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Register-Guard. Eueene. Ore 2A Sun., Mar. 21, 1954 Threat to Kill Rocks Hearing Ex-FCC Official Causes Uproar NEW ORLEANS Ml Clifford Durr, frail former federal offic ial, grabbed ex-Communist Paul Crouch and shmitpd. "I'll till you," Saturday after Crouch testi fied Durr's wife was a nawn in a Red plot reaching into the White fiouse aunng me Jew Deal. A tense three-day hearing by the Senate internal security sub committee on alleged Communist activity in the South ended on this violent note after seven per sons were accused of past Com munist ties. Several were threat ened with contempt action by sen. James o. Eastland (D-Miss). Durr, a former Federal Com munications Commissioner, is the husband of attractive Mrs. Vir ginia Durr, a sister-in-law of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Black. Durr grappled with Crouch as he left the stand after testifying Mrs. Durr "had full knowledge" of a conspiracy by a Communist espionage ring that allegedly piped out secret information from the White House from 1934, to 1952. "You dirty dag! I'll kill you for jying apouc my wue" Purr yelled as he grabbed Crouch Attorneys and U. S. marshals dragged Durr from Crouch. White-faced and trembling, he was then led from the courtroom by friends. He had attended the nearings aaiuraay under tne eye of a physician. Crouch Fridav charged that Durr had been a Communist, wniie uurr was acting as an at torney for Aubrey Williams, pre sident of the Southern Confer ence Education Fund, which was under investigation. i trior - . - j, v, . . (AP Wirephoto) SHOWS WHERE BULLET STRUCK Representative Alvin M. Bcntley, Michigan Republican who was felled in the House chamber shooting March 1, Friday showed newsmen where a Puerto Rican fanatic's bullet entered his chest. Bentley' condition was regarded as critical im- mpHinfplv aflnr ihn chnntlnrt EVIflmr nt r,... li-. it ' ' ... o..v.uvw,6. xnuaj, at iausuaity Hos pital, he said there will be "quite a bit of repair work before I'm through here." Most Major Industries Hit Employment Still Down Morse Wants Vancouver Listed as Unemployed Area WASHINGTON Ul - Sen. Morse (Ind.-Ore) urged Saturday that Vancouver. Wash... hn placsifiod as an unemployment area eligible iur preierence in award or gov ernment contracts. Morse also mentioned Portland Ore., in letters to Secretary of i.aDor Mitcnen ano Defense Mo bilizer Flemminif. hut Portland has been so classified The Labor Department announc ed aaiuraay mat Portland was ' tUMSUDM IIUD'lHmiULIlu. itcirv.ii), 'SSmSS nwimiMMtg msosmw mmdote-iki mnuisMm 'iweuk-iih "1847 ROGERS BROS. PATTERH REVIVAL" TAes fine old pattern mailable again! Offered for the first time in silver plate history! 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In his letters, Morse wrote: "Portland has had serious un employment for many months , It is also pertinent that retail sales in Portland in 1954 have been consistently below the retail sales in comparable weeks m 1953." URGES CHANGE Morse also urged a change in present policies under which no labor area classification is made for communities which are not part of metropolitan centers of at least 50,000. "My own state is composed of many small clues and towns which cannot qualify under present policies as distress areas," he wrote. "Yet there are several counties with covered im. employment of 20 per cent or more." He said that while there has been the usual spring upturns in employment and business they are not as strong and definite" as usual, 'AN INFECTION' Morse said the arnhlems are not Oreeon's alone fnr "(ho Pa. cific Northwest has been among uie most severely nit areas in the economic slowdown that has af fected the nation since the sum mer of 1953 . . . 'Unemnlovment and declining sales are an infection which Mn. not be localized. In the interests of Oregon, the Pacific Northwest1 and the nation, prompt action should be taken tn plassiftr Pnpf. land and Vancouver in Group 4 ana modify present policies sr. that small communities may re ceive the economic boost thev ueuu so oaaiy. WACmVfiTOtf in irnomnW ment has continued to mount, the Tohpr rtenartmant save and hu mid-March was being felt in al most all the nation's major indus trial areas. Tn rennrt Issued vesferdav the department's Bureau of Em ployment Security (BES) said it found that joblessness had spread by mid-March from the auto, farm maphinerv. airprnft ' ind household appliance manufactur ing fields tn a "wide range nf industries" such as basic steel, textiles, shipbuilding, electronics ana electrical equipment. RFK said hnwever there wam signs the increase in joblessness naa siowea aown. it reported a slight rirnn earlg in Marph In in. surea unemployment. MARCH 'THERMOMETER' Marph wa designed hv TJreoi. dent Eisenhower as an unemploy ment thermometer. He told a news pnnferenpe Peh. 17 that an unswing in emnlnvment general. ly is noted in March. If this trend snouia iau to aeveiop tnis year, the President added, the govern. ment might have to take mea sures, nerhans including tax re duction. Last. Mnndav night the Presf. dent went to the nation with a radio ' and television appeal against a Democratic drive to cut income taxes. Tn that snaeph ha said economic conditions "do not call for an emergency program that would iustifv larger federal deficits and further inflation; through large additional tax re- aucuons at tnis time." Eisenhower said "snme imam. ployment" has cropped up in var- Oil Well Fire Out of Control LEGAL. Alta. IM Flames fed by natural gas pouring from the ground at 7.non pnhip