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CITY EDITION
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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21,' 1946
NOv' 80
4onTell$
Qflins Attitude
e Eden!
P Asia, it was re-
was reached at
iSuse meeting Nov.
bwu described in
filed by former
ff f War Henry L.
?JS Congress' Pearl
investigating commit-
v 25 tbe war cabinet de-
SSthelirstshot
Waty endangenng
ftSfS- cut both a
ms attitude or an attack
Japanese. This
Snot know that another
force was then starting
IBtl Harbor.
S?S Mai. Ge, Wetter
5" who was deposed as
gander in Hawaii soon
Map attack, "displayed a
a of his real duty
iii almost beyond belief,
.committee recently corn
three months of pub ic
maimed at placing the
7to the disaster at Pearl
cronDec. 7, 1941. .
committee report is due
I stimson, 78, and ailing, -is
statement and excerpts
& private diary in lieu of
jocj before the joint House
t committee.
-aid Short, despite some er
Ijhis superiors in Washing
ton have been on full alert
st the possibility of hostile
xx action even without a
fejlrom Washington, which
i.
IiHM --
t teision of Mr. Roosevelt
lis war cabinet to light
a if she invaded Southeast
ns based, Stimson- said, on
jnnent that if a Japanese
(tree then known to be head
tin the China Coast got into
M of Siam it would en
r British, Dutch and Amer
iteresls in the Pacific,
tin cabinet fheethig he de
nib his diary entry of Nov.
attended by Mr. Roose
former Secretary' of State
HHull, the late Secretary of
r Frank Knox; former Army
ft of Staff Gen. George C.
ill and former Chief of
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m-Planning
cfion Begins
A of shaping up the pro
i lor the Eugene Home Plan
' Institute was under way
result of the or
atimi first board meeting
Wjj night at the Eugene
I Oiirman H. F. McDaniel,
wtinj retail lumbermen,
i committee of three who
taje for expert speakers
anrioui phases of home
"3 ad set dates for their ap
here. opected that the classes,
by the Chamber of
"ra and other groups, will
! in April, to give pros-Jmnie-builders
accurate in-
to smooth the path to
' pUrming the homes they
'tamed about
by President H. J.
j the chamber, McDaniel
" Weal committees which
71 foundation for launch-
Project. Bob Booth,
?8 applies dealer and in-
P na-caairman, heads the
"ammee. He will be
? 5 Gage of the Uni
Oregon school of busi
iaawration, and by Mc-
banker, is chair-
4'udget and finance
tS, members of
v-Edwin Johnson, fur-
zj: -ois-
VaLiaULx ot the Wil
Yy Lumbermen's Assn.
membership wm
.iw.Wing homes. He
nothing will be
""'"'"ithat
rfer-5Ll for sale.
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tourist business
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Porter Avers
OPA Necessary
Inflation Curb
CHICAGO, March 21 (P) Paul
A. Porter, OPA administrator, said
today OPA was planning a pro
gram of "progressive decontrol"
during the next six to eight
months "that will get us back to
a normal economy as easily as
possible."
Porter, addressing a Chicago As
sociation of Commerce luncheon,
stated, however, that economists
have estimated that a sudden end
to price control would cause "all
the way from a 30 per cent im
mediate increase in wholesale
prices to as high, as BO per cent."
He said that under OPA "there
is the opportunity to maintain a
stability in our economy during
the next eight, 10 or 12 months
or whatever time it takes to get
full scale widespread production."
Porter added that lie hoped a
"much expanded program on meat
controls will be developed within
the next week or sooner."
'We know that certain enforce
ment efforts must be speeded up,"
he said. "We are going to do
everything we can to get on top of
it."
Views Housing
At a news conference preceding
the luncheon, Porter said that be
cause of the housing crisis a $1,
600,000 deficiency appropriation
granted OPA by Congress would
be used to expand a newly es
tablished building materials di
vision, and to employ a "substan
tial number" of additional inves
tigators. The additional . investigators,
Porter stated, will concentrate
chiefly on preventing the diver
sion of lumber from "normal out
lets." "A lot of lumber is going into
what in wartime would be de
scribed as nonessential uses," he
said.' "We hope to take positive
and drastic measures 1 that will
channel essential building ma
terials into essential uses."
