THE WEATHER HERE
PARTLY CLOUDY tonight and
Sunday. Lowest temperature
expected tonight, 52; highest
Sunday, 88.'
Maximum yeiterday, minimum to
day, 82. Total 34-hour precipitation: fsr
month: .3H; normal. .30. Seaaon precipita
tion, 4S.35; normal) 87.70. Hirer height,
-3.S feet, (Report by U.S. Weather Bu
reau.) .
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EDITION
6 1st Year, No. 204
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!Z Salem, Oregon, Saturday, August 27, 1949
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Shooting Ends
Lives of Pair at
Independence
J. D. Hildreth, Soldier,
Slays Wife and Self
Note Tells Story
Independence, Ore., Aug. Z7
Gunshots ended the lives or a
soldier and his young wife here
early Friday afternoon, held by
Paul Bollman of Dallas, Polk
county coroner, as murder and
suicide.
The dead are Cpl. J. D. Hil
dreth. 28, stationed at Camp
Hood, Tex., and Mrs. Joyce
.Elaine Hildreth, 21, of Inde
pendence. A note indicating that Hildreth-
had a third victim in mind
was found among his effects.
When police arrived at the scene
an 18-months-old baby, mention
ed affectionately in the note, was
sitting on her mother's body.
The bodies were found In a
woodshed adjoining the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Penrose, 432
A street by Chief of Police Ray
Howard. Mrs. Penrose is a sis
ter of Mrs. Hildreth. Neither
of the Penroses was at home,
she being employed at a cafe and
he in a hopyard.
Letters on the table, written
from Camp Hood and dated Aug
ust 19 and 21, though both bore
the same postmark, give clue to
the tragedy.
Gets Gun in Salem
Investigation revealed that he
arrived here Thursday night, got
up early Friday and went to Sa
lem where he obtained a sec
ond-hand single barrel shotgun
and shells.
Empty dishes indicated the
couple had eaten lunch togeth
er for the shooting occurred
shortly after that hour.
Ellis Stone, 16, a brother of
Mrs. Hildreth, and Ronnie Pen
rose, 10, were in the front room
' they told the officers. Stone said
Hildreth came into the room and
got the shotgun and returned to
the kitchen. He also went into
the kitchen a few minutes later
but saw no one, he said. .
(Concluded on Page 8, Column 7)
Road Paving
Petitions Drafted
The oounty court Saturday
completed discussion of and sent
to the printer forms for peti
tions to be used in connection
with a new law allowing the im
provement of public and dedicat
ed roads, not county roads, lying
outside of incorporated cities, the
cost of improvements to be as
sessed against abutting proper
ties. The petitions have been long
awaited by a considerable num
ber of land owners who have ex
pressed a wish to take advantage
of the act and get their streets
paved and it is expected as soon
as they are available from the
printer there will be quite a rush
for them. The court said no pe
titions would be accepted except
those prepared on the official
county forms.
The petitions will carry with
them a guarantee of the signers
that they will pay any road as
sessment imposed as result of the
petitions even if the law or any
part of it is declared unconstitu
tional or if the law is repealed.
They will set out the nature
of the improvement to be done,
they provide that only one
driveway will be allowed to each
parcel of land and this no "more
than 16 feet wide and the cost
of the driveway will not be a
part of the assessment but will
be matter of private negotiation
between the respective landown
ers and the contractor.
Engineering will be done by
the county engineer, or some en
gineer designated by the coun
ty court
Thief Cooked Meal
While Looting House
A thief who first made himself
at home by taking food from the
kitchen, scrambling eggs on the
electric range, and eating tuna
fish sandwiches, stole several it
ems of women's clothing from
the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Roland Boardman, 1751 North
Front street, Friday night.
Missing are two women's
coats, a woman's two-piece suit,
two pair of woman's shoes, a
purse and two pints of whiskey.
Entry was made through a
small window facing the front
of the house sometime between
8 p. m Friday and 2:30 a. m.
Saturday.
Conference on
Britain's Dollar
Crisis Opens
Financial Experts of
U. S., Britain, Canada
Discuss Emergency
Washington, Aug. 27 W The
United States, Britain and Can
ada opened preliminary talks on
Britain's economic crisis today.
