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Withdrawal of Merger Proposal Suggested; West Salem Council Studies Through 7tli Street WEST SALEM, April 4 Delaying tactics ill Salem response to - ,the Baldock bridge and highway proposal and attempts "by an in fluential few" to substitute a Division street bridge for the proposed " Marion street bridge were cited by Mayor Walter Musgrave tonight a "definitely working against West Salem's best interests." City council members discussing ine naiaqcK pian controversy with the mayor indicated iney would go along with Musgrave's statement that West Salem should withdraw its interest in merger with Salem if the Baldock plan Is defeated. The West Salem council is on record favoring the Baldock report as presented to the state highway commission. This would add a '. Marion street bridge linking Salem nd West Salem, witn -com xne new bridge and the Center street ' -bridge earmarked for one-way traffic and with plans for an even tual hw West Salem riverfront above Edgewater street to provide flood protection as weU - as a new through route. The Division street bridge which bas been proposeo. as to the Marion bridge would piace , a through highway around West " Salem at the base of the hills. Musgrave contended this freeway would cut off West Salem from the area beyond. - In regular city council actions. West Salem assembly set In motion a study of the possible de velopment of Seventh street Into a second east-west tnrougn street for the city. Mayor Musgrave and Councilman Earl Burk said some b? of the property owners have i shown interest in cooperating with such a project. The streets cora P mittee was directed to study the : right-of way and related prob 't lems and report back in time to ' .possibly make allowance for start 'i on the project in the coming bud? et Opening of Seventh would be 7; necessary from Gerth street west. ; This year's citizen budget com 1 mittee was namerf to include R. E. ,fi Overt. Clyde Everett. Philip Ker " Iwr. L. L. Elocer. Jacob Foos. Vic I. tor Utterbach and Mrs. Verne Axelson. !! Portland General Electric pow- er- poles c?me in for renewed dis- rf ration by the council, whicn ae- cicfed to request the Bonneville odministr?.tjrn to allow PGE to j! share one r.f it poles on Edge t' water street. PGE had requested jl permission .o repl?ce th? pole, which is in Lad corditior, and the )h council las nigM agreed to give such permission if it is found that Y Joint usership car.rot be arranged V with Bonneville. The council also Instructed its street committee to fi ' check with PGE on a pole at 651 Rosement ave. where property owner Virgil Shipmari complained f" a new guy wire is splitting a maple tree "on the parking. SPECIAL ' MEETING SET A special meeting of the Salem ' hih Band and Orchestra-Parents club will be held in the bank room w. at 8 o'clock' tonight. The group " will hear the report of a commit- te appointed to investigate possi bilities of financing band and or chestra transportation to the state . - band contest in Klamath Falls. V I'M n tiled Co-llit! SVtMSA Hit a ML V 4.. Color Cartoon Warner Newst ill HI in tMlMTrnT: I ow rem w7 TTTl f MtKHMt l ( BigAgricultUre Fund Okelied By Committee WASHINGTON. April 4 -VP) Launching one of its biggest peace time spending weeks in history, the house appropriations commit tee today approved a $701,122,079 money bill for the agriculture de partment The agriculture bill is one of four big money measures the com mittee plans to send to the house floor this week. The others fin ance the state, justice and com merce departments; the army, na vy and air force, and a group of miscellaneous agencies including the atomic energy commission. Their overall total accounts form only half of the president's budg et for the fiscal year beginning 3uly 1. The agriculture bill, scheduled for house debate tomorrow, em erged from the committee with a note of caution that the problems facing farmers "will perhaps be come worse 'before they become better." - 9, Rent Ceilings WASHINGTON, April A - (JP The government tonight removed rent ceilings; on 29,000 dwellings in nine states. Housing Expediter rTigho Woods announced the action, the second decontrol move in three days. By week's end, he said, ceilings will be removed Jrom approximately 148.000 rental Units in 27 states. Twenty-six areas of Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, West