House Passes
Bill for Fair
Employment
Bans Discrimination
Because of Race, Re
ligion, Sex or Union
By Paul W. Harvey, Jr.
The house passed, 33 to 14, to
day and sent to the senate the
fair employment, bill, which dis
courages the state and its po
litical subdivisions from discrun
inating for purposes of employ
ment because of race, religion,
sex or union membership.
The vote came after the house
had balloted 30 to 26 against
removing sex and union mem
bership from the bill.
The bill originally prohibited
such practices, and also made it
apply to persons holding con
tracts with the state and its sub
divisions.
Held Unnecessary
Opponents of the bill contend
ed it is not necessary, because
'.existing laws and the state 'and
federal constitutions provide all
the legislation needed on the
subject.
Rep. Lyle Thomas, Dallas,
sponsor of the .bill, said discrim
ination was prohibited during
the war, but a powerful south
ern bloc in congress prevented
fair employment legislation from
being enacted by congress after
the war.
"Other states, including New
York, have enacted laws prohib
iting any employer lrom dis
criminating because of race or
religion, Thomas said. "They
enacted laws which are not as
feeble and innocuous as this one
is. It's true you can't change at
titudes by legislation, but we're
not trying to do that. Certain
state agencies have discriminat
ed against persons because of
their- color, and this bill aims to
discourage that.
-Held Spiritual Problem
Rep. Ralph T. Moore, Coos
Bay, said the bill "is an attempt
to legislate righteousness into
the minds of the people. This is
a spiritual, not a legislative
problem."
Rep. Manley J. Wilson, St. Hel
ms, said Henry J. Kaiser is re
sponsible for the thousands of
Negroes and whites who were
brought to Oregon during the
war to work in his shipyards,
end many of whom now have
obs.
"Kaiser failed us entirely,"
Wilson said. "He promised these
people would be taken care of
after the war in new Industries
he would locate here. But he
hasn't located the new indus
tries here."
(OwMladed on Pate 9. Column 6)
Second Note
On Hungary
Budapest, Hungary, March 17
The United States, in its second
note in 12 days to Russian au
thorities in Budapest, protested
today that minority groups led
by the communist party in Hun
gary were "attempting to seize
power through resort to extra
constitutional tactics."
The note, signed by Brig. Gen.
George H. Weems, American
representative on the allied con
; trol council for Hungary was
' addressed to Russian Lt. Gen.
V. P. Sviridov. It said com
munist tactics were threatening
"the continuance of democracy
In Hungary."
The note renewed demands for
an inquiry saying "the United
Slates government considers that
the power signatory to the
agreement concluded at Yalta in
regard to liberated Europe are
obligated to take concerted ac
tion to investigate political con
ditions in Hungary." ,
London, March 17 (IP) Gov
ernment quarters said today a
iPDSjtlBTi nntp had turned down
a British call for an impartial
allied probe into charges of
Soviet interference in Hungary's
international political affairs.
The Soviet note said such an
Investigation would be an un
warranted intervention in Hun
gary, the sources said.
Soup Kitchens for
Germans Established
Washington, March 17 (U.F9
Secretary of War Robert P. Pat
terson, acting on a recommenda
tion of former President Her
bert Hoover, today ordered army
authorities in Germany to estab
lish "soup kitchens" for the re
lief of German children and
aged.
He authorized Lt. Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, U. S. commander in
Europe, to use surplus army food
to feed some 3,800,000 German
children and 1,000,000 aged In
the British and American zones.
Clay was authorized to sell the
surplus food to British authori
ties -at a rair present value.
Pending conclusion of the nego
tiations with the British, the
kitchens will be established first
' in the American zone.
apital
58th Year, No. 65
Grange, Labor
Leaders Oppose
Sales Tax Bill
By James D. Otson
Opposition to the general re
tail sales tax bill was voiced be
fore the house assessment and
taxation committee at the last
public hearing on the bill, Chair
man Robert Gile anounced that
the bill would be reported out
following an executive meeting
Tuesday morning.
Morton ,Tomkins, legislative
representative of the Oregon
State Grange and Kelly Loe,
representing the State Federa
tion of Labor were the two ap
pointments to the proposed leg
islation who spoke today.
"The state grange Is opposed
to the sales tax on principal"
said Mr. Tompkins. "The sales
tax is an income tax in reverse.
The income tax is based on abil
ity to pay and the sales tax
on necessity to spend."
