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M on-Arming rJ3ay Invite died E3aid, Acheson Asserts 1 By John B. Owes WASHINGTON, July 28-5-S.retary of Stale Acheson opened tl arms -tor-Europe battle in congress today with a warning that failure to bolster non-communist countries may invite a military thrust by Russia. Acheson declared that the administration's proposed 11,450,000,000 program is urgent for U. S. security and is the minimum amount which makes sense." Calling attention to Russia's huge forces, Acheson declared this country cannot ignore "the possibilities of direct military aggression." When a totalitarian regime fails in political aggression it is often iemDted to try military means ramus rcPCDUDCB On the battleline it occasions no surprise when a buddie along side is knocked over by a bullet for the business of war is creat ing casualties. But in peacetime when one you have worked with on familiar terms is stricken it comes as a real shock. So it was with the writer on word of the sudden passing of Irl S. McSher ry. In various activities we had worked together, principally these last six years in the work of the Oregon Chest which undertook the task in 1843 of raising money for support of the National War Fund and continued as a mean? of financial assistance to state welfare agencies. In this work McSherry attain ed distinct success. It was his task to perfect county organiza tions over the state, to keep them functioning, to recruit new lead ers when veterans faltered, to keep in touch with agencies de pending on the Chest for finan cial support. He gained the full confidence of community leaders and those who were most familiar with his work regarded him al most as indispensable. Good causes naturally attracted Irl McSherry. He graduated from newspaper work into public ser vice in the 1920s he was (Continued on editorial page.) Salem Climbs Into 52,84S Population Salem's copulation has climbed to about 82,848, Postmaster Albert C. Gragg estimated Thursday. Gragg's method of computing the population was simple he multiplied the number of mail stops his carriers make by KVi an accepted postoffice estimating guide. The grand total of persons serv ed by Salem postoffice on its city, mounted and rural routes is esti mated by Gragg to be 85,280. His estimate for Salem does not include the 988 believed to be liv ing In the Kingwood Heights dis trict, recently annexed to Salem. Gragg estimated the population of Salem to be 51,584 a year ago. The 1940 cenus listed local population at 30,908. Aussie Troops In Coal Mines SYDNEY, Australia, July 28-UP) -The labor government moved 1, 500 soldiers into strike-closed coal mine areas today. They were or dered to start digging coal from open cuts next Tuesday, if Aus tralia's 24,000 miners don't call off their month-long walkout. The action came as communist led demonstrators clashed with po lice and moderate laborites in Syd ney and Melbourne. Prime 'Minister Joseph B. Chief ley has' denounced the mine strike as communist-directed. Many Australians think the coal mining unions council will call off the strike, which has closed down most major industries for lack of coal and brought unemployment for about one out of every four Australian workers. STEWART RE-ELECTED PORTLAND, July 28 -(JP- The Rev. J. R. Stewart of Salem was re-elected superintendent of the Free Methodist church today. The church is holding its annual con ference at campgrounds near here. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Look, Mmo reefT ; - . oossible, Acheson said. The secretary went before the house foreign affairs committee with a point-by-point defense of the arms program in the face of a strong republican attack which built up even before the legislation was proposed. Acheson bore down heavily on the principal objection that the program should be held to a much .smaller figure until North Atlantic treaty nations have a chance to outline their own deefnse stra tegy. It is only a one-year program, the secretary said "a program in future years will be derived from recommendations" made by the de fense organization set up under the treaty. "The amount requested is urg ently necessary in the interest of our national security," he said. It is the minimum amount required to enable the recipient nations ade quately to guard against internal subversion and to begin to under take" their roles in a coordinated defense. Chest Director Trl McSherry Passes at 52 Irl S. McSherry, 52, director of the Oregon Chest since 1943 ana onetime managing editor of The Oregon Statesman, died at his 1 t'-i V "-sec. Irl S. McSherry home at 770 Hoyt st. Thursday of a heart attack. He had had a long career as a public off icialr politician and newspaperman. McSherrv served as secretary to Gov. A. W. Norblad in 1930 and was deputy state parole di rector from 1939 until he re signed to become