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"3 ! to n nflnrvn ri Of Funds Blocked I :: u ITTP tKD COOS For a supreme court to reverse itself after rehearing a case is un usual but not unprecedented. The burden clearly is on the petitioner to Drove bis case and occasionally It occurs' that either through more effective argument or use of per tinent precedents the petitioner convinces the court that its pre vious finding was wrong, sucn appears to have been the case in the late test ox me law governing Himosal of revenues from the tat income tax. . It should be mentioned that in the previous hearing, to expedite a decision both plaintiff and de fendant waived the customary pri vilege of filing reply briefs. So toe not as thoroughly de veloped before the first hearing ax is usually true, inen amusi admitted there was room ior dSSreSe of opinion. .The ; .tgr- M 0nral after studying the law SSTSS SSfSSt for general spending ana cuea uc- .inm fmm otner siaies mi auum - vu. T I mnrtrt . tj . . hS!1rinff bis reasoning. 0n5f ISth hi? lour Justices concurred with his o. fWa second hearing " .. ,.rr,-,A that when the case ""i -,"2? 1?J0nt ?01 wirrTr. v- .tim1 for use in miieS fllC CJfcWWVM ' o- ta-res. 'This -decision, settles the issue as far as present receipts and pres- ent laws are concerned. The next i.chhn run nass new laws ana direct the use 01 income ceipts f ox such purposes as it sees . fit. That will be a matter for leg islative action. The funds cannot be used for general spending (be yond the 6 per cent limitation) by . judicial cane Diancne. t. k. structure of thefurday morning and Monday) Oregon tax system and the heavy the papers are to be officially filed demands sure to be made for ap (including checking) with the rec Ttranriationsl the task of the next order by Monday at 5 P-nx, the legislature win not be an easy one. TW,an with th sales tax notion out of their heads the legislators j 4k hiih thr cbotiM ,aw Hon in 1947 when the Drob- lem was the same and was clearly stated by Governor Snell. Chiefs Plane Said Sabotaged PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 19-UPi The chief of- police of Molalla, Ore., asserted today mat someone tried to kill Hn by sabotaging his airplane. m , li. ... im w up from a take-off at Molalla this mornine. The chief. W. R. Wal- pe.Hd.pen7er,uIP Berg, Monitor, ure., escapea in- i"??' . ... . . - ' . I wMnn 9ti n Trti Tr nv ni. I Ions of water had been substituted 1: J -A nlna tank. : "Whoever sabotaged the plane knew the standard procedure of warming up the engine on such plane with gasoline from the left tank, then switching to draw j gasoline from the reserve sump in the right wing tank for take-on," he said. - surplus Vultee BT-13 to Payette, Trfahn. said ha would continue the investigation. Waldren conducted a flight school at Sllverton and Molalla before becoming chief here a year ago. Woodburn Votes O 1 1 t 1 . f- OCnOOl OUdget JttlSe : WOODBURN, Aug. 19, (Special) A measure to raise $39,320.14 ov er the 6 per cent limitation to op erating the Woodburn school dis- trict, was favored here today by j voters by 181 to 99 vote. ' Thursday's balloting was the i third held on the same measure. The first election was disqualified by an underattendance of voters and the second by an error in the wording of the ballot. Anlrnn! Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Gdg whit tecmtiomt sens NINETY-EIGHTH YEAR 20 Kingwood Check to nee Sr - ?? (Jf blffnatllTeS L . . - . - Stai Undecided i ,T.i i . . . 1 wncnecxeci peuuons seeiung Daiioi , spot ior we proposea change from manager to commis- form government ,or 53. 