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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952
CITY EDITION
Phone 5-1551
0IOUS HERO
.S. Soldiers
ked Drowned
fall of Water
IAP) Thirty U. S. soldiers on a Irainine
ff jav were feared drowned by a wall of water
,'!f( them MJUuem,y 00 hicj uusacu a OOUm
L,l)J)-United Na-
iimc '"-1 Ram from a
aiijainsi u , ashed Okinawa
i(Sijy tllgni anu
,, klistine two tar-
iiiut night raid at
d following up witn
iiaek on a cement
Targets
.'only 12 of tlie 43111 Infantl'.y Division men lost
,:.v's tragedy nave ueen recovered, a division
d, Dredges and grappling hooks swept the un-
iiieuuucu river rur me oilier
10 m:r.r.;Hr - f l .1
iu jiiiaamg men. wiie Doay
nlailOC was found 68 miles dowri
UIQIICj stream.
me iiiuiuuuct one ouicer and
29 enlisted men.
Names were withheld until next
of kin are notified.
9 FT. WALL OF WATER
typhoon which
and Korea this
week unleashed the crushing
nine-foot wall of water in the
normally knee-deep river.
. The men, part of one platoon,
were trapped on a sandbar as they
started to ford the river.
The Army said the platoon
leader lost his life trying to re
organize his men and get them to
safety when the flash flood roar
ed down the stream.
It called the tragedy an "Act of
nasi, of bariwon,
nkets, machine guns
apilm, the jellied
3i use the Commu-
fangyans deplored
i tartaric'
Jasand B-26 light
kid bombs, bullets
lie cement laciory,
(toiUings, damaging
leaving the enure
Janes and smoke,
iriets. F-80 Shoot-
rrfor-driven F-5iGod" and said the trickv terrain
tOT-engined B-26'sj in Korea made sudden river
I: on the target area; floods possible at any time.
TRUCK BOWLED OVER
A truck bearing eight men and
some ammunition was caught in
the flood as it started across at a
shallow point.
GED auuucn use oowieo over rne
id ' heavy sengers downstream.
lainst the Commu-1 Eleven of ,ne ,atoon
a same Pyongyang, swept onto higher sandbars and
lie it clear that the i ,,., j
,i attacks are begin-, The 45th divjsion oriinallv w,
.,;., ch-aia)"113 ,lp ot Oklahoma National
r . m In Guardsmen called to active duty
StCommumst MIG- but in recent months jt has
:s near Sinuiju mcome somethinR of a rainbow di.
aalate in the 6y;vMn ,j,h ,mi. , .
Ei. ,1 nus- lanT the United States making up its
s It wu the second;-.-,,, v
:it !he Sabres chalk- i
-its.
is were made by
2 Kites, Roadhouse,
Charles Owens, Or-
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llfuilt phnln, Wiltshire rnsrnviriK)
GEORGE S. KEBELBECK of San Pahlo, Calif., is lifted to a litter by Eugene Ambulance
Co. attendants after he was injured Thursday morning when his car left Highway 126
near McKenzie High School.
4
Minesweeper
Hit by Reds
: time, the Far East
-.-j.-tu mice i-vincii- I
Hi ciW Ant,., WnA
:Comraunist lines in ! WA,S",?TON ()-The Navy
.reported Thursday the destroyer
mi nesweoner Thnmnsnn was hit
WCK Ibv Communist shore puns off the
anti-aircraft fire East Coast of Korea Wednesday.
M it stopped as the Four men were killed and ten
te city to drop seriously wounded.
tons of bombs. One shell, believed to have been
aeship Iowa team- of 105 mm. caliber, struck the
sailer ships to blast ! vessel's flying bridge, damaging
p plant south of the pilothouse and navigating
'aEast Coast. ;equipment.
p was quiet. Only ! The Thompson was hit earlier
wumst probing in the Korean war, on July 14,
wal patrol actions 1 1951, when three of her crew
were killed and four wounded by
Communist guns.
n Reported
i Child
N treating little
fn of a truck and
F Monday, reported
r- mursciay was
Pi but still criti-
!mg treated at
aU(i hospital.
uticonsrinnc ov
fWods since she
.'wk driven by
Jr., of 4733 Un
"r?lield. The acci-
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filler of Mr. and
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13 Candidates
File Petitions
Although Wednesday evening
brought one deadline in the filing
of nominations for Eugene city
government posts to be filled in
November, the list of candidates
and likely candidates continued
to grow Thursday.
Wednesday's deadline was set
by the city recorder's office a
week in advance of the actual
legal closing of filing privileges.
