Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, March 21, 1949, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Textv Eogene Register-Guard' Senate Favors Treaty Truman to Ask House Voles Jo Retain Death Penalty SALEM OP) Oregon's death penalty will remain as a punish ment for first degree murder, the House voting 32 to 27 Monday against a Senate-passed resolution .to take capital punishment out of the constitution. . Last Friday the House had vot ed, on a committee report, Just the other way around. That vote was 81 to 28 to abolish capital punish ment ". There was an hour's debate Monday, which included gory de acriptions of past murders. 'Sponsor Argue t Sponsors of the repeal measure "argued that under the death pen alty innocent persons are executed, that capital punishment does not prevent murders, and that any person who has enough money to hire a good lawyer can get off with a life sentence. Those in favor of capital pun ishment argued that the murder rat would increase if the death penalty were abolished. ' The people voted in 1914 to abolish capital punishment, but in J 920 they restored the death pen alty. Vets Bonus Talks Delayed -" The House had expected to take up the veterans bonus bill Mon .day, and finance it with a two cent cigarette tax. But the heavy , .calendar caused the House to de ilay consideration of the bonus un . til Tuesday. The Legislative Ways and -Means Committee paved the way ' for Attorney George Neuner to take part In the battle by coastal Jand gulf states to keep the fed eral government from taking over -state tidelands. It approved a bill ;to give Neuner $5000 to finance Oregon's part before Congress and in the courts. The Senate Labor ,and Indus 'Iriej Committee introduced a res 'olution for an interim committee, to study all of Oregon's labor .laws. o,INA1- tuet rowj V v giilNVtUD TO JOIN I Jj I CI COMMUNIST DOMINATED f p- WowpictttSgVr j MAP SPOTS NATIONS which will sign the North Atlantic Pact and those who were invited to join the alliance. Portugal has protested against the exclusion of Spain (1) on the ground that it weakens the pact and Portugal's own position. Provisions provide for a "se curity zone" from the Tropic of Cancer north to nearly the North Pole, including all of North America and ex tending eastward right up to the Iron Curtain. STAUH I BISBIKTROF, f2ft .0 vs. j.cJii5rvr$Mo Denfield Says Peace Rests on Arming .-. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. (U.R) 'There will not be another war "as long as the American people ? are determined their national miU- ' Ury establishment shall not lapse," according to Adm. Louis E. Den . feld, the chief ol Naval operations ... Denfeld, in an address at the closing ceremonies of the 1949 National Orange Show Sunday, aid the United States must be ' able to patrol the sea, the air and waters under the sea and "keep the enemy guessing." . "Surprise is a very potent ally," he said, "and the Navy of today is qualified to wage such a war." Kill HT willlli i nf UIFUA tnft. 1 ...... -mm A , t FlMX XLU It . . UkU J'Kitebnc tuttunUMi 1 jim; KV f J tton la Ctlt , i 5 h' if 5! if 4 r Hi l-fm I f A ROMAN STOPS to read pro-government posters supporting the De Gasperi administration's efforts to make Italy a signer of the North Atlantic Pact The poster on the left draws a parallel between Nazi and Communist occupation of small nations. It reminds readers of the Stalin-Ribbentrop agreement of 1939. The other placard shows a German tank under "1939" and a Soviet tank under "1949." Bradley Urges New Air Force Setup WASHINGTON (U.R) Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Army chief of staff, urged Congress Monday to approve a 70-group Air Force and back it up by long-range authority to maintain an army of 837,000 men. Bradley told a Senate Armed Services Committee that one with out the other would not be enough to protect this country, and the Air Force alone could not be de cisive In war. He followed Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall, who told the committee the 70-group Air Force would give this country adequate strength in the current "chess game" was being waged around the world. ililimllbt amfftiMm nt i iiiii (Mi 'JtD 2i' i4HP 1 Innocent Plea Entered by Girl WASHINGTON W Judith Coplon, 27-year-old former gov ernment girl, pleaded innocent Monday to a charge that she took secret security Information from Justice Department files. She made her plea before U. S. District Judge Richmond B. Keech after traveling here from New York to surrender on a District of Columbia Grand Jury indictment alleging such removal. Miss Coplon is also under in dictment in New York on an es pionage conspi-acy charge. The New York indictment charg es she conspired to pass secret information to Valuntln A. Gub itchev, Russinn engineer at United Nations headquarters. She was re leased in New York under $20,000 bond. After receiving Miss Coplon's plea, Judge Kcech fixed additional bond for her at $10,000. miss iopion was lempuraniy i Free Hand In Re-armament WASHINGTON W President Truman is expected to ask Con gress for a free hand in sending arms to Western Europe under the proposed billion-dollar military aid orosram. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Armed Service Committee predicted the arms program will be approved in both houses "with out a particle of trouble." Tightly linked to the arms pro posal is the North Atlantic Defense Treaty, which would virtually commit this country to go to war if any of its allies were attacked. The final decision would be sub ject to congressional approval, however. An Associated Press survey showed that at the moment, the edge is heavily in favor of the 12-nation treaty. But at least 25 Republican and 12 Democratic senators were still so undecided about its far-reaching effects that they were unwilling to commit themselves publicly for or against it Included in this group were most of the Senate's GOP lead ers. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) has said he favors a North Atlantic agreement, but opposes plans to help re-arm Europe. Since two-thirds of the senators voting must approve to ratify the treaty, tne opposition of 30 sen ators might kill the pact. The treaty is scheduled to be signed here April 4. The AP survey showed: 55 in clined to favor ratification, one opposed, 37 unwilling to go on record at this time. Senator Bridges (R-NH) indi cated he may vote for the treaty in tne end, but said it means 'automatic war" if a European member-nation is attacked. Meanwhile, taxes and prices claimed growing congressional attention. Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wvol said prices are going up again. He saia congress should give Presi dent Truman the "mild powers" the administration seeks to fight inflation. O'Mahoney also declared he thinks it important for Congress iu oui taxes as soon as possible, xsut senator Taft said the na tion's economy is in fairly good balance and he doesn't think mere is any need for the stand by price-wage and other controls wmch Mr. Truman has reauested A modified extension of federal rent controls began a race against ume in tne Senate Monday with several Dig nuraies in its path. The present law fixing maxl mum rents for several million homes and apartments expires iviaren ai, just 10 days away. Senator Maybank (D-SC) told a reporter he wants the Senate to pasa a 12 to 15 month extension uiai wouia allow some rents to increase 10 per cent "sometime late Monday or at least Tuesday." Maybank is chairrnan of the Senate Banking Committee which sharply revised a rent extension passed oy the House. He conceded iic laces powenui senate sup- yyn mi major cnanges in our D1U." Even if the Senate passes the compromise as it stands now, the bill would have to go back to the nouse tor action on Senate amend menta. Then Senate-House dif ferences would have to be ad. justed and both Senate and House approve the compromise. Maybank predicted the major senate oatties win come on these points: 1. A substitute proposal bv Re publican Senators Cain (Wash) and Bricker (Ohio) calling for a six-month extension of actual rent controls plus another six months of supervision of rent ceilings and evictions. The Senate committee bill calls for a 12 month extension taken into custonv of II. S. mar- i shals again for fingerprinting' P,us ,ne months of supervision. wnne ner attorney arranged lor the bond. Judge Kcech set her trial date here for April 25. Miss Coplon and Gubitchev are scheduled to go to trial on the conspiracy charge in New York on April 1. The Russian accused of an espionage conspir acy. He is in custody in New York. Chinese Sink Red Cruiser SHANGHAI tu.P.t The 5270- ton Chinese cruiser Chungking was sunk in the Communist-held Htilutao harbor during a day combine attack hv bombers of the Nationalist Air Force. A Navy spokesman in Nan king said Monday. The spokesman said that the cruiser, formerly the Bvitish war ship Aurora, had settled to the bottom wilh only her deck and superstructure above water. The Cluinsking was handed to Chinese Communists by her crew, which deserted last February. An air view taken after one of the attacks showed the ship afire and settling. It was tied to the dock in the harbor on the western shore of the Gulf of Chihli, north west of Russian-held Dairen. It was not known whether the crew of deserters was aboard the vessel when the bombing attacks stinted. Rut the spokesman said they had been warned to abandon ship. 2. A "step-by-step" decontrol of rents proposed by Senator Cape hart (R-Ind). He wants to end controls on all units renting for $150 or more monthly on Sept. 30 with similar action at $100 and above Dec. 31, $50 and above next rnMk 94 . 1 -If i . T lso isl nu ou tenia nrxi dune 3. A House-approved "local op tion" system of decontrols that ! would allow towns, cities, counties or states to lift rent ceilings or take them over. The Senate bill .would limit this authority to states. Both the Senate and House bills fall short of President Truman's demand for a full two-year exten sion with overall tightening of three- i controls and authority to enforce B-24jthem. IOW JONES AVERAGES Dow Jones closing bond aver, ages: 40 bonds 98.54 unchanged. 10 higher grade rails 102.02 off 0.09. 10 second grade rails 86.54 up 0.05. 10 public utilities up 0.11. 10 industrials 101.75 off 0.06. Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 industrials 175.81, off 0.46: 20 railroads 47.54 off 0.2 15 utilities 35.00 off 0.05. and 85 stocks 83.01 off 0.18. 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