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' ; , ;. . . ' if, if 'rVV ' j. .--.-----v,., .. v 4 Bradley Raised to - Next week over at Hillsboro Secretary of State Earl Newbry "will dedicate for use the first of the subsidiary offices which he plans for some 20 county seat towns over the state. These local offices were be Junior capitols in- - gofar as the secretary of state is concerned. They will be local cen ters specifically for the issuance of motor, vehicle licenses, of drivers' licenses, for processing refunds of gas taxes, and for work of the Instructors in motor vehicle driv ing. Secretary Newbry believes that this will save a great deal of time for the public. People at Hills boro are said to be very well pleas ed with the prospect of a new office. V - The Hillsboro office will occupy new building erected especially for the, state department's use by Bruce Ellis of Pendleton, brother of Senator Rex Ellis. He is also putting up a similar building at Grants Pass. The rental charge is $ 150v a month for space 28xf6, with remainder of the lot surfaced "for free parking. McMinrivUle. Pendleton and Eu gene are other cities in line for these local offices It may oe pos sible at Eugene to go In with some other state departments to provide . common center. i The spread of these offices about the State follows the decision to decentralize distribution of motor vehirle licenses. -Previously this has been handled out of Salem with a subsidiary, office in Fort land and one in Eugene. In some Ather cities courthouse facilities were used. Whether the program will be more economical or noi . must await the test of experience. 1 It will no doubt be popular in the inralitiM. Folk wanting motor li cense renewals can wait till the i last day or two preceding expira tion and not have to allow time x- for remittance to Salem " (Continued on editorial page) 'Gone With the Wind' Writer Critically Hurt ATLANTA, Aug. 11-W-A speeding taxicab struck and se verely injured Margaret Mitchell tonight in front of a theater. The author of the ceebrated no vel of Civil war dy, 'Gone With the Wind," was rushed to the city hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, leg injuries and pos . gibly other Injuries. She was placed under an oxy gen tent and immediate prepara tions were made for an. operation. Physicians described her condition as critical. Police .announced the taxicab driver was arrested and charged ith drunken drivine. soeeding and driving on the wrong side of. the street. Th author's husband. John . R. Marsh, said his wife saw the speeding vehicle bearing down upon her and tried to dodge it. Suddenly," he related, "Mrs. Marsh broke to run back to the curb. There was a loud crash as the ear hit her. It dragged her 15 feet before it stopped." State Bureaus Denied Right to Sue Each Other Contention that the state high way commission does not have legal capacity to sue another state division was upheld in Marion county circuit court Thursday in suit Involving a Keeasport ran road spur . request The suit was dismissed by Judge George R. Duncan following his sustaining a demurrer by the de fendant. Public Utilities Commis sioner George H. Flagg. The highway commission had sued for an order to enjoin the PUC from allowing Gardiner Lumber company to construct a rail spur at grade across the Ore gon Coast highway near Reeds -port The PUC order permitting the spur had already been issued March 29 after hearings. Judge Duncan said that both parties were part of the state or ganization,' therefore could not be ued without permission.. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Whit would you Ait lor dinner, son Jbeef", path or thickwf No.l WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-W-General i Omar N. Bradley was selected! by President Truman to day for the nation' No. 1 mili tary post permanent chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff. In that position he will be the highest ranking American mili tary officer. 