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No. 165
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EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1948
PHONE 6300
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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
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P'",h White House, bill to
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fro'20.4Derc,n a,..
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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
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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
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