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!i:()ipiiiii! Wheat' Quota 777. TT1 WMed POUNDBD 1651 mrmers 1C3ED TEAR I 12 PAGES Tnn Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon Saturdar, August 15. 19S3 PBICE-Sc No. 13S - ' " - ; JaY Jp 3 I LRf I attended as much as I cfuld of the sessions of the Interstate Association of Public Land Coun ties yesterday but was absent when the D'Ewart bill, HR 23, was discussed by Forrest Coolers, counsel for the Association, hho appeared in its behalf in up port of the bill at a congression al hearing. Cooper spoke in up port of the bill and decriedf the objections to it raised by Oregon editors. What he failed to do was to justify the action of withe Association in taking a stand on this legislation. It has : nothing to do with county governnnt The legislation affected the grant ing of licenses to range livestock, particularly in national forjtsts. It altered the methods forjf re view of administrative decisions, and confirmed the permittee: in the right! of selling or assigning his permit Neither Cooper, iior the officers- of the association, attempted to explain why fthe county governments as siich should take sides in this feat ter in which stockmen are lined up on one side and conservation ists on the other. m Cooper 4 endeavored to 1 pi k President Eisenhower to fthe stockmen's bill by a rather cir cuitous route. Citing the Presi dent's general message on 6 re source conservation of July 30th and then the bill S 2548 intro duced by Senator Aiken dealing with grazing in national forests. Cooper gave the impression hat this Aiken bill was very similar to (Continued on editorial pagej4) Roy Simmons, Finance Firm! President, Difs .Hoy Harmon Simmons, Sa&m Route 9, Box 590, president! 6f General Finance Corp., died eIy Friday afternoon in a Salem jos- Eital following a year's illness, e was 60. CimmAm! arViA 4 4 man 4a Cawm 26 years ago and established Gen eral Finance Corp., which the had operated since, became pe riously ill last Saturday and fas taken to the hospital. g He was a breeder and exhibitor of American saddle show hordes and at one time managed She Oregon State Fair Horse Sfow or three years. He was one a member of the Oregon Mounted Posse. Active in civic and pubficjaf fairs, Simmons held member ship in the Elks, Rotarians, Ariser ican Legion, the National Asso ciation of Consumers Finance po. and was a past president of he Small Loan Association of he State of Oregon. Widow Survives He was born in Brookings, S3)., Sept -.2, 1892, the son of Frfnk X. and Bertha Simmons. Jfne 10, 1919 he married Miss Bertha Dahlstrom at Havre, Mont. ihe survives him. ; A veteran of World War Line held the rank of sergeant majbr. Surviving, besides his widiw, are two daughters, Mrs. Jaraes B. Haley and Mrs. Charles Barc lay, both of Salem; one sis$er, Mrs. AUa H. Alvord, Winfigld. Kan.; and two brothers," Fonifest E. Simmons, Eugene, and Deltjert F. Simmons, Ottertail, Minn. Services Monday ft Funeral services will be hfeld Monday, Aug., 17, at 1:30 p. Jim. under the direction of W. T. Ms don Co., the Rev. George Sft 'officiating. Interment will folfbw at Belcrest Site of the funeral Services will be announced later. Pallbearers are C. W. Paufus, P. D. Quisenberry, Asel Eff, Breymon Boise, Keith Brown ipd Daniel J. Fry. Honorary pallbear ers are Paul Hendricks, James B. Young, F. G. Mason. WayneP. Loder, Linn C. Smith, Keith Pow ell and Charles Huggins. I Animal Crackorl 6v WARREN GOODRICH I TH006MT tHJ VEftS WW JO. fa'WS.THE.ANTSif -C- J: 23 Fires Reported In State Cooler weather and a slight rise in humidity is expected for Oregon, but forest fire danger will continue. Twenty-three fires none of them large were reported Fri day through out the state to the Forestry Department This did not include 14 small fires set by lightning in the Umpqua Na tional Forest in Southern Oregon. The WeatherBufeau in Port land forecast continuing electri cal storms over the week end, particularly in south central and southwestern sections and over the Cascades. No fires of any sue were re ported in mid-valley areas, but Salem roasted again yesterday with the high temperature hit ting 94. Quickly Extinguished A small grass fire broke out yesterday afternoon at the Frank Meeker residence,! 2880 Pioneer Dr., but was quickly put out by Liberty-Salem Heights firemen. Salem Fire Chief Ellsworth Smith said burning permits would be issued for the morning hours only until the fire hazard lessened. 