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Legionnaires
Swarming Here
For Convention
40 et 8 Monopolizes
Days Activities and
Stages Parade
American Legion convention
delegates are expected to swarm
Into Salem en masse Wednesday
night, the eve of the official
opening of the 31st annual de
partment of Oregon state con
vention. (Legion daily program
on rage S.)
Several hundred 40 et 8 mem
bers were holding their own
convention all day Wednesday.
The honor and fun-making so
ciety of the Legion will high
light their meet with a parade
through downtown Salem at 5
o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
and will conduct their annual
"wreck" at the Legion club an
hour later. '
The Legion clubhouse is
closed to everyone but 40 et' 8
members all day Wednesday.
Committee Meetings
Legionnaires get down to bus
iness Wednesday night with
three vital committee "meetings
slated. The credentials commit
tee, resolutions committee and
rehabilitations commissions are
all scheduled to meet.
Beverly Krueger of The
Dalles, recently named "Miss
Oregon," will make two appear
ances Wednesday. She'll ride in
the 40 et 8 parade and will pre
sent the reading, "The Waltz,"
during the auxiliary ritualistic
contest in the Willamette gym
at 8 o'clock Wednesday night.
It was this reading that Miss
Krueger recited in winning the
"Miss Oregon" contest at Sea
side recently.
Program for Thursday
Thursday offers a wide and
varied program for Legionnaires
and spectating townspeople. A
feature of any Legion conven
tion is the impromptu parades
and concerts which blossom out
on downtown streets, and with
dozens of bands and drum and
bugle corps coming to Salem for
the 31st annual convention, this
year should be no exception.
(Concluded on Paw 5. Column 7)
Josslin Backs
Earl Lafourette
William L. Josslin, chairman
of the democratic state central
committee, has recommended to
President Truman appointment
of Circuit Judge Earl C. Latour
ette as United States district
judge if the new judgeship in
Oregon is authorized by ' con
gress. l.
As an alternate to Latourette.
In the event that his age of 60
proves a barrier to his appoint
ment, . Josslin submitted the
name of Hugh L. Briggs, Port
land attorney.
The recommendation of Judge
Latourette by Josslin is in di
rect contravention with the re
commendations made by nation
al committeeman Monroe Sweet
land and Mrs. Nancy Wood
Honeyman, national committee
woman, who threw their sup
port to Gus J. Solomon, also a
Portland attorney, who is recog
nized as the attorney for PUD
districts in the northwest.
"Judge Latourette's com
manding lead over 22 other dis
, tinguished competitors in the
poll among 1900 Oregon law
yers is a striking indication of
his ability, impartiality and
standing" Josslin said.
He added that Judge Latour
ette had more than 18 year's
experience as a circuit judge,
comes from a pioneer democra
tic family, "and is learned in
the law, fair, humane and of
strong liberal tendencies."
Year and Day Prison
For. Stealing $51,000
New York, Aug. 3 VP) A
Washington state man was sen
tenced to a year and a day to
day on his guilty plea of embez
zling $51,000 in U. S. funds
while a civilian employe on an
army transport.
He was Frank J. Forster, 31
of Tacoma, whose guilty plea
last May involved his service as
a civilian disbursing officer on
the USAT Private Francis X.
McGraw.
Federal Judge Gaston L. Por-
terie also imposed a three-year
probation period to follow the
prison term.
Forster is currently serving a
ilx month sentence for embez-
ilement of an additional $14,000
. in government funds. He told
-the government he had spent
most of the money on "high liv
ing" In New York and abroad.
Detroit Road to
Be Opened As
Soon As Oiled
Request by Lumber
men to Delay Railroad
Abandonment Denied
By JAMES D. OLSON
Efforts on the part of lumber
operators in the Detroit Dam
area to delay abandonment of
the Southern Pacific railroad
from Gates to Detroit a move
army engineers declared would
delay completion of the huge
dam by at least a year failed.
The state highway commission
at its monthly meeting in Port
land Tuesday, announced the
Niagara-Detroit section of the
new North Santiam highway,
will be declared officially open
to travel as soon as the U. S.