Mr. Loe charged the commit
tee with "baiting" the bill to
attract votes.
"The suckers have not taken
the bait in the past" he said "and
will not take the bait this time."
Alternative Proposed
As an alternative to the sales
tax Mr. Loe suggested reduction
of the income tax exemptions; a
business tax and a tax on gam
bling. The committee, following the
hearing laid H.B. 81, providing
a tax on slot machines, and other
forms of gambling on the table,
thus killing any chance of this
bill for the session.
It was agreed by the commit
tee to insert an amendment in
the sales tax bill to allow use
nf funds allnnat.pH tn rnnntips
for an offset to property taxes if
the counties are required to levy
millage taxes for welfare pur
poses, as is now proposed.
(Concluded on Pare 9, Column 8)
New Search On
For Lifeboat
Honolulu, March 17 (IP) Nine
aircraft prepared to take off
from Midway today to search
anew for 12 men missing in a
lifeboat and feared beyond the
reach of planes while 22 other
crewmen of the broken tanker
Fort Dearborn rode out lashing
seas halfway between Midway
and Pearl Harbor.-
Late reports from the navy
command ship El Dorado, es
corting the tanker's stern sec
tion, said the half-ship with the
22 aboard was "steaming ahead
safely, with stern- to sea and
wind," and with the storm sub
siding.
The El Dorado said the men
reported the bulkhead still in
tact and the tern seaworthy, de
spite battering by 45-knot winds
and high seas, which had pre
vented their rescue.
Ten other Fort Dearborn
crewmen, taken from the almost-awash
bow section, were
saieiy aDoara me liner uenerai
W. H. Gordon, bound for San
Francisco.
The bow and stern broke apart
in last Wednesday's storm 1,100
miles nortwest of Honolulu.
"We thought the weather
would moderate two days ago,"
and permit rescue of the 22 men
from the stern, a navy spokes
man here related, "but instead
it has been worse. The weather
is bad and the situation is bad."
If the missing Fort Dearborn
lifeboat, unsighted since it put
out last Wednesday, has drifted
at the same rate as bow and
stern it now is virtually beyond
reach of land-based search
planes, the spokesman acknowledged.
14-Year-Old School Boy Admits
Hanging 8-Year-Old Companion
Albany, N. Y., March 17 () Carl De Flumer, 14-year-old
junior high school pupil, is in Albany county jail today awaiting
examination Wednesday on a first degree murder charge in what
auinormes termea "tne impulse "
hanging of eight-year-old Rob
ert Wahrman.
The slender, dark-haired De
Flumer was arraigned in police
court yesterday as his sobbing
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl M.
De Flumer, watched. A plea of
innocent to a first degree mur
der charge is mandatory under
state law. The penalty upon con
viction could be death in the
electric chair.
District Attorney Julian B.
Erway said Carl had confessed
to the slaying. He said he be
lieved the hanging was the re
sult of "an impulse."
Meanwhile, funeral services
for "Bobbie," will be held to
morrow at the Blessed Sacra
ment Catholic church. His third
Batm u mob $imm
Salem,
Withdrawal of
Troops in Japan
Urged by Mac
Tokyo, March 17 (U.R)-Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur proposed
today that the allied powers
quickly write a Japanese peace
treaty, withdraw all their troops
immediately after its signature
and turn over control of Japan
to the United Nations.
Conditions presently are
ripe to initiate peace conversa
tion," the supreme commander
told a foreign correspondents
luncheon. After the peace
treaty, the control of Nippon
should be entrusted to the al
lied nations."
End Economic Blockade
MacArthur urged an end to
the "economic blockade." Its ef
fects on Japan are more deadly
than the atomic bomb, he said.
He proposed an immediate rep
arations settlement.
"The present economic stran
gulation of Nippon is worse than
the atomic bomb," the supreme
commander told the foreign cor
respondents' club. He said it
threatens to endanger millions
of Japanese lives.
MacArthur in a rare public
appearance surprised the cor
respondents by answering ques
tions for publication. His an
swers disclosed his ideas on the
future of the defeated coun
try. Other Recommendations
His recommendations includ
ed: (1) Withdrawal of all allied
troops from Japan as soon as
the peace treaty is signed.
(2) The control of Japan
should be entrusted to the Unit
ed Nations after the treaty.
(3) Japan must be restored
as a commercial nation because
she is unable to feed herself.
