-."-'".V"-'-. ' ' ' . ' ' r -- ,- . M ;' - . . ' , ". .-.- I F(S-Yer-(Dl(dl' Mann EooaM ADive Af te r 2L3 Days, Lost on m. Mood Not All Tall Cornin Midwest Builds Forest -I. 'hi. '';.-Vn! ' K A if i. i i i i ii 'H'."1'1" ' ' j 1 ... , , 'x -V ft-j " EM . All the U1I corn doesn't trow back In the midwest althouth In the CMi above there b a connection. Friends sent Louis C. Loreni, 765; S. Hlth st, an ear .of corn from Kansas last year. This year Lorens planted the com In his tardea and today there afe corn stalks almost 10 feet high. Tryinf to. reach the top of the corn is little Becky, 4. with some help of the Lorena'. (SUtesman OCP i If Ithe state U to vote on a bonus initiative at tht next gen eral selection at leat It will" be one prepared under authentic uspSces. The on submitted in 1948 was prettj much of a political promotion by a single person who was af the same time a candidate for office, it was defeated by a substantial margin, but chiefly bemuse its author had blundered and written tho text In a manner to exclude the Oregon National Guard and other pre-Pearl Harbor veterans. Now the American Leg Ion hs voted to Join other veter ans' i organisations In sponsoring and promoting an initiative to pay : a state bonus to veterans of the last war. The amount recommend ed laYlO month for domestic ser vice and $15 a month for overseas service, with a maximum of $900 for an Individual. On Just a rough guess this would amount to around $50-o $60,000, 000. i Presumably it would call for bond Issue to be serviced by a property tax. It is doubtful if the measure would fap a new source of revenue, such as a tax on retail sales. That would Invite opposition to the method. The property taxpayer is regarded as a more patient bearer of burdens and more- dependable. Already the legislature has re ferred to the people a bill to in crease the basic state school sup port fund by $30 per census child. This would likewise be a lien on Eroperty to be financed by a tax (w In event income and other sources of state revenue proved inadequate. The cost of this in- : crease to ' be Kin with would be over $10,000,000 (continued on editorial page) TUKKS. GkEECI IN UNION STRASBOURG, France, Aug. 8 -VThe council of Europe's com- mi t tee of ministers voted today to admit Turkey and Greece. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH r; oi mm tspirinf" t from sisier Manyn,n, nu aaofn pnoioj. !r; - . j Jame&Steicdrt Takes Martial Vows Today LOS ANGELES. Aug. J-(AP)- Hollywood,'s perennial "most elig ible" bachelor becomes a benedict tomorrow. 1 James Maitland Stewart, who once quipped ne " couiq never marry one girl and be disloyal to all the others," is going toj do just that At 41, he is marrying Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean. She is 31, the mother of Ronald, 5, nd Mi chael, 3, by her first husband, Ed ward B. (Ned) McLean. The couple will be wed at 5 p. m. Tuesday at Brentwood Pres byterian church. t On Friday the couple will embark on ai 13,000 mile aerial honeymoon, and it will be months before Jimmy re turns to the cameras again. Jimmy and Gloria first met at dinner in the Gary Cooper home. The erious-rainded Stewart, whose name , has been linked ro mantically with many Hollywood girls, was at once attracted to the tall, lim, blonde Glorii. They both like the outdoors afcd have fished and played golf and tennis together a lot since last May 20. That i was the night that ! Jimmy, celebrating his .4 1st birthday, shook off his shyness arid asked Gloria to marry him. j ' .As soon as she accepted, Jimmy called his father, Alexander Stew art, Indiana, Par., hardware mer chant "who has been trying to marry me off for the f last 20 years." Jimmy parents are here for the wedding.' i $105,000 Set As Chest Goal The Salem Community chest quota for 1949 will be $105,000. Announcement was made Monday by Joseph A. H. Doddj general campaign chairman, following a meeting of 22 Salem chest leaders. "All agencies have submitted a very restricted budget" podd re ported, "and the quota is; the sum which must be raised to reach the budget figure." :- i Charles Barclay, public rela tions director for the chest, dis cussed this phase of the Campaign with the leaders. j The campaign will start here October 4. About $101,000; was col lected in last year's campaign. Salem, Albany In Running9 for Hisher lEdiicatiori Board Office La ASHLAND, Aug. MVThe chairman of a special state board of Higher Education committee re ported today the choice for a board central office has narrowed to Salem' or Albany. J ) Dr. R. E Kleirisergef said the "factors involved' has practically eliminated Portland" and; appeared to be either .Salem or Albany be cause of their central location. The central offices are now at the University of Oregon campus In Eugene. The board created the office special committee in June when It was decided to move from the ' campus site used since the state system was established 15 Shelter, Too Weak to Talk PORTLAND, Aug. -(flVDays after 'others had given up hope two dogged searchers today found ai o-year-oia man auve in me ML Hood wilderness where he had been lost 13 days.' : Weak and unable to talk, John Harrison Tracy kissed the hands of his i rescuers as they picked bun up from a forest shelter hut floor. 