Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, November 21, 1953, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953 cyearNojKo m tapes rJ Mtf' r 1 ii 11 11,1 " ' 11 11 " Vi Ft Y .L Kiln I 1 IX 1 1- ' L'J I & fa-"- ill i i WEATHER FORECAST: Eugene and vicinity, cloudy with showers through Sunday. Little change in temperature. TEMPERATURES: Predicted high Saturday, Sunday, 54; low Sunday morning, 42. High Friday, 50, low Saturday morning, 42. Phone 5-1551 fcNTY WAS HAPPENING ON THE CAMPUS of the hcrsity of Oregon I'liuay nigm ana Saturday. Just jot the noisiest oi au, nowever, was tne annual Home- ing noise parade. At tne lett, the third place winner ambling Raids Wow Warning lien from the Lane County sheriff's office Friday night fcted four persons for illegal operation of punchboards pintail macmnes. . Kvo arrests were made in Junction City, one near Fern ie Lake and one in Oakridge. arrests followed a warning last week by Sheriff lard Studies rm Financing new $1,230,000 men's dor- I at the University ot Ore frill be financed partly out tiey on hand and partly out fieral obligation bonds, the Board of Higher Education ti Saturday. pi of the nine board mem met Saturday morning to work accomplished Friday :ir committee in the annual le meeting of the Board. new dormitory, at Emerald itween 14th and 15th, will fan "0" out of the U-shaped Etraub Hall. It will be oc- by the fall of 1955. Board learned that $500,- unused dormitory balances hand. Of this, $25,000 will ked in a bond sinking fund, K 5475,000 on hand. Then pard will Issue $775,000 in ii orjngation bonds to fi the rest of the building. fmg a 3 per cent interest nd regular repayment of 'ids from student rental Fb, the bonds could be re 27 years, the Board said. Ed Elder that if the gam bling weren't stopped by local police agencies, he would step in. In District Court Saturday morning, three o the persons pleaded guilty to aiding a lot tery (punchboards). They were Alice Louise Francois1, -32,- of Harrisburg Marion John Jensen 32, of Junction City, and Carl Kruk, 57, of Fern Ridge. Mrs. Francois and Jensen were arrested at Virg's and Marion's Cafe in Junction City. Kruk was arrested at the Fern Ridge Store i where he lives and works. Each paid $100 fines. Nora Salina Rogclslad, 44, of Oakridge, arrested at the Sports man Cafe there, pleaded not guilty to a charge of illegal op eration of a pinball machine, Trial will be set later. Deputies said they played the machines and were paid off for winning numbers and which is illegal. t Rockets New Jet ed Record ANGELES lATpsf Pllni possfield flew the needle I "puglas Skyrocket twice N of sound Friday in the Wit man has ever made. iNitional Advisory Commit. r Aeronautics said Cross !hed a top speed of 1,327 ! the rocket-propelled air- 2.01 times the speed of lg the Skyrocket tinrW I W only three minutes, pl aid that after climb- ' degree angle, "I did "W to reach lawl olll. f slight dive" in making rly run. ft the Ihrea n,Sn,.l.. II.. f'tused three tons of fuel. "ne nying at 1,327 mph t . ' '"""fii iuci ior a to Los Angeles flight, l" e it in two hours, so P 1 ould leave the East a.m. ipkt .nj ...i. fl Coast at 7 a.m. (PST). F pnysical sensation was no P' from flying this airplane nTJpn lcss lha, ihis kl ;, ,hc P'lot 'd- He's V, ,. -"jiuvuci aDoui ou rr 'he N'ACA. F w he felt Hnrlnff ihr. r" run. rrn.tf;M tt u and a stomach Florence Man Dies in River Assnn.-... m- Garnet Bar rPMw. Morrow County r- eiectea president of ii. v "r rups an Flmt here Friday. A Florence man drowned early Saturday when his fishing boat capsized on the North Siuslaw. Drew Eastman Scvery, 51, was lost in the darkness, but his com panion, Charles Morton Cophcr, 38, swam out and went for help. And state police promptly cited Copher for illegally operating a set fish net in a closed stream. Copher said the accident hap pened at 12:05 a.m. sevcry s toay was recovered at 2:50 a.m. by Harry Midahl, Gene Rash and Frank Gross, all of the Florence area, according to Deputy Coron er Bill Harris. State police reported that the two men, who live on the North Fork of the Siuslaw some four miles from Florence, were oper ating the net near Jackson Bridge at the time of trouDie. rney were netting for silver salmon, police said. Severy is survived by his wife, Lydia; two sons, Drew and Roy of Florence; a daughter, Airs. Neva Levinson of Springfield; two brothers, Walter and Carl, both of Florence; and two sisters, Mrs. Neva Weldy and another whose name was not available. Services will be handled by Davidson Riverside Chapel in Florence. in the noise parade, the Sigma Phi Epsilon and Ann Judson entry, pulls all the stops on its steam rig. Later, at the variety show in McArthur Court, Emery Barnes, captain of the Webfoot football team, crowns Ann Ger- Old UOG rods Return' Home' For Big Game The old grads were "back home" for the University of Ore gon's annual Homecoming event Saturday, and they were taking advantage of the opportunity for a round of parties, back-slapping and watching a good