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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1951)
Marines Bayonet Reds out of Hills Compiled by A1 Karr From tin: wires of the Associated Press t Ametican leathernecks weilding bayonet jn hillside dugotrts I'lim das won two key heights from the Chinese Reds near Hoi trusting. < Mlu r Marines fought slowly up nearby hill in a renewed drive on the heart of a -10,000-mutt Communist force in central Kotea. I he Reds counter attacked fiercely at 3 p.m. southwest of JIoengsong. In the air. four l . S. I*-HO Shooting Stars damaged three Rus sian type MK, jets near the Manchurian border. The b-80 jets langled in a 10-minute dogfight with 12 M Id's over northwest Kotea. | he I'iflh Air I’orte said that no b StO's were damaged. Jt was the first jet fight reported since early February. .War Seoul, American troops invaded Sand island in the Han River, but withdrew after a five-hour fight. They had landed in assault boats on a mission to clear the way for tank crossings. After the Reds struck southwest of 1 Ioengsong, a frontline ollicci said that the Communists were "showing a greater deter mination to remain in the areas where they are in contact with Allied forces. They are lighting stronger delaying actions.” I he United Mares, Britain, and France. . . . . . ukreed Thursday to a meeting of the Big Four Foreign ministers deputies, including Husain, opening Monday at Paris. The meeting Is scheduled to lay the groundwork for a full dress con ference of the big power foreign ministers, provided an acceptable agenda can be agreed upon. Moscow agreed to the preliminary meeting in a formal note Thursday. The .State Department announced that Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup will head an lj-member American delegation to the Paris meet ing. The State Department, in announcing American acceptance, made it plain that the United States In pessimistic over prospects for any agree ment which would effectively ease East-West tension. French President Vincent Auriol Called... ... on former Premier Georges Bidault Thursday to try to form a new French government. Auriol tapped the suave, dapper, experienced politician for the job nfler Rene Pleven, who quit with his coalition cabinet Wednesday in a dispute over a new election law. had turned down an offer to try again. Bidault was France's first postwar foreign minister and was Premier twice for five months in 1946, and again from October, 1949, to June, 1950 He said that he would confer with leaders of other parties to see if he stood any chance of forming a new cabinet. He is a leader of the Cath olic Popular Republican Movement. A Distress Call by Yugoslavia... .. . for more funds to bolster her sagging economy has gone out to the United States, Britain, and other western nations. Foreign Trade Minister Milentije Popavic told parliament that he hoped the appeal would bring quick results, because fast action is need ed to keep the country on her feet He said that the loans Yugoslavia has obtained so far are buying less because of rising world prices. The biggest help is expected from the United States and Britain, but the Yugoslavs also hope that France will aid with new credits and wheat shipments. Already a direct gift of $70,000,000 worth of food from the United States is helping Yugoslavia through the winter. Charles E. Wilson Will Remain... ... as Defense Mobilization Director despite labor's walkout from the program, President Truman said Thursday. Mr. Truman told a news conference that he has full confidence in Wilson. Although labor's refusal to have any further part in the present setup threatened to imperil the whole defense program, Mr. Truman indicated that he felt no sense of crisis. The top men of labor decided Wednesday night to boycott the program in what amounted to a "no confidence” vote in the way it is being run. Unless 10-Year-Olds Are Drafted. . . . . . veteran-reservists called to duty in the Korean crisis cannot be re leased, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall said Thursday. "We cun't spare them," Marshall told the House Armed Services Com mittee. He said that military manpower deficiencies in Korea, at home, and elsewhere have not been made up. - Marshall went before the House group as Senate Democratic leaders pressed for a start of voting on sections of the Universal Military Train ing bill which calls for drafting 18-year-olds. Congress Can Debate the Troops-to-Europe. . . . . . issue and anything else it wants to, but that does not mean that it helps relations with the rest of the world, President Truman said Thurs day. He made the remark in response to news conference questions dealing with a report on presidential and Congressional war powers. The report was prepared at the request of Senate committees which have been hold ing hearings on the administration plan to send more troops abroad to bolster Western Europe’s defenses. An RFC Director Was Accused... . . . Thursday by Carl G. Strandlund of working with “financial wolves" which he said had brought his Lustron prefabricated housing plant to financial ruin in efforts to enrich themselves. He named RFC Director Walter L. Dunham, E. Mori Young, Washing ton insurance man, and Rex Jacobs, Detroit manufacturer, as leaders of "a small clique” bent on wrestling from him control of the Lustron Cor poration's big plant at Columbus, Ohio. 'As You Like It/ SU Film, Brings Bard to Screen The film version of “As You hike It" will be nhown Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and 4:15 p.rn. in the ball room of the Student Union. A dmis sion i« 30 cents. The Hollywood production, star ring Laurence Olivier and Eliza beth Bergner, brings Shakespeare to life on the screen. A short, “Sliphorn, King of Polaroo," is the special added fea ture. The weekly Sunday movies are sponsored by the Student Union Board for all students and faculty members. Registration Card Deadline Saturday Saturday noon is the dead line for turning spring term re gistration cards in to the regist rar’s office, Clifford I,. Con stance, registrar, has announced. Students who do not have their cards filed by the deadUne will he fined $8. Those who do not pay fees when they file their cards, may pick their cards up at the beginning of next term and pay at that time. Kwamas Will Host OSC Soph Honorary Talons, sophomore women’s ser vice honorary at Oregon Bute Col lege, will be weekend guests of Kwama, Oregon’s sophomore wom en's service group, Delores Par rish, Kwama president, announced Thursday. I A dinner at the Student Union will be held in honor of the guests i Saturday evening after which both groups will attend the basketball ! game. Following the game both j groups will take part in the mixer at the Student Union. RUSH INN We serve breakfast 'till noon on Saturdays It's so handy 854 E. 13th On the Campus 11 a.m. "KEEPING APPOINTMENTS WITH GOD" KASH broadcast Bible School 9:45—Feb. 25 Hinson 928; Eugene 921 . 7:3 Op.m. "Russia's Doom Foretold" C.O.S. !• ellou ship'—6:30 Afterglow 9 p.m FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Bdwy at High Dr. Vance H. Webster, Pastor “Mr. Bell, 1 heard every word you said — distinctly!" 75 YEARS OF TELEPHONE SERVICE On the evening of March 10, 1876, on the top floor of a boarding house in Boston, the telephone carried its first intelligible sentence. It seemed like a miracle to our grandparents and great-grandparents. Yet today, the telephone is a part of our everyday living. And that is the real miracle —the fact that the tele phone has come to mean so much to so many people in so many ways. The telephone is an indispensable tool of business and government — to day’s tremendous job of production and defense could not be carried on without it. It serves in minor emer gencies and great ones. It helps main tain family and community ties. And it keeps right on growing and improving. Never in the history of the tele phone has it been so valuable to so many people as right now. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM