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EDITION CITY EDITION LANE COUNTY? HOME KEWSPAWft EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1949 Phone 6300 Wo.80 AM Dispute S llion Workers by Raises tached in the n ralT.n the na- fcandl6non-operat- worked out on ecommended by a (act-finding board, I br a union spokes- "most momentous ur movement in the nd the basic 40-hour ,ilroads for the first lects 1,000,000 em- ff week at the same lers received for 48 i effective next Sept. Iditional wage boost b an hour is retro t Oct 1. Excepted neral terms of the ' wage boost are the .hnwill continue on Lit with an increase fa hour. . Jin excess of eight Jay or 40 hours in a paid generally m and one half. Al- Uav and Sundays jdered ordinary work farriers must arrange turn number of em- those days on. now- lave tne privilege t it work week where avoid overtime raies lirfit time rate, the y wage is raisea irum The unions- ong were for a 40-hour lys through Fridays at ttion, tune ana a nan hs, double time for an increase oi The roads refused work week and over fed offered a 10-cent Judge ssed - UP) The Senate I sent to the governor fell giving the Second ftrict a fourth circuit district consists of Douglas, Lane and ities. ovides that two of the i and sit primarily in r. and that another it primarily in Doug he other judge would in Loos or Curry b has yet to consider feed bill to take Lin- out of that district in the Linn-Benton rict. That bill alsn She Linn-Benton dis fd Judge, (IP) A nrannca ll amendment to issue I in higher education Ippear on the general lot in Novpmher losn e passed the measure I'o i- i ne Mouse al Poroved it. . fond issue. t7.5nn.nnn ed to refund existing L?,u ve me siate pterest. S3 million would ho Iher education build- pnners Slate Tuesday Niqht led F Lane County Plan Pssion will be heM ":30 B. m. in nlannins fee Eueen if t.u '"ess to be conducted inner study of a pro 8 ordinance for Lane "t reading of the pro fee which will nre- LU'fS "ni 'Pes ofi ..uaras for Urhan ! "ty was accom meetrng of the month. H fan of Creswell will LT. Three persons t ln ured n th. fornei (itv . ",lase rreaicted ... Activities If W '!'V IM : :f life?; . Progressives Hear Of Discharge d Professors Convention Denounces Treaty About 50 delegates of the Pro gressive Party state central com mittee met in an atmosphere of urgency here Sunday to mobilize a state campaign against the pro posed North Atlantic Pact. In afternoon and evening ses sions Progressives from over the state discussed a political action program on both foreign and do mestic matters, but always re turned to the principal issue, "How to stop Senate ratification of the North Atlantic Military Al liance. Peterson Presides State Chairman Nels Peterson, Portland attorney, presided as delegates from upstate counties reported renewed Progressive ac tivity after a slump which had followed the November election. Cited as the reason for renewed interest in the party which had supported Henry Wallace for the presidency, was asserted public dismay at the failure of the Tru man administration "to live up to campaign promises." Delegates observed that civil rights legislations is being fili bustered to death in Washington. A new "Mundt-Nixon Bill" which would outlaw the Communist Party Is in the hopper. There is no apparent concern with either housing or employment; and both the old parties seem "resigned to a foreign policy that can lead only to war." Discuss Unemployment state Director Tom Moore told OntKh . .... ... . ... k - iivuian plane; unrguies inai mere are ui.uuv P"Un airlift, the Brit- Persons unemployed in Oregon, tmA, an-1 ". 4.b"., (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Today... progressive Part r - .. Ko.es. Obi, Z"mum "ge t B Pernio. " menlal nealtn -fBge Road Hnoc t). e Oreanizatinn. t, - pn( ' s Pa86 7 Finl-j V. "in ueoate Honors Page 8 R i4nd V iolated Peace Treaty Papp 10 Rlvr Flood TW. treaty rage JU 0811 Tournament HilZ12i71 r, 10 fW Ar e.nt Hl& ge 13 ament Highlights hnh AM """self Page 14 l "'lantic Pact t- ti t UrZ , ; Page 15 Summary 1. Resolved to reopen in the State Board of Higher Educa tion protest against the alleged political firings of two Oregon State College professors. 2. Prepared resolutions for Congress denouncing the "North Atlantic Military Alliance" as fatal to the United Nations and a step toward inevitable war. 3. Set up a state committee on unemployment. . 4. Started a 1949 membership and financial drive. 5. Moved to continue a cam paign for an anti-discrimination ordinance in Portland. Lumbermen Name Officers Officers and directors of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Assn. were elected for the coming year at the annual meeting last week. Dale Fischer, of Fischer Lumber Co., Marcola,' was named president; Nils Hult, of Jiult Lum ber Co., Junction City and Horton, vice-president; and Elliot Jenkins, of Booth Kelly, secretary-treasurer. The balance of the board of di rectors consists of Kenneth W. Ford, Roseburg Lumber Co.; Ern est G. Whipple, of Drain; Lauren Stewart, Bohomia Lumber Co., Culp Creek; Sid Lewis, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas; Vittz Ramsdell, Santiam Lumber Co., Sweet Home; and W. A. Woodard, Woodard Lumber Co., Cottage Grove. The new offices of the association- are now located in the Col lins Bldg., 12th and Pearl, Eugene, P. O. Box 1192. Bids Called On BP