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MM CITY EDITION CITY EDITION Ml Zm-m -AAA Ac- aV A. eV 2"U 4ar--ytZ- . CIRCULATION YESTERDAY 24,478 LANE COUNTY'S HOME KEWSPAPttt EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947 . NO. 172 florse Ends Filibuster for Monday Vote 'ational GOP OziejSoviets Protest series Truman -Iranian Aid Pan Visits Oregon, L Veto Unjustified U.M. Ore. - (U?) i Ml Reece, chairman of the Lblican National Commit- Saturday coiiuciimcu He Illiouaici o. o-- presideni iruinon icm labor bill becduse of an iu llWt-tirinrj" elo. nCe W1U1 it"" 6 Is of his party. .vpressed doubt that a ie- the veto vote in the Senate i brine n "change in attitude people" .; n oeople expressed them- 1 , 1... 39 ...... think the senators have their I. mie up, ne commemea, Pi- ?Hj Taylor Holds Floor 8 Hours WASHINGTON UP) Sena tor Glen Taylor (D-Ida), a form er tent show thespian, had one of those parts actors 'dream about Saturday. He held the stage for hours on end without once vanishing into tne wings. BISHOP BRUCE R. BAXTER, Oregon Methodist ' leader, was LAKE SUCCESS (Ameri can financial aid to Iran to block Communist expansion at the very borders of the Soviet Union raised speculation here Saturday that Russia might reopen the Russian Iranian case in the United Nations Security Council. Some U. N. delegates suggested that Russia would use the Secur ity Council to protest a $25,000, 000 American surplus property credit to Iran granted for the coma n,. iL. I 1C31UCIH AlUllltfllO ' nC :r"r i.'f ,a,"'ul ee I Taft-Hartley Labor Bill expansion wmunu when Tayior ,, expansion.. v ,f)oor shorUy after 3 am m g rrecedent quorum call, he had been going This view was based on a. pre- for eight hours and 25 minutes, cedent set by Russia several He chatted easilv tn hia slernv , weeKs ago. At that time . Soviet r colleagues about Sunday fishing I Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei ! trips,, Wall Street plots against the A. Gromyko requested and was I West, and the unfair distribution granted a special meeting of the of children among married Bullets Kill Gambler Siegel BEVERLY HILLS Off) Gang land - bullets late Friday night snuffed out the life of Benjamin (Bugsie) Siegel, 41-year-old gam bler and, on--time public enemy, as he sat quietly in a home here Except for the lines he tossed to ,-j! ,. cw uwicr cnaratters, ine purl was a soliloquy. He wasn't filibustering, he said. No, he just wanted the Sen ate to think things over a while before voting whether to override President Truman's veto to the Eugene Rough Spot for Cop Douglas Thompson, a special of ficer with the Portland police de partment, lost his fully loaded .32 caliber revolver and other items valued at from $300 to $500 when his car was ransacked in Eugene Friday night. Thompson said the ar was park ed at Sixth Ave and Willamette St. for about 30. minutes. When he returned, he found that thieves had stolen the revolver, three of his suits, his special police badge, one suit case full of clothing, an overnight bag and a box camera. I . ......m h nn nolitlrs on ' .tri.i,.- rvu,.. security council . n the pending couples. Kion so gravely affecting the attac after a day's speaking 'TIyJJST Police Capt. William W. White said an unidentified gunman sneaked up to an open window shortly after Siegel and a party of friends returned from dining at an Ocean Park beach, and fired through the , curtains. At least four shots entered the body of Siegel as he sat reading the paper on a divan. Beside him sat one the guests, Allen Smiley,! well known sporting figure here. Guest Ducked "I heard the glass scattering, and I ducked," Captain White! quoted Smiley. "I don't know how BARNSLEY, England many snois were urea, Dut wnen Prime Minister Atlee Eastern Europe Governments Hit Agreement Follows 28-Hour Hold-Out by Veto Backers OREGON'S WAYNE MOUSE, who came out strongly against the (IT) filibuster In 1945, was active' in declared Friday night and Saturday's near c interest, me nauuimi lwi- chairman sam. n i un ite that the President have been Influenced in his a (vetoing wc mwith left wing groups that hreatenln'g to bolt his party." said the "most effective ex ion" of the people is an elec- ind they spoKe last liovem And the labor question is one tse on which they expressed selves." sometimes think tne people more about these things the experts who are supposed he said, toe doubted that the filibus Could change any votes be- "the Senate has made a of the labor question for 'tears and this particular bill ive months. think all senators have their k made up and I see no pub Erpose In filibustering," Reece le national party chairman here paying a "courtesy call" w. Earl Snell. ine annual state conference in Portland which closes Saturday. Bishop B attack the $400,000,000 American been equalled 6ince aid program to Greece and'Huey Long's fabulous filibusters. v, ai looked at sie8e'. 1 could see he Saturday that "human rights arejrecord talk-fest to delay vote on h. iLc lvihad aken most of tnem" denied and so-called democratic the Taft-Hartly Labor B1U. ?ilih.iier e sa,d 1ne shots Plnnetl government is a travesty" in "sev- axfer Dies at Session PORTLAND - () Bishop Bruce Richard Baxter, 54, of the Turkey, Delegates pointed out that Rus sia could take a similar step re garding expansion of the "Tru man doctrine" to include Iran. Still on Agenda Although the Russians with drew their troops from Iran's Azerbaijan Province after an Tianlen nr.t tn tU. C rn,V; Kl- ' "l I s E. Blaisdell, pil to Russia Said 'Normal' WASHINGTON VP) Thorn- chief of the Com- Siegel to the divan. When officers arrived, they found his body still erect, the newspaper lying in his lap, smeared with blood. Siegel who. White .said,- had been active In the sporting world in this area for about ten years, once was designated a "public enemy" by Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York while the latter was district attorney there. Grand Jury Witness The slain man was a witness MethnHiet rhm-h niinr..j ..j t.., .v. r--.. :n. merce Department's Office of In- bv,.uobu aim rtao nvp, uu O laci V" i im-ii,, ' ...... .. died Friday night an hour after! ed agenda subject to reopening at ' 'ealJnaI Trade, told Congress . before a New York grand jury .I-!-,.! ..... .. e i SBtlirflnv That f.tirrnt lTnltAri U- . Im.alH.i.J T...LU finishing a day-lone session Dre siding over the Annual Oregon Methodist Conference. The bishop for the area complained of a chest pain several times in the afternoon, but refused to leave his duties. He succumbed to a heart attack shortly after reaching his apart ment. Dr. Baxter formerly was presi dent of Willamette University and assistant to the president of the any time. The council's action in refusing to drop the case outright has gall- Portland , ed the Russians over the months, oui mey saia mue puDuciy . But now that the U. S. has an nounced it would supply Iran with surplus Army supplies including light tanks and some combat planes, Russia was not expected to remain silent much longer. Iran's 25,000 police are seeking seperate U. S. credit of $5,000,000 Saturday that current United States oil shipments to Russia are "normal." . , . ' Blaisdell was called to testify before a House Armed Services subcommittee after Chairman Shafer (R-Mich) said he was con cerned over the oil shipments in the face of a reported petroleum shortage here. ' "There is nothing unusual about a shipment of an estimated half a million barrt-ls of petroleum products to Siberia from' West University'of Southern California.! mostly for transportation- and! Coast ports. This is s normal sea He held honorary degrees from a ' communication . equipment. They sonal . movement. The volume USHINGTON (U.Ri The number of col'eges, including 1 are trained by an American mis' k House said Saturday that hi hundred telegrams had received, by mid-morning on president's veto of "the labor It said they were five to one piss of his action. final tally disclosed that ap- Bmately 800,000 letters, cards, telegrams were delivered to flute House prior to the veto. 'great majority" urged Mr. Ian to reject the labor bill. J Men, Woman on Highways h men and a woman were N Friday in traffic collisions lane County highways. Kenneth Reynolds. 