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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1952)
SAWYER'S PROBLEM . Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, a conservative-minded i'llionaire, fates a nearly impossible !h in the current government vs. feel vs. lDor disPute- Marquis rhiub analyzes Sawyer's problem in v""." Doiro B The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a few brie! showers Monday night and Tuesday. Temperatures: Expected high Tuesday,' 64; expected low Monday night, 40; high . Sunday, 62; low Monday morning, 33, , ,-nlurnn u LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 20 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1952 CITY EDITION Phone 5-1551. ruman Blasts We to Block tee! Operation Solons Threaten To Cut Off Funds WASHINGTON -(AP)- r i. nnnnnnv tnav . - iMt use 6U..rr. r.. fr operation oi tne ! ed steel mills it may re Kin "paralyzing the opera 1 of the government m an HcrBc'':. VI,.. Prwtrlent t,'.' , Bonnhlican-sDonsored K to deny any funds for gov Eit operation ot the milk. HE SAID enactment of the GOP ,posals might lead to a com shutdown in steel and "lm i.i.iv reduce the ability of r , c in Korea to defend Liselves against attack. Farther, tne iresraeni umenu , -.h nf the debate on the .:., h heen of "extreme and Lleading character. Hi warned: , tha rnmmnntau aiara an L... nffenslve in Korea this Ll. h anrcess or failure of it offensive may well depend L whether or not we nave Kept ti steel mills in operation. This is a consideration over .i ituura th Hrnsttr ffert ji Id shutdown would have on b total defense effort," IKUMAN repeated what he had i In a message April 9 that ordered "temporary operation" the iteel mills by the govern- Lmt "with the utmost reluctance; lit the idea of government oper ta of the steel mills was thor- Lhly distasteful to me; and that tinted to see it ended as soon as slble." Ib President went on then to ftillenge Congress to come up fth a better way to deal with the Mon created by the steel ware Me if it does not like what he is done. Hunwhlle, Nathan Feinsinger. liirmin of the Wage Stabiliza h Board, and Ellis Arnall, price rawer, raei t we wnite House 11 the National Advisory Board i Mobilization Policy for a dis- Won of the steel situation. I0HN B. StMlman. M. n Tni i, u now acting chairman of Idvlsorr hnsrri. Aides of Seereturv n'f Primms-. Iw, the government's steel in- wj manager, tarn no wage an pcinunt would come Monday, ii ui uapuoi, Republicans FUorlns the mnva in n4t hi for government operation of riraimaustry claimed growing loocratle support. limrmvt put forward twe pro- I Foibld U of ftinH. rr-AAA i, . ., " vu i Denti n ir mnnav kin t. r- ,a "ve,; uii kU JUll HtHl fnin mid.. ..I...... 1- r w oy aen. jrerguson (R- l Deny, m regardless of the source, to P w operate any plant without , ia vuugi coa f tougher versipn was proposed --. ".nuwiana (K-uaiit),. a In the antl-selzura tr,on,,. . . Tired Juliana Bids Farewell To West Coast LOS ANGELES, rur hid. , A very tired appearing Queen juii.ua aepariea lor Detroit and her last U.S. atop of a 21 day good will tour Monday aboard a giant four-engine Mil itary Air Transport Service air liner. The royal party bade farewell to mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles and other civic and foreign dignitaries who were host to the queen during her 46 hour stay here. Before boarding the plane the 42 - year - old monarch shook hands with each of the Los An geles motorcycle police who pac ed the party in a speedy tour of Southern California. She also posed for a picture with the crew of her plane. r ! 'umon rails m w sir NjLAND - (U.R)-Mrs. Zada SMr"old d!,ufShter, Sherrie, uig ner Dody mto a sump " January, failed in a sui- B? "Ice reported. -"ucrs tflirf iii tr -i - iviia. raaer was "'3 In tka U-l - tn. i t, uuiroom oi me iaU with a cord from her Kf, T her neck and . -- ucr wrist, snerm P Jchrunk said Mrs. Kader ik. ?rokcn ra2or !lade to 1 ..wr .st bu' 'hat the wound r"' Kader. 91 ,j . m ll not. Vnu wimmi l ,,j """"""ning ner Inno- Ilng her. "t"l"'I":r" ul fc;"aa'ting trial for first '"6 TuAcrnv ii... - rM-ir, , ....... h ,Ih.eth." " wl have day- Do,.8 'ime this "urnmer, - mciiay said Mon ScoZl ,I said he has al '5 hd h's tove.Ug.tton .'