Virginia, North Carolina, North Dakota, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas are covered by Woods' latest atcion. Defense Problem Stressed in Armv Dav Observance The importance of national de fense and the difficult problem facing the United States were stressed by Maj. Gen. Albert E. Brown, commander of the north ern military district, 6th army, Monday in a' luncheon address at Salem Chamber of Commerce. The state of preparedness must be based on the strertgth of poten tial enemies Brown said in the Army ay tilk. Cost of national defense is nq as expensive as cost of war. Brown pointed out. He urged public-support of all bran ches of the military service. Observance of Army day here will be continued today with a Salem Kiwanis club speech by Maj. J. B. B TrusseiJ at the Mar ion hotel at boon. Tonight at the Senator hotel Col. George D. Wahl, senior instructor for; the state re serves, will be guest of honor at a testimonial dinner sponsoredeby the Salem reserve units. HeicleriPasses 25th Year in Field of Radio Anniversary of 25 years In radio work in Salem will be celebrated this week by Earl F. Heider with a sale at his store at 428 Court.- Heider opened his present store in 1933 following several years ra dio experience with Moore's. Mu sic company- and Stiff Furniture company. In his 25 years in the field Hei der has noted the changes in ra dio to the present television phase. A television reception tower has been installed atop the store and the store is already equipped to install and service the latest tele visionequipment. Captain Augments MarineReserves Transfer of Cap!. William E. Ryan, USMCR, from the inactive reserve to C battery of the 4th 105mm howitzer battalion was an nounced Monday -night at the meeting of Salem marine reserves. Ryan saw four years of active duty with the marines in World War II, receiving the purple heart. presidential citation and navy unit commend ationn ribbon. He served with the 14th marine artillery reg iment at Roi and Nmur island, Kwajalein atolL Saipan and Iwo Jinu. j John Payne Gall Kassefl Gabbr Hares Sterling Harden in "EL PASO" .In Color! Dorothy Lamenr v George Montgenserr In The Girl From ' 2 Manhattan" i mo! 3-Monih Drift Of Sriow Yields Porker, Alive V DUPREE. S. D., Aprfl 4;PFfne big blizzard of 1949 is still giving Up its victims. i Fanner John Lemke of near Du pree dug Into a large snow drift deposited January 2 and freed what had been a 300-pound sow. The porker still had strength enough to walk three-quarters of a mile to a feed trough, Lemke said today. i Shortly after the blizzard Lem ke dug out 38 live hogs and two dead ones from the same drift. Now he has hope of finding one sow still missing. Czech-Tried GIsGet Visit PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, April 4-;P)-Two U. S. embassy staff members will visit tomorrow the two American soldiers convicted in a secret Czechoslovak trial re cently and sentencedto prison on espionage charges. - This will bo the first time any one from the American embassy will have been allowed to see or talk with the two men. George Jones of Owensboro, Ky., and Clarence Hill of Jackson, Miss. They were tried secretly March 26. Jones drew 10 years. Hill 12. The embassy had protested vainly against the treatment of the men since December, when It first learned of their arrest. Ame rican authorities were not told of the trial until March 29. Dagwell Flays Many Flowers At Funerals PORTLAND, April 4-.-P)-The Episcopal bishop of Oregon today criticized the use of large quanti ties of flowers at funerals. Bishop Benjamin D. Dagwell declared that "floral displays seem sadly out of place in a society which lacks adequate care for its crippled and orphaned children, and its sick and aged citizens." The outspoken bishop, who pre viously has attacked such things as wedding managers and lipstick at communion services, said in the "Oregon Churchman:" "Flowers are beautiful emblems of friendship and sympathy, and they bring courage to the sick and comfort to the bereaved. But coachloads of blossoms heaped on a cemetery lot or placed briefly in a funeral crypt seem tragically fu tile." O'Dwyer Gives Plan in Strike NEW YORK, April 4-UP-Mayor William O'Dwyer today outlined a peace pattern in the hope of settl ing a three-day citywide taxi-cab strike. Union leaders agreed to con- sider his proposals, details of which were not revealed. v The mayor also