1 H Selection of "the G.t's Gener al," now serving as army chief of staff, had been I widely anti cipated.' It caps a career which included service in two world wars, command of the largest body of troops ever to; serve un der an American field command er, ahd three years 'tenure as head jof the veterans administra tion. H The joint chiefs f of staff are the operating heads of, the army, navy "and air force, i j Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has been serving as temporary chair man pending enactment of the new law. Mr. Truman made pub lic a letter thanking Eisenhower for his services, and saying be would rely upon him: as a con sultant in the future.) i 5 Injured in WrecEtjMeair Stayton STAYTON, Aug. ll-(Special)-Five persons were injured, one critically in a head-on; auto collision tonight on state highway 222, about Vk miles north of Stayton. - i Listed as critically! injured late Thursday night at Salem Mem orial hospital was Rodney Watts, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs.' Kenneth Watts of Stayton, who was a passenger in one car. Also injured were Lawrence C Lierman. about 40, ; Silverton, driver of one auto; Dewayne Duch ateau, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam D. Duchateau of Sublimity; and Vert D. Boedigheimer, about 18, son of Carl B. ? Boedigheimer of Stayton. All are patients at Sa lem Memorial hospital where their condition was listed as "good" Thursday night ? Dennis G. Duchateau, 21, brother of Dewayne and driver of one car, incurred a cut nose and dis located shoulder but was not hos pitalized, i State police said the accident oc curred on a hill between Stayton and Sublimity. Duchateau and his passengers were travelling north while Lierman, driving alone, was heading south. 1 1 After the collision police said Duchateau's auto was completely turned around and Herman's car was off one side of the road. President of By Frank O'Brien STRASBOURG, France, Aug. It -i!p)-Winston Churchill, in a vi gorous return 10 conuneniai pon tics, won two victories today in the consultative assembly of the council of Europe. ; His candidate for assembly pres ident, socialist ex-premier Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium, was elected unanimously. Spaak, who looks enough like Churchill to be his brother, was first president of the United Nations assembly in London and New York three years ago. I i . Churchill's second successful maneuver was madein opposition to the candidacy of William White ley, the labor government's par liamentary secretary of the Bri tish treasury, for one of the as sembly's four vice presidencies. Whiteley ran fifth in a field of six, being barely defeated by a Bri tish lord. The assembly is the 12-nation formative group that hopes to be come the parliament of Europe in a dreamed-of federation of contin ental states. ! Crowds at Willamette valley shoppers by J the thousands jammed Salem's: ultra-modern Sears, Roebuck & Co. store Thursday wher. the lar gest building in the Capitol shop ping -enter swu ig open its doors for the! first time, j I The $600,000 department store, one of j the most modern in the' nation,! was dedicated by Mrs. Howard H. Heiserman, Salem, chosen ithe "Average Sears Shop per" for the ceremony. Hundreds of eager shoppers crowded about the main entrance, to watch Mrs. Heiserman cut the ribbon inside the solid glass doors. Extending congratulations to Store Manager James F. Mosolf in brief addresses were Salem Mayor R. L. Elfstrom and West Salem Mayor ! Walter Musgrave. The ceremonies were broadcast from S-lem's two radio stations and recorded on' tape for later release. From . the opening j at 10 a jn. until the evening closing the store was teaming with shoppers and others iwho were! "Just looking." Many of the Women shoppers were handed white gardenia cor sages as a gift frf.ro the manage ment. The 500-car parking lot in the rear was completely filled by II a.m. and remained Jammed until the closing hour, DEEK CAUSES F1E EUGENE, Aug. Ill -W)- A small forest firef was started by a freak accident at Marcola. The forest patrol reported high winds blew down a strand of electric wire A deer'" rah Into the wire and was killed and the blaxe get tt It ! was controlled with little Spaak Named Europe Council Military Post ii OMAR X. BRADLEY Chairman ef Chiefs of Staff Head -On Firm Paid for Freezer Sent To Vaughan WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -MV A fleeting mention of the shipment of a deep freezer to Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan created today what Senator Mundt (R-SD) call ed an "aroma of mystery"! in