Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1994)
PAGE TWO The) OREGON STATESMAN, Solom, Orogott, Thuradar Morning, January 10, 1946 Floods Race Through South, Damage High By the Auociatod Press Violent floods continued to race throughout the south yesterday, leaving ' thousands temporarily homeless and causing tremendous property damage. Twenty two deaths attributed to the high water were counted In Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkan sas nd Georgia. Tennessee and Kentucky rivers, swelled by tor rential rain., began receding in the upper regions but the upper: Ohio was rising and more water was expected later in the -week. In Tennessee, where eight per sons died in the murk waters, the Tennsee r:er crested at Chat Uri'tuga at 25.82 feet, nearly six fc-t above f.ood stage. Ti.e Cumberland river began falling at Harlan and Pineville. Ky . and r,tizens began digging mod out of lowland hwwies. The Big Sandy and Kentucky rivers al began receding. The deth list in Kentucky re mained at six. Arkansas counted sax deaths and Georgia two. Ala bama and Mississippi rivers were rising, with some of the streams expected to go above the danger mark. Arrests Provide Robbery Solutions Two, IC-j ear-old boy, arrest ed by city police Wedrieaday night on traffic charge, may provide solution to a aeries of burglaries, car-prowl Joint, 'school If kfr theft1 and shop liftings covering a period wf one year. In their r officers jMMd they tMliid several hundred dollars worth of loot, while more was c'-hed at the home of one of the youths. The boys readily ad mitted having stolen the mer chandise, which included automo bile aciYwories, expensive tools and school book, police declare. ti rfsti dj; - OPENS :4S P. M. - NOtW SHOWING I AT REGULAR PRICES! GINGER ROGERS Boxy Hart" GEO. MONTGOMERY - OPENS C:5 P. M. - NOW, PLAYING! IBela Lugosi THRILL CO-HIT I Y0UI FAVORITE ACTION ACE ..IN 'ACTION! Tucson vsi rhiders Mi Wild BJI ELLIOTT ill Cabby HAYES "MONSTEH 4 APE" mm rUN CO HIT! Laurel Hardy Kl "JHler iJ begs" H .e-vv Vivian YSZ J vii Blaln i7? f i x Navy Reveals Jet-Propelled, Carrier Based Fighter Plane WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-(P) The navy tonight announced de velopment of its first exclusively Jet powered fighter plane for car rier operation. Its top speed ex ceeds 500 miles an hour. Designated the , FD-1 "Phan tom," the plane was designed and built by the McDonnell Air craft corp., St. Louis, Mo. Despite its high speed, the "Phantom" has a landing gait comparable to conventional car rier based fighters, making "wave-ofN" feasible. The plane, already extensively flight-tested, has a service ceil ing of "well over seven miles," the navy said. Primarily designed as an inter ceptor, it has an extremely high rate of climb and a range of approximately 1000 miles. "This plane," the navy an nouncement said, "constitutes a significant milestone in the his tory of naval aviation as it opens the field of carrier operation to the all jet interceptor." Power is furnished by twin axial flow Westinghouse turbo Seattle Transit Strike at Hand SEATTLE, Jan. 9 -()- Mayor William F. Devin stepped into the picture today in an attempt to avert a strike by the city's bus drivers, set for Friday morn ing unless they reach a wage agreement with the Seattle tran sit commission. The mayor called the drivers' union negotiators into a session at his office and the union group pawed up a scheduled negotiation meeting with the commission's representatives to attend. Mayor Devin's office said the latter also were being cat fed in for con sultation, t AFL Man Opposes Kaiser-CIO Plan PORTIJVND, Jan. 9 -jwP)- The recently announced Kaier-Fraz-er automobile plant bonus sys tem was called "a step backward toward the sweat shop" by J. T. Marr, executive secretary of the Oregon State Federation of La bor (AFL). The bonus plan, accepted by the CIO United Automobile Workers union, will lead to piece-work as a substitute for hourly pay, Marr predicted. ' The Kafiier-Frazer plan pro vides for a share-by-all bonus for each completed car in addi tion to regular hourly pay. Obituary Voria Rom VorU. UU rasident of S4M Hyrtlv avc. at a local hospital. Janu ary 9. Survived by son, Wayne C. Vor U, Kent, Wah. Announcement at serv ice wilt be mad Uter by Howell Edwards chapel - CONT. FROM 1 r. M. - NOW SHOWING! A NEW EXPERIENCE IN SUSPENSE! met WERE tOfJE CO-FEATURE! l So mwch f fwn...se mwch sesawch X i . Ml W lough h. Virninii RPiirr t . .. . . r " AsrlLtT Newt Sport