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Sunday Edition Sunday Edition IANE COUNTY'S HOME MEWSPAPEP. feyear, No. 165 (THREE SECTIONS 34 PAGES) EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1948 PHONE 6300 Russia Is Ob structiomst - Engineers frvtoSave Metal Plant frantic Piledriving May Hold New rest of Flood r rom v nai r aciory xiRTLAND (AP) Army engineers began an ingen .ttempt Saturday to drop a plug into a narrow flood 1 and save a $43,000,000 aluminum plant near here. Tsttempt began as the costliest Columbia River flood iJyory climbed slowly here toward its third crest in Usee continued to mount in the .multi-millions. Five tewere reported Friday. The known toll was 338 lives, I idinE ve f rom Vanport. The Red Cross said its steadily ndltal lis' of Vanport missing was down to 22. Liver the situation eased IT i ...r TPnr thp tltt crest - --- t time in two weeks the er level was stationary at indary, Wash. me weain nnrpau forecast a slight 1 along the entire Columbia Wch above urana ouiee Four Die When Jet Plane Hits Car on Takeoff FORT KNOX, Ky. (U.PJA P-80 jet propelled Shooting Star crashed into an automobile on a takeoff run Saturday and killed all four occupants of the car. The pilot, Capt. William Mey ers, of Eglin Field, Fla., was un injured. The Army's public relations office reported that the car ap parently ran through a red light warning motorists of a takeoff and was struck squarely by the jet plane, which makes better than 100 miles per hour on take off. No explanation was given by the Army as to the reason the plane lost altitude before crash ing into the car. Major L. B. Weigold said that the victims were so badly man gled in the mishap that identifi cation was difficult. bt iltuatlon also improved at jtened Rlchlana, wasn., near it.nford stomic energy plant Ltd r.rnnd Coulee. The plant El wm not endangered, but r " . . t Ik were were iears ir yai i blown. LfMi Threat r-. treatest threats were In 120-mue stretcn irom rori l m thi sea. The new crest of feeV 15.2 above liooa level Hoected for three days at fewer, wasn., Deginning kit ti opposite the shore benidneers attempted to save Reynolds Metal Co. aluml- h plant. hi river, flooding through kiitow ilough, breached a dike idiiT and poured over the Port- id airport, four golfcourses luburban homes and farms ltd In a narrow ten-mile itch of land. " It the far end of the stretch is Hcondary dike guarding the mlnum plant. Water, Its flow Btricted by the slough, rose tlr on the secondary dike Sat- 1T.- wu in the slough the engin- htrled to force their plug. They f Piling, hurriedly dropped k rock and gravel. If they are paful, water in the ten-mile ! will be held at a relatively ra; the aluminum nlant k Critical' pier threats continued down P. Engineers said dikes would F&l In "Venr critical" pnnrtitinn our days. These included a P Protecting the 18,500-dodu- j city of Longview, Wash., f many guarding valuable 11 diklns district. rw alert in the lower river f-mouaands worked in repair M i near Portland, Sauvies Isl- hv-aiwrame and the Longview- r" ilea. I""" oeior th. thmt N Army engineers began re Pn work. On flooded Pn- f mud, 40 miles from the river r"Ui 1 QTPftaa tlai..j 4- im ae Jan i nlusnen' i4 4 will h At j ' ... . lii.t- """""a o" tnrougn kJT lnls year's fle 280(U:rei. I ' weaKailmen We Passed i'1' senile SaturHov .. P'",h White House, bill to H" n retirement annuities fro'20.4Derc,n a,.. llltW Press .u'"s Tie Up .' ... N but it 010 not 8've de- P U bin" learned l0CaI1 K?" would amend the Ftth- . ,!ment Act and RrS?vmon.ey ton both Kfe'Pvat, p!r,m,-J,"e,t!outhnPa- ice. iB w"n extra-long is r.,Practi. these ' em- ptheretirl cerUin amount Pfund u , m!m dandthe b mrn . vern. Valley Flood Projects Fail Of More Funds The efforts of the Oregon con gressional delegation and of west em Oregon groups to increase funds for work on Willamette Val ley flood control projects were a virtual failure Saturday, after Senate and House passage of a compromise appropriations bill. The measure, which now goes to the President, would give $641, 575,666 for civil functions of the Corps of Engineers. In the com promise, the Senate and House failed to increase Willamette basin funds except in two items. Senator Guy Cordon telegraph ed that the bill would provide an additional $500,000 .for Detroit reservoir, $50,000 more for bank! protection work. Appropriations 1 for other major, items remained: originally approved by the House. Theiinal figure" and the earlier House and Senate figures, respec tively, are: Dorena. 