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CITY EDITION CITY EDITION JfePlan amended iHouseOK CIRCULATION YESTERDAY . 24,409 LANE COUNTV8 HOME NEWSPAPER EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1947 NO. 80 .' .mn Favors Cded Rent Control Ur.TON-M--E8rly "" wis forecast 1, ,ln personal in- L ,ai lot W u'uul" n Way. w Mean. LTpproved th. measure PtS. nse. despite W' i .i would an- ff,.Te, of $1000 L From " '": r. 'a h. 9.0 oer ceni. BMM Republicans t In cat taxes, L fcuktol .abcommlttee " J" in. U hit coon J-"" ntU ion ;,to were these develop- U limy congressional nrnnoseu iui"'" ..jmpnt to limit Presi- iU two lour year terms. The ,ote was 81 to 29. Jwithi of the states now t, ntifr the amendment to h effective. Un Pollw-Actlng Secre- . . -1 ...1.1 State Dean Acneauu iv miuMm invwnere inreai- Kecurity. Urging approval I Greei-Tunusn aio pro hi said if Greece. collapses, Lmunlitj will take over at Mriiilona The House kiittoni Committee voted Clalary payments to U. S. tiUon Director Edgar L. tsd 100 of his subordl- Kemberj said Warren once pi to two Communist I mow and was "radical." M Bu" Eeonotnlca Chair- llmeni D. Millikln of the Financi Committee aired tat that the State Depart' to offering "feed bag" fi ll aid to lure ether nation. Ibi International Trade Or is. The State Department Iwai trying to establish eco- WMom on a world-wide 4m to Rniala Sen. James m (R-Mo) demanded that t of tractors to Russia be id. Hi' tald V. S. farmers ill be deprived of needed o to help "Russia and her its." ' - We laterprbe W. E. Bad- Knoxville. Tenn.. com- pto Sen. Kenneth McKel Wa) that the Atomic Commission under Chair HsjWrte. David Lilienthal Wl to take over nrivnt Pin in the ttcinity of the mjv ienn, atomic power O TAX BILL Mffl-mTh. Senate 7 Committee Friday re- te I passage of E'-mva te tax timber 10 l thouud feet to build "Jul 1500,000 forestry r. , " reearch fund. wwui consider the bill SIMULTANEOUS actions by communists in countries all over the world occur too frequently to be mere coincidences, Under secretary of State Dean Ache son told the Bouse Foreign Affairs Committee. Turkey Under Pressure - Acheson Says Communistic Nations Are Threat to US WASHINGTON (UP) Actine Secretary of Stat non Acheson said Friday that it is "dangerous to the security of the United States 'to have Communist-dominated govern- Acheson was asked by a mem ber of the House Foreign Affairs Committee whether It would not be dangerous to have Communist dominated governments in the Pa cific. He replied: "It is dangerous to the security of the United States to have Com m u n i s t -dominated governments anywhere." Reasons for Need Acheson also told the commit tee which Is holding hearings on the administration's proposed $400,000,000 aid to Turkey and Greece that Turkey needs Amer ican aid to resist Soviet demands for a share in the control of The Dardanelles. The strategic straits are the gateway between The Mediterranean and oil-rich lands bordering the Black Sea. Acheson said the government's new foreign policy was not aimed at any "country or any ideology." But then in answer to a question he made this statement on the threat of Communist-dominated government to us. Acheson told Kep. waiter M. Judd (R-Mlnn) that "Communist organisations throughout' the world appear to act with a high degree of discipline and unanim ity at the same time." "Beyond the probability of co incidence?" Judd asked. "Beyond the probability of co incidence," Acheson agreed. Rep. Chester E. Merrow (R-NH) said he was strongly in favor of aid to Greece and Turkey. He asked whether failure to approve it would not be interpreted as a resignation of the United States from its position of world leader ship. . .. "World Watching" . "If the. United States will not accede to the requests made upon it," Acheson said, "there will be a very strong conviction in the Mid dle East and throughout the world that a great deal of our professions are merely words and we will not exert any efforts to maintain in stitutions which we wish to see survive." He said that the position of the United States "as the defender of certain views stated in our Con stitution and stated in the United Nations Charter". will be "greatly weakened" in the event Congress refuses to approve the program. Merrow said that "Mr. Stalin and his associates will not stop their aggressive policies of ex-' panslon unless the United States takes a firm stand." He said he was "In favor of a showdown now." Acheson repeatedly assured