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m x t j - s. eyhe Statesman) Salem. Orerott'Saturday, September 1950 I . Truman Given Many Powers In Controls Bill (Story also on. page one.) WASHINGTON, Sept 1 -&) Congress today passed the eco nomic controls bill, under the terms of which President Truman is permitted to pick his own price levels If he chooses to invoke ceilings. The bill directs him, however, to give due considera tion to prices prevailing during the May. 24-June 24 period. Price control could be imposed on any particular item. However, the bill requires that if this was done, the president also would have to stabilize, wages in the industry producing the item. - Congress provided specifically that the president would have to bar wage increases which would force an increase in a price ceil ing or result in hardships to sell ers. - . - - If the price ceilings on ma terials and services finally reach ed a substantial- part of all re tail sales, and materially affect ed living costs, then wages and prices in general would have to be controlled. Banded Yardstick I Congress handed Mr. Truman a yardstick to measure price - rises. Before imposing a ceiling , he 'would have to find that the price had zoomed to, or. was headed for, an unreasonable point above the- May 24-June 24 level,' and that living or defense costs were Moreover, the price ceiling would have to be generally fair and equitable to buyers and sell- TS. :. -. - . ' Wage earners have this protec tion: Their pay could not be stabi lized below the May 24-June 24 - levels. ' -The bill contains" number of . exemptions from wage-price con trol authority. These include newspaper subscriptions and ad vertising, real estate, margins re- quired- on commodity markets, professional services and insur ance. . May Exempt Materials - Authority is given the presi dent ta exemnt TnstsT-iol. m or employment from price-wage Ofe control if he found this action necessary lor the nation's defense. ."Farm price ceilinp or YioAooA I y a supuiauon tnat they cannot I pe below the parity price or the nigaest price received by produc ers during the May 24-June 24 : WE SPECIALIZE IN. AMERICAN AND ; Chinese Food! - ' ; Alse Delivered to Your Home ; t-.-:'- or Party Yost Phone 2-9173 -Free Delivery Over $2.90 . Within City Limits. Open Dally 4 P. M. to 3 AJtt. O Sat. and Son. Open at Neon Shanghai Cafe H N. Commercial St. PACK IE I Ki ll I E Glcnuood Ballroom Woodry's Orchestra WUh Vera Esch Ladies Free Before 9:30 DAIICE Saturday Riant AamsvIIle Pavfilloa , Tommy and His West Coast Ramblers 49 to 12:39 en Highway No. til 19 sol. SJS. ef Salem . CsscbsII Tonight Sd:ni Senators . ' .. Vs. Spckaitt 8:15 P.M. Wtttrs fold Box Seat Reservation Phono 34647 FIXS FOOD EUIIDAY DBQtZa S2L American 2859 8. Commercial period, whichever was higher. Other features of the bill: Rationing can be ordered at the consumer leveL Hoarding of an "unreasonable" amount of goods rated as scarce by the president is subject to pen alties ranging up to a year in jail and $10,000 fine. This applies either ta home or business use. r Special machinery can be set up to handle labor disputes af fecting the defense effort. Penalties Provided Violations of wage-price con trols are " subject ! to a year-plus-$10,000 fine at the maximum, phis triple damage suits. The president can ' allocate scarce, industrial materials, and require that defense contracts be accepted and given priority. The government could take over pri vate plants and other facilities at just prices, if necessary for the defense effort, with provision for the owners to bur them back later at a fair price. Government loans or guaran tees up to $2,000,000,000 are au thorized to spur defense produc tion. , Authority is included to buy metals, minerals and other raw materials for use, sale or to stim ulate discovery and production of them. Reimposition " ' of ' installment .buying regulations, which were in effect during and after the last war, is authorized. Mr. Truman can control credit terms for new privately-financed construction or major remodeling started , after Aug. 3, 1950. Pair Hurt as Car Topples ' . SUtcnau Newt Sendee BOYER, Sept. 1 