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Tono msm ITT ff (Story in Col. 4) as (SP OTP SSffiOGB i Salem Shakes ! ! ,-'-. r rtn nt tru bills where senti ment got the better of sound Judg ment is the measure submitted by the last legislature to establish a hr.T' camo" at Timber, making ,, of an abandoned CCC camp. The bill is the outgrowth of the desire to "do something" about Juvenile delinquency. An interim committee appointed by the 1945 legislature made a report on the general problem. Its report on the whole was constructive, but the plan for the camp as developed in this bill is bad. I note that the executive committee or tne crregon council of churches endorsed the bill but I doubt if the members made any study of it, A commit tee of the Portland council of so cial a?nrip did make a careful aturfv and came in with an ad verse report which was adopted by the council subject 10 review In October. This committee point mA nut that the camo would be 65 miiM from Woodburn. too far from the nearest town for recre ation and in a rain belt not con ducive to morale during the rainy season. ". . I confess I cannot see any vir tit in takinV delinquent boys be tween the ages of 12 and 17 and housing them in an abandoned CCC camp over in the rain belt of the coast mountain. A boys camp is a grand place In the sum mertime, but not wheii the heavy rains set in and tow it can rain in the mountains; of western Oregon. A camp of boys with a predisposition. to devilment would "explode under such conditions, the old CCC camps were for old er youths, were generously fin anced, had definite work pro grams, and were designed for un derprivileged, not delinquent youth. It is true that the board (Continuea on xxmonsu page Gasoline Quota Near Normal; Heat Oil Short SEATTLE, Sept 28-6iP-Service stations in Oregon and Washing ton will continue during October to receive 90 per cent of their July consumption a figure that is expected to more than meet needs in '.some areas because of the usual season drop in gasoline use. But at the same time, the 24-day-old oil strike may hit house holders, requiring them to -conserve heating oils. These announcements came from the oil industry's allocations committee. The announcement had this to say regarding heating oils: "Normally at this time of year the oil companies are accumulat ing inventories of heating oils re quired during the winter season. But because of the current strike . . . the industry has beenunable to process and accumulate the normal volume of these products. Therefore It is suggested that the consuming public commence to give consideration to methods of conserving heating oils during the coming winter." 3-School Vacation - To Continue Today The unexpected vacation for pupils of three Salem schools will continue today at least, but Gar field is expected to have its new oil heating plant functioning this afternoon. However, both weather and furnace installation will de termine when West Salem ele-J mentary and junior nign scnoois will reopen. All three have been closed since Monday morning. Weather Max. Min. M 1 Frecip. .S2 JM3 .00 jOO JOO Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago 63 .71 7a S3 3 S9 Kw York Willamette river -1.4 fact. FORECAST from U.S. wathr bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Consider able morning cloudiness and foe. be coming partly cloudy this afternoon with few scattered showers. Thurs- lay. fair with morning cloudiness and fog. High today 68. low tonight 38. Weather generally favorable for farm work In morning ana eany afternoon. gALEM KECIPITATION (rreaa Sep. 1 to Sept. ) This Tear 1.60 Last Year 1.01 Average 1.43 Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH ' yMt vp, Vov? trf got to wip my ttL, I I The .U. S. air force's B-36, world's largest land plane, "buz zed" Salem for 2 minutes Tues day night, shaking buildings and creating a wave of excitement among awed spectators as it skimmed the city t low leveU The giant bomber arrived at about 8 p. rru, enroute to its base at Fort Worth, Tex., from McChord field. Wash., and ciri cled the Salem area until 8:25 before continuing on its flight south. Virtually every resident in the area ran outdoors or peered through windows when the gi gantic, silver craft swooped noi sily overhead, rattling dishes and kitchen utensils below. je With speed belying its size, the lumbering monster made alt least four passes over the city Religion Class Waits on City wide Church Action By Robert E. Gang-ware City "Editor, The Statesman Salem school district's board of directors