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1 uman Urges Americans to Eat Less Bread Reduced Feeding of Grain to Cattle Request ed in Food Outline Washington, Oct. 1 (P) Pre sident Truman asked the Amer Jean people today to serve "few er slices of bread" and help save 100,000,000 bushels of grain for European aid, He also called for reduced feeding of grain to, cattle and made clear most of the saving must come from there. 'There will be more than lenough food in the United States to go around, provided it fairly distributed," Mr. Tru man said. White House aides said that in the president's plea to serve fewer slices of bread the env phasis was on avoiding waste. Addressing the first meeting of his citizens' food committee at the White House, Mr. Truman exhorted: 1 A "We must get prices down and HSip hungry people in other countries at the same time.' Mr. Truman said the saving asked of each individual is actu ally very small. "Save a Bushel" "One bushel of grain saved by every American in the next few months will do the job," he said. Responding for the 26-mem her committee, Chairman Charles Luckman reported that thousands of letters offering vol. unlary help have poured upon the committee since its creation last Thursday. "Mr. President, the people of America have never failed in the accomplishment of any war," Luckman said. "They will not fail in this war on hunger. On their behalf we pledge you our most earnest endeavors. Other Phases The savings of food here at home is only one phase of the administration's program to help Europe. Before the food can be sent there, congress must ap prove funds, either as loans or gifts, with which European na tions can buy it. Mr. Truman has proposed $580,000,000 as stop-gap aid and asked that key congressional committees meet as soon as pos sible to consider it. The committees are the senate foreign relations, house foreign aAVjirs and senate and house ap pApriations bodies. (CWnoludcd on Pari! 13. Column 61 Snell to Speak On Sales ax , Portland, Oct. 1 (P) Ca paigns for and against the state sales tax gained momentum to- ay as the special referendum election date loomed a week away. The Oregon sales tax com mittee announced a list of speakers, headed by Governor Earl J3nell, who will speak in support of the tax measure. Gov. Snell will speak Mon day, Oct. 6, on the eve of the balloting, over a 14-station radio network at 7:45 p. m. ' Other speakers will be State Senator Dean Walker of Polk county, State Senator Paul Pat terson of Washington county and State Senator Douglas Mc Kay of Marion county. Opponents of the tax spoke out last night. James T. Marr, executive secretary of the State Federation of Labor, accused ' those favoring the measure of using as bait for rural votes, a suggestion that seed, feed and fertilizer would be exempt from the tax. II. - i Ellsworth Hurt; Will Sail Home Rome, Oct. 1 (P) Rep. Har ris Ellsworth (R.. Ore.) frac- turcd a heel bone in alighting from a taxicab at one point in his tour of Germany and Aus tria with the house interstate and foreign committee, it was disclosed today. The mishap caused him to abandon the rest of the committee's tour. On the advice of physicians, Ellsworth flew yesterday from Rome to Leghorn, U. S. head quarters in Italy. From there he will sail for home Friday or Saturday aboard an army ship. The Weather (Released bv United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Cloudy with occasional light rain tonight and Thursday, rain to become occasionally moderate late tonight. Lowest temperature tonight, 50 degrees; highest Thursday. 75. Weather will be favorable for farm work, precipi tation to be too light to Inter fere. Maximum yesterday 72. Minimum today 56. Mean tem perature yesterday 62 which was 4 above normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 ajn. today .01. Total precipitation for the month. .01 which Is .04 of an inch iKifjw normal. Willamette river hl.nt Wednesday morning, -4.1 fe. Capita! 58th Year, No. 234 Deadlock in UN Oyer Council Seat Continues New York, Oct. 1 Wl The United Nations assembly failed in Its first effort today to break the deadlock in the race between the Soviet Ukraine and India for the security council seat to be vacated by Poland Dec. 31. The ninth ballot (continuing Tuesday's count) showed Ukraine 32, India 24. Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Bra zil, assembly president, then rul ed that the assembly should drop the security council seat con test temporarily and move on to the election of six replacement members to the economic and social council. India Still In However, at this point Mrs Vijayalakshmi Pandit, chief of the Indian delegation and am bassador to Moscow, took the floor for a brief statement of refusal to withdraw India from the contest. Russia was backing the Soviet Ukraine, one of the constituent republics of the Soviet union, and the United States and Bri tain were backing India in the hard-fought contest within the 57-nation assembly. Which would win, India or the Ukraine, was anybody's guess as assembly delegates be gan returning to their big hall at Flushing Meadows today to resume voting. Russia Leads The last ballot was roughly typical of those that went be fore. It yielded 33 votes for the Russian-backed Ukraine to 23 for India. With all 57 member nations present and voting, a total of 38 votes would be re quired for a decision under the two-thirds majority specified by assembly rules. The deadlock developed after the assembly had chosen on the first ballot two of the three na tions needed to fill vacancies on the 11-nation security council at the end of this year as a result of term expirations. The two countries elected were Canada, which will replace Australia, and Argentina .which will re place Brazil. The third country due for re tirement from the council is Po land. Before the voting began Britain and the United States had informed Russia they would support Czechoslovakia for this seat and members of both dele gations said they had informally understood that Russia would take Czechoslovakia as an east ern European nation certain of election in preference to the risk of backing and possibly losing the candidacy of the Ukraine. But it did not turn out that way. The Russians reportedly made a last minute arrangement with some of the Latin American nations to support Argentina's election in return for their sup port for the Ukraine. Girl Killed In Auto Plunge McMinnville, Oct. 1 (IP) One girl was killed and two youths were injured in a night-time plunge of a car down a 200 foot embankment 10 miles north of here. The victim was Marjorie L. Capps, 17, McMinnville. Injur ed in the Monday night accident were John Davis, 17, Amity, and George A. Rosenbalm, 17, Mc Minnville. Three others in the car suffered hurts but were not hospitalized. Red Letter Year in Building Shown by Permits in Salem With another $2,305,844 added to Salem building permits dur ing the third quarter of the year, ending Tuesday, the total has zoomed to $5,979,811 for three-fourths of the year. At the end of the six months period an all-' time high exceeding any previ ous complete calendar year had been reached, hence with three months still to go in 1947 this is a red letter year In Salem build ing. The total in permits for Sep tember, records at the building inspector's office showed Wed nesday, was $1,507,074. For August the figure was $506,270 and for July $292,500. Among major construction for which permits were issued in September were two state build ings costing, according to per mits, $732,321 and $355,800, Curly's dairy building at $70, 000 and the Herrall-Owens building set down at $50,000. Salem s previous all-time high for a full year was in 1946 when the total was $3,451,878. For the first six months of 1947 the totals by months were: January, $106,988; February, '.WT'oS" Salem, Britain Bans Foreign Travel; Cuts Use of Gas London, Oct. 1 () Life in this "tight little isle" became tighter today with the enforce ment of new government auster ity measures that virtually banned foreign holiday travel, wiped out gasoline rations for pleasure motoring and boosted railway fares 50 percent above pre-war levels. Limited direction of labor goes into effect next Monday under another decree issued by the labor government, which re cently obtained from parliament almost unlimited powers to com bat Britain's economic crisis. Effective Today The new measures that be came effective today, two days after Prime Minister Attlee be gan his long-expected cabinet shake-up, are part of the gov ernment's program to slash dol lar spending and increase pro duction in the hope of erasing the nation's grave export-import deficit by mid-1948. An advance warning that af ter Oct. 1 Britons would no longer be able to exchange ster ling for foreign currencies to spend on holidays abroad brought a last vacation rush to the continent and the U.S. dur ing September. Up to Sept. 1 Britons could spend 75 pounds ($300) yearly in foreign pleasure travel. Then the allowance was cut to 35 pounds ($140), and now it van ishes completely. Gas Rationed Beginning to'day the "basic petrol ration," which permitted