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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1952)
I world News Capsules — | Truman Asks Philip Murray | To Terminate Steel Walkout '• Compiled by Helen Jones (From the wires of the United Press) President 1 ruman lias asked CIO Steelworkers President I Philip Murray to end the steel strike. Mr. Truman telegraphed jt'his request to Murray after the union leader called some 6.50, 000 steelworkers out on strike when Federal District Judge tJJavid Pine ruled the government seizure illegal. . fc President Truman invited Murray and the heads of the six ..largest steel companies to meet with him at the White House sSaturday morning. An attempt to settle the strike will be made .at that time. The President said the strike threatened our etKorean defense lines. 5 * Earlier, Commerce Secretary Sawyer asked Congress to pass quick law giving the government some legal basis for dealing jVvith situations such as created by the strike. And Sen. Wayne iplorsc called for an early Supreme Court decision along the ■Eame lines. A measure calling for a special committee to study i4he issue was introduced in the House. h general Eisenhower moved ahead ... .. of Senator Taft in the Republican delegate race Thursday, by winning eight delegate in Missouri district conventions. According to Tjie Associated Press tabulation, Eisenhower has 278 pledged delegates, p’aft 274. Eisenhower backers predict 26 more delegates for the general -before the Missouri convention ends. A Taft spokesman said Eisen hower’s supporters will be thrown to Governor Dewey of New York hi the convention. He said the "Dewey crowd” was using Eisenhower. A new crisis was expected ... .. in the Korean truce talks Thursday night. The Communists were opposed to offer some answer to Allied overall proposals to settle the hree chief issues—war prisoners, Red airfield construction and includ ng Russia as a truce observer. But the results of the session are to Jjx- kept secret. ’ The State Department’s Voice of America, meanwhile, challenged (tfce Communists to send their own inspectors to find out that 100,000 ■ifted war prisoners held by the Allies don’t want to return home. The ljttfoadcast said that the prisoners made their choice without compulsion and that the UN has pledged that no prisoners will be returned against tneir will. It was fairly quiet May Day ... ....for GI’s in Korea. The Communists roared off with an early morning artillery blast, perhaps a May Day salute. Naval guns and istrafing planes answered the Reds, while infantrymen stayed in their lbunkers. One Red MIG was destroyed in a dogfight. Portland, Governor Adlai Stevenson ... V .... of Illinois, said again that he is not a candidate for the Demd bpratic nomination. Stevenson visited Portland to address an annual jijefferson-Jackson Day dinner. He declared that private enterprise ^should do the jobs it can and will do. He praised Republican Sen. [\vayne Morse and Gov. Warren of California. And he declared there is tfb escaping the burden of world leadership. The Korean war is the ree world’s answer to Communist assault, he added, and not "Mr. uman's War.” JheTState Supreme court refused ... ... to take jurisdiction in the daylight saving time row Thursday— e'aving Portland on daylight time. This is despite an edict barring jfast time by Gov. Douglas McKay. The court action was brought by Harold F. Anderson of Portland, who asked the court to declare Port land’s daylight time proclamation void. JA breakdown in oil negotiations ... ... in San Francisco delayed hopes for the negotiations to set a pat tern for settlement elsewhere. However, State Conciliator Joseph phambers says Shell Oil company officials and the CIO oil workers «re only a few cents apart. No further talks have been scheduled. Un fficial sources say the workers have lowered their demands from an increase of 25 to 20 cents an hour and Shell has increased its offer by 1 cents. Connecticut's Brian McMahon v announced Thursday that he is a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The Senator made the announcement at a h5ws conference following a luncheon meeting of the Democratic state committee who asked him to run. iNot a cent was cut... ... from the $724,000,000 agriculture appropriations bill passed by the House Thursday. In fact, House members added 10 million dollars ! to a pared-off committee recommendation. The additional money will ! be used for loans to tenant farmers. 5 even airmen are missing ... ... in a Gulf of Mexico B-29 crash from which seven other crewmen ijjwpre rescued Thursday. The plane was on a low-level gunnery practice s, near Tampa. Little hope is held for survival of the missing men. lA Truman draft won't work ... ... the President told his news conference Thursday. He said that he 1 wih not run if he is nominated for another term. He praised Sen. Brian SfcMahon of Connecticut and Gov. Stevenson, and he denied that Gen. Eisenhower is a sick man. He said the general was in perfect health, and as fine a man as ever walked. Mr. Truman added that Eisenhower will find lots of rumors about him cropping up as election time nears. Old Traditions Return Tuesday Junior Weekend traditions will begin officially on the campus Tuesday, according to Dick Morse, Junior Weekend traditions chair man. Freshman men are warned to be wearing their rooters’ lids and the freshman women green ribbons in their hair, according to Morse. The diagonal walk from the Stu dent Union to the corner of 13th st. will be the “hello walk” this year and scrubbing the Oregon Seal and painting the Oregon “O” on Skinner’s Butte will highlight the week’s traditions. Female violators will be pun ished at the Fenton Pool and male violators on the steps of the SU, Morse stated. The climax of the traditions will be the annual tug-o-war between the freshman and sophomore class es which will be staged at 4 p.m. Friday adjacent to the Alder bridge. Annual Program Of Religion Talks Begins May 9 Professors from