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Newspaper Page TextSunday Edition Sunday Edition LANE COUNTY'S HOME WEWSPAPEtt No. 355 EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, DEC. 21, 1947 bpe Assails Igitation; sks Prayer THREE SECTIONS - 40 PAGES PHONE 6300 ing Encyclical eals tor reace I -,rlH order Saturday I ., j .ttnrAe ac Wt- aiiea, m "' (any he ever has usea, Agitators who stir up tin seaiuun mu - too-word encyclical titled Lma Pa"" (most desired Le pontiff declared class threatens "to undermine jmin the ery foundations" (on!. mi Named Lgh he named no names, fotaastide message to the Jy of the Catholic Church are not lacking those kravate and Batten on we f0f the proletarian classes Lee obstruct those noble ,ith which, with strict or with justice, the rebuild ortunes now dispersed is cvdieal was the latest of E. appeals for peace the I addressed to the world coronation Marcn i, Ex months before the out- bf the greatest war m ms- as the encyclical was bublic, new labor trouble h the Italian government. Enwide strike in the food fees began and riots broke Maples and in Sicily. Bth Discord' I necessary, Pope Pius said, Jll understand that it is not iiscord, with tumults, with lal massacres that lost goods fc regained or those in dan Ced, but only with active U, with mutual understand Hth peaceful labor." He add- ke who, with a premedi- plan, thoughtlessly raise up Dwd, exciting it to tumult, to n and to offenses against berty of others, without a do not operate to mitigate irerty of the people, but Increase it and provoke ex- Iraln.' hi announced that the pon Khristmas Eve address in jto the customary greetings (College of Cardinals will be past to the world by the Vat pdio station Dec. 24. Holy Land Rife With Race Trouble JERUSALEM (AP) En raged Arab fighters fought a running gun battle with a Jewish convoy Saturday night. The engagement swirled close to the borders of Syria and Lebanon where Arab . guerrilla forces have been reported massing to fight Zionists. The Trans-Jordan frontier force. an Arab military organization do ing police duty in Palestine under British supervision, and British troops rushed to the aid of the convoy. Two Jewish settlement police were wounded and one Jew was reported missing in the fighting which took place near the order village of Khisas where Jewish fighters killed 10 Arabs, including five children, Friday. Message Asks Help Meanwhile a cryptic cable read ing "rush help" was received in Jerusalem from a Jewish commu nity surrounded by Arabs in the British colony of Aden on the Arabian coast. It was feared that the Jews there again were involv ed in communial strife. Earlier this month 75 Jews and 34 Arabs were killed in Aden, Sre Workers ait Signal SBTNGTON Day loremment efforts to win ttlement and prevent a itrr.u-iriA stribo nr an ana J employes -of the Western n Telegraph Co. were re Mi just before midnight Sat lr night without a sign of r . SHINGTON UP) Fifty ma Western Union workers, tiers of the AFT.. fcy word Saturday from their lucials on whether to begin on-wide telegraph strike, ias government conciliators I succeed in last minute ef 1 to win a settlement in the I diSUte. thp rnnnfnj lafeA taas holiday without cus- ' western Union facilities. Over Wages workers, said by the union averaging 90 cents an hour re demanding a 15 cent increase. The company r. "'cKise nuuny eam- w are 51.234. ?e haven't I offer a single since we began neen. f With Western TTninn nr mber 16-three months ago r iuoks right now like F only answer," Adolph Pp. head of the Western P "vision of the AFL Com Jl Telegraphers Union, told Tlui M ..-if t "1UVU ?!ph l- E?an. president of the any. pnni..j. .-l im: mat meeting Sjnion demands would cost - a year, adding that r, J ouble Western Union' JW earnings this year, whic '"included the $5,000,000 r business it did as a result f ,e,ePnone strike in May. Administration Prepares To Keep Relief Rolling RAT McIXNIS, secretary of the Central Labor Council, charged Saturday that his com plaints In October regarding management of the Lane Coun ty Fairgrounds had never been satisfactorily answered. His was one of two major attacks made during the day against the board. (Story in Column 4) 'More Action Due', Martin Charges Made Of Inefficiency At Fairgrounds Frank Gibbs Asks That Two Quit' Board Controversey over the manage ment of the Lane County Fair grounds flared again last week as Frank Gibbs, Eugene, who boards1 horses at the fairgrounds made public nine open charges against the fair board. He said Ernest McCulloch, secretary-manager, and Clarence Simon, board member, were the "worst offenders". , Concurrently, Ray Mclnnis, sec-1 retary of the Central Labor Coun cil, charged that complaints he made in October