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CITY EDITION CITY EDITION B07 CIRCULATION YESTERDAY 24 314 l-ANE CtWNTVS HOME WEWgPAPEtt EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1946 NO. 120 binfall Drenches orthwest Region I lor Month .19 Inches we Average t the weather man de I js a "good heavy rain" v drenched Eugene pinitv over the week- Lalli'nff 2.10 inches of h from Friday evening fdav morning. The larg- hount of Oregon mist iturday, 1.01 inches, lol fby .91 inches Sunday, ither, the total rainfall ctober was brought to iches. Normal for Octo 2.73 inches. rm warnings were raised t Oregon coast at 2 p.m. b with strong to gale winds forecast, the Asso- Press reported. Dugh the Amazon drainage howed no appreciable rise, Eugene streets were par jr wholly flooded because .choked drains, and in some eas sewers backed up, un carry off the sudden down- !rl and walnut orchards i when rain knocked many nuts from the trees, or iwners reported. $tate Highway Department A no damage to roads in Nuts Downed; Labor Needed Filbert and walnut pickers were at a premium Monday as a result of the weekend rain which beat down both crops and made immediate picking neces sary, reported W. H. Atkinson of the farm labor office, Tenth and Olive Sts. Interested workers are asked to report to Atkinson's office at 7 a. m. ready to go to work. Yugoslavs Deny 'Slave' Charge BELGRADE P Characteriz ing as a "malicious falsehood" U. S. State Department charges that Yugoslavs were using "Americans as slave labor", a Foreign Minis try 'spokesman said Sunday the assertion was part of a campaign launched by certain "American circles" against Yugoslavia. A U. S. State Department note. delivered last Friday, asserted that persons with "a valid claim' to U. S. citizenship were being de nied their international rights American officials amplified this statement by declaring that at least 165 American citizens had been thrown into concentration camps in Yugoslavia and rented out at forced labor without pay. They said the Yugoslavs had Jcinity, but highway crews : shipped three Americans to Russia jusy in some parts of Ore id Washington removing the of slides from highways. A n forecast of continued js brought warnings of earth on some state highways. was also held largely re He for traffic accidents that pp throughout the state, id reported 50 accidents fey night and Sunday fg, a record for the tity. A of pedestrians and motor ire hospitalized, travel was uninterrupted he weekend at the Mahlon Airport despite the down is airport officials explained ck of fog made visibility icades to Go Up hirteenth Avenue University of Oregon an i Monday it would be.ready icade Thirteenth Ave. Tues orning, as provided by the uncil in a move to eliminate accidents on the campus. E Lewis, superintendent of fsical plant, said Thirteenth would be blocked off at sity and Kincaid Sts., tor nutes before each hour from jo 5 p. m. Monday through The campus will be block- from through traffic ten before each hour from 8 o noon Saturdays. c"y ordinance on campus also provides no parking Kaid st. from Eleventh to Oth Aves. The barricades erected by university em- and the law will be en oy two regular campus pa ' from the Eugene police Jr Praises Line iafurday Game and permitted maltreatment which cost the lives of at least 10. Americans or Germans? Eric Kosh, press attache' for the f oreign Ministry, said the per sons for whom the American em bassy in Belgrade claims Ameri can citizenship were being held as Germans. "Yugoslavia is prepared to hand over to the embassy any volks duetsche whom the American Em bassy recognizes as an American citizen and whom the American Embassy undertakes to send out of Yugoslavia immediately," he declared. Kosh added that slave labor has never existed in Yugoslavia, "which cannot be said of the United States The press attache said that whereas the Yugoslav government forbade internees permission to leave concentration camps to go to the American Embassy and claim American citizenship, they would allow the embassy to send forms to persons in the camps to be filled out so that citizenship could be established. U. S. Ambassador Richard C. Patterson and U. S. Consul Basil F. MacGowan told newsman the embassy was refused the right to question persons in camps who claim American citizenship. "I consider," Patterson said "that slave labor has existed In Yugoslavia and exists today in its vilest form." Slippery Roads Bring Numerous Traffic Crashes A wet and rainy weekend ir Lane County was marked by at east ten tramc accidents which resulted in injuries to eight per sons and death for a Stockton. Calif., woman. Fifteen cars were involved in the accidents at Eu gene, Springfield, Cottage Grove ana oakridge. 