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I SWoaincm. Sonu Oregon, Woxiiies&rr, March 1913 House Oketis Payment for Six Jap Bomb Deaths in Oregon j WASHINGTON, March l-(JPhOver army objections, the houM Eassed today a bill to pay $20,000 damages to relatives of six persons illed near Bly, Ore- by a Japanese balloon fcomb during the war. The deaths occurred on March day school class came across the bomb while on .a fishing trip. minUter died when they, tutted at the contrivance. : ) Wartime censorship banned any mention of the balloon-borne bombs 'at the time. The bill, which now goes to the senate, would provide $6,000 for Frank J. Pa tike. Grand Forks, N. D.. who lost a son and a daugh ter; $5,000 to Archie Mitchell of Bly, the minister whose wile was killed: and $3,000 each to J. L. Shoemaker, Einer Engen and N. L. Gifford of Bly. who lost sons. The .house Judiciary committee aid the army objected to the bill on grounds the government had no legal responsibility for the deaths. . The committee said the army should have cautioned the public about the bombs beforehand. -Taft-Hattley "Hearings Set; Morse Blasts WASHINGTON, March 1 -"-Th house labor committee voted today to begin early hearings on repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and re-enactment of frf old Wagner set with revisions., 7 Secretary of Labor Tobin, mean while, restated hii opposition to any changes in the bill the Tru- 1080 administration is Dacaing. -I want the bill exactly as it Is. he told reporters. Rep. Lesinski (D-Mich) said the bouse labor committee which he beads rejected 16 to 9 a proposal to reinstate the Waener act with out change pending the writing of a new labor law. Senator Morse (R-Ore.) criti eized his republican colleagues, meanwhile, for backing the Taft- Hartley act in the lirst piace. Morse, a member of the com- - anittee, told the senate that the re publicans must correct "faults" in the Taft-Hartley act. "My party will not. win in 1952 unless it re moves from' itself the anti-labor 'label which now it has so justifi ably pinned on iV Morse saia. He called on the senate to lay aid nartisan politics in consider ing new labor legislatoin and to aim for a bill equally fair to labor. management and the general pup- tin ' ' "The Taft-Hartley law, he said, "has had more to do with increas ing union activity into politics than anything else I know of in It 20 vears" 1 Morse said further that the 1947 ' law -haa been. M great impediment to union organizational drives in this country. Two Teachers Given Leave Leave of absence for the re mainder of the school year was granted- by the Salem aistnci school board Tuesday night for Mrs. Eula Creech. Salem high school home economics teacher. and Mrs. Florence Kron, Parrish Junior high teacher. The board authorized assign- ment of substitutes Helen Cherry to replace Mrs. Kron and Mrs. Dorothy Ericksen to replace Mrs. CTrc'Cla Superintendent Frank B. Ben nett announced that the district wilt plan its own summer session because Oregon College or juiuca? tion cancelled its plans ; a .summer school which would include Salem stu dents. : Harold Dade TKO's Joshua PORTLAND, Ore., March 1-W) Harold Dade,126 pounds, from Chica go, : won by - a technical knockout overAaron Joshua,1 127, Calcutta, India, tonight in the fea tured be xing boot here. - The two light fighters slugged four rounds of fast action in which Dade opened a cut over Joshua's left eye in the fourth. He 'failed, to answer the bell for the fifth and Referee Parley McFarland, af ter conferring with the commis sion physician, awarded 'the bout to Dade. CHINA PLANES HELD SHANGHAI. : Wednesday. Mar. 1 A. spokesman for China Air .Transport said today -- with out cracking a smile -; that ser vice to communist areas is not contemplated . soon because of "red tape." . ledum's :. SEAFOOD ,2305 Portland Rd. 2-6443 gyT Native gfi - Ynqulnn Raj -M ( OYSTEIIS I k .For Delicious I V ' Oyttr Stew A A Cocktail 74 5, 1945, when members of a Sun grounded balloon and ill unexploded Five