director of the Oregon chest. He was a past state vice com mander of the American Legion, and also had served as district 'ommanrier, president of the Marion county council, and com mander of Capital post 9 of the Legion. He also was a member of Marion county voiture 153, 40 et 8 society. McSherry was a member of the advisory board of the Salva tion Army and served on the Cascade area Boy Scout council. In 1941 he was assistant director of state civilian deTense. Surviving are the widow, Ellyn M. McSherry of Salem; a son Barton McSherry of Salem; and two brothers. Frank McSherry of Freewater, Ore., and Ronald Mc Sherry of Touchet, Wash. Funeral services will be an nounced later by the Clough Barrirk chapel. (Additional details on page 5.) Hop Picking Price Stays at 3 Cents The basic wage for hop pickers was set Thursday by Oregon Hop Growers association at 3 cent pound, the same level as last year. ; The price can be adjusted in emergency cases, if a growers' committee approves. NEWSMAN OUT OF JAIL MANILA, Friday. July 29-UP)-Newsman Angel Parazo today fin ished a prison sentence imposed by the Philippine supreme court for refusing to disclose the source of a news story. His 30-day sen tence was cut four days for good behavior. Workers As the pledge campaign of the Salem Hospital Develop ment drive climbed to $306,168 Thurs day one team and five workers had passed their quotas. A team quota is $2,400 and an individual worker's $400. One team, captained by Mrs. V. E. Gibson, and under the com mand of Mrs. Donald Burke, had reached $2,768 Thursday. Workers who had collected $400 or more Included Thelma Mankerfts, Earl Mootry, Mrs. Phil when no effective resistance is -Mm 39th YEAB Steelers Ask 30c Increase NEW YORK, July 28-()-PresI-dent Philip Murray of the CIO steelworkers today presented to the presidential fact-finders in the steel industry dispute a demand for a 30 cents an hour package. The demand includes a 124 cents an hour fourth round wage boost. Then, in an angry outburst lat er, Murray termed steel industry leaders "the most sanctimonious bunch of professional racketeers in this country." This brought a sharp protest from company spokesmen present They demanded that the remark be stricken from the record. f Murray replied: "All right, then, I'd like to sub stitute for the language I used and make it prevaricators and pro vocateurs." Prof. Carroll R. Daugherty, chairman of the presidential board, ordered both comments stricken from the record. "Name-calling is not to be ex pected again before this board," Daugherty said. Murray explained later he was not referring to the industry spokement present but to leaders of the industry in general who, he said, had subjected him to a "slan derous mud-slinging attack." This attack, he said, came in press releases in which the indus try maintained he was dishonoring his contract by attempting to bring the subject of pensions into col lective bargaining meetings. Beside the fourth round wage increase, Murray asked 11.23 cents an hour for pensions and 6.27 cents for social insurance. Murray said the steel industry was amassing profits of about a billion dollars a year and should grant the union's 'demand in the national interest. Hawaii Plans Ship-Loading To End Strike HONOLULU, July 28-CP)-Sen-ate and house agreed today on terms of a bill to put Hawaii into the stevedoring business and try to reopen the islands' strikebound ports. j The territory would set up Its own stevedoring operation instead of seizing struck firms. This gov ernment entrance into a strike bound industry without seizure is believed without precedent here. The proposed bill bans hiring any striking longshoremen or us ing employes and equipment of struck firms "unless necessary." Hiram Fong, republican speak er of the house, said it would be equally hard on the seven steve doring firms and on the CIO In ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union, now in the 89th day of a dock strike, since it would prohibit hiring strikers and would deprive the companies of profits. Rep. Mitsuyuki Kido, democrat, challenged this, saying the com panies which control six of the seven struck stevedoring firms al so had huge sugar and pineapple interests, and would stand to make more by getting these crops shipped than they might lose in stevedoring profits. The bill would limit govern ment stevedoring operations to the duration of the strike. Mayors' Day Thursday At Oregon State Fair Mayors of Oregon cities will be honored at the state fair Thurs day, September 8, Fair Manager Leo Spitzbart said Thursday. George W. Peavy. Corvallis mayor and president of the league of Oregon cities, will head the dele gation of 150 mayors. Max. Min. Preclp. Salem SI 81 71 94 47 .M 55 .00 55 .00 .00 55 .02 Portland San Francisco . Chicaeo . New York S Willamette river -3 feet. FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Fair