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JhreeTornadoes Over Florida As Storm Offshoots Western and Gulf Coasts Threatened As is Tampa Bay Region Miami, Fia., Sept. 23 (IP) Three tornadoes were reported over Florida as oftshoots of a tropical storm which was cen tered at noon today "close to shore" between St. Petersburg . and Clearwater on the Florida west coast. The state's gulf coast from Tampa northward was warned against dangerous gales, and gusts of 60 to 70 miles an hour were reported at Egmont Key in the mouth of Tampa bay. Meanwhile, the coast guard combed Florida waters for 25 small freighters and banana boats reported missing or over due. Six of them, some wrecked, have been located. Wlittis Increasing ' ".l.e weather bureau in a noon . hul.-iUn said the storm was mov jShg very slowly northward about eight miles an hour after a blocking action by an area of high pressure over the Atlantic states. Winds were reported increas ing over northern Florida and were expected to reach 50-60 mile proportions this afternoon and tonight east of Tallahassee and Apalachicola, while subsid ing to the south. A small, short-lived tornado hit Jacksonville's south side to day, taking off a few scattered , roofs and uprooting big oak trees in a half-mile wide path. Telephone and power lines were downed over an area two miles long. Tornadoes Strike Another tornado dipped into eastern Marion county in the vi cinity of Lynne early this morn ing, badly damaging at least two homes, leveling trees, blocking roads and knocking out large sections of power and communi cation lines. 1 While the storm, nothing yet to compare with the great hurri cane of last week, hovered over Tampa, the weather bureau in a morning advisory said the high est winds reported since the storm was first felt in Florida yesterday were 60 to 70 miles an hour, and the lowest pres- .vure 29.26 inches. Concluded on Pate 8, Column ) Barbers' Law Held Invalid ! The stale supreme court ruled unconstitutional today a law which restricts the practice of bartering to citizens. The court ruled unanimously that the law violates the 14th amendment of the U. S. constitu tion, which guarantees equal protection of the laws to all per sons within the united states, regardless of whether they are citizens. The suit was brought by Sam my Q. Quisor, Portland Filipino, who was refused a license by the state barber board because he is not a citizen. Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding, Multnomah county, ruled in favor of Quisor, and today's decision by Justice Percy R. Kelly upheld Judge Redding. Other decisions today: Jack Calcagano vs. Blair Hoi comb, appellant. Appeal from Multnomah county. Suit for damages to a corporation. Opin ion by Justice J. O. Bailey. Judge , vj&s R, Bain reversed and new feif!TVrdered. Myrtle M. Hanns vs. Earl R. friendly, appellant. Appeal from Kane county. Suit for injunc tion against trespass. Opinion by Justice Arthur D. Hay. Judge Dal M. King, affirmed. Appeal dismissed in Jackson county suit of A. R. Cooke vs. Eva Traver, appellant. Oregon Fire Hazards Expected to Increase Portland, Ore., Sept. 23 (U.R) The weather bureau reported .here today that humidities in western Oregon were expected to rise 10 to 15 percent, but that forest fire danger will remain high in all regions west of the Cascades except along the imme diate coast. The bureau said that eastern Oregon fire danger will continue very high, although humidity in creases from 5 to 10 percent were anticipated east of the Cas cades. r Butter Down 2 Cents Portland, Ore., Sept. 23 VP) wholesale butter prices were down two cents a pound here today but quotations on Tilla mook cheese were up 2V4 cents a pound. Trade spokesmen attri buted the drop to buyer resis tance and said butter prices to retailers would be 85 cents for made AA and 78 cents ' for Jade A. 58th Year, No. 227 Sewer Rental Fees Proposed By Franzen A comprehensive plan for con struction of sanitary trunk and lateral sewers, together with a sewage disposal plant at a to tal cost of $1,445,000 was placed before the city council Monday night by City Manager J. L. Franzen. Work on the project would begin next January under the plan. Financing of the project, as outlined in the report would be made through use of available funds, a proposed $815,000 bond issue to be voted upon at the May, 1948, primary election and imposition of a sewer rental charge upon all water users. 50 Cent Charge The basis of the sewage rental charge would be a minimum of 50 cents a month for household ers, plus three cents per 100 cu bic feet for all over 500 cubic feet consumed. Commercial and industrial water users would also be subject to the charge. The program of development and financing was divided into six parts. City Manager Franzen recom mended that the first step in the program be the construction of an interceptor sewer from the sewer disposal plant site on the river to Columbia street. This sewer, estimated to cost $158. 