. ., er he Should nrrir the f Su h ? ,et 'head on. hour ''itothrL!lly, thln that he ' ?ht tSiCma' wh., will have W provides that Ore- uavR ns.iii.L. j '(!.,.. "''"Pi ume un hv.,avernor nrnHntm. If tnv r if h. j He can Proclaim houinV."1?' th "ate's econ- Property Sale Plans Progress Preliminaries in a lariw .nolo oroDertv transactinn that m Dring a new million-dollar shop ping center to Eugene appeared moving ahead Monday. Dirprtnrc nf the TTifet ruHiRt.'nn Church Sunday afternoon agreed to give favorable consideration to the possible sale of their property 'On Oak St. shnillri a ripfinila nfta be made to them. THE CHURCH was aDDroached last week by representatives of an unnamed commercial organization. At the same time, the city admin istration was contacted relative to possible sale of the city library site, and other owners of property south of 11th Ave. between Oak and Willamette St. were similarly contacted. The First Christian Church has been planning an extensive re modeling project, Dr. Carroll Rob erts, pastor, reported Monday. Sunday afternoon, .85 members of the church board, voted unani' mously to consider the possible re' location of their church provided that property owners around them appear in favor of selling and time can be gained for acquisition and use of a new church site. THE REV. BERLYN Farris of the First Methodist Church also reported Monday, that a district church conference will be held here May 1 to consider the possi bility of a sale. The Methodist Church Is located on Willamette St., on the opposite side of the block from the First Christian Church. At next Monday's meeting of the Eugene City Council, a com mittee report will suggest inquiries with the library board to deter mine whether the library on the southeast corner of 11th and Wil lamette Sts., might be sold at this time.; - .. .. ...... ...... J -,m " ' ' ' "l : ' ' ! "' Mutinous Convicts Seize 10 Hostages In Prison Violence , i.. (Reg.-Guard photo. Wiltshire engraving) TWO LOG TRUCKS heading up the McK enzie Highway for another load, were tem porarily put out of service early Monday when they collided. The truck in foreground was operated By James Hall, 469 YV. 6th Ave., Eugene, who attempted to pass a similar rig driven by Wm. Alexander, 160 S. 9th St., Springfield. Alexander reportedly attempted a left hand turn resulting in damage of app roximately $700 to his machine while the Hall truck received an estimated $1000 damage. Dean Hints A-Test Biggest Yet in U.S. ATOM BOMB SITE, Nev. (AP) The atom bomb to be dropped over the Nevada desert testing ground Tues day may be the greatest yet in the United States. That was the broad indication Monday 'by Gordon Dean, head of the Atomic Energy Commission, who told a press conference that the aerial drop will release more energy than those exploded at Hiro- Trio Missing Near Klamath ALTURAS, Calif. (It) Search continued Monday for the bodies of three Northern California ranch hands, feared to have drowned in Dorris Reservoir, two miles east of here. The three, Carl Pedde, Art Rus sell and Ted Clark, went boating on the reservoir eight days ago. Search for them did not start until Friday. , Since then, the pickup truck they used has been found be side the lake, two oars, a seat cushion, Clark's hat and his fish ing pole have been found in the water. The reservoir is being dragged. A diver, Ernest Mingus, Klamath Falls, also has been called. Mahoney Raps Oregon Demo TjnBTT.ArJn tR Another rHmnnwn,(n ngiftf laarfol hflC flt- tacked Oregon Democratic Na tional Comirutteeman Monroe Sweetland. The current dispute was touch ed off Friday when State Treasur er Walter J. Pearson, speaking at a Roseburg Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, said party harmony was lmposslDie unaer me owseumiu Sweetland later replied that Pearson had aligned nimseu wim a iUi,fiinllvs element" in the party with which he said State Sen. Thomas Mahoney is associated. Mahoney, replying to me oweei- lA .Intnmanf ealH' "Tn hi USUal cowardly fashion, Sweetland, in- 'charges, sought to evade the is sue." He said many porsons nave denounced Sweetland as "a social ist or worse." County Postmasters Elect New Officers jtrk.liisr& w ner, Oakridge postmaster, was eieciea pieoiuem. County Postmasters Association at . . u.