passed his peace blueprint on to fleet operators who already had claimed "the strike is broken.". The number of cabs on city streets increased today and oper ators predicted "normal opera tions" by tomorrow. , Strikers and non-strikers engag ed in brief flurries of violence but damage was on a small scale. The number of arrests reached 57. Portrait Painter Dies in Portland BREMERTON, Wash., April 4 (P)-Portrait and Landscape Paint er ; Peter Winthrop Sheffers, 55, Portland, died last night just after escorting home the girl he planned to i marry this month. The internationally - known artist collapsed after taking Elea nore Gill home from a visit in Portland. Taken to a hospital, he died within the hour. A blood clot in the brain was believed the cause. The artist had lived in Port land since 1941. A master of arts of the Royal Academy of London, he gained fame with his land scapes, and recently had turned to portraiture. Sounds Almost Like Oregon at Times BOGOTA, Colombia, April 4-(P)-Ten days ago it was so dry in Bogota the inhabitants were pray ing for rain. Friday rain began to fall. Today the army and the Red Cross were called out to rescue 50 families whose homes were dam aged or destroyed by flood waters in; a workers section. There was flooding in other parts of the city too, though less serious. Ends Today Open C:4S NAaxATto sr tlL CTB2 TO ISSSt Also PoM-Uontli 1 IK L'(ji' I Foofvro J way Lurve Accidents Kill Five in Oregon (Story also on page 1) Bjr the Associated Press Violent death took a toll of eight Oregon persons Sunday and Mon day five of them victims of cars that failed to get around five different curves. A farmhouse fire took one life. A lumber worker was killed by electricity, and another man was fatally stabbed in a dance hall brawl. The fivt traffic victims suc cumbed to oddly identical acci dents: in each case, a car was wrecked on a curve, killing one person. Walter II. Beguhl, 25 - year -old hot rod racer, lost control on a turn and smashed through the rail to his death at Portland Speed way track's opening hot-rod event Sunday. Gregory Wroneiwicz, 38, Imb ler athletic coach, was killed in a car that went off U. S. highway 30 between La Grande and Union Sunday. Monday's three traffic victims were: Richard E. Gore, 20, Cottage Grove, whose car skidded off the Pacific highway on a curve south of Saginaw. Harry V. Hannef, Creswell, was seriously hurt. Melvin K. Lindstrom, 22, Port land, whose car missed a curve on the Mt. Hood loop highway. Dan iel Hart wig, 21, Portland, was ser iously hurt in the crash. Arthur Dickman, jr., 18, Salem, who was riding with four other boys in a car that failed to make a curve on the Liberty road south of Salem. His friends were not hurt:, TheNfire victim was Gerald Van derhay father of five children, who was trapped by flames Sun day afternoon as he napped in his home near Forest Grove. His fa mily was out visiting. Wilbur Raymond Galligan, 30, was killed Sunday when he pulled a high voltage switch at the Cas cade Locks Lumber company plant. Police said Galligan, a fore man at the plant, warned a night watchman to "stand back or you might get killed"; then pulled the switch. A dance hall fracas near Her- mlston led to the death of Wil liam Frost, 20, early Sunday mor ning. Stabbed during a fight. Frost danced on until he collapsed. Not until he was taken to a hospital was it realized how critically he had been injured. Robert Morris, 39, was arrested in the affair, and Umatilla County Sheriff R. E. Goad said Morris admitted the stabbing. He was held for the grand jury. Neuner Rules on Funds to Schools Proceeds of land sales received by a rural school district board shall be apportioned by the board to the respective units or school districts operating therein. Attor ney General George Neuner held Monday. The opinion was requested by Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruction. In another opinion Neuner held that in criminal cases in justice courts where there has been a conviction the jury fee may be assessed as costs against the de fendant and become part of the judgment, in addition to the $4.50 cost provided by the act. Newberg, Albany Bovs Elected by State FFA TILLAMOOK. April 4-yP)-Two Willamette valley youngsters will hold executive posts in the Future Farmers of America Oregon asso ciation this year, although the president is Robert Estoup of Mil ton -Free water. The annual