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Newspaper Page TextU. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon mm The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Established tars, Southern Area Of California . Lashed by Gale Trees Uprooted, Streets And Stores Awash, Many Lowland Homes Periled i LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13. .T Winds of gale velocity raked Southern California today, accom panied by heavy rainfall which sent fioodwaters in some districts lapping perilously close to low. land homes. Sixty-two children were evacu ated from a trailer camp in North Long Beach by the Ked Cross. Wind velocity at San Pedro, on Los Angeles harbor, climbed to 52 miles an hour. Hundreds of trees were uproot ed, streets and in some instances stores flooded, traffic slowed or stalled in a score of cities. Power and communications were dis rupted in some instances. The Weather Bureau said an intense storm center, located 250 miles west of San Diego and moving slowly on the Southern California coast, would reach maximum intensity during the day, tapering off tomorrow. With flood channels already bulging and no letup in the downpour anticipated, there were prospects of wholesale evacua tions in some low-lying areas. Rain totals ran as high as 1.27 inches for a six-hour period. Many Hurt In Accidents Only one death was attributed directly to the storm, but many were injured in traffic accidents on slippery streets. Police and sheriff's deputies closed several bridges and highways as turbu lent waters pounded approaches and rolled across them. . Heavy mows marooned scores on moun tain roads. . The storm abated brieflv dur ing the night, but resumed with force about dawn. The Weather (Continued on Page 3) Two More Homes Blasted In Hollywood Strike HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 13. (.TV Homes of two more non-striking movie workers were blasted by home-made grenades today, in the second successive night of new violence in the two-month AFL Jurisdictional strike. No one was injured in the bombings, which brought the total for two nights to five, but front porches of two residences were shattered, windows blown in and plaster loosened. The new outbreaks came as the International Alliance of Thea trical Stage Employes, biggest of the warring movie labor com bines, pulled out of peace con ferences because of the earlier attacks against its members. International President Rich ard F. Walsh said the IATSE would participate no further un til acts of violence cease. 100 Known Dead, Towns Razed in Peruvian Quake LIMA, Peru, Nov. 13. (!P) Peru counted at least 100 known dead today in interior towns wrecked by earth shocks which began last Sunday and feared a higher toll might become known with resoration of smashed com munications facilities. Possibility of War Would Be Increased If United Nations Isolated Spain, Franco Says MADRID, Nov. 13. (.P Generalissimo F rancisco Franco main tained today that United Nations Isolation of Spain would greatly increase the possibility of war. "Every action of violence and Injustice always tends rather to wards war than towards peace," Spain's chief of state said last night in answer to questions handed him by the Associated Press. He said a diplomatic break would bring about "disunion among nations and dissension in the Interior of many" and cost the U. N. prestige and "the un dermining and disunion of the latter would greatly increase the possibility of war." IThe U. N. general assembly, now meeting in New York, has on Its agenda the question of what to do about the Spanish povernment. Poland has demand ed the United Nations all break diplomatic relations with Franco. Secretarv -General Lie has urged action by which "democratic government may be restored in Spain, i" Franco said the U. N. charter prohibited intervention In mat ters essentially w ithin the domes tic iurisdlctlon of any state. "If those very nations which re members are not obliped to submit to agreements concern ing essentiallv domestic matters." he said, "to a much lesser degree Portland's Former Folice Chief Dies 1 HARRY M. NILES PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13. l.ft Former Police Chief Harry Morton Niles. 62, died at his home here last night after a prolonged illness. He had retired last March 25 after 12 years as head of the de partment he started in as a patrolman in 1910. He was a former president of the Pacific Coast International Association of Law Enforcement Officials and once headed the Northwest anti-crime conference. Time Lapse in Suicide Bans Donation of Eyes SEATTLE, Nov. 13 P The request of Bradlev R. Hendrey that his eyes be given the Cornea Institute for the Blind cannot be fulfilled because of the length of time between his death in a sui cide Dlunge Sunday and discovery of his will. Coroner John P. Brill, Jr., said. Hendrey, 30, draftsman and former University of Washing ton "architectural student, fell from a 15th story business build ing window, pulling free from a fellow-employee who grabbed a ley. He had pasted scotch tape over his eyes and had pencilled a lengthy "last will and testa ment." His mother, a brother and sister here survive. Body of Missing Hunter Found in Lane County EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 13. i.W The body of Roy C. Dailey. 68, missing since October 22 on a hunting trip near Waldport, has been found below Yachats in Lane County, according to Frank Parker, Lincoln County coroner. Exposure was given as cause of death. A truck in which Daily left Waldport was found several davs after his disappearance in trie Gynn area, south of Waldport. Commercial Fishing Ban Awaits Proclamation PORTLAND, Nov. 13 (.Pi Restrictions on commercial fish ing at the Nov. 5 election will be come effective the day (Jovernor Snell delivers the proclamation following canvass of the vote, the State Fish Commission reported today. The canvass is to be made with in 30 days of the eleeiion. would there be submission on the part of one w hich is not under its lurifdiction and has not even re qrerted to be admitted." Spain Not Peace Threat Franco added that the U. N. security council had been shown "that Spain had not caused a breach of the peace, and could In no rase through her population, industrial nrenaration or military power constitute an effective threat to the peace with respect to the oower and means of the United Nations." He said Spain would "not ac cept any kind of reprehension" from the U. N. and would nrt seek to loin the U. N. until that agency had attained what he termed "a degree of calmness suf ficient to make possible its work in the cause of pea" and until the passions provoked by the war have become extinct." ROSEBURS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1946. Grange Head Asks Ouster of Acreage Limit PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 13. (JP Continued high farm produc tion and elimination of acreage control regulations were advo cated by Albert S. Goss, master of the National Grange, as the or ganization opened its 80th annual convention here today. In an address for delivery to delegates from 36 states, Goss warned that under the high pro duction program surpluses were inevitable but asserted the prob lem was not insurmountable. The world needs the food this country "produces and when sur pluses occur, the machinery for their disposition must exist at the internal level, he said. Goss struck at acreage control as a "regimented economy of scarcity hard to defend." He said further that he doubted the legal authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to "inject the acre age allotment program as a req uisite for receiving price sup ports." Three Courses Open Only three courses are open, he said: Reduced production through acreage controls; a program of Continued on Page Six) Smuts Threatens Action On Mandate LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Nov. 13. P) Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, premier of South Africa, told the United Na tions flatly today that he was prepared to take over mandated Southwest Africa by unilateral ac tion if the general assembly re fused to approve his proposal for its annexation. Challenging Russia' assertion that the V. N. charter compels the placing of all former League of Nations mandates under the proposed, trusteeship system, the 76-year-old South African leader, declared: "If the assembly does not view favorably the southwest African request for incorporation, then South Africa has no other alter native but to continue to adminis ter the territory as an integral part of the Union of South Africa." He spoke as the trusteeship battle flared again, with a Brit ish declaration disputing Russia's contention that Palestine and all other league mandates must be placed under U. N. trusteeship. 103,400 Civilians Lose Naval and OPA Jobs WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. UP) Budget Director James E. Webb today ordered the Army and Navy to dismiss by January 1 an additional 93,400 civilian employes in this country and ita territories and possessions. The budget bureau indicated It would have similar word on re ductions of personnel for gov ernment agencies in the non military field later this month. Price Administrator Porter told employes of the agency that 10, 000 dismissal notices issued yes terday are the last ones before November 30 despite plans to "proceed at once with an orderly demobilization of a major part of our activities." OPA officials estimated that the 10.000 cut brought OPA's force down to about 24,000. 'Free Holiday Unknown; Coin Pours Into Meters WICHITA, Kas., Nov. 13. (.P) - Parking in Wichita's business district was "on the house" Ar mistice Day. Yet the cily collected $750 from parking meters, filled by motorists who didn't know about the free parking on legal holidays. Traffic patrolmen didn't get the word either until headquarters-ordered them tU quit is suing pink tickets to parking "violators." Commits Suicide in Divorced Wife's Home PORTLAND. Nov. 13. UP) Coroner's office todav reported John Michael Gepfrirh, Jr., 23, found dead in the kitchen of his divorced wife's home, committed suicide by gas asphlxiation. The coroner's otflce reported the man occasionall" visited his children and presumably had en tered the house for such a visit when he discovered the house hold goods packed for moving. Mishap Victim Improves Charles Bowman. Roseburg who suffered critical pelvic and Internal Injuries Saturday when he fell beneath a tractor, which he was unloading from a truck, is reported to be Improving at Mercy Hospital, U. S. Naval Tests Set in Antarctica, Not North Pole Area, to Placate Russians WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. UP) The United States, aware of Russia's uneasiness over military maneuvers In the Arctic, has picked the other end of the earth for a frigid zcwe test of naval ships and weapons. A Navy announcement giving details of the forthcoming expedi tion to the Antarctic defined it as primarily of a military nature," preparatory for a possible "day in the future when the Navy may be called upon to operate in cold weather." Father Kills Child During Tight' Dream ARKADELPHIA, Ark.. Nov. 13. tJP) Victim of a nightmare in which her father dreamed he was having a fight, three-year old Linda Joyce Pollard, died un der the hail o' his blows early Tuesday, Sheriff W. T. Matlock reported. The father. Willard Pollard. 25, told the sheriff and a coroner's jury that in the dream he found himself trying to ward off at tackers, but that he remembered nothing else. When he awoke, he said, he was standing over the battered body of his dauehter. Mrs. Pollard, who slept in the same room, did not awaken dur ing the commotion. The coroner's Jury took no ac tion but at the suggestion of a physician consented to have Pol lard placed under observation at a state or private hospital. Decontrol Seen as Help In Balancing Budget WASHINGTON. Nov. 13. UP) While the collapse of OPA's price barriers will boost living costs a few percentage points, government economists insisted today it also will: 1. Delay any business recession, and 2. Help President Truman bal ance the federal budget. Despite widespread reports -of surging prices, these economists predicted the general cost of liv ing will not climb more than 5 per cent, and probably not that much, before stabilizing. That compares with a 12.8 per cent rise between VJday and mid-September before OPA's de control movement went into high gear and a 44.7 per cent rise since this country went to war. Sale of Smith Woods Co. Dismisses Labor Suit PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13 UPi U. S. District Judge McCol loch has dismissed a Department of Labor suit against the now non-existino Smith Wood-Products Co., Coqullle, for travel time pay for loggers. The Judge, who originally de nied an injunction against the firm asked by the wage-hour di vision, had been given the case aeain by the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for determination of facts and conclusions of law. Me Colloch made the dismissal be cause the defendant has since sold to the Sutherlln Timber Products Corp. Father Charged With Branding Erring Son ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Nov. 13. (IP) A father accused of branding his 15-year-old son with a hot hammer and forcing him to remain kneeling In his bedroom all night was held for trial today without bond. Robert Reidy, assistant district attorney, identified the father as Candelario Perez. He is charged with mayhem. Reidy said the punishment was Inflicted after the boy, Casey Perez, sold a dozen eggs he bought at a grocery and put the money in a pinball machine. Chinese Priests Burn 2 Sect Violators to Death PEIPING, Nov. 15. -UP) -Chinese police reported today that 36 priests In the famous Taoist temple Paiyunkuan (White Cloud! revolted yesterday and burned to death the temple's ab bot and its Toaist layman on a huge bonfire. The priests accused the two men of violating Taoist regula tions. Twenty seven of the priests surrendered and the other nine were turned over to Dollce. Ceilings End Means New Bids for O. & C. Timber PORTLAND, Nov. XUP) End of OPA ceilings on lumber resulted here In the return uf all bids on 36 tracts of timber In 11 Western Oregon counties that were listed for sale by the Ore gon and California Land Admin istration. W. H. Hornln O. C. chief forester, said the tracts would be readvertlsed without celling price restrictions, probably Pec. 3. Selection of the South Polar re gion for training Navy person red and trying out snips, air craft and other paraphernalia of modern war presumably was dic tated, among other things, by two American desires: . 1 To allay Russian worries over operations In the vicinity of Soviet territory. 2 To assure, by means of the remoteness of the area, some de gree of secrecy for the tests. U. 6. Not to Be Alone However, the expedition under the technical direction of season ed Polar Explorer Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, will not be with out neighbors. Byrd said yesterday that the Russians have announced an Ant arctic expedition "but we don't have much information," about it. In addition, a British expedi tion which went into the area two years ago may still have per sonnel In Antarctica. The British base, however, Is 1.5O0 miles from the probable headquarters for the Navy ven tureat the old location of the 1939-1941 Byrd expedition in the Ross Sea, which faces toward New Zealand. Cautious About Claims Naval officials were cautious In replvlng to questions about laying formal claim to territory. Said Vice Admiral Forrest Sher man, deputy chief of naval ope rations: The primary purpose of the ex pedition is to train naval units Aind any effects these operations mignt