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j-Jfti Statesman. SalwaOreaaifc Tuo4aT Apqort 'fe, 1949 State Legion . Meet Delegates Need Housing Story also on 'page one V . American Legion convention" of ficials late Monday night appeal-, ed Jo SaJera residents for ''more help in solving housing and trans portation problems lor out-of-town visitors. , Sephus Starr , convention hous ing chatonan, reported Monday Jhat all Legionnaires registering thus far have been housed with out difficulty but said he expects more than 1000 additional room requests today and urges Salem residents to offer available sleep ing rooms for rental by. the visi- tors. , Courtesy windshield stickers still i are available at the head quarters 'tent for Salem residents Who wish to offer rides- to Legion naires as Joey see them walking to meetings. Delegates without transporta tion are being instructed to flag down cars bearing 'courtesy stick ers" in order to obtain rides as far a eah narticular driver is going. Regading 'scheduled athletic , events, registration fortne gon and bowling tournaments reported rnminc in slowly Tuesday but convention officials said they have received many inquiries auuui u events and expect large turnouts. Trophies and cash prizes await .winners in each of the tourna ments. . HELD OVER ! Don Sirahl : ' at SHATTUC'S CHATEAU Baseball Tonight Salem Senators VS. ' Victoria DOUBLE HEADER 7:00 P. II. ' Y WATERS HELD Box Seat Reservations rbn 3-4647 . HOW " Duck Pin v Billias - Fovntain Lunch j League Team and Individuals Interested In League Play Please Check With Us At Once B & B BOWLING COURT Tom Wood MU Portland Road - , i ' - ft EVERYBODY official; 1 l WELCOME AMERICAN LEGION j IV Conveniion I I V 4 DANCES 4 WedM Thuri, FrL Sort. ' fiOQjjS J ; Aug. 3. 4, 5. 6th I f : MUSIC BY f lsjl i ; cunT keiioii I . q V and his Band JJ i J ADMISSION: SCc Iic.' Tax . i M Schacht BctMball's Grocrteat Comedian , WATERS FIELD ------ - - -1 - f- . r Wedneaday. August 5 - S PJM. "c&achl will' make yoa roar and laugh witn hie antics. So him xriorm before and daring the Senator i. i gam with Victoria. COIIE Police Catch Qne Later ence Steele, One More to j Go I r . . ?1 4ttm. O ICrtC kimi u.v w rong name Monday. J He was arrested by a Marion county deputy sheriff on a district court warrant charging him with forgery. But when his fihgerprints were checked at the sheriffs of fice it was discovered they differ ed from those of the man wanted in Marion county. '; Officers were about to release him. f , 1 ..-..' !' Then another deputy jin the of fice remembered seeing a poster more than two years .ago from Olympiad ; Wash., saying that : a man named Lawrence Steele was wanted on a charge of parole vio lation. 1 1 ' He checked his hunch aad called state police identification bureau. This-time the records checked. The sheriffs office s holding this- Lawrence Steele for Wash ington authorities. But they are still looking, for another! one. NOVELIST ON DANGER LIST MIAMI, Fla.. Aug. 1 j-WV R Beach, the novelist, was on the danger list at Doctor hospital today, physocians said the 71-year-old author was "seriously iill and had suffered a setback over the week end" j Ends Today! Open :45 VemVHlitf 1 Second Feature "NIGHT WIND PIS Theatre WOODBURN, ORE. Now Playingl ! "T MEN'' And. :... "NIGHT WIND- OPEII Bowling - Owner" Phone Z-44JI n P'1"' 1i mmmmimr" Tiil EAQLY U;S. Producing Effective Atom Bombs Bj Frank Carey Aaociated Press Science Heporter WASHINGTON Augi 1-W-The United States has gone into pro duction of the more effective at omic bombs tested at Eniwetok in 19431, and has made advances on other. atomic fronts, congress was told today The information .was presented by the atomic enegry commission in its semi-annual report, s Pre sident Truman said in' a statement that the nation has "reason for re assurance andi faith that the at omic program is being effectively pressed, both for defense and hu man welfare purposes- j Answer te Charges j ' This apparently was! his answer to ttie charges of "incredible mis management" which Sejaator Hick en loop r (R-Iowa) made against A EC Chairman David EL Lilienthal. A congressional investigation 'of the charges has been In progress. The AEC reported: I 1. Its Enwetok -tested bombs. more effective than those used be fore 1943 are being produced pri an "industrial basis." j - 2. Fissionable uranium and plut-, onium the sources of atomic en ergy for all purposes 4- are being produced in greater amounts than ever before. j j . j. 3. Increasing ; attention I was given in the past six! months "to reactor development, an item of prime miiltary and -eventual civil ian importance." .- j j Controls A-Enerry i (A reactor or pile lis a device 'or the controlled release of at omic energy, it is witn sucn ae viees that scientists hope eventual ly to achieve .propulsion for air craft and ships, and also furnish HeJectrical power for industry.) 4. This nations has-; found new sources of precious uranium, in its own backyard "enormous ton' pages" of materials having a very ow content &l uranium. Services in : rr Roseburg for Mrs. McCall Funeral services will be held today Jn Roseburg for Mrs. Marie Flint 'McCall,: 90, an outstanding musician and former Salem resi dent who died Friday in Roseburg after a serious illness. Mrs. McCall taught music and social science at Brush college and was choir leader and organist 23 years at the First Presbyterian church in Roseburg. ! She was appointed by. President Herbert Hoover in 1934 as a state representative in a federal health program, and she also was a prom inent lecturer in the Oregon state grange and was active in the East ern Star, being a past worthy mat ron. ' Mrs. McCall came l to Salem In 1916 and was married In 1922 to William McCall. father of Mrs. A. E. Utley and Mrs. C. L. Blodgett, both of Salem. . CHIXA RAIL ROUTE CUT . CANTON, Tuesday Aug. 2-aV The Chinese communists cut the Canton-Hankow railway in Hunan again today. ! , Hf althfnlly Air-Conditloned , Last Day ! "Sorrowful Jones' T and -Manhandled' T0II0BB0W! One oi the AU-Tlme Grecrta RETURNED BY YOUR; DEMANDS I r::s!iHff!!HAciESi:o.7 T , -T. .'fit, I 1 JUDY GARLAND FUUKSSSlI.llTiDlfiEl V IEIIUBIMCIIALn )' '- - J 'J j THE 1 j ifiai',j I -JOB HAM Chief of Portland Office of Stale Tax Commission Quits Carl Armstrong, manager of the Portland office of the state tax commission since 1939, has resign ed to accept a position with the United States National bank. Arm strong began in banking with Ladd & Bush h:re but has been with the tax commission; for the! past IT years. .. f . . He is a brother of Ed Armstrong of the Man's shop and a son. of Mrs. Maude Armstrong, 1009 Sag inaw st - . j i Nathan L. Cohen, who has been with the Salem , tax offices, will succeed Armstrong. . j 2 Men Fouud Next Night on Mt. Rainier .PARADISE INN, Rainier Na tional Park, Aug. 1 -(iP)- A search ing party today located two men, both uninjured, who had been missing on the slopes . tt Mount Rainier since yesterday, j The pair, Edward F. Patred, 39, of Hoquiam and Dick De Haan, 21, of Tacoma were located by a party led by Leroy. Ritchie of Tacoma. i j The men had 1 separated from two different parties at Camp Hazard at the 11,500 foot leyel on the Paradise side yesterday. Patred's leg was bothering him, and De Haan became exhausted. Other members of both parties continued on to the summit. They met at the camp and start ed down the mountain yesterday but became lost and returned to higher ground to spend .the night Chinese Free U.S. Official From Room SHANGHAI, Aug. l-f-The dispute over severance pay de mands by former employes of the U. Sf navy was shifted to the com munist labor board offices late to day after the claimants had . be sieged the U. S. consulate since Friday. , Reuben Thomas, consular adm inistrative officer, was detained on one room of the consulate for 30 hours by claimants .who argued with him in relays. He finally was permitted to leave the room late Sunday to get some sleep. . Two other consular officers, ac ting consul general Walter McCon aughy and