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1 i 4 it. over Site of Local War Memorikl Audkorusm ill- i A. : (Civic Group Spl s Bush's Pasture, State Street Locations Win Active Support By Robert E. Gangware j City Editor, The Statesman Where and when a war memorial auditorium, shall be; built in Salem provoked con flicting answers Tuesday night in two civic meetings under one roof. Salem Memorial Auditorium association, meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Floral room, reiterated its proposal for an auditorium in Bush's pasture, to be erected in! the near future through public bond issue. Salem's long range planning Memorial Group Favors Pasture Because: ! Favoring a Bash's pasture site for a war memorial auditorium, CoL Philip Allison, site ehair maa for the aoditorium associa tion, Tuesday nisht cited these sdvan tares: 1. Park site on high rround near Mission and Winter streets offers commanding leeatien ap propriate to the memorial. 2. Within walking distance of downtown Salem. J. Parkinr could be provided off the street to serve audito rium and Willamette university athletic field. 4. Area free from flood dan rers. ' 5. Pleasant residential snr roundings. C. Mission street connects with other thronih streets to provide traffic fjpw. 7. Site would cost nothing. OTP SHEDS TPCDIIjQOS Fifty-two years ago there was a presidential campaign that was a campaign. William J. Bryan, the boy orator of the Platte, rid ing high on agrarian discontent born of hard times, advocating free and unlimited coinage of oilver at the ratio of 16 to one, nominee of tho - democratic and populist parties, was a real threat 4a the conservative community, then resident largely in the east. Thanks to the strategy of Mark YTanma renublican national chair man, and the money that flowed Into republican campaign coffers, the Bryan menace was defeated. William McKinley, running on the slogans of "sound money' and full dinner naiL was elected and In 1897 the country entered . riod of prosperity that last ed, with a temporary dip in 1907, and another slump In 1914, until the business decline that xouowea the first world war. There was great popular inter est in "free silver." The suver producing states wanted silver monetized at a ratio giving it a value with respect to gold of shout twice what it Was to tne market. Debt-riddeh farmers of the midwest were eager 'to get 50-cent dollars to use in retiring their Indebtedness to mortgage holders, banks and machinery dealers. Out in Iowa a country editor fcv the name of George E. Rob erts wrote a pamphlet, entitled. as I recall. "Coin Harvey at School in Finance. Its purpose was to show the fallacy (Continued on editorial page) Warren Train To Visit Salem Ho . Gov. Earl Warren of Califor nia, republican nominee for vice president, will be in Salem Fri day afternoon about 2:30 o'clock. It was learned Tuesday. But Sa lem republican officials have not yet been informed as to how long his rtrain will stop or whether Warren will make a platform ap pearance. Tho candidate will go through on the Warren Special train, due to depart at 2:30. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "l just met her last night and I fee it Ve known hu sit any Urea." 1 ( commission, meeting at the same merce office down the hall, reit- era ted its stand in favor of a site between State and Court streets, east of 14th street, and expressed doubt that an auditorium project should receive high priority am ong demands on the public pock etbook. The long - range group went further and asked City ; Manager J. L. Franzen, a- member of the commission, to draft an outline of major projects now proposed for Salem which require public fin ancing, with the thought in mind that the commission should esti mate total costs to city taxpayers and then establish an order of pri ority for execution of the plans. Other Listings This priority list should include, besides the auditorium, the city's financial obligations in a hew Wil lamette river bridge, an arterial street plan, railroad changes and other "musts" in Salem's future. Franzen, who broached the sub ject of financing various Civic pro jects, said, "City taxpayers are affected by all these projects and they can dig up only so much mo ney at a time." He asked: that pri orities be established to insure fin ancing of all projects over the years, "rather than trying to beat the gun on separate projects." Seek Ordinance The auditorium association com prises members representing some 40 Salem civic organizations which designate members who in turn select an executive board to pur sue plans for the auditorium. It is now preparing an ordinance bill for presentation to the city coun cil, seeking that 5 acres in the Bush's pasture (recently acquired Dy me city) be set aside for the auditorium and parking area in reviewing the pasture site selection for members last night. ioi. fnuip Allison, site cpmmit tee chairman, answered criticism that locating an auditorium in Bush's pasture would provide "a wedge for other groups to lo cate in the park by assertina that no other activity in Salem com pares with a war memorial audi torium program and that the au ditorium need not be considered a -precedent for buildings in the park. Other Proposed Sites Other proposed sites for the au ditorium which Allison described as unsatisfactory are located east of Leslie junior high school in south Salem Marion park in downtown -Salem; a section of the state fairgrounds, and a West Sa lem riverfront site. Allison said the Leslie location would not be central and would be muddy most of the winter and fall. The Marion park site, he said, would provide only room enough for the building and no parking and would not be imposing. The state fairgrounds, he stat ed, is not centrally located and might not be desirable to the rest of the state. The riverfront site would be in flood danger, he ad de (Additional details on page 3.) U. S. Air Force To Winterize' Berlin Airlift BERLIN, Oct. 12-0PiThe U. S. air force announced Dlans todav "winterize? the Berlin airlift. Several hundreds of reserve officers who - volunteer will be given special training i at Great Falls, Mont., in visual and in strument flying and assigned to the airlift, the announcement said. These pilots, co-pilots and engineers can revert to inactive duty next spring. i Another anno uncement said Douglas Globemasters j transports will be put into a regular shuttle service over the Atlantic carrying special high priority cargo from Westover base, in : Massachusetts, to Frankfurt to the air lift. ( Special icing de-icing equip ment is being installed on airlift planes. Charge Kills 4 Carnival Hands VISALIA, CalifJ Oct. 12.-V Eleven thousand volts from a power line today killed four car nival workers. A standard on which they were erecting a sign collapsed. Sheriff Ben Gurr said investigators re ported that the sign did not act ually hit the power line, but that current jumped across the gap when it was about a foot away. The ground was damp from a re cent rain. Officials of the Craft shows. which was preparing to open a six night stand. Identified the dead as Murphy Luther Bradshaw, Paris, Ark.; Melvin Robert; Williams, Fort Worth, Tex.; Clyde Bonin Buffington, Eureka, Kas.. and El bert Davison, no address. Four others were hospitalized for burns and shock but physicians said they probably would recover. tune in the Lhamocr 01 com Planners Prefer Stale Street Site Because: Preferring a State; street site to Bush's pasture for the pro posed war memorial auditorium. Engineer c. A. McClure and members of Salem lone ranee planning jcommisison Tuesday night offered these arguments: 1. Bush's pasture j should be developed j as park and play groan d ; area only. 2. "Long block" from 14th to 17th strets. between f State and Court streets, is nearer center of population. 3. That area fits better into arterial street plan. 4. Off-street parking pro vided In ! eommisison -endorsed site.' j 5. Auditorium should be placed where other civic build ings can go up in future years, as a civic center. AFL Ousts CIO Pickets from Tacoma Docks TACOMA. Wash., Oct. 12 -UP) Mass action by AFL. union mem bers ended! CIO picketing at three docks here today but the CIO promised retaliation. The outnumbered, non-res ist ing CIO i longshoremen's union pickets withdrew, and unloading of three ships continued. There was no violence. As ah outgrowth of the day's action, William Gettings, Seattle, regional director of the striking CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's union, an nounced: 1. His international la listing 22 ships here as "scab." He said dock workers in 21 countries will be asked not to work; the ships. 2. The striking unions will re fuse to honor 400 to 900 passes to AFL men 1 in Seattle which al lowed AFL workers to continue at repair and maintenance jobs on ships : and docks there. Tacoma is the one: major west coast port; where the AFL In ternational! Longshoremen's asso ciation mains the waterfront. The only exchanges between the CIO and AFL. groups at the docks today were angry words About 30 i CIO pickets left the Shatter dock No. 2 after an esti mated 100 AFL huskies swept onto I the dock area, some carry ing clubs. A loudspeaker warned the picket to leave. Meters Fed On The city of Salem's treasury grew richer Tuesday, (Columbus day), as uninformed motorists fed nickels into parking meters de spite the holiday. An afternoon survey made by The Statesman showed practically every meter throughout the down town district was operating. Traf fic officers, abiding ; by the city charter, wrote not a; single ticket all day. "One Salem business man said "I'm really disgusted" when re minded it was unnecessary to prime the: meters. "I kept three meters operating all 4ay," he com mented- "One for my car and two others for imy employes." Henry Hubbard, 74, of Silvertdn Area Dies SILVERTON, Oct. 12 Henry Elmer I Hdbbard. 