The conferences at the state
department will continue about
ten days. Then full scale negotia
tions among the three govern
ments will be opened.
Officials and technical ex
perts of the three countries met
in a fifth floor conference room
at the state department with
Undersecretary of State Webb
presiding.
(Concluded on Para 5, Column I)
17,000Strike
Rubber Plant
. Akron, O., Aug. 27 VP) Union
labor's first major strike for a
fourth round of postwar wage
increases was launched today.
The CIO struck B. F. Goodrich,
one of the rubber Industry's
Big Four.
Ordering some 17,000 Good
rich workers in seven slates to
strike, President H. R. Lloyd of
the ClO-United Rubber Work
ers said:
; "Unfortunately, the company
showed not the slightest interest
in reaching an amicable settle
ment. We were compelled to
take this action to protect the
interest of our membership."
Lloyd made this statement in
Dayton, O., where negotiations
on a new contract broke down
last night just before the old
expired. As authorized by the
union membership the strike
started at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) to
day. '
Right on time, URW's biggest
Goodrich local here set up pic
ket lines, halting work by 11,
000 employes. Tjhe other, plants
at Los Angeles, Cadillac, Mich.,
Tuscaloose, Ala., Miami,1 Okla.,
Clarksville, Tenh.,- Oaks, Pa.,'
also were ordered to strike.
For its part, Goodrich com
plained in a letter sent out be
fore the strike was called that
the "URWA has chosen B. F.
Goodrich men and women and
our company to be guinea pigs In
the fourth round wage try."
And after the strike started,
Goodrich Vice President J. W.
Keener contended the union had
served no notice to the com
pany. However, both he and Lloyd
agreed to resume negotiations in
Dayton again today in another
effort to settle differences.
$7,481965 Added to
State Budget Outlay
By JAMES D. OLSON
Budget requests, not included in the biennial budget approved
by the legislature, totaling $7,481,965.94 were approved Friday
by the state emergency board.
The bpard deferred action on budget requests loianng ,.joj,
634.72 until detailed budgets carrying the recommendation of the
budget director were presented.-
One request for $5,500 for' tne
nublic utilities department to in
vestigate grade crossings in the
state was approved subject to
the final approval of the budget
director.
Members of the board spent
the greater part of the day in
session, it being the first time
that the members met to con
sider budgets under the new
budgetary control act passed by
the last legislature.
Under this act no slate de
partment or commission can ex
pend any funds, be they state or
federal, or derived from any
source whatsoever, without in
cluding such funds in a de
tailed budget and obtain a rec
ommendation from the budget
department.
This is a radical departure
for some departments, for those
supported by fees and charges
collected instead of appropria
tions from the general fnnd and
those disbursing federal grant
funds have heretofore been be
yond any budget control.
The majority of requests ap
proved yesterday constituted
spending of federal funds allo
cated to various state depart
ments. In this category the
board approved expenditure of
$2,399,679 of federal funds allo
cated to the state fish commis
sion; $1,947,405 turned over by
the federal government to the
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South Extends
Friendship to GAR
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Wilson, N. C. Aug. 27 W) The
South extended the hand ; of
friendship today to the boys
who marched through Geor
gia with Sherman. .
The Wilson Chamber of Com
merce invited the Grand Army
of the Republic to hold its final
encampment at Wilson in 1950.
The invitation was addressed to
Charlie ' Chappel, " 102-year-old
vice commander of the GAR.
What is termed the "final an
nual encampment' of the group"
is underway at Indianapolis, Ind.
state health department for hos
pital construction in the state
and $938,403 .of federal funds
for the division of vocational
education for veterans' train
ing. '
The board approved a budget
of $18,150 for the new milk con
trol administration. Formerly
milk control was carried on by
the director of agriculture but
the last legislature set up a sep
arate division for milk market
ing and control with an admin
istrator.
The new potato commission
budget of $96,770 was approved.
All money spent by this com
mission will be derived from
tax imposed on the potato
growers.