Cmdr. Morgan Slayton, naval .attache, had been detained on upper floors on the consulate. All except a handful of the de monstrators drifted away but the three Americans made no effort to leave the building during the day. Amateur Field Lures Champs NEW YORK, Aug. 1 -P- The national amateur golf champion ship this month in Rochester, N. Y will have a district internation al flavor with nine U.S.. and Brit ish champions, past and present, competing. - The U.S. .Golf association an nounced tonight that a near-record field of 1,060 had filed entry for the tournament at Rochester's Oak Hill country club Aug. 29 through Sept. 3. . Of these, 2b players are exempt from qaulifying including the en tire ten-man Walker cup teams of the United States and Britain, who clash at Mamaroneck, N.Y., Aug. 19-20. Willie Turnesa of Elmsbord, N. Y., the defending champion, tops the select list. The entry list is the third larg est in the 49 years of the event, topped only by the 1,220 last year and the 1,118 in 1936.: World's Tallest Man to Practice Law in Portland PORTLAND, Aug. i -JF) The most lawyer in the world for the money arrived here today--all 8 feet 7 inches of him. He is Clifford Thompson, 44, former .circus attraction, who came from Waupaca, 1 Wis., and announced he would begin law practice here. With his normal-sized wife, he set up housekeeping at a hotel, while he looked for out-ske per manent quarters. s Thompson in years past toured the nation with circuses and was billed as the world's tallest man," He said he left the circuses to study law at Milwaukee in. the early 1930s, and quit the sawdust trail permanently in 1938 to prac tice law. r JAVA FIGHT TO END BATAVIA, Java, Aug. !-&)-The end of fightini between the Dutch and Indonesian Republi cans will be proclaimed Wednes- aay, uie united Nations said today. Nursery, Bulb Firm Charged With Deception Indications of fraud, deception and misrepresentation were charg ed by, the state agricultural de partment at a hearing here Mon day involving sales of bulbs and nursery stock by the Sherwood bulb gardens, owned and operat ed by Leslie E. -Marcus. The hearing was based on an application from Marcus to renew his nursery Hcense for another year. Approximately 20 witnesses were slated to testify. State agricutural department of ficials said they had been investi gating the gardens lor two years following receipt of - complaints from customers. Marcus conducts one of the largest mail order bulb businesses in, the northwest Mrs. Merle Holman, Jefferson, complained - that : she had filed a substantial order, with Marcus but had received only part of her order. She said some of the items were dead on arrival. , Smaller Bulbs Receipt, of smaller bulbs than he had ordered was charged by Dr. H. A. Scullen, Oregon State college professor. He said he bas ed his order on a newspaper ad vertisement. J. E. Ganger, Canby, testified he received inferior and diseased bulbs while Mary L. Beach, Port land, declared gladiolas she re ceived were less than three inches in circumference. They were ad vertised as 5 to 7 inches, Miss Beach said. ' Complaint that he had not re ceived anything yet after' paying for a begonia order on May 2, was voiced by M. T. Madsen, Salem. Jack T. Hurd, Oswego, formerly employed by the Sherwood gar dens but now selling his own bulbs, testified that the gardens had made many refunds but ap parently had not received any complaints from the Portland Bet ter Business bureau. Couldn't Fill Orders , This witness said the gardens were launched in 1946 and the business prospered with the result it was impossible to fill all orders on many occasions. Hurd said Marcus approved ,all advertise ments and sometimes these ad vertisements featured items not carried in stock. Another witness, George W, Eade, Sumner, Washchief nur sery inspector for the state of Washington, said he found one gladiola shipment from the gar dens in which virtually half of the bulbs were diseased. "I have been watching closely the ship ments from these gardens but have