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co:; o;- -oanj odo '-. on no -, ;:o.td; iQu rj o .0.00 6 doc n en d'o n 'o'no f 0tP SSCOEODS Today a meeting to form a World Council of Churches will assemble in Geneva, Switzerland. And to "call Christians to a mo ment of silent prayer that the Amsterdam assembly may mark a rebirth of Christian faith" church bells over America will ling hourly from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Renresented at this assembly will be 148 communions in 42 j different countries. The omy T9n bodv not represented will be fhe Roman Catholic church which declined the invitation in conformity with its policy whicn holds that dissident churches are schismatic. The Greek Orthodox church will be represented, though -probably not the Russian Orthodox church. " " For some years a temporary organization has been function ing at Geneva. It has adminis tered relief sent by western Pro testant churches for their breth ren in Europe. The assembly at Geneva is now expected to adopt constitution for a permanent organization. Most of the Christian bodies deplore the division which has split them into many sects. The Roman Catholic church longs for the day when all of them will return to its fold. The Anglican church and its American relative the Protestant Episcopal church have urged unity for years and have just concluded another Lam beth conference where this was an important topic Organic un ion still seems a long way off: but cooperation through local and national and world councils is possible. Such consolidation of effort seems necessary if the Christian church is to have much impact on the life of today on such matters as worm peace federation oi nations, souai jus- cji these only an average num tice, etc. I ber have been disqualified, accord- Another note is struck however In a recent book "Report to Pro- testants" by Dr. Marcus Bach, of the University of Iowa school of religion. Bach started out as a minister favoring cnurcn unity and avoidance of duplication; but now he entertains: the view that the Protestants find strength in multiplicity, Different people have different beliefs, different tastes in religions' and find ex pression in separate sects. The fragmentation however has gone so far as Ho . weaken the Christian church in the world. The World Council! of Churches through its International charac ter may become a real power for good in these aisoraerea times. WaUaceTakes Credit for Start i ' Of Berlin Talks t BRIDGEPORT. Codxu Aug. 21 -(-Henry Wallace, progressive party candidate tor president, claimed credit tonight for the start of negotiations with Russia on the Berlin crisis. In his address prepared for his first public appearance since his nomination last month at the third party convention, Wallace de manded: "Would the men who treid to repudiate my letter to Stalin two months ago now be working to ward a meeting with Stalin on the problems of Germany, if we pro gressives had -not carried the fight on the cold war?" The third party: candidate also credited his party with: 1. Being a "vital element in forcing the administration to re cognize the new state of Israel. 2. Forcing both major parties to make " rtatesments against racial segregation and discrimination. 3. Preventing the enactment of the Mundt-Nizon! bill to outlaw the' communist party. -, Wallace preceded his review of the' "accomplishments' of his new party with an attack on the pres ent congressional ; spy hearings. Animal Crackers By WAJ33EN GOODRICH. : rcm ilooi4 c & r Lad Travels 6 Miles GOVERNMENT CAMP,-Ore, Aug. 21 -- A barefoot, hungry lad of seven years, lost on f Mount Hood for seven hours in fog and darkness, was found safe tonight standing alone in the luxurious lounge of this mountain Lodge Manager William Temple reported the boy, Walter Schramm, was noticed standing a guest. The boy was quicKiy taken into custody by women guests who showered the footsore youngster with motherly atten tion. I f Temple said the boy told how he "just kept going uphill" be cause he knew he would eventu ally come to the lodge. The lodge manager quoted the youngster as saying "everytime , I got lost, the fog would clear and I could see the top of the mountain and knew I was some in the rient direction. The boy j had r traveled about six miles through timbered can vnn from the miblic camD eround where he strayed from his par ents this