children ; and the wife of the i Favors Power On Metblius The Oregon i legislature's 'bien nial fight over i Columbia river fish opened Tuesday. The house i utilities committee voted , t to S against a bill which would reserve waters of the Me tolius and Deschutes rivers for fish. i If the legislature adopts the committee's action, it would make possible construction of a $12, 000,000 power dam on the Les chutes by three private power companies. The dam is bitterly opposed by sports and commercial fishermen. , : ; In the senate fishing indus tries committee, ! more than 200 persons jammed the room to dis cuss whether seines, setnets and fish traps should be allowed on the Columbia river for two morej years. . The- people voted to ban them last November, but operators of those devices asked for a two year moratorium so they can li quidate their investments. Sports fishermen and gillnetters oppose me moratorium. Oreg6n Corporal Aboard Missing Plane in Texas SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. March 1 (tfVHope waned today for eight airmen, including one of the famed Doolittle fliers, who have been unreported for more than 30 hours. ' It was feared ill luck befell them in the rugged hill country of soutnwest Texas on a scheduled flight in a C-47 transport from Hamilton Air Base, Calif to San Antonio. The whole area has been cloaked in fog for two days. xa trace oz the reran was over Wink, Tex., at 826 am,: yester day; It had taken off from Biggs Air Base, l Paso, a short time before. Four of its occupants were Mai. Lucian N. Youngblood. 30. of Houston, Tex-, Sgt H. B. Jones. 35, Wellington, Colo.; Capt. George N. Pennington, 26, Chicago, and CpL Donald V. Nutt, Baker, Ore. Youngblood was one i of the B-2S pilots who made the first bombing raid on Japan under Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. At present he is executive officer of the air; rescue- service at Hamilton Field. Corporal Nutt was en route to duty at Keesler Field, Miss., His mother, Mrs. Daisy Nutt, lives at 1Z39 Fourth st, Baker. TftXTUKN FXOSf TRIP S ILVERTON Mr . and Mrs. Os car Loe returned Saturday from a month's trip in the' south. Loe, who is one' of the larger grass- seed growers, also visited grass aeed markets. The trip took them as far as Louisiana. -At Houston, Texas, they visited Dr. C. Qulncy Davis, a native of Silverton, who had visited his former home here last July, i Group irECrpicds See Mardi Gras Capers In City That Care Forgot9 NEW ORLEANS, March 1 - 0P priest here today, assuring him there were "no hard feelings. A plumber squatted on a car blow-torch.; t j A band of Congo warriors, led screaming Indian maids down the It was Mardi Gras. the biggest Mardi Gras New Orleans has ever had; and a hundred thousand buf foons were out cutting capers. How many hundreds of thous ands of other people were out watching them, nobody! knows. City Public Relations director Dave McGuire said it was the largest crowd, ever in the 'streets here. i I . j Police on horses and motor cycles cleared lanes through the mob for parades i to p'ass. Rex, King of Carnival and LonLof Mis rule, rode through at . midday at the head of ,20 mule-drawn floats. His theme was "Louisiana. Uto pia of the South, the floats de picted rice, cotton, sugar cane, and other products of the state. Tonight the Krewe of Comus rode in the last I parade of the carnival. Mardi Gras was official ly over with the midnight meeting of the courts of Rex and Comus, following their, respective Balls at the Municipal Auditorium. The carnival season began Jan uary o. There were 60 Balls at the auditorium and nearly a score of major street parades. The pub lic masking and tomfoo7.ry, how ever, was limited to this one day. Mardi eras Jtself. the day before Lent begins. , if - i Dance Tonight Good Music, Good Floor THE .WONDER VALLEY :.nv-i Bora :j . Modern Old Time Oreh. Come .Have a Swell Time BEQUESTS PLAYED Adnirrica GDc 8w 12th A Leslie St. . ; Over Henry's MkU N etc Rocket WHITE SANDS. N. March 1 A twe-stage experimental rock et fired at the proving ground n February 24 rises skyward shortly after leaving the rrounfl lta way to a record height of . 