1 Lightning was blamed for 15 small fires in the state. Ten of these were in the Medford area, three near Klamath Falls and two in eastern Lane County. Due to Logging Logging fires burned over six to eight acres in Clackamas County and 20 acres in Lane County. Salem experienced a sharp tem perature drop Friday afternoon when the mercury plunged from the high of 94 at 2:30 p.m. to 62 degrees at 8:30 p.m. The weather man said the 32-degree drop was due to a sharp increase in clouds and a fresh westerly wind. Friday was Portland's hottest 'day of the year 96 degrees. Other readings: The Dalles 105, Medford 99, Pendleton 98, On tario 97, Roseburg 93, Eugene 90. Japan Firm Given Contract For Insulators PORTLAND (Jfi The Bonne ville Power Administration Friday announced approval by Assistant Interior Secretary Fred G. Aan dahl of a contract to the Nippon Gaishi Kaisha. Ltd.. of Nagoya, Japan, for 100,000 high-voltage sus pension insulators. The Japanese firm bid $300,000 for the contract. Sample units passed all electrical and mechan ical tests which were part of the specifications. Its bid also, met a 23 per cent differential below do mestic offers. Lowest domestic bidder was Porcelain Products Co.. of Park ersberg, W. Va.. $408,000. BPA also announced award of a contract for two banks of 345,-000-volt transformers to the.Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co.. Mil waukee, Wis. The bid was-$2,005,-378. American EDn Corp. of Austria and Ferranti Electric, Ltd.. of England submitted lower offers, but failed to meet specifications of experience in the field of very high voltage and large capacity equipment. The transformers will be used on a transmission line delivering power from McNary Dam to the Portland area. , Upton Selected As Senator 'From New Hampshire CONCORD, N. H. ()p) Robert W. Upton, 69 year old Concord lawyer, Friday was appointed to succeed his long time friend, Charles W. Tobey in the United States Senate. Upton, a Republican, will serve until January, 1935. The remaining two years of the late Sen. Tobey's term will be filled at the state elections in No vember, 1954. Western International At Victoria 4-3. Salem 13-3 Tt Vancouver 3-5. Yakima 0-4 At Edmonton 9, Calcarr 10 . At Lewtetoa 4-26. Tri-City 3-3 At Spokane 1. Wenatchec 3 Coast League At HottTwood T. Portland 15 At San Diego . Los Augelr 1 At Seattle 3. Oakland 4 At San Francisco 9, Sacramento 4 y: National Leagne At Chicago 11, Milwaukee 4 ; At CincinnaU 3. St. Loui I At New York. Philadelphia fram) At Brooklyn, Pitta burgh rainj America a Leagne ;t Detroit , Chteago At St. Louis T. Oevelaad At Boston. WaahiRgtoR raiB At Philadelphia. Mew York (rain) Young Crusaders Stage Street Parade , IS- l: Winding up the first week of a two-week Bible school at the Wesleyan Methodist Church Friday these four kids and 68 others staged a parade through Salem streets. They are bedecked in hats and banners they made at the school. Shown above from left to right are Judith Perkey, 475 S. 17th St; Marcia Freisen, 445 S. 16th St; David -Kaufmann, 352 S. 16th St, and Jean Sloan, 395 S. 16th St (Statesman Photo) (Church news also on Page 12.) Okinawa in Path of Mighty Typhoon Hurricane Veers From New England NAHA, Okinawa tfl A mighty typhoon perhaps the greatest ever recorded in the western Pacific howl-roared down Saturday on this U. S. island base; A Ryukyus headquarters spokes man said at noon that winds up to 50 miles an hour: were whipping the island. "The sky is a yellowish grey, typical of typhoon periods," he said, "but it is not raining yet." Various reports put the wind velo city near the howling vortex of the storm mass at speeds ranging from 138 to 194 miles an hour. The baro metric reading was 28 inches of mercury, possibly a record low. American soldiers; airmen and their families and islanders huddled in cement structures and typhoon shelters awaiting the big blow. Lt. Jim Wolff of the Okinawa Air Base communications center said "we will.be within the rone of the typhoon itself," 3 p.m. (10 p.m. Friday. PST). s Welff said the center of the ty phoon mass would be 200 miles away at that time: and within 100 miles by 3 a. m. Sunday (11 a. m. PST. Saturday). "It may take some time in pass ing, probably about 24 hours." Wolff said. "If the typhoon holds its present course, it should come right over the top of us." That means 24 hours of flailing, ham merlike winds, pounding unceas ingly at every object in their path. Planes Watch Air Force weather planes kept a close watch on the boiling storm mass. The typhoon chasers bored iq to the eye of the typhoon to record the size and ferocity of the monster phenomenon. Clark Air Base in the Philippines reported peak wind velocities of 175 miles an hour. Air Force meteorologists on Okin awa said the latest morning