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.i ! vei?'B:;.IS)eadl;as HaacTrteaini '; ops PCUND3D 1851 ' KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. I9(jpi-U6n than M pcncu have been killed by the tropical hurricane which swept this British Island Friday sight and Saturday morning. I , i . , It wa the worst storm ever to strike this Carribbeaa Sugar isle. : -Tb island this morning began digging out from thai wreckage which la estimated to total at least $16,800,000. - f , Our democracies indulge in so much self-criticism that we ap- Ear to exploit our own weakness, eads of -the armed services regu larly complain of the inadequacy j of their strength. General Van denberg or the alrforce has made ou- that our alrforce waa really Just a skeleton. The army points with alarm to the 175 or is it 200? divisions which Russia has mobilized in Europe. Complaints are frequently heard cf the slow ness of western Europe to rearm and the seeming indifference of the French and others to sacrifice In preparing for their own de Xense. ' Contrariwise our p u b 1 i 1 1 t s point to t e strength of the USSR and Its satellites. They regard Stalin as the supreme dictator able to loosen his dogs of war at a nod. What we fail to realize is that governing of up to 200.000,000 people is no simple task, even when one is a dictator. That Rus sia has troubles is revealed in re cent purges within the satellites, and by disclosure of the "deaths" of many Russian generals in the age brackets when they should be at their prime. Molotov went to Warsaw for m demonstration, perhaps as much to tighten con trol there as anything. Purges have been reported in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Many rumors are afloat about friction between General Mao and his Chinese revolutionaries end the Kremlin. It would be foolish of course for us to start building aircastles on the foundation U tumor. For years after the Russian revolution 1 the west was periodically assured that the regime was in trouble. But while we cannot safely pre dict any breakup in the vast (Continued on editorial page, 4) PastorKilled In Car Near Idanlia Ufrwii Hew Sendee IDANHA, Aug. 18 A man be lieved to be the Rev. Henry A. Rose, a minister from Florence, was killed in an auto-log truck collision near here today. The wife of the minister, 33, only passenger in the auto, was also seriously injured and removed to a Bend hospital by Idanha Am bulance service. She was reported to be in serious ' condition at tfca hospital tonight with head lacera tions and skull fracture. The fatal accident occurred about 8 o'clock this morning on the San- tiam highway about five miles east of Idanha. The crash came when a loaded log truck and the Rose auto collided almost headon. The auto hit the truck Just back - of the driver's seat Truck driver Harry Dkkerson was not injured. The auto, a 1850 iStudebaker, waa demolished. The body was taken to the "Weddle Funeral home at Stayton. Marion County Deputy Coroner C C Edwards said that papers found on Rose Indicated he was an Assembly of God church min liter. Edward estimated the age of ' the. deceased at about 34. Papers also indicated Mrs. Rose Is a for mer Molalla resident Near 3,000 Hop Workers Needed A shortage of nearly 3.000 work ers has been encountered in the hop harvest, William H. Baillie of the state employment service said Saturday, with the Independence ' area most in need of help. . Picking of early hops is about 20 per cent completed, he said, with the late hop harvest expected to get underway, around Septem ber 1. Baillie said the hop. picking will demand about 10,000 pickers .'at its height : - i Bean picking is now at its peak, he said, with some 12,500 workers In the fields. The harvesting: will continue for the rest of the week. Western International At Yakima S. Salem 1 At Tacoma IS. Wecatcha S At Vancouver 3-4. Victoria T-l At gpoaaae a, Trt-aty , Coast Leag-M At Saa fraadace 13. Portland S At Lm Aaxelea . SaatUe 1 At Sacramento 1. Oakland S (10 las.) a i aaa mego a. uouywooa I -Americas Leagae At New York S. Philadelphia 1 At Qucafo . Ctevclaad V At St. Leuia SO, Datrott t At Washisrtoa t. fiostoa 19 " National Lea- At Borton 3. Brooklyn At Philadelphia a, New York I At Pttubwrf S. Chicafo U At OiwinmU I. St. Loua CrasH In Kingston, toe Island capital, at least 40 persons diedi Including several inmates cf the city poor house and mental hospital. The crops Lin rural areas were devastated, but the complete ex tent of the damage can not be measured yet because the storm knocked out communications with much of the Island. ? (The colonial office in London said inmates of the Kingston jail had escaped but had no further details.) .