1 ..dfUvered by the city recoraersi oiiiceii 10 me county clerk's office this morning for checking th? validity of signers, it was decided late: Thursday after I noon- I Mm Am wnetner tnat ?! process can De ! elusion of the proposal on the bal- lot was nocertain. but officials v'u mcur cuuiu The county office has as yet cer tified only 583 names of the re ported 1,6 It names on the peti tions. The law requires 1,252 for such initiative petitions. The of fice would have; only IVt days to make its inspection (Friday, Sat- if posing time according to law. And H clerk's office is obliged to 2. iKK J? 1 Last Petitions Delivered Las ! Petitions were de- 5f recorder's office late Wednesday afternoon and held there Thursday pending a check by city officials on acceptability of the petitions' without certification from the county! clerk, and pend ing the city recorders check on earlier-received petitions for an initiative measure proposing a franchise for Salem Electric After conference with Mrs. Gla dys White, elections clerk at the courthouse, Deputy "City Recorder Eva Rush decided to send the peti tions to the clerk's office for checking, beginning this morn ing.. The city .. recorder, Alfred Mundt, is on vacation. Delay Charged L. F. LeGarie. chairman of the auKiii cummiHW proposing a 41 J M L . 7flSlJfit th -VTSri J?! "if?1 dda7 vrr: T T " Citv Attrtrnv!rhrf Kowltr uM . " T.t rrT1:', H1UJ vt auu IUIIC CtCVUUUi on whether the petitions are legal ly acceptable. City hall precedent has required the county clerk's certification on petitions before ac- "lu" ceptance by the, city recorder. $2,000 Found 1 KAGt rTririTTI XIX X 1.91. Xi.ULfill arte City police with the help of United Airline employes and a pair of ice tongs Thursday morning re- icoverea i,uuu m siu diiis irom the rest room' of a DC-6 plane east coastj;'; Police -were first called to the airport before the plane j landed. William Decker, YakutaV Alaska, a passenger, told two officers of the loss of the; $2,000 somewhere between Denver and Salem upon his arrival here in the plane. Decker told police he had car ried! the envelope containing the money inside Ids shirt and was sure it was there when he chan ged planes in Denver. He had felt the money in the envelope several times during the trip, he told po lice : and his wife confirmed the Story .i ; I 1 r - ; t , A- r, After a thorough search of the plane and Decker's luggage, police were still unable to find the ey. As a last resort, a pair of ice tongs was used to probe the lava tory facilities and it was there that the $2,000, $1,900 in $10 bills and one $100 bill, were found by Offi cers Charles Creasy and R. R. Main. ' 2 .! . ' Weather Mmx. 11 7 - 75 - 19 Mln.' PrwHp. Salcat PortUnd San franc aco IT ei v JOO XX) 1M Chicago -- 1 New York ; 77 7 WUUmttte liver -3 feet. FORECAST (from UJS. watbr bu reau, McNary field. Salem) : Increasins ciouaineM today wtta ram .tomcat. Hish temperature tody 72: low tonieht S6. Weather good for moat farm work until late afternoon. Winds will Inter- : i ere wivx dusting mostly today. SAtXM PKKCIPITATION PrM Sept 1 t Am. M) I Thia Year Accepta UI Airpl Averaf 1.S tsat Year . W.71 PAGES Tli Orecon Skrt Annexation ' Petitions Ready Start on Co Final Rites r NEW YORK, Aag. 1$ This Is a Patrick's cathedral as f nneral Jig ) ... . ' U , i ! 'ij.f .i H. .. :: ' hi My 1a 4i Francis Cardinal Spelhnan presided at the requiem high mass for the' late home ran king of baseball wha died ef cancer at the age ef 53 in New fork. The casket containing Bath's body is in f rent f the mam aisle. (Story en sports page). (AP Wirephete te The Statesman.) " Meat Cutters For Strike in Salem meat cutters whose employers have not signed wage in crease agreements asked by Meat on to strike today, Claude Boyd, union president; announced Thursday night. - The strike may affect about noted that a majority of Salem markets have signed the agreement. Freedom Short For Released Pen Convict Following bis release from Ore gon State penitentiary at V3d a. m. Thursday, Robert Marlar was rearrested Thursday afternoon by Salem city police on a Marion county district court warrant char ging assault with a deadly wea pon. Marlar had just completed a four year sentence on a similar charge from Multnomah county, police said. His arrest followed an episode at the Chemeketa apartments. 