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Oi O OEU pnno o o on o. o o no C3 o . L-.J L yJ " CD I Jl "' 3 C3 OTP SfflEDQe n ( ! Q (teirnimaiira i ; i - . 4 i - i I , ; i poundhp 1651 1 P OsilfDft L A frequent criticism of the two old parties is that they are too much alike. They are Tweedle dum and Tweedledee with scant : difference between them. The plea is heard that we should have ; NINETY-EIGHTH YEAR a fresh political alignment in i -' "0d J. Blasts 12 PAGES Thm Oregon Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Thursday. July 23. 1948 Price 5c No. K Med t 3 TNvin Girls. 8, Robert Pilcher GERVAIS, July 28 Three which the liberals should line up on one .side arid the conservatives on the other. Actually however there is much to be said for our present rather amorphous and somewhat incongruous political di visions. Republicans and democrats are alike in one valuable respect: both are thoroughly American in ori gin and outlook; both respect the American constitution and our re publican system of government. So when a change from one party to the other is made there is no . ' T 1 n . . wmow Vt A revoiuuon. rew iavs ma? ( g- WT passed but the government in its j I 0c-t intimc form and in its content is not jl doll f ILLIIIlo greatly altered. This gives staDiii ty, order, continuity which are es- 0samst tmvdrnmnt find BCI1UM 1U1 oisuuu - . for business confidence. Gervais residents were killed in There is value also in having i stantiy when the car in whicl .! i ..iMillv roth. ; p.ru they were riding was struck by SJrZL rr ho passenger train in nmfessional men: demo- i Gervais Wednesday night crats who are manufacturers as j Dead were Robert Victor Pil wll farmer and laborers. Al- ' cher, 40, Gervais route 1, and tan Nvins. distin euished histori- Joyce and Joan Rentz, 8-year an. writing in the New York old twin daughters of Mrs. Marie Times magazine observes that Rentz of Gervais. there is- a "fundamental value There were no witnesses to the in this "pulling together an lm- crash, but state police who inves mensely varied mass of social j tigated the accident said Pilcher (Continued on Editorial agej i apparently drove east into the path of the Southern Pacific's northbound Klamath at the cros sing in Gervais. The accident oc curred at 9:15 p. m. The car, a 1938 Chrysler sedan. was carried about 125 feet along the track and completely demol ished. The engine was separated from the body j by about 20 feet when they came to rest. Pilcher's body was taken to the Ringo funeral home in Woodburn, and the bodies of the girls to the Unger funeral home in Mt. An gel. in Gervais Rail Crossing Accident CITY COMMDSSDON RilLAM- SOUGHT M Survivor Mass Picketing Set for Dayton; Line Breached By the Associated Press A mass picket line wa ordered Wednesday night by CIO leaders at the Univis Lens company plant in Dayton. O., to swell the line i breached by club earlier. Five pickets were injured in the affray outside the company when police forced a path through the picket line to allow non-strikers to enter the plant. The Montgomery county CIO Industrial Union council, repre senting 30,000 union members, or dered the mass picket line in sup- swell the line j g- swinging police Greyhound Bus Buildiriff Bids Let to Barham Work will begin immediately on construction of a $ 112,500 Grey port of the JUnivis. Lens company j jund terminal on North strikers. The council also threat ened a county-wide labor holiday In protest against "police brutali ty" Some 340 non-strikers joined the back-to-work movement that began Monday under police pro tection Church street opposite the public school administration building, it was announced (Wednesday by F. W. Ackerman, president of Pacific Greyhound, in San Francisco, through local Greyhound officials. The building contract was let to Barham brothers of Salem. The Last Friday the Univis work- i one-siory remiqrcea concrete ers voted 302 to 272 not to retain Building will front 13Z feet on local 768, CIO United Electrical ! North Church between Center and Workers, as their bargaining Marion streets, j with a depth of agent. 87 fee an loading area in the The company has announced rear. Lyle P. ! Bartholomew of that any employes not back at Salem is the architect. work by Thursday would be fired. The new terminal will house the The strike started May 5 over wage dispute. Salem to Gain New Company Of Guardsmen Salem is to have a second na tional guard infantry company, Company G, 162nd Infantry regi ment, will be organized in Salem August 10, under the command of Capt. W. C. Dyer, Jr., army re serve officer, it was learned here Wednesday. The company, originally slated for organization in - Portland, is being shifted here because of lack of available personnel in the Port land area. It will join company B of the 162nd in training in Sa lem. A sixth army team will be In Salem when the new unit is federally recognized. Coincid entail y with the an nouncement of the second com pany came that of Capt Burl Cox of vacancies in Company B. Capt. Cox reported that 35 to 40 men will be accepted for duty with the guard here. Room is available both to the 17 and 18 -year -old age group and to veterans of all ages. Cox pointed out that vacan cies in company B will be opened by a shift of personnel from his unit to the new organization. Animal Cracker? 