automobile owners about 300 miles of pleasure driving a month, will be eliminated and gasoline will be reserved in the future solely for priority pur poses as it was during most of the war. (Concluded on Page 13, Column 5) Salem Enjoys Sunny Month A belated summer season came to Salem with September, which brought only 1.01 inches of rain and three days with the temperature reaching 90 degrees or more and a tie of 93. degrees for the summer high with May 23. The hottest day of the month was the 23rd with the other high readings on the first and 21st. Greatest amount of rainfall in any 24-hour period was .66 inches September 6. The precipi tation was .62 below the expect ed normal of 1.63 for the month and brings the total for the year to 20.83 inches, according to the U. S. weather bureau at Mc Nary field. Temperature for September were 63 degrees or slightly high er than the expected mean tem perature of 61.4 degrees. The average maximum for the month was 77.6 degrees and the average minimum 48.3 degrees. The low est reading was 37 degrees on the 19th. September had nine clear days, 10 partly cloudy and 11 cloudy. The greatest rainfall for any September on record was 4.84 inches lr 1914 followed by 4.56 inches in 1911 and 4.45 inches in 1920,- There were 3.91 inches in 1927 and 3.55 inches in 1893. Seventeen times the month has brought less than an inch of rainfall with driest being .01 inch in 1932 and repeated in 1942. There were 1.89 inches m September 1946 and 2.46 inches for the same month in 1945. $291,502; March, $832,773; April, $214,828; May, $433,160; June, $1,794,716. New permits Wednesday were: Paul Harcourt, to build a one-story dwelling at 2210 North Commercial, $3000. Mark H. Astrup, to build a garage at 1590 South Liberty, $150. Dick Ran kin, to alter a service station at 490 South Winter, $200. Carroll M. White, to build a H4 -story dwelling and garage at 455 Uni versity, $4500. Mrs. James W. Taylor, to alter a two-story dwelling at 862 North 16th, $350. Claude D. Boone, to alter a two-story dwelling at 2049 State, $50. Claude D. Boone, to wreck a two-story dwelling at, 1179 Marion, $."0. Marie Haynes Chin, to build a one-story dwell ing at 735 South 13th, $2500. Ruth Cooper, to reroof a one story dwelling at 2260 North Commercial, $50, Oregon, Wednesday, October 1, 1947 fc-TV- '"' , ! - - t . - - ,K , vV, t ' -r r 'vTY 1 '- -wr fc, it f K? T?V - !' - Robinson Caught Between Second and Third in Run-down Dodgers' First Baseman Jackie Robinson (center) is caught between Yankee Pitcher Frank Shea (left), and Shortstop Phil Riz zuto as he headed for third in first inning of 1947 World Series opening game in Yankee Siadium. Robinson was run down for an out. (AP Wirephoto) Soviet Refusal to Permit Solons' Entry Resented Washington, Oct. 1 W) A curt refusal by Russia to let 12 sena tors visit Moscow brought demands by two congress members to day for a tougher policy on admitting Soviet citizens to this coun try. The Soviet foreign ministry declined to issue visas either for members of the senate appropriations committee or John Bread Prices Due to Climb Bread prices are due to take another climb here as well in Portland, but indications are that the one-cent increase will not come until Friday one day after the Portland bakeries are slated to up their price. First planning to increase its price Thursday along with the Portland bakeries the Cherry City Baking company today set Friday as the time for the crease and it is expected other Salem bakeries will raise their prices at the time. The pound and a half loaf will retail at 20 cents instead of 19 cents and the consumer will be paying 15 qcnts instead of 14 cents. t The increase in the price of bread is attributed to the rising cost of hard wheat flour, which the last two years has more than doubled in price, while bread has increased only about 50 per cent over what it was two or three years ago. Pastries are not expected to be affected because their weights can be adjusted. U. S. Indicts Warden, Guards Savannah, Ga., Oct. 1 VP) A federal grand jury today in dicted the warden and four guards at a Glynn county prison camp near Brunswick, ua., where eight Negro convicts were slain last July. All are charged with violating civil rights of the slain men. The warden, H. G. Worthy, previously was exonerated by a state grand jury in the Glynn county superior court. He con tended that the convicts were shot when they attempted a mass escape. Indicted with him by the grand jury today were guards Guy McNabb, Remer Bazemore, H. L. Holmes and W. C. Lawler. The federal