STALIN SERIOUSLY ILL;
HIT BY BRAIN STROKE
Oaths Are Useless,
Urey Tells Forum
Urey Examines
Moon's Surface
Harold C. Urey, 1934 Nobel
Prize winner in chemistry, left
earth behind in his lecture Tuesday
afternoon and examined the moon’s
surface.
I rev Mill speak again at 8
p.rn. Thursday in the Student
Union ballroom on the topic
“The Origin of the Solar Sys
tem."
Speaking in the Student Union
ballroom before 200 persons, Urey
illustrated his lecture with slides
of the moon. He pointed out crat
ers, grooves, mountain ridges and
seas, or lava flows, of the moon’s
surface to emphasize conclusions.
Urey said the moon’s craters
were caused by objects falling on
the moon and producing an explo
sion. "The craters are round be
cause the objects may have fallen
vertical to the moon,” he explained.
"The largest (rater on the moon
measures ICO miles in diameter,"
Urey said, "and if you were stand
ing in the middle of this crater
all you would see would be a
mountain range around it."
“loyally oaths don't do any
good,” physicist Harold C. Urey
said at a coffee hour forum Tues
day in the Dads' lounge of the Stu
. dent Union.
Urey said people who demand
; loyalty oaths are hereditary witch
hunters and will hunt witches no
i matter what you do to stop
them.
Disagreeing with Urey, Charles
P. Howard, professor of law. said,
i "I think you can do something
about loyalty oaths. Here in Ore
gon we have created an atmos
phere that is not conducive to loy
, ally legislation.”
This has been done through
work with legislators, and such
gioups as the American Legion,
Howard said.
Speaking before the Eugene Ki
wanis club Monday on the topic
"Academic Freedom’’ Urey re
i marked that congressional inves
tigations in colleges and universi
I ties serve "afmost no useful pur
pose.” In the opinion of the noted
physicist, investigators only stir
up publicity for themselves.
He said FBI agents investigat
, ing on the University of Chicago
campus, where he is a distin
guished service professor, had not
found any Communist activity
among faculty members.
I Beardsley Ruml Slated
|To Talk Tuesday at SU
Bi of the foremost business
mists in the nation, Beardsley
, will speak at 1 p.m. Tues
a the Student Union ballroom !
ljunction with the conference [
orthwest development spon
by the school of business1
Tickets on Sale
For Onion Concert
Tickets for the Festival of Con
temporary Art presentation of
Jose Limon, one of America's fore
most modern dancers, will be on
sale this week at the University
theater office from 1 to 5 p.m.
Jose Limon and Dance Company
presenting "Theater in the Dance”
will appear at the University the
ater Thursday and Friday eve-1
nings at S p.m.
The Limon Dance Company
made up of featured soloists, in
cludes: Pauline Doner, Lucas Hov
ing, Betty Jones, Ruth Currier and
Letitia Ide. Simon Sadoff, well
known concert pianist, is pianist
and musical director for thd
group.
administration and the Eugene
Chamber of Commerce.
State industrial and business
leaders will be on the campus to
discuss the operational steps en
tering into an effective commun
ity industrial development pro
gram. Dedication of new Common
wealth hall will take place during
the meet.
Ruml is the former chairman of
the board of Maey's store in New
York city. During the recent pres
idential campaign, he served as
chairman of the Democratic fi
nance committee.
Women's Groups
Will install Tonight
WRA, AWS, and YWCA will in
stall their newly elected officers
tonight at 0:30 p.m. in alumni hall
in Gerlinger.
All women are invited to the
ceremony, according to Janet Bell,
WRA publicity chairman.
This marks the first time simul
taneous installations have been
held for the women's organiza
tions.
Holbrook to Speak
In Browsing Room
Stewart Holbrook, author ami
journalist of the Northwest, will
; visit the campus today and speak
j on “Prose as Contemporary Art’’
I at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Un
ion browning room.
Holbrook has done free-lance
writing for “Collier's, “New
Yorker," “Enquire,” and the
“Saturday Evening Post" since
1920, and is the author of num
erous bonks, “Murder Out Yon
der” in 1041; “Iron Brew" 1939;
“lost Veil of American His
tory,” 1916; “Yankee Exodus."
ISM, and “Ear Corner" 19.52.
Neutra to Speak
On Architecture
Richard Neutra, internationally
known architect of the contem
porary school, will lecture and
•'how slides of his past work Fri
day. at 8 p.m. in the science am
phitheater.
The program is part of the Uni
versity's Festival of Contemporary
Arts.
