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The Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company Thursday
filed a proposed schedule with
the state public utilities com
missioner in Salem providing
for a 24 per cent increase in
telephone rates over Oregon.
The total increase under the
proposal would total $5,500,000
annually, netting the company
$3,311,000 when federal taxes
are subtracted. The filing made
by the company would become
effective in 30 days unless sus
pended by the public utilities
commissioner. If suspended, the
commi5gioner would then call a
hearing and issue an order
granting or denying the pro
posal within six months.
The request for the increase
came slightly more than six
months after the company was
granted a $1,560,000 annual rate
boost by the commission. The
company had requested an an
nual increase of $2,249,000 prior
to that time.
The latest rates requested by
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The unification of western Ger
many was a necessary step to end
the confusion and uncertainty and
stalemate which has prevailed
most of the time since its libera
tion. It does mean a division of
Germany, with Berlin, the old
capital, located in the Russian
zone. We may expect the active
opposition of Russia to the crea
tion of a political organization in
western Germany and Russian ef
forts to blame the western powers
for the division of Germany. Yet
all the while Russia has been busy
building a pro-soviet bloc in its
zone; and the door is open for
Russian participation in bringing
all of Germany together when
ever the men of the politburo are
ready to cooperate.
The real test comes now. If Tri
zonia is made to function success
fully the German people residing
there will be satisfied. Their ex
pressions of approval will counter
act Russian propaganda In the
eastern zone. However if the east
should forge ahead and provide
better living conditions for the
people then the west will grow dis- i
satisfied. We of the west have full )
confidence that our system of po
litical and economic organization
will accomplish far more than the j
communijt system. Certainly it has
to date.
There is a current lull in the
exchange of acerbities between the
United States and Russia. There
are some "border incidents" in
the cities of joint occupation, but
no major controversies have
(Continued on Editorial page)
4 School Districts
To Consolidate;
One Rejects Plan
DAYTON. June lO.-(Special)-Four
of five districts voting in a
special Yamhill county school el
ection held here today decided to
consolidate with Dayton district
28. final tabulations showed.
Unionvale district 44 voted 36 to
J against joining the consolidation
with the four other grade schools.
The four districts voting in fa
vor of consolidating with the Day
ton grade school district were
Webfoot (district 27), 18 for and
12 against; Pleasantdale (district
64), 25 for and 19 against; Day
ton Prairie (district 18, 8 for and
none against; Unity (district 23),
25 for and 18 against.
Rail Strike Injunction
Renewed, Hearing Set
WASHINGTON, June 10 -UP)
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsbor
ough today Issued a new order
forbidding a railroad strike but
gave the engineers, firemen and
switchmen another chance to
fight back.
He heard their arguments and
rejected them but said he will
set a final hearing In about five
days.
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
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the company would Increase a
one-party residence service $1 a
month; two-party residence 75
cents month, and a four-party
residence and suburban service
50 cents a month. No change is
proposed in present farmer line
rates.
There also would be increases
in certain steps on the present
intrastate long distance sched
ule?. Including an increase to
10 cents on all present 5-cent
long distance calls.
F. D. Tellwright, vice presi
dent and general manager of the
company in Oregon, comment
ing on the requested increases
said "we must have enough price
relief to meet current wages
and cotts and to keep our credit
sound"
"Our present intrastate earn
ings in Oregon, which include
the rate revisions granted last
January, are rapidly approach
ing the vanishing point," Tell
wright stated.
Planes Travel
'Much Faster'
Than Sound
WASHINGTON, June 10
Two American experimental
planes have repeatedly flown fast
er than sound, aviation authorities
announced today.
J Secretary Symington told a
news conference that the super
1 sonic feat has been performed
"many time?" by Air Force C'apt.
Charles Yeager, 25. a World war
II ace. And he said Yeage- had
reached a speed 'much faster"
than sound.
The national advisory commit
tee for aeronautics folowed Sym
ington's announcement with a dis
closure that two of its pilots, fly
ing another of the planes alter
nately, have exceeded the speed
of sound several times. The
NACA. government research ag
ency, identified its pilots as Her
bert H. Hoover and the late How
j ard Lilly. Lilly was killed while
I testing another type of plane.
I The faster-than-sounJ plane is
the XS-1. Only two of them are
1 in existence at this time --one
I being used by the air force, the
other by the NACA.
I The XS-1 has a swung span of
j 28 feet, a length of 31 feet and is
I 11 feet high. It carries 8.000
pounds of fuel for its rocket mo
tor. It does not take off from the
ground. b;i is taken aloft li the
belly of a B-29 bomber and re
leased at high altituc-
Coronation of
St. Paul Rodeo
Queen Today
ST. PAUL, June 10 Elaine
Smith will be crowned queen of
the 13th annual St. Paul rodeo
in ceremonies in the community
hall Friday, June 11. This is the
preliminary feature for the rodeo
and wild west show scheduled
for July 3. 4 and 5.
Rex Kimmell of Salem, deputy
!ate attorney general, will put
the white hat-crown on the brun
ette queen-elect. Elaine Smith.
18 year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Smith. Ray Mane
gre is president of the St. Paul
Rodeo association and in charge
of details.
Other members of the queen's
court are Princesses Jane Smith
and Patricia Kirk, both of St.
Paul; Lou Ann Kerr, Seaside;
Carol Flesher, Salem.
HIGHWAY BILL PASSES
WASHINGTON. June 10 -iJP)-
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aid roads was passed today by the
senate. The measure must now go
to a senate
committee.
house conference
WAR SURPLUS ON WAY
CHICAGO, June 10-i;p-More
than $100,000 in war surplus
household furniture and bedding
will begin leaving here tomorrow L
assignea 10 victims oi tne wasn-ington-Oregon
flood disaster.
Aurora Veterans Ask $10,000
Slice of County Memorial Fund
A $10,000 appropriation to ap
ply on the cot of a veterans'
memorial building at Aurora was
requested of Marion county court
Thursday.
The court answered it would
probably confer with veterans'
groups of the county to determine
a workable plan for use of the
$25,000 which the legislature au
thorized; counties to apportion for
such purposes- Such a plan would
probably appear oh the general
election ballot in November, thus
placing Jt outside the 6 per cent
limitation on budgeting.
The application was filed by
Kenneth E. Holt, commander of
Aurora post 110. American Legion,
and Gordon E. Fredericks n, com
mander of Aurora post 9475, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars. They re
quested the fund for use in a pro
posed $14,000 structure fox which
NINETY-EIGHTH YEAR
TraDtrasiDii ft tVOailk
Woaiiry SoQuaft (Passes
New Evacuations Dae;! Plan Sent
Dikes Holding; VanportfTo House
Missing List Lut to ov
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PORTLAND, Ore , June 10 -OP-Pacific northwest rivers claimed
another life today and sent more hundreds fleeing from the flood's
multi-million dollar rampage.
A 2-year-old boy. Neil Rae Wasterlain, tumbled into the flooded
Deschutes river of central Oregon today. He was the 33rd known vic
tim of the disastrous three-week flood.
All residents of the precarious -
Sumas district, on the border of
Washington and British Columbia,
were warned to evacuate. Amcr-
icans joined canacyans - - uu
strong - - in shoring up the endan
gered dikes.
Canada's Fraser river boiled
downstream to meet the year's
highest tide of 14 4 feet The com
bination threatened the 5.000-pop-ulation
suburb of Queensborough
on Lulu island.
Army planes flew 100.000 sand
bags this afternoon to the Rich
land, Wash., dikes which protect
the Hanford atomic energy pro
ject. The dikes held up through
last night's storm, but reinforce
ment work made heavy inroads
on the sandbag supply.
River Rising
The Columbia river, which has
already wreaked 1,200 miles and
untold dollar volume of destruc
tion, was rising tonight. It would
again be close to its highest crest.
Storms in the Columbia river's
headwaters added to the danger.
Rain poured throughout Canada's
Columbia and Kootenay river
flood areas.
The new level - - about an Inch
below the June 1 crest - - at Van
couver, Wash., presaged a renew
ed struggle to keep the Columbia
from pouring beyond the 625
square miles of farms, houses, and
industries already submerged.
"Hope Dikes Hold"
"We hope .' dikes will con
tinue to hrM." vgs all the armv
PORTLAND. Ore., June 10.-(P)-Raln
or near cloudburst
proportions fell on Portland to
night, overflowing gutters In
some sections and forcing man
bole covers off some streets.