afternoon. He lost his shoes in a swift mountain stream when he removed them to cross the water. ; Foresters had organized a wide search over the south slope of the mountain area soon after the boy disappeared I about 3 p. m. The youngster, son of Mr. ; and Mrs Paul i Schramm, k Portland, was found -in the lodge lounge about 10 p. m. Commission Petition to Meet ements Enough signatures will probably be certified i by Monday night to insure validation of initiative peti tions, for a change in Salem's form of government, officials said Sat urday. It was also indicated that the present administration will not raise any question of the peti tions legality, even though some of them had been filed with the city without official checking of signatures. In addtiion to'lhe 583 names certified by the county clerk's of fice by Thursday, approximately 600 more signatures have been checked durinff the oast two days. ing to Mrs. Gladys white, county elections deputy. Sne said she ex- pects to nave sunicient cnecmng done by Monday evening, legal deadline for filing, to : reach the 1,252 total required for placing the measure on the November bal lot ;.-:;,') Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom said city officials, concerned in the pro posal to change from manager to commission -i form of government, would not question the petitions legality and "the only thing that could keep the measure off the ballot would be insufficiency of signatures of qualified voters. Lebanon 'Taxi9 Proves Costly LEBANON, Aug. 21 When a local citizen mistook the city prowl car for a taxi, opening It's door and slumping into the back seat with his bottle, police gladly took him at his word when he muttered, I only wanna go two blocks. i I They drove him exactly two blocks to the city jail. Next morning he paid his taxi fare of 35 to the; city, recorder. Anti- To Seek Laws DAVENPORT, la., Aug. 2M5V Rep. Karl E. Mtindt (R-SD) said here tonight the house un-American affairs committee would re commend to congress passage of a four-point program to curb com munist activity, in the United States. ' . i I J ' Mundt gave these four points: 1. Make it a penitentiary offense for a federal employe to knowing ly place a communist on the Unit ed States payroll, 2. Establish a law to deny pass ports to allow communists to leave country and later return to Amer ica, r - I i 3. Tighten the-espionage laws. 4. To give no man. "when the safety of the country is involved, the right to conceal from the pub- others. , ' 8 . - f. . Bridges to Ignore NLRB Election SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 21-VPl Harry Bridges' CIO longshoremen decided today to ignore the forth coming national labor relations board ballot on a "final offer by the waterfront f employers of the west coast. Ah 1LWU statement said today's action "makes a strike on Sept 2 a certainty. That is the day the 80-day injunction ordered by Pres ident Truman expires. .. Weather - Max. v Mia. Preeip. w 7s f ss jtm - M '- M trae Salens ; . PorUnd . i, ,, San rraaciaco Chtcar o i, , 89 J. ."SJ.,. JO ,. S3 SS J09 . New York Wlllimette river -3J feet. FORECAST (from U-S. weather bu reau. MeNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy today and tonight with light hower. High today 72. low tonight 85. Agrteultural weatbor only fair due to Showers. -t - - ! SAXJCM PKECIPITATION i Crross Sept. 1 to Amg. S2 Requir Red Group Last Tear , ss.?a j Awags in Fog. Darkness s Timberline Lodge, , alone In a corner by H. R. Ward, Inferno Raging on Guam; Isle Battles Gasoline Blaze GUAM, (Sunday) A nr. 22-P) Fire visible for miles raged throuch the huge U.S. navy aviation and mobile gasoline tank farm five miles from Aprs harbor today following an early morning explosion. Fire trucks were summoned from the whole Island and hun dreds of service men were bat tling the blaze. Flames and smoke towered a thousand feet In the air ever the oily 'inferno. State Agencies Ponder Ways To Get Funds How state agencies seeking Soon,?? " Z VP??"