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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1952)
forld News Capsules_ !ussians Want Security Council 0 Intervene in Peace Talks Compiled by Tom Jaques (From the Wires of Ah«ih-Iu4o<1 iukI United Press) Russia tried Thursday to t;et the Cnited Nations security btincil to intervene in the Korean armistice talks. •I!ut American source-, in Paris and Washington want no part 1 that proposal, on the grounds it would (Irate political issues iijo the armistice talk . and lessen the chance of f'cttinjf peace u Korea. 'I'he proposal was made in the political committee by loviet Foreign Minister \ ishiusky. tile also accused the I nited States of jeettinte ready to launch ogressive measures again-t Red China, alonje her southern |>rders. Vishinsky himself did not say what lie meant by com ;ig "events" in that area. irthe Korea ground fighting . . . •. . . the day’s main activity finds the Allies driving toward a prize • Id by the Reds. It’s an outpost on the western front, and one that the leds took from the Allies Dec. 28. After fighting two short but heavy engagements Thursday, Allied jiTk forces control two positions very near the prized outpost. skies over northwest Korea, an undisclosed number of Ameri ca Sabre jets fought a 20-minute battle with 30 Communist Migs. One f the Migs was damaged, while all of our planes returned safely. ’he Korea truce delegates . . . '. . . were due to take up again Thursday night the two main ob t,tries to an armistice. These are the problems of exchanging prisoners I »<l how to supervise an armistice* Allied negotiators expect the Reds to come up with a new plan for w hanging prisoners. The Reds rejected an Allied proposal on the uijject Wednesday, but the Allies would not accept the outright Red rjertion. The U.N. contends the Reds didn't really understand the roposal, or else they were deliberately twisting the facts. 1 There were indications, however, that the Reds were waiting for new •tructions from higher up, and would offer a new proposal of their pm. kmerican battle casualties for the war... . . now total 103,739, an increase of 321 over last week's report, the i-tense department said Thursday. The figures represent casualties fho.se next of kin have been notified through last Friday. I The total casualties included 17,75-1 deaths, 73,392 wounded, 11,027 pissing. 171 captured, 1,392 previously reported missing but returned ■^service. Wreckage of a cargo plane was found ... (. near Fairbanks, Alaska, Thursday, but there was no sign of its Sul passengers, the air force said. The plane disappeared Sunday on flight from Point Barrow to Fairbanks. j The transport was making a routine landing approach to Fairbanks Vi had radioed for landing structions late Sunday when it apparently "Sashed into a hill. Aore tax firings were disclosed Thursday . . . f.i.by Internal Revenue Commissioner John B. Dunlap. There were i persons Involved in the firings and forced resignations. 'tie told a press conference 106 bureau employes left their jobs for ^Iflplinary reasons In 1951. His last previous announcement said there ^1 bean 113. JThe new figure was almost double the number of employes kicked lit*of the service in previous years for various reasons. Valter Reuther, Labor Leader Vill Speak on Campus Feb. 26 IW’’altor Reuther, 44-year-old president of the United Automobile •rkers union and one of the nation's outstanding labor leaders, will cak on the campus Feb. 2G. Reuther accepted an invitation to speak here as part of the program '•distinguished leaders sponsored by the University in celebration of i 75th Anniversary. His aecept ,re wus received Thursday,. His flress will be the first in a series -two talks by outstanding lead B of management and labor. The labor leader, whose interest labor was first evidenced when -served as a tool and die maker prentice in 1924, organized the to workers in 1935. He did this lowing a