nave on tne oainnce or eon (Continued on Page Six) Dairy Industry Urged to Better Trade Methods ST. LOUIS. Nov. 13. UP) Secretary of Agriculture Ander son, warning of possible low prices ahead, today urged the na tion s dairy industry to find more efficient methods of production and distribution. "Why, for example," he asked, "should milk be retailed any differently than other food pro ducts? Does home delivery pay? "We frequently complain about the large number of milk trucks which pass down the same street each day as they deliver milk in many of our cities. How about the number of collecting trucks that go down the same stretch of road in our rural areas?" Anderson raised these points In an address to tne national co operative Milk Producers Federa tion. Anderson said one way of In creasing the Industry's efficiency. and thereby reducing its produc tion costs, is to breed better cows. i .FT7 1 ? - 4 vi JUL r;: rt V- 1 NEED ANY NAILS7According to a report Ormonde A. Kieb, president of th New Jersay Association of Rel Eitata Boards, mad at Atlantic City meeting of raalty man, th abova photo shows part of 10,000 Icagi of lurplus, rutting nails stored in th open at th Marin Terminal, Trenton, N. J. Kieb eilced other real aitat man to inveitigete and xpoi whatever evidnc they find of th government hoarding of surplus building materials. Blizzard Traps People, Cattle In Colorado DENVER, Colo., Nov. 13. UP) Army vehicles bucked huge snowdrifts today to get food to hundreds of families and thous ands of head of livestock as Red Cross headquarters was set up to relieve the suffering caused by southeastern Colorado's worst blizzard in years. Planes stood by to fly hay to snowbound cattle and sheep hlch could not be reached by army "weasels," trucks and bull dozers that plowed into drifts, some of them 10 to 18 feet high. Fair skies were forecast lor to day's . rescue efforts by the Weather Bureau, which reported a foot-deep blanket of snow over most of the area four days after snow stopped falling in the week long blizzard which has claimed 15 lives in the past week. A seven-plane reconnaisance mission from Colorado Springs discovered many families In need of food and fuel in the Edison district 50 miles southeast of there. Sighting a distress signal an "X" traced in the snow William Hunt landed and was told by a rancher of the district's Plight. Antelopes Also Fed Five C-47 army transport pitnes from Lowry Field flew hay to a herd of 10.000 cattle reported "frozen in their tracks" in three feet of snow in Lincoln county. Another cargo plane (Continued on Page Six) Occupation Probe Forecast by Solon' WASHINGTON. Nov. 13. (.IP) An immediate senate investiga tion imo charges Involving the military occupation of Germany and Austria was forecast today by Senator Brewster R.-Me. ). Brewster said that Republicans are anxious to push the inquiry without waitlrg for the newly elected GUI' majority to take command of the senate Janu ary 3. The War Investigating Com mittee, he said, will be authoriz ed to search out the facts on three main complaints against United States forces: 1. The high cost of occupation. Congress supplied $100,000,000 for occupation costs this fiscal vear, -and Brewster said the War Denartment now is asking a "de ficiency appropriation of $350, 000 000 " 2. Reports that United States officers and troops have been en gaged in many "black market operations." 3. Alleged misconduct by Unit ed Slates officers and men in volving what Brewster described as "sen. -t.3nal sex stories." The M '-ie senator said all Re publican "embers of the 10-man committee favored sending a sub committee to Germany and Aus tria to conduct hearings before the new congress convenes. 268 46 Number of Women Lawmakers Reduced Rep. Bolton The last Congrats had 1 1 wom an representatives, but th new ant will hava seven. Six Quick winners, pictured above, are, top to bottom: Helen (jehagan Douglas, D., Calif.; edith Nourse Raoeri. R-. Mass.: Mrs. Leo B. St. George, R., New York; Mar- nr- HhjitA Smith. R.. Main Frances Bolton, R., Ohio, and Mary T. Norton, U., IN. J. Mrs. Ceorgia Lusk, D.. N. M., also finally won out after a tough battle. Fire Razes Salem Nut Plant, Crops SALKM, Ore., Nov. 13. (TV The main plant, warehouse and 1SMG walnut and filbert crops of the Nut Growers' Cooperative here were dc-stroyed last night in a $-100,000 fire. J. J. Gallagher, co-op manager, said most of the 700-ton crop; valued at $300,000, was stored for frocessing in the two buildings, le estimated loss to the structure and machinery at $100,000. He said the crop was completely in sured, but doubted the building could be replaced for the amount of Its insurance. Fire Chief William Iwan said the flami1 apparently originated in the bleaching and grading sec tions, although plant employes said no drying was In progress when the fire broke out shortly after 8 P. M. Residents of nearby apartment houses fled to the streets carry ing personal belongings and mov Inf some furniture as the flames whipped 200 feet Into the night sky at the height of the blae. Firemen crclited a shift In the wind with saving the apartments, housing about 20 families, and adjacent warehouses of Reid Murdoch and Company. Only the concrete fire wall separating the two wooden build ings remained