check showed top winds of 138 miles an hour, but earlier sustained wind velocities had hit 194 miles per hour. Ocean Water Heat The mighty engine of destruction, powered by heat from ocean water, was moving toward Okinawa at 10 to 12 miles an hour. Some Air Force planes left Okin awa for safer bases and others were battened down against the approaching storm. A number of B29 four-engine bombers from Okinawa landed Fri day night at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Four B17s landed at Manila International Airport. Into Cement Buildings Throughout Friday night, U. S. Air Force and Army men and their families streamed into cement block structures equipped with shut ters to break the fury of the wind. Enlisted men were boused in bar rack-like structures with steel shut ters, each holding about 200 men. Maj. Maurice R. Fowler, spokes man for the Ryukyu Command, said the whole island had been "battened down." While gusts have been estimated as high as 250 miles an hour in hurricanes or typhoons, the highest sustained wind velocity at a sur face station is 188 miles an hour, according to weather . records. MORRIS SUCCUMBS GALLUP, N. M.CP) Gouver neur Morris. 77, great grandson of the revolutionary leader, Gou verneur Morris, who helped draft the ' United States Constitution, died Friday of a heart attack. COMMIES DISPERSED BERLIN ( West Berlin po lice broke tip two minor Commu nist demonstrations Friday as dis tribution of free American food packages to East Germans topped the million mark. i V bible: 5tiwv li ,1 '- -mrmir Pace of French Strike Slows. Violence Fades PARIS un France's strike movement rolled Friday toward a weekend holiday with indications that its spread had slowed down and a limited number of strikers were drifting back: to work. - Not a single flash of violence had developed in the strike, which be gan Aug. 5 with a walkout of postal, telegraph and telephone workers in anticipation of governmental econ omy decrees and spread like a grass fire into the rest of the gov ernment agencies gas. electricity, railroads, civil service and coal mines. Numbers of strikes had been called for only 48 hours ending Saturday. Because Saturday is a national holiday Assumption Day the workers won't go back to work then or on the following day, Sunday. ; The result is that the current scope of the strike or any back-to-work movement won't be known until Monday. Spray Stops Human Pests' PHILADELPHIA t James Douglass, a driver for an animal fhome, captured two holdup men Fnday with an insect spray gun. Police said Douglass was stand ing outside a grocery store when two men rushed out amid cries of "Holdup! Holdup!" from within the store. Douglas who had the spray gun in hand which he uses to de-flea dogs, started pumping away at the two meni Blinded by insecticide. the two were easily captured by Douglass and two bystanders. Shrine Hospital Project Pending i - PORTLAND Cfl Expansion of the Portland Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children to provide a one third increase in bed capacity is pending before the national board for Shrine hospitals. Earl Riley, board chairman, said Friday. Cost would be in excels of $200, 000. The! enlargement would in clude two convalescent wards, two dining-playrooms and assembly and staff! rooms in three separate additions.! . Dogj Days Too Much for Dog Statesman Nws Service INDEPENDENCE It got so hot here this week that a dog committed suicide. Roxiei i six -months-old Boxer owned by Tom Girard, sudden ly dashed upstairs and jumped ut the window. The death lean followed an afternoon when the mercury read 95. J. It was I part of a rongh eve ning for aby sitter Mona Frat xke. Right after Soxie jumped, . a hat flew down the chimney and swisked around until the Girards came borne and killed 1L ': " . n NEW YORK Hurricane Barbara swirled northeastward off New Jersey Friday night, promis ing the Northeast only a taste of the destruction it had visited earl ier on Virginia and North Carolina. At 10 p.4m. (EST) the hurricane which had caused five deaths and more than a million dollars dam age was at sea. 70 miles east northeast of Atlantic City. Crunching along at IS miles per hour, it was expected to strike the extreme eastern tip of Long Island, 125 miles east of New York City, by: early morning. , If it continued its course it was expected to skirt the coast of New England. Although thousands of persons fled exposed coastal areas and the entire Northeast was battered down, the Weather Bureau said there would be no hurricane tlisas ter such as that which struck this area in 1938. "The way jt. looks now," the Bos ton forecaster