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Stanford . . 7 California . 7 ...39 ;an . . 9 NYtWst'n 14 Illinois .... 7 Tenn . . . . . 7 Kentucky . . 0 ,49 gon ; 2 USC ... . .0 Ohio State . 3 . 35 ia (Complete List of Scores on Sports Page) IWP $331003 rKDQIDffl torts' tt At Gmrtk f Ony- POUNDDD 1651 Wasliingt'n52 WSC.....21 UCLA Michis Ore 1 " - r The . 81st congress will re assemble tomorrow to conclude its labors. Little is expected in the -way of legislation in the short interval before it adjourns sine die. Some work will be done on an excess profits tax and Senator - Cordon is going to press for adop tion of measures granting state hood to Alaska and Hawaii. The probable dearth of legislative en actments, however, should not be construed as meaning the session Is unimportant It will be more important for what its members say than what they do. : J . This will be the first gathering since the . election. . Republicans are elated over the returns; dem ocrats are disappointed and the new-dealers must be despondent. The real question-, is not the fate of fair deal legislation but what will develop respecting our for eign policy and the personalities who handle it. More specifically: What will republicans in the flush of near-victory, da and say on Sec retary Acheson,- China, -Formosa, .Korea and Russia? r The defeat of-Senator -Tydings In Maryland may-signal a revival of ,McCarthyism. Already , some republicans like Hickenlooper afe getting into the fray with demands that Acheson resign. Senator Knowland, protagonist of Mac Arthur and Chiang Kai-shek, has been in the orient to assemble ma terial for his policy of support for the Chinese nationalist government-Some senators are report ed as trying to get for Knowland the seat on the foreign relations committee which has been prom ised to Morse. As I see it, the republicans in the senate have no agreement ' (Continued on editorial page, 4) Eruption of Mt. Etna Starts fame in Sicily CATANIA, Sicily, Sunday, Nov. 2-Cip-Mt.' Etna, Europe's highest volcano, erupted, late last night, spurting flames which lighted Ca tania, 20 miles away, and causing panic in villages nearer the scene. The night sky, angry and red, reflected the glow over miles, of eastern Sicily. The eruption came with a series of heavy earthshocks and mushrooming; clouds - of smoke.' ; ; .: -- Longtime residents of Catania expressed fear the eruption would be the worst of this century. Two molten streams of lava poured down toward half a dozen little villages on the northeastern slope .of the 10,741-foot high mountain. The eruption began at 10 p. m. (1 P. M. EST). Within an hour the lava appeared from a distance to have poured as far as two miles down the mountainside from a huge new crater on the north east side about 300 feet from the peak. There are some 200 craters clustered near the peak of the mountain. ' The. nearest village is still four or five miles, beyond the smoul dering molten Cow. -Ne Casualties At midnight (3 d. m- PST there were no reports of casual ties, v . - The residents fled in panic from their little herder and farming vil lages on the northwest slope. In laiania, on me soutneast side, most of the 250,000 population turned out into .the streets watch - fng tongues of flame shoot from .. the crater. j v The force ,of the eruption and the speed of the lava flow were described by residents of Catania as potentially much more danger us than the last eruption in 'De cember, 1949. The lava flow, mov- Ing in two "streams. Is pouring down the Valle Del Leone (Val ley of the Lion), the Valle Del Bove (Valley of the Cow). These slopes lead eastward to th coast" in the area of the towns of Giarre and XUposto, some 10 miles from the crater. , Nearest Vfflare The nearest village In the direc tion of the flow Is Fornazza, mid way between the peak and the coast. Etna has erupted some 80 times in recorded history and many of these times brought staggering : death tolls and vast destruction. Earth shocks preceded the erup- uoala&jQecember. and. far time the little-viig-erMaletto was threatened, but .the lava flow slowed down several miles from the village. The flow of lava con tinued slowly for two days, but . except for a few farms, the popu lation suxxerea lime from it. i V J ' : r Mln. Prtdp. film II Portland Eta Trmncisco 65 49 trace S5 11 j00 29 -1 tnc Xw York cz &x axa U411. 