the Congressmen that the administra- tion's foreign policy is not aimed at any particular nation. He told Rep. Karl E. Mundt (R SD) that the Turkish armies have had to remain In a state of semi- mobilization for several years. inis, ne said, has been a severe "budgetary strain" on the govern, ment. The Turks are not worried about "internal bands of guerillas" ne said. Their worries stem entire ly from "external pressures." iese Reds May Establish Capital in Manchuria Cross Nearing Dal Fund Goals r lane rv... . .. iSwntobecol ta(,C;Un?'Dutnnot Side It ? Ulerefore is W in collections Nil dltM.4- v ' '"Prevtai.. "wen-i tharLtoun. Thursday "Wcts had topped 4 IU continue through assists. day signed a SC ."id the WPml 8 American .teSen?5Dled forces. t Provides for an Mi'UngoVer " It " lllf Tlcan 'orfiv. ," SHANGHAI UR) Speculation grew Friday that with the fall of Yenan the Chinese Communists may seek to develop northern Manchuria as a major base of op erations while continuing small scale guerilla warfare from iso' lated pockets within China proper. mere was no certain indica tion where the Communists might place their main base but it was believed it might be Kiamusze, an old fur trading center 250 miles west northwest of Harbin and only about 70 miles from the Soviet, border. City Described Kiamusze is isolated but little more so than Yenan. Compared to Yenan's single, narrow tricky river and one serviceable highway Kiamusze -has-much better com munications. It is on the banks of the Sungari River which flows to the Amur, skirting the Man churian border and is the center of a network of short-line railroads. Harbin was believed to be an alternate Communist site. It is the most highly developed city controlled by the Communists and because of its large Russian col ony is believed to be safe from Nationalist bombing or ground at tack at least for the time. being. waders 'Missing' It was doubted that the Russians would object to the construction of a strong Communist state along ineir frontiers. The whereabouts of the top ranking Communist leaders is not yet known but it was believed they would have little difficulty in cov ering the 1200-mile march from Yenan to Harbin and thence to Kiamusze. Young Couple Not Yet Charged SANTA ANA, Calif. OP) Sheriff James Musick said Friday he believes Financier Walter Overell and his wife, Beulah, were slain with a ball peen hammer be fore their yacht exploded in New port Bay last Saturday night. But the district court attorney an nounced he was not yet ready to file murder charges against the couple's daughter and her boy friend. Sheriff Musick retorted -that,' In the absence of action by District Attorney James L. Davis,'he would ask a grand jury indictment of Louise Overell, 17-year-old heiress to a reported $600,000 ' fortune, and George R. Collum, 21, her husky fiance. 'It sufficient evidence has not been presented by this afternoon and charges have not been filed, I have no choice but to entertain defense demands for writs of habeas corpus'," Davis said. Attorneys for the couple Indi cated Thursday that such action would be forthcoming, . : . v Other developments in the strange case Friday included: Disclosure by an autopsy that there was not water in the lungs of the Overalls, socialites of ex clusive Flintridge, indicating that they were dead before the blasted craft sank at its mooring. - Thousands Throng To Spring Opening Thousands of Lane "County shoppers milled up and down Wil lamette St. Thursday night as weather remained, -warm and balmy for Eugene's first post-war spring opening. " Merchants unveiled their brightly decorated windows promptly at 8 p.m. to reveal the latest spring ensembles from east ern and California style centers. Freshly cut spring blossoms ap peared on several window trims. The 35-piece Eagles Band, un der management of Sam Ruben- stein, played from 8 to 10 p.m. on the corner of Eighth and Willam ette Sts.; Ellis Hoyt directed the band in a mixed program- oi martial music and ballad num bers. Jaywalking in the . downtown area was ruled legal for the eve ning through the courtesy of the Eugene Police , Department, State Revenue Planners Seek Additional Taxes SALEMr-M') The joint legisla tive Ways and Means Committee, which must decide quickly wheth er to make a drastic cut in all appropriations or whether to have a deficit of more than $6,000,000 for the next biennium, voted 6 to 5 Friday to ask the House Tax Committee to bring in the bill to levy a 30 per cent tax on slot