2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, July 5, 1949
Gragg Talks on
Posta Affairs
That the steady increase in
receipts of the Salem post office
during a period of many months
reflects the growth of the entire
state, was the statement of Post
master Albert C. Gragg as he ad
dressed the Salem Kiwai.is club
Tuesday on the subject "How the
Post Office Works." Gragg point
ed out that virtually everybody
In Oregon gets mail through the
Salem post office in the form of
income tax notices or motor ve
hicle statements.
In speaking of the more than
$500,000,000 deficit incurred by
the pettal service in the last fis
cal year, the postmaster said
that second class matter, which
includes newspapers and maga
zines, could be charged with a
big portion of the loss. First class
matter more than pays its way,
he said. The over all deficit am
ounted to 17 910 per cent,
The postmaster said it was
good policy to bring identifi
cation when presenting a money
order for payments and that it
was useless for persons to seek
Information concerning the res
idence of any particular person
through the post office because
it was against regulations to div
ulge such information.
Fill 80 Percent
Phone Orders
Three out of' four orders for
telephones are filled within a
month. That is the statement
made by Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company in its adver
tisement.
. In Salem, however, In most
cases, the company has even- a
better record than that. Approx
imately 80 percent of the appll-
cations are filled within a month.
There are exceptions to this, ac
cording to Elmer A. Berglund
local manager for the company,
who Monday stated that the com
pany now has 500 orders waiting
for service in the suburban area
Filling of orders In the subur
ban areas is slower for two rea
sons. Some areas are sparsely
settled and until sufficient orders
for service in an area are receiv
ed it is impossible to take serv
ice to applicants now awaiting
service.
- The second reason is lack of
telephone numbers (terminals)
and lack of outside plant (poles
and wires). Shortage of tele
phone numbers is expected to be
relieved some time In August but
there is no immediate evidence
of overcoming the lack of outside
plant, At present the company
has construction jobs all over
the area served by the Salem of
fice.
Still In effect Is the priority
et-up for getting telephones in
stalled, with those in number
one, two, three end four priori
ties getting Installation with as
little delay as possible.
Among those In these classi
fications are county, state and
federal employes on 24 hour
call; persons connected with es
sential service and public serv
ices such as public health, nurs
es, doctors; persons with pres
ent service and moving to a new
location; and new business.
Trial of Tokyo Rose
For Treason Opens
San Francisco, July 5 (P)
With her life at stake, the leg
endary Tokyo Rose of the Pa
cific war goes to trial In federal
court today. The charge is trea
son. Iva Ikuko Togurl D'AquIno.
born in California on the Fourth
of July 33 years ago, could be
condemned to death if convict
ed. The minimum would be
five years' imprisonment and a
$10,000 fine.
This much is acknowledged:
she was one of six English
speaking Japanese on Radio To
kyo's wartime propaganda
broadcasts to war-weary Amer
ican servicemen in the Pacific.
The government charges this
involved eight separate acts of
treason, "intentional and tra
torious." The defense will contend that
In making the broadcasts, Iva
Togurl acted under compulsion.
The American flag should be
hoisted briskly and lowered
ceremoniously.
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Stocks Advance
Up to a Point
New York, July 5 OT The
stock market once more respond
ed to a mere breath of demand
today.
Gains ranged from fractions to
around a point. Buying was se
lective, though, with a good
handful of shares either backing
down a trifle or remaining at
last week's closing levels.
Business was slow, turnover
but a rate of only 650,000 shares
for the full session.
Today's advance, hesitant
thought it was, carried the mar
ket further along in the recov
ery move which started in mid-
June after prices had dropped to
a 4 'a -year low.
Traders did not find much in
the news to inspire demand. Re
cent improvement, however, has
been managed despite a monoto
nous flow of unfavorable reports
from the business front.
Airline stocks wers among the
most active. Transcontinental &
Western hit a high for the year
and Pan American, American,
and United were within strik
ing distance of their peaks for
1940.
Higher prices were also paid
for Bethlehem Steel, Republic
Steel, General Motors, Chrysler,
Studebaker, Montgomery Ward,
Schenley, American Telephone,
Anaconda Copper, American
Can, J. C. Penney, International
Paper, N. Y. Central, Richfield
Oil, and Pacific Western Oil.
Reluctant to move up were U.
S. Steel, Packard, U. S. Rubber,
Caterpillar Tractor, Consolidat
ed Natural Gas and Philip Morris.
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Marine Auxiliary
Slate Convention
The Marine Corps League
auxiliary held its annual con
vention at the Multnomah hotel
Portland, July 2 and 3, with
Mrs. D. F. Furlough of Salem
department president, presiding
over the meetings.
Others from Salem attending
the convention were Eva M.