! SSSShS. i S"PP through their fingers' is one of tne . problems .most frequently m ,laf . wee , ,tate supreme court decision that sur- fei??0' revfn.ues, are n?t ovauauic iui general iuna spend ing. The decision, with four Jus tices concurring, that such reve nues can be used only for prop erty tax relief, reversed a prev ious 4 to 3 opinion t in which it arsrjSK was held that the nues were a part of general fund. Both decisions were based on a suit filed by Charles A. Sprague, former governor, to re- from transferring the surplus revenues to the general fund. Attorneys here are generally! agreed that any proposal, based on the latest court decision, to make these funds available for general state spending will have movrbbTtSS officials predicted. Budget department records MMMjt..twAt. 4kat mn ilia funds will be required for the next biennium, starting July 1, man m any previous two-1 year period In the history of the state. Following the previous court decision. Gov. John H. Hall and otner memoers oi ine state Doara of control virtually had agreed that as much as $3,000,000 an- nually should be set aside for increasing salaries of state work- There also Was some talk of a 10-year state building program by the board of control. Virtually all of the $10,000,000 state build- ing fund approved by the voters referred to the voters at the No several years ago has been obli- vember election as a property tax gated. It also was reported that outside the 6 per cent limitation, the board of higher education will be made to the secretary of had obligated most of its con- struction funds and would need $12,000,000 of state funds to meet increasing enrollments and other educational demands. Even though the 1949 legisla- ture decides to refer a bill to the voters. Dermittini? use of the sur- nlm funds, the first reeular elec-1 tion following the 1949 legisla- ture Is the May primary. An income tax revenues are a prop earlier special election might be I erty offset and can be used only considered, . some legislators said, Memorial Plaque Dedicated to Physicians at Mt By Lillle H Madsen farm Editor. The Statesman MT. ANGEL. Aug. 21 Wil lamette valley countryside turned out Saturday afternoon to par ticipate in the second day of the three-day annual Oregon Flax festival held here under the di rectum of Joseph Berchtold and his committee. i While it was termed a "po litical holiday,- many state and county office holders, who have no competition to fear, who are not seeking reelection or who had already been defeated in the primaries showed up to enjoy the festivities in the cooperative little town. And while 95 per cent of the town's citizens are . of the Catholic , faith, special honors were paid to two late citizens, neither of whom were members of the beautiful St Mary's church. A garden, planned and planted by E. G. Unger, was dedicated to the memory of Dr. A. T. Schierbaum and Dr. James i . Webb, witn Mayor Berchtold and Rev. Damian Jentges. pastor of St. Mary's, in charge of the ceremony and Queen Mary Jane Geelan, removing the veil from the memorial plaque honoring : the. two former ML Angel physicians. Fred J. Schwab, on his Arabian horse, lead the grand parade in which Hi's Service station float, decorated with flax and crimson gladioli, won sweepstakes prize money among the 107 entries. Saturday morning was devoted to a ' tour of St Benedictine schools and monaxtry, the widely NINETY -EIGHTH YEAR Red Maids IniBerlin Stir U. S. BERLIN. Aug. 21-CTV-Russian soldiers beat and stabbed German police in the American sector of Berlin today and American au thorities expressed fear of a clash between occupation forces. The Americans were seeking di rect discussions with the Russians to arrange a truce between rival German police forces in the Soviet and western sectors. Failing a settlement, an Ameri can spokesman said, "something might happen that will involve more than the Germans.' Although attempts to reach high Russian officials were unsuccess ful, two Russian officers told the U.S. deputy provost marshal in a street conference they would keep armed Soviet troops concentrated in central Berlin as long as the United States keeps military police there. Today, two American sector i TZ tt - i.,.-.n. An official .police announcement said the two men were accosted by "numerous" Russian soldiers who .iAnr the Soviet sector. I stabbed and the other knockeu When they resisted, one w: 1 down with a rifle butt. Man Injured I 11 1 tntically by Hit-Run Driver I An unidentified man was in ?u m.Je. 1: S ,x ZtZ. JTTi I "TA '1 J.ZZ wnf "J. ' "i"! . ,T- on tJL SJJ'IS foSdliySr SSc'io Jbit 125 this morninar. Police said lit had a possible skull frae I ' . . . 1 it. M I possible internal injuries. No clues to the identity of the hit-run driver had been uncovered I at 1:30 this morning, police said. I - !? 