the senate investigation of "five per centers." But President Truman. told his news conference the frequent mention of his army aide in the senate probe had not changed his opinion of Vaughan. He made plain that Vaughan was not going to ) be suspended, ; as two other generals have been. A Milwaukee businessman told the senators he sent the freezer to Vaughan. It was paid for, said Witness Albert J. Gross, by the Albert Very Co., Chicago perfume manufacturers. Several other Washingtonians got home freezers paid for by the perfume company,; Gross add ed; and he-was stopped at about that point, while senators and staff members buzzed among themselves. ' Chairman Hoey D-NC) ruled that the special investigating sub committee didn; know yet wheth er the freezers ijvere purchases or gifts. He stopped the line of tes timony, Bending further evidence. But Mundt, speaking swiftly, already had slipped into the rec ord a remark that it was the "assumption" Vaughan had paid for his freezer. not New Method Of'Diszirise' FORT WORTH; Tex., Aug. 11 -(ifVPolice here received a letter today from the Twin Falls, Idaho, police inquiring about a woman suspected of passing bogus checks. It gave her age, weight and height, then abruptly stated: . ffhe wore a low-cut dress with short skirt, making it very hard to gain a description of her facial features." Opening of Hundreds of eater shoppers were i ? . ----- v - v - . ' ; - : ' ' r . -i "S . - j i the new Salem Sears, Roebuck A Co. store ta the Capitol shopping renter peoed.lta doors. Sirs. Ileward IL Ilelsermaa. en the left 1 the white skit and hat. Is shewn ratting the ribbea daring the opening ceremonies. Watching en the left la West Salem Mayor Walter Mosgrare. Holding the giant to the new business, center. Is Store Manacer James F. Mecoif, whfto Salem Uayer K.L, Elfs trom leeks en from the right (Statesman photo). 83th YEAB 20 PAGES j Aemmpft Tie Vote Keeps Guns Fund at Truman Level By John B. Owen WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -GP) The administration today defeat ed, by a hairline margin, an at tempt to slafh in half its arms aid program fpr western Europe. The vote in the house foreign affairs committee was ; reported unofficially to have been a tie which automatically rejects an amendment. The number of the 36 members present was not an nounced. Chairman Kee (D-WVa) told reporters after the closed session that no other major amendments were disposed of. Kee said he hopes that the full amount reouested by President Truman $1,450,000,000 for wes tern Europe and other nations would be approved probably Mon day. Rep. Richards (D-SC) offered the amendment to authorize $580,495,000 for arms aid to Euro pean members of the North At lantic alliance. The bill carries $1,160,990,000 for that purpose. The Richards amendment bore some similarity to the idea ad vanced Tuesday by Senator Van denberg (R-Mich)., Vandenberg would cut down tjie amount of cash to be appropriated for west ern Europe in this session of con gress by the amount proposed by Richards. But the Michigan senator pro posed that contracts be authoriz ed for the remainder. That would mSdss- the cost come later. Rail Freight Rate Advance WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-(JP)-The railroad industry today got the go-ahead signal for another $293,000,000 a year increase in freight rates. The authority was issued by the Interstate Commerce commission which said the increase was in tended tb aid the railroads in set ting up a 40-hour week for non operating employes. The shorter work week for these employes be comes effective September 1, un der an award by a presidential arb itration board. The commission acted on the basis of a rail petition of last Oct ober 1 for authority to advance rates by 13 per cent, in view of mounting operating costs in which wage adjustments figure as a pri ncipal item. On the rail plea that an emergency existed, they receiv ed authority for interim increases of about five per 'cent in Decem ber, to be collected while the over all was being considered. Today's order made the in term increases permanent and added another average four per cent. The industry thus fell short by about four per cent of what it haoVasked for. Sears Store en hand Thursday morning when Granted by ICC Th Onyan Favor S to tHIaive 3 Junior Size Painters Donate To Hospital Drive Salem's hospital funds cam paign was the richer Thursday by $6 and a lot of spontaneous encouragement. , It all happened when three young brothers stepped polite ly into the downtown office for Salem Hospital Development program. Each held a pair of dollar bills and offered them to surprised office workers. "We helped Poppa paint," said the boys when asked about their contributions. They were Don, 11, Max, 8, and John, 6, sons of Mr. and, Mrs. Donald Lucero, 2425 Cefcterc st. 