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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1994)
OTP 0QEHD3 rui m w 1AJ ; X to mora Today marks the centennial of another notable event in the his tory of the Oregon 1 country. On thi date in 1840 the first news paper. The Orcgoni Spectator, published its first ise in Oregon City. It was the fir.it newspaper of the west. Its printing plant was not the first in the west, how ever. In 1539 a prjinting outfit consisting jbf a Ramage hand press, typej, furniture and paper, the gift of a native mission on Oahu, Sartdwich islands, to the missions of j the northwest, reached Lapwai, Idaho, where the Rev. H. H. Sfalding used it to print mall books in the native dialects of the tiet Perce and Spokane Indians.. After the heavy migra tions of 1842-5 the population in Oregon, clustering chiefly in the Willamette valley, had grown so large that the need of a news paper win felt. The Spectator, a non-politicil paper, was the an I swer to thiji local demand. It was the firot newspaper published west : of the Missouri river. William G. TVault wain its editor. He did not Jat very long, .however, because 'his writings did not meet the ap proval of the owners of the sheet, George L.. Curry, later governor of the territory, succeeded him. Curry did not hold the job long, either. In 1848 he became editor of a rival paper in Oregon City, then territorial capital, the Ore gon Free Press. ,. i Other papers started in days le fore statehood were the Oregon American and Evangelical Union ikt at Tualatin plains in (Continued on editorial page) Engineer Says Sweet Home Facing Flood PORTLAND, Feb. 4 - JT) - Col. Leg-Oil MeCt Set . George J. Zimmerman, assistant;,, 15 district army engineer, told the j J. fj otllClV LjelflVS chamber of commerce today that . J 'a Sweet Home would be flooded un- I In Veterail AlUUrS less plans lor a dam on the soutn Santiam river are changed to an other site. Rapid growth of the town since the origiaijite was chosen for the Sweet Home dam has made inundation undesirable, he report ed, addii.g that alternate sites are being studied. " Zimmerman, outlining the ar my's plans for the Willamette and its tributaries, reported release of storage water will lead to channel improvement and increased flow. This may make possible a 150-foot-wide channel, 6 feet deep, between Oregon City and Salem and one that wide and 5 feet deep between Salem and Albany, he said. He reported work' probbly will start this year on the Dorena and Detroit dims, but no funds have been allocated for the Meridian project. 0iociKiriaii8 at Lebanon Married U:HAN)N. Feb. 4.--(Special) -Aiiiiourwrrru-nt was m;ide here thin Wi-ek of the recent marriage of Mrs. S.i i ah Humphrey mid Ed waid Turner. Itoth are 0 years of age. The ceremony was per formed in the parsonage of the Chu fch of Chrikt, the Rev. Holly J.rv 'is, pastor, officiating. Yi ierds met them after the ceie- riMtiiy at the home of the bride's iumi ami dmightrr-in law, Mr. and Mr. Ueit Humphreys, Mr. and Mrs. Turner went to Seattle to viHi t for a short time but will make their home in this Vicinity. G. Wallace Hug New Manager Of Salem's Municipal Airport fr. Wallace Hug, recently dis charged navy pilot, is manager of the Salem municipal airport to day. He was named to that post Monday night by 'the city coun- Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH tier. "Lightly! Lizhtlyr I rlif . si lyimi 6tG NINETY-FIFTH YEAR They'll Lose Estates, Maybe f 1 STAMFORD, Concw Feb. 4- Manfred Enrich (left) talka with Gene Tanner former heavyweight boxing champion, at Ehrich'i home near here yesterday, darinr a gathering e-f Stamford area resident "to protest appropriation of their homes' for permanent site for , UNO headquarters. Tnnney said he thought selection of the Connecticut-New York border area "is a great mistake." (AF Wlrephoto U The Oregon Statesman) PORTLAND, Or.,; Feb. 4-iip)-State American Ljspvn Comman der Neil Morfitt'.ii jounced, to night diitrfct Cikt4&vi6)ld be, held al CorvaUis Feb. 7 and at Salem Feb. 8 on reports of de lays in handling of veterans af fairs in Oregon. Morfitt said the American Le gion's criticism of the veterans' administration "comes as a shock to the average Legionnaire who has not been following the situa tion