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Assassination of Abdullah is for Uneasy Middle East Area Develops New Cris CRT U'D JTQ Representatives of O it C land grant counties have approved the action of Senator Guy Cordon in moving to reduce the share the counties receive from proceeds of ale from O it C lands from per cent to 50 per cent. But County Judge Day t. ayiy 01 i-an county does not agree. He says the counties stand to lose sz,oou,uuu vear if the concession is made. The story Is simple: When the federal government recovered the remainder of the land grant for construction of the Oregon ". and California railroad (now part f the Southern Pacific) the coun ties lost the tax income they were deriving from the lands. Appeals were made to congress which C nally agreed to pay .the counties stuns in lieu of taxes. In doing this the treasury was "out" a con siderable sum. Then in 1837 an act was passed. Congressman Mott being the chief sponsor, wnicn fixed the county share at 50 per cent of the proceeds of sales from the lands, and set aside 25 per cent to liquidate the advances made oy the federal treasury. It also pro vided that when the advances were liauidated the 25 per cent also should go to the counties. This point has been reacted this year, so under the 1937 act counties are due to get 75 per cent. As the income now is running around $8,000,000 a year Bayly is correst in saying the counties stand to Ise S2,QOO,000 a year. But that isn't the whole story. As congressmen saw this large share going to counties they shut down on appropriations ior man agement of the lands, clipping $800,000 off administration costs and $1,000,000 for access roads. That automatically would reduce the amount of timber (Continued on editorial page 4) Pet Parade, Bean" Feed at Stayton Today Statesman Ntwt ferriea STAYTON, July 20 A parade of pets and a big bean feed take the spotlight Saturday as the an nual Stayton Bean festival reaches I. -t: - . i Parade entries number 400, with wide variety of pets, costumes and youngsters planning to par ticipate, along with such outside attractions as Salem's marching Cherrians, -a Salem Legion drum and bugle corps, the Cougar Sad dle club and bands from Silverton, btayton and Independence. Immediately following thm na rade which forms at 5:30 pjn. will be the eommunltv iwintr at the festival around, f eaturinr a bean. hot dog, salad and ice cream mentu iater in ine evening will be a Public dance at the civic buildin In the Thursday night talent snow, sweepstakes honors went to tanara unnstiance of Alpine, 1 15-year-old fancy rope Jumper. -Senior division winners were 1. Gary -Ward and Dave York, biayton, a cat ana Bird panto mime; 2, singer Duane Heuberger, Sublimity; 3, Tom and Jim Tate, Sublimitv. nlano-drum duet. ' Junior division winners: 1, Jane regg, Albany, tap dancer; 2, a ML Angel dance revue featuring nine youngsters; 3, Janice Wrig clesworth, Corvallis, song and bal- Max. z Mia. S3 S3 M Fred p. M joe M xo talent Portland San Francisco Chicaro ss ss 71 Hew York wuiamone Klver -SJ feet "- FORECAST (from U. S. wtttlwr bu- Tau. . .MeNary nkl. Salem); Mostly clear today, tonight and Sunday. Warmer this afternoon with the hlfh .today boat SS and tht lowest toaiaht Mtr SO. - - IAUH FMCOTTATION -Sine Start of Weather Tew Sept 1 This Tear - Last Year Normal 4S.S4 - 43.73 rua Animal Crackers fy WARREN COOOftlCM o HAvpo.maDT Wh dealt timeur V3 JERUSALEM, July 3O-0P-Jor-dans King Abdullah a friend of Britain who wielded strong force in the Arab world, was assassin ated today beside a mosque in old Jerusalem. . f . i ... r The slaying, on territory Abdul lah took over in the Palestine war and ruled as "King of Jerusalem," brought a new political crisis to the troubled middle i east, The 89-year-old ruler was cut down by pistol bullets as be was going to pray at the tomb of his fattier at coon 5 on . the Moslem sabbath. - - r'l : He had claimed he was the old est living descendant of the pro- pnei Monammed : Saeensnbe en Doorstep He was born in Mecca, and he died on an inner doorstep of the Aqsa mosque in the compound of the towering mosque of Omar that embraces the dome of the rock. Koranic scripture says Mohammed rose to heaven on a white horse from the rock. 1 y . The assissin was killed on the spot by Abdullah's bodyguard. An' official announcement later said the assassin was a 21-year -old Jerusalem t Moslem tailor named Mustapha' Shukry Ashsho, or Ashou. The