A Line Bids on Invitation 4543 clearing and construction of for the i,l.. T.v..... 1H KV tram- nininn line were called Monday bv the Bonneville Power Admin- 'istration. I Bids will be opened ln Portland April 8. William E. Trommer - shausen, district manager, reported thBt mis will be the first combined One such eon- 'tract was let previously in Wash- The power line Includes 17 miles ol wood pole H-frame construc- :il cinV .bout 22 .ere. PROGRESSIVES hear professors on academic free dom at a Community Cen ter dinner Sunday night which wound up an all-day convention of the party's state central committee. Top: Left to right, Roy Stauffer, Lane County chairman and host for the convention; Prof. Ralph Spitzer, recently dismissed chemistry teacher at Ore gon State College; Prof. L. R. La Vallee, former eco nomics teacher at OSC, dis missed with Spitzer; and Tom Moore, state director of the Oregon Progressives. Below: Karen Sandell, 790 Kratz Rd., Eugene, last summer's chairman of "Teen-agers for Wallace" and active Eugene Progres sive, poses with "Col." A. M. Church of Salem, chairman of the Marion County Pro gressive Club. (Ted Good win photo, Wiltshire engraving.) 'Political' Firings Described By Ted Goodwin Two former professors at Ore gon State College Sunday night told 75 Progressive Party dele. gates and a handful of visitors that they lost their jobs because of their politics. Dr. Ralph Spitzer, speaking on academic freedom in Oregon, said that the college failed to produce evidence that his teaching of chemistry was anything but satis. factory. He pointed out that in three years he had been promoted from assistant to associate profes sor. Firing "Unjustified" L. R. La Vallee, assistant pro fessor of economics, said that they could not conclude they had been fired for being Progressives, and that since the Progressive Party in Oregon was a legally organized political party, the firings were unjustified invasion of academic freedom. Dr. A. L. Strand, president of the college, notified the two men Feb. 8, that their contracts would not be renewed, asserting that as president of the college, he had the right to hire and fire at his discretion. They said that they asked President Strand at that time if their teaching was in ques tion, and that he replied, "I would not know about that." But . . . They said they then asked President Strand if their activity in behalf of the Wallace move ment last fall, and recent Pro gressive programs in Corvallis, was the cause of the dismissal, and quoted his reply as follows: "Anybody's politics It all right down here, but ..." "Apparently," said Spitzer, "there is a lot of meaning in those three dots. College professors are about the only working men left who can be fired without any rea son." The two professors then level ed a number of specific charges ! tbe college j Consultations Questioned 1. That they were fired without j consultation of their department neaas. inis cnarge was denied by OSC, but there was some doubt as to what constitutes a consulta- head first told him he had not been consulted, and then later re membered that perhaps he had been). 2. That there was no investiga tion nf their work. Spitzer said he frequently had been commended De Gaulle Party Wins Largest Popular Vote French Election Gives Reds Fewer Seats PARIS im Fvtrama TioM wing de Gaullists emerged with ! Taft-Hartley and restore the iWag the largest popular vote of any ner Act with certain additions single party in Sunday's French cantonal (county) elections, final official returns showed Monday. Communists at the other politi cal extreme fell off slightly from their 1946 total, but wound up with the second highest vote of any single party. Percentages Shown The de Gaullists polled about 25 per cent of the popular vote, the Communists about 23 per cent. The remainder went to a multi plicity of parties banded together for the present in the coalition which makes up the government of Radical Socialist Premier Henri Queuille. The result of the cantonal elec tions could not affect the national government now, but It was look ed upon as a barometer of strength. Vote Close The total of the Communist and de Gaullist vote fell only 150,000 short of the combined total of the government bloc coalition. Presenting the figures of the combined total of the Communist and de Gaullist vote is only for the purpose of showing the anti-government strength in the cantonal elections. There remains, as al ways, little likelihood of any com bined action by Communists and de Gaullists, who hate each other heartily. Interpretation of the election in which 723 local legislators were named, was difficult because an other 789 will be chosen next Sun day. Results Listed Final results in councillors elect ed: Gaullists 170. Communists 15. Groups supporting the govern ment 538. A breakdown of the govern mental parties shows that Pre mier Queuille's Radical Party won 138 seats, Socialists 108, Independ ent Socialists 37 and Popular Re publicans 36. Paul Reynaud's Independent Re publicans, a group but not a par ty won 199 seats. Reynaud is cur. rently supporting the government Another 20 seats were divided up among unclassified office hold ers. legion' Sailor Arrives in US ALAMEDA, Cal., OJ.R) James Parick Ryan, 25, arrived here Monday aboard the flying boat "Mars," hoping the Navy would believe his story that he did not desert, but was shanghaied