Porter also said he expected an
announcement would be made in
Washington within a day or two
on OPA price policies for new au-'
tomobiles. He declined to elaborate.-
,.
Goering Ducks
Accusations
NUERNBERG, Germany, March
21 04") Hermann Goering swore
today that he knew nothing of
German concentration camp
slaughters.
. "Even Hitler didn't know ap
proximately what went on be
cause Himmler (head of the Ges
tapo) always kept these things
extremely secret," the leading de
fendant of 22 Nazis on trial for
war crimes told the International
Military Tribunal.
Goering, still sharp in his sev
enth day on the stand, was em
phatic as he sought - to place the
blame for camp horrors oh the
Gestapo chief, who committed
suicide after, capture.
"You mean to say that even
when the Kreisleiters were in
formed of. the concentration
camps that you, as second man of
the Reich, didn't know?" asked
British Prosecutor Sir David
Maxwell-Fyfe. "Didn't your friend
Himmler inform you?"
Goering bristled' and 'answered:
"That is true. These things were
kept from me and. I object to
your designating Himmler as my
friend."
Sir David attacked Goering's
claims of ignorance by introduc
ing a secret document, an order
issued to Kreisleiters of Hesse
Nassau Feb. 10, 1945, directing
them to destroy, at all costs "in
stallations and records of concen
tration camps."
The order also directed the
shooting or hanging of German
civilians who fled before Allied
armies and specified that Nazi
party members were "to keep
back from the front up to the last
minute" so they would survive to
"form the foundation stone of a
greater Germany."
'Wac Corporal'
Into Space-Ot s
PASADENA. Calif., March 21
(P) A new ionosphere rocket,
developed by California Insti
tute of Technology, has soared"
43 Vz miles into space in quest of
weather secrets.
The Army Ordnance Depart
ment disclosed today that the
rocket,- weighing 1000 pounds,
16 feet long and 12 inches in
diameter, has been turned over
to the Signal Corps. Its job will
be to speed into the sub-stratosphere,
record temperatures,
and release the data by para
chute. Test Made '
Army authorities disclosed
that in a recent test at the White
Sands Proving Grounds at Las
Cruets, New Mexico, the giant
man-made meteor soared to a
new American altitude record,
230,000 feet. That is 43 miles.
The test was under the direction
of Lt Col. Harold R. Turner.
A parachute attachment
brings the device back to earth.
Ita record height weed by
Infant Changes
Bottle Formula;
Bubbles Resuli
LOS ANGELES, March 21
(U.R Eight-month-old George
Robert Logan, who gulped a
bottle of shampoo, was still
blowing bubbles today.
Mrs. May Logan said she
found the baby yesterday cov
ered from head to foot with soap
suds and gurgling happily over
the bubbles streaming from his
nose and mouth. Her other son,
William, 2, proudly held an
empty shampoo bottle.
George, treated with a stom
ach pump, was all right today
except for an occasional bubble.
Meridian Dam
Victory Won
Inclusion of a $4,000,000 item
for beginning construction on the
Meridian Dam across the Middle
Fork of the Willamette River
above Lowell, in the rivers and
harbors bill passed by the Senate,
means an initial win by the Ore
gon delegation for flood control
moneys.
"We are very much pleased
about it," Sen. Wayne L. Morse
has wired friends here, "but I do
not want to arouse any false hopes
as to final outcome. I think that
in alprobability recommendations
will be modified to some extent in
conference, but am reasonably
confident that we will succeed in
securing considerably more than
the House allowed when it passed
the bill."
The 360 million dollar bill now
returns to the House for approval
or disapproval of Senate additions
totaling 74 million dollars.
Project Called Vital
The Meridian allocation was
recommended by the Senate after
it had been left out of the original
House bill. The expensive De
cember flood in the Eugene
Springfield area resulted in the
attempt to push . the $24,000,000
Meridian project at the present
time. The project is vital in any
control of freshets which plague
this central Lane County, area,
say flood control exponents.