Arab news agency ana otner sources said ne was member of the "sabotage corps" or aemouuon squad i of an un derground group - called - "The Sacred Struggle Organization." Two high-ranking officers with Abdullah were reported wounded. An earlier report from informed British sources identified the killer as Mustafa Shakir and said he hadJ put cunnccuozis ; wiu i ine exuea former Mufti of Jerusalem, ne living in Cairo, i n In the new part of Jerusalem: ruled by Israel. Abdullah's death was mourned by Israelis who had looked on him I as j a hope for peace in the middle east There was a feeline that his a. sassination was a dear blow to the prospects for; continued nego tiation Detween Jordan and Is raeL He was the only "Arab ruler who dealt with Israel in the oast three years. f I 4 Abdullah's body was flown-back m Amman. ? . : -At Odds With. Arabs 1 V. The vigorous, bearded .kinr .3 ieet .4 inches talL had been at vuaa wiui nu Aran neignDor mon- J J IlL , . w ' ... arens from time to time over the Tears. Abdullah wa a ffrct wnrl war ally "of Lawrence; of Arabia and a protege of Winston Church- m on the checkerboard of mid east politics.' ;:. .j r . ': The Jordan radio In Abdullah' capital. Amman announced his 35-year-old- second son. Emir (Prince) Naif was immediatelv namea recent to rule over the 300,000 Jordan subiectsi The rarfin then, began "Jordan's official mourning period with verses from me Koran chanted by the mullahs taaosiem priests). v - The Jordan rule also inrlnd old Jerusalem and a slice of Pal estine won by Abdullah's British - supported Arab Legion in the war against the Israelis in the late 1940s. .. 7 i- i VioIentWinds HitMisota: Three Killed MINNEAPOLIS, July 20 roaring, 100-mile-an-hour wind storm cut a swath of destruction through eastern South Dakota and central Minnesota, killing three persons and injuring upwards of 100 tonight f " '" violent lighning bolts set num erous small fires. Trees toppled in violent gusts to cut power lines blackout large areas in the storm's path. Acres of grain crops aunost reaay ior harvest were eveled. . . : 1 Two deaths came at St. An thony, a north Minneapolis sub- urb. when the wind and deluge of rain collapsed the roof of a food store crowded with? Fridav nlsrht shoppers. ; 1 f ; " Ernest Nelson. EL Anthonv fire chief, said bodies of a man and woman were caught in the tons of aeons ana Jumbled canned moaA. He added that removal of the hod. led would require some time. -; ; in bu FauL four-months-old errence Mala died shortly after chimney on the familv ham toppled, pierced th roof and cov ered the crib with bitckj ad.otr w ucuiia, - i. 1 . .. - . Fifty Nations, To Join in By Edward E. Bomar WASHINGTON, July . 20 -V The United States today Invited 50 nations, including Soviet Rus sia, to Join in signing ! the Japa nese peace treaty at a conference opening September 4 at San Fran cisco. ; . ' J j" ' - ; Conspicuously Tni from the invitation list were both the com munist and nationalist -govern ments or czuna.sand Italy. Also omitted were South Korea and three new French-sponsored states of Indochina.1 f Russia, which? has denounced both the proposed ipeace of re concilliation" and the manner in which the terms were worked out is expected to refuse to sign. It is 4 considered , possible neverthe less : that Moscow i mt " send delegates to the conference to at tack the treaty. a r,-- - Japan will have' the right after the treaty goes I into ! effect to make peace separately wi'Ji the Slain SSSMSSSISSBS i 4 J King AbdollaJi of Jordan, friend f the United States, who was assassinated in Old Jerusalem Friday. His death created a m crisis in the already troubled middle easL , i Blaze Races . 4 i ; J Out of Control 1 , A menacing forest fire broke out of control in the old Tillamook burn area Friday afternoon and had raged over nearly 600 acres early today. i ;Tne fire broke out on a half- mile front at the head of Elkhorn creek, IS miles easTof Tillamook, and ran northeast A strong south west wind pushed the flames into slashings and second-growth tim ber. Smoke from the blaze , was visible In Salem last evening. .The wind slacked off later, after foresters had summoned all fire fighting crews in the northwest Oregon fire district " Foresters feared a six-year jini struck the Tillamook born area again Friday. Huge fires have need ever the area every six years, since 1933, when .the first of the great fires destroyed' 270,000 acres of timber. T