1 he dead woman was Mrs. Flor ence O. Morris, killed 10 miles west of Oakridge Saturday in an accident which caused minor in juries to her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Oettle, also of Stockton. The injured were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Verrey, Oakland, hurt near Cottage Grove Monday morning; Mrs. F. J. Wil- mont and Wesley Henry Hansen both of Corvallis; Mrs. Nelle Murphy and William F. Bore, Eu gene, both struck by a car; Mrs. Hazel Trowbridge, Springfield. Second Victim A second accident was Miss Eunice Willis, 749 Thirteenth Ave E., who died at Sacred Heart Hos pital Sunday night as the result of a traffic accident near Mar- cola Thursday. State police said Monday that Mrs. Morris was killed when her car swerved and rolled over three times on a slippery curve. It was believed she was thrown from the car and was crushed under it. Her daughter, Mrs. Oettle, was released from Sacred Heart Hos pital after treatment for minor in juries. The two women were alone in the car, with Mrs. Morris driv ing. Son Arrives Herman S. Morris, Portland, son of the dead woman, arrived in Springfield, Will send the body to Portland. Mrs. Trowbridge, 1429 E. Main St., Springfield, was seriously in jured Monday morning when she fell from a truck at the Spring field Junction. The truck was driven by her husband. G. W. Trowbridge, who Scotland Yard Hears lead' in Jewel Case LONDON (U.R) Scotland Yard detectives investigating the Windsor jewel theft were formed Monday that a farmer in France had reported seeing "glit tering objects" on the ground after a metal cylinder was dropped by parachute from a private plane. The farmer, identified as M, Goasguen, of Argol, said the plane circled over a Brittany road sev eral times before dropping the malln- t. metal container, ne sam tne cyi- ru?"'.usua . Oregon jn(er bifrst open when it struck ekh - mZi .r,.u "lithe ground and that "glittering - inv mill ll'JUII dl 5ie Hotel, featured' by a m oi last Saturday's 0-0 S oC and next Satur- ane against Idaho. i Tex Oliver of the unde Webfoots again had high 'or the Webfoot line-par- f defensively. He classed B of the best in Oregon .since 1938, at least. He sed Bob Koch for his re 's wet-ball punting and -eon backs for holding on Punts. Manerud reported on the w light alumni session at gory. Dr. Ron Romig made i5 V" tne coming Idaho nf ,S'd Miu'San spoke in 01 the membership com- Wlnkelman reported that J a good Idaho that will J Oregon to run up a an reported that the club rterea a specia, for e game, leaving here " lo and returning Sun- ID Players who were spe tL , ,at the meeting in 'fckle Cliff Giffin, Guards Wick and Ted Meland, J01 Reynolds, Walt Dono 1 Jake Leicht. 'INJURED JAWAR, India OP) .Jiwaharlal Nehru, lead lster of the Interim Indian jj and three members lar-y were injured slightly when hostile Moslems them outside Malakand J bashed in their car win 1 stone. ! fLS - m mml mum- -x-zimm mm m.-. x rjtM. m mm 1 Airline Pilots Strike for Raise TWA Cancels All Scheduled Flights $469,500 FOUND IN A SECRET TRUNK COMPARTMENT after Mrs. Minnie Rosser Welgle's death is counted by executors Robert Raymond (left) and Timothy Healy (right) and a bank official. Peter Riley (center). Evidence of cashed checks in six-figure amounts but absence of bank accounts prompted the search of her New York apartment netting this hoard of bills. (AP Wirephoto). within the income of the averaga family. "Controls Will Stay Off" "Production is unhampered and we have a bumper corn crop," ne said, "so beef will flow freely into was moving the family belong- j the market Meat Reappears In Butcher Shops By UNITED PRESS The butcher had meat Monday but many housewives found the price too high. Nevertheless, meat had returned to hundreds of thousands of Ameri :an dinner tables, where the shortage was discussed in the past tense. While many housewives served chicken and other substitutes rather than pay $1.15 a pound for choice bits of fresh meat, the experts predicted that the price soon would level off. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said at Los Angeles that meat, especially beef, will fall Molotov Eyes UN Opening NEW YORK UP) Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Molotov, arriving Monday to head his country's delegation at the Unit ed Nations General Assembly convening Wednesday, said Rus sia would contribute to the work of the assembly and foreign min isters in strengthening the peace and the welfare of peoples great and small. The arrival of Molotov and Sen. Tom Connally (D-Tex) from the Paris peace conference brought their respective coun tries' U. N. delegations to full strength. Sen. Connally deplored the talk of another war and said the peace conference "accomp lished substantial results." The completion of the Ameri can and Russian delegations signalled the intensification of huddles to determine policies to be Carried out in the assembly. By the time the assembly opens at 4 p. m. Wednesday with speeches by President Truman, Henri Spaak of Belgium and Vincent R. Impellltterl, presi dent of the city council, New York will be host to almost a score of foreign ministers and well over a dozen ambassadors heading national delegations. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) objects" were scattered over the area. "I ran towards the spol." he said, "but two men who had been hiding in the hedge were ahead of me. They picked up the cylin der and the parachute and ran off. "Later I heard a powerful car being driven away. I informed the gendarmerie and I was told they vifuro wnnrlprino" if the affair had any connection with the theft of unless Postoffice Buildings Listed in Five Cities Five west-central Oregon cities have been scheduled by the Post office Department for new post offices costing approximately $435,000 if Congress decides to resume construction of federal buildings next year. Included on a list of Oregon cities where the department feels new federal construction would be justified are: Cottage Grove, Junction City, Reedsport, Sweet Home and Springfield. Construc tion costs in the first four were estimated at $85,000 each; for Springfield, the department plans a $95,000 structure. Figure Set The Associated Press reported a town must have annual postal receipts of $10,000 or show that its present facilities are inadequate to get on the list. There have been no postoffices authorized since 1940. Before the war, the government spent $65, 000,000 to $70,000,000 in construct ing such buildings throughout the country. Prepared List Last year the Postoffice De partment prepared a list of build ings it considered necessary, bul Congress decided time was not ripe for such construction. The department thinks that the annual appropriation, when Con gress decides to resume construc tion of federal buildings, will run up to $200,000,000 or more throughout the nation. The department said all of the towns would be on the new list postal receipts have the Windsor jewels." dropped below $10,000 yearly. He added that "meat prices will come down in the field of com mercial or utility cuts, but choice cuts will remain high." He assured the nation's livestock producers that the government controls had been removed "perm anently." His prediction of lower prices was supported by statements from the meat industry itself. Cattle and hogs flooded the 12 major Midwest markets again Monday. More than 60,000 hogs and 156,000 cattle came to the markets. This was more than ten times the number of hogs and double the cattle shipments received in the same markets a week ago, the last day under price controls. A survey showed that retail butchers in many areas filled their counters with fresh meat for the first lime in man weeks. Beef was plentiful in many cities, but pork remained scarce except for bacon. At Washington, D.C., the com mittee for Consumer Protection said that "unprecedented amounts of livestock, most of which are in the lower grades, are reaching the market and there should be plenty of low-cost cuts available." "Buy Wisely" "Gel wise, buy no high-cost cuts," the committee advised housewives. "Don't pay high prices for lower grade meat." At Chicago, butchers said con sumers were buying heavily de spite the high prices, which in many instances doubled the form er OPA ceilings. Some retailers, however, reported that customers refused to buy bacon at $1 a pound. At Miami. Fla.. steak sold for $1 a pound and chopped steak for 85 cents. Chops sold for as high as $1 a pound at Pittsburgh. OPA Continues Decontrol Drive WASHINGTON - - (u.R) OPA wound up for a new flurry of do. control orders Monday while the baking industry awaited a de cision on its petition for removal of price ceilings from bakery goods one of the last major food groups still under controls. The Agriculture Department was scheduled to act on the baker's petition during the day. Some ob servers believed It would be de nied, at least temporarily, while the department de-ldcs whether