38. Ml, was released from Sa- Heart Hospital Fridav even- litter suffering minor hurts car in which he and an nuo, were ridine Dlowed in- rock abutment nn Rich urn v fouth between Saginaw and fee Grove about 3:45 p.m. per man reportedly left the t Wore state notice officers nd Mrs. Lester King, San Ibispo, Calif., were injured It noon near Benton -Lane men their car left the road curve. King. 42, a Pacific Tele- pand Telegraph Co. construc- siperintendent. was serionslv mi critically hurt. Sacred f authorities, said. Mrs. King, N only slight injuries. Whitman College, Walla Walla. . . jsion headed by Brig. Gen H. Nor Survivors include the widow,' mai Schwartzkopf, who is pres' who was . with him at deatj), and entjyjn.ttifc United States. his mother," Mrs. John ' Baxter,' .- Funeral services will be held in Forest Fire Halted the First Methodist Church ' here' Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Burial will I be in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles. PORTLAND tP) ' Oregon Methodists, saddened by the death of Bishop Bruce R. Baxter, went into closing sessions of the annual state conference here. Saturday. Named as delegates to the Meth odist General Conference at Bos-, ton next year were Dr. Roy Fedge, superintendent of the Salem dis trict, and the Rev. Owen J. Bead les, Portland. Lay delegates will be Mrs. Clarence Meeker, Med ford, and Ernest Peterson, Port land. PORTLAND (P) The suc cessor, to Bishop Bruce R. Baxter cannot be elected until the 1948 session of the Western Jurisdic tional Conference." ' The national Methodist council of bishops will arrange an interim appointment, either assigning the work of the three northwest states and Alaska to several bishops, or appointing a retired bishop as in terim general superintendent of the area. . Bishop W. Earl Ledden of Syra cuse, N. Y.. a guest speaker at the Oregon Methodist Conference, took; After Heavy Loss SACRAMENTO, Cal. U.R Fire fighting crews Saturday ap peared to have won their battle against fires which destroyed half of the 585 buildings in Camp Koh ler, an estimated 20 farm homes, and from eight to 12 buildings of an old mining village. . Two persons were injured in the blaze at. Camp Kohler, former Army Signal Corps training depot. Firefighters had the blaze under control Saturday. ' . The iire apparently started in the grass near the camp and spread quickly. It completely destroyed the Eal Oil Co., exploding three gas tanks of the wholesale and retail oil plant. Indians Riot on Eve Of Partitioning Vote LAHORE. India (IP) Wide spread rioting in which at least 16 persons were killed and 60 others wounded up to mid-aiternoon ! broke out in Lahore Saturday on over Baxter's presiding seat at thei the, - ?h, conference ' Saturday. olumbia Faces ongress Hatchet MNGTON f i (R-Wash) warned the Pa-! -mnwest Saturday it must a definite program to OlDD int, lom.i-.i . I.. "Bwill find the foundation j w develonmont -f tu- r--J PJ Hiver Rasin "ImnntaJ ,.t wderuW" ".i P1 urged residents of Wash-: ugon, Idaho, Montana oming to nniio n- o (i , i,a.-lu m ier-Agency P" at Walla Walla, Wash., Will-,. are nenrli-- l- jv,- r. an entire series of men one at a time, could ! or nullifv iv, ti i. i-iaiiiaiiwu wer m. j- . i- bhi. Dr--"- mane in me P Riven, region," the rep Fnve said. "F.-h i. "eh is designed to ap- 10 Ihe .Mini,.; i h . : u": sua prej- nrticular interest! KSc!81? the residents of the P e$t ha- .. . n f. 7. ii7.w" unui that investigated former Public Enemy No. 1, Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, racketeer and erstwhile head of New York's Murder, Inc., who later was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison. Siege! also was once questioned in the slaying of Harry Greenberg, former New York gangster who was killed In Hollywood in 1939. White said that In the room with Siegel, owner of the fabulous Flamingo Gambling Club in Las Vegas, Nev., and Smiley, were a man and woman he identified as Charles -Hill and. Miss Jerry Mason.' .. X-; Novelist Has Close Escape concerned-is not of a huge mag nitude," Blaisdell testified'. ' Shafer interrupted to say "there was. nothing uhusiil about send- mg scrap iron-and oil to Japan in the 1930's either." - James H. Mayes, Commerce De- T ,P .' i..,! BAR HARBOR, Me. - (U. were exported during May, but he Mary Roberts HineharC famous did not know how much of it went author and playwright, narrowly to Russia. Mayes said the Soviet escape serious injury Saturday received 72,000 barrels from the when a Filipino cook long em United States the first three ployed in her household fired monthslot this year. i twice at her with a revolver and Mayes testified that exports to"then attempted to attack her with Pussia were 2,500,000 barrels last year and 5,000,000 barrels in 1945.1 Mrs.