This was done to facilitate check
ing of signatures on nominating
petitions and 13 candidates filed
by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Thursday, friends of George S.
Owen reported that petitions soon
will Be'fllM firms' Taenalf, nomi
nating him for election to the
City Council from Ward Three.
Owen is a resident of the new
est section of Eugene, the recent
ly annexed "North Grand St." dis
trict. With Owen's candidacy presum
ably assured, the starting lists in
the City Council races appeared
like this Thursday:
Ward One Robert P. Booth,
incumbent, and Elbert O. Finch.
Ward Two Jesse Godlove, in
cumbent, and Eva F. Johnson.
I Ward Throe Earl Britton.
Charles E. Wolff and George E.
Owen. (Councilman Ray Allen,
retiring.)
Ward Four Marion Moyer, Al
Peake and Ed Cone. (Councilman
J. Don Smith, retiring.)
Mayor V. Edwin Johnson still
was without opposition in his bid
for re-election, but a contest for
the Ward Four post on Eugene's
Water & Electric Board drew a
new entry Wednesday. B. I. Clas-
Injured Man
Said Critical
The driver of -a car which left,
the road opposite the Blue River
School early Thursday morning is
being treated in a local' hospital
where his condition is described
as "critical."
He is George S. Kebelbeck, 38,
of San Pablo, Cal. He was visit
ing his mother, Mrs. George Keb
elbeck, 240 Sunnyside Dr., in Eu
gene. State police said Kebelbeck was
driving east, along the McKenzie
Highway when his car went out
of control on a curve near Mc
Kenzie High School. The machine
left the road, went into the ditch,
More Workers
Threaten Strike
By UNITED TRESS
A strike by some 25,000 Inter
national Harvester Co. Farm Im
plcment works brought a new
crisis Thursday in the nation's al
ready turbulent labor scene.
The possibility of a crippling
strike by 100,000 non-ferrous met
al workers became clear after the
Political Pot Boils
With 3 Ingredients
ADLAI
Opponent Zays
IkeaMe-Tooer
In Policy Stand
MINOCQUA, Wis. (U.R) Gov.
Adlai E. Slevenson Thursday de
scribed Dwight D. Eisenhower as
a "me-too" candidate "in a sense."
He said Eisenhower, the Re
publican presidential nominee,
had given general approval to the
Democratic Party record of the
past 20 years in a speech at Boise,
Idaho, Wednesday.
Stevenson, the Democratic pres
idential nominee, also charged Ei
senhower with "interesting but
obsolete" criticism of national
health insurance proposals and
the Brannan farm plan.
ri;ads from notes
The Illinois governor comment
ed on the Eisenhower speech at
an outdoor news conference held
in chilly breezes at the summer
home where he is taking a thiee
day holiday. ,
Reading from notes, Stevenson
said:
"I am glad that the general dis
approves of unnecessary expan
sion of the services directly per-
And then he said that if this 'formed by the federal govern
country had not reacted it might 'mcnt. I have been preaching and
be involved in much more serious! writing about, that for a long time,
most recently at the Illinois State
Fair last week.
The governor was asked about
the points in Eisenhower's politi
cal credo. He said they included
programs which were called "so
cialistic and radical at the time
they were enacted."
IKE
General Backs
Prompt Action
In Korean War
'Blunders' Blamed
For Bringing War
KANSAS CITY, Kas. (AP)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
said Thursday this country
might face much more serious
trouble now if it had not "re
acted" to the 1950 Communist
attack on South Korea.
The Republican presidential
nominee made the statement in
reply to a question at an open
meeting with GOP leaders from
seven midwcslcrn states.
F.isenhower said he believes "we 1
could point nut terrible blunders"
which brought on the Korean war.
"IN GREAT DANGER"
But he added "I believe we
would have been in great danger
if we had not reacted" by meet
ing the Communist aggression.
HST-
trouble now.
Eisenhower's stand lined him
up with President Truman on the
matter of going into Korea, but
the general stressed he feels "ter
rible blunders" were made which
brought on the Korean war. '
Eisenhower flew in here from
"ME-TOOF.R"
He then was asked if he re
garded the GOP nominee as a
"me-too" candidate.
"Yes, I think I can detect that
in a sense in his approval of
everything done before, in approv
ing the general record of the
Democratic Party for the past 20
Shuffle Made
In School Post
Ray Hendrickson, physical edu
cation supervisor and coach at
University High School, has been
named as principal of that school,
and Lloyd F. Millhollen, former
principal, will work jointly with
School District No. 4 and the Uni
versity of Oregon. The changes
are effective immediately.
