Pag 8 .Register-Guarrl, Eugene, Ore.. Wed,. July 7. 1948
itain, France
Okay Aid Pad
LONDON (U.R Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin and U. S. Am
bassador Lewis Douglas Tuesday
night signed the Anglo-American
agreement setting Britain up for
American aid under the Euro
pean Recovery Plan.
The formal signing closely fol
lowed approval by the House of
Commons, 409 to 12. Six Con
servatives, two Laborites, two in
dependent Laborites and two
Communists opposed.
PARIS (U.R) The French nat
ional assembly Wednesday ap
proved the agreement with the
United States on Marshall Plan
aid by a vote of 336 to 183.
Communist deputies voted
against the bilateral accord out
lining the terms for Marshall
Plan Hid, and De Gaullists ab
stained.
Foreign Minister Georges Bl
dault led the fight for approval in
assembly debate which began last
Friday. He and other government
officials tola the chamber that
France faced a 50 percent re.
duction in its standard of living
unless U.S. aid were forthcoming
They denied Communislt
charges that the bilateral agree
ment "enslaves" France. The
United States compromised on
controversial clauses to which the
government objected, they said.
Seattle Vitamin
CUB SCOUT AT 106
WATERLOO, Ore (U.R) The
Waterloo Cub Scout pack claims
to have the oldest "cub" in the
world on its membership roster.
He is James W. Smith, Civil War
veteran who will be 106 this
month. He has been formally in
ducted into the organization.
ager, said the cause of the blast
was not known. Assistant fire
chief R. B. Rogers theorized that
one of the huge stills used in rend-
ering fish oil had blown up. Dirk
UlSIlt rYmrtffiOC Verhagen, chief chemist, said sev
I 1 0 1 1 1 LAUiUUCJ eral explosive materials were in;
the plant.
SEATTLE M A $350,000 .g0ivent Threatens
vitamin plant in northwest Seattle, . sj ,housalld gallon! of an ln
ooked like a stepped-on apple box f, mn ble s0,vent were d .
Wednesday-ripped by an explo-- n. ,he sm,,.inB wpe,.k.
sion and scorched by fire that kill
ed two men, injured one critically
and left another unaccounted lor.
At 5:35 p.m. (PDT) Tuesday-
half hour after 40 to 50 workers
had completed their shift The
age. Police kept back the crowds
for hours, faring a second blast,
and firemen probed cautiously
through the ruins for bodies,
The two-story concrete and steel
processing plant blew up. Store. .. ,.nj Bm-t,
White flowers, which are dis
cernible at night, attract moths.
r Ballard city -doiHn.eds of feet into the
blew outward into the streets.
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homes four miles away were
shaken, I
The charred, unrecognizable
bodies of Rolland Stebbens, 27,
and John Zenger, plant workmen,
were found just outside the gates.
Walker Lamphere, 56, was blown
through; a door. His arm was frac
tured and he was badly burned.
The missing man was identified
as Ira Snyder, an engineer.
Early Wednesday as fire flared
up anew in the shattered debris,
firemen were again called to the
explosion scene. Ten men were
kept at the plant overnight to
check the blaze.
O. E. Erickssen, assistant man-
Group Will Request
Legislature Session
PORTLAND (Pi A Vanport
delegation will go to Salem Wed
nesday to ask Governor John H.
Hall to call a special legislative
session on flood relief.
The group will be headed by
Spencer Gill, chairman of the
citizens committee for flood dis
aster. This committee was formed
by a group of former Vanport
residents after the flood.
Hearings Set
WASHINGTON (U.B Secre.
tary of Intrior J. A. Krug has
set Aug. 2 for hearings on pro
posed withdrawal of 3,269,610
acres of public land as a perma
nent part of the Army's Alamo
gordo, N. M bombing range.
The hearings will be held in the
federal district court room, Las
Cruces, N. M. They will be con
ducted by Roscoe E. Bell, assis
tant director of the Bureau of
Land Management.
Krug said the hearings are the
result of "mutual agreement of
the secretaries of interior and
Army that full opportunity should
be afforded for all interested cit
izens to express their views."
The land includes parts of the
White Sands National Monument,
the Jornada range reserve anij the
Cibola national forest.
Under the proposed withdrawal,
grazing could continue on public
lands north and west of U. S.
Highway No. 70 at such times and
for such periods as would be
agreeabl to the Army and the In
terior Department. But the land
would be withdrawn from all
other general use.
The Army originally requested
1,250,000 acres and then raised
that to 3,263,619 acres.
Manslaughter
Sentence bet
PORTLAND, Ore. (U.R) Am.
old Inman, 35, Portland service
station operator, Wednesday was
under sentence of 15 years in slate
prison on a charge of manslaugh
ter.
Judge Martin W. Hawkins, who
passed out the maximum prison
sentence for manslaughter Tues
day, also fined Inman $100.
Inman was tried on a charge of
first degree murder for the slay
ing of his business partner, Ever
ett L. Keith, in their service
station here March 3. A jury in
Judge Hawkins' court convicted
Inman of manslaughter last week.
Inman testified he struck Keith
with a hammer in self defense.
County Farm Girls
Enter Movie Contest
County 4-H Club Agent John
Gurton reported Wednesday that
more than 40 Lane County farm
girls had entered a contest being
conducted by a Hollywood film
producer who wants to find a
13-year-old 4-H clubber to play
the lead role in a proposed motion
picture.
The girls are sending their pho
tographs to the club office in part
of a nation-wide "talent" search
that so far has brought in more
than 5000 snapshots from farm
girls.
Glenn McCarthy, a Texas oil
millionaire, pian, te
Hollywood film .y;,..LrN
children to see."
CHILD DROWNS
HOOD RlVirn
Two-year-old George Wa7
aman, son of Mr. and m1'BJ
Dinnuman, p arkdale h...
Sunday in an lrrigatj00H
his homo. th 10?ditafc
ported Wednesday.0'6:
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Hotter Than
Hades Town
NEW YORK (U.R) Think your
town is hot?
Here are some towns that were
hotter Tuesday than Hell's Half
Acre:
Thermal, Cal., 110 degrees.
Boiling Springs, N. C, 98,
Sunray, Tex., 95.
Sunshine, La., 94.
Sun City, Kans., 90.
Boiling Springs, Pa., 88 (It
rained).
Hell's Half Acre, Wyo., 85.
And to show what's in a name,
Cool, Cal., 59. 1
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400 E. 14th Ave.
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