Tuesday night withheld action on the first formal request for releasing pupils during school hours to attend church-sponsored religious education classes. Board members served notice they j prefer to meet the religious education problem on the basis of a released time program proposed by a citywide interdenominational group rather than meet conflicting. uncoordinated requests from sep arate churches. The specific request considered Tuesday night was an Englewood Evangelical United . Brethren church proposal that one - half hour at the end or one school day each week be granted as "released time for fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils whose parents want them to attend the religious class in the nearby church. Each class group would have religious edu cation on a different day and a third grade group would be of fered similar religious classes af ter school hours one day a week. Last spring a U. S. supreme court decision banned religious classes in an Illinois case and sub sequently an Oregon ruling of At torney General George Neuner stated that the decision did not bar religious instruction during school time, if it were given off school . premises. Board Chairman Donald A. Young, who is a local attorney, told the board he felt sure the Oregon law on released time is only permissive, not compulsory, in that it states a school board may release pupils for religious instruction. Young advised a further study of legal background of the reli gious education Issue and the board voted to hold the Engle wood petition in abeyance pend ing such a study. (Story also on page 2) U. S. OU Men- in Hungary Forced to 'Confess' Sabotage VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 28-OP- Two American oil men said today police to communist Hungary forced them to sigh confessions of sabotaging production in the Hun garian plant of the Standard Oil company (N. J.). Paul Ruedemann, Hartsdale, N. Y., chairman of the American owned Hungarian company, and his deputy, George Bannantine, St. Louis, Mo, were expelled from Hungary Saturday after seven days of questioning. They denied all charges against them, and said the entire case was part of a government campaign to take over the American-owned plant They predicted all Ameri can interests in Hungary would meet a sftnilar fate. ; wit. A t i it L . s a. xne iwp men saia xney neia out four dayibefore signing the con fessions. Taurine questioning they were forced to go for long periods without food and were not per mitted to see each other. CIO UNION BACKS TRUMAN PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28 - UP) President Philip Murray of the ClO-United Steelworkers of Am erica said today the 33 -member international executive f board of the union has voted unanimously to endorse Harry S. Truman for president and Alben W. Barkley, for vice president. - f State Board Delays Purchase of Calls for Bids on Statehouse Air Decision to call for bids on a state capitol air conditioning sys tem and deferring; of (action on acquisition of property for the proposed state office building in Portland were voted Tuesday by the state board of control. Despite State Treasurer Leslie Scott's protest that j "nobody's perishing here" and I that the legislature should amplify funds if air conditioning is wanted, the board called for bids) on sepa rate phases of the! project. J. Donald Kroeker, J consulting engineer, submitted estimates for the project of $68,330 jand which he said might run as high as $80,000. A compresscjr for the cooling system would be the most expensive Item at $23,000, while other portions are ventilation of house and senate j committee rooms, cooling for east and west wing offices and cooling el the Circles Area and six I over Salem's McNary field. Hundreds of motorists, thinking it would land at the field,! jammed roads leading to thei airport. It was the B-36s second visit to the Salem area this month. The first flight, however, was at 14,000 feet on Air Force day Sep tember 18, and no one but the birds was able to see the craft. The plane, with a gross weight of 300,000 pounds, is 163 feet long and has a wingspread of 230 feet. It carries a 15-man crew and a relief crew of six men. Its' bomb bays contain 12, 300 cubic feet of space, the equi valent of four, railroad cars. Six pusher engines of 3,333 horse power each develop a total out put; of 20,000 horsepower. Deadline for Voter Sign'up The Marion county clerk's office will remain open until 8 p. m. Sat urday to take care of last-minute voter registrations, Marion County Clerk Harlan Judd said