Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.,
Page 22 Thurs., Nov. 8, 1951
Strange Illness
Strikes Soldiers
U.S. Doctors Baffled
By Korean Disease
TOKYO W) A strange
Illness for which no sure cure has
been, found has broken out among
United Nations forces in Korea,
Gen.;.Matthew B. Ridgway's head
quarters said Thursday.
Brig. Gen. William E. Sham
bora, surgeon of the Far East
Command, said the mysterious
malady strikes suddenly and i
characterized by fever and a
headache. These symptons are
common in the early stages of
several known infectious diseases.
Sulfa and antibiotics have failed
to stem the disease, Shambora
said; .Blood transfusions from men
who-have recovered seem to ease
Its severity.
The malady is strikingly simi
lar to that reported by the Jap
anese among their Manchurian
troops in 1939. Headquarters said
it iS"too early to say the two dis
eases are identical.
The Japanese called the disease
"epidemic hemorrhagic fever."
The believe it is caused by a
tiny, .virus carried by field mice
nd transmitted to man by mites.
Shambora said some patients
recover quickly while others de
velop further symptons. These in
clude hemorrhages under the
skirw around the eyes and the in
ternal organs. In some instances
the disease affects the kidneys.
The surgeon said efforts are
being made in Korea, Japan and
the United States to Isolate the
disease organism, determine the
method of transmission and find
the best way of treating it.
Missing At Celebration
Hints Suggest Stalin Semi-Retired
Two Wounded
Two Lane County men have
been reported wounded in Korean
fighting by the Department of De
fense. They are Pvt. David V.
Goyer, son of Mr. ano Airs, tiay ty
r;nvof Hi. 1. Box 792. Cottaee J
Grove, and Pfc. Norman E. Stew
art, friend of Homer Wade, 1499
Moss St., Eugene.
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
fA.ioeUttd Preii Foreign New. Anftlyit)
Betwcen-thc-lincs hints from
Moscow Thursday suggest that
Joseph Stalin has relinquished at
least some of the active control
of his Soviet dictatorship.
The censored dispatches report
ing the celebration of the revolu
tion's 34th anniversary gave an
impression that new authority has
fallen to two men Georgi Max
milianovich Malenkov and Lav
rcnty Pavlovich Bcria, the power
twins of the Politburo.
The dispatches gave no indica
tion that cither Stalin or his old
Bolshevik deputy, Vyacheslav M.
Molotov, was present at Tuesday
night's revolution anniversary eve
celebration at the Bolshoi Thea
ter, the most Important gathering
of the year for Soviet officialdom.
The dispatches did not say this
Novelist Slated
For Talk at UO
Elizabeth Bowen, well-known
Irish-English novelist and essay
ist, "will speak on-"The Role of
the Novelist in Today's World,"
when she visits the University of
Oregon campus Friday, Nov. 9.
Miss-Bowen's lecture is scheduled
for 8 p.m. in the Browsing Room
of Erb Memorial Union Bldg. The
public is invited.
Born In Dublin, Miss Bowen
has lived in London since the
utart' of her career as a writer.
"The Heat of the Day," a 1D49
Literary Guild selection and "The
Death of the Heart," are two of
her books most familiar to Amer
icans. Critical essays and articles by
Miss Bowen have been published
frequently In Vogue, Atlantic
Monthly, Saturday Review of Lit
erature, and other United States
periodicals.'
The lecture Friday night Is one
of scries of informal coffee
hours held weekly in the Brows
ing Room. During her visit to the
University of Oregon Miss Bowen
will', meet with three writing
classes and will read student
manuscripts submitted to her.
Student Cited
For Narcotics
PORTLAND UP) A 21-year-old
former College of Puget Sound
student was in jail here Thursday,
accused of forging some 100 pre
scriptions for narcotics in the past
two months.
The district attorney filed a
charge of violation of the uniform
narcotics act against Edward
Charles Ames, arrested at a Port
land drug store after a druggist
became suspicious and called
police.
