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Trumpet Supplements Salvation'1 Army Boll f WUNDIB 1651 lOSHi Year 2 SECTIONS-20 PACES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, On, Wednesday, December 11, 1935 MIC! 5 Ne. J4f Werly Wornaii Pidestman ; Killed oil Rain-S wept Street PUND1 Christmas music supplements the Banned by Lt. Richard L. Anthony (shewn above playing "Silent ' inrt. A!),. h tiii th kn kamvp mhmm hi. ii. .... otatesmaa rnoio;. Senator William F. Knowland of California is chafing at the starl ing post because the White House following is seeking to prolong Eisenhower's day of decision. Dr. White, the heart specialist said it would be mid-February before a medical estimate could be made of Eisenhower's - ability to carry the load of office another term; and GOP Chairman Hall moves the deadline ahead a month. This Irks Knowland. Ha sees that the longer the wait the less chance he would have against some one like Nixon. 11a has been studying stale primary laws and finds filings of candidacies, are required prior to Feb. 15th In five states and Al aska. Then , there ' are six more states whose entries must be in before March 15th, Including Ore gon. Delay to March. 15th looks to Knowland tkt dealing him out. There is one simple solution for the Republican Senate leader. He can announce his candidacy any day and arrange to get his name in the primaries all over the land. It's a free country and he has a right to run for the presidency if be feels liLe it If he wants to qualify his announcement he could My that in event Eisenhower does consent to run for reelection be would step aside. Properly worded. such an announcement would be accepted as no reflection on Eisen hower. By doing this Knowland would put the White House entour age really on the spot. Nixon would be hitched to the post until Eisen hower announced his decision; and so would Harold Stassen and others who line up on the Eisenhower team. Knowland has little chance of . getting Eisenhower's blessing for the nomination."! appeal will be more to the conservative wing of the party. (After all it is recalled that he was picked for Sena'e parly leader by Taft himself -when the latter became ill). The sooner he moves to line up support the stronger his candidacy will be come. He doesn't look like a winner, but, without Eisenhower's name to head the ticket, who docs? Extortion Try Fails at Eugene EUGENE (II Police disclosed Tuesday an extortion attempt upon a Safeway store manager Saturday. Police Chief Vein Hill said How- aid Barnhart received a note in- j forming him his wife had been J kidnapped. The store's receipts were demanded for her release. Barnhart was to put the money in the store parking lot. lKSQjUI HID, said Barnhart MefliiriPiJ!L.Ji fH WifMiD'1 home, and learned his wife had not been kidnapped. She wai placed under police protection. . HiU said the extortion attempt was "amateurish." , rDO IT YOURSELF rZi; ' At last! . . . we're genu have ' mbm firaltwc! ' I . -.k i .... - conventional bell ringing this year at the Salvatloa Army "kettle' ' r - Nippon Mother Finds Heartbreak Instead of Paratrooper at Dock By JIM HUTCHESO.N SEATTLE (IP) A shy Japanese mother of three children met heartbreak Tuesday at the pier where she had anticipated a joy ous reunion with her paratrooper husband. A band blared as the transport Frederick Funston docked with its 878 passengers from the Far East. A festive air prevailed in a driving rain as soldiers and civilians met loved ones on the dock or Salem Records Biggest Mail Day in History ? TKaa MrJflJbaT mmllftief taw In fkaa history of Salem post office came her M-year-old husband was this week. Postmaster Albert C.!misinf', Sbe M unnd' lbtB Gragg said Tuesday broke int9 ter M Comdr. P. R. Final tallies showed that o'nl0'0'1; P0 chaplain who was Monday a record 258,000 pieces " pas,t.or . w JB?rton bTfor orW of mail were run through the w" n? to break lh w cancellation machines. The pre- t0ner e,nt,y vious one-day record was set on 1 , Hora,n year-old Dec. 18, 1950, when 258,000 were , M,cncI whll her oldest child, cancelled. Kenneth, S V. walked beside her. Monday also was the largest fi- J4- F,or!nc Driscoll of Brookline. nancial day ever for the Salem I MaM- carried 3-month-old Lor- nffirc Tif n tnlljH .hnul I $20,000, Gragg said. Mondays flood of mail Jnclud- ed an estimated 125,000 "local" I letters letters from Salem resi dents to local friends. Gragg es timated this to be a record, also. This month's total is running about 193,000 pieces , ahead of December of a year ago. . "There are still a lot of let ters and parcels going out," Gragg said. "But I think Monday was the peak for this year. Christmas packages and cards destined for out-of-state should be sent air-mail at this late date." Union Pacific Strike Voted (Earlier story in sec. 1, page 4 ) POCATELLO, Idaho Cfi Inter- fnu.nt.i. .n.. . i.