The Battleship Oregon com
mission was granted authority
to expend $1,300 and the new
capitol planning commission's
budget of $1,000 was approved
A request for $25,000 for the
legislative ipterim .committee on
highways was deferred until the
next meeting of the board in
order that more details could be
obtained on the activities of this
committee.
The budget division, carrying
the heaviest load under the new
budget law, was granted $11,309
to employ additional help. Bud
get Director Harry Dorman told
the board he planned to employ
one additional man and needed
some extra helpt
"' Farmers Finance Sanllam Flood Control Top, new 100
foot wide diversion channel a mile and a quarter in length
that will carry waters of the North Santiam to a confluence
with the south branch near Jefferson. Center: Here a dike
15 feet high and 1500 feet long will extend across the river to
divert the stream into the channel shown above.. Excavation
for the new channel ends about where E. Anderson, machine
operator, is shown in the photograph., Lower: North Santiam
channel where flood stage overflow causes heavy erosion
damage to 2000 acres. Here for a distance of about two miles
the bank will be raised to a height of 15 feet after the stream
enters the diversion channel. This flood control project,
promoted and largely financed by 15 regional farmers, is in
charge of W. F. Weddle.
A viation Day Sunday
Brings Varied Program
' By MARGARET MAGEE
Salem was saluted early Saturday afternoon by a mass forma
tion of planes from McNary field.
Occasion for the (light in which
navy participated was Salem's Aviation Day at McNary field this
;
Reprieve Given
To Mrs. Fones
Selma Frances Fones, 29, ex-
WAC and former office employe
at Willamette university, won
another reprieve until Septem
ber 6 for imposition of sentence
for theft of $1100 in university
funds when she told Judge
George R. Duncan in circuit
court here, her voice broken by
sobs, that she took the money
because she was "at her wits end
how to care for her two babies,
one of whom has since died from
a severe heart ailment. The two
children, seven and 20 months
old, said Bruce Williams ap
pearing on her behalf, were but
part of her burdens with an av
alanche of bills and no way to
turn -to meet them.
District Attorney Stadter had
recommended some sort of pris
on sentence for the woman who,
he said, "violated her trust with
no Justification or excuse In ta
king advantage of her position.'
Judge Duncan also called at
tention to the fact that out of
the $1100 taken $600 was taken
but two days before her arrest
and he wanted to know what
became of all that money in
such a short time. Mrs. Fones
said it went to pay the doctor,
but she could n t name the doc
tor and said the money was giv
en to a friend to be sent to the
doctor and that the friend had
since died. Other alleged dis
crepancies in a pre-sentence re
port caused the Judge to allow
further time for sentence and
for her attorney to examine the
report which had not heretofore
com under his hand.
operators on the field and the
S'Sunday.
An educational event, as well
as one planned for the enter
tainment of Salem residents and
those from the surrounding area
the Sunday program at Salem's
airport is open to the general
public and there will be no ad
mission charge.
All flying groups and private
pilots in the state have been ex
tended an invitation to attend
the Sunday event and many
planes are expected to begin ar
riving at McNary field about 10
a. m. On their arrival the visit
ors are to be greeted by repre
sentatives of the Cherrians and
later will be served lunch by
Company B, Oregon National
Guard.
Planes are to be on exhibit all
during the day and also planned
is an exhibit of dusts and sprays
and equipment used in crops
dusting and spraying. The ex
hibits are to be on the west side
of the field to be on the west side
noon program.
During the day two airlines,
United and West C oast, will give
courtesy flights. West Coast will
fly from the west side of the air
port and United is making its
flights from its station on the
east side of the field.
Also taking part in the pro
gram is the Salem Naval A i r
Facility on the east side of Mc
Nary field, which will hold "Op
en House."
The program for the afternoon
is to get underway at approxl
mately 2 p. m. with the arrival
here of a flight of National
Guard planes from Portland.
After their flight over the field
the planes will land and be plac
ed on exhibit.
(Concluded on Paia f, Column I)
Hurricane Whirls Out Over
Gulf for 2nd Punch
Bank Account
Of Vaughan to
Be Scrutinized
Washington, Aug. 27 Sen
ator Hoey (D-NC) said today
any adverse testimony regard
ing government officials in the
five percenter inquiry will go to
their superiors except in the
case of Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan.
