Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, December 15, 1949, Page 2, Image 2

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    2 Capita! Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 15, 1949
21 Enlisted in
Army, Airforce
Salem's army and air force
recruiting station during the
month of November enlisted 21
men and one woman in either
the army or the air force.
Of the group joining the army
eight were veterans. Four of
the 21, one the woman enlistee,
Bernice M. Kleihege of 3141)
Center street, signed for duty
with the air force.
Others enlisting in the air
force were Walter D. DeHaan of
Woodburn, Clifford R Pulse of
Independence and David L
Kropp of Salem.
Veterans re-enlisting and tho
branches that they chose for
service were: Sgt. Byron L
may, Salem, Signal corps; Sgt
fWendell R. Chastain, Lebanon;
Cpl. William Clack, Woodburn
tfield artillery; Sgt. Andrew C.
Coleman, Salem, coast artillery
Get. Arthur J. Jennings, Tur
ner, ordnance; Cpl. Harry W.
powers, Salem, signal corps; Pfc.
Beryl W. Scifrled, Silverton, en
gineers; and Pfc. George C. Vo
ban.
Other army enlistees were
Max E. Corbett, Woodburn, ar
mored cavalry; Charles A
Krossman, Scio; James' R. Bar
nett, Scotts Mills; Thomas Tooth-
lacker, Dallas, infantry; Gerald
IP. Elgin, Salem, corps of engi
neers; James F. Shattuck, Salem
Elden D. Lehnherr, Brooks, corps
lot engineers; Lawrence O. Case,
(Salem, armored cavalry; Jack
ICartwright, Salem, field artil
pery; and Allen D. Pfcifer, Sa
pern.
RrifiaiK Pnwpr
iSfrike Resumed
London, Dee. 15 VP) A
three-day wildcat strike In state-
fewned power plants flared back
lo life today hours after It ap
peared settled.
The 2,700 strikers voted this
morning to resume work today,
with nothing gained from their
wage protest.
But workers at three of the
four struck plants failed to go
sack as scheduled.
The British electricity author-
fty had posted notices telling
he men they were returning
'unconditionally." Strikers said
the word was too broad and they
(would go back only "under
terms existing before the walk
lUt." Strike leaders said the situa
tion now was a "lockout" by
fen organ of the labor govern
ment rather than an unauthor
ized walkout.
Soldiers and sailors remained
bn their jobs in the three
plants. They were called out by
the labor government to keep
the plants in operation.
The strike had caused jam-
kips on London subways and left
thousands of households with
tittle current for normal cook'
ng and heating. i
Husband Says
(Wife Kidnaped
Albany, Ore., Dec. 15 (IP) A
husband's charge that his wife
fwaa kidnapped held Sam Price,
about 35, in jnil here today.
The husband, Robert L. Mar-
Eln of Cheshire, told police he
aw Price enter his parked car
where Mrs. Martin was sitting,
struggle with her, then speed
laway, at about 4 p.m. yesterday.
Four hours after Martin sign-
led the complaint, police found
flprlce and Mrs. Martin, 21, seat
led in the car parked outside an
Meast Albany grocery store. State
rouce ogi. &rncsi uarios saia
the woman apparently was not
iSharmed. She was held overnight
las a material witness awaiting
(Price's arraignment in justice
court today.
Martin, who told police he
was just entering a liquor store
when he turned and saw the
struggle, had not been located
by police this morning to ad-
k vise mm nis wife was found.
; Price was a roomer In the
MMartin household.
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ocouis oi America, win dc nein
at the Veterans of Foreign Wars
building at 8:30 Thursday night.
E. Dayl Burres, chairman, will
preside.
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High I.Q Breezing through
four years of college in 30
hours by passing 14 place
ment tests at the University
of Chicago, 17-year-old Jo
seph E. Nelson proved on the
basis of the tests that he al
ready has the equivalent of a
college education. Nelson,
former student at Institute Gi
ovanni in Rome, Italy, will
skip college and go into grad
uate work in mathematics.
(Acme Telephoto)
Captain Lives
Life of Thrills
Seven years of flying has
brought Capt. Ralph Cooley ma
ny adventures and also member
ship in the Explorers' club of
New York. He and Mrs. Cooley
are visiting at the home of Jo
seph E. DcWitt, realtor, and a
long-time friend.
Capt. Cooley joined the Cana
dian air force in 1942 and flew
bombers to England during the
war. Two years later he was
sent to South America by the
American government to man
age governmental rubber devel
opments in (Brazil.
