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CITY EDITION CITY EDITION i r v wmixv wraum.vmuviii in rir wru k hi nm. iib iib iisL ji UWE COUNTYTS HOME KTWSPAPtQ. EUGENE, OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1947 NO. 52 nresenfatives ss Power .'; IllAirArVofn 7 Issue May Be put Before feopie I (iTh Onion Lr- Kfrrlday BUI y Tuiw viii t&or Snejr. th. fdSmn. of torrid debate. Jrtt votes were necessary. The 7voted Wednesday to over- m irst time "ince 1937 the legislature had passed a l mer a veto, that measure m been to pay a widow's ?! mi iwininml hv Eastern Loo legislators who say it r. i . - iLA Trial,,. Dimaf fil build a power dam on the iki River and thus relieve a m jhortage in that area, old permit power companies to -their dams for the period vrhich they were licensed, un itondemnation proceedings are it The law now in effect, srf in 1931, permits taking t on the basis of net invest it, less the total of certain m. Martin P. Gallagher, On- i. numeil the debate by sav- the present power la has t power development oy pri t eompan.es impossible, but p,ljrle Thomas, Dallas, coun ti or saying no private plants it built since 1931 because of depression and the war. : Is;, J. E. Bennett, Portland, In threatened a referendum if House approved the bill, and (.Hobert E. Duniway, Portland, ltd there is a power shortage Eastern Oregon. Iniwering rumors that the gov a wanted the bill passed over veto, Duniway read a letter the governor saying the re U "absolutely false, unfair without foundation." . bmmiftee OK's lary Boosts HUM On A uniform salary totals for. state officials., .was it Huns Committee, which said ft worked out In relation to w if paid in other states, fading the list is the governor, k would get $10,000 a year, bind with $7500 now. In ad- a, ht would get $100 month opeases. In other officials would get 00. They are the secretary of flOO boost; the attorney general, j wouio. get 2500 more; the pe utilities commissioner, who atdr nti ikat i fbighway engineer, who would nuu more. S eommittea also approved J. police salary bill, intro w by Speaker John Hall and WW passed by the House. Hall charged that - ,l.. ittempting to bury the bill, 7 pnmaes large increases for I" police officers. Editors Praisedl House Groun F or Individualitywwm Curb Packer Urges Newsnnnerm.... ' To Base Convictions on Fact Oregon editors were pnmmaHi.j for preserving a "high degree of individuality" Friday by Dr. Paul C. Packer, chancellor of the State oy-i-ni oi tllgner EdUcat nn at. addressed the luncheon meeting of oui ouuuai uregon Press con. ference at the Eueene Hntel He observed that Oregon editors "knock off time to run their edi torial pages," a practice which he saia is not ionowed in many parts of the nation. The chancellor also noted that to the editors, their; writings "represent reality." Turning to the responsibilities of the press, Dr. Packer urged that newspapers oe "lor or against cur rent issues on an informed basis," Turnbull to Remain Dean George Turnbull will re. main as head of the University of Oregon school of journalism for "the balance of his academic ca reer," University President Harry K. Newburn told the newspaper men at their Friday luncheon. Dean Turnbull, who has been associated with the Journalism school for 30 years, was scheduled to retire at the end of this school year. On retirement, he would have been named dean emeritus of the school. , The decision means that the dean will serve until the summer of' 1948, when he reaches the compulsory retirement age. Russell Thackrey, a Kansas journalism professor who was scheduled to replace Dean Turn bull, last fair accepted a govern ment job in Washington, D. C. instead of refraining from taking a stand, or commenting without adequate Information. The educator noted that today the press has an added responsi bility of trying to explain to peo ple the need for "living in the world as It is, to translate the complicated factors of modern science and communication into everyday terms. Asks for Help Dr. Packer also asked the edi tors to "carry to the people work able information concerning the educational need of the state." Tracing theugrQWth,-.ot.ihe state system from 1019 students in 1900 to more than 16,000 today, he de clared, "We have reached a place where we will have to 'tailor make' a new suit of clothes for education." . Robert C. Hall of the University of Oregon school of journalism was chairman for the luncheon meet ing. , Presiding at the morning ses sions was O. G. Crawford, vice- president of the conference, in the absence of President P. L. Jack son. He named Henry Fowler, Bend Bulletin; W. L. Jackson, Al- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) " - LAUNDRIES PICKETED KLAMATH FALLS W Pla card-bearing members of , the Laundry Workers Union (AFL) began picketing this city's three laundries Friday in quest of a 10 cent an hour wage increase and a 40-hour week. ' HUGH