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: .. . .......... , I- 1 . ...... . . - - . . - . - .... 1 . ...J Ra'd to- Co m bus it bles Probed v4 s Ga use of Jhcendiary Farm NINETY-EIGHTH TEAR 10 PAGES, j vThs 9rooa Stalasman. Salem, Oregon Saturday. August 21. 1943 Prlc Zq I?o. 137 3 '1 Butchers Lorn aide 'Love-: Us-'. -Love Our Handed Hat Eridtbcal IMossDSio'as- i r ? Abused i " C v (Candidates, By Gum im . 8 w ' : r - t. N -t. UeCOMB, IIL, Anc Zf Charles Willey points the foundation was destroyed in one of a series of mystery fires on his farm. shift tent (right). The fires and later in the walls. A second barn was destroyed later milk booses were discovered Exclusive control by unions of the hiring hall was ruled illegal by the national labor relations board in a case dealing with maritime workers on the Great Lakes. Unions regard this as a Stab in the heart for them and will appeal the case to the su- Ereme court. The final decision i months off; meantime the longshore - workers on this coast are all set for a strike Septem ber 2, control of the hiring hall being a disputed issue in the present negotiations. -""What is the hiring hall? It is the place where workers report and then are assigned to jobs. It is a necessity on the water front where ships come and go and are served at different piers. A stevedore may work at Pier even, one day at -;Pier twelve smother -Xiajz- When he reports Just before tfineHfor his shift to tart he doesn't know where he will be sent. Before maritime workers were organized, the hiring hall or em ployment office was run by the employers or controlled by them. This made it easy for the bosses to tell any radically inclined worker "No job today." In the big Pacific coast strike of 1934 control of the hiring hall was a real bone of contention, employ ers resisting union domination of this institution s vigorously as recognition of the - union. Unions therefore will fight any (Continued on editorial page) 3,500 Idle at Atom Project LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 20-tP)-Thirty-f ive hundred men were still idle tonight in a work stoppage at the Los Alamos atomic project. But a week-end settlement of the labor dispute appeared possible. The atomic: energy commission presumably was leaving it to the workers and contractors to resolve their differences, after serving no tice the contracting firms would be held responsible for finishing their projects. ' The workmen left their jobs Wednesday to protest hiring of non-union men by Brown and Root Construction Co. of Houston, Tex'., a road and street firm. Com pany representatives have de clined comment on the dispute. BUDGET REQUEST DOUBLED PORTLAND, Aug. 20 --)- The state sanitary authority decided today to ask the next legislature for $66,000 for the 1949-51 per iod, nearly double the present budget. The agency said it want ed to hire an additional " en gineer for field work. 1 Animal Cracfcers 7 By WARREN GOODRICH . Yo will meet some one Utt nd dirk now, GET OFF, roc re breaking the springs!" 0333003 .-v.. i i -. . . v : t which destroyed the home were described as starting in the wallpaper in time and ex tinmi&hed. P) New t Blazes Destroy rn on Illinois Farm DAYTON, Aug. 20 -iffy- An air force technician raised the theory today that sabotage materials, ignited by radio waves, may be causing the strange fires on the Charles Willey farm-near Macomb, ! III. - Lewis C. Gust on the office of Fie4d said an expert had been Truman Lists Draft Deferments WASHINGTON, Aug.. 20 -(JP) President Truman today set many a mind rat rest by officially de ferring f married men, farmers, all men with dependents and many others from the . 21 -month peacetime draft. The deferments are far more liberal than ; they were during World War II. Most of them had been pre dicted long ago, but they were not official until the president announced them today in a 30 page set of regulations that also ordered selective service to speed up induction machinery. This will be accomplished by sending ' out the all-important classification questionnaires as soon as possible to single, non father, jion-veteran eligibles af ter men; 18 through 25 register at their local boards between Aug. 30 and Sept.' 18. (Later, all ex cept 18year-olds must fill out the questionnaires.) There will be no lottery as in; the last war. The call to uniform will be determined