three-year trip through trope and Orient, where he ob rved auto plants and machine ups. During World War II, Reuthcv nposed a plan to produce defense 'craft by mass production meth B*in automobile plants. He was • -member of the labor-manage • sx\t policy committee, Labor Pro , ction division, of the War Pro . ction board. lit 1945-46 Reuther led a 113-day ike of General Motors Workers, nning wage increases and im iVj^working conditions. He has used national attention op his lion’s demand of "wage increases ■ ttrout price increases”. WALTER REUTHER • Campus Briefs • Freshmen YWCA commissions will begin their winter term activi ties Monday. The Monday commis sion will meet at the Y at 4 p.m. and then visit the Oriental Art Museum. The membership commit tee of the YWCA will meet at 4 p.m. Monday at the Y in Gerlinger. Jackie Wilkes, committee chair man, said that plans for winter term activities will be made and she urged all members to attend. • Members of the Co-ed Co-op council will meet at 4 p.m. Monday in the Student Union, according to Helen Koopman, council president. • Leonard Calvert, freshman In pre-journalism, was appointed to the University YMCA cabinet Thursday. Calvert served as YM reporter during fall term. • “Mountain Building” will be discussed by J. E. Gair, assistant professor of geology, in a physics seminar at 4 p.m. Jan. 11 in 103 Deady. The seminar, sponsored by Sig ma Pi Sigma, physics honorary, had been scheduled for Nov. 29 but was postponed. *• 1’rtltlonH for the various chair manships of Dad's day have been called for by Pat Dignan, general chairman for the event. Dad's day of 1952 will take place the weekend of Feb. 2 and 3. Petitions for the following chair manships are being called for: pub licity, promotion, radio promotion, awards, luncheon, registration, special events-selection of a host ess, hospitality, decorations and basketball. Petitions may be turn ed in to Dignan at Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The deadline is 5 p.m. Jan. 8. • Petitions for chairmanships of the YWCA sponsored Internation al Festival to be held Feb. 1G have been called for by international af fairs committee chairman, Marian Briner. They will be due Wednes day at the Y headquarters in Ger linger. Chairmanships available include general secretary, registration, ar rangements, programs, invitations, dance, publicity, luncheon and cof fee hour. The festival is an annual affair held on campus in which foreign students from the various Oregon colleges in addition to those on campus take part. Ex-student Faces Bombing Charge Lino Nivolo, junior in journalism fall term, and Gilles Le Roux, 715 13th ave. E., were arrested by Eu gene police Wednesday afternoon and charged with tossing a home made cardboard-covered bomb into the foyer of Arbuckle's Shoe store at midnight New Year's Eve. According to police, the explo sive powder was poured into a cardboard cylinder, wrapped in wax paper, taped anil fused. Po lice believe that the object of the demolition duo was the creation of noise rather than damage. An outside shoe display case was damaged by the blast, a glass front broken and a tile base chipped. Employees of the store called po lice Wednesday morning when they discovered remnants of the bomb in the foyer. Both were charged with disor derly conduct and cited to appear in municipal court Jan. 11. Police reported that Le Roux had a for mer police record involving “pranks.” Nivolo is not enrolled at the Uni versity this term. An anonymous phone call pro vided the names to the police, and the investigating officers report that both admitted participation in the incident. One of America's most widely read advertising mediums is the common match book. Thirteen bil lion go into the hands of readers every year, and each is given 20 chances, on the average, to catch a person's eye as the matches are used. Ann Judson House Tops Fall Term Grade List Arm Judson House acquired the highest