BAILLIE, United Press president, will address Oregon newspapermen at 6:15 p.m. Fri day in the Eugene Hotel. . ane Search Begins A forlorn search was scheduled to begin Friday for the third plane to disappear in the mountains of Southern Oregon. Aboard the light, single-en-gined Navion was a pilot identi fied as Douglas Locke, who was ferrying the four-placer from Los Angeles to Beaverton. Like oth ers, his disappearance was not re ported at once because of his fail ure to file a flight plan. Message Here Authorities reported he took off from Red B.luff, Calif., last Sun day afternon, saying he would land at Lakeview, Ore. Sunday at 7:37 p.m. Ed Meyers, CAA ra- dio opeiator in Eugene, reported receiving a message from the plane asking for directions. . . Meyers, told .the , pilot, believed to have been Locke, that he did not have equipment to give him his bearings. Meyers said recep tion was bad, and he was barely able to hear the pilot. Couldn't Tell CAA officials - at Eugene said Friday that the position of the plane. Could not be determined from the radio message. A cnecK of the-local airports revealed that no plane of this description had landed here. ' ; ' Army search-rescue units from McChord Field,-Wash, and Ham ilton Field, Calif., will search the route Locke was believed to have taken when weather permits, the CAA in Portland said. Major Frank Rasor. rescue unit com mander from McChord Field, said the presence of other passengers aboard was not known. Number of the plane was re- norted as NCB609H, and it was being ferried to the Chadwick Air Service in Beaverton. On Portal Pay ClO's Walter Reuther Tangles With Senators WASHINGTON (0.B The House Judiciary Committee Fri day approved a bill which would outlaw all . present and future portal pay suits and restrict the right of workers to collect back overtime claims. The bill was in two parts. The first would outlaw almost $6,000, uod.ooo In- pending portal suits and any future suits which might be brought. The second part set a one-year statute of limitations on other kinds of minimum wage and overtime claims. Chairman Earl C. Michener (R Mich) said the House now is scheduled tentatively to' vote on the measure next Thursday. He declined to disclose the commit tee vote but said the bill was reported "by a large majority." Other congressional . develop ments: Labor Walter Reuther, head of CIO's United Automobile Work ers, tangled with senators on his demand for economic and social "justice" for workers. He opposed "punitive" labor legislation. Two leading Republican members of the Senate Labor Committee ac cused him of advocating Social ism. Relief President Truman ask ed Congress for $350,000,000 for relief in liberated areas. OPA The $9,000,000 Congress wants to take back from OPA will cost the government a pos sible $75,000,000 in possible dam age collections, Price Chief Max McCullough asserted. Racketeering Two House com mittees got into a jurisdictional .dispute over which should have authority to investigate charges of union racketeering in major U. S. cities. Both the House Labor Committee and the Executive Ex penditures Committee want the job. Lend-Lease Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH) said the most modern equipment for refining aviation gasoline is included in $25,000,000 worth of . material which the State Department wants to sell to Russia under the lend-lease law. Legality of the sale has been challenged.' British Told Production to Only Solution Crisis THIS 25-FOOT CRATER shows where a vat of highly volatile acid In a Los Angeles electro plating plant exploded Thursday killing at least 15 persons and injuring 200 more. Firemen and citizens whose nearby homes were destroyed or ' damaged by the terrific force stand amid the totally wrecked plant. (NEA Telephoto). British Press Opposes Independence for India . LONDON (U.B The British press ; almost unanimously lam basted the government's program for Indian independence Friday, charging it would deprive the em pire of a substantial standing army and immense labor reserves. " There also was a chorus of de mands for an explanation of the retirement of ' Viceroy Viscount Wavell. The government hag not explained ' Wavell's retirement. However., it was undestood that Wavell. and the government quar reled over the June, 1948, deadline for Indian independence and alsoj over bringing pressure -on the Moslems to enter the Indian Con stituent Assembly. Pleasant Hill Five Wins 'B' Crown lowed $35; Mapleton JDaum c:...i... -n diusiaw fiv DVTV A fl "Tears now tVin T3iaaDBn urn Z. nave saled : forth to D- AQff.. . . . Ihj uiurnameni ana C J" with the chainpion- f uureaay night, before a f 2500, the smooth-work- ,, - Ajuwcii nea uevus k f?,nnex the Wth straight kj: "rasant Hill. Rs the two fine trophies L . T , couted for their ef L'" to the district tour K . ,!unctin City Feb. 28 ton. ;;.J es .gel wrougn ik.v . aom "ere it looks Ariin olaw a tourney gtonMarch 6-8. fjbwn longer than most of the vZ s care to remember K60"8 beside Pleasant M " a "ampionship. And flight the well-versed ere not to be denied. ?Lw8s in the ball game for i ,i r"oa- ""t aftet that it td7,;'eaDsai HilL as Johnny d frn- ;vuiiro uasey nit tne tovlctynglestospurtheir whiw ""Siusuaw aUged a' Mril!. lor thira Place for toVhTr belore Mapleton mL6DA won' 83-43- to L, ged out McKenzie 42 iUttTre. 