-a Catiii. its spring convenuun uc. day. . . -r tvrtoct irpr is tvirs . INew seureidij-ui"" Goldie Fritchard, postmaster at tvi .ll. -d - nrasMpnt and jjiacniy. ncwiMig - secretary are: William Lower of Creswell and Mrs. cen vrcuc. uexier, ... T..i c, nt the fjrnuD Will next incc.1.15 - - r be In August in ine dibu- ton area. NATO Meeting Set PARIS (U.R) The permanent council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will meet next Monday to discuss tne ap pointment of a successor to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, It was an nounced Monday, ' Inside Today Four die as racer slices into grandstand ----- Alaskan bear hunter publishes book PM ' Local World Federalists hold meeting - p" 10 News Briefs Editorials " Sports . "" ,2 Comics Women's News " Radio, Theater -- " Classified 15'18 BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAOUS ' ' It H 1 Washington ' 011 000 0103 . 8 0 Boston ooo 030 two 2 11 : Marino and Grasso: Atkins. Wight (8) Gumpert (81 and Nlarhoa. White 191. sbima or Nagasaki, but: "It will not be the largest bomb that we have exploded. If it were, we would not be exploding It here within the limits of continental United States. We would instead be exploding it at Eniwetok." . ENIWETOK is the mid-Pacific testing ground for atomic weap ons, . Of the troops including the first atomic paratroopers who will be on the scene when the bomb is dropped from a plane Dean said: , t . "They are here to- experience explosion of a type that might conceivably be encountered in battle and react to it and take their reactions back to the unit from which they came."". Discussing the size of Tuesday's blast Dean said the bomb will be larger than any exploded at Biki ni, where the early, post war tests were made. THOSE, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought World War II .to a quick end. . Nearly 1500 troops dug into four-foot deep foxholes about three miles from ground zero will attack the enemy positions. As the troops advance to ground zero, four C-46 planes will drop 120 selected paratroopers of 'the 504th Regiment, 82nd Airbourne Division well behind the enemy lines. British Queen Keeps Pfedge, Inspects Unit WINDSOR, Eng. IP) Queen Elizabeth II made good Monday on a promise she had given the Grenadier Guards 10 years ago that they would be the first troops she would inspect as sovereign of the realm. " It was the queen's 26th birth day, her real one. On June 5 the British people will celebrate her birthday by decree. Dressed in black and with her bowler-hatted consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, closejby, the Queen reviewed a Grenadier Guards con tingent of 600 men on the castle's quadrangle. ! A drizzle cancelled out much of the pageantry that usually goes with such a review. The Ynen car ried no ' regimental colors nor arms. Grey capes shrouded their brilliant scarlet tunics. But three - year - old P r 1 rt c e Charles, at a window overlooking the quadrangle, enjoyed the show. Delightedly he beat time to the guards' band music with his fist and at the end of the parade he put up a creditable imitation of a real guard's salute. Flags Wave as Rome Notes 2,705th Birthday ROME (U.R) Rome observed its 2,705th birthday Monday. Flags of the Italian republic flew from buildings throughout the city. The Colosseum, the Ro man Forum and all the main monuments will be floodlit thoughout the night. , Some 1,000 singers from elemen tary schools sang the glories of the city in a special concert at the Opera House. Workers Battle To Hold River At Leavenworth Weather Experts Fear Heavy Rain KANSAS CITY (AP) The Army, augmented by civilian workers, carried on a grim battle Monday to save the Sherman Air Field of historic Fort Leavenworth from the unruly Missouri River. Some 1,600 men waded through mud in a chilly rain, bolstering a three-mile1 stretch of dikes against the tremendous river pressure. It was a dangerous hand-tO' hand struggle. ' FLOOD WATERS behind the dikes stood as much as nine feet above the level ef the air field. Lifeboats were kept at hand. Most of the work was done without aid of machine. The field was too soggy for trucks. Fort Leavenworth is about 25 miles northwest of Kansas City. The critical area along the flood ing Missouri is now between St. JoseDh. Mo., and Kansas City. If the dike at the north end of Sherman Field gives way, the water probably will .cut a new river channel across, the field leaving part of it an island, flood fighters reported. While the Army fought the Sherman Field battle,-tricky Mis souri Valley weather posed , new problems on 700 miles of the flooding river. WHAT WORRIED the flood fighters was the question: How much will It rain? And where? - All the experts would say. was that a chance of heavy rain exists. But they couldn't tell yet whether It would hit the Missouri basin, especially the, overloaded area from St. Joseph; Mo,, to