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' " ' - . . ;...-(.., J', ;. .-.'.v. I - ';:,.:! I'M ij!- V--'.-i . - ;";- '; v ' - " I" '" i ' i I " i H 1 M ' ' ' ' " ' 'I " " wmmi M i - "! . - i - : SSlh YEAH SAB i 2 Sections 30 Pages Th jOrecon Statesman. Salem, Oregon Thursdar August 11, 1949 ! PRICE 5c N. 143 -- : " i i H: H 'I' ' j ' M. 1U i" nrt i it f ! - mrinwi in H'lrMWiS .8 ! I'.W ' Air i ! i BLOOMINGTON, Ind Anr. 10 hrMf Khntnent near here today. Fifteen charred bodies then were Injured. (AT Wirephoto to the SUtesmanJ crop 9333000 memos Herbert C. Hoover was the re cipient of many tributes and con gratulatory messages yesterday on hisv75thi birthday. He was felicitated by a joint resolution of the 81st congress. Governors of states and men of affairs all over the world sent film greet ings. Newspaper editors over the land reviewed his career 8nd ten dered high praise to' tho man who has rendered conspicuous service to the people" of his own country and of Europe for a third of century. At-, hi old home in Palo Alto a large assemblage gathered to manifest by their presence the love and respect in which he is , held. Nothing I might write would dd more than a trifle to this universal expression of regard for Mr. 'Hoover. Instead I am going to relay In part the thought-provoking address he made to the fathering "at Stanford university, and to the. people of the Unit ed States. A year ago at West Branch Mr Hoover indulged in delightful reminiscence about his boyhood In the small Iowa town where he was born. Yesterday he spoke not of tha Dast. but with words freighted with meaning he offer ed sage counsel for the present and future. His tieme was "Think of the Next Generation", and the reenrrin nhrase used to drive home ls points, one-by-one, ( was "Think it over" All Americans ahould. " Here is the gist of his message, th next-to-last paragraph: "Mr word .to you, my fellow citizens, on .-this 75th birthday is thls:The Founding Fathers dedi cated the structure of our govern ment to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos terity.' We of this- generation in herited .-this precious blessing. Yet as spend- I (Continued on editorial page.) Firefighters Plan Use of Drill Tower MT. ANGEL, Aug. 10 (Special) Possible use of Salem's proposed new fire drill tower for 'training reserve firefighting units was dis cussed at tonight's monthly meet ing of the Marion County Fire fighter's association. 1 City Manager J. L. Frhzen, Fixe Chief W. P. RobJe of Slem were present at tonight's meeting. The If fire departments repre sented tonight reported 75 fires in Marion county during July. nimal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH A . .O o vr "Meunttinsf "Uishottf This is theUeared wrfckire f Negro Cab Rescue of BLOOMINGTON. Id Aug. fieath as a Greyhound. bis jtoppled bridge abutment near hire early today No one aboard the bus; escaped Vote Indie; tes i ed atriKe r av DETROIT, Aug. 11 (Thursday) -jp)-First returns from! the Ford strike election early tody showed a substantial trend amojng CIO United Auto Workers . fivoring a strike to reinforce union! demands. Hoel P. Fox. chairman! of the state labor mediation: board, said the first 28.000 votes cdUited: in dicated at least a majority !of Ford workers in Michigan plants Were willing to strike. Some fajlchei of votes, he said, showed seven or eight to one in favor of and other batches ran thfee or four to one in favor. . Timberman Legislator Fuller Die DAIXAS. Aug. 10 (Special) W. V. Fuller, 88, former!! Oregon known legislator and nationally! forestry authority, die here to- da. ! He was bom in W Union. in ! 1880 Iowa, Jan. 10, 1861. arid was1 married to Eliza tewart in Albert Lea, Minn. Afl working in the timber industry it Minne- sota for 15 years. Full came to worked Oregon In 1901 when 6 on a timber claim in lh lie jSiletz basin. As a specialist on;Plg county timber,; Fuller cruised Itfte entire county in 1907 with Stte ; For ester F. A. Elliott. Hi jaided in organizing the Polk iarjjdjr Lincoln county fire protection diktricts and director for both : organisations. He was joint represeltativie for Polk and Lincoln counties in the legislature for the 19l and 1925 sessions, and represented (Polk county in 1919. He alsclihad serv ed as president of the pallas city council, was a memntr of the Polk county fair boardj and I dur- 4ng World War I wa rhairman of the Polk county defense coun- ciL . : . 