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Mew Uent FiDirmroiioDa raws Sfoarp Rivals for Fields Estate - - - v. - - IN VNf '. . LOl ANGELES, Mar S William Mott. above, contenders for the m ea friendly terms taf eoart IlliriUmate ef fields and (AT Wirephete to The Statesman). en? QSjQjOS The city council next Monday should come to some conclusion with respect to plans for handling traffic into and through the city, j Mayor. Elfstrom has returned, counci iraen have had the oppor tunity of mulling over-proposals and listening to constituents. To get any Work started this year the feme for deciMon nas come. i There in one point which ha riot had emjugh publicity and that : Is that the state highway cummis- I sion has not adopted any compi e-, hensive plan and has not set any schedule for performance on the ' plan submitted by ' the highway , department. All it has done is to j reserve funds which may be used : for the construction of a bridge ; across the Willamette, the need j for which has been regarded as j most urgent. The commission will not set any schedule for future work because it does not like to bind future commissions. The $7.- ; 000.000 Salem development must ; be regarded as a long-time pro gram, depending largely on the share of money which the commi- sion feels ' it can devote ftS the : Salem district. Such being the case the council might very well stagger its en dorsement of street changes, .mov ing step-by-step as the commu aion is ready to move. The Bal- ; dock plan may be adopted as a general scheme, subject to changes that may appear practical as e-ch ; step U taken. For instance, it would not be neoessary to adopt general giid pattern of one-way ; streets, but as the rornn-.i.on is ready to move with specific 1m-; rrcvements then the. City coud i act. Ths w ill allow flexibility j both In timing and in changing j First in line should be the "bridge. Determination of its loca tion is a highway commission mat ter. Let the settlement of that question then pas to the commi sion. With whatever location the tate body (continued on Editorial Pge ) RECORD SALES REPORTED PORTLAND. May J-. 4-Meier I & rranfc to., foniano aepartment 7. In the fiv al year ended Jan 31. i it Frank Co.. Portland department The annual report said this was equivalent to S2.72 on each share f outstanding capital stock. Animal Crackers By NJt'AKJN GOOOCiCH m. . . amd it fm met feffsftf fom tfce Umtk snjy I bm stntck t e - Bmsfc)S5c Gif ifife-sira-S 1 Kexferd Fields Merrts and Carletta estate ef the late W. C. Field. here yesterday. Merrts elatns entitled U ene tbtrd ef the estate. Citizens Urge Educator for Boys? School Recommending that'an educator rather than enforcement officer be chosen m superintendent for the state boys' school at Wood burn, a delegation of citizens headed by Ray j Glatt of Wood- burn appeared Tuesday before the state board' of dontrol. "The school should be conduct ed like an educational center rather than; a penal institution," Glat: told the board which s now considering a successor to M. D. Woolley who recently resigned. The boys' schoi! advisory board headed by George Stadelman of The" Dalles will; consider appli cants for the job at a Salem meet ing Friday.; Govj Douglas McKay said Tuesday the board of con trol is not rushing the appoint ment because the members rea lize the importance attached to the superintendents position. Sheridan Cleanup Wefk iit Full Swing SHERIDAN. May 3-(Special-Shendan's Cleanup week which aasrisx CddirJa . ' ..11 Tomorrow iw iTK.,.w-. " fv . will pick boxed, sacked and bun- i i; i . died refuse from curbs and cor- ' r . T . ners. No pickups will be made i IN e WIeriJ, lillllCiee from vards. ' c thJVJ01 o' Join Faster Time me river will be; made tomorrow.'' and from the south side on Thurs- nav Mill Crew Prair! For Oierking Fire WLLAMINA. Ore . Mav Firedamage:of $J.500 was estima ted at the Murphy lumber mill to day. Fire Chief; A D. Newbrv said the mill night crew had pre vented flames from destroving the miil last night. N He said the crew set up a pump and la d i ho tjn the rearby riv