four Western states will be on the campus May 9 and 10 to participate in the fifth annual Northwest Conference on Religion in Higher Education and the Conference on Philosophy of Religion. The two principal speakers will be Professor Donald MacPherson Baillie of the University of St. An drews, Scotland, and Professor Daniel S. Robinson of the Univer sity of Southern California. Participants Listed Other participants in the confer ence program include President Morgan Odell and Professors John Lang Anderson and Hideo Hashi moto of Lewis and Clark college, Portland; Professor Edwin Garlan, Reed college, Portland; Dean Wil liam C. Jones, acting president of the University of Oregon; Alburey Castell, head of the philosophy de partment, and Roy C. McCall, head of the speech department; Profes sor Edward Kollman, Willamette university; Professor James L. Martin, College of Idaho: Professor John Magee, and Philip Hitchcock, Klamath Falls, state senator. Conference Schedule The Rev. Professor Baillie will speak Friday night, May 9, on “What Is Dead and What is Liv ing in Christianity?” and Saturday afternoon he will speak on Chris tianity in Education today.” Rever end Baillie has been professor of systematic theology in the Univer sity of St. Andrews, since 1935. He served in three pastorates as an ordained minister from 1918 to 1934 and was also examiner in di vinty and ecclesiastical history at St. Andrews university, 1921-24, and examiner in divinity at Edin burgh university, 1933-35. Robinson will lecture Friday afternoon, May 9, on the same top ics that Reverend Baillie will dis cuss in his major addresses. He is professor of philosophy at the Uni versity of Southern California and director of the school of philosophy. During both world wars he served as a captain in the navy and holds the rank of commander in the naval reserve. He is a member of the American philosophical asso ciation and was president of the Western division in 1942-44. Fourteen privately owned toll roads still exist in the United States, most of them access roads to mountain tops or seashore re sorts. Their total length is 7T4 miles. High Schoolers lake Math Tests The University department of mathematics, in cooperation with the New York City section of the Mathematical Association of Amer ica is sponsoring a mathematical contest for high school students throughout the state. The contest, an annual event in the metropolitan area of New York City, is being offered to Oregon high school students for the first time. It comes in the form of a multiple choice examination lim ited to material from elementary algebra, intermediate algebra and plane geometry. A minimum of three entries from each school in the contest, sched uled for May 1, was required, and the three top papers from each school will be sent to the judging committee. The most outstanding papers from the area will be an nounced by the committee. The first place winner in each school will be awarded a pin bear ing the facsimile of the MAA seal. Recognition will also be given the outstanding student in "the state. Approximately 750 students from 35 Oregon high schools com peted in the contest, according to Kenneth S. Ghent, associate pro fessor of mathematics in the Uni versity. Students from approxi mately 300 high schools throughout the nation have entered. 1950 U0 Graduate Wins Local Position A 1950 graduate of the Univer sity, Dorothy Orr, will become counselor for women here next fall. The annouoncement was made by Golda Wickham, director of women’s affairs. Miss Orr has been attending Sy racuse university, Syracuse, N. Y., where she received her master’s de gree after graduating from Ore gon. She was on the dean of wom en’s staff at Syracuse university and was one of the co-editors of Guide to Guidance there. A member of a number of pro fessional organizations while at tending Oregon, Miss Orr was also in many activities and received many honors. She was a member of the University forensic team, associate editor of the Oregana, editor of the student directory for two years and president of heads of houses, women’s organization. CLASSIFIED Place your ad at either the Stu dent Union main desk or the Emerald “Shack”; or call 5-1511, ext. 219 between 2 and 4 p.m. Rates: First insertion 4c per word; subsequent insertions 2c per word. • WANTED WANTED: Responsible Portland family desires clean 2 or 3 bed room housing facilities for U. of O. summer session. Call 5-7278. 115 • LOST LOST: Men’s green Hollywood sun glasses in tan Ray-Ban case. Left in P.E. locker or on tennis court 3 Saturday. Are especially ground for owner’s eyes. Please return to Jerry Bailey, TKE, 1836 Alder or phone 5-1604. Reward. 116 Retailing Conferences Open This Weekend (Continued from page one) The first session will take place on Monday, beginning at 9 a m. with registration at the Student Union. At 9:30 a.m. the president of the grpup, G. Vandeneynde of Salem, will give an address of wel come. At 9:45 a.m. the institute will elect officers for the coming' year in the Dad’s lounge. Donald Farr of Coquille will speak on “How to Control Retail Invento ries” at 10 a.m. and at 11 a.m. Dean Morris will discuss “The Out look for Additional Inflation.” Luncheon Too There will be a luncheon at 12:15 a.m. in the Student Union, during which N. H. Cornish, professor of business administration, will speak on “How to Increase Sales through Improved Customer Relations.” Final Meeting The final meeting of the day will be the board meeting at 1:30 p.m. in the Student Union. There will be two addresses on Monday afternoon, the first at 2 p.m. on “How to Make Retail Em ployee Relations Effective” by J. D. Swenson of Portland. The sec ond will begin at 3 p.m. and will concern “How to Write Advertise ments That Pull Trade” by J. W. Kipper of Eugene. for clothes GOOD & CLEAN ... G. & C. Washaferia 2470 Alder Phone 5-5190 Open Tuesday nites till 8 Spring FORMALS for the PROM exciting colors straight from the rainbow! *25 lAj&itcfote SUofLfie on the Campus