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EDITION
61st Year, No. 216 SrVLSTSJr
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, September 10, 194 VV
Price 5c
Capita!
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Fair Exhibits in
Place Sunday
Until 6 oXIock
Children Flock to
Grounds Despite
Threatening Weather
Plan $500,000
Shopping Center
At West Salem
Edgewater Street
Development Project
Before Council
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
A tentative outline for a $500,-
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Steel Wage Increase Denied
But Pension Plan indorsed
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Sunday, Sept. 11
BARGAIN DAY
8 a.m. Gates open.
11 a.m. Free midway
how.
11:30 a.m. Formal guard
mount.
1:30 p.m. Time trials
midget auto racing.
2 p.m. Rodeo. Folk danc
ing in park area.
3 p.m. Free midway
show.
6 p.m. Military band con
cert. Release of exhibits.
6:30 p.m. Free midway
how. Release of livestock.
8 p.m. Helene Hughes
revue.
Midnight. Gates close.
By C. K. LOGAN
All exhibits will he In place
Sunday afternoon until 6 o'clock
with the Helene Hughes revue
closing the 84th fair program at
1 o'clock on what will have been
the best-attended State Fair on
record.
Children fl o c k e d to the
grounds early Saturday with all
rides operating until mid-afternoon
at a nine-cent rate.
Formal guard mount, can
celled because of heavy rain
Friday, was held as usual. Post
time at Lone Oak track was de
layed an hour and a half Friday
because of the rain.
Midget Auto Races
Replacing the usual horse ra
ces for the afternoon will be the
Sunday midget auto races and
the championship rodeo. Time
trials for the motors are slated at
1:30 o'clock with the rodeo at 2
o'clock. Folk dancing, directed
by the Oregon Federation of
folk Dancing, will be held in
the park area in front of the ad
ministration building at the same
hour. In event of rain it will be
held in the dance hall. Free mid
way acts will be offered as
usual.
Total attendance for the fair
to date has been 199,800 with
the week-end yet to be counted.
Indicating that an all-time high
will be established. Attendance
Friday, due to the heavy morn
ing rainfall, was cut to 25,285 or
approximately 8000 under that
ior the same day last year.
Farl-Mutuel Take
While the attendance was
lower Friday the pari-mutucls
took $68,085 as compared with
$57,026 for the same day last
year,
(Concluded cn Far. I, Column 8)
No Gambling at
Fair Says Chief
"If there's illegal gambling at
the State Fair, we don't know
about it."
That was the assertion of Po
lice Chief Clyde A. Warren Sat
urday as he undertook to ex
plain numerous queries which
have been directed to the Capital
Journal on concession practices.
. The chief explained that he
had toured the fair on opening
day to be on guard against gam
bling based purely on chance or
games in which players have lit
tle opportunity to realize re
wards. On that first day, a complaint
was received by the chief on the
practice of pyramiding a gam
bling scheme in which players
must keep placing additional
money to build sufficient points
to collect a prize.
"An investigation showed that
three such games were being op
erated," Chief Warren said.
'They were halted by the fair
board, and at the same time,
grab bags were ruled out."
No wheels were permitted to
et up operation this year de
spite the fact that these and oth
er gaming devices have been fa-1
miliar to the midways of pre
vious state fairs.
The Capital Journal has re-!
eeived complaints, concerning
coin tables and peg boards
games which require the player
to toss hoops over the cash orj
prizes. The chief pointed out!
that skill was required to win
at these concessions.
Enforcement of the law on the
fairgrounds has been carried on
by a staff of 60 special officers
Nhird by the fair board and by a
staff of Salem officers which!
reaches peak of 10 during the
height of fair activity. I
000 shopping center and housing
development in the Kingwood
annexation area along F-dgewa-
ter street just west of the South'
em Pacific tracks will be pre
sented to the Salem city council
Monday.
Ground plans being developed
by Architect Lyle Bartholomew
call for the erection of the shop
ping center along Edgewater and
north along Senate street on the
east and Cascade drive on the
west for a distance of 350 feet
Plans Are Tentative
Although the project is little
beyond the "talking stage," ten
tative plans call for the inclu
sion of a service station, grocery,
drug store and possibly profes
sional offices for a physician and
dentist.