8y WARREN GOODRICH Jti2f Yr5 (t "Oh, oh, I feel a magging backache coming on. bus facilities; ai restaurant to be established by Walter Cline, jr., and W. H. Johnston at an estimated $40,000 cost; a confectionery and magazine concession to be operated by Harry Minto, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Minto, and four in dependent offices Or store spaces, including the offices of Attorney E. E. Laird, and the Ken Potts insur ance agency. The Greyhound announcement said the company recently acquired additional property at the terminal site to provides for larger passenger accommodations. In the same section of downtown Salem, a Trailways bus station is being established at High and Marion streets. Pictorial Photo Entries P'osing Difficult Choice Judges in The Statesman's cho- to contest today were facing their most aiiiicult decision thus far, in regard to the i pictorial-scenery classification. Their verdict will be announced Sunday. Quality in the other classes slip ped "just a trifle" this week, the judges said. Biggest faults appear ed to be lack of sharp images, or a fogginess, occasioned by inac curate focus, over-enlargement r camera "movement, and stiff pos ing - - a factor particularly dam aging in news pictures. Entries now are being received for the final week ending at mid night next Wednesday. ih 'i;' -Si n : - i - f. j lx " . ..Ay . v Sgt. Sigyh R. Gnstaison, 32, re ported to be the only survivor ef the crash off the south coast of Arabia of one of the three B-29s eircllna the clobe. (AP Wlrephoto to The Statesman.) 16 Feared Lost As Superf ort es to Sea Plung Chicago Business Man Slain in Car i CHICAGO, July 28 -UP- A wealthy industrialist was killed today by three gunmen who pulled alongside his car in rush hour traffic and fired a shotgun blast, which blew off the top of his head. i The gunmen's car raced away after the shooting on Chicago's south side. Killed was Nathan Gumbia, 56, owner of the Gen eral Fiber Co, Gumbin was rid ing with his son, Owen, 19, who was not touched. They were I returning from a meeting at the plant which police said concerned labor problems there. They added no apparent motive for the slaying had been uncovered. I ADEN July 28 -JP)- One of three B-29 superfortresses on an around the world flight crashed in the sea within sight of this port on the south coast of Arabia last night. At least 16 American crewmen were believed lost. One man was rescued, but it was not learned immediately the exact number of men aboard the giant American bomber. Authori ties here imposed restrictions on outgoing dispatches concerning the crash. Five bodies were recovered from the sea during the day and were buried with full military honors. The crash occurred at 7 p. nt shortly after the planes took off for Ceylon. Cause of the disaster still is un known. Eyewitnesses said the plane was airborne when the mo tors suddenly became silent. The other planes returned to Aden and are awaiting instruc tions. The customary complement of a B-29 is nine men but two of the globe-girdling planes carried double crews, while the third car ried 17 men. The lone survivor, identified only as Sergeant Gustafson, was picked up by local fishermen. He was reported resting comfortably in! the RAF hospital. Pavis-Monthan Field In Tucson. the ship's home base, issued a list of 18 men aboard the ship when it left Tucson which included M. Sgt. Sigyr R. Gustafson, 32, Nor wood, Mass.) The three big bombers left Tuc son six days ago. The air force called it a "routine long distance training" flight MINERS' FUNERAL SET Princeton, ini, July zs.-itpy- Sorrowful families today gathered up the bodies of 13 coal miners killed in yesterday's explosion at the King's mine and prepared to bury them in a series' of funeral services that will extend through Sonday. Taft Assures Hunt for Curb To Inflation By. Ed Crearh WASHINGTON, July 28 -W Senator Taft (R-Ohio) promised tonight that congress will try to work out some cost-of-living curbs without resorting to po lice state methods. But he declared flatly: "Price control and rationing will not work in America in time of peace. "This congress has learned that when powers are once granted to a left-wing administrator they are freely used. . . Once you start to fix prices you have to regulate every detail of every sale and transaction. Going Home Quickly And he said congress Is going to go home in about two weeks. As a matter of fact. Taft said. we would be fully justified in adjourning at once." Taft and other GOP leaders went on the air to answer Presi dent Truman's address to con gress yesterday. Mr. Truman asked for limited price controls, standby rationing and wage control powers, and an excess profits tax to check rising prices. He also asked house action on a senate-approved