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1 (3c I) Statesman, Salem, Ore Thunw June 24, 1934 Firm Charged With Improper Work on Dam NEWPORT. Wash. The Pend Oreille Public Utility district has filed a suit for 14.113.000 from Pacific-General-Shea, joint con tractors, for alleged Improper per formance of work on Box Canyon dam. Work on the 16 million dollar i without injuring occupants, dam on the Pend Oreille river in Auto accidents kill 35,000 to 40. northeastern Washington was halt- 000 Americans annually and injure ed in .April after a dispute between the PUD and contractors. The stop page came with the PUD claim ing it had terminated the contract and Pacific-General-Shea saying it had rescinded it. C. C. Dill, attorney for the PUD. said Wednesday that the suit. Tiled Monday, was based on the con tractors failure to go through srith an a greement to complete workfco spillway during one 2M(f the low-water period. He said the con tractor's failure to complete fe work on schedule had forced the PUD to retain the Morrison-Knud-sen Co. to finish the project. Pacific General Shea's coun sel. P. H. Winston, said he had received a copy of the complaint Wednesday but. had not had time to study it. Winston said the con tractor had filed a claim for some three million dollars against the PUD in April. At the time of the shutdown of i the dam project, Pacific-General-1 Shea claimed the Pend Oreille PUD had made completion of the dam within 280 days impossible because of changes in specifics- tions. Ike Opposes Hiss Pension WASHINGTON UPi The White , money from lucky betting on the House said Wednesday President I horses. Eisenhower is against paying 'any After her appearance before that government pension to Alger Hiss, j Senate crime investigating corn former State Department official mittee. she retired from the spot who was convicted of falsely deny- Ujjht. She is married to Hans Haus ing he gave secret information to er, an Austrian-born ski instructor a Communist spy ring. whom she met in Sun Valley. Ida James C. Hagerty. presidential ho. in 1950. press secretary, stated Eisenhow-, (j. S. Atty. Laughlin E. Waters er's position on the matter after aid they have been residing at commenting on a series of news ' Kloster. Switzerland, but are now stories. ' visiting at Salzburg, Austria. Those stories Tuesday said gen- erally that the Eisenhower admin istration had taken the position through the Civil Service Commis sion and the Budget Bureau, the latter a White House agency, that the government is obligated to go through with retirement pay to fed eral employes even when they are imprisoned for criminal acts. Hiss will be eligible under pres ent law for a pension of $70 a year at age 62. Tax Aid for Sick Favored WASHINGTON l Wages up to $100 a week paid to a worker while absent from work because of sickness would be tax-free under a plan approved by the Senate Fi nance Committee. The exemption would not apply to the first seven days of illness. J The plan is part of the big tax i revision program approved by the finance committee last week and ,r u. .,.. Knowland to Ask Rules Changes At Next Session WASHINGTON UH Sen. Know land (R-Calif) said Wednesday he will urge the Senate to improve rules for its investigations, but not at this session of Congress, The Senate Republican leader said he does not want to bring any drastic rules change proposals be fore the Senate in the closing day of the session, lest they stir op a row that would block Important ad ministration bfflj. Knowland said he would testify concerning proposed improvements on Monday at a hearing of the Senate rules subcommittee. The record made at that hearing, he said, can form a basis for action next year. MUDDY RESEARCH CHARLOTTES VUXE, Va. Scientists here are spending a lot of time playing with mud, They must know the consistency and strength of the urdenrater soil before construction starts oa the 7,200-foot underwater tunnel under Hampton Roads, from Hampton to Willoufhby. The Virginia Council of Highway In vestigation and Research is doing the checkup for the M million dollar project. Mud is being brought up from holes as deep as 200 feet for tht study. New Satwtaf Open C:45 Kerslar Fries "Tho Glenn Mlllor Story" JCM AUyMS Jlnuny Stewart Co-Hit THi towrar tOYt "JALOPY" BBSS Auto Safety Belts Advised SAN FRANCISCO Equip ping autos with safety belts and shoulder straps was urged Wed nesday by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Assn. In a resolution, the bouse rec ommended that auto manufacturers all cars, and stress safety in design of all automobiles, including pro viding seats, cushions and doors which would withstand impacts of 10 to 15 times the pull of gravity another one million. Virginia Hill Charged