53,000,000 $3,000,000 $3,500,000. ' Meridian, $5,000,000 $5,000, 000 $6,000,000. Detroit, $3,500,000 $3,000,000 $3,500,000.; Fern Ridge, $155,000 same same. Amazon, $67,000 same same. ;. Bank work, $550,000 $500, 000 $500,000. The Senate Saturday also ap proved the installation of power generating facilities at Detroit, Senator Wayne Morse telegraphed. The approval includes installation of a re-regulating dam to give the Detroit reservoir multiple purpose capacity. Morse said the estimated cost of the newly authorized work at De. troit on the North Santiam is $19,. 030,000. Authorized by Congress does not include provision for funds, which are appropriated in later bills. Failing-Beekman-Jewett Oratory Awards Given Winners of the Failing-Beekman- Jewett awards for the best origi nal orations given by members of the senior class were announced Saturday night by W. A. Dahlberg, of the speech department at the University of Oregon. Winners were Warren E. Miller, Volga, S. D., Failing award of $150 for "School for Democracy;" Elizabeth M. S. Misner, Grants Pass, Beekman award of $100 for "More Than a Pious Faith;" Bar bara A. Gunn, Eugene, Jewett award of $50 for "The Insatiate Why." Summer Play Starts Tuesday New Municipal Pool May Be Opened in July The city Bureau of Parks and Recreation was making final plans Saturday for the opening of the public summer recreational pro gram Tuesday. Under a newly-developed pro gram of tax-sponsored recreation for all ages, the city recreation department will offer supervised play in three areas, as well as swimming instructions, tennis, and baseball programs. Three play areas at Sladden Park, Condon Grade School, and at Nineteenth and Lawrence will be operated daily, except Saturday and Sunday, from 10:15 a.- m. to 4:30 p. m. The city-wide program for children and adujts will be operated un til ilUC. OA. Swimmers will use the Anchor age Pool again this summer, at least until the completion of the municipal pool near the fair grounds about mid-July or early August. Children attending grade school will use the Anchorage Pool from noon until 4 p. m. High school students and adults will swim from 6 to 8:30 p. m. The Red Cross, with the co operation of the city recreation department, will offer swimming instructions from 9 to 11:30 a. m. daily except Sundays and Mon days. Training will include classes for beginners, intermediate swim mers, advanced students, junior life saving, and senior life saving. Miss Nonda Pirtle will direct the program. The baseball school at tne new Nineteenth and Lawrence Sit. playground will be operated Monday through Thursday each week, from 9:30 p.m., to noon. Tennis supervision by Bennidine Backhand will be available at the Lawrence St. playground from 10 a.m. to noon daily. She also will be in charge of folk dancing classes at all play areas. Playground directors will be Charles Stevenson at Condon; George Van Pelt at Lawrence St.; nnd Bill Deller at Sladden Park. Truman USSR Aggression - A Disappointment, President Asserts Talk at Berkeley Seems to Follow -5 Remarks About Stalin at Eugene 'r- BERKELEY, Calif., ( AP) President Truman accused Russia Saturday of "obstruction and aggression," endan gering world peace. In a major foreign policy speech, Mr. Truman placed Russia's record of "coercion or open aggression" along what he termed America's "record of action in behalf of peace without parallel in world history." The refusal of the Soviet Union to work with its war time allies for world recovery and world peace," he said. "is the. most bitter disappointment of our time." , The president again held He's a GraduateAnd a Father of Five There'll be plenty of students graduating this June who are fathers, some with one, fewer with two, and still fewer with three children. But it's a good bet that there won't be many in a class with Edgar W. Martin, of Eugene, who has five. Martin will receive a bachelor of science degree in business administra tion at commencement exercises on the University campus Sun day evening. Five proud little Martins will watch their daddy put on his "cap and gown and march in the commencement procession. Mar tin, a veteran of World War II, started in work toward his col lege degree in 1934. Then he got married in 1936. The war came along and he spent five years in the service, returning to Eugene in January of 1946 to attend the University again. During the past school year Martin has spent his spare hours out of school acting as director of University veteran family housing. He lives with his fam ily in one of the units in the Amazon. Giving his mortar board a once-over here are Stevie, 2, and Margaret ' (they call her Mike), 5. Big brother Ned, 8, looks on and Daddy holds baby Anne, 3 months, and Rickey, 14 months. To 1181 Candidates, U. of O. Will Bestow Its Degrees Class of 1948 Sets a Record Kids in Springfield Have 5 Play Spots SPRINGFIELD Children in this city and Glenwood up through high school age will swarm over five school playgrounds Monday as the fourth annual summer rec reation program under the Wil lamalane Park and Recreation Dis trict gets under way. 1 Varied playground programs Monday through Friday of each (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Bachelors Lead With 944; Six are Ph. D.'s (Degree Candidates, Page 12) Eleven hundred and eighty- one degrees and 30 certificates will be conferred by the Uni versity of Oregon at the 71st commencement exercises to be held at 8 p. m. Sunday at McArthur Court in Eugene and on June 17 and 18 in Port land. The total sets an all-time record. At tonight's exercises, six doctor of philosophy degrees are to be conferred, five doctor of education, one doctor , of jurisprudence, and 124 masters degrees. Two doctor of philosophy, seven masters, 35 doctor of dental medicine, 66 doc tor of medicine, and 30 certificates will be conferred at the cere monies in Portland. Baccalaureate degrees to be conferred by the University total 944. This compares with 891 granted In 1947 and 432 in 1946. The largest number of candi dates comes from the College of Liberal Arts, with 388. Other de. grees, in order, are: School of Bus iness Administration, 254; School of Education, 80; School of Law, 69; School of Journalism, 55 School of Architecture and Allied Arts, 52; School of Health and Physical Education, 21, and School of Music, 21. Baccalaureate services will be held for the graduating class at 11 a.m. today In McArthur court Dr. Henry Wieman, visiting pro fessor of philosophy and religion In the University, will deliver the sermon, "Responsibility of Power." Dr. H. K. Newburn, University president, will give' the charge to the graduating -class at night. . At 4 p.m. today, the traditional flower and fern procession will be held on the south campus around the statue of the Pioneer Mother. 10 "Sune-lor" Eugeneans Ten Eugene senior students will be listed in the commence ment program, as "graduates with superior academic records." They are Frederick Frank How- att, mathematics major; Robert O. Payne, English; Marion E. Hill, an al. ' ' ra th, u 1 receivin8 Pr.th. r Harriman trust, hu. i- ., masure means an 'J pi. total amount they Satu"fted COU,d not ' 1 "'Urdav n ihi u... rer. .,M ,01 its retired FitrFvu's FIRST MUNICIPAL SWIMMING POOL IS rapidly nearlng completion, as this photo tL" timated Ihti' JS?7n5 m be redy for u,e by the end f J? Ih Z?"1: fittdi. Person would be field area, It Is located at 18th and jenerson na wu. ... u. .tuuuu ivr .uu 1 for pUri-roundi. (Staff photo, wuusnire A Posthumous Degree The University of. Oregon Dental School will award a de gree posthumously to one of its 35 graduating seniors Thursday night. Robert Davidson, Van couver, B. C, died recently In an auto accident. Kis degree still will be awarded at the com mencement exercises. ' chemistry; Glenn H. Snyder, busi ness administration; Ellen Wal lace Sutherland, philosophy; L, Thad Elvigion, music; W. Ross Yates, journalism; Eugene Ells worth Zumwalt, Leslie Fleshman istration; end John R. Yeager, bus iness administration. Wilma Jeanne Wilson, Coos Bay, music, is also among the select. Graduates With Honors Three Eugene seniors will be granted baccalaureate degrees with honors, !nd three Eugene graduate students will Teceive masters de grees with honors. Senior students Include Karen Martin, Mr. Payne, and Mr. Zum walt; graduate students are Wal ter Mossman Gilbert, Bettie Mae Hall Payne, and Anne Tyson Tor- rey. Special Awards Given Other awards granted to grad uating students include: Edgar E. DeCou prize in math' ematics to undergraduate doing outstanding work in upper divi sion mathematics Thelitis M. Chancy, Oswego. Phi Gamma Delta scholarship as a memorial to Robert C. Jones, Eugene soldier killed in the Battle of the Bulge, to John Christian O'Klef, Portland, a law graduate. Maurice H. Hunter leadership award to the junior in the College of Liberal Arts who has made the most notable contribution among his fellow . students to Robert M. Allen, Portland, a jun. English; George I lor ln Political science. . . business admin- j All the above awards are being Talk in Eugene A Big Surprise To Washington By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON OP) Pres ident Truman's crack in Eugene about