(4) She must be allowed to
trade with the world on a system
of private initiative, free from
unnecessary government or al
lied military restrictions.
Military Phase Completed
.MacArthur said the military
phase of the occupation was
completed .and the economic
phase in progress. He said the
wartime economic blockade of
Japan was still rigidly enforced
"1here should be no bayonet
control over Nippon once the
peace terms are arranged," he
said. "SCAP (supreme com
mand allied powers) should end
immediately with the peace
treaty.
"Conditions presently are ripe
to initiate peace conversations.
After, the peace treaty, the con
trol of Nippon should be en
trusted to the allied nations.
"By renouncing war in her
new constitution, Japan has
thrown herself on the mercy of
allies. The allies have a moral
responsibility to protect the
Japanese people from aggres
sion. The United Nations should
be entrusted with this task . .
MacArthur said that if the
world organization ever was to
succeed, Japan would provide
its most favorable opportunity.
Failure to undertake the super
vision of Japan would mean
that the "so-called new world
order means nothing," he said.
Clay Recommended
As Full General
Washington, March 17 (IP)
President Truman today nomi
nated Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay,
commander of U. S. forces in
Europe, for the temporary rank
of full general.
Mr. Truman also nominated
Maj. Gen. Clarence Ralph Hueb
ner, Clay's chief of staff, to be
a lieutenant general.
Both officers hold the per
manent rank of brigadier gen
eral, '
grade companions will act as
bearers.
The body's nude body was
found by three boys late Satur
day hanging in a section of
Loudonville, exclusive residen
tial suburb. A length of clothes
line had been wound around his
neck,. looped around a tree limb
and tied to another tree.
Erway declined to release a
statement he said the De Flumer
boy had made other than to
quote him as saying he "decided
to kill" his companion as they
played in a barn near the spot
where the body was found.
He said the boy stripped the
body of clothing "to remove the
evidence." A crucifix and reli
gious medals were found hang
ing about the dead boy's neck.
Oregon, Monday, March
Dutch Seize American Ship
B8J'-A"-- - niiiini.il Z2f
tin Behrman (top) rides at anchor at Batavia, Java, after being
taken there by a Dutch destroyer which intercepted the vessel
after it left the Indonesian Republic port of Cheribon with a
cargo of rubber, quinine and other raw materials. Below Capt.
Rudy Grey of the Behrman leaves
after a conference in which he
photo)
Court Orders Mandate
In Lewis Case Advanced
;' Washington, March 17 VP)
that its mandate in the John L. Lewis case be issued on March 20
11 days ahead of customary time. The government had asked the
court to act immediately to enforce its decision against Lewis and
the United Mine Workers. The court's dicision requires that within
Crime Records
Broken in '46
Washington, March 17 (JP)
J". Edgar Hoover, reporting a
new 10-year crime record for
1946, said today that wartime ju
venile delinquents are "graduat
ing from petty thieves to armed
robbers and into the field of
more serious crimes."
The Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation director said the 645,431
arrests records received last year
represent a 7.6 percent increase
in crime throughout the nation
over 1945.
Of the more serious crimes,
only auto thefts declined 4.8
percent in 1946. Murders in
creased 23.3 per cent; man
slaughter by negligence, 7.2;
rape, 5; robbery, 15.7; aggrav
ated assault, 12.9; burglary,
11.3; and larceny, 8.8.
' The FBI's study of 1946 crime
showed that for the first time
since 1938 more persons in the
21-year age group were arrested
than in any other age level. Next
in order, were 22, 23, 24 and
20-year-olds.
The report also noted an in
crease of 25.4 percent in arrests
of males and an 18.3 percent de
crease in arrests of women, com
pared with 1945. Arrests of
girls under 21 exceeded prewar
figures by 40 percent, even
though 33.1 percent below 1945.
Truman to Return
On Wednesday
': Key West, Fla.,"March 17 (ff)
President Truman, kept away
from the beach again by over
cast skies, spent this morning
reading telegrams congratulat
ing him on his daughter's radio
debut. .
He decided to fly back to
Washington Wednesday, leaving
shortly after lunch with a view
tc having dinner in the White
House.
The weather being too chilly
for swimming and too cloudy for
sunbathing, Mr. Truman slept
until 7:30 o'clock again, eating
a hearty breakfast 30 minutes la
ter. He slept under blankets.
The Weather
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Generally fair tonight and
Tuesday. Low tonight 40 to 45.