Clarence Hincs, superintendent
t Unnln TV...-...... --irl
rCu.r ii,.-i. i1-..k ? Millhollen will work halt time as
director of secondary education
for School District No. 4 and half
Boise, Idaho, early Thursday for
International Union of Mine, Mill i the conference with midwestern
and Smelter Workers asked its GOP leaders. i
members for a strike vote. In a speech in Boise Wednes-
. The independent Farm Equip-'day night, the general said paths
ment Workers called a strike! to the extreme left and far right,
against Ifl Harvester plants injboth load to tyranny and that
thrno ctalpc nflnr rlpvnnth.hniir i lh Truman ariminiclrutinn Je
then re-crossed the road and Hip-(negotiations for a new work con-1 traveling to the left.
ped over twice before coming to,, hi-oko down Tho slriko hp-1 At Rnio FinV,o,...r tnM
gan at 11:01 p. m. Wednesday i police-estimated crowd of about
iiiKiii. 1 6U.111HI persons; !thi
i nu iviuie, mill ana amcneri we nave naa lor a long lime a ,u .v(pflmn.
union, which has worked without government in power that ap-i ,,,, it ho ,h m.
contractu for more than a month, plies the philosophy of the left to!pajgn m Wisconsin and ask for
announced in Denver that a strike government." !,he ncfea- ot' Sen. Joseph . Mc-
vote had been requested from thej And he said centralization of earthy, Republican, a contro
locals and that the results wouldlpower in Washington has become ei-siaV figure as a 'result of his
be announced Sept. 2 or 3. -so great that the government (attacks on the State Department
rest. Police listed it as a total
wreck.
Kebelbeck's injuries were tenta
tively diagnosed as chest and back
fractures, A passenger, Harloy
Ream, also of San Pablo, suffered
only minor injuries.
Oluf Houglum, incumbent EWEB
director. L. W. Tromlitz is run
ning for reelection to the EWEB
without opposition in Ward Three.
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C. L. CARPENTER
To Head County Campaign
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Banker Aids
jChest Drive
' C. L. Carpenter, assistant man
ager of the U. S. National Bank,
will be chairman of the county
division of the 1853 Community
Chest campaign. The announce
ment was made Thursday by
Dean Pape and Nat Giustina,
chairmen of the campaign which
will attempt to raise $184,058.24
for support of the 29 Chest ag
encies. Carpenter, formerly associated
with the bank at Junction City,
is widely known in the smaller,
towns and rural areas of Lane
County. He has announced he
will appoint three division chair
men to help him in soliciting con
tributions from areas outside Eu
gene and Springfield.
Now secretary and , a member
of the board of directors of the
Lane County Community Chest,
he has served previously as coun
ty chairman and on several di
vision assignments.
Tornado Kills
1 at Fairgrounds
SEDALIA, Mo. W) A tornado,
centering its fury on the Missouri
State Fair Grounds, struck the
Sedalia area early Thursday, kill
ing one man and injuring 17 oth
ers. The Sedalia Democrat said indi
cations were that the damage
might reach $5 million.
Of 180 tents housing exhibits at
the fair grounds, only eight or
nine remained standing after the
storm.
Permanent buildings on the fair
grounds lost roofs or suffered
other damage.
A tremendous rain 3.76 inches
accompanied the storm, burying
most of the roads leading to the
grounds under water varying in
depth from 18 inches to three feet.
Ambulances, fire equipment and
doctors dispatched on rescue work
were forced to detour to get to the
scene.
Heavy damage was inflicted in
the city of Sedalia,
Deadwood Creek Fire
Brought Under Control
a sn-nrrp forest fire on Dead
wood Creek was under control and
fully trailed inursaay inumniK.
Mapleton Ranger Station reported
50 men on me me cu.ic
idav had been cut to 30, and that
! "mop-up" operations were in pro
r. Thursday morning.
The blaze in Western Lane
County is located about seven
miles up Deadwood Creek, north
of thi Siuslaw Highway near
Swisshome. It was on "steep but
not verv rugged" ground on Sius
law National Forest land.
time as supervisor of practice
teaching for the university.
Hendrickson, who has been phy
In Washington, Francis A.
O'Neill Jr., chairman of the Na
tional Mediation Board, had some
cheerful news when he said both
sides in a New York Central Rail
road dispute have assured the
board they hope to settle their dif
ferences without a strike.