1S wr - z-r act it a K.. reau. McNry field, SJm): Mottly cloudy today and tsniaht. HlgH today MV Mi Jw wniiat wit mv. IAUEM FXXCTPITATIOX F'ae start ( wathr yiax ScvC thl Year - Lst Year Normal 2 Toll 99; Storm to ' ' -' By the Associated Presa i November .': erupted Sat urday. With icy fury, howl ing winds' and 'paralyzing blizzards that - caused at least S9 deaths. H Large areas reeled under their worst weather whip ping in years. Property damage ran into the millions of dollars. Snow piled up in Ohio and Pennsylvania, reached a depth of 30 inches in West Virginia and blew into Maryland. Furious winds buffeted the At lantic coast . ' Southerners suf red in a bone chilling cold wave, the worst on record-Even Florida was not im mune, i The American Red Cross east ern area headquarters estimated the severe weather had brought hardship in some measure to 2, 000,000 persons. Industries shut down, rrainc stalled in snow-clogged city streets and drift-laden highways. Forecasters could see no early let up for much of the snow storm The winds that battered the eastern seaboard with hurricane j force for more than 12 hours slacked off in the middle Atlantic area Saturday night. No Let Up Seen But they were belaboring north ern New England with renewed vigor. No let up in the raging Ap palachian snowstorm was forecast until Sunday. The deaths came from a variety of causes attributed directly and indirectly t , the weather. This is the breakdown by states: New Jersey 20. Ohio 15, Penn sylvania 13, New York 12, Michi gan 12, Kentucky 6, Alabama 5, Illinois 3, West Virginia 3, Mary land 2, South Carolina 2, Con necticut 2, Georgia 2 and Tennes see 2. . Falling temperatures increased the suffering in the New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut area, where possibly 3,000,000 per sons shivered in homes where electricity was cut off by the storm. In New xorlc, the mercury dropped from 59 degrees at 5:50 pm (EST) to 35 degrees at mid night and still was . falling about four degrees an hour. The storm along the eastern seaboard was thewworst since the 1938 hurricane. The winds tore a path of destruction from Virginia to New England. In fact, the weather bureau in Washington called it the worst storm of its kind for the north' eastern . states, surpassing in its fury and scope a famous 1913 blizzard. Danger Winds The current storm, it said, was maraea oy dangerous winds aver aging; go miles per hour with trusts up : to 90 and 100" miles haying Deen recorded at New York City ana naruora, JOni - t - r A huge - wind-nroneHed v tide smashed homes a mile inland on New York's Staten Island. More than 1,000 families were evacuat ed from flooded east coast shore areas. The' worst, blizzard in 37 vera dumped a paralyzing blanket of mow over the important Ohio in dustrial centers of Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron and Canton. Pittsburgh: was smothered under the heaviest continued snowfall in its history. Snow piled up to a depth of 22 inches and more was in prospect. The V& Steel Corp. Degan closing its big plants em ploying, more Jhan 50,000. :A spokesman said the situation was "very serious" and might cause heavy damage. Because of the snow, workers' and materials couldn't be moved to and from the plants. : . , me same - norm - dumped as much as 30 inches of snow on parts of West Virginia. More. Coming There was more to come. The Washington weather bureau issu ed a special bulletin at 6 pan. lioij max from six inches to a foot more snow would fall in the snowbound, area Saturday, night ana sunaay. Trains arriving in New York were two to seven hours late. La Guardia airport was so flooded it looked like a lake. Some 250 scheduled domestic airline flights were cancelled. . (Additional details on pages 2, 9), 100th YEAR Continue SECTIONS 40 PAGES nji WWg- 'InlQDirinieSQDD Michigan Wins Rose Bowl Bid 14 r . n -t 1 i " - j t. S s v i j f :. - .. . COLUMBUS. Ohio, Nor. 25 The jnicnigan defeated out state 9-3 in a snow storm and moved into the Rose Bow) berth as Big 10 representative. Chuck Ortmann (49) far left, has Jnst had one of his kicks blocked by Ohio State. Micbiraa Halfback Lee Koceski (IS) left foreground, and Ortmann ran t recover, bat Tony Mom sen, Michigan center, net shown, finally" recovers the ball en Michigan's t-yard line In a first period pisy. (at vrirepneto r ue Btatesman.) Ways , rJi.ean To Tvleet Before Session PORTLAND, Nov. 25-WVThe ways and means committee will the start of the regular session to nance problems. The announcement was made hammer of Salem the expected Ilse Koch to Face Trial in German Court AUGSBURG, Germany, Nov. 25 (P-Ilse Koch, whose whim was once law at Buchenwald, faces a German court here Monday on charges of egging men on to mur der. i This Is the second time the portly red-haired widow, now 43, has been called to account legally for her conduct as queen of the dreary and brutal Nazi concentra tion camp. ' '' Her first trial was for crimes against allied nationals. The Ger man charges concern German and Austrian nationals. She was sentenced to life Im prisonment by a U. S. court at the Dachau war crimes trials, a term later commuted 'by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, thenUvS. military gov ernor. : . Clay, cutting " the sentence to the four years she had been in jail, said a charge that she had used the flayed skins of tattooed prisoners for lampshades never had been proved. ' . German prosecutors indicate they will attempt what the Ameri cans failed to do: Prove that Mrs. Koch , did have the skins of tat tooed prisoners treated and pre pared as lamp , shades. . .A parade of 400 prosecution witnesses, 50 of whom live in the Soviet zone, is scheduled. . Donation Holder ; On Pamphlet Rack Stolen at Church f ! : r'. r.