and does not know the pic ture." Peace Envoys Not Charged) In Jap Trials TOKYO, Feb. 4.Hyp)-Japan' false peace emissaries, Siburo Kurusu and Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura, self-proclaimed innocent hie of the militarists, probably will escape prosecution as war criminals, an allied headquarters source disclosed today. If it was finally decided not to charge them, the same source said, a full statement of the rea sons would be announced later. nOLDFN GATE GETS FLEET SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4 -") Headquarters of the Third fleet have been established in San Francisco and eventually all of its ships will b docked here as a naval reserve, a Third fleet spokesman said tonight. cil, his salary fixed at $275 a month. Son of Mrs. George Hug and the late long-time superintendent of Salem schools the new airport manager was an athlete at Uni versity of Oregon, and served for four years in the Oregon state po lice prior to enlisting in the Ca nadian air force. From the Cana dian service he entered the U. S. navy, where he was a lieutenant at the time of his discharge. A representative of the army engineers handling surplus prop erties is expected here today, Al derman Tom Armstrong said Monday, either to turn back to the city or to complete details for such a return. The airport since early 1942 has been under army management. Mayor L M. Doughton told the council he would "require a little time" to select five persons for the new airport commission the council provided by resolution Monday night The five members are to serve staggered terms, one retiring yearly. The council authorized the transfer of $2379 rom the emer gency to the airport fund. 10 PACES ' i 1 V m-. " : 1 iv UNO Wouldn't Depose Entire Stamford Area NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -)- The site selection committee which advised! the United Nations or ganization to establish world headquarters in the North Greenwich-Stamford area also recom mended that persons living in the zone be allowed to continue resi dence unless there ij immediate need for: their buildings and land. The report, made public tonight in New York and London, said: "W feel that, while the local population would have to be re moved from such areas and buildings as are; immediately needed by the United Nations, the occupants of other premises premises within the zone: could continue to reside there as ten ants of the United I Nations until such time as It became necessary to take over their premises." This section of the committee's 80-page report was expected in some quarters to cool off the storm of protest among some 3000 residents of the 42-square-mile New York - Connecticut area. High Officials of Nash Finn Laud Plans for Salem George Mason, president of the Nash Motor company, and other high officials of the Nash or ganization were in Salem Monday to visit K. Smith and W. L. Phil lips, Jr., of Marion Motors, which handles - the Nash products In this area, ? Included in the party besides Mason were H. C. Doss, general sales manager of the Nash firm; Roy Boscow, western divisional manager, of San Francisco, and C. W. Wentworth, Portland dis tributor,; who brought the out state visitors from Eugene. The officials expressed approv al of Marlon Motors' proposed new location at 430 N. Commer cial st. i They were guest of Smith and Phillips for luncheon at Normandy Manor, Gearing Work Started For New Rank RuiNing Removal of service station buildings at the Chemekete-Lib-erty streets corner iwas begun Monday by the Hoffman con struction! company. It is the first step toward construction of a new bank building for Salem branch. First National Bank of . Portland. FIVE DIE IN AMBULANCE CADIZ, Kjr Feb,' 4-(4VFive persons died today when they were overcome by carbon monox ide fumes in an ambulance which stalled In flooded Dyer's creek In Trigg county eight miles here. from SILAS IL STRONG DIES PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 4.