1 i In addition to his mlny activi ties. Fuller operated li Dallas pharmacy from 1909 to il 925. i Surviving are his wjldow, j Mrs. Eliza Fuller: a , daughter, i Mrs. Oscar Hayter, and thfee grand children. aU of Dallasl J Funeral services will j be 1 held Friday at 2 p.m. from the Henkle and Bollman chapel wish! the; Rev. W. Benbow officiating, j Masonic lodge will be in charde I of serv ices. Burial at Dallas IQQF ceme- . : i in i WRECKAGE SIGHTED " WHITEHORSE, Yukflin. yAug. 10, (CP)- Searchers j tonight sighted lithe wreckage of a fair force P-51 "fighter which I frfsheji in mountainous country I is miles northwest of here earlier today. :- - - "! A Saleaa X ; Portland San troadaco Chicago New York - Witlamtt rtvvr J l FORECAST I from the Ui S. leather bureau, McNarjr field. Salrmi: Mostly cloudy lodJT and tonight j few late vhowers today. No ehanaeiiin tempera ture with high today neij "if and low tonight near 60. Conditions!: mostly fav orable lor farming activltta today. SALEM PStECTPITATIO Max. I'M!, rrtip. is i j 1 as ; jm , sh e in M 99 ; I 61 M fl 3 Normal - . ! tSept. 1 to Aug. life Greyhound bos wMch crashed Into were removed from the charred bus and 12 river Credited with everal Survivors 10WV Fifteen persons met fiery sidewise and burned after hitting a unscatnea; twelve oiner passengers and the driver were injured. j The bus was rolling along a straigth stretch of state highway 37 in the hill country just north of Bloomington when the accident happened. i ; Wayne Cranmer, 25, of Indian apolis, the bus driver, gave this version of the accident before Dr. Robert E. Lyons, Monroe county coroner, clamped down on further statements, pending an inquest: "It see.med like the steering gear went out. Either that, or we had a tire blowout" A few passengers, probably two or three, the bus driver said, es caped through the front door. Others ' climbed-through a rear window booted out by Edgar Davis, 43, driver for an Indian apolis taucab company. Some of the survivors credited Davis with heroic work in rescuing them. It was hours before the bodies could be removed. They were brought to Bloomington to await identification. All : had been char red beyond recognition. . The coroner said the victims apparently were eight women, four men and two children. The fif teenth was adult, but the body was burned so badly the sex could not be determined, he said. High-Volt Wire Badly Burns Polk Worker DALLAS, Aug. 10 (Special) A Polk county bridge crew worker was knocked unconscious and in curred severe burns on a leg and an arm today when he touched high-voltage wire while working on a crane near Godsey mill, east of Dallas. - The worker, Herschel Hanson, 30, of Dallas, suffered the shock when the boom of the" crane he Was following struck an 11,000 volt high line of the Mountain States power company an the current es caped through a cable Hanson was holding. Two Dallas doctors who were summoned both Indicated Hanson would recover. I ' Power company workers cut the circuit's main switch at the Dallas plant until the damage was re paired, x Grand Opening of Sears Store r t rrzzr. Maroitode of the CaplUI Sbopplng J aaasaaai X -" rN.'-'tT e-M" photo. The bttg-e wbitc Sears bnikllng at upper left faces North Capitol street. IU 389-ca.r. .paxkins tot earlier completed building ia the UnemDl oyment Problem Not in Salem ! Salem area employment is hold ing up better than other Oregon jaras and no signs of immediate unemployment danger are seen throughout the state, officials re ported Wednesday, i Unemployment compensation tedders say surveys show no Ore gob areas near the 12 per cent unemployment rate considered dangerous by the federal gov ernment. j They cautioned, however, ' that jobljess lists for some Oregon areas miy reach or top that mark aftetk cUnrent seasonal work is com pleted. A continuing check by the state agency is being made. Well Below Average Ujnemployment on August 1 In Marion and Polk counties stood atj approximately 4.5 per cent of thjle labor force, well below the state and national averages of 6.3 and 6.4 per cent, according to rcborts. : In the Portland-Vancouver la bor market, the current unem ployment rate is 8.66 per cent, which the SUCC called "well un der i the danger figure." Presi dential Aide John R. Steelman on Tuesday urged federal agencies to concentrate spending in distress areas whose unemployment rate eiceeded 12 per cent in order to help absorb the jobless. Portland is the only portion of Oregon to be included in a report to Wash ington, DC. For Oregon as a whole, the es timate of unemployed declined during July by 1,500, but the 40,900 now unemployed is nearly 75, per cent above the 23,400 job less; estimate of a year ago. The state's labor force is computed at approximately 650,000 persons. lAs winter, officials said, the un employed rate hit about 14 per cent in Oregon. Ttl Only S00 Seasonal industries, while not up ito normal, caused a decline from 3,700 