2 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, August 22, 1949
Chimneys Fall
In Vancouver -
Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 22 (CP)
Tumbled chimneys today ap
peared to be the most severe
damage resulting from Canada's
worst recorded earthquake that
rippled last night through the
northern Pacific coast area. It
was recorded as stronger than
Ecuador's recent disastrous one
or the quake that levelled San
Francisco in 1906. Yet no more
serious reports were received
as British Columbia, parts of
Alaska and Washington and
Oregon states probed for day
after effects.
Officials said the epicentre
being far out to sea likely was
the reason.
Brunt of the attack was felt
by the Queen Charlotte islands
group where residents said the
ground fissured in some areas
with cracks ud to 50 feet long.
six inches wide and "two deep
to see the bottom.
Graham Island residents in
the Charlotte group just across
from Prince Rupert, B. C , 500
miles upcoast said they spent
the night fully clothed, nor did
they sleep.
The seismograph at Victoria,
B. C.'s observatory, said the
shock may have been the worst
since 1946 when Courtenay, B.
C, was hard hit. Then the in
dicator of the seismograph
jumped right off but precau
tions taken later prevented a
like happening this time.
Observatory officials said the
shocks continued for four hours
after being recorded first at
9:03.12 p.m., PDT). After
shocks came around 7 a.m.,
(PDT) this morning.
SfrikeloTlo
Spread fo Coasl
San Francisco, Aug. 22 (IP)
There is no danger that the
Hawaii longshore strike will
spread to west coast ports.
This assurance was made in a
Joint union-management news
letter distributed today to 1,000
shippers.
The newsletter was accompa
nied by a memorandum, signed
by the International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's
union and the Pacific Maritime
association. The memorandum
said the statement in the news
letter "represents what in our
honest opinion now is a virtual
guarantee against spread of the
Hawaiian strike to the Pacific
coast."
"In the past several days,"
said the newsletter, "there has
been speculation concerning a
possible tie-up of west coast
shipping arising out of planned
efforts by the Matson Naviga
tion company to load Hawaiian
bound cargoes at San Francisco
for Honolulu.
"San Francisco longshoremen
were requested on last Thursday
to commence loading cargoes for
this vessel (SS Hawaiian Refin
er) and refused (o cross picket
lines of Honolulu members of
their union.
"This refusal was immediate
ly processed by the union and
the Pacific Maritime association
under the coast longshore dis
pute machinery. ... It was
agreed . , . that the question of
refusal to handle the cargoes
would be negotiated.
Cut in Prices Puis
Pears in Storage
Seattle, Aug. 22 (IP) Sentllc
fruit shippers reported today
eastern Washington Bartlett
pears are being moved Into cold
storage because growers' and
canneries are "miles apart" on
prices.
A price of $30 a ion for num
ber one pears has been offered
by the canneries ttiis year com
pared with $110 in 1948. Grow
ers say their production costs
nmount to around $60 a Ion.
Fruit shippers said although
some pears are moving into the
fresh fruit market on the Cali
fornia price of $2.25 a box, the
bulk of the crop will be placed
in cold storage unless the price
structure changes.
Representatives of (he depart
ment of agriculture and the
production and marketing ad
ministration are scheduled to
-rivc in Yakima tomorrow to
establish a government pear
buying program. An unknown
amount of the crop will be pur
chased for federal institutions
and schools.
County Farm Agent
To go to Harvard
Corvallis, Aug. 22 n De
schutes county Farm Agent Jean
Lear has been granted a year's
scholarship at Harvard univer
sity for advanced study in public
administration.
He plans to start work at Har
vard this fall.
Lear is a 1938 graduate of
Oregon State college. He was
assistant county agent at Wasco
and Umatilla counties before as
signment to Deschutes county In
1943.
1948 Incomes
Average $1410
Wachinotnn Anir. 22 (IP) The
individual income of the ver-
age American reached a new
high of $1,410 last year as com
pared with $1,319 in 1947.
A report issued by the com-
marpo rlpnnrlmpnt this week-
pnH rnvererl individual income
as distinguished by the take
of corporations irom ail
sources.
The dollar total of $206,000.-
000,000 it showed for 1948 bet
tered 1947 by nine per cent, but
a gain in population trimmed the
individual average back to sev
en per cent.
The largest regional gain was
1? npr cent credited to eight
central states, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
The smallest increases, six
per cent, were In the six New
England states, Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and
vnrmnnt- and four far western
states. California. Nevada, Ore
gon and Washington.
