Eugene register-guard., July 21, 1954, Image 1

CITY EDITION
No. 202
TWO SECT10NS-24 PACES
LANS COUNTY'S
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WEATHER
CLOUDY
(Complete Report, Page I B)
nos to Ask
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e in uiuue
Counsel
Lcorthy Accepts
L Resignation
5HINGTON uB Sen.
Is on iw-wasuj -iu
Uav tne uemocrauj
insist on a vui-e m
in a successor to Roy
in as chief counsel of
Innate invesugauuus
mittee.
it... U.U) e
man aic-or-ij
icceDtcd Cohn's resig-
hvilh avowed reluctance.
witched Donaia a. our-
fcother subcommutee aiae,
Ln office payroll. He did
I a subcommittee majority
the Democrats ana
(R-Mich) were push-
f showdown move to lire
in closed meeting, the
Littee unanimously con-
fin their jobs 22 other mem-
u (he staff, but witnnew
tation at least for the time
From another former Sec-
kice Agent Thomas Laven-
i manager and assistant
llTV CLEARANCE
irthy confirmed officially
s Surine and Lavenia to
the Defense Department
fused to grant security
Ice to handle secret docu-
He said this was the
the subcommittee, with
bent, had held up Lavenia's
cation.
I subcommittee sent a new
to the Defense Depart
an explanation of its
s (or holding up the clear
: got a quick new turn-
i grounds that a detailed
ivould require the dis
i of confidential informa-
t was asked whether La
Detains his access to ciassi
lalerial in the subcommit-
fies pending a decision. He
I has access, but I don't
he has much to do with
kg classified documents.
s no change in his status.
prthy said in a statement
1 shifted Surine, a former
tent, to his own office pay
give Surine and his family
relief irom pro-Communist
BOtVDOWN"
resignation and the
tr of Surine let the steam
I the threatened showdown
lith Potter and Senators
Symington (D-Mo) and
fan (D-Ark) were seeking
ps ot Doth men.
n said the Democrats re-
1 membership on the sub-
i m January, ending a
walkout, with assur-
( the right to have all staff
Bents subject to a maior-
! of the members.
1 limply insist on carrvine
l rules as present provid-
on said. I assume the
agree with that."
HOME NEWSPAPER.
EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1954
Phone 5-1551
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said Wednesday any-
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a toe Senate, revolving
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the Tenncssno Valtov
Ws legislative program
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although Congress is not
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Iff H"se vole turning
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"commendations to the
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SIGNS ARMISTICE Gen. Georges Delteil signs the
armistice agreement at Geneva as France makes peace
with her Communist enemies in Indochina earlv Wednes
day. Looking on is Jean-Paul Boncour, secretary general
of the armistice conference, who also witnessed the Viet-
minh signature to the agreement.
Picket Accused
Of Striking Man
A "John Doe" warrant accusing one o the pitckets at
the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. with assault and battery
against a non-union employe was in the hands of Sheriff
Ed Elder Wednesday.
The warrant was signed by District Judge Chester
Anderson late Tuesday on the complaint of Magnus Bolken,
a non-union employe, who alleged that he was struck by a
picket Tuesday morning.
George Weyerhaeuser, manager ot Weyerhaeuser s
Springfield plant, said Bolken suffered a cut eye and a
damaged nose when he tried
tn pp. thrniiPh the line. i blanket wage increase of five
At Springfield, Frank Wor-
lev, business manager for
cents an hour." Kraal said this
raised the basic scale to $1.90V$
an hour. The agreement, he said,
IWA-CIO Local 5-246, said he als 10 adj"st wa&es t0 what"
furor lnvol ic aernpr. iinnn rPPinn-
had "no statement at pres-laly betwecn the AFL and mill
ent" in regard to the charge owners.
of picket line violence. 1 Kraal said this is another ex-
d tuple Ul lluw in- Jiia la ma-
torting the news in favor of the
employers."
Carlton Woodard, president of
the firm, told the Register-Guard
Tuesday that there was no in
crease but that the industry-wide
Weyerhaeuser said Wednesday
afternoon that he has instructed
his attorneys to seek an injunc
tion against "illegal picketing"
activities at the plant.
"We will ask the courts to en
join the union Local 5-246 from
all illegal picketing activities
violence, threats of violence."
In Eugene, Eldon Kraal, head
of the AFL's Willamette Valley
District Council, challenged the
details of a strike settlement at
the W. A. Woodard Lumber Co.,
reported Tuesday by Carlton
Woodard, president of the firm.
Kraal said the 250 employes of
the Cottage Grove firm were
eranted a 5-cent-an-hour raise
when they returned to work.
Kraal read a letter from the
firm which, Kraal said, stated
that the new contract is for "a
scale set later would be met.
Attempts Tuesday to contact
the local union officials who
signed the contract were unsuc
cessful. Elsewhere, AFL lumber and
sawmill workers have been au
thorized to strike pine operations
in four Pacific Northwest states,
union officials announced.
The union, acting jointly with
the CIO Woodworkers, is seeking
a 12',. -cent hourly pay increase.
Management generally has con
tended it could not afford addi-
PICKET
(Continued on Pane 3A)
Ike Says U.S.
Won't Upset
Cease-Fire
WASHINGTON IIP) Presi
dent Eisenhower said
Wednesday that the United
States "will not use force" to
upset the Indochina cease
fire agreement even though
it contains "features which
we do not like."
The President also said the
United States would view any
renewal of Communist aggression
"as a matter of grave concern."
