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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)
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P.. forward in truce talks
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U Broadcasts" declared:
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lid "i record of past par-
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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.
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r to tree world with
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P," designed to frustrate
Biters discussing truce
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'btmuSti, gave no indi-
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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-
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dis-
announced
a"ow increases
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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."
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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.