cenvention which closed here yesterday named Mar vin Robertson, Newberg, as vice president; and Duane Drushella, Albany, as treasurer. STARTS TONITE! Opens .3t P. M. SUrU 7:15 Errol Flynn Viveca Lindfors In Technicolor "ADVENTUDES OF DON JUAN" Don Barry "TRAIN TO ALCATRAZ" Cartoon News A ENDS TODAY! C:45 P. ML Dennis Morgan -MT WILD IRISH BOSC Dlek Foran -EMPTY HOLSTERS' TOMORROW! St Ann Corlo -CALL OP THE JUNGLE I- asm j Sealed Drive 'Paces9 Street ASHLAND, Ore., April 4-&)- Don Haynes, the guy who s plan ning to spend a year sealed in his car, plans to wear a track around the hospital here this week. His wife is expecting a baby any day now. But Haynes, sealed in an automobile to win a $25,000 bet, won't be able to follow usual floor- pacing tradition. Instead, arrangements are being made to park the car and Haynes outside his wife's window in the hospital. He is now speeding north ward from California. His hope? For a girL He already has a boy Jimmy. Reds Massing Troops Along Yangtzfe Bank NANKING. Tuesday, April 5-CP)-Big communist troop concen trations were massing today north of the Yangtze in central China. Fear mounted that they might cross the great river despite peace talks in Peiping. The alarm was greatest in the big river port of Hankow in Hu oeh province. The red radio in Peiping announced the capture of three more towns in that pro vince. The communist claim was accompanied by reports from the nationalist side that the reds were n earing the river in such strength as to indicate a crossing was plan ned. The communist announcement of successes in Hupeh came on top of the red capture of Hsin yang, important rail city in Hon an province 110 miles north of Hankow. The reds said Hsinyang's fall gave them all of Honan except bypassed Anyang and Sinsiang in J me norm ana a jew ouier lsoiaiea points. Russ Protests Hit Change in German Border LONDON, Tuesday, April 15-UP) Russia has protested to the United States. Britain and France that re cent changes in the frontiers of western Germany break existing agreements with the Soviet union, Tass said today. The official Soviet news agency said in a broadcast Moscow dis patch that Russian ambassadors had delivered the protest note. The note, as stated by Tass, said the frontier changes violate a dec laration of June 5, 1945, that Ger man boundary changes "may be ef fected only by joint decision of the governments of the USSR. United States, Great Britain and France." The western allies announced in Paris March 27 that three minor border shifts affecting 52 square miles of German territory were be ing made to meet difficulties In commjjnications and administra-! tion. Portions of the area sliced off ' were placed under The Nether- j lands, Befgium, Luxembourg, the j Saar (French controlled) and France. The announcement said the shifts were being made on a pro visional basis and that the per manence of the changes would de pend on an eventual peace treaty with Germany. ' ENDS TODAYI 'TAISAN" O PHONE 3-3721 O BOX STARTING BLAZING. ..with Ex cite a tit! vimiiftnuii .l m t t inuriuuuru...wnn actios i Soft Loving. ..ROMANCE! CARE FREE CO-FEATURE! ugcnjEmiYnics! JfSsjT Russian Foray Into Iran Told; Armor Used TEHRAN, Iran, April 4 -(P)-A military informant said today a Russian regiment, supported by tanks and armored cars, had made 4 new foray into Azerbaijan pro vince and attacked an Iranian ar my post. Iranian troops replied to the Soviet fire and an "important bat tle" ensued last Thursday and Fri day, the source said. The Iranian government was believed to have handed Russia a stiff note of pro test. There has been no official announcement as yet concerning the matter. The reported clash near the Iranian - Soviet border occurred at a time of strained relations between the two countries. Rus sian pressure ori Iran has been mounting, causing speculation that this oil - rich country becom ing the next focal point in the cold war. Two Iranians were reported killed and a "considerable num ber" wounded. The number of So viet casualties was not known. The incident was the sixth this year. Supreme Court Sustains and Rejects Laws WASHINGTON, April 4 (P) The supreme court split 5-4 today in holding invalid a section of New York's agriculture and markets law authorizing the state to license dealers who buy milk for export to other states. 