- Rinehart escaped un narmeci! ana ine man, identified by her as Bias Reyes, 60, was overpowered by a chauffeur and maid and placed under arrest. The shooting occurred about 11 a. m "It was a serious incident but I'd rather not talk about it too much," she said. "It's something I think should not be made too much of in the press." pected to partition the province. The legislature of the Punjab, of which Lahore province is a part, will meet to vote on the partition' question in Amritsar Monday. . : At Lucknow, India, district police Jieadquarters said 50 per sonr were killed and scores in tn ftoMlncr hetween land- successfully defend the future of holders arid1 tennants in a village the Columbia region. . .-. , near Lucknow, capital of United . - "Only a complete marshalling provinces. - of all the talents and all the pow- , Ph" ; Horan said legislation now is;For Drowning Victim before 'Congress tosetup a single: ,, rnral services for James O. Federal Power , Authority Goodwin, Jr., age 2, will be held : m-kets. .1 ..h . .. ..i ,:-ll .u. . L 1.. Senate Group to Ask Raise in Navy Fund WASHINGTON W) Mem bers of the Senate Appropriations Committee have decided to recom mend a $177,000,000 hike in House-voted new funds for the Navy during the 1948 fiscal year starting July 1. . The House had .pared $370,000, 000 off the Navy's spending esti mate of around $4,033,000,000. Chairman Saltonstall (R-Mass) of the Senate Appropriations sub committee which reviewed the House action said the recommen ded restoration of funds would permit the Navy to keep 43,000 of ficers, instead of 42,000 and 395, 000 enlisted men instead of 355, 000. Other increases compared with the totals possible under the House bill, he said, would include 265 major combatant ships fully manned and 28 with reduced crews against 249 and 20, and 5,793 aircraft against 5,541, Chairman Bridges of the full committee told reporters the in creases are acceptable to him and that the changes will "assure an active and well-manned Navy." Honorable Pickpocket Has Bounty on Head TOKYO UP) Police have decided to put a bounty on pick- eral countries of Eastern Europe." "I am convinced that there should be people in this country, and people who profess to be So cialists, who appear to condone things that are done by govern ments that call themselves Left, when they would protest vigor ously If precisely the same things were done by governments of the Right," Attlee said In a speech at a miners' demonstration. "Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and personal free-' dom Is the' right of the in dividual whether he Is a capi talist or a. worker, a conserva tive, a liberal or Socialist," the premier declared "Wherever you find the right of opposition denied, wherever you find such devices as the single list of candndates, wherever you find a government that cannot be removed by the method of the ballot box, there is no true democracy, there is no true free dom. It was the Socialist premier's most pointed anti-Russian state ment since he told the British Trade Union Congress last winte that .th. Soviet government, was building a "wall of ignorance" be tween the Russian people and the West. In tenor, It was along the lines of Foreign Secretary Ernest . Bevir's sharp pro nouncements about Russia In House of Commons debeat Thursday night. ; .' Observers wondered - whether the British government was in directly serving notice on Russia that Secretary of State Marshall's aid-for - Europe, proposal! strengthed Britain's hand in in ternational affairs. 