er to control the- bia;e until fire men arried. Willamette Missionarv Meeting ri f fTl at bilverton Thurfdav Br LilUe Stlno Si? vtloo Coftripondmt SILVERTON The WUlamette District Misionarr convention will open Thursday kt the First Christian church at Silverton and cloe Fncay n fht. Theme of the convention Is "For This Cause " OrviUe F. Mick. Albany,' will be the preis:nK joffirer. The . Bev. George Rzchardsor. Jefferson, will be in charge, of worship, opening morning. The : ' Rev. Harold Lyman. Salem, and; : the Rev. A. C Bates. Silverton.; j will be m charge of the m orsrup , shop conference-. The Rev. Ken-i ineth Johnston. Dailas. mill make ; presentation of Crusades t conr iplete the; mortvr.g program. A j basket lunch will be served at : noon. j The Rev. Walter Naff. Salem, jwitl prewde during the aftemon. j Others on the af emoon proerara are the Rev D. D Leavjrt, Mot : mouth; Eidridre. Eugene: the. Rev. C F. Swander. Portland, the Spechtt Silverton presiding Thurs- f iKev. Dudley Strain. Sam. -hdas- inorhmc Mrs. Edna Ruk. i A dinner meeting wl be held t 6 e-dotk, followed by an fv, ning meetirg a which the P.ev.j n R Pa Tt-e Cnrval!is. witl he th peB LS1" jQ2r',n U9- song service and the Rev. A. C, ao.trH. 1 rriday i meeting starts at 18 a. nl. with tpeker1n the forenoon including the Rev. Charles Addle osus. Portland, assd Use Rev. Lynn- i NIW YORK, May J-OIVSr of landlords and tenants of the na tion's largest city turned out In an try confusion today to criticise the government's new rent ceiling formula. Housing Expediter Tighe Woods, who announced the formula last night to provide owners with a "fair net operating income came here and stepped personally Into a hotbed of landlords' inquiries. Tenant spokesmen called for a city-wide rent strike and a "fight to the last ditch" against rent in creases. Landlords assailed the formula as giving inadequate relief to: hard-pressed property owners. The formula is intended to pro duce a "net operating income of 25 to SO per cent of gross income on some 14 million dwelling units throughout the nation still under federal rent control. Thousands of landlords flocked to federal offices here today to ap ply for approval of rent increases. Other hundreds Crammed a mid town auditorium to hear Woods explain the new regulations. As Woods expressed belief both landlords and tenants would be happier under the new formula, a jj surprised murmur of laughter I swept the audience which over sowed the 869-seat ball. Woods himself said the new ; rent law, on which the formula is ii based, "goes right down the mid- die. protecting landlords against i rents that would deny them a fair ' profit, and protecting tenants J against rents that would deny , them a fair profit, and protecting i tenants against being charged a higher rent than the fair net oper ating income allows." Hangcliow Fall Admitted by Nationalists SHANGHAI. Wednesday. Msy 4 -(Pi-The Shanghai Harrison com- nr rA trJav AmittA tKs IrtslC rtf Hangchow, nationalist escape port 100 miles southwest of Shanghai. (Communist ""control of Hang chow seals off Shanghai by land from the rest of China and closes the trap on nationalist forces re- maining in the Nanking-Shanghai-j Hangcnow triangle. ineir my exit now is by sea.) The garrison command commun ique, issued about 10 a. m . said the Chekiang provincial peace preservation corps evacuated Hangchow at noon yesterday after completing a delaying action. This force was all that was left for the defense of Hangcnow. After, the peace preeervaUon mrrm nvwfH trrt. rommimiou said. cootaclTtHth the seacoast re- t sort city was lost. The garrison confirmed earlier Chinese press dispatches which said Hangchow- had gone over to the communists peacefully. There was no fighting in defense of the oity, the garrison said. There was no indication, how ever, that the Reds were closing ta any tighter on Shanghai itself. The Shanghai, newspaper Shun Pao said Hangchow was occupied . by 4,000 Red soldiers yesterday afternoon. The communists radio made no ntion of Hangchow last night t said more than 80.000 govern- ! but