Josef Stalin s being a pris oner of his own Politburo took diplomatic Washington, .includ ing many of' the President's own experts by complete surprise. The diplomats' view has been roughly the opposite of the one expressed by Mr. Truman. And questions about the President's comment brought a restatement of the Idea that the 14-man polit buro certainly does run Russ'ia but that Stalin runs the Politburo. "Joe Is Decent" Mr; Truman said Friday that "Old Joe," as he called Stalin, is "a decent fellow" who would keep agreements of he could. "But Joe is a prisoner of the politburo," Mr. Truman confided in a rear- platform talk at Eugene's South ern Pacific station. State Department authorities, trying to figure out just what Russia Is up to, are known to have been operating on the basic theory that Stalin is captain of the Soviet high command, not its prisoner. the door open for "an honest negotiation to bring about genuine settlement." But he turned down flatly any idea of great power "deals" to the "detriment of other nations or at the expense of prin ciples." "We refuse to play fast and loose with man's hope for peace," he said. If Russia wants peace, he said, sne can prove it by "proper ac tion" in troubled Greece and Korea. The chief executive' spoke at commencement exercise of th University of California ' in the 90,000-seat stadium. -: "The United States," he said "will always respond to an hon-' est move by any nation to fur--titer the principles and purposes of the charter of the United. Nations. i "But no nation has the right to exact a price for good behavior. . "What is needed is the will for peace. What is needed is the aban-r donment of the absurd idea that the capitalistic nations will col lapse and that instability in inter national affairs will hasten then collapse, leaving the world free for Communism.1..' .... "It is possible for different economic systems to live.'side by side and in peace, one with ..t'-.e" This does not rule out the ef- other, provided one of these svs . feet 'of possible rivalries among terns is not determined to destrol-' the Soviet leaders, nor does it j the other by force." ). I granted time. this year, lor the first suggest what might happen should Stalin vacate the No. 1 post. Seen Differently Stalin's role In the recent "peace offensive" is regarded at the State Department as part of a team' play, with Foreign Minister Mol otov, Politburo Member Zhdanov and other high Soviet officials also playing leading roles. , The Politburo, including Stalin, is privately described by foreign diplomats here, and by many of the American State Department's own Russian experts, as being en gaged in a global campaign to pic ture the United States government as being intent on war. The object is to upset American plans for re. building western Europe and pre venting the spread of Communism in the world. Into this picture, according to the government's experts, can be fitted the magazine attack pub lished In Moscow Saturday on Secretary of State Marshall and U. of W. Faculty Up for Red Test SEATTLE (JP) The state legis lature's un-American Activities Committee will turn its fire on University of Washington faculty members next month. Rep. Albert Canwell (R-Spo-kane), the committee chairman, announced Saturday the hearing will start here July 19. He said: Charges of Communist party membe'ship will involve "a com paratively small number" on the campus "the bad apples in the barrel. Approximately 40 subpoenas are being served. ' I Some of the 40 will be called as witnesses only not as suspects. Answer AH Questions to any volunteers who want to testify. Chairman Canwell said all per sons who are accused of being or having been Communist ' party members, will be subpoenaed. "They will have ample oppor tunity to state their case under oath and answer questions we feel are proper," he declared. Soviets Call Off Traffic Block American Smith. Ambassador W. B, BERLIN WV The Russians did an abrupt about-face Saturday and called off an hours-old rail traffic block which would have cut off food and coal from 2,000, 000 Germans in Berlin's western sector. The end of the crisis came when the Russians advised American and British authorities that freight train rnlilH mnua nnrmallu Btfotn The committee will for the Hrstfrom western Germany to Berlin. The first freight train from the moved into the Russian zone from- Helmstedt on the British zone border an hour later. The Russians gave no explana tion tit thai, nrrl nr a Its n,itl.-a..