controls also should be removed from wheat, flour, farina and semolina. OPA officials worked overtime to carry out President Truman's orders for accelerated decontrol. Ceilings were removed Monday from clothing made by disabled veterans as handicraft projects, and work gloves made from' im ported oil-tanned sheepskins. Oth er orders were in tne worKS. Rent Boost Wanted Despite OPA's oft-repealed socialization Flood Control Program Mapped by Army Engineers Colonel Tells Data on Dams Details of the four dams pro posed for construction on tribu taries of the McKenzie and three dams proposed for the South San tiam were told Monday by Col. O. E. Walsh, district Army Engin eer, Portland. The structures would aid flood control. Highest of the McKenzie area dams would be on cougar -rn, Bridge, 240 feet high, costing en miles east or sweet Home, it $6 800,000. would be 315 feet high, storing Tho'fnn'r MrKpnzie dams would 1 255.000-acre feet from a drainage store 300,000 acre-feet from 476 1 area of 279 square miles. Of cnunra milPS. COStinff $27,000,000 earth and rock construction, it at present estimates. This repre-, would cost $13,200,000. sents 87 per cent of the storage Smallest would be the Jordan ,vhirh wnuld have been accom-idam on Thomas Creek, seven Berlin Slights Reds in Voting BERLIN OP) Virtually com plete returns Monday showed that the citizens of Berlin sharply re buffed the Russian-sponsored So cialist Unity (Communist) Party In elections for city and borougn councils. The Social Democrats Party won 48.7 per cent of the tabulated votes and the Christian Demo crate took second place with ap proximately 22 per cent. The Socialist Unity Party, which was formed in the Russian zone by merging the Communist and Social Democrats Parties, ran third with about 19.8 per cent. The balloting was in all four of Berlin's occupation zones for par ties, and not for individual candi dates. City and borough councils will be selected on a proportional basis. The new council will re place the city government estab lished last year by the Russians when the Red Army was the only military force present. Fourth in the voting was the Liberal-Democrat Party with 9.5 per cent of the vote. Party Platforms Social Democrats leaders said they were surprised at the ex tent of their plurality and that they had expected to win only 40 per cent. The Social Democrats stand for of Industries. The WASHINGTON (AP) A strike bv pilots first of its kind in commercial aviation halted all flights Monday by Trans World Airlines planes in the United States and across the Atlantic. The surprise walkout capped a months-long controversy over higher wages for the company's 1400 pilots and co-pilots who have been earning from $7600 to $9100 a year, including base pay and other allowances. Shortly after the strike began the company cancelled more than 90 scheduled flights for a 24-hour period and an nounced the cancellation would be extended each day unless the strike ends. The company estimated that 3000 passengers booked on grounded planes were stranded or shunted to trains and other airlines. Approximately 25 tons of mail likewise was shifted to other transportation. U N Delegates Among Those "Grounded" Among those grounded at least temporarily was the Indian delegation to the United Nations Assembly. TWA re ported it was making efforts to get them aboard other planes from Shannon, Eire, to New York. TWA, the nation's, fourth largest aircarrier, was the only airline hit by the strike which David L. Behncke. head of the AFL Airline Pilots Assn., described as a "last recourse" in the prolonged wage dispute. Picket lines appeared at the company's shops and admin istration building in Kansas City but there was no similar action in other cities. TWA flies over 28,270 miles of routes from coast to coast in this country, and to Ireland, Paris, Geneva, Lisbon, Rome, Athens, Cairo and many other world capitals. The Civil Aeronautics i Board, governing agency fori aviation, met in Washington, but a CAB official told report ers he knew of no action in prospect. The strike got under way at the expiration of a week-end ulti matum from the union to the company demanding the pay adjustments. The union rejected last month government fact-finding board's recommendations for settlement of the controversy. Both sides disputed the effect of the board's findings. Behncke contended that the board's proposal for a $750 in crease in the $3000 annual base pay and revisions of allowances for hourly and mileage rates amounted to a pay cut ranging up to 24.7 per cent. TWA's President Jack Frye