into the French Foreign Legion. Ryan, officially' listed as a de serter for failing to report to the destroyer Dickson in San Remo, Italy, in 1947, is on his way back to Bethesda, Md., where he will undergo physical and mental ex aminations. The Navy said he is not a prisoner. Swears It's True "I hope this doesn't mean Ports mouth (Navy prison)," Ryan said as he stepped off the "plane. "I know it's a cockeyed story but it's true." He turned up several weeks ago at Adm. Oscar Badger's flag ship at Tsingtao, China, and re lated his fantastic story. When he missed the destroyer, Ryan said, he walked across the border into Nice, France, where Foreign Legion military police picked him up and shipped him to Africa. An apprentice seaman, Ryan was wearing Navy white but no hat or insignia. He spent a year in Africa wltn the Legion. 'Worse Than Nazis' ''Legion training isn't worth a damn," he said in Honolulu Sun day. "They're worse than the Nazis." He said 85 per cent of the legionnaires were Germans. Only 40 per cent of the men had vol unteered and the remainder were shanghaied, he said. German legion officers questioned him often about American arms. Catches -Attention In January, 1948, he smuggled letters out of camp and his case came to the attention of the French war secretary and the American consul general at Casa blanca. Before he was freed, however, officers shipped him to Indo-China to "get you out oi bur hair for once and for all." Ho spent eight days in Indo China and then escaped to the Chinese who held him on suspi cion that he was a Communist. In February, he surrendered to the American consulate at Canton and was ordered to a hospital. All Stations Agree PORTLAND (US) Oregon gave the first official day of spring a typical welcome Monday. The weather bureau said that every one of its 18 state sutions reported K-A-I-N. Senate Gets Labor Bill WASHINGTON (IP) The Sen ate Labor Committee officially sent the administration labor bill to the Senate Monday and called it "a long step forward" toward achieving good labor-management relations. In a 79-page printed report, the eight-man Democratic majority of the committee condemned the Taft-Hartley Act in detail. The administration bill would repeal proposea Dy rresmem iruman. The five Republican members of the committee will have something to say in minority reports later. The committee already had ap- ' proved the administration bill by a straight party vote, 8 Democrats for and 5 Republicans against. This is the same bill which now is the subject of House hearings which end Monday. The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Sena tor Elbert Thomas (D-Utah) and in the House by Rep. Lesinski (D-Mich). West Outlaws Russian Mark In Allied Berlin BERLIN (IP) The Western powers have outlawed the Rus- sian east mark in their sectors of Berlin, splitting the city's econ omy 'completely. The new Allied order Sunday, declaring that the Russian cur rency no longer would be accepted as legal tender, had been expected for some time. It means that Western Berlin now has one currency the west mark; and eastern Berlin has an other the Soviet east mark. The west mark has been worth about four times as much as the east mark. Was A Crime The Russians earlier made It a crime to possess west marks in their area. The United states, Britain and France did not go that far. They iust said the eastern currency no longer need be ac cepted in their part of the city. Although the order is effective immediately, the east mark still will be good ln Western sectors for rationed foods this month and will be accepted in Tpril for rent ana taxes. . . T , . The east mark tumbled to rate of six to 10 for one west mark Monday. As Western Berliners rushed to dump their remaining holdings of east marks. That was the black market figure. But even in legal exchange offices the east mark dropped to .52 for one. Press Charges Fraud The chief Russian reaction so far was a chai-gc in the Russian- controlled press Monday morning that the action by the Western powers was a fraud against the population. Big headlines in the Communist press predicted mass bankruptcies ln Western Berlin The only concrete Russian re action was an effort by the So viet-controlled German police to prevent Western Berliners from entering the Russian sector's rat ion-free stores on buying sprees with surplus east marks, TTTn sk .... -- k;:4 W f 1 v THIS IS HOW an auto driven by Donald D. Myers, YVoodburn, looked Saturday night, a few minutes after It had collided with a car driven by Donald A. Still, 1480 Park Ave., two and a halt miles north of Elmira Junction on Highway 99. Mrs. Kathcrine Myers, Myers, and Francis Martin, all riding in the Myers auto, vere in the hospital Monday. Mrs. Myers suffered a broken leg, while the other two were described In "fair condition." Still was in the hospital in "good" condition. (Photos by Margaret Benston, Wiltshire. Engravings.) President Optimistic Of Program Truman to Continue Working with Group WASHINGTON (UP) President Truman said Monday that he and Congress are "basically" working together and will continue to do so for the good of the country.. He told the United States Conference of Mayers that "of course I differ with the actions of Congress on some points, and where these differences are important I shall continue to urge the course 1 But he predicted that "we are going to agree on a lot more things than we disagree on. And when the final score for this Congress is added up, some of the selfish pressure groups are going to be pretty badly disappointed. 