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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ..
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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
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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.
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