The downpour lasted about
an hour, easing off near the
close.
Weather observers said it was
not expected to have any ma
terial effect on the Columbia
and Willamette river floods.
engineers could say. Thousands of
workmen continually plug new
leaks.
Hope that the Vanport flood
may not have taken as many lives
as at first feared, rose. too. The
Red Cross "critical list" of 121
persons missing was cut to 59 per
sons within 24 hours after the list
was published. Many refugees
wired from as far away as Mon
tana to report their safety. Only
four bodies have been recovered.
Solons Approve
Power Facilities
For Detroit Dam
The way for power facilities
construction at Detroit dam site
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was cleared in Washington, u
Thursday, reported U. S. Sen Guy
Cordon in a telegram to Salem
Chamber of Commerce last night.
Cordon wired that the senate
public works committee had ac
cepted his amendment to an om
nibus appropriations bill which
would provide funds ample for the
additional installations at Detroit
under the fiscal public works pro
gram. The government has already
planned for the dam and highway
construction in the Detroit area.
ground has already been secured.
This is the second application
for such funds, the first having
been filed by Marion county chap
ier, Disabled American Veterans,
for use in its Living Memorial
building in Salem, on which con
struction has begun.
According to the statute, said
County Judge Grant Murphy, all
applications must be In by July 1.
However, he said it appeared de
sirable to confer with all interest
ed veterans' organizations in the
county in order to gain coopera
tion and make plana suitable to a
large portion of the county. Plac
ing it on the ballot for approval of
the electorate would place It out
tide budgetary limitations and
would release some of the restric
tions imposed by the legislative
act, he said.
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Danish Ship Hits
Mine. Sinks with
Near '100 Aboard
COPEN II A G E N. Denmark.
June 11 -iPf The passenger
vessel Koebenhavn struck a
mine and sank In Danish Inland
waters early today, her owners
announced. The ship had about
400 passengers aboard.
The ship went down In 10
minutes. Only two lifeboats
were lowered before the ship
sank.
First reports received by the
company said passengers Jump
ed Into the sea following ex
plosion. Scores of ambulances were
reported waiting In Hals, near
est port, to help the first passen
gers brought ashore by a flo
tilla of an estimated 1,000 fish
ing vessels.
Planes are taking part In the
rescue operation and physicians
from the surrounding towns and
villages have established emer
gency stations on the beaches.
Conferees Cut
85 Million from
McNary Dam
WASHINGTON, June 10 - VP) - 1
Senate and house conferees agreed
tonight on a record $573,000,000 ,
money diu lor waterways.
They slashed $67,000,000 off the
$102,000,000 added by the senate
to the house figure of $538,000,000.
Major cuts made in the final
ersion of the bill include these re
ductions from the amounts allow
ed by the senate:
McNary lock and dam. Columbia
River, Oregon and Washington,
from $27,000,000 to $22,000,000.
Amounts agreed upon by the
conferees include:
Flood control (construction):
Oregon Detroit reservoir, $3,500,
000; Pudding River none.
Rivers and harbors (construc
tion): Oregon and Washington
Columbia river between Vancou
ver. Wash., and The Dalles, Ore.,
$326,000; Columbia river, Umatilla
(McNary Dam), $22,000,000: Co
lumbia river at Bonneville, $500,
000. Oregon Coos Bay, $1,500,000.
Averill Heads
WU Alumni
The Willamette university alum
ni association elected Edward F.
Averill of Portland as president
for 19489 to succeed Steve An
derson of Salem, according to re
sults released Thursday from Reg
istrar Harold Jory's office which
received them from the election
committee. -
Elected to the executive com
mittee of the alumni association,
was "Mrs. Waldo Zeller of Salem.
Her term is for three years.
Re-elected to new terms on the
trustee board were Dr. Carl J.
Hollingworth of Portland and
Hugh McGilvra of Forest Grove.
Averill has been active in Wil
lamette athletics and helped or
ganize the Portland Bearcat Boost
ers, of which he was president,
last fall. In 1844 he obtained the
125 pound Paul Bunvon e a
prize for the winner of the an
nual Whitman-Willamette football
game.
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FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem : Consider
able cloudiness today and tonight with
scattered Usht showrs again tonight;
continued mild afternoon temperatures.
