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'O O P. n mm MSguUDSDDUg Peas DiiftflDiniffBQi'aoeirD MM POUNDPD 1651 NINETY-EIGHTH YEAR 14 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salem; Oregon, Thursday. August 5. 1943 Price 5c No.. 123 ct'c'O" a a a a a: o WD IKteQuea trims Dm Tax Surplus Suit Rearguments will be heau by the state supreme court here on August 11 in the suit brought by former Gov. Charles A. Sprague to restrain the transfer ol state income tax ana corporate excise lax sur pluses to the state's general fund. The court ordered a rehearing of the case Wednesday. . A rehearing petition in the case The city has had to postpone construction of its interceptor sew er because of lack of adequate supplies of cement and steel. The shortage in cement is delaying work on the new state office build ing. Recently it resulted in no bids for some paving at Albany. A local cause of the shortage is the diversion fit cement to the Dorena dam. A special type of ce ment is required for that work, and . large quantities of it. - The mills furnishing the material had to concentrate on it and then make mechanical readjustments to re vert to making their regular brnads. , Steel is another matter, but be sides heavy demand for regular uses have come government orders, for steel for rearmament and for the ERP. The pinch in supplies has been predicted for. several brands. These shortages point up the unwisdom of pressing for too much government work at the present time. Sure, we want flood control dams and power dams and recla mation dams; but we do not have to have them all before supper time. Sure, the, delays are risky both for flood losses and for hand icap to industrial and agricultural development. But costly too is the inflation which the government spending is inducing. During the depression it was ar gued that public works should be done principally in periods of slack industry.- In fact we accum ulated a. shelffulof projects for the anticipated postwar depres sion. However instead of a busin ess slowdown we have had a bus iness bulge. Yet this is used as an excuse for pushing these govern ment projects, particularly pow er. We shall pay dearly for our haste. President Truman urged the special session of congress to (Continued on Editorial Page) Sec Peterson Under Fire Due To Press Ban PORTLAND, Aug. 4 -JP)- The Affiliated Milk committee of Port land Women's clubs tonight called for the resignation of State Di "rector of Agriculture E. L. Peter son. -Mrs. Frederick Fritz, committee secretary, said the organization was asking the resignation be cause of Peterson's refusal to per mit reporters to appear at hearings now being conducted by the state milk control board. The hearings are due to end tomorrow. Earlier Gov. Hall, re publican gubernatorial nominee Douglas McKay and democratic gubernatorial nominee Lew Wal lace had condemned the director's decision. Peterson has explained he -believed the hearings would involve Confidential milk marketing data raid the publicity might ' embar Fass the; milk distributors in volved. - Results of the hearings are to be , announced after the session, nowever. EGGS TO CLIMB CENT PORTLAND. Aug. 4 -JFh- Wholesale prices of all sizes of grade AA eggs are due to climb one cent a dozen on the market here tomorrow, the trade reported today. Animal Crackers I By WARREN GOODRICH "Bof, what a nightmare pest choktd mjsdf to dttthVZ OtP 0S3OOO0 TCP CODS Oirdeced was filed July 27 with the supreme court following its previous opin ion upholding Circuit Judge George R. Duncan's decision that the surplus$unds are part of the general fur The suit on which the court based its opinion was filed by Sprague who charged that these surplus funds were earmarked as a property tax offset and could not be used: for any other pur pose. The petition filed last week by Sprague said that the court's opin ion wa based on an assumption without warrant in the record, of legislative ignorance of the ef fect of legislative act3 and stated that it defeats admitted purpos es of the property tax relief leg islation. Officials estimated there is ap proximately $35,000,000 of these surplus funds: at the present time and that they probably will be in creased to mere than $50,000,000 by the end ol the current bien nium. Salem Police Fly Goodwill Plane to Reno A good-will entourage, consist ing of four members of the Salem police aerial patrol, will leave Sa lem this morning at 6 a. m. by plane for Reno,; Nevada, where they will extend! Salem and state greetings to the! city officials of Reno. ; The men will fly in two planes of the Eagle Flying Service, Salem. which have been reserved for the good-will trip. uincers m:iK;rxg the trip are Leonard Skinner, Joseph Schuetz, Urrin White and Vernard