regarding the board's management of the fair grounds had never been satisfac- to bring down the cost of living. But the House Democratic leader, Rep. Rayburn (D-Tex.) said, ''I think they're about through," when asked what he Scattered fluhtmo hrAv,, I thought the GOP would do now raiesune brought death to seven, WASHINGTON OP) Speaker Joseph W. Martin said Saturday I torily answered, the anti-inflation program whisk-j Simon and McCulloch said ed through the special congres-j Saturday that they had con sional session is just the start ' ferred regarding Gibbs' and Mc of a determined Republican drive : Inn's' charges, and had no state ment to maKe. "We do not feel that we can fairly speak for the entire board," Simon said. "Undoubtedly this matter will be brought to the at tention of the board at our next meeting. Any action taken should U- tMM4 iff tfJ lit1 be the action of the entire board, Arabs, two Jews and one British Martin, told reporters: "There and any explanations that need to soicuer. ine Associated iress death i are omer steps to De taKen. ne count since the United Nations I did not list them, but one pos- General Assembly voted for parti- sibility is in the field of rent con tion of the Holy Land on Nov. 29 trols. THESE FIRST AND SECOND GRADERS at Bailey Hill School are enjoying a library session. Although $18,000 has been spent recently to enlarge and Improve their school, they are using tiny seats made from painted orange crates. Until sonic new seats were Installed In their classroom, it was necessary to use the converted boxes regularly. Now they are In the library corner, but may be again put In full-time use if population increases continue to outrace efforts to expand the school. Left to right, the children are: Ralph Norman, Ellen Jeff ryes, Darltne Weatherly, Mary Brown and Wayne Robertson. (Staff photo, Wiltshire engraving.) reached 290 in Palestine alone and 411 throughout the middle East. One Arab Killed One Arab was killed and at least two others were wounded when uniformed Jews made a rifle at tack on the Arab village of Qazaza in the central coastal plain near Rehovot. An official announce ment said the attack continued for three hours and also was directed at the Amarin military encamp ment. : - i . .. Elsewhere in the Middle East Arab leaders continued to call for resistance to the plan to divide Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. Princess' Cash Gifts Given to Charity LONDON W) Princess Eliza beth and prince Philip have given to charity all the cash that was sen' them as wedding presents, it was announced Saturday night The sum exceeds 13,000 pounds (about $52,000.) Several dozen charities, selected by the princess, shared in the distribution. Their activities are varied; many aid sick or impoverished children. In many iristances money will go back to charities in regions from which it came. BOMBER FLIES AGAIN SEATTLE VP) The new Boeing jet bomber, XB-147, tried its swept-back wings a second time Saturday on a successful 62- minute flight from Moses Lake Air Force Base. Whatever happens to prices from now on, the hot arguments of Congress over living costs have made one thing certain both the Republicans and Democrats are going to blame the other party if prices fail to slide downward. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) reflected GOP thinking along those lines in a statement saying that by sign ing the GOP anti-inflation bill President Truman will get power "to check nearly all the principal causes of inflation, if he really wishes to do so.". Taft, a GOP presidential aspir ant, left the way open for more controls later on if voluntary ef forts to curb inflation are un successful. And Martin said that the whole question of how to fight inflation will be up for review early in the regular session of Congress starting January 6. be made must also come from the board as a whole." Appointed by County Court Board members in addition to Simon are Claude Arne, Cottage: Grove, and Cary Strome, Junction City. McCulloch is chosen by, the J board as secretary manager. The board is appointed by the county court and has absolute jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to op eration of the fairgrounds. Gibbs emphasized that he was not representing any group in making the following nine charges, but was acting as a result of an investigation carried out by 'him self: "ATTENION LANE COUNTY FAIR BOARD! "1. You have been In office for the past several years; the grounds and buildings of the Lane County Fairgrounds have deteriorated steadily until at the present time it is one of the outstanding eyesores in the city, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Exams, Weather Delay Ducks; Buffalo Doubleheader Missed