long-range housing bill. GOP Said Housing Aid On the radio, Rep. Halleck of Indiana, house majority leader. said the 80th congress had gene rated a building boom by re moving "red tape" and restrictions. And Senator Wherry of Ne braska said congress was ready to consider favorably "any legis lation found to be of an emerg ency character." "It is appalling," the senator said, "that on foreign policy the president was absolutely silent and not once did he mention the threat of communism at home." In congress itself, civil rights grabbed the spotlight. Senator Taft, chairman of the GOP policy committee, said the southerners probably would "de bate" the poll tax bill all day tomorrow and Friday, with the daily sessions winding up about 5 p.m. Amendment Proposed A civil rights peace plan was put forward by Senator Hayden (D-Ariz). He said: Why not try a constitutional amendment to outlaw the poll tax requirement for voting in federal elections, since the southern democrats are so strongly opposed to doing it by act of congress?. Fine, said the Dixie lawmakers. The anti-poll, tax bill already has passed the house. Senator Russell (DGa) said the south has no objection to a constitutional amendment which would wipe out the poll tax. What southerners do object to, he said, is congress making rules for state and local elections. A number of republicans were cool to Hayden's proposal. But Senator Morse (R-Ore), tempor arily acting as majority leader, said GOP leaders "will take un der advisement any formal offer you have to make. Morse added, however, there would have to be a "gentlemen's agreement" that the Dixiecrats wouldn't filibuster if a consti tutional amendment, instead of a straight bill, is proposed. An amendment, if voted by congress. would have to be ratified by 36 states before it could become ef fective. (Addition details on page 2) ! ij ihJ - - 1-- ir ' Senator Announces GOP Plans Petitions Set 1 For Substitute J i For Manager . By Robert E. Gangware j City Editor. Tho SUlMtiuk A move to substitute s paid commission government for the present city manager plan n Sa lem was launched Wednesday night by a committee of local la bor; leaders and other citiaens. Forty men and women who ga thered in Salem Labor temple to discuss a change in form of local government designated a ID-man steering committee, which in turn organized urtderth chairman ship of Lloyd FTXeGarieJ deli catessen operator and former city alderman. Committeemen are to prepare petitions for a voters referendum against the- charter amendment which Salem voters approved to establish city manager govern ment here Jan. I, 1947 j The proposed ballot measure would substitute an elected nayor and two commissioners, toi serve full time on a paid basis, for the present elected mayor and seven aldermen who serve on am un paid basis and who employ a ci ty manager to direct city Affairs. Sauries Net Determined The measure would set the sal aries for the three - man commis sion (including mayor). Ibut . a definite salary figure await com mittee study. Several members favored tentatively salaries at $5,500. The city managers s sal aryi now Is $9,000. H. E. Barker, secretary I of the Salem Trades and Labor council. and C. F. Burt, business! agent for i four local unions, called the Wednesday meeting by inviting expression or opinion on manag er government from labor and other organizations of Salem. LeGarie's steering committee also includes: Vice chairman. At torney Elmer Amundson, (candi date for city alderman In Novem ber ! on an anti-city managership platform: secretary - frejasurer. tsarxer; Burt; Attorney Frew WU 3 I' I I - . ' i! - t ii - . y - i J "j : U' OS r , .... , i' ! Y. I: !;! s 'y : iy.y'- jT - " I II . 'i uontmue ' Y j;! - i WASHINGTON, D. C July 28 Chairman Eocene Mllllkln (Colo.) f the republican senate conference uses a gavel for emphasis as he outlines GOP strategy in the senate for the special session of con- cress. He said after a three-hoar caucus of republican senators that GOP leaders decided to have committees study President Truman's requests for housing and anti-Inflation legislation and to debate the poll tax. Sen. Milton Young (NJD.) la at left. (AP Wlrephoto to The Statesman.) 5-Year-OldI Wins Fete Amateiuiir Show By LUlie L. Madsen Farm Editor. The Statesman STAYTON, July 28.