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Newspaper Page Text,0Y WE FIGHT' . judeway, CN" commander In .t tak exception to those . V "V- rlse the question "What " )n Korea?" Rldrway say. the i ulte obvious. Story, Page 12. iel Union's Record 3d by Allies TWO SECTIONS-34 PAGES LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. The Weather Forecast: Fair Thursday night and Friday, except for fog late Thursday night and Fri day. Warmer. Temperatures: High Wednesday, 42. Low Thursday morning, 27. Expected low Friday morning, 28. Expected high Friday, 48. Vase w Uo os Neutral Ulf. Korea-(AP) vy j tr.u tiP Inl comma"" - Thursday Rus- Kdofpastparticipa- .Korean truce. fcusly Gral neao E in Tokyo warned that P.. forward in truce talks S umv is convinced V, final decision for Korea r j thniit further de- bllOE W" Ration bulletin corn lL "Voice of the U.N. U Broadcasts" declared: 1018 to be their plan to n additional disputes to . olace ot every one that . ,MeA. the hydra-headed mon .viholoey. there will be Ligtanents following ev- kfenent just as long as me alhinns mere is mi suuic- jpin Dy prolonging vne fcnmunrom. an Ainea Uo said U.N. reasons for k; Russia were - ciear, co E irrefutable" He did not K the reasons. 3m Darrow said the u.N. Ul would reject the nom- I any nation "in close It to Korea" or any nation lid "i record of past par- a In Korea." ID 8TAFF officer said the tm were not satisfactory, it refused to be drawn into pant He said: united nations floes not to enter into endless dis- n this topic and recom mit your side give our lot serious consideration." did not elaborate on his t! to "close proximity" or it past participation." teilans occupied North il the close of World War to trained, equipped and 111 North Korean army. p THE Chinese Reds and ph Koreans are supplied Me quantities of Soviet- nilpment, including the wii-is et fighter, tough Wi and radar-controlled knit batteries. border of Soviet Siberia lira for a distance of J miles. Chinese Communist radio pi Wednesday demanded raprance or Hussia as a declaring the Soviet al. opposed the Korean taeril Headauarteri fail. M asalnst optimism as MtMi week's agreement f ' post-armistice Korean Nference. N"" greement "han nn N calculated by Moscow r to tree world with of ohonT Smria M Moscow stimu P," designed to frustrate Biters discussing truce 100 and nriKfinr v ; inursaay In Pan- 'btmuSti, gave no indi- w melr staff offii.r "ready to star ,i,,.i,; N! the final item on the P i UDb agenda recom- w governments. EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952 CITY EDITION Free Parking, Honest, Fella, It's a Holiday In deference to the man who couldn't tell a lie, parkers and government employes will take Friday off. Washington's Birthday is a holiday for city, county, state and federal offices. Banks will stay open in Eu gene. The liquor stores will close, but beer will be sold at taverns. Eugene's parking meters will show violation but the man with the tickets won't be around. Phone 5-1551 Workers fe Decision l. . w.mcu oieei- KV.P their decision sl strike Satnrri... .!.!.. eft ...7 J &i Reunion's wage-policy ntnfiimj ' noon. ; "' used to talktonews- iw nclUslor of the .f.orn:r-R session of the board. "ill Z are tna the jT PPone its strike P! Poles in Kef Ceiling Boost -J.-.B .,: "ouar-and' Changed Policy On Plane-Crash Photos Hailed Heiaxation of an Air Force policy against photographing mili tary plane crashes was hailed in kugene Wednesday as the "great' est single achievement' of the ireeaom ot information committee of the American Society of News paper Editors. Chairman of that committee, a soft-spoken southerner who has been waging a crusade, against non-military secrecy in govern ment agencies, said it reinforced the supremacy of "civilian agencies on civilian territory." HE IS James S. Pope, executive editor of the Louisville (Ky) Courier-Journal and the Louis ville Times. He arrived in Eugene Wednesday to deliver the Eric Allen Memorial Lecture at the annual press conference of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assn. He will also meet with groups from the University of Oregon School of Journalism. Pope in an interview Wednes day night said he regretted that the American press often "forgets the greatest weapon it has pub licity." He said it is unfortunate that newspapers sometimes neg lect to publish newspaper news. Publicity on examples of un warranted official secrecy, he said, will eliminate the secrecy "like the sun falling on shadows." BUT HE ifARNED that news papers must also accept "a serious responsibility" for seeing to it that military secrets are not made pub lic through plane crash pictures. One of the cases on which the committee's fight was based in volved the crash of a military plane near Vancouver, Wash. Mili tary police refused Portland news paper photographers permission to photograph the wreckage, and in one case sought to take a camera away from a newsman. Under the new ruling, consent will be given for pictures of plane crashes if no classified equipment is visible. If such equipment is visible, Air Force authorities will cover or remove It before pictures may be taken. Pone earlier said that in no case in the committee's files was there evidence that military security was Involved. THE OLD regulations, Pope noted, "ignored civil authority and gave to the military a fancied right to declare martial law on civilian territory by issuing orders to civilians." He added, "This threatened the very heart of our theory of demo cratic government. ... It estab lished a precedent offering fatal possibilities of extension and abuse." Ms and L" pon.d.er- ""'Ks eiiec- ?S a, " unaugh. dis- announced a"ow increases ..in!8 ! PilL, V1 because ,inHg shortages in i laid C'ViIian con" ;eiM"'.Untreated an 'ffl .orc"ig stubs and MuT;"'1 Produced in n and Califor- Plane Wreckage Found ANACORTES. Wash. Wreckage of a Navy patrol bomb er which crashed in Puget Sound last Aug. 6 with the loss of nine lives was found in the Smith Is land area Wednesday by a fishing boat crew. Bodies of two oi the nine crewmen were recovered shortly after the crash. Japanese Reds Riot Against 'Colonization' Tear Gas Bombs Thrown at Police TOKYO (Friday) Feb. 22 1 AP) Thousands nf Janinus Communists and sympathizers noted in Tokyo Thursday in a demonstration against ''col onization" of Japan by the United States. At least 14 Japanese police men were iniured in stnnp- throwing and tear gas melees before order was restored. An estimated 11.300 nnlii-o pa trolled the city to prevent further uuuuie, A.yoao News Agency said, Other demonstrations were re ported in Yokohama, thp hi in. dustrial city of Osaka, Nagoya and eiaewnere. THE JAPANESE Communists, in their most open postwar dem onstration of violence, had set inursday as "Anti-Colonization. of-Japan Day." Even before the demonstrations subsided, the Peiping Radio was reporting that Chinese Communist youth had sent "messages of sol idarity" to the "Japanese Youth Federation" for its "struggle against colonialism." There were no reports of injury to Americans and other foreign ers. One mob stormed a railway sta. tlon demanding "free rides, threw tear gas bombs and forced their way onto a train, ANOTHER WHICH included university students battled into a police station demanding release of a schoolmate arrested last month for an anti-rearmament demonstration. Twenty-two of the students were arrested but later released. The injured policemen were stoned by 400 demonstrators in the Omori District, Kyodo said. Three hundred students and workers clashed with 300 police in a northwestern suburb. Kyodo said 300 demonstrators attacked two policemen in a Tok yo University auditorium and shouted "There's a dog ir. here"; and "Throw him out." The agency reported seven dem onstrators arrested in Tokyo and 10 Koreans picked up in Osaka. Winter Keeps Icy Fingers On Northwest ,By UNITED PRESS Winter continued its icy grip on most of the Pacific Northwest Thursday, with the temperature dropping to an unofficial 20 be low zero at Chemult, Ore., on The Dalles-California highway. The weather man said early morning below freezing tempera tures would continue throughout the region Friday, with snow flurries and readings around zero forecast in some sections east of the Cascades. Major highways In both Oregon and Washington were open to travel, despite heavy snow earlier this week, but motorists travel ing mountain routes were urged to carry chains. Official temperatures Thursday included 3 below at Lakeview, Ore. 3 above at Burns and 5 above at Klamath Falls. Eugene got its share of the cur rent cold weather when the tem perature dipped below freezing here again Thursday morning. A low of 27 degrees was recorded. Although puddles iced over and windshields frosted up, it was not the lowest temperature of the year. On Jan. 17 mercury dropped to 26 degrees; on Jan. 2, to 24 degrees. 