BUFFALO, N.Y., VP) The University of Oregon basket ball team failed Saturday to make Buffalo in time for their scheduled meeting with Niagara University in a Memorial Audit orium doubleheader. John Warren, in charge of the Oregon contingent, telephoned Dr. James H. Crowdle, gradu ate manager of athletics at Canisius College and director of the auditorium basketball pro gram, that his forces had been grounded in Cleveland and that no facilities were available to bring the Ducks to Buffalo in time for the 8 p.m. game. The Ducks left Oregon by air only, Friday night. They were detained by university examin ations. Washington State College de feated Canisius in a single game, 48-37, before a crowd of 7391, How Orphans of Gosselies Tie in TTT'i 1 HT I 7 X ' rmAnjMlin 7VHTn Wltn IVOiLnwesis rimiiu.aiu.jj J.J.U.J.XJ. H This Christmas J"ost Like Pre-War r -wwD m Christmas i"Z Tv heavy aain 'T bul ,or the first time j years here there ap- Ifi? " no ProsPct of stand-;-omy signs. , ds reported sleeping car -J mid out. but coach and !!- s'-ai!able; but lines k !"i.-ment standing by K " ncile the L.t- f'.'v" , Si:id "S"181' f ! .1L Z4"26 W0Ula In Which We Recall A Santa Claus Story By CURREY Santa had a Brooklyn accent. His speech was strange, but the spirit he personified was itself nearly as strange to the little Bel gium war orphans to whom he spoke. Perhaps they were over awed by the turkey dinner set be fore the.- with ice cream, candy and fruits they had never seen be fore. Or perhaps they weren't accustomed to kindliness when in the presence of uniformed men. Their timid, speculative smiles in answer t Santa's ringing laugh seemed to bear out the latter sug gestion. Their personal histories con firmed it, for they were children hfwp narenU were killed by Ger man troops a few hours before iv,o roti-pateri from the tiny vil lage of Gosselies at the edge of the Waterloo plains. Sinb l a Masauerader nnlv a few months later, thev were being feted by other soldiers, one of whom had donned the whiskers and costume of SU Nicholas. The paradox they must hv sensed after their experience ,..iih vit would have -'y been heightened had they known that the masquerading mcn...i v.. an aviation mechanic from a Ninth Air Force fighter squadron, was of Jewish lineage. "Santo" and his buddies had ar ranged the Christmas eve party after learning that the children were being cared for at a Catholic Taxi Stops! Cop Comes! Taxi Goes! Down in Texas they say, "One riot, one ranger," but Friday evening a Eugene cop did even better. He broke up a traffic jam at Tenth and Willamette with six words in six seconds. It happened about 9 p. m. when a taxi driver stopped his cab squarely in line of traffic, just past the Register-Guard, of fice and going north. He sat there,, smiling inscrutably. ; - Traffic .backed up clear to Eleventh In a few; seconds; Vote on $200,000 School Levy Due Plan Special Election In District 4 Jan. 22 To provide funds for the al leviation of overcrowded con ditions in Eugene's elementary schools, taxpayers of School District No. 4 will be asked to approve a $200,000 levy at a special election which the "school beard has tentatively scheduled for Jan. 22. In announcing the probable date, Check Goes On To Determine Meteor Path Reports of n orange-blue flam ing object, thought to have been a meteor blazing across Oregon and ' Washington early , ' Friday morning, had state meteorologists and astronomers checking eyewit ness accounts Saturday, schools said that, if aDDroved. this At 8ene, j. tiugn i-rueit, levy will not increase the size of ' astronomer for the .Oregon state Soon horns began to honk. The Clarence Hlnes, superintendent of taxi sat still, a crowd oegan to gather. The man behind the taxi tried to pull around. The taxi quickly wheeled to prevent it. He swerv ed, too. Both cars stopped. The driver 'went to talk to the taxi driver, who sat and said nothing. The crowd, delighted, began manufacturing explanations: The other driver had brushed the taxi's fender; he owed the taxi driver money; he was eloping with the taxi driver's wife. But the taxi driver smiled and said nothing. By this time, cars were be ginning to trickle around the stall and soon the flashing red light of a police car was seen. A roar went up from the laugh ing crowd, by this time num bering several hundred. Then the taxi driver stepped deliberately out of his cab, and went to tell the officer "all about it." Before he could say a word, the cop flung open the door of nls car and shouted, "GET IN YOUR CAB AND GO!" - Six words. They worked like magic. Vanished: One taxlcab around the corner. Broken: One traffic Jam. :V - , if ; - i few- XJr 'Tips' Rampant On Speculation WASHINGTON (TO Many tips that government officials and I