CITY EDITION
LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953
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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
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N of sound Friday in the
Wit man has ever made.
iNitional Advisory Commit.
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!hed a top speed of 1,327
! the rocket-propelled air-
2.01 times the speed of
lg the Skyrocket tinrW
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pl aid that after climb-
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f'tused three tons of fuel.
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to Los Angeles flight,
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Florence Man
Dies in River
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rPMw. Morrow County
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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.
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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.