- r The domlnican republic ship ""La Domlnicana" capasized in Kings ton harbor. The captain and seven crew member! are feared lost Five other ships were dashed ashore: Old City Destroyed The old city of Port Royal, a survivor of the 1907 Jamaica earth quake, 1 was -wiped out by the hurricane. Its tumble-down houses were razed by winds of 120 miles an hour. I ' " I Kingston was out of communi cation with the outside world for 18 hours. The first outgoing reports emphasized that the known toll was only for the capital (popula tion 120,000) and its surroundings, and not the Interior. "' The big blow at 5 pm. (EST) today was reported centered just south of Grand Cayman island. some 200 miles west of Jamaica and 420 miles due south of Key West, Fla. The front was moving at about 15 miles an hour. Cuba Alerted In Cuba, President Carlos Prio Socarras alerted government agen cies to stand! by for emergency work if the blow hits the thinly peopled western tip of that island as expected. Havana was declared out of the hurricane path; ' An American movie company, including Linda Darnell, is in Jamaica shooting scenes. I Weather observers at Miami plotting the course of the blow figured she and the other movie people might be wet and soggy but their location behind a mountain should have protected them from high winds. 'There was no immediate report from the interior on how they fared. l . Motherly Kiss PORTLAND. Aug. 18HP)-Mrs. Mabel Brill, woman grocery store proprietor here; has her own method for dealing with would-be holdup men. I - when a youth about 21 tame in to her store brandishing a toy pis tol and demanding money; she got out the record books to show him a loss of $18 for the month. She offered him the few dollars she had in the cash drawer but he turned it down. Then Mrs. Brill asked him about his mother. The youth made no reply, so she step ped up and placed a motherly kiss on his forehead. - ft He turned on his heel and fled in a car which police reported later was stolen. , .: ents TEHRAN, 'Iran, Aug. 18--Iran presented: counter-proposals tonight in an attempt to settle her oil feud with the British: and a somewhat more optimistic atmo sphere settled over the two-week old negotiations. ' - i Richard Stokes, the British ne gotiator, told reporters after the three-hour meeting: Tn Quite sure the Iranians want to come to a Mttlernent" ,1'.:' .. i - All Shayegan, a member of the Iranian delegation, said there had been an .'informal and friendly ex- ALASKA FLIGHTS START PORTLAND,! Aug. - lMVThe first flight linking Portland and Alaska with daily air passenger and freight service left the air port here at 8ajn. today. 'r FoujsBurglq Iranrres Gounterplan Morse Accuses GOP Solons of 'BiasedS&iticfem' of Mac Firing WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -VPh Senator Morse (R-Ore) today ac cused fellow Republican senators of "highly biased and partisan" criticism of the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur; Morse directed his attack at a report on the MacArthur issue, to be released tomorrow, signed by eight GOP senators. One of the eight Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, promptly retorted: U; The report will speak lor It self. I don't think if a as biased as Senator Morse! - j I Wiley insisted In an interview there was an "historic interval" durinar which United Nations force? could have followed Mac Arthur's proposals and wort all of Korea, leaving that entire country free and united. ' : -. Beating eight GOP eoUeaguea to the gun, Morse issued a statement asserting that President Truman net : only was justified In : firing MacArthur but would have been "derelict ia hU duty if he had not relieved the Jfndfte ccsinand- 2 istice MUNSAN, Korea, Sunday, Aug. l-iVUnited Nations and com munist subcommittees today ended another truce talk as semi-official quarters in Tokyo - echoed the guarded optimism expressed ear lier by Peiping. I As the U.N. two-man subcom mittee flew back here from the Kaesong conference site, a gen eral headquarters information bul letin in Tokyo expressed hope that an "actual armistice may be tin sight" "Perhaps," said the release which . was labeled "unofficial," "the fact that such a subconfer ence was so readily agreed to in dicates that one agreement may lead to another. "If this is so, it Is to be hoped that an actual armistice may be in sight" . - - : Previously, the Peiping radio had said that, adjustment on the deadlocked buffer zone issue was possible and that the subcommit tees had taken the first steps to ward a solution of the deadlock. For the second straight day Sat urday , the 17. N. and communist junior teams had met in a friend lier atmosphere than any shown when the full delegations wrestled with the impasse. . Aerial, Ground Fight Mounts ar TJ. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Sunday, Aug. 19 4JPh Scores of VS. and Red jet j fighters fought ; two flashing air I battles high over Northwest Korea Saturday: : . On the eastern - front Allied ground troops waged their sharp est actions since July 10 when the truce talks began. They were aided by the heav iest; one-point artillery barrage of the j war and the massed fire of the ! battleship New - Jersey, the cruiser Toledo and two destroyers. The air fights swirled six miles over Sinuiju, near the Yalu river boundary of Manchuria. In alL 111 jets! tangled. One Red jet was re ported probably destroyed, anoth er damaged. All the UJ5. jets re turned safely. : j The flaming ground actions broke out at scattered points from northwest of Yanggu to the east coast Eighth army officers said Allied units attacked communist hill! positions but were limited to specific goals. - The fighting was continuing, they added. It was so bitter that hill masses changed hands as much as four times during the day.' Flax Stubble Burns Near Pen Fire in flax stubble burned through about 2 acres at the northeast corner of state peniten tiary grounds Saturday afternoon, city firemen reported. , The fire crossed into state hos pital grounds where it threatened a small compost shed before fire men quelled the blaze. No damage was reported and. cause was un determined, firemen said. Also call ed to right the blaze were Four Corners and prison firemen, it was reported. - :: r ' STATE PAYROLLS KISX WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-(AV The census bureau said today state government payrolls rose $17,000,000 In the 12 months end ed last April 30, although the number of state employes In creased only 9,000. , ' ' " z Eight colleagues, headed by Sen ator Bridges' (R-NH), have sign ed a report on the senate armed services and foreign relations com mittees inquiry into the ouster. The report condemns the methods used! by the president in dis- charging MacArthur and criticizes the administration's Far Eastern policies. The group withheld re lease of their report until tomor row. '. -j.:; v-; "It Is a matter of deep regret to me that republicans on the Joint armed services and foreign rela tions committee are releasing their highly partisan and biased report on the MacArthur case," Morse said, "I am satisfied that time win prove that even as a bit of political strategy they axe making a great mistake. j The record ef the MacArthur fcearirsci gatisSei na completely that the president was not only justified m recalling him but in view cf HacArthur's conduct, it was the president's duty to recall V!n lSUt TEAS Arm Optimisni Grows T rrr ;r mrrr m ivorean W crxo::3-s2 pacts Yea tdr Revives - " i ; 1 v- ."--I r ----- r: - Fair Helper .61 I i SUte Fair discs, to be placed-en dowatown parking meters to publicize the fair which peas September 1, are here shewn to advantage by Fair . Employe Dwyn Ann Ilerberger. The discs carry the" message "Hi-Ho, come to the Fain" t eter to Promote Downtown Salem streets will wear a yellow ribbon by noon to day as a crew completes installs tion of novel meter discs, publi cizing the Oregon State- Fair which opens on Saturday, September L The discs are finished in dihu- ant yellow "day-glo with letter ing in jet black. One disc will ba installed on each meter and will fit in the circular center-part oj the meters facing the sidewalk traffic ,.:r . ., . The discs are copyrighted and especially i designed - for Salem meters to boost the fair. - Approved by the city council, the discs, according to Police Chief Clyde A. Warren, are a part of the meter until the Fair is over, and since they are, any removal or de facing of the Fair meter-ads is subject to the usual penalties for tampering with the city's meters. Ten Killed in 1 ALPENA, Mich., Aug. 18 Ten persons lost their lives and a score more were Injured today when -a southbound Gery hound bus and a big beer truck rammed each other ! on US-23 six miles south of here. j' K Six hours after the crash.'flve of the dead still had not been Iden tified. r. , Among the dead - were - truck driver Arthur Aube, 23, of Ossin eke, Mich, who collided with the bus when, he swerved his big ve hicle to avoid a car pulling out from the side of the highway, - The bus, traveling from Mack maw City to Detroit had left Al pena just a lew minutes before the crash. It carried about 40 passen gers, nearly a full load. ' - ! . - I - Dewey to Visit Alaska " Before Retorning Home PORTLAND, Aug. 18 -M- A visit to Alaska is planned by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey cf New York before he returns home. j Pan American World Airways said Dewey would arrive in Port land Monday noon from a trip to survey the Asian picture. He will and continue from there to Alas ka, the air line announced, i - Max. . M .'-' - 77 . 