'No Fighter Can Touch a B-36,' Kenney States WASHINGTON, Aug. ll-ay Gen. George C. Kenney, who once wanted to scrap the B-36 program and turn the 10,000-mile border into a flying filling station, boasted today: "Nobody has a fighter plane that could touch it." "As a night bomber operating oyer 40,000 feet, it is perfectly safe to take it anywhere," the 60-year-old Pacific war veteran told the house armed services commit tee. The B-36, he added, can "do anything" as a combat craft. Kenney's flat endorsement of the plane he said three years ago he had "no faith" in, came as the committee went into the third day of its investigation of the super bomber's history to see whether any political or business influence was involved in ' the production contract with- Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Co. Lt. Gen. Curtis Le May, who succeeded Kenney. last year as chief of the strategic air command, testified that the B-36 "will fly any combat mission that I can fore see." , Woman Hurt in 2-Car Wreck One woman was injured and two cars were badly smashed in an auto accident at Summer and Mar ket streets Thursday noon. Injured was Mrs. Vera Grayson, Salem, route 3, driver of one car, who incurred cuts, bruises and shock. She is resting at Salem General hospital where her condi tion was reported as fairly good Thursday night. E. Gibbs, Thurbur, Yuma, Ariz, driver of the other car, was not In jured. Both cars were smashed and ended up on the parking strip at one corner of the Intersection. Lindbergh on Tour of Europe HOP, Germany, Aug. 11-UP)-Charles A. Lindbergh visited a refugee camp near Hof today, the camp manager reported. Lindbergh arrived without ad vance notice and talked with sev eral members ofthe camp, the manager said. Then he drove away. Elsewhere it was learned that Lindbergh is making a private survey of European reconstruction. Cattle Rustlers In Salem Area Cattle rustlers are 'operating in the west again. Theft of a Jersey cow sometime late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning was reported to city police Thursday by R. J. Schmidt, 2086 Mission st. Schmidt, said the cow was miss ing Thursday morning from his pasture, and that the fence to the pasture had been knocked down. If Max. u - 12. Mia. rrecey. st S2. 1 trace 93 trace 73 . Salew Portland San Francisco , Chicago as New York to a Willamette rtver -3.4 feet. FORECAST (irom US. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight with widely ottered showers today. Little chance tn temperature with bifh today near 7S and low tonight near 90, Conditions ffeneraUy favorable lor most turning Ktmun toaay. . saxem rarcimATTOjr (Scot, t to Au. Ill This Tear Last Year Ko Kormal 7.t4 MUNono 1651 Statesanan. Salmxn. Oragoi. Friday. August 12. 1949 ! i mm : I: t ! Jeanne Bray to Rule Santiam Road Opening DETROIT, Aug. ll-(Special)-Pretty. blonde i Jeanne Rrav will be crowned queen of the North Santiam highway dedication event in special ceremonies at Detroit Friday night. Ed Vickers. nresident of Pan vim Commercial clubaidMarionCoun- ty Judge Grant Murphy will place the crown on 9ueeri Jeanne's head. The Droeram will tak nlar in the recently comoleted Detroit school auditorium, and will be fol lowed by the Coronation ball. Fri day's nroeram will eci imrlm with a banquet at Idahna, four miies east oi Detroit. The coronation will be prelim inary to the North Santiam nigh way dedication ceremonies Sun day, August 14, at the new bridge over the Breitenbush river near Detroit The new road will be formally opened by Gov. Douglas McKay at 11:45 a.m. Caravans from east ern and western Oregon will bing a nosi oi aignitaries to tne event. Riding in the eastern Oregonicar avan which" will assemble at Sis ters, will be Miss Oregon of 1949, Beverly Faith Krueger, former Sa lem girl now living at The DaHes. Miss Oregon of 1948. the Salipm Cherry land .court and courts of other valley festivals will leave irom alem. Invitations have jbf en sent to former governors Charles A. Sprague, A. W. Norblad- ind Oswald West. After dedication ceremnnip picnic will be held at White waiter pars near Detroit. 