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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1951)
* Communists Push Allies Near Seoul Compiled by Larry Hobart From the wired of Associated Frew; I nited Nations troop* on the west-central Korean front w ith drew again I lull day before t bine e Red masse*. I bis extended their rollback in that sector to 27 miles in five day I N. - tragglers fired artillery at poiutblank range to hold back .100,000 Reds pressing tow ard Seoul. I lie new w ithdraw al w iped out ei cry w estern front lN. foot hold north of the 38th parallel. Hut the Allies still are m North Korea along the Ilwachon Res ervoir on the eastern end of the HXJ mile front. They beat back Red attacks on both sides of the reservoir Thursday. 'I In’ \\ extern withdraw al from above the parallel began at mid day. as ( hinese advanced with 20 miles of Seoul. Light Army headquarters said the Allied troop were “fighting a magnificent delaying action.” M tutsan fell to (‘hinese dri\ ing down a main highway from the Northwest. 'I lie town, 21 mile from the war-battered capital, was the site of an American paratroop landing last month. Allies also pulled back south of Changgo, four miles below the border and 15 miles north of Lijongbu. The Communists Must Choose. .. . . . between spreading the Korean War or seeking a peaceful settle ment President Truman said Thursday. .He did not elaborate and he specifically refused comment at a news conference on reports that I.t. Gen Matthew Ridgwuy has authority to bomb Manchuria if he deems it necessary. Rut Mr. Truman's assertion that the choice of peace or a greater war is up to the Communists left open the interpretation that United Nations forces would strike buck outside Korea if large enemy air forces enter the fighting. (A U. S. spokesman at the United Nations in Lake Success, N. Y., said Wednesday the United States has proposed the bombing of Red bases in Manchuria if the Communists launch iieavy air attacks). Chicago Welcomed MacArthur. .. . .. in a mass scale greeting Thursday when the General’s plane landed at Midway airport. Thousands lined the route of the piocession from the airport on the southwest side. But biggest crowds packed Michigan Boulevard and State Street to cheer MacArthur. The General received a 17-gun salute. In Washington. President Truman announced that he will not "pull the strings" on MacArthur but will let him say what he pleases, when he pleases, and where he pleases. The President told a news conference that under legislation setting up the i auk of five star general and admiral, he could pull the strings on MacArthur, but that he does not propose to do so. President Truman Asked Congress... . . . Thursday for higher taxes, tighter credit controls and “fair ceil ings”. on farm and other products, saying inflationary pressures "have not yet reached their peak." In a special message to the lawmakers, Mr. Truman urged speedy ac tion. He said: “The world situation coutd explode at any time, and we must make every day count." The President's request for "fair ceilings" on farm and other products i.-. aimed at permitting tighter controls on food prices. The New RFC Boss... . . . W. Stuart Symington, said Thursday ho will take office “beholden" to no one, and with a free hand to run the big lending agency. He testified at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on his nomina tion by President Truman to be Administrator of the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation, reorganized after it came under attack in Congress. He will take the place of a five man board of directors whose jobs will expire when he takes over. ^hereabouts of Prague AP Chief... . . . William N, Oatis, who vanished from his office Monday is still un known. U. S, Embassy officials in Prague, where Oatis heads the Associated I’ress Bureau, have requested Czech authorities to make a “most urg ent" investigation. They expressed fear that the 37-year-old newspaper man might be nnder arrest. Oatis was last seen leaving his office after telling Czech colleagues that he was on his way to keep an appointment at the information Minis try. He had told Embassy officials that he believed that he was being ■shadowed "24 houis a day," presumably by Czech police. An Atomic Energy Commission Spokesman... . . . predicted Thursday significant new Uranium production in the Colorado Plateau areas of eastern Utah, northern Arizona and New Mexico. Dr. Phillip L. Merritt told .the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in a prepared talk that pranium had been found also in Colo rado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Florida. Merritt said that the Colorado Plateau, extending over some 130,000 square miles in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, contains "our largest potential resources as we know them now." Merritt is assistant director of division of raw materials of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. The State Budget Was Balanced... . . . Thursday for the next two years by the joint legislative Ways and Means Committee, provided its program is'approved by the Legislature and isn't referred to the pople. The committee voted to ask the State Liquor Commission to boost its liquor prices 5 per cent, to bring in 2'j million dollars more into the State General Fund during the biennium, which begins July 1. . ^’lic program includes a 3-cent a package cigarette tax, to raise 10 million dollars per biennium, and a 7 million dollar state building pro gram. Neither of these has been approved by the Legislature yet. Oregon's Tillamook Fire... ’ . . .was quiet Thursday and humidities in the Pacific Northwest rose to safer levels, but foresters warned the danger remained great. 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Lowell Thomas Jr. Pians Albany Talk Author-Lecturer Lowell Thomas Jr. will show and comment upon his technicolor film taken in “For bidden Tibet” in Albany Saturday night. « His appearance, scheduled for 8 p.rn. in the Albany High School Auditorium, is sponsored by the American Association of Univer sity Women. Albany is the only Oregon town in which Thomas has scheduled an appearance in this, his first tour of the Northwest. Tickets, at $1.50, will be available at the box office. HAND DIPPED Chocolates & Fudge Made in Eugene SUGAR PLUM 63 E. Broadway 4^04 ^kat Afjten. Qlaii. Snack HAVE ONE OF THOSE jbeliciaui. MILKSHAKES HAMBURGERS AT THE— JUMBO BAR-B-Q 873 13th St. EAST The link is strung The telephone forms an important link In our program of defense. It speeds the urgent, vital calls Of government, industry, The armed forces and civil defense. And the link it forms is strong. Since the end of World War II, Over thirteen million new telephones Have been added to the Bell System. Billions of dollars have been spent For new equipment of all kinds. The quality and scope of service Have constantly improved. It’s a good thing The telephone has grown — It is now better equipped For the big job of defense. , BEU TEIEPHOHE SV5TED1