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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1951)
World News Capsules— U.M Planes Hit Enemy Railroads; Pammmjom Truce Talks Continue Compiled by Tom Jaques From Associated Press and United Pres* Wire From tho wire* of l ulled Press and Associated Press Allied planes have made of the most concentrated attacks «<f the war on Communist rail lines and trains in North Korea. Fighter bombers cabght the Red trains out in the open and destroyed 9 locomotives and 99 rail cars before the Reds could run for cover. Nineteen locomotives and 129 cars were listed a.s damaged. Comparative quiet ha fallen all along most of the fighting front with tjic resumption of truce negotiations in Pan munjom. Jlnt there uas a brief but sharp encounter southeast of Kum song on the central front, where U.N. infantry drove Red forces from a bill position. ♦ ♦ ♦ At the truce table in Panmunjom ... ... United Nations truce negotiators offered Thursday to give up 200 square miles of hard-won territory in eastern Korea if the Reds yield an equal amount of terrain in the west. UN. officers made the offer in proposing a 2 Vi-mile-wide armistice buffer zone m ros.s Korea at a subcommittee meeting following the re opening of cease-fire talks with the Communists in I’anmunjom. I lie ( ommunlsts were expected to give their answer at another meet ing today, President Truman said Thursday . .. tint tlie nomination of an ambassador to the Vatican in no way conflicts with the basic American doctrine of sepaarLion of church and state. Mr. Truman told a news conference he was aware of all kinds of criti cism of his nomination of Cion. Mark W. Clark to be this country's first ambi: ;ador to the Holy city. Hut he raid it was necessary to go ahead and thrash out differences over tlie appointment which, lie said, was made in an effort to further the cause of world peace. The Egyptians claim that the British have killed ... ... one and wounded another of their men in a new outbreak of violence in the Suez canal zone. •‘-K.Vi'tian interior minister Kauci Scrag El-Din Pasha said the inci dent occurred Wednesday about 10 miles from Port Said. He said British troops in a cur opened fire on an Egyptian truck. ♦ ♦ ♦ 'Progress' in American-lranian talks . . . . . . would be reported to Britain to determine whether the stalled oil negotiations might be resumed at an early date, one diplomatic source said Thursday. Official U.S. sources said this government was optomistic that British and Iranians could "be brought together again following Bri tain's elections. They hoped a decision could be reached before Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh leaves Washington in the next few days. Secretary of State Dean Acheson left for Paris ... ... Thursday to attend a United Nations showdown meeting with the Russians on Korea, atomic energy, and other critical problems threat ening world peace. He was in high spirits ns he chatted with reporters before boarding his train for New York. The smile vanished during last-minute train side discussions with undersecretary of state James E. Webb and assistant secretaries. Acheson, who wll be gone for six weeks, would not discuss any world problems on his departure. ♦ ♦ ♦ AFL stevedors hooted down a union proposal . . . ...Thursday to end an 11-day wildcat waterfront strike that has almost closed the nation’s largest port and piled up $250,000,000 worth of cargo at New York. The striking 20,000 members of the International Longshoremen's ! Association jeered at union president Joseph P. Ryan’s suggestion that they return to work while a federal board studied their grievances. Customs officials reported 114 ships were idle at 138 piers in New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island, New Jersey and Albany, N.Y. ♦ ♦ ♦ Communists barred West Berlin police . . . ... Thursday from traveling across 300 yards of the Soviet zone to reach the American sector outpost of Steinstuecken. The Red action cast doubt upon the validity of the Soviet promise to return the disputed “island" sector to U.S. jurisdiction. The Com munist police said they were under orders to prevent “illegal” trips through the Soviet zone. Steinstuecken is cut off from the American sector by a narrow strip of the Soviet zone but the Red Wednesday permitted three West Berlin police to go into the area. ♦ ♦ ♦ The cost of living has gone up again . . . ... to hit a new all-time high—and that will mean a small pay in crease for more than 100,000 workers. Their contracts are tied to the government cost-of-living index. Clothing was the big item in pushing the index to a new record high, although food prices also edged up a bit. The latest reading is for the month ending Sept. 15. The index showed a gain of nearly 7 per cent compared to September one year ago. Religious Notes Halloween parties, doughnut frys and buffet dinners are planned by eampuH religious groups during the last week in October. Westminster House "Afflicted Party" is the theme for the Westminster House get-to gether at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Center ed around a doughnut fry, Presby terian students and friends who attend are to be wrapped in band ages, splints, and adhesive tape to effectively carry out the evening's theme. General chairman for the party is Mary Cochrane. Worship at the 6:15 p.m. Sun day evening vesper service in the House will be led by Phil Jacobson, Alan Mundlo, Hill Perl, and A! Deal. Following the worship, a student panel will discuss "What fs the Purpose of Our Lives." In cluded in the panel are Hal McIn tyre, Mary Cochrane, and Larry Gregory. A social hour with re freshments will follow the panel discussion. A potluck dinner is planner! for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the House under the direction of the group stewardship committee. "The Meaning of Stewardship” will be the topic for the 12:30 p.m. Wednesday worship service in the upstairs chapel of the House. Jac queline Madigan will lead the ser vice. Friendly House "Politics in Our System of Gov ernment" is the topic to be dis cussed by E. S. Wengert, political science department head, at 8 p.m. Friday at Friendly House, 2145 Kincaid. The talk which is the fifth in a series on "Our System of Gov ernment" is open to all interested students. Canterbury dub "Religion and Life in an English University” is the topic for a speech by Rev. Dr. E. R. Williams, former chaplain of Christ Church at Oxford University, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Mary's parish hall, 13th and Pearl. The talk will be preceded by a thirty-five cent sup per which will begin at 5:30 p.m. Rev. Williams will illustrate his lectures with slides on Oxford and Cambridge. Following the talk, he will invite discussion and com ment. Baptist College Group A Halloween party is planned by the College and Business Age class of the First Baptist church. Broadway and High streets. The group will leave from the High street side of the Educational building, which is behind the church auditorium, at 7:15 p.m. Friday for the scene of the get together. Sweater and jeans are recommended wearing apparel. All interested University students are invited to attend the affair. ( rlease turn to page seven ) On NORTHLANDS SKI SEASON Is Just Ahead! Time Now To Get Your Ski Equipment Into Shape RENTALS - REPAIRS - TOGS Complete Ski Shop BOWLING SHOES.$3.00pr. 50% off on Selected Sizes TEAM BOWLING Shirts BASKETBALL Team Uniforms CONVERSE — SPAULDING GYM SHOES .$7.00 pr. 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