Highlights! V'.! J. jet engines built in the wing roots. The engines, which are of exclusive American design, con-, tain no long scoops or ducts. For conditions where take-off assist ance is heeded, either standard carrier catapults or jato (jet assisted take-off) units may be used. , The "Phantom" is built of light aluminum alloy polished to a finish which presents little air resistance. A plexiglass cockpit Canopy, set ahead of the engines, resembles an "elongated bub ble." All rivet heads art set flush, and the tricycle landing gear is completely enclosed when retracted. Total weight of the plane with full combat load is less than 10,000 pounds, i The single-seat, low wing monoplane has a wing span of approximately 40 feet. The wings fold electrically and when rig ged for stowage the plane is only IS feet wide. Rocket devices and auxiliary belly fuel tanks may be dropped in flight Armament consists of standard fighter armament mounted in. the nose. Norblad to End Salem Campaign Tonight Walter Norblad, republican can didate for ; congressman from the first Oregon district, will close his campaign in Salem tonight, speak ing over KSLM at 9:30 o'clock. Joe Felton, his campaign manager, announced Here Wednesday night. Norblad will speak on the Will amette valley project for flood control and irrigation, on veterans' problems and on other issues. Prisoners Here oh Way to Seattle ; ; Two men, charged with hold up and slaying in a Seattle shoe store, December 13, were placed in the Marion county jail last night by the three Seattle offi cers who are returning the men from Texas, where they were ap prehended. . Richard C. Britton and Homer C. Britton are held on a warrant charging first degree murder. The manager of the shoe store was killed by a sawed -off shotgun during a holdup. Drv Itossman Named To Head Portland School Board PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8-(flV Dr. J. H. Rossman became chair main of the board of directors of Portland schools tonight and ap pealed to Oregon patents and tax payers to support new school leg lslation. , "Education in Oregon, has not kept pace with the development of the state," Dr. Rossman de clared. He said new education pro grams must be instituted at all levels of school government and warned Portland in particular that city schools "face a crista.'' TOA8TMISTKE8S TONIGHT 1 Salem Toastmistress will hold election of officers tonight at the meeting following a 6 o'clock din ner at the. Quelle. Mrs. Lew Arena is the current president 10 ANNUAL SALE WIND and WEATHER ( LOTION V2 NOW AT PRICE MOVLAR $1 MZI Regular 1 z; Six t-ez. bottle In handy family carton $3 AO priem pirn $mt LIMITED TIME ONLY! For powder bast, body rvb, chapped sklsu Ivy now cad tavt Willett'$ CAPITAL DRUG STORE Corner State and Liberty Sts. Brutalities of 'Death March' Reach Stand By Hal Boyle MANILA, Thursday, Jan. 10.- (JPf-A 57-year-old American col onel, John S. Ball, broke down and wept today as he described the brutalities of Japanese on the infamous Bataan death march in April. 1942. Ball, of Williamsport, Pa., testi fying at the war crimes trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, said the Japanese wantonly shot pris oners who lagged or broke ranks on the torture march. Describing how they clubbed him. Ball wept. saying "I had to take it; there was nothing I could do about it." He. broke down again when he described how a callous Japanese guard thrust a bayonets between the shoulder blades of a delirious Filipino soldier who had thrown himself down in a ditch seeking water. ; "This Filipino- made a noise I can't forget," Ball told the court "Like a baby crying ..." Asked if h had been treated like a prisoner of war Ball testi fied that "I was not treated like a prisoner of war under any cove nant with any nation, or under any human rule." MSgt James Baldassarre, an other survivor of the death march, earlier described how he had watched his own commander killed. Grain Futures Regain Rise CHICAGO, Jan. 9 Varied influence had grain futures prices in the swing today but stout demand beat off minor re cessions to chalk up gains wher ever ceiling prices left room. The strong securities market, higher rye prices at Winnipeg and talk of inflation all weighed up in favor of -buying sentiment which absorbed the heaviest sell-off of oats in early trading that had come into the pit in several sessions. Commission houses took all the offerings with prices pushing al most steadily upward. -Profit tak ing and hedge selling brought