The Mediation Board is refer
ecing talks between the NYC and
three rail brotherhoods the
Brotherhood ot Locomotive En- plause several times
ginecrs, Brotherhood of Locomo- He disregarded his prepared
tive Firemen and the Order of; (ext. and relied on off-the-cuff
Railway Conductors aimed at remarks.
avoiding a strike on the lines;i)oWN THE MIDDLE'
Eastern Division.
"docs everything but come in and j Without commenting directly,
wash the dishes for the house- Stevenson read with apparent ap
wives." Iproval an editorial in the Mil-
The general spoke from the waukee Journal, telling of a bookr
steps of Idaho's Capitol in making let prepared by a committee of
what his associates had billed in Wisconsin Republicans who want
advance as his first frankly po
litical speech since winning the
GOP nomination July 11.
He got a rousing ovation at the
outset and was interrupted by ap-
The hard coal industry and the
United Mine Workers union
scheduled another conference
Thursday in their contract negotiations.
sical education supervisor for all Une VUintliplet UieS
schools in the district as well as a
SAO PAULO, Brazil OP) One
"The greit problem of America
today," he said, "is to take that
straight road down the middle, the
path of progress that will never
allow tyranny to become the
feature of the American govern
ment." The general promised that as
President he would devote all his
efforts to providing a government
teacher and coach at Uni High, f th . , pmntuplets born to! "that docs not grow complacent,
,1,111 una tha nttv cma bf htfhi M. .. - - . I . . . . . ..
will see the city smaller
school through its last year.
j.iic sliiuui wi.i uc ciMMiinn-w " hncnilal hara Thiircrtnv. Tha nthpr tham that rina not. hncoina
the fall Of 1953, HinCS Said, When:.,, mara in an inrhalor! nt in th v.mP nf He r
me new r.UKUiie mu oliiuui
placed
maternity
hospital.
BATON ' ROUGE, La. (ff)
Louisiana Democratic leaders
pledged to Gov. Adlai Stevenson
the party's 10 electors and rooster
emblem but withheld endorsement.
The 100 - member Democratic
arro-i State Central Committee whipped
gant in the exercise of its power, iup a 77-9 vote Wednesday to as-
The but strives to be the partner and sure the Stevenson - Sparkman
Mrs. Maria Albano, 38, at Sao that does not grow away from the
building is i opened to students i of; mother nad previousiy given birth'servant of the people and not ftiekct full billing on the ballot
Adlai Declared
Held to FDR,
Truman Records
President Sees
Self as Key Figure
WASHINGTON (UP)
President Truman said Thurs
day Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson
must run for president on the
record of the Roosevelt and
Truman administrations.
This, Mr. Truman told a
news conference is all the
Democratic Party had to run
on. the President said this
makes him (Mr. Truman) a
key figure in the campaign.
He said he knows nothing about
any mess in his administration.
The President made the statement
when asked if he had any com
ment on an exchange of letters
between Stevenson and the Ore
gon Journal of Portland in which
the Democratic presidential nom
inee said he would do his best to
"clean up the mess in Washing
ton." NO COMMENT
Mr. Truman had no comment
on a recent statement by Sen.
John J. Sparkman of Alabama,
Democratic vice presidential nom
inee, that the steel strike had been
mishandled throughout. Spark
man made the statement in an in
terview with the magazine U.S.
News and World Report.
The President gave the same no
comment answer to a question
whether he is satisfied with the
way Stevenson and Sparkman are
starting their campaigns.
He said he would not be ready
to announce his campaign plans.
said that he likes !other than the Labor Day speech
"the middle of the road between ; at "liiwauKie, until later.
REPUBLICANS WRONG
Mr. Truman refused comment
on Republican presidential nomi
nee Dwight D. Eisenhower's
speech at Boise, Idaho, Wednes
day. The President said he hadn't
read it.
He said he would reserve his
comments on all Republican polit
ical speeches until he takes the
stump himself. He said he thinks
he then can show that the Repub
licans were categorically wrong.
Mr. Truman said all the Repub
lican political stands are wrong,
that he and the Democrats were
right and that he is going to prove
it when he starts campaigning,
TRUMAN NO TARGET
He said he knows exactly what
the Republicans are going to say
in their campaigning. It will be a
repeat, he said, of the campaign
promises of Wendell L. Wilkie in
1940 and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
in 1944 and 1948.
Mr. Truman's remark Stevenson
will have to run on the New Deal
Fair Deal record came when he
was asked if he thinks he is be
ing made a target by Stevenson
and Sparkman by their references
to a "mess" and the handling of
the steel strike. He said he
couldn't be their target, but that
he will be a principal target of
Eisenhower and his Republican
backers.