The only two declines report
ed were four per cent in North
Dakota and one per cent in
Kansas.
From a per capita or average
standpoint, New York led the
country with $1,8B1 in 194H
while Mississippi was at the bot
tom with $758.
WCTU Protests
'Selling Red'
Philadelphia, Aug. 22 (IP) The
president of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union today
urged charity blood banks to
stop accepting "obviously unfit
blood from donors seeking mon
ey to buy liquor.
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin told the
75th annual WCTU convention
that the practice oi selling blood
for drinking funds has become
prevalent among vagrants who
term it "peddling the red."
Referring to an article by Wil
liam J. Slocum in Collier's Mag
azine, the WCTU head said the
blood bank practices discussed
were investigated by the tem
perance organization early this
year in Chicago.
'What our investigators knew
to be true," Mrs. Co.'vin said,
was met with general denials
by clinics and doctors.
Nevertheless, most clinics us
ing it certainly know where the
blood comes from, and banks
take advantage of the donors by
paying them as little as $3 a
pint, sometimes up to $8, while
the price of most leading hos
pitals for good blood is $25 to
$50.
'Steps by health authorities
are certainly Indicated if the
banks and clinics do not stop the
practice."
H. Cecil Heath, of London,
general secretary of the United
Kingdom (temperance) Alliance,
told the convention last night
that drinking brought on a host
of "disasters and near-disasters
to the allied armies" in World
War II.
Small Hurricane
500 Miles from Florida
Miami, Fla., Aug. 22 (IP) A
small Atlantic hurrican was cen
tercd about 500 miles due east
of Miami today as President
Truman arrived to address the
veterans of foreign wars con
vention.
The storm, first of the 1949
season, was referred to as "Har
rv's hurricane" by storm track
ers because of the coincidence of
the chief executive's visit. Fine
weather prevailed here, how
ever, for Mr. Truman's appear
ance.
A navy hurricane hunter
winged over the Atlantic toward
the hurricane to explore its eye
Cat Beaten to Death
On State Street
Some downtown merchant
was looking for his store
mouse-catrhina rat tnHnv nnrl
there are probably a lot of ani
mal lovers who d like to gel
their hands on the culprit who
killed the feline.
A larce black anH white pnl
was brutally beaten or stomped
lo cieath early Monday morning.
A city policeman discovered the
dead cat on the sidewalk in the
300 block of State street.
The officer examined
dead animal and said that It was
obvious that some nprsnn hnH
either beaten the animal on the
head with a large weapon,
had viciously stomped It
to
death.
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8000 Victims
Of Polio Tested
(By the Associated Press)
The number of new cases of
infantile paralysis took a sharp
upward turn last week, boost
ing the nation s total of victims
for the month to more than 8000.
It brought the total for the
year to 15.5UU, compared wnn
only 8430 cases reported by the
national office of vital statistics
through Aug. 13 of 1948, a near
record year. Last year's 27,680
total was exceeded only by the
30,000 in the 1916 record year.
In an Associated Press sur
vey, Worth Dakota reported the
disease at an epidemic stage
there last week and said the
state urgently needed more nur
ses. A few more heavily populat
ed states, including Pennsylva
nia, Illinois and Wisconsin, do
not expect to reach the peak of
new cases until next month,
while four states perhaps five
already have more than 1000.
Some southern states, where
onset of the disease usually
starts earlier, have had a gra
dual decline, while Maine and
Minnesota held about steady,
and Arizona showed an Increase.
Nevada with only 18 cases
this year, again is having a light
season, but health officials there
reminded that most of the state's
22 cases last year occurred dur
ing the fall and winter months.
McLaran Sees Son
First Time in 33 Years
Walter McLaren of Salem,
who was 91 years old on Au
gust 18, and his son, E. S. Mc
Laren, met for the first time in
33 years recently when Mr. Mc
Laren, Sr., arrived by plane in
Richmond, Ont., to visit his son.
The younger McLaren is the
Canadian National Railway op
erator at Richmond.
Mr. McLaren, Sr., was born
In Buckham, Ont., and lived for
a time in Otlaway until 1911
when he moved to Salem where
he has been engaged in the real
estate business. He celebrated
his 91st birthday at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Mary McLaurin,
in St. Eugene, Ont., and he had
not seen her for 48 years. While
on the trip he is visiting other
relatives, including another son,
Wilmer,- at Vancouver, B.C.
