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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949
Phone 5-1551
No. 202
...v nrr.AN ON NEW half-million dollar span this week which will
CONST"1,1'". ' qq -jj, Eugene's fast growing suburbs across the Willamette
1 Ferry St. Bridge seen in background. Contractors' crews are
pile driving Wednesday. Meanwhile, the county is still negoti
lers for right-of-way for the approach on the north side of the
g financed by the county with money already on hand from a
. ,nnl Tnm Lillebo of Reedsnort won the contract tn rnn-
HleV(u'r lane span on a low bid of $447,885. The span will be 442 feet long with a
Truman Assures
Public on Bomb
Atomic Policy Meetings
Had No 'Deep Secrets'
WASHINGTON (AP) President Truman said Thurs
day there is nothing for the American people to be alarmed
about in current hush-hush talks about atomic foreign policy.
Mr. Truman was sharply critical at a news conference,
however, of the man he said leaked information to the press
in advance of an atomic policy meeting the President held
at Blair House last Thursday.
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d Checks? No,
ays Eugene Heir
t-d telkine Edward B. ,Gallion, who told Eugeneans a
ik aonhe had inherited a iuu,uuu unuuc, wa m
!,ton Ws. county jail Thursday under a $5000 bond
iSefbfhis alleged "inheritance," the slight
finisher, wno naa oeeii ciiiiujcu wuw.xi
construction jobs, .handed out a fortune in allegedly
Kou! Meats in uiegu" " .
kwver, it was a ?54 Dans
which Gallion pleaded
ty to forging in 1946, for
i he was jailed to await
encing. But Sheriff An-
Schiltz, Appieton, saia
investisator has traced
Lt $150,000 in worthless
Eg to Gallion.
June 10. I reporter receiv-
mnterioui tin that the Gal-
fimily, then residing at 1266
htlton, had Just received
tf i sizeable inheritance,
rcKfter was told over the
tons that he might obtain
t word from- Mrs. Pearl
ion "who will be waiting in
fcrejhound bus depot."
worried-looking, greying
u answered the page. She
iter concerned that her hus-
jot be advised that she had
Ltd an; information in re-
to the "inheritance" but
her husband would be at
that evening and could be
toed at that time.
an exceedingly re
lit Gallion who answered
Jrnniir call. For quite some
M KliMled the "rumor"
K Jut u well be forrotten
k It wouldn't make a good
kurny."
p Mrs. Gallion. and her
to, Caroline, 16, aiding in
PI Gallion for additional
F the cement finish
F w Teu the story."
H then detailed
prraTJED ON PAGE 2)
rike
tice Filed
Polio Cases
Increase
WASHINGTON (U.R) The
number of polio cases reported
throughout the nation is increas
ing sharply.
More cases have been reported
already this year than during the
same period last year.
xne height of the dread season
is expected to be reached about
mid-August.
The U. S. Public Health Service
said Thursday that 1016 new cases
Justice Murphy
Lies in State
DETROIT (U.R) A silent throng
of thousands of friends, followers
and dignitaries filed past the bier
of Associate Supreme Court Jus
tice Frank Murphy Thursday.
The high and the low waited
their turn in a long line to pay
tribute to Michigan's "fighting lib
eral" in Detroit's black-draped
city hall. - -Honor
Guard Stands
An honor guard of poker-stiff
Army, Navy and Air Force men
stood at the dark brown bier. A
white crucifix contrasted with the
somber setting.
Men in shirtsleeves, women with
children tagging at their side, the
well-dressed and the ragged lined
up in a block-long double column
to say goodbye to the former Mich
igan governor and mayor of De
troit. .
Police estimated that 35 to 40
persons a minute moved through
the city hall rotunda. Official city
business stopped in memory of the
56-year-old jurist who died unex
pectedly Tuesday of a heart at
tack.
Funeral Friday
At 4 P. M. the body was to be
returned to Harbor Beach for
burial Friday. Burial will be made
in the family plot here following
a service at the Church of Our
L,ady of Lake Huron.
