Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, July 13, 1949, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION Forecast: Continued fair ard warm. Western Oregon, fame. Temperature!: High Tuesday, 90 degrees; low Wednesday, S3 degrees. LANE COUNTTO HOME NEWSPAKA TWO SECTIONS 28 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1949 Phone 5-1551 ounty Court Tells Ferry St. Villagers to Start Moving r ox n.irfor. community must be vacate vacated within morn- - ct Bridge community must be vacated TheTS'-BBcounty Court ordered Wednesday days, we '.' j iH the two-vear-old community would Pe abandoned to make way for the new bridge, the U to be aoanu fee m property now occupied F? TIV. ,nH shanties in wai Lthe P ...,: .Wrri Among the am"- rirHSreMr. and " Charles Johnson and I S?..!! sons-tnp- r,., born Monday. ts-wu; .h chiidren. h,m are " . ., Foresters Alert As Fire Danger Reaches Class 6 Drying Winds Make Timber Like Tinder. (in a . . ,. ..MmlinilV "without au- K from T K one competent to give M",, vacated is near ST .nnroach of the -bridge by isiana - L,M residents fail to move ifsns necessary vu uU . The court order was ,tt residents who had been .told ...rim, that July 1 was the ab- iS .deadline for them to move (f the land. h ronrt's warning last Lrinr there were an estimated 111 persons living In the com unitr. At that time 65 of the ttioenta were colored and 38 ( them white. t rilrk general chair In of the citizens' committee to Km the nroblem said his com- rtee had determined that most the families were able to pay Lhen $10 and $40 a momn I The court order evicting the louatters" came on-the heels of onday night's city council ac- asking the governor to rec amend removal of rent controls the area. The council's reso lion to the governor stated Fhtrt no longer exists such a nrttee of rental housing accom odations as to require rent Con or The council approved the solution t to 1, with Council is. Ray Allen casting the only lative vote. , Ifeel Union Sets trike Friday PITTSBURGH UP) rh tlO-United Steelworkers Wed fsdty ordered a strike effective pldnlrht Friday against steel mis wmch have rejected Presidential 60-dav ra jWtwal accepted by the union. PlTTSBimriw m.. oreeiworkers svin,. k-.J Tn. , i n i . c r". "saay accepted a pres IHmal nlan fnr t, fin.j,,, fke Jelay but failed tn min- f 1 whether steel concerns re tag the plan would be included uuce. July one steolmoi,.. t . lathlm Jones at nt1W.hM "CCCpted Presi- 4m nation's t0P Nu ' t"che"i and Republic 1 Mv reiected th wni. ,rc fftnui v '""le ouse AchesonSays Arms Figure Is Rock Bottom WASHINGTON () Secre tary of State Acheson Wednesday flatly opposed any cut in the ad ministration s projected $1,450, 000,000 foreign arms aid program He said this figure represents the absolute minimum needed for Western Europe and other areas, The secretary stated his position at a news conference while oppo sition led by Senator Taft ( It- Ohio) was wiping out prospects for a quick Senate vote on the North Atlantic Treaty. Oppose Commitments The small group opposing the defense agreement centered their fire on the military aid program and the commitments carried in the pact. Acheson also commented on an other issue which has arisen on Capitol Hill. He agreed with Sen ator Dulles (R-NY) that the United States delegation at. the Big Four Foreign Ministers' meet ing in Paris had considered whether the American people should be kept "artifically alarm ed" and had rejected the idea completely. The matter came up, Acheson said, in discussion of whether the Russians might try to create a false sense of peace and security Dy making a snow of cooperation. Made Decision The U. S. delegation, he added. decided that it should not reject any possible avenue of cooperation wun tne soviet Union merely be, cause acceptance of tne avenue might relax tension in the world Majority Leader Lucas (D-Ill) said he may keep the Senfcte in session Saturday to reach a vote on the 12-nation alliance designed to strengthen the defenses of the West against attack. aii!Kf RnhM ....... p.. midnight. President Truman pramaH - a . pat board investigated the is- S. Steel and tat.t.t-i twola7r.V'e,n!m-.,ne ssiit , ' a':el proauc CM o' the Mart ( ..""" oelnlel tsairt iest s,eel Produc. said their rejection tu. !t wuM h.u "ol mean ldonr. .. J in aV,7. s W0Ula con- hiA7..n Wltn con pt ycar "' xpire until "e.wcommunirnf 1 Cofholic Reds WlCAN rti-,. lves t r "'cs wno attach utomar,n"n.'Smwillin f3 of the d ""-"mmunica-jrch. ' Roman Catholic ? vtican Pleasant Work, This Business Of Excavating CINCINNATI W) Who says ditch-digging can't be