Originally the Middle Fork dam
was , planned for Lookout Point,
but engineers decided to shift it
to the Meridian site, so called because'-
the Willamette meridian
passes through the axis of the
project site 20 miles southeast of
Eugene. '
The dam as planned will consist
of compacted earth . and gravel
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$46,295 Given
To Red Cross
The hand of the Red Cross fund
drive clock climbed higher Thurs
day as workers turned in enough
money to bring the total to $46,295.
A breakdown of the divisions
shows the following amounts col
lected: Commercial, $7011: In
dustrial, $4550.32; Public Service,
$3226; Government, $1266.35;
Southern Pacific Employes, $866;
Universtiy of Oregon, $2728.99;
Schools, $1040; Men's Central,
$9068; Westside Women, $3332;
Eastside Women, $4460; Clubs and
Granges, $202; Real Estate, $279;
County, $8262.
Soars 43 Miles
a Rocket)
some loo.uoo leei me dpsi
achieved by the Signal Corps'
weather balloons. Cost of its
development was not disclosed.
The rocket used a liquid pro
pellant of hydro-carbon and
oxidizer. It has a supersonic
nose, designed to withstand the
pressure of speeds greater than
sound without damage which,
might affect its flight path. .,
The Army's code name for
the device is the "Wac Cor
poral." His Brainchild
Father of the rocket is Dr.
Frank J. Malijia. Caltech scien-.
list and technical director of the
institute's jet propulsion labor
atory. He guided the develop
ment of the project from its be
ginning in 1944 to its recent
completion, but he disclaims
credit individually for it.
"The Wac corporal Just grew
in the collective scientific mind."
he told a reporter. "It involved
the efforts of numerous scien
tists and Wtineeri.'' .
FUND J
mm
Unsettled Lvlsi"i0Dii Calls
19-Year-0lds
Mustered Into
Iranian Army
TEHRAN. March 21 (AP)
Iran's 19-year-olds were
summoned to the colors today
in the wake of reports that
three Iranian army garrisons
were under attack by Kurdish
tribesmen in the isolated
region near' the border ot
Iraq. . . " -
At the sumo time, leaders of
Iran's leftist Tudeh Parly were
called into .private session and
Tightest elements expressed be
lief the Tudeh Party might lead
leftist demonstrations against the
government because of its appeal
to the United Nations Security
Council against continued pres
ence pf Russian troops in Iran.
Coup Seen Possible
(In Baghdad, a former Iraq dip
lomat declared Tuesday upon re
turning from Tehran that the
Tudeh Party could stage a coup
d'etat at any time. He added:
"The great fear in Iran today is
that if the Iranians officially an
nounce that they will take the
matter to the UNO, then the Com
munists will be given the word to
strike.")
Rightist Deputy Said Zia Ed
Din, described by political writers
as anti-Russian, and generally
known as a leading opponent of
Premier Ahmed Quavam Es Sal
taneh, was taken into custody yes
terday by two men in the uniform
of Iranian army colonels.
Zia Ed-Din told newsmen: I
think they are arresting me be
cause I am not liked by the Rus
sians." He said in an Interview
Tuesday that "Iran's only hope
lies with the UNO.'5,i i :
Charges Not Named
Prince Fil'ouz, director of propa
ganda and political undersecretary
of state, said the deputy was "put
under preventive detention pend
ing investigation of certain
charges" on orders of Premier
Ahmed Quavam. '
The army, in anonuncing the
conscription of 19-year-olds, said
men in the 22 to 25 year, age
bracket were being deferred.
(In Washington, the Iranian
Embassy said the army normally
consists of men 20 to 22 years old
in training, with those over 22
moving into reserve classes. It
said 19-year-olds normally were
not given training.)
An Iranian general staff officer
said heavy snows prevented rein
forcement of the three garrisons
besieged by Kurds in the north
west, but,, he added, seven Iranian
planes were trying to keep the
garrisons from being cut off from
divisional headquarters.