indictment charged that Worthy and the guards "de prived these people of the right to be secure in their persons while in custody of the state of Georgia" in violation of the 14th amendment to the federal consti tution. The Glynn county camp, operated by the state highway department, has been closed since the shooting. At a coroner's inquest, Willie Beal, a convict was shot during the incident, but was not killed, testified that the warden was half drunk" and "wanted to kill me." This was denied by the war den. Barnes Hospital No Longer Annex Seattle, Oct. 1 W The Barnes veterans administration hospital at Vancouver, Wash., will become a separate institu tion October 20, the V.A. an nounced today. The institution has been oper ated as an annex of the Port land, Ore., V.A. hospital since it was released by the army Au gust 1, 1946. D. M. Shute. deputy regional V.A. administrator, said the sep aration would "solve most of the difficulties arising from one hospital's being split into two in stitutions in two different states." Joeraal Peurifoy, assistant secretary of state, to make an inspection of the U.S. embassy. The explana tion to Ambassador Walter Be dell Smith was: Entry Denied "Inasmuch as the USSR is not considered a country that could be made the subject of an inves tigation on the part of the visit ing senators, we do not consider their trip to be suitable." Senator Bridges (R., N.H.) chairman of the committee, de clared the incident raises the question or how much longer the United States will permit "in discriminate admission of Soviet subjects and sympathizers." Senator Dworshak (R., Ida ho), a member of the group, told a reporter there should at least be a careful scrutiny of any such admissions in the future. "I understand there are about 1,500 Russians in this country Dworshak said. "I wonder what they arc investigating?" ' Bridges disclosed that the in dividual senators applied for Russian visas during their prep arations for a European trip to start next week. Ambassador Smith cabled back word that the applications were denied, as well as one from feunfoy, who will accompany the senators. triages said the refusal of a visa to Peurifoy "came as a dis tinct shock to state department officials and members of con gress" because he is in charge of the operation of U.S. embassies throughout the world. The Russians denied entry last year of three house members as signed to study education and labor conditions in the Soviet Union, but gave a more tactful reason: hotel accommodations and other facilities were scarce because of the war. Dworshak said he didn't want to "condemn" the Soviet, but he added "it is difficult to culti vate understanding and good will with a country that has such perverted ideas." National Army Storms Chefoo Nanking, Oct. 1 (P) Chinese Nationalists troops stormed into the deepwater port of Chefoo on the north coast of Shantung pro vince today to cut the main link between communists below the great wall and those in Man churia. The fall of the big base, re puted funnel for men and sup plies from the Russian-occupied port of Dairen to the north, vir tually ended the quick conquest of the East Shantung peninsula Gen. Teng Wen-Yi, govern ment spokesman who announced the capture of Chefoo by the 25th division under Tientsin- said remnants of the communist forces were fleeing eastward to ward the tip of the peninsula be tween Weihaiwei and Wenteng Teng said details of Chefoo's fall still were lacking. Earlier reports said large fires were burning in the city which has been under air and naval attack several days. Storm Warnings Posted Portland, Oct. 1 (U.B The weather bureau here announced that small craft warnings were hoisted at 9 a.m. today from Cape Blanco, Ore., to Tatoosh island, Wash., and through the straits of Juan de Fuca for fresh to strong southerly winds this afternoon and tonight. Price Five Cents J. II. Booth J. H. Booth Dies In Roseburg Roseburg, Oct. 1 W) J. H. Booth, 78, vice president of the Roseburg branch of the U. S. National Bank and co-founder of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, died here today. , Oregon native, Booth's first job after graduating from Wil lamette university was as book keeper in a Grants Pass sash and door factory. He organized the Booth-Kelly Lumber com pany in 197 in Lane county, and joined in the purchase of the Douglas county bank in 1910. Booth was a director of the Roseburg public library for many years and served as pre sident of the Oregon state fair board from. 1909 to 1919. State's Bonded Debt Reduced Oregon's bonded debt was re duced