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Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service Emerald to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1949 NUMBER 138 Today’s World U. S. Senate Passes Flood Control Bill WASHINGTON, May 20—(AP) Squashing another series of econ omy efforts, the senate today passed and sent back to the house a bill carrying $751,000,000 mainly for flood control and waterways projects. * * * Columbia River Crest Drops One Foot PORTLAND, May 20—(AP) — The crest of the Columbia river’s spring freshet was reduced by al most a foot through the storage of water at Grand Coulee dam, the North Pacific division corps of en gineers reported today. The pro gram was planned in cooperation with the Bonneville Power admin istration and the Bureau of Rec lamation. ■* * * Navy Transport Tops Capacity Record SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 20— (AP An aircraft carried more than 300 persons for the first time in history yesterday when the navy’s huge Marshall Mars flying boat flew here from Ala meda, Calif., with 308 men. This broke the old record of 269 persons, set by a sister-ship, the Caroline Mars on a San Di ego to Alameda flight March 4. ■* * Ford-UAW Peace Talks Are Threatened DETROIT, May 20—(AP) Peace talks between the Ford Motor company and the United Auto Workers (CIO) in the 16-day-old Ford strike stood on the verge of collapse today. Threatening the talks on the very day the federal government put a mediator on the scene was a heated dispute over starting time for negotiations on a new union contract to replace the one which expires next July 15. The company, with 102 produc tion workers idle in the 16-day old strike, refused to agree to contract talks urging the strike, specifical ly not before June 1. * * * AEC Accused of Subversive Activity WASHINGTON, May 20—(AP) Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) ac cused the atomic energy commis sion today of keeping loyalty sus pects “under cover” on AEC pay rolls for over 10 months. The senate investigation was touched off by a disclosure that a Communist, Hans Freistadt, had been granted a fellowship under the AEC’s multi-million dollar stu dent aid program. # # ♦ Coulee Dam Becomes Biggest Power Plant COULEE DAM, Wash., May 20—(AP) At a signal from Pres ident Truman, Grand Coulee dam across the Columbia river took its place today as the largest producer of electric power in the world. Nearly 3000 miles across the nation at the White House, President Truman tapped a gold telegraph key that put into op eration the dam’s 10th major generator. * * * Last Shanghai Air Link Severed SHANGHAI, Saturday, May 21 -—(AP) Shanghai’s last air link to the outside world was snapped to day and even the sea lane was menaced by beseiging Chinese Communist troops. 'Faithful 14' Attend Senior Meet; New Assembly Set for Tuesday I was there . . . Where were YOU seniors? Only fourteen members of the University’s class of ’49 could be lured away from their shack, or the stacks, in order to attend the senior meeting in Commerce hall on Thursday evening. All “missing persons” will be given an opportunity to shake their senior slump next Tuesday evening when Senior Class President Robin Arkly and his faithful fourteen will meet again in 105 Commerce hall at 7 o’clock. The business on the agenda includes the election of a permanent class president and secretary, and the gift to be given to the Univer sity. The ’49ers will also pan out the plans for their annual farewell picnic, which will feature lots and lots of ..: and will take place at.on.at. o'clock. Seniors, your vote may fill in the blanks. Beauty F E S T IV At QUEEN — Margret Thors, daughter of the Minister from Iceland, visits an orchard during her reign as Queen of the Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester, Va. Phi Eta Sigma Initiates 17 Men Phi Eta Sigma, national fresh man scholastic honorary, initiated 17 men Thursday night at Alumni hall, Gerlinger. A banquet at the Cafe Del Rey followed the cere monies. Any man who during his fresh man year made a 3.5 GPA his first term or a 3.5 cumulative for his first three terms is eligible for initiation into the group. New initiates were Gerald Berre man, Wayne Blair, Daniel Domreis, John Evans, Donald Ford, C. Rob ert Groth, James Hart, Gene John son, King Jones. Richard Kading, Robert Leik, Gerald Paine, Richard Parker, Wayne Parpala, Kenneth Rosenlof, William Southwell, and Arthur Matsuda. . Vergil S. Fogdall, director of men's affairs and adviser of the group, was principal speaker at the banquet. The Weather Probably All Wet WEATHER — Eugene and vi cinity—mostly cloudy with occa sional showers today, improving : to partly cloudy with widely scat j tcred showers by Sunday after noon. Slightly warmer today with a high near 70 and a low of 50. Oppotunity for French Study Offered Student The Committee on International Affairs and Scholarships has an nounced the receipt of a letter from Jean de Lagarde, consul general of France, offering an opportunity for an exchange of students be tween the University of Oregon and the Sorbonne for one or two years. A young French student, from an old French family of some emi nence, wishes to study at a Pacific coast university. His family will provide room and board for an American student, studying at the Sorbonne, while the family of the American student, preferably liv ing in or near Eugene, would fur nish room and board for the French student. Anyone