2nd Atomic Engine To Be Built By U.S. By ELTON C. FAY AnocUled Ptmi Wrlltr WASHINGTON (P) The Atomic Energy Commission Thursday ordered construction of a second atomic - powered sub marine engine. It said this one will be of a design which may be easier to build and operate than the one already under construction. An AEC announcement said the General Electric Company has been authorized to start construc tion at its West Milton, N. Y., laboratory of a test engine which "will be used for final develop ment work leading to construction of a intermediate energy reactor for propulsion of a submarine." The Westinghouse Electric Cor poration already is working on a thermal reactor at its testing sta tion in Idaho. When the two engines are com pleted, the AEC and Navy will decide which is better for sub marines. Development of a nuclear en gine for submarines is high on the AEC-military priority list. With such an engine, a mbm- Pact Allies Set Sights On 60 Units LISBON, Portugal (AP) The 14 Altantic foreign min isters met behind closed doors Thursday for an up-to-the-moment study of the Russian problem. A spokesman said U. S. Secretary of State Acheson and s jhis colleagues heard and thrashed over top-level reports on 43 tl-lO Qnuiol TTnirtn Wo Ktart nnl.'nlnn l...nnJ 4.U t U french .foreign Minister Kobert Schuman told the closed (AP Wlrephoto) MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO'S main thoroughfare, became a massive parking lot when the municipal railway system was tied up by a strike Wednesday. Police per mitted parking in the middle of the street after all available curb space was taken. The transit employes are protesting schedule changes which spread their eight-hour shifts over ten hours. Storm-Split Tanker Due in Port Friday BOSTON (AP) Tow of the stern end of the storm broken tanker Fort Mercer, with 13 of its survivors aboard, proceeded Thursday under favorable conditions. "Everything is going fine," reported the M. Moran, one of several powerful seagoing tugs at the scene off Nantucket Lightship. Lodge Wants Ike on Ballot WASHINGTON P) Sen. Lodge (R-Mass) Thursday asked Oregon supporters of Gen. Eisen hower to file his name in their presidential primary, to be held May 16. Lod?e made the request as na tional campaign manager of-the Eisenhower-for-President organ ization. Eighteen delegates to the Re publican national convention are at stake in the primary. A petition entering the name of Gen. MacArthur already has been filed. One to enter Sen. Taft is being circulated, although without Taft's blessing. Taft backers have said in fact that they consider the petition an "unfriendly act" being done by friends of Republican Sen. Morse of Oregon, an Eisenhower backer. A candidate nominated by peti tion cannot withdraw from the Oregon primary. Only Thursday, Morse hit at Taft by telling reporters that Taft's election as President "would defeat the foreign policy for which Gen. Eisenhower stands." Sen. Brewster (R-Maine) also in an interview, disagreed. With Taft as President, Morse said, it would be "impossible to carry out our obligations in Eu rope under the North Atlantic Treaty." Hatfield Files Ike Petitions SALEM. Ore. (P) Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was entered Thursday in Oregon's May 16 presidential primary with the fil ing of petitions bearing 1068 names. The petitions, brought to the state elections division by State Rep. Mark Hatfield, Salem, secre tary of the Oregon for Eisenhower Committee, contained 68 more names that the 1000 that are re quired. Hatfield said the signers come from 16 of the 36 counties, So far. Eisenhower and Gen, Douglas MacArthur are the only names on the Republican presi dential ballot, the filing period closes March 7. No Democrats have been en tered yet. thonrptirallv would have mnrh ereater speed than with conventional engines and could cruise submerged for thousands of miles. . . While little information has been disclosed about design, the key words in Thursday's an nouncement are "intermediate energy reactor" and "thermal re actor." , The design Westinghouse is working on is "thermal," and the one General Electric will work on will be the "intermediate" type. The difference is in the speed of neutrons released to produce, through fission, heat or produc tion of power. The intermediate reactor has a fairly fast release of neutrons. While the two experimental en gines are being built, the AEC and the Navy are going forward with construction of the hull for the submarine. A hull contract was awarded to the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Conn., last August. Some Navy officials believe an A-powered submarine may be ready for testing om time In 1864. Hathaway Eyes County Post Mayor Ed Hathaway of Florence Thursday notified tne register. Guard that he has filed for elec tion for the post of county conv missioner now held by Lee J. Raish. Hathaway, who Is a Democrat, brines the total number of candi dates for the job to four, three Democrats and one Republican. He is the past president of the Western Lane Chamber of Com merce and at present operates the Hathaway Department Store in Florence. He has lived in Lane County for the past five years after coming here from Grant's Pass. In his declaration for candidacy. Hathway stales