissiea 60c Tax ine. Ax Slayer to Appeal Case OLYMPIA, Wash. March 12 - Washington states' supreme court gave Jake Biro convicted ax slayer, an added lease on life today. The high court split sharply S to 3 in holding that the husky ne gro had filed a valid notice of ap peal from his conviction of first degree murder. A lower court pre viously ruled that the appeal had not Been filed within the time set by law. Bird was sentenced to death for the slaying of a Tacoma woman, I whose daughter was bludgeoned and hacked to death at the same time. He won., an 11th hour, 60 day reprieve from the governor when officers said he was con fessing a long string of killings in the mid-west and west. Today's court decision appar ently meant a further indefinite delay in final fixing of the con demned man's fate. jSy Rlxht fit now I Y Deal rerget te Dlae aad Daaoe at "Club Tumble Inn" 1 ML aerta Afbaay. Every Sat. lie. Dtaaers serred all eve. "Lawreaee's Orea" aad the -S4k-Tti." Mea $1. Ladies 5te. Modern DAHCE MIKE Independence VFT7 Hall Dan Uhey's ORCHESTRA Imeethest Fleer la the Valley Decentralization of Rent Control Favored WASHINGTON. "March 12-(JP)-The house banking committee voted today to strip federal offi cials of major authority over rent controls and to turn the decision powers over to local rent boards. Then the committee approved a bill to continue- the modified controls for one year, to March 31, 1949. aWaaUfal View. Una tot. dtalag R. easement with garage, ek. a a. R. Mas. WJLA. leaa avail. CIS E. Rwaid Bear 9. Far aaie by ewaer. is for clean . . .fast li&e -atl Pi?oo-tto-llocjo nn r.'J33zri ma Capitol Lumbar Co. CmL frees 1 p.aa. New! Double Thrills! 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