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CITY EDITION
LANE COUNTY? HOME KEWSPAWft
EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1949
Phone 6300
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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
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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,
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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.
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