With J rV II irncintl IdA JuVaolUll LOS ANGELES ir Virginia Hill, once the girl friend of Bugsy Siegel and other underworld fig ures, was Indicted by a federal grand tury Wednesday on charges of evading $80,180.02 in federal in come tax payments for the years 1944 through 1947. It was in Miss Hill's luxurious rented Beverly Hills home that Sie gel was pumped full of bullets from i a mgn-powerea nue June a, vni. Virginia was in Europe at the time. The slaying never was solved. Apparently fearing she too had been chosen for assassination, she attempted suicide with sleeping pills in her Paris apartment. In 1951 the Internal Revenue Bu i reau exhibited interest in her lav ish spending by claiming she owed $161,000 in back income taxes. Her $35,000 home in Spokane, Wash., and other possessions were auc tioned off to satisfy part of that claim. During the Kefauver committee hearings, she contended she got her 22 Dead in Japan Floods TOKYO OB Japan's rains still poured down Thursday and floods and landslides by police estimates left 22, dtd.r massing and 19 in jured. ' - Seven mild earthquakes shook Wakayama Prefecture, one of five In the west which were hardest hit. Landslides there which accom panied the quakes and flood ac counted for seven of the known dead. The Construction Ministry esti mated $1,750,000 damage had been done to dikes, roads and bridges alone as heavy rains fell for the second straight day. Police estimat ed 1.200 houses were flooded in Wakayama Prefecture alone. i i - tq oCllOOl .DllS Crash Ring 4 in Mexico ENSENADA, Mexico OB A crowded school bus ran out of con trol Wednesday and crashed, killing four Catholic seminary students and injuring more than 30 others, in the mountains near here. There were between 45 and 50 of the students for Catholic priest hood, ranging In ages from 12 to It, in the bus when it careened off the Tijuana-Ensenada highway and turned over in a ravine. Six of the 32 treated for injuries remained in a critical condition, and six others were classed as se rious. The driver. Carlos Gonzales Mar tinet of Tijuana, was quoted as paying the brakes on the bus failed. NOW PLAYING! $1 Tho Rescuo mf Vienna . . . Fighting Sid By Side With Her Man . . . Called Johnny Guitar I0AN CRAWFORD m te wmu vie Im ( JOHNVYGU(TA& rxucoiox A ICPUMJC avcoMSOucMns wcrutt fiovuglas ALSO Fairbanks, Sr. "MR. ROBINSON CRUSOE" A New Re-Release . V jyiarcIano vs. CHARLES Fights On Our Screen Te be shown In conjunction with our regular program. Downtown Stores to Hold Fall Festival (Story also on Page 1.) Plans for a fall festival, slated to begin Aug. 15. and changes in the downtown Salem parking area were considered at a meeting Wednesday night of the Downtown Salem Merchants' Association in the Marion Hotel. The plan calls for a six-weeks long festival with special store bargains, merchandise and cash awards and weekly drawings. More expensive prizes than in previous festivals is one goal. Weekly draw ings will take place on Saturday nights rather than on Friday as has been the case in former fest ivals. Lee Coleman was appointed prize committee chairman and L. L. Kreman, assessment commit tee chairman. In other business Nathan Stein bock was appointed chairman of a committee to meet with the Sa lem city council regarding a pro posed move to boost meter rates and to establish parallel parking in certain downtown areas. (See story on page 1. Named Chairman Ralph Nohlgren was appointed chairman of another committee to meet with representatives of City Transit Lines to work out plans for increasing the flow of bus passengers into downtown Sa lem. Mayor Alfred Loucks told the association the city "was tired" of enforcing the "no meter-feeding" regulations and wanted to toss the problem back into the laps of the merchants. Merchants, he said, should see to it that their employes don't abuse the down town parking privileges. Loucks said he and other city officials have received many com plaints from shoppers who want at least two hours to shop. He said the move to increase the parking meter fare to 10 cents an hour, and extending the time lim it to two hours would have the ef fect of "educating" shoppers to use the bus lines and private parking lots. Don't Use Parking Several merchants replied hat shoppers don't now use free park ing even when offered to them. Another merchant, nervously looking to the day when "Meier and Frank will come in here with 700 free parking spaces," said downtown merchants "can't af ford" to have parking meter fees increased. Loucks said the change to parallel parking along State Street and on one block on N. Liberty would "mean more busi ness" for the merchants because it would make a smoother traffic flow. He added that reports in Salem show that there are 10 times