-.t -'..'. : r A phamphlet rack containing a donation holder was pried open and some small change taken by a burglar at Bethony Evangelical church, Capitol and Marion streets, Pastor Russell Mayor re ported to city police Saturday night Mayor said he left the church unlocked from 12 noon to 8 pm while he was away and discovered the burglary on his return about 8:45 pn. He estimated that the loss was under a 1 1. The Oregon Statesman. playing field was the same color s Co m m i ttee 1951 Oregon legislature's house meet January 2, one week before get a head start on the state's fi - . . here tonight by ReD.John Steel- speaker of the house in a no-host pre-session organization dinner at tended by 54 of the state's 60 house of representative members at the Multnomah hotel. . Rep. Steelhammer said he hoped he could get the similar senate committee to meet in a joint ses sion with the house committee. He said such a Joint session would be able to make progress in prob lems surrounding the $63,000,000 anticipated deficit likely in the next biennium. Steelhammer, who claims enough votes pledged to assure him the house speakership, also indicated Henry Semon. veteran Klamath Falls democratic representative. will head the Joint ways and means committee. Speakers at Dinner . Speaking at the dinner besides Steelhammer were Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. State Treas urer Walter Pearson and Budget Director Harry Dorman. Pearson, a democrat: warned that both parties "will have to work In complete harmony to solve Oregon's financial problems during the coming session." - Pearson predicted, a change would be necessary in Oregon's tax system if the state is to meet the increased costs brought by ap proval of the . veterans bonus and basic school support fund boost in this year's general election. . Borrow Alternative ' Without' new taxes. Pearson de clared, the state will be forced to borrow from its trust funds, ar range Its capital outlay over at 20-year period or float a special bond issue. Dorman predicted that while a 3-cent-a-package cigarette tax would finance the veterans bonus, voters would defeat it as they have in the past by a referendum oauot... - : ' - Newbry told the representatives the - legislature "faces unprece dented, problems which call for the utmost efficiency and coopera tion." . . The legislature will hold its of ficial - caucus Sunday, - January S, at 8 p. m. in the Senator hotel at baiem. The president of the sen ate and speaker of the house will oe elected at that time.. Setu Paul Patterson nf HiHtKnvM claims .enough pledges to assure him of the 1951 eenate presidency. SUBSTATION BURNED OUT SEATTLE, Nov. 25 -(P)- A minute-long flash of light reflect ed off a roof of fog tonight as a Puget Sound Power and Light Co, bank of transformers burned, out in a 55,000-volt substation in the north end. Salem, Oregon, Sunday, November 26, 1950 mm in Snow Storm 4, as the yard markers here today as Morse Calls For 'Coalition Foreign Policy9 CHICAGO, . Nov. 25-0!P)-Sena- tor Morse (R-Ore) urged today a "coalition foreign policy" under which the state department would consult with both republican and democratic congressional leaders before making any agreements with foreign countries. Morse also declared the state department is "adopting the men tal attitude of isolationism" by not acceding to a proposal by Senator Taft (R-Ohio) that our foreign policy needs re-examining. MWe must certainly never adopt a policy that in a democracy any policy can be irrevocable," Morse told a news conference. "I think the job of congress is to act on the basis of facts and if the facts warrant a modifica tion of any policy, domestic or for eign, congress should take action," ne saia. Morse spoke tonight at a meet ing of the CIO labor lawyers. He predicted the Taft-Hartley act in due time "will, be drastically re vised, adding: "I think it is a nlar on words whether revision will constitute repeaX." In particular: he suggest ed that the temporary injunction feature of the labor law be drop ped.. ........ He contended V injunctions should be granted in labor , dis putes only after a full hearing on me merits of tne dispute. European Assembly Starts E2ovn Road Toward Federal V By Joseph Dynan ' STRASBOURG, France. Nov. 25 - (JP) - The European consultative assembly set out today on a new read toward European federation, with a stopover scheduled at "spe cial authortties.w , "Special authorities Is the dis arming title for a gradual and pro gressive delegation of power which assemblymen propose to lead to an eventual genuine , authority . over western Europe's defense,' foreign Dolicv. finances and commerce. It is a new name lor federal government , : National sovereignty, it seems, is to' be surrendered piece by piece. instead of in a single package, but it will be surrendered just the same if the assembly has its way, "The assembly doesn't, always have its way. A discussion group made up of delegates from 15 Eu ropean nations, it forms the lower bouse of the council of Europe a sort of embryo parliament Assem itt n Reds Gale . . ' -T . ,- - " i. . .. - j Debate with By Stanley Johnson LAKE SUCCESS. Nov. 25-WV A sudden storm .forced postpone ment today of a. United Nations security council meeting in which a . Chinese communist delegation was expected to charge the United States with aggression. The Chinese will get their chance to' blast the United States Monday at 3 pm. (EST), just a few hours after. Russia's Jacob A. Malik is scheduled to press sim ilar charges before the assembly's 60-nation political committee. - Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler. No vember president of the council, decided on the postponement after Secretary-General Trygve Lie told him police had warned that roads between suburban Lake Success and New York were rapidly be coming dangerous. , Lie immediately ordered all U. N activities shut, down and sent employes home before they could Decome isolated in the headquar ters oy the rain, and wind. The U.S., Britain and France had already decided to request putting off the meeting because of the weather, but were spared the necessity. This was regarded, in western quarters, as good luck, because the request for a postponement would almost certainly have been hailed by communist propaganda as ev idence that the three powers were reluctant to face the Chinese com munists. Moreover, it will noticeably weaken the propaganda value of the Chinese charges since on Mon day afternoon they will seem merely to echo the complaint Ma lik is expected to make Monday morning. Dinner Slated For Junior Safety Patrol The 48 members of Salem's jun ior safety patrol will be guests of honor; at a banquet at 6:30 pm. Friday in the Senator hotel. Earl Newbry, secretary of state, will be principal speaker at. the gathering, which is a windup to National Safety week: ' Awards will be presented to pa trol members by Salem police, the state police, Salem public schools, Mutual of Omaha Insurance com pany and Salem 'Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the pa trol. J The patrol was organked in Sa lem as a safety measure to protect children going to and coming from school. Membership and participa tion is on the honor system. " The banquet wiD be open to the public. Reservations may., be ob tained by contacting Larry Moore, Mel Bedsaul or Victor Wlthrow. bly decisions are subject to veto by any member of the- committee of foreign ministers, the upper house. But the assembly has begun work on a new statute intended to bring member nations into closer union. For the immediate pres ent the assembly has: 1 'Called for west German troops to take an equal role in k unified European army, linked to the- North Atlantic alliance, under a permanent defense organization. Acceding- to British reserve, the assembly omitted the word "sup ranational" from this decision, but refused to rule it out for future consideration. 2 Encouraged member govern ments to set up joint special au thorities for economic, agncuitur al and industrial matters and even tually for defense. The six nations now negotiating a treaty based on the Schulman coal-steel plan Fraoce, west Germany, Italy, Bel China Envoys Slated Monday. PRICE 10c Stalls U.N. Meeft Bride Jand Croom Missing from '- 7 Wedding Mass ! " WFJRTON, Ohio, Nov 25-P) A wedding mass was celebrated today at St Paul's Roman Cath olic church here, but the bride and bridegroom couldn't, make . it. The absentees, Gloria Man cimelli and William S. Byers, both were snowbound In their - homes In the east's great storm.' The Rev. Fr. F. Edmund Wein- ' heimer, who officiated at the ' rites,' said the couple would ex change their vows and receive the blessing later. Four people were Injured and the two cars in which they were passengers were demolished Sat urday night in a collisslon at Lan caster drive and Garden road. One auto caught fire, but the blaze was extinguished before causing ser ious damage. - . Hospitalized at Salem General were Helen Bondell, 36, 1145 E. st, head abrasions,' back and chest injuries; and Richard Irish, 21, Scio, broken hip. Released af ter treatment for a gash over the right eye was Kenneth Bair, 38, Salem route 2. Louis Edward Scharbach, Scio route 1, suffered abrasions on the face but was not hospitalized. ; . -. State police stated that the 1937 Chevrolet Tudor, driven by Schar bach, was headed north when it collided with a Ford operated by Bair., The second. auto had just pulled onto Lancaster from Mar ket street when the accident oc curred, police said. , - - Both autos ended up on their sides on the northeast corner of the intersection. The machine oc cupied by Bair and the injured woman was ripped open by the