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,
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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
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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
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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.
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'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... -
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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.;
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Mutinous Convicts
Seize 10 Hostages
In Prison Violence
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(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, '
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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. ,'.
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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