'I Tracy went into the woods on the south slope of Mt. Hood July 26 on; a one-day prospecting trip for gold. Search began two days Uter, found when his empty car was on a littie-used road. Relatives had offered a reward, but most searchers quit after sev eral days. Ray Godleske, Sandy, and Ben Franklin, Estacada, pa tiently threaded the woods daily, calling the man's name intermit tently, lUd Little Food i They camf across him today in a three-sided forest shelter, too weak j to respond to their shouts. Apparently he had had no food- except possibly berries and his weak condition made it doubtful that he had even berries the last few days. He was lying on his back in the shelter about four miles j from where his car had been found. i Forest service men were mobi lized quickly to carry Tracy out on a stretcher to a road, where an ambulance, waited to bring him to a hospital here. Eeward Offered ' ! There will be a reward for Godleske and Franklin, the latter a hired hand on the farm of Mrs. Oliver Gerber,- one ' of Tracy's daughters. Relatives, just hours before the finding of Tracy, had raised a reward offer to $1000 for finding him "dead or alive." I Tracy had gone into the moun tain region to retrace the old Bar low Trail and attempt to seek gold ithat he said his 'pioneer mother had once told him could pe found south of Summit Prairie along; the emigrant trail into the Willamette valley. Man Charged With Slaying Tacoma Pair SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8-(AP) -The FBI announced tonight the arrest of John Edward Summers. 34-year-old farm laborer and dishwasher, charged at Tacoma, Wash., with the murder of How ard Easley, 62, and his wife, Eliz abeth. 67. Harry M. Kimball, special ag- j ent in charge of the FBI. said Summers was arrestee: ty m ag ents iat a rooming house at' 1154 Cough st.t where he had been liv ing under the name of John Skin nerej Kimball said Summers had waived removal to Washington The Easleys were 'shot and kill ed at their home in Tacoma on July: 16. Their bodies were found by berrypickeri, buried in the woods near Chinook Pass, on July 20. The FBI official said Summers, an ex-convict with a long record, had In his pocket, when arrested, a copy of the FBI's "wanted" no tice alerting police to be on the lookout for him. He said be had intercepted the notice sent to his rooming house. - Summers, Kimball said, had lived near the , Easleys at Taco ma. He said Summers had been sought since a man posing as Eas ley had leased Easley's home the day after the slayings, and since the Easley's automobile had been sold : to a Portland used car deal er on July 21. i Bumped Glass Proves! Fatal NEWARK, N.J, Aug. &-JP)-A drinking glass . bumped from his wife's band was blamed today for the I death of 38-year-old Morris Corprew. His wife, Mary, said Corprew stumbled against her and bumped the i glass from vt hand jester day in their home. Thrown olf i oalance, Corprew fell; to the floor on top of the glass which had shattered into jagged- pieces, i Doctors said it severed an ar tery in his chest. " He died today at a hospital. years ago. -; !. Other members of tho office committee are Lief Finseth, Dal las, I and George F. Chamber, Sa lem. The chairman said the selee t' i may not be made for some time. i . The board today confirmed Its previous decision to maintain the extlsting status of the administra tive relationship between the uni versity and the medical school. University President H. K. New burn had asked that he not be required to sign medical school diplomas since he has not control over the curriculum at the Pott land medical center. 99fb YEAB 14 PAGES West Saieun FimStdtion Authorized Property Sold to Legion By Robert E. Gangware Cit Editor. Th Statesman City aldermen finished a lot of unfinished business Monday night during a temporary respiw from such controversial issues as the Baldock traffic plan and rent con trol. As a result, new authorization ranged from a West Salem fire station and a firemen's drill tower to property purchase for the Broadway street extension and property sale for clubhouse use by Salem post 136, American Legion. In a reversal of last month s ac tion the city council authorized a special election regarding previously-defeated and often-petitioned annexation of a large area southeast of Salem, to coincide with an October 14 special elec tion on West; Salem's proposal for merger with this city, j Bonds Sold Here were other major actions at last night's council session in city hall: Sale of $215,000 