by classifi cation (set by local board) and by age.: . These are the men who are exempt I from the draft: The law passed by congress automatically exempts war vet erans with at least 90 days ser vice between Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) and V-J day (Sept. 2, 1945), or with 12 months service between Sept 16, 1940, and June 24, 1948 (the date the draft law went into effect). Also exempt by law are or dained ministers, students ' study ing for the ministry, and con scientious objectors (from com batant service). Automatically deferred by the draft law are high school stu dents up to graduation or the age of 20 (whichever comes first) and college students for the rest of the academic year, if they are doing all right in their studies. GUERRILLAS RETREAT ATHENS, Aug. 20-iip-A Greek army general staix spokesman said tonight the : communist-led Guerrillas were to; full retreat in the Grammos mountain after the virtual collapse of. their last, de fense line. J I'.." i" -r'. ,'! SCHOOLS GET $49 MILLION NEW YORK, Aug. 20-Ay)-YoJt I . a m 1 universities Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Harvard will share an estimated-$40,000,000 un der terms of a will filed today. Official Tax Of ficials, Attorney General EnaFiffhttoMoveTax : Oregon's surplus income tax surf is a dead issue as far as the state tax commission and attorney gen eral's office; are concerned. Officials of the two departments said Friday they, would not at tempt to get a second rehearing of the suit in which the state supreme court -reversed Its original decision by ruling Thursday in ; favor of plaintiff Charles A. Sprague, for mer Oregon governor, who con tended the surplus could not be used for general fund expenditures but could be used only for offset ting property taxJ - - - ; Other state officials have point ed out that a general fund deficit estimated ta exceed $8,000,000 now will have to be met by property tax levy which in turn would be offset by part of the present $ 40, 000.000 income tax surplus. . ' : State employe leaders expressed concern Friday over fate of the re-1 of his house at McComb, 11L, which The family is now living- in a make while two fires in the chicken and Wlrephoto to The Statesman) - technical projects at nearby Wright ordered to the Macomb area to test for "very high frequencies and short wave. . "It is our business to invest! gate such matters,' Gust said. "Ordinarily, we wouldn't go so far afield, but the situation at Macomb was just too unusual to ignore. We weren't caned in. Two hundred fires their origins unknown to authorities have sprung up on the Willey farm. Three new ones struck last night; one destroyed a second barn. Two others, in a chicken house and a milk house, were put out by the elderly farm couple, who are living in a tent near the site of their former home. Gust said radio-combustibles were possible. -If it is true," he said, "we think we must be very high fre quencies or short wave. "We can't afford to take any chances. We must test anything. even if it sounds a bit far-fetched. We don't miss any bets over here. As the air force proceeded on its own investigation of the Bizarre fires, state fire marshal John Crait of Illinois led the of ficial probe. 17 Men Killed In B-29 Crash RAPID CITY. S. D Aug. 20- (P) Seventeen men were killed late today when a B-29 crashed and burned in a wheat field just off the edge of the army air force field. Captain Thomas Siegler, public information officer, said 17 bodies were recovered from the wreck age of the plane, which 'burned for an hour and a half. The heavy bomber, attached to the 28th bomb wing,, was taking off on a training flight when it crashed shortly before 4 p.m. (MST). Captain Siegler said all aboard were killed. . Siegler said the plane was tak ing off when one port (left en gine) caught fire. The pilot was forced to feather his propellor and as the plane passed the edge of the runway, it banked to the left, the left wing hit the ground and the plane turned over and burst into flames. 