football game. , While some of the alums were getting together for the first time since graduation from the University, others were taking part in some of the many Home coming activities on the campus. The annual noise parade by campus organizations Friday night, was termed a success by student, officials. It was prob ably, more mechanized than in past years, but made just as much noise, if not more. Later, at the annual variety show staged in McArthur Court, best noise-makers of the parade were named by a special group of judges. First place went to Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Orides; second to Alpha Hall and Alpha Chi Omega sorority; and third to Sigma Phi Epsilon and Ann Judson House. Climax of the evening came when Emery Barnes, captain of the Webfoot football team, crowned Ann Gerlinger queen of the Homecoming event. Miss Gerlinger, 20, is a junior from Dallas, Ore., and is enrolled in the business administration school at the University. Most all of the campus living organizations had the traditional Homecoming signs up and in operation before the judging be gan Friday evening. Some were mechanical, while others just said "Beat the Beavers some thing the football squad was look ing forward to doing Saturday afternoon. Winner of the sign contest won't be known until Saturday night, during the annual Home coming dance at the Erb Memo rial ballroom. The dance at 9 p.m. should be a fitting climax to the entire weekend. Dick Schwary's orches tra will play for the happy throng (happy if Oregon defeats the Beavers in football) and Druids and Friars, men's honor arlcs, will tap new members at intermission time1. NEW YORK un Sunshine! trickled down onto the metropoli tan area Saturday, trying hard to burn off a five-day curtain of smaze and smog. The smog fog added to smoke -was a new development in the eastern seaboard's unseasonal warm weather. For three days it was just smaze smoke and haze but Friday night fog crept into the picture. The effect was the same, visi bility almost nil in many places and a damp, stifling feeling on Flying Saucer 'Arrival' Sells Newspapers, GENEVA lift Geneva's major newspaper, La Suisse, sold like hot cakes this morning. The placard advertising the pa per throughout the city announced "Flying Saucer Lands at Geneva Airport." Hundreds of disappointed read- er who found no reference to any flying saucer in the paper tele phoned the editorial offices. They Opera Forgives Flighty Tenor CHICAGO ItTI A New York Opera Company spokesman indi- catcd saturnay mai lenor uoviu Polcri will be forgiven for desert ing from the stage just when he was supposed to murocr tar-men." Polcri apologized to everybody for his "lamentable behavior" Thursday night and John S. Wh ti. the company's assisiani general director, said that prob ably would be sufficient, The company probably wont take any action against the explo sive tenor except suggest that he need a rest. While said. Polcri. 28. brought a new ara matic touch to the last act of the opera "Carmen" when he shouted In Conductor Joseph Rosenstock, finish the opera yourscll. PnWI IhereuDon nuit work for the night, leaving soprano iiiona Lane in an embarrassing posiuon Pnlorl. in the role of "Don Jose' vn unnnosed to stab Misi Lane playing "Carmen," at aDoui mai point. (Rcsistcr-Guard photo, Wiltshire ens.) linger Queen of Homecoming. At the right, some univer sity girls strut down the street accompanied by torch bearers as part of the early evening entertainment. Smaze, Smog Smother Metropolitan New York respiratory organs. The Weather Bureau in New York exepected the fog to the gone by noon, but with the smoke and haze still around, the differ ence would be one of degree. Busy Idlewild and LaGuardia airports were at a standstill all night and through the morning hours. In Connecticut road traffic was snarled and more than 20 acci dents were reported on one stretch of the Merritt Parkway, Traffic on the northern section ar..Sop,Jjyte,Cq5e.GfVes 'Tremendous Lift' to GOP WASHINGTON tfl Republi can National Chairman Leonard W. Hall said Saturday the Harry Dexter While case has given a tremendous lift to the GOP in advance of next year's congres sional election campaign. But Democratic senators said they doubt any advantage the Republicans may have gained will be lasting. They predicted the administration's farm, tax and spending programs will be regarded by the voters as far more important. ' LAXITY CHARGES Hall said in an interview he believes the charges of laxity toward Communists in govern ment, made by Ally. Gen. Brownell against former Presi dent Truman, "have helped us." The impression I have gained by talking to people all over the country is that this matter has given a tremendous lift to our organization," he said. Although Hall didn t say so, he apparently holds the view that - Brownell s sensational charges that Truman promoted White despite FBI reports of White's alleged espionage activi ties put the Republicans back on the offensive after they had lost special