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No It Isn't December, But . . 'V-T-"v "- ..-4..-:- -.--V : kL . & ' POUNDDD IA5I Jr. 1 S3tb TEAS M PAGES Th Orgoa Statesman. Salem. Orvaon. Tuesday, Sptmbr 13. 1949 PRICE 5c No. 173 City School Molls Outrun Expansion': ,s- 7 -V. J- . . I" ' HELENA, Mont.. Sept. 11 Nature i.hnn f Helena, srranes a frofei'HS ol.wei. neavy snow iro.n ncr Ute Saturday and early Sunday. Wirephoto to The Statesman.) Steelworkersj Cancel Strike Plan, Give Up Wage Increase DIP mum After a week of conferences representatives of Great Britain, Canada and th United States hav announced a ten-point pro gram to relieva Britain's dollar famine. No drastic medicine is prescribed: no devaluation of the pound, no upping the US price of gold, no chopping Off of Britain social welfar xpriments. The program adopted it In fact so in definite and o limited in its ob jectives that ona cannot share the optimism of Sir Stafford Cripps, who ayi ht If convinced the agreements will block further dangerous drains on Britain's gold and dollar reserves. Here are samples of the vague ness of the agreement: "All three countries will try to stimulate Investments of Ameri can private capital abroad." "The United States will review its stockpiling program." "The United States and Canada will review their administrative operation of customs." "The three nations agreed . . . to give further study to the prob lem of debts which Britain owes other countries." ' "The three countries agreed that detailed study should be made ot . . . petroleum" as affecting Bri tain's dollar income. . "It was also agreeT that fur ther study should be given to the question of shipping and Britain's interest in earning more dollars through sale of shipping services." There ara other items in the program; but not much that (Continued on Editorial page 4) Second Man in Shooting Dies CANTON China, Tuesday, Sept. IS -(P)- Willard Freeman, 41, American businessman, died early today of gunshot wounds inflicted In a fight during a drinking bout In his home Sept 8. A British: business associate, Harold Harris, was killed out right, and Leonard Clafk. San Francisco explorer, suffered a serious chest wound . from which he is recovering. Freeman's Polish wife, Maya, was prostrated .with grief upon her husband's death- Animal Crackers "fly WARREN GOODRICH " sm no longer responsible for the debts of Minnie, Susie, Louise, HearietU, Lizzie, , . rmsinra WANT J I ADS WJ "..V A 1J Z&tofrv'Z -1 banded Montana an earlr taste ef The snow caused considerable damage to trees andjower lines. (AP -PITTSBURGH. Sept. 12 -(P) CIO steely.orkers gave up thei I fight for a fourtlv round wage increase tociav and called off a strike set for tomorrow midnight The big union accepted sident Truman's request day extension of the and recorrjmendatioris. of a preside ential fact finding board aimed at solving the steel wage dispute. President Philip Murray of both the CIO and the United Steelwor kers told jMr. Truman in a tele gram he gave, up the wage in crease demand "with profound re gret' but agreed to the board's re commendations" in the interest of concluding prompt settlement." Republican steel corporation of Cleveland was the first steel com pany to reply following the CIO action. Tonight a spokesman said Republic is willing to bargain with the steehvorkers on; pensions with a view to completing a study of the entire problem by larch 1, 1950. I President Truman didn't com ment immediately on the day's dev elopment!. However, a top White House association said the pre sident views the agreement in the steel controversy as a forerunner of widespread peacful sttlemnts in industrial disputes. Six of I the nation's major steel producers have accepted the truce extensible request. No company has yet given its answer on the board's formula. President TrumaVs three-man panel suggested that workers fore go a wage increase and that both sides agree to a lo-cent hourly increase package covering insur ance anci pensions.' The steclwor- kers a.sked a 30-cent package also including the wages. Murray told a news conference mittee meeting that his union wiil ! be ready; to resume" collective bar-! gaining wun me sieei companies "as early as tomorrow morning.' Errant Bulldozer Sets Off Chain Reaction in Canby CANBY, Sept. 12 -JP)- Robert Bany's bulldozer knocked over a I small tree The tree fell tipon two high j tension wires which short circuit- j ed and burned. j ! They also burned out-a nearby transformer. ! Effect tof the short circuit also set afire a nearby house causing damage festimated by the owner, Bumell Vernon, at $3,000. The wiring system and all elec trical appliances in the next house, that of John Weimer, were burned ; out. I The entire area i as blacked out for an hour and a half. j Two fire departments. Canby ; ... A S.Air IL-srP if Ant . uu w;c; wum; v,, v. r, busy loager than that. it ,iir-hannn. thi afternoon ! in the peaceful, rural, New Era j district. I STRIKE TALKS FAIL" NEW YORK, Sept. 12 -(?')