74, prominent farmer arid native of Silvertbn died tonight at his home on Sil verton i roiite 3. Surviving are his j widow, Mrs. Geneva Htibbard antj a daughter, Mrs. WilljKrenz, both of Silver ton. ; Ekman (chapel is in charge of funeral arrangements. BOILERMAKERS TO STRIKE PORTLAND, Oct. 12 -(JP)- AFL boilermakers business agent said tonight that about 100 men will leave their jobs tomorrow at the Springfield mill of the Weyer haeuser company. Weather Holiday 1 1 Max. '" Min. Prccip. . ft - M . . M 47 JO . 49 JOO . St 40 jOO . ? 8 JM Saleas Portland San Francisco Chicago. J New- York i. Willamette river 1-S feet. FORECAST (from U.K. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly clear today and Thursday, with fog In the morning; little chant In tem perature. High today S3, low tonight M. IAUM pke cipit ation (Frssa Sept. 1 Oct. IS) This Tear 4.41: Last Tear 98th YEAR 14 Pages Wodetraoini Price of Meat Still On Skids More meat and cheaper feed has forced meat prices down on the Salem market, it was reported to day. Although cuts and prices varied in many Salem markets a general downward trend in beef and veal prices was noted. Following a 10 cents per pound drop in Portland markets hamburger was retail ing here Tuesday in most markets at 49 cents per pound. Several shops pointed out, how ever, that 49 cents a pound ham burger was here late last week al ready. One large wholesale plant said that with cattle- and hog- feed prices dropping and with live stock becoming more abundant again after a summer slack - off, meat prices probably would re main down for at least several months. It was noted that wholesale pri ces on meat have dropped from 10 to 20 per cent during the past several weeks. PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 12lp) Retail meat prices plummeted as much as 10 to 17 cents a pound here today in the wake of lower bids for beef animals at the North Portland Livestock market. Negotiations with Petrillo Collapse NEW YORK, Oct. 12--Week-long union and industry negotia tions to end the American Feder ation of Musicians recording ban collapsed today. Both record company officials and James C. Petrillo, AFM pre sident, refused to disclose the points of disagreement. The recording ban has been in effect since Dec. 31, 1847, when the old contract expired. TO "RECOGNIZE ARABS CAIRO, Oct 12 -Jpy- The Egyp tian government said tonight it would recognize the Palestine Arab government set up at Gaza. WU Freshmen Given Annual Dunking iMV if iWsJt it rreper respect for apper classmen miim4m "mii i) mm i n iiimmiiiiCi n n lammr m i ,tr , 'Til .mm,----- :'. were brought home to freshmen Tuesday morning when tne strag gling fresh were brought to the mill race by members of the letter men's elan. Upper photo shows tho procession led by Ted Loder, freshman class president. BfUwmnkie, la a prone position. Lower photo shows Phil Shaw. Camas, Wash, lower right, wading out of tho mill race as Loots Fredllette, Vancouver, Wash hits the water. (Photos by Don DHL SUtesman staff photographer.) The Oregon Statesman, Dewey Splattered Br Illinois Tomato Rotten Eggs Smashed Against Train EN ROUTE WITH DEMEY to Thomas E. Dewey was splattered by a ripe tomato hurled at him as he spoke from the rear platform of his campaign train tonight in Mt. Ver non, 111. Two tomatoes were tossed at One hit Life's magazine photographer. Francis Miller. The other hit U.S. Opposes Disarmament, Blames Russia By the Associated Press The United States declared yes terday that the nations of the world cannot disarm while Rus sia follows a policy of "wreck and destroy. In a blunt speech to the politi cal committee of the U. N. general assembly in Paris, Warren R. Au stin said the United States al ready has disarmed too far and too fast. Austin, the No. 2 U. S. delegate in the United Nations, announced support of the United States for a British resolution blaming Rus sia for lack of control on world armaments, and for a Syrian pro posal that the U. N. commission for control of arms get back on the Job. In reply Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky offered to put the Soviet cards on arms reduction on the table if the United Nations adopts the Rus sian proposal lor an immediate one - third cut in armaments by the five major powers. Vishinsky denied that, east-west cooperation was impossible. He said differing ideologies could exist if "both sides try to understand the other side." He said if the U. N. adopts the Soviet proposal for arms reduction Russia "will si multaneously submit information on its arms ana armea iorces. We'll put our cards on the table when this will have practical sig nificance, every one of them. 