said, New England will suffer no more than "an ordin ary northeaster." Hit Coast Areas The hurricane, first of the season and second of the year, went to sea after scraping over North Carolina and Virginia coastal areas. The blow packed a punch of 80 miles an hour at its core less than in some hurricanes of the past but sufficient to knock down trees and smash windows. North Carolina farm officials sur veyed flattened fields and estimat ed damage to corn, bean, cotton and tobacco crops at more than a million dollars in that state alone. Blown From Pier I A man was .blown from a pier near Wilmington, N.C. Swept out to sea, he presumably was drowned-. A policeman in Norfolk County, Va., was killed when he touched a fallen live wire. At Wading River, on the eastern end of Long Island, a man who bad been alerted to the impending storm suffered a heart attack and died while pulling a boat from the water. ' f Driving rams which accompanied the storm's advance were blamed for traffic accidents which caused deaths on the New Jersey Turnpike and In New York City. , j Over 500 U.S. Prisoners Perished Oh Commie 'Murder a Mile' March i FREEDOM VILLAGE, Koreaj m U.' S. prisoners were taken"! on a "Murder a Mile" march deep into North Korea in 1950 on which 500 of them perished, a returned American said Friday. Another told of a death march in the cruel cold of 1951 on which a Chinese officer said the strong would survive and the weak would die. Only 200 of 800 men were strong. i Yet another told of j a camp where beatings and torture became so commonplace that the prison ers named it "Black Valley." j There also were the usual stories of Americans who sold out their countrymen and spied on their comrades for the Communist cap tors. ( - .l-fT. ; j ; "We,. lost a man a mile for at least M miles by murder, said Pfc James R. f Hunt of Russell, Paw of an infamous march in No vember of 1930 under a North Ko rean called by his victims "The Tiger. i Returned civilians and sick lor wounded exchanged last April have told of this march, but Hunt added little more grim detaiL British, U.S.)Rift Rer ains UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. OPV Britain was reported ready Friday night to act without United States support, if necessary, and demand that the U. N. General Assembly include Russia and India in the forthcoming Korean political con ference. The U. S.-British split over this issue was a wide as ever. There was no optimism on either side that the rift could be healed before the 60 nation assembly meets Monday afternoon. But an other effort will be made Saturday when the 16 countries whose forces fought under the U. N. banner in Korea meet for their third private huddle on the question. Want Russia at Meet Britain was understood to be much more concerned about the possible exclusion of Russia from the Korean conference than about India. The British position is that the conference is virtually doomed in advance unless Russia is a par ticipant. Britain was represented as con vinced that Russia would never attend as a representative of the Communist belligerents Red China and North Korea since this might amount to branding herself as one of the aggressor nations. Meaning of Pact U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. is insisting that only countries which fought for the U. N. have any right to represent the world organization ' at the parley This, he said, is the clear meaning of the armistice agreement. If Russia wants to come as a representative of the Communist side. Lodge said Thursday, the United States will not object. Meanwhile, U. N. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold told news men that he favored a broad in terpretation of the armistice agree ment. This, in effect, lined him up with the British and others who believe the U. S. interpretation is too strict. Heat Pushes Water.Use to All-Tinie High More lawns to water and more kids to keep cool from the sum mer's heat have pushed Salem's daily water consumption to an all time peak this week, Engineer Frank Morris of the water de partment said Friday. Yet, there is still more water available than in past years. The reason, Morris said, is the large new reservoir set up last year near Turner. Last year's peak water con sumption was 21.8 million gallons in one 24-hour period. In 24 hours last Monday, however, Salem and Turner used 25 million gallons. "Last year the drain was too much for the existing city reser voir, Morris said. "We could not fill it high enough during the night to keep the water pressure up during the day. But with the new reservoir at Turner, we have no trouble now.; Demand for water has tapered off a bit the last few days, he said. About 23 Vi million gallons were used Thursday. He attribut ed the greater consumption this summer to more lawns and, of course, to the warm weather. Morris said another water con duit between Turner and Salem is in the planning stage. 