- The Hawaiian dock stfike peace talks broke up late today in complete failure.! Chief U. S. Mediator Cyrus S. Ching sid: "The parties remain so hopelessly far apart in their thinking that further med iation at this time would be of no avail." ! .1 J Max. Salem . S4 Portend: 19 San Francisco W Chicago 47 Min. Prertp. 41 .M 42 .00 54 .00 62 .19 60 .03 New York W Willanwtt river -1.7 feet. - FORECAST (front U.g. weather bu reau. McNarjr field!: Increasing cloud iness today and tonight wiUt probable (howeu.: Wednesday- High today near 77 aftd low tonight; S3. Generally fa vorable Weather tor most farm activ ities today with outlook for Wednesday generally poor. ' . 4 SALXM PRECIPITATION 0 ; This Ymt Last Year Xormal M i M M - ' ilium iMiUilmomti1ft,ii''it winter overjthe week end. Mrs. Ed ctr aiici n-wi Property Tax SfiiLcvy" oeen by strike truce! J Interim Group PORTLAND, Sept. 12 -OF)- The legislative interim committee on taxes indicated today that Oregon may soon face the necessity of levying a property tax that will not be offset by other revenues Committee members indicated such a levy may be4ieeded in the biennium beginning in 1952 be cause of an anticipated deficit of $22,000,00Q by the end of the 1951 fiscal year. The deficit estimate was a min imum. Tax Analyst William, Col lier of the state tax commission reported, i He said it wouii be higher if the cost of government increases. 1 Collier noted that use of a $15,000,000 "cushion fund" if allowed by the next legislature might lower the deficit. The cushion fund is maintained to keep property taxes from act ually being 4 levied in a year of low tax collections.. He added, however, that the current bien nium budget is $139,262,607 com pared with the previous biennium budget of $78,149,627. Senator Howard C. Belton, Clackamas county, chairman of the committee, said he had "very strong feeling we may go back to-the state property tax." Congregation. rfflti I, ty ITV A-'V1?" 5 & New Pastor BERWICK, Pa., Sept. 12-(JF)-A Greek Catholic priest was drag ged from a church, beaten and pelted with eggs by church mem bers angered because he said he had been, sent to replace their present pastor, church officials re ported. The attack was made after early mass yesterday on the Rev. Basil Stabalaski. about 40, who came here last' week from Jeanette. Pa., The report was made by Georg Pypaik, vice president of the con gregation. The beaten priest said he had been sent to replace Father John Bilanich. about 35, who has been' priest at St. Cyril and Methodius ' church for nearly two years. According to Pypiak, members of the church became angry when the new priest conducted early . . rtllcr l"c ""8' 1UU? Ul wu , men Dulled Father Stabalaski ouU. side the church where about eight men beat him and then threw eggs at bim. Pypiak said. Hayesville School Voted Into Salem City District The Hayesville school district was consolidated with Salem dist rict 24 in a special election Mon day night by a light but over whelmingly favorable vote of the two districts. Hayesville voters approved the consolidation, 102-17, while Sa lem voters favored the merger 75-7. j ' break -down of four Salem precincts showed .the following vote; all favoring consolidation: East, 14.-0; west, 12-3, south, 18-0; and north, 33-2. Only 82 of approximately 10,000 registered Salem voters cast bal lots in the election. The school district merger was initiated in July by residents and tha school board of the Harevill Unexpected Jump Taxes Teacher Staff ' Salem public schools opened Monday with more pupils on hand than present classrooms can ac commodate. Four additional teachers will be needed to instruct the more than 100 pupils who had not been anticipated in the elementary school load for this year, Superin tendent Frank B. Bennett report ed after studying enrolments at all schools. While public school officials struggled with their overload, parochial schools of Salem were as busy getting started for their year. An overall enrollment of. 906 private school pupils compar i ed vith 872 of last year, including the registration at three Catholic, the Adventist school and Salem ! academy. (Detail on page 5). Consolidation Added An added kink in adjustment of the public school district load fame about Monday night when results of a snecial consolidation election placed the HayesvHle dis trict porth of Sale-i, with four roomsand 135 oupils, in the Sa lem district. (Story in column 3 ) Not counting Hayesville, Super intendent Bennett counted a fi'-st-day enrollment at 16elementary schools totaling 3,845, a gain of 15'i per cent over last year's starting figure of 3,329. Even the brand new eight-classroom school tin 'the Capitola area, which will not be occupied for a few weeks, has an overload al ready. Bennett said the music room probably would be used ns a ninth classroom for the north Salem pupils who are temporarily attending the old Washington