He said 3000 tribesmen were en
gaged in the attacks against the
garrisons at Sardasht, Baneh arid
Saqqiz, while "loyal" Kurds had
engaged "Democrats" of self-proclaimed
autonomous Azerbaijan
Province, whicli is occupied by
Russian troops.
UNRRA Told
India's Needs
ATLANTIC CITY, March 21
Pierre Schnclter, French Un
dersecretary of State, told the
UNRRA council today that French
purchase of wheat and barley from
Russia would help relieve grain
shortages elsewhere in the world.
He declared that France had
notified the combined food board
of the transaction, with a request
for a corresponding reduction
500,000 Ions in the board's 2,800,
000 allocation to the French for
the first half of Ihis year.
4 (The combined food board, com
posed of representatives of Can
ada, the United States and Brit
ain allocates supplies available
in this country and Canada.)
India warned that five to 15
millions of her population may die
in coming months.
"We in India are faced with
famine,"'Sir Girja Shanker Bajpal,
agent general for India at Wash
ington, told delegates from 47 na
tions to UNRRA's council here.
"The angel of death is flutter
ing its wings within the uneasy
hearing of 125.000,000 people in
India," he cried.
Carpenters Receive .
Overtime Pay Raise
Members of Carpenters Local
1273 now arc to receive double
pay instead of lime and one-half
for overtime, luiiowing approval
gf Iheir by-laws and trade rules
by their union headquarters in In
dianapolis. Ind., reports John
Wagenman, local business agent
Notification of the approval, ef
fective as of March 15, reached
here Wednesday from M. A.
Hulchcsun. first general vice-
president of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters ana Joiners ol
America lAi L;..
Council bearing Pledgee!
'Mac' Orders
Firing Squad
For Hornma
TOKYO, March 21 VP) Gen
eral MacArthur today decreed a
firing-squad death for Lt. Gen."
Mashaharu Homma, his victorious
foe in the 1942 battle for Bataan,
and disagreed sharply with two
U. S. Supreme Court justice dis
senters one of whom had term
ed the sentence vengeance rather
than justice.
Date and details of the execu
tion, which now could be stayed
only by President Truman, will be
determined in Manila.
Deserves Fate
Affirming the Manila court mar
tial conviction. of Homma, who or
dered the infamous Bataan death
march that cost 17,200 lives, Mac
Arthur asserted:
"If this defendant does not de
serve his "Judicial fate, none in
jurisdictional history ever did."
Before announcing his decision,
MacArthur studied opinions ex
pressed by Supreme Court Justices
Murphy and Rutledge, who dis
sented when the court refused to
intervene for Homma. Murphy
had denounced Homma's trial as
a descent "to the level of revenge
ful blood purges.
Japanese Approve
Wataru Narahashi, chief cabinet
secretary, said he and the Japa
nese people agreed as to the jus
tice of MacArthur's decision.
' The supreme allied commander
in the Pacific said he could find
"no circumstances of extenuation."
Realty Board
DenouncesOPA
Eugeneans kicked another dent
Into the much - attacked OPA
Thursday., when the Realty Board
passed an official resolution ask
ing for Its complete scrapping. -
"The burning question is: shall
We perpetuate , OPA and destroy
America or shall we perpetuate
America and destroy OPA," the
realtors declared.
"Vfe call for an end to' wartime
controls," the resolution began.
"The whole of America should
join in terminating agencies which
are retarding recovery, blocking
solutions to housing problems,
paralyzing production; hastening
inflation and leading to the
speedy destruction of the system
of, free enterprise and imposition
of regimental economy upon our
people."
Propaganda Charged
Planned economy propagandists
are deliberately exploiting the
public's fear of inflation to en
trench themselves in power and
to advance their own revolution
program, the document charges.
"As an observing community
group in this capital of the lum
ber industry," it continues, "we
have seen, as a result of wartime
controls in this industry alone,
bureaucratic insanities which aug
ment the black market scanda
lously, which drive lumber out
of America and Into the foreign
market, which tie up and dis
mantle lumber machinery in cer
tain mills. Then, in emergency,
they call for the creation and in
stallation of identical machinery
elsewhere at doubled cost of pro
duction and price to consumers."