Schmidt They will carry letters of good will artd introduction from Gov. John Hall and Salem Chief of Po lice Frank Minto to Reno Chief of Police Greeson and also a letter of greetings fromii City Manager J. L. Franzen tod the mayor of Reno. The officers! also will carry descriptive material of Salem and beauty spots of Oregon from the Salem Chamber, of Commerce. Individually designed table cen terpieces advertising the Oresoa State fair, furnished by the state fair commission, will be presented to city; officials of Reno by the officers. "They will present Chief Greeson a rug, a present of the Oregon Flax Textiles, Inc. Contracts Show Hop Pride Rise A total of 39 contracts Involv ing the purchase of hops from Marion county hop I growers were filed with Marion County Record er Herman Lanke Wednesdar. All the contracts were made out by the S. S. Sterner, Inc, local hop dealers. Purchase price, as stated in the contracts, called for 70 cents per pound on early! fuggles, with adjustments to be made if the mar ket price increases. Leaf and stem contents up to 10 per cent is per mitted.! ! Last year's hop contracts re corded at Lanke' s office show that prices Were subject to OPA regu lations. Some contracts, however, quoted prices last year oh early, fuggles averaging 52 cents per pound.! I Details Given on Santiam Bridges PORTLAND. Ause. 4 (JP- A North a Santiam highway bridge over Breitenbush driver will be a 440-foot-long structure, the public roads administration re ported' today. I Earlier the administration said bids oh two North! Santiam high way bridges would be opened August 18. The . Breitenbush river bridge steel girders on con crete piers will be. a mile and a half north of Detroit. The other bridge, two miles west of the first, will span Tum ble creek. It will j be a concrete girder bridge 132 feet long. Angell Denies Potatoes Market! for Destruction WASHINGTON. I Aug. 4 -UPW A rumor that tie covernment might destroy surplus potatoes was attacked today by Rep. An gell (R-Ore), who wrote the pres ident that he hoped "the : rumor is unfounded." I - Angell urged than any surolas foods be given to lew income fam ilies rather than be thrown away. GABLE'S FATHER DIES ! VAN NUYS. Calif- Aug. 4 -hUPU The father of Actor Clark Gable, wuiiara uenry uanie. 78. died to day at his home here' of a heart ailment. Funeral arrangements were awaiting word from bis son, who Is in Europe - E-n voys bonier in Moscow European Union Wins Support In Italy, France By The Associated Press The American, British and French envoys in Moscow confer red for three hours last night after responsible sources said one of the three already had received his first official reaction from home to the talks with Prime Minister Stalin Monday night. It was not disclosed which of the three embassies received this first report. When all three have re ceived their instructions swift diplomatic developments were ex pected to pave the way for the next step aimed at easing the east-west deadlock over Berlin and perhaps all Europe. Secretary of State Marshall told reporters at his news conference in Washington he was unable to com ment on Moscow developments. The secretary radiated none of the optimism reported in Moscow and other capitals. Air Freight Mark Falls The American air supply line to Berlin broke its own record again yesterday, carrying 2,104 tons of supplies into the Russian block aded city in 303 flights. With an estimated 1,000 tons flown in by the RAF. Italy's Foreign Minister, Count Carlo Sforza, declared his country is ready to join a union of Euro pean nations as the only cure for Europe's economic and political difficulties and the hope of peace. He said Italy is ready "to accept curtailment of its political sov ereignty even in the most un expected aspects," provided others do the same. French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud also urged a United States of Europe in a speech in Pans. He expressed hope Great Britain "will join in this great Greeks Split Guerrillas In Greece, government columns advancing from east and west joined and cut In two the "free Greece" of communist guerrilla chieftain Markos Vafiades. The junction was made in the neigh borhood of Kerassovon and was made possible by the storming of Kleptis Height by two battalions moving from the south. mn kuSh of Trans-Jordan told a news conference in Amman hia " ArnVi nation rin nnt evflnrla any possible compromise in Pal- estine that secures justice and pre- vents unnecessary bloodshed." Lodge to Erect Salem Building Plans for a $35,000 Knights of Columbus council headquarters building and Cathlic center in Sa lem are almost completed, coun cil officials said Wednesday. nian n v. Miirfi.. -. cvtr. I ping and North Cottage streets, was viewed at the Tuesday night meeting of the council. It is to be I a one-story building, complete J with meetine. dinine and recrea- tion rooms. A second story is to be added later. Grand Knight S. L. Ripp said that construction would probably start on completion of a current fund drive. It also was decided Tuesday to hold a picnic in cooperation with the Catholic Daughters of America, Salem court, on Sunday, August 15 in Silverton city park. Hail Hammers Umatilla Crops PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 4-(JP) A hail storm" hammered 3,000 acres of wheat and dry peas in Umatilla county late yesterday. Farmers estimate the damage i Th tnrm chsttrnwi farmhrmc I windows and broke heads of Irui Th lanxl hft urn. am- I anil A th, lUtHhnrxt I s it w. th nmr haiictnrm hro u . a.a tk. mmnA-1 ed through the Cayuse - Athena - Ada - Wton section of the ITtZ . cvwu f The worst damage was reported I by Irvin Mann, of Adams, who reported crops lost on 1,000 acres. I County Takes Over 4 Corners Roads ! Establishment of LaB ranch and part of Mabel avenues In the Four Corners area as a county road was affirmed by Marion county court rednesday. j The . two streets connect : East State street with the Turner road. Establishment of them as a coun ty road and improvement on them Was requested by the Four Cor ners rural fire protection district I to xacuiiaio uro proiecuon. Silvermaster Testifies ('y ' ' (, .! J. -' . (v WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 Nathan ernment official, testifies under been a spy or agent for any appeared before the house on Washington to answer accusations made against him before the same group by Elizabeth T. Bentley, admitted former communist agent. (AP Wlrephoto to The Ex-Official M tim on U5ed Record, Denies Spying WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -CJPt- accused of spying for Soviet Russia, aide and a cabinet officer protected naval intelligence tried to get him fired. Silvermaster produced a letter he said was written by Robert P. Patterson, then secretary of war, clearing him after Lauchlin Currie. for years a top White Hmise assistant, had called on Patterson in Silvermastera be- half. The middle-aged Silvermaster, a witness Deiore ine nouse un- American activities committee, flatly refused to say whether he ever was a communist, dui ne asserted he never was a spy. He said the naval intelligence report was an unjustified smear and that he had been cleared after investigation by various agen- 1 including, i chief of the U. - sctI 1 " I Realls Case (In New York, Patterson said that to the best of his recollec- tion Lume cauea mm uunuj .i war aDoui a case ux ,uwu of economic warfare involving man he thinks was Silvermas- tr H ordered an Inquiry, he said, and told Currie later that the war department did not ob ject to the man staying in.tui.w. h added ne nas every evi dence In Currie.) rhirrf. in Scarsdale. N.Y- said he recalled "being consuiiea in 1942 about a security report made by military intelligence on iuver marfr" hut "I never saw nor nafwi on this Darticular repoTv since the "decision rested solely witn unaersecrew whose judgment I had every con- fidence. SUyed Foot Years TwtimonT that both the navy and the civil service commission had tried unsuccessfully to pry Silvermaster loose from his job with the board of economic war fare was given the committee. He stayed on four more years unui 1946. TOT Louis RusselL a former FBI agent and now a committee inves tigator, testified that the civil service commission looked upon Silvermaster as a communist. And Elizabeth Bentley, who says she was formerly a soviet agent, re peated her story that Silvermas ter furnished lniormauon max went to Russia. j Charges Laid Russell said he learned that as far back as 1920 Sijvermaster was regarded , as an "underground aeent" -of the communist party. Since then, he testified, evidence indicates- nvermaiier n uwu "everrthin from a fellow traveler to an agent xor ine jvi-u iu-. clan Secret DOliCe). - I Silvermaster worked f or the KDVCnBDOH 1 JWil UM. vuwub lobs, including senrico with the resettlement administration, mar- Wme labor board.-farm security administration, board of ectmomic warfare and war assets adminis- tration. 7eallier Max. Mta. Ffteip. M wM ' S4 JB9 1 .73 Portland San rrmncMco Chlearo n Nw York M J01 WITlarMtta rtrar -IS fact. FOBXCAST (from UJS. weather ba mxx, McMary -field. 6lem): Partly tvove&y today and toucnt wnn occa- Dortoda of clearing, siumuy wanner afternoon tempera turea . with blsn this afternoon ft; low tonight U. Conditions farorable lor all harvest ac trrttioa with winds In afternoon and even Ins Interfarlns with spraytna and SALKM rUCXPITATION (rzeam Sept I to Aag. S) lt Year - M.4S. , Avras AIM Grerory Silvermaster, former ger- oath that I am not and never have foreign government.' Silvermaster - American activities committee In Statesman.) Ha than Gregory Silvermaster. related today that a White House his wartime government job after Lebanon Gty Official Admits Taking Funds LEBANON, Aug.. 4.