today to $i4,816,440 when State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott deposited $1,178,178 with his fiscal agent in New York City to pay off that much of the debt. The peak of the debt was reached 19 years ago when it was $66,062,810. The debt now includes $8, 475,000 in veterans' bonds, $3,- 350,000 in highway bonds, and $2,483,000 in higher education bonds. Scott said that, taking into consideration the assets and in vestments applying against the debt, the net general bonded debt is only $1,500,000. Under terms of the bonds, these assets and investments cannot be used to apply to the debt until the maturity dates of the bonds. Employers Halt Cargo Handling on L A. Docks Los Angeles, Oct. 1 P The Waterfront Employers' associa tion brought cargo handling to a stop in Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors today. The association, representing 12 steve doring firms, decreed that aft-- er last midnight no more crews of the CIO International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's union would be called for load ing or unloading of freighters. The port freight shutdown brought to a head the dispute in which the union demands that it be recognized as bargaining agent for longshore foremen and the employers have refused on the ground that the foremen are part of management. Fifteen cargo ships were caught in the shutdown and an estimated 3,000 longsnoremen and 350 foremen were involved There is no cargo handling at the harbor during the hours aft er midnight but a spokesman for the employers said no orders for crews were placed with the hiring hall last night and as a Railroad Men Ask 30 Percent Wage Increase Negotiations to Begin At Once; Rule Changes Also Asked by Workers Chicago, Oct. 1 (jf) A formul demand for a 30 percent wage increase for more than 350,01)0 members of five operating rail road brotherhoods has been made by the unions on the na tion's carriers. The notices for the hike in wages, with a minimum boost of $3 a day, set in motion the ma chinery of the national labor act under which disputes in the in dustry are handled. Rejection Expected Rejection of the wage demand by the individual railroads was expected and would result in ar rangements for negotiations on a nationwide basis. The car riers' wage conference commit tee, representing the country's railroads, said granting the wage boost would add $400,000,000 to rail transportation costs annually- In addition to the pay raise demanded, the operating broth erhoods representing the engi neers, firemen, conductors, train men and switchmen, also have made demands for changes in 44 working rules. Approval of the changes, railroad spokesmen said, would add $1,000,000,000 annually to operating costs. Parley Opens Tuesday Negotiations between the brotherhoods and carrier repre sentatives on the rules changes, the issue that precipitated the nation-wide rail strike in May, 1946, are to open here next Tuesday. Union spokesmen said the wage demand will be "dealt with aggressively' .when nego tiations on the rule changes open. The wage increase, union spokesmen said, was "compul sory due to the sky-rocketing living costs." They said their last pay boost was in May, 1946 Their new wage demand calls for the 30 percent boost to be come effective Nov. 1. Carrier spokesmen said the weekly earnings of operating employes average $76 now compared with $48 in 1939. The wage demand by the op crating group followed the re cent award of 15 'A cents an hour wage increases granted a million non-operating workers by an arbitration board named under the national railway la bor act. Carrier spokesmen said the effect of the award was to increase rail labor costs an es timated $468,000,000 a year. The railroads have pending before the interstate commerce commission a request for a 27 percent increase in freight rates. Search on for Missing Boat Seattle, Oct. 1 (IP) Search planes from San Francisco, As toria. Ore., and Port Angeles, Wash., combined forces today to locate the fishboat Zarembo ill of Seattle, unreported since Sep tember 13. The 63-foot vessel left Astoria September 6 to fish for albacore tuna, the coast guard said, anu had onlv sufficient water for seven to 10 days. Captained by Howard Brond son. the vessel carried a crew of six, all from Seattle, the an nouncement said. When last sighted by another fishing boat, the Zarembo III was some 118 miles off Cape Blanco, Ore. The boat's co-owner, Minor Lervold, said, however, that it carried a supply of ice for icing fish, which could be melted down for drinking water. It al so had a