'ourtl Place, and toiij, fssociation awarded Kt-Hii. winn'n teams. Nuard received the Reg- a rOtatUlB tronho nri .miva nr T ANE COUNTY re then Pleiiant Hill Hillbillies who won BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS XeUK Lowell. 53-85. in the finals of the 23rd annual . Mtu .nMM.ntlv "B" League title py aei5aw,,tT .nun MutnPMi i-f a riht triinr iounty tournament at McArthur Court Thu L,ndIey Jlra Lantr, Wlllard Cole John at the top row. are Coach T. V . Otto, neiin , ft to right Danny Graham, Keith DoX and Manager M.ynard WHllamso, Srnon Parr. (Braun photo, Wiltshire engraving). Dlnh.pH f HrV. nCrUCI ' XVliiiuan. . . received nuuaiuic . " j tiarHwnre. one from joe uoruun -- Henderahott's donaiea u ond-place trophy toLoweU, the United States Nauonai o gave the third-place trophy to Mapleton, Creswell rece Wed the fourth-place award from the i First National Bank and We.sf.eld and Goldberg gave the fifth-place trophy to Coburg. , sterUng-silver basketballs irom the Register-Guard. The all stars were Bob Barrett, Siuslaw; Scott Thomson, McKenzie; - Jon" Dowdy, Alvin Lindley, and Rich ard Casey, pleasant Hill; Bernard Mathews and Bill Hathaway, Lowell; and Bill Mason,. Maple- t0Coburg had too much teamworki for the Warriors ir the first game of the evening, staying ahead of Oakridge all the way. Little Dick McGuire , kept Oakridge auve, firing 22 points through the net. Close Quarter " . The Broncos led; 7-4 at the quarter and 22-15 at halftlme. By the third quarter- Coburg was (CONTINUED ON FAGS li Debris Probed For Blast Cause XOS ANGELES (U.B Bull dozers and steamshovels ground through the debris of the O'Con nor electroplating plant Friday, clearing the way for an investiga tion of the earth-shaking ex plosion which leveled a city block and left 15 persons dead and hun dreds injured. The death toll was established by Coroner Ben Brown who said that the casualty figure may be revised upward from the list of critically injured. More than 100 of the known 200 injured remain ed In hospitals Friday. Mass Inquest Planned As fire department investiga tors clawed through the wreck age. Brown announced that he would call a mass inquest early tnex week..JHe. said that hearings may require iwp. or uu?w uojtb.,.. The . Salvation, Army: at the same time' set iip tnreawinobile kitchens to feed the homeless and the police department established a branch headquarters at the scene to act as a clearing house for information. . The city'o i worst explosion might have been caused by a breakdown in the . electroplating nlant refrigeration' system, only an hour earlier. Fire Prevention Chief Earl H. Richardson laid. He said the plant was. using a new nlatine nrocess - for aluminum which emolovs concentrated per chloric acid. The acid is so vol atile it must be kept under con stant refrigeration. Plastic SusDected Richardson said Rooert uotias nlater who survived the blast, informed him that about an hour before the explosion a screen with a nlastic frame was . inserted into the nerchloric acid vat.- "If so, that is probably what caused the explosion, Richard son said. "All plastics are organic matter, and any organic matter inserted into nerchloric acid would cause it to blow up -violently." " ' - ; . He said he was checking fur thr tn substantiate the report be- fniw officially . announcing - the cause. The ' mushrooming blast, so deafening that persons miles from the scene believed an atom bomb had fallen, left an estimated ruu survivors homeless. tl.OOO'.OOO Damage ' ' At least 100 families were fed in emergency canteens and then transferred , to housing projects for the night. Many of them lost all their possessions when tne ex nlosion tore up the!.' homes. Property damaged amounted to $1,000,000 and possibly may double that.. The one-story elec troplating works was virtually disintegrated. A dozen homes in the same block were demolished. Thirty others were said by city building Inspectors to be unsafe until repaired.