Bureau of roads smooths and
oils the roadway. -
To Oil, Gravel Road
And after considerable argu
ment, Frank E. Andrews, senior
engineer of the BPW agreed that
his department would immedi
ately smooth the road and lay
a mixture of oil and gravel over
the entire length of the road sec
tion under discussion.
Under an order of the Inter
state Commerce commission, the
Southern Pacific branch line
cannot be abandoned until the
highway commission certifies
the new road open to travel.
The date when this certifica
tion can be made remains uncer
tain, but it was believed that the
BPW will complete its program
between August 8 and August
15.
Lumbermen's Protest
Eberly Thompson, assistarit to
the president of M. & M. Wood
working company, acting as
spokesmen for a delegation of
lumbermen, requested that the
road opening be delayed until
the new section had been sur
faced. He contended that the
road in its present condition was
not only dusty but unsafe for
use by the lumber trucks.
Col. D. A. Elligett, acting dis
trict army engineer,, told the
commission that any delay in
the road opening proclamation
would put the dam construc
tion back one entire season.
'A two week's delay could
probably be made up", he said.
but because of our tight construc
tion schedule anything beyond
that would be critical."
To Declare Road Open
Harry Banfield, chairman of
the commission declared that
the first responsibility of the
commission was to see that the
road was serviceable and safe
for travel.
After conferring with his fel
low commissioners, Banfield an
nounced that as soon as the BPR
had smoothed out the road and
placed the oil-gravel mix over
the entire section, the commis
sion would declare the road
open. He also said that the com
mission would insist that the
road be kept in good condition
until it had been surfaced.
Andrew at first proposed a 24-
hour around the clock water
sprinkling program in lieu of
the oiling, but this did not satis
fy the commissioners.
Sprinkling a Failure
We have never had any suc
cess in keeping down dust by
sprinkling", said Banfield.
Come out and watch us do
it, some time", countered
Andrews.
Although protesting that he
did not have equipment avail
able, Andrews later, agreed to
the highway commission pro
gram. Banfield said that the
highway department would, if
possible, loan some needed
equipment.
(Concluded on Pare S. Column 6)
JO Million Labor Slaves
In Russia, Says Britain
Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 3
Russia has 10,000,000 slave laborers organized on a "mass produc
tion basis."
Britain's Copley Smith, in making the charge In the United
Nations economic and social council, demanded a "straight an-
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whPthor ihev will nermit a UN.nothin8 to be ashamed of," he
investigation.
He told E C O S O C that the
world is confronted with a new
slavery "which we believe is
extensively practiced in the Sov
iet Union.
He said the secrecy with which
Russia surrounds "this wide
spread and dreadful system"
makes it difficult to obtain pre
cise figures. "But," he said, "the
best information Britain can ob
tain indicates there are more
than 10,000,000 slave laborers
in the Soviet Union.
"The number is far greater
than in czarist times," he said.
"If the Soviet government has
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Welcoming Laura Goode Mrs. Hubert Goode (third from
right) of Portland, national president of the American Legion
auxiliary, is welcomed upon her arrival in Salem by city and
Legion officials. Pictured in front of the state capitol are,
left to right, Lawson McCall, secretary to the governor, who
represented Governor McKay; Mrs. Leon M. Brown, Salem,
national resolutions chairman; Mrs. Mitchell Thorn, The Dalles,
auxiliary president; Mrs. Goode; Kelly Owens, Salem, de
partment commander; and Salem Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom.
Mortuary Hearse
Stolen and Smashed
A ehoulish thief stole the Rigdon mortuary hearse early Wed
nesday and left it crumpled in
streets.
The conveyance had been driven east on Chemeketa at a high
rate of speed until the driver, apparently unfamiliar with Salem
Conflict Ends
In Indonesia
Batavia. Java. Aug. 3 W The
Dutch and Indonesian republi
cans formally ended their armed
conflict today and issued cease
fire orders to local military com
manders in Java and Sumatra.