Hoey told reporters about
that after disclosing that "in a
measure" senate investigators
are looking into the bank ac
counts of Vaughan, who is Mr.
Truman's military aide.
A special subcommittee head
ed by Hoey is checking on
whether improper influence has
figured in the handling of gov
ernment business. Vaughan is
scheduled to testify when the
public hearings are resumed
next Tuesday. His name has
come up at the inquiry nearly
every day.
To Turn Over Evidence
In reply . to questions, Hoey
said the committee plans to
turn over to the justice depart
ment evidence it has gathered
about the affairs of John Mara
gon. Maragon is a normally tal
kative man-a b o u t-Washington
who suddenly turned silent yes
terday when the committee
sought to question him about a
lot of matters.
They include testimony by a
committee investigator that Ma
ragon made deposits of $119,-
608.61 in checking accounts ov
er a five-year period.
(Concluded on Pare S, Column 6)
Resume Peace
Talks af Hawaii
Honolulu, Aug. 27 (JP) Pros
pects perked up today,for a re
sumption of peace talks in Ha
waii's- paralyzing dock strike,
now in its 119th day.
Federal Mediator George Hil-
lengrand announced he would
ask the striking CIO Internation
al Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's union to resume ne
gotiations with the seven struck
stevedoring firms.
Harry Bridges, UNIO presi
dent, arrived back in Hawaii by
plane last night from San Fran
cisco. That apparently is the sig
nal for a resumption of activity
around the peace table.
Before Bridges arrived, Jack
Hall, Hawaiian director of the
ILWU, indicated that with
Bridges back on the scene the
union would agree to begin new
talks Monday.
The 2,000 longshoremen in the
islands first demanded a 32-cent
increase, but later indicated they
would settle for 26 cents or less.
They now draw $1.40 an hour.
Employers have made no recent
offer.
A test of the dock-seizure law
under which the territorial gov
ernment is trying to open the
strike-locked ports was near
ing a decision in federal court
u. S. Judge J. Frank Mc
Laughlin decided to hear addi
tional argument today on an
ILWU petition for an order re
straining the government from
operating the docks.
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Maragon Testifies John Maragon (right) Washington mys
tery man, smokes a cigarette as he testifies before the senate
investigating committee in us five percenicr probe. He spent
most of his time refusing to answer questioning on advice of
his touniel, Myron G. Ehrlich (left). (AP Wlrephoto).
(
List Hurricane
Among Great
Ones of Past
Miami, Fla., Aug. 27 (P) The
U. S. weather bureau said to
day this hurricane would "com
pare with the great hurricanes
of the past."
"It was a severe hurricane,"
Storm Forecaster Leonard Par
due reported.
Highest wind recorded by in
struments in the past in Florida
was 155 miles per hour at Hills
boro Light in the 1947 storm,
he said.
Gusts of winds up to 150 miles
per hour were reported in the
storm which swept over Florida
today.
Pardue said no accurate com
parison could be made with past
hurricanes until data on auto
matic recording instruments were
obtained and compiled by the
weather bureau.
Here's an idea of the force of
the hurricane wind in just one
place, Stuart, Fla.
It ripped the roof off a two
story building, flung it against
the roof of an adjoining build
ing, and then whirled it over to
the city hall where it damaged a
corner.
The roof finally stopped on
top of an automobile three blocks
away.
Defense Funds
Cut $1.4 Billion
Washington, Aug. 27 Wl
Economy-minded senators con
gratulated themselves today on
a $1,400,000,000 slash In defense
funds "the biggest reduction in
any one bill in the history of our
government."
The words were those of Sen
ator Elmer Thomas (D-Okla),
who is guiding a multi-billion
dollar military money bill
through the senate.
The huge cutback ordered by
the senate yesterday included
two items:
A cut of $1,118,000,000 in
house-approved funds for army,
navy and air force spending dur
ing the 12 months which began
July 1; and a $275,000,000 re
duction in money that both
chambers had earlier approved
for stockpiling critical materials.