worth of bonds to finance an interceptor sewer, to U. S. National Bank of Portland on a low total interest cost of $78, 903, averaging .2.91 per cent only $76 lower than First Nation al bank's offer which averaged 2.393 per cent Besides selling the bonds, the council agreed to ac cept the low bid of $216,974, by Werner and Jeske of Eugene for installation of the sewer in north Salem as approach to an eventual sewage disoosal piint. Emergency fund appropriation was made for a $4,000 project to be contracted for building a fire station in the recently annexed Kingwood territory across the riv er, from materials provided by old airport (military) buildings own ed by the city. Also authorized was $1,800 to be added to a $2,000 budget item for financing erection of a firemen's tlrill tower, 50 feet high, by Timber Structures Co. on South 22nd street Both projects were recommended by City Man ager Jl L. Franzen. To Extend Street Purchase for $5,466 of seven properties needed for right-of- way in extending Broadway street was authorized by the council City Attorney Chris Kowitz re ported the total is more than ap praisal figures and that delay had been encountered, both because the bounty had paid equivalent of $2,000 an acre for right-of-way it acquired farther north. Aldermen and Kenneth Hutch- ins, north Salem business men expressed concern over progress of the North Commercial street extension, with the result that the council directed immediate grad ing of the new section north to Tryon avenue and continued ne gotiations for options on six need ed, properties needed to connect with the North River road and now estimated to cost about $20, 000, Property Sold For American Legion clubhouse use the aldermen authorized sale of a 60 by 80 foot property in Pringle park to Salem post 136 at $350, on the understanding that if the; Legion ever withdraws from the property it would return to the city. A realtors' appraisal, not taking the latter clause into considera tion, had fixed an evaluation at $2,350, but City Manager Fran zen recommended sale at $500 as a figure more in line with the $350 price paid by the Lzaak Wal ton league for Its clubhouse prop erty in the same area. Several al dermen favored an even lower figure and the post's representa tive. Judge Joseph B. Felton, of fered the $350 which was ac cepted. (Other council news on page 2) Ford Workers Vote on Strike in Detroit 1- DETSOIT, Aug. SFcrd Metor C. production employes shews at the polls hero this morning te decide whether they waat their CIO United Aate Workers officers te can a strike backing wag demands. Ford's Rouge plant b la the bsckgremad. Site el the balloting was major Isaac betweea the two aides. Ford offered it plant property for tho varpeee. Mediations board decided ea spot near anlea head- 'gO.aarters (See story). (AT VTlrepbote te The Statesmaa). (Story a Th Oirocjon Statesman, Salnv Oroaon, Tuesday. eunafte AdhesomiCooD to Vandenbrg Plan Rejected By Secretary By John B. ;Owen WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-(AP)- Secretary of State Acheson refus ed point-blank today to go along with the stop-gap arms aid idea of Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich). He stuck firmly by the full $1, 450,000,000 the administration has asked to strengthen foreign na tions against Russia The sum is necessary, Acheson said at a senate hearing, because the United States "is open to at tack on its own territory as never before." In the two world wars, he said. the line while we marshalled our j nuw uicic 13 a vacuum ui . military weakness there, he said ! The shield . .'' , no longer ex ists." i The secretary oDbosed a sena torial move to tag $175,000,000 of the aid fund specifically for Chi na. He said it would "be helpful" to earmark a small sum to be used in the far east at presidential dis cretion. Vandenberg contended that the program of arming western Eu rope and..other noncommunist ar eas ftxes? pattern for military de fense f Europe before the North Atlantic Jreaty council can fulfill this function allotted to it. So he asked Acheson: How about an interim program to show our intentions but let congress next year decided on the total pro gram. Would Acheson resist the idea -J J- "Yes" Acheson replied, "I would resist that. I think we must go forward on both fronts"; mean ing armed aid While strategy planning is mapped under the treaty. i Work Starts On New Dallas Grade School DALLAS, Aug. g-(Special)- Barham brothers, a Salem con tracting firm, started work Mon-1 day on the new Lyle grade school here. Located on J Levens street and Ellendale road, it will be built at a cost of about $210,000. First phase of the work includes clearing, grading and excavating at the site. Foundation forms will be started this week, the contrac tor stated. Basic bid on the job was $227, 000, but after alterations on the part to be constructed at this time, the price was pared $17,000, it was reported. The new figure leaves $40,000 out of the original $250,000 bond issue to equip the school and handle other expenses relative to construction. Completion is expected in months. ! 