Kansas City. ..... Even if it rained a full inch in the Kaw Kansas basin, they said, it would raise the Missouri at Kan sas City only about a foot. That would still be well below the level the protecting dikes were built to stand. BRIG. GEN. D. G. Shingler, di vision engineer at Omaha, stuck to his prediction that the Kansas City would be safe this time. But while the downstream battle was not as spectacular as the fight Lady Sylvia - i Gets Divorce From Gable SANTA MONICA, Calif. (U.R) Lady Sylvia Ashley hobbled into court on crutches Monday to win a default divorce from her matinee idol husband, Clark Gable, because "He told me he didn't wish to be married to me or anyone else." The honey blonde Lady Syl via, still suffering a broken foot which she received in an auto accident in Nassau four months ago, received a hefty property and alimony settlement but far short of the $1,000,000 she was reported to have sought. Superior Judge Stanley Mosk awarded her $6002.47 in com munity property. ,'. ! , Inmates Control Half of Huge Michigan Prison1 Police Use Gunfire To 'Warn' Rioters "' "i JACKSON, Mich. (P) jOtij)' j prisoner was killed In rioting t; I Southern Michigan prison Mon- day, the assistant state correct. ; Hons commissioner, S. J. GI1-. man, ceported. ! The first fatality In the day- j long liotln w&j reported a . state police quelled part of the rebellious convicts. .'i Stafford Cripps Sinking Slowly ZURICH, Switzerland (U.R) Sir Stafford Cripps, gravely 'ill former British chancellor of the exchequer, lapsed into uncon sciousness Monday. "Sir Stafford is slowly sinking," Dr. Dagmar Liechti, his physician, said in a mid-morning bulletin. "He has now drifted into a state of deep and painless unconscious ness." Lady Cripps was at her hus. band's bedside in the Bircher Ben ner Clinic. Their daughter Peggy is expected to arrive here Tuesday and their son John on Wednesday. ; Cripps, who will be 63 Thurs day, has been under treatment here intermittently since Novem ber; 1950, for spinal tuberculosis and another "rare and dangerous disease" which never has been identified publicly.' Cripps probably was the moat brilliant member of the post-war Labor government of Prime Min ister Clement R. Attlee, who gave him complete charge of Britain's economic and financial affairs at a time , when the country seemed headed for bankruptcy. Phone Workers Back on Jobs Employes of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Co. returned to work in Eugene and other Ore gon offices Monday, but a strike to save Omaha Tnd Council Bluffs ! "V!"'"!' E1(Wc Com last week, it was still a hard one. '& Limit' Annual Problem for Schools QUICK MA! GRAB THAT SKATE Budget Amount Requires Vote (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of three articles on the forthcomino election in School District 4.) By PHIL WOLCOTT Uilatar-Oaarl suit Writer ' There's a paragraph in the Ore gon State constitution that has caused Oregon's school budget committees and administrators to lose a lot of sleep annually. For some years that paragraph has been the cause of "school budget'1, elections .each spring. School taxpayers have had to ap prove additional tax levies upon themselves to operate the schools in accordance with state require ments. pany is still in effect Louis Eade, manager of PT & T in Eugene, confirmed a Portland report by both management and the union that picket lines have been removed.' The general telephone strike on the part of the Communications Workers of America (CIO) did not result from a contract dispute, but came after Western Electric employes picketed telephone com pany locations and fellow CWA members refused to cross the lines, Western Electric Installers reached an agreement in New York over the weekend, but union officials in Portland id the men will stay off the job until all segments of the union have reached an agreement. Besides the installers, on strike were salesmen, warehousemen and some other employes. Eade said Western Electric em ployes are still off their jobs here, In Portland, Strike Director Arne Gravem said the Western Electric warehouse will be pick eted. He added, United Press re ported, that if salesmen and ware JACKSON. Mich. ( AP) -, ; Six more guards were seized as hostages by mutineers at ; ' the state prison of faoutnern : Michigan Monday. I ',' This brought to ten' tne,; '. number of hostages held by ,. the prisoners. jj Four other guards had been in the prisoners' custody since Sun day night. The