5 Black, joined by Justice Murphy, dissented sharply. He said the ef fect will be to free from all regu lation a large. area of local busi ness activities. In other actions today the court: 1. Refused to interfere with a $50 fine meted out to a North Caro lina man for handling a live poi sonous snake during a church serv ice. The man, C. H. Bunn, argued the fine interfered with his relig ious liberty. 2. Refused for a second time to review conviction of Douglas Chandler for wartime treason. Chandler, tried at Boston, was sen tenced to life imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. 3. Agreed to review conviction of two men charged with trying to bribe ,two New York Giants foot ball players, Frank Filchok and Merle Hapes, to throw a profes sional game. The two men, Harvey Stemmer and David Krakower, were sentenced to five to ten years each. They contend evidence ob tained by wire-tapping was im properly used at their trial. Dynamite Burns, But All's Quiet DECATUR. Ala, April 4-;P)-Seven tons of dynamite burnedMn a truck on a highway today. But there was no jolt or shock and the stuff did not explode. The driver tried to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. Highway patrolmen -blocked the road and reroutedtraffic whilo the truck burned. What caused the truck to catch fire was undetermined. "WOMEN IN THE NIGHT" OFFICE OPENS 0:45 P. M. O TOMORROW! V. ITAttlMO JOHN WAYNE WITN VERA HRUBA RALSTON WALTER, BRENNAN A; 'it r iw. m. ! f-S3f7Ttf TO 1 tt& sr 1 WZK VMA MUM IAUTOM"- tWOINf fAUlin Vfl Mfg. Hfll, Mother ' Of Mrs. McKay, Dies in Portland Mrs. J. E. (Katherine) Hill, mother of Mrs. Douglas McKay of Salem, died in Portland Monday at the age of 84. She had been in poor health for some time. Governor and Mrs. McKay were called to her bedside Sunday night when her condition became criti cal. Graveside services will bo held at Belcrest Memorial park here at 2 p.m. Wednesday, following fun. eral services at 11 a.m. at Edward Holman & Sons chapel, Portland. Mrs. Hill's husband, who had Kn m PArt 1 a rM v - U1CU 39 years a 20. Surviving arm a inn J. L. Hill of Los Angeles, and six daughters, Mrs. McKay, Mrs. Perry Kohl of Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. Charles R. Kelly, Mrs. Ludwig Freier and May Hill, all of Port land; 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Some Portland Prices Slide PORTLAND, April 4-UP)-Prlces on butter, canned milk and coffee were chopped down a few pegs to day by distributors, but some meats moved upward at the livestock market. Butter was dropped 1 and 2 cents a pound on the wholesale level, to retailers at 67 cents on grade AA and A. Dealers noted government support levels may preclude fur ther drops this season. Two large firms said coffee was down i cents a pound wholesale and evaporated milk was down 25 cents a case. At the livestock market, Iamb and mutton advanced S cents. Complaint of Fumes Called Unjustified VANCOUVER. Wash., April 4 WVA spokesman for the Alumin um company of America said to night that a farmer's suit claiming plant fume damage to Sauvie is land property and livestock was "entirely unjustified." C. S. Thayer, works manager of the Vancouver Alcoa plant, said "competent consultants who have investigated the (William M) Fra ser claims have advised ithe com pany that his farming operations have not been damaged by fumes from the plant." ENDS TODAYI (TUE.) O PHONE 3-3467 O MAT. STARTS TOMORROW! A Pair of Blazing Re-Issued Adventures! T rr-rTHEY SHOT MEN DOWf I A vSI F0IV LCPE 0F S,lYER (J jf?f3 OR A LADY'S LOVE. i. fTf h " Wyart Earp brought th r" A Ki y4 lav to Tombstone with hit r f I - blazing tix-gunI 1 f ij) RAIIDCIPII SCOfr-llAIICY KEUT J CESAR ROMERO BINKIE BARJ.ES -j JOHN CARRADIME i "r& jojBjpm jHw fcf AWo osMss oW0sl May MsAsMS) oiissaanwaaaaaSssssaBoBoassBieows' 1 4 A 20 C-mf.U Utmm MmioM l , 1 1 Bm K W : I CARTOON AIRMAIL FOX NEWS rORTfiAND'KLOT'stttlXni BAN CARLOS. Califs April VP)- A two place piano nosedived into a hillside near hero today, killing the pilot Kenneth it Cain pen, 20,! Portland, Ore, was crushed to death between tha cowling and the back of his seat. His brother - in - law, Robert K. Lewis, 22, formerly of Portland, was seriously injured. SMELT RUNNINO AGAIN PORTLAND. April 4-OP)Smt which began disappearing front tht SandyK river Saturday,- began running in the river again today. Fishermen hoped the new run would last until tomorrow, when the river I reopens. 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