The lath industry is cited. OPA
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
China Hears
Graft Protests
CHUNGKING, March 21 (U.B
Four Chinese government of.
ficials. Including two cabinet
ministers, were reported unoffi
cially today to have submitted
their resignations to Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek.
They included Gen. Wu Teh
Chen, secretary general of the
KoumlnUng's general executive
committee; Dr. Wong Weh-Hao,
vice president of the executive
Yuan and minister of economic
affairs: Chen Chi-Lu, minister of
education, and Chen Lt-Fu. the
Koumintang's minister of organ
ization. -
t The reported resignations could
not be confirmed In - official
quarters.
: Dr. Wong today reported - the
economic situation to the People's
Political Council amidst strong
charges of corruption among gov
ernment officials assigned to take
over Japanese puppet property.
There was also ktrong criticism
levelled against I he government
policy of controlling all economic
enterprises.
Dr. Wong told the council the
post-war work of hit ministry has
been "far from satisfactory" be
cause China Is encountering many
difficulties. Delegates fired many
questions at him concerning al
leged corruption among govern
ment official. .
'Hold Russians
To Their Word':
Eric Johnston
, NEW YORK, March 21 (U.PJ
Eric Johnston, president of
the U. S. Chamber of Corn
mercc called for an Interna
tional showdown on Iran, but
emphasized the need for con
tinued friendly Russian-American
relations.
Speaking last night before the
Purchasing Agents' Assn. he
said Iran would be the lest on
whether nations,, like people,
must keep their pledged word.
"The Russian leaders boast
that they ,always keep their
word," Johnston said. "Here's a
chance to make good thoir
boast."
Labor Scene
Still Troubled
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Picket leaders and deputy slier
if fs broke up a scuffle at the
strikebound East Pittsburgh plant
of the Westinghouse Electric Corp.
today while in Ohio a group of
workers who moved Into a strike
bound steel plant said they will
work, sleep and eat there until
a two months old wage dispute is
settled.
The flareup at the Westinghouse
plant, where a court order has
outlawed mass picketing, develop
ed when at least three supervisory
employes seeking entrance were
shouldered aside amid scattered
boos and catcalls. Deputy sher
iffs and picket leaders cleared the
streets.
An estimated 85 employes of the
Crawford Steel Co. in Buoyrus, O.,
went into the plant early yester
day, before the CIO United Steel
workers pickets set up their lines
at the usual hour of 7 a.m.
Slept on Desks '-j '
A spokesman telephoned from
inside the plant that the men
worked all day, had a baked ham
dinner with trimmings last eve
ning, slept on factory benches and
office desks and ate a breakfast
of doughnuts and coffee this morn
ing. The Steelworkeri Union called
the plant's 180 employes out on
strike in a dispute over wages,
but names of a number of em
ployes later appeared hi a news
paper advertisement saying they
no longer wished to be represented
by the union. An independent
union was organized recently at
the plant.
Governor. Should Intervene
In Washington, .meanwhile,
President Truman . told a news
conference he thought the gover
nor of California should settle an
AFL-CIO jurisdictional dispute
which has tied up operations in
100 northern California canneries.
Walter P. Reuther, vice presi
dent of the CIO United Auto
Workers, said at Atlantic City,
N. J., that local grievances which
are delaying resumption of oper
ations by the General Motors Corp.
could be settled within a week.
The company said it would not
open ita plants until all the 175,000
strikers return. .
Hoover Pledges Effort
To Feed French Young
PARIS, March 21 U.R Her
bert Hoover told French officials
today that his committee "will do
everything possible" to get the
necessary food for 3,000,000 un
dernourished French children.-
He gave lite pledge to officials
of the National Institute of Hy
giene which he visited with Rob
ert Prigent, minister of public
health. He asked officials to give
him "concrete outlines of their
needs" so he could present them
to the American people.