congressional elec tions in Wisconsin and New Jersey. Brownell's charges, made Nov. 6, precipitated an immediate storm of Republican and Demo cratic outcries, and Saturday there were signs of international repercussions. SURPRISED A State Department spokes man said Canadian Ambassador A. D. P. Heeney called on Un dersecretary W. Bedell Smith Friday and "expressed surprise1 at the public disclosure the FBI had information from Canadian sources in 1946 about White. Brownell made the disclosure Tuesday when, in testifying be fore the Senate Internal Secur ity subcommittee, he stripped the secrecy label from an FBI letter to the White House in February , 1848. Allies Say Reds Still Hold PO Ws PANMUNJOM UP) The Allies Saturday accused the Communists of holding back some prisoners of war and told the Reds to turn over to Indian custody immediately "all those POWs you still retain." Maj. Gen. J. K. Lacey told Communist members of the Military Armistice Commission that three Korean soldiers who sought refuge at an American sentry box Thursday were ooum Korean war captives wno Had Been forced into the Red army. The Communists asked for a recess to studv Lacev' statement, then 30 minutest jl. . later asked for and were ... . .. granted more time. Mm llAtlU TaII The chief Allied member of the WW LfCflill Hill To Top 30,000 of the New Jersey Turnpike was slowed to 35 miles an hour. Health Department authorities in the New York Metropolitan area and New Jersey were keep ing a close watch on death re ports to see if the twilight-gray smaze" would add to fatalities. Hundreds of persons have com' plained of scratchy throats and irritated eyes and noses, with chronic asthma sufferers being the worst hit. Manhattan's famed skyscrapers often appeared blotted out in the gloom. The unseasonably warm weath er Friday's high was 69.9 has caused this unusual situation: A layer of warm air has formed a ceiling over colder air at ground level, with the upper air acting as a lid to keep fumes and smoke from dispersing. The Weather Bureau terms this an "inversion" of the usual process. The only relief in sight was a forecast of "some rain beginning Saturday or Sunday. A cold wave moving east from Chicago could break up the condition, but that might take several more days. Airliners experienced only mi nor delays during the daylight hours Friday. However, by mid night last night all incoming and outgoing flights at La Guardia and Idlewild airports were canceled. Spokesman at both fields said the ceiling was "zero" at 4 a.m. (EST) and no activity could be contemplated until much later in the morning. Many observers have started comparing the fume and smoke haze with the smog in Great Brit ain last year which killed 12,000 persons. ?vA' b vfK a .JrV. ". km Armistice Commission told news men the ROK soldiers provided evidence that the Communists "have forcibly retained prisoners after they had certified that all prisoners had been turned over to the NNRC (Neutral Nations Re patriation Commission) CEASE DELAYS' Lacey also told the Communists to "cease delays" and get on with the job of interviewing Chinese and Korean war prisoners who have refused to go home. The explanation program has been stalled by Red refusal to accept Indian rules for speeding up the interviews. Lacey accused the Communists of delaying the program deliberately because of disastrous ' results. Only about 3 per cent of the approximately 2,500 prisoners in terviewed so far have elected to return to Communist rule. Meanwhile, Allied and Commu nist diplomats continued efforts to arrange a Korean peace confer ence without apparent progress. U.S. envoy Arthur H. Dean ac cused the Reds of delaying and making a farce of the preliminary negotiations. "Docs it really help you to call me a warmonger, untruthful, a rogue, insincere, irrational, lack ing in common sense and frivo lous?. Dean curtly rejected a Red sug-i gcstion that neutral nations attend the peace conference to regulate the debate of belligerents. He said the suggestion-was merely a Com munist effort to maneuver Soviet Russia into a position where it could dominate, the conference, The two subcommittees working on peace conference arrange ments met for ' more than two hours each, then recessed until 11 a.m. Sunday (9 p.m. Saturday EST). RED PROPOSAL Dean said it appeared the Red proposal on neutrals meant that if a non-belligerent nation attend ing the conference called for de bate on any subject nothing else could be discussed until the neu tral decided that matter was settled. He said Russia, one non-bellig erent the Reds want to invite, would be in a position to com pletely dominate the proceedings, The Communists also want In dia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Bur ma to attend the peace conference as neutrals without the right to vote on important matters. The U.N. assembly has ruled that only belligerents may attend the peace conference, with Rus sla sitting on the Communist side of the table if invited by North Korea and Red China Dean accused the Communists of stalling until the Assembly meets Tuesday in New York in hopes that pressure would be brought to bear to change the composition of the conference to meet Red terms.