500, would be designed to serve a population of 100,000, a figure which the city manager declared was not fantastic when popula tion trends of the city were stu died. Work on this sewer would be gin in January, 1948, and be completed by September of the same year. Funds are availa ble for this job. Second Step The second step in the pro gram calls for the construction of an interceptor se,wer from Co lumbia to Union street at an eg timated cost of $215,000, with construction of the sewage dis posal plant, designed to serve a population of 55,000 at an esti mated cost of $600,000 as the third step in the program. The remaining three recom mendations made by the city manager would provide trunks and lateral sewers for newly an nexed territory in the northern section of the city at an esti mated cost of $129,500; the same construction for territory in the south section of the city now without sewage facilities at an estimated cost of $267,500 and construction of trunks and laterals in the area contemplat ed to be annexed at the special election on October 7 at an es timated cost of $75,000. History Given In his report Mr. Franzen gave a detailed history of Sa lem's sewer construction pro gram, pointing out that in 1940 estimates were made for a WPA project including the construc tion of the remainder of the in terceptor sewer from Union street northerly to the river, and the disposal plant on the site already purchased by the city. The cost of this original project was estimated at $386, 680. On May 20, 1941, the voters of Salem authorized a $200,000 sewage treatment bond issue, of which $196,000 is still on hand, according to the report. On March 30, 1942, the WPA proj ect ended and plans for another method of financing was propos ed. However, due to the war, all activity on the project ended, (Concluded on Fare 9, Column 7) Farm Labor Camp Tenants Plan to Resist Eviction Notices of eviction served Monday on 55 families at the farm labor camp roughly representing about 230 people to be effective after Thursday of this week may meet with some effort at legal resistance as a delegation of five men understood to represent the council at the farm labor camp appeared before Deputy District Attorney Larry Osterman Tues day morning and protested the eviction notices. Osterman said he referred them to William J. Linfoot, members of the Agri cultural Housing, Inc., commit tee which will take over the la bor camp Friday. Guy Hickok, chairman of the Agricultural Housing, Inc., com mittee is away on vacation and Linfoot stated it is the plan of the housing corporation to def initely close the camp and keep it closed until spring under care of a maintenance man when it will reopen as harvest and other labor needs require. J. . G. Schreckendgust, center manager for the department of agriculture which has been operating the labor camp, said the depart ment' and hit jurisdiction will Salem, Nikola Petkov, Bulgar Leader, Hanged by Reds Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 23 (IP) Nikola Petkov, peasant leader and foe of the communist party, was hanged at 12:15 a.m. today, in Sofia's . central prison on charges of plotting against Bul garia's communist - controlled government, an official an nouncement said. Both the United States and Britain, denouncing his convic tion as a miscarriage of justice, had urged the Soviet Union to participate in a big power re view of Petkov's case, but the Russians declined on grounds that this would be interference in Bulgaria's internal affairs. Protests Rejected Bulgaria likewise rejected a series of British and American protests. The United States sug gested that the Bulgarians, by trying Petkov, had placed them selves on trial before the bar of world opinion. Petkov's appeal to the su preme court from the death pen alty, imposed Aug. 16, was re jected Thursday. The 54-year- old leader of the opposition agrarian party denied the gov ernment's charge that he plot ted a coup d'etat by armed force. Evidently resigned to death, Petkov, in his prison cell, de scribed his case simply as a pro longation of "what has already happened to Hungary," where the communists throttled the opposition after charging the existence of a plot against the government. Review Refused Previously, the United States had sought a review of the Pet kov case by the allied control commission in Bulgaria, com posed of representatives of the U. S., Russia and Britain. Rus sia contended, however, that such action would constitute in tervention in Bulgaria's inter nal affairs. The United States subsequen tly with British backing ap pealed, directly 'to' Moscow - to take a hand' in reviewing the case, but without results. Execution of Petkov Rapped Washington, Sept. 23 OP) The United States today denounced Bulgaria's execution of Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposi tion to the communist-sponsored Bulgarian government. The slate department in a for mal statement said that "in the court of world opinion" Bulgar ia's communist-dominated gov ernment "has shown itself want ing with respect to elementary principles of justice and the rights of man." Petkov was hanged in Sofia s central prison early today on charges of plotting against the Bulgarian government. Petkovs trial, the stale de partment said, "constituted but one of a scries of measures un dertaken by the communist dominated Fatherland Front government to remove from the Bulgarian scene all save a pure ly nominal opposition and to consolidate, despite its profes sions to the contrary, a totali tarian form of government." In London, a British foreign office spokesman said Britain also plans a protest and that For eign Secretary Ernest Bevin will 1 handle the matter personally. end Thursday night and what ever is done