other public figures have been speculating on tne grain marKei were reported arriving at the Cap itol Saturday as committees of both the Senate and House made ready for board investigations. Senator Ferguson (R-Mich), who heads the Senate investigat ors, told a reporter that "a re markable number of tips are com ing in from anonymous persons and unsigned letters." "We certainly will follow up artj that are worthwhile. We can ask government agencies to check up on brokerage accounts if these names are not found on the lists." Meanwhile Rep. August H. An- dresen (R-Minn) announced that the special House committee which he heads intends ' to find out whether "any leaks" have enabled speculators to make "a killing," and whether anyone in the legis lative or executive branches has had "inside information" on gov. ernment commodity purchases. next year's school budget. It will only replace two special levies which will not carry over to the next fiscal year. One of the expiring levies being discontinued was to raise $100,000 annually over five years as a sink ing fund for the proposed new high school. The other raised $137,000 annually to pay the construction costs for Colin Kelly Junior High School. Hines said the special election is being called so that funds can be authorized to permit early con struction of a new elementary grade school unit in the West moreland district and classroom additions at Stella Magladry and possibly Whiteaker and Edison schools. Explaining that the need for additional classroom space Is most pressing In thn first, sec ond and third grades, nines said that, should tl e special election fail to carr: ne school system will have no alternative but to start double shifts In some grammar schools. Plans arid specifications for the Westmoreland unit . (Intended to handle only the first three grades) and for work at Stella Magladry School were submitted by Archi tect John Reynolds at the school boc.rd's meeting last Monday. Reynolds, estimated the cost of these projects at $125,000. After reviewing the prevailing conditions in the city s primary schools, Hines - said, t'.ic board members felt it unwise to wait un. til the 1048-P school budget is ap. proved before going ahead with the most urgently needed work. Ballot titles for the January election are being ' checked over by the school board's attorney, Judge L. T. Harris. As soon as they are ready, Hines reported, the date will be announced. system of higher education, said he thought the object was a meteor which traveled almost due north along the Cascade Mountains and went over the Oregon line into Washington. , Pruett had talked to Richard Burdink. a Grevhound bus driver. and John E. Nash, truck driver; both of them, reported seeing the fiery object while traveling at points abo-it five miles apart at a distance more than 100 miles from Eugene. . Burdick said he saw the object in the north sky, where It traveled slowly toward the horizon , and seemed to hang almost stationary for a Snort time. He described its size as about the width of the moon, but longer. Pruett, asked about conflicting reports by various witnesses, some of whom described the phenome non as orange while others said it was blue, declared it could easily have been both. "Meteors often show blue," Pru ett explained, "when they travel at extremely high speeds, and orange at other times." Referring to Burdick's statement 3 175 Million Cut Poses Problem; Parleys Start Restoration Plea Likely in January WASHINGTON (AP) The $75,000,000 cut whicrr Congress made in winter aid funds for France, Italy and Austria may force a sharp re duction in shipments of raw materials to those countries, officials said Saturday, but every effort will be made to maintain a heavy flow of food. The administration authorities who made that prediction started a round of conferences looking to a general revision of plans. The goal Is to keep the non-Communist governments of those three na ; tions on even keels until Congress' acts on the $17,000,000,000, four year Marshall Plan recovery pro grain which President Truman submitted Friday. 111 opening me special session Nov. 17 Mr. Truman had sought $597,000,000 to meet the "irreduc ible minimum" needs of France! Italy and Austria until next March 31. The appropriation sent to the White House Friday carried $540, 000,000, and $18,000,000 of that was earmarked for China. Among other results which re sponsible officials saw as likely to follow the revision of Interim a'fS plans were; 1. A plea to Congress at the forthcoming regular session to re store the $75,000,000, if the re study of estimates Indicates the - continuity of shipments to th three countries may be interrupted . 