Ah auto carry ing two Salem men spun out of control, rolled over and landed on its wheels today about five miles west or here. A short time later the auto again rolled over. This time it crashed, injuring both occupants. t - State police said the driver. Rob ert O. Renfrow, 565 N. Cottage st. aaiem, was Treated at McMinnville hospital for cuts and bruises but was released. A passenger, Jerry S. Graham, also of Salem, was held at McMinnville hospital but was said to be in "good" condition. Po lice had no details on his injuries. The men were driving from Sa lem to the Oregon enact when th accident occurred shortlv before s P-- toaay. Professors Take Complaint to Court SACRAMENTO, Calif, Sept 1- ()- Twenty faculty members of the University of California now signers In a loyalty oath dispute went to court today to retain their jobs. The group challenged the right of the university board of regents to revoke their appointments on a sign or else" basis. The faculty members asked the third district court of appeal for a writ of mandate to require the regents to return them to their positions. I CROSBYS END VACATION HAYDEN, LAKE, Idaho. Sept 1 -(P)-Crooner Bing Crosby and his four sons will end their month long vacation here tomorrow and head back home to Hollywood. Bing brought a lake shore home here last year.. Prolonged exposure to strong sunlight may affect human eye sight for a week or more. : la the Tropical Room to - BIS DeSouxaa Modem Mule! In fho Gay 80' Room to POP EDWARDS Old Tim Orchestra Crystal Gardens 2 Bands 2 Floors 1 Jlrics 74c Tax Indd. Old TImo DAIICE Every Sal. High! Over Western Auto 259 Court St DICTS ORCHESTRA ,Adm. BOc Inc. Tax EIITEBT AINMEN T Gnxd A Ground Round wilh Fresh Mushroom Sane Legion Glob Ph.S7t32 '. Kail switchmen Settle Dispute With Operators WASHINGTON, S-pL 1 The White House tonight an nounces settlement of a lon wage dispute between the AFL. Switch men s union and ten western ran roads. ' ' " The agreement calls for a 23 cent hourly wage increase. It is expected to have an in fluence on a parallel .ontroversy between the nation's railroads and t!-e Trainmen and Conductors' union.' The latter dispute resulted in a strike call and seizure last Sun day of the railroads by the gov eminent to prevent tying up the lines. j The trainmen and conductors are asking for 48 hours' pay for a 40-hour week for yard workers and wage adjustments for those in train service. The switchmen previously had struck five of the 10 railroads with which, it has contracts. The switchmen's demands also were for 48 hours' Day for 40 hours' work. . Railroad Seized ! The date for that walkout was June 25. The strike was called off on four of the railroads but the union refused to work on the Rock Island. The government seized the railroad and obtained a court injunction whereupon the 1,500 switchmen on that line went back to work July 8. Approximately 5,000 switchmen would receive the concessions agreed upon the office of presi dential assistant John K. steel- man. They are: - A 23 -cent hourly wage increase. Based on Index - A three-year moratorium on further changes in wages or work ing conditions except for a quar terly adjustment based on the cost of living index, i With every per centage point rise in the govern ment's index of consumer prices. kept by the bureau of labor statis tics, the switchmen s hourly earn ings would go up one cent. A five-day week is agreed upon in principle, but it will be set aside for at least one year and thereafter will be subject to the desires of the employes and the manpower situation." Demos Elect Mrs. Whitlaw . Mrs. Alvin Whitlaw of Salem was named chief of staff of Mar ion county democrat at a centra! committee meeting Friday night democratic headquarters, 182 I? Commercial st . Mrs. Whitlaw will be in charge of headquarters activties in her new position. ' A registration drive was sched uled from - September 7 through October 6 at the meeting. A $50 de fense bond will be presented to the precinct showing the largest percentage gain in registrants A "superstition dance" was scheduled fori Friday, October 13. Tickets will go on sale at the dem ocratic headquarters, the demo cratic booth at the state fair and in all precincts. Starting Sept. 3 W Will Be OPEN SUNDAYS Family Stylo t DINNERS Sundays, P.M.