feet a da., continued unabated Saturday as emergency crews watcned the second day of Alberta's latest nil well fire. Flames towered 150 feet Info the air over the red-hot, twisted re mains of a drilling rig whiph buckled Friday. An explosion set on me nre near wis larming com munity 33 miles north of Edmon ton. The Oil Well, owned hv Tmnerlal Oil Ltd., was being drilled by Parker Drilling Co. Wnrlr had been under way for about two wbbks Deiore tne well Blew out of control Friday, No one was Inlnred In the Mn wmcn could be heard for 10 miles. It was believed underground mud gave way and the natural gas streaicea to tne surface. It exploded when it reached hot running motors of the drilling rig. lious parts of the nation, but he contended mat tne country as a whole "continues to be prosper II itUa DM.Manl said 4rhTaes. ness is no higher than it was in the spring of l5U, tne eve ot tne &orean war oumreaK. The Cpnsiis Bureau's most re- pent unemnlnvment pnnnt was a-67i,uuu tor reDruary. OPTIMISTIC SIGNS But there were some optimistic eigne even aa RTTQ rannrfad that virtually all the 149 major job areas surveyed reflected "ad- verselv-affepted emnlnvment pnn. ditions" between mid-Januarv and mid- March. For one thing. BES said in a separate report that there had been a slight drnn 12.5(10. In joblessness among workers cov ered by unemployment compen sation. This hrnught the tntal as of March 6 to 2,200,600. Furthermore, BES reported that during the following week new claims for jobless pay total ed aiu.Buu 8,zoo fewer than were filed during the week ended March 6. UnemDlovmenfc pntnnensafinn ngurej give only part of the job picture, since not many more than half the nation's workers are covered by this program. BES. in its disritscinn nf the situation in mid-March, alsn aid the employment drnn-off had slowed in the industries that bore the brunt of the winter nnem. ployment. CONSTRUCTION JOBS BES said employment in the trade and constrnntinn fields dropped a bit in almost all the areas it studied, but the bureau emphasized this was normal in winter. The bureau grnuns industrial areas according to employment conditions. In its latest report, BES Shifted 40 nf tile 149 mainr iaDor marKet areas into classifi cations showing greater "stir. pluses" of workers. Hartford, Conn., the only area in the countrv tn rennrt a laKr shortage in January, was listed as naving a "Dalanced" lahnr supply in March. Only 20 of the malAK areas shmved neither labor surplus nor a shortage. Nine new areas were added to a group where at least 6 per cent of the work force is jobless. This brought to 34 tne numner ot maior areas with a "substantial" laoor surplus, aucn areas are eligible for snecial consideration m ine award ot government con tracts. PORTLAND LISTED The newcomers were: Charleston. W.Va Wheeling. steubenville, W.Va.-Ohio; Port land, Ore.; Chattanooga, Term.; nulllih.Ktinerinr Minn.-Wia Unn. tington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.; Pat terson. N.J.: Racine. Wis.: and ban Antonio, lex. Tne remaining- 30 nf the in lahnr marlret areas urhiph were shifted into new categories joined the "moderate" surplus group Previously they had been record pd as having "halanped" lahni supplies. Nearly two-thirds of the nations oiggest la Dor market areas are in the "moderate" sur plus class. LAW ABIDING INDIANAPOLIS W Magis trate Geoge Obcr, late for a court hearing, drove into (he county garage and asked a jail prisoner working there to put his car In Its parking apace. "I couldn't do that, the prl oner replied. "You took my driver's license away from me." McCa NEW York nores Adlai lg KllL l. A ensnn ..u . . nWl.r r.nl 7". "Ply to Sen u '1 coun' indictment'- ,71 Coe Keeps Child Warm PALMYRA. 111. 11 A a.vaa. old bov. orotected from hea.,.. rains by his dog, was found earlv muajr auer .sou searcners had combed woods near his home for eignt nours. Danny Pratt had been missing since his mother, Mrs. Leonard Pratt, gave him nermisslnn tn on play with neighbors' children. When a party led by coal miner Jim Stantling found the young ster, he was bruised about the face and soaked by rain, but his year-old collie Corsky was lying on top of him. trving to keen him warm and dry. Danny was taken to a hospital at nearby Carlinville for examination. piy, sloPtothe snl Stevenson said he hrge of Sen. Mt Fritay night i Mj ed the Democrab M treason" ni a( ie "attorney for McCarthv ..b.j . P'ead guiltv , J. McCarthy , J StevenZ, "f1 "."iWllllia "in mrs. carol 1 MT. .He currenuXS ing tour. ,ui(J While saving k 1 P'y to any 0 ments. th. '."""Vihl 'Democratic p i " si first I heard : ' for comment ea p.?". ment that S given the tai T.m America's B0S,W" - . lwy 'Italy, 1 the Spring Topper Population Gains WASHINGTON on - The Cen sus Bureau Fridav estimated there were 161,331,000 Americans on Feb. 1, including members of the armed forces. This was an increase of 1.7 per cent over Feb. 1, 1953, and 6.7 ner cent over April 1950. when the last. PPncnel was taken. Air Crackup Under Study ANNAPOT.TS. Md nn Air Force investigators studied Sat urday whether engine trnnhle caused the crash of a C-119 "Fly ing Boxcar" which took the lives of 18 servicemen, including some "aerial hitchhikers." The Giant Air ; Force plane crashed and exploded in flames Friday 17 minute's after it had taken Off from Rolling Air ITnrra Base. Washington, nn a flight tn mitcnei n ieid, wng island, N.Y. Flying through rain and wind, the plane went down in an open field near the hamlet nf T.nthian about 15 miles south of Annapo lis. 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