Sunday Edition
Sunday Edition
LANE COUNTY'S HOME WEWSPAPEtt
No. 355
EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, DEC. 21, 1947
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THREE SECTIONS - 40 PAGES
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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,
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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)
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.
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
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