75 Kia Predp. taleai ., ,., Portlaad Sm rraaeiaeo 13 ti If J09 JM J i Chicago Kew York 7S Wf!1amtt rTr -3.7 fettt. . rOiU CAST (from US. weafber o reaa. McNary fieU. Salem): MoaUy clear today and tonJrtt, High today car 80; t&a Urn tooltot scar 4S. ; SAuaf ntacrjTTATio: 1 glace aurt af Weataer Tear frat. 2 IhlaTear LavtTaae JTormal fjfiaxyj Mwwaj. r 444mm HaaaiaaaMIMM I ' ' 4 ; " Parkins M Help Bus Acc dent Tbm Oregon Skttasoan. Plans to Call atorsif Fast Continues ; x I - By Conrad G. Prange aWf Writer, Th Statesman State Senator1 Douglas R. Yeater of Salem will call a special meet ing ofi the legislative committee on institutions and public welfare if the strike at the state prison does not eikd by Monday to "prod the board I of control into hiring a new warden." i Prisoners at the Institution-have been bn" a no-work strike since Tuesday noon. Mincing no words Sen. Yeater said Saturday that Prison Warden George Alexander must go. S fAlli the recent troubles at the prison stated Yeater, "stem from the fact that the prisoners will never Jike and will never cooper ate with Alexander as warden. A new warden, plus a few changes will alleviate the situation.". I "The prison needs a qualified penologist in charge. At the pres ent the institution is guided by poor administration from the top down.? : Blasts 'at Board j j I Then the pfeppery senator ! teed off against the boar ' of control and what he termed its slowness in choosing a new warden. ! "The board of control has had four months in which to hire a warden. Our committee told the board where it could get informa tion on a new warden. Why all the delay?i S . . .- , i Yeater explained that Sen. Ver non Bull; La Grande, was chair man of; the institutions and public welfare committee. He said he would confer with Bull Monday about the special meeting. Yeater is vice-chairman of the.committee and as such, he said, has the right to call the committee members to gether when "I am on a spot like this." j -: 1 , i Other members of the committee are Sens. Frank ! Hilton and Phil Brady, both of Portland, and Sen. Stewart Hardie, Condon. i Headed by Bull ' The committee; headed by Sen. Bull, created a : furor in prison, press .and public circles when it investigated conditions at the state prison during the last legislative session.! It made a number of rec ommendations. ; i Yeater said' much of unrest at tb.3 prison has come about because some of tnese recommenaauons, "heeded in any good prison,' have not been carried out successfully or have-been ignored. " ' ) ' Asked Segregation I "We '(the committee) recom mended 1 segregation of -hardened criminals - from 1 first N offenders. Now, anyone knows that such seg regation! is a job for a psychologist and should take several weeks. Yet Alexander segregated 125 prison ers from their fellows In one day: - "All j these recommendations, such as segregation, a more ade quate prison rehabilitation pro gram and other improvements, Al exander j can . get If he asks for them"': - i 1 1 -1 Yeater, a Salem appliance deal er, is serving his first term as Mar ion county senator. He also served two terms in the: house of repre sentatives where he served on com mittee studying institutional prob lems and child welfare.- (Story also on page o.) MULTNOMAH FAIR READY " t i -. i H PORTLAND, Aug.' lS-tfVThe Multnomah county fair win open at the Gresham. fairgrounds Mon day. The bpening pf the seven-day show will be preceded by a par ade in downtown Portland Mon day noon ! Alumni' Fail Legisl Lois off Oilier People See It's tool bad the old "alums'! couldn't see the ew Salem city jaiL Members of the police .force kept a courteous, friendly eye out for former "guests", but few thowed up at the open house Saturday, j I Instead, children possibly lured through the jrpadous, clean locking jail by the free dough nuts and pop and women made up the largest part of the visitors. Many of the kids, ! probably not seriously, joked about how much "fun it would-be to spend a little time there! ".i:.-... f i ';- One woman said,' "The floor is cleaner than my kitchen.' ; Hverythin was open,: no doors closed, and big bowls of Cowers gaily decorated the front office of the police i station: while nearly 1000 people toured the jail throughout; the day. Scdesx, Qroozu Sandaj, Angus! Call for New Warden - Crews from Dam Seek to End Stench v. GATES, Aug. 18 Fifteen men armed with gas masks and shov els waded into the stench of thousands of dead fish near here Saturday and started to clean the place up. j The fish are those killed by ammonia released into nearby Santiam river at the Detroit dam site nine days ago. The men were sent into cleanup duty by Consolidated Builders, Inc, con tractors who dumped the fish killing chemical last week. Working in three shifts, five at a time, the men carried the fish up the bank and buried them. Robert Veness, Mill City busi nessman, said the area near Gates was "pretty well cleaned up" last night. But the odor was still strong, he said. : A lot of the dead fish were scooped out of the water imme Fire Danger Forces i -Shutdown of Logging Another fire emergency period loomed in the state today aa a new series of blazes brought closure of ations, f ,. k : The little town of Scottsburg. threatened Saturday night as a 6000-acre blaze continued to rage un controlled in western Lane and Douglas counties. , ' wnue Urea were reported in areas from Newberg south, the most serious fires in. the northwest were in Washington and southern Oregon. A 300-acre ffre 20 miles north west of Roseburg, on Hubbard creek, was still burning out of con trol Saturday night, although the state forestry department had pa trolled three sides of it. Another serious blaze was reported in Cur ry county, on Pistol river, eight miles south of Gold Beach, which had covered between 600 and 600 acres. Humidity there was report ed .down to 20 per cent. State Forester Dwlght L. Phipps ordered all of Oregon west of the Cascades indefinitely closed to log ging operations effective midnight tonight. Western Washington, where two serious fires were burn ing, was closed to logging opera tions Saturday. Merchants and farmers were asked to join loggers and forest crews fighting the Scottsburg area fire. It had jumped the Umpqua river three times, and firefighters said if the wind changed it would threaten Scottsburg. Fire fighting recruiters were sent to Reedsport to seek volunteers. A plane was to be dispatched to determine whether the fire was serious enough to cause evacuation of farms.' The flames had spread into farm pasture lands in spots; firefighters reported. Under control was a 200-acre blaze burning on Chehalem moun tain, west of Newberg. Firefight ers there reported the fire could be stamped out barring unfavorable winds.' I (Additional details on page 6). Mercury Hits 90, But Clouds Expected Soon Possible showers are seen for the extreme northwest part of Oregon by Tuesday or Wednesday, ? Mc Narr' field weathermen said " Sat urday night. And If coastal lows move in, Salem area may receive some rain, too. i ; Hizh yesterday was listed at 90 degrees at the airport, with about the same expected lor today. ; to Visit Salein Jail, But ' The juvenile department was turned into a canteen, dispensing doughnuts and coffee under the friendly service of women in the department, Matron Dorothy Ken nedy, ! Mrs. Sophie MulL ; Mrs. Florence Windsor and Mrs. Jo sephine Fredrickson- Polica Chief Clyde A. Warren said that "it was gratifying to have ao many people come in to see us. It shows the public is interested and I only wish more had come." The "drurJc tank got as much attention as any place in' the building. That ought to whip 'em out of it, was one woman's com ment although just what she in tended by the remark she didn't say.--- ; ; The dnmSl tank is fhe latest in such facilities, With nothing ia it but slatted racks for drunks to IS. 1S51 diately after the tragedy. But the defunct fish which .have risen to the surface since Thurs day are those which had laid on the bottom until recently and oh, boy! . i i Veness said the odor was most concentrated around the Gates are. But, he said, dead fish are visible in shallow pools and hung up onrroots all the way down river to Mehama. ; So far municipal water sup plies in that area are not af fected, j Only one city, Mill City, (about three miles below Gates) draws its t-upply from the river. Chlorination of the water sup ply there was at a high level Saturday, but officials .of Moun tain States Power company said it was within the safety mark. I Salem's source of Santiam river water from wells ; near Stayton is not affected. ; all western Oregon to logging oper in western Dourfas eountv waa Egypt Officers Spurn Channel FOLKESTONE, Eng, Aug. 18 (flVThree Egyptian army officers who starred in the London' Daily Mail's channel swim Thursday are spuming $4,200 fin prizes i from that newspaper. They charge the paper has slandered King Farouk L They expect greater prizes from the king. v . - j. " It was at the prize-giving din ner last night that British-Egyptian relations splashed into , the picture, j' j Mareehj Hassen Hamad, who won the race from France with a time of 12 hours, 12 minutes, was to receive the equivalent of $2,800. His two teammates, who finished among the first five, were to get smaller amounts. But their manager, . Brig. Gen. Mohammed Sabri Bey, arose in their stead and denounced the Daily Mail, saying it practically devoted two of its pages to the exclusive purpose of slandering our king"- . - p . '. , . "No other paper has done more to promote ill-feeling between our two peoples,' Sabri said. "My swimmers requested me this eve ning to say on their behalf be cause of language difficulties they are 'declining their prize money In protest against the cease less attacks on their adngjr. , . The ' managing director of the Daily Mail, Stuart McCiean, ex pressed regret that the Egyptians had raised