The shopping area would in
clude parking facilities.
Along 5nate street on the
east is a six-acre tract north of
the proposed center, a multiple
housing development has been
planned.
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5)
Rescue Little
Kidnaped Girl
Philadelphia, Sept. 10 Wi A
five-year-old girl reported kid
naped yesterday at Trenton, N.
J., was found alive and well here
today with a man companion, Lt.
Francis Deegan of the Fairmount
park guards reported.
Sergeant Morris Zweigh said
the man identified himself as
Gerald A. Hutt, 35, of Bridge
port, Conn., and said he was en
route to a job as cook at a Phil
adelphia hospital.
The girl and man arrived atjPer nour
park guard headquarters and po
lice at once placed him in a cell.
He was held without bail on
charges of kidnaping and inde
cent assault.
A small dark man of medium
build, wearing a gabardine sport
suit, he was smoking a cigar
ette and appeared exceedingly
nervous.
In contrast the girl was bright
and cheerful, chatting gaily with
reporters and police.
Park Guard Phillip Cella said
she "wolfed" a breakfast of cornj
flakes, milk and toast at the first
police station stop. He added
she had no supper the night be
fore. A Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion agent arrived at the station
with police and went into con
ference with Magistrate Thom
as E. Costello.
The federal "Lindbergh law"
makes interstate transportation
of a kidnaped person a federal
crime and fixes the maximum
penalty at death in the electric
chair.
State Printing Office
Told to Keep Quiet
By JAMES D. OLSON
Some high stale authority has silenced employes of the' slate
printing department relative to costs of literature printed for
State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson.
The literature in question is entitled "The Finances of the State
of Oregon," prepared in four color and reproducing a tate
treasurer's check for $1,894,920-
favor of the federal reserve
bank and signed by the state
treasurer. It is being distributee"
by the state democratic hcad
auarters at the state fair.
And just below the check
State Treasurer Pearson says:
"The above check was signed
for YOU by your state treasurer
as one of the many huge finan
cial transactions annually invol
ing approximately $300,000,000
of stale funds."
State Printer E. C. Hobbs is
on vacation but when his office
was called Friday the Capital
Journal was told that "no infor
mation as available."
When the employee was told
that the information sought was
public record and that some of i
the information had been al
ready been geven to a Portland
newspaper, th employee re
plied:
I know, I gave out the Infor
mation and I got mv ears knock
ed down plenty and told not tolitatt.
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4 Saved in Sea
In Shipwreck
Nantucket Island, Mass., Sept.
10 (IP) Three of 11 persons who
floated in life jackets all night
in choppy seas after a cabin
cruiser sank were rescued by
coast guardsmen today.
A fourth, Russell Palmer, 24-
year-old skipper of the 38-foot
pleasure craft, waded ashore
here.
The coast guard reported two
bodies were picked up.
Palmer was carried to the
home of Mrs. Stanley C. H. Fitch
after he was found exhausted on
the beach.
Mrs. Fitch quoted Palmer as
saying he started the long swim
to Nantucket after banding to
gether other members of the
party floating in lifejackets.
The yacht skipper was barely
able to speak, Mrs. Fitch said,
but mumbled something about
11 persons three of them chil
dren struggling in the water
He also placed the time of the
sinking at about five o clock
last night.
As the rescue continued the
seas were reported smoothing
with winds dropping to 10 miles
A blow last night
brought gusts up to 45 miles per
hour.
Several bodies were reported
sighted by the coast guard.
The victims of the sinking, in
eluding a Protestant minister
and his family, were dumped
into the sea during a blow last
night after a day cruise from
Falmouth.
Bids for Dredging
Coos Bay Sought
Portland, Ore., Sept. 10 (UP)
Army engineers will invite bids
about September 18 for dredg
ing the upper 10.5 miles of the
main ship channel in Coos Bay,
Lt. Col. D. A. Elliget, acting
Portand district engineer, an
nounced today.
The work will cost more than
$1,000,000. The invitation will
call for dredging to at least a
depth of 30 feet at mean low
water, and an anchorage basin
and two turning basins to the
same depth.
give out any further Informa
tion." The employee refused to re
veal who had given the orders.