Used Dilaudld
Police Lt. Howard W. Russell
said Ames told him he had ob
tained a syntheic narcotic in tablet
form called dilaudid for his own
use in Portland, Salem, Eugene,
Mcdford and Klamath Falls.
The police officer quoted him
as saying he stole the prescription
blanks from doctors' offices and
that he learned to write the pre
scriptions while living in Seattle.
Involved In Burglary
Amos told Russell he had been
involved in a $30,000 diamond
burglary in Alaska, receiving a
suspended five-year sentence. He
went to Seattle where he lived
until he came here in September,
he said.
Police and federal narcotics
agents cooperated in the investi
gation begun a month ago, Lieu
tenant Russell said.
Hunter Exonerated
By Deschutes Grand Jury
BEND W) A Deschutes
County grand jury has exonerat
ed "Jack Croplcy, 17, Portland,
from blame in the fatal shooting
of a hunter, Roger Wayne Moore,
25, Madras.
The two were hunting together
In the Deschutes National Forest
when Cropley stumbled and his
gun-fired. Moore was hit in the
back?. The grand jury nction dis
missed an involuntary mnn
claughter charge against Cropley.
Terpsichore
Didn't Win
This Marathon
BOSTON (IP) A probate
court judge has ruled a man lir1
fllcts mental cruelty on his wife
when hs Insists on dancing the
polka while the orchestra plays
a waltz.
Mrs. Constance R. Blols, 35,
testified in a divorce action
Wednesday her husband, Ray
mond E. Illois, 38, a Northeast
ern University professor, con
stantly embarrassed her.
"He always danced the polka
when the orchestra played a
waltz, site said. "I told him tills
was corny, but he said he want
ed to have a good time."
She said also her husband
"sat and read a detective story
from beginning to end at the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tops concert and read books at
the table when we were dining
ill public places."
Judge Frederick J. Dillon
granted her divorce on the
grounds of mental cruelty. They
had been married five years.
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directly. They said a "message of
greeting" to Stalin was adopted.
They listed members of the Po
litburo who were present, Molo
tov's name was missing.
Stalin of late has gone to a
Black Sea resort when Moscow's
zero weather begins.
The Soviet press generally lists
Politburo leaders in the order of
their importance, and correspond
ents in Moscow follow this pro
cedure in their dispatches. This
is the way the dispatches listed
the Politburo Tuesday night:
Malenkov No. 1
Beria, Malenkov, K. E. Voro
shilov, N. A. Bulganin, L. M.
Kaganovich, N. S. Khrushchev, A.
N. Kosygin, A. I. Mikoyan, N. M.
Shvernik, A. A. Andreyev.
In pictures of the May Day
celebration published in the So
viet press last May, Malenkov
was shown at the right hand of
Stalin, and Beria next. Molotov
occupied the sixth spot in the or
der of Importance at that time.
The order now suggests a polit
buro of devoted Stalinists. Mar
shal Vorshilov is Stalin's durable
old comrade in arms of revolu
tionary days. Kaganovich is his
chosen industrial genius and said
to be related to mm oy marriage.
Bulganin, though a marshal, is
Stalin's financial wizard.
Stalin's Health Poor
The subject of Stalin's health Is
taboo in Russia, but there have
been indications tharit has been
going downhill. He has been ab
sent from many important gath
erings since he turned 70 in De
cember, 1949. In the pictures of
the Politburo at the big celebra
tions, Soviet editors obviously in
serted a likeness of Stalin in his
younger days, apparently cutting
out the contemporary portrait. j
Malenkov and Beria are a
mighty combination. Malenkov, a
protegee of Stalin, controls the
Communist Party apparatus much
in the way Stalin himself con
trolled it in his own rise to power.
Beria is head of the vast police
system of the world's biggest po
lice state. A Georgian, he has
been considered closer to Stalin
than any other Politburo mem
ber. If these two men finally assume
the full power, it prebably will
mean a tighter police state than
ever. The indications of this are
already at hand.
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