said more than 80.000 a. menf troops had been taken prjs- ' Dner at the "conclusion of a great , ; inn;hiUtion campaign in the Nan- .Sclng - Shanghai - Hangchow an April 28. Two more Oregon towns joined the switch to daylight saving time today If e berg and Dundee, put ting ail of Yamhill county cities in the faat tisne group Hood R-er voted to switch over Jun 1. Astona made the change at the start of the week. Seaside also had changed over. The rest of j Clatsop county is expected to fol- j low j- The Roseburg city council voted ! to follow the lead of Governor Mc I Kay. wh is empjwered to de Iciare daylight savme t me for the j state only if Washingtori and Cali I forr.ia proclaim it. L. Madsea ton Elwell. Lebanon. The Women's Planning conference ..will meet from 12 43 to 1 45 p. m Speakers during the afternoon session will be the Rev. W. T. Morse. Amity; the Rev. Grant H Cole. McMinn- ville; the Rev. Frank Cunning-' ham. New-berg. The Rev. Eery Parrish. Portland, will give the sermon at 3;IQ p.v m. The .Willamette district mission ary convention women's program ; will be held in conjunction vith,l the other meetine. with Un Carl i Kar. and Mrs. J W. Jordan. A'.banjt. wiM be en "the morning S pro-rwn Following the basket! . i. . , 1 iw - i!l be held Mrs. David Byerle. aiUiosiary to the Cocso, will speekat the p. m. mnr tcg bich will be followed by gen- erai. assembly Geaver al aiattnbhVaa will be steld througtsout Friday. S3fe TEAB 12 PAGES ntoaos Test !te 60.00.0 FcDirdl Woirkeirs to SMt Sobs Tlhiaiio-sdrsiF Strike Centers On Assembly Rate Dispute DETROIT, May S-UPVAn auth orized strike of 60.000 Ford Motor Co. workers was ordered today. The walkout was scheduled to begin t noon Thursday (May 5). Local 600 of the CIO United Auto Workers changed plans, to call the strike tomorrow after the international executive board set the Thursday date. A shutdown at Ford's big Rouge plant would soon tie up most of the company's farflung operations. Both the local and UAW Presi dent Walter P. Reuther charged that Ford had speeded up assem bly lines again today. Production rates have been the center of a dispute for several weeks, reed Qelet There was no comment from Ford. Things happened In quick and confused succession at Ford today. A local committee checked the ; 1 lines and reported the speed-up. j J 0reC3S I I The local executive board, in i ' emergency session, ordered the ! Ry the ATOOCiatd Pre. strike at 10 am. tomorrow! The Columbia river crept above whether or not the International,,. - Q. vf-onr Wah i approved. Shortly afterward, the interna tional executive board! set' the j Thursday deadline and announced that an"y waikout before then would be unauthorized. ." In a second emergency session, local 600 agreed to conform to the international's deadline. Surprise Call The announcements broke out of a clear sky when it appeared settlement was near. After an in vestigation yesterday. UAW Secretary-treasurer Emil Mazey report- ed Ford had slowed down the lines to a speed acceptable to the union.. Feeling was running high anriong Rouge workers in favor of a strike. Observers believed the interna tional was forced to move quickly after the local's walkout order to , oTfset a difficult situation within the union. The Rouge strike would coincide with a scheduled walkout of 3.500 workers at Ford's Lincoln-Mer- cury plant Thursday. An alleged speed-up also is at issue there. swp mm I fT WGUlDOO I I iiii IsiTsf TJb?bsT uTW I ' Max Mm Precip M 3 5 36 trace S5 . 47 fxl 9! . . 53 00 78 58 16 , San Chicago f New York W":i:amette river 15 fet. rORFCAST i from V S weather bur eau. McNary field. Sa'emi: Mostly cloudy today w;th occasional lish howrrt berlnning late in the porninj: scattered nower ton:ht. Little tfm Draturve chant. ith the h!Kh toSlay 2. lDton!iht 0 Licht rains will interfeie ;th most farm activities to- iy, SALEM PRICTPITATIOS rrom S-pt 1 to May e Thw rear Last Year Avere 3S S4 43 03 33 M 1 Rains Submerge Labish Area .-. 'S r -Z- -:r -----. J ;: ""r" r - ' ,- " - . - l-''r , - ...... i - ,5 - t - j The tear 1st the eye mt tke mmlmm grewers a Wre are.t free, fketr mImh. feat freasi Ik week-essg ni-M tg t'miii taseir ssse-i petrWs aS Lake lAkeak auseter acre f water. Water back teg mm freaa asagged -Tf"-r rreer ataaaay Tlaaaesl aaset acre mi caseea Carsa laawl Jasst as the reeesttty plated ta tha saea aaaya. left U right. Fr-ak Heaay. bam Kaasa aasl Ka4WIp Haa7, mU ml Breaks. mm sea Jeaea. aasl Alcxlaa. a. Dessay. aaa aa4 gaagaler as! Kaaalyk Dcaary. (1WU by Datt Hi OrsgcA Seven Die ht Air. Bus -Auto Crashes; Mid-Air Collision Hurts' Ranger Trio Two seperate air crashes and a bus-auto collision killed at lea.t J seven persons in Oregon Tuesday. Two planes collided in nigm near Medford. killing Warrant Officer William P. Barkley of the; 1905th AACF squadron at Med ford. and an unidentified woman.' An army observ ation plane used i office said the two victims iden-j from California. It went Into a in maneuv ers of the 2nd engineer: tified were William Elk. age 40. j glide, w hich Pilot Carl Ferris held brigade from Fort Worden, Wash.. ! and David Halfmoon, 30, driver j for two miles. Then the plane crashed near The Dalles, killing! of the car. struck a power line and crashed its itwo occupants. The army did State Police Sgt. W. R. Smith into a bam. not-immediately disclose names of j reported the bus driver said he !. Ferris, of the San Francisco theKictims. saw the' car bound off the high-j forest service office, and Mel A head-on collision of an over- , way at a fast speed and then i Missall, Santa Barbara, escaped land Greyhound bus and an auto-j swerve across the eastbound lane serious Injury but were hospital mobile killed three, Umatilla In- j in front of the bus. It happened j ized. Tom Biglow, Yreka. Calif., dian tribesmen in the car and sent ; so fast, he said, he could only set i was seriously hurt. He also was 15 persons in the bus to a Pen-1 the brakes on the bus. treated in a Med ford hospital. Columbia Tops Flood Stage; Tuesday, and the Willamette river is expected to set a new all-time May record at Saiem by- cresting at iT 5 feet this afternoon. The Columbia, on the rise three weeks earlier than in last spring s disastrous flood, was flooding only low -lying pastures along the low- ( wa5 taken to mean that Lirdstrom er end of the river. It was only ' wa)5 prepared to talk about a di inches above flood level of 15 feet j Vorce. at Vancouver, compared with 30 j Rome's II Memento said that feet at the height of last year's Lindstrom came to Italy to obtain fTood- : a divorce as "quietly as possible." Little damage is expected with j : : a moderate rise in the Snake river j and a slow but steady rise in the) middle Columbia. The river is ex- j pected to rise another foot Wed- : nesday and to 19 feet by Satur- : day; This is one foot above flood : stage. The Willamette, normally quiet thnfughout the spring, pushed up ; to 15 feet at Salem Tuesday night 5: of a foot more than the all time record of 14 5 feet set . in 1896 The anticipated 17.5 feet today is still 2 5 feet below flood staee. and a 26-foot level is r.e- ' cessprv to send water into West ! Salem! f More rain is in store for at least j the hext five days, but the weath- ; j er bureau forecasts do not indi- ! catej' it will be sufficient to influ ! encfl river levels to any degree. Raiti was forecast for Salem today ! aftej- a completely dry, Tuesday, i Scjme waterfront installations at ! Portland were being evacuated Tuesday because of the antici pated 19-foot flood stage Satur day j SPIfD BI TING EXTENDED PORTLAND. May 3 -.?.