- A total of 300 buildings were demolished or damaged. - Oil Strike Averted As Pact Is Reached LOS ANGELES WlWorkers registered 97 per cent approval Friday of an agreement between two major oil companies and the CIO Oil Workers International Union, and definite end of a strike threat which would have curtailed both transportation and natural gag heating In five western states appeared assured. The first group of 1000 work ers to ballot on a pact reached Thursday after an all-night con ference among federal conciliators, oil companies and union negotiat ors, gave it an overwhelming mar gin. It provides a 10-cents an hour increase on base pay plus $17.70 per ' month cost of living boost until next Dec. 31. Effective data would be last Jan. L , Severe Snowstorm Sweeps Eastern US Bitter Weather Causes 31 Deaths By ASSOCIATED PRESS The heaviest snowstorm in re cent years brought death to at least 31 persons Friday as the East struggled to maintain business as usual through falling snow, that reached a depth of 27 inches in Virginia and kept falling. Schools closed, highways were snowbound and business and in dustry slowed down.- . Over-exertion In shoveling snow and traffic accidents were the chief causes of death. Deaths by states were New Jer- Search Stayed River-dragging operations for the body of James E. Sweeney, 80, who is believed to have drowned himself in the Willamette River Tuesday, were discontinued Thursday after authorities from the county sheriff's office found the ' water too swift and; rock filled to permit dragging. Sheriff Tom Swarts said Friday that since the spot where the aged man disappeared could not be dragged, county authorities would wait until Monday before resum ing the search. Sweeney left his home at 122 Knoop Lane Tuesday afternoon to buy a loaf of bread at River Road Market, and was later reported seen walking toward the river. His son, F. J. Sweeney, with whom he made his home, found his hat, coat and cane on the river bank Wednesday evening. ' The missing man had been in poor health for some time. Ray Tentatively Sets Date for City Pageant L. L. Ray, newly-elected presi dent of the . Eugene Pageant Assn.'s board of directors, had let ters in the mail Friday to Mrs. Doris Smith and Horace Robinson, co-directors of the .1941 pageant, setting the tentative dates for the celebration as July 24, 25 and 26, arid asking if they will be avail able to direct the pageant. 1 ' Ray was elected Wednesday to tne ooara presidency, .succeeding Joseph Koke, president since the pageant was originated.. Earl Mc- Nutt was elected yice-president and Lynn McCready will be the new secretary., A committee has been named to appoint a pageant manager, and Ray was authorized to name a script and production committee. Weather r V. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and . vicinity, mostly cloudy Friday night and Saturday, with occasional light rain Satur day. Little temperature change. Oregon, partly cloudy Friday, in creasing cloudiness over state Fri day night and Saturday. Occa sional light rain in northwest por tion. Not so cold in west portion Friday night Gentle variable wind off coast. . Local statistics: Highest tem perature Thursday, 52 degrees; low Friday morning, 37 degrees; no precipitation 24 hours ending 10:30 a.m. Friday; total for month 3.08 inches; normal for month, 4.65 inches; stage of Willamette River at 7:30 a.m. Friday, plus .10 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m.. West 4; prevailing Thursday, South '4. Ronnie and miiset F8Ti: Sat urday, 7:04 a.m. and 5:50 p.m.; Sunday, 7:03 a.m. and 5:51 p.m. SWSLAW VIDEI . . SsinrSsr nun i:T.nk T.n. i:iosnt. un. u sue tab a . mm 1.1 at. sey, 11; Pennsylvania, 9; Connecti cut, 4; New York, 2; District, of Columbia, l; Illinois, 2. While the full weight of snow hit the eastern seaboard states, ex treme cold followed on its heels over the Great Lakes and Middle West The temperature registered 21 degrees below zero at Bemldji, Minn., and below zero weather ex tended over Minnesota and North Dakota. New York "Burled" In New York City 11 Inches of snow had fallen by 10:45 a.m. (EST) and the weather bureau forecast the temperature would go to 10 degrees Friday night. v A task force of 8000 workers struggled to clear New York streets, working in 35-mllt-hour .winds that . whipped- among' -the skyscraper. u -.j-.XJ;. i .' : In New Jersey .two. main high- ways were blocked.' Nearly all trains ' throughout the northeast were running behind schedule.. Everyone had a story to tell of difficulties. One of the most har rowing was that of Mrs.: Edward Lamier of Saugus, Mass., i who could not reach a hospital in time ana- gave birth to a healthy boy with two policemen acting as mldwives, : , .. i ' t .. .. . ' ' 'J:. :,.! Business Better ForMr.'ZYXW $1000 Tax Paid CHICAGO tft Th Inter nal Revenue Office reports that business improved In 1946 for Mr. "ZYXW," a mysterloui tax payer. Collector Nigel D. Campbell said that the department had received $1000 from a person who signed his name "ZYXW." Earlier he had written the col lector that he was to make tax payments of $1700, and It would be sent in four separata enve lopes. , . - "ZYXW" Is. not 'newcomer at the tax office. He has been sending in payments for the last seven years with only the lni . tials on a blank income tax form as a mark of identifica tion. His first contribution was $300. Last year he sent in $700. ' . "It may be someone who is in an illegal business," Camp bell said. "Whoever he