-(SpecIal)- City council here has accepted the resignation of city recorder and police judge George H. Randall following the disclosure by Lloyd J. Frese, currently auditing the dry books, of a misappropriation of city funds. Randall's resignation became ef fective at 1 p. m. Tuesday. Frese representing the auditing firm of Bowers, Davis and Hoff man, Salem, recently employed by the council to audit the books of the city recorder and treasurer Saturday obtained a signed con fession from Randall admitting the defalcation of an estimated $1,200. While the audit Is not yet com plete both the council and Frese expressed the belief that comple tion of the check would not sub stantially alter--the amount of the shortage, and the city would be returned all or nearly all of the sum from the bond it carried on the recorder. Several of the councilmen sta ted they knew of no plan to pros ecute as restoration of the funds is expected. Randall has been re corder for nearly 25 years. Following the acceptance of the resignation the council appointed Ilda Unger, recorder pro-tern. Miss Unger has been an assistant In the office for several years. Shortages Cripple School District, State Building Programs in Area Salem's booming public con struction programs are hard hit by cement and steel shortages wnicn have caused delays in new build ing for the Salem school district, for tho state at its Court and Cap itol street office building site, the penitentiary and Hillcrest school here, and for the city in tne city hall elevator construction. The shortage was cited this week by city officials who post poned until next summer the In terceptor sewer program planned tor this season. Several sand and gravel com panies have been i hampered in their operations. Commercial sand and Gravel company officials an nounced a possible close - down in a day or two since tho Oswego plant furnishing its cement is converting to special operations for tho government's Dorena dam protect. River Send sand ana Gravel company expected a lay off of some employes If shortages continue. Its plant was closed Wednesday because of shortages. C C Ward, business manager of the Salem school district, an nounced Wednesday that $198,000 worth of work on additional GOP Gives Up Anti-Poll Tax Fight in Senate Washington, Aug. 4-flVTh GOP substitute for President Truman's anti - inflation program was rammed through the house banking committee tonight on 16-8 vote. It calls for restoration of war time curbs of installment buying, and a moderate tightening of bank credit. GOP leaders were pressing drive to adjourn the extra session of congress, possibly Saturday night, or at the latest next Tues day. Earlier they had abandoned an anti-poll tax bill in the senate, saying a five-day southern fili buster prevented action at this session. A senate-house committee ten tatively approved, meanwhile. housing bill which Senator .Mc Carthy (R-Wis) said is principal ly designed to stimulate produc tion ox lower cost hornet." The measure is far different from the Truman-backed Taft-El- lender-Wagner bill, designed to spur the construction of 15,000,000 nomes in 10 years. For one thing, the T-E-W bill contains a provi sion for government-financed and publicly-owned homes for low in come persons, a provision which McCarthy said as absent from the new bill. Ignores Proposals The anti-inflation bill approved by the house banking committee flatly rejects Mr. Truman's call for reimposition of selective price and wage controls and rationing. It ignores his proposal for a $4.- 300,000,000 excess profits tax. ine republican measure was headed for a house vote tomorrow. Written by Rep. Wolcott (R- Mich), chairman of the banking committee, it won committee ap proval on what was reported to be a strict party line division. It provides: 1. Installment buying controls up to March 15, 1949. These controls in wartime usu ally required a one-third down payment on such things as auto mobiles, stoves, house furnishings, and electrical appliances. The re mainder had to bo paid In J3 months. 