Tuesday. Registration books for the No vember 2 election will close Satur day until j after the general elec tion. Although no complete figures were available Tuesday, Judd said the flow of registrants to his of fice's counters has been "moder ate" at about 50 per day. His; office also has received about 200 request for absentee ballots from Marion county residents scat tered; all over the world, he said. These must be returned by five days before the election. Approximately 42 official voter registrars are scattered over the county under the direction of his office, Judd said. The only one in Salem outside the courthouse is at the Salem Labor temple. Voters (who must register are thosei who are newcomers to this county, those who have not voted since; the last presidential election, those; who ; have moved since they last voted and those who have changed their names through mar riage; or other processes. Regis trants must have been a resident of this state for six months and now residing In Marion county. Hofstetter Named Permanent Draft Board Chairman Hans Hofstetter, Salem dairy owner, was appointed permanent chairman of the Marion county draft! board in a board meeting Monday night at the Salem arm ory, i Paul Hendricks, local attorney, was selected permanent secreta ry. Third member of the board is Cleave Bartlett, Salem realtor. All three; mere were given temporary appointments to organize Marion county's selective service system for the peace-time draft. Hofstetter announced that the board will meet on the second and fourth 'Mondays of each month to solve Ideal draft problems. Thi Salem selective service of fices are slated to move from the armory to quarters in the 300 block; of Cpurt street formerly oc cupied by the records division of the selective service system. Hof stetter said the move will not take place! until; notice is received from Washington, D. C. governor's suite. Cooling of the cafeteria would cost an additional $3,000. j Available for the air condition ing is $52,375 appropriated by a pre-war legislature. Earlier In stallation was prevented by the war. ltj was expected that this amount) might be used to pur chase j the Compressor and for ,,the ventilation i of committee rooms and first; floor offices. It was understood that the -work could; be completed by January, when the legislature will convene. Scott again protested regarding owners'! asking prices for Port land blocks sought as sites for the new $2,500,000 building. "Be sides,, I think these problems be long to the next board." he asserted- i Scott claimed that one piece ! of property under consid- era lion I rose from $85,000 sale price i 2a years ago to $300,000 ' Set Saturday : a - . NINETY-EIGHTH YEAH President i Berates j Spy Hunt! WASHINGTON, Sept. 2Z-OP)- The election year debate over communism and alleged atomic espionage boiled up spectacularly in the capital and elsewhere to day. Among the widespread develop ments were: ) 1. A declaration by President Truman in Oklahoma City that the Republican party is the "un witting ally" of the communists, and that the communists would like to see the republicans win in the interest of promoting confu sion. 2. Senator Homer Ferguson's rejoinder that the president s re marks were "utterly ridiculous.1 Ferguson (R-Mich.) said the re publicans have been leading the fight against communism 3. An announcement that a re gional loyalty board has ruled there are "reasonable grounds to believe that William W. Reming ton, a suspended commerce de partment official, was disloyal. Remington has been under inves ligation for suspected communist contacts. "Under Advisement" 4. A disclosure that the depart- of justice has taken "under ad visement" a request to investigate the way Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R-N. J.) has run his office Thomas is chairman of the house committee on un-American activi ties which has produced most of the evidence in the recent com munist and spy investigations. In a major campaign speech at Oklahoma City, Mr. Truman charged the republicans have tried to "usurp" the functions of the federal grand juries and courts. He said they have impaired the atomic energy program by "intem perate and unjustified attacks" on scientists, without producing "any significant information about com munist espionage which the FBI did not already have. " "Helped Communists' The republican party has not hurt the communist party, but has helped it, and Is "the unwitting ally of the communists in this country," the president said. The communists are aiding Henry Wallace's