High today 78. low tonight 85. Weather
will be generally favorable for all farm
work except for afternoon and eve
ning showers and moderate afternoon
winds which will Interfere with dust
ing and spraying.
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The Oregon Skxtecman,
vor y0fe
WASHINGTON. June 10 -a
Tired and almost ta!ked-out, the
senate today passed a bill to draft
men 19 through 25 into military
service. The vote was 78 to 10.
Day and night since Monday,
talking in relays, the senators had
debated the bill which would:
1. Require all men 18 through
25 to register with a local draft
boa rd .
2. Permit the drafting of those
19 through 25 for two years in !
the armed services. here or
j abroad. :
3. Let 18-year-old volunteer for j
one year's service, thus avoiding
a two-year draft when they
reached 19. '
Doctors and Dentists
4. Require a special registra
tion for doctors and dentists up
to 45 although to avoid strip- I
ping communities of medical ser- j
vice they could not be drafted '
without special action of their j
draft boards.
Exemptions would be given to: ;
Married men. men with depend- j
ents, members of the national
guard and reserve units, and most ;
veterans. !
High school students doing sat- i
isfactorily in their studies would I
be deferred until they graduated
or until they reach 20, whichever
comes first.
To Defer Students
College students would be de
ferred until the end of a college
term. Draftees would have the
same Tights in getting back their
jobs as veterans had under the
wartime draft.
But this senate-passed bill is
not law and won't be unless, and
until, the house also approves.
The house may act next week.
Plant Shutdown Due
To Recent Coal Strike
DETROIT, June lO-OPV-Plant
shutdowns which will idle 230,000
workers across the nation were an
nounced late today by General Mo
tors Corp. and the Ford Motor Co.
General Motors said a shortage
of steel resulting from the last coal
strike would force it to lay off
200,000 employes for a week at the
end of tomorrow's shifts.
Initial Work Starts for Independence Bridge
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First steps toward erection of a new bridge between Marion and Polk canities at Independence are be
ing taken this week with clearing of ground for the approaches and the sinking of test piling. The np
per photo shows the Polk county terminus of the bridge between the dotted lines at "I" street la In
dependence, looking from the Marlon county side. In the foreground Is the Willamette river, then one
of two islands which will reduce the lengths of single spans. At lower left Is the Polk county approach
with two test piling ta place at left of the road. The crane-pile driver la the lower right photo Is oa
the Polk county bank of the Willamette about MM yards upstream from the bridge site. .At this
point a temporary trestle will be constructed to the Island In the background where materials will be
.hauled for the piers, to be constructed this summer. The Maeco corporation of California baa contract
ed to finish the bridge by Dee. 11, 1941. (Photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.)
Salem, Oregon, Friday, Juno 11,
Illness Fatal
WASHINGTON, June 10 See. of
Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Mho died here today in Walter
Reed hospital.
Schwellenbach
Succumbs to
Heart Ailment
WASHINGTON. June 10 - JP)
Lewis B. Schwellenbach, who had
been a buck private in the in
fantry, a U.S. senator and, finally,
secretary of labor, died today. He
was 53.
Schwellenbach was more than
just another department head to
President Truman. He was also
one of the president's best friends.
Mr. Truman issued this state
ment at Olympia, Wash.:
"I have learned with deepest
grief of the death of Lewis
Schwellenbach. He was my warm
personal friend. He was a great
senator, a great judge and a great
secretary of labor."
Schwellenbach died at 3:40 a.m.,
EST, at Walter Reed hospital
where he had been since May 28.
Mrs. Schwellenbach was at his
bedside when he died.
The White House, in announc
ing the death, said it was due to
"cardiac failure which complicated
his recent illness."
TRAILER HOMES DUE
SAN FRANCISCO. June 10 -OP)
The first of 630 trailer home to
house refugees of the Vanport.
, Ore., flods will begin to move
i north from Stockton tomorrow.
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President Truman may tour Salem briefly today J bis 25
car caravan drives from the Salem airport to Portland son th
first of two brief visits to the city, according to tentative plans
announced Thursday. j j
The president will arrive at McNary iield by special plan
at 11 a.m. after a flight over flooded Columbia river. i
Housing Bill
Rammed Past
Sciate Group
WASHINGTON. June 10-OP)-In
a surprise move, a democratic
republican coalition rammed
through the house banking com
mittee today all major provisions
of the senate-pased Taft-Ellen-der-Wagner
housing bill.
