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Wednesday Evening Jan 7 1848 Wheat Trader Total Hikes Prices Slump traders and lower valley where tributaries have already burst their banks communities braced for greater inundation of lowlands highways and more evacuations Six days of incessant rains have pounded western Oregon and the weather bureau forecast was for continued rain today and tonight Warm chinook winds off the ocean have caused mountain snows to melt adding to the flooding conditions in the valleys Tent Colony Swept Away A dozen families were made homeless in Douglas county when a creek overflowed sweeping away a tent colony They are sheltered in a church In the Lane county lowlands near Eugene and Springfield the Red Cross has directed evacuation of some 1400 They persons to higher ground are being cared for in public school auditoriums fire halls and lodge rooms in the area Several trailer communities were rolled to the Lane county fairgrounds The army engineers' corps which issued orders placing its major flood control plan into effect yesterday has instructed farmers in lowlands of the middle valley to remove livestock from fields along the rivers At Portland the coast guard auxiliary readied motor boats for use in possible rescue activity Several score bus passengers were stranded in small upstate communities when state police beclosed the Pacific highway tween Medford and Grants Pass and several other major routes were blocked by washouts The flood crest is due to strike the middlde valley near the cities of Corvallis Albany and the state capital at Salem late Thursday and The river crest is early Friday now expected to range from four to 10 feet above flood stage The speculator total Jumped from 3827 on September 17 to 4482 on September 20 during a sharp break in the market which sent wheat prices tumbling the 10 cents a bushel daily limit for three days running the report said Clawed as Hedgers The September 20 total compared with 1240 speculators active 164 months before It was exclusive of 515 traders classified a hedgers engaged in deals Today'i list failed to supply the names of any additional public officials for congressional investigators seeking to determine whether government "insiders" have been profiting from commodity transactions It repeated the names of 100 federal state and local officials a well as those of big traders holding 200000 bushels or more which were first made public last week The hew names on the list are those of private citizens Most of them were on the "long" side of the market— betting prices would A "short" counts on go higher a drop in prices FBI Investigates Meanwhile Senator Ferguson disclosed that the FBI t investigating the accounts of Palouse on Rampage other public figures as well as PULLMAN Wash Jan 7 (AP) that of Brig Gen Wallace H The Palouse river rampaging Graham White House physician of rapidly as a result who was named on last week' swelling heavy unseasonal rains was threat-da- y list Ferguson is chairman of a senate appropriations in a row He declined to say which will hold a public hearing who would appear Friday at which Graham and Har- Answers Questions old S Stassen candidate for the G O P presidential nomination Yesterday John F Baecher right-han- d have been invited to testify man to Assistant AttorStassen's assertion that General John F Sonnett ney "insiders" were ac- talked with the committee behind tive in commodity speculation closed doors He told newsmen touched off the senate investiga- later he was cautioned against telltion ing what he said but that he had Ferguson called a secret session answered these questions: of his group today for the third 1 Will the FBI furnish the committee with information it has obtained on Graham's trading activities? 2 Has it looked into similar operations by others? Ferguson remarked that Secretary of Agriculture Anderson already has told the committee the justice department has a "staff of people" checking the trader lists for names of government officials Ferguson commented: "The FBI ve ch sub-commit- tee admin-mistrati- on is UPHOLSTERING Finest Fabric aVaesllcsrt Week Cenrteeas Free Estimates UELKE 2CS1 Wi Dial One) out- period last September the agriculture department reported today in making public a new list of R-Mi- (Continued from Pag (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON Jan 7 (AP)— The number of wheat speculators on the Chicago market increased nearly 27 per cent in a three-da- y 5357 Smelter Union Continues Talk About Quitting CIO 1 m their staff" Many 8 offer Losses Many of the September speculators listed by Anderson todav suf fered losses because of the nose dive by wheat after several weeks of steady price advances In his letter to the senate committee transmitting the list Anderson said trading on the three days showed the "vulnerable nature of the speculative interest with heavy liquidation by speculative accounts closing out or reducing their long holdings" Unlike previous lists the new one did not give the city addresses of traders but merely their states a lay for the first 15 months Devoting a large share of his The United States has warned Bulto a