While on the southern conti
nent he flew in nearly every
country with his cargoes includ
ing live electric eels from Co
lombia to Miami, Fla. for re
search. He was forced down in
Peru and landed on a crocodile
infested lake in Bolivia. In sear
ching for new rubber fields his
plane was often the first landed
in the area.
Capt. Cooley, who makes his
home in Ponca City, Okla. is on
a trip through the northwest. He
has tentative plans to pilot an
expedition Into the head-hunter
territory of South America.
Kodiak Enters
Story of Russia
Washington, Dec. 15 VP)
Kodiak entered the controversy
over wartime airplane cargoes
to Russia via Alaska last night,
Radio Commentator Fulton
Lewis, Jr., who started the cur
rent furore with a broadcast
by an officer who was linked
with the Russian lend-lease plane
route at Great Falls, Mont., had
a former navy chief petty of
ficer on his program last night,
He told of lend-lease traffic via
Kodiak during the war.
(There never have been any
publicized previous reports of
any lend-lease plane traffic to
Russia via Kodiak. All reported
traffic was via the Fairbanks
Nome route).
The ex-petty officer reported
that he identified "a blueprint
of the uranium atomic struc
ture" hidden in a bag of para
chutes on an American lend
lease plane bound for Russia.
Royall Edward Norton, 29,
now a GI student at Clemson
college in South Carolina, made
the statement in a recorded
broadcast on a program with
Lewis.
Norton said he was stationed
at Kodiak, Alaska, and was in
charge of inspecting and reload
ing U. S. lend-lease planes.
Waller Wlnslow. Presentation
of training certificates will be
handled by Arthur Lamka and E.
A. Bcrglund will present the re
port of the nominating commit
tee. Reports of operating commit
tee chairmen are due from R. L.
Elfstrom, finance; George Stro.
zut, advancement; Clarke Leth
in, camping and activities;
Claude Graham, organization
and extension; Arthur Lamka,
leadership training; Dwyn Mil
ler, district commissioner.
Troop 12, sponsored by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
give the flag presentation and
closing ceremonies.
V-EDI KIT
without trmuiw
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Grains Rescued
Down Trend
Chicago, Dec. 15 VP) Grains
were rescued from a downward
path today when news of poten
tial export business developed.
Prices recovered in most cases,
but still hung a little under the
previous close.
The report news concerned
monetary grants by the econom
ic cooperation administration to
western Germany and requests
for flour offers by the produc
tion and marketing administra
tion, the government agency
which buys flour for export.
Wheat closed A lower to
higher, December $2.20-2.19,
corn was -l V4 lower, Decem
ber $1.30-$1.30y4, oats were
lower to 'A higher, December
773,4-, rye was unchanged to
A higher, December $1.4214,
soybeans were Yt-lVt higher,
December $2.3214-, and lara
s 5 to 20 cents a hundred
pounds higher, December $10.50.
Heavy Mailing
For Christmas
Mailing of Christmas packages
and greetings is proceeding in an
orderly manner and the crew at
the Salem post office has been
able to handle the rush without
difficulty, reports Postmaster Al
bert S. Gragg.
It is expected the peak of the
outgoing matter will be reached
this weekend and that of the in
coming parcels by Thursday or
Friday of next week.
Cancellations of approximate
ly 90,000 Wednesday were ap
proximately 10,000 short of a
similar date a year ago. Use of
the several contract offices op-
crating in West Salem, Keizer,
Four Corners, Hollywood and on
South Commercial has cut down
the congestion at the main of
fice to a considerable extent,
states Gragg.
These contract offices .handle
parcel post packages as well as
letters.
Use of the two cent stamp on
unsealed Christmas greetings has
been accepted on the part of the
general public and few of the 1 14
cent variety have shown up so
far.
Hocking Tells
About Europe
Whether we like it or
not,
the fortunes of this country are
inexplicably tied up with those
of England, France and other
nations of the world. This opin
ion of Dr. George Hocking of
Willamette university, was ex
pressed during an address be
fore the Salem Lions club
Thursday noon.
Dr. Hocking, with experience
of many years in Europe and
England before the war, spent
much of last summer in France
and London. He left France
with the feeling that the people
there have grown fatalistic and
are living for today only. "When
a Frenchman spends his money
as fast as he earns it, there has
been a radical change in his
thinking," said Dr. Hocking.
Dr. Hocking said he found
conditions in London fairly nor
mal insofar as a visitor is con
cerned. However, he realizes
that the natives are "extremely
tired. They have had to take so
much since the start of the sec
ond world war, they have grown
accustomed to hardships."
5 Inches Snow Falls
In Union County
La Grande, Dec. 15 VP)
Union county was still digging
out today from under five n-
cnes of snow, to tne annoyance
of everybody but the small fry
They were delighted. A hill
has been roped off for sledding
In the wake of the season's
heaviest snowfall.
