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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1952)
World News Capsules - Thirty People Die in Plane Crash; Newark Airport Stops Operations Compiled by Loo McGary (Worn the wire* of the United Pre*» and Aanoclated Tree*) Another airliner crashed in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, ■ t';i| ly Monday morning, killing 30 persons and injuring; 42. The crash, the third in the last two months, occurred at 12:18 a.in. just as the plane was leaving on a flight for Miami. Two minutes after the take-off the plane pancaked without warning into a 00-family apartment building. '1 he stricken plane screamed over the roof of an orphanage and then hit the top floor of the apartment house with a crash that a witness said was like the' sound of hundreds of guns going off at once. * It slithered across th.e roof on its belly and into a baseball field where it plunged to the ground upside down, its silver i belly ripped open by a tree, and victims and their baggage scattered in the mud. 'Gooseberry Torts' and 'The Circle » Operations at the Newark airport have been suspended until "some thin* can be done about these plane crashes." said Rep. Lindley Beck worth, chairman of a house subcommittee on air safety. Vhe port of New York official disclosed Monday it recently had received anonymous thrcuts that bombs would be placed at both New knrk and La Cuardia airports. The airports have been the target of sev eral bomb threats since last fall, but it is not known if there is a con nection between the threats and the recent plane crashes. “The United Nations challenged . . . ♦ ♦ ♦ ... Communist China's right to take part in a post-armistice Korean peace conference. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, head of the U.N. truce delegation, asked the Reds how China could claim a seat at the peace conference if she still contended that the only Chinese troops in Korea were “volunteers." Joy also told Communist negotiators the U.N. would refuse to take any further action under the final item on the truce agenda if the Reds insisted on widening the proposed Korean peace conference to include other Asian problems. American's ace Jet pilot. . . ... Major George Davis of Lubbock, Texas, was shot down Sunday in an air battle with Communist MIG-15 s over Korea minutes after lie blasted two enemy planes from the air. The 31-year-old airman, was listed officially Monday as missing in action. The Air Force believed he had no chance of survival. The Texan, known to his buddies as "One Burst” Davis was credited with, destroying 11 Mig-15 Jets including the two Sunday; three Sov iet-built Tu-2 medium bombers, and probably destroying one and dam aging two other Migs over Korea. In World War II he shot down seven Japanese planes. Mrs, Dorris A. Davfs, charged today that the Air Force lied when it said her husband, the world's leading Jet ace, didn't want to come home after he shot down his fifth enemy fighter plane. ♦ ♦ ♦ State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles ... . .. Indicated Monday he Ixdieves the United States should "Take the wraps off” Chiang Kai-shek'sc Nationalist forces on Formosa in an effort to harrass the Chinese Reds. He said this country should stir up all possible trouble and incon venience for the Communist Chinese regime. He said he would wel come' a break between the Chinese Reds and Moscow or a change in policy by the Chinese Communists as a step in the right direction. King George VI made his final journey ... . . . Monday to the capital from which he reigned over a quarter of the globe. The King’s body, in a plain oaken coffin, left aboard the royal train for London, where it wil lie in state until the funeral Friday when it will be taken to Windsor Castle for the state funeral in St. George’s Chapel. ♦ ♦ ♦ A make-believe war at Camp Drum, New York ... ...became all too real Monduy as Army officials counted nine dead and About 80 injured in "Operation Snowfall.” Seven men were killed and 25 injured in three separate accidents yes terday. Two paratroopers plummeted to their death in an earlier phase of the maneuvers staged to test operations under arctic conditions. A twin-engined C-46 transport crashed while taking off from Wheel er-Scaks airfield here yesterday. Three were killed instantly and a fourth died in a camp hospital. Eighteen were hurt. The Lone, on a mission with 32 white-uniformed paratroopers and a crew of four, careened 100 feet before crashing into an unoccupied parked airplane. All of the dead were members of the plane’s crew. The Voice of America . . . ... is getting set to out-shout all Russian efforts to jam its broad . casts behind the Iron Curtain. Voice officials said Monday that they are building giant transmitters .that will throw broadcast signals across the entire Soviet Union from the Pripet marshes to the Sea of Okhotsk. Listeners in Siberia and Vladivostok will be able to tune in Voice pro grams as easily, officials said, as they pick up local Communist sta tions. Officials think they will put Russia on the defensive in the propa gSricla war. , 1 i i ii) til • Campus Briefs 0 “Great Actresses of the Past,” an educational movie, will be ahown at 207 Chapman at 7 and 9 p.m. Wedneaday. Among those featured arc Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, and Elenora Duse, Italian actress. 0 The real estate club will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Student Union. George Blinkhorn, presi dent of the Eugene realty board, will talk on financing real estate. Anyone interested ia welcome, President Howard Mader announc ed. • House* and organizations who have not yet paid their intra mural accident insurance of {3 for winter term are requested by the office of student affairs to do so immediately. Payment may be made at the student affairs office in Emerald hall. 0 Members sf the executive committee for "Operation Poli tics,” the mock convention to be held on campus May 2 and 3, will be visiting living organizations on campus until Feb. 20 to discuss the convention. Workings of the mock convention and an explanation of each student's part in it will be ex plained and questions answered, Public Relations Chairman Neil Chase announced. 