111 Chemeketa st, police reports show, where C M. Moore, resident there, came home to find Marlar in his bed, The apartment assistant man ager; Rex Kelley was called and Marlar. was asked to leave. He left, but returned with an axe which he brandished about, Moore told police, Moore also told police he used threatening language while he and Jack Lunt, another resi dent there were in the room. Mar lar finally left, police said. leav. ing the axe in the room. Police ar rested him later in a downtown tavern. -.. "" " Marlar is held in lieu of $2000 bail and-will be arraigned in Mar ion county district court mis morning, court records show. U.S. Airlines to Raise Prices WASHINGTON. Aug. 19-WV The nation's airlines will increase passenger fares in general 10 per cent as a result of an , industry conference with the civil aeronau tics board today. v ; Chairman Joseph O'Connell. jr- of the CAB reported the forthcom ing increase as one of the informal decisions of the conference on the industry's financial difficulties. The rate boost will make the average fare just over six cents a mile on most air lines. The pres ent average la fJ celts. . man, Salem. Orecon' Friday, ission for the Babe i ll I : ill. , r-m tar hi y J f general, view ef the interior af 'Strl services i for Babe Roth were held. i.. ; Union Calls 12 Markets Cutters union, local 291, were called 12 Salem markets. Boyd said. He Pickets will be placed at any mar kets where cutters strike today, Boyd said. Employers here have offered $73 a week (48 hours) for head meat cutters 'and managers and $68 a week for Journeyman meatcutters. an increase of fa and $3 per week. The union has requested in the new agreement $75 a week for managers and head cutters and $70 a week for journeymen. Negotia tions have been going on for about a month, the union announced. Boyd said that he feels that the $70 a week s more in line with the present cost of living and that Salem's scale for meatcutters has been one of the lowest in the state. H. E. Carlson,' Portland, sec retary of Oregon Independent Re tail Meat Dealers association and labov consultant for the local In dependent Retail Meat Dealers, said Thursday "Our Salem meat dealer employers have taken the position that with the uncertain market conditions in the meat business and with buyers' resis tance against higher retail meat prices,' they cannot feel justified in making excessive wage in creases that will result in higher meat prices in place of encourag ing, lower retail prices. Salem retail meat dealers acknowledge the fact that retail meat prices are too high and are making ev ery effort to sell meats at the lowest possible, leveL" Klondike Kate b(iern " ALBANY. Ore Aug. 19 -60 Klondike Kate, who withstood the rigors of the Alaska gold rush and central Oregon ; ranchin, is going soft at last! ; Now the wife of w. I Van Duren, Bend accountant, she said they would -movej from central Oregon to a farm site 14 miles north of here soon. . . They will build a " home of simulated logs. But the frontier atmosphere will end there. We re going to have every modern convenience. Fm tired of roughing it," she said. . 1 FDXST LADY IN DENVER DENVER. Aug. 19 . - UP, - Mrs. Bess Truman, wife of the presi dent, arrived here for a two-week vacation today. Going M August 29, 1943 Petitions Advocates; to Meet Tonight In West Salem Petitions for annexing Ho the city of Salem a large; Polk coun ty, area surrounding but -excluding West Salem will be ready for distribution today. . Citizens across the! river from Salem who favor such a move are to meet at 8 o'clock;, tonight In West Salem Legion hau to organize, their efforts and begin circulating petitions. The j propos ed annexation area corresponds with "the vKingwood I water dist rict, extending in a crescent shape from the river west of West Sa lem, around the limits of West Salem to its Wallace road boun dary and the intercounty bridge on the east. I . Notices Sent 800 J Barney VanOnsenoord is tern porary chairman of the petition ing . group.' Meeting notices were sent to the estimated 800 resi dents of the affectedarea. Proponents' of the' annexation point out that Salem needs area to the west for expansion pur poses. They cite that within a two-mile radius of downtown Sa lem there are over 40,000 resi dents on the east side of the river and only about 4,000 on. the west side. - 1 .. - To' Facilitate Merrer ! , Annexation advocates also note that- completion of the 'annexa tion of i the Kingwood district to Salem would facilitate I a later merger of West