Foresters said that at least five state crews and many -logging crews were on the fire line, lalt night More men were scheduled to join in the fight at dawn today. ine lire started lust a dav after the area was reopened to logging after several days' closure because of low humidity. When humiditv rose, logging was allowed to re sume. ? i ' 1 - j,- j Start of the blaze was on C F. Laughlin logging operations in felled and bucked timber. The scene was about a mile from an Apru ourn mat aamagea. con siderable timber. . VM Acres Bit Far to the south, still the largest uregon rare was racing tnroush pine stands of the Fremont na tional forest northwest of Lake- view. An estimated 3200 acres of timber have been so far destroyed. Jive nundred men and 11 bull dozers were on the fire line yester day- attempting to bring the fire wnicn ior a time roared throueh the forest at a 200-acre-an-hour clip. . Guy Johnson, regional, fire dis patcher for the U. S. forest ser vice said yesterday that crews hoped to have the blaze controlled by this morning.' The weather bureau said hu midities throughout the state would remain low-today. High temperatures and continuing winds also were forecast BABS FKZX AGAIN CUEENAVACA. Mexico. July 20 Dime store heiress Bar bara Button has won her Mexican divorce from her fourth husband. Judge Alfonso Roqueni said today ne signea July i ta decree free ing Barbara from Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Including Russia, w - 1 Tillamook Burn Signing Japanese Peace Treaty nations which tail to sign at San srancisco. uuna was lert out to avoid a showdown between the United States and Britain over whether the nationalists or communists should be invited. Italy, a late en trant in tne world war XI lineup against Japan, was ignored be cause officials deemed it inap propriate for a former axis part ner to make peace cn the same terms as the nations which began fighting at the time of Pearl liar- Dor. The South Korean republic and the new Indochina states ef Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, came into being years after V-J day. Also the Indochina governments have not been recognized by some of the Asiatic nations which the United States is anxious to have join in the settnent This anxiety was reflected in a state department announcement today that the touchy Issue of reparations will be left csen at least until Aturt 13. This was a lOlatTEAB 12 PAGS3 . Thm Qregoa Statesanon. Scdam. Orsro SrhirdaT. JnlT 11. 1S31 mCE So No. ,,s n n Controls Measure Passes WASHINGTON. July 21-(Sat uraayiHn-The house early to day passed a new economic con trols bill! with administration forces dramatically snatching par tial victory in a sudden and un expected reversal of past defeats. inai pasage . came on a roll call vote of 323 to 82. The bilL which extends con irois in ; mocunea xorm tor one year, now goes to a senate-house conference i to settle conflicts in the separately passed versi Differts from Senate ' The senate has already passed an eignt-month extension. It dif fers in many respects from the house bill. : 1 , Weary legislators staggered from the floor following passage at 12:05 a.m EST, after 14 solid hour no f gruelimg see-saw battle in the final showdown. A last-minute republican mo tion to send the bill back to com mittee for further study was de feated by S vote of 29a to 117. Although it also suffered se vere setbacks in the showdown voting, the administration .suc ceeded in beating: , X. An amendment forbidding nrice eeilinm unless thev permit ted businessmen to make "a rca f sonable profit" on every line of goods they handle. Z. An amendment denrinr the administration power to - impose ceilings which would deprive meat processors of a profit on any line of meat - 3. Another amendment "frees- lng" price land wage ceilings for 120 days, except on farm pro ducts and rents. Administration men had said this freeze, ;by preventing the cor rection of "inequities. would deal the whole control system a death Mow. Backers of the freeze said. on the other hand,- that it meant real halt to inflation, pending study of further steps. V In van earlier 'wurftSrSSUSe plumped for relaxed credit curbs on new and used autos, household appliances - and homes. It went further than the administration wanted in this direction. Ante Terms Spread It 'agreed to permit auto pay ments to be spread over 21 months instead of 15 as to present The down payment on new cars would remain