to day and toniehl. Little change In tem perature with hie heft today near S2 and lowest tonight near 48. Weather will continue favorable for all farm activities except for occasional fresh winds this afternoon. SALEM PRECIPITATION1 (Sept. I to Jaly 29) This Year 41 87 Last Year 47.00 Normal 37.32 MitBirove'fs alls BrowneU, Dale Bates and Doro thy Omans. The larger gifts total had reached $222,290 and the doctors' pledges, $66,190, it was reported. Meanwhile, possibility that Sa lem General and Salem Memorial hospitals may eventually share In the estate of the late Robert D. Paris, former Stayton woolen mill operator who died here July 20, was revealed Thursday. The Paris will, filed In Marion county probate court, sets up two 18 PAGES 1 01 - Unit Apartment Veterans' Colony Figures in Public Housing Talk Clark Named To High Court; McGrath Set "WASHINGTON, July 28 -A) President Truman today chose Attorney General Tom Clark to become a justice of the U.S. su preme court and Sen. J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island to suc ceed Clark. Both are democrats. Clark is 49, McGrath 45. Besides his senatorial post. Mc Grath is chairman of the demo cratic .national committee. Accepting the nomination. Clark said: "It is with humility that I approach it. I hope I am worthy of the honor the president. has paid me." McGrath was also expected to accept, though that was not cer tain. He said he was "highly grat ified" that Mr. Truman offered him the post as chief of the justice department, but told newsmen he wanted to talk it over with his family over the week end. Thus Mr. Truman rewarded two more of the faithful who stood by him during the election campaign last year when many others were giving it up as a hopeless cause. McGrath quarterbacked Mr. Truman's campaign to a stunning upset victory over the republican nominee. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Clark likewise championed Mr. Truman. Thief 'Trades' Diamond Rings ALBANY. July 28-(Special)-Police today were searching for a slight-of-hand jewel thief who substituted a $300 ring for a $750 woman's diamond ring in a local Jewelry store. Hollis Hull, store proprietor, told officers the switch was apparently made as he turned his back for a moment to bring out a tray of rings. After making the switch and leaving, the thief re-entered the store and asked to see a man's ring valued at $1,500. However, he left again after examining the ring briefly, saying he would re turn later. The switch was dis covered several hours later and the thief failed to return. 4th Charged Negro Slain by Posse MADISON, Fla., July 2MD The fourth negro charged with raping a 17-year-old housewife and beating her husband was slain lawfully by a posse, a coroner's Jury decided today. Three other negroes, all in their 20s, have been indicated for rape by a Lake county grand jury and are being held in a undisclosed Jail. The rape-robbery touched off a series of racial disturbances a round Groveland last week and re sulted in calling out a company of national guard. trust funds of $100,000 each for his widow, Harriett W. Paris, and daughter, Frances Paris Brooks. On the death of Mrs. Paris Her trust fund is to be divided equally among the two hospitals. Father Flanagan's Boys' home at Boys Town, Neb, and the Children's Farm home of the Oregon Wom en's Christian Temperance union. If the daughter dies without Issue then her trust fund also is to be divided among the four beneficiaries. fOUNDHD 1651 The Oregon Statesman. Satan. From the air this Is what Salem's only public hoasinr looks like Labeled Thursday as "the closest we have in Salem to slums," UiL is the veterans housing colony in southeast Salem, where 172 family units are rented by the Salem housing authority to local veteraus. The colony has been fully occupied for more than two years, but present vacancies are being accumulated so that the stipulated S2 apartments will be available this fall to Willamette university veteran-students with families. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer). Private, Low-Cost Mousing Best Bet, Salem Meet Molds By Robert E. Gangware City Editor. The Statesman What this town needs is a good $6,000-87.000 house many of them, j in fact. j This was the general view of several Salem business leaders , Thursday in a two-hour conference with- Verne Elliott, assistant to the Oregon director of the federal housing administration in Portland. , The businessmen were all for encouraging worthy low-cot hous ing construction by private investors, instead of eyeing government funds for a possible city-federal housing development. They allowed that public housing under new federal law might answer metropolitan slum clearance problems, but joined in the opinion that Salem should rely on private building. One of the men Mobster Dies; Police Charged In Vice Work LOS