Inasmuch as the state printing
department is under the board
of control, only a member of the
board would possess the author
ity to give such orders. Secre
tary of State Newbry left Salem
Thursday night for the east and
Governor McKay said flatly Fri
day that he had Issued no such
orders.
State Treasurer Pearson was
not available for comment.
Pearson evidently decided to
compete with Secretary of State
Newbry who has a large supply
of facsimiles of the state seal
signed by himself for distribu
tion to school children who visit
the state capitol.
This facsimile of the state seal
however. Is almost an Institution
in the secretary's office, having
been Inaugurated more than 10
years ago by the late Earl Snell.
after he became secretary of
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Building Detroit Cofferdam); The next step at Detroit dam
is the completion of cofferdams to divert the North Santiam
river through the recently completed diversion tunnel. The
water in the area inside the cofferdams will be pumped out
providing a dry working area. A portion of the cofferdam
is visible in the lower left corner of the picture. It consists
of a wood crib filled with gravel. Work is under way to add
other cribs to completely close the channel so as to raise the
water surface to an elevation approximately 20 feet above the
bridge, to be completed in the next two weeks. (U. S. Army
Engineers photo)
End of Daylight Time
To Spell Confusion
Br Unltrd Prru)
Comes now "daylight confusion time."
At least that's what the week-end will bring for many Oregon
ians who may want to pass the time of day with friends in
neighboring cities.
Starting at midnight, Saturday, and continuing on to Sep
British Vessel
Fast on Rocks
Point Arena, Calif., Sppt. 10
(P) A veteran British skipper
whose ehip grounded in a dense
fog here yesterday, still clung to
hopes it might be refloated to
day.
Other marine experts who
studied the ship Pacific Enter
prise, a 6,736 gross ton motor-
ship, pinioned on a submerged
rock 100 yards off shore
doubted that it ever would come
free again.
Four rescue vessels were
standing by this morning.
From 20 to 28 feet of water
was reported in the ship's for
ward holds. The hull showed
huge rips where the vessel
pivoted on the deadly pinacle.
Marine experts doubted the
motorship ever would be re
floated, but the veteran skip
per, Capt. M. E. Cogle of Har
wich, England, still clung to
hope that his ship might go free
at high tide later today.
The Pacific Enterprise struck
in a fog so dense -that only after
the crash and passengers were
being taken ashore was the
coast line visible.
The five passengers, who
were taken to San Francisco
last night, said they had pre
sumed the ship was 20 miles off
shore. Atomic Bomb
Now Obsolete
St. Cergue, Switzerland. Sept.
10 (IP) The atom bomb has been
rendered obsolete by new bac
teriological weapons capable of
wiping out mankind, says Dr.
Brock Chisholm, director gen
eral of the world health organ-
zation.
Dr. Chisholm declared sci
entists have found one substance
so deadly that seven ounces,
properly distributed, could kill
all the people in the world with
in six hours. He did not rTie
the substance.
Dr. Chisholm made the utate
ment In an address yesterdav
before the world union of peace
organizations, a union of yestern
European peace organizations of
which the peace council of Great
Britain is the parent body.
The health chief appealed for
a "new maturity" to prevent fu
ture wars, adding:
"The time has now come
when man'i ability to kill man
has become so terrific that he
threatens his own survival."
Rain Stops Forest Fires
Portland, Sept. 10 (IP) The
rash of lightning-set fires that
broke out In Oregon forests
Thursday night was being cured
today by rain. A total of 1.34
inches of rain fell in the Rose
burg area during 24 hours, and
conveniently quenched a fire in
the Umpqua forest.
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tember 25, cities mainly in
northwestern Oregon will ad-
just their clocks back one hour
to standard time.
Salem and Can'iy make the
change tomorrow while Me
Minnville, Dayton, Carlton, Mo
lalla and Aurora plan the switch
at 2 a.m. Monday.
Portland has decided to' re
main on fast time until Septem
ber 25, maiii? because eastern
points make the switch at the
same time. Other cities taking
the step with Portland will be
Oregon City, Astoria, Newberg,
Willamina and Sheridan.
Salem will go back to stan
dard time at 1:59 a.m. Sunday,
and at the same time nearly all
Willamette valley towns will do
likewise.