- (-Silas Hardy Strawn, 71, fa mous Chicago attorney, died of a heart attack today. OUNDBD Solam, Oregon, Tuesday Morning. Brighter Lights Get Approval Council Acts to Reduce Hazard; Curfew Changed By Isabel Childs City Editor, The SUtesmair Brighter lights for three down town Intersections, $6000 from the emergency fund for postwar sew er construction, an informal re quest for federal aid to hold Shel ton drainage ditch within its banks, and a new curfew ordi nance came out of Monday night's one hour and forty-five minute Salem city council meeting. The resignation of Paul Burris from the city water commission was accepted and Dr. Harold Olinger was elected to return to the post he held before entering the service. Burris noted that he had taken the commissionerzhip only on a duration basis. Traffic Hazards Cited Approving plans for installa tion f powerful, modern lights at the Commercial, Liberty and High Street Intersections of Center street, the council, acted to lessen what Alderman A. H. Gille de scribed as 'probably the three worst traffic hazards in town." . The new lights, to cost the city 35.29 a month, will provide an opportunity to study plans for further street light improvements. Alderman Kenneth Perry, chair man of the committee on lights, declared. Chairman C. f. French of the sewer committee told fellow al detmen, as he asked for additional funds, that his committee has been advised an intercepter sewer for the new sewage disposal plant should be installed shortly so that engineers working on the project plans may have some cost experi ence to go by in figuring cost of the entire plant. " Complaint Net First One A pair of complaints from a father and son, William and Paul Allen, mentioning legal action if Shelton creek were hot restrained from destroying their properties, came before the council. Through the years such letters have come with increasing frequency, French said as he asked -for authority to seek federal aid for the extensive Job of rip-rapping the drainage ditch which flows west through the south side of the city. The curfew ordinance puts Into the formal record the council's ac tion of a month ago lowering cur few age to 18 and extending the curfew hour 10,12 midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Admiral Leigh, 75, Succumbs LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 4 -(yP)-Adm. Richard Henry Leigh, 75, retired, died in the U.S. naval hospital here today. Commander-in-chief of the fleet in 1932 and 1S33. Admiral Leigh relinquished the poxt to head the navy board in Washington. In 1034 he asked retirement because of durabilities. He headed anti submarine warfare in the first world war. HORSE STEAKS FLY WEST TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 4-(P)-Old Dobbin took to the air tonight in the form of steaks for human consumption. The horsemeat was bound for San Francisco. West Salem Gives Franchise to Salem Electric, Declines to' Consider Similar Action for PGE Br Marguerite Gleeaon SUtcnnin Valley Editor WEST SALEM, Feb. 4(Special) By a divided vote the city coun cil tonight voted Salem Electric company a franchise to operate within the city limits and re fused to hear the first reading of an ordinance which would grant similar rights to Portland Gen eral Electric. The Salem Electric ordinance passed first and second readings t a special meeting held last week. When it came up for final reading tonight it was adopted with two dissenting votes. When the ordinance to grant the Portland General Electric a franchise came up for first read ing it was tabled without being heard, on motion of Councilman nfesmatt Fabruary 5, 1946 Yamashita Step Nearer Noose in Split Decision WASHINGTON, Fib. 4. - (T) -Japanese General Tomoyuki Ya mashita today lost his supreme court fight to csca)e the nooe. A six-man majority of the court held that the military commission which sentenced him to death on a charge of condoning wholesale barbarities proceeded legally. But Justices Rutledge and Mur phy, in two ringing dissents, branded the trial unfair and con trary to traditional American jus- tlce. Yamashita, whose conviction still is subject to review by Gen eral MacArthur and the war de partment, was charged with per mitting 123 crimes and atrocities by his troops in the last days of the, war in the Philippines. Postmaster Must Mind Mails, Not Art, Court Holds WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -(A1) The supreme court ruled 8 to 0 today that the postmaster gen eral has no right to bar Esquire magazine from second class mail ing privileges just because its bosomy