902. Locomobile Mixes With Los Truck rLoses The horseless buggy was no match for a modern-day log truck A . W tlf A. tonight and Ralph Jacob Wortman, McMinnville surveyed the wreck age of his 1901 Locomobile with saddened eyes. cent $20 monthly, bonus granted state workers. This was an emer, gency pay raise to the end of year. granted in expectation that the 1949 legislature would be able to expand the general fund budget to provide higher salaries. Tighter budgeting, without the hoped-for additional' revenue from income tax surplus, might affect the pay scale, they indicated. The legislators might draft bills to change th 1929 law" under which the Income tax surplus has accumulated, but such a change would probably be referred to the voters, other officials pointed out. Possibility of an Initiative meas ure to permit transfer of the sur plus to the general fund, as sug gested in Portland, was ruled out Friday by David O'Hara, elections bureau chief, who said filing dead line for such petitions was July 1. , surplus Walkout Salem's one-day-old meatcut- ters' strike ended late Friday af ternoon when employers met un ion demands calling ; for, weekly wage increase of $5. Announcement of the settle ment was made by. H. E. Carl son, secretary of the Oregon In dependent Retail ' Meat Dealers association, who represented eight markets involved in . the walkout Friday morning. The new scale 'increases jour neymen from $6J to $70 and head meat cutters from $70 to $75 for a 48-hour week. Agreement . was reached at 5:30 p.m. at the con clusion of an afternoon meeting of Carlson, union .officials and members involved ' at the Salem Labor temple. - ' Markets struck Friday were at two Busies: stores, two Erickson stores, the Paramount, market, the State Street market, Werner's market and the Broadway Gro cery '.and Market. In granting the Increase, Carl son told union .officials butchers would have to operate "more efficiently than ever to offset the wage boost. Meat dealers, he said, are caught in a "cross fire' between the current buy ers resistance and the demand for higher wages. Carlson stated the market own ers agreed on the settlement in order; to avoid a general tieup of the local meat industry and to prevent possible meat spoil age which he said would nave occurred had the strike continued over the week end. ; Cancer, DAV Benefit Game Set for Sept. 4 A benefit baseball game, design ed to augment the Babe Ruth can cer fund which sponsors believe is being initiated nationally, and also to assist the Disabled Amer ican Veterans building fund in Sa lem, is being scheduled for Satur day night, September 4, at Waters park. The announcement was made Friday by Verne Ostrander, pres ident of the DAV building fund, who said considerable support al ready had been assured by indi viduals and officials of civic or ganizations. Ostrander said George . Emigh, business manager of the Salem Senators, had offered to donate the park for the game. Partici pants have not been selected, but Ostrander said the game probably would be between a Salem and an out-of-town team.' ' Milk Act Violations May Cost Dairies Licenses PORTLAND, Aug. 20--Four Portland milk dealers may lose their licenses because of milk act violations, E. L Peterson, state director of agriculture, said today. He. added there may be oth ers, for he has not finished re viewing a transcript of hearings held' here recently. The specific violations have not been cusclos ed, The two er vehicles were in volved in a highway accident about three miles west of Willami- na on highway. 18, The log truck was undamaged, but the 47-year old steam driven Locomobile was practically a total loss. - The ancient forerunner of to day's speeding autos was the first car to negotiate the route from McMinnville to Tillamook. Wort- man was attempting to retrace the route when the 1901 steamer de veloped boiler trouble. His wife driving another car was towing him homeward when the accident occurred. They bad pulled to the side of the road to let faster mov ing traffic by when a last minute Jerk of the tow-line hurled the Locomobile into the path of -the 39-year younger 1940 Internation al log truck, driven by Dolan George Hagar, Grande Rondel Wortman, who has been a fam iliar sight at valley fairs and fes tivals with his Locomobile, didni put a bullet into the horseless head for he's considering the long ma chining task of rebuilding the old MONTANA COUD SNAP , HAMILTON, Mont, Aug. Cold weather notes: Mrs. Florence Frost today transferred property to Mrs. Linetta Snow. Both live on Johnny Freeze's milk route who says theyve been warm friends for years. . - .By Wendell Webb ' Managing Editor, The Statesman Politics ' reared ! its - unsolicited head before 75 Oregon publish ers and prospective legislators, last night at a meeting designed only for sweetness and light. Two of several' attending democrats. Sen.! Thomas Ma honey and Senate Nominee Jack Bain neither of them averse to . getting their names -on page one walked right smack out of the session and headed back to Portland when they dis CQvered two things: 1. The republican nominees for governor and state treasurer, Douglas 'McKay and Howard Belton, respectively, were at the speakers table. 