- committee I , and nQ assurgnc.g for the future. British and American transport officials are scheduled to meet Weather V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, partly cldudy Sunday with scattered showers, little change in temper ature. Western Oregon, same, high temperatures in valley Sun day 68-75 degrees. Gentle to mod erate variable winds off coast. Local Statistics: Highest tem perature Saturday, 62 degrees; low Saturday, 56 degrees; no rain in 24 hours ending 8:30 p. m; to tal for month, .52 of an inch; normal for month, 1.50 inches; stage of river at 7:30 a. m. Satur day, plus .75 of a foot; wind at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, North 2: prevailing Ftiday, West 5. Sunrise and Sunset (PDT): Monday 5:28 a. m. and 8:56 p. m. Tuesday, same. He wound up with this: "But the issues this fall ara. going to be clearly drawn. When the time arrives that your Presi dent doesn't have to run against the field, and has a definite opponent who has a record, then we will see what's up. "Then it is going to be up to you to decide whether you want the country to go forward or whether you want to go back to 1920." - In this year's campaien. he said. "the record of the President will. the policy committee of the U. & congress will be the other." He referred to Gov. Earl War ren of California, a Republican presidential possibility, as "real- tj m umiuvrttk ana oe aoesn know It." Warren in 1946 won both the Republican and Democratic nom inations for governor. ; Mr. Truman started to build- up for Saturday's speech by telling a train-side audience at Eugene. Ore., Friday evening that he likes "Old Joe" Stalin. The President added, however, that Stalin can not keep the agreements he makes because he is "a prisoner of the Politburo." . : time crack down and Insist that any persons called before the American zonc committee mun answer any ana all questions put to them. Charges of contempt will be in stituted in court against anyone who should refuse to answer. Canwell said the would proceed on a firm legal footing, bulwarked by the supreme court s decision that it is a con stitutional arm of the legislature. The high court ruling came on a test case on voucher payments after tht hearing several months ago. The Washington Pension Union leadership was involved in the previous hearing, which was held under the shadow of the constitutionality challenge, with Soviet transport officers next week. Observers believe the Rus sians then will raise again their demands for "rail reforms." Meanwhile, the Orman Com munist press beat the propaganda drum and hinted Germany could hope for a reduction in Russian The hearing is scheduled to run, reparations demands. Russia ji- from six to eight days. ready has cut demands from Fin- Tht witness stand will be open land, Hungary and Romania. Truck Goes Over Cliff Driver Leaps to Safety ..', An unidentified driver of a Con solidated Freightways truck jump ed to safety Saturday morning as his truck and trailer outfit, went out of control and plummeted to the bottom of a 100-foot embank ment. The driver was said to be uninjured in the accident, on the Willamette Highway above Salt Creek Falls. No other vehicle was involved. Further details could not be learn ed since Eugene personnel of the freight office were at the scene all day Saturday in a salvaging operation. Eugenean,at Iowa Parley, Tells Of 'Plans' to Halt Third War ' EDITOR'S NOTE: Ray Sleg enthaler, chairman of the Eu gene Council on World Affairs, Is attending the National Con ference for the prevention of World War III In Grlnell, Iowa this weekend. His report of the meeting, sent Saturday by tel egram. Is of particular Interest to members of the council and those Interested in United Na tions reform. By RAT SIEGENTHALER GRINNEL, la. (Special) Two major plans for revision of the Unite'd Nations Charter Sat urday occupied delegates attend ing the National Conference on the Prevention of World War III. Clarence Streit's "Union Now" plan of world government had Its support among the delegates and was opposed by the plan of a strong United Nations with a po lice force as proposed by Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson. Culbertson, becoming as well known for his international rela tions writing as he was a genera tion ago for his system of bidding, was outspoken in his demand that the other groups go along with him now, wait till his proposal, which he calls the "ABC plan," is put Into effect, and then drive for some better plan later. Csllinr his ABC plan the, "best bad plan available," Cul-, bertson declared that no good, plan la entirely acceptable to ' the nations, and "we must b (CONTINUED IROM FAGS 2. V