party, he said, and they are doing this because they want to help the republicans. GOP candidate Gov. Thomas Dewey, speaking at Spokane, Wash., visioned the northwest's water power as a substitute for oil. Oil consumption is Increasing at a faster pace than production, he said. Dewey also praised the republican-controlled 80th con gress as one which "has delivered as no other congress ever did for the future of our country." Opinions on Congress Differ In Tacoma Monday, the GOP candidate described the 80th con gress as "the best." President Tru man first aescriDea n as me worst" In Spokane last June and has called it a "do nothing" body. Forests Open, Hunters Happy Prospective deer hunters re ceived a break Tuesday when all forest closures in Oregon state and national forests were lifted . The state forest department here declared that permits to enter the Oregon forests would no longer be necessary. Tlie closures were lifted, officials said, because of the recent general r$in. The deer season opens Friday and officials said hundreds of hunters already are on their way to eastern Oregon and other fa vorite hunting areas. Portland Site, Conditioning now, while another was offered at twice what he t knew was paid for it at last sale. Board Secre tary Roy Mills said that the ask ing prices aVe close to the ap praisals by the state. Secretary of State Earl T. New bry joined Scott and Gov. John H. Hall is voting to defer secur ing of options for the property, saying suci"action might have a tendency to reduce costs. The board approved plans for installation , of a fourth position on the state telephone switch board and the additional trunks, in order to accommodate the num erous additional offices to be on the state circuit when the r. v office building is completed. The ; switchboard room in the capitol and the exchange equipment room in the Jjaement of the present office building will be enlarged to care for the additions. 12 PAGES Tho Orocon Beflgoaim Ram-Jet Test Missile Exceeds 1,600 mpli I - ' JsSS"t WssV.i-r ' "' '''' ' '' lSfca-- lsw ' ' ' ' '' CLEVELAND, Sept. 28 Show (above) la s lC-lneh diameter ram-Jet test missle which has been clocked at more than 1,600 miles an hour In drop tests. The disclosure was made by the national advisory eesn mitte for aeronautics In Cleveland. (AP wlrephote to the Statesman.) U.S. Demands Soviet Pay for Lend-Lease WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (JP- The United States has called up on Russia in a new note to resume negotiations for settling Its long overdue lend - lease account of $11,000,000,000. Officials disclosed tonight that the state department had sent the note about two weeks ago to Am bassador Alexander S. Panyush kin. The department kept all news of the action secret, they said, for fear of upsetting the delicate discussions with Russian officials on the Berlin blockade. Top American officials felt Moscow might mistake a public announcement of the lend - lease note as an American maneuver to embarrass the Russians at i critical stage in diplomatic nego tiations. Now that these talks with Moc- cow have collapsed, these officials revealed that the state department has: 2. Expressed willingness to talk over the latest Soviet counter pro posal on lend lease as a means of hastening agreement. 2. Suggested the two sides get together for their first face-to- face meeting on the subject since last March when negotiations were suspended. Fertilizer Plant Output for Next 2 Months Sold BOISE, Sept. 28-(Special) -The entire optput of fertilizer from the Columbia Metals Corp. plant in Salem for October and No vember already has been con tracted for and prospects for future capacity operations bright. are This was the statement tonight of Otto Power, vice president of R. Simplot Co., co-owner of Salem operation. Power was a guest at a dinner tonight given by Idaho Power Co. for a group of Oregon newspapermen who were flown here from Portland and Salem by a plane of the Morrison-Knudsen Co., builders of Idaho Power Co. hydroelectric projects. Tom Roach, president of Idaho Power Co., was leading the group which tomorrow will view dams under construction in the Good ing area 100 miles east of here. Roach and Harry Morrison, president of the construction com pany, were speakers at tonight's dinner at Boise hotel. Butter to Drop 2 Cents, Pound PORTLAND, Sept. 28ci55)-The butter trade reported tonight the wholesale price would skid two cents a pound tomorrow morn ing. The Portland price will be 75 cents a pound for Grade AA and A prints at wholesale level. In New York prices slapped to 66 cents cents a pound lowest- of the year and in Chicago the quotation was 64 i cents. TKia nim nri rm lAt.al VtAV n. . V- . IV1 V . I resents a drop of six cents in live day MUND0O Statesman, Satan. Orocon, Wednesday. September 29. 