McCarthy defeated
The governor said he would like
to see the booklet himself.
"I am confident that, fully in
formed, the people of -Wisconsin
will correct their mistakes," he
said.
Stevenson Gets
Louisiana Slate
me present, fusy"" ""' to seven children
versny nigu. muii, jiiiius mih,
Hendrickson will become director
of physical education and ath
letics at the new school.
Eugene Moose
Win Award
The Moose International Con
vention Wednesday awarded a
plaque to the Eugene Lodge in
recognition of the local group's
civic activities. It was one of
nine awards given to lodges across
the nation.
In Eugene, Lew Madsen. chair
man of the lodge's community ser
vice committee, said the local
group has engaged in a number
of civic activities the past year
including support of junior school
patrols, sponsorship of a teen-age
bowling league and the city fire
men's basketball team, help to the
Childrens Hospital School, the
Community Chest and Red Cross.
The Eugene organization also
purchased a new inhalator for the
fire department, gave over its
park for Girl Scout day ramps,
and assisted in Easter Lily Seal
sales and the March nf Dimes.
The local lodge's state cham
pion degree staff Thursday was
participating in national compe
tition at Chicago where Fritchof
T. Sallness of Saginaw, Mich.,
Wednesday was elected supreme
governor of tha Loyal Order of
Moos.
I their master."
German Socialist,
Foe of Reds, Dies
BONN, Germany fP) The
strongest foe of West German re
armament and alignment with the
West, Socialist chief Dr. Kurt
Schumacher, died here last night.
He was 56.
The fervent leader second only
to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
as a political force in postwar
Germany succumbed to a blood
circulation ailment.
A cripple with only one arm
and one leg, he had been failing
ever since his health was ruined
in Nazi concentration camps.
Quiet, soft-spoken Socialist Par
ty Vice Chairman Erich Ollen
hauer is slated to inherit Schu
macher's party leadership. Ollen
hauer is expected, however, to
keep pushing the Socialists on the
same nationalistic course opposed
to communism on the one hand
and European federalism and
common defense on the other.
The son of a Prussian official,
Schumacher studied law and the
labor movement and entered poll
tics as editor of a provincial Social
Democratic paper, His life was a
stubborn battle against chronie ill
health and political enemies.
H lost aa arm lighting In
..... " "
It was a victory for Stevenson
and Sen. John Sparkman of Ala
bama, the national party nomi
nees, although members said they
were not necessarily endorsing
them and certainly were not en
dorsing the party platform.
A top party platform leader
who asked not to be identified
said the action gave the nominees
a seat in the balcony instead of
the front row of the party."
Members snuffed out a "split
ticket" move by a 58-32 vote.
Committee Vice Chairman W. ,1.
Erikson of New Orleans termed
the final decision a big Stevenson
victory because "it pledges our
electors to the ticket."
In the past, the committee
usually has not pledged its elec
tors.
KURT SCHUMACHER
German Lender Dies
World War I. The Nazis threw
him into a concentration camp in
1933. Ten years of brutalities aid
poor food permanently weakened
Runaway Log Truck
Kills Gardiner Man
ROSEBURG (P) Irl Ira Mays,
58, Gardiner, was killed Wednes
day when he jumped from a run
away truck on a logging road 26
miles east of Reedsport.
The empty gravel truck, driven
by Herma V. Kerth, Portland,
wont out of control when the air
brakes failed. The truck over
turned just as Mays tried to jump
clear and he was crushed beneath
it.
Kerth and another passenger,
Richard A, Harmon, Scottsburg,
were unhurt. All three were em
ployed by tha Gardiner Lumber
to.
WASHINGTON (U.R) President
Truman refused comment Thurs
day on Swedish newspaper
charges that, secret service agents
guarding his daughter Margaret
had roughed up Swedish citizens.
But he defended secret service
agents as being always right.
Mr. Truman replied no when
asked at a news conference if he
had any comment on the Swedish
incident.
He also said in reply to a ques
tion that he is not making any
special investigation of the mat
ter, but that he is reading all the
reports as they come in.
Asked if the three secret service
agents accompanying his daugh
ter on her European tour had been
given any new instructions, Mr.
Truman said no. He added that
they didn't need any, that the
secret service is always right.
Inside Today
Americans survive freighter
sinking in Channel page 5
Dave F.pps defends his vote
for Stevenson, Page 6.
Editorials race 10
Business news .... Pages 12-13
Women's news . Page IS
Comics - PW 1"
Theater, radio Page 17
Sports Pages 18-10
Foods sectloil Pages 21-28
Classified - Pages 32-37