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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1952)
World News Capsules —— — — Over 800 Northwest Workers Join National Telephone Strike Compiled by Donna Lindbeck (I-rom thi! wire* of the United I’rfHH and AHMoelatcd Pres*) > Ior<* than S0() Western Klectric company workers in the 1‘anfn: Northwest joined some 16.CXX) CIO workers who left iheir jobs Monday in 43 states and the District of Columbia. II"-' company is the installation and maintenance subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph company. At the same time, 51 ,(XX) operators and clerks of the Hell System went out on strike in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, Northern California and Nevada. I he Hell workers are also members of the CIO Communications Workers union. Arne Diavem, Oregon director of tile ( |() Communications Workers of America, estimated that about 360 Oregon workers were involved. They are employed by the Western Electric company to install and repair equipment for the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company. Oregon Telephone company worker*, although members of the same union, are not involved in the strike. Gravcm Hays they probably will observe Wextern Electric picket lines. Telephone service has not been affected so fur by the walkout. ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 Thousands of steel workers are idle ... . .. a* the deadline n< ars for the nationwide strike. The plants have been speeding up the shutdown process in anticipation that the strike will start on schedule one minute after midnight Tuesday. And there is no sign that government efforts will succeed In heading off the strike, although talks are ( ntinuing in Niw York. The government’s wage chief, Nathan I*. Felnslngcr, said he had conferred with the two rales separately during the day. both in person and by telephone. 1 he government has frozen all shipments of steel for civilian goods because of the threatened st< el strike. The action is designed to con serve steel for defense. Defense production manger Manly Kleischmann says the strike would have an immediate drastic effect on the atomic energy program, j-1 engine and ammunition production and the com pletion of new defense plants. Two-thousand persons are homeless . . , ... as a result of the rampaging flood waters of the Sioux and Missouri rivers. At Bismarck, N.D , the Missouri river has Uropptd about two fed .. but it Is still three and a half feel above flood stage. Huge blocks of ice . .. some as big as houses ... are racing down the churning river at Bismarck. About a mile of the Northern Pacific railway’s main line has been washed out in this area. Some 300 homes w« re swamped by the flood waters and some 1,000 persons were left homeless. The Sioux river has burst its banks at Sioux Falls, S. D. The airport has been flooded . . . and a nearby housing project has been swamped. About 1,100 residents of the project have been evacuated. The flooded Missouri is racing southward and the twin cities of Pierre and Fort Pierre, S. D., are getting prepared for what some river men believe may be the worst flood in 71 years. A C-54 Military Air Transport plane crashed . . . ... nnii exploded on the crest of a hill five miles southeast of Jeffer son City, Mont., Monday and it is not known if any of the three men aboard survived. 4Ur<nt Kails air burn- information officer Lt. James R. Rector, con firmed that the crashed plane left from his base. He said the names of the crewmen would not be released until the next of kin were notified. Another crash in the Queens section of New York caused the New York councilmen to demand closing of the city's two big airports... La Guardia and Idlewild. The government investigators say that the fatal plane's engines ap parently were functioning properly when the plane crashed. Exercise Long Horn . . . . .. the biggest army-air force maneuver in history, was launched by the powerful Kirst Armored division Monday in an offensive aimed at neutralizing the "aggressor" army. The attack marked the opening of the maneuver's phase in Fort Hood, Tex., after troops on both sides observed a day of rest. The final phase began late Sunday night when squads of U. S. ob servers were dropped behind the aggressor lines with radio equipment. They will report to the attacking units on movements of the aggressor, played by the 82nd Airborne division. Thus, far, the make-belive war has tested atomic weapons in tactical situations, the ability of the air force to airlift troops and equipment, the projected military government for captured areas, U. S. intelligence and counter-intelligence efficiency and various propaganda schemes. Simulated battle casualties neared 10,000, mostly from theoretical atomic blasts. But seven men have met actual violent death since the operation began. ♦ ♦ ♦ Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura . . . • • Japanese ambassador to the United States at the time of the •‘curl Harbor attack, said Monday that Japan must re-arm because ■m independent Japan must be able to defend itself." Ue urged close cooperation with the United States under terms of 'he peace treaty and the Japanese-American security pact but added, , ' think it is a mistake for the Japanese to talk about independence > le continuing to depend on the presence of foreign trrops for se inity.” ' ' i I ) : . I 1 , ' 1 t Respect for Individual Must Remain Our Hallmark, Jones Tells Confab Saturday night that respect for the individual "must continue to be . .. the hallmark by which we live.” Speaking at the wind-up ban quet of th<- Mid-century Area Con ference on Children and Youth, held in the Student Union Friday and Saturday, Jones defined civili zation in terms of the individual. "A Faith" “Ultimately a civilization is a faith and a civilization is great when it has a great faith ...” And he added: “We firld faith in this country ... is completely dedicated to the J conviction that the human person-] ality is the most valuable thing in L»ean of Administration William j C. Jones told a dinner audience' the world.” Human rights, he con cluded, "must come to the child ren as part of a heritage of being born into our way of life.” Improvement Needed The acting head of the Univer sity pointed out the need of im proving the world's education and svealth, admitting however that neither of these things alone "would be enough” to preserve the individual. Mass communications and war time propaganda have created stereotypes of other nationalities