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World News Capsules • Communists Spread Propaganda On Germ Warfare in Korea Compiled by Mary Ann Mov/ery (From the wires of the United Press and Associated Press) ’, I he I nitol Nations command charged tonight tiiat Com munist propagandists hast- accused the Allies of waging germ warfare to cover up epidemics in North Korea. ^ A "\ oice of the United Nations Command” radio broad cast said the epidemics were made worse by “infected band luges ’ and "decayed food." 'Die broadcast was an answer to a "Communist propaganda campaign “protesting” that CN planes .[have dropped thousands of disease-laden fleas, flies and ■cockroaches in North Korea. The campaign was launched by Chinese Communist Foreign Minister, IChou En-lai, Communist radio broadcasts and Red correspondents at ’j’anmunjom. t A spokesman for General Matthew B. Rldgway’s headquarters earlier ^Wednesday categorically denied UN forces had used bacteriological 'weapons at any time In Korea. It appears certain now . n ... that Alaska will not get statehood at this session of congress. The ! conclusion is based on the senate’s action today-in sending the Alaska statehood bill back to the committee for further study. The senate re timed the bill to the interior and insular affairs committee by a onc mte margin. The group wus instructed to study a possible constitu ional amendment to give Alaska more self-government and some noting representation in congress without giving it statehood. • Twenty-five Democrats, primarily from the south, lined up with twenty Republican senators to vote for pigeonholding the measure. Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett.. . .. . disciosed today that only a little over one-half of the 50 ground divisions planned this year for Western European defense will be com bat ready. The rest, he told a news confeience after returning from the North Atlantic treaty meeting at Lisbon, will be reserve divisions with full Equipment but below strength in manpower. I>ovett also said that the United States will not furnish any of the iO-called reserve divisions and will not send any more full-strength {round divisions to Western Europe this year. Radical Socialist Premier Edgar Faure . . . won the first round Wednesday in his fight to push a record 9,628,000,000 1952 budget through the French national assembly. The assembly, in a simple show of hands, approved Faure's motion o consider immediately the government's budget over the opposition jof.the assembly finance committee. One third of the budget is ear marked for defense. Texas lawmakers demanded Wednesday { ... that the state department negotiate immediately an ''improved" Agreement with Mexico to provide the southwest with laborers needed for seasonal farm work. The house Tuesday passed and returned to the senate legislation filmed at stemming the illegal flow of Mexican "wetbacks” across the Voider in search of jobs in this country. (*ay Telephones Come h Spite of Opposition I’ay phones were installed in liv ng organizations before school itarted fall term. The Pacific Tele hone and Telegraph company said hey would have come earlier, but ack of equipment held up the in itallation. Two years ago the com juny told the University pay ihones would come eventually. ' When it was announced by the company last spring that it would nstall pay phones there was some scattered student dissatisfaction rut, despite plans to confer with elephone officials in Eugene, noth ing was done. The pay phones are for general tails; business phones were put in Taternities and sororities for busi less calls. Tariff Was Basis Basis for installing the phones, he company explained, was an old ’ublic Utilities commission-filed PT & T-crcated) tariff, which iaid public service (pay phones) vill be furnished in semi-public i hid public locations and flat-rate Service not provided where phones pe accessible to the general pub ic. When Louis Eade, local company nanager, was contacted by the Emerald, he said Oregon State col ege had pay phones in its living trganizalions and Oregon was the text step. Administration officials &ai<4 they were told the same thing. f>SC, however, had pay phones in lormitories but not in fraternities ( Imd sororities. i There were some attempts to file a complaint with the PUC in order to obtain a hearing', but none of them were considered formal complaints, which is required to get a hearing. Oregon and OSC students got together to discuss the situation and found that Oregon was fight lug pay phones in all organiza tions, while OSC was battling them in Greek houses only since the OSC administration had requested coin box service for dormitories. Informal Meeting Held An informal meeting was ar ranged between students at Ore gon, OSC, Willamette, PT & T of ficials and PUC officials for Dec. 14. Dick Kading was appointed by ASUO President Bill Carey to lead Oregon's fight. Out of the meeting came the company’s proposal: Pay phones for long-distance calls and off campus calls, a campus exchange with flat rate phones and present business phones. Stopped by Senate The ASUO senate laid aside the proposal and voted to work for a formal hearing with the PUC. Basis for the fight, it was said, was to be that living organizations are private. If that were not suc cessful, then it would be that it is unfair to have pay phones in one’s "home for nine months”. On the Monday night following the senate meeting 250 students (Please turn to page eight) PT&TJob Interview In Placement Office! Hubert F. Leonard, H. L, Mer ritt, T. Wamach, and D. M. Barlck man of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company will be in the graduate placement office today to Interview students Interested in positions with this company. Merritt will interview men hold ing master's and doctor’s degrees In physics and mathematics for po sitions with the Sandia corpora I lion. The other three men are looking for accountants especially in office management supervision. Appointments for interviews may be made in the graduate placement office, Emerald hall. Atom's Chairman Petitions Wanted Call for Mother’s Day chairman petitions has been extended until 4 p.m. Monday, according to Bill Carey, A.SUO president. He explained that only one peti tion had been turned in before the first deadline, last Monday, and felt more were needed. Students j interested In petitioning may find ! valuable information, he said, in the reports of previous chairmen filed in room 204 of Emerald hall. Head and use Emerald classi fieds. Lonely Recluse Joins His Dog In Death PA RIS(U.R) Fernand Rogue, 64 retired and lonely postal clerk, often told friends if he lost his faithful old dog and sole com panion, he wouldn’t want to keep on living. Once, when the dog went three i days without eating, Rogue didn’t eat either, friends recalled. Then one day police reported finding the bodies of both Rogue and his dog stretched out in the old man’s tiny, gas-filled Paris flat. ___ ' / CAMPUS - 852T frtJ*. No not you!—but possibly your country. Nations have collapsed beforp because they allowed disunity to destroy them. Why do we love America? Because, under our form of government, the indi vidual—and that means you—is con sidered important. But this works two ways. If we want to be secure in our own right, each of us must be willing to respect the rights of others. If we discriminate against other people for any reason, we’ll soon find others dis criminating against us. Then what will we have? A family souabble—national disunity—and the enemies of our system laughing up their sleeves. Make sure you are not spreading ru mors against a race or a religion. Speak up, wherever you are, against prejudice, and work for better understanding. Re member, that’s being a good American citizen. Accept or reject people on their individual worth Daily EMERALD