Turkey Plentiful
And to Cost Less
Washington, Aug. 22 (IP)
Housewives got good news today
for their Thanksgiving and
Christmas menus.
Turkeys should be plentiful
and cost less.
The agriculture department
said the 1949 crop will be the
second biggest In the nation's
history and the biggest since
the war. This promises lower
prices.
Every state in the union fig
ures in the increased Turkey
production, the department said.
It estimated the 1949 crop at
41,107,000 turkeys. This would
be exceeded only by the 1945
crop of 44,000,000. The Increases
this year, compared with the
short supply of 1948, range from
three per cent in New York
state to 121 per cent In Arkan
sas. ,
The department said a down
trend in turkey prices has re
suited In setting a supply price
which will average about 31
cents a pound for live turkeys.
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Plane With 20
Aboard Missing
Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 22 (IP)
Three Dakota planes are
searching northern Manitoba
for an amphibious Canso aircraft
missing since last night with 20
persons aboard, Royal Canadian
air force officials said today.
The Canso left Churchill at 6
p.m. (EST) last night and last
radioed the Hudson Bay port
one and one half hours later. It
was scheduled to land here at
10:10 p.m.
Those aboard included a crew
of six, seven Eskimos stricken
with poliomyelitis who are ac
companied by a nurse, a news
paper man And a party of men
from the federal bureau of
transport.
RCAF officials said the plane
possibly landed In or around one
of the "numerous lakes in north
ern Manitoba. Engine trouble
or stormy weather was given as
possible explanation.
Senate Drive
For Arms Aid
Washington, Aug. 22 (IP) Sen
ator Hickenlooper (R., Iowa) to
day joined in a senate drive to
trim the $1,450,000,000 sought
by the administration to finance
a foreign arms aid program.
Hickenlooper, a member of
the foreign relations committee,
said he thought the European
countries could "get along with
substantially less money" than
Secretary of State Acheson and
military leaders have asked
congress for.
He didn't say he would go as
far as the house did last Friday.
It slashed the $1,160,990,000
tagged by the administration for
Nort Atlantic pact partners to
$580,495,000, or just halfi the
original amount.
There was speculation that the
house's action would force the
administration into some kind of
compromise. This might take the
form of accepting the house
figure insofar as cash is concern
ed and trying for as much more
as can be obtained In authority
to enter contracts which would
be paid for In later appropria
tions.
Yesterday Senator Knowland
(R Calif.) and three other law
makers, Senator Bridges (R.
N.H.), also an armed services
member, Wherry (R., Neb.) and
McCarran (D Nev.), issued
strong statement criticizing Sec
retary of State Acheson and the
state department for the U. S
China policy.
Portland Hofelman
Drowns in Riptide
Cannon Beach, Aug. 22 UP)
The body of Samuel Rice, 55,
Benson hotel catering manager
for many years, was recovered
from the surf yesterday after he
was drowned in a riptide.
Pilot A. W. Sleight spotted the
body off Arch Cape. Rice and a
companion were swept to sea
during the afternoon. William
Markham, Arch Cape, managed
to reach shore.
Auto Crash Proves Fatal
Roseburg, Aug. 22 IP) David
White, 71, San Diego, died here
today of injuries resulting from
the collision of his car with a
West Coast Trailways bus on
Ric hill August 13. He was a re
tired naval officer.
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Jobless Above
1948 Record
Although employment e x -
panded seasonally during July
to reach the highest levels of the
year the number of persons out
of work in non-agricultural jobs
were approximately 75 percent
above the 1948 levels, the state
unempl o y m e n t compensation
commission reports in its latest
labor market letter. The number
of non-agricultural jobs were
22,000 under last summer's peak
and the number without work,
49,000.
It is expected peak employ
ment for 1949 will be reached
early in September with can
ning, packing and distributing
of late crops providing several
thousand more jobs than at any
other season.
Total unemployment as of
August 1, 1948 was placed at
23,400 as compared with 49,000
this year. Portland had 21,400
jobless as against 16,000 a year
ago while Eugene placed second
with an unemployed list of 3800
as against 675. Salem's 2150 job
less were up from 600 a year
ago. Coos Bay reported 1160 un
employed and Klamath Falls
100. Lebanon had 860 idle, Al
bany 425, Astoria 950, Bend 600,
Grants Pass 825, Medford 975
and Roseburg 960.
