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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1947)
Rep. Case Pushes Anti-Strike Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AT)—Rep. Francis Case (R., S. D.), Thursday introduced legislation authorizing the govern ment to enjoin labor unions from strikes that endanger the public welfare and making workers as well as employers liable to unfair labor charges. Case, author of a labor bill that passed Congress last yeai only to meet a presidential veto, said his new measure is in tended to let labor and manage ment “live together” in peace. In a statement he said he does not consider his measure “the bill” but “a bill” which he hopes will af ford “an opportunity to meet our responsibilities in a comprehensive way.” Senate and House leaders have set January 20 as the “outside” date to start hearings on n^w labor legislation. Case's new bill expands in some respects on the one which failed last year. In other aspects it goes beyond the top Senate bill intro duced by Senators Ball (R., Minn.), Taft (R., Ohio), and H. Alexander Smith (R., N. J.). Food Lack Predicted WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP) — The agriculture department re ported Thursday that failure of world exports to reach goals dur ing the past six months may cause critical food shortages in some overseas areas before this year's harvests. Weather Forecast Oregon: Cloudy with occasion al light rain in west and light snow in east portions Friday, clearing Saturday. Colder Fri day night, moderate to fresh southerly winds off coast shift ing to northwest. NIGHT STAFF Cy Laurie—night editor Jane Vinton Shirley Phelps Glenn Dudley Clare Wiley Tiny Queen Margie Neer Billijean Riethmiller Jackie Moore John Ekstrom Bobbie Schmid Barbara Heywood Felix Rosch Knowledge is the antidote for fear.—Emerson. U. S. Wants Collection Of War Reparations WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—(AP) — State and war department officials said Thursday night the United States is determined to start collec tion of reparations from Japan im mediately, even without full agree ment on terms with Russia and oth er war-time allies. Assistant Secretary Howard C. Petersen'of the war department ad vised that General MacArthur and the Japanese should be told as soon as possible what levels of industry Japan will be permitted to keep “so that the Japanese can work out their economic recovery on a realis tic basis and cease to be a charge on the American budget.” Koo Demands Darien CLEVELAND, Jan. 9 (AP)— China’s ambassador to the United States, Dr. Wellington Koo, called Thursday night for a “prompt re turn” of the Manchurian port of Dairen to Chinese control. Franco Exiles General MADRID, Jan. 9 (AP)—Gen. Antonio Aranda Mata, Spanish monarchist leader who reputedly had sought to unset Generalissimo Francisco Franco, has been or dered info exile for two months by the Franco government, his associ ates said Thursday. Symphony Team • (Continued from page one) same Monday when the pro and con of the question, “Do the public needs of Oregon (educational and social, state and community) re quire a new method of taxation?” will be discussed. Dedo Misley, junior in business, David Kooken, sophomore in liberal arts, and Ann Brady, sophomore in journalism, will join Miss Peterson and Cramer Sunday evening when they speak on the same subject at Westminster house. Atom Control| Still Top — U. S. LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Jan. 9 (AP)—In the face of Russian charges that the United States was stalling on the whole ques tion of arms reduction, the Ameri can delegation to the United Na tions stood firm Thursday night on a demand that control of atomic energy must come first. “Effective international control of atomic energy is the key to the whole program and must come first,” Herschel V. Johnson, U. S. delegate, told the security council emphatically at the outset of full scale debate on the basic arms pro posal laid' down in December by the general assembly. Johnson took the floor after So viet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko, recently named Deputy Foreign Minister, blandly accused the United States of seeking to delay measures for general regulation and cutting of arms and armed forces. Gromyko said the American delegation had adopted a take-it or-leave-it attitude. Soviet Glad Byrnes Out SHANGHAI, Jan. 9 (AP)—The Soviet-owned Russian Daily News Thursday welcomed the resignation of U. S. Secretary of State Byrnes. His “foreign policy possessed a clearly imperialistic character and in many ways proved an obstacle to solving a whole series of im portant questions before the U. N.,” the paper said editorially. Three Trainmen Killed ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 9 (AP)— Three trainmen were killed and four cars of the 11-car west-bound “Empire Builder’s” pullman sec tion were derailed Thursday night when the locomotive blew up near Crary, N. D„ 398 miles west of St. Paul, Great Northern railway officials said. Wire Staff: La Verne Gunderson DANCING Saturday Nights to Art Holman's Orchestra Willamette Park Ph. — Springfield 326 Give the Best to Your Best Eddies' Flower 1400 Willamette Phone 265 Oregon W Emerald WORLD NEWS SECTION Gloria Smith, Wire Editor Proprietor Predicts Hotel Price Jump SALEM, Jan. 9 (AP)-A pre diction that most Oregon hotels will retain rates close to present minimum rates but probably will raise rates for higher priced ac commodations to reflect cost-of operation increases was made here Thursday night by W. W. Chad wick, proprietor of Chadwick ho tels and president of the Oregon State Hotel association. Chadwick’s statement followed executive action in the nation’s capitol to remove rent ceilings on transient rooms, effective Febru ary 15. People remember a lie ten years where they forget the truth in ten minutes.—W. D. Nesbit. Reclamation Group Gives$50,000,000 BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 9.—(AP)— The Bureau of Reclamation award ed major contracts totaling $50, 000,000 in the Pacific Northwest during 1946, one of the largest work programs ever undertaken by the organization in a single year, the acting regional director, J. Lyle Cunningham said Thursday. Major activities included the start of construction of irrigation facili ties on the million-acre Columbia Basin project. The value of some construction contracts awarded by the bureau in cluded: Columbia Basin, $42,897, 141; Roza division of the Yakima project, $1,191,505; Hungry Horse project, $1,453,098; Boise project, $4,125,476; and Deschutes project, $602,832. Saturday Only! SURPRISE SALE! Smart Clothes, Mod i erately Priced. Come in and see our big ! selection! i lAj&itxjate Shojxfie Next Door to the Side LOOK TO WARDS FOR FULL-FASHSONED ' / PURE THREAT Silk I They’re good looking . . . practical, these sheer silk hose at Wards! Re inforced heels and toes. 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