to 2,150 during July in j Salem area unemploymen t. Salem's total unemployed Aug. I. 1948, was only 600 persons. A yeaij" later this was exceeded by the j number of jobless veterans alone, 625. During the fourth week of July more than one-half of the 846 wh0 received unemployment bene fits; were in three industries for which this is considered a good work season. These were food processing with 128 persons: log ging and lumbering with 110 and construction with 54. Areas which had increases in jobless in July were topped bv Th- Dalles, LaGrande and Bend, biiti the fir timber area also re ported more idle workers than for manv Summers including Leban on, Eugene, Coos Bay and Rose burg. Vet Level Steady j For Oregon the number of urp emloved veterans stayed at 9,800 about 2.700 more than at the same tihiie in 1948. Women comprised slightly more than one-fourth of thi total jobless estimate, com pared with 30 per cent last year. iWbile the Oregon employment service placed 22.726 workers on farm jobs and 4,908 in other lines during July, unfilled non-farm jbr openings dropped from 1.072 t$ 987, compared with 2.315 a yfejjr before. New industrial and trade opportunities received dur ing July were 6.431, compared with 10,633 in the same period f !1948' FARMEROO STARTS I NEWBERG, Aug. 10 -JP)- The Sewberg Farmeroo will open to torrow, amid streets lined by gingham and denium clad resi dents. Center where the new Seirs. Saeboek store pens today. Is Indicated eenter la Berg's market facing. Center street and shewing abers at right. (Pbete by Don DtU, SUtesman Nation On Hoover By Schyler Allman PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 10- (AP)-Herbert Hoover declared to day , that "through government spending and taxes jour nation is blissfully driving ddwn the back road" to collectivism and is ';on the last mile." j The only living former presi dent said on his 75th birthday that while "we have not had a great socialization of property" the re sult was being achieved by gov ernment spending f'the peoples' savings. ti . c i . . : versity at ceremonies honoring him on his birthday. In his ad dress he lashed otit at new fed eral and state jproposals for spending taxes. i Along this road of spending. Hbover said, "the government ei thjer takes over, Which is social- ishn, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is facism. The American mind is troubled by the growth of collectivism throughout the world "We have a few hundred thous- aijid1 communists and their fellow j government, local, state, and fed trjavelers in this Country. They I era I. cannot destroy the. k-epublic. They I (Storjr also on page 2) Extension of DST Studied By Counjeilmen Efforts to extend daylight sav ing time in Salem bfeyond Septem ber 11 were in the ffing Wednes day. , ; - Salem's ordinance setting day light saving time fo- this year had placed the effectives dates as from May 16 through 1:5) a.m. Septem ber 11. i Alderman Albert H. Gille, who sponsored the bill, isaid yesterday he was considering a move in council for an extension to Sep tember 25, to avoi(j confusion by going along with the Portland ex tension of daylight time. Portland's city council Wednes day acted unanimously to extend the fast time beyoni September 11 to September 25, according to As sociated Press. Radio stations had pointed out that a return to standard time September 11 would be confusing as to broadcasting j schedules, be cause most eastern! states observe the faster time unti September 25. Salem's time law actually sets the fast time only for official city business, but it has the effect of se tting the pace fdr other clocks ir the city. This surpmer, however, Ute county court remained on slandard time. When daylight time was consid ei ed last spring by tjhe Salem coun cil, only Aldermen David O'Hara and Thomas Armstrong opposed it. i' ayor R. L Elfstrom and the oth er five aldermen voted for the f uster time. 1 (Jlabby's Tips to Go To Hospital Fund Riding with Bob' Haskell driver for Shorty's Cab? Anything you g ve him over the regular fare to ri y and tomorrow will go for a w orthy cause. Mrs. Ralph Moody, co-chairman o ! the women's division in the Sa lem hospital development cam paign, was a fare it Haskell yes terday. In the course of the ride she gave him a sales talk on the njeeds of better hospital facilities ii Salem l-T want tn" .aid Haskell. "I'll rive you all the tips I receive throueh Friday." Last Mile to Claims in 75th Birthday Talk are a nuisance and require atten tion. We also have the doctrinaire socialists who peacefully dream of their Utopia. "But there is a considerable group of fuzzy minded people who are engineering a c ompromise with all these