ma chines, pinball games and punch boards. The tax committee has tabled the bill, which would bring in about $4,000,000. The Ways and Means Committee took the action after Rep. Robert C. Gile, Roseburg, chairman of the House Tax Committee, told the ways and means group that his committee has finished its work. The committee's program includes the cigaret tax of 2 cents a pack age, wmcn would bring in $4,000, 000. -Sales Tax Ne Help The 3 per cent sales tax bill, which was passed 38 to 22 late Thursday by the House and sent to the Senate, would not help the deficit, since it must go to the people. ,' C. C. Chapman, chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Finance, suggested to the commit tee that one way out would be to have the deficit, and authorize the State Tax Commission, on July 1, law, to call a special election to levy a property tax to make un whatever deficit exists, at that time". The property tax then prob- aoiy would be onset by income taxes. Economy Measures ' . The committee also voted Fri day to make relief payments a lien against the estates of persons receiving the payments, thus re storing a provision of the law that was eliminated in 1941. The committee also is faced with having to make a 20 per cent cut in old age assistance. The committee voted to kill bills to permit counties and cities to operate boys' camps with state aid, conduct aviation education in the schools, and to acquire 1000 acres for the site of a new peni- wrnuai jr near oaiem. Senate May Alter r Sales Tax Measure SALEMt-W) The Oreeon Sen ate, with only a week or so left to work on it, got the 3 per cent sales tax bill from the i.Vjse Fri day amid predictions by House leaders that the bill would be al most unrecognizable . by the time the Senate's Assessment and Tax ation Committee works it over. : The House passed the measure Thursday 38 to 22, concluding three hours of the most bitter de bate during the first 67 days of the legislature. The bill would be referred to the people at a spe cial election June 24, the people already having beaten five sales tax proposals. The -Senate Tax Committee will begin work Monday on the bill. There is some talk that it might reduce the rate to 2 per cent, and drastically change the distribution of the $24,000,000 annual revenue. Marshall, Bevin Suggest Plans tor ISew Liermany U S and Britain Seven Workmen Hurt As Part of Plant Falls PHILADELPHIA OP) A sec tion of a hew rotogravure plant being constructed by the Philadel phia Inquirer collapsed Friday, injuring at least seven workmen. A section of the fourth floor, meas- urine about 100 by 150 feet, fell through, carrying a number oi workmen with It. The men were said to be pouring fresh concrete at the time. AIR RATE BOOSTED WASHINGTON UP) The Civilian Aeronautics Board Fri day approved an agreement among 16 airlines for a 10 per cent increase in passenger fares, This raises the average rate from about 4.6 cents a mile to slightly more than five cents a mile, CENTENNIAL PLANNED DALLAS C Plans for celebration of the centennial of Polk' County will be drafted by committees next week. The eele liiratton jg planned foe mbbmc. Rainman Plays Familiar Tune That gloomy weatherman to at it again. Friday was - the first day of spring, but did that change things in the Willam ette Valley? No. With, no doubt, a mocking taunt on his lips, the weather man overlooked the confident girls in bright dresses and tossed off the prediction that Friday night and Saturday . will see cloudy skies, cooler tempera tures and, you hit it, "light rain." Spring flounced in officially at 3:13 a.m. By 10 a.m. the weatherman had succeeded in discounting the new : season slight hope for clear skies in the next five days, he said. : : . Labor, Business Given Warning BERKELEY, Calif. JP) Sec retary of Labor L. B. Schwellen- bach, in a speech before the Cali fornia Institute of Industrial Re lations, declared Thursday night that unless industry stops' boost ing prices and labor stops asking wage Increases, "they together are going to price the products out . of the market which will be a disaster not only to each of them but to our whole national economy." Discussing various labor bills pending in Congress, he vigorous ly opposed any ban on the closed shop (in which only union men may be hired) "and kindred forms of union security," because, "ne glecting other considerations, . it is plain such proposals- would open the doors to prolonged in dustrial chaos in America." Union security, he