at the camp there after is a matter for the county or Agricultural Housing, Inc., to decide. County Judge Grant Murphy stated that under the arrange ment as it stands the county will take over ownership of the prop erty from the war assets admin istration at 12:01 a.m., Friday, September 26, and the residents on whom eviction notices have been served are supposed to be out of the camp after Thurs day. "While the county will be re quired to retain ownership of the camp for six months it will be turned over to Agricultural Housing, Inc., under a lease for that period," said Judge Mur phy. "The policies of the camp will be determined entirely by that organization and not by the (Concluded on Fag 11, Cohmn ),, Bntered t Mcond eliu matter at 8ltm. Oreioo iri n Oregon, Tuesday, September 23, 1947 i r n i y- --" ' rWlli nr - i ii mm i m inn i in - iA(iW,niann rm';Vi ,i Salem- Nut Growers' New $200,000' Receiving and Processing now in operation will employ mer Association plant burned November 12, 1946, at a loss of approximately $400,000. First filberts were delivered to the new plant by Homer Harrison, route 2, box 335, Salom, and receiv ed by W. C. Franklin, W. F. Downs, D. Sutherland, W. Byars, Ken Morty and J. J. Gallagher, manager, shown on the plant's receiving dock. Filberts Processed in New Nut Co-op Building First filberts received at the Nut Growers' associatiorr.2828 Cherry avenue, were delivered Saturday by Homer Harrison, route 2, box 335, Salem, and addi tional tonnage continued to be handled throughout the day by a building that is 90 percent complete and with 60 percent of the machinery installed. J. J. Gallagher, manager, hopes that the efficient conveyor system may be operative within 10 days. At present deliveries are handled by an improvised meth od to meet the emergency and the manager requests that grow ers defer heavy deliveries until the conveyor system is in work ing order. Salem Nut Growers' new plant replaces an older struc ture destroyed by fire on No vember 12, 1946, at a loss of approximately $400,000. The new. building, 255 feet long and 54 feet wide is fire resistant, be ing provided with fire walls and doors between each operating section. Approximately 950 yards of concrete were used in construction and Manager Gal lagher believes this plant to be the largest, single nut drying unit in the nation. Processing is sectional and in three divisions. The first divi sion receives grower deliveries. samples, washes and pools the nuts. Division two is concern ed with drying and bleaching and division three cares for grading, warehousing and ship ping. A plant well with a capa city of 300 gallons per minute provides water for washing and bleaching. Drying 'is accom plished in a four stack, gas fired and thermostatically controlled dryer consisting of 24 individual units. An overhead rail system, first of its kind to be used in a nut plant, moves nuts into bins with a storage capacity for 21 carloads. E. J. Allen, Woodburn, is pres ident of Salem Nut Growers' association, Frank Way, Salem, vice president, and J. J. Galla gher, manager. General Strike in Trieste Called by Reds Trieste, Free Territory, Sept. 23 (P) The Trieste radio said the communist-controlled union, Sindicati Unici, called a gen eral strike today in Trieste. The announcement was fol lowed swiftly by an allied mili tary government declaration that the strike was "the first com munist attempt to hamper the essential life of Trieste and bring discredit to the free ter ritory," which came into being week ago. The AMG blamed "certain outside elements" with "selfish political reasons." The statement said allied au thorities would take "all neces sary steps to insure that every man and woman wishing to work will be given the fullest protection." Jomraal 50 persons and handle 100 tons of new $200,000 plant of the Salem Gray Named to Post in Army - Washington, Sept. 23 VP)- President Truman today appoint ed Gordon Gray, Winston-Sa lem, N. C, publisher, to be as sistant secretary of the army. Gray is president of the Pied mont Publishing company which publishes the Winston - Salem Journal and Twin-City Sentinel and operates radio station WSJS. He is a North Carolina state senator. Gray volunteered and became an army private in May, 1942. He rose to the rank of captain after serving at the tactical head quarters of the 12th army group in Europe and was mustered out in 1945. Gray was graduated from the University of North Carolina and then took a law degree at Yale. He practiced law for five years in New York and Winston Salem. He is married and has four sons. Krug Urges Eating Of More Fish Washington, Sept. 23 (IP) With meat and egg prices soar ing, Secretary of Interior Krug suggested today eating more fish. Krug said fish production is now at its peak for the year and that prices are about the same as last year with some popular items lower. He added in a statement: "Fish and other seafood are among our most nutritionally valuable foods. Since this is so, housewives, hotels, restau rants, and other food-dispensing institutions would do well to look to the fishing industry for an increasing part of their pro tein food needs." The Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Clear to partly cloudy to night and Wednesday. Lowest temperature tonight 46 degrees; highest Wednesday, 80. Weather will be favorable for farm