-Pretty blonde 5-year-old Darlene Christen- sen tonight, for the second consecutive year, literally danced away with sweepstakes at j the ninth annual Sanuam Bean festival s ama teur hour. Dressed in a brief black velvet and chiffon costume, Darlene, daughter of Mr. and; Mrs. Ellis Christensen of Stayton, opened with the festival "Bean Song" and iTriT. : V JL 1-" ilZZ closed with a tap dancing number "fL "tl? f,k tZ , 7 ,."L ding trades council: W. J. Entress, nure iBow, pven on a porch oi IZZTZZTLX' ,. TA"S turn Ktavtnn Woman's r nMimiu (iuiviiii, ... o. , k. under the direction of Gene Mal- ecki, festival manager. Marjory Jordan. Salem, show f - Marion County Valuation Hits Record High of $55,836,483 A record Marion county assess ment roll of $55,836,483 -- about $2,804,370 larger than the 1947 roll -t-was reported Wednesday by County Assessor Roscoe (Tad) Shelton. The increase is about 5 per cent, j The current building activity has caused real property values to increase to $40,477,580 as compar ed with $39,199,250 last year, an increase of about 3 per cent. Per sonal property in the county as sessed valuation went up to $8, 842,000, or an increase- of $839,800 over a year ago. i In the real property classifica tion a breakdown shows 511,116 acres of tillable county lands as sessed "at $18,250,170; structural improvements on unplatted, land, $5,785,770 or an increase of $791, 870, and on platted lands $10,381, 220, an increase of $463,170. Personal property valuations' are movable machinery and equip ment, $1,677,615; merchandise and stock in trade, $4,036,870 ($438, 720 increase) ; farming imple ments, machinery and equipment, $1,199,710 (decrease of $300,000),' and furniture and equipment in commercial use, $666,700 (slight increase). Shel ton's report also shows ev aluations for livestock and poul try at $749,865 and for improve ments on U. S. lands in this coun tr. si i-n Soviet Agent Entry Probed By New Board WASHINGTON, July 28.-VPh- Secretary of State Marshall today launched an inquiry ; to find out whether communist agents or otb er aliens dangerous to American security are entering the United States through the United Nations organization. 1 Marshall named three private citizens to recommend measures to plug loopholes if any .are found. The three are B. M McKelway, editor of the Washington Star; James H. Rowe, jr, a former as sistant attorney. general, who is a member of the commission on or ganization of the executive branch of the government; and Marcel lus C. Sheild, for 22 years clerk c the house appropriations commit tee before retiring in; 1944. They will not be concerned wilh the activities of specific individu als. f i Got Any Ideas ToCurbHCL? WASHINGTON, July 28 -UP-Chalrman Tobey (R-NH) of the senate banking committee today invited producers, manufactur ers and distributers to submit "practical plana to! curb Infla tion by voluntary methods." "Unless they da M before It Is too late," Tobey warned In a statement, "more j strl g t methods of haJtUc Inflation most be adopted lot the welfare ef the people and the good of the nation." , j - Tobey's eonunltees will start bearings tomorrow on the Brest dent's recommendation to csrb Inflation. He told reporters be expected the bearings to be open. - s HATELT TO ENFORCE PORTLAND, July! 28 -(flV The state liquor control commission employed a new enforcement di vision supervisor today - Wil liam A. Hately, former secret ser vice operative. He ' succeeds Ed win C. Snow, now on military leava of absence. Conrad and Mr?. M. A. Olson. Angvst 15 Deadline In :Night LUDWICSHAFEN, C'et m any, Thursday, July 290T-New bit. fit ripped the wrecked I. C.' Fart-en Chemical company here early' to day in the wake of yesterday's ex plosion which killed more than 300 and injured 6,200, according to a U. S. army estimate. German police said between 500 and 100 were killed. Yi The army said there were 300 known dead, presumably from a cpunt of bodies during rescue op erations, and that an undetermin ed number of dead stiU remain im the blazing wreckage, l U0 Raid Injured . A U. S. army sUtement said 2, 700 persons were treated for in juries suffered in the plant when the first blast occurred yesterday. At least 3,500 others Were injured by falling walls and flying glass and debris outside the plant, the army. said. n - Because of new explosions snd flames, it was impossible for r cue squads to approach some ac tions of the factory in a search for bodies. . . i ; The entire area wit Mimi,j late last night of all except fire men snd rescue workers. Just Before Quitting Time The I blast and resultant fir. which sent flames and smoke tow ering: miles into the air, camejut 15 minutes before the plant's 22, 000 workers would ha home for the day. Clocks for miles around were stopped by the con cussion at 3:45 d. m. (8:45 a. m. PDT). - Y The disaster, the greatest in Eu rope since the end of the war, was described by Lord Mayor Valentin Hafer as worse than the explosion in a Far ben plant In suburban Op pau In -921 which took 565 lives. The last serious explosion In the Ludfcrigshafen plant occurred July 29, 1943, when 73 were killed. Americans Aid Rescue Although the explosion occur red in the French occupation rone, Americans played a major role in fire fighting and rescue work. Lt Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, rem mander of the U. S. air' force in Britain, said all available U. S. planes were ready to aid- c The explosion is believed- to have occurred in a six-story rebuilding known as the "nitrate uilding." The plant had been producing industrial chemicals,1 ! drugs 'and dyes, i However, unconfirmed re ports in recent months said the French also were using it to make high explosive propulsion fluids for experiments with V-t and V-2 rockets. The committee will raise; funds