Eugene Air Travelers Unhurt
In Forced Landing Near Shasta
Bad weather encountered yes
terday near. Shasta Dam, in
California, forced down a plane
piloted by Miss Nancy Upper,
24, of Eugene, and carrying as
a passenger Gordon Keith, of
the Eugene Lumber Company.
Although the plane was slightly
damaged, Miss Upper and Keith
escaped injury. The couple
was en route to Los Angeles
on business.
A .United Press dispatch re
ported Thursday that Miss Up
per, who is employed locally by
Pacific Airways, was forced to
land on a runway along a hill
side, where towers of a cablewey
ran during construction of the
dam. Gas supply of the four
place plane was reported low at
the time of the emergency land
ing. .' , .
The right' wingtip aileron on
Iba plana was damaged, and
J
Vomiiilli to Adu-qs
Army Leaders
Ask for Draft
Law Extension
WASHINGTON, March 21 M
Gen. Dwighl D. Eisenhower
ashed Congress today to extend
the druft law indefinitely and to
limit service liability of inductees
to IB months.
It that is none, the chint of staff
lo.d the House Miiitury Commit
tee, the Army can .release all
fathers by the end of August or
early in Scplcnbcr regardless of
how long they have been 'n serv
ice. If it is not done, he warned, the
Army may tall snort by 165,000
men of its estimated needed
strength ot 1,070,000 on July 1,
1947.
Against Short Extension
Both Eisenhower and Secretary
of War Robert P. Patterson
argued against proposals for a
shorter extension of the Selective
Service Act, which expires on
Muy 15 of this year. ,
"Should tne Selective Service
Ai.'l not be continued and should
our recruiting program fail to es
tablisn and sustain a volunteer
army of the requisite size, Pat
lerson S lid, "the military position
of this country, and therefore our
ability to preserve the peace we
have won, would become precar
ious."
Pay Increase
Patterson told the committee
that extension of the draft should
be coupled with a 20 per cent
overall increase in pay and allow
ances for all military personnel.
The secretary said present
Army strength is about 2,500,000,
with n net reduction of one mil
lion expected between now and
next June. He said the War De'
partment Intends : to continue a
vigorous recruiting program.
The top Army men were also to
appear before a closed session of
he Senate Military Committee to
testify on the draft extension.
Secretary of State Byrnes and
Navy Secretary Forrestnl also
may be heard.
Portlanders
Visit Eugene
Eugene was host Thursday to a
party of Portland businessmen on
a good will tour representing the
Portland Chamber of Commerce.
The visitors were guests of the
Active Club and Eugene Cham
ber of Commerce at a luncheon
in the Eugene Hotel, followed by
a tour to two local plants, the
Kugene Plywood Corp. plant and
that of the Eugene Fruit Grower
Assn.
At the luncheon speakers told
the visitors about Lane County's
assets, opportunities and prob
lems. The trip was planned as a
means of fostering closer rela
tionship between Portland and
this part of the state. The trip Is
the second of Its kind, the Port
land group having made a previ
ous journey to Astoria.
Plans for entertaining the group
were made under the direction
of President H. J. Cox of the Eu
gene chamber.
LAGUARDIA NOMINATED
ATLANTIC CITY, March 21
P Florella LaOuirdli,
former mayor of New York, was
nominated director general of
UNRRA today to carry on the
gigantic task of marshaling the
world's food supplies for relief.
:
ARMY UNIFORM WILL BE
WASHINGTON, March 21 OP)
Army officers and enlisted men
will dress alike after June 30,
1048, the War Department an
nounced today. New regulations
prescribe for all ranks battle
jackets and trousers of the same
olive drab shade now used in en
listed men's clothing.
pair work will be followed by
official inspection, a report from
Redding, Calif, said Thursday.
The report added that the plane
might be able to take off from
its emergency landing place, but'
that the Bureau of Reclamation
would probably not approve this
muvc because ot the danger.
Plans were underway to have
another plane from Eugene pick
up Keith if tho weather cleared.
Otherwise he will continue to
Los Angeles by bus or train.