Word from Silverton, Wood
burn, Stayton, Mt. Angel, Hub
bard, Dallas, Independence,
Monmouth and other points in
the immediate area is that day
light saving time will come to
an end two hours after mid
night. Transportation lines that have
been operating on daylight time
will go back to standard, with
the exception that the Hamman
lines will keep its commuter
schedule for Detroit dam work
ers on daylight time until Sep
tember 25 when Consolidated
Builders, the dam contractors,
make their shift. Greyhound,
Trailways. City Transit Lines,
Oregon Motor Stages and West
Salem Bus company will change
back. The Southern Pacific
company and United Air Lines
never changed their schedules
to daylight time.
Coast Trail Closed
Newport, Ore., Sept. 10 u.R)
State park officials today warn
ed that Cliffside trails descend
ing to the Devils Punchbowl and
Otter Rock on the Oregon coast
were closed.
The bluff was termed unsafe
and in danger of caving in.
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democratic party booth at ititi fair grounds.
All Traffic on
Missouri Pacific
Halted by Strike
St. Louis, Sept. 10 (P) Serv-
ice on the Cotton Belt railroad's!
main line to the southwest was
halted for several hours today
by trainmen on strike against
the Missouri Pacific railroad.
Union officials announced aft
er a conference that interruption
of Cotton Belt traffic resulted
from a misunderstanding on the
part of the strikers. They in
structed strike directors to per
mit the Cotton Belt to resume
full service.
Meanwhile traffic on the far-
flung Missouri Pacific system
came to a standstill. "We're not
even trying to run a handcar,'
a spokesman for the road said
Five thousand trainmen were on
strike and 22,500 other employes
were laid off.
Uses MOPAC Tracks
Several Cotton Belt trains
were stopped by a picket line of
Missouri Pacific strikers near
Dupo, 111., just southeast of St.
Louis, early today.
The Cotton Belt uses Missouri
Pacific tracks between Dupo and
Illmo.
R. E. Davidson, speaking for
the four brotherhoods on strike,
said:
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 4)
Showdown in
Hawaiian Strike
New York, Sept. 10 (IP) Peace
talks aimed at settling the Ha
waiian dock strike moved Into
the showdown stage today.
U. S. Mediation Chief Cyrus
S. Ching met separately with
Harry Bridges, president of the
CIO Longshoremen and Ware
housemen's union and represen
tatives of the Hawaiian employ
ers council preparatory to a
joint session later in the day.
Bridges, breaking his silence
for the first time since the talks
began last Wednesday, said he
saw no chance for a settlement
unless the employers changed
their position.
"Their attitude on wages alone
precludes any possibility of a
settlement. Bridges declared.
"They insist that any wage In
crease must be less than 14 cents
an hour, and 14 cents won't set
tle it."
Bridges renewed his offer to
end the 133-day old walkout at
once if the employers would ac
cept arbitration.
The employers gave no indica
tion of budging from their stand
that wages and other cost items
must be determined by direct
bargaining, rather than by arbi
tration. Schumacher Heads Realtors
Portland, Sept. 10 (IP) Ray J.
Schumacher, Medford, is the new
president of the Oregon Associa
tion of Real Estate Boards. The
realtors closed their 15th annual
convention yesterday with elec
tion of officers. Among those
named directors was Harold Mc
Millan, Salem.
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Compliment of
President Asks
Extension of
Strike Truce
Washington, Sept. 10 W.
President Truman today urged
the CIO United Steelworkers'
union and the steel industry to
extend for at least 11 day, 10;""'"""'"-..!."."
September 25 their steel strike!, r - - '"v"
(ruce I today recommended against a
Mt. Truman sent telegrams fourth-round age rate !,,.
both sides in the dispute after i b.u """""'d the adoption of so-
receiving a report from his spe-
clal fact-finding board.
The board's recommendations
for heading off a nationwide
strike set for next Wednesday
will be made public later today.
The president said postpone
ment of the scheduled strike is
necessary In the public interest.
"I urge all parties in the
steel industry labor disputes to
cooperate with this request,"
he said in his telegram.
Army Clears
Two Generals
Washington, Sept. 10 (IP) The
army said today that one of two
generals who figured in the sen
ate's "five percenter" investlga
tion will be restored to active
duty and the other will be re
tired. Secretary of the Army Gray
announced these actions:
The application of Maj. Gen.