girl don't look like art to him. The opinion, written by Justice Douglas, said: "To withdraw the second class rate from this publi cation today because its contents seemed to one official not good for the public would sanction the withdrawal of the the second class rate tomorrow from another periodical whose social or eco nomic views seemed harmful to another official." i House Refuses To Kill Bills Limiting Labor WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-()-The house overwhelmingly repul sed today a move to scrap all pending labor legislation and for ged ahead with consideration of sweeping strike-control propos als. A 130 to 42 standing vote de feated a surprise parliamentary move by Rep. Celler (D-NY) to kill the pending bills by striking cut all their provisions except the introductory "enacting c 1 a u s e." Celler said his aim was to fore stall "hasty" and "bad" legisla tion. One of the bills, introduced by Rep. Case (R-SD), would set up a national mediation board with power to step into major disputes and forbid strikes or lockouts for 30 days. The bill also would out law violent picketing and permit civil suits against either party breaking a contract. Reverse Welcome Heralds Arrival Of 5 th Air Force PORTIAND, Ore., Feb. 4 -(A1) Fifth air force veterans home bound from Japan reversed custo mary port welcoming ceremonies today with banners reading "Hello USA glad to have you with us" decorating the troopship Chanute as it berthed here. The airmen paid an Astoria, Ore., harbor pilot to telephone Portland in advance of their ar rival here and read a welcome proclamation to the city of Port land from the 1402 veterans. An other banner said "The Fifth Is back you lucky girls.' Donald Kuhn. Others voting with him were A. F. Goffrier, Arno Myers and Roy Stevens. They voted for the Salem Electric or dinance. C o u n c i 1 m e n Donald Burns and W. C. Helse voted against granting Salem Electric a franchise and also against tabling the Portland General Electric franchise. When the Portland General Electric ordinance came up, Fred G. Hodges, division manager of the company, was granted per mission to review the last six year history of the two com panies in West Salem and in closing appealed to the council to adopt the ordinance. He said if it were not granted "we will take it to the people." Before the final vote on adop tion of the ordinance to grant No. 270 Chief Justice Stone, for the ma jority, calmly overruled the en emy general on every point raised and concluded: (1) The order convening the commission was lawful; (2) the commission was legally set up; (3) the indictment constituted a fharge of violation of the Jaw of war; (4) the commission had au thority to proceed; and (5) in try ing Yamashita it did not violate any military, statutory or consti tutional command. - The ruling was nut on the trial itself but on a petition for writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the commission was illt'sal and that Yamashita should not be held as a war criminal. Woodworking Plant Planned North of City Construction of a large wood work i n g plant on the Keith Brown industrial properties in north Salem is contemplated this year, Keith Brown, president of the company, said Monday. Brown termed "highly exagger ated" a report published by a Portland trade paper to the effect that his firm would erect a $600, 000 woodworking factory this summer and had other plans for a $250,000 unspecified type of in dustrial plant. "Arrangements have not pro gressed beyond the preliminary discussion stag e," he declared, freely admitting, however, that "there is not just smoke but fire" in the report of industrial devel opment plans. The woodworking plant, he said, would not be built by Keith Brown Building Supply Co., al though his concern might, do a portion of the work, but would be constructed by other Interests on properties- purchased from his holdings. Would-be builders still unnamed, have not set a cost fig ure, Brown declared. Pauley Denies Deal to Raise Party Funds WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (T) Testimony that he had tried to get an American oil tanker trans ferred to Mexico in 1041 in or der to gain $6000 for the demo cratic campaign fund brought Edwin Pauley to his feet today with the exclamation "dirty lie." Max Thornburg, former state department oil adviser, gave the testimony before the senate naval committee holding hearings on President Truman's nomination of Pauley to be undersecretary of the navy. Pauley, California oil man, was formerly democratic national treasurer. There was no explanation where the $6000 was to come from. Clare Booth Luce Temporarily Blind WASHINGTON, Feb. .