The cease-fire proclamation is
to become effective in Java at
midnight local time next Wed
nesday, Aug. 10, and in Sumatra
at midnight Sunday, Aug. 14.
The long-sought agreement is
expected to put an end to tne
fighting that first broke out in
1945 when Indonesian republi
cans, liberated from Japanese oc
cupation, sought independence
from Dutch rule.
Fighting flared anew last De
cember when Dutch troops
crushed the Indonesian Republi
can government ' at Jogjakarta
and interned many of its leaders
in a self-styled police action. Pre
mier Mohamed Hatta and other
republican chiefs were released
last month and the republican
government was re-established
during peace negotiations.
Republicans and leaders of 15
non-republican states agreed yes
terday on plans for establishing
a United States of Indonesia as
a sovereign government in part
nership with The Netherlands
under the Dutch crown. Details
remain to be worked out later
this month at a round table con
ference at The Hague.
Capsized Boat Kills Two
Seattle, Aug. 3 VP) A small
outboard-powered boat capsized
in Clallam Bay yesterday, pitch
ing two Tacoma brothers to their
death.
The victims, Bernard and Ray
Maijala, were fishing.
A crew from the Neah Bay
Coast Guard lifeboat station re
covered Ray Maijala's body.
Search was continuing for his
brother.
(U.R) Britain charged today that
said, "why does it maintain this
veil of secrecy, this iron curtain
around its prison camps?"
The council opened debate
today on a UN resolution to set
up an inquiry commission to in
vestigate forced labor in mem
ber nations. The charges,
brought by the American Fed
eration of Labor, are directed
primarily against the Soviet
Union.
Soviet delegate Amasap Aru
tinnian countered with the
charge that Britain's labor gov
ernment had initiated a hostile
campaign against the Soviet
Union to detract attention from
iU own economic difficulties.
a ditch at Chemeketa and 24th
streets, roarea.into me Diina i
intersection at the end of Che-
meketa.
The hearse smashed through a
pile of dirt excavated at the in
tersection for the installation of
water main, crashed through a
barricade and slid part way over
the open ditch before coming to
a halt.
Dirt was tossed some 60 feet
from the scene of the crash by
the impact which left the tan
gled hearse wrecked. The cost
of repairing , the vehicle was es
timated at from $400 to $500.
Detective George Edwards,
who -lay handling the Investiga
tion into the theft of the hearse,
learned Wednesday afternoon
from a woman awakened by the
crash that a man had been walk
ing on the east'side of 24th street
at the time of the smash-up.
In an effort to secure addi
tional information on the affair,
the detective urged the un
known bystander to notify po
lice of anything he may have
observed at the scene.
As additional information, the
woman reported that a white
ambulance was seen turning in
the intersection after the acci
dent. (The only white ambu
lance in Salem belongs to Sa
lem Memorial hospital, and it
was not in operation at the
time.)
The stolen vehicle was taken
after employes from the mortu
ary had returned from a call.
They had left the car at the Che
meketa street building while
they took a case inside. The
rear door had been left open.
Upon returning to store the
car for the night, the hearse was
missing.
An immediate report to police
was made, but the stolen vehicle
was not seen until it was found
at the Chemeketa and 24th
street intersection.
One time during the hunt
for the hearse, police halt
ed the vehicle of another funer
al home, but found that it was
on a business call, too.
Police said they didn't think
the theft and wreck could be at
tributed to Legion convention
funmakers."
Police found nothing in the
hearse to indicate that the thief
had been hurt by the crash.
Takes Death Cell
To Escape Snoring
Chicago, Aug. 3 Ml James
Morelli, who is scheduled to die
in the electric chair Aug. 12,
is occupying a cell In death row
at the Cook county jail at his
own request so his final nights
of sleep will not be distrubed.
The 22 year old "mad dog"
killer was removed to one of the
four cells adjoining the death
chamber after he had complain
ed of too much noise by other
prisoners.
"The guys In the cells around
me snore like rusty buzz, saws
with the teeth missing," Mor
elli told Warden Chester Ford
ney. "How about giving me
some quiet for the time I've
got left?"