Rush, department secretary
treasurer; Golda Wheeler, de
partment historian; and Edna
Prince, delegate from the Salem
auxiliary.
Salem members receiving de
partment offices for the coming
year were: Mrs. D. F. Furlough,
judge advocate; Golda Wheeler
and Edna Prince, trustees, and
Eva M. Rush, appointment as
captain of the guard.
Gene Wheeler, past state com
mandant of the Marine Corps
league, Dwain OHarra, com
mandant of the Salem Detach
ment Marine Corps league, and
Dave Furlough of the Salem de
tachment, all members of the
Military Order of Devil Dogs,
attended the sessions of the Ma
rine Corps league state conven
tion which was held in conjunc
tion with the state convention of
the auxiliary.
Senate Confirms
Luxemburg Envoy
Washington, July 5 OT Al
though Senator Donnell (R-Mo.)
raised objections, the senate to
day approved the nomination of
Mrs. Perle Mesta to be minister
to Luxembourg.
A loud and vigorous "no"
came from Donnell on the vote.
His vote was the only opposition
to Mrs. Mesla, a close friend of
President Truman.
Donnell told the senate he Is
'gravely concerned" about the
qualifications of Mrs. Mesta for
the diplomatic post.
Mrs. Mesta was one of the
democratic party's big money
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Support Prices
For 1949 Wheat
Washington, July 5 (U.R) The
government's support price for
1949 crop wheat will be two
cents a bushel higher at all ter
minal markets than the rates
announced last Thursday, the
agriculture department disclos
ed today.
The department indicated it
made a mistake last week in cal
culating the terminal support
rates.
The terminal rates are based
on the support rate for farm
stored wheat. The department
said there will be no change in
the basic support rate which
averages $1.95 a bushel, farm
basis.
The terminal rates announced
today range from $2.16 to $2.38
a bushel for U.S. No. 1 wheat,
compared with rates of $2.14 to
$2.36 announced last Thursday.
Furthermore, the depart
ment said premiums and dis
counts for other grades of wheat
will be the same as last year
as announced last Thursday.
These rates will differ "slightly"
from last year s schedule and
will be announced soon, it said.
The department said that last
Thursday's announcement of
support rates at terminal mar
kets failed to take into account
boosts in freight rates and ware
house handling charges during
the last 12 months.
The department said these are
the "final" terminal rates for
U.S. No. 1 wheat: $2.16 Port
land, Seattle, Vancouver, Ta
coma, Longview, Wash.; As
toria, Ore.
Canyon De Chelly in the In
dian country of northern Ari
zona contains more than 300 pre
historic sites and 138 major
ruins.
raisers last fall. A wealthy wid
ow, she is a noted party giver.
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Taft Wins Senate Labor Fight Sen. Robert A Taft (R.,
Ohio) (right), smiles after his victory over Sen. Scott Lucas
(D., III.), (left), in the senate floor battle on a new labor law.
Sen. Elbert D. Thomas (D., Utah) (center), is chairman of
the senate labor committee which reported out the basic
labor bill on which the battle was based. (AP Wirephoto)
HE LOOKS FOR A WIFE.
Marrying Epidemic Offers
Bonanza for Lone POW
Munich (U.R) The marriage mania of unwed Germans has led
Hans Stang, a former prisoner of war of the Russians, to a lucra
tive business.
It is a fornightly marriage
newspaper which nets him some
1,200 Deutschmarks (3 Dms
equals approximately $1) per
month, but no wife.
Stang returned from Russia,
and' like most PW's, wanted to
get married. He inquired at
various 'marriage bureaus, but
their prices were too high.
Marriage advertisements in
the newspapers he also found
expensive. They were at least
20 Deutschmarks each.
So he decided to publish a
marriage newspaper, with rea
sonable charges for advertise
ments which everyone could
afford.
The result is the "Bavarian
Newspaper" a fortnightly, four-
paged newspaper which sells for
20 pfennig a copy, with adver
tlsing prices ranging from 1.50
Dms to 9 DMs.
Stang Is still looking for a
wife, but his newspaper is flour
ishing. It has a wide circula
tion outside Bavaria and re
c e 1 v e s advertisements from
Hamburg, Holstein and Berlin.
He report,'! that the marriage
candidates range from 18 to 60
years of age, and that slightly
more men than women advertise
their marriage wishes, despite
the surplus of women in Ger
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many today.
He does all the work on the
paper himself and takes a per
sonal interest in all the adver
tisements because he is still
looking for a wife himself.
Some of the typical advertise
ments: "Optician wants to marry
lady between 30 and 40 with
two children, who is in pos
session of profitable optician's
shop."
"Confectioner, 38, unmarried,
Catholic, would like to marry
into well-to-do confectioner's
shop, cafe, etc."