said, "is the very heart", of. contracts' which cover 77 per cent of all union workers, and T "in " many cases these security provisions were won after long struggles . . , against the bitterest opposition.' Given this historical background, and the undeniable fact that some em ployers still are anxious to get rid of unions, I do not see how. a ban. on union security could fail to provoke industrial strife.". The secretary favored: . Banning - jurisdictional' . strife between unions, since "certainly the employer and the public should not be penalized by . in ability of labor unions to agree as to which union- has jurisdic tion in a certain-plant." Making union financial trans actions public; "as a matter of fact, most of the unions do this already." (17 of the 25 AFL internationals and 31 of the 36 CIO internationals do, he said). Making unions subject to suit in event they violate contracts. Lie to Speak On American Anti-Red Policy WASHINGTON U,R Presi dent Truman haa prepared a letter to the United Nations ex plaining this country's program to aid Greece and Turkey, It was announced here Friday. LAKE SUCCESS, W. Y. OAR) United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie is preparing "an im portant statement" on the effect of the United States' new anti- Communism policy on the UN, it was learned Friday. The portly chief of the UN will reveal the position of the 15, months-old world organization when the Trusteeship Council convenes for the first time next Wednesday. . The speech also may touch on other big problems, including Pal estine and possibly Franco Spain. UN officials carefully refrained from indicating what Lie would say, but from several sources it was learned that his welcoming speech to Trusteeship Council del egates will touch the situation raised by President Truman's plan to fight Communist expansion with $400,000,000 in military and economic aid into Greece and Turkey. Initial Jolt Lie was jolted by the President's decision to take that important step, Congress willing, without re lying on or consulting with the United Nations. As a man who must please the governments of 55 countries, and particularly those of the Umted States and Soviet Russia, Lie s de cision to speak out on the present Man-in-Moon's Eyeview Copied r y t i . ... n ' " A political status of the UN was considered important.- " BilllaF" Sessions Favored SALEM OP) The House State and- Federal , Affairs Committee Friday recommended passage of a proposed constitutional amend ment which would limit the length of a legislative session to 60 days, and pay legislators $10 for each day of the session. There now is no limit. The lawmakers now get $8 a day for the first 50 days,- and work for nothing after that. The measure was introduced by Rep. E. W: Kimberling, Prairie City, and 51 other members of the 60-fnember House. Saturday will be the 69th day of the session, which will last a week or so longer. . This session will be the longest in history, the 1945 69-day session having been the previous longest one. . Reps. Giles L. French, . Moro, and WiUiam Niskanen, Bend, did not concur in the committee s rec ommendation. ' The measure would be submit ted to the people in November. . . '. Four-Alarm Fire Hits Crowded Boston Area BOSTON (U.R A four- alarm, fire swept a combination business and tenement block in Boston's congested North End Friday and a deputy fire chief said he believed, five or six per sons had perished. The blaze, In a five-story brick building at Hanover 'and. Union Sts. in one of the city's ' oldest sections, ' was- believed to have started on the top floor. Heavy smoke-poured from the top floor of the building and it was believed this had felled oc cupants who were unable to reach the stairs. : ' JAPAN HAS BLIZZARD HAKODATE, Japan OP) The worst .blizzard since 1934 struck Hakodate Friday,, disrupt ing train and ferry service and communications. Kyodo news agency said many houses were be lieved to have been blown down. ; , i- : WASHINGTON (U,R) Now you can get a small-scale idea of how the earth looks to the man in the moon. . The Navy, with the aid of a special camera and a V-2 rocket, has come up with a picture of the earth from an altitude of 100 miles, highest ever reached by the camera's eye. If you're doubtful about the shape of the earth, the picture will present visible proof that it's round. . The rocket, with the camera in the tail, was fired towards the moon from the White Sands, N. M., proving grounds on March 7. The camera