found no more w:ith a large per-?, centage of diseased bulbs", Eade said. SEARCH FOR MAN STILL ON GOVERNMENT CAMP, Aug. 1 (-Another day of searching passed today without any trace of John Harrison Tracy, 76, Esta cada, apparently lost on the slopes of Mt. Hood since Wednesday. The family has posted a $300 re ward, for anyone finding him. STILL TOO CO J TO CLIMB HOOD RIVER, Aug. MP)-Hot enough? Not for climbers of Mt Hood. The annual Mt. Hood Le gion climb was called off yester day because too. much ice' re mained on the Chimney area; A few climbers went up a different trail, unofficially. STARTS TOtlOBBOW! 'and 'CHEETA fPfTilfiHB I ! Neiv Damno! tJeiv Dangers! . Th Orotfit ot AH jungu adventures VC v; . I,' j LLl f J: Uff , 1, Portland Council Asked To Extend DS lime PORTLAND, Aug, 1 A proposal to extend daylight saving time to September 25 was put before the city council here today by . Commissioner -Kenneth ii Cooper. Daylight time . is scheduled to end in Portland. September 11. The extension was asked last week by four network radio stations, who pleaded that network shows from the east will be on daylight time until September 23. 2 Women Hurt In Auto Wreck Two women from John Day, Mrs. Minette Kerruey and Mrs, Elda Way, ooth incurred broken ribs in an auto accident Monday noon at 14th and Chemeketa street The Salem first aid car took both women to Salem General hospital. Otto Chester Buff. 1599 Chemeketa St., driver of the other car, .in curred cuts about his face bur left without receiving first aid treat ment I The right side and front of Buffs car was damaged -vhen it skidded into a light pole after the collision. The front of Mrs. Kemzey's car also was damaged. WESTINGHOUSE NIGHT! See the new Weslinghonie ' Lanndromal ! A -Ends Today! 6:45 P.M. y-.j ' Betty Hntton DREAM GIRL" Dana Andrews "DEEP WATERS" TOMORROW 1 LmlabeUe & Scotty "Swing Your; Partner" ,l t TONITE ONLY ! V t I Free Shetland Pony If I I Rides for the Kid- I I I I dies Starting: Daily I II At I P.M. I I ll Paulette Geddard I I James Stewart - f ll Henry Fonda L nl "On Our Merry Way fl III Smiley Burnette If 111 Charles Starrett If 1 "WEST OF SONORA" 1 1 I ' wi W Mi mmr na W i Ph. S-S4I7 Matinee Daily from 1 P.M. DOUBLE THRILLS! r SEE EDDIE DEAIT EI WeedCitting Drive Planned In West Salem WEST SALEM, Aug. 1 The city council tonight directed Police Chief W. H. Porter to check on Wes Salem's vacant lota and not ify property owners' wKose lots are overdue for weed cutting. Coun cilmen said they had received sev eral complaints of untended pro perties becoming hazardous in the current dry season. , A traffic report noted! that new pedestrian- crossing signs have been erected in v the past week along Edgewater street reminding drivers that pedestrians have the ENDS.TODAYI Linda Darnell 'TOREVER -AMBER" ; (TUE4 ! A Joan DarU TOIEL BOY j-m nnr n Ph. t-mi Opens $A1 P.M. T0II0RR0W! SEIISATIOIIAL! ' A TH0USA1ID THRILLS i from the Jnngle Djplhs of Indo-China! Where Superstition reigns ... and mighty apes are Gods! BEYOND ZWA?rf I IMAGIMATIOM UfJ OMrffii i'FORBIDDEII V W tfWM ADVE1ITWRE" VSCRATCrtr' F2k TILL crHITI B It'i Noughty l Jn Wiley 5 L ; 'TIC LEAF - X FOR EVE" NO ADVANCE IN PRICES! mrm mm PEHSOII -t '-. - ' j. v- i . : K V:;"4:f! School Districts j j Vote to Consolidate UNIONVALE, Aug. 1-4 Union vale school district 41 and Grand Island district 94 tonight voted to consolidate for one year. ! - The consolidation was approved by a vote, of 27-9 in Unionvale and 10-0 in Grand Island, i School directors of Jboth dist ricts, working in cooperation with the state department of education, plan to have four grades in each school. Pupils will be provided transportation 'from one district to the other. j right-of-way if in the crofswaiks. The council extended Salem's Evangelical church the use of the West Salem city park ior a. picnic Sunday. v ENDS TODAY1 (Tue.) Barbara Stanwyck i TADY GAMBLES' . Georae Brent ILLEGAL ENTRY v ' 1 ItliUllWiniJJL Z e Am miim i A nTTI I . 9 uxj uuu diAuA zuiuaz &i u rui.: r - : ' ' ' : U "