'Mystery Child' Still Unclaimed by Parents YREKA, Cal. (U.B A future as a ward of the juvenile court Saturday awaited "Little Miss X," the two dr three year-old-tot re covering in Siskiyou General Hos- pital from criminal mistreatment, unless she can be identified and claimed by her people. Authorities continued to run into a blank wall as they tried to find out the name of the girl whojiunqUe Italian Government Sustained in Vote ROME OP) Premier Alclde De Gasperi's fourth government the first to exclude Communists and Socialists since the liberation of Italy won a vote of confidence from the Italian constituent as sembly Saturday by a 43-vote ma. Jority. . Umberto Terracinl, Communist president of the Assembly, an' nounced that of 509 deputies pres. ent. 274 voted in favor of the gov ernment, 231 against it, and four abstained. Besides De Gasperi's Christian Democrats, the government was supported by1 the Liberals, the Monarchists and the members of Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qua- (Common Man) party. Chinese Fire On US Ship SHANGHAI, China (U.B Chi nese soldiers, believed to be com munists fired on the U. S. Navy rescue salvage ship "Deliver" and a Naval landing force Thursday at Tsingtao but were driven off by American gunfire, the U. S. Navy announced Saturday, One bullet from a fusslllade from the southern shore of Tsing tao outer harbor struck the "De liver", the Navy reported. . . The Navy announcement said the attackers were believed to be Chinese Communists. Fires Om Shore . The "Deliver" - withdrew, the Navy said, but returned later ac companied by a destroyer. Sev eral: warning shots were fired ashore by the Naval craft and the band of 12 men, wearing yellow uniforms was driven off. The band was looting Navy landing float 'which had broken loose dur ing -a recent storm. ; '!' t i : Later,, a. Naval landing, party, sent ashore to protect salvage opt erations, was fired on twice ancu again tne snips guns were Drougni into play to drive the attackers off. However, the Navy reported, the barge was salvaged without casualties on either side. ' The Navy said It had tried to avoid injury to personnel and property. . The incident was reported to have occurred off Pile Point where the drifting float ' had become wedged in the rocks.' Fall of Changchun Thought Imminent NANKING vf) The govern". ment . was reported Saturday to have virtually abandoned Szeplng- kai, and observers predicted Changchun, Manchurian capital city to the northeast, might fall easy .prey to a strong Red assault, Mukden dispatches said 6000 Chinese communists were battling government defenders In down town Szepingkai, vital rail hub midway between Changchun and Mukden. Taft-Hartley Bill Faces Close Contest WASHINGTON (AP) An agreement to delay until 11 am. (PST) Monday a vote on President Truman's veto of the labor bill Saturday ended the continuous day and night session of the Senate after 28 and one-half hours. The break in the bitter argument about when the Senate should try to override Mr. Truman s vigorous veto of the union-curbing legisla tion came while Senator Morse (R-Ore) was continuing a weary talk against the measure and lead ers of his party: Taft 'Confident' Senator Taft (R-O), co-author' of the measure that has stirred up the sharpest congressional fight this year, still is confident the Sen ate will muster the necessary two Anti-Filibuster Men . WASHINGTON (UK) Sens. Glenn Tayior and Wayna Morse, spearheading the Ben ate filibuster against overriding the veto, are co-authors of a bill to ban filibusters. Morse began talking at 6:39 a. m. Saturday and was rHll going stronr at g p. m. on the longest individual speech since June 13, 1935, when Huey P. Long, (D-La) held the Senate floor for 15 hours and 35 min utes. Taylor held the floor throughout most of Friday night. was found unconscious in the ! Giannini, who has been, accused yard of a Weed, Cal., dance hall last Saturday. Officers also sought the Identity of a man who carried her from a bus Saturday at Weed. He is be lieved to have slugged and whip ped her. He was described as being about 30, five feet 10 inches tall, slender, wearing sideburns and a four-point pinch cavalry hat. the a House