began grinding away at the peak altitude and then was blown clear in the descent. The picture shows 200,000 square miles of the southwest ern United States and Mexico. - Joint Bargaining Wins Approval PORTLAND UP) Unionists' long-standing ambition of industry-wide negotiations in the lum ber - industry appeared a step nearer fulfillment Friday. The lumbermen's Industrial Re- lations Committee, Willamette valley Lumber Operators' Assn., and the Oregon Coast Operators Assn. agreed to form a joint com mittee to negotiate with the CIO International Woodworkers of America. The three associations represent the major part of Ore gon's and Washington's fir indus try. I Meetings are o begin next Wed nesday. On the same day the CIO-IWA.will begin its first ma jor pine negotiations, meeting at Kiamatn J ails with tne pine In dustrial Relations Committee. The negotiations will -cover., the. pine Industry In the Klamath basin and northern California "."j i, ' .-; . s , ,- V i Senate Rejects Mild Portal Pay Suit Ban WASHINGTON U.B The Senate Friday approved Repub-llcaa-sponsored legislation out lawing portal pay claims, . WASHINGTON (IP) Clear ing the way for a final vote, the Senate Friday rejected a proposal by Democrats to' substitute a milder bill for GOP-sponsored legislation to outlaw virtually all portal pay suits. The vote was 53 to 35. The defeated substitute called for a ban on existing portal suits for nearly $6,000,000,000, but would have left future claims to collective bargaining or court set tlement. Senatora McCarran . (D-Nev) and McGrath "(D-RI), sponsors of the measure, had urged its adop tion on the ground it would keep the wage-hour act intact. They contended that the Republican- backed bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee would "emasculate" that mini mum wage statute, under which nearly all portal suits have been brought Defeat of the substitute cleared the decks for a final vote on the GOP-sponsored bill voiding near ly all pending and future claims except those covered by wage contract or Industry custom. ' Ask Immediate Start on Problem Austria Invited To Moscow Sessions MOSCOW (AP) IT. S. Secretary Marshall called on the Council of Foreign Minis ters Friday to set plans for the creation of a German govern ment in motion at once and both he and Britain's Ernest Bevin presented programs for the organization of a federal ized German nation. The council, in a brief session, agreed to invite representatives of the Austrian- government here immediately for discussion of the . Austrian peace treaty, Molotov Willing. V. M. Molotov,- Soviet foreign minister, said he already had as sured Foreign Minister Karl . Gruber, of Austria, that visas would be issued for the Austrian! assigned to come to Moscow. The action on Austria came at- . ter Marshall had urged the coun cil to break the Austrian treaty impasse on what constitutes Ger man assets in that country and had expressed hope that the treaty would be completed in the Moscow meeting. He said that it was for this pur pose completing the treaty that the Austrian government repre sentatives should be, called into consultation. Bevin laid before the council a six-step plan for the creation of a federalized government structure intended to make Ger many a self-governing, demo cratic state. How far the British and Ameri can Ideas will go in agreeing with Soviet and French ideas for Gar many was not at once dear. Mo lotov and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault will introduce , their'. plans Saturday, Marshall's Plan Marshall - laid down a teres- point plan of procedure for setting UP a German government.. - . First, he said, there should bo "establishment of a provisional German government composed of the heads of the governments of the now existing states and la end- era, including Berlin, and clothed with necessary powers to create and operate central administrative agencies." To th'.s end, he said, the bender or state governments - should be completed "throughout Germany at an early date." Second, Marshall called for "a drafting and acceptance of a con stitution which shall be German in origin and which shall be consis tent with democratic principle! and the decentralization of govern ment authority." All powers not assigned the central government would remain in the state govern ments. Third, Marshall said, there should be the assumption of the governmental authority . by the central government created by the constitution and by the state au thority