domestic program of message garia and Yugoslavia that recognition of the new Greek rebel gov- "economic social and moral ernment "would be clearly contrary achievement" the president assert-a- d to the principles of the United these goals are endangered by Nations charter the state departthe spiral of inflation which he ment announced today Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are said "holds the threat of another Soviet satellite countries which depression" border on Greece He said that events since he deThe warnings followed a sternly-worde- d views to statement issued by acting scribed his session Nov 17 "have Secretary of State Robert A Lovett the special on Dec 30 He said then that made it even clearer that all ten recognition of the rebel govern- points" of his program "are esment "would have serious impli- sential" And he added: "I trust that within the shortest cations" Michael J McDermott depart- possible time the congress will ment press officer said that Ameri- make available to the government can representatives in Bulgaria and the weapons that are so desperYugoslavia had conveyed orally ately needed in the fight against this government's views on the an- inflation" nouncement "by certain Greek Five Domestic Goals communists that they had formed a On the broad domestic front government" McDermott said American of- Mr Truman said the government ficials in the two capitals were should aim at five goals "which making clear that Lovett 's state- have the greatest bearing upon the ment expressed the views of the foundations of our democracy and United States of our people" He the McDermott said Bulgaria and said happiness it should be possible to acYugoslavia were Informed "that complish them within the next any recognition of the Markos junt ten years" (In Greece) would be clearly conHe described the government's trary to the principles of the United first goal as that of "securing fully Nations charter and in the cases of the essential human rights of its Greece's northern neighbors would citizens" constitute open disregard of the On number two developrecent recommendations of the ment goal of "human resources" he United Nations assembly? extension of unemIt was not known at the state recommended old age ployment compensation department whether the British benefits and survivors' benefits "to exhad similarly government millions who are not now protectpressed its views to the two coun- ed and an increase in the size of tries as has been reported from the payments Athens The state department also On third goal of preserving did not say immediately whether "our the national wealth against this government's views on the those who would misuse it for matter had been communicated to selfish gain" the president urged: the Soviet Union Application of Tennessee valley flood control and power experiening to overflow a trailer camp ence to the development of other housing 300 persons here today de- great river valleys Development of mineral resourcspite sandbagging work by several hundred volun- es and new supplies of critical materials with provision for their teers Most of the residents are mar- stockpiling ried students of Washington State Expansion of the reclamation program to cover additional milcollege and their families Preparations were being made to lions of acres evacuate them to the college com- Higher Minimum Wage mons temporarily for food and As a start toward the fourth shelter and emergency housing was being sbught in the town of Pull- goal—— to raise the standard of Jivman ing the president suggested an inin the minimum wage from Seepage already has permitted crease considerable water to flow into the 40 to 75 cents an hour "modernarea A few farm buildings in the ized" farm price supports which district were invaded by water and will afford reasonable protection three business firm at the edge against fluctuations in production of town were surrounded by the and demand and expanded crop flood insurance coverage The fifth goal — world peace based on "justice and equality of Vets' Village Threatened all nations" — necessitates he said MOSCOW Jan 7 (AP) — High a realization that "loss of inH water early this morning threat- pendence by any nation adds diened the north Main street vet- rectly to the insecurity of the erans village housing 120 families United States and all free nations" attending University of Idaho and flooded some business establishment basements At Potlatch the mill of Potlatch Forests Inc closed at nine a m because water speeds in the mill pond were too fast to handdle logs J J O'Connell manager said SALT LAKE CITY Jan 7 CTTTM Three miles west of Potlatch cat halt in construction of hotels in tie were being moved out of low A the United States for several years farmlands by boat and one or two in a few isolated instances families were removing household except was predicted here today by Daniel as Palouse the river furnishings oi Toledo former treasuorien went out of its banks At Prince- jurer of the American Hotel associa ton four miles east of Potlach tion and president of a midwestern water two feet deep was running hotel chain across the state highway forming