259 miles above earth. A small WAC Corporal rocket In the nose of a rebuilt German V-3 separated at about 29 miles a p. - (AT Wirepheto from U. S. Army). 'Scope Finds Stars Billion Years Aicay NEW YOFK, March 1 -4P)-- The 200-inch telescope, taking look twice as far as man ever saw before, has made its first great discovery. There is no outer edge to the universe of stars even that far away, the distance light can travel In one billion years. Even out there, the telescope found -families of stars like our own milky way. The discovery Is the first step to great things. It may mean a re-studying . of Einstein's, theory that the universe is limited, pos sibly there aren't any limits. This new. far-distant part of the universe was photographed February 1 by Dr. Edwin Hub ble, the astronomer. Mrs. Voorhies Dies, Medford MEDFORD. March 1-0P)-Fune- ral services were held today for Mrs. Helen Burrell Voorhies. who died yesterday at her home near here. She was the widow of Col. Gordon Voorhies, who was one of the first to plant orchards in the Rogue river valley on a- com mercial basis. Long prominent in southern Oregon, she served on the state capitol building commission and on the Knox commission. Born' in Portland in 1871, she was the daughter or Martin s. Burrell, an , early-day merchant. Memorial services will be held in the Portland Unitarian church. Surviving is a son, Charles H Voorhies, Portland, two daugh ters and a sister. - The devil , shook hands with a track and roasted hot dogs with a by a gorilla, chased half a dozen street. Russian Flier Flees to Japan TOKYO, Wednesday4 March 2 (JP-A young Russian army flier has fled Siberia because as he put it communism and his con science didn't mix. 't The U. S. army disclosed thee episode Tuesday. Then the air man, Sgt. Vladimir Barashkov; 23, talked, to newsmen. , He said Russian fliers are under the im pression "the Soviets have the atomic bomb. Barashkov said he landed his Russian plane in northern Japan late last year to seek refuge in the United States. The army said, without explanation, be would be "re-settled.' LIQUOK AIDE KE3IGN PORTLAND. March 1-0P)-Wil-liam F. Whitely, assistant admin istrator of the Oregon liquor con trol commission for the past year, has resigned to become secretary manager of the Oregon Beer Dis tributors association. FRIENDLY FARM Now Serving Fried Chicken Dinners 5 P. M. to 9 P; M. Weekday 12 Noon to 6 P. M. Sunday, I j Closecf on Mondays 2 Miles North on 99E Highway Board Tells Groiip Money Lacking PORTLAND, March l-ff)-The state ! highway, commission told three delegations today that there was not enough money available at present to make all the im provements they asked upstate. A five-man delegation from Reedsport asked for improvement of route S&. from Scottsburg to Reedsport. ' The commission said it would let bids before the end of May for improvements on another Sty mile stretch of the road, making a total of five miles Improved. When the delegation . complain ed that it had taken two years to get that much accomplished, and asked for a speed-up on the rest of the work, the commission re plied ! there just was not enough money. The same answer was given: a group from Roseburg asking wid ening of the Pacific highway to four lanes at the north edge of Roseburg. The commission awarded four contracts and rejected one bid on another. Those awarded Included: Benton county - Mary's river bridge section, construction 233 feet of reinforced concrete high way and 0.37 miles of highway near Wren station, to Lindstrdm Bros, Portland, $74,867. Papers Meet Pressmen in Strike Talk PORTLAND, Ore, Mar. MJP)- Publishers of Portland's strike bound newspapers and AFL press men met jointly today in the first contract negotiation session since deadlocking February 19. L. C. StolL chairman of the Portland Labor-Management com mittee which brought the two groups together, did, not disclose details of the initial joint session. He indicated the union and management committees are now on their own in reaching a settle ment The strike has kept the Oregon Journal and The Oregonian idle 12 days. Some 2,000 were thrown out of work and 3,000 others in directly affected. - Pressmen, numbering about 10Q. had sought pay Increases, shorter working hours, a publisher-fi nanced pension plan and other conditions of work. Naval Reservists To Take Training! And Cruise Duty Several Inembers of Salem's na val reserve unit will attend train lng courses at San Diego and Se attle or take a cruise aboard the USS Duxbury Bay this month. It waa announced Tuesday. Sailing aboard the Duxbury Bay from March 12 to 25 are Leonard Van Kleeck, Thomas D. Stuart, Walter Quiring. Stanley Pelster,4 Clifford W. Page. Calvin E. Pear- sail, Dave E. Metzler. David D. Madsen. Adam S. Mack. Marvin H. Lerud, Jack O. Knedler, George M. Hopper. Ernest D. Hicks, Jack J. Harris, Ralph N. GeiL Eugene L. Fulmer, Byron C Fry, Milford R. Archibald, jr' John E. Renkert, and v Lyle E. Weatherbee. Jack D. Bartelt, Charles W. Dunn and Bernard K. Wodzewoda will attend the instructors train ing course at San Diego commen cing March 6. Oscar P. Bollinger will attend the machinery repair man school at San Diego begin ning March 6, and Rolim R. Za- ic will attend classification school at Seattle beginning March 14. Bearcat Cagers Real 'Smarties' Most people will agree, after seeing them perform, that there were some clever boys on this year's Northwest conference co champion basketball squad I at Willamette university. Coach John Lewis would agree and clinches this opinion with a run-down of the recently released grades 1 of ms 14 man squaa. The starting five. Bob. Jim and Ted Johnson, Tom Warren and Ted Loder. had a group average of 3.24 (B plus), which is the highest group average other than the scholastic honorary average. Tne squad average is 2.81 or sal most a "B." The 13 man squad earned 196 hours of A, 249 hours of B and 74 hours of C. STARS SPARKLE I SAN FERNANDO. Calif, March -AVBill Lillie's three sizzling singles and Gene Handler s triple highlighted action in the Holly wood sura six inning lntrasquad game today. Your Chef Is j William Wong j whan you'dlna at 99 Cafe Chinese American Dishes H mil Se, ea tSE I Portland Symphony Completes I O WW : denes Here on " Br Maxlne Bnren Music Editor, Tho Statesman .Werner Jans sen and the Portland Symphony orchestra opened their final Salem concert Tuesday in musical flavor. The beautiful works" (Water Music Suite) by Taos by Bornschein, played by harp, muted strings, and with a parti cularly lovely flute solo by Artnur - Pair Confess Xonely Hearts Slaying of 3 BYRON CENTER, Micb March MAVA. balding, mail-order ro meo and 200-pound divorcee were held by police tonight after admit ting they slew three persons while oeprating a deadly "lonely hearta" racket. Bodies of two of the victims were dug out of cement-filled graves here today and that of the third was found in the cellar of a New York home tonight. Prosecutor Roger C. McMahon said the suspects --29 - year - old Martha Beck and Raymond Mar tinez, Fernandez. 34 - - would be charaed with first degree murder tomorrow. Michigan authorities will prose cute them for the brutal slayings of Mrs. Delphine Downing, 28, and her 20-months-old daughter, Kai nelle. Their bodies were dug nip from the basement of the Downing home here today. The body of the third victim was dug up from the cellar of a home in South Ozone Park, Queens, N. Y.. tonight on iniorma tion riven police by Fernandez. He identified the third victim as Mrs. Janet Fay and said she was slain January 4. New York authorities held up positive identification of the dead woman until they had checked her fingerprints and gotten confirma tion of her identity from relatives. McMahon tonight ordered a search for a "third suspect" in the slayings, but declined to say whe ther the wanted person was mai or female. The prosecutor said the pair told him of traveling