one-third, as now, but the down payment on used cars would be changed to 25 per cent instead of one-third. ; The chamber decided to lower down payments on household ap pliances, including television sets, to 15 per cent from the preent 25 per csent Payments could be spread over 18 instead of 15 months, and trade-ins could ap ply toward the down payment . On homes, purchasers would be required to pay only 10 per cent down on homes costUigsup to $10, 000 if the house version is ac cepted by the senate and signed by President Truman. Driver Slain; Soldier Held PENDLETON, Ore, July 20-UP) -A motorist was found shot to death on the highway about 50 miles west of here today. State police identified him as Anthony Peter Alpp of Weston, Ore., a construction worker at McNary dam. A soldier from Fort 'Lewis, Wash, Ray Alyn Barber, 17, HiUs boro. Oreiwas held at Hecsner in connection wun tne slaying. morrow county Sheriff CJJ3. Baumanr said the young soldier had admitted the shooting. - Barber was picked ud near the scene of the shooting by state po nce omceriLreorge Harris. Invited concession ' to the Philippines which has been up in arms since the publication of the treaty draft last week rules out any big in demnity payment The Philippines has estimated its occupation losses at more than $8,000,000,000. The treaty formula recognized in principle' that Japan would pay. But because of cloudy pros pects for Japanese economic re covery, it provided only for lim ited - reparations to- be paid through Japanese industrial skills. The treaty formula permits Japan to make agreements to process raw materials for the Philippines and other occupied countries. President Truman today ap pointed a 10-man - delegation to represent the United State at the signing. Chief delegates are Sec retary of State Acheson, Ambas sador John Foster Dulles; repub lican adviser to the state depart ment who handled treaty negotia tions; Senator CcnnaHy (D-Tex.) and Senator Wiley (E-Wis.). j uu Prepare war i i Its swab down the decks, even tn a dry-land D. S. navy exhibit Sailors with the exhibit at Marion eounty eomttetise sqaare proviaVd an interesting note to spUtora as they doffed sho, took swabs in hand and washed away thenst of travel from the vans and trailers. Particularly interested above is; Kenneth Singleton. 1137 E. Rural st, watchin g AN Don Onabnrr? Wart! wih down thJ Phantom FH-1 twin-Jet flshter In the display. (Additional Staiean pb.U and r Dike-Smashin TRecord 11 ST. LOUIS, July 20 -JPh The muddy Missouri rammed its big gest flood crest in more than a century , to within a few miles of the swollen Mississippi tonight leaving behind at least 27 dead and a billion dollars in damages. 1 It battered down dike after dike as it completed its paralyzing Journey across the state from Kan sas City, which suffered the heav iest blow from flood waters, that Eured down off the Kansas plains it week. Five Miles Wide With its dike-smashing blows. the un tameable Missouri flattened hout for milesacross the country side.! At points ii was five miles widei ; Its crest passed St Charles, Mo., the last town of any size between it and its juncture with the Mis sippi, today and was expected to push the Mississippi up to 40.3 feet here by midnight Saturday. That would be the highest mark for the river since 1844. : Most of St Louis, on high ground, was out of the flood dan ger zone, nut precautions were taken here against a water short age and contamination of the supply. -Residents Stay Pat The Red Cross has set up flood relief shelters lor 3,720 persons in Missouri, exclusive of the Kansas City area. It is feeding 6,800, Even as. the Missouri neared Its tumultuousVrendezvous with the Mississippi, Ihe 300 residents of West Alton at the Juncture refus ed to leave their homes in the face of crumbling levees. Water stood three-feet deep in some of the houses. The coast guard stood by reaay ior rescue work. OPERATORS ON STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO. July 20-V Telephone operators - struck the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company In northern California and Nevada today after failure to reach agreement on wage de mands. - r 1 Western International At Tri-Ctty It Salem 4 At Victorl 4. Vancouver U At Wwatrtm 4-4. Yakima S-0 ' At Taoocna 11. Epokaao a - - . - J- - Coast Leant Jit Forttaad 3. San rraodaco 11 rAt SeatUo S. HoUywood S At Loo Anrelea 7, San ZHero f At Oakland 3, Sacramento I ' .' National Leagne' ' ' At firookTyn a, St Louis S At New York 11. Cincinnati S At Boston IU Pittaburett At Ptilladdeiphia A, Chicago 3 ' Amerlean Ieagae At Detroit , Boaton J - r At Chicago L Washington S A St. Louis . tiew York 1 At Cleveland t FhUadelpbia Missouri Adds nn . - " n I r-s : .h . ? 