fun? Men working on a downtown build ing excavation here think it is, While diggine Tuesday, thev broke into a long-forgotten wine cellar and discovered hundreds of bottles of that fermented drink. Some of the wine was more than 100 years old. ine oest wine we ve ever tasted," they heartily agreed, The bottles bore faded labels saying the contents were "ia valuable for general debility, loss of appetite, prostration and nursing mothers." The spirits, then about 75 years old, should be consumed "three times a day," said the labels. Old time Cincinnati residents said the cellars were part of the old Longworth Wine House which went out of business more than 50 years ago. This area's forest protective tVio ' Sroups were keeping close watch uti uuiici.aiiua i cunceua.v lilt: danger reached "Class 6" scale which runs 1-7). A strong drying northeast wind combined with low humidity readings and tinder-box forest conditions made a forest fire in Lane a definite threat. Monday and- Tuesday wind velocity reached 23 miles an hour in some places and the humidity went as low as 25 per cent. The possibility of lightning in the mountains increased the hazard. But, although an average of about three small fires have been reported each day throughout the county, no large blazes have occurred. Fire in Malheur Other parts of Oregon were not so fortunate. A 1500 acre fire in the Malheur National Forest, touched off Tuesday during a lightning storm, was still burning out of control. One fire in Western Oregon, covering 400 acres in Coos County, was under control. The fire broke out Monday afternoon on Coos Bay Lumber Company holdings east of Sitkum. As late as Tuesday afternoon the fire still was burning slowly and had eaten into green timber, although lunv ber company employes and Coos County fire patrolmen had con. trol. West Lane Fire Patrol reported three small fires during the past two days In the face of "Class 6 readings. Broken glass around an abandoned house owned by Fred Brown started a grass fire Mon day which burned three ' acres about one and one-half miles from patrol headquarters at Ven eta. Officials said the fire jumped considerably and almost got away. A railroad fire Monday caused by sparks from a signal burned an acre of grass near Penn. be tween Walton and Noti. Small One at Cheshire About one-fourth acre of slash burned Tuesday near Cheshire at an abandoned mill site. West Lane's weather readings included a wind velocity average which reaehed 19 miles, nd . av eraged five miles an hour. Humi dity was 23 per cent at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday A "Class 5" day was ex pected Wednesday. Fire danger recorded by East Lane patrol reached "Class 6" Wednesday, after two days of Class 5." Wind velocity reached 18 miles Tuesday with an average of 14 miles. Humidiity hit a low of 29 per cent and averaged 36 per cent. East Lane officials reported fuel sticks down Wednesday with very slight fuel recovery overnight. Mop-Up on McKenzie Crews were mopping up a one- fourth acre logging slash blaze Wednesday which started Tues day evening at McKenzie Ridge south of Walterville at the logging operations of Chris Keller, Willamette Forest officials said Wednesday morning that there was no area within their jurisdic tion with more than a "Class 5 day. District rangers report in on an emergency basis when condi tions go beyond this point. The area near Detroit was Class 6 on Friday of last week. Classifications on fire danger made during the season are based on fuel moisture content in the woods and on wind velocity and humidity. Humidity is not so im portant except that it contributes to likelihood of forest blazes. r " : . . Rites Held for Five Newsmen Killed In India Crash BOMBAY, India (UP) The remains of five of 14 Ameri can correspondents killed in a plane crash Tuesday were cremated Wednesday after simple ceremonies. Protestant and Catholic clergymen conducted joint Dutch American services for Na't Barrows of the Chicago Daily News, James Branyan of the Houston Post, William Newton of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Bertram Hulen; of the New York Times and Miss Elsie Dick of the Mutual' Broadcasting System. U. S. Ambassador Loy Henderson and his staff attended the cremation. He flew here Wednesday morning from New' Delhi to help identify the victims. The bodies of all but one of the correspondents Fred Colvig of the Denver Post have been identified. Police still were searching the muddy hillside where the plane crashed for 12 missing bodies. Many of the 33 bodies already found were mangled beyond recognition. They were