26 Escape as Plane Burns PORTLAND. Me Aur. 11 -API A Northeast Airlines plane from Boston .crashed and burned on the municipal airport tonight. Every one aboard 20 passengers and six employes escaped safely. The passengers included a month-old baby. Byron Israelson, a Portland Press Herald reporter whoj was at the airport, said the plane hit the north-south runway "with a jolt- "As it settled down there was a scraping noise, as if the landing gear collapsed. A shower of sparks rose from the plane and then it burst into flames." Passengers and crew got out a rear emergency door, jumping about two feet to the ground. The regular exit was jammed shut. Parade Day at Playgrounds Hundreds of Salem's younger generation will display their tal ents today during the Salem play grounds department's annual par ade day at all city playgrounds except Leslie field. The parade competition will get underway at 2 pan Three prizes each will be given at all parks for the best float, bicycle, tricycle, unusual Vehicle, doll buggy and scooter. I The annual junior swimming meets win get underway at 2:30 pjn at Leslie and dinger pools. All : age groups will compete in these events. The Salem summer park pro gram will close Friday, August 19, when "Hobby Horse day" will be held at all city parks. Board of Control Asks Speed-Up In Construction at State Prison A speeding-up of construction operations at the state penttten tiary was urged by the state board of control at an executive meeting Thursday. ' The board offered outside archi tectural and engineering assist ance to Warden George Alexander for construction of a proposed new cell block authorized by the 1949 legislature. Alexander refused the C offer, faying" the regular prison staff will be able to handle the project. A similar cell block la now nearly completion. ? : ; Alexander laid complete iped Cciations for the cell block, to cost an estimated $1,000,000, could be presented to the board next week. Gov. Douglas McKay announced he i has, with the aid of prison officials, drawn up a list of sugges tions to aid the legislative interim committee on state institutions. These include expansion cf re tfte-lby 7-1. ; CSairely IT Confesses PORT! .AND Anx. 11 Morns ut land, confessed slayer l a 15 y ear-old Portland girl who led police to the girl's body today. AP Wirephoto to the States man). Slayer Leads Police to Body Of Missing Girl PORTLAND. Aug. lMP)-Mor-ris Leland, 22, was Jailed here today on a charge of first degree murder In the slaying of a 15- year-old girl farm worker last Saturday. , Police said Leland led them to the spot near a Portland bridge where the beaten and stabbed body of Thelma . Taylor, Portland, was hidden under a log pile. Police had been looking for the girl who had been reported as missing by her parents' Detectives Noel Eck and Sgt Dan Mitota said the man volun teered information about the mur der after he was arrested on sus picion of drivipg a stolen car. Captain William Browne, chief of detectives, said Leland, who had been released from the county Jail only two weeks ago after serving four months on a bad check charge, hold him "It!s been on my mind ever since it hap pened. Later police fished a rusty steel bar, about 18 inches long, and a hunting knife from shallow water of the Willamette river. Detectives quoted Leland as say ing he picked the Taylor girl up Friday morning as she started to Hillsboro on a bean-picking, ex cursion. He threatened her with a knife to get her into brush of north Portland, but there she fought off all his advances, police said Leland told them. Saturday morning he awakened and saw her leaving, and, when he shouted for her to come back, she re turned. Later, the detectives quoted Le land as saying, a switch engine came by and the girl started to scream, so he hit her several times with tne iron bar then stabbed her, "I got scared because she was a good girl and would make trouble with the police," Sgt Mit ols said Leland told him. WITHDRAWAL