countered that the board's formula actually gave the pilots and co pilots increases up to 38 per cent. In a letter to Behncke, dated Sunday, he said he was sure the matter could be settled around the bargaining table. Frye asserted the union's de mands amounted to $15,300 yearly for top scales. Behncke said the union proposals ranged from $930.31 to $1187.43 monthly, de pending upon the flights and planes which the pilots flew. statement that no rent increases second rankine Christian Demo- are Dlanned. the National Assn. of , ,.rnts are staunrh advocates of nri Real Estate Boards announce- vate property rights. The Socialist that it would continue lis cam- Unity Party also espoused sociall- paign for an immediate 15 per cent zation of Industries, advocating boost in rents and early removal w,e expropriation of properties of ceilings. It said retention ot belonging to persons they call controls would add to the hous- -var criminals, big Nazis nntl capl ing shortage by creating a POW-1 iatist. " means opposed by the erful new obstacle' to resiaenuai 5ocaj Democrat'; construction. I The Social Democrats showed The Agriculture Department strength n all sectors and led several weeks ago turned down a eVen in some Important districts of request by tne uour mining tne Soviet sector, industry advisory committee to re- j move controls irom noui jn grounds world wheat supplies this year will be 35 per cent short of demand and that flour therefore must be considered in short sup ply. , The committee immediately ap pealed the decision to Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson and a formal hearing on the pe tition was held last week. Pittsburgh Power Employes Return (By UNITED PRESS) Settlement of the 27-day-old Pittsburgh power strike and pro spects for an end to the maritime strike brightened the nationwide labor outlook despite the first ma jor pilots' strike in the history of commercial aviation. Pittsburgh power workers re turned to their jobs Sunday pend ing arbitration of their dispute with the Duquesne Light Co., and ship owners agreed to meet again Monday with members of the striking maritime unions. In other developments on the labor front: plished by the proposed Quartz Creek dam on the McKenzie Riv er at Nimrod. Storage Told The Simmonds Creek structure miles cast of Scio 120 feet high of earth and gravel, storing 53,000 acre-feet and costing $1,900,000. Hearings Planned The Wiley Creek dam, five Judge Hears Fields Claim He's Innocent WASHINGTON (U.R)-- Benja min F. Fields, roly-poly Washing ton contract expediter, pleaded not guilty Monday when arraign ed in U. S. district court on con tempt of Congress charges. Judge Alexander Holtzoff set trial for Nov. 20 after denying a motion by Fields' attorney to dis miss the Indictment. The House committee investi gating surplus property disposal cited Fields for contempt n grounds he failed to supply re quested information on how he split $4000 in commissions on a bronze wire screening deal. Fields also was a key figure In the Senate War Investigating Committee's inquiry into the Garsson munitions combine. Sen. B. Mitchell (D-Wash), a committee member, charged that Fields offered him a $5000 bribe in an effort to have the inquiry halted. Officials of the United Auto Workers (CIO) announced that the j evidence to crack the bombing of union nexi ween .uuiu n lwo uenazlficatlon Board heari- utomobile industry for "substan-! quarters and a U. S. military tail tlal" wage increases to meet ris- which some investigators thought Ing living costs. to be connected to the approach- Only two issues in the maritime ing Germai. trial of Hjalmar t 7S ! would store 70,000 acrefeet from mMes southeast of Sweet ttjm. 130,000 acre-feet from a drainage ; a drainage ram .. ,rom drainage of 88 square miles, ana,." . . i jrai area of ! area of 53 square miles, and cost- afea of 88 square mnes, would cost $11,100,000. Data Given rwt Bnnno acre-feet from The three South Santiam dams tne mcB.eniic o.- .... 50 square miles Others raSE dam i control program were also told near Vida, 210 feet high and the Horse ing' $2,600,000. i would store 350,000 acre-feet Vv..