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j ' is - v '. :-. . "- . - . ft ofto (Story in Glumn 5) Weather Max. 7 1 73 - n Mln. Prcclp. 7 M 51 .00 SO .00 U .00 .00 Saleaa Portlond ... San Francisco Chtcafo Xmw York aa FORECAST from U S weather, bu reau. McNary Ike Id. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight Slightly warmer thia afternoon with htghert temperature near S3 and lowest tonight near SO. Continued favorable for farm activities today. SALEM PRECIPITATION dept. 1 t Af. 32) POUNDDD 1651 Tha Year 42 li Lait Year 47.44 Normal 31 M 89tb YEAR 12 PAGES Thm Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oreaon. Monday, August 22, 1949 PRICE 5c No. IS (QlGMfes DDI) (SsiDTlSldl c Xv ffX lcn 4vx yfrvOf J it Jq)P lilt i: -r . ivj,a. .....at" i i il i n y i it il Salem's Marine .( m ,, . --- i .i ',. : . , , 4;-. ..... i.:' '."- - ! J. .. J,, . i ' . , ! t' ' t .'- ...'". 5 i - . . " - S' . i -a- ; ' i Ji I , v : . - I . v , f alem'a marine corps reservists climb aboard one of two R5Ds that I D. R. Equal!. J. H. Jaqna and R. L. Pearsall. all of Salem except flew 44 members of the local unit to Oceanside, Calif, Sunday for Equall from Woodburn. In the ship; left to right, are PFCs D. E. two weeks' summer training;. Mounting in the plane are, left to VanCleave and L. J. Herberger and Pvt. E. C. La Valley, all of Salem, rifht, ggt D. G.O'Hara sad Corporals D. G. Burt. M. D. Goode, 1 (Statesman photo). (Story on page I). . Truman to Beat Hurricane 3 Fire Fighters Hurt in Idaho Blazes QtP HjCDOEDa Tonight the city council will htvt up for consideration on final passage ordinances to put into ef fect the Baldock plan for handling traffic through Salem on 99E. In britf the plan calls for developing fine street to North Commercial as route for incoming truck traffic and" North Summer street for Incoming passenger 'vehicles. These streets would become one way streets, with Chemeketa car rying the flow from Summer -to Commercial. Northbound passen- fer car traffic would swing to outh Liberty set which; would become a one-way street, with Court the connection to North Cap itol which would also be made one-way. Northbound truck traf fic passing through the city would enter by the 12th street cutoff and, then go out on North Capi tal as at present In the interval Bruce the city council adifcted a general resolu tion approving this program there has been little open debate, but considerable effort has been ex pended by opponents of the plan to kill It off. Opposition consists of those who want two-way traf fic on South Commercial and thoe objecting to having highway traf fic pour onto Liberty and Sum mer streets. But nothing has been proposed which would offer as practical a solution. To do nothing would merely result in the accum ulation of trouble which the coun cil already has been fighting. The opening of the new state office building will create an addition?. l load which can be dispersed in part by dividing the traffic flow. Since action of some sort is im perative and the recommended program seems to be the most practical the council will act in the broad public interest if it adopts the ordinances tonight WesUen International At Salem J-J, Tacoma J-7 At Spokane t-t. Vancouver 5-11 At Wen tehee 4-. Victoria 10-7 At Bremerton 7. Yakima 7 Coast League At Portland 1-1. Seattle 10-3 At San Diego 2-0. Sacramento 5-3 At lakUal 1-7. Hollywood 0-8 At Los Angetes 3-3. San Francttro 1-4 American League At Chirac j 5-4. Cleveland 4-7 At Washington 0. Boston 4 At New York 7. Philadelphia At St. Louis 4-7, Detroit 2-1 National League At TJoston 9. Brooklyn At Philadelphia 4-0. New York 0-0 At Pittsburgh 2-S, St. Louis 4-0 At ClnclnnaU 4-4. Chicago 5-1 Corps Reservists Leave by Plane for Training i ll ; 1 I , 1 V MIAMI. Fla., Aug. 21 m- A tropical hurricane tonight swirled in the general direction of Florida but fine weather wss promised for President Truman's visit to morrow, f I The president will fly to Miami for ah important address, at the Golden Jubilee convention of . the Veterans' of Foreign Wars. He will return to Washington while the storm is ytill well at ye?.? The hurricane, first of the 1949 season, was about 800 miles east "and ;a little south'? of Miami at 5 p.rr4 (EST), moving west north west about 15 to 17 miles per hour. Mr Truman is scheduled to arrive in Miami at 10:35 a.m. (EST) tomorrow, address the con vention at 11:30 a.mi, and fly back to Washington immediately. Chief storm forecaster Grady Norton promised "fine, weather" for Mr. Truman's