- The federal government is extending its potato program to May 15. It was; to have ended April 30. I . , . - .... . :j ' mundio IA5I j I ;j j I' ; SolsaB. Oregon, Wxinsda7. Apprtves Wood Lafom E5BDD -k ' X. ' I' ! ' dleton hospital. The accident was , near Hermiston. Bus driver Oliver Taylor, Beaverton. lost a leg. It ' was amputated at the hospital. Onlv one of the passengers. Mrs. ! Le Verne Beane. Salt Lake City,1 was seriously, hurt. The Umatilla county coroner's ! Bergman 4Flame Husband Confer 011 I)ivorce Bids ROMEj May 3 -)p- Dr. Peter ! Lindstrom. his film star wife In- j grid Bergman, and Roberto Ros- j sellini. Italian movie director, met i tonight in a hotel in Messina, i Sicily, -the Italian news agency j ASTRA said. ASTRA did not say what took place, but it appeared that Dr. Lindstrom may be resigned to losing Ingrid to Rossellini. ,the brilliant director of such films as "The Open City" and "Paisan." ASTRA said Lindstrom's lawyer was Dresent t the meeting. This Heavy Rains Inundate Lake Labisli Farms (with cut 3-25 Rain submerge LABISH CENTER Because of heavr rains- the past few days, nearfy 300 acres of vegetable gar dens in the lower Labish Lane area are inundated from flood waters of Pudding river. The crops, planted about three weeks ago. are just rkely through the ground. Most of the acreage is in onions. The water came over th? crops here tfour ' years ago when that portion of the lake was still own ed by Hayes Labish farms At that time replanting of most of the acreage was necessary. Many of the farmer said Tue5lay they felt replanting would be neces sary. Tuesday's high water, had many of the Labish farmers hunting seed and conferring with their more fortunate neighbors on how to obtain additional formaldehyde and DDT dusts, needed materials for Lake Labish gardening. Onion Lands Leak tag DiU. May 4. 1S4J i mcuiuiu mil cvtusivii w v , .j i : one plane plummet directly to earth. This was the ship carry ing Barkley, commander of the 1905th reserve unit," -and the woman. The other plane carrier three forest service employes on a trip 1 Zoning Plan Fo&Kingwood Gains Approval i A zoning plan for the new King wood area of Salem, lying across the river in Polk county, was ap proved by the Salem planning and fining commission Tueeday night. The plan will be aired at a public hearing in-city hall June 7. Zoning of the recently annexed area has been postponed ' by a court test of legality of the No vember election in which voters on both sides of the river favored adding to the city of Salesn a 308 i acre territory which surrounds West . Salem. Although circuit court upheld the merger, some time remains for possible filing ; of an appeal to the'state supreme , court. Rattineae Strip ' The zone recommendation pass ed last night calls for a class I i residential tone for Kingwood j heights and most of the other part ! lving west of Wallace road. clas IV Industrial zoning for tRe af fected' area .east of Wallace road and a strip of class III business zone above West Salem's 9th street ; boundary between Patterson ave nue and- Wallace road, extending north about 200 feet to the base of ; the hills I In another roning action Tues . day night, the commission gave ! preliminary approval to a -change from residential to a restricted : clas III-x zone for property 106 by 114 feet on the northeast cor ner of North Capitolt and Hood ' streets. , DrWe-lM Proposed j At that site construction: of a ! new Dairy vjueen drive-m is pro- ' i posed by Wilson P. Highley who!. ooerates a similar establishment on South Commercial street. Realtor Joe Bourne told the com mission yighley seeks to buy the present ynkyard of H. t. Canada if he can obtain the zone change to which a majority of property owners of the area already; have I petitioned. The junkyard ex lets 1 in the residential area because it i was there when zoning was estab j ljsh-d for Salem. Envoys Await Russian Move On Blockade By Francis W. Caraeater NEW YORK. May I -be- En voys of the U. S., Britain and France sat In their offices all day today apparently waiting for Russia to make the next move toward lifting the Berlin blockade. It was understood that the most recent step in the top secret talks here was the delivery of a joint western power declaration to Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jakob A: Malik. The statement presumably was drafted following yesterday' conference attended by Dr. Philip C. Jessup. ; U. ambasador-at-larget Sir Alexan der Cadogan of Britain, and Jean Chauvel of France. The next step, diplomatic in formants indicated, is for Malik to notify the western envoy whether he is prepared to confer with them again on the basis