Fordney suggested the death
cell, where doomed men custom
arily are held for only about
eight hours before their death.
Tht offer was accepted.
Bids Opened on
Sewer Project
City Manager J. L. Franzen
Wednesday afternoon opened
bids from contractors for con
struction of the Salem intercep
tor sewer.
Among the bids several were
expected from Seattle and Port
land firms. Money available for
the project is from a bond au
thorization of $815,000 of which
$215,000 was earmarked for the
interceptor, and the other $600,-
000 for the sewage disposal plant
to come later.
The interceptor project ex
tends from the disposal plant
site on North River road to Co
lumbia street, and from Colum
bia to Union. The lineal footage
of the three sizes of pipe is 1289
feet of 72-inch pipe, 1653 feet of
66-inch, and 7778 feet of 60-inch
pipe.
Bids are on excavation and
laying of the pipe. The contract
for manufacturing the pipe is
held by the Seattle Concrete
Pipe company which has set up
a plant on the sewage disposal
site. The company had made a
considerable amount of the pipe
when it had to shut down be
cause of the teamsters wage
issue that closed down four local
materials concerns. No pipe has
been manufactured for three or
four weeks.
When the city intended origl
nally to let the project to con
tractors it was frustrated by ab
sent of bidders, because of gen
eral economic conditions, and
the city proceeded with plans to
do the work Itself. Conditions
changed and the pipe-making
job was contracted.
French Boxcar
Dedicated Today
"The symbolism of this cere
mony could never exist without
th" generosity of the American
people and the graciousness of
the French people," Thomas Mc
Call, private secretary of Gov
ernor Douglas McKay, said ir
his short talk at dedication serv
ices for the Oregon boxcar of
the French gratitude train on
the American Legion clubhouse
grounds at noon Wednesday.
McCall represented the gover
nor, who is out of town. Other
speakers included Mayor Robert
L. Elfstrom, Maj. Gen. Thomas
Riley, Dr. M. E. Cooper of Klam
ath Falls and Brazier Small of
Salem. t
The boxcar was presented to
the state of Oregon by the peo
ple of France in gratitude for
the friendship train, which car
ried needed food and supplies to
the French.
The state turned it over to the
40 et 8 organization, and this
noon it was permanently en
shrined as a monument on the
Legion club lawn at 2650 South
Commercial.
Dave Hoss was master of cer
emonies for the event, and the
Rev. George Bailey of Pendle
ton gave the invocation in
French.
About 100 40 et 8 voyageurs
were present for the dedication
ceremonies.
Exploding Chair
Injures Comedian
Hollywood, Aug 3 U.R) An
exploding chair that exploded
too soon left comedian Milton
Berle with a slightly burned leg
today.
A small blank cartridge was
inserted in the "breakaway"
chair to split it when Berle sat
down on the set of his Warner
Bros, picture. But it went off
I prematurely yesterday and gave
'him a surface burns.
Tito Offered Balkans
Help to Suit Russia
Atlantic Pact
Defense Ready
By End of Year
London, Aug. 3 (P A de
fense organization under the At
lantic treaty "might be set up
before the end of the year,
Adm. Louis E. Denfeid said to
day.
That brief statement from the
naval member of the American
joint chiefs of staff was the first
direct indication of their pro
gress in meetings with the mili
tary leaders of the pact nations.
Denfeid spoke after he, Army
Chief of Staff Gen. Omar N.
Bradley and Air Force Chief of
Staff Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenbere
met for more than three hours
with the British chiefs of staff
To Ask Allies for Money
Asked how soon a defense me
chanism for the Atlantic pact
could be established, Denfeid
replied "I should think it will
not be too long. It might be be
fore the end of the year."
Responsible officials said the
U. S. joint chiefs of staff want
Britain and other pact partners
to promise money, large scale
military unity in a common de
fense program.