radio, but has not been heard from. Lervold said he believed four of the five others aboard were George Brashfield, Astoria, and Marvin Schleitweilcr, Jack Ward and Bud Reese, all of Seattle. result the usual crews which report at 8 a.m. each morning would not go to work today. Normally from 40 to 50 freighters go in and out of the harbors each week and now, with the shutdown order, they will be unable to obtain long shoring service. Oil tankers are not affected as their loading is handled by company crews who are not longshoremen. All railroads have been noti fied by the Association of Am crican Railroads to cease accept ing freight for loading for ships here, except for military ves sels. Dock foremen, who arc mem bers of the 1LWU, started pick eting one of the stevedoring con (Concluded on Pace 13, Column 1) Yankees Win Second Game By Score 10-3 Four Brooklyn Pitchers Blasted Before Crowd Of 69,865 Rabid Fans By Jack Hand Yankee Stadium, New York, Oct. 1 lP Blasting four Brook lyn pitchers for 15 hits in a murderous display of power, the New York Yankees overwhelm ed the Dodgers 10-3 today to take a 2-0 lead in the World Scries before a paid crowd of 09,865. A homer by Tommy Hcnrich, three triples which tied the World Series record for three batters by one club in a single game, and two doubles rattled otf the bats o the high-riding Yankees. Nine of the safeties, includ ing six of the extra base swats, were smashed off the offerings of little Vic Lombardi, Dodger starter. Lombardi was taken out of the game in the fifth inning and the Yankees belted his suc cessors, Hal Gregg, Hank Behr man and Rex Barney with just as much ease. Allio Reynolds, the strong- armed Creek chief from Okla homa, who came to the Yanks a year ago in the deal that sent Joe Gordon to Cleveland, sub dued the Brooks with nine hits in his first scries appearanc. First Home Run A nip and tuck game for four innings, the Yankees broke it open in the fifth when Tommy Hcnrich's home run into the bleachers in right center and Johnny Lindell's double that bounced into the left field box es chased little Vic Lombardi. A dreary succession of Dodger reliefers failed to stem the tide the bombers routed the Brooks in a four-run seventh inning that included four sing les, two of the infield variety. two wild pitches' and a boot by Center Fielder Pete Reiser. (Concluded on Page 11, Column 1) Liquor Board Taught in Bight' Members of the state liquor control commission "arc we'll satisfied" even though federal regulations forced them to can cel a deal whereby the sale of-""" 8000 barrels of liquor and agree ments with nine distilleries of a two-year supply of blended whiskey were canceled, accord ing to Liquor Commissioner Hugh R. Kirkpatrick, Lebanon. "We were caught in the bight" said Kirkpatrick, who had at tended a convention of liquor monopoly state officials in At lantic City. "Other states were trying to force distillers to take back unwanted stocks. While our situation was different, the liquor tax unit had to apply the same rule to all states." Kirkpatrick said the commis sion now had the choice of eilhcr bottling its bulk whiskey straight or use spirits and dispose of the stock as blended whiskey. Present market price of bulk whiskey is far below the figure paid by the commission for Its large stock but Kirkpatrick be lieves that some of this loss will be recovered through the increase in liquor prices expect ed through limitations to be placed on use of grain for dis tilling purposes. The commission hopes to dis pose of 2000 of the 8000 barrels through wholesale channels be fore November 30, the effec tive dale of the cancellation, he said. Foods Resume Price Advance New York, Oct. 1 (U.R1 Whole sale food prices resumed their rise this week with an arivani'e of 2 cents, after a 21-ccnt break last week. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., announced today. The Dun & Bradstrect index of wholesale food prices for the week ended yesterday advanced to $6.93 from $6.01 last wrck. Two weeks ago the index stood at an all-time high of $7.12, cul minating a four-week upswing. In the past week there were advances in the price of 12 out of the 31 commodities used in the index. Five Polio Cases Reported in Slate Portland, Oct. 1 (Pi Five cases of infantile paralysis in Douglas, Klamath, Marion, Til lamook, and Wallowa counties occurred in Oregon last week, the state board of health re ported today. Only one person was stricken the previous week. So far in 1947 Oregon has had 61 cases of the disease, compared to 127 in the corresponding period of last year.