-- . , j b i iRcm,ar-miie area. would be the Simmon! u - nf ,he revised Santiam from 402 square miles, costing ;re aiso iuiu. in,iw,wu i. H'wsm louuinw-o. costing . largest o, , " V da Nov i $3,300,000: Horse creek dam, v Middl. Santiam, MV-land Lebanon Nov. . Livestock Receipts Increase at Portland PORTLAND (U.R) An estimated 1900 head of cattle, the largest salable receipts since the return of OPA controls in September, were offered North Portland live stock buyers Monday. T. T. Swenson, Department of Acriculture 'market news repre sentative, said that Monday's cattle salable receipts were around 800 Hugh less than for the same Monday of 1945 when 2729 head of cattle were on the same market. Bob Clark, livestock salesman, who returned Monday from a field trip to cattle producing sections, ll ii CLuli-Ui reported that a stock car shortage KODDerS Use bkylight prevented about 600 head of cattle J0 Qgj )own tO Safe from leaving Baker North Powd-1 PORTLAND - OP) - Robbers er, Union and La Grande loading through a stations. skylight, cracked open a safe in Clark said, "tnere win m ran suburblm markct Sunday night more cattle kiiico oy m ntj wcnt 0ff with $1 ,500. nnrkers during the next few, c,,nHnv rvenintf a trio of men months than livestock market re- broke a restaurant door, carried strike remained to be settled be twecn two unions and East and Gulf Port ship operators as the West coast longshoremen offered to return to work following re sumption of negotiations. It was the first real brciK in the 21-day-old dispute and both sides were optimistic about an Immediate settlement. en miles southeast ceipts indicate, because of direct buying, much of which may bo forced by the stock Mr MtxUf." out the safe containing $1,341, and drove away with It In lull view of woman passerby, Arms Caches Seized in Reich STUTTGART, Germany OP) American Army officials, still In vestigating triple bombings ot German and American Installa tions in the Stuttgart area Satur day, disclosed Monday that "about 10" German arms caches were seized over the week-end In wide spread searches in southern Ger many. Two caches of arms were un earthed at Donauthal, southwest of Ulm, and the remainder In southern Bavaria. The officials said, however, the seizures were not connected with the Stuttgart bombings. A high ranking American Army officer meanwhile said he expected mora bombings aa "protests against the denazification program." Search Party With tanks and sub-machine guns, 300 United States constabu lary troopers raided a four-block square area of downtown Stutt gart Monday night In a house-to-house search for suspects in the triple bombing. More than a score of medium and light American tanks roared into the area with jeeps packed with constabulary troopers. German police trucks followed, jammed with 200 blue-uniformed German police. Tumbling from the vehicles, the armed American and Germans or dered all Germans on the side walks to stand against the walls. German sound trucks ordered all Germans to remain in their houses. Constabulary troopers with light machine guns took up guard every 15 yards around the area. Light tanks guarded every street exit, as the U. S. military and German criminal police hunted Schncht, truculent old banker who was acquitted at Nuernberg. No one was hurt. Weather C. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, cloudy Mon day night and Tuesday, rain Tuesday, .little temperature change. Oregon, same, with mod erate southerly wind off the coast. Local statistics: Highest tem perature Sunday, 59 degrees; low Monday morning, 40 degrees; 24- hour precipitation ending 10:30 a. m. Monday, .91 Inches; total for month 2.92 Inches; normal for month, 2.73 Inches; total rain since Sept. 1, 5.62 inches; stage of Wll lamette river at 7:30 a. m. Mon day, minus .65; prevailing wind direction and velocity at 11:30 a. m. Monday, SSW 4; prevailing Sunday, South 12. Sunrise and sunset (PST): Tuesday, 6:36 a. m. and 3:18 p. m Wednesday, 6:38 a. m. and 5:16 p. m. Sll l.llt TIDES Hlfh lO-.Wa.m. TKfl. 11:14 p.m. Tift Low tltOlJa. (.lit :!!. lit 2 Marines Captured On China Hunt Trip PEIPlNG-(Pi-Two United States Marines, members of a nine-man hunting party, were captured Sun day by armed Chinese and still were missing Monday. Marine headquarters announced. In another incident, three U. S. sailors traveling by jeep near Tangku Harbor fought off 50 Chinese In a gun battle ih which several Chinese were wounded. None of the sailors were hurt. W Both groups of Chinese were presumed to be Communist. All nine members of the hunting party were seized by three sepa rate Chinese patrols but seven were released after being brought together. Authorities sought to negotiate for the release of the two others. The sailors were traveling from Tangku toward Tientsin when their jeep was stopped by seven Chinese who attempted to take their weapons. The Chinese opened fire when the sailors resisted, and soon a larger group ot Chinese emerged from the- brush to entet the fight. No l