Conditions will be favorable for
dusting in the morning. Maxi
mum yesterday 76. Minimum to
day 41. Mean temperature yes
terday 58 which was 13 above
normal. Total 24-hour precipi
tation to 11:30 ajn. today 0.
Total precipitation for the month
3.63 which is 1.57 Inches above
normal.. Willamette river height
4 ft.
17, 1947
The American Liberty ship, Mar
the Dutch destroyer Kortenaer
protested to the Dutch. (AP Wire-
The supreme court ordered today
five days after its mandate is
issued Lewis must withdraw a
notice to the mine workers that
the union's working contract
with the government is ended
If not, it will cost the United
Mine, workers $2,800,000..--..
When upholding the contempt
convictions of Lewis and the
UMW for disregarding a U. S.
district court order against last
fall's coal strike, the high court
reduced a $3,500,000 fine against
the union to $700,000.
It said, however, that the
original amount of fine should
be collected if Lewis did not
withdraw the order.
A $10,000 fine against Lewis
was upheld.
The effect of today's ruling
is to bar the door against a new
walkout on March 31.
Lewis ended last fall's strike
by ordering the miners to work
until March 31.
Under normal procedure, the
supreme court's mandate (order
in connection with the contempt
decision) would not have reach
ed the lower court until March
31. That would have left five
days during which the miners
could have stayed away from the
pits without being subject to the
full amount of the original fine.
Swallows Return
4 Days Too Early
San Juan Capistrano, Calif.,
March 17 (IP) Four days ahead
of schedule, says Father A. J.
Hutchison, the swallows of his
toric San Juan Capistrano mis
sion have arrived for the lum
ber, after a winter spent as far
south as Patagonia.
Father Hutchinson, in charge
of the mission, said the swallows
usually come back on St. Jo
seph's day, March 19, but the ad
vance guard rolled in, he said, at
sundown Saturday.
"We were surprised to i s e e
about 200 of them," said Father
Hutchinson. "A scouting party
sometimes arrives this early, but
there are too many for just that."
Legend at the mission has it
that swallows arrive on St. Jo
seph's day and depart Oct. 23,
the Feast of San Juan Capis
trano. Uses Baseball Bat
To Capture Burglar
Portland, March 17 (JP)
Armed with a baseball bat, Har
old B. Slater went out and cap
tured a man who had a rifle.
It happened in front of his
house as Slater returned home.
He told police he saw the man
walking away from the place
with a rifle in his hands.
After the capture, the rifle
turned out to be one from Sla
ter's home, police said. They also
recovered from the man's auto
mobile $175 worth of goods from
Slater's home. The man wis
held on $3000 bond.
mm
Niillinn Kill
rVV riimvii VIII
For Greek Aid
Offered in House
Washington, March 17 (U.R)
Senate officials, after a confer
ence with Acting Secretary of
State Dean Acbeson, said a bill
embodying President Truman's
$400,000,000 program for aiding
Greece and Turkey will be intro
duced in the house later today.
Acheson, it was learned, can
vassed the legislative outlook for
the president's program to quar
antine commnuism and received
assurances that early congres
sional action will be forthcom
ing. The administration has ex
pressed hop the program will be
enacted by March 31, the date
Great Britain has set for with
drawing support from Greece.
Lodge Fledges Support
Meanwhile, Sen: Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr. (R., Mass.) pledged
his support to Mr. Truman s pro
gram. But he warned that this
nation cannot "resist commu
nism in one place and appear to
support It in others.
Lodge, in a statement, assert
ed that if congress rejected the
president s efforts to check com
munism, the last hope of ever
organizing peace would vanish."
"We can be sure of one thing
weakness will not avoid trou
ble," Lodge said. "There is i
much better chance that
strength, guided by virtuous mo
tiyes, will do so.
Wants Secrets Revealed
But another republican sena
tor, Homer Ferguson (Mich.),
wanted a full disclosure of any
thus far unrevealed secret
agreements made by the late
President Roosevelt before con
gress acts on the Greco-Turkish
loan. He manifested paiticular
interest in any agreement on
Soviet and British spheres of in
fluence.
Lodge said the program to
check communism in the Near
East "is not war-mongering." He
described it as a clear warning
that "we refuse to be shut out
of the Near East." Lodge added
that the program was not one of
"bailing, out oil companies. It
is simple self preservation."