ANGELES. July 28-P-Los Angeles' multi-sided vice blowoff hit twin climaxes today, with the death a mobster and the indictment of five police officials. Edward (Neddie) Herbert, hu sky Jirst lieutentant of Gambler Mickey Cohen, succumbed to shot gun slugs which severed his spine during an attempt to assassinate Cohen eight days ago. Cohen is recovering from a shoulder wound. The county grand jury charged perjury against retired police chief Clement B. Horrall, assistant chief Joseph F. Reed, Capt. Cecil H. Wisdom, head of the personnel bureau, Lieut, Rudy Wellppt, in charge of the administrative vice squad, and C. V. Jackson,, Well pot's chief aide. It also accused Well pot and Jackson of bribery. Doctor Sends Self to OSH PORTLAND, July 28 -CP)- A Portland physician who diagnosed his own case was committed to the state hospital for the insane at Salem today. The physician, whose name was withheld, told the court he had flown into rages recently over minor affronts. On a few occa sions he injured others. He con cluded ne was mentally ill, and for the safety of society should be put away. Two psychiatrists agreed after an examination, and Circuit Judge Ashby C. Dickson ordered the commitment. SALEM U. S. A.. Many states have a Salem, including Missouri where an Ozark mountain community in the storied Jesse James coun try happens to be another county-seat Salem. That particular Salem is de scribed on page 10 today by Eric Bergman, former staff member of The Statesman who is now touring the United States to bring a colorful account of the "life and times" of every town named Salem, for readers YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER Onaon. Friday, July 29. 1949 put in: Colony Called Nearly Slum "The closest we have to slums in Salem is already a public hous ing venture the veterans hous ing colony." This discussion of housing was occasioned by Salem Retail Trade bureau's request for a conference with FHA officials. Attending were Mayor R. L. Elfstrom; Cham ber of Commerce Manager Clay Cochran; Burt Picha, Salem Board of Realtors president, and trade bureau directors John Adlon, Ralph Schlesinger, Earl Heider and Chairman James R. Beard. Elliott made it clear that FHA has nothing to do with adminis tration of the new public housing law. Administration of the new program is now getting establish ed, with a west coast regional of fice In San Francisco, he said. Meanwhile. FHA continues to lim it its activities to approving loans for private interests in the build ing picture. Predicts Cost Decline Elliott predicted, however, that small house prices will decline and considerably improve the low in come housing situation. He said the latest housing in Portland in cludes comfortable small homes in the $8,000 bracket which are out selling homes built a year or two before under higher construction costs and still priced at several thousand dollars higher. Mayor Elfstrom suggested that housing prices will have to come down to get buyers, just as retail store prices are being reduced to stimulate business. The FHA official noted that re cent months have seen new at tention by lending institutions to combined FHA and veterans ad ministration financing of new homes. This permits veterans to buy with a down payment of only the "paper costs," amounting to about $200, then pay for the first year or so at about $70 a month before payments revert to a con siderably lower leveL More Banks Interested He said the 4 per cent interest stipulated by VA was a drawback from the start, but more banks are now interested in lending at that figure. Elliott added that more FHA as sistance to prospective builders and buyers in Salem might result from an increased federal budget for FHA this year. Although not yet settled, the proposed budget of $23,000,000 would allow employ ment of additional trained men, he said, and permit the location of FHA representatives In Salem on certain days every week. Two or three of the business men at the conference roiced the opinion that an attempt to locate a public rental housing project in Salem would remove the Incentive for both private construction in the low cost field and home buy ing by Salem residents in mod erate income brackets. PRICE Due for Salem Polk Chooses Dr. Stewart Health Officer WEST SALEM, Julv 28 -(Special)- Dr. J. H. Stewart, West Salem physician, will be Polk r-ounty health director on a full time basis, it was disclosed today. He will establish his county office in Dallas after a brief period of preparation for the new position in public health, only recently approved as a full-time poft by the Polk county court. Dr. Stewart will be replaced in his private nractice here bv Dr. Don E. Woodard who has just located In this city. Dr. Woodard recently complet ed three rears of eraduate train ing In medicine, following four years or duty as a medical offi cer with the U. S. air