'Big Four Meet . ,i Mr. Truman spoke shortly after holding his first post-vacation meeting with his "big four" legis lative leaders. They said they told him that the administration pro gram is not bogged down despite the recent Senate filibuster and reverses he suffered last week. The Big Four Vice-President Alben W. Barklcy, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senate Democratic lead er Scott W. Lucas and House Dem ocratic leader John W. McCormack predicted after the White House conference that a good program will be enacted before Congress quits for the summer. No Filibuster Talk They said they did not discuss with Mr. Truman the Southern fil ibuster against changes in Senate debate rules. Nor did they talk about the action of the ' Senate Armed Services Committee in ta bling the nomination of Mon C. Wallgren to be chairman ot the National Security Resources Board. In his speeeh to the mayors, Mr. Truman emphasized need for a big housing program. "In particular," he said, .."we have needed a fresh start in the construction of rental housing for low-income groups, in the clear- ance of slums, and in research to reduce building costs. Housing. Rents Together The housing shortage cannot be mentioned without a discussion of rent control, Mr. Truman added. . "I know you will agree with me on the necessity of main taining rent control in those areas where there arc still ser ious shortages and fewvvac.n cies," he said. - The President said another se rious matter facing city govern ments today Is the . fundamental problem of finances. CIIIN-TJP CLUBBER DIES PORTLAND (IP) Mrs. Cecile (Sally) Sole Rolsum, 58, former vice-president of the Chin- Up Club of Oregon, whose wheel chair wedding last year attracted attention, died at her home Satur day. tninK is rignt. Rep. Ellsworth Calls for NW Study of CVA WASHINGTON (IP) Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) expressed be lief Monday that Congress should not consider a Columbia Valley Authority bill until after a study by the five Northwest states shows that it is needed. The Oregonlan said he had been unable to find "speelflo and compelling" reasons why snch an agency Is necessary, ' "It Is the normal practict in any legislative body to first es tablish the fact that a given piece of legislation is needed and then to tailor the legislation to meet the need," Ellsworth said, "Ap parently this logical approach to the question of Columbia Valley Authority legislation has Been completely Ignored." ' He asked what "distress, disad vantage, inconvenience or inef ficiency" the people of the flv Northwest states are suffering from handling the river basin un der present laws. He wanted to know, he told a reporter, if such troubles were so serious that "we must, forthwith and without any investigation of them, proceed to enact, federal legislation which would take from the people of those states many of their nor mal rights of self-government." "Before dashing headlong Into the enactment of authoritarian legislation which would place our Northwestern states under a dic tatorship controlled from Wash ington," he said, "we had better first find out If me need any fed eral law at all, and if so, what sort of legislation Is required." He said any study of the need for such legislation should be made by the states and if the facts, indicate the need for federal leg islation the same facts would show the kind of legislation needed. "I do not believe that th President's or any oilier author ity bill," he said, "should seri ously be considered by Congress until we first know why we need a bill and what kind of bUf, If any, Is required." President Truman recently an nounced he was having a study made to draw up legislation for a Columbia Valley Authorfty. It has not been presented to Con gress but other bills, following the lines of the Tennessee Valley Au thority, have been introduced. Senate Passes Laws Revision SALEM (U.R) The Senate Monday passed and sent to the House a bill to create a seven member council to clarify and simplify Oregon laws. 'If this had been done a num ber of years ago, our work by now at this Legislature would be done by now," said Son. Irving Rnnd of Portland. The measure, recommended by the Oregon State Bar Assn. and introduced by the Judiciary com mittee, calls for an appropriation of $90,000 for the next biennlum. The council would be appointed by the governor and Include both lawyers and non-lawyers. Son. Rnnd said, "many laws take pages nnd pages to say what could be said In one or two sen tences." He believed that Oregon's 10 volume code might be boiled down into two books. Weather II. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, cloudy with occasional rain Monday night; Tuesday partly cloudy with wide ly scattered showers. Western Oregon, same. Loral statistics: High tempera ture Sunday, 51 degrees; low Mon day, 39 degrees; rain in 24 hours ending 10:30 a.m., .22 inch; total for month, 2.71 inches; stage of river at 7:30 a.m., plus 1.80 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m., SSW 13; pre vailing Sunday, South 12. Sunrise and sunset (PST), Tues. day, 8:12 a.m. and 8:27 p.m. Wed nesday, 8:10 a.m. and 6:28 p.m. SM'M.AW TIDE. IKV fii.12 l)k Hi lift PA