work. Maximum yesterday 88. Mini mum today 50. Mean tempera ture yesterday 70 which was 10 above normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 ajn. today .00. Total precipitation for the month 1.01 which is .05 of an inch below normal. Willamette river height Tuesday morning, 4 feet. Price Five Plant at 2828 Cherry avenue nuts daily at full capacity. For Delay Action on New Buildings Plans for three new buildings "at Hillcrest home' for girls esti mated to cost $766,047, were studied by members of the board of control today and then return ed to the architects for minor changes. In addition to a dor- mitory, school building and food service locker, the plans include a service tunnel. The tunnel extending for 160 feet has a 10 percent grade and Stokes and Allyn, architects, were requested to make further study in an effort to reduce this grade. If this cannot be done the present plans will be approv ed, it was said. Bids for four buildings at the Boys' Training school at Wood burn, estimated to cost $400,000 will be considered Friday. The new buildings include a school building, work shop, gymnasium and boys' cottage. When the moi.ey is allocated for the girls' school, the board will have either spent or allo cated $4,325,000 out of the six million dollar building fund. New bids were ordered for paving of a parking area at the rear of the new treatment hos pital at the Oregon State hos pital. If, H. Hoffman, contrac tor, had 'submitted an informal bid of $6,100 for this work as against a previous bid of $6,809. Swan Island Sought Portland, Sept. 23 (IP) Bids of 21 firms for Swan Island war built property to be leased from the war assets administration were opened . here yesterday. The WAA reported 26 units involved in the bidding with the Kaiser company continuing negotiations for an outfitting dock and facility. Henderson Defends Liquor Board's Deal With Distillers Washington, Sept. 23 (IP) Wilber Henderson, lceal adviser to the Oregon liquor control commission, said today he does not be lieve the commission's purchase of 8,000 barrels of straight whis key and its resale to distillers"- violated the law. Recently officials of the al cohol tax unit said that trouble had developed between their agency and stales with monop olies on liquor selling over ef forts by the states to escape a loss on off-brands they got over loaded with during wartime shortages. Federal law prohibits retail liquor dealers from turning back to distillers stocks they bought earlier and forbids distillers to accept turnbacks. ' The officials said they had sharp clashes with Oregon, Mich igan and Ohio authorities due to their stand that the state liquor monopolies face the overload problem just as private whiskey retailers do, instead of making distillers take back slow-selling stocks. Henderson (topped here on Vishinsky Assails But Loses First Assembly Tests On Major Issues During Session Russia Defeated in Effort to Bar Discussions on Korea Question, Italian Peace Treaty and Greek- Balkan Issue Lie Vainly New York, Sept. 23 (IP) Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky laic to- day lost a vigorous battle to bar discussion of the Korean ques tion and the Italian peace treaty in the United Nations assembly. The assembly also approved questtion in the agenda, with only Russia and five Slav satellites voting against it. The vote was 38 to 6, with 9 abstentions. The proposal on Korea, sponsored by the United States, was included in the assembly's agenda abstentions. Only Russia and voted against the proposal. The assembly then overrode clusion of an Argentine proposal for revision of the Italian treaty ported the proposal, but France the first assembly test on major It came after Russia had disre-- garded a plea by UN Secrctary- tieneral Trygve Lie for peace among the big powers. Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet deputy foreign minister, opened his new offensive by charging Secretary of State Marshall gave an "incorrect explanation of the big power deadlock on Kor ean independence. He then assailed Marshall who was sitting before him for supporting UN consideration of recommendations for revision of the Italian peace treaty. Vishin sky charged that any action on this question was a violation of the UN charter. Vishinsky spoke as the 55-na- tion general assembly began de bate on its formidable agenda, which already had been approv ed by the assembly's 14-nation steering committee over Soviet opposition on some sections. He demanded exclusion of the items on Korea and Itaiy. Warren R. Austin. No. 2 U. S. delegate, replied by citing article 1 of the UN charter which calls for the development of friendly relations among na tions. Austin Replies to Vishinsky "Let's keep our sights lifted to those high points," he said. Referring to V l s h i n s k y's charge that the United States was responsible for the stale mate over Korea, Austin said: "It's not who's right but what's right." "The general assembly," Aus tin declared, "must show its ca pacity to do things and not ex pose itseif as a perfectly futile organization. Lie closed the assembly's week-long general debate with a plea to the big powers to com promise their differences which he said were spreading fear and hate throughout the world and crippling the UN. Arabs Lose First Round Meanwhile, the Arab coun tries lost the first round of the Palestine