2m Exhibits for Public Today 91 Hot Customer Cools Off by Warming Ice Sale Mactine SEATTLE, July 20-qr-The customer got a chill reception from the ice vending machine He put in 50 cents to get some ice. The machine kept the 50 cents, and the ice, too. So, sheriffs deputies report ed, the customer cooled off by wreaking $110 damage to the device. Behind the machine the dep uties found'. message today which probably explains every thing: "This thing owes me 50 cents' Missing Near Olallie Lake An 8-year-old Portland boy was missing in tne mountains 30 miles east of Detroit early today. Forest rangers and others searched for young Blain Myers rrom io to 10 pjn. Friday with out locating a trace of him. The boy was reported to have disappeared while walking ahead of bis father, Stanley F. Myers, 3419 NX 82nd ave, Portland, dur ing their outing in the vicinity of surprise laice, wnicn -is near the Skyline trail in the heavily forest ed uiaiiie lake area. In Salem the state police head quarters instructed Officer Char les McKelvey, stationed at Idanha, to join in the search when it resumes at 7:30 this morninc State ponce ameers rrom other areas also are to help In the search. Zigzag ranger station resorted last midnight that U. S. forest service crews scoured the area within 5 miles of Surprise lake for nine hours. Archie Mills, rang er of the Bear Springs station, led the search party. . The boy's father and another Portland man,' who was with him at the time of the boy's disappear ance, pressed the search long after oarkness. They could not be reached by telephone, and the ranger head quarters at Zigzag had no report of where the Portland barty had been camping or visiting. - Olallie lake lies Just across the Marion county line at the summit of the Cascades in Jefferson coun ty. The area is within the lit Hood national forest. EZSF EECOSSnSSIOXTD ASTORIA. July 20-V-Th navy recommissioned another ship from the mothball fleet today. It was tne tug Apache, the ninth vessel recommissioned here. The Apache took part in tLe Pa cific campaign of world war IL tTrcoLrsALE phics lzc? WASHINGTON. Julv 23 (JP Wholesale price dropped another naii one per cent curing, te week ended July 17. Portland Boy ElfsttomEl ves or Board Chairmanship Possibility that Robert L. FJf sbrom might replace Carl Hogg as chairman of the Oregon liquor control commission was reported in tne omng Tiaay. Both are Sa lem businessmen.' . Elfstrom said freely that he's considering such an appointment, but beyond that there has been no official indication of commission changes since Hogg tendered his resignation to Gov. Douglas Mc- rkay several months ago. f xjwwom, rormer baiem mayor ana League or Oregon Cities pres went, said he was studying all phases of tEe liquor board pro gram, pending a decision as to an appointment He hinted he would n't take the post without assur ances that "certain c h a n ge-t" wouia oe maae in the liquor' de partment setup. . Reports from Portland coupled the Elf strora speculation with the assertion thatihe liquor adminis trator's job woitld be taken over Dy Fred Peterson. Portland citv commissioner. Present administra tor is William Hammond, recently under fire from a Multnomah grand jury which made a liquor investigation, i - Gov. McKay at that time voiced bis continued confidence in Ham mond. The governor, . vacationing at the coast, was not availame--for comment last night PRESIDENT SAILS WASHINGTON.uly 20WAV4f President Truman and a small party of friends sailed aboard the Yacht Williamsburg today for an overnight cruise on the Potomac Con Man Admits For Thousands WASHINGTON. July 20-UPV- ine iaDuious sam Mason admitted today that he tapped "clients" for thousands in "sewer money" on promise to bribe Washington of- uciais. "Bu't he asked senators, "what's wrong wun that?" In answer, a senate Investigat ing committee turned over his tes timony to the justice department and internal revenue bureau, with a. view or prosecution. - The committee has chanced that Mason fleeced "gullible victims." including two Greek Orthodox priests, , out of a third of a million dollars.