The U. S. military staff chiefs
Army Gen. Omar N. Bradley
Air Forces Gen. Hoyt S. Van-
denberg and Navy Adm. Louis
E. Denfeid arrived last night
from Germany for two days of
conferences in London before
going to Paris late Thursday.
(Concluded on Pnee 5. Column 5)
Netherlands
Ratifies Pad
The Hague, Aug. 3 UP) The
upper house of the Netherlands
parliament ratified the North
Atlantic treaty today. The vote
was-29 to 2.
This completed parliamentary
action by the Netherlands and
constituted the next to the last
stage before the treaty goes into
effect.
All the original partners In
the pact the United States
Britain, France, Canada, Bel
gium, The Netherlands and Lux
embourg now have ratified the
accord.
The treaty will become for
mally effective when the instru
ments of ratification of the va
rious governments are deposit
ed in Washington.
Communists cast the two votes
against ratification in the Neth
erlands upper house. The lower
house accepted the pact, 65 to 7
on July 19.
Newsboy's Body Found
Portland, Aug. 3 VP) The
body of 12-year-old Sammy
Fong, missing since last Thurs
day when he went to pick up his
newspapers for street sale, was
recovered last night from the
Willamette river.
The coroner's office reported
an autopsy would be made to
determine cause of death.
Wheat Subsidy Offered
Growers for Exports
Washington. AuB. 3 WJ--The government is offering a subsidy
ranging from 23 to 34 cents a bushel today on wheat bought
'or export under the international wheat agreement which went
into effect Monday.
Drafted early this year by 44 wheat exporting and importing
nations,
the agreement is de -
signed to stabilize world markets
and supplies. It seeks to do this
by dividing the export market
among surplus-producing nations
and by maintaining a schedule
of maximum and minimum
prices in the world markets.
The United States share of a
454,000,000-bushel annual allot
cd world market is 168,000,000
bushels.
The subsidy is made necessary
by the fact that the maximum
price set by the pact is below
current domestic prices of the
grain.
The maximum price is $1.80 a
bushel for No. 1 northern wheat
at Fort Williams and Port
Arthur, Canada. The equivalent
maximum price at any other par
ticular point reflects the differ
ence in transportation rates be
tween that point and Fort Wil
Foreign Aid
Bill to Block
Berlin Plan
Washington, Aug. 3 VP) The
state department has protested
to senate leaders that the new
foreign aid bill would block the
army from turning over German
occupation duties to civilian con
trol.
This surprise development
cropped up as the senate met to
day to try to untangle the snarl
over the $5,647,724,000 foreign
aiu measure.
Democratic Leader Lucas of
Illinois said the state department
protested the action of the sen
ate appropriations committee in
stripping house amendments
from the bill.
He predicted these amend
ments will be restored to elimi
nate this threat. But until the
action is taken the transfer,
scheduled to take place in a few
weeks, would be impossible, he
added.
Senate Slashes
ECA 10 Percent
Washington, Aug. 3 (P) Some
major alterations appeared in
store today for the arms-to-Eu-rope
bill.
The house foreign affairs com
mittee called a closed-door hud
die to hear from two men who
are supposed to know all the de
tails of the $1,450,000,000 pro
gram to help Atlantic pact and
other nations erect a wall of
weapons against Soviet aggres
sion. The witnesses were Maj. Gen.
Lyman Lemnitzer of the army
and Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner of the
state department. Committee
sources described them as "the
men who helped draft this plan
and know all the answers.
The committee already has
received general endorsements
of the plan' from high adminis
tration officials and military
men. The testimony they gave
dealt with generalities and
stressed the need to strengthen
friendly nation against Soviet
advances.
By voice vote, the senate
quickly repeated its approval of
10 per cent cut in the Euro
pean recovery program.
It voted $3,628,380,000 to car
ry E(JA through me current
year and approved ECA spend
ing $1,074,000,000 in the last
quarter of the year which ended
July 1.
But at this point the senate
bumped into the troublesome
amendment which would re
quire ECA and the army to ear
mark $1,800,000,000 for surplus
American farm commodities.
This was the issue which sent
the bill back to the senate ap
propriations committee last
week for some rewriting.