15th FIRE IN DALLAS SERIES DALLAS The 15th fire in five days was reported Wednesday as a grass fire at 714 Hayter SL was quelled by the Dallas Fire De partment. Damage was negligible. "The Tiger personally shot an Army lieutenant and the whole column of us witnessed it, Hunt declared. The prisoners were stoned by Korean civilians when they reached Manpojin. near the Manchurian frontier. It was there that "The Tiger" took over for the "Murder a Mile" march to a camp farther north. Hunt estimated that no more than 210 of 723 who started out finished the march. The rest were shot, or died of L hunger, disease or wounds Sgt Gerold K. Young of Des Moines said 800 weak and wounded prisoners were taken on a two month march from near the front in the bitter winter of 1951. Only 200 made it i He said X tall Chinese officer lined up the prisoners at the out set of the march and snarled in perfect English: j "Now we are going to separate the men from the boys." 1 "He meant the strong would live, the weak would die," Young said. On the march those who fell out By OVID WASHINGTON (AP) to put rigid marketing quotkef on thef 1954 wheat crop won lop-sided approval in erendum Friday. Conclusive but unofficial returns from 45 states gave 236,436 for 4,uu against, mis was a favor able margin of 80.3 per cent. Ap proval by 66 2-a per cent was required. ' The auotas. Dronosed bv Sec retary of Agriculture Benson be cause the nation has an oversupply of the grain will require farmers to cut production and sales about 20 per cent from this year's vol ume. The results assured continuance of present high-level price supports of about $2.20 a bushel for wheat A defeat for quotas would have re duced supports to about $1.23 and a similar reduction in market prices. Matched Forecast The returns were in line with of ficial expectation that farmers would vote the quotas even if they did not like them because of the economic pressure of the situation. Political leaders had said a drop in wheat prices resulting from de feat of controls might well adverse ly affect Republican congressmen seeking re-election next year. Some 900,000 growers were eli gible to vote. Before the balloting got under way, officials expressed confidence that final returns would give the necessary two-thirds majority in favor of the Agriculture Depart ment's proposal to invoke market ing quotas. Vote Required Although the Eisenhower admini stration is on record as opposing most government controls. Secre tary of Agriculture Benson was re quired to submit the proposal to a vote under the farm-aid law. The major purpose was to pre vent the production of a wheat crop next year that would add to an already staggering surplus of the grain. The vote thus had important economic significance, as well as political overtones. The controls proposal called for about a 20 per cent cut in produc tion and sales of wheat. This was the choice that con fronted wheat farmers: Approve quotas and thus assure continuance for another year of the present 90 per cent of parity price supports for wheat, or reject them and see the supports cut to 50 per cent of parity, as required under law. Dollar per Bushel. Thus about a dollar a bushel was involved in the day's balloting. The 90 per cent parity support would be about $2.20 and the 50 per cent support about $1.22. Some politicians said before the voting that a reduction of the sup port price to 50 per cent, even though mandatory under the law, might spell rough going for some Republican members of Congress up for re-election next year. In the last referendum in 1942. a majority of 82.4 per cent voted for controls. Bodies Found Wrapped in Cloth ROSEBURG UFi An excited fisherman Friday called Sheriff Cal Baird to investigate his find ing of a body wrapped in cloth beside a stream 45 miles east of here. Deputies went, looked and re ported. There were several bodies all cats. Max. . M - SS - fi9 Min. 32 92 M Preci p. traca .00 .00 .00 1.99 SalriB Portland ...... Sin Francisco Chicago 01 New York 79 '72 Willamette River feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem : Partly cloudy today, toolfht and Sunday. A little cooler today with the huh near 85 to S7 and the low tonight near 44 to 48. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. was 97 degrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION'. Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Lait Year Normal 43.84 42.69 38.44 were left where they fell One was kicked over a cliff. Pfc. Charles. J. - Wolfe of Wallac. W. Va., said Camp 3 at Chong song became known as "Black Valley" : because of the brutality, poor food and lack of jnadical care. His was one of the first re ports froth the camp, t ."There were beatings and tor ture by men being hung up by ropes until just their toes touched the floor. he said. "Men were thrown into holes and 'locked in there lor days without blankets or winter clothing, ! Pfc. Charles August Bouldic of Drayton, N. D., said conditions were no better at Chongsongs Camp 1, where he estimated 600 prisoners died of disease and neg lect His estimate tallied with those of prisoners previously re turned from Camp 1. s - "No one seemea to cere if the prisoners died," he saio. "And when the men did die, the guards would stand around and laugh when we carried them out to bury them. And they would laugh when we said a prayer over each fresh grave." - j j Al piAlt J4-A govfriimcnt proposal b fnationiwide farmer ref the control program and Pd$alley Mdi Wheat al Support Wheat farmers of Marion. Polk ind Linn Counties followed the et of the nation's wheat grov. ;r$ Friday land voted overwhelm hly for strict marketing quotas ind price sfipports at 90 per cent fj parity, ii j - ; The thr'-county vote was 334 o;48, accoriling to official fitrurM Released byi Production Marketing rq ministration offices. I i A breaki- down of the voting bowed: Mirion County. 155 for njd 25 against; Polk j County, 143 or ana iz a gainst, and Linn 3rtunty, 86for and 11 against. ima. ouicjais called! the turnout ight J! ;j: For Marion County the vof hieans a cftback of ;29 per cent ngme Z7,(XJU acres now planted n wheat East year's acreage was 18;000, a liVA official said, i Those casting negative votes were votinjlor no restrictions in icreage alljbtments with price sup orts at 5C per cent of parity. vregonresuits on page 2.) acts Near onl On ew Part ufE: iprcssway Contract i for the : first malor Jvork on the Willamette Biver. layesvillei section f the new lour-lane f ortland-Salem exoress- Ivay may e awarded 'at a meet- ng ,of th State Hlehwav Com. Imssibn iif Portland Sept 24 and p3; State Highway Engineer R. It IBildock laid Friday. . . First liyge job involves irrad ng of the new expressway from he river to GervaisJ Cost of this bipject wjs estimated at $335,000. Bids for Irradine the section frOm Gengais to Havesville. north tf Salemi probably ,will be con tdered atlthe January meeting f ' h commfsiion. This job was es irnated ti cost $630,000. At th May meeting of the commission lids will Be called for oavin the fntire exrfressway from the Wil- amette River to Havesville at an estimated ost f $2,670,000. .ontract for construction of a :rde separation structure on the xresswai;, a short distance east if j the Vfilsonville ; bridge, will e awarded at the March meet- ng, Baldock said. This was esti. hiated to cost $700,000. At the hpril melting bids will be con- iidered zojr another 1 grade cross ng structure at Havesville. eitU tnated to frost $735,000. More Bids! Called For Baldockfsaid all work on the xpr ess way from the! Willamette piyer to fie Boones Ferry Road s iinaer contract with the excep tion of two eradeil aenaratinn trucluresl Bids for these senara- ion structures will be called for . t the September meeting of the roinmissioti. !j , , , - The Sileni-Portlahd ynr. ffay, to cst $11,600,000. will be inanced through use of funds de- Hved fro the first and second highway hjmd issues approved by he state legislature! and federal funds. 1 I , ji-j Completionof the croiect white "dependent largely on weather "Conditions! and economic factors, has been let for late in 1956.- BaldocfcUald a substantial num ber of contractors were expected o bid onaH of thep projects.-; pEIevalbr Shaft at Vlbaiiy Burns IUIiJwui Ntwi t'rvkt ALBANY -iFire destroved art (levator shaft and damaged, the levator ait the D. E. Nebereall Packing Co. here early Friday bight Firemen estimated damage t more taan jz.000 and said the hift would have to be rebuilt The fire! started in the elevator Which was in the basement fire ben saidi and flamed up the haft via belt used to operate he old-ripe carrier. A small bouse on fhe roof of the building overing tne'shalt was also dam ged by tie blaze, j Plant erjiployes fought the fire mntil Albany firemen arrived. Statesman Society, 1 women's 3 Editorials, 'features .T4 Sports li L C, 7 " Radio, Vfc. J. 7 Comics tt..-.ii 8 Classified ads ao, n; Church news 4l- 12 Valley news --........n - - 8 I' V