- . ' -:r-: . ,fost of it was supposed to be used in lining up bargain dollar- year leases on government buildings.. There would be a lot cf buildings available, he told bis cents, because the government as going underground to escape as atomic attack. - The committee said the 59-yea- cld Mason of I Jew York, is really a Russian-born confidence man by Liqii Delegates Return to Munsan MUNSAN. Korea CarJ.' July 21-Showdown talks f an armistice In the bloody Korean war were recessed today until next Wednesday : at communist re quest -1 f i The blr issue seemed in k red demand for agreement now on the question of withdrawal of for eign troops from Korea. The allioe regard this as political and not a condition for a cease-fire.. However, before the recess m announced, a spokesman at Gen. Matthew B. Ridgways headquar ters in Tokyo said h that was not the Only point Of disaffreemont k. tween the allied and red delega tions. He did not elaborate. An unexnlained ttemn k. U. S. army to kiU? news of the recess after issuance of an offi cial announcement J resulted in some delay and confusion the status of the negotiations. At the nearbj United Nations peace camp, speculation as tn t- sons for the request of red KoieW Gen. Nam U for the recess cen tered on:::, .., , :':' ; ! - (1) The possibility that the retW unprepared for the allies' adamant. stand on : withdrawal of ; foreign troops,- want to reconsider their entire position and get new order from higher levels, r i i ' t (t) That an agenda for diseae sion of cease-fire talks has been agreed upon and only details re- main to be, studied before being worked out in new meetings. The. United Nations delegation! returned to the peace camn a 12:44 pjn. (7:44 pjn.; PDT. Fridav in four helicopters. A misting rain veuea meir landing; i inia following official announce ment was released: t ;? - rThe , conferees "recessed this morning at 11UJ3 a, m. At lluHO a. m.. the conference reconvened. At 11:38 a-,m. the meeting ended.- fc Admiral "Joy gtated. the corn id u- nist delegation asked for a ret-a until July 23 and Admiral Joy agreed to this request" ; . KiU Order Lifted N In Tokyo, general headquarters distributed this official release sum! then asked that it be "killed." . . A few minutes later, after con siderable pressure from news agencies, the kill order waa lifted. The communists demanded a agreement now on t the question of withdrawing foreign troops from the mountainous, ravaaed peninsula.";', )-:... ; ;p- , The allies have insisted this question is political and cannot be a condition for a miiitarv cease fire. ' if - . . It was the eighth meeting of tae allied and red delegations. Vee-' terday's sessions - was ' postponed after streams prevented the U. Je. fivei-membeX group from reaching Kaesong by jeeps. ? An allied source said r Friday "there is no great reason for opti mism.' on the possibility of set tling T the issue of withdrawing l , troop from Korea. I Even if this issue is solved, xt will not mean a cease-fire, bt merely an agreement on what sue- . ject to discuss in seeking a cease fire. Photographer Irko Egyptians'King LUGANO. Switzerland. July 29 -Honeymooning King Farouk of Egypt and his party c f t flounced back to Italy In a buff today because a i photograpbar -snapped the monarch's picture. Farouk doesn't like to have hie picture taken without perroissma and objected to a Swiss choteg-. Jber last night Police seized the tt - amera and film from Fax cuke bodyguard and returned them lat er to the unidentified pbotcgrj-h- er. -.-.-r.;.;.,. .jh.i. r, :v . Taking Clients inlBribe Monev the name of Mussman with a crise inal record a yard long. : Mason, who said he once stuffed money into his hollow wooden leg; testified he had taken $834)00 from "clients" but said he bed turned over most of the money to a mys terious "Mr. Zungart," . now na Australia. ... : :';r r .- " He also admitted he had net. filed an income tax return sine 1829. because he never had ry money left at the end of the He said be lost a lot on the ponin. The pudgy, florid-faced witnese speke calmly in a guUeral vck-e. The committee included in tte testimony a criminal record rt tributed to Mason under the me of Mussman. It daes from 1922"umz includes a long list of indictments and charges for mail fraud, Ugum stock deals and larceny. At least two jail . rente es are included, the last cne a threa t four y&r term at Charles town. Mass, far larceny. The nurj was released ii November, 1943. aai trrart nt - has I clean record ever iin t: 1
