Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, June 13, 1952, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'JINX' DAY ciHav the 13th but don't lei It Id Fris the ony Fridily tne i3lh Ikroif S"- The next day when supersti- "" eraons wl" want ,0 be car,,fwl is titioitf ' "95j lf you're not superstitious. - ' " LANE COUN HOME NEWSPAPER. The Weather Forecast: Fair and warmer. Temperatures: High Thursday, 63; low Friday morning, 43. Predictions High Fri day, 67; Saturday, 74, Low Saturday morn- ' ing, 40. 16 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1952 L,rin Inin nier in Pen Ud Cold Coffee oyer Pleads t.uury " 19-vear-old ;.(UdSutherlin youth several wf , ,, 1 j 4 a part in , killing of Edgar Lee, ,jnteMed to eight years ' ..:.tic.rv Thursday. was indicted lor .second fjtia by a grand juryl i"1" -u. ,,. was re- iTmanslaushter Thursday impleaded guilty. He had Tnot guiy to the second charge. Ljt Judge G. F. Skipworth L sentence. Lie Frazier, 35, also or years on a mB"5"'" dm they beat Edgar F. ,W 55, of Creswell, to . tet November during a i which followed an argu f the way Frazier's wife d the coffee for Lee's I MEN staled they fought lie in the yard of ijowers ih north edge of Cres- ad then took him, appar- sffl ahve, to a remote and aden dry creek bed live t. 4ha ast. Thev returned 111 next morning, found him ud covered the body with : debris, they said. raf conscience got the bet !bim and May 1 he had a 11(11 police about the body. Mat been missed because 3 reputation for leaving the ithout telling anyone. K,who admitted the crime Wire changing his plea to i, told of selling a number of I possessions. But he said Lee kin permission before he IAID HE killed Lee, but fictionally, and that he and n look the man to the re- uii that night only because di't want Lee's wife to find dition. His and Bowers' pli, taken separately, were in pill agreement. CITY EDITION Phone 5-1551 r - (AP Wlrrphnto) SGT. C. DEAN CHASE (ahovc), 24, of Salt Lake City, Utah, an Army ser geant stationed at Fort Ord, Calif., faces a general court martial for writing a caustic letter to Gen. Mark Clark that labeled the Far East Commander's handling of the Koje Island prison camp situation "repugnant and disgraceful." Big 3 Studies X&J i . Possible Talk Over Germany Free Elections Stumbling Block By JOHN M, HIGHTOWER Asnoclatrd Preni stair Wrllrr WASHINGTON f API jThe Western Big Three powers were reported seeking final agreement among themselves rnciay on the precise condi tions under which they would tie willing to discuss German issues with Russia. State Department otfiicals said after talks between Senretarv Acheson and the British and French ambassadors here that there was no basic disagreement on the subject of a Big Four meeting "provided certain condi tions arc met." I Mountain ihway Open foie Hijrhway. now Icnnum & 126. was opened Friday S (raff in th. ci TtiL Utnmission offices in Eu- miuuacea, nid-Junt Ptked pass over the Cas- nugen to Bend was to scneauii" although u opened as early as J st year, ,"51-52 snow clearing job Particularly difficult be soUd Pa d '""oval from highways in j!i ;ecom an annual ; r battle. During 1920- -W the ma i , fW,J ovelin, sow, it si., i . sweep off Hf.ByWo It was a dif F norv v th iic . . hi' " trucKs and number of plows plus 29 ?.nlPrim."V highways , her $996,320 to do Mekaates rhis 1 backin. came here J,. nomination tn qZ bdCfly Ne ? the "rrn t wa' ,0 his S??u.hoW 'shirt-sleeve Saltern,, "es 70 dle n8'" to the Chlca-convention. Nhis l,Ters that he IS dClt POrph nt Ul- trn thUt'lkirts of the 'he war between h. CatenV!lri'" lhPenn N in th.P.llce' estimated Donna Dies ert8,d?nna bth on -? SCa d'M Friy In " acontemporary Thousands See Festival Parade PORTLAND VP) More than a quarter million people, by police estimate, massed along miles of Portland streets Friday as the annual Rose Festival pa rade went by with tootling bands and decorated floats. Police Capt. Eugene Ferguson made the crowd estimate of PORTLAND IIP) Crimson Glory, a deep red bloom, won the sweepstakes award in the 64th annual Rose Show here. It was grown by Mrs. David Kopel man, Portland. Clear Weekend Foreseen, Storm Moves to East The weatherman, all too often blamed for a variety of mis fortunes, Friday came to the rescue. He pushed the cloudy skies and showers on east of the Cascades and promised general ly sunny, and dry, skies for Fri day night and Saturday. Even Sunday