politics at a purely sporting event and the dinner con tinued. . i i ' The king will take good care of these - three boys, especially. Mareeh, for the honor they have won for our country. j Renovation sleeo on. the tank can be kept clean merely by raising tne racxs and hosing the place down. i The jail," a two-floor structure, contains 10 cells. Five are down stairs, including the drunk tank and the women's cell, and five, including a Juvenile cell, on the second floor. Halls are wide, air eimilation :is good, and bars and locks are sturdy, although not too much in evidence Saturday. . - The touring ended Saturday at 9 pm, and the jail took on the work for which it was designed housing prisoners.' . While the city police presently hare 17 mea assigned to cells ia the Marion - county JaiL police said none of these would be trans ferred until probaily today. Char ter members of the new Jail were those picked up by city police Saturday night. - - r.o. hi n a j at ationof Likins Dud As hungry, stubborn Inmates ef the Oregon state prison entered their fourth day of fasting today, one of the few men their leaders had expressed confidence in said he resigned his job at the prison , because of "lack of cooperation from prison authorities.? 4 He is Robert Likins, former rec reation director at the prison, wha resigned Friday during one of the institution's longest, sit-down strikes in recent years.' The 1,400 convicts, without food since Thursday, have refused to ' work since Tuesday noon. t Following his unexpected resig- ' nation Friday Likins has been un available for comment He left his Portland home early Friday for trip to California , where he in tended to find employment. Clash with Sales Close friends of Likins in Salem said the former recreation diree tor stated his theory of .trying; to rehabilitate prisoners apparently clashed with others prison rules. Likins was quoted as saying prison guards also were not ia sympathy with hit program. Friends stated that Likins said he' took the prison Job in a sincere effort to prepare the convicts lor release back to society. Likins was quoted as saying things "came to a head" during the strike, so he resigned. Members of the recently- '. abolished eight-man inmates ' grievance committee had ex pressed appreciation - for- Likins - -recreational program, f f- Prison authorities said Likins ' resignation was hot connected with the prison strike.' :; Likins Praised . i CoL William C Ryan, super visor of state institutions, praised Likins and said he was "sorry te see him go. I I CoL Ryan said that Warden George Alexander ; had ' assisted Likins as much as possible. "Alex ander gave Likins more assistance and jnore freedom with the prat- - oners than any former recreation director ever enjoyed, he said. Meanwhile convicts - remained quietly " in their cells Saturday. They will get no. food until they decide to wjjrkv Alexander has : safd. The warden said theirs was , the longest strike of its kind at - Resign To Controversy the state prison in ; the 13 years he has been in charge. Na Medical Aid : r None of the convicts has re quested medical aid due to the lack of food. The meager supply' of candy they had in their ceils is undoubtedly long Since exhaust ed. However, It was pointed out, the men could exist without food for several days without serious ill effects because they are inac tive and therefore t require lese energy..-"; : : .'- . ' The inmates went on strike Tuesday noon over their demands that a guard, Li. Morris Race, be . removed to duty outside - the s prison walls.' This the warden has refused to do. ' ' i - r - f -" Unless the strike ia broken Mon- 7 day operation of the prison can nery will be taken over by a fores . of workers from the state hospi- taL Prison guards have been op erating the cannery, in the middle of its annual bean-canning season, since the strike began. - Bean picking on shares, usually : carried on by about 100 convicts, , has been halted, with the result rj that other state institutions which have depended upon the prison-. cannery for canned foods will be required to obtain; canned sup plies from other sources. - Warden Alexander saw batur- . day that he has received many letters and telephone cans irom the f public backing him ' on the show-down measures he has taken -against the striking prisoners. Firemen Halt ! ; ' I gtatetaaaa Xaws. Jerries : 4 KEIZER -A grzn and Slog fire Saturday afternoon threatened two homes in the area between Cherry avenue and River, road at the juncture of . Sunset S avenue. The flames were mailed; by. that Keizer rural fire department. ; The fire started on the property cf Hugh Adams la a wire basket -behind the McCune Food Sale Co. plant. Burning rubbish spread to old logs and grass and tha flames were carried uphCl toward two homes until they were stopped by the firemen. i Keizer