is, his conscience is bothering htm."' Citizens Learn Nation's Plight In White Paper Coal, More Workers Said Priority Needs LONDON (AP) Tht Labor Party government Fri day issued a grim white paper called "a working pattern for the nation." It told the austerity-weary Britons they must increase production or risk the "foundations of our national life." ' ' ' The white paper designation oi important official documents is sued by the government said: ' The nation needs coal, produc Hoti, foreign currency. The private individual must continue rationing, forego hopes of shorter hours, increase his in dividual output in mine, mill, factory. Organized labor must abandon "Industrial arrangements which restrict production, prices or em ployment." Industry . must export one fourth its products and accept a stern system of priority allotments of manpower and supplies. "Not Totalitarian" ' Sir Stafford Crlpps, board of trade president told a news con ference the plan is not "totalitar ian." "We do not say that whether you like it. or not you have got to go into the coal mine, or a steel factory, or whatever it may be," he said. "Instead, wa try to Induce em ployers and employes to conform to a pattern of industrial produc tion in order to get the greatest benefits for the nation as a whole. .. The war-strained nation, cur rently caught In the pincers of aa unprecedented fuel-shortage and close-4rawn financial plight was warned that.'! this III critical mo ment in aur national- affairs.' w Without dramatic, Prima . Minister Attlaa told the people (CONTINUED ON-PAGE -2) ,- . Army in Reich j BERLIN (U,R The Soviet army has completed a big scale demob ilization and transfer of its troops In Germany, Gen. Joseph T. Mc Narney reported Friday. Berlin observers believed the Soviet occupation forces had been reduced to fewer than 200,000, or about the name as the American forces in Germany. ' . U. 8. ShUts GHQ Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky ad vised McNarney of the completion of the troop movements and Mc Narney reported it in his final Berlin press conference as mili tary governor in Germany. Lt Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who takes , over, from McNarney on March 15, announced a sweeping reorganization - of U. S.' forces, wth most of the leadership trans ferred from Frankfurt to Berlin, McNarney said Sokolovsky told him Thursday ' that the troop movements were completed, and correspondents again would be is sued permits to visit the Russian occupation zone. 'The zone has been sealed off since last October, when the ma jor redeployment move began. . Churchill Tails' to Obtain Apology 'from Student Paper A 35-minute telephone conversation Thursday night between Randolph Churchill, son' of Britain's wartime prime minister, and Marguerite Wright, editor of the University of Oregon Dally Emerald, failed to bring an. apology for' the publication's treatment of - Churchill's' Wednesday night visit to the campus, the Emerald editor sam t riday.. A story in the paper's Friday edition said; Churchill attempted to extract from the editor "an apology for and retraction of opin ions expressed in an editorial." Charges 'Tantrum' , The editorial which started the feud, charged that Churchill had declined to attend a previously scheduled reception, at a univer sity fraternity house, that he had thrown a temper tantrum when an Emerald photographer attempt ed to take his picture, arid that he had given a "tongue lashing" to Egyptian students. Emerald writers were further irritated by the fact that the edi tor had waited an hour for him at his hotel, and' that when she did meet him, following his talk, he brushed her off as just an other student waiting to shake hands, . ... . Gives Reply ; '.; In his telephone conversation with the editor from Portland Thursday night, Churchill told her that . "abtoJutaJx -nothiar ra done to Inform me" about .the scheduled reception, which he re fused to attend,- Mora than 300 engraved invitations had been sent for the event. Ha added that Dick Williams. educational activities manager, had . told him In Corvallis at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday about the reception. He added that he was offended that anyone should feel they con- -trolled him "body and soul." Churchill returned ' to Eugens Thursday' night- tor an- off-the-record visit with delegates to the Oregon Newspaper .Publishers Assn. conference, and left for Grants Pass Friday, morning to resume his speaking 'tour of tha country. " Finally, Churchill told Portland press representatives that he left the University of Oregon with rather dim view of the schooTg aspiring journalists. At the University of Oregon, "aspiring young journalists" set- ' tied down after the verbal battle with a rather dim Slew, p( Iff. Ghtirchl2L - ''';! ( I-. i m m (:!$ - ; ' m fi!';! 4:i m (fit 1- f; ; v.- r sHf. I Si Is fef'i ft: : Y, - IK! The eight au-nara - Hi i -iis-i