visit. Norton said the hurricane s is too far at sea tp have any effect on; Florida weather tomorrow. ; Evrn if the hurricane main-, taint d its present coue and speed, it would not reach the Florida coast until Tuesday night. The small hurricane, with winds of 80 to 90 miles per hour, was located about 280 miles fjortheast of Turk's Island at '5 p.ra. (EST), moving west northwest about 15 to 17 miles an hour. 5 WORLD FEDERALIST MEET AMSTERDAM, Aug. I 21-OV More than 200 world student fed eralists from 30 countries attend ed the opening ceremony of their third annual congress in the Vos sius gymnasium iji Amsterdam Patton Says Farmers to Play Vital Role in Politics By LJllie L. Madsen Fam Editor. The S.atesman CHAMPOEG. Aug- ;2 1-( Special) -Farmers are in politics up to theiij necks whether they like it or not and they are not going to get out, James G. Patton, president of the National Farmers union, told i some 500 people gathered in the historic Champoeg open-air pavilion Sunday for the annual Oregon Farmers union picnic. The government haj eliminated free enterprise in marketing, it ts controlling the amount and type of crops farmers grow, be pointed out as he added four job is to make sure we know how to swim in politics and decide which direc tion we want to go and fleet con gressmen and senators who will be our friends and not our ene mies. " Too many politicians ' are more interested in handing out favors so that they can be; re elected .than in putting their minds on the -"business at hand, he said. Subsidies Said Old Subsidies, which! are ;as old as the : "time George Washington crossed the Delaware", re objec tionable only to "those who are not being subsidized at that particular time." Patton stated. No matter what they are called, subsidies ent er irto "our modern plan of life" rne declared, as ;he wondered why" the power companies "ob jected to subsidizing" when they favored the government's build rig the dams "to; furnish power for ihem to transmit pver their lines and take the profits from." He opposed 90 per cent support law as "doing much to make the public turn sour on a fair support program for agriculture". Under PC li' , 'r--.x ' J - .S . Old Homestead Cabin Burns WILLAMINA, Aug. 21-(Spe-cial)-An old homestead cabin was destroyed by fire about 5:30 this afternoon in the Hillcrest area five miles west of Willamina. The only occupant, an elderly man whose name was not known here, escaped without injury, but was able to salvage only a few bed clothes. The log cabin, on the Nelson homestead, was biult about 1902, it was reported. Fire was blamed on a defective flue. Willamina firemen were called to the blaze. Berlin Circus Blast Hurts 13 BERLIN, Aug. 2H.-An ex plosion in an east Berlin circus tent today injured 13 people ser iously, including five children, police reported. The report said the explosion was caused by children playing with an old German army hand grenade found near the circus tent. The explosion occurred Just af ter the afternoon performance when only a few people were left in the tent. this scheme, he said, the public actually pays twice on a good part of its food biU "once through taxes for the farm price subsidies, and a second time at the grocery store because prices are artificially held up by the government's pur chase of commodities to keep them off the market" - Plan Described Through the Brannan plan, farmers would get price supports "not based on 60 or 75 or 90 per cent of parity, but at, the point needed to provide agriculture income equal to that of recent years." With agriculture fully covered, the average taxpayer would find that the sayings on his foor biU would equal, or more than offset the taxes he paid out on his share in the support pro gram, Patton Insisted. There is no scale that slides down to bankruptcy levels because the VS. may be producing more than Is being consumed, he said as he referred to Bra&non's pro gram as based on a "philosophy of abundance." (Additional details on page 1) . . "' By The Associated Press ; Three fire fighters were injur ed when winds whipped flames of a Payette National forest blaze out of control in the Hell's Canyon area of Idaho. : Critically burned was Jim Knudsen, about 25, of Gem, Kas. Two other members of the crew were hospitalized. Several were treated and released. ; It was one of six major fires reported out of control tonight (Sun.) in the Payette forest and in Yellowstone National park. More than 150 other fires were burning in tinder-dry timberlands of western