1 lertlllCatlOll Oi i T T?-,M J VTCIiCrcll JL1 UllQ )ef Slated Certification of a general fund deficit estimated at bet ween $8,000,000 and $8,000,000, to be state Monday, the state tax com- mission announced Saturday. In event of approval of the tax by the voters it would be offset by surplus state Income tax reve- nues. j Referring the deficit to thevot- ers was made necessary under a recent decision of the state.su- preme court holding that surplus ior property ix wounwn. Ang known St. Mary's church,5 the two and a half million dollar coopera tive creamery enterprise, where visitors j were treated to cheese, and the 12-year-old flax plant which is still running strong. The Rev. f Hildebrand r Melchior - di rected the tour with Dr. Jesse Harmond of Corvallis, taking over the flax plant A luncheon at . noon, to which dignitaries ; of the county and state ! were invited, the vaude ville show, flax festival program and dancing s completed the day's events. Dorothy McCullough Lee, mayor-elect of Portland, was the featured speaker, referring brief ly to the future of flax in Ore gon, which she hoped was good, and upon the prominence Ore gon had gained in the past years. - The; evil wind," she said, "which is credited with always blowing some good, did if s one good deed in the last world war when it made the United States discover Oregon because of the prominence of war industries in the state." . V: :. : Father Alcuin Ileibal, master of ceremonies, also introduced Sen ator Allan Carson and Douglas McKay, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, State Treasurer ' Leslie Scott Judge George Duncan, Mar ion County School Superintend ent Agnes Booth. . The festival win close Sunday afternoon with a children's parade at 42 p. m. and a baseball game be tween Mt Angel and the Silver ton Red Sox at 2 p. m. (Additional details on paga 3.) el Festival Tli Oregon County New members of Marion county's 24 PAGES t i Y Ing. The fear men will direct activities In connection with the recently authorized selection service for the nation's young men. Left to right they are, C. W. Bartlett Pan! llendrlcks. John Black, and Hans Hoffstetter, temporary chairman. (Photo by Den Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) World Church Assembly Meets at Holland Today AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2 1 - AP) the World Council of Churches will meet nere tomorrow as a "visible, tangible and practical demonstration to the world that the church can hold itself together.' I Representatives of 150 protestant and orthodox churches from 42 nations will gather In Amsterdam's Nieuwekerk (new church) as the historic occasion.;! Dr. Henry S."- Lei per of New York, general secretary of the council, said the assembly's out standing importance is "an expres sion of the sense of world com munity which we need unless the world is to become chaos leading finally and necessarily to self-destruction. - Dr. Lei per said the assembly, rep resenting eight out of 10 Christians belonging to protestant or ortho dox churches, is an attempt to bring into one common team as many of the elements which de velop the world community as possible. Two important aspects of the group's work, he said, will be an expression of the common views of Christians on the world crisis and the making of plans for using the world council as an instrument for effective common work. "All this will be done on the common basis on which all Chris tians are able to meet the Bible," ut. jeiper said. Democrats Form Platform PORTLAND. Aug: 121 -6Pi- The democratic party in. Oregon an nounced its state platform today, calling for income. tax reduction. a $ou minimum old-age pension. and repeal of state milk control. The party launched its 1948 campaign with a demand for a "two party system,, pointing out that all Oregon congressmen and 83 of. its 90 state Legislators are republican. . j The democrats recommended repeal of the state withholding tax, no sales tax, and increasing tax exemption to $1,000 for a single .person, $2,500 for a mar ried couple, and SdOU lor each dependent child. - The platform also recommend ed state efforts to combat - infla tion; provision of immediate low cost housing and a civil rights bilL - : !.' Other platform planks called for better facilities in state in stitutions: stringent enforcement of gambling, liquor and vice laws; simplification of govern ment by consolidating and pro motion of public power districts and cooperatives, j ' Greeks Victors i . - In Grammos Battle - i ATHENS. Aug. 21 -6P)- Gen. Stelios Kitrilakis, deputy chief of staff, announced at Kozane to night that the "victory of Gram mos has been won by the Greek army. . . ', ' Returning to Kozane from the front, Kitrilakis told a reporter that most of the 5,000 guerrillas estimated last week tokbe still holding out in the Grammos mountains now "apparently have fled to Albania." i f FIRS WHIPS THROUGH TOWN BIG PINEY. WyO Aug. 21-UP) A noon-time fire.: fanned by a . - f J 1 J . 