2. Difficulties from the stipula tion written Into the appropriation " thnf thi morffln nf urhant In thta country must reach 150,000,000 bushels by next July 1. The work ing margin for the ' current crop year has run less than 100,000, 000 bushels. , ' ' ' The appropriation measure went to the White Housa only 12 days before the end-of-the-year dead line beyond which Congress was told neither France nor Italy would have funds to finance fur ther dollar purchases of food. Shipments nevertheless are ex pected to continue without inter ruption. The appropriation au thorizes use of funds to pay for cargoes already on the high seal but not yet delivered. France was allotted $328,000,000, Italy $211,000,000 and Austria $58,000;000 in the original stop gap estimates submitted by Mr, Truman last month, Congress au thorized the entire amount but trimmed the appropriation. With the exception of China, the law makers left it up to relief - officials to divide the rest among the three European countries. The break down remains to be determined. THESE BF.LGIAN ORPHANS met an ambassador of good will ilh a GI uniform under his costume when they talked to "St., Nick" on Christmas eve, 1944. four months after their parents had died in a mass execution carried out by y.cti troops In reprisal for effort to help the fast-advancing Allied armiea. (Wiltshire engraving.) ACROSS "HIE OCEAN . . . SHANGHAI (U.Pj Three hun dred frozen bodies mostly those of children have been found on Shanghai's sub-zero streets since Thursday, city officials revealed Saturday. On Saturday alone, 64 bodies of exposure victims were found hud dled on the wlntar-rwept atreeti (Other Story, Pa.ce 2) (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) . First He Needed to Fire Truck Then Tow Truck City firemen were called to 3200 Willamette St. Friday after noon where the brakes on an automobile caught fire due to im proper adjustment. Firemen said no damage re suited from the fire, but the car's owner left it parked on a hill in order to phone in the fire alarm. The brakes slipped, and the car rolled Into a ditch. When the fire truck arrived, the owner's need had become one requiring a tow car's services and not those of the fire truck. The car was a sedan. ' Tax Structure Fight Planned rjnxi-iti'iLtvri jaoor ana farm organizations Saturday an nounced an initiative plan to make corporate excise . taxes available for general fund pur poses in Oregon. The initiative, which sponsors hope to place on the November general election ballot next year, would leave personal income taxes available tor offsetting state property taxes. Sponsors estimated the corpor ate ex-' e tax provides approxi mately one-third of the state's to tal income tax revenue. Solstice Time Has Come Again; And Short Days Will End Anon Are you ready for the sol stice? Ready or not, it will be here Monday, but there's really no cause for excitement. It's just the sun reaching the southern most point In its annual course back and forth across the equator. The solstice, us you know, oc curs twice a year, once in De cember and once in June. Mon day's solstice means that day. light is at Its lowest ebb with sunrise in Eugene at 7:45 a.m. and sunset at 4:36 p.m., or 8 hours, 53 minutes of sunlight. According to J. Hugh Pruett, University of Oregon astron omer, the sun's momentary breather comes at precisely 8:43 a.m. (PST) and then it starts the long trek northward toward summer (and another solstice). Monday gets close competition for the title of "shortest day". Saturday and Sunday trail by only a few seconds. The fact is, all three days (Dec. 20-21-22), are offic ially the same length In whole minutes. Actually, the sun doesn't cause solstices. It's the move ment of the earth's axis in re lation to the sun. Right now, the sun's vertical beams are more than 23 degrees south of the equator, and that's the limit. By the way, this all says that winter la beginning. - Weather V. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, scattered showers Sunday and Monday. Oregon, scattered showers north and occasional showers south por tion with snow in mountains Sun day and Monday. Slightly cooler Monday. Moderate to occasional fresh southerly winds off the coast. Local statistics: Highest tem perature Saturday, 52 degree's; low Saturday, 35 degrees; rain in 24 hours ending 10:30 a.m., .01 inches; total for the month, J.7T inches; normal for .month, J.72 Inches; stage of river at 7:30 a.m., .88 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m., north 4. Sunrise and sunset (PST): Mon day, 7:43 a.m. and 4:36 p.m. Tues day, 7:44 a.m. and 4:38 p. m. SIUSLAW TIDES High 6:58 .m. 7-0 n. T:O0.ra. as ft Low H:3Jl,m. l.tfU llHp.m. 1.5 li Monday Huh 1:43 am. 1.1 (t :M p-m. fit) Low 1:11a.m. 1.1ft. 1:11p.m. 1.1M Tacidar (CONTINUED ON PAGE J.)