Salem with Sa lem. Despite- a 1947 state legis lative act drafted to allow mer ger of the two cities; initial steps toward the- merger were1 thwart ed in Polk county courts by decision that the river ; did not form a common boundary be cause Minto's Island of Marion county intervenes. To bring a Kingwood i annexa tion proposal to a Tote, the Sa lem city council would -: have to receive at least one; petition and direct that a special election be held, possibly to coincide with a general election. A special poll book would be prepared for the area seeking annexation and that area and the city of Salem would each have to cast a majority vote in favor of the annexation. Rain in YaUey Slows Harvest Beans and bops' were being picked in a few Willamette valley fields Thursday, but the clouds and rainy weather were hamper ing both the ripening and harvest ing of the crops, .according to the Salem office of the state employ ment service. I t The office reported that many bean pickers had switched to han dling the early fuggles bop crop. resulting in a labor shortage for the Staytoa and Woodburn bean areas. - Workers are needed now. and the demand is expected to grow if the weather, clears. Crowd Expected Of Flaxaria Qneen at Mt. Angel By Iillie L. Madsea farm Editor. Tb. Statesman MT. ANGEL. Aug. Its-Hun dreds of valley folk are expected here Friday night to witness the coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Mary Jane Geelan of St. Paul to rule over Flaxaria! until Sunday night. King Bing Charles Claggett of Salem Cherriana will place the crown, assisted in the ceremonials by additional Cherrians. Joseph Bercmoid. chtex ox the Mt. Angel volunteer fire depart ment, will serve as master of cere monies. A brief musical program will be given in connection with the coronation to be followed by two dances. I Honored with Queen Mary will be her royal court, Marilyn Myers of Salem; Betty Twito of Wood burn, Rita Drescher of Monitor and Regina Traeger, Mt. Angel, the latter crown princess of the court. -: . i j - Announced as special features of Saturday's program; aside from the industrial tour and. the grand pa rade, will be the memorial cere monial at 1:30 when the new city garden will be dedicated to the memory of Dr. J. R. Webb and Dr. Price 5c Publication of Notes' Contents By Jena M. Hlrhtewer WASHINGTON, . Aug. 19 -OP) xne united states tonight re jected Russian protests and de mands in ' connection with the cases. of the Soviet school teach ers who have sought refuge in this country. ' An American note replying to notes, which had been sent to the state department by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov and Ambassador Alexander S. Pan yushkin was delivered to the Soviet embassy here at 5:10 pjn. eastern standard time. , , The state1 department announc ed the delivery of the document, by a department messenger, but declined to make any comment upon its contents prior to publi cation which is scheduled for 9 ajn.. E.S.T. tomorrow. , Despite this : temporary secre cy, there was no doubt that the state- department had turned down Russian demands for the delivery of the school teachers into Soviet custody and had re jected Russian accusations against the American " government, and its officials, including a charge that they had connived in the kidnapping" of the teachers. Willeys Weary As Farm Still . Lighting Fires MACOMB, X1L, AUg. l-f- Two new fires starting almost si multaneously in the chicken house and the milk house dogged the burned -out, mystified . Charles Willeys today. The elderly farm couple, who have been living under a tarpau lin since their farm home burned down Saturday reported they ob served smoke seeping from their chicken house shortly before noon. Willey found a box of old news paper blazing fiercely but stamped out the flames. Then Mrs. Willey said she open ed a cupboard door in their tem porary dining room in the milk house- and found newspapers on the shelf smouldering. She patted out the fire before the flames did much more than scorch the, pa per, f Tm completely mystified,'' said Fire Chief Fred Wilson after in specting the source of the new fires. He took the