battle when the as sembly overrode their objec tions to creation of a special 55-nation committee to consider the Palestine question. On the Korean question, Vish insky said Russia twice had sub mitted constructive proposals but these had not been accepted by the United States. Therefore, he said, "The American dele gale must bear the responsibil ity" for the deadlock. He said the Korean issue could not legally be considered by the general assembly. Turning to Italy, he declared lhat the United States several times "has shown lack of a pre cise attitude on such questions." This case, Vishinsky went on, is "another example of the lack of ability of the United States to respect international agreements which have been freely entered into." Vishinsky said those who support the proposal to consider changes in the Italian treaty have a "rather strange concep tion of justice." Vishinsky ask ed permission to make a new statement of general Soviet policy, but Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, assembly president, ruled that he must confine his remarks now to debate on items on the provisional agenda. his way to a convention of the state alcohol beverage control boards at Atlantic City, N. J. He said that he and George P. Lilley, chairman of the Ore gon commission, will confer at Atlantic City with Carroll E. Mealcy, head of the alcoholic tax unit, who is a convention speaker, "Oregon did not purchase any of the liquor from distillers," Henderson told a reporter. "We purchased warehouse cer tificates on the open market and none of the whiskey was on consignment purchase from the distillers. "The law which the internal revenue alcohol tax units seeks to apply to Oregon says specific ally that it applies only to con signment purchases. (Concluded on Pa 11, Gotamn J) Marshall in UN Pleads for Peace inclusion of the Greek-Balkan by a vote of 41 to 6, with seven other members of the Soviet bloo Soviet opposition to approve in to consider recommendations item. The United States sup and Britain abstained. This was issues during the current session. Lie Appeals For Harmony New York, Sept. 23 (IP) Trygve Lie, secretary-general of the United Nations, made a di rect appeal to the bitterly quar reling big powers today to re concile the east-west differences which he said were breeding fear and hate throughout the world. Addressing the general assem bly at the close of its week-long general debate phase, Lie made no direct reference either to Secretary of Stale Marshall or Russia's Deputy Foreign Minis ter Andrei Y. Vishinsky, but it was clear that his appeal was aimed at them. The indispensable condition for peace," Lie told the 55 na tional delegations, "is that na tions with different social sys tems and different interests shall strive to live and to work to gether, side by side, in peace. This must find expression in political negotiations which show a willingness to compro mise. Without such a will, with out cooperation and agreement. let me emphasize that no mecha nism for the maintenance of in ternational peace and security, however perfect, can be effec tive." Lie said the big power differ ences had not yet reached the stage where they threatened the existence of the United Nations, but he said it does "hamper the activities of the United Nations and its ability to perform the duties laid down in the char ter." "It is Impossible and intolera ble," Lie continued, "to think that these differences should ever be allowed to lead to war. I do not believe that there is any nation or any government in the world that does not want to prevent another war. "The great difficulty lies in the fact that the great powers suspect each other or each oth er's intentions. It is fear which is the great danger. Fear breeds hate and hate breeds danger." World Bank Shy Loan Funds Washington, Sept. 23 WV Robert L. Garner, vice president of the World bank, said today that American investors will have to put up whatever funds the bank lends to the 16 Euro pean nations seeking aid under the Marshall plan. The European group "assum ed" in a statement yesterday that the bank and "other credit operations" would furnish them with $3,110,000,000 of the $22, 440,000,000 they estimated they will need from the United States and elsewhere through 1951. Garner told a news conference the bank now has only about $500,000,000 available for lend ing, and the only way it can get further funds in the foresee able future is to raise them in this country by issuing bonds for investors. He said that the European na tions had not consulted with tha bank over their needs before setting forth the $3,110,000,000 figure. Garner commented that "the bank wasn't set up just to fi nance Europe" and added: We can'l devote all our re sources to Europe and we can't devote the big part to any one or two countries. "We are very anxious to help in the Latin American countries and elsewhere. How soon we can make loans (to them) I can't say, but we certainly can't for get that part and look only at Europe." Henry E. Reed Dies Portland, Sept. 23 (IP) Henry E. Reed, 81, ex-newspaper man and member of the Portland Realty board since its founding 41 years ago, died here last, night. A native of New York City, he came to Portland in 1871, and in 1897 went to work for the old Daily News as a re porter. Later he left newspa pcring to serve twice as county assessor.