Revive 4 Power
Rule in Berlin
Berlin, July 5 Wt The old
four- power kommandatura,
which ruled Berlin until the Rus
sians walked out last spring, was
revived today by the deputy
military governors.
The decision was announced
after a three-hour meeting of
the deputies in the allied control
council building.
The kommandatura was or
ganized in 1945 by the occupa
tion authorities to provide four
power rule In the city of Ber
lin along the same technical
lines as the four power organ
ization that functioned for all
of Germany.
The four deputies issued a
joint communique on the action,
explaining it was done to car
ry out the directive of the Paris
foreign ministers conference.
The Paris meeting had urged
that the bog four on the Ber
lin level take measures to re
store the city to normal.
London Dock Strike
Ties-up 92 Ships
London, July 5 W) Spreading
Thames-side dock strike held 92
ships idle at their berths today.
The national dock labor board
said the number of men taking
part in the unofficial stoppage
had reached 8,484.
This was an increase of 148
over the number who stayed
away from work yesterday in
sympathy with a striking Cana
dian Seamen's union.
The board made no move to
accept an offer by the men to
resume unloading all except the
two Canadian ships whose arriv
al touched off the walkout. The
board has insisted the Canadian
cargoes must be handled.
"Director of . brewery, early
50's unmarried, Catholic, with
best education, would like to
marry into brewery or similar
industry. Lady under 50, dark,
preferable."
"Dr., medical and philosophy,
50, unmarried, Protestant, wants
young, pretty lady between 20
and 30 with best of character
for a wife."
On Telephone Hour Lucile
Cummings, former Salem girl
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Cummings, of route 8,
Salem, who the night of July
25 is to be heard on the Tele
phone Hour over the National
Broadcasting network. An
nouncement of Miss Cum
mings' appearance was made
on the Telephone Hour pro
gram Monday night.
Charles Signs lo
Fight Lesnevich
New York, July 5 W) Ezzard
Charles, newly crowned NBA
heavyweight champion, today
signed to defend his title against
Gus Lesnevich, former world
light heavyweight champion, in
a 15-round match at Yankee sta
dium, Wednesday, August 10.
Harry Markson of Madison
Square Garden announced the
match for the International Box
ing club.
Charles won the NBA crown
less than two weeks ago when
he outpointed Jersey Joe Wal-
cott in a 15-round bout in Chi
cago June 22.
The New York state athletic
commission did not recognize
Charles as champion. Eddie
Eagan, chairman of the commis
sion, is on record as saying he
preferred a "tournament" to de
cide the successor to the retired
Joe Louis.
Eagan was not at the commis
sion office or his law offices to
day and could not be reached
immediately for comment as to
whether he would recognize the
Charles - Lesnevich tilt as a
championship fight.
If Eagan and the other two
New York commission members
Coyne Not from
Willamette U
Thomas A. Coyne, 27, report
ed by the Associated Press as
having been booked on a man
slaughter charge in Portland,
and reported to be a Willamette
university student, is not now
registered at Willamette.
Coyne,, coming here from
Portland, Maine, was in the law
school for a month last fall, ac
cording to President G. Herbert
Smith, and then withdrew
without credits. V
Also booked on a manslaugh
ter charge was Harold Robert
Scott, 26, University of Portland
student. Mark O. Ward, 35, of
Milwaukie died Saturday from
injuries received in an early
morning street fight, and Scott
and Coyne were booked as a, re
sult. A Portland detective said
Scott and Coyne told of meet
ing Ward and Harold L. Ferrari
in a night club. The detective
said they admitted having sev
eral drinks and then getting into
a fight as the- alked toward)
another night about 2 a.m.
Ward is said lo have suffered
fatal injuries when he fell
against ' a concrete building.
Scott and Coyne were held un
der bonds of $3000 each.
Garden Clubs Call
Brooks Garden club mem
bers attending the annual state
convention at Corvallis were
Mrs. Elva Aspinwall, Mrs. Eve
lyn Jones, Mrs. Emma Wadley,
Mrs. Elizabeth McNeff, Mrs.
Hazel Bartlett, Mrs. Nettie
Wright, Mrs. Ora Gregg, Mrs.
Gertrude Reed, Mrs. Hattie Van
cleave and Patsy Brutka.
The word "Almanac" is de
rived from the ancient Arabian
word which meant "the weather"
or "climate."
the bout would have an ironic
twist. It would present an NBA.
champion defending his title In
a non-NBA state.
Lesnevich was outpointed by
Joey Maxim of Cleveland last
May 23 in Cincinnati in a 15
rounder for the NBA's "Ameri
can light heavyweight title."
Lesnevich lost his world 175-
pound crown to England's Fred
die Mills in a 15-round fight In
London, July 26, 1948.
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