The vote was 14 to 13.
It was a victory for Senator Taft
(R-Ohio) and the democrats and
republicans backing the bill, de
signed to encourage the construc
tion of 15,000,000 homes in 10
years.
It was a bitter reverse for the
banking committee's own chair
man. Rep. Wolcott (R-Mich). He
has branded public housing feat
ures of the bill as "socialistic.
Thus the committee recommend
ed for house action a bill contain
ing, among other things, these con
troversial provisions:
1. Federal financing of 500,000
low rent homes to be owned by
public housing agencies in the
communities.
2. Subsidies for slum clearance
and redevelopment of city areas.
3. Farm home building aids.
These are only parts of the bilL
The main emphasis in the meas
ure, its sponsors explain, is on en
couragement of private enterprise
to do the job of home-building.
DAMASCUS BOMBED
TEL -AVIV, June ll.-G!p)-Mili-tary
headquarters announced to
day that the Jewish air force
bombed Damascus last night in
the final hours before the truce
in Palestine.
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I H. G. Maisoii,- state police rti-
penniendent, said Truman's Salem
tour is contingent on whether the
presidential plane arrives ion time.
In the event of a timely arrival, the
caravan -escort orobablv will travel
from the airport west on! Mission
street to South Commercial street,
north on Comrhercial street to
Court street, east on-Court etreet
to North Capitol rtreet and then
north to the Pacific highway and
to Portland. 4
Seott to Accompany
If the President's plane is late,
the caravan will' go directly from
the airport to Portland i by the
shortest route, it was announced.
Riding with the president will be
acting Governor Leslie M. Scott,
state treasurer, who left Thursday
afternoon for Olympia, Wash., to
meet the party, sand Mayor Earl
I Biley of Portland, I
Escort win be, provided by se
cret service agents, state police and
the Muitnomah county sheriffs de
partment, led by Sheriff Martin
Pratt Salem pail ice and; Marion
county sheriffs will handle traffic.
City police warned that parking
space at the Salem airport will be
restricted due to the number nt
caravan and official vehicles. All
planes, both commercial and pri
vate, will be grounded prior to the
arrival of the president's i craft "
To Broadcast ; S
While in Portland President
Truman will broadcast from th
civic auditorium aL4 pjnJand will
confer with state, county! and city
officials before boarding his spe
cial train for California, j
The President !and acting Gov
ernor Scott willl return to Salem
aboard the tram;at 4 o'clock Fri
day afternoon where he Is expected
to speak from the rear of the ob
servation car. i I
While in Salem the President is
expected to confer briefly with
former Gov. Walter M. Pierce, Roy
Hewitt Salem attorney, Monroe
SweeUand, Newport publisher and
democratic national committee-man-elect
from Oregon and State
Rep. Lyle Thomas of Dallas
OLYMPIA. Wash., June 10-V
President Truman "poured rt on"
congress in a whirl through four
Washington cities today and prom
ised to keep the campaign going
"from one end of the country to
the other." j j
He cautioned people against be
ing "suckers" for a congress he
said will be "a disgrace to this
country" if it fails to do something
about high prices housing and the
welfare of the laboring man.
Cliurcli Frowns gs
Anne, Mihai Wed
ATHENS. June 10.-fP-Fonner
King Mihai and Princess Anne,
whose romance encountered re
ligious differences, were married
today in the solemn ritual of the
Greek Orthodox church.! The cer
emony united the royal families of
Romania and Denmark. I .
(Catholic prelates at the Vati
can said the bride had placed her
self outside the 1 Roman Catholic
church and Incurred "grave sin"
in marrying Mihai. They added
that the ceremony in Athens is
"no marriage'' in the eyes of the
Catholic church).j ; '
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Palestine pears
'Cease Fire' Order
CAIKO. Jane ll -fV The or
der te cease filing la Palestine ,
was broadcast j te Egyptian
troops at few'mlnntes before
the deadline (1 a. m. EST) to
day. .1 ri i-
Trans - Jordan troops had re
ceived similar order earlier
and presasnably the fear-weeks
armistice called lor by the Unit
ed Nations and agreed te by both
warring factions brought a step
to the shooting at the appelated -" '
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