through the eastern part of the nation finding victims through letters addressed to Lonely Hearts clubs. They tra veled, McMahon said, as brother and sister. When successful in findins a victim, they bilked her of all the money they could and then disappeared. Only three times, according to th nrosecutor. puns went awry. Then the killings took place. Planes Collide In Maneuvers; No One Hurt WITH THE ATLANTIC FLEET ON CARIBBEAN MAntu vxw, March 1 -- A near tragedy was vrtd todar when a let Phan tom fighter plane and a Grum man fighter collided in nua-air. Th accident occurred at an al titude of about 6,000 feet off Puer- Twrt fet of a wing of the Jet plane were snearea on m uw wr lision but tne puoi. jui. C May of Daytona Beacn, isu. managed to nurse the crippiea air craft to a landing at RSbsevelt Roads, 30 miles away on Puerto Rico. . . . The other plane "cartwneeiea j-tail over nose and the pilot, Lt. R. T. Hoppe, bailed oat. A rescue helicopter plucked him from the water and took him to his home carrier, the Kearsarge. Neither pilot was hurt.' It occurred as 123 planes were In the air demonstrating air tac tics. Sixteen jet planes, including the one damaged in the accident, participated in an operational ac tion from a carrier for the first time. .Earlier .the navy had announced that no one was injured when the submarine Trumpetfish was dam aged in an underwater collision with the cargo ship Marquette during current war games. ENTERS HOSPITAL SILVERTON Margie Weath- erill, who has been at the home of her parents, Mr. and 'Mrs. G. E. Weatherill. 307 N. Second st, for the past week, entered the state tubercular hospital Satur day for treatment. Miss Weather ill was employed in general cleri cal work in the Salem bus termi nal and more recently in a whole sale muiinery in x'oruana. Starts Today Opea f :4S GRl ft mm T. m at "GUNS OF HATE Tim Holt. Naa Leslie rs ffiuM W O . "W night with a lively group, varied overture from The Royal Fire Handel was followed by Moon Over HoDerman. T A Vl.Jt M t M a v iiassinig a boo. inna xa via Tamkin'a The Dybbuk," on of those very modern things with dissonant tones and lots of life. was played 'with the same line spirit the orchestra showed in the world premiere of the opera in Portland earlier this winter. ' egend of Tsar Saltana by Rim-sky-KorsakoT waa the final num ber in the group with its rich melodies and brUliant orchestra tion. . Piece de resistance of the eve ning waAkSibelius Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, which Werner Jans sen interprets so beautifully. It was a great number, perfectly done, as an audience can depend upon Sibelius being played1 under Wepier Janssen's direction. irung io complete tne evening's-pleasure were the-two en cores, Traumerel by Schumann and Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio fcspagnole, the latter of which caused no end of speculation as to its identity. I thought it the nicest of the three concerts given here . this year by the- Portland orchestra; some thought it vied with the first. Nevertheless, last night's performance left Salem listeners in a fine mood in which "to look forward to another winter series of concerts here next year. Church Youth Form Coimcil, Plan Program Officers of the new Salem Unit ed Christian Youth movement were elected and program plans considered at a meeting Sunday of delegates from five churches. All churches in the city were In vited to participate InMhe move ment. Elected were Catherine Per sons, .First Presbyterian, presi dent; Joyce Kirby, Jason Lee Methodist, vice president; Joyce Rautenkranz, First Christian, sec retary-treasurer. Acting as chair man was David Poindexter, Wil lamette university student who is vice president of the Oregon Christian Youth movement An Easter youth breakfast was discussed, and a committee named to draw tip a constitution. The executive committee will meet Thursday afternoon at First Christian church, and the entire council again on March 13. King Kniglits 58 in England LONDON, March 1 -(Jf). King