about the short lived minor re cessions. Wheat closed unchanged to cent above the previous finish, May $1.80; corn unchanged at $1.18 ceilings; oats h to up. May 77 ; rye unchanged to. 23a higher, May $1.784-; barley unchanged to V higher, May $1.22. Monitor Telephone Board Is Elected MONITOR, Jan. -(Speciath The Cooperative Telephone com pany re-elected Lee Sargeant and Ernest Boesch to the board of directors for two years. Boesch replaces D rex el White, who has served for a number of years. Improvement of the line. a new switchboard, a new hoaoe for the telephone operator, and the raising of the yearly rates were business details considered. A special meeting to decide these questions will be held at a later date. If VS. V A VSW lwfp IJ&X III I'Gnol iSS; ISSS? f IPiffi,! I Ll I I Phone 311S State Highway Passes Slick, But Passable Packed snow on the highways near Santiam Junction with most of them sanded was the report Wednesday of R. H. Baldock. state highway engineer. The Wilson- ville ferry was reported still closed because of high water. Other road conditions Wednes day: Government camp Snow has reached a depth of 48 inches, with sanding operations in progress. There was packed snow on the highways throughout the entire district. I Odell lake Packed snow on road east of mile post 53 with tem perature of 9 degrees above. Sanding operations in progress. Total snow at summit 103 inches. Still one-way traffic between Oak- ridge and summit. Klamath Falls Fog on Hayden mountain with road sanded. No new snow. Astoria Columbia River high way closed at east city limits with detour through Tongue Point na val base. One-way traffic at mile post 91 on Oregon Coast highway. Also one-way traffic in vicinity of Manzanita on Nehalem secondary highway. Slide east of Astoria but traffic going through. The Dalles -Overcast and high ways normal. Meacham Packed snow on highways. Roads sanded. Bend Clear with temperature 17. Some ice and roads being sand ed. Detour 10 miles west of Mit chell where bridge is washed out. Bellevue - Hopewell highway Opened for traffic early Wednes day. OPA Opposes Butter Boost WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (P) -An agriculture department pro posal to raue the price of butter churned up opposition today from the OPA. Stabilization Director John C. Collett now will have to referee the dispute. There appeared to be no pat solution. Secretary of Agriculture Ander son confirmed in Chicago that he has recommended a six-cent a pound increase to stimulate pro duction. Removal of subsidies, Anderson said, would boost the price another 12 cents for a total Increase of 18 cents by May 1. OPA Director Chester Bowles thereupon issued this statement: "OPA is vigorously opposed to any price increase for butter. You can make that as strong as you like." 4-II dub Members Take $126506 in Auctions f CORVALLIS. Jan. -(-Livestock sold in 13 auctions last year by Oregon 4-H club members netted the youngsters $126,500, the state 4-H office said today. Sale of 1219 animals were at an, average price of $30.72 per hundred pounds for sheep, $24.97 for hogs and $27.37 for beef. , LAST sL Cm today lyriiuLrAl cl Broadway's H g j " ' " 1 7 L i hilarious virxi 3f If romantic CVtStecL 7 A comody jrS"! ! - 00 1 Y 'te&aujuiX' vrF BIOWN PLUS CO-FEATURE S2235 ,fil Rpsson Urges Vets to Check Life Insurance The fact that a person is dis charged from the service does not terminate his or her national ser vice life insurance policy provid ed the premium payments are continued. Hugh E. Roason, direc tor of the state department of veterans' affairs, stated this week. "Veterans should remember to keep their service policies paid up," he said. "If the veteran has allowed his insurance to lapse, however, he may have it rein stated, either within six months after date of discharge or within three months after date of lapse, whichever is later, by payment of only two monthly premiums without interest and by filing a statement showing that he i in as good health as he was on the date of lapse." Complete physical examinations for reinstatement of insurance policies may be obtained; free through the veterans' administra tion. Adviee of any kind relative to service insurance can be had at the veterans' affairs offices in the state library building. I Rites Set for Silverton Boy SILVERTON. Jan. 9-(Special) Funeral services for little David Graves, who died in a hospital here Tuesday several hours after he had fallen into a tub of hot water, will be held Friday, the day