recognized by the consti tution. ' Britain's views on the govern ment structure for Germany were set forth in a 600-word paper. It called for creation of a two house legislative along the lines of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, a president with out executive powers and strong state rights. Pay Hike Demanded of GM; Other Unions Set to Strike SCOTS GUARDS WADE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS to truck marooned at Datchet, England, Destruction, already wide spread through England and Wales, may increase witMnew gales in prospect (AP Wirephoto). , . Ne w Gales May Increase England's Flood Troubles LONDON VP) Gale warnings went up throughout Britain Fri day and "worsening conditions" were reported in the nation's two most critical flood areas the Fen- land region in the east and the northern mining town of Bentley. Rivers were reported receding in virtually all other areas, how ever, after the nation's worst flood disaster in living memory. British soldiers and volunteers stacked more sandbags on a 12 mile long, seven-foot high dike Uwldins back th swollen Viiw Weather River in the Fenlands, where en ure communities and no square miles of rich farm land already were under water. Trucks piled high with sand were dashing to the danger spots along roads dotted with fleeing flood-refugees. RAF planes ranged over the region reporting the spread of ever-widening waters. Two army amphibians sped the work of rescuing hundreds of families marooned in Bentley, ringed by churning waters and in- undated up to a depth tt tlx Imu U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, cloudy Fri day night and Saturday with light showers tonight and Saturday, Slightly cooler ' Saturday. Oregon, cloudy Friday with light rain in northwest interior Saturday. Mod erate southerly winds off coast becoming westerly Saturday. Local Statistics: Highest tern- erature Thursday, 63 degrees; low Friday, 40 degrees; no rainfall in 24 hours ending 10:80 a.m., total for month, 3.36 inches; normal for I month, 3.90 inches; stage of Wll iinH.A, D i.. t n-on . n p-i j minus 30 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m., soutn - ; : prevailing Thursday, SW 8. Sunrise and Sunset (PST); Saturday, 6:12 a.m. and 6:27 p.m. Sunday, e:io a.m. and 6:28 p.m. SIUHLAW TIDES LOUISVILLE, Ky. ( Thel CIO United Auto Workers Friday formally asked General Motors Corp. for a 23V4 cent hourly wage increase for an estimated 225,000 GM production workers. Union spokesmen said the pro posed boost would bring the aver age wage of the company's pro duction workers to $1.56 an hour and would cost GM about $2,115,, ooo a week. UAW sources based their com putation on reports that GM rarkers now average $1.33 an our. Some other sources set the earnings at $1.31. GM was asked to grant the wage increase effective as of March 10, although the UAW-GM contract provides that no wage increase can be put into effect before May without mutual consent of the two parties, NEW YORK UP) The United Financial Employes (AFL) noti fied the New York Stock Ex change and the Curb Exchange Friday it would cancel its labor contracts effective Monday, April The 30-day cancellation notices developed from a union dispute with A. M. Kidder and Co.. a brokerage house. appeared slim Friday that the Na tional Federation of Telephone Workers would accept voluntary arbitration of their wage dispute to avert a nationwide telephone strike next month. Government labor experts were considering calling a last-minute New York or Washington -conference of top union and industry of ficials to attempt to settle the dispute. Union President Joseph A. Beirne agreed to present person ally to his top policy committee a proposal by Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore) that the union accept vol untary arbitration of its demands for higher wages and improved working conditions. AKRON, 0.P Union and company officials of the "big four" producers of the nation's rubber hinted strongly Friday that there was still a fair chance of averting a strike set for Sunday midnight. Leaders of the ClO-United Rub ber Workers disclosed that they hadn't given up on the idea of a peaceful settlement of the wage controversy by scheduling a meet ing in Cleveland Saturday.. And L. M. Buckingham, attorney representing the fqur giant rub ber producers, said at the Sams time: VI am hopeful that the i and Um tasaatamwm i lit is i(viT"ii-,'.3 i,!S,;;:i,':W)1't 'lit mm , ( iff 1 m am mm mm Will IP Vm A