more traffic accidents in con gested areas where there is angle parking than in parallel parking districts. Some merchants expressed fear that, once started, the meter fee increase would spread throughout the whole downtown area. Others said the downtown congestion was not a matter of faulty parking but of a lack of education on the part of both drivers and pedestrian. Loucks said the present sys tem of patrolling the meters against meter feeders was "not working out" and that "some thing has to be done." Injured Boy, 2 Others Escape A boy with a cast on his right ankle and two other runaways Crom state institutions were re ported missing Wednesday night by State Police. Ernest Brown, IS, inmate of MacLaren School for Boys, with the injured ankle, was missing at 7:15 p.m. from Salem where he was out on a work assignment from the school. James Townsend, 18, was miss ed at S p.m. from a similar work assignment at Canby. A 13-year-old boy of Fairview Home also was missing. NOW PLAYING 0 ,1 SMASHING CO-HIT ft Lnriconer If Jar liM? A Lot of Nerve Nedeed to Feed Elephants "testis -.v. u ' V-- k: ) A it. s Trying to gather enough nerve to offer a handful of hay to a young circus elephant are Jimmy Finch, 1544 Court St., and Mickey Daley (right), 276 N. 14th St. The boys were among the many circus en thusiasts who arrived at the State Fairgrounds early Wednesday morning to watch the Clyde Beatty circus ready equipment for its one day appearance here. (Statesman photo.) Thousands See Deattv urcus Salem area families by the thousands took in performances of the Clyde Beatty circus under a big top at the State Fairgrounds Wednesday. Trained animals, high-in-the-air gymnastics, clowns and "specta cle numbers" entertained the crowds at both afternoon and night performances, but the big interest centered of Beatty him self and his wild animal acts. Salem sponsor for the circus was the Junior Chamber of Com merce which leased the grounds, operated a parking area and oth erwise joined in the arrange ments to raise funds for its civic undertakings. The circus moved by rail from here to Oregon City where two shows are scheduled today. Lack of Validation Of Signatures May Halt Milk Vote PORTLAND OP Lack of funds to pay for validation of signatures obtained on petitions may keep the initiative to repeal the state mlk I control law off the November ballot. Elmer Deetz, Canby dairyman, said Wednesday sponsors of the repeal have 40,000 signatures lined up, but only 23.000 have been validated. Checking, by county clerks runs about 10 cents a name, and $1,500 will be needed to validate the balance of the necessary 37,600 signatures by the deadline, June 30, Deetz explained. Portland Hotel Project Near Goal PORTLAND l Only $50,000 remains to be raised in local money for construction of a new 1,000-rdom downtown hotel here, Ward H. Cook said Wednesday. Cook, realtor representing spoa sors of the project, said another $50,000 would put the local invest ment up to million dollars, which is the amount Leo F. Corrigan, Dallas, Texas, investor, said he needed to start the ven ture. Cook said the hotel is expected to cost about 13 V million dollars. He said be expected Corrigan to be here for a conference Monday. NOW PLAYING f& JAMES WHITMORE X$i HMD GWENM fe$J JOANWELDON S:JOl JAMES ARKESS W y- m ssot. nerval ' COLOR CO HIT fiHtM afyn Monrcoe Collapses on bet HOLLYWOOD OB Marilyn Monroe was sent home to bed by a physician Wednesday after she col lapsed on a movie set for the third time since the picture went into production four weeks ago. A Twentieth Century-Fox spokes man said Dr. S. R. Kennamer or dered a three-day rest for the ac tress. He said she had been run down since an attack of flu 10 days ago. Nearly all the principals of the cast have been beset by the maladay in the past month. Miss Monroe's latest collapse came during the filming of a scene depicting a dance rehearsal in a theater. The physician found her suffering from exhaustion but not in serious condition, the studio said. AFL Gets 2 Time Plans ASTORIA UP Rival resolutions on daylight saving time appeared at the State Federation of Labor convention here Wednesday. Dele gates will choose between them later. One calls for labor to support daylight saving time; the other would prohibit it until the federal government adopts it for the entire country. Delegates to the annual state AFL convention heard Elmer McClure, state grange master ar gue for keeping of atomic power development in public hands. He protested recent proposals to allow private industry to try to develop atomic-powered electricity plants. Some forms of meat tenderizers work like digestive juices and con stitute a form of predigestion. Price Cuts Sale Ends Aug. 15, 1954 Lowest Prices Ever Offered