Seek to Extend
Rent Control
Washington, March 17 (IP)
Two top government officials to
day told the house banking com
mittee that control on rents and
housing should be extended.
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
temporary controls administra
tor, proposed continuance of "es
sential" rent controls until June
30, 1948.
Housing Expediter Frank R.
Creedon told the committee that
only those controls necessary to
get the housing job done are be
ing used now.
The committee is considering
a bill by Chairman Wolcott (R.,
Mich.), to repeal the 1946 Pat
man housing act in order to free
the building industry of ail fed
eral control. It would also end
rent controls on March 31, 1948
and place them on a different ba
sis than at present.
Fleming said that the proposed
bill would lead to higher rents in
many instances and to hardships
for veterans and the lower in
come groups.
Creedon, who followed Flem
ing to the stand, told the com
mittee: "On the basis of the facts as I
see them, it is my considered
judgment that the few remain
ing housing controls cannot be
removed at this time without
causing a serious loss in the pro
duction of homes for veterans."
Bodies of Goering and 10 Nazi
Chiefs Cremated; Ashes to River
By Clinton B. Conger
ICODrrlsht. 194T. bv TTnliarf Prtut
Frankfurt,, March 17 flJ.ra The bodies of Hermann Goering and
his 10 fellow nazi leaders were cremated on the day of the mass
execution last October 18 and the ashes were sifted in a stream
at Munich birthplace of the
nazi party.
Thus, for these 11 top-f light
nazis at least, the road ended
where it began after a cataclys
mic cycle of destruction.
Five months and a day after
the Nuernberg executions and
suicide of Goering, the United
Press was able today to reveal
how the bodies were disposed
of.
The U. S. army had dropped
a curtain over the events fol
lowing the Nuernberg hangings.
It had sought to preclude any
possibility of furnishing a
"shrine" for any nazi fanatics
who now or in the future might
worship at the place where their
idols last reposed.
Molofov Asks 20
Payment Plan by
Would Pay Soviet
Demand Made for 4 Power Control of Ruhr and
Immediate Cancellation of American-British
Zonal Fusion Also Seeks
Moscow, March 17 (IP) Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov de
manded of the foreign ministers' conference today a 20-year
reparation payment plan by which Germany would pay the Soviet
Union $10,000,000,000.
MolotoV. asked for a four-power
diate cancellation of the American
The Russian diplomat demanded also the removal from Ger
many of capital goods such as factories for reparations, a division
of German assets held abroad and reparations from current pro-
auction. He said the 20-year payment period should date from
the signing of the Potsdam agreement in 1945.
Molotov said the agreed level of German production in steel
should be raised from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 tons annually to
provide for reparations payment. Molotov proposed that central
agencies be created in Germany to administer the reparations
program.
Demands Held Excessive
The Russian demands went be
yond what even the most pes
simistic western observers be
lieved the Soviet Union would
seek.
British Foreign Secretary Er
nest Bevin, first of the ministers
to present his views on economic
unity, also asked for an increased
level of Germany industry.
Bevin pointed out, however,
that any economic merger of all
the occupation zones of Germany
would require that all the zones
share equally in the cost. He said
he would make his full proposal
later, but added that the carry
ing out of the Potsdam provision
for reparations only in capital
goods was a British idea of the
right method. .
Attacks Western Powers
The Briton warned that his
government under no circum
stances would undertake obli
gations in Germany that would
entail additional cost.
Molotov, in a long attack on
the western powers, declared
that the United States, Great
Britain and France had violated
the Potsdam accord. He indicat
ed that the Soviet Union op
posed French action on the Saar,
creating a French customs union
with that German industrial re
gion. He alleged that the United
States and Britain had violated
the Potsdam agreement by fus
ing their zones and that the
British had broken the pact by
taking over the coal and ateel
production of the Ruhr. , .
Recalls Yalta-Potsdam ,
... Before , presenting . . Russia's
reparations claim, Molotov re
called the Yalta and Potsdam
meetings of the chief of state of
the Big. Three powers as proof
that agreement had been reached
that Russia should get $10,000,
000,000 to the $20,000,000,000
reparations claimed against Ger
many.. -
British Foreign Secretary Er
nest Bevin was reported to have
drafted a letter to Soviet For
eign Minister V. M. Molotov re
jecting Molotov's proposal for a
special conference on China. Be
vin took a stand similar to Mar
shall's but in addition was re
ported to have stressed that
Britain viewed the Chinese mat
ter as primarily between the
United States and Russia.