10 SECURITY BILL ADVANCE WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-P)-Ap-proval of legislation blanketing 11,000,000 additional workers un der social security! ld age insur ance, making a big bost in bene fits, and increasing payroll taxes to Li.ance the expanded program was announced today by the house ways and mean committee. . . ' . - : , : f v: . r rT -1 v ' , i J -7 : r- Appircpbs- E ' ' ' '! Rain, Drought, Freeze Plague Oregon Areas By the Associated Press At Astoria farmers complained of too much rain, at Prineville ranchers moaned over the driest summer on record, and at Bend they protested over freezihg wea ther yesterday (Monday). These vagaries were reported as clear skies and a warm sun returned after weekend rain squalls in western Oregon and rising humidities in the : eastern part of the state eased the forest fire danger. The cool air mass from the ocean brought rain to Astoria and Clatsop county, where bent grass High Flying Kite yfeg JJj PlaUPS At McNary Field A high-flying kite got into the airplane traffic pattern at Mc Nary field late Monday! after noon. The CAP control tower asked that it be brought in for a landing. A Fairview home boy had sailed the kite to as estimated altitude of 800 feet before the control tower phoned the insti tution to report that the kite was interferring wih the landing of a light plane at the airfield. Attendants had the boy lower the kites' altitude. Wizard Orders Georgia Klan To Doff Hoods ATLANTA, Aug. 9 -VP)- Geor. gia's Ku Klux Rkn was un masked today by theimperial edict" of its wizard after south Georgians had gone gunning for robed night riders. Wizard Samuel Green said henceforth members of his asso ciation of Georgia klans would junk their hoods to keep the klan from being blamed for the acts of others. Green's order followed a shoot ing scrape in Iron City, Ga., in which the town's mayor, C. L. Drake, and a group of friends swapped shots with a motorcade of robed klansmen. The "imperial wizard" said his organization was not involved in the affair and blamed the inci dent on a "bolshevik- group op erating out of Columbus. (Story also on page 2.) 15,000 People Expected at Soil Conservation Day Festivities By Lillle L. Madsen Farm Editor, The Statesman Almost 15,000 people are expect ed to gather on September 17 at the Irvin Bart ell ranch ; between Shaw and Aumsville when the first Willamette Valley Soil con servation day will be observed. Those who recall a similar event, which drew thousands of people from all over the Pacific North west to Golden dale. Wash., a few page ) ' Angust 9. 1949 mope top-(Sap growers were beginning their harvest.. It delayed harvesters, but it was to early to tell if there was other damage. At Prineville, the long, dry spell cut the Crooked river to its lowest " level on record. The Prineville weather observer saijt precipitation this year had totaled only 2.93 inches, the lowest on record. Meanwhile the cool air mass moved inland from the Pacific and dropped early morning tem peratures to 32 degrees at Bend. Baker and Klamath Falls re corded 42. Neuner Tells School Board To Issue Bonds Attorney General George Neu ner Monday issued a formal opin ion that the school board of school district No. 103, Woodburn, Mar ion county, has authority and it is its duty to issue and sell bonds approved by voters of Jhe district at an alection held oh July 29, 1949, despite there was a change in the hours of holding the elec tion. There were 433 votes in fa vor of issuing the bonds and 300 against "Failure of the notices of elec tion to specify the particular time of day the polls would be opened and closed should not invalidate th election where the voters were given full opportunity to exercise their franchise and there is no proof the -voters were deprived of their rights to vote, Neuner said. Revenues from the bonds would be used for school plant Improve ment Max. Min. 44 4S II Preclp. .M M .00 .00 JDO Slcm Portland , San Francisco 7S 75 14 5 84 Chicago 74 IS New York Ye Willamette river -S.4 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Fair today and tonight. High today near 84: low tonight near 52. Agriculture outlook : Except for moderate winds during af ternoon hour weather wiU be excel lent for farm work today and tomor row. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 to Aug. 4 Thia Year 42.23 Last Year 47.00 Normal 37.39 months ago, will have an idea of the bigness of the affair planned for the Bartell farm. This ranch, not the worst and not the best, but just an average parcel of Willamette valley farm land will be converted in one day from its ordinary status to the showing all the approved soil con servation practices. Heading the arrangements are the Oregon State grange and the Santiam soil conservation district. Other farm organizations and soil conservationists will be called In to assist in handling the event, which is expected, to be the great est interest-drawing agricultural affair in the valley this season. Purpose of the day, sponsors re port, is to show as many people as possible in a short while what is needed to be done to save the chief equipment of Oregon's big gest industry from washing down the river or failing because of lack of proper care. To save Oregon's farm lands for the future, some thing must be done and done quickly, -soil conservationists have claimed for some little time. In the past two years two soil con servation districts have been form ed in the Willamette valley, one the Santiam Soil conservation dis trict and the last one to be formed, the Silver Creek conservation dis trict The former has offices at Stayton and the latter at Silverton. i To set the ball a-rolling for the conservation day, a special meet ing of conserva tionurts has been called for the Santiam Soil Con servation service station at Stayton on August 15, 8 pjn. This meeting is being arranged for by Robert Schmidt, Albany, chairman of the Oregon grange's agricultural com mittee. More detailed plans will be worked out and committees named at that time for the soil consenra- tion day. Ho.' 143 Aid Armras AM t House-Senate Compromise j Expected Soon WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-(-The senate passed tonight a huge $3, 797.724.000 money bill to run th European recovery program and pay U. S. occupation costs aboard during the coming year. ! j The vote was 63 to 7 on final passage. (Both Oregon senators favored its passage.) i j ? Final action came after trior than two weeks of wearying de bate. ! ! 1 The bill now goes to a conierenoa with the house, which had votd about 10 per cent more. Senate house conferees are expected te reach a quick compromise, i ;? Final passage came shortly after the senate had knocked down, by a vote of 50 to 21, an amendment to withhold recovery funds froia any nation which in the future na tionalizes -an industry, ii ; . It was aimed frankly ai Great Britain. 1 i r The major point of ; difference between the house and senata bilta lies in the money figure. The house voted $3,568;470,0O to the ECA for the current: year but agreed the money could b speni inio ana one-half month if necessary. The senate voted a full 12-month program with no authority ' te spend the money in a shorter period. The senate bUl figure for the European recovery program is $3,628,380,000. , i . Salem Stores Declare War On Shoplifters j: i - Salem merchants Monday de clared war on shoplifters. Representatives of many local retail establishments met with the executive board of ; the Retail Trade bureau and with local police and juvenile authorities. . ; A survey of merchants attending the session showed that about 78 per cent of shoplifting in Salem , stores is being carried on by ju veniles especially thpse bf high school age. High school girls with a longing for attractive wardrobes. . mer chants testified, have been lifting 1 . a ,-. volumes oi aresses, SKirts ana coats. !: h; Salem Juvenile Officer Allaa McRae said he rounded up five juvenile shoplifters on a brief tour of local stores Saturday. He in dicated he would continue hla merchant patrol, against : Salem's sticky fingered offenders. I i Attack Plan The merchants' "attack'' plaa aimed at reducing the heavy loss es to shoplifters shaped up under the following outline, as agreed by the merchants at tho discus- . sion: j ; Store policing by merchants te be increased. : ! s Special officers to be employed, individually or by groups! of mer chants, to check on shopliftings Information on convicted shop lifters and on suspects to be cir culated among, stores. i t Te Telephone Alarm: .; Merchant to telephone the alarm to fellow store proprietors as soon as evidence of shoplifting. is de tected in his store. Ii ; ( if Signs to be posted la " stores, . pointing out that the store is fol lowing the j Retail Trade bureau's protection plan. i Ii Prosecution of captured shop lifting was stressed by many of the merchants who indicated they would get "tougher!1 In j this re spect than formerly. Some mer chants, in fact, emphasized the) need of making an example of a caught shoplifter by fully prosecu ting the case which next cornea up. Not all merchants, however, appeared anxious to guarantee) prosecution of shoplifters they ap prehend. ( i i; Western nleraatlettaj At Vancouver 4. Wenatche S At Victoria S. Spokane a Only games scheduled, j ; . . Coast Learae ! At Sacramento 14. Lot Angeles S. Only game scheduled. j 1 :j j I. National Learae I At Brooklyn f. New York -t At 8C Louis S. Cincinnati, S unqr games kdnumo. If American Leagaa Mo gawiso scheduled- PRICE Sc j I r II- j : i