1 t AVI. western Wyoming town of 300 to-1 day destroying a hotel, the towV hail, JaiL two - bars and three bouses. Staleemcm, Salem, Oregon. Sunday, August 22. 1943 Draft Boar d Lay s Plans 1 w new draft board are shown above at a recent organizational meet- - The first international assembly of Axis Sally9 in U.S. to Face TreasonJLrial WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -4V aaudred cuzanetn uuiars, 48-year-old silver-haired American whom the GI's knew in Europe as "Axis Sally" of the Nazi radio, came home today to face a treason charge. Under army escort all the way, "Axis Sally," a native of Port land, Maine, landed at Boiling air force base from Frankfurt, uermany. With army and FBI precision, sh was led from the air field to the office of U. S. Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence. A somewhat lonely and dis pirited figure, Miss Gillars told Lawrence, when he asked her if she had a lawyer: "As far as X know I have no one here in the United States." The commissioner then read off the detailed charges of treason against her and FBI agents led her off to the district JaiL The preliminary hearing was bound over until 9 a. m. EST, August 31. Lawrence said this would give her time to get a law- 7tT' Eastern Dock Strike Blocked NEW YORK, Aug. 21 - (Jf) - A federal Judge, acting at the re quest of the U. S. attorney gen eral, today ordered 45,000 east coast dock workers to call off a strike set for midnight tonight The order, handed down in the form of a temporary injunction, was Issued by Judge Harold R. Medina against the AFL Interna tional Longshoremen's union. It also restrains - six employer or ganizations from resorting to pos sible lockouts in connection with the labor dispute. . . Gty's Fattest Telephone Book In History Rolling off Presses The fattest telephone book In Salem's history has been rolling off the presses of The Statesman Publishing company for distribu tion prior to the change-over in numbers September 4. All numbers are to be of five digets in Salem. - The 1948 directory has a total of 337 pages, compared with 294 last year. The Salem section increased from 78 to 91 pages about 20 per cent. The section for nearby towns increased from 21 to 23, and the advertising and miscellaneous pages from 197 to 223. The Inde pendence and Monmouth sections are combined. The Smiths continued to lead in Salem numbers izo (a gain a 29), The Browns with S3 displace the Johnsons in second place. The ia usi ox wonnsona xotai ?. ibs 1 f 4 ' Of1'. Postcard-Size Draft Sign-up Cards Unveiled WASHINGTON. Aug. 21-JP)-The postcard-size draft registration form was' unveiled today by sel ective service officials. The four-by-slx Inch cards will be used to register an estimated nine and a half million men IS through 25 between August 30 and September 18. . : " They are so simple that officials predict registrants can fill out the 18 questions in a matter of min utes. : At the i same time draft head quarters made public the new forms, it issued detailed instruc tions to draft boards on how to handle the crowds and avoid bot tlenecks. ; Instructions carried suggested floor plans for local boards to follow. These call for separate handling of two groups one, all veterans mxd 18-year-olds (not subject to the draft), and two. non-veierans 19 tnrougn za. Registration booths (to be an nounced locally) will remain open daily from 8 ajn. to 3 pm draft oxnoals said here. The registration cards do not require fingerprints, nor do they ask :. whether a man is a com- unist (Draft card questions on page 2.) ; Lindbergh Urges Spiritual Revival To Combat Science NEW i YORK. Auav 21 -efft Charles A. . Lindbergh today urg ed i a . spiritual revival across America to combat science "which Is destroying the very civilization which