2. Increased reserve require ments of federal reserve banks from 0 to 7 per cent and increased reserves against demand deposits. In central reserve bank cities (New York and Chicago) the max imum requirement can be increas ed from the present 26 per cent to 29; in reserve city banks, from 20 per cent to 23; in country banks, 14 to 17 per cent. Mast Maintain Reserves S. Every federal reserve bank shall maintain reserves In gold certificates of not less than 35 per cent against Its deposits, and re serves in gold certificates of not less than 40 .per cent against its federal reserve notes in actual cir culation. The present require ment in each category Is 25 per cent. The Idea behind increasing the serves Is that the higher they are the less money the banks will have to put out In inflationary loans. Funds to Limit Immigration WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -rV shortage of funds will limit to about 40,000 the number of refu gees to enter the United States in the next 11 months. Ugo Carusi, newly named displaced persons commissioner said today. This is less than half the amount of immigration contemplated for the period under the displaced persons law passed in June. Carusi said his conclusion is bas ed on a study of what can be done with the "inadequate" $2,000,000 budget appropriated by congress to finance the immigration. rooms for Bush, West Salem, and Middle Grove I schools has been delayed for lack jof materials. Shortages of reinforcing steel had plagued building activities ear lier, but supplies have now been completed. j . Despite cement shortages, con tractors ' hope j to begin pouring concrete at the Bush and West Salem schools early next week. . Construction the first begun with funds from last spring's $1, 900,000 bond issue will add six rooms each to Bush and West Sa lem school buildings and one room to Middle Grove school. The West Salem project, cost ing about $100,000, will Join the central building with the gymna sium. The 89-foot by 62-foot two story structure adds t six largo classrooms and a stage. Altera tions on the central building in clude a cafeteria, kitchen and boil er room on the ground floor. The old boiler has already been torn down and a new one will be in stalled prior to the new school term. Excavation for the new 8,000 - gallon. fuel - oil storage tank has also been completed. At Bush school workmen ex Safe Driving Prize Fails to Cover Cost Of Traffic Offense rKu, ind, Aug. 4 -OP) sponsors oi ine current motor ists' -courtesy drive" here blushed and averted their eves when George Kehler," 28, ap peared before Justice of : the Peace Mable Personnel on' reckless driving charge today. Kenier received a $5 award Monday for safe and courteous driving. He pleaded guilty to the reckless driving charge to day and shelled out the $5, plus io in costs, to pay the fine. Commission Plan Outlined; Petitions Due A proposed citv commission government for Salem was out - lined Wednesday night as the sponsoring committee DreDared to start circulation Saturday of pe- tltlons seeking to put the pro- posal on the November ballot. Judicial departments separate from nthr Hfv ndmin!tratism and civil service to cover all but five elected city officials feature the proposed charter ' amendment drafted by Attorney Elmer Amundson. a member at the 1ft- man sponsoring committee head- "nd acquaintances and then pick ed by former alderman Lloyd F. big1 names from the phone book. LeGarie. -In Louisville, Ky., housewives Hlighllghts of the plan present- ed in Salem labor temple: rreseni oinces or i paid ciiyi'"" j ' manager- and unpaid elected mayor and seven aldermen would be abolished. City affairs would bo admin- Istered by three-member city commission Including a mayor- commissioner and two other com- missioners, each to head a sepa- rate combination of present city departments. Both city attorney snd city Judge also would be elected. Recall of elected officials by petition - or election would be added to present city charter. Civil service hoard i annointed bv the citv commission would mvm nnali first ion. examination and hiring of aU other city em - nlovea. including department " hMria rith nvmr annnlnt. men ts , limited to six months duration. (Additional details on page 2.) Met Cancels Opera Season; Unions Blamed NEW YORK. Aug. 4-CP-The world-renowned Metropolitan Op era today cancelled its 1948-49 season because, it said, demands for union wage Increases could not be met. If the cancellation stands. It will be the first time in 50 years that the Met has failed to present a sea son of opera. Thm onera atlon said its decision was caused by "failure to reach agreements with all of the 12 unions representing tho em- ployes." Shortly after the announcement one of the top three unions, local 802 of tho AFL American Federa- tion of Musicians, said it had re- luctanuy witnarawn aemanos xor a wage boost In an effort to reach settlement with the opera. The opera's stars had not yet signed contracts for the next sea son. George A. Sloan, chairman oil the board, and Charles M. Spot- ford, president, said in a Joint statement xnai in me xace ox a 1947-48 deficit of about $220,000 point of Irresponsibility" to