newspapers back to bis office for a chemical analy sis. Within the past 12 days fires have destroyed the Willey home and a barn. Small blazes abp have been extinguished in the milk house and chicken house. Nearly 200 small fires flared up spontan eously In the Willey home before the final blaze consumed it. Russian Teacher 'Very Much Improved' NEW YORK, AUg. 19-OEV-Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina was returned to an oxygen tent tonight , after a four-hour period without artificial aid to her breathing. However, Roosevelt hospital said her condi tion was "very much improved." She first was placed in the tent yesterday when she had difficulty with her breathing. She also was given a blood transfusion last night. . - - - ' , at Coronation A. F. X, Schierbaum, both of whom gave many years to the betterment Of ML Angel both medically and dvically, and the talk by Dorothy McCulloughLee, mayor-elect of Portland. - Dr. Webb, a native of Silverton, was the first ML Angel physician. serving from a young man until his death four years ago, with the exception of a period of army ser vice -during the first world war. He was also mayor of ML Angel for a number of years and past commander of the ML Angel post, American Legion. Dr. Schierbaum, who died in 1945. also served ML Angel for a long time and was the first presi dent of the Business men's club as well as director of the Men's chor us for several years. Mrs. Lee will give the main ad dress at the 4 o'clock program which follows the grand festival parade. At this program. Queen Mary will also award the parade prizes. Jghould showers fall on festival events, activities will be transfer red to two large halls. Mayor Ja cob Berchtold has announced. Slated Today No. 1S3 mm mm Mj TjONDON, Anr. ' 19-Mrs. Marie Pr.raznik.va, leader ef Czech women's Olympic . team, smiles in , London where 'she said she weald not re tarn to CseelMale vakia. "I am a political refagee and proud of It," she said. CAP Wlrepheto te The Statesman). Hit-Run Case State police Thursday afternoon arrested' Joseph William Brown, Woodburn route 2, on a Marion county district, court , w a r r a n charging ; negligent homicide. The arrest was made, police said, in connection with the hit-run accl dent Wednesday night near Hub bard in which Eugene and Alvin Ready, Portland, teen-age bicy clists, were critically injured. Eugene, 16, died early Thursday morning at Salem Memorial hospi tal where the two boys were tak en by ambulance following the ac cident. Brown was arrested at his home in Woodburn Thursday by state police who had arrested him Wed nesday night on another charge, being drunk on a public highway, district court records show. He was released Thursday morning after pleading guilty and posting $150 bail. : Meanwhile, Alvin Ready, 14. was still: in serious, but slightly im proved conditions at Salem Memo rial: hospital, hospital attendants said. State police said they made the second arrest after noticing that the front end of Brown's car was damaged. Brown will be arraign ed in district court this morning and is held in lieu of 12,500 bail in Marion county Jail. Eugene Ready. Is survived by his brother Alvin and his parents, Mr; and Mrs. Amoroso Ready. Portland. Funeral services will be announced later by . the Clough- Barrick company. State to Gain 2 essmen, Solon Predicts ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. 18-P) Rep, Mack (R-Wash) predicted today Washington : and Oregon would gain two congressmen each In 1952 because of greater popula tion. Mack ' estimated that California would get 10 ' more , representa tives by the 1952 apportionmenL boosting the congressional, strength of the three west coasfestates to 47. Oregon now has four UJ3. rep resentatives; Washington six. "With our natural resources. Washington and Oregon should in the next 25 years have a com bined population of between eight million : and twelve million peo ple, Mack added. V Newspaper Edition Has Teeth in It TEXARKANA. Aug. 19 -W)- Thls edition has teeth in 1LN the Texark-Ana Gazette told readers in a front page box. Printer S. H White accidental ly dropped his false teeth in the composing room, they