- Truck Confiscated ' BAYREUTH, Germany Wl Christmas tree dealer complained Saturday that East Zone Commu nist police confiscated his truck and a load, of 8,600 trees destined for Berlin. He said the confisca lion occurred because the police after a onc-by-ono count found 8,000 trees on the truck instead of the declared numbe"-8,000. i-i j .u . i rtw u am rntin. ferfeits, po?M during the night There was nothing for Miis by Geneva University students. Lane to do but stab herself. (AP Wlrrphoto) CAMERA CATCHES CAVE-IN A huge mass or sand (at right) Is shown falling on workmen in a sewer excavation in north Portland Friday afternoon. Wilburn Bycrs, whose cap can be (tccn at bottom center (arrow) was killed. Ted Suderburg, a rescu er, raises his arm to shield himself. Suderburg was Raved by other diggers. The men were in the pit attempting to reach Pat Dennison, 35, the father of nine, who was killed In an earlier cave-in. The split-second picture was taken by Allen dcLay of the Oregonian. WASHINGTON Wi The U. S. battle death tqll in Korea will pass 30,000 when the Pentagon begins next January to close out its books on American casualties in the conflict. After the truce and completion of prisoner exchanges, the death figures stood at 25,604 and the missing at 7,955. The Army Fri day announced confirmation of 400 more deaths among those previously listed as missing. The Army announced Friday that, unless new information ap pears by January, it will declare 4,000 men listed as missing for more than a year as "presumed dead." The remaining Arm missing, unless they are found, will bo declared dead one full year after their disappearance. NO PLANS The Air Force, with 671 listed as missing, said it will declare 170 presumed dead next month. The Marine Corps has 493 missing and the Navy 78, but neither said they had any plana to declare any of them dead in the near luturc. The U.S. casualty total In Ko rea 142,277 killed, wounded ot missing remains the same. It Is a preliminary figure, however, and l.i being checked and re- checked as new information getj to the Pentagon. The change in status from missing to killed was fore shadowed in early October when the Defense Department said most of the missing must eventu ally be presumed dead. LAW EXPIRES The declaration of presump tive death is needed to comply with the Missing Persons act. This law expires next Jan. 31, but the Defense Department is expected to ask for an extension so survivors of the missing and probably dead men may recelv the benefits to which they are entitled. The Army has set forth Infor mation needed for the families and beneficiaries of men who have been or will be declared dead. The regulations, which also apply to such survivors of all servicemen, include: When a survivor is noti fied that a serviceman has died as the result of combat, the beneficiary will be furnished an application form for the payment of a gratuity. This gratuity is equal to six months pay at the rate prevailing when the man was declared dead. Survivors are entitled to whatever portion of a missing man s pay that accumulates while he is missing and which has not been previously allo cated, such as for allotments or savings bonds. Immediately after a service man is declared dead, the Veter ans Administration will be noti fied. The VA will then help sur vivors collect whatever govern ment me insurance is due them. COBURG'S BRONCOS WIN THIRD TITLE Coach Jack Mitchell's Co burg High Broncos annexed their third straight state six- man football championship by defeating Halfway High's Wolves, 58-1.1, before 2,800 spectators in the Inches-deep mud at Civic Stadium Friday inght. The Bronco threatened t cut the game short with a 31-0 lead In the first quarter when, according to tlx-man rules, a 45-point lead would have end ed the lame. Coburg scored touchdowns on the first two timet they handled the ball from scrimmage, despite the slippery footing of the stadium field. Quirino Urges Far East Aid MANILA tfl President Elnid- lo Quirino proposed Saturday that the United States bolster far eastern democracies in their bat tle against communism by taking the lead in formation of a South east Asian economic union. Quirino, defeated in his bid for re-election this month, outlined his plan to U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon during a 7S-min-ute conference tho longest Nix on has had with a chief of state during his goodwill tour of the Pacific. There had been reports Quirino would renew his angry charges of U. S. intervention in the Philip pines presidential election. But thcro was no mention of politics at the meeting. Quirino said a Southeast Asian union should be economic rather than military because Pacific na tions have insufficient military strength. He expressed confi dence that the cold war against communism will be won with V, S. aid.