-m-Rep. Clare Booth Luce (R-Conn) said today she had temporarily blinded herself by putting the wrong type of drops in her eyes. She expects her sight to be back to normal in a day or two, she said. the Salem Electric franchise. Mayor Guy Newgent had the city attorney read from the Oregon code regarding public officials accepting; remuneration in return for their vote. Newgent said this point had been called to his at tention and he queried the four councilmen on their interest in the Salem Electric cooperative. The four denied any connection which would affect their vote. The council tonight also voted to purchase four new hydrants from surplus property, and de cided to put in a hydrant for the Oregon Textile company which is installing its own water main. The council voted to pay $25 as its share of the cost of an engineer for the nine-county Willamette flood control project Prica 5c Planes, Boats Race To Aid of Stricken Vessel Off Alaska KETCHIKAN. Alaska. Feb. 4.-l'-Tbe liner Yukon fcreke in ta: tonight, its forward part remaining fatt aground in Jehnstone bay! and the after part "rolling to starboard, " the eoast guard cutter Onondaga reported tonight as it fought to rescue tbe 449 persona' apparently still aboard. The cutter said it had removed 4 women and children to it own decks before the ship broke. Thr Onoadaaa's two power boats fought icy water and high waves to effect the mmt. The report said the weather and ra conditions were improving j slightly after hours of gale wine nw --m nrr a UU tails Work Stoppage for N. Y. Monday By the Associated Pret A two-hour w ork stoppage of New York CIO members, claimed to number 600,000, was called last night by the Greater New York council of the CIO as a demon stration in support of the CIO communications workers' strike against Western Union. The CIO council said the strike would be from 4 to 8 p.m. (EST) next Monday. It would not affect viU.1 industries such as light, heat, transit, health services and news. Plans for the demonstration were announced on the heels of predictions of imminent federal seizure of tugboat operations in New York's strike-bound harbor where food and fuel supplies have been cut to a-point which a labor spokesman termed "critical." Meanwhile, two of the brass in dustry's "big three" companies (American Brass and Chase Brass and Copper) in the Waterbury, ConnM area shut down as 14,400 workers struck for a 30 per cent wage increase. The nation's total of idle due to labor disputes went to more than 1,400,000. In Washington OPA Adminis trator Bowles met with President Truman amid reports the White House is aiming at a quick deci sion on price control, main stum bling block in the steel strike. Report Claims 'Monopoly9 in Timber Sales ! EUGENE, Ore., Feb 4.-f)-The Western association of Lumber men and Loggers, representing small operators in Lane and Douglas reported today the Ore gon and California revested lands administration program is foster ing a monopoly for big lumber companies. A protest, sent to Secretary of Interior Ickes and to Oregon's congressional delegation, declared the OAC administration is partly to blame tor allowing timber to over-mature by refusing to re lease it to smaller operators. The association asserted most of this area's sawmills will be forced out of business within three years if the practice continues and if the government approves p r o p-o sed sustained yield units. t'NO TO MEET SEPT. 3 NEW YORK. Feb. 4.-The Unit ed Nations, assembly will hold its next session on September 3, 1946 In New York City, NBC said In a broadcast from London tonight.