school on Center street. Tods 1948 Figure Extra classrooms also will have to be preoared from existing bier ment playrooms or other non-clan! rooms to house an additional clay at each cf Highland. Bush arid Richmond schools. Bennett said. First grade attendance totaled 798, or 24 per cent more than last year's figure of 644. All other elementary grades showed gains ranging from 50 to 90 pupils. More than 200 of the additional pupils came into the district as a result of the consolidation with Sa lem Heights and Pleasant Point districts which also added seven classrooms to Salem school plant. Altogether, some 5.521 student started school in the district Mon day. Late-starting schools where! construction is being finished, plus late enrollment, will bring the to tal well over 7.000, it was expect ed bv school officials. Opening Delayed Classes will start a week late. at the new Lincoln school at Four Corners, where at least 220 pupils are expected to fill its eight class- j rooms: at Englewood school where a six-room addition is under cort struction and where 450 pupils afe expected, and aV Parrish junior high school where nearly 1,00Q pu pils will enroll. Gains in junior and senior high school were not as marked as in grade schools. Superintendent Bennett was working out adjustments to equal ize loads according to school cap acities. Pringle school with 121 pupils is overloaded, he pointed out. and probably a boundary shift will be necessary between Salem Heights and Liberty schools. Par ents have cooperated in all adjust ments already started, Bennett told the school board members in a conference yesterday. Faye Emerson to i Divorce Roosevelt NEW YORK.Sept. 12 -()-Blonte actress Faye Emerson said today that she and Elliott Roose velt have separated and that she plans a divorce from the second son of the late president. They were married in .Decem ber, 1944. It was her. second mar- j w;. ,v;j , IW-V- 11,3 M "UV, , , TrS- Roosevelt said she planned. to begin divorce proceedings soon as she finishes the mptioA picture, "Guilty Bystander," whiym she now is making in New York. district, which lies just north of Salem along the Pacific highway; Enrollment at the Hayesville school totaled 135 Monday, with pupils in the first four grades ac counting for 78 of the total. The school, originally construct ed as one .large room, now has four rooms-. No new construction was undertaken durin te mer, although the school board was considering erection of a ue.w school untifthe proposak to con solidate with Salem was adopted. The election decision was 'based on agreement that Hayesville district's $4,000 reserve fund would be used for improvements only in the Hayesville district, but the district would assume its share of Salem', bonded debt. PeWeoini PiraDDDa South Salem Annexation Goes on Ballot By Robert E Ganrware city cxnior, rne siaiosir.an, . A drainage project to relieve flooding conditions in Salem this winter will be undertaken within 10 davs if easements can be obtain ed from north Salem property owners. ' This report by City Manager J. L. Franzen highlighted a city coun cil meeting Monday night in which ( the Salem aldermen also set an annexation election affecting a 400-acre area southeast of the city, called for a detailed report on I Bush's pasture park planning and ! authorized representation of the city at a Washington, D.C., con ference on a proposal for West Coast Airlines o supDlant United Air Lines in. serving Salem. Work Outlined Franzen outlined the city-planned drainagej work and received council direction to proceed. He said the major work will include digging a ditch in northeast Salem, extending about two miles over a route designed to carry the hpavy j runoff from Lancaster drive west. This ditch, six feet wide and with minimum depth of four feet will be north of D street and east of 23rd street. It wtould begin near Park and D streets and follow the terrain across Market street, Ev- und, and to' pacific ni h. . kmfcn a ifAniiA thA ct if a fair, way, emptying into a natural ra vine near the Hollywood bowl. The ravine and Claggett creek carry the flow on to the Willamette river north of Salem. Pipe Laying- Planned Also in the drainage project are south Salem relief by a city dug ditch near 12th street, Shel ton ditch improvements which were started this summer and some bank work along Mill creek. Franzen said four-inch pipe will be used in some places where the ditches are located near houses, but that the plan is to replace open ditches with pipe in other sections within five years. The council also took steps to actively oppose substitution of West'Coast Airlines for United Air Lines here. The city earlier had notified the civil aeronautics board it would intervene in the official hearing. Last night the aldermen accepted City Attorney Chris Kow itz' suggestion that Rep. Walter Norblad be asked to represent the city at a pre-hearing conference September 20 in Washington. May Send Representative If the congressman from this dis trict cannot attend the city will join with Salem Chamber of Com merce in sending a representative to the conference, it was decided. Mayor R. L. 