The reductions must be okay
ed by the house, where some
leaders already were protesting
sharp slashes in funds for the
air force.
Although senators worked far
past their usual quitting time
last night they still failed to
complete action on the huge
military money bill.
As it came from the house It
contained $15,900,000,000. As it
stood today it carried about
$14,800,000,000.
Admiral Byrd's
Daughter Marries
Boston, Aug. 27 (P) Miss Hel
en Ames Byrd, daughter of Polar
Explorer Rear Admiral Richard
E. Byrd, and Lawrence Janney
Stabler, Jr., of Wallingford, Pa.,
were married yesterday.
The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Robert M. Shaw of
Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal
church. Relatives and a few
close friends attended.
at Florida
Storm Leaves
Devastation
Over Peninsula
Miami, Fla., Aug. 27 (P)
A renegade tropical hurricane
whirled out over the Gulf of
Mexico for a second punch at
Florida today leaving one dead,
hundreds homeless and property
damage in the millions In the
state's rich resort and citrus
areas.
Somewhat tamed as it crossed
land, the freakish storm was ex
pected to resume hurricane
strength in a six to eight hour
crossing of the gulf probably to
the Apalachicola - Tallahassee
area.
"Winds will continue to in
crease in northwest Florida,"
said W. R. Davis, Miami storm
forecaster. "The center will
cross the coastline again around
nightfall, possibly a bit earlier
or later, according to the storm's
behavior now that It is over
water again."
Warnings Still Hoisted
Davis reminded residents in
the old south section of Florida:
"You are under hurricane
warnings. These warnings have
been hoisted from Cedar Key to
Carrabelle and of course extend
to inland points behind this
conslal area."
Once again, evacuation of
planes and persons from dan
ger spots was under way, just
it was yesterday on the
Florida east coast.
The storm cut a big swath
of destruction on its way across
the peninsula after pounding
the east coast and searing tha
Lake Okeechobee region.
It swept through Florida's
rich citrus belt and was last
ri.nnrl.ed hv the. weather hureall
over Pasco county on the edge
of the Gulf of Mexico above
Tampa.
500 Left Homeless
Sluart Red Cross disaster fit
ficials reported at least S00
homeless in the east coast city.
(Concluded on Pbio 8, Column 6)
Tito's Troops
Sent to Fiume
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Aug. 27
(u.R Reports from Trieste said
today that Yugoslavia has mov
ed troops into its Fiume and
Pola areas in an apparent effort
to curb any Comminform sabot
age.
A Trieste dispatch quoted of
ficial Italian sources there as
saying that Yugoslav troops
moved into strategic positions in
the northwest corner of th
country after fire broke out
Thursday in the big Romsa oil
refinery at Fiume, third largest
refinery in Europe.
An official Yugoslav announ
cement confirmed the report of a
fire, but said it was extinguished
quickly. It said the refinery
again was operating at full ca
pacity. Trieste reported, however, that
billowing columns of dense
smoke still covered the Fiume
area today. Reliable sources in
the international city said in
tense heat had hampered all ef
forts to extinguish the fire.
Reports circulating in Trieste
said the fire was started by two
hand grenades. They were ru
mored to have been thrown by
Cominform agents seckirg the
overthrow of Marshal Tito's gov
ernment for its refusal to tak
dictation from Moscow.
Snoopy the Heifer
Being Rescued
Osceola, Wis., Augi 27 lPi
Snoopy the heifer wailed today
for a dozen loads of green corn
to lift her out of her silo cell.
Farmer Everett Lampman fig
ures that's the easiest way to
recover his 650-pound Holstein
headache. Snoopy dived through
a 20 by 30-inch opening in the
silo Wednesday and fell 12 feet
into the pit.
Lampman, who has been
keeping Snoopy streamlined
with a rationed hay and water
diet, thinks it will take most of
the day to "float" her. He and
several neighbors will do the
lob, with one in the silo tramp
ing the corn as it falls In.
Snoopy won't he able to nib
bIh at her luscious surround
ings. Lampman has devised a
leather strap muzzle for her.