-; British Brides Reach U.S. History Repeats Itself , In Effect, With Arrival 465 NEW YORK, Feb. 4- -The first large contingent of brides to reach the United States since Eng lish sailing ships brought wives to American colonists 200 years ago arrived today aboard the liner Argentina which docked with 456 British wives and 170 babies of American GI's. They were the vanguard of 63,000 wives and children of serv icemen whom the army says will be reunited with their husbands before June. A cold, windy welcome in pre dawn darkness and a nine-day trip through exceptionally severe north Atlantic storms failed to mar the brides' anticipation. They braved the cold to glimpse the flood-lighted Statue of Liberty. They sang verses of the "Star Spangled banner" learned in ori entation classes during the trip. Four army tugs maneuvered the former 30,000-ton troop transport through ice floes in the North riv er to its docking at 6:30 ajn. Weather Max. .44 Win. M SI S3 33 S4 Rain jn JOI J01 JOI J3 Salem Eugene Portland . aatUo .43 .43 ..43 San Francisco 49 Willamette river S- ft. FORECAST (from U.S. weithr bu reau, McNarr field, Salem): MoaUy cloudy today with occasional light rains. Little temperature change. HUheat today 43 decree.. Light to moderate wumIs aaost es the Sjr. and towering waves buffeted tro vessel. Fortresses Ordered Ovt Mf.-.nwhile at Anchorage the Gen. Delos orderei all B 17 Fly ing For;rses carrying power cut- bo;rts to come in from thos Aleutian chain an i, aid in the rescite work. . Th r f.as no mention of lo of life jn the Onondaga's report. The ait guard said other ve- , .)!, v.,.re ilie at the scene w ithm the rifxt few hours to assist in the y.,vM ; nut time and weather. Th weather bureau at Anch orage aid the storm, which sered to have centered its fury on the marooned and the re cutrs, was moving off to the eat southeast. Other Ship Converge Wind wrre 50 miles an hour or more. 0:her vessels com erg inji .ri the M-ene to eid the Orion -dr.gi. iiiilui ttl her sister cutter, the tYtar; the army dispatch citlt SS Zahnski. the SS North Hatn. the USS Cijrb and the TP W. Snow isUt (visibility. The Yukon left Seward for -Seattle last night with 49ft" person. 371 pamengrrs and a crew of 12.V An Alaska line spokesman in Se attle said probably 250 patent ers were military men. , Total of 10,082 Veterans Will Arrive Today By the Associated Pres At. least 10,082 returning ecrvli e mcn were scheduled today to de bark at five U. S. ports from il vessels. Debarkation of 377$ pcrsonr.el from 1 1 ships is expected at l.vn east coast points while three wet coat ports await at least 4332 vet eran? on 10 vessels. Ships, and units arriving include: At Sab Diego Minesweepers VMS 281 snl 281 and 286, 12 navy (due oris, r ally Feb. 3). At Loo Anceles St. Mihlel from Okinawa, 829 miscellaneous personnel. At 8aa Franclse Miscellaneous on following: Jer ald from Samar, 2186 navy; Cher bourgh from Okinawa, 38 marine; Chaffe from Pearl Harbor, 33 navy; LCS (L) 3 from Pearl 11-r-bor, 27 navy; LST 734 from Petri Harbor, 24 navy; Riverside from Pearl Harbor, 1278 navy and rne rines; Vinton from Pearl Harbor, 206 navy. AgeI Albany Man Injured in Flames ALBANY, Feb. HAVR'scue 4 84-year-old Joe Wakefield f rm hi blazing bed by Harvey KmWe. a neighbor, was reported tod.? by firemen. Fire fighters confined flames to the bedroom. vWakefie'd rt-ceivrd minor facial burns. The floating nursery was ab!a.a with lights as it swept up the har bor. The brides hadn't slept sit night They pressed clothes, curled their hair and primped until th last minute planning either to meet their husbands in the NV-v York area or to board trains fr reunions later in 44 states. The brides came from England Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Mal ta, and were chosen by priori' system from 27,000 applicants. The ex - soldiers, mcanwhi'e, paced the floor and smoked cha rt fashion at the American Red Cn headquarters set up for reunions. There was one British girl fr whom no husband was waiting. She was Mrs. Curtis Guy John son, whose husband, a gunner on a medium, bomber, failed to re turn from a mission over France last December. She said she prom ised him she would bring their daughter, Joanna Curtis, now If months old, to America. SOME GI's DONT WANT TO BRING WIVE HOME LONDON, Feb. 4-(v?VUS. army authorities said today that 100 Gt husbands had written them can celling applications to have their British wives taken to the United States, pending divorce actions. A spokesman said that many addi tional husbands never have ap plied for transportation for theis? wives.