WASHINGTON W President
iruman said Thursday he will
name a successor to the late Sup.
reme Court Justice Frank Mur
pny as soon as possible But he
declined to give any hint as to
wno might receive the post.
Dr. A. Triolo, county health
officer, said Thursday there
have been seven reported cases
of polio In Lane County this
summer, but' no new cases in
the last week. Two cases were
reported from the Eugene area,
two from the Springfield area,
and the other three elsewhere
in the county.
'of infantile paralysis were report
ed during the week ended July
10, compared to 684 cases reported
in the preceding week.
During the corresponding week
last year only 716 cases were re-ported.
Thus far this year, 4895 cases
have been reported compared to
3601 for the same period last year.
Thus far this year nine states
have reported more than 100 new
polio cases. They are Texas, 1019;
California, 628; Oklahoma, 345;
Arkansas, 328; Minnesota, 186;
New York, 156; IUinois, 129; In
diana, 107; Michigan, 101.
Sky-Watchers See
Spectacular Display
In Eugene Skies
It wasn't a bird; it wasn't a
plane; it was a meteor that Eu
geneans saw flaring off to the
southwest in the skies Wednes
day night.
Dr. J. Hugh Pruett, local as
tronomical expert, didn't exact
ly say it was a meteor, since he
didn't see it But four parties
called him with descriptions
which made it sound like such
a heavenly phenomena.
Pruett said his callers in
formed him the "thing" was
about a fifth the size of the
moon, spectacularly colored and
racing off toward the ocean at
about 9:25 p.m.
Chief Executive
Will Permit
Vaughan Query
WASHINGTON (UR) Presi
dent Truman said Thursday he
does not believe his military aide,
Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, was
mixed up with the so-called "five
per centers."
But he told newsmen he would
permit Vaughan to testify in a
Senate investigation If Vaughan is
asked to do so.
A Senate investigating commit
tee which is looking into the capi
tal's thriving "influence industry"
has not yet decided whether to
call Vaughan. Subcommittee
Chairman Clyde M. Hoey (D-NC)
said it will study all the evidence
first.
"Five per centers" are Wash
ington agents who get government
contracts for businessmen in re
turn for a fee or commission,
This is not an illegal practice.
Vaughan's name figured in the
current inquiry from the start
when one "five per center" boast
ed that he was a very close friend
of the general.
The President was asked
whether he had heard that
Vaughan was mixed up with five
per centers. The President said he
had read about it in the news
papers, but he did not believe the
stories.
Vaughan, as is his usual custom,
was standing behind the President
during the news conference, along
with the chief executive s wavy
and Air Force aides.
SP Trainmen
Hold Off Strike
WASHINGTON (U.R) A
threatened seven-state strike Fri
day against the Southern Pacific
Railroad was postponed Wednes
day for at least 60 days when
President Truman created a three
man fact-finding panel to study
the dispute over the size of crews.
The President took action un
der the Railway Labor Act which
provides for creation of an emer
gency board in such disputes. Mr.
Truman said the dispute threat
ened to deprive a large section of
the country "of essential transpor
tation service."
The Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen promptly acknowledged
that the strike, originally set for
6 p.m. along the 8-000-miles of
Southern Pacific track in the west
ern states, would be postponed ac
cording to the law for 60 days.
A report from the board is ex
pected within 30 days; the strike
date may even be set back beyond
the 60 days by union agreement
during any continuing negotiations.
Mr. Truman said he knows
who the man is, but he did
not identify him.
The Blair House conference.
bringing together high govern
ment and congressional leaders,
was the first of two major con
ferences which have been held on
atomic matters.
The second was a meeting at the
capitol Wednesday, called by the
Senate- House Atomic Energy
Committee.
Mr. Truman told reporters the
subject of the Blair House meet
ing was important, as are all sub
jects on which he calls confer
ences.
But he said that newspaper
accounts were exaggerated
there were no deep dark secret
at the meeting.
The discussion began when Mr.
Truman was asked for any infor
mation he could give on atomic
foreign policy.
He said he could not give any
but went on to say that the Blair
House meeting was relatively un
important. It brought together the heads of
the State and Defense Depart
ments, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, and both Democratic and
Republican leaders in Congress.
Also attending were two men
whose identity was nat disclosed.
White House police would not
permit any pictures to be made of
those entering the meeung.
As to the news "leaks" about
the meeting, Mr. Truman said
with warmth in his voice that it
was the first occasion on which
any persons invited to a White
House meeting had leaked to
the press.
He did not like it, he added.
Asked if he knew who it was
that leaked, he said: Yes, he did.
He was asked If that person
would attend a second White
House conference.
Mr. Truman said there had
been no second conference. He
would not comment further.
Concluding his remarks, he
asked the newspaper men to be
patient until all the rumors are
floored.
There seemed no doubt that
some of the concern which de
veloped in Congress had quieted
down.
Atlantic Treaty
Gets Senate OK
Opponents Beat ;
Arms Proposal
(Fact Terms Face 16A)
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Thursday voted
overwhelming approval of the North Atlantic Treaty.
On a roll call, 82 senators voted for the pact and 13 against
it. This was 18 more than the two-thirds vote needed to
ratify a treaty. "
Every senator was recorded except iiiender, Louisiana
Democrat, who is overseas.
The historic vote of ratification pledged the United States
to join with Canada, Great Britain, France and eight other
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Marshall Calls Atlantic Pact
'Contribution to World Peace'
WASHINGTON (U.R) Gen.
George C. Marshall, former sec
retary of State, said Thursday he
feels certain that "the Atlantic
Pact will contribute to world
peace."
The wartime Army chief of staff
told the United Press exclusively
that he also believes the mutual
defense treaty will "immeasur
ably" strengthen the security of
the United States and its 11 part-
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ote is Discusses Pact
Marshall discussed the pact and
its implications at length. It wasi
one of his most extensive discuss
ions of world affairs since he left
the State Department last Jan
uary. He is now living in retirement
at his Leesburg, Va., home.
Here are some of the questions
put to Marshall, and the General's
answers:
Q. Do you regard the pact's
Pledge to consider an attack on
one signatory a an attack on
M, with the consequent commit
ment that each nation will take
uch steps aa It deems necessary,
U an -.- .1 .. ,
ii'en'tion.l'nr l'"lted s,a! Participation in
yJ.Ttir? Surfue ,nJ European war?
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A. No. The United States can
WaM'ar only " Congress declares
r. The treatv doe not infringe
rtn h . .. . I..
t. -caj,,.) S!,ftfl.: power or congress in thisltn
"Uirt. "1.:? n, ectl0n- " does it alter,
r'M on ,h,nk. the relationship between
GENERAL MARSHALL
Views the Pact
President as defined in the
1 1 constitution. The undertaking on
I minn, the relationship between the the part of the United States to
mmoruy oi tba CongrcM and 0 consider an attack on any me
Atlantic Pact nations as an attack
on itself is, in reality, little more
than formal recognition of the fac
tors which affect its national se
curity. Language Clear
The language of the treaty
makes it clear that in the event
of an armed attack each nation
must decide for itself the meas
ures it should take to restore and
maintain the security of the North
Atlantic area, and then it must
take those measures. Depending
upon the nature and gravity of the
attack, there are numerous meas
ures short of the use of armed
force and widely differing degrees
of armed force which might suf
fice to deal with the situation.
Q. In what manner do you be
lieve the pact will be beneficial
to the security and national de
fense of the United States and
of the other co-signatories?
I A. The two world conflicts
; which have occurred in the past
35 years have made it unmistak
ably clear that an aggression on
any of the free nations of the
Atlantic community involves all of
those nations. This is an inescap
able fact. There can be no doubt
that the emergence of a threat
to one of these nations would
have been caufe for some action
on the part of the United States
in order to deal with the situation.