interested in such an ar rangement (he must have had at least two years of college French) should contact either Gordon Wright, associate professor of history, or D. M. Dougherty, head of the foreign language depart ment, within the next few days. Pitcher tQ pi Par> « EmeralJ 1 *£*£»*«*,oMth ° Hlcnic tin, .Jt busi»«s **'« «®. of m„ .... . ; disc,ose««n^r ,Cn,c ,p&Z know h» V h r is the '"a stiff y, “and^ ■>«,„, man dre Soing tQ man on the te*™ the members of our team sec ret.” Sources close to the Shack re vealed Friday that plans were still progressing for the picnic which will begin at 10 a.m. Sun day. Shackrats intending to go on the outing should meet at the Shack where transportation to Fiji meadows will be provided. When contacted by the reporter, Bill Yates, starting pitcher for the Emerald editorial team, declared, “No matter what happens, it will be rough competition, but I know that we will not win by a score of 33-0.” The Emerald editorial staff is at least^three deep in every position and plans to win by making use of the unlimited substitution rule. (They apply this rule to any sport.) Yates inferred that if things got too rough, he would let Bob Frazier. Marge Goodwin, or any other Em erald editor past or future have a hand at heaving the ball across the plate. Phyllis Kohlmeier, former finan-1 cial and incidental fund editor, has resigned her position. June Goetze, has been appointed to fill the post and asks that anyone attending the picnic pay her the fifty cents cover charge. The editors-in-chief of the Play Day edition, Bobolee Brophy, June Goetze, Diana Dye, and Barbara Heywood, have asked that anyone with a “set of wheels” register same at the Shack before noon to day with an estimate of how many people can be accomodated. AWOL Students Draw Penalty MONMOUTH, May 20—Oregon College of Education slapped a penalty today on the four students who disappeared overnight and touched off a state police hunt. The four, who went to a Wed nesday night ball game and did not return, were placed on probation. Any further disciplinary action, the college said, “must await the outcome of further investigation.” A college spokesman said the men stayed away because of “en tirely personal reasons on the part of one student.” The students came back to the campus yesterday afternoon. The four were Bert McConnell. Sam Ramey, Bob McKecber, and Wayne Hubbard. Students Study International Living Group With its immediate objective tho investigation of the possible estab lishment of a cooperative interna tional living organization at Ore gon, a group of students of differ ent races has embarked on a stiitty of racial prejudices and philosophy on the campus. According to Marge Truchon, cne of the members of the group, the study grew out of a series of three forums at Westminster house on the national, Eugene, and cam pus racial situation. Topics discus sed were brotherhood, America as the Negro sees it, and internation al houses on other campuses. “From talking to some of the Negros," said Ray Steed, another member, yesterday, “we got to know about their philosophy and way of looking at things. We de cided that we should do something1 about it and make a study; we’re rather new at the thing.” Miss Truchon stated that tho group’s primary objective is “to get better acquainted and create better feeling between races by getting to know each other.” The group expects to ask for and receive advice from local churches. White, Negro, Chinese, and Japan ese students are already members* and representatives of campus Jew ish groups will be invited. “The idea of the forums was touched off by the recent contro versy over the relocation of the Ferry street Negro settlement," Miss Truchon believes. When a group of Negro houses were con demned to make way for the ap proach to the proposed new Ferry street bridge, public sentiment against their relocation in residen tial districts was highly vocal. Editors Smug... Despite Alleged Ad-Vantage The braggadacio of certain huck sters and mendicants who loiter ov er their knitting and tiddly-winks in the back environs of the hallow ed Emerald shack is due for an ab rupt revision come May 22. Sneaking into print via the only means they know, an advertise ment, these lowly interlopers emit ted blasphemous utterances de signed to besmirch the fair names of the upholders of the glory and tradition (oh hallowed traditions!) of the press and the public and the student body of the University of Oregon and the faculty members of the University of Oregon, etc. It little behooves the editorial staff members of the Emerald (or any old newspaper) to consort pub licly with these aforementioned moneymen. However, in a sense of duty to the readers and to the paper, the Emerald editorial staff, chivalrous above all, has collectively consent ed to engage in a contest—weap ons chosen by fair and impartial arbitration board—on the soft greensward of Fifi meadows during the annual Emerald picnic festivi ties. When the shadows fall, the van quished admen will have long since fled in shame, routed by the boom ing bats, the flawless fielding, ami the Herculean hurling of the editorial experts. The mat-maulers and copy-cullers from the under world of the newspaper business known as the Emerald will be mir ed in the ignomy of defeat. All hail! to the valiant and vic torious versifiers in prose who breathe vigor, action, and romance, seasoned liberally with humor and human interest, into the news col umns of the Oregon Daily Emerald.