force. Dr. Woodard has established his resi dence in Kingwood Heights. Advi iser LL Farley Mogan (above) ef the Oregon state police. Is to leave Saturday for Berlin as a con sulting expert for German po lice administrators daring the next CO days. He headed Ger man civil police Just after World War IL (Story en page X.) China Policy Under Study WASHINGTON, July 28 -()-Secretary Acheson said today the statedepartment is making a "thordugh survey" of the far east ern situation. He indicated future policy on China would be based on the results. Acheson mentioned the survey during testimony before the house foreign affairs committee In sup port of the administration's $1, 450,000,000 arms program for Europe. He told committee members he hoped "in a very short time" to outline a far east policy. Liquor Board Sets Survey for Salem PORTLAND, July 28 -tV The state liquor control cornmission turned down an application for an agency at Bay City today, but ap proved one at Glendale, which is north of Grants Pass. The Corvallis Elks lodge was granted a master locker license, although the city Itself Is dry. The commission decided to make a survey to determine if nw r?-- des are needed In Klamath Falls, Eugene, and Salem. r 5c No, 132 $800,000 Said Cost In Project A new 101-unit anartmcnt hnmo for Salem is in prospect, a group oi Dusinest leaders was told Thurs day during a conference on houe lng. Plans and financial arrange ments are near final approval Utr the multi-story apartment build ins to be erertiH it mnihuarf corner of Union and Winter stitrtm. according to verne Elliott, as.M tant to the Oreaan director 1 r tt federal housing administration. Cost of the proposed apartment building would approximate $), 000. based on d resent FHA esti mates for that kind of construction wnicft place total cost on the tunm of about $8,100 per rental unit included. The apartment house site 165 bv 165 fjot nrnnertv is a new owned by Doujlas Yeater, prietor of Yeater Annlianre and a state legislator from Mar ion county. . Yeater said Thursday a iaI estate transaction with out-of-Sa- lem party was ia negotiation but had not progressed far enough for any announcement. An old trsm house now occupies the corner tot. At me housing confab in the R. L. Elfstrom store ThnnHu (story in column 5). Elliott 1 Id the local men that the apartment project naa r HA sanction and, Re cording to FHA standards, its .rr- and two-bedroom aDartments would rent at Sli to $75 monthly. The FHA official added that the project mentioned is the rnrv elevator-type apjrtment construc tion lor 2aiem now being pr sed or considered by FHA. Senate Passes Unity, Budget For Services WASHINGTON1, July 28 -tffy-The senate tuijy accepted Urn terms of a compromise hi$ light ening the military unification luw and setting up a new money-giving budget system for the aim 4 services. The measure, approved I y a voice vote, now goes to the hrjiise for the final legislative step, It was just aoout what1 Presi dent Truman and Secretary of De fense Johnson had asked for. The budget provision? were in general accord with the recommenidatHne of .the Hoover commission. The compromise measure tivee the defense secretary broader and more direct authority over the wony. navy arrt 4tr riTee. The bill contains a strict rHhi tion against merger of the wrv ices or major shifts in funds, func tions or personnel. This is exi s t ed to ease the anxiety of the ma rines, who feared absorption by the army, and of the navhl air branch, which looked with a fear ful eye toward the expanding alf force. A comptroller of defense ex penditures wouli be established in the office of the secretary cf de fense. The joint chiefs of staff ihm military heads of the army, navy and air force would be aug mented by a permanent chaiiman, Chinese Reds Near Clmngteh CANTON, Friday, July 29-V A communist drive from the north has penetrated to the outskirts of Changteh in the heart of the Hun an province rice bowl, nationalist dispatches said to-day. It appear ed to be a significant flanking op eration. The dispatches reported heavy fighting for the town 100 mile northwest cf Chingsha, the provin cial capital. The importance at tached to this Red push was thin: Yesterday an official dispatch acknowledged the communists had captured Chuchaw in an operation that cut the Canton-Hankow rail way 315 miles north of Canton. WESTEKW mitNAnONAL At Vancouver S. ftalam t. At Victoria S-3. Yakima O-S. At Tacoma S. Wanatchea . At Bremertoa . Spokane 7. COAST LKAGCI At Portland 1. HoUywood S. At Oakland . ScatU . At Saa Diego I. San Francisco f. At Loo A&xclcs I. Sacramento 4. AMtSICA!f UKAGCK At New York i, Cleveland 2. At Washington 7. Detroit IX At Boston . Chicago 1. At Phitortrlphta-St. Louis (rmfaa) NATIONAL LEA C CSt At SL Louis 10. Philadelphia S At Cincinnati 2. Boston 1U At Chicago 1, Brooklyn 7. At Pittsburg , Maw York S.