-. j . brVkemen havi T voted tamfVJ?1" ben ibuted in aeainTthe Union Parir.raiH " l" ? ph'UPPinM- Bel- fcans. At the big east Pittsburgh .lK.U-? where some 10.000 striker, Tuesday night. H. W. Corbett, general chair man of the Railway Workers' Brotherhood, said the atrike will directly affect between 400 and 500 union members. Corbett said the strike will af fect Union Pacific's central and northwestern districts and will hit service on lines from Green River, wyo., to Seattle, Yakima and Spo- kane in Washington, Portland in Oregon and Lewiston and Moscow ''J'"' ntll as inner divisional SVUIbe)a 'KEEF TO VIE IN WISCONSIN WASHINGTON (A - Sen. Ke- fauver (D-Tenn) announced Tues- 28 Democratic presidential nomin ating votes in the April 1 primary, Blue Lake Packers Plan $100,000 Warehouse, Elect Batcson as Chief ' By ULUX L. MADS EN Karas Editor, Tba Statesman Cornelius Bateson.' Salem, was named president of Blue Lake Packers, Inc., at Its 23rd annual meeting held Tuesday. Mora than SOS growers, their families and special guests attended. Earl Stonebrook. Independence, as named vice president; Norman W, Merrill, Salem, cooperative manager, was re-elected executive vice president; and Junior Eckley, Salem, re-elected secretary-treasurer. Ammoa Cries was re-elected as Night" in front af Newberry's ( . irj t.t hi. looked forward eagerly to a Christ mas with them at home. But the clouds quickly settled upon the heart of Teruko Horan. A chaplain took her quietly to a stateroom and told her how her husband, Sgt. J. M. Horan of May nard, Mass., had parachuted into the snow-buried foothills of the Elum and vanished Sunday on his flight to meet her on her arrival with the children. It was the first word she had ranc, The distraught mother was taken to the hostess house at Ft. Law ton 10 n-angemenU for Iter to go East to join Horan's family, Meanwhile, there was nothing but discouraging news from the rugged wilderness into which Horai pa rachuted when an airplane went temporarily out of control but which was landed, later safely. Yugoslavs Win Split-Term Seat On U.N. Council UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. uV Yugoslavia finally'won a U.N. Se curity Council seat Tuesday through an unprecedented lottery deal to split its two-year term with the Philippines. The Yugoslavs, reported to have handed the Philippines a written promise to resign from the coun cil in Manila's favnr aft arnn. " " - I take the seat now held by Turkey. Development Plan for Deaf School Ordered A master plan for development of the State School for the Deaf in Salem will be drafted by Logan and Murtaugh, Portland architects, the State Board of Control ordered Tuesday. The firm will be paid $1,000 for the work. - ' STRIKE THREAT EASES CHICAGO W - Threat of an immediate pilots' strike on West-1 ern Air Lines eased Tuesday night I as tne National Mediation Board held out hopes of a peace con - ference. a director, and Harold Elbert, Salem, named a new director. Hold-overs are Russell Co bum, Dayton, (retiring president): Erael Gubser. Dayton, and Clausie Am nion, Jefferson. The largest pack In the history of Blue Lake was announced at the meeting, simultaneously with plans for a $100,009 additional warehouse. Merrill said that contract for building the new warehouse had been let to , Erne.it Batter man. Building Is expected to be com pleted in approximately 1J days, nd will give JK more square feet for storage space. . Planners Clear Building Plan By ROBERT E. GANGWAKE City Editor, The Statesman Salem YMCA will open bidi on 1U new youtl) wing today, with out my city toning objection hanging over its head. The city'i Planning Commis lion Tuesday night reversed its position and gave the YM a go ahead on building the big new structure on downtown Cottage Street without a parking lot. Necessary variance permit was granted after the YMCA presi dent. Roy Harland, submitted :op' L' " "k..,iV,. TCrh i irom i irsi rTesDyierian murcn 1 .... .1 . 