Our national security would ap
pear to dictate such action, in
my Qftjn"1-
House Adopts
Gore Proposal
WASHINGTON P) The
House adopted legislation Thurs
day to continue present rigid high
supports for farm prices another
year, flatly rejecting the admin
istration's trial run farm subsidy
plan.
It conformed by 239 to 170 roll
call vote a previous voice vote
substituting a measure by Rep.
Gore (D-Tenn) for the proposal
backed by Secretary of Agricul
ture Brannan.
Then the House passed the sub
stitute formally, 383 to 25, send
ing It to the Senate.
Earlier it had shouted approval
of an amendmend to kill outright
the Aiken Farm Law enacted by
the Republican - controlled 80th
Congress. The law, written to be
come effective at the end of this
year, would have permitted flex
ible farm price supports of 90 per
cent down to 60 per cent. There
were only a fe wscattered "nays"
in the voice vote against the Aiken
act.
TRACY SNELLING
Found, At Last
Embezzlement
Charges Face -Atomic
Worker
SANTA FE, N. M.(UPJ Tracy
Snelling, suspended as director of
public information at the Los
Alamos atomic installation when
he disappeared for a week, was
expected to appear in federal court
Thursday on charges of embezzl
ing Red Cross funds.
Snelling, 37, turned up at FBI
headquarters in Dallas, Tex., yes
terday, ending an intensive four
state search for him.
He was flown back here Wed
nesday night in a plane chartered
by the Atomic Energy Commission.
He was hustled from the airport
to the office of Los Alamos
County District Attorney Bert
Prince.
Prince said that Snelling gave
him a lengthy statement but the
prosecutor refused to divulge its
contents. Snelling was lodged in
city jail for the night, pending his
appearance Thursday in district
court on charges of embezzling
$1,008.96 from the Red Cross.
"Nothing to say," the tall, thin
Snelling mumbled to newsmen as
he was arrested on the embezzle
ment at the airport
He shielded his face from pho
tographers and shook hit head to
all questions. A mustache he wore
before his disappcorance last
week had been shaved off.
The embezzlement charges were
filed against Snelling in Los Ala
mos County District Court yes
terday by Prince after a com
plaint was lodged by Sam Mus
ser, chairman of the Los Alamos
Red Cross chapter.
Musser said Snelling failed to
account for money collected ai
chairman of a fund-raising drive
at the atomic installation last
March.
Snelling was jailed at Santa Fe
under $5000 bond. Jail attendants
found $1.25 in his pockets in the
routine shakedown.
European nations in an alli
ance of mutual defense. 1
The vote came at the end
of 13 days of stormy debate.
It sets the United States on a
new course in foreign policy and
commits the nation to the first
European military alliance in Am
erican history.
Leading up to the climatic
vote, the Senate rejected Republican-sponsored
attempt to
write in a reservation saying
the treaty does not obligate this
country to give arms Including
the atomic bomb to other pact
members.
Other reservations also were
beaten, but this one was the big
test.
The vote on it Was 74 to 21.
Three Democrats Senators
Byrd (Va), Edwin C. Johnson
(Colo) and Taylor (Idaho)
joined with 18 Republicans In fa
vor of it.
The administration is expected
to follow up the treaty's approval
by sending Congress a $1,450,000,-
000 program of arms aid. It may
reach the Capital Friday,
Senators Taft of Ohio, Wherry
of Nebraska and Watktni of
Utah, Republicans, Jointly spon
sored the no-arms obligation
reservation.
They revised it before the vote
to say specifically that there was
no obligation to give other nations
the atomic bomb.
Taft said he thought the lan
guage, as originally written, was
broad enough to cover the
A-bomb. But Wherry was partic
ularly concerned about the bomb.
After dlspoainr of the Taft-Wherry-Watkins
Joint proposal,
the Senate beat down a reserva
tion offered by Watklns alone.