Funds for Ship Repair
Washington, Aug. 3 VP) The
White House has advised Sen
Warren Magnuson, D., Wash.
that the armed services have
been directed to include in their
1951 budget funds for merchant
ship repairs necessary for na
tional defense.
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liams, on the one hand, to major
consuming areas on the other.
In other words, the maximum
price for wheat which is closer
to Europe a major consuming
area than Fort Williams would
be higher than the $1.80 Fort
Williams price by the difference
in transportation costs.
The wheat agreement maxi
mum price for eastern ports in
the United States is $1.96 a
bushel for No. 1 grain. They are
higher because the eastern ports
are closer to major importing
countries than is Fort Williams
The agreement maximum
price for this country's gulf
ports is $1.91. These ports are a
little farther away from con
suming areas than eastern ports.
Hence, their maximum price is
a little lower.
To Cooperate
In Shaking Off
Soviet Control
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Aug. 3
VP) Premier Marshal Tito fore
cast yesterday that Bulgaria and
Albania would quit the Moscow
led cominform and offered them
helping hand in shaking off
Russian domination.
Tito has been tilting with the
cominform (communist inter
national information bureau)
since June of last year, when
Yugoslavia's communists were
expelled for nationalism and
other deviations from the Mos
cow brand of Marxism-Lenin-ism.
Both Bulgaria and Albania
have had recent purges among
high communist leaders who
were charged with heresies sim
ilar to the accusations levelled
against Tito.
Speaks to 350,000
The Yugoslav leader spoke at
Skoplje before an audience es
timated at 350,000 by Yugoslav
officials. It was the first time -
in recent months he appeared in
Macedonia, which has been sub
jected to propaganda from anti
Tito factions urging an indepen
dent state made up of Yugoslav,
Bulgarian and Greek Macedo
nia.
Tito declared the Bulgarian
people ultimately would ignore
slanders against Yugoslavia
and extend their fraternal hand
to us and we will help them re
move whatever individuals have
so far put obstacles in the path
of the creation and preservation
of brotherly relations."
He said this statement also
applied to Albania, Yugoslavia's
tiny neighbor to the south, -Bulgar
Leaders Purged
Traicho Kostov, former vice
premier of Bulgaria and former
member of the central commit
tee of the Bulgarian communist
party, was expelled from the
party in June after being charg
ed with nationalism and an un
friendly attitude toward the So
viet Union.
At about the same time, for
mer deputy premier Koci Xoxe
of Albania was executed after
being convicted of treason.
Xoxe had been reported siding
with Tito in his quirrel with the
cominform.
Referring to two other com
munist neighbors of Yugoslavia,
Tito said the cominform cam
paign against him had unleashed
"chauvinistic passions" in Hun
gary and Romania.
He said leading communists
in those countries were "quite
audibly whispering" that some
thing could be wrenched from
Yugoslavia because it was "cap
italistic," while their countries
were "socialist."
Faricy Heads
Civilian Reserve
Washington, Aug. 3 W Wil
liam Thomas Faricy, Chicago at
torney and railroad official, to
day was named head of the na
tional military establishments'
new civilian reserve policy
board.
Faricy's appointment by Sec
retary of Defense Johnson is an
other step in efforts to strength
en organization of the nation's
military setup.
Legislation giving the defense
secretary additional powers in
consolidating the armed forces
was passed by congress and sent
to the White House yesterday.
Only President Truman's sig
nature is needed to make the
measure law.
In still another move to coord
inate activities of the armed ser
vices, Johnson has ordered the
navy to lake over the army's
ocean-going vessels. This means
the navy will direct a new mil- .
itary sea transport service (MS-
TS) for all branches beginning
Oct. 1.
In a similar action some time
ago, all military air transport
was switched to a single agency
air transport service (MATS).
This now serves all three bran
ches under air force control. The
next step will be a land trans
portation service under army
control.
Johnson's announcement said
the civilian component policy
board to be headed by Faricy
will coordinate the policies and
program or the organized reserve.