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
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Oregon, Tuesday, September 23, 1947
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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.