It would have denied any obli
gation on the part of the United
States to defend the North At
lantic area without approval by
Congresa.
Query Clears
Section Hand
(See Story Page -A)
Howard Jack Holmes, who was
arrested near Oakridge Wednes
day on Illinois murder charge,
was on his way to freedom Thurs
day when Portland state police
found a bulletin was out of date.
Acting on the obsolete bulletin,
state police found that Holmes's
fingerprints jibed with that on the
bulletin and arrested Holmes. A
check with Davenport, Illinois
police disclosed that Holmes had
been cleared a year ago.
This Watkins proposal lost 84
to 11.
A few minutes later I second
Watkins' reservation was rejected,
87 to 8. This one would have de
nied any obligation on Congress to
declare war or use armed forces to
defend a pact nation from at
tack.
KAISER GETS POST
WASHINGTON (IP) President
Truman announced Thursday his
selection of Philip M. Kaiser to be
an assistant secretary of labor.
Kaiser is now director of the In
ternational Labor Office, a divi
sion of the Labor Department.
WASHINGTON (IP) Sena
tor Wherry, the Republican floor
leader, told the Senate Thursday
that before approving the North
Atlantic Pact it should "close the
door" against giving the atom
bomb to other members.
With a vote only hours away.
the Nebraska senator said he ii
ligate this country to let other
Ubatt this country to let other!
in on A-bomb secrets.
Wherry had raised ' questioni
Wednesday about the A-bomb
and the treaty.
At that time, Senator McMahon
(D-Conn) chairman of the Sen
ate-House Atomic Energy Com
mittee said the treaty carried no
obligation to share atomic serets.
He said the question should be
considered when the arms-for-
Europe program is taken up by
Congress.
When the Senate convened
Thursday, Wherry .brought the
matter up again.
"I a'sk the question," Wherry
said, "are we to share the atomic
bomb, its secrets, and the know
how? Will they (the other pifct
members) have the right to them?
Is there a moral or legal commit
ment to do that very thing?"
Wherry pleaded that the Senate
adopt a reservation he and Sena
tors Taft (R-Ohio) and Walking
(R-Utah) are sponsoring. It would
say that the treaty does not com
mit the United States to give
military aid to pact nations.
By adopting it. Wherry de
clared, "The door is tightly, firm
ly closed against any moral or
legal obligations upon the United
States to furnish the atomic bomb
or any of the materials or know-
how In the making of it.
Italy Ratifies ,
Atlantic Pact
ROME m The Italian
Chamber of Deputies ratified
the Atlantic Pact Thrrsday over
Russian protests.
The vote was 328 to 160.
This was the second time the
Chamber voted. The first vote
wae nullified early Thursday
when the votes outnumbered
the voters.
Inside Today
City News, Records .. Page ,1A
Airport News Page A
Editorials Pane 10A
Women's News Pages 12, 13A.
Radio Page 14A
Springfield Precincta Page 14A
Comics . Page 18A
Treaty Provisions Page 18 A
Sports Pagei 18. 1BA
Business Activities .. Page 4B
4.H Camp Activities .- Page 8B
Classifieds Paei -lJB
v.KsiPfcr BJr ffflt
A YOUTH CENTER FOR GLEMVOOD is rapidly taking shape in the heart of the
community which has previously been without a recreation center. Grand plans are in
the offing for the three acres purchase earlier by the Willamalane Park Board and the
barn located in the heart of the rapidly expanding area. The Glcnwood Business Men's
Assn., ii donating labor and materials toward converting the barn into a modernized
play hall with a large fireplace, kitchen facilities, ping-pong tables, rest rooms and other
facilities. It will be another .10 days before the interior has been readied for the youths,
according to E. C. Burkctt of the committee. The Willamalane Park Board will have di
rect supervision over the playgrounds and recreation hall with volunteer chaperons pro
Tided by the businessmen of Glenwoojt. (Stafi photo, Wiltshire engravings.)