Unfilled job openings and
placements fell away during Ju
ly to 4894 industrial and trade
workers as compared with 8504
a year ago. Only 14 construction
jobs were on file as against 122
in 1948 while opportunities in
logging and lumbering dropped
irom o-ia tasi.year to uz. okiu
ed and semi-skilled classifica
tions declined from 781 to 216
Farm placements .last month
numbered 22,726, less than half
those for July, 1948.
Trade, finance, government,
utility and other service groups
had 267,500 persons on the job,
slightly more than a year ago.
Rent Control
Again in Senate
Washington, Aug. 22 OT The
argument about rent control
boiled up again for the senate
today.
The specific question is whe
ther to reconsider a $17,500,000
appropriation which the rent di
rector, Tighe Woods, says is not
enough to keep rent controls go
ing at the present rate.
(Woods has said that if con
gress doesn't increase funds for
his agency, he will have to lift
controls from one-third of the
areas still having them. Further
he says he may have to rely on
volunteer citizen help to watch
over controls in some of the two-
thirds remaining.)
President Truman asked $26,-
750,000 to operate the office of
housing expediter during the
year that began July 1. The sen
ate cut this down to $21,667,500
but a senate-house conference
whacked off another $4,167,500
to $17,500,000.
Senator Douglas (D-Ill), with
the support of President Truman
and others who favor rent con
trols, contend this amounts to
making it impossible to enforce
the rent ceilings arid so, in ef
fect, partially nullifying the law.
He has a motion pending to
reconsider previous senate ap
proval of the conference report.
Vigorous debate, of undetermin
ed length, was in store before a
vote.
Letter Carriers
Seek Higher Pay
Pendleton, Aug. 22 (IP) Ore
gon letter carriers will ask the
National association convention
at Seattle next year to work for
a higher starting pay.
President Harry Palmer, Til
lamook, told the convention
here Saturday night that the $2,
550 starting wage was unrealis
tic on the basis of today's living
costs.
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Warns of Price
Support Evils
Washington, Aug. 22 W
Senate Democratic Leader Lucas
today demanded "drastic
changes" in the government's
price-support programs and bills
pending before congress.
The Illinois senator said he
favors limiting government
price-supporting loans and pur
chases to a few basic or major
crops such as corn, wheat, cot
ton and others on which plant
ing and marketing controls can
be operated.
He said Secretary of Agricul
ture Brannan should have broad
authority to support prices of
all other "non-basic commodi
ties" such as meats, dairy
products, fruits and less import
ant crops with broad standards
set by congress.
Unless congress cuts back the
present farm-price support pro
grams to a few basic crops, Lu
cas told reporters:
'People will be so bitter that
we'll break the whole federal
farm program down."
The senate leader's blast came
after a meeting of the senate
agriculture committee of which
he Is a member.
Kootney River
Usage Approved
Boise, Aug. 20 (IP) The Inter
national Joint Commission has
approved two applications . of
Canadian concerns for addition
al usage of Kootenay river and
lake water.
State reclamation engineer
Mark R, Kulp was notified that
the West Kootenay Power and
Light Company, Ltd., and the
Consolidated Mining and Smelt
ing Company- of Canada, Ltd.,
had been granted permission to
store an additional two feet of
water In Kootenay lake during
the fall and winter months.
Kulp said the Canadian firms
would have to pay for damage
to Northern Idaho farms caused
when the river backs up as re
sult of the increased storage
Kulp said the increased storage
level in the lake will submerge
some gravity outlets of farms
in the Bonners Ferry section,
which otherwise would have
drained by gravity flow.
Kulp said the increased stor-1
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Lebanon Mother
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Lebanon, Aug. 22 UP) A
young mother, struck by a car
while she carritd a baby in her
arms, was reported in a critical
condition here today.
Marie Whitney, Lebanon, was
walking on the higiway three
miles southeast of hen at 2 a.m.
yesterday morning whn a car
hit her. The baby was not ser
iously hurt, but she sjffered
critical injuries.
The car driver, Laddie Elliott,
Scio, said he did not see the wo
man. The accident occurred on a
hill.
Lumber Mill Burns
Roseburg, Aug. 22 (IP) Mill
of the Tyee Lumber and Timber
company 18 miles west of here
was burned to the ground this
morning in a fire which started
under the head saw, the Doug-
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