in our minds ,he said. From this the problem has arisen, "How can wc bring the individual out of the jroup.” Education Mould Help "I heartily agree,” Jones said, Barry Calls For Oregon Students To Visit Willamette Convention A rail for students to attend the Willamette Mock Republican con vention May 9 and 10 at Willam ette university has been made by Toni Barry, chairman of the Ore gon delegation. Oregon will send 27 delegates to the convention. Barry and four delegates will arrive Friday even ing May 9 for national committee and resolutions committee meet ings, while all 27 delegates will be in attendance for the opening ses sion at 10 a.m. Saturday. Three Delegations States to be represented by Ore gon are Wisconsin six delegates '.vith Bob Ridderbusch, senior in law, as chairman; Michigan nine delegates with Chairman Dick Paul, graduate in political science; I Illinois 12 delegates with Charles Carter, graduate in education, as chairman. Carson Moore, senior in libera! I arts, is chairman of the foreign policy resolutions committee as sisted by Jim Crittenden, junior in political science. The domestic policy resolution committee will be headed by Paul assisted by Ellen Christiansen, senior in political science. Carlson Speaker Key-note speaker for the con vention will be Sen. Frank Carlson, Republican from Kansas. Local and visiting dignitaries are also to attend. A banquet for all dele gates will be held May 10 at 6 p.m. at the Senator hotel in Salem, to be followed by the actual business of the convention which will in duce balloting for the presidential candidates and formulation of the party platform. The convention will be similar to the one to be held on campus May 2 and 3. but will be a state wide affair, with 14 Oregon col leges apf! universities participat ing. The Senate Judiciary committee . . . . . . says it will hold hearings or. President Truman’s nomination of James P. McGranery as attorney general. No date was set for the hearings, nor was there any indication whether they would be public or held behind closed doors. But the decision to hold hearings apparently forestalled any chance of quick senate confirmation of McGranery's nomination. The committee action came after Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R.-Utah) said the group should "lay aside" the "courtesy" usually given former congressmen and conduct a thorough investigation of McGranery. McGranery, former Democratic member of the house from Penn sylvania, was named by Truman last Thursday after the firing of j Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Grede Stresses (Continued from f'O'fC one) The NAM, Grede said, has been harping about free enterprise for a long time. "We are for the Sher man Anti-trust law," he stated, "against combinations, but gov ernment, which recognizes labor as a monopoly, is not against this labor monopoly." He pointed out the Norris-Guardia act, exempt ing labor unions from prosecution under the Sherman law. No Jurisdiction Labor is spoken of with a capi tal "L," Grede said, but manage ment cannot be. The NAM has no jurisdiction over its members. He said Americans don’t divide sharp iy, that all of us are laborers, man agement, and capital combined. "We of the NAM are just folks," lie said. "I am concerned over our loss of freedom,” Grede warned. Stat ing that the Boston tea party was held for less reason than we have now, he asserted that our lack of action is either a reflection on the integrity of the American people or a very serious misunderstanding of what makes us great. And what makes us great, he asserted, is the freedom which has developed from religion. Out of this freedom has resulted political and economic freedom. "Freedom is individual,” he emphasized. At a dinner earlier in the eve ning, attended by 37 Eugene busi nessmen, officials. University fac ulty and students Grede outlined the operations of the NAM. Steamboatmen on ihe Congo in Africa judge the river's depth by the sound of the "mustache” of water tossed up by the vessel’s bow. The "moustache” makes dif ferent sounds in deep water and in shallows over sandbars. Rental Typewriters "Better Machines Within Your Means" OFFICE MACHINERY AND SUPPLY CO. 30 11th Ave., E. Ph. 4-803. that more education would he p this .‘situation. In the United Suites., he note 1, a random selection of 100 peopw over the age of 25 would show that four have never been to school, 0 j have not finished the fourth grade, i 56, not the eight grade and 75 not I high school. More Wraith An<1 the world needs more wealth to bolster the individua*, he realated, noting that one at d one-half of the two billion peope of the earth "live like animals.” Not over ten per cent ever ha* c had a meal "such as you and I had this evening, ' he said. 300 Participated Jones’ talk ended the two day conclave sponsored by the Gove - ! nor's State Committee on Childr* i and youth. Nearly 300 people oar ; ticipated in the meetings and aboi t . ~0 attended the dinner. Proceeding Jones, Carl C. Asr. ley, vice-chairman of the Gover nor's committee, outlined the h. - 1 tory and activities of the cor: - milter. It was founded in 1048, he said, to prepare the state's contribution to the president's Mid-century youth conference at the White House. Among the committee's recommendations already realized, he revealed, was the new 125 bed hospital at the University medical school in Portland. India Day' Planned (Continued from /’aye one) | Rounds, u. S.; Said Nehorayan, ; Iran; Yoshiko Seki. Japan; Mary i Sawada, Japan; Peter Kehncke, j Germany; Wah Chun. Hawaii; arrt Toby MacCarroll, U. S. Faculty sponsors are Paul S. Dull, associate professor of politi cal science and history; W. S. Baldinger, associate professor of art; Paul Means, head of the re ligion department; Donald Willi.’, assistant professor of Oriental la; - guages; Theodore Stein, assistant professor of anthropology; She don Erickson, assistant professor of geography: and M. D. Wattles, assistant professor of economics. Sugar Plum lAAUY, MAGAZINES, SANDWICHES 13th & Hilyard Now Playing “Belle of New York” Fred Astaire & Vera Ellen also “Criminal Lawyer” Pat O'Brien & Jane Wyatt Starts Tomorrow “Battle of Apache Pass” John Lund & Jeff Chandler also “Son of Dr. Jekyll” Louis Hayward & Jody Lawrance 4*0431 mn Now Playing “Uncle Tom s Cabin” Starts Tomorrow ‘Across the Wide Missouri’ Clark Gable & Ricardo Montalbon also '“Force of Arms” William Holden & Nancy Olsen Now Playing “The Suspect” with Dean Harens Starts Tomorrow <T?lesh and-Fantasy” Charles Boyer & P^rbara Stanwyck