'Elfstrpm intimated that Chamber President Roy Har land might be sent. The controversial proposal for annexation of a southeast area to the city of Salem was debated hot ly on the council floor by a score of citizens before the council voted 7-1 in favor of a vote on the an nexation proposal October 14 in both, the suggested area and in the city. The election will coincide with the West Salem merger elec tion. Only Alderman Thomas Armstrong opposed the election call. Petitions Legal Proponents declared the annex- ;atioiy had been legally petitioned and the v petitioners were entitled to vote on the question, that even without expectation of immediate city services uxe sewer ana road! work property owners would ben- j em in ure insurance, garoage ana water rates, in scnoois and in a more orderly planning of devel opment in the area. Opponents declared they would pay higher taxes without, realiz ing benefits from the city for many years, that the annexation move was sponsored. by real estate pro moters without spontaneous sup port of residents of the area. (Additional council news page 2.) on CIO BACKS LEWIS WASHINGTON, Sept 12 -V The CIO today backed up John L. Lewis and his United Mine Work ers in attacking validity of $1, 420,000 conterhpt-of-court fines levied on Lewis and his union during a 1948 walkout BUSINESS CLUB PLANNED KEIZER Plans for forming a dub of Keizer business men and women will be laid at an organi zational meeting tonight in the Keizer fire department hall begin ning at 8 p. m. Representatives of business houses in the area have been asked to attend, : -. .. ; ge Asks KecaSI off Mayor Lee IPirojject Senator Smiles in Hospital -' Y? - tt J&jr ' - J-'St Sen. Wayne Morse hadn't rot around t a shave yet when The States man photographer visited his Salem General hospital room Monday bat otherwise he looked quite chipper, as the picture proves. He was reading telegrams of the "hope-you-fet-better-quickly" type, including one from President Truman, and planning to return to Washington this weekend. He said his horse show areident of Sat urday night was "worth it." since he won the second leg on a cov eted trophy. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) (Stories on page Z.) West Germans Elect Theodor iHieuss Head BONN, Germany, Sept. 12--Theodor Heuss, white-haired pro fessor who authored 20 books burned by the nazis, was elected first president of western Germany tonight. In an acceptance speech he State Hospital Worker Files Firing Protest Another state hospital worker filed protest with the state civil service commission Monday against his recent dismissal from duty. E. R. Shelton. an attendant, pe titioned the commission for a hearing regarding his dismissal which, Shelton charges, was made without cause. Shelton's petition was filed while the commission still was studying results of a recent hearing regard ing discharge of Dr. Horace Mil ler, who also said he was dismiss ed without cause. The commission said Monday results of this inves tigation probably will be released next Tuesday. Dr. Charles E. Bates, hospital superintendent, said Miller was re leased for what Bates called, "in subordination" and said Shelton was discharged because of alleged "abuse of patients in the institu tion." Civil service officials said dte of hearing, if granted, for Shel- ton's rwptitirm urntilri K innnn nrcH j later. 5 former employes have said thev wish to clear their names on cjvji service rolls. Move to Link Detroit, Idanha Started; Petitions Aslt Early Action on Ballot A move to incorporate the com munities of, Detroit and Idanha, both located on the North Santiam river, into a single municipality is underway today. Petitions asking for, incorpora tion were filed with the Marion county court Monday by Edison Vickers, Detroit and Idanha bus iness man.. The name of the in corporated, city would be Detroit Vickers, who is justice of the Breitenbush justice of the peace district, said he and other backers of the move hope to have incor poration proceedings completed by late falL It is now the duty of the county court to set a date for an election on the proposal of incorporation. Marion County Judge Grant Mur phy said the court would do all it could to expedite tne election. . According to law the election Planned i r r? - pledged to make tne imam repuDiic a living democracy. He was sworn into office immediately. In an interview just before his election, he urged an early with drawal of occupation troops, unity of the western and eastern zones, Germany's admittance to the council of Europe and close re lations with France. Heuss, 65-year-old chairman of the Conservative Free Democrats, third largest party in western. Germany, was elected on the sec ond ballot by the federal electoral assembly. Dr. Kurt