1 2. .The democratic nominees for governor and state treasurer. Lew Wallace and Walter Pear son.' had not been invited at alL There seemed! to be a simple, explanation, but it wasn't good enough to entice Mahoney and Bain to pass up a chance for publicity in favor of the roast Jet Plane Visits Salem. Adds Air Show Feature What i believed to be- the streaked-onto the McNaVy field and added another feature to Sundays Jumor Chamber of Commerce air show. - --- '"' Capt Curry of Portland flew the air force F-80 from Williams Field, Ariz, landing at Salem because Portlands neia is in opera - ' ' 1 tive. He will take off Sunday Letters from Germany Aid Red 5th Column WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 - UP) The U. S. army said today that re quests from German ; individuals. .farms, schools and museums for information should be regarded with a skeptical eye. Many of these requests are coming from the Russian zone it said. Last. June the' army sent out confidential Instructions to its pub lic information officers through out the United States to advise businessmen, key officials in in dustries, utilities and civic or ganizations to be wary of re quests. r I- Much of the information sought road maps, telephone director ies, scientific journals, etc. pro vide "basic Intelligence informa tion of strategic importance to all potential enemies of i the United States," the army said in alert ing its public information offi cers. - i Valuable Information about the location of this country's key in dustries and military installations could be obtained in this way, the army said. ; i Ethiopia Angered By Dewey's Stand WASHINGTON. AugJ 20-PV- Ethiopia expressed "profound re sentment today over Governor Thomas E. Dewey's proposal that Italy be allowed to administer her former-African colonies under a United Nations trusteeship. The Ethiopian! legation here Is sued a statement calling Dewey's proposal oinfair and , declaring that the Ethiopian i government never will agree to the return of Eritrea and Somaiuland to Italy under any guise. . j . ir - Wainwright New DAV Commander NEW YORK, iAugJ 20-W3)-Gen. Jonathan M. wainwright today was unanimously elected nation al commander of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV).; Wainwright was nominated by State Senator Albert L. Daniels of Greenfield. Ohio, and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur.' Wainwright immediately ap pointed Col. John P. Duffy of New London, Ohio, as his chief of staff. Duffy, ; a chaplain, was imprisoned with the general in Japan during the war. Weather t ... ! ' . . Max. i Mia. PreHj. i 7 J . s --. .a. Bate , ...;,.. Portland 73 .00 San Francisco 71 i S4 M .00 J0O Chicago. Willamette river -3 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weathr bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy today and . tonijght with inter mittent light showers. High today, near 70. Low tonurht, near S3. Moisture not sufficient to hinder most farm actlY- lttea. ... i .,. . . . SALEM PKECTPITATIOlf SerC l ta Aasaac 21) This Year Last Year 13.73 47.U beef dinner at the Marion hotel, The explanation was this: ' From the senatorial list, the publishers as hosts had invited only those whose- terms -extend beyond the present year or who are nominees for a senateseat. McKay's and Bel ton's terms ex tend into the next biennium (although they would have to resign if elected to the higher offices they seek). Wallace's and Pearson's expire this year, and they are not candidates for an other senate term. The publishers didn't mention It, but if they wanted 'to strengthen their insistence that no democratic slight was in tended they might have pointed to the only campaign literature In the entire banquet room there were window cards boost ing Democrat Pearson for state treasurer and calling cards plug ging for William Murray, demo- general. . era