he would have been two1 years old. They will be conducted at 2 p.m. in the memorial chapel of the Ekman funeral home and in terment is to be In Belle Passi cemetery. David was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Graves of the ScotU Mills area. Among his survivors are three brothers, Virgil, Edgar and Robert, and a sister, Evelyn. Lebanon Building, j Permit Set Record j ; LEBANON, Jan. 9 -(TV Build-j ing pecmits here in 1945 set a new record at $400,000, nearly 5Cj per cent above the previous high tn 1941. ' Most of the permits were for business buildings. The city's population has grown 70 per eent but only 300 residential permits were granted. CO-FEATURE CnUneo from 1 P. M7 -Featare- tbe behind- scenes story. Appointment Tokyo" I1 I NOW SHOWING Millworker Faces 15-Year-Old Army Desertion Charge PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 9-P) An Oregon millworker charged with deserting the army 15 years ago, who has since mar ried and become the father of four children, will be court martialed at Fort Douglas, Utah, the FBI reported today. Federal Agent Howard I. Bobbin said Paul Llewellyn White, 37, was arrested today under a new army directive that extends active time of de sertion charges from seven to 20 years. He said White is charged with deserting June 6, 1930, and was arrested at his home at Flor ence, Ore., near where he worked at a coast lumber mill. White is now held at Camp Adair for transfer to Fort Doug las. Greeks Form New Coalition ATHENS, Jan. 9 -(,$,- Premier Themistokles Sophoulis expressed "stupefaction" tonight at the news - that dissident leaders of his own liberal party had formed a coalition with right wing popu lists, and conceded that the sur prise agreement "may cause a government overthrow." The coalition announcement said liberals, led by former Pre mier Sophocles Venizelos, who split with Sophoulis last Novem ber, were ready to form a new government which would super vise Greek general elections scheduled for March 31. - FATHER KEEDY VISITS HERE Maj. Jphn Reedy, army chap lain corps, was in Salem this week visiting friends. Father Reedy was assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church in the fall of 1940 when he left with the Ore gon National Guard to become part of the U. S. army. He was stationed for a time at Ft. Stevens ! attending special chaplains corps j school and later was in the Aleu-, tians. He clebra ted-mass Sunday! at St. Vincent de Paul's church. 1 ''f - . v.i.v :. '; ' ; , :t . ' .. .i . "'. " IfSJi t-. . --v, .' ..y t Ai VVi CAOnY ALL Vouii 1005 in onn jS. BASKET... REPRESENTATIVE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Let's fill the present vacancy in the House bf Representatives with a strong Independent, backed by the Democratic party. With five Repub licans already representing Oregon in Congress today, strength can be add ed to our delegation by sending Bruce Spaulding to .the House. Vote for Spaulding for Representative. MDOO)0D fl Political Adlrertiseoient iJ j COMMJTTCt" Air Mail Rate Drop Proposed WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 -P)-Re-duct ion of the air mail rate to five cents an ounce was advocated by the air transport industry today. Spokesmen also expressed hope thaf the gap between air and first class mail rates eventually will be eliminated. The present rate for air mail is 8 cents an ounce, but this is to revert by law to six cents upon formal termination of the war. The air carriers' recommenda tions were presented by Former Representative Robert Ramspeck, executive vice president of the Air Transport association, at a meet ing of air line and post office de partment representatives. Negro Charged With Murder MEMPHIS. Jan. 9.-VA 18-year-old negro was charged with first degree murder today in the slayin? of an infant white boy. The dead boy's mother and broth er also, were beaten brutally and left to die in the smoking ruins of ; their home. Dist. Atty. Gen. Will Gerber said the murder charge was filed agiainst Fred Jackson after the negro schoolboy was identified by th mother, -37 year-old Mrs. I. T. Goss. from her hospital bed. Sheriff' Oliver Perry and two deputies took the youth this morn ing to the hospital where one year -old Sammie Goss died yester day and where the mother and three-year-old Freddie lie critical ly injured. Open 1:45 The Very Thought of You" With Deanis Morgan, Dane Clark. Faye Emerson AND THE RECKLESS AGE" With Gloria Jean and Henry Stephenson lor hf "SPAULDIKO TOR OOfcORM Rtp H. fmsM. K
