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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1952)
World News Capsules -- Senate Agrees On Wednesday For Voting On Alaska Statehood Compiled by Mary Ann Mov/ery (Compiled from the wire* of Associated Frew and United Press) Tlicn senate agreed Wednesday to vote on Alaska statehood next \\ ednesday. Meanwhile, Sen. George A. Smthcrs (D-I''la.) filed a motion to send the hill back to committee for further hearings. I'nder his motion the committee would he asked to 'study a proposal by Sen. Mike Monroney (D-Okla) that Alaska and Hawaii be given "commonwealth” status some where between statehood and territorial standing. Democratic leader Iirnest W. McFarland of Arizona said both sides in the statehood fight had agreed to end the argu ment which already has tied up the senate for more than two weeks. 'J he first time agreeable to all hands was next Wednesday, when final debate will be limited to two hours for each side. Smathers agreed to amend his recommittal motion to include study of Monroney’s "commonwealth” plan, which would re quire a constitutional amendment. The 14 North Atlantic treaty powers ... ... met Wednesday In Lisbon, Portugal to approve the rearmament of Western Germany and speed the creation of a 1,400,000-man Eu ropean army. The prospects for success at the crucial ninth NATO conference were so bright that U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made plans to leave Lisbon Sunday a week ahead of schedule. The most Important woik of the conference actually has been done In London, where the Big Three foreign ministers worked out a com promise formula with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenaur to bring West -Germany into the projected European army. ltearmed German units would fight in the supra-national European nrmy alongside contingents front France, Belgium, Holland, Luxem bourg and Italy. The European army in turn would join U.S., Canadian, British. Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic forces under the supreme NATO command of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower. United Nation negotiators ... . . . rejected for the first straight day Wednesday a ‘'bobby-trapped" R.-d attempt to name Russia a "neutral" in the Korean war. Of the three remaining major issues blocking quick peace in Korea, Red insistence on naming Russia as one of six neutral supervisors to enforce the peace was the only one which brooked no compromise. Both the questions of repatriation of war prisoners and construction of Red airfields can be settled. U.N. negotiators believed. The Allies rejected Russia on the ground that, although not fight ing Korea, Russia is a "sponsor” of both Red China and North Korea. American battle casualties . . . ...in Korea now total 105,841, an increase of 333 over last week's report, the defense department said Wednesday. The figures represent total casualties from the beginning of the Korean war whose next of kin have been notified through last Friday. The number includes 18,347 deaths, 75,068 wounded, 10.042 missing, 095 captured and 1,389 previously mission but returned to service. ♦ ♦ ♦ The first U.S. Marine draftees ... ... to enter a combat zone since World War II landed today in the biggest batch of Marine replacements yet sent to Korea. The 900 leathernecks, nearly half of them conscripts, marched off the transport Gen. William Wiegel at an east Korean port in sub frccczing weather as the sun shone brilliantly on the snow-covered ground. A 'strong' earthquake . . . ... centered between 20 and 30 miles northeast of Victoria, B.C. was recorded Wednesday by the Dominion Astrophysical observatory. A scientist at the observatory said the quake apparently was cen tered in the Ran Juan island group in the Georgia Straits. Officials said the quake, which shook windows and knocked dishes from shelves, was "about three on the scale of intensity from one to 10. It was described as the most intense quake felt in the Victoria district since August, 1949. ♦ ♦ ♦ CIO shipyard workers . . . ... in New York voted 50 to 1 to empower their officers to call a strike Mar. 1 against eight east coast shipyards of the Bethlehem Steel company if contract negotiations are not concluded successfully, the union announced Wednesday. The union has asked a 20-cent wage increase and other benefits in contract talks which began early in December and resumed, after a long adjournment, on Feb. 15. Two Portland aliens ... . . . and one from Seattle were ordered deported today in Seattle, Wash, on charges they are or were members of the Communist party, District Kmmigration Director John P. Boyd said. Casimiro Bueno Absolor, 46, Portland cannery worker; John L. Stenson, 67, Portland, and Pocleno Mendoza Torres, 47, Seattle .were ordered deported from the country after the finding of their hearings were upheld Wednes day by the national immigration and naturalization board in Wash ington, D.C., Boyd said. Boyd said Absolor and Torres were natives and citizens of the Philippine Islands. He said Stenson was a citizen of Norway. Exine Anderson To Give Concert Exine Anderson, assistant pro fessor of music, will present a so prano concert at 8 p.m. tonight at the School of Music auditorium. A former member of the Metropoli tan Opera, Miss Anderson began teaching voice students at Oregon this year. The recital will consist of classi cal, oratoria and contemporary numbers. Stacey Green, associate professor of piano, will accompany the soprano. This is not Miss Anderson's first appearance at Oregon. She ap peared with the Symphony orch estra in a program presented last fall. Miss Anderson will also be singing with the Eugene Gleemen next Tuesday. The Friends of New Music in Portland will hear her in the near future, accompanied by Henri Ar cand who recently gave a concert here. She will perform the Hinde mith "Daa Marlcnlcbcn” cycle then. Miss Anderson's concert tonight will consist of Bach’s "St. Mat thew Passion,” first the recitative, "Although both heart and eyes o’erflow" and then the aria “Lord to Thee X proffer"; Max Bruch’s cantata, "Cross of Fire,” the aria "Ave Maria”; Johannes Brahms’ “O Wuesst ich dock den Weg zu ruech”; Joseph Marx's "Und ges tern hat er mir Rasen gebracht” and "Selige Nacht”; and Richard Strauss's "Caecilie,” in the first and second groups. The second half of the program will be devoted to French and con temporary groups including Pou lenc's "Deux Pomes,” ("C” and "Fetes Galantes”) and his "Bleu et”; Victor Staub's "L'Heure De licieuse”; Gustav Klemm's "Lon don Rain"; John Alden Carpenter’s "When I Bring You Coloured Toys”; and Richard Hageman's "Miranda” and "Music I Heard with You.” 5:00 5:15 5:30 5:45 6:00 6:13 6:30 7:00 7:30 7:45 8:00 9:00 10:00 10:45 10:50 10:55 11:00 Thursday, Feb. 21 Piano Moods UN Story World News Campus News Voice of America Music in the Air Workshop Drama Progressive Rhythms Surprise Package Poetic Moods Campus Classics Serenade to the Student Anything Goes Emerald of the Air World News Tune to Say Goodnight Sign Off UO Students Urged to Contribute Creative Work for May Workshop Creative work of all types is being accepted now for the cre ative art exhibit and stage show to be held May 9 through 16. For the second time this year the creative ability of students on the campus will be brought to pub lic attention through the program known as the “Campus Work shop.” An art exhibit of student work will be shown in the Student Union art gallery and in the browsing room throughout Junior Weekend. For thin exhibit students may en ter poetry, short stories, private book collections, ceramics, sculp ture, painting, drawings, archi tecture, weaving, printing ' and photography. Stage Show in May On May 16, a stage show is to be presented in the Student Union ballroom featuring the outstand ing selections from students works submitted in these categories: one act play, original songs, musical compositions and interpretive dance. Both the art exhibit and stage show will be open to the public. Orville Collver, general chair man and head of the SU browsing room committee, who sponsor the event, states that the '‘workshop” program is designed to aid the stu dent with his work up until the deadline on May 2 of spring term. Work Must Be Original Entry material may be submit ted at any time for suggestion and criticisms. "We want to produce a good finished program and it will require much working over,’’ Collver said. All work must be original. Stu dents who plan to participate may submit their names now to the browsing room librarian, Bernice Rise. Entries will be accepted until May 2. The committees assisting Cofl ver include: Donna Covalt, art ex hibit; Los Frolen and Jim Albert son, browsing room exhibit; Lloyd Hanson, stage show; Catherine Black and Dave Barney, litera ture; Jerry Pearce, drama; Roscoe Wright and Nona Silva, publicity. Read ana use rjnerald classi fieds. 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