George VI. seated in a red and gilt chair to rest his ailing legs, conferred .new year's honors on 300 men and women today. The king conferred knighthood on 98, Including Sir William Law ther, president of the National Union of Mine Workers. Mat. Daily frem 1 P. M. e NOW SHOWING! sia soooiAS Kiaa aouotas Ce-Iilt! Onalew Steves "' "THE CREEPER" Opens 6:45 P. M. New! Devble' Thrills! ALAN LADD LYLE TALBOT NOW1 OPENS 6:4S Walt Disney's HAMBX Livety note ... H ' , : TV I Five Europeans sentenced for j -German Spying i MUNICH, Germany, March 1 (AVFive Europeans .headed, by a Pole who said he worked for Po land's secret service, were convict ed of espionage; and sentenced to prison by a UJ S. military com mission today. The terms ranged from 12 to 30 years. I The stockrr rinladr. ThmtAM Szendielorx, 33, grinned when the vemcneva were reao. ne drew 30 years for spying on behalf of a "foreign power. No foreign pow er besides Poland was mentioned ia the trial. j Little emotion was shown by the others: . ! Roman Knopp, g, a German railway worker, 20 years. i Rudolf Badura, 31, a Pole, 12 years. . . j ! Georg Kolodxlez, 3, a German, 12 years. . ( Helmut Schoftock. M rzr man, 12 years. - Th trial was one of a series for 20 Dersona roundM nr. k .v.. American army last falL The third trial with iii a. fendants, is scheduled to open toi morrow, ine eight include three women. Jeff, Teddies Share Gonfalon ferson and Roosevelt high schools shared the city basketball chant- Pionsmp xonight. They finished the season todav h w.i.. , victories, Jefferson edging Frank- , to , ana itoosevelt swam Ping Washington, 63 to 43. A playoff for the taf "A. a.- trict 15 upper bracket berth Is icniauvery scneduled for: Friday. The ' loser will take the lower bracket district 16 berth. I IIEW What U You Wok Up rouna zou HADNT Zrecaned It? O THING POINTS TO era tha AQ-Tlma Top Advenrura la ghaar, UnaaL tlgatod Sus penaal SEE XT IslOM THE START! Pheae t-I7tt Fee Tlaaes! V I a J r J - wsm R.-1 eassssMsas- wa r a a w m . . i Flea This BUI WILLIAMS - Daffy Dack IIET7 TODAY! ! -o.- Tho Chmnpton Adven ture Hit Of AQ Time I Bi TIITJXDX2IN0 Df ITS DRAsU- fnsszxp nt.Tzi twrzr or ra MAGNinCENT PRODUCTION ... John Wayne Montgomery Cli ft 'II ! witlr Walter Brennaa Jeaaae Dra - Harry Carey 2ND ACE "Dynanlle o JL H. Berkowitz Rabbia Passe In PoHland ' (Picture on case 11 PORTLAND. Ora March Rabbi Henry. J. BerkowlU. fti, prominent Portland Jewish lead er. died at his home here today' after a long Illness. Long prominent in the move ment for religious and racial tol erance, he had appeared on speak lng platforms throughout the countrr. He also waa tha authA of numerous magazine articles and several books. The most recent book, published last fall, was "Boot Camn." baaed An hta it. perience as a navy chaplain. t He was rabbi of the Beth Israel congregation' here for 21 years. Prior to that he had pulpits la Kansas City and Detroit. He was born In Philadelphia -Nov. 27, 1894, and was a gradu ate of 'Hebrew Union college of Cincinnati.! He was a member for several terms of the Central Con ference of American Rabbis. .Oregon State college conferred the degree of LL.D. on him' la 1932. . I I -'is Surviving are the widow. TW and a . son Jack of PortUnd- hi mother. Clara, of PhilHinM.. and three brothers. Faneral services will be held at Beth Israel synagogue Thurs day at 2 d. m. Burial, will Ha u Beth Israel cemetery.- .. I . DAM AEEA BIDS OPENED PORTLAND, March MV Ar thur Ai Irwin and Lloyd Denslow, Eugene, were low of seven bid ders on S job to construct a pro ect laboratory and, utilities 1 for army engineers at Lowell, Ore. The bid waa S15.S32. Th. uw. atory would be used in connec uon witn tne; Lookout Point dam. I N f 1 TODiW! n From A Nltmevo And a , . mmm Ate Cempaaiea Hit . Barbara HALE n ia BKO-Raale's CLAY PIGEON Carteea .Warner News fctihhtifclibtilk TEEATW With Wm. Gargaa. Vlrglaia Welles 1 1 y S' Aiveatare! f Excttetaeatl 1 Saeeteelel e la t Taara j ' Oalr tl I Cevsred , Wagen," 'Clwf. rea'laaa! New V "It ED RITCa! 7