'mzm TOs At aad Willamette nniyersity traditions POUNDBD 1651 j Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, East St. Louis, 111., Oct. 12-;p)-Gov, the republican presidential candidate. the rail of the platform and splat tered the governor. Dewey ignored the incident. It happened right after he was intro duced to a police estimated crowd of 10,000. Mrs. Dewey was standing at the GOP candidate s side when the to matoes came flying at the car, Mayor Harry Bishop of Mt. Ver non, standing on the platform, al so was splattered. It was the first time during the campaign that Dewey was the tar get of any missiles. Dewey's aides and local police said they believed the tomatoes were thrown by youngsters. Porter R. L. Biles said the sev enth car in Dewey's 17-car special train was pelted with rotten eggs at Beaucoup, 111 That is 10 cars away from Dew ey's private car. 'The eggs were rotten, I know, because I could smell them," he said. Earlier Dewey called for elec tion of a president who will work for peace "without undercutting this country's official represent atives. Barnstorming across Kentucky and southern Illinois, the repub lican presidential nominee made this obvious reference to Presi dent Truman's temporary plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Mos cow: "These are too serious times to trifle with incompetence and blun ders in positions of high impor tance." FREIGHT KATE RISE BOUGHT WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 -UP- The railroads today formally ask ed for a 13 per cent increase in freight rates, and petitioned for authority to make a portion of the advance effective at once. The ac tions were taken before the inter state commerce commission. Several Willamette university freshmen were given lessons in "proper respect" for campus tra ditions and etiquette by being tossed in the mill stream by Wil lamette lettermen club members, following Tuesday's morning cha pel. Side exits to the Waller hall chapel were barred by the letter men, who are the official campus gendarmes, and all freshmen were required to walk through an "in spection lineup" at the front exit where men, guilty of wearing cords or not wearing their cam pus "dickie calps" were forcibly taken to the mill stream to be dunked. Ted Loder, freshman class pres ident from Milwaukie was used as an example and tossed in first. The dunking was a preliminary display of punishment to be ren dered next week at the "Kanga roo Kourt" trials. U. S. to Deport Union Official WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -OP-John Santo. Romanian born or- i ganizer for the CIO transport workers union, has been ordered deported, the immigration service announced today. The service said Santo has com mitted three violations of the im migration laws: he entered the U. S. in 1927 as a student, but failed to maintain his exempt alien sta tus as a student; he Joined the communist party after coming here, and he became affiliated with an organization (the com munist party) which advocated overthrow of the U. S. govern ment. Since 1943, Santo has been in ternational organizer for the trans port workers. He formerly was secretary treasurer of the union. CANADIAN OIL SOUGHT TULSA, Okla., Oct. Xl.-iJPy-Three American oil companies and Canadian oil interests have ac quired a government concession to prospect and drill for oil on some four million acres in Alberta pro vince, Canada October 13, 1948 Succumtis 4 ' - i Harry N. Crain ram- Salem Editor, Dies at Home Harry N. Crain, 52, managing editor of The Capital Journal and one of the state's most widely- known political writers, died Tuesday at his home, 712 S. High St. Crain; crippled by infantile paralysis since be was ! t yean old, joined the Capital Journal staff 30 years ago soon after be ing graduated from the! Univer sity of .Oregon. He had been ill for a considerable time and had seldom ibeen able to leave his home the last two years. He con tributed to his newspaper's edi torial page until four months ago, however. Early In his newspaper career he had worked on the Ban- don Recorder. The Dallas Item- izer and the Eugene Register- Guard. ; Survivors Include the widow; daughter. Mrs. Boyd Brown of Hubbard; a