In Our New Midsummer Sale Catalog Com in Today or Shop by Phono 3-9191 UJjIlIil 9?0O mm m FREE PARKING! SEARS Glad to Grab Poison Oak PORTLAND (A"i A 10-year-old boy took a poison oak bush in his hands and held on lovingly for a quarter-hour here Wednesday. That's because he was on the side of a cliff, and it was the only thing he could find to hold him there. The boy, Lewis S. Baker, had climbed nearly to the top of a 50 foot cliff in Portland, when he discovered he could get no higher, nor descend safety. He began yelling for help, and in a few minutes, Harry E. Fisher, 46, telephone company construction foreman, climbed up beside the boy, tossed a rope to the top of the cliff, where others then pulled the two to safety. The boy hurried right home, explaining he had to wash the poison oak off his hands. SECURITY MEASURE! ATLANTA UP Mrs. John Wea ver suggested at the dinner table that they all hold hands while the blessing was being asked a cus tom followed by many families. Six-year-old Ginger came through promptly with this endorsement: "I think that is a good idea then nobody can start eating be fore we finish." FLOOR SHOW Pinky Mitchell Jest for Fun Deidre Darling Fussin' & Foolin' with Fiddles HEW VILLAGE INN 5057 Portland Road 2-8460 Salem's Finest Chinese and American Food Chicken Mushroom Chow Mein with Fried Prawns 6:00 P. M. to 3:30 A. M. SAVE TODAY! Over 4,000 " """" M ' J On Purchase Totaling 320 or more use sears Easy Pay ment Plan. 550 N. Capitol STORE HOURS: Monday and Friday s:30.9:00 Other Days 9:30-5:30 Wreckage of Plane, Three Bodies Found ROSEBURG m A coroner's party reported Wednesday that another trip to the scene of a five-year-old plane wreck would be necessary before positive identifi cation could be made of those killed. Aboard the private plane when it left Eugene on a trip to California Dec. 9, 1949, were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hyland of Eugene, Dr. H. Ellet Scoles of Cottage Grove and L. Virgil Fish of Eugene. Deputy Coroner Ira Byrd said the plane, which crashed 200 feet below the summit of Old Farview mountain, a 4,000-foot peak about 35 miles east of here, was badly smashed. The wrecjeage was found Tuesday by a topographer. Byrd said four billfolds and a woman's handbag were found. Byrd said there appeared to be only three bodies in the wreckage, and another trip is planned Thurs day to try to settle that point. Papers in, two of the billfolds couldJiol be read, but Mrs. HrTand's name was found in the Woman's handbag, and the names Of Hyland and Dr. Scoles were found in the other billfolds. Defense Fund Issue Solved WASHINGTON UP) A Senate House conference reached a com promise Wednesday on the defense money bill, largest of all appropri ations. Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich) said the compromise total tfill be "slightly less than 29 billion dollars." The bill provides about 11 billion dollars of new money for the Air Force, just under 10 billions for the Navy and Marines, a little more than 7 billions for the Army, with the balance going to the De partment of Defense and interserv ice activities. HOLE FOR GIANTS GETTYBURG. Pa. Of) Truck ' driver George Chilcote thought he had hit just another pothole In the New Oxford road. 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OK.SII YOUR Today At the Theaters ELSINORK "FLAME AND THE FLESH" with Lana Turner and Plr An gle! "PRISONER or WAR" Ronald Reagan and Dewey Martin CAPITOL "THEM" with' Jam Whitmore. Edmund Gwenn "SHARK RIVER" with Steve Cochran GRAND "JOHNNY GUITAR" with Joan Crawford "MT ROBINSON CRUSOE" with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Also aee the Marciano vs. Charles Flf ht HOLLYWOOD "THE GLENN MILLER STORY" with James Stewart and June AUvson "JALOPY" with the Bowery Boys NORTH SALKM DRIVE IN "THE BOY FROM OKLA HOMA' with Will Rogers Jr. and Nancv Olson THE WILD ONE'' Marlon Brando Fire Destroys Seoul Shanties SEOUL Of) A huge fire destroyed a shanty area of shops and houses in the center of Seoul Wednesday night and left at least 1,000 home less before it was brought under control by fire engines and U. S. Army bulldozers. Police -estimated . damage at $378,000. They said the flames de stroyed 790 shanties and booths in a market center and 25 homes. The police said the fire was caused by a gasoline explosion in a shop. A merchant was burned seriously. There were no other known casual ties. DRIVE-IN THEATH UIISH CAlDtMS, HIGHWAY tf Gates Open 6:45 Show at Dusk NOW PLAYING IN TECHNICOLOR Will Rogers, Jr. Nancy Olson in "THE BOY FROM OKLAHOMA" ALSO Marlon Brando Mary Murphy "THE WILD ONE" Bring the Whole Family Kids Under 10 Free ... 7 Days $96.5F j4vw Church St. Phone 2-2421 TRAVEL AOINT E 8 fi LT7xr3 if lC. Ml i lk Sr-"- 7