1 . h. VU thainl I i inr tomiwirinr nirkinff inaces nearoy iut r 'ni mis anu viicju also a letter outlining the YMCA 'a intent to continue nego tiations for adjacent Cottm Street-rprtfperty or other land for parking 20 or more cars. Only Dissenter Only dissenter on the plan ning body was T. W. Lowry, chairman of the commitee whose adverse recommendation had bean accepted only last week by the full commission. Lowry said he thought the commission should stand by the city's off- street parking requirement, with; any exceptions to be made by the elected City Council. The YMCA in its variance re quest had emphasized that the building project was begun before the off-street parking law went in to effect. In other business, the Planning Commission heard arguments on both sides of a request for per mission to move Centra Assembly of God Church from Cottage and Hood Streets to Church and Nor way la an R-l residential one, with less than required eff-street parking. Written Objeeuaaa . Written objections came frem over 90 neighbors. The planners deferred action until more study of parking plans could be made. Lowry's committee recommended against the permit. The commission recommended that the council agree to a tone chance for P. B. Beck who is ask ing R-S instead of R-l residential zoning for lots and acreage on the south side of Miller Street be tween Fairmount and Fir. Setback variances were granted for Clif ford Ellis, affecting five lots on Ladd Avenue between Park and Evergreen. Strikers Cross Picket Lines To Get Loans PITTSBURGH (1 - Thousands of Idled Westinghouse Electric Corp. employes walked into strike darkened plants Tuesday, some of them passing picket lines, to ac cept $100 loans from the company "to help provide essentials for a decent Christmas. At some plants the unions tempo rarily withdrew picket lines. At others, picket lines parted to let loan applicants enter the plants. A Westinghouse spokesman said t . . iuckuj nisni inai si least l and furloughed workers are eligi ble, $421,800 was distributed, the spokesman said. ' Hawaiian Rain Troubles McKays HONOLULU UB An unexpected storm out-of the south dumped eight inches of rain on Honolulu in II hours ending early Tuesday. Instrument landings ware re quired for one of the few times in recent years at Honolulu air port. A plane carrying Secretary of Interior McKay and his wife from the island of Hawaii to Honolulu was forced to circle for an hour Monday before it could land, Growth of the cooperative in re cent years necessitates the new building, the manager said, as he explained that during the put year five storehouses hava been leased to accommodate the pack. He re ported that close to two million cans of produce had been turned out during the year, and that the frozen pack was almost as large as last year's record. Merrill expressed pleasure at the coming to Salem of the American Caa Co. "It will save us some $63,000 annual in freight on cans," be uid. (Additional details sac 1, pan.) Series of Gales Plague State With Rain; Coast River Rising By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A series of miner storm fronti brought Moderate Is heavy rains U Western Oresan Tuesday aad mere ( the same as expected Wednesday. Balas were ke avleat ever raast al areas, with Astoria reperted mart ihaa Iws laches la a 24 bear period. Wind gaits af miles aa bear bit Ik refc-iaa Taetday afterataa. Freezing rata, .which had plagaed mack af the state, hat cadre la Western Oregsa bat Safeway 'About Ready to Go' On NortH Salem Supermarket Safeway Stores, Inc., appeared about ready to go with a North Salem supermarket project Tues day when its highway access re quest came before the State High way Commission in Portland. Safeway and Salem Attorney Roy Harland, representing Union Title Co., appeared to ask for two 50 foot access drives from the Pacific Highway near north city limits in to the four-acre highway frontage Woolen Mill Operator Buys Canada Plant Chester