created 1L" Irt a book. -Of Fliaht and Life- being published Monday (Scrib- ners), trie one-time "Lone Eagle' and World War II test pilot and aeronautical - consultant said that the! United States is the only western : nation which still has great strength" and - "it should now be branded on our conscious' neai that unless science is con trolled by a greater moral force. it will become the anti-Christ prophesied - by early Christians. Security from the atom bomb, he I said. Is the greatest peace time objective. year, the Johnsons led the Browns 78 to 77. Other 1 large categories include: Millers 80, Jones 77, Andersons 67, Davis 61, Williams 47, darks 44, Whites 42, Hills 41, .Thompsons and Woods 27, Taylors 34, Peter sons 33.! C S. ' Aaron displayed Arnold Aaserude as the first proper name in the Salem part, but G. L. Zysset remains the same, 2-8900, and in- Salem fire and police calls will be 3-3144 and 2-4191, respectively. The number to obtain the time remains the same, 2-2900, and "in formation" stays at 113. , The new" Salem dial central of fice equipment will be placed in operation when nearly 9000 new numbers become effective at 11:50 pjn. September 4 and none of the new numbers will be effective until that time. - ... j . . .. - . Price 5a is -11 Ketiirn j Termed I Routine I Aide Hints Red Con8ul-General May Not Leave By Jahn Wlaant NEW YORK. Aur. 21 J&,LL viet Consul General Jacob kin, expelled by the U. S, elate department over the Rusme refugee teacher case, has booked passage for EuroDe hut m right-hand man hinted today that he may not leave. i I Passace for the fisrrii4 Lomakin and his family has be booked on the liner Stockholm. sailing next Saturday for Gcte- Dorg, Sweden. But Vice Consul Zot I. Chf. purykh replying to a next man's question said todsv: ! "Oh, I think he's aoina to' stv Ne Elaboration ! I Reporters had asked him whs might replace Lomakin in Ktw York. . ! Chepurnykh would not elabo rate on his statement t I No word came directly fri m Lomakin about the sailing. I ! He left the consulate at 4:? pjm. (EST) today, brushing prst reporters to get into a limousine. He said only that he was o- Ing to a Park avenue adrfrt where several Russian Uniltd Nations delegates live. "Made Months Are" An attache, who said he ua 2 secretary to the consulate, n Lomakin's reservations wfra made "about two months ago, long before the school teacher case began. j "It was a routine- return," the attache said. ! I A spokesman for the Sweci'u-H-American line, operator of tne Stockholm, said Lomakin's p'ft age waa booked in Europe, add ing that there was no way rg telling here whether It was rmoe recently or some time ago. j j i ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-WV't Soviet Consul General I Jaca Lomakin tries to buck American orders to leave the United Sttns he will be deported anyway, t 1 ficial sources at the state derail ment said tonight GOP May Ask Excise Tax Gut WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 t With new income tax cuts "un likely, republicans may bid I U Mr. Average Citizen's favor i:a a campaign pledge to whittle ; O.e irritating excise taxes he pays, j Senator Millikin (H-CoK), chairman of the senate finance committee, opened ;the door! foe such a promise lna predicticsi that the next congress will un dertake wholesale revision of the revenue laws. I I But he aaid there Is im;e chance of further cuts In incofne taxes this year because "we cot to pay at least $2,600,000,OCO on the Dublic debt" i Plane Hits Power Line, Crashes; I 3 Die in Flames COMPTON, Calif, Aug.1 21- Three persons were burned jle death as a monoplane crashed into power lines near the Compton air port tonight and exploded, i ) Witnesses said the craft did net gain altitude on the takeoff! and appeared to turn very sharply, grazing the power lines and dis rupting light and telephone service in the area. M TheMwo passengers were tin U dentified. They were a man and m woman. !' ' Two units of the Compton fire department recovered the bod it a, which were charred. Ki Restitution of JeLanon Deficiency Accepted j f ! LEBANON, Aug. 21 City coun cil members in their meeting this week voted to accept the $118.67 due former city recorder, George Randle, as payment for a vacation due him this year, plus a certified check for $1,083.33 to cover Xl,m $1200 deficit uncovered by audit cf city books. ; I y can SErnvrens i This Year , i . " i . -