The halt he said will be caused the village's main street on prohibitive construction costs Hp nointmi nut that actimstiu nn costs of new luxury hotels calls for expenditures on the basis of $13000 to $15000 per room This compares he said with about $3000 per room years ago WASHINGTON xie defended increased room Jan 7 (UP)— The treasury announced today that rates He said that most leading a new piece bearing the American hotels have raised room likeness of Benjamin Franklin will rates 16 to 20 rer cent whilo be in circulation within two or eral operating costs have soared as three months Secretary' of Treas- mgn as iou per cent ury John W Snyder said the new coin which has a Liberty bell on the other side is the first new piece since 1916 "I have shown the coin to President Truman" Snyder said "and the president was very much pleased with it" WASHINGTON aJn 7 (UP)— The labor department said todav there were about 3699 strikes last Air Rights Agreed — 1400 fewer than the e MANILA Jan 7 (UP) — An year record set in post-wthe first full on aviation rights was agreement oi iwo signed today between Britain and year In a summary of last year's the Philippines disputes the depart ment estimated that 35000000 man- were lost through strikes durdays1947 It said this was less than ing d the total work loss a year earlier Almost half of the 1947 work loss was attributed to strikes in the telephone soft coal and shipbuildi ing industries WASHINGTON Jan 7 (UP) — anti-inflati- so-call- ed round-the-clo- ck ORDER Franklin's Face On Half Dollars 50-ce- nt m NOW ' " Tntwss ABERDEEN COAL CRAMER COAL CO SMS LINCOLN AVE OLVBE CRAMER PHONE 21432 Manager A a pasi five years but never thoroughly beaten a mass secession move by Utah and Nevada locals of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers is underway again threatening a schism which would pull the from the Utah C I O Three locals — two at Bonanza Utah and one at Pioche Nev— already have broken with the district No 2 of the I U M M S W There were indications that a fourth local may follow suit although McGill members had disaffiliated with the district Without confirming or denying that the ideological battle which long has torn the district threatened to flare anew Utah C I O officials and available I U M M S W leaders clammed up when approached on the subject They confirmed only that there had been some conferences on "serious matunder-pinnin- gs 6000-memb- er "keen disappointment of the anti- communist elements of the C L O- i it M M S W" in Utah and Nevada at failure of the national C I O convention last fall to take some positive action in the inter-unio- n fight over communis- tic control While the national C I O agreed with the charges action was taken Iron Age quoted district lead- ers as saying the had hoped the national C 1 O g would force a In the I U M M S W or provide miners' locale with a spot to land without dropping their C L O affiliations But the issues were leaving the anti communists with only three alternatives AS listed those alternatives by Iron Age side-stepp- ed -- tive on the ng I U M M LbSc' i i FOR RENT OR SALE! 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Doctor's iniitibU liquid— promptly reUeres Itehiag of a surface akin irritation aVsLITI Also aids heaiiag- l- Ts s-- 'ST RELIABLE " STleVM sag fV a DAM Resignation Set Off Blast The ideological feud first broke into the open with the resignation of J Frank Marble of Bountiful as district president It broke out again several months ago when Dan Edwards now a member of the Utah state industrial commission scathingly denounced what he said was "communistic leadership" in the I U M M S W His denouncement came as he too submitted his resignation as district representalong-standi- 1 house-cleanin- ters" is Built by Engineers a BARGAIN is in store for yon S W ex- ecutive board after leading what proved to be an abortive secession move incumbent Recently Digtrict President George J Wilde and Clarence J Palmer Utah C I O president expressed "regrets" that another prominent district I U M M S W official—Wlllard Morris union counsel — had resigned Not only did he resign over their protests Morris also vented his displeasure with what he termed "the communistic element in the unions —an efficient formidable foe unhindered by traditional ethics and standards which most of us follow" Morris further assailed the "indecision delay and fumbling" he said were characterizing the efforts of those union members fighting "to keeD their ranks clean "Pawns of International" "As a result" Morris in his resignation "many charged of the important locals have become pawns of the international unions and the communists and serious inroads have been made in several others" More fuel was heaped on the secession fire in a recent issue of Iron Age which gave voice to the FINE WOOLENS Slashed100 Again PER YARD AS LOW AS Coverts — Shetlands—Crepes TRIMS SALESMEN'S SAMPLES 1ELT —ALL SALIS FINAL— Intermountain Knitting Hills 1879 Washington llvd Plenty of Proo Parking NOW AVAILABLE Costs to Curtail Hotel Building 50-ce- nt Don't Let Tkts Good Weather Fool You! 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