REPORTED CANTON, China, Aug. ll-VP)-A south west ward withdrawal of the nationalists' south China de fense headquarters was reported today by Ta Kung Pao, Canton's leading paper. creational facilities at the prison; possible authorization of a gover nor's committee, representing all denominations, to determine the best religious program for prison ers: expansion of the prison school;! and investigation of methods to assist the parole board in-finding suitable employment for parolees. In other business Thursday, the board deferred . selection of an architect for the proposed new $2, 500,000 state office building in Portland until August 23. The board said 33 architects filed applications but only 12 are under consideration for the project which has stirred considerable controv ersy over whether the building should be located in west or east Portland. The board also approved a re quest of the state board of medical examiners to omit state identifica tion from one of its automobiles used for investigations. ; I I 1 j -.. .... 1:1 PRICE So No, 145 Reuther Says No Immediate Strike Slated I DETROIT, Aug. 11 A whopping strike vote victory to iyv CIO United Auto Workers a free hand In calling a Ford walkout. , UAW President Walter Reuther Said. hAU'nw v . i j . immediate strike. Contract talks wiii continue for a while at least. the- tate-nducted strik Mlcman Ford employea Li "P.i.7-1 ""Jority for a walkout. This handed the UAW extra ammunition v i : ,. . iV ui up m onve for worker pensions, a. Ford Motor Co. said the returns did not alter if rvnei tn.- ... yvoiuun. 14 ns company has refused during two month rtt Korn'nl 4- . , -a,,uiia; io consBJmr any wage increase. - The uninn't IntamsiiA..! . HUUU1I ecutive board met at 1 n m ii.. . , ,.... HA1 to ct on election rcnit n :,.-- expected to authorize union offi cers to orHr VnrA'm innnn tii - . o wu,tou nvur ly workers out whenever they fit. Reuther said, however, that no announcement on the board's action would be forthcoming 'today. : j IBeateiro if 1 Ecuador Towii I1 Fell 1500 Fecit Into Huge Hole j QUITO. Ecuador Ancr 11 lm ' A COUntrv dortor tmm ri. i Calif., told today how it looks! aiier lasi riaay "s earthqtiaka t swallowed a town and buried 600 j villagers in a mile-wide pit inora; than 1,500 feet deep. i He is Dr. C. Glenn Curtis, who heads a joint United States-s Ecuador public health project f "It was the most astounding wing x ever saw," turtis said.! 'For an area of perhaps a rnila! or more in diameter on a moun-i tain plateau the earth simply sank down. j "This produced a tremendous landslide which buried the ivil-i lage, La Libertad, completely Priest Alive in j Ecuador Ruins ! , QUITO, Aug. ll-;p)-A priest' buried four days in the rin o; the Ambato cathedral has bean? brought out alive, reports reaching : Quito said today. I The priest was in the huge tath--edral Friday, teaching 50 catechol ism students when the earthquake1 leveled the building. All the stu; dents were kiUed. 't A supporting arch fell cros th; prirfs body, shielding him from the huge granite stones of; tha crumbled edifice. j Mac Declines 'I i I Trip to U.S. j j TOKYO, Friday, Aug. 12i-(JPJ General MacArthur today declin ed to return to the United States; The general made his position clear after Senator Knowland (R4 Calif) had introduced a resolu tion in Washington lo have Mac Arthur return and state his views on the foreign arms aid bill; President Truman said in Wash ington that he would sign an or der for MacArthur to return any time the occupation' Commandef in Japan wanted to return.; . j MacArthur said that while h was "deeply 'appreciative of the honor" reflected in the proposal that he go to Washington he be lieved "that during this moment of critical events in the Fan East the interests of the 'American people are better served by mjr remaining at my post ,here.x i Western IaternaUenal (i At Bremerton 1, Salem S 4 At Victoria S. Wenatchc S V At Vancouver 7, Spokane At Tacoma ft, Yakima I ' "West Coast ' f At Hollywood x.' PorUand t. At Sattl . Oakland 11 7 ' At Sacramento 1. Loa Ancle t At San Francisco 9, Saa Dieg oi I National Leagae At Mew York 7, Boston 1 (Called rain) -.: . v. At Chlcari x, Wttlurh S At PhiladelphU 7, Brooklyn IS Only games scheduled. v American League I Ttlk At Cleveland f. Chicago S U InaJ ' L