Alden H. Waitt, suspended chief
of the army's chemical corps, for
retirement will be approved.
Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman
will be restored to his post as
quartermaster general cf the
army effective today.
Gray suspended the two offi
cers on July 16 pending outcome
of a senate subcommittee investi
gation of the charges of In
fluence in government buying.
Hungarian Army
Chief Arrested
Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 10
(UP) The highest ranking offi
cer of the Hungarian army and
two members of parliament
have been arrested as spies for
a foreign power and will be tried
Sept. 16 with Foreign Minister
Laszlo Rajk, it was announced
today.
Arrested were Lt. Gen. George
Palffy, chief inspector of the
Hungarian army and former
head of the political division of
the ministry of defense, and
Parliamentarians Pal Justus and
Zoltan Horvath.
All three were elected to par
liament May 15 and had been
considered staunch communists.
First hint of the new arrests
n the Hungarian communist
hierarchy was a communique
by the workers (communist)
party announcing that the three
men had been expelled from the
party on grounds they were spies
"for a foreign imperialist pow
er." The arrest of Rajk, former No.
2 man in the Hungarian commu-
June 16. A communique at that
time said 19 "accomplices" alsoi
had been arrested but onlv two . '"e ion was in nrst ma
were identified. One was justusiJor 'n in t"P-lcvel talks
and the other was Drtibor Scon
yl, former communist leader.
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Truman Receives
Report on Steel
By Fact Finders
Washington. Sept. 10 nj.R)
"""""" "na P"on plans,
Tn recommendations were
mane in an 85-page printed re
port submitted to Mr. Truman
by a three-man panel appointed
last July to head off a nation
wide steel strike. More than 1,
000,000 members of the United
Steelworkers (CIO) have post
poned their strike until next
Wednesday.
Copies Handed Out
Copies of the report were
handed to representatives of the
union, U.S. Steel corporation and
other steel companies at the
same time it was distributed to
reporters at the White House.
The report was put out while
the board still was in confer
ence with Mr. Truman.
There was no immediate in
dication whether Mr. Truman
will ask the union to extend Its
strike truce beyond next Wed
nesday. He said he is consider
ing such a request to give the
parties a chance to study the re
port and work out a negotiated
settlement without a strike.
The White House issued a
summary of the report.
Summary of Report
"The report makes certain
findings and conclusions about
the respective arguments of the
parties and makes recommen
dations as to a fair and equit
able basis for the settlement of
the current dispute between the
United Steelworkers of Ameri
ca and some 53 basic steel com
panies," the White House state
ment said.
It listed the union demands
as 12 k cents per hour for a gen
eral wage increase, social Insur
ance paying weekly benefits for
sickness and accident, and pens
ions of $125 per month at age
85.
Board Findings Listed
The board findings were list
ed as follows:
A. The board recommends
that the union withdraw the
demand for a wage increase.
B. The board recommends
that a system of social insurance
and pensions be established in
the steel industry.
The board found that the in
dustry "could well afford to
pay" the cost of these programs
and estimated the operating cost
of the companies would increase
at most by only 2 "4 per cent.
Sterling Area
To Receive Help
Washington, Sept. 10 U.ra .
Three-power conferees today ap
proved a broad program of Unit
ed States-Canadian investment
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among ine unuea aiates, Canada
and Britain in an effort to bail
Britain out of her economic trou
bles. The plan was recommended
by a three-power working group
and promptly approved by for
eign ministers and finance min
isters of the three governments
and by ECA Administrator Paul
G. Hoffman.
It followed a session of two
hours and fifteen minutes. Sec
retary of Treasury John W. Sny
der, conference chairman, said
the meetings still were making
progress and probably will end
Monday. He said the talks were
frank and sympathetic with brit
ain's plight.
Women lo Protect
Negro Maids at Polls
Atlanta, Septv10 (IP) Church
women from 12 southern states
were pledged today to go to reg
istration and voting places with
the conks and maids to safe
guard the Negro's franchise.
The decision was taken at a
two-day inter-racial meeting
sponsored by the Southern Re
gional counril and attended by
ISO women of all church denominations.