may be fine. The storm which began Mon day night dropped a total of .72 of an inch of rain on the Wil lamette Valley, according to the gauge at Mahlon Sweet F'ield. Boafner Claims Koje Controlled i: - KOJE ISLAND, Korea (fl) Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner said Friday he has cracked the re sistance of Koje Island's 80,000 once-defiant Red war prisoners. Communist-led POWs knuckled under four times Friday to Unit ed Nations authority. Boatner, the tough prison camp commander, THEY DID NOT specify the conditions, but declared that none of the three Western powers was wining to agree to a session on Soviet-dictated terms. The need for agreement among then suspended for two or three the three arises from the fact I days operations to break up the that the latest Western note in a I large groups of prisoners. This t iwolcott pnoto. Wlltsnire enKrnvlnm AN ELECTION MONDAY will determine whether this school, Cal Young Junior High, will be built this year. Planned for the corner of Norkcnzie and Gillam Rds., the school would relieve crowded conditions at Roosevelt Junior High. Polls will be open from 3 to 9 p.m. at several of School District 4's school houses on Monday. Truman Urges -sSw7f Action On Civil Rights 250,000' to 275,000 and said he might revise it upward. It was a little smaller than last year, he said, possibly held down by a forecast of rain. The sun was bright, though, as the Sunburst, Mont., High School band stepped smartly down the street behind the festival queen's float. Just ahead were assorted horsemen including Oregon's Gov. Douglas McKay and radio's Cisco Kid Jack M a t h e r the latter honorary marshal. Among 22 bands in the line of march was another from Mon tana, the Flathead County High School band of Kalispell. Carrying out a theme of "child hood memories," the municipal float entry from Vancouver, Wash., won the non-commercial sweepstakes from a rose-covered rock. A huge May basket built of thousands of rosebuds and daisies and carrying a pretty girl, was a traditional entry from the Pasa dena Tournament of Roses. Oregon winners outside Port land were the floats of Beaverton, Kiltshnrn. Milwaukie and Clacka mas County 4-H clubs, in that'Lawton Collins told the Senate order. I Friday he doesn't know whether two new pacts wun wesi Germany would give President Truman the right to order Amer ican troops into an international long series of exchanges with Moscow is now in preparation. The Russians have been insisting on a Big Four session to take up the unification of Germany and the preparation of a German peace treaty. In previous notes, the Western powers have insisted that prior 1o a discussion of those fundamental problems the four nations should agree upon a United Nations or other "impartial" investigation of the opportunity for free elections throughout Eastern and Western Germany. When work on the projected new Western note started, Wash ington, Paris and London re viewed their positions and came up' with suggestions as to what they should tell the Russians this time. I THE FRENCH have been re ported favoring an offer to meet with the Russians at an early date provided the conference would be limited to the condi tions for holding free elections' in Germany and the circumstances in which the unification would be effected. There have been some indica tions that the British also would be willing to make such a propo sition but the United States has been represented as not favoring a meeting until agreement is reached with Russia on making an impartial inquiry into political conditions throughout (jermany. British Ambassador Sir Oliver Frank and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet conferred with Ach eson late Thursday. Collins Mum On Pact Issue WASHINGTON (P) Gen. J. was to permit construction of new enclosures. BOATNER WOULD not War Powers Extended With Senate Action WASHINGTON (ff) The Senate Friday adopted a House- passed resolution extending tne President's war powers until June 30. Without this action, the presi dential emergency powers would have expired Sunday. Senate and House negotiators are working on a bill for a one-year extension of a limited number of the powers. artnv "That's nut of my field," said tha Ai-mv chief of staff. He was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations commit. tee, which is holding hearings on the agreements that would tie West Germany into the free world ripfense seluo. Collins told the committee there are no plans "under presenr. con ditions" of sending more Amer ican troops to Europe, WASHINGTON IJP) President Truman called Friday for swift $600,000 School Vote Set Monday By PHIL WOLCOTT Retlittr-Guard Stiff Writer On Mnnrlav voters nf Rr-hnnl District 4 TTiiirpnp will hp adoption of an all-out civil rights . , , . ,. . eonn mill p tv lw fnr cnhnM mn. program backed up by 'the lull " j .j ended' Wt isennUeiy Z thl i t ' That day, ballots at the several school polling places will ebb and I believe the worst is! In Probab'y the strongest state-i contain a measure requesting $600,000 to build a new junior over," he told newsmen. jment on race relations he has ever. high school in the region served by Willakenzie, Willagilles- "I would not be at all sumrised at some future incidents . . . but I have plans to cope with them." Three prisoner comnounds bowed meekly to Allied authority. Then prisoners in another, No. 85, responded to an ultimatum by Boatner and surrendered 21 anti Communist prisoners. "I want no speeches." the hard bitten commander told five Red compound leaders. "Get back to that compound and release those men by 5 p. m.!" AT 4:55, the leaders delivered the 21 to the compound gate. Three of the 21 dashed their Red starred caps to the ground in what has come to be a gesture of antl- Commumsm on Koje.. .... All 21': told of being starved. beaten and tied. Nine were in such bad shape they were taken to the camp hospital. Two had to be lifted to a truck for removal, said Lt. Col. Walter M. Redden of Anniston, Ala., commander of a valley in which half the com pounds are located. Some prisoners, Redden said, showed "gruesome" multiple bruises on the legs. COMPOUND 85 is where tank supported American infantrymen forced removal of Communist flags and signs last week. Six of Koje's 17 stockades of stubborn, Red-led prisoners have been emptied during Boatner's operation breakup. About 27,500 prisoners have been dispersed into smaller stock ades of 500 each, or transferred to new pens to await completion of smaller enclosures. made, Truman took sharp issue with the leave-it-to-the-states ap proach taken by some leading presidential candidates in both major parties. He declared in a speech pre pared for commencement exer cises at Howard University, a Ne gro institution: I am not one of those who feel that we can leave these, matters up to the states alone, or that we can rely solely on the efforts of men of good will. "Our federal government must live up to the ideals professed in our Declaration of Independence and the duties imposed upon it by our Constitution. "The full force and power of the federal government must stand behind the protection" of rights guaranteed by our federal constitution. Specifically, Truman called for adoption of the full civil rights program he laid before Congress in 1948 Including a Fair Em ployment Practices Commission with power to enforce its decrees against' job discrimination based on race, creed or color. Inside Today Bandits take over New York hotel for three hours Page 2 University schedules com mencement program Page 3 Farmers tour experimental projects at OSC Page 16 News Briefs S Editorials 4 Women's News . 5 Sports 6 Comics - 1 Radio, Theater 8 Classified 9-15 French Blast Rebel Forces HANOI, Indochina (P) The French Air Force blasted the Communist-led Vietminh main supply line with Red China Friday in the biggest mass aerial assault since the outbreak of hostilities six years ago. Murray Cites Four Obstacles PITTSBURGH (P) Presi dent Philip Murray of the striking CIO United Steclworkers told his policy making aides Friday that the union shop issue is only one of four obstacles holding up set tlement of the 12-day-old- steel strike. ' Murray, "who' also "heads "the union's parent CIO, declared the steel wage-price dispute has be come a political football.. THE SILVERY haired labor leader told a joint strategy ses sion of the USW executive board and wage policy committee: "I do not profess to know how long the struggle will last." He was given a rising ovation when he said it is in his purpose to "carry out your mandate and the mandate of the last conven tion." He referred to a resolution adopted at the union's convention last May which urged a settlement based on recommendations of the Wage Stabilization Board. THE WSB recommended a 26 cent hourly raise for sleelworkers now earning an average of be tween $1.90 and $2 an hour and also called for a union shop. In addition to the union shop. Fifty-four fighters and 20 Murray listed these other issues American-supplied B-26 bombers as blocking a final settlement: roared over colonial route num ber three, blasting all spans and fords used by the Vietminh for transporting war equipment and supplies received from China. Route three has long been the chief Vietminh link with China, over which they have been getting more than 1,000 tons of war equipment and supplies a month. pie, and Washington element ary schools, as well as some grade school construction. If approved, the $600,000 bond issue would be retired at the rate of $200,000 a year by levying taxes in this amount during the school budget years of 1953-54, 1954-55, and 1955-56. House Studies Two Measures On Price Curbs Proposals Differ On Credit Limits WASHINGTON (AP) The House Friday had two Dills to continue expiring wage-price-rent controls, one passed by the Senate and the other approved by its own House Banking Committee. The government's present au thority for all anti-inflation curbs expires midnight June 30, two weeks from Monday. The Senate bill, passed 58 to 18 ant) sent to the House Thursday, would extend this power eight months to next Feb. 28. It would also add a full year until June 30, 1953 to authority for credit checks and 1 allocation of scarce materials to industry. THE HOUSE legislation, a one year extension to June 30, 1953, was reported favorably by a 15 to 3 Banking Committee vote. But it would end all curbs on consumer and real estate credit, a point at odds with the one-year extension of credit restrictions voted by the Senate. Rep. Spcnce (D-Ky), chairman of the committee, said he expects prompt action on the House bill debate probably beginning Wednesday and winding up by week's end. In final action on the measure Thursday night, the committee added no major provisions which had not previously been approved. Its most important action report edly was a new provision, adopted 17 to 5, to drop a price regulation requiring certain reports from dealers who sell at below-ceiling prices. . COPPER PRICE GOES UP WASHINGTON W) The Of fice of Price Stabilization has de cided on a .34 cents-a-pound in crease of copper and brass prod ucts because of the higher cost of foreign copper. The steel industry's insist ence on a management clause in any new contract. Murray said such a clause, defining manage ment's rights, would allow com panies to launch specdups. The question of seniority. Murray said the U.S. Steel Corp. wanted all seniority questions re solved to its satisfaction. Incentive pay. The labor chief declared U.S. Steel also in sisted on its version of incentive. The union shop. Murray said the industry falsely gave out the impression that the union shop is the only Issue. He called that "a plain unadulterated lie." fj- 'f-f :'i ' M "r ! , , y ijp'vi f t 1 w w4i . L ' rv SUm uk , M In effect, the $200,000 a year would replace the present serial levy of $200,000 a year which was voted in 1951 to build the new high school auditorium. This levy ends in 1952-53. Consequently, the only increase in taxes would be for interest on the bonds. THE $600,000, if approved Mon, day, will provide sufficient funds to build the new junior high, planned for the corner of Nor- kenzie and Gillam Rds., plus enough money for the first unit of a new River Road School. If construction bids on these two projects should -be low enough, some funds will remain for the first unit on an Augusta St. grade school. Estimates of the interest costs made by school authorities are about $30,000 for the three year period, an amount equaling about .33 of a mill the first year, .25 the second, and .1 the third. These figures are based on the 2'4 per cent interest rate paid by the dis trict on the last bonds sold. When the question, "Why not add to the present schools instead of building more?" came up, one school expert, Dr. Carl Huffaker, answered it this way: "THERE IS BUT little differ ence in the cost of building new space whether built on one site or two. The overhead In a smaller school may be somewhat larger per pupil, but transportation would be less. The governing fac. tor seems to be what the district prefers." Huffaker, a member of the University of Oregon Bureau of Education Research, was era ployed by School District 4 last year to make a study of junior high needs. HIS CONCISE report to the school board warned that not only is Eugene two years behind on junior high building needs, but a junior high would have to be built each three years until 1958 to hold the predicted increase in young sters. After 1958, a new junior high might be needed each four years, Huffaker estimated. His report shows expectations of "at least" 2,427 junior high stu dents in 1957, not counting migra tion, compared to 1,763 now. The proposed school, to be named after Lane County pioneer Cnl Young, could expect to have 265 students enrolled in 1953-54 if finished then, lt would be de signed without additions to take a minimum of 250 and a maximum of 300. Additions, of course, could be made in later years, if needed. The plans are being drawn with future expansion in mind,. . ... i j.-.i folks Hore. some of the Clyde CIRCUS PEOPLE AKKl , ann j ... ... . . Beatty Circus people prepare tor ine , e Friday- The i, while Jerry Lynn orove imirsua.y , , . n.jmns iin, whi e Jerry i.ynn Bearded Lady, left, rests her t.red and pnmpi P, . i, hi is vis tins her grandmother, airs. ,:, r. "" . Center. Charles Haiderra, 67, Monterey, v.uH - (rtealster-Gunrd photo, WHtihlra engmvlnff) letter home while in his clown costume. Right, Mrs. Joe Walch docs a necessary bit of repair on Leita, twin sister of Linda who watches, Joe Walch, Bcatty's assistant animal trainer, watches. The Walch twins are 11 months old and have bucn on the road since they wore born. The two Eugene showi are at 3 and 8 p.m. THE SENATE action was swift after efforts to tack on amend ments bearing on the steel strike were abandoned. The bill as it stands contains a request to Presi dent Truman that he invoke the 80-day anti-strike injunction pro visions of the Taft-Hartley Law in the steel dispute. The Senate measure generally would continue control authority about as is, but for eight months instead of the two years the Presi dent had asked. The House ver sion is for one year. This and any other conflict between the two bills would have to be worked out at a Senate-House conference, if the House approves the Banking Committee version. Keynoter Case 'Army's Babyf By ED CREAGH Aiaiiollled Trril 81. ft Wrll.r WASHINGTON (P) Presi dent Truman took a hands-off at titude Thursday toward Gen. Douglas MacArthur's delivering the keynote speech at the Repub lican national convention. But he left himself leeway to ring the bell on the general later should he wish to do so. TRUMAN TOLD his news con ference he regards the keynote as signment as political. But on the question ot wnetner Army regulations forbid such po litical activity by a general who hasn't retired, the President said that's the Army's baby. He went on to say, under re peated prodding by correspond ents, that he hasn't discussed the matter with Army authorities, who have said they plan no action agninst MacArthur. Then the President noted that he is commander-in-chief. And he said that if he was not satisfied with what the Army heads did, he would call them down. Wait and sec, he advised newsmen. BUT AT another point, he said he was sure the Army would han dle the matter as It should be handled, and added that he was not going to interfere with them. Mostly, Truman replied to ques tions with a scries of genial no comments. He wouldn't say, for instance, whether he plans to invoke the Taft-Hartley act in the steel strike. Neither would Truman discuss the South Korean government's ban on Voice of America broad casts over Korean government stations. Missing Man Found Dead William Homer Seay, missing from his home two miles south of Gillespie Junction since May 20, was found dead about a mile south of there Thursday by two loggers. Lane County Coroner Fred Buoll reported that Seay died of a self inflicted bullet wound. A .22 re volver was found near the body. Seay owned a small sawmill He is survived by two daughters in Washington and Texas. A brother, Marion, lives in Eugene, Seay wai a widower. BASEBALL OMAHA (U.R) Texag knocked Oregon State out of the NCAA baseball tournament Friday with 10-1 victory. Danny Johnston accounted for the only OSC run with a nlnth Innlng home run. Norb Wellman started on the mound for the Beavers and was relieved In the eighth by Bailey Brem. The Beavers got but six hit. off Texas Hurler Dick Roberson. AMERICAN i.EAnns NrW York .t Cleveland, nlfht Only same Kheduled. NATIONAL l.r Alllll Chleaitn at Boston, nllht Onif lame tcheduM.