- 11 P.M. Week Days, 5 PJtt. - 2:39 AJtf. DINE and DANCE With Joe Parent and his "Sorrenton:s Appearing Nightly and Sundays Phone 29111 for Reservations ITALIAN VILLAGE 30S7 Portland Kd. HOT ROD RACES TONIGHT Sept. 2nd, 8 P.M. SstanV I!:!Iyvccd Cowl Mini ii i i State Fair Daily from. Monday, Sept. 4 8 9 a. m. Gates open. i " a. m. Judging begins on. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 11 a. m. Band concert, free vaudeville on midway. 1:15 p.m. Horseraces. Afternoon Exhibitions in 'art, textile, cooking, floral. 7 p. m. Band concert, vaudeville on midway. , 7:30 p. m. Organ concert in horse show stadium.- 8 p. m. Horse show and rodeo, stadium. Water Follies of 1950, grandstand. 10:15 p. m. Old time dance in pavilion. Midnight Gates close. ' s ' ' . ' Sheriff Asserts Wire-Tapping Proved Wilson Brothers' Guilt VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. l Clark county today released portions of transcriptions of conversa- . ai 1 ai 1 1 m Y ta 1 j fr. tr: 1 1 II ' uom laneu in uic ecu oi uwa auu irumin vviison, orouiers con victed of killing and violating Jo Ann Dewey, 18,. last March 19. The conversations clearly indicate what part each man played in the crime. Sheriff Anderson said. The transcriptions were taken by a microphone hidden in a cell ventilator. The officers recorded some 75 hours of conversations and eavesdropped for more than 200 hours, Anderson said. , Jo Ann was kidnapped from a Vancouver street Her body ulti mately was found on a gravel bar in a river east of Vancouver. The girl had died of monoxide poison ing from an automobile exhaust and her body had been violated sexually. Both brothers were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to be hanged.' Execution awaits results of an appeal to the Wash ington supreme court Explains Details i One portion of the recording in dicates the elder brother, Turman, was telling Utah how much the state had to prove to get a first degree murder conviction. Sheriff Anderson quoted as follows: "They got the bottle, they got the car, they got the body", Utah says in a discouraged voice. "Why'd you have to kill her?" he asks. " . . had to kill her. She knew too much Turman answers." The battle referred to a half stubby of beer found at the kid' nap scene. It bore -Utah's finger prints. Another portion. Sheriff Ander son continued, quoted Utah as saying: "I wish we would have buried her with the rest of the stuff." WelL I do, too," Turman was quoted as replying. Disposal of Body "Turman also mentions stuffing her body in a culvert and leaving it there that night" Sheriff An derson said. The officer said the recordings were stopped after Turman. read an editorial about the microphone in the Vancouver Columbian. Their defense counsel, Irvin Good man of Portland, complained that the recording device was used. The sheriff and Dewitt 'Jones. I I ll- Ph. 3-34.67 Matinee vairj xrom i r. M. m ' ill I I cTJvnTmn TnTinnnnTTi I I HIIMIIUIH aVa'aWUUWlli , ; - . V GUiiiio immnm mmmir I JG)(iittJM:(!rnli0lIl!a!4J II ill I . f 'V, : .. - ;il I - I tt i ii ll 1 1 n ii'j i I it . v a . n i tzst 1 1 ii l ORSON WELLES V CECILE AUBRY SSNSAnONM NfW RSNCM ACTIBS r y I ' Color Cortooa HOT AIR ACES". J ANDI A1RMAIL FOX MOVIETOOT KIWSI Schedule through Sunday, Sept. 10 - WVSheriff Earl N. Anderson of prosecuting attorney, said the con' versations were not used as evi dence because the most incrimina ting statements were so recorded that amplication wuld have dis torted them beyond understand in. Anderson said he decided to re lease transcripts of the recordings because "there, is a whispering campaign going around the county accusing the - police of planting evidence against the Wilson boys and accusing us of railroading them." 15-Year4)ld ' -.-' Salem Youth o . Found Hanged A 15-year-old Salem boy was found hanged early Friday morn ing in an upstairs clothes closet oi his home at 1290 Fir st The lad. Grant Coffman Shaff-; ner, jr., was iouna by rus parents. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Sbaiiner about 1:30 a. m.. an hour after they had reported to Salem police that the youth was "missing." Deputy Coroner C. C. Edwards of Marion county ruled the death a suicide. Edwards said Shaffner probably died between 4 and 9 p. m. Thursday. Police said there was no appar ent motive for the lad's action. Of ficers, reconstructing the hanging, said the youth apparently looped a piece of hemp twine over a broom handle which was supported by joists in the ceiling area of the closet and then Jumped off a box. Survivors, besides the parents, include several aunts and uncles in Eugene. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 o'clock this morning from St Joseph's Catholic church. Recitation of the rosary was last niaht at the W. T. Rigdon chapeL Interment will be at West Lawn cemetery in Eugene. Ends Today! James Stewart In . I Starto Tomorrow-Cent 1:45 (Saturday) "Broken Arrow"' ' "iO-liaHUMQ I ; III State Employes Union Favors Price Cutback Oregon State Employes associa tion board of directors, represent ing more than 5,000 members, Fri day went on record for nation wide control retroactive to June L. . Copies of the resolution have been sent to Oregon's delegation in congress, which has been con sidering the control measure. "Because pur wages are fixed and. the cost of living has risen sharply since June, toe state is losing many workers to private in dustry," the resolution read. "If prices, continue upwards, as now appears uxeiy, mey wiu reacn an all-time high by Christmas." The resolution emphasized that the price rise already is working a severe hardship on the families of 75 per icent of state employes whose take-home pay is less than" $200 a month. "For these reasons," the resolution continued, we urge prompt action in enacting a pror gram of price control." 147,490 Estimate Of Supreme Court Building Repairs It would require approximately $147,490 to repair the state sup reme court building and provide it with a new elevator, according to Bartholomew and Williams, Salem architects, who recently completed a survey of the structure for the state board of control. Cost of replacing the building I liftrtrtfrliin Hollywood Kids Matinee Today 1:09 to 4:00 F. M. 3 Ccoioons- Serial Special Matinee Feature "Frontier Pony Express" With Roy Borers and Triarer Also Benson's Birthday Cake for ' Dick Peterson, Joseph Wright, Jerry Candell, Larry Candell, Allen wood, Patricia French, Jerold Gerbeck, Becky Jo Bak er, Merle Chrisman, Larry Rob inson, Jimmy Dent Nancy Klumpp, Peter Jepsen, Charles Jayne, Raymond Porter, Buddy Henderson, Linda Miller, Jim my Fox, Skipper Garrett, ELna Bowcut, Kathleen Crowley, Sarah Allen, Stephen Epstein, Kay Eichsteadt Eve. Show Cont After 8:39 1 1 inuii cnon Plos "Blende .Dynamite" With the Bowery Boys Starts Tomorrow Cont Co-Featnre Sasare Dance Katy" 1 r i ENDS TONIGHT: Glenn Ford - VaUl la White Tower" Lew Ayres-Teresa Wrltrht la "The Caetexo" ll ' ' ' - ; 17LX1DG Per Tear Added Pleaaoret Warner Bros. . COLOR CARTOON " "The Lion's Basy" ' Latest Warner News I . 'I I I . . . oi a s ; I rV f -.;.- I warmest. sheat 1 te every i BBEISy DRAKE " 1 1 ' ' I - would be $750,000, the architects said. The proposed new elevator would cost $24,400. Electrical work would cost $19,000. terra cotta ex terior $12,000. painting $14,000. window sash and frames $18,000. The report will be submitted to the 1951 legislature with a request for an appropriation covering the improvement program. FraiikWiUard Dies Following Long Illness Frank J. Willard. S. who was associated with the Willard Art Tile company of Salem until about four months ago, died Friday after a long niness. . Willard was born March 5. 1914. in Salem and was a 1932 graduate oi :aiem hign school. He was mar ried five years tgo to Elsie Collins, wno survives nere. The deceased was a member of the Salem Kiwanis club and of the First Baptist church. Survivors, Salem Obituaries WHXAKD Frank J. Willard. Ul resident of S4S Union st, in this city. September l. at in axe oi as. survivor include hia wUc. Mrs. Elsie Willard. Salem: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Willard. Salem: and brother. Wayne Willard. Salem. 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