"It's an experience I won't for
get for many days," Keith told
reporters. ."
Miss Upper, whose family
lives at Seattle, served as a test
pilot In the Wasps during the
war, and has been flying for
Pacific Airways In Eugene since
last fall. She has 1000 hours of
lining axjwicuta,
to Drain;
Reds Rebuffed
In Efforts x
To Stay Action
' WASHINGTON, March 21
(AP) Soviet Ambassador
Andrei A. Gromyko said, to
day that any hasty actioivby
the United Nations Security
Council on the Iranian dis
pute would merely compli
cate it. ;r,'.
His comment was made
shortly after a statement iby
President Truman that next
Monday's UNO meeting wiU
not be postponed.
Mr. Truman told his news con
ference today that the United
States delegation will press for
British Refuse, Too
LONDON, rMorch 21 U.R .
The British government todaj
opposed, a request by Russia for .
a 16-day postponement until
April 10 of the United Nations; .
Security Council meeting)
scheduled tw open Monday In
New York.
action in the explosive contro
versy despite Moscow's request
for a 16-day delay. ''- .
20-Mlnute Parley . . "."
Gromyko talked with reporters
at the State Department aftef -a
hurriedly arranged . 20 - minute
conference with Secretary Byrnes.
The Soviet ambassador, who
returned unexpectedly last night
from New York, declined to tell
newsmen what he said to Byrnes,
but he reiterated that Russia be
lieves the Iranian, case unques
tionably should be delayed , be-
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Socialist GoyiS
BRUSSELS, ' March' . 21 (U,W-i
Premier Panl-Henri . Spaak and
the Belgian government resigned
today. The government was defeated-
by a 90-to-B0 tie vote In
the chamber of . deputies yester
day. Spaak handed his resigna
tion to the regent, Prince Charles.
Spaak's government, predomi
nantly Socialist, -was forced from
office before it had been installed
formally.! .A parliamentary, coa
lition led by the right-wing .Chris
tian Democratic (Catholic) Party
defeated lt on a motion submitted
by Spaak . for the chamber's ap
proval. The- portly, round-faced Spaak
was elected president of the UNO
General -Assembly at the recent
London meeting. Spaak was
premier of Belgium before the
war and foreign minister of the
exiled Belgian government dur
ing the German occupation,
Bulgarian Premier
And Cabinet Quit
SOFIA, March 21 (U.R) ffiS
Bulgarian government headed by
Premier Kimon Georglev has re
signed, it was anonunced today..
Georgiev's cabinet submitted its
resignation last night.
Georgiev was appointed preirde;
and minister without portfoUoran
Sept. 0, 1944. His government
was a coalition representing ttie
Fatherland Front, a group of left
wing parties. It was strongly
pro-Soviet.
The United States and Britain
have been pressing tor a broaden
ing of the Bulgarian government
to include two members of op
position parlies. ,
- An agreement at the Moscow
foreign ministers conference pro
posed a broadened government,
but there has been a dispute
about the terms on which opposi
tion leaders should enter the gov
ernment. "-
Weather
V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast:
Eugene and vicinity; Increasing
cloudiness today with light rain
this afternoon and tonight. Friday
mostly cloudy with scattered
showers. '. Warmer tonight but
cooler Friday. . Oregon: Same:
Moderate southerly winds '-oft
coast.
Local Statistics: Highest tem
perature Wednesday, 69 degrees;
low Thursday morning, 35 de-'
grecs; 24-hour precipitation up to
10:30 a. m. Thursday, none; total
precipitation for month, 4.7 inches;
normal for month, 3.9 inches; total
since Sept. I, 37.08 Inches; stage
of Willamette River at Eugene at
7:30 a.m. Thursday, plus 1.55 feel;
wind direction and velocity. -at
11:30 s.m. Thursday, south, fl; pre
vailing wind and average velocity
Wednesday, north, 6.
Sunrise and Sunset (PST): Fri
day, 6:13 a.m. and 8:28 p.m. Sal--urday,
8:11 a.m. and 8:29 p.m. ''-'''
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