impact.' x . The Scharbach car caught fire immediately after the collision. Nearby resident Roy Ward of 4015 Market st. Four Corners fire de partment, and a truck from the Salem department kept the fire in check. Marine Raymond Jones and Coast Guardsman: Harry McDon ald, both of Scio, passengers with Irish in the Scharbach car, escap ed injury. - JANE POWELL EXPECTING . HOLLYWOOD,: Nov. 25-JP)- Singing Star Jane Powell disclos ed today that she will become a mother next summer. She and her husband Geary Steffen celebrated their first wedding anniversary November 5. . ,v Government gium, The Netherlands and Lux embourg were- urged to complete their talks as soon as possible. In other words, the future pic ture being sketched here shows a series of specialized, pools, pacea by the Schuman plan. . In each case the member nations. not always the same ones, would assign specified powers to a sup ranational authority which would be responsible to a' Joint parlia ment made up of members of the respective national legislatures. The idea is that these men wouia be picked from national delega tions here in the assembly. They would, in effect, be special com mittees of the assembly and would report to the assembly on their activities. Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium said today that, once a number of special authori ties exists, the need to coordinate them will be evident to every one. 2-Car Wreck Hospitalizes 4, Destroys Cars No. 245 Force & U.N. Offensive TOKYO. Sunday' NovJ 28 -UPt Strong red counterattacks todav in northwest Korea hurled back American forces, drove a wedge between two divisions and trap ped one company. v . The reds struck with cordma. tion and power along more than ' 25 miles of the front where 110,- 000 United Nations troops opened an onensive i naay aimed at end- ing the war in short order. ; Forward elements of an estimate - ed 100,000 Chinese and Korean -reds in northwest Korea struck back at the east end and center of the UJN. line. - More .red trooos were reported moving up .. for a Z possible showdown battle. One counter-attack forced back a task force of the U. S. 25th di vision several thousand yards south of Unsan.' The withdrawing Americans took up new positions near Sanggu, lour miles southeast of Unsan. 1 Other reds drove between the 25th and U. S. second . division and reached the. Chongchon river. Elements of the second riivinVi near Kujang, on the east bank of the Chongchon, still were under attack this morning. Company Overrun Another enemy force- hit ond division forces near Sinhun. - five miles northeast of Kujang. One American company was over run and a second surrounded. In the Sinhung sector, the red . attack drove into American artil lery positions. The artillerymen managed to bring out all guns ex cept one anti-aircraft gun as they withdrew. . Air observer rennrtmt mh. centration of enemy tanks in tha Namsi area in extreme northwest Korea on the main road to the . border town of Sinuiiu. That road leads up from - American-held Chongju where enemy opposition has been negligible. A red force of about 3,000 was reported be tween Chongju and Namst , Northeast of Chongju in the Taechon area. South Koreans were heavily engaged by - two, en trenched red regiments. It was a different story in northeast Korea where U. N. forc es were slowed only by sub-zero temperatures and snowy .moun tain terrain. - Almost at Border The tenth corps said Sunday the 32nd regiment of the U. S. seventh division has gained sir miles and is almost at the border near Hye- sanjin. That .. border -.city - was. reached last week by the division's - 17th regiment which since has ex-1 tended its hold for 10 miles aloof ' the Yalu river across from Man ; churia. - . ----- v- ; On the east coast , the South i Korean capital division " entered the city of Chongjin, within 53 air , miles of the Soviet Siberian bor der and captured its airport Inland in the northeast sector. . U. S. marines captured the towa f of Yudam on the northwest stde , of Changj in reservoir. - But the estimated 1C3.CS0 Chi- i nese and Korean reds in the north t west showed fight against tU.ll offensive which General MaeAr i thur himself said was Intended e get ' the Americans home by Christmas. The U. S. 24th division reported no opposition in the Chongju tor. -Seeth Kereans XeeoQ Near Taechon. the South can first division, operating am the 24th's right flank, found tots, go ing. Red counterattacks - hurled back the South Koreans t mils and a- half early Saturday. Thea the South Koreans recoiled, ad vanced three miles, and were re ported dose to Taechon Sucdar. Their patrols entered the dty outskirts last night On the Tlghtflank of tho Coct$ Koreans, the U. & 25th division sent a task force, five miles -eaxi of Unsan. At 2:45 am' Sunday, the reds opened a strong nev' counter-attack. A field dispatch saM tH battle soon cay be joined in thi northwest (Aditional detaSs a-pst 1.1 J Counterattack Hurls Back V --i