of their joint declarations. Speculation among several offi cial sources was that the western powers joint declaration contain ed at least these two points: 1. A call lor lifting th blockade of Berlin soon, perhaps next week. 2. A suggested date for the 4 meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia.' Britain, France and the United States to deal with the whole German problem. Thee official snake up the council of foreign ministers. May 23 j is five data generally inentioced !in in formed circles. b . PRICE Se No. 44 ion Handed Defeat By! Coalition WASHINGTON, iJy 3-PV-Th Wood bill retaining most of the Taft-Hartley act was approved by the house tonight 'on a 2 17" to jog rolkall test vote whifh dealt the Truman administration a smash ing defeat, i j ' Some further parliamentary maneuvering , was In 'store before the bill could clear the house e.d go to the seriate. -; But a coalition of southern Dem ocrats and northern Republican bent on retaining the Taft-Hartley law largely intact was Jubil ant, i ( . Conversely! the administration forces, which sought repeal of the T-H law anj revtvali of the old) Wagner act In m.wjified form, wer plunged Into ; gloom. ! . KelleaJI Test I On the rollcall test 140 republi cans jo jned 71 democrats in tirg for the, Wood -bill. Vdting agairtst it. were 180 demo rsfsj 22 .republi cans and one AmerlcjiniLabor. Tie action came while the house was sitting as 'The committee f U.e whole." This is a parliament ary situation which requires a lat er confirming v jte to pass the bill. Before the Viste. thr ho Use bad tentatrvely approved fhe-Wood bill on a non-ierorJ tally of; 210 t 16 j . 1 . I : . The measure h.i been ! of fer df by Rep. Wojl, ( D-GjsV Pieviouaiy the Dixe Republican coalition had chaLkedj up an im portant preliminary victory when the house knocked downj 211 to' 113, a compromise put forward by the democratic leadership Keep Feet-rea ' J . j - The Wood bill wodld reped" tbe Taft-Hartley laai oft prr, b-fre-enaet most of its Important features. ItjwcMjld retain the 0 day injunctions in "Rational em ergenry" strikes. It Would keep the present non-ornrnjunist thtUn, but apply them t.j company offi cers as well s-t uni m offifers. lt would l)n cloned, shop t(n- trats. but permit ti"m in any state which took, affirmative t ion to permit them by stae law. This states' rights fe.iture was add ed at the last minute in n ibmerl-m-rit by Rep..Hiys (p-Ark). Speaker Rayburn had made a plea to the house for a compromise he prut ; forward m an effort lo salvage part of the a IrnlniMration piogram, but hn tipeech H In vain. :j : ' Victor Point TilIe Picked for Union School District : VICTOR POINT New union ! schol dutrict 42-Ct will U named Vider Point. Tfiis decision was reached at a scOol meeting held at Uaion Hills grange hall Monday night following a lengthy discussion over many suggested named. ; -.' - Districts combined to form 42-CJ are Union HUI. Victor Point. Val ley View. Silver Cliff. McAlpin, Oak Grave and Center Point. The new union building is be-; ing erected 'on the former site of the historical " old Victor Point school grounds. The i 'three-rciom building ill be ready for use fog the fall classes. ;. j - .; SPLIT! VOTE ON BffX.' '' WASHINGTON", Mj y 3 - (jn Oregon; congressmen .split ! tonight in the roll call vote by which the hxnjse approved the Vood lt bill, subject to another vole on the-finel pasage Voting for the bill (were: repub lican i Norblad. Stekman. ar.a Ellsworth and agsinst war; ArgeiL Baseball Scores wrSTi IWTgatWAriOWAI.. At SaWm . VlCna 11 -At SrtfflMtOT . So'ifcajrie I MS ir.ia- - n At WaaelMe t, Twrti J At Van--v r . Yaktma JT, COAST I f 4CII ' . At OtkiaiKi 1-4 fTTtlan -t. I At Mo y wees' t. aWatUe I. ! I At Ran fhero . ' ranrw 4 "At ar-a--- 11 Lea Anseles 4. lAMgaica Ucit At Laiuia 1. M At Chku IX. WmHI(ii 14 It ta-S) At Detroit 1. Ban I (Caiiea. eng lOaly gaevrs arheduk-JI. , " i wato t cavafil At Boton . Ours.n -At Hrmttyn 1. C-aatl . At York . tPWatoMrgh a. t At PfcUsMftaiani I. ta. Ma Adnuhistrat ami seiiatoos - a1' ; a -ii - Lcsl i jllT5 ! - ..'..: 'I I