that with the rapid growth of population and industry in the county "north, south, east and west of the court house" the county court needs consideration of all problem! with out partiality to any croup. All thirteen men were re ported in good condition ex cept one who was bothered with pleurisy. "We expect to reach Block Island about 5 or 6 a.m. tomorrow," re ported the M. Moran by ship-to- shore telephone. The Fort Mercer and the tanker Pendleton broke up in Monday's fierce northeaster off Cape Cod. Fifty-seven men were' rescued while si we're' dead and eight missing ana-presumed dead. '', ; THE FORT Mercer was in tow of the tugs Foundation Josephine and the Peter Moran. The Coast Guard Cutter Unimak was escorting the tow which was moving at about 4Vt knots. The Fort Mercer's skipper, meanwhile, was reported in "good" condition at the U. S. Public Health Service hospital in Port land, Me. Capt. F. C. C. Paetzel, 48, of Houston, Tex., and three of the crew were rescued by the Cutter Yakutat from the bow end of the tanker. HE WAS suffering from pneu monia and frostbitten feet. He was shoeless during his wait for rescue from the storm-beaten bow. Cmdr. Joseph Naab of the Yak utat told how Second Mate Wil lard F. Fahrner, 28, of Winthrop, Mass., and Third Mate Vincent A. Galdon, 22, of Bayonne, N. J., forced Capt. Paetzel to break the age-old tradition that a master is the last to leave his ship. "They forced him to jump," Naab said. "They knew he was suffering from pneumonia and frostbitten feet and wouldn't make it later. If the skipper hadn't jumped when he did we wouldn't have gotten him." No. 3 Woman Killed Near Junction A '48 Cadillac convertible smashed into the rear of a big truck and trailer near Junction City early Thursday morning, killing one women and injuring another. Dead was Mrs. Alta L. Toedtemeir, about 23, of Rt. 3, Edmonds, Wash. Her companion, Mrs. Mayme Wisch- mann, 30, of the same address, was reported in fairly good" condition at Sacred Heart Hospital Thursday. She suffered a broken leg, cuts and bruises. Mrs. Wischmann's 3- month-old daughter, Shareen, escaped injury. Deputy, Coroner Ken Murphy, of Junction City, said the auto struck- the rear ofa, truck and trailer, just as it was turning off Highway 99 about H4 miles south of Junction City. The vehicles had been traveling north. Driver of the truck was D. E. Koenig, of Crescent City, Calif. The accident happened about 1 a.m. Murphy said the two women were apparently returning from San Diego, Calif., where both their husbands, who are service men, are stationed. Relatives have been notified. Mrs. Toedtemeir was Lane County's third traffic victim of 1952. a door session about the situa tion in Indo-China. Problems of the Middle East, including FL "Cic gunc uvci. Earlier, Allied defense ministers in less than one hour approved a military committee report calling for 50 to 60 divisions to be in the field by the end of 1952. The report now goes to the council. There the full-dress as sembly of foreign, finance and defense ministers must settle a conflict between the Allied chiefs of staff and W. Averell Harri man's temporary council committee. Wedding Leads Back to Prison PORTLAND, Ore. P) The parole of Jewell C. Close, who married the warden's secretary. was revoked Thursday and he was ordered back to prison. His marriage to Anne M. Carty, the secretary, violated the terms of his parole. He had served one year of a three-year term for forgery. The parole board said It would prepare a statement which was expected to outline its reasons for the revocation. THE COMMITTEE says the 1954 target of 100 divisions on active duty or in immediate reserves must be scaled down 12 per cent because the European economies cannot afford the full goal. The military wants to keep the 100 division target, planning production so that many divisions could be armed and supported. Meanwhile, the top military and financial brains of the North At lantic Treaty Organization were hard at work on the problems of how defensive air bases can be strung across Europe before the 1952 building season is lost. BEFORE THE defense and finance ministers lay blueprints for the air bases, their communi cation lines and control head quarters. With these completed, the 14 Western Allies could breathe easier despite the dangers of Soviet Russia's Korean proven lets. Gen, Eisenhower, boss of the alliance's military establishment in Europe, sent down the out line of his needs . What the defens and finance ministers are pondering is: Who will pay how much of their cost? Truman Denies Secret Treaty WASHINGTON (U.R House Republicans said Thursday they are satisfied with President Tru man's assurance that he has made no secret agreements with Britain