r-aily rrf-j . fcmi --""-a imenor jje- EentaP.ProprUUons r " r-cni of reclamation nnri 1 'vtrrone ' e congressman, no one m organljttipa c throuahout the cduntry with uni- the First Christian Church in form rates which would injure j EUgene at 7:30 p. m. Saturday. In the Pacific Northwest,-which hasterment wm be in charge of the the lowest rates in the country. Portland Crematorium and Mau; Other, measures proposed to pro- soieum -where the body will be hibit. sale of power except at the-taken . Sunday. Bartholomew generating 'plants and prohibit! BueU chapel of Springfield is in construction of transmission i'nra:cnarge 0f local arrangements, and to force the increase of power The boy,' who drowned .in the rates.- i ' ' -1 Willamette River Friday after Bonnevllle. ! n0on, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. In the Columbia Basin region J. O. . Goodwin of No. ;16, Skin the Bonneville Power Administrated Butte Villa. Other relatives tion markets -all power, from fed-include a' brother, Thomas, age eral dams and has a rate of $17.50j 8 months. . - ' - ' : per kilowatt year, the lowest in ' the country. Ex-Euaene Youth Horan said mat - a hih- . :.. fh innctrllption the Columbia and Owen ' Alvin Lewis, '16, e -i.- ir, Woshineton. Ore-1 three years ago a gon and Idaho, Special prizes will be awarded officers on this basis:. One point for capturing a pickpocket on the streets or at .festivals;' two for a .capture . aboard a train -or in a theater; and three points for cap turing two or more at one time. ' Baseball Killed in Alaska until resident of Eu- constitutes' the gene, died in. Juneau, Alaska, last iL- i - - ..... ainniitay major.- crisis now facing w. He said he intended to propose; movie projector Je was operating. NATIONAL . E It t PhilarUinhta 1 000 50ft 021 S 11 ( Pittsburgh -. 000 010 000 1 8 I lysonard tnd Semtnlckt Bagby. Btrlnce vlch (j and Howell. Boston 100 030 001 S rhlfMo . . . . 000 000 OlO 1 7 ! .Sain and Masf; Lade, Chipman 5), Lee til ana senening. Occupants of Flaming Plane Escape Injury BOISE (JP) The CAA re ported Saturday that two occu pants of an-airplane which landed in flames between Afams and Bingham Springs in Eastern Ore gon escaped injury, ' Richard McQuaide was the pilot and Edward Palmer a passenger, the CAA said. Both are from Spirit Lake, Ida. They were quot ed" as saying the plane, owned by Aviation Industries Co., of Coeur D'Alene, caught fire while In flight and was destroyed by the flames after landing. Daca Otiaan f Mnrni Detroit . on K (W- 4 li PORTLAND OP) The queen rd simi'ch.TdiJbinV' lnis yar's Rose, restival, ion, Houk i. , Georgene Ormston, 18, will be ci,v.iii -' ooo ooo 010- t 4 ei married here July 20 to Raymond nMtwi 1M 400 lOi B 10 0 I rellr. Oromjk C5i. WM1I HI tn6 He i can. Ruzkowfkl 4; Dobon and Tebbettt. thirds majority necessary to nulll fy the Presidential rejection. . The House already has voted to override, 331 to 83, taking that action almost immediately after ' the veto reached that chamber.: If the Senate votes Monday to override, the measure will be come law '.despite Mr. Truman'i objection. . ' ' Clesa Vote - , ' Even the most optimistic Sen ate supporters of the veto tlaimell ohly that the test there will be close. ' . v Senator Morse had Just com pleted his tenth hour of a speech urging that the veto be sustained . A speech which he acknowledged was part of a filibuster. . , i Senator Wherry (Neb), the He publican whip, obtained unani mous consent to submit the ' re quest for a vote agreement with out jeopardizing Morse's right to the floor. Two Absent Needing every vote they can rally to sustain Mr. Truman's veto, opponents of the Bill said there was a possibility Democratic Sen ators. Wagner (NY) and Elbert Thomas (Utah) would be unable to be present unless the final deci sion is postponed until the mid dle of next week. Both would vote to sustain the veto, It was understood. One -Democratic official told a reporter he Was informed Wag ner is ill In New York. Nothing has been heard definitely about the return of Thomas from Gen eva Switzerland, where he is at tending the international trade conference. Ship Strike : Ends; New