Montana, northern and southwestern Idaho and eastern Washington. The Hell's Canyon blaze is be ing fought on a series of steep, shelving ridges. The gorge is , 400 feet deep. It was there that the crew was caught by flames which swept up the canyon yesterday. The men worked 12 hours to carry Knudsen out of the rugged area. The blaze has covered 5,000 acres and officials hope to have 1,200 men on the fire lines by morning. Recruits were being flown in from adjacent states. Two other fires out of control in the Payette forest are burning in heavy timbered areas and the rough country makes It extremely difficult to get men and equip ment in to fight them. I In Yellowstone park, 317 men were battling nine timber and grass fires and mopping up on a tenth. ; Flames crackled over 200 acres On the upper Gallatin river in the park's northwest corner, near a 20-acre fire which broke out to day. Both were out of control in a dense stand of pine and fir. Still uncontrolled is the Lava creek fire, now burning over an estimated 1.000 acres of grass and mixed timber about five miles southeast of Mammoth. A third fire blew out of control this morning on Mirror plateau north of Yellowstone lake in the north central part of the park. Sixteen smokejumpers from re gional forest headquarters at Mis soula were dropped to fight the 30-acre blaze. Chief Ranger Cur tis Skinner said it will be "10 times that large before we can control it" Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Confidentlillr, tl'i a re- Dam age In Quake Limited By The Associated Press A series of violent earthquakes, apparently centered in northern British Columbia, shook the Pa cific northwest at 9 05 p.m. (PDT) tonight. There were no immediate reports of major damage or cas ualties. The entire Skeena River valley near Prince Rurjert. B.C.. rocked during the tremors, described by eyewitnesses as the worst in that area's history. The earth rippled as far north as Petersburg, Alaska, and extend ed south to Portland, Ore. Prince Rupert reoorted that many of the major provincial port s 10,000 residents scurred in to the streets as buildings swayed, windows were shattered and nark ed automobiles rolled crazify in the streets. Extend Eastward The tremblors extended east ward from Prince RuDert 227 miles to Smithers, B.C. Ketchikan, Alaska, oldtimers said the quake was the first ever felt there. A two-foot wave swept along the water front moments after the shock hit. Petersburg reported the tremors struck there at 9:13 p.rn knock ing dishes from shelves and pic tures off walls. It was the first time in 25 years an earth move ment had been experienced in that region. Residents in Panic At Terrace, 90 miles east of Prince Rupert, the 1,500 residents .were thrown into panic as build ings rocked and parked cars slith ered across streets. In Seattle, the 42-story Smith tower swayed for several minutes, water mains and power lines were broken in some, parts of the city and 10 house boats slipped their moorings in Lake Union. A Tacoma, Wash., woman said the water sloshed out of her swim ming pool. Dozens of persons re ported to police there they had noticed the earth disturbance. Felt in Portland In Portland, Ore., a woman told a newsman her houseboat rocked in the Willamette river just as it had four months ago. An amateur seismologist there, F. William Geitz, , recorded the tremors. The northwest was hit April 13 by the worst quake in Its history, causing eight deaths and doing more than $15,000,000 damage in Washington state. That tremor centered near the capitol at Olym pia. A Terrance woman, Mrs. Cath erine M. Fraser, said the streets there "heaved like the desk of a ship in heavy seas." Another resident. James Smith, reported the building he was entering swayed markedly and "the whole thing started to creak." Amity Mayor to Resign Sept. 4 AMITY. Aug. 21 - (Special) Mayor Jack Vandelaar has report ed he will formally resign from office at the city council meeting September 4. Vandelaar said he Intends to quit his Amity business and will take charge of Lehman's Hot Springs resort near Ukiah about September 1. Earl Nott, Yamhill county dis trict attorney, has advised the city council that punchboards are il legal and will be banned in the city. Street sign boards will be erec ted this week at prncipal inter sections in the city. New traffic lanes soon will be painted on Trade street under direction of the state highway commission., j Air Races. Courtesy Rides, Demonstrations! of Safety to Mark 'Aviation Day' in Salem Sunday Next Sunday will be "Aviation day" in Salem. A full program, sponsored by commercial operators and Salem's company B of the national guard, has been planned at the local airport with the help of the state board of aeronautics. , The show has been designed to show the value of an airport to the community and to explain op eration of small planes in business. agriculture and pleasure flying. Airport Manager Charles Barclay said Saturday. 