to send additional American troops anywhere in the world. But administration officials and democratic leaders said it was too bad the President was compelled by circumstances to reveal a fact which may be of great interest to Russia. Mr. Truman made the no-commitments statement late Wednes day, shortly after the House passed a GOP resolution demanding a full report on any secret deals made at his meetings with Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill last month. Officials said he spoke out even though the resolution was not binding on him because he feared continued silence might deepen the suspicion that he had something to hide. Tax Committee Blasts Politics In Appointments SAN FRANCISCO UP) The King congressional subcommittee ended its San Francisco hearings with a blast at politically-appointed Internal Revenue officials. U said rank and file employes have done a good, honest job." A statement by Chairman King (D-Calif) blamed the local In ternal Revenue scandal on "in competent" political appointees of King's own party "protected by . . . an inept top administration in Washington." IT URGED an end to political appointments in the Revenue service. Two Republican committee members who stayed for Wednes days windup of the 16-day hear ingsReps. Robert W. Kean (NJ) and John W. Byrnes (Wis) con curred in King s strongly-worded statement. The Congressmen are returning Thursday to Washington, where closed hearings open next week as the first stage of a New York Internal Revenue inquiry. Their statement said the San Francisco Internal Revenue of fice was "badly administered" prior o Sept. 27, 1951, That' day, Collector James G. Smyth and five top assistants all Democrats were suspended on orders from Washington. They later were fired. "CONTROL ... had fallen into the hands of a top echelon of po litical appointees whose chief fail ing was their gross incompet ence," the statement said. 'Their second, and also serious. falling was a devotion to political interests which transcended their loyalty to the Revenue service and caused them to engage in petty and sometimes criminal manipulations. "In these, they were encouraged and protected by the complacency and indifference of an inept top administration in Washington. Po litical and personal favoritism in the treatment of taxpayers and in the handling of personnel prob lems has been the result." y' I iifj ' "r"f IT waV 'a J ,. .... '"' . " jT fttlWuijI tel. ! - -I v7!yf ..vy if'!' . ' ' f '',r4. J X : 7' ' " " - " M- -' :; , 'nr.-G!mrrt photo. WHMhir tnsriivlng) A $30,000 APARTMENT HOUSE received less than $iO0O dnmnge from fire thnt brought two Eugene engine companies and a truck company on the run at II p.m. Wednesday, The building, 583 East 13th Ave., is owned by W. C. Underwood. Fire Marshal Ed Barker at tributed the fire to a cigarette on a daveno although the occupant, Robert Claypool, was not in his quarters at the time of the blaze. Glen Lyrla and Charles Fcrrcll, who occupy apartments nearby, first noted the smoke and called in the alarm. This was the first fire loss the city has recorded since January 27. The chair was thrown from second-floor MMtaMBt to firemB ou street who doused the flame. UMT Measure Goes to Senate WASHINGTON (P) The Sen ate gets a universal military train ing bill Thursday with a built-in provision designed to cut down the size and cost of the regular armed forces. Chairman Russell (D-Ga) re ported a 12 to 0 favorable vote by the Armed Services Committee for the measure Wednesday. I hope to sec actual training get under way before this year ends," Russell told a reporter. "This is completely workable and fair legislation." HOUSE DEBATE on a similar measure is expected to begin Tuesday. Powerful opposition to the pro gram of six months basic training for 18-year-olds is being built up in Congress by leaders of farm. labor, educational and Protestant Church groups. Unless the House runs into long delays In passing its bill, Russell said the Senate probably will hold oft until action is completed there. THE ONLY surprise In the Sen ate bill was a section calling for a mandatory reduction in the regu lar or standing forces as UMT builds up a backlog of reserves. Russell explained it this way: As soon as UMT has produced 300,000 graduates of its basic training and put them In (he re serve, the Secretary of Defense must begin semi-annual reduc tions in the regulars. There would be one less regular for every three trained UMT re serves until the regulars had been reduced to 2,006,000. RED TROOPS MASS HONG KONG (A') The Hong Kong newspaper Wah Kiu Yat Po said Thursday 4,000 newly trained paratroopers have joined 290,000 other Red Chinese troops massed near the Indo-China and Burma borders.