brother, Richard, of Portland: a sister. Mildred Crain. of the faculty of Marylhurst col lege nfar Portland, and four grandchildren. j Final ; rites are being arranged by Clough-Barrick Co. $100 Reward Offered fori ! I Body of Boy Search of the Willamette river for the body of 10-year-old Larrv Luce who drowned Saturday con tinued yesterday with the aid of a 'civil air Datrol olane anH v. eral volunteers who work at the Kelley, j Farquhar & Co. plant with thf boy's father, James Luce.! ;To intensify the search, the boy's parents last night told The Statesman they are offering a $100 reward to anyone who lo-i cates the body. The Luce boy drowned Satur day when he lost control of his: bicycle j while riding down a muddy j trail at the foot of Co lumbia istreet in north Salem. Six boats were out ; Tuesday searching the river arid Capt.l Wade Dickinson and Lt. Eldon Thomasl of the civil air patrol flew up end down the fiver be tween i Columbia street and Wheatland for l'i hours without sighting; the body. Hunter Held In Boy's Death ijy the Associated Press : A Tllyrtle Point rancher has been hld to answer toi a grand jury in; connection with one of the 17 deaths which have occur red during Oregon's deer hunting season. ! : A Coquille coroner's jury re-i turned ia verdict of criminal re sponsibility at a hearing into the shooting of Arthur Cotter, 17, Coquillt. Lawrence Simmons tes-j tified tie mistook Cotter for a bear and shot him from; an apple tree. The youth and two others were gathering apples in; an aban doned Orchard. ! Five of the other hunting sea son victims were shot, nine died of heart attacks and two were killed ih an auto accident " i ' f '".,' tiarrvL i :. J ! Pries 5c No. 182 j . i an n n - ! r it oif By Conrad France ') Staff Writer. Ttv Statesman Widening of rtorth Capitol street from Court to Union streets is not a feasible plan to give permanent relief from congested traffic condi-4 tions along North Capitol street State Highway Engineer R. H. BaU dock said Tuesday night. J Baldock made the statement at a meeting of the North Salem Bus4 iness , association whose members expressed sharp opposition to': any attempt to enact no-parking regu lations or one-way traffic alonj North Capitol street. : To alleviate traffic congestion on North Capitol street. Baldock proposed two plans no-parking regulations along North Capitol to the underpass and a system of one-way traffic. The latter plari ... 1 -1 I l . . . . wuuiu icidr noruiDouna irauia along North Capitol street mnd southbound traffic on Summer street and Fairgrounds road, i J "I am not speaking for the high- way commission," Baldock saidl Nor can I foretell what the com 4 mission might do in the future un4 der different conditions. North Capitol is a very congested street.? A proposal to widen North Cap itol street from Court to Union streets was introduced at Salem city council meeting Monday night. Part of the proposal also is to en act ' no-parking regulations. (lrom Court street north to the Southern Pacific underpass to1 provide a con tinuous stretch of four-lane trafficL rablle Meeting Set - The proposal will be aired at public meeting of the city council on October 25. Baldock said the proposal had been presented to him but had not been referred t the state highway commission. He said it would cost about $90,OQ0 to widen the four blocks in question. Baldock pointed out: i An "express route" a super main highway through Salem 1 to be built through use of federal funds in the distant future. Rali dock made it clear that North Cap itol street would not be the route of the new highway. j; . j The highway commission rwlll not ouiia a separate irucx route through or around .Salem. Use of federal funds on roads prevents this. i f Willing to Advise I T A. A - : . The commission does not reffuU late traffic In city streets. Sucji decisions as designating one-way irainc or no-parking : areas are left up to city governments al though the commission is willing to act in an advisory capacity, if "North Capitol street is bearintf close to its maximum flow of traf fic now. Something will have to be done soon, even if I only tem- porary measures, io aueviaMj th situation, Baldock said. Te Lay Farther Plans I t Members of the business ssd ciation opposed traffic regulations on North Capitol street as being detrimental to their business in vestments. ;j P The group decided to meet next Tuesday night at 8 p.m. In the Wil lamette Valley Bank building to discuss plans for appearing at the city council meeting on October 25- ' ! T $110,000 $100,000 :1 $90,00 9 I $80,000 $70,000 H J ! ; 4 $50,000 $60,000 $40,000 $20,000 $10,000 Salem Chet Coal $110,000 Lim j Parking! Opposed fx.! $30,000 r I 4 T