A. Page, veteran woolen mill operator in the WUlamettt Valley area with interests in the former Brownsville mill and in the new Jefferson mill, heads a cor poration which recently purchased a woolen mill at McGrath, Alberts, Can. Page said Tuesday he was presi rint of ihm ffroun inronraitpvt at Alberta Woolen Products Co. Ltntd. and made up otherwise of Canadi- u ' mooing w interest io me ans. The firm purchased the idle!Salfm rM nd h withdrawn two-set: mill at McGrath located just a few miles across the border from Cutbank, Mont. He said they planned to have operation on a small basis at the mill about March 1. Custom work in which customers will send in wool and receive fin ished blankets, for example, is ex pected to make up about SO per cent of the mill's business, accord ing to Page, who said the purchase price was approximately $35,000. The mill, in the center of Can ada' wool producing area, hasn't been in operation for the past two or three years and is preserilly be ing used as storage for a cannery, Page said. Page said a Canadian, John Moores would manage the mill, and that ha expected to have little part in the actual operation, indi cating that his interest was pri manly for investment purposes. Ford to Bare Secrets Today NEW YORK (J) - The sale of some seven million shares of stock in the Ford Motor Co. moves a step nearer Wednesday with the fil ing of a registration statement by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, The statement is a necessary preliminary to public offering of the shares. A bulky document, it will list sales, earnings and other financial information long held sec ret by the privately-owned auto maker. The shares are expected to co on sale Jan. II. The seller is the Ford Foundation, the philanthrop ic trust set up by Henry Ford in 1936. Because the company has been owned entirelv bv tha Ford familv I since Henry Ford bought out his! Lonf. long trails In stolen cars original partners in 1911, it has 1 came to an end near Salem Tues not had to disclose financial :i- rf.v for thrM men who were turned formation: The Weather Salna Portlaaa Baker Madford North Bnd noaaburf Saa Franclace Loa Anftlai Chteafo - Haw York WllUirwtlf Mlvcr 14 7 fart FORECAST I from U. ft cathr bureau. MrNary rtald. Salami: Occasional artowtn and periods et aartial rltarlna today; rain Uta to night and rly Thurtday. Tn hlh today and Thursday S-VSf and tttm low tonight 4S-4S A Tampcralura at 11 M a.m. today 4I.KIT fWRCIFrr ATIOM "" Sla Start of Wntixr Vaar . t Tal. Taai La it Taa XarmaJ 4.u un ii-ie Mia. Mia. Fravlp. Si 41 1 ' , " as l.u i 47 . m ,.n IS 3 17 SI (1 134 is 47 .as " at .14 ' 44 oa ti I , i-s . 14 .( sUll was falllag at The Dalle Taeaday afteraeea. Hlgkway SI belweea Elkkara and Reedsaart aa Ike Saatkera Ore gM Caasl was apeaed ta He way traffic Taeaday after belag closed by slides Maaday. Taa Caqullle River tkreateaed la Mack the Caas Bay-Resesarg Hi ark way aad taa Caast Highway. Batk Steveas aad White rasses were elased by slides Maaday af teraeea as tarreatial ralas la the Paget Saaady eaantry aad saaw melting la the Cascades seat Westera Wasblagtaa rivers to- property owned by Safeway be tween Northgate Avenue and Way side Terrace. Highway commissioners took the matter under consideration. The petitioners, however, requested a decision by Dec. 31 and showed the commission a general plan of store and parking lot layout. "We want to go ahead as soon as We can with the project," Safe way real estate manager O. R. Blair told The Statesman after the hearing. Access 8lreet Vacated Safeway bought the property two years ago. An originally platted access street parallel to the high way had been vacated by the city and the interested parties thought this meant highway access was as sured, the highway commission was informed at iU Tuesday ses sion in Portland. When the state highway body acquired property to widen High way 99-E through North Salem sev eral years ago, it adopted a con trolled access policy as a means Of avoiding traffic bottlenecks. The recess driveways to most busines- Kef were negotiated at the ti,e i property was acquired. Several Ceatraeta several contracts were awarded. ' L..l - L JJ . a a- iL a lew days ago for technical changes In, the specifications. This was for a 7-mile relocation