The President said in a formal
statement that he hoped the set
tlement would lead to establish
ment of peace consistent with the
rights and needs of France and
the three Associated States of
Indochina.
With obvious misgivings over
the Indochina settlement, the
President said in his prepared
statement:
"The United States is actively
pursuing discussions with other
free nations with a view to the
rapid organization of a collective
defense in Southeast Asia in order
to prevent further direct or in
direct Communist aggression in
that general area."
UNSATISFACTORY PARTITION
The President did not spell out
objectionable features of the Indo
china cease-fire in his prepared
statement. During the question
and answer period at his news
conference, he referred to the
partition of Viet Nam as a very
unsatisfactory situation parallel
to that previously existing in Ko
rea and Germany.
The President also told his
news conference he does not be
lieve that the Communist world
wants war at this time.
He said he does not believe
that the Reds want to challenge
the free world. But he expressed
concern over what he referred
to as the Communist conspiracy
to overthrow free countries by
deceit, subversion, and coups
de'etat.
The President said that if one
good thing came out of the
Southeast Asian experience, it
was for the free world to look
the facts in the face and decide
what it was willing to do to halt
Communism. He said when the
freedom of a man in Viet Nam
is taken away we all lose a little.
NO APPEASEMENT LABEL
The President, in response to
a question, refused to label the
Indochina cease-fire agreement
as appeasement.
He said he hesitated to use
such words because tbey have so
many different meanings. He
said the agreement was not a
satisfactory one that the United
States likes, but he did not know
of any acceptable alternative he
could offer. Since he had no al
ternative, he said he was not go
ing to criticize.
Noting that the United States
had not been a belligerent in
the war, the President said the
primary responsibility for the
Indochina settlement rested with
those nations which fought there.
The American role at Geneva,
he said, had been to try to be
helpful to obtain "a just and
honorable settlement which will
take into account the needs of
the interested people."
U.S. to Build
Security System
In South Asia
LONDON in Red China's
Premier Chou En-Lal and So
viet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov declared Wednesday
night the Geneva agreement on
Indochina points the way for
a similar settlement in Korea.
(AP Wlrephoto)
VIETNAMESE PICKET Vietnamese students carry signs as they picket the White
House Tuesday, protesting partition of their country. The signs read "Partition a
Crime" and "Partition Means Treason." The small group of students said they were
studying at American colleges.
Eugene-Bethel
Voters Decide
Issue Friday
(Voting Maps, Pages 11 & 12A)
Eugene, Bethel and W. 11th
Ave. voters will go to the polls
Friday to make one of the big
decisions in the controversial an
nexation issue.
Either group of voters those
in the city or those in the W.
11th Ave. and Bethel areas
could end the controversy at least
for the time being by voting no.
A majority both in the city and
outside is required in an annexa
tion move such as this. Thus, the
city voters cannot force in an un
willing suburb.
One of the big problems has
been the fate of Bethel s consoli
dated water and fire districts.
The portion of Bethel proposed
for annexation includes only
about three-iourths of the dis
tricts. The question has been:
will the districts contnue to ex
ist and will Bethel people have
to continue to pay the district tax
as well as city fixes, or will the
districts be severed, leaving only
fringe portions to fend for them
selves? Eugene's city council and the
Eugene Water and Electric Board
met jointly Tuesday, with their
attorneys and engineers, to study
the problem. Windsor Calkins, at
torney for the EWEB, said the
law is flexible on this matter and
that there are a number of legal
solutions. Some, he said, will
eliminate the double-taxation
trouble. Others will allow the dis
trict to remain intact. There are
also, he said, solutions whereby
the out-of-city portions of the
district can remain functional,
without the double tax in the
annexed portion.
With this information, the two
groups began drawing up a state
ment to present to the voters.
It will contain these provisions:
That the waterbbard will make
an offer to the district of a so
lution that will provide water
EUGENE-BETHEL
(Continued on Page 3A)
92,000 Men Lost
By French Forces
PARIS OP) French Union and
loyal native forces have lost more
than 92,000 men killed or miss
ing in the Indochina War, 34,415
of them since Jan 1, it was an
nounced Wednesday.
Estimated total of casualties
dead, missing, wounded, or repat
riated for health reasons, is
about 253,000.
Figures for the Communist
Viet Minh were not available.
Total losses in killed, dead of
wounds and missing, through
June 1, 1954, were:
Bar Thanks
Gov. Patterson
The Lane County Bar Assn
Tuesday voted to thank Governor
Paul Patterson for the "prompt
action" he took in filling the
vacancy created by the recent
resignation of Circuit Judge G. F
Skipworth.
A statement given out by the
bar association's public relations
committee said the vote was
unanimous.
Patterson in the statement was
commended for his appointment
of Frank B. Rcid as circuit judge
for the Second Judicial District.
The appointment is effective Aug.
1.
The bar association advised
Patterson that a preferential poll
of bar members was not held be
fore Reid's appointment because
the great majority of the mem
bership had already gone on rec
ord in favor of Mr. Reid in the
event a vacancy should occur,"
the press release slated.
The associations communica
tion to Patterson also stated that
a preferential poll would be taken
by the association in the event
of a future vacancy.
Attorney Charles O. Porter
who recently termed the gover
nors apppointment of Rcid a
"hasty action," was not available
for comment Wednesday on the
bar association s Tuesday action
'Talking Better Than Shooting'
Bunche Reasonably Optimistic for Peace
By