European infections. They fail to realize that our Am erican system has grown away from the systems of Europe for 250 years. They have the foolish notion that a collectivist economy can at the same time preserve per sonal liberty and consututional government." I But, Hoover said, the f'austerity" in England should be sufficient spectacle" of what happens when nations try it. I Hoover said' the thinking of the American people was (rugged by such slogans as "welfare state." He called this term "a (iisguise for the totalitarian state bj the route of spending." f - Hoover presented soihe figures. The average working I citizen he said now must work 61 days a year to pay taxes supporting the Tempers Short, Weather Hat in New Yor City K NEW YORK, Aug. 10-(P)-The mercury zoomed to 98.7 today, shattering records and tempers for the second day. It was: The hottest day of Ithe year, beating the 97.8 mark of July 29. The hottest Aug. 10 in the history of the local weather bureau? de molishing the 93.9 record that had stood since 1900. Yesterday's 97.6 also was a re cord for the date. The all-time high in flew York was 102.3 on July 9, 19?6. The New York Post covered most of page one with the head- linne: "Too X!?!& Hot!" Said the weather bureau: Hot and humid tomorrow, Portland Keeps Punchboards PORTLAND, Aug. 10i-P)- The city council refused, by a tie. 2 to 2 vote, today to back up Mayor Dor othy McCullough Lee's attempt to get the punchboards out of Port land. Her proposed ordinance, which would ban question-and-answer punchboards, failed to I carry be cause of the tie vote. She respond ed by telling the council and a large audience that: There are other wa to stop such practices and a stop will be put to them. She was referring td the gam bling 'punchboards which are so prevalent her that Mayor Lee herself tried one out at a drugstore where sht stopped with her small daughter. HOUSING BIDS SET PORTLAND, Aug. lO-W-Bids will be invited by the Army En gineers Aug. 16 on cpnstructing 15 permanent residences, garages, and streets in the Detroit dam permanent housing area. APPROVE WAGE BILL WASHINGTON, AugJ10-(P)-An increase in the national minimum basic wage from 40 cents to 75 was approved by the hbuse today, 225 to 181. j Set at 10 a, m. Today abera fat 'a recent Statesina aerial extenas aeK to xzta tuw. Collectivism9 X HERBERT HOOVER Government Critic Truman Signs Unification! Bill Into Law WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 -(P) President Truman signed into law today a measure designed to tie the nation's fighting forces into trim, taut unity. The measure gives-the secretary of defense more direct power to steer -all military activities, pro vides for a permanent chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and of possibly vast importance to American taxpayers -r- creates a centralized, business-type budget and accounting system which has been held capable of saving hun dreds of millions of dollars a year. As soon as the measure "became law. Secretary Johnson appointed a national defense management committee and a management ad visory group. To head the management com mittee, Johnson selected ; General Joseph T. McNarney, former chief of the air force materiel command at Wright-Patterson, air force basej Dayton, Ohio. Other mem bers are -Army Secretary -Gordon Gray, Navy Undersecretary Dan iel A. Kimball, and Eugene jJM. Zuckert, assistant secretary of the air force. The undersecretary of defense (now. Stephen Early) gets a new title, deputy secretary, outrank ing the army, navy and air force secretaries. His; pay will be $14,500 a year. Peach Crop Tops Ten-Year Average PORTLAND, Aug. 10-UP)-Ore-gon and Washington peach crops may produce 5.807,000 bushels of the fruit this year, a boost of about one million boxes over the pre vious year. The federal crop reporting ser vice said the crop would be 27 per cent above the ten year j average. The pear crop was estimated at 12,838.000 boxes, above1 average and 2,500,000 boxes over last year's harvest. Meanwhile, trade sources said canners have posted $30 a ton price for Bartlett pears, about one fourth of last year's record prices to growers. (Other Farm news on page 12.) Sears, Roebuck & Co. will open its new Salem store on North Capitol street al 10 a.m. today. A. ribbon across the main en trance will be cut bjr Mrs. Harold Heiserman who has been chosen Details of the Sears opening are In a special section of The States- today. "Average Sears Shopper." Salem Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom and West Salem Mayor Walter Mus grave will take part.' The new store, managed by James F. Mosolf, has 80,000 square feet of floor space and dominates