method of seizure of the : . additional six was not immediate I '" ly madeclear at the prison. . J ! THE FIRST gunfire of the prls j pn riot meanwhile took place. ' i State police fired four shots when rioters were said to have, threatened guards of a work party inside the grounds. j . The police said the shots were : "warning shots" and were fired : over the heads of the convicts. . , The gunshots came as rioting :f, prisoners still held control of a j! large portion of the mammoth I prison in a continuation of an out- i break that began Sunday night. j The bulk of the Michigan state ; police force was rushed to the scene to guard the beleaguered in stitutlon and prevent any possible j mass escape attempts. - '.' HALF A DOZEN prison guards ',' . had been injured as the rioting ' spread into mid-morning. 1 The quartermaster building, .; containing clothing, was set V ablaze. ... . . State police used tear gas to keep some of the rioters from breaking into other cell blocks. . Meantime, another group broke Into the prison theater, seized mu sical instruments and paraded in the yard. At 11 a.m. officials reported they had secured control of about half the prison. Many prisoners had been,, re turned to cells. - i ; SEVERAL HUNDRED, how-r ever, still were rioting. j': They were breaking windows and raiding. " 1; The butcher shoo also was-aet !!, afire. Some prisoners volunteered t to fight the blaze. They were ( equipped with gas masks and k hand extinguishers to do the Job. j' ine prison vicinity resembled ;, an armed camp. . ?. , State troopers encircled the -walls outside. Another 25 troopers, ; armed with sub-machine guns and j tear gas, took stations on the pris- on roof. '. ;V BEDLAM held forth withln Hhi walls. At least two prison blockCin cluding a mental ward, and the mess hall were reported in control of the rioters at one time. In wrecked Block 15, the iso lated block where the mostdan gerous criminals are confined, the hostages we- held prisoners. Sunday night's riot which oc curred about 7 o'clock in '. this fclock had touched off the series of disturbances. Another followed at breakfast Commonly called the "six per!7mhitn .ndrTrtcSn i" Sf. mf.8 haiL"0" exchanges might -re cent limitation," that paragraph '(.inr,nn- tells the world that.no Oregon sume. "state ., . . county municipality, ' district or body" can increase tax es by more than six per cent over the greatest amount levied in any one of the three previous years unless the voters are consulted. That means, for example, that if $100 was the highest tax levied by a governmental unit In any one of the last three years, then no more than $106 may be levied this year unless the voters ap prove. This is applicable no matter how much the unit's duties have grown, or how much prices have climbed. In the Eugene school system, that means that Wednesday the voters will be asked to decide on a million-dollar levy outside the six per cent limit. Only $429,855 can be levied without asking help from Eugenes voters. Teachers' salaries alone will be more than Thief Breaks Store Window , 6 LIMIT (Continued on Post Seven A downtown jewelry store win dow .was smashed early Sunday and three F.lgln wrist watches, valued at $300, snatched from the window display. A hole was spotted in a window at Skclc's Jewelry Store, . 1027 Willamette St., at 8 a.m. Sunday. Investigating, Eugene police found that two dozen watches within reach of the hole had not been molested. However hasty the thief may have been, he took the preliminary precaution of smashing the store's neon sign to have the cover of idarkness while breaking the large display window. Still others took place. Finally, Hi prisoners swarmed into the big prison yard, taking control tnere, too. :j NOTORIOU8 "Crazy Jack" Hoyt, 11 robber who once used a knife to make Gov. G. Mennen Williams his hostage in a futile escape at tempt, led the original mutiny. The mutineers charged prison heads with brutality, Hoyt s group sent out word Mon day morning that they would work over" their hostages If live ammunition were used against them, prison officials said. At about the 15th hour of the tumult, State Corrections Com missioner Earnest Brooks said that the problem at the moment was to "contain" the rioters. Brooks said the question of "suppressing" the rioters would have to be considered afterwards. The fire in the quartermaster building threatened the destruc tion of supply of .prison guards uniforms, ' ., .i'- Bdard time 8!d by "aying