removed to a Bombay morgue. Henderson had entertained 13 of the ill-fated group of 14, newsmen returning from Indonesia at his embassy Sunday night. Three other American newsmen who also were at ths party accompanied him here WHILE THE CAB investigated the Tuesday crash which claimed the lives of 34 air line passengers, rescue workers on the scene at Susana Pass in San Fernando Valley, California, rummaged through the smoldering wreckage searching for the missing bodies of the victims. The pilot, who was killed in the crash, had just radioed that there was a fist fight among passengers, before the Curtiss Commando plowed into the rocky hill side. CAB investigators tentatively decided the fight had nothing to do with the crash. (Wiltshire engraving.) CAB Probes Plane Crash Which Claimed 34 Lives CHATSWORTH, Cal.- 0J.R) , Pilot Roy G. White was 2000 feet I below officially prescribed alti tude when he smashed a C-46 Commando into the Santa Susana Mountains with loss of 34 of its 48 occupants, Civil Aeronautics Board Inspector James Peyton said Wednesday. "I think I know why he was too low, but I don't want to say Reuther Seeks Tight Control MILWAUKEE VP) Stronger than ever and starting his newly won third presidential term, Wal ter Reuther sought Wednesday to make absolute his control of the CIO United Auto Workers. This goal was regarded by ob servers at the union's convention as a possibility but no cinch. All four top officers won hands- down re-election late Tuesday over weak, left-wing opposition that was only a ghost of another faction that once dominated the million-member UAW. Big Majority Reuther overpowered W. G, Grant, ex-president of the big Ford Local 600, by a 12 to 1 mar gin. The final but unofficial vote count was 8080 to 672. . Reuther will hold his post until the next convention in April, 1851 some 20 months hence. why until we complete our in vestigation and hold a formal hearing," he said. , He said he was convinced a fight between two pssaangers J had no bearing on the orash, The plane, owned by Standard Airlines, a nonscheduled . line, crashed and. burned in Santa Sus, ana pass Tuesday morning as White was coming in for a land ing at Lockheed Air Terminal, Burbank. N Deputy Coroner John Bragg of Ventura County said the bodies of 33 dead were recovered. Four teen injured were identified and one passenger was unaccounted for and presumed dead. The Air line said that one of the originally reported 49 occupants Lois Tucker apparently failed to board the plane at Kansas City. Peyton said he and hit In vestigators would spend "an other two or three days" dig ging through the charred wreckage strewn among the boulders In an effort to eon form his opinion of why White was flying at 1600 feet Instead of 2500 as prescribed by the CAB. "Everything else about his ap proach was normali" Peyton said. "He came in on the right leg, contacted the control tower at ,th ' proper points; lowered his landing gear as prescribed, and made the correct procedure turn He added tnat visibility was adequate, pointing out that a Call. fornia Central 'Airlines pilot in the air awaiting, his turn to land was able to see the burning wreckage of Whites plane from the prescribed altitude of 3500 feet. Deputy Coroners Bragg and Frank Watkins concentrated Wed, nesday on identification of the 33 recovered bodies. They said some may never be identified positively because they were so badly burn ed and mangled. The wreck scene was grue some. Bodies were strewn along a ridge for half a mile, some sprawled over rocks and others dismembered by the impact, Survivors fought free of the burning plane and some wandered down the narrow box canyon to ward a fire roadway. Ambulances rushed the victims to hospitals and mortuaries in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. McKay Honors Lost Newsmen From Oregon SALEM (U.P.) Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon issued the fol lowing statement after the crash of a Dutch air liner, which killed 45 persons including 13 Ameri can newspaper correspondents near Bombay, India. Tuesday: "The State of Oregon joins the rest of the nation in mourn ing the deaths of 13 of Amer ica's outstanding newsmen in Tuesday's air line crash near Bombay, "This tragedy strikes particu larly close to home because three of the victims, George Moorad of the Oregonian-KGW, Fred Colvig of the Denver Post and Charles Gratlte of the Chris tian Science Monitor, were na tive Oregonians. . . . , ."The Moorads, theGratkes and the Colvigs are not run-of-the-mill Journeymen. Theirs has been, Is and will be an inestim able service to the public and to the maintenance of a free press in America." Steaming rains sluicing down the hilly scene of the crash hampered the search for the remaining bodies. ., The plane was en route to Am sterdam from Batavia when it crashed. It apparently lost its wvlf in a heavy rain after attempting to land at Bombay's Santa Cruz Airport. J. C. Flgott, control tower operator at Santa Criu, said ha , first made contact with the air- liner when it was seven mln---utes from the field at an alt!