1948 raws UMB CelbiLoIke Plans to Divert Columbia To California Surveyed McKay Says 'Pour It on Harney County9 WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -JF) The bureau of reclamation said today Its engineers are considering two alternate methods of carrying surplus Columbia river waters into California. Congress last year authorized a survey of the proposal which engineers said would dwarf in cost anything yet done in reclama tion development. The projects being considered are: 1, Direct movement of water from the lower Columbia to sou thern California along a system of canals, tunnels and reservoirs through California's central valley and under the Tehachapi moun tain range into the Los Angeles area. Exchange System 2. An exchange system under which Columbia river waters would be diverted into the central valley system. The central valley. in turn, would release similar amounts of water from Sierra Ne vada streams into channels lead ing to southern California. The southern California supply might then ease the water shortages of Arizona and other Colorado river basin states. Secretary of the Interior Krug is expected to appoint four experts soon to work with men in the re clamation areas on a two to three year study of the proposals. Point to Water Waste Bureau heads have pointed out that the Columbia wastes into the ocean 10 times the water produced by the Colorado river, major source, or southern California s water supply. CORVAIXIS, Ore.. Sept. 28-6ip Douglas McKay, Oregon repub lican gubernatorial candidate, said tonight the idea of diverting Co lumbia river waters to California was fantastic. He said that before the water should be channeled that far south it should be "dumped Into Har ney county" in the semi - arid south'- central section of Oregon. His statement was made on the port by U. S. Reclamation Com missioner Michael W. Straus that suggestions to divert Columbia ri ver water were under survey. POULTRYMEN STRIKE SET PORTLAND, Sept. 28 -(PV-AFL Egg and Poultry Workers at the city's largest poultry 'plant are to leave their Jobs tomorrow, a un ion secretary said tonight. Record Marion Budget Passed A record Marion county welfare budget of $3,090,000 for the next biennium has been approved by the state public welfare commis sion, it was reported here Tues day. Marion Bowen, Marion county welfare commission administra tor, said the 1949-51 request was $500,000 more than the current 1947-49 budget. She ascribed the increase to the high cost of living, expanding population, and "post war unrest. Greatest increase for the next two years is in the old age as sistance appropriation, she said. This county seeks $2,000,000 an increase of $400,000 over the cur rent expenditures. Other items on the 1949-51 budget includes general assignee " O " w $600,000, an Increase of $100,000 Aid to dependent children, how- (Clheeirs nff Firm to Hire Union Labor 8 AN f RANCISCO, Sept 28-0'P) A tentative agreement was signed between! the striking CIO long shoremen and an Oregon stevedor ing firm today, providing for the handling of commercial cargo for the first time since the maritime strike began September 2. Ernest Baker, CIO official at the small Cdos Bay lumber port of North Bend, reported the newly formed Commercial Marina com pany had agreed to load three for eign vessels If their American agent approves. j Baker said there was every in dication I the agent, J. J. Moore company of San Francisco, would consent. The agreement is basically the same as that between the long shoremen and the Mutual Steve doring company of San Francisco and Griffiths & Sprague of Seat tie, except that the latter two firms are handling only army cargo. Commercial Marina would be the first to load commercial car go. Terms of the new agreement presumably, like the other two. provide for work at the pre-stnke scale. With any strike-won in creases to be retroactive. GAR RANKS DOWN TO C GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 28-4JP)-lis rank dwindled by death through : the years, the Grand Army of the Republic elects a commander in chief tomorrow in what can't be more than a six-way race. That s all the agea union veterans' there are here for the GAR's 82nd encampment. County Welfare by Commission ever, remains static at $450,000, as does blind assistance at $40,000. The