Some diplomats said Bevin's
reported letter showed a British
trend toward a secondary role
in issues on which she could
gracefully seek a neutral line.
80,000 Irish Stage
Broadway Parade
New York, March 17 (IP) An
estimated 80,000 sons and
daughters of the Emerald Isle
paraded down Fifth avenue to
day as New York paid its an
nual tribute to St. Patrick.
Police Commissioner Arthur
W. Wallander said he expected
1,250,000 onlookers "despite the
chill wind."
Everywhere along the sunlit
avenue green decorations pre
dominated in . the ties and
shirts of men, the coats and
scarves of women, and the flags
of Eire fluttering from office
windows.
Now the word has come that
photographs of the dispersal of
the nazi ashes are being offered
for sale in the United States.
And so the secret, unveiled by
United Press correspondents in
four German cities after weeks
of checking, no longer is a
secret.
In the Ostfriedhof area of
East Munich is a German civil
ian cemetery and a gray stone
building 40 feet wide and 80
feet long. It is as high as a three-
story house, and is surrounded
by a six-foot stone wall which
contains the chapel. In the base
ment is a gas oven for crema
tion. Eleven bodies were cremated
I there last Oct. 16.
Year Reparation
Which Germany
$10 Billion
Removal of Factories
control of the Ruhr .nd imme
- British tonal fusion.
Martial Law in
Holy Land Lilted
Jerusalem, March 17 (IP) The
Palestine government lifted
martial law today after 15 days
of British army rule, officially
reported imposed to check vio
lence by the Jewish under
ground, over sections of the
Holy Land.
Some 25,000 of Jerusalem's
Jews welcomed the end at noon
(2 a. m., PST) in a virtual holi
day spirit. They thronged to tha
edges of the wire-guarded mili
tary zone an hour beforehand to
await release. Police had comb
ed their homes for terrorist sus
pects during the martial law
period.
Martial law had cut off some
250,000 Jews from the rest of
Palestine. The government pro
claimed some success in the hunt
for armed Jewish opponents of
Britain's mandate policies, but
violence continued last night.
Joyous shouting rose to a high
pitch as martial law rules ex
pired and grinning troops stood
aside. Many soldiers exchanged
banter with the Jews as they
climbed atop Bren gun carrier!
and watched the Jews themsel
ves roll away the barbed wira
that had penned them in.
Gales Take Lives
Of 13 Britons
London, March 17 (JP) A toll
of 13 deaths and property dam
age of millions of dollars wai
levied by. high winds which
swept in from the Atlantic last
night and blew themselves out
over a still flooded and snow
bound Britain today.
Milder weather was forecast
by the air ministry, although
considerable rains and gales
were expected tomorrow.
The night winds attained a
velocity of 98 miles an hour at
times, unrooting trees, deroof
ing buildings and wrecking
houses.
Most of the dead were vic
tims of falling trees and debris.
Five were killed when houses
collapsed. A falling pipe killed
another, and two school girls
were crushed to death in a bus
which was struck by a falling
tree. A man was found dead
this morning under a fallen trea
outside his home near Leicester.
Two cyclists caught in the gale
were crushed by trees. Anotner
victim died of head injuries aft
er being bowled over on the
street.
Twenty German pnsoners-ol-
war were seriously injured when
a tree smashed in the roof of
a hut at their camp north of
London.
Louis to Defend
Title in N.Y. June 26
New York. March 17 (IP) Joe
Louis announced today through
one of his managers, Marshall
Miles, that he will make the 24th
defense of his world heavy
weight boxing title on June 26
in the New orK xannee
stadium.
Although no opponent was
announced, miles said thai
Louis is eager to meet tne win
. .. . i , r j tu
ner of tne doui in luuu
tween Bruce Woodcock, tne
British empire heavyweight
champion, and Joe Baksi of
Kulpmont, Pa., provided that
contest takes place on or about
April 15 and provided, too, that
satisfactory terms can be ar
ranged." 1250 Buildings
On Block Wednesday
Portland, March 17 (IP) The
largest sale to date of surplus
buildings in Oregon will open
Wednesday with 1250 Camp
White structures on the block.
The sale will continue 20 days.
The war assets administra
tion said the sale would be open
to priority buyers and the pub
lic concurrently. The offering
includes barracks, mess halls,
warehouses, repair shops, serv
ice clubs and theaters. Camp
White is near Medford.