ing fine finish, won first in the to finance the petitions byj j seek ing j voluntary donations. ADOut $50 j was raised at the general meeting last night and at least $250 more will be required, Burt estimated. Harry Read, manager adult division with her whistling number. Kenneth Buford and Mary White, each singing a man ner, won second and third. Evelyn Baxter, also 5, was a close second to Darien' in hr o' Salem Electric, offered !to pay song number to win first in the Panting expenses junior contest. Three very small Petitions with some 1,200 valid girls, Catherine Johnston, Clarice signatures' must be filed with the Humphreys and Sandra Jean For- city by August 15 to get the mea- est, playing accordians and mar- sure' oh the November ballot. imba, placed second, and Janice I Committeemen expected to have Edminston, in a song, placed third. I petitions ready for circulation ine audience had increased to-1 next week. . ! night and more than 1.500 helDed swell the applause on the half- hour broadcast, the first radio program ever to originate in Stay- ion. George F. Thomason, teamsters' local business agent, LeGarie and Williams endorsed a city commis sion! form of government J in the eeneral meetinff last nicrhL after a special xeature was interore- Chairman Burt called for oro and tations given by Malecki. I con comment on the present form Thursday night's big event will of government be the pet parade at 7 p. nx, fol- One! Speaker Backs Manager Milton L Meyers, city zoning commission member, was the on ly speaker in favor of the city managership government. jHe as serted the city administration now handles business more thorough ly 'and promptly than under the old council system. He added. not adverse type ef gov ernment: Barker said the Trades and La bor council opposes "city manager- shin because it placed top much authority in one man and ras un democratic because the' manaeer lowed by dancing. Announcements will also be made on entries for the grand parade set for Friday ai 7 p. m. State Calls Bids f g . t JT i om j council sysicm. Ull Capitol 1 Unnel however, that he was A to the commission t Bids on a proposed runnel un der Court street, connecting the capltoi building and the new state office building, were called for Wednesday by the state board of controL The tunnel, proposed by Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry to expedite state business and re duce pedestrian surface traffic, I TrrL-.i ... It would be 400 feet in length. feet wide and 7 feet 6 inches Portland high. was not elected directly citizens. MtaJ Portland Wants Share Of State's Surplus Max. . 1 . M S .83 SS .ss a .90 li WUlantctto river -z.7 fort. Sani rranrtsco CHUmgo New York by the Preelp. Ithi TORECAST (from UJ. werither bift. Mail. McNarv field. Satera): Ceaerally ali today and tomorrow except for local morn ins elouoint High today PORTLAND. July 28 -dVThe I IL": r. !. city council directed Its attorney I xpt for moderate ancmoon winds today to find out whether fort-1 untavoraoio jor ousting ana spraying. land can claim some of Oregon's state lncomo tax surplus. The city wants soma of the funds, to use for offsetting local I -L Vmp property taxes. 47x0 SA1XM PSBCIPITATiaW Cseyc 1 co 4iy m Lost Year Average 17.44 I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktienyc sellschaft, the gigantic German dye trust, along with theiKrupp mu nitions works formed the back bone of nazi Germany's industri al war effort It was! the largest industrial combine in prewar Ger many, it i; :t The explosion which shattered Farben's big Ludwigshafen Chem ical Works came on the eve of the general judgment Thursday by a U. S.- war crimes court on the Avar guilt or innocence of '23 ton Ft r- ben officials and directors. ? ' Youns: Dallas Trio located small caw- community. DALLAS, July 28 J-(SpecIal)- Three children were found early this morning near a milt in the Oakdale after spending the night at tko mill while Sheriff T.ll B. Hk v and a posse were searching j Polk county hills for them. Tbty suffered no ill effetcs . from the night in the open. ' ' The children, playing "hunt In dians,' were Dennis Overholser, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dal Over holser and his younger sister, Diane, and their cousin, Claudia Overholser, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Overholser. The children left their home in the Oakdale district about noon. They became lost after crossing some high ridges. They were fairly com fortable during the night, which they spent at the mill where a small fire was still burning. Yugo Commies Re-elect Tito BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. July 29 -OP)' Yugoslav icommuniM unanimously elected Y Premier Marshal Tito and his; entire staff of 63 candidates to j the party's central committee today. This amounted to full repudia tion of recent attacks on Tito by the comlnform : the inter national communist j Information bureau which accused the . Yugoslav leader and .his lieuten ants of deviating from the Marx ist line. - I! dun SEiiATpns JOS!