1 Highlights will include air races, safety demonstrations I and free courtesy rides given by both com mericai and private fliers. The program will start at 2 pjn. Invitations have been extend ed to every registered flier in Ore gon, and 200-250 planes are ex pected to land at the airstrip. In Capitol! ZonelPlan For Deflay do Baldock Plaini Navy Air Unit 7 . V'-V- Mrs. Marion Muse Hines of Grand Ronde, first woman to join Salem's new volunteer naval aviation unit, receives a naval reserve emblem from Lt. James II. Brigham, unit executive officer. Mrs. Hines will assist officers in conducting indoctrination classes for WAVEs as- . signed to the squadron. She is the wife of Lt Leonard C. Hines, naval aviator assigned to the unit 2 Pen Trustees Escape; iViehama Area Searched Search for two trustees who escaped from the Oregon state penitentiary annex Sunday afternoon centered in the Mehama district Sunday night after a pair answering their descriptions reportedly roughed up a woman employe in a beer parlor there. Melvin Vic George, 26, and Earl Junior Bonney, 24, were missed about 5:30 p. m. when Bonney failed to report at the dairy barn where he worked. George was a truck driver at the institution farm. Warden George Alexander said neither of the men was considered dangerous and that neither was under armed guard when they left the premises. George was serving 10 years for a rape charge. He was convicted in Marion county. Bonney, up from Yamhill county, was serving two years for burglary. Both men were dressed in over alls and jumpers when last seen, George was described as five feet, eight inches tall, weight 144 pounds, blue eyes and brown hair. Bonney's description was five feet, severt inches tall, weight 145 pounds, blue eyes and brown hair. Penitentiary guards and state police shifted their search to the Mehama area about 7 p. m. The two men seen there reportedly kicked the bar maid and demand ed a drink. Riptide Takes Man to Sea CANNON BEACH. Ore., Aug. 21 -CP)-A riptide swept Sam Rice, 55, catering manager of the Ben son hotel in Portland, to his death at sea today. Lifeguards recover ed the body from the surf after it was sighted by Airplane Pilot A. W. Sleight The mishap occurred six miles south of here at Arch Cape. Rice's swimming companion, William Markham, was also caught in tide but managed to reach shore. cluding Portland's Sportsmen pilots of "Portland to Portland" fame and the Flying Farmers from le as tern Oregon. Barclay said United Air lines has promised a 44-passenger DC-4 for the show which will give four one-hour courtesy flights over the Detroit dam and the Cascade range beginning at 2 p.m. The first flight will be for city officials, the second for county and state officials, third for ser vice clubs and businessmen apd the fourth for the general public. Names for the general public flight will be drawn from the list of persons registering at the air port Invitations also have been ex tended to West Coast, Pan Amer ican and Northwest airlines to par ticipate In the show. Adds Woman 13 'Stir Crazy' Georgia Cons Flee, 10 Caught MILLEDGEVILLE. Ga.. Aug. 21 -fP)-Thirtefin "stir crazy" prison ers escaped from a ward fdr the criminally insane today but ten were recaptured in short order. Shortly after the mid-day break from the state hospital here, the prisoners armed themselves with a shotgun, obtained by forcing their way into a negro's home. Hospital superintendent Thomas G. Peacock said all of the escapees were transfers from the Reids ville state penitentiary where they had gone insane from long con finement. Among those still at large was one classified as dangerous. He was sentenced for murder. The others were sentenced for crimes ranging from forgery to auto theft and armed robbery. Rubbing their bodies with soap and using a small hacksaw, the 13 crawled through a tiny barred bathroom window. APPLESEED' AWARD MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 21 -0PH David Fairchild, who brought the soybean and countless other val uable plants to this country, today was selected for the 1949 Johnny Appleseed