meet further demands' involving still a, ww vuivt - w " higher costs of production.' pect to begin . pouring concrete Monday. Three classrooms on each I of the two floors will occupy the new 119 by 37-foot north wing.in( is cents or jtwo for 33 cents An auxiliary Doner is Deing in-1 stalled at Bush, to increase neat SJSSr'oS0 wing. Total cost of the project ap-1 proximates $86,000. Construction of a H by 24-foot additional room at taiaaim throve i -. . . . . a. k a a 11 . I school is rapidly neanng comple- your quite Justified in summon tion. The frame-type construction I ing your husband to open those eostlnc $10,000 will be ready for I use when school opens. I Work continues on develoDment I of the West Salem athletic field, I located at the proposed West Sa-1 lem Junior high school. The field is being filled and leveled with 13,009 cubic yards of dirt from the North Capitol street trading center project- excavation. Top soil from the -field has been re moved and will be replaced? on top of the fUL -Elsewhere in the Salem school district regular summer mainten ance work Is going ahead in pre paration for the new school year. Waxing and varnishing projects are mostly completed. . Chain Calls Cover South, Due in Oregon CHICAGO. Au. 4 -JPU A Me- phone crusade against high meat prices mounted as hou hit rec ord t price peaks today. , , Housewives in scattered parts of the country phoned one an other to stay out of butcher shops, but the phone calls did not reach the Chicago livestock market. It was" there that the new all time high hog peak $31.50 a hun dred pounds was reached. Some long distance cheer came I from , the grain markets. Corn prices sank to a fiew low for the year as tho largest corn crop in history approached maturity. Traders estimated the crop might top 13,500.000.000 bushels. The butcher boycott, spread by I telephone calls. centered mainly in Texas. It began in Dallas, where the Dallas Fede ration of Women's clubs urged I housewives to buy no meat from 1 August 9 to August 18. Women I m several other Texas cities took UP I the plaintive cry. ? 7 Smarts in t?ixie ' J v-nam uwepnone cans aiso were being used to support the r,o- I me1 campaign in Miami. Ha, and Atlanta. Ga. Those who KOl c11 were supposed to phone 've friends at Miami, urging them to Join the crusade. A housewife spread the ; campaign it I Atlanta calling her friends were reported waging a tele- phone campaign against high Aooeo; soar j . The agriculture department I added a sour note for consumers who might be thinking of me&t substitutes. It said there was no prospect of lower chicken and gg prices before next yctr. Thanksgiving, turkeys will cot more than last year.nhe depart- merit . predicted. PORTLAND. Aug 4 -011 Housewives here were asked to night to start a boycott of mr&t counters and a spokeswoman icr tho Portland League of Women voters said it would start a teie- I Dhone campaign in tht morning I WM T- I 1 wrs. iuien uis x.wing nu I Mrs. Drew Lawrence armounred I a nubile meeting- or women club representatives for Friday to set up a formal organization, f We're going to refuse to buy food items priced 'too ; high one at ! a time. Mrst Ewing reported, "first will be Ibeef, then pota toes, and down the line." Hopes Raised : For Lost Plane PARIS. Aug. 4 -i&r A second message for he p received by a French ship at sea raised hopes tonight for the 1(2 persons aboard a giant Air France seaplane mis sing since Sunday on a trans Atlantic flight. 1 ! last night the French frigata Leverrier intercepted an SOS. Today a radio tall for help de- scribed as "extremely feeble I came with the call letters "BCR Air France officials said this in- I dies ted tne -message was irom mo missing plane. Ships and planes have been thrown Into a search for the plane. 1 . 7Jton six en cine Latecoere 631. it disappeared bn a flight from Port de France. Martinique, to Port Etienne, Mauritania, French west Africa. The plane was lart heard from 1,20 miles off Dakar. i , If i nfnrpr I HPP V j i -b- j KiCA H SOriVrf Afl Eighteen cents ' is the general price prevailing In most Salem taverns and restaurants for cig- arets following nationwide price rise this week. Prices at local stores which had been charging 14 cents last week have now been tipped to 13 cents or two packs for 29 cents. Other stores have upptd the price from 15 to 16 cents per package. Restaurants end taverns here were getting 18 cents for moft brands last week and were charg- Wednesday. We Sprain, Neck While Attempting to Upen Jar i 1 T ! PORTLAND. Aug. 4 -vn- go a a . S a ngni on, laaies me aocior wy tight Jars. t (Agnes lams, Willamina, tried to open a Jar herself. Doctors at- tending her at a hospital here, said sne sprained net necx. .1 Uca 3r3ir C-3 I - 1 i . - "I 'i ' i.