Strife Looms by the Left of Fascist tendencies, announced just before the voting that his party was "voting in our own exclusive interests.' "We believe that this experi ment will be useful to us as a party as well as to the country," Giannini said. "At last Italy has a government with a chance to govern. De Gasperi will not be able to blame any failures on sabo tage by the Communists within the government." The Communists, extreme left Socialists, Republicans and some moderate Socialists voted against the government Weather SAN FRANCISCO W) Nathan P. Feinsinger, ace trouble-shooter for' the Labor Department went into contract talks with two CIO unions and the Waterfront Em ployers Saturday in . an attempt to transform the Pacific Coast marl time truce into an early final set tlement. ' Feinsinger, who negotiated the temporary agreement which ended four-day tieup earlier in the week, said that a final peace may require "another day or two." Contracts covering the two' n- maining unions, the CIO Marine Cooks and . Stewards and the American Communications Asso ciation (the radio operators); are expected in general to parallel those signed . with East Coast unions, including a five per cent wage raise and nine paid holidays a year. Maritime activity was back to normal today" and the railroads again were moving shipments to coast ports. V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, mostly clear tonight, and Sunday, with rising temperatures. Light occasional moderate northerly winds: gener. ally fair on coast with moderate on shore winds. Oregon, clear to' night and Sunday, with rising temperatures; moderate to fresh northwest . to north winds off coast. GRANTS PASS W) The Ore- Local Statistics: Highest tern-gon Veterans of Foreign Wars, Derature Fridav. 69 decrees: low who turned back a resolution in Saturday, 42 degrees; trace of ; favor of the state sales tax Friday, VFW Tables Resolve To Push Sales Tax CWMO 110 000 000 04 II 1 Philadelphia ...100 000 010 00 2 1 I Panlin, Caldwell Ml and Dickey; Fwltr, Savasa m. McCshaa (!, Qi Iteatuc uu and atom. turned Saturday , to elections. the annual HONOLULU (U.B) ' Hawaii waited Saturday to learn if the Senate would override the veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill, with indications such action would im mediately bring on a paralyzing strike in the territory's vast pine apple industry. ' Negotiations and conciliation efforts to avert the strike broke down completely. Jack Hall, regional director of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, said Senate approval of the measure over President Truman's veto would make the previous June 26th strike deadline meaningless. He said this was because the measure would invalidate the Smlth-Conally Act under which , a 30-day strike notice was re quired. 1 The more than 1000 delegates voted to table the sales tax reso- : lution on the ground It was a mat- rainfall in 24 hours ending 10:30 - m.; total for month, 3.13 inches; normal for month, 1.48 Inches; stage of Willamette River at 7:30 Petterson. Navv veteran whom a. m.. minus 1.1 feet: wind at she has known since arade school 11:30 a. m.. North 11: prevailing ! ter of general public interest and days: j Friday, North 7. I not a matter solely concerning Miss Ormston said both plan to. Sunrise and Sunset (P8T): j veterans, attend the University of Oregon j Sunday, 4:28 a. m. and 7:69 p. m., The elections were expected to next fall. - 1 Monday, tame. 'take up most of tne day's sewlon. Lampman Day Draws Crowd GOLD HILL VP) State and prominent public officials flocked into this small southern Oregon tawn Saturday to honor Ben Hur Lampman, associate editor of the Oregonian and publisher from 1912 to 1916 of the weekly Gold Hill News. It was here that Lampman wrote the first of the editorials and fishing articles that were to carry him to national fame. Mayor Ralph E. Bell officially proclaimed it Ben Hur Lampman Day. On the schedule were a salmon bake, potato races, sack races, a country dance 'and a to bicco-ipitting contest. . I 'if! v t1' ; Iff mm i4 ,f1 k-;.!iii PI mm ill ill vr'.i;5 'Ill .(,' if, ill I f.-'i. II 'M , I. Sl:', J 7 X!' M , WW"