University organizational grade point average for fall term, according to the list released bv the registrar's office. The Ann Judson girls, perennial winners, compiled a 2.915 average, only .085 below a B average. Sigma hall led men’s organizations with a 2.788 mark. The all-Uni versity average was 2.498, women's average was 2.600 and men's average was 2.440. Non-organizational women compiled a 2.764 mark, and non-organi zational men finished with a 2.601. The all-campus average was .008 higher than the mark for fall term of 1950 (2.49) and was also above the average for fall term of 1949 (2.427). Sederstrom hall, populated almost entirely by graduate students and seniors, had the highest campus average (3.017) during the 1950-51 school year. Group’s Grade Point Averages, Fall Term 1951-52 Men s Organizations (and Rank) GPA 2.915 2.861 2.852 2.850 2.807 Sigma Hall (1) 2.788 2.780 2.767 2.764 2.748 2.746 2.741 Tau Kappa Epsilon (21 2.704 2.686 2.672 Stan Ray Hall (3) 2.670 Gamma Hall (4) 2.665 2.664 Banister Inn (5) 2.662 2.652 2.647 ; Sigma Phi Epsilon (6) 2.645 2.631 Non-Organization Men 2.601 2.600 2.587 2.567 2.560 i Delta Upsilon (7) 2.529 2.526 All University 2.498 | Sigma Chi (8i 2.446 All Men 2.440 2.437 2.423 j Beta Theta Pi (91 2.419 | Sherry Ross Hall (10.) 2.413 2.407 Alpha Hall (11) 2.393 Campbell Club (12) 2.392 ; Philadelphia House (13i 2.386 2.382 Men’s Clubs 2 370 Sigma Alpha Mu (14) 2.369 Phi Delta Theta (15) 2.365 2.361 Men's Dormitories 2.349 Lambda Chi Alpha (16) 2.344 Theta Chi (17) 2.343 Men’s Fraternities 2.342 Phi Kappa Sigma (18) 2.334 Sigma Nu (19) 2.332 2.3192 McChesney Hall (20) 2.3188 2.318 i Phi Kappa Psi (21) 2.311 Nestor Hall (22) 2.289 Delta Tau Delta (23) 2.287 Sederstrom Hall (24) 2.286 Minturn Hall (25) 2.2724 Alpha Tau Omega (26) 2.2717 Yeomen (27) 2.276 Pi Kappa Phi (28) 2.255 Phi Sigma Kappa (29) 2.231 Sigma Alpha Epsilon (30) 2.223 Kappa Sigma (31) 2.221 Pi Kappa Alpha (32) 2.190 Phi Gamma Delta (33) 2.173 Hunter Hall (34) 2.162 Chi Psi (35) 2.148 French Hall (36) 2.042 Cherney Hall (37) 2.040 u.c Rail 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Women’s Organizations (and Rank) Ann Judson House (1) Pi Beta Phi (2> Orides (3> Alpha Xi Delta (4t Delta Delta Delta (5) Highland House (6) Delta Gamma (7> Non-Organizational Women Kappa Alpha Theta (8) Sigma Kappa (9> Women’s Clubs Chi Omega (10> Kappa Kappa Gamma (11> Rebec House (12 > Women’s Sororities Alpha Phi (13> Alpha Delta Pi (14> All Women University House (15> Alpha Chi Omega (16> Zeta Tau Alpha (17> Delta Zeta (18> All University Carson Hall (19> Alpha Omicron Pi (20> Women's Dormitories Susan Campbell Hall (21 > Gamma Phi Beta (22 > Hendricks Hall (23> Alpha Gamma Delta (24 > ; Graduate Student Gets Fellowship Arthur Eugene Livingston, grad uate fellow in the mathematics de partment has been named for an Atomic Energy Commission-spon sored fellowship on the predoctoral level. Announcement of the award came from the Oak Ridge Insti tute of Nuclear studies, adminis trators for the AEC fellowship program. Livingston, who received his baccalaureate degree from Fresno State college, and his masters de gree from the University of Ore gon in 1950, has been working in the department here for the past two years. He is, according to his adviser, Paul Civin, associate pro fessor of mathematics, an out standing student. Under the AEC grant he will carry out his doctoral research on "Gibbs phenomena.” This is the second year the Uni versity of Oregon has had a mathe matics student under an AEC-fel lowship. Last year Fred Young studied under a similar grant. Student Union Plans Frosh Mixer Dance A mixer will be held in the fish bowl of the Student Union from 9 p.m. to 12 tonight under the spon sorship of the SU dance commit tee. This dance is the fourth of this type sponsored by the SU dance committee. The commuters' lunchroom will be available for lounging and! en tertainment will be presented at 10 and 11 p.m.