Four people In Elgin and La
Grande were hurt In tumbles on
icy pavements. Harold Hug, 56,
caretaker for the Elgin public
schools, was brought here for
surgery after suffering internal
injuries while shoveling snow.
Our Holiday Season
ICE CREAM SPECIALS
CHRISTMAS SNOWBALLS
77ie Most Attractive Dessert
You Ever Saw
BELL CENTER QUARTS
DECORATED SLICES
PISTACHIO IN BULK
Place Your Order Early
THE PIKE
Phone 36828
138 So. Llbarty
Downtown
R pihi'1 tkL flip '?
Home for Christmas Home from the hospital after a rare
eye operation, Mary Hope Hodgdon (right), 12, starts to open
Christmas packages for her mother, Mrs. Lee Hodgdon, at
their home in Portland, Ore. Mary Hope's parents are both
blind and she has been their eyes since she first learned to
read. The operation Mary Hope underwent to save her one
good eye has been termed successful by doctors. Mary Hope
received 50 packages and nearly 2000 letters from well-wishers
all over the country. (Acme Telephoto)
Salem's Bank
Volume Grows
The volume of bank checks
continued to register gains at
Salem in November, the Federal
Reserve bank reported Wednes
day. The Oregon capital city was
one of II listed by the bank in
the Twelfth Federal Reserve dis
trict as reporting gains in bank
debits last month when compar
ed with the like month of 1948.
Salem's bank debit total for
the month was $63,059,000 as
compared with $58,261,000 in
November last year, a gain of
eight percent. For the first 11
months of the year Salem's deb
its totaled $681,153,000 as
against $636,708,000, an increase
of seven percent.
Portland bank debits dropped
seven percent for both the month
and the 11-month periods. Eu
gene debits were off eight per
cent for November and II per
cent for the 11 months.
Portland's debits totaled $558,-
016,000 in November as against
$598,279,000 in November of
last year and $5,815,026,000 for
the 11 months compared with
$6,263,997,000 in the like period
last year.
Eugene had debits of $50,627,-
000 in November as against $55,-
315,000 and $532,978,000 in the
11 months compared with $595,-
861,000.
Ask Truman to
Go After Lewis
Washington, Dec. 15 (P)
Southern soft coal operators to
day asked President Truman
either to use the Taft-Hartley
act to get full coal production
or prosecute John L. Lewis'
miners on anti-trust charges.
In a seven-page letter to the
president, Joseph E. Moody of
Southern Coal Producers asso
ciation suggested that if present
laws do not cover the three-day
week decreed by Lewis, then
Mr. Truman should ask con
gress for new legislation.
"There is a strike in progress
today in the coal industry,"
Moody said. He added that the
Taft Hartley law did not contem
plate that the government should
remain inactive until the Indus-
$1.
FAMILY DINNER
at
iltattuc'j
Chateau
2234 Fairgrounds Rd.
Hollywood District
d
try was "prostrate and the na
tional economy completely dis
rupted." Moody said present mining sit
uation "is described by the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America as
a three-day work week, but the
men, under orders from their
president, are working three
days and are on strike for the
remainder of the work week."
"In other words the miners
are refusing to work while the
mines are open and the operat
ors are offering work," Moody
said.
Bids Asked for
20 Buildings
The Portland district, corps
of engineers, has invited bids
on 20 buildings within the Dor-
ena dam reservoir area, 27 miles
south of Eugene and five miles
east of Cottage Grove.
Colonel Donald S. Burns,
Portland district engineer, said
the bids would be opened at
1 p.m., January 3, on the struc
tures which include a recrea
tion building, a store building,
three dormitories, a mess hall, a
gasoline service station with
pump and tanks, a warehouse,
and other miscellaneous build
ings.
Persons interested in inspect
ing the property before bidding
should contact the resident en
gineer at the administration
building at Dorena dam, tele
phone: Cottage Grove 272. It
may be inspected from 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Fri
day, inclusive.
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theatre
WEDNESDAY
THROUGH SATURDAY
I mm l
OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO OUR CUSTOMERS
(At least we hope it will be of interest to you)
Our Store Will Remain Open
Friday Until 9 P. M.
Do your shopping Friday night
and deliveries will be made Saturday
. . . and as a Special Feature we're sure you'll enjoy,
we are going to serve
HOT DOWNY FLAKE DONUTS AND A CUP
OF HOT DELICIOUS EMPRESS COFFEE
j. l iusnccc & sons
197 North Commercial For Better Living
Parents Will
Be Entertained
Parents of Bush grade school
pupils will be entertained next
Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 21
at 1 o clock in the auditorium
by the first and second grades
when they present their Christ
mas interpretations, entitled
"What Christmas Means."
Each grade chose one or two
symbols of the yuletide and
around their choice built
original act. It has been
planned that each child will
have a part in his room's fea
ture.
The program will include an
introduction by all rooms, Christ
mas greens, Christmas bells and
candles, Christmas toys. Christ
mas tree, Christmas shopping
and Christmas star, Christmas
carolers and the nativity.
Accompanists will be Mrs.
D. C. Moore and Mrs. William
Bush.
Naval Air Facility
Checked for Heating
Salem's Naval Air Facility
was checked this week for in
stallation of its heating system
by the navy's public works de
partment and the firm awarded
the contract for the installation
of the system.
Representing the contractlne
firm of George I. Isackson com
pany of Portland was Mr. Isack
son, himself. Hera for the navv
was Comdr. P. W. Holstein,
a
'I
lilllil
IN THI DUST
untoi DAVID BRIAN
CLAUDE JARMAN, Jr.
JUANO HERNANDEZ
And
TIM HOLT in
Mysterious Desperado
IQUVlJCZD
SHOWING Open 6:45
4
M-&-M'i virile tomentic dromal
SECOND FEATURE
"SAVAGE SPLENDOR"
African Thrills in Technicolor
a TIM HOLT in f
Myaterioui Desperado If I
Santa Jingles
Silver Sock
Jineling his Silver Sock . . .
weighty with TEN SHINY SIL
VER DOLL A HS . . . oania, as
nromised last night on his SIL
VER SOCK Page in the Capital
Journal . . . went a-calling in
Salem . . .
First, he sallied to the west
, . . then to the south . . . then
east . . . finally, heading north
ward. (Probably wanted to save
time in getting home again.)
He stopped at 2199-Broadway
street in Salem ... at the De Hut
residence. Smiling young faces
beamed through the window,
touched already with the holiday
tinge of a red taper-light in a
Christmas wreath . . . Santa
rapped on the door. Little Ar-
lene De Hut greeted him . . . and
in short order, thereafter, Larry
and LeRoy ... all school-age
youngsters. And, though one of
CECR. Holstein is resident offi
cer in charge of construction for
13th Naval district public works,
Seattle.
After conferring here with
the officer in charge of facility
Lt. Comdr. Wallace Hug, the
two returned to Portland where
they were to re-check the orig
inal plans for the heating sys
tem.
Ends Tonight!
"MANHANDLED"
"SPECIAL AGENT-
NEW TOMORROW!
BING and WALT
team up, and
sine sings!
JOHN WAYNI
MoteRwNtMtie
tkatev&c a
THE FIGHTING
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A REPUBLIC PICTURE
3 2 n d T o p I T r e o t I
Only the Best
is labelled
BELLOWS
Emms l .
Estab,
Partners Choice
The century-old name on orer 200 wine and spirit offerings,
is your auoranee of fine quality at a fair price.
BELLOWS COMPANY New York Colorado Springs ChUogo
.Mows Farters Chetoe, WMsksjr-A Ku, . Proof 60 Grata Niotral Spkitt
ter Vyl'2rt 0f thou8ht the Sll
Helper might be lu5t 8
lievpH you could tel1 "e be
after . t6""" when Santa.
Mr- Cleona De Hut
of h. n f" shoPPing in one
p. auver sock
"ge . . . gave her tpm cti ,n-n
DOLLARS.
She said si-o'j .
Knv' ..j ,J X JU!" visiica
Shnn Vhe Salem Rord
fr rthSiS Tte 5he Winc
ed Santa she had. When asked
whether the SILVER DOLLARS
would come in handy, Mrs. De
Hut said; "Oh, my yes . . . and
I m spending them in downtown
salem. Chuckline n hi c,-
nodded: """"
'That, Mrs. De Wni i. .
mighty good idea for everyone
to remember!"
8 Booie Inspectors Named
Portland, Dec. 15 VP) Th
state liquor control commission
added eight more inspectors.
They were named yesterday aft
er examinations taken by 50 ap
plicants for the jobs.
Mat. Daily From 1 p.m.
Now! TROUBLE
with the Signal Set!
Action Co-Hit!
BILL BOYD
"BORROWED TROUBLE"
OPENS 6:45 P.M.
NOW! DRAMA! COMEDY!
' Linda Darnell Rex Harrtson '
NOW! OPENS 6:45 P.M.
CLIFTON WEBB
"SITTING PRETTY"
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"ESCAPE"
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