the I Capitol Shopping center, a $2,000,000 development of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. Gardenias will be given at the opening. ' - Several Sears officials will be on hand. Including S. A. Epstein, Los Angeles, assistant I to Vice President A. f. Cushman; District Manager S. W. Donogh and other northwest officials from Seattle Claude . Walter, merchandising manager; Harold Grisdale, SeatU operating manager; R. J. Bcgey, construction and real estate super Jntendent Orville Lee, in charge of new store establishment and Hotelmen Pay For Purchase Aids Claimi By Sterlinr F. Greei WASHINGTON, Aug. lOf -Arsenate investigators were tfld to day that James V. Hunt wis paid $86,000 for helping a hotel firm, repurchase the Lido ! Beacl hotel for half what it had cost the sov- ernment. f J Hunt received a $5,000 check from the hotel firm while he still was employed by the wad asuets administration as a $50-a-day con sultant, testified Francis Xt Flan agan, staff investigator. Quotes from Recvrdl Hunt kept the check three months, then returned. iti iuit his government job, got a nev $5,000 check and was paid the rest in fees for services to the Seldeji hotel ; company, Flanagan went dn. i With Hunt's help, thd Long Island' hostelry which cdst the navy $1,300,000 when it wa taken over for war use went back to th Seiden company as surplus for $635,000, the witness, said. le was quoting, he added from ecords of Hunt and the WAA. . The special subcommittee look ing into persons who allegec ly sold businessmen their "Influer ce in the government heard also that: L Albert Lewitt, former secre tary to ex-Senator t Ha wkes (R NJ), figured in testimony about the hotel deal. He wis paid $5,000 by Hunt as a "consultant ajnd ad viser," Lewitt said but seldom gave advice. He denied,) tl at the money in reality Was a ree ! for steering Hunt onto the ir fitabi Lido Beach transaction. 1 2. Lewitt, a registered lobby iti in 1947, sent letters to his paying clients describing fictitiou: inter views he was supposed ta hav had with top-ranking leaders of congress. " Angrily, Committee Counsel William Rogers barked at Him that the committee is concerned over "persons falsely selling influence" who mislead clients and reflect on persons in public life, - I ' The "five percent" spotlight re turned briefly to the Whiti Hou.e. Housing Expediter Woods related yesterday how General yaughan called him to the White House in behalf of "some of my friends," the operators of the Tanforaa track near San Francisco, j Woods Recalled to Stand Woods was recalled to tn wit ness chair today. He said Vaughan came to his office Jan. 12i bring ing with him Eugene Mori Cam den, N. J. presidentp of the Tan foran company. - jj j 'a The racetrack was; then stymied by the expediter's refusal to grant a permit, under tha regulation which forbade the usa off scar housing materials in amusement places. if? Vaughan asked him to rpleas hurry" a clearance, jij Woods testi fied, because there was f "some thing" before the California racing commission which would cause Tanforan to lose its francnisa un less it could do the rebuilding Job. Woods granted the go-anead th next day. i 3 Strong Wiiiils Fan Ualio Forest Hire; New Blazes Su rt McCALL, Idaho, Aug, 110 : -( A 35-mile an hour wind! fanned the Salmon river forest jfir to night as early evening : lightning storms ignited 32 other small blazes in the Payette anil Boise national forests. . Walt Hankins, fire dispatcher for the Payette natlona forest. said the high wind whipping the 5,000 acre Salmon rive I fire Is coming from the south, j sending the flames into burned-over tim ber. He said there's a txissihilitr that if the high w inds continue from the south during the night the blaze may Jump the Salmon river and get into tall timber stands north of the stream. 1 FINANCE SYSTEM! VETOED SHERIDAN, Aug. 10 -CJP)- The State Sanitary Authority hhs turn ed thumbs, down On Sheridan's way of financing a sewage) system, The authority said it would take too long to get enough ftrnds by a 10 mill assessment -and a 50-cents-monthlT charge on Water bills.' 1 ; Ii WKSTKKIV IMTrm.HAnOKAl. At Bremerton S, Salem 4 At Victor! . SdoIum 4 At Vancouver 4. Wenatcheei At Tacoma S, Yakima 3 COAST LEA GUg At Hollywood X. Portland i At Saa Francisco 2. Saa Die efo 1 rJea At Sacramento 10. Loa Aag At Seattle 4. Oakland 11 i I AMCKJCAN LXAGtJK' M Boston a. wew im a: At Cleveland 4. St. Louia S I At Detroit a. Chicaro (10 inn.) At WashlDfton a, rnlladeipraa 7 At ft. Loula a. Clneinnati At Philadelphia S Brook jra At New York 1. Boston 41 " ! " I 1 At cucago z, FitUDurg a 3f V s 4 '1 This Year . wtt year 423 4740 s i staff phetegrapher.) displays.