Schumacher, one armed victim of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps, was the can didate of the Social Democrats, second largest party, and received 312 votes. Heuss received 416 of the 800 votes, made up mostly from a solid combination of support from three Conservative parties which hoped to rule western Germany the Christian Democrats, largest in western Germany, Free Demo crats and the small German party. WIL Playoff. Vancouver 14. Yakima S Coast League No gamai scheduled. American Leasee No games icheduled. National League No game scheduled. must be called in not less than 30 days nor more than 50 days from the date when the petition was filed. Only registered voters may ballot on the proposal. Vickers said Monday that nearly one-third of the registered voters. in that area had signed the petition. The proposed city would' be about six miles in length and would lie on the Marion county aide of the Santiam., It is to be bounded by a line beginning just east of the Detroit ranger station near the Breitenbush river, and then running north and east for about two miles then east and south for about six miles to Macy creek, which is a few miles east of Idanha. " I Vickers, who is chairman of the committee circulating the petit ions, said that both Idanha and Detroit would benefit through in BBS ffoir City Poor Losers Blamed for j Ouster Move PORTLAND, Ore., Sept 12-ii?V Portland got a second recall move ment today, this one directed against Mayor Dorothy McCul lough Lee, one of the few worn y mayors in the country. The other is against Sheriff Mar ion LeRoy (Mike) Elliott, who is accused among other things o failing to clean up Multnomah county. Among charges against Mrs. Lee is one that she did clean up gam bling in the city. The preliminary petition filed against her asserted she was pre occupied "with endeavoring to en hance her reputation as a re former." It also said her adminis tration has placed "an onerous and inequitable financial burden . . , upon the workers and the business people of Portland." This referred to business taxei and fees that went into effect July 1. A group of merchants is still fighting the tes in the courts. Commissioner Ormond Bean, cre- dited with drawing up the hew taxes, insisted they were neces sary to meet the city budget. "I have been under constant at tack by the organized gambling and vice elements in the city sine 1 assumed office," Mrs. Lee com mented at Dallas, Texas, where she was attending a police chief convention. She is head of the city's health and safety depart ment, j Later she said, apparently in reference to the business taxes, "Xnere are of course certain peo ple in business and politics who are poor losers or who are unwill ing to place public interest above personal interest" 3 Signing the petition as president of the recall movement was Olive C. Sauer, who formerly headed a group known as the Hodgepod gers. Built on pyramid club mem bership lists, the Hodgepodgers ad vocated legislation legalizing gam bling devices with some taxable proceeds going to old-age assist ance. Her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Cuddeford, is another signer. Committeemen Back Elliott In Meet Vote PORTLAND. Sept. 12- UP) Multnomah County Sheriff M. t Elliott, faced with a recall threat, drew a substantial vote of con fidence tonight from a group vi county democratic precinct work ers. ; The committeemen and women voted 148 yes and 51 no on a card ballot asking whether they were for or against the young sheriff. Chairman Nicholas Granet pre sided at the session and five mem bers spoke from the floor in fav or of the embattled sheriff. ; State Senator Richard L. Neu berger criticized the manner In which the committee meeting was held. He said Granet conducted the meeting by "Granet'i rules of order and not Robert'a rules." i He noted that the ballot total compared to a total of more than 800 county precinct committee members. NO BATHS FOR BATH BATH, Eng., Sept 12WP)-Th city council asked the people ef Bath today to give up bathing un til it rains. R. J. Russell, the city's deputy water engineer, said: "A bath Bath right now, is more lux ury than a necessity.' ; ' corporation. "In the first place," he said, "the new city would be eligible for eswrvsu a v,vuv piiiiuau ass iuim which the state apportion! to in corporated cities." "By combining the resources1 el the two towns the new city of De- troit could have unified and bet ter police, water, power and sewage systems." The new city would have- a total population of about 800 to 1,000. Under direction of the League of Oregon cities, Vickera has made a survey of the area: to be incorporated and findings will be made available at public meet- t A I . , . i . a atMir mill 1 if if anfiw f ima uigs on inc proposal, ne saia- Detroit was established about m s , . , du vears ieo ot nomesieaaers ana logging. operators. Idanha, a for mer lumber camp, is about 20 ears old, Vlcxers said. i