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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.
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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
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(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
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" 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
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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."
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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,.
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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.