- tude of 7000 faet. Pigott said he talked the pilot down to 1500 feet, then directed him to take a course which would lead out over the sea and back on to the runway. "I asked the pilot to report at 500 feet, which he did," Pigott said. "He was flying contact -J- he could see the ground." Pigott said the plane cam over the field at 500 feet and the tower told the pilot to ascend to 800 feet after cautioning him about hills to the northeast. "We could see him clearly and the pilot was climbing to 800 feet," Pigott said. "That was the last wi heard." Public to Decide Courthouse Plans JW rldenunc'ation. con-i Ned r,T nunc'at'on. 'ie and a 7hras,.''a ". "e ho i mi 11 Chrtian doc- church 10 remain " " Inside Pun . ' K LI I v.. . 1 "r ole.. . "rial, -up .. PilM 4 Page 8 -Pages 8,10 Page 14 Page 18 Pages 18. la "' Hit, IUmY"' 23-27 --page zz iri ui. The citizens' committee for a new county-wide office building Tuesday approved a motion by Ralph Rogers, Creswell, to con duct a poll of Lane County news paper readers to determine whe ther the public wants a separate city hall and courthouse, or a combination government building under a proposed program to pro vide needed office space for over crowded governmental agencies. The motion came after mem bers of the county court said they favored a separate building for county offices. State Contacted Chairman Guy Wright of Springfield said that state officials "THE FLYING GARDNERS" get ready their latest model airplane to make sure Its all tuned np for the Plymouth model plane contest this week-end In Eugene. Keith, age 18, with his back to the camera, has been called the best model plane stunt flyer In the state by Paul Price, president of the Eugene Prop Spinners Club. Both he, and his brother Ken. age 17. are long-time rival, even though both compete In separate age group.. Father. Ed Gardner, and mother "Dell assist both boyj In all aviation meets, and the familv attend, practically a'l scheduled contests. Charter mem ber. of the Prop Spinner., the Gardner, will compete Saturday In thj f-rsl-day . activities on the fmpu. They will not compete In the Sunday eventi at Mahlon Sweet Airport. (Andy Foster hoto, Wiltsiurt engraving.) Mercury Hits 90 Tuesday It was 90 In Eugene Tuesday, exactly as the weather bureau predicted. But the worst was yet to come. Weathermen shyly admitted that Wednesday's high would be in the neighborhood of 93 degrees, and that no relief from the heat wave wa, In sight, at least over the weekend. Humidity . was low at the weather bureau Tuesday, reaching the 25 per cent mark. It will be that low again Wednesday, or lower. Weather at the coast has been cloudy or foggy in the mornings, with drizzle. The afternoons have been clear. Temperatures there are staying moderately low, in 'the 60a, are being contacted to determine the extent of state participation which can be expected in the pro posed development. State offices are now scattered throughout the city. Mayor V. Edwin Johnson of Eugene announced at the meeting that the city would be forced to proceed with a temporary Jail without waiting for the new building or buildings to material ize. The step, approved by the city council Monday, would not be in conflict with the overall plans to build a new city hall and court house, however, but would be a temporary emergency expansion only. New Members Mayor Johnson also named Councilmen J. Don Smith and Robert Booth to the committee, The new members will Join W. L. Davis, an original member, in representing the city of Eugene on the committee. The city council also pledged $1000 to match a like sum pledged by the county to underwrite the expenses of the planning commit tee. Chairman Wright, Frank Reld, and Howard Buford will serve on the committee to conduct the newspaper poll of the county, and President j To Talk WASHINGTON MP) Pres. ident Truman Is going to sit down Wednesday night and tell the American people about his prescription for heading off a depression. He wants to get over to them his Idea that there is nothing to be scared about In the moder ate economic decline unless folks get panicky. And he wants to defend the