0 The Janet Smith co-operative house dinner, originally scheduled for this Thursday night, has been cancelled. A date for the dinner will be announced at a later date. • The YWCA and YMCA cab inets will hold a joint meeting at noon today in the Student Union. 0 Wesley house wil hold a pot luck at 5:30 p.m. today. Speaker for the program will be the Rev. Wade L. Carter, pastor of the First Congregational church in Van couver Wash., who will talk on "Your Stake in Good Govern ment." • CampuH Merry - Go - Round will run in Wednesday’s Emerald. Groups should have their copy turned in to Harriet Booth, Merry Go-Round reporter, by 1 p.m. to day. 0 There will be no square danc ing: this week, because of the Mar ian Anderson concert, it has been announced by Don Almy, chairman of the Student Union dance com mittee. • Promotion chairman for the WSSF drive are calling for peti tions for committee workers on posters, display, radio and contact committees. Petitions should be turned into Jean Mauro, Alpha Chi Omega, or Barbara Swanson. Carson, by 5 p.m. Friday, Miss Mauro said. • Easter Sunrise Service gen eral chairman petitions are being called for by the University re ligious council, which is sponsoring the interdenominational event. Pe titions may be turned into Mary Alice Baker at the Alpha Phi house or the YWCA office in Ger linger Hall. Deadline for petitions is Friday, Feb. 22. The first free public library in the United States was established in 1822 at Dublin, N. H. r WRA Carnival Heads Chosen Co-chairmen for the Women’s Recreational association carnival were selected Wednesday by the WRA executive committee. They are Joan Cartozian, junior in foreign language, and Joan Jac obs, Junior in education. Committee chairmen for the car nival include Ancy Vincent, tick ets; Joanne Abel, finance; Benny Ivory, promotion; Bally Thurston, publicity; Corliss McCausland, decorations; Barbara Keelen, booths; Mary Jordan, concession booths; and Betty Gilmore, clean up. A meeting for all chairmen will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the WRA room in Gerlinger. It will be held in the unfinished men’s gymnasium following the Oregon-OSC basketball game Peb. 29. UO Educators Will Speak in Salem Brief college “refresher" courses are in store for Salem on Feb. 20, when 5 top educators from the University of Oregon will visit the communitiy for an educational meeting. The meeting, scheduled in the Mirror Room of the Marion ho tel at 6:45 p.m., is being arranged by Reynolds Allen, county director of Oregon Alumni, Marion county. To be held somewhat in the form of an old-fashioned chatauqua. the meeting will include talks by Wil liam C. Jones, dean of administra tion; George Hopkins, professor of : piano; James H. Gilbert, emeritus | professor of economics; Edwin G. ! Ebbighausen, associate professor i of physics; and Coach Bill Bower man, head of Oregon's track team Alumni Director Lester E. Ander ; son is in charge of the program. Subjects of general interest tc the layman will be discussed b> the speakers, all authorities ir i their fields. Jones will discuss th< I state of the University. Hopkins ; will give a popular lecture, illus , trated on the piano. Economic 1 problems facing the nation will be i discussed by Gilbert. Physics for | the layman will be the topic of Ebbighausen. and Bowerman will I bring the audience up-to-date on | Oregon’s athletic picture. CAMPUS CALENDAR i 11 a.m. Emerald Comm 112 SU Noon French Table 110 SU YWCA Cab 111SU 3 p.m. Seminar 113SU 4 USA 334 SU SHSBB Coffee Hr 110 SU Honor Code 337 SU 6:30 Op Pol 315 SU Kwama 214 SU 7 Theta Sigma Phi 111 SU Druids 112 SU Chr Sei 113 SU IVCF 334 SU Dancing Dads Rm SU Newman Club 213 SU 7:30 Real Estate 110 SU Chess Club Com L SU Lecture Br Rm SU Phi Alpha Delta 3 Fir Ger The United Nations civil assist ance command in Korea has sup \ plied 1,600 uniforms for South Ko | rean nurses, nurses aides and mid I wives. “i THRILL HER WITH ROSES ON VALENTINE'S A *J*tfUOUK$ “Rcfuvttvi Students Have Little Opinion On Korean Issue By Joan Lewis "What do you think of the prin ciples to be followed by the United States in case of armistice for Korea, as recently announced?” Today's Inquiring Reporter ques tion received little response, stu dents not being well enough in formed to comment. The two students who did an swer thought the plan was good, but that it would not work in ap plication. Judge Elderkla — sophomore in pre-law—"I don't grasp the long range implications of the plan enough to answer.” Stanley Lidstfem — senior in business—"I haven’t' seen the pa per or listened to the radio, so I don’t know.” Denise Thum—junior in phychol ogy—"It's a good plan but it won’t work. Russia is too obstinate.” Albert Hampton—junior in busi ness—“I haven’t read the paper to day.” Charles Znlanf—graduate in po litical science — "I think they’re good principles but putting them into application is another thing. I don’t think they’ll get complete cooperation.” Neal Dunlap—senior in history —"I haven’t read any paper ex cept the Emerald and it wasn’t in there so I don’t know.” Phyllis Rich—senior in P.E.—“I didn't hear it or read about it.” Quentin Searles — graduate in art education — “I don’t know 1 enough about it to give an opin i ion.” Carol Thompson—senior in psy | chology—“I haven’t seen the paper today.” M. A. Chaudhri—graduate in po litcal science — “I get the New | York Times and it comes late so I i haven't seen it yet.” Read and use Emerald classi FOR LADIES ONLY... LA Thought on Valentine's Day A rare perfume, an eyelid’s flutter '.lay cause a man ' to melt like butter But smart appearance every day - Completely steals his heart away. look your best for the one you love SAVE MONEY J CASH AND CARRY