tic candidate . for attorney (Additional details page 2) first let Diane to land at Salem runway at 7 o'clock Friday night at 1 p. m. while the Jaycee air show is in progress and will give a demonstration of speed flying before heading for Arizona, Jay cee officials said. The show, which will start at 12:30 p. m. will include spot land ing and balloon breaking contests by local pilots. Richard Spooner of the Eagle Flying service is ar ranging the contests with the co operation of the seven other fly ing service on the field. ' Main attractions of the air show will be Swede Ralston's air cir cus and a Salem motorcycle club thrill show featuring Dave Scott crashing through a blazing board wall. Art (Pop) Whittier, 54-year old parachute jumper will give a demonstration of a delayed action jump. Maj. Al Vaughn of the Oregon civilian air patrol will act as emcee. Traffic to the twice-delayed show will be routed out Mission and 25 th streets from Salem to the west side of the field. In coming traffic from Turner seek ing to bypass the show. will be dispatched over the pen annex road to State street. Tickets from the two previously-delayed show will be honored Sunday, Jaycees said. Kingwood Group Backs Annexation Sixty residents of the King- wood Heights, district surround ing West Salem voted Friday night to start steps for annexation to the city of Salem. There was no opposition to the plan from, the group attending the meeting at the West Salem American Legion halL Ed Majek, Salem lnsuranceman and resident of the district, 'was elected general chairman for the group. Committee chairman ap pointments include Leonard Pe ters, poll book committee: Barney VanOsenoord, finance, and James L. Cooke, petitions. Otto Paulus is in charge of publicity. Mary Jane Geelan j Crowned as Queen of Flaxaria at Mt. Angel By Lillle L. Madsen Farm Editor, The Statesman MT. ANGEL, Aug. 20 In the most beautiful coronation, scene to date, Mary. Jane Geelan' of St Paul (picture of page 9) was crowned aueen of Flaxaria by King Bing Charles Clagget, Sa lem Cherrians, on the new 32-foot outdoor stage on St. Mary's, play ground. This opened the three-day Oregon Flax festival for the 10th year. - - Queen Jeannette Hoffer, last year's Queen, escorted by Mayor Jacob Berchtold, led the proces sion. - Following was the royal court . and their escorts. Queen Mary and King Bing; Crown Prin cess Regina Traeger ' and Hunt Clark, Princess Bette Twito and Bob Fisher; Princess Marilyn My ers and Deryl Myers; Princess Ri ta Drescher and Cedrick Reaney, and Mrs. Rose Appleby, chaperon and Paul Stege, and Lois Schmitt and Jimmy Wagner, crown bear er. - - t.,.-r The program which followed the coronation, which was In charge Aycracel0' oseT1 Berchtold, flax festival j.7.71 I chairrxian, included presentation of V ivtmiTAw ,a 2X2l El 5 ! 7C7rZrr.VTZ- . ,i raia f.s.ei P officials, secreury war- filKlSe ( .flus gJ not to the T"y 1 eendact in the Sevlet referee j itxin Pat Spet 5h' !" lN5w.Y,rk JAPj The American acUon apparently Wlrepheto U the SUteaaaan.) Lomskin on an extremely ht Truman Asks v -i t - ' - A i i - Court to Block DockWalkout WASHINGTON. Aug. 20' -(Jfy- President 'Truman today ordered emergency court . action to block an east, coast strike of 43,000 AFX, longshoremen set for to morrow .midnight. The Justice department will seek a federal court order in New York tomorrow that would keep the men working for about 80 days r or until November 9 the dispute is not settled before then. Mr. Truman acted under the 'national emergency provision of the Taft-Hartley law. cam iTJivrtcrn a 4 a Ifjp)- The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint today charging the CIO International Loneshoremen's and Warehouse men's union (ILWU) and two affiliated unions with refusing to bargain in good faith to avert threatened shipping tie-up. A scheduled strike by tne ILWU and other unions was banned by a federal court in Junction which Is to expire Sep tember 2. '., Military Chiefs to Hear Berlin Status WASHINGTON, Aug. 2HJF- Secretary of Defense Forresta summoned the VS. Joint chiefs of staff today to a highly- important week-end conference at the naval war college at New Port. R.I. They will get a sum-up of the Berlin situation from Gen.- Hoyt Vandenberg. air ' force chief - of staff, who reached here today af ter escaping death or Injury when his plane landed with one engine inoperative. Also, Forrestal will report on his recent talks with Canadian, defense officials. Keys of Flaxaria by Mayor Berch told to Queen Mary; vocal solos by Bernard Smith, greetings from Clem Butsch, president of Busi ness r Men's club-; Father Damian Jentges, and Fred J. Schwab, manager of the flax plant; pre sentation of the 1947 sceptre by Queen Jeannette; numbers by a vocal quartet composed of Ray mond Terhaar, Arthur Dummer, Pauline Saalfeld and ustella Bauman and dance numbers from the Paul Armstrong School of Dancing, including Mary Jane Waite. Rick ere all: Patty Claggett, Judy Page, Garry and Jerry Neal, Max and Bill - Reaney. Valerie Johnson, Karlene Quistad, Patricia Whelan and Mary Lou Anderson, Salem; Marlene Prosser, ML An gel and Carol Jean Showers, Stay ton. ' Saturday will feature tours of the city, starting at the city hall at 10 a .rru, dedication of the Webb Schierbaum - Memorial garden at 1:30, grand parade at 2 psa.; pro gram, with Dorothy McCullough Lee, - Portland mayor-elect, as speaker at 4 pan. "and an evening vaudeville show followed by street dancing. tionj ' By Jeha M. Hlghtewer i WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 - (JTJ Secretary of State Marshall, actios on an order from President Tro- man, today virtually directed tbe Russian consul-general i at New York to leave this country, t j ? A note delivered to the Russian embassy in Washington stated that the consul-general, Jacob M. Lo makin, had misinformed his cwa government, sought to mislead the American people, and otherwise "abused" his official position. The charge grew out of Loma kin's actions in the case of ir Russian school teacher, Mrs.: Ok sana Kocenkina, who last weav threw herself from an upper story window of the consular building in New . York, . receiving serious in juries. , ' ! Abwae ef Pealtlen : i The United States government considers that Consul -General Lo makin's conduct constitutes an abuse1, of the prerogatives of his i position and -a gross violation cX ! tne internationally accepted stand. ! , .rdf governing the conduct or ior- spot, lie wui lose nis omciai siaroe- here in a few days by order President Truman. ' If ; he ! gcea home to Russia, American diplo mats believe, he will be in b&d tiouble for having bungled the re fugee school teacher case; if h doesn't leave this country readily he may be deported unless if course he wants to Join the ranks of the red Russian refugees which . no one here expects. In New York,; Lomakin declined to discuss his situation. . ! -i Petitions -Alsk to Legalize Liquor Sale in Turner Initiative petitions seeking a vote in November to legalize li quor sales in Turner were filed " with the marion county clerk's of fice Friday. The petitions - containing ICS signatures were submitted by Kenneth E. Barker of ;Turner. They will be checked for validity of the signatures by the clerk's election division. Turner is a. dry city at present under the. local option law. Tnm petitions must contain sig natures of at least 10 per cent of the total voters in the last general election If the measure is to ftp- pear on the ballet. Figures at the clerk's office show that 568 per sons voted in the 1046 election la Turner. i : Sooter Moved To County Jail , DALLAS ( Ore., Aug. 20-(Spe cial )-Amos Sooter, Dallas,' is In Pnlk rnuntv 1ail awallinff : rrand Jury action on a first degree mur der charge, following his arraign ment Friday morning in Justice court. He was bound over to the grand" Jury, which is already in vestigating the slaying, allegedly by Sooter, of Fred Arthur Baley. also of Dallas. Sooter was still somewhat weak but recovering from the effect of gunshot wounds, self - Inflicted August 12, after the slaying. He has been in the hospital until today and is being kept under ; guard in the Jail. The accused apeared before. Charles Gregory. Justice of th peace, today. . " ) Murphy Store to Handle lollywood Postofficc i A contract pos toff ice branch of the Salem postoffice will be open ed in the Karl T. Murphy store at 2037 Fairgrounds rd. in the Hollywood district around Sep tember 1, it was announced Fri day. , . r The Hollywood branch has heen noperative since the resignation nt MIvin Ktuhr twn months irn. Hollywood is one of four branches nf K Sa m nemtattiem. Th oth ers are West Salem, Four Cor ners and Keizer. : ; ODn-SEinTcns 7cn 4-1 - Lc:l :C-0 Fosi r .