fell into a pile of scrap lead and type metaL The metal went into a melting pot; with It the teeth. The metal was used to make page casts for the Gazette. Refugee Man Held as Boy Dies in iongr Surplus state income tax reve nues cannot be spent for .gent-rtl governmental purposes, the Oit gon supreme court ruled in a 4 to 2 split decision Thursday, reversing a previous verdict. On July 15 the court ruled 4-3 that the surplus could gor into the state general fund. Thursday's action followed re hearing of a tax surplus I suit brought by Charles A. Sprague, former Oregon governor, to re strain the state tax commission from transferring the surplus revenues to the general fund. Chief Justice George Roxsman wrote the majority opinion hand ed down Thursday, with Justices J. O. Bailey. Hall S. Lusk and Percy Kelly concurring. Jiutir. James T. Brand and Arthur D. Hay dissented. ! 1 2 Jadres Chant. Justices Bailey and Lusk changed their positions ; after having supported general f furd ; use of the surplus in the. July 13 minority opinion. Justice Harry' H. Belt, now vacationing in ; Can ada, had opposed general ii fund use in the July decision. As a result of yesterday's court ruling, a general fund defi cit of $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 is expected. This would be pU.ced before Oregon voters as a prop erty tax levy at the November general election but would, if approved, be - offset by funds from the income tax surplus, j 5 orpins Growing ,,.- This follows the 19-year-old. Oregon pattern based on the 1929 legislative act providing that ; ;l revenue from the state income tax be used to reduce properly taxes. - By now the tax surplus amounts to some 940.000,000. i : Attorney Cfncra! Georfe. Neu ner had held in a formal opinicn last February that the income tax surplus could be considered as miscellaneous receipts in ;th. state general fund after any existing property tax levy tvps offset. The Sprague suit, gener ally considered a friendly ; suit to settle the tax interpretation through the courts, was filed in Marion county circuit court. Af ter arguments were heard. Cir cuit Judge George R. puncnn backed Neuners position by dis missing Sprague's suit. ', PORTLAND, Aug. 19-MVSUte agencies looked for other fourfes of revenue today after a decision by the state supreme : ecu it against using surplus tax rt e nues for current expenses, ' f The state system of higher edu cation had counted on getting $12,000,000 to $14,000,000 of the surplus fund for new buildings. Special Tax Levy ! ' i i , Chairman Edgar W. Smith s id there now was I no choice I except to get up petitions for a, special tax levy on the November: ballet. Current estimates are that the welfare commission will wind up with a $4,000,000 deficit' nest year. Chairman Jack Luihn of the welfare commission said the agency would have to issue defi cit warrants and leave the 1949 legislature to find a way to meet them. ! : I Other state institutions also had expected to get funds for; build ing from the tax surplus. They are expected to go to the rest legislature with new demands. Draft Board to fie Ready for Registration j j j - 'Ml Hans fCurly) Hofstetter. 1 new temporary chairman of the Mar lon county, draft board, announc ed Thursday night that he; "ex pects to have the board ' in fiU working order by August 30 when 25-year-olds will begin to : reg ister." : r Hofstetter announced that the board will employ one clerk, yet to be named, at the office to be located on the second door- ef the Steusloff building, on Court street over the Doughton Hard ware store. Applications for clerks were considered bv .'the board at a meeting held Thurs day. .Other members of the four- man board are 1'aui iiennruxs, C W. Bartlett and John Black, all of Salem. Further announcement will be made in the near future, Hof stetter said, concerning the sched ule for other age classifications listed in the new draft law. MORSE nE&E BRIEFLY ; U. S. Senator Wayne L. Mcr" topped in Salem briefly Thurs day morning, landing here ; in a United Air Lines plane en route from the easL He was met M the-airport by friends in an auto mobile, and left for home la Eugene. 1