asked-for budget, however, is not in -force until passed by the legislature, she stated. The state has wrapped all the county re quests into a record $61,584,000. Of this amount, $30,056,931 repre sents the state's share. In addition to the general rea sons for increased welfare expen ditures, Miss Bowen also ! pointed out; Aid to dependent children has steadily risen from $9,161 in July, 1947, to $15,591 in June 1948. Main reasons, she noted, is the break-up of war marriages, deser tions and divorces leaving Inade quately supported children. In old age' assistance the in crease seems to be more in the cost of food, clothing and personal al lotments j she declared. A small Increase In applications la noted. Stevedoring j Pricsj 5c '. i No. 170 Spaak Points to Red Spy Nets, 'Imperialism' f By th Aaaoclatod Tfwm Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium accused Russia yesterday of hav ing an imperialistic policy "more ambitious than the policy of the Czars themselves" and with send ing fifth columns Into evenr for eign nation. He told the United Nations iten- eral assembly in Pari that by comparison, Hitler's fifth column resembled "a boy scout move- menf Spaak. premier and foreirn min. ister of Belgium, was cheered by ' aU except the Soviet bloc as he delivered a sharp reply to the at tack on the western powers made Saturday by Soviet Deputy Min uter Andrei vishlnsky. Outside the assembly the Ber lin case of the western . powers against Russia was reported ready ior immediately security council action. A source close to the di plomats drawing up detailed charges said the council micht meet before the weekend on the explosive Berlin case. Said Threat to Peace :: ' A French spokesman said the three western powers will ask the council to establish new pet up in Berlin, where they say the Sov iet blockade threatens world peace. Details were not disclosed. The spokesman said three iden tical letters expected to be deliv ered today to U.N. Secretary-Gen eral irygve Li cite both article 39 and article 40 of chapter even of the U.N. charter. Article 40 empowers the council to eelablfch a governing power In disputed-" areas pending a definite settle ment. ,5 "Minimum of Good Will" French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman also spoke In the geher- ' al assembly. He asked the council ' to do something about the Soviet . blockade and called attention to a "minimum of good will" cn the part of Russia. K. U. Kysilev of'1 White Russia retorted that a war psychosis is being fanned In the United Na tions. He charged the United States with engaging in an arms race and said "the feeling of tho inevitability of a new war is be ing popularized in tho minds of man." i The defense ministers of the five "western union European nations meeting in Paris decided to erUb- . lish a permanent International command to prepare for defence. 5 Pledge Common Aid American and Canadian mili tary officials attended the meet ing of the representatives of Brit ain, France, Belgium, The Neth erlands and Luxembourg. The five nations pledged one another anoth er a policy of common defense. A Tass dispatch from Paris in formed the Russian people for tho first time that the east-west dis pute over Berlin is to be appeal-. ed to the security council. In addition the Soviet press car ried the charge that the speech of British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin tor the general assembly -Monday raised the possibility of two camps in the U.N. going sep arate ways. I - g Idanlia Tops J Chest Quota i Idanha set the pace for the Mar ion county Community Chest cam paign Tuesday when Huber Ray, drive chairman, announced his jcommittee has exceeded the ftm imunity's $500 quota by $200. i; It was a repeat performance for, the city of a similar accomplish ment last year. Actual compila tion of subscriptions are not sched uled to start until October 5. the opening day of the campaign. The announcement came Tues day night in a meeting of Marion county drive chairmen in Chewt campaign headquarters In Slem. jRay Glatt, Woodburn, Marion (county campaign chairman,, pre jsided at the session. The 1948 quota for cities out- jside Salem is $20,000. Speaker! at !the meeting were Loyal Warner, jSalem, president of the state Chert jcampaign: Carl Hogg, former pres ident of the Salem Chest, and Al Loucks, Salem Chest commlttee rnan. ASKS SPECIAL SESSION WASHINGTON, ept 28-T)-Ren. Hartlev (R-N. J.) said today Ithat President Truman should Call la snecial session of congress to deal jwith the west coast longshoxtmcn'a strike. ,4