upright an hour afler the fire began, Chief Iwan said. Two small nearby storage buildings and a large stack of nut crates piled nearby were saved by liiemen. f, Woman Citizen of U. S. ' . Sent to Polish Prison WARSAW, Nov. 13 .T -A military tribunal sentenced Mrs. Irene Il.unal I mochowska, a United Slates citicn, to five years' Imprisonment yesterday on a charge of conspiracy against the Polish government. She formerly was a translator for the American embassy and had been under arrest since Aug. Z). She testKli-d at the trial that she tried, without success, to help the killers of a Iolish poli tical leader to escape from Po land. Mrs. Morhowska, 34, formerly lived In Chicago. Jap Camp Head Denies Mistreatment of POWs YOKOHAMA, Nov. 13. OP) Tako Haneko former command ant of a Fukuoka WW branch camp, denied today he mistreated Allied prisoners nut acknowi edeed manv lost 40 to SO pounds. He Is charped specifically with forcing W. E. Gnllowav, Quebec Cltv, Can., to stand in a pit of muddv water for a long period, with forcing him to stand astride a charcoal heater and then con fining him In an unhealed guard house four davs without clothing anu on reduced rations. Rep. Douclas Rep. Racers .uiillliMig 'I I MM Rep. St. Georse Rep. Smith " 1" " " N ' Rep. Norton Eleven Aboard Craft Bound For Burbank Pilot, in Last Word, Over Newhall, Advised That He Was Descending to Land BURBANK, Calif., Nov. 13. . (JP) A Western Air Lines plane, with eight passengers and a crew of three aboard, was missing to. day apparently In the snow swept mountains north of here. The two-motored Douglas DC-3, Inbound to the terminal here from Salt Lake City, was last re ported at 3:24 A.M. when th pilot informed the control tower by radio that he was bringing the craft down for a landing. Ho was over Newhall, on the upper fringe of the San Fernando val ley, at 9000 feet. A Western Air Lines spokes man said at 6:45 A.M. announc ing that the craft was missing that It had enough gas to remain aloft only until 7 A.M. Western Air Line's spokesman Identified the pilot as Capt. Ger ald Miller, the co-pilot as Ted Mathis and the stewardess as Joan Fauntleroy. Passengers Identified A heavy storm has been raging over southern California for two days, but during the night had abated sufficiently for planes to resume using busy Lockheed air terminal here. Snow was report ed generally above the 4000-foot level. Western Air announced the passenger list as: w. a. Davis. los Angeles. A. F. Rice, Los Angeles. Dr. S. G. Schaefcr, Beverly (Continued on Page Six) Russian Analyzes American Traits MOSCOW, Nov. 13. UrV-Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian reporter, said in a lecture last niht that the average American was too self confident, but that he was neith er mean nor stupid and he "does not want war. He asserted that "reaction aries" had taken the offensive in the United States, but expressed belief that this "triumph of re action" would not last for long. He said President Roosevelt was a great man, that the average ' American was politically imma ture. His audience was so thickly v.cked that Ehrenburg had great difficulty getting' into tne build In" and started his lecture 20 minutes late. Every seat all aisles and every foot of standing room was tlile i. tnrennurg spoKe on observations of his trip to the United Suites last summer. He described Henry Wallace as a good example of a farmer and a broadly cultivated person. He said Wallace understood tne in terests of the average American, strove to defend them and was not alone. He said men such as Sen. Claude Penuer (D.-Fla.) and former Ambassador Joseph Da vies and others were with Wal lace. Ehrenburg said America was growing, and that he was refer ring to the minds of men. not to skyscrapers. The Russian report er said more and more persons were demanding rights for Ne groes and were taking an Inter est In Soviet culture, but that these still were a minority. He asserted that the American lntelligensla has Just been born. Police Warning Fails to Halt Bloodshed tn India NEW DELHI. Nov. 13. (T Renewed Hindu-Moslem violence erupted today despite broadcast warnings that police would shoot rioters on sight, and eight more were killed, raising to 17 the death toll since communal dis orders began in this tense capital a week ago. A high official of the Hindu led all India congress party de clared he was convinced "there Is a well-organled agency behind this hooliganism." News of the police order to shoot any persons committing acts of violence had been broad cast repeatedly over a loud speaker throughout the troop patrolled city, now under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Liquor Revenue Averts Oregon Levy for Needy PORTLAND, Nov. 13. (.PI Oregon's take from the sale of liquor has averted levying an es timated 20 mills tax for the wel fare of the state's aged and blind. State Budget Director Oeorp K. Aiken told the Antl Liouor League here. Aiken reported the state ex pects to net $20,785,000 In the next two years, most of which will go to welfare funds. levity Fact Rant Mr L, W. Ralianatela With daily stamped for on-to-a-customr itmt at th stores and prolonged queues at Hi tax collector' office, don'r be surprised If an epidemic of fallen arches besets our peri patetic populace.