of the Salmon River Highway between Wallace Bridge and Sheridan. Bids again will be advertised, probably in time (or the January meeting, highway officials said. The Birkemier Construction Co. of Milwaukie was low bidder at Tractor Use In Hunting Halts Youths a Three . Silverton Mt. Angel youths, accused of hunting deer with the aid of a tractor last fa1!, were found guilty Tuesday in Woodburn Justice Court. The case was continued for pre-sentence Investigation. Convicted of the charge, stem ming from an arrest Oct. 1$ by State Police game officers, were Lewis Earl Bleakney and Darrell David Pickens, both of Silverton, and Duane LeRoy Hug, Mt. Angel. State police said the trio used the tractor to circumvent gates j to private property in the upp Abiqua Bsiin country, and had ' vehicle for two to hunt from while the other drove. IKE ACCEPTS REQUEST WASHINGTON UB - President Eisenhower accepted Tuesday a request of Judge William E. Orr for retirement from the U.S. Ninth Judicial Circuit bench at San Fran cisco. 2 Cross-Country Trips in Stolen Cars End in City Jail over to the FBI for prosecution under the federal Dyer Act. ' State police made the arrests on traffic violations to end the jaunts of Andrew Michael Blandel, 23, Toronto, Ont., Thomas Ralph Cor don, 20. of Vancouver, B- C, and Walter Mack. 17. New York City. All three were jailed here before being turned over to the 0. S. Marshal who took them to Portland to face prosecution in federal court, Cordon and Blandel were charsed with stealing a 1914 BuVk from a 1 Toronto doctor and using the doc- tor's credit card for gasoline, oil and two new tires on the I.ooo! mile trip across ' Canada, and through Idaho and Washington. They were arrested by state police after a high-speed chase from Ha ke to the Santiam River Bridge south 9t Salem. ward flaad stage. la Cealral vYaskiagtea, taa heavy saaws aad snh-freeiiag temperatures af the aast few days were giving way ta freetiag rala aad a "silver thaw." wklck spread as far east as Baekaae. A mild "Ckiaeek" wtad. wUh leaaaeratare aa ta 4 degrees, armed aa Ike Tri-Clly area befare a frees sat ta after algbtfaB. ' Tke Steveas Pass Hlgkway was claaed abaat laar hears, the State Highway Deeartmeat re parted. $108,000 for construction of a 110 foot reinforced concrete grade separation structure approximate ly 700 feet west of the YamhiD River on Three Mile Lane high way, and of a 294-foot reinforced concrete grade separation struc ture at the intersection of Lafa yette county road with Three Mile Lane Highway in Yamhill County. George to Take On Talmadge In Senate Race VIENNA, Ga. UB - The dean of the U.S. Senate, Georgia's Walter F. George, Tuesday declared him self a candidate for renomination in what promises to be a thump ing, bruising 19S6 Democratic primary. He faces the probable challenge of a younger bid batUewise oppon- ent, 43-year-old former Gov. Her man Talmadge, politically astute son of "Old Gene" Talmadge, whom George bested In a bitter primary battle 17 years ago. The silver haired George "is a veteran of SO years of public of fice noiaing. 33 in tne senate, now 77, he Is the senior senator in years of service and would set an all-time service record by Septemb er. 1958. Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, he is the Demo cratic mainstay and offUmes ac knowledged Senate spokesman ol the President in the nation's bi partisan foreign policy. Some 30 newsmen gathered In his modest home town office just off .the Dooly County courthouse square for, the declaration of his candidacy. . Arabs Attack U.S. Consulate . (Picture on wirephoto page) AMMAN, Jordan An Arab mob opposing Jordan's entry into the Baghdad pact atormed the . S. Consulate in the Jordan Hide of Jerusalem Tuesday, smashed windows and ripped down the nr.T, J"f: t, , . . . The third attack Jn two days on f, "n ' nJ of his Arab subjects over a Brit ish plan to align Jordan with the pro-Western Baghdad tact part ners. . There Was no official estimate of casualties from five days . of country-wide rioting, but foreign diplomats aaid the best estimate was about 10 killed and 100 in jured. Three deaths occurred Tues day in Amman, the capital. An Oregon law against passing loading or unloading school busses tripped up Mack, who is charged with