fiscal policy of his administra tion against criticism by some members of Congress. ' The President will talk to the nation over four major radio networks and via television from a desk in the movie pro jection room at the White House. This first major so-called "Fireside Chat" by Mr. Truman this year is scheduled for 6:30 p. m. (PST). The talk, White House aides said, will be on elaboration of his midyear economic report to Congress on Monday. In this he scrapped earlier demands for a $4,000,000,000 tax increase and proposed an 11-point program to expand production, employment and purchasing power. The theme of that message was that the country cannot have prosperity "by getting ad justed to the idea of a depres sion by cutting investment or employment or wages or essen tial government programs." s State FEPC Advisors Told SALEM (P) Seven Portland residents will make up the State Advisory Council on Fair Employ ment Practices, Gov. Douglas Mc Kay announced Wednesday. The council will assist State La bor Commissioner W. E. Klmsey in administering the state's new FEPC law, which becomes effect ive next Saturday. The law prohibits employers, labor unions and employment ag encies from discriminating against any person because of his race or religion. Members of the council are: Ulysses Plummer, former assist ant district attorney at Kansas City, Mo., and Oregon's only negro attorney: Mrs. J. H. Thomas: Dav. id Robinson, lawyer, president of i 1L T Y.e y " Giant Program For Reclamation WASHINGTON (P) Tht biggest reclamation program yet has been approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee for the year which started July 1. But the commlttee which re ported a $590,685,911 Interior De partment money bill Tuesday to the Senate announced that it pruned several controversial pub lic power projects from the Recla mation Bureau plans. Trimmed Funds . Gone from the bill as It was passed by the House were funds for the Central Valley "west side" transmission lines and steam plant, th Kerr-Anaconda power line in Montana, two power line on the Colorado-Big Thompson project In Colorado, a power Una and switchyards on the Anderson Ranch dam project in Idaho, and several proposals of the South west Power Administration. ;'. Cutting deep into the power program advanced by the Inter ior Department through, several of its agencies, the committee indi cated that, if private utilities will promise to do the job of deliver ing government power to prefer red customers of the government, it Is willing to give them .tne chance. Want Report In each instance, the committee directed the .Interior Department to report to the House and Sen ate by Jan. 1, 1950 on progress made on negotiating contracts with the private utilities for "wheeling" government power.' ' It voted to raise project con struction funds to $331,734,780 from the $296,530,537 voted by the House. ' Following are. the amounts vot ed by the committee for Pacifie Northwest reclamation projects. House figures are shown in pa renthesis. NW Projects Columbia Basin, Wash., $70, 034,390 ($59,075,000); Anderson Ranch, Idaho, ;l,300,014 ($1,642, 200); Boise Payette Division, Idaho, $2,725,000 ($2,316,250); Lewlston Orchards, Idaho, $270,- 000 ($229,500); Minidoka Project, all newspapers published In the tional Association of Firefighters: county are being asked to cooper ate by printing a ballot which will be distributed in the near future. City Manager Oren King will prepare a list of the Eugene of fices needing space In the new building, and Floyd Githcns of Cottage Grove will be in charge of preparing a similar list lor the leounty. for preconstruction. the Portland City Club, and a tsamej; rausaaes, laano, Jewish leader; Al McCreadv.lKO'.OOO ($174,250): Deschutes, chairman of the Oregonian unit:0re- $176,700 ($153,000); De of the CIO American Newspaper jschutes Arnold Irrigation District, Guild. Ore., $38,000 ($32,800); Deschutes S. Stevens, 9th district vlce-!Ochoco Dam, Ore., $1,150,000 president of the AFL Interna-! ($977,500); .Deschutes Grants Patt. Ktnnnnn mmiM aiinur4 Herald Campbell, personnel man ager of the Pacific Power St Light Co.; Francis Kern, Portland, Cath olic layman. TUNA BOATS MOVE OUT ASTORIA tUR) Astoria's tuna fleet I heading for sea Wcdnes day after the first scout boats returned to port Tuesday. nothing); Klamath, Ore.-Calif., $803,460 ($850,000); Yakima, Roza division, Wash., $413,205 ($382, 462). Disapproved by the committee were $350,000 for the proposed extension of power lines to Orcal Island In Washington, and a re quest for funds to construct tht Canbv substation in Oregon. 1