Award, highest honor of the Men's Garden Clubs of America. Other free courtesy rides will be given by selected fliers from a list of registered pilots in the states. A short program of air races will begin at 2 p.m., including the an nual handicap race to Brooks and return in which planes are handi capped according to their potential speeds. L. J. (Ace) Demers and his fly ing - servioe crew, who recently completed ai successful spruce bud worm dustirg operation for the fe deral government on the slopes of Mt Hood, wiU present an exhi bition of agricultural flying. Evelyn Whitmaker of the state board of aeronutics will demon strated dead-stick landings, neces sary when a plane's engine fails, and will help explain how plane are directed from the control tower. Proposal on City Council's Slate Tonight Another delay in Salem's final ; legislation for the Baldock traffie j plan was indicated Sunday I In a I report from unofficial sources that 1 the-state capitol planning commis- j sion would ask the city council to to postpone action until probable ij effects of the plan on the c&pitol '! zone can be studied. The city council is scheduled to act tonight on three ordinance. 1 bills to effect the city's portion j of the program, with a favorable vote having been predicted. C. A. McClure, a local commis- ? sion, member, had no comment n the reported request. ..' i The current reports were, how-; ever, that the state board, hoped for a delay until it could deter-! mine how the capitol area would make out under such proposals as restricting North Capitol. North Summer. Court and Chemeketa streets to one-way movement Closure Recommended Of special concern are Cheme keta street, which the commisin has recommended for closure Ho traffic between Summer and Cap itol, to become service and park- ing area for the public service and proposed highway buildings; and Summer street, which is already bisected from Court to Cheme-, keta street and is slated for simii' lar division in the next block north Since the comprehensive traffie plan was first made public by the highway department it has been the center of controversy. It calls for a long-range program in volving $7,000,000 worth of pro jects ranging from a bypass high way east . of Salem and one way street plan for city highway traffic to a new two-lane: bridge across the Willamette river. Public Hearings The council called several pu blic hearings and received riumer ous objections and commendations of the plan. Principal objections centered around the one-way streets and the proposal: for a second two-lane bridge instead a four - lane bridge. The council already has. appro ved the traffic plan in a general resolution, but has summarized the city's part In effecting the plan in three ordinance bills, how up for final consideration. By enact irg the plan into city law the council would fulfill its commit ment to give objectors an opport unity to invoke referendum against it. , Require City Action j Cost of the traffic plan will be borne largely by the state, but its changes in Salem traffic pat terns require the city's official ac tion first. r f The traffic plan bills have been tabled at two or three recent coun cil meetings. By now, however, aldermen have shown indications that final modifications are em bodied in these bills and they are ready to bring them final vote. I In other council matters slated for tonight, the proposed annexation-vote concerning an area south east of present city limits Is ex pected to draw protests from sev eral residents of the area. FIRE IN AMMO DUMP STE. THERESE, Que. Aug. 21-CP)-More than 200 soldiers bat tled a fire tonight in an ammuni tion dump at nearby St. Maurice En Haut, about 40 miles from Mon treal. An army spokesman said he believed the fire was under control. The Oregon air national guard is expected to send at least eight P-5is"from Portland under com mand of MaJ. Gordon Doolitte, and navy fliers will demonstrate form ation flying it planes are available. The recently-dedicated naval air facility and the weather bureau station will be open for public In spection. I Visiting pilots, scheduled to ar rive beginning at 10 a.ra, will be greeted officially by Salem's CHer rians. Airstrip parking will i. be) handled by the civil air patrol Un der Lt. Wade IL Dickinson with over-all direction from the con trol tower, which will be open t public inspection all day, I Fliers will be entertained at tree lunch given by the local na tional guard which will set up lf, Held kutcnen at tne airport.