stealing a 1954 Chevrolet sta tion wagon from Salt Lake City. Police reported he stole Montana license plates for the new vehicle which had never been licensed. Mack waa considerable chagrined over his arrest near Brooks on the Pacific Highway. He said be had been particularly careful an his drive from Utah through Idaho and Oregon to obey all traffic laws, even stopping for pedestrian crosswalks to avoid any tangle with the law'. Me told nolice he had been released from Kanta Slate Prison last February where he had served a tcftn for grand larceny, Mack said he stole the station wagon right after it had been un loaded at a Chevrolet dealer's from a convoy truck bringing it from tha factory. He added the licenses from a junk yard. Bear Salt Lake City, be said. Second Salem Woman Incurs Broken Knee By RUSS BtERAl'GEL Staff Writer, The States sua An 88-year-old Salem woman died Tuesday after being struck by a car in a driving rain while attempting to cross in the 1200 block of North Capitol Street, police report Mrs. Nellie A. Yana. who lived alone at 833 Gaines St, died in Salem Memorial Hospital about an hour after she bad been taken these by Willamette ambulance at 1 p.m. Aa autopsy is sched uled today. Another woman, Mrs. Heha McLeod, 890 S. Commercial St, jm was injured when struck djlll by an auto in heavy rain w about 5:30 p.m. at Lib erty and Trade Streets, police said. She received a fracture of the right knee, Salem General Hospital attendants report She was reported in good condition. Driver of the ear was listed as Phil JC Huber, 593 Edina ! Lane. , ?. .. t J- 11-Year Besideal ' ! Mrs. Yana. a Salem resident ', about '13 years, was crossing ' North Capitol at an alleyway ' when struck by a car driven by Ronald Leonard Wilmot of Port, land, police said.' She waa shield , ing herself with an umbrella in such a way that she could not have seen the ear, according Tjo -Wilmot's statement . to police. ,; (Mrs. Yana's survivors listed in Sec. 1, Page 1) Mrs. Yana's death wis the sev. : enth traffic faUIity in Salem this year, 30th in Marion County and 40th in Marion and Polk Counties k combined- - ; ' . Meanwhile, rain and occationat storms will continue through . Christmas, McNary Field weather men said. v. - . Saatiam Threatens . ' ' The SanUam River reached three. . tenths of a foot above the 13-foot . flood stags Tuesday at Jefferson. ' they uid. and the Willamette rose to 14.7 at Salem. . Salem had the heaviest rain of the month Tuesday with more than i an Inch falling In 24 hours. County engineers reported the Indepenxi. ence Bridge and lower Old Silver ton Road near. Pudding River closed by high water. ' .. They also had many calls about overflowing ditches and flooding basements, they said, including a traffic slowdown caused by water on County Road CJ from Highway 99 to ParkersviUe. Thieves Hurt Salem Woman Mrs. Mary Nixon, 419 Division St., was knocked down and her ' purse taken in a strong-arm rob. bery Tuesday night within a block of her home. City police uid the woman: came to the police station with a wrenched shoulder and some cuts to tell the story of the surprise ; stack about 10 p.m. at the corner of Division and South High streets. She (old police the man who knocked her down from behind appeared to be in his 20s. After grabbing her purse he dashed to a car parked about half block away with another man at the Steering wheel. " Mrs. Nixon was walking borne at the time, her arms loaded with packages. The loss Included $1 80 ; in cash and valuable immigration . papers, nolice reported. v. - Brothers Meet, End 47 Years Of Separation - PORTLAND id - Two brothcrt met in the railroad depot Tuesday : morning after 47 years apart. They almost didn't get together, , though. George Kitto, 74. Chicag.t, arrived en an earlier train than expected, and was in a part of the depot where brother Arthur. 72, Portland, did not expect him. A reporter finally saw Arthur ' and brought him over. Today's Statesman See. f apa Christmas Story ..ll.. S Classified 7- , Comet the Dawn ..' I : 4 Comic i Il.. 4 Cretsward .. II. 7 Edi erials . ...... I.... 4 Home fntm I... 4,7 A'.arkert ..:.........ll.. 7 Obituaries .... II ... 7 Radio, TV ........ 4 Sports ...,.H.. 14 Star Gaier . 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