Saturday morning. Neutra will
take part in a symposium on re
gional planning and will discuss
his work in Guam and Mexico in
the Student Union Dad’s lounge
at 10 a.m. Also participating will
be Marion Ross, associate profes
sor of architecture and Professor
Charles McKinley of Reed college
in Portland.
Neutra was one of the first
architects to introduce the new
architectural forms of the Euro
pean movements of the 1920's to
America.
Formerly associated with Frank
Lloyd Wright, American architect.
Neutra’s design of the Lovell
house in Los Angeles gained him
recognition as a leading modern
architect in 1927. Houses, housing
and school buildings have been
among his best work.
Senate Schedules
Thursday Session
Final winter term meeting of
the ASUO senate will be held
Thursday at «:80 p.m. in the
Student Union, according to Pat
Dignan, ASUO president. Agen
da for the meeting as as fol
lows:
United Drive report
AWS Investigating committee
report
Senate Investigating commit
tee report
Selection Of Mothers’ Day
chairman
Mill Race report
Honor Code report
Athletic Recommendations
Radio Reports
Stricken Mar. 1
LONDON' (AI’)—Russian
i< r( d a brain stroke and is in
Premier Joseph Staiin has snf
.'erious condition. The Tass an
nouncement says Stalin is in a coma.
Paralysis has set in And the 73-year-old Stalin’s heart ami
breathing have been affected by the brain hemorrhage.
Details of Stalin's serious illness have been broadcast to the world
ey the Moscow Radio, quoting an announcement from the official Rus
sian news agency Tass.
As monitored in London, indications are that the outside world re.
reived news of Stalin’s illness before the Russian people were told.
The Moscow broadcast says*
Stalin suffered the brain hemor
rhage during the night of March 1.
The details of the illness were
broadcast during the early morn
ing transmissions of Radio Mos
cow Wednesday. March 4—more
than two days later.
Stalin's right arm and leg aro
paralyzed as a result of the stroke.
He also has lc-st the ability to
talk.
Moscow says due to the serious
nature of the illness, frequent
news bulletins on Stalins condi
tion will be broadcast.
The hemmorrhage is described
as spreading through Stalin’s
brain.
The dramatic radio announce
ment of the- Soviet Premiers se
rious illness brings into relief
josc-ph Stalin widespread speculation that a
struggle long has been under way inside the Kremlin for a successor
to Stalin.
Two leading Soviet Politburo figures mentioned as the leading con
tenders for the post are Deputy Premiers Georgi Malenkov and V. M.
Molotov.
Most events in recent years would seem to indicate Malenkov's star
is in the ascendancy.
As far as is known, the last time Stalin was seen by someone out
sivie the Soviet circle was two weeks ago—on Tuesdav night Febru
ary 17 th.
Twelve nights later—last Sunday night—Stalin suffered his brain
hemorrhage.
Stalin's reply to the Times' questions is the last known contact by the
Russian premier with westerners outside diplomatic channels.
Although news of Stalin's stroke came with dramatic suddenness,
there long has been speculation concerning his health.
The serious nature of the present illness is indicated by Moscow’s
announcement that eight doctors are in constant attendance on the
Soviet Premier.
The doctors themselves have decided, Moscow says, .that because
of Stalin's grave condition they will issue frequent bulletins.
The official Kremlin announcement describes the doctors as leading
physicians of the Soviet Union in the fields of therapy, neuropathology.
The attending physicians are said to be under the direction of the
head of all medical services in the USSR.
Death Would Not Solve
Cold War, Two Profs Say
Two faculty members told the Emerald Tuesday night that Joseph
Stalin’s death would bring no solution to the current cold war between
East and West.
C. P. Schleicher, professor of political science, said that the transition
from Stalin to a new premier would be carried out smoothly with little
internal struggle. Actually, Schleicher stressed. Stalin is a moderate in
fluence on Russian foreign policy; the policy would be “tougher and'
more objectionable’' without him.
V,'. a. Williams, assistant professor of history, made the followin'*
statement:
’ Stalin’s death would provide no solution to the cold war. Consider
able evidence indicates that he has consciously withdrawn fj-orn the
routine of ruling for some time past. I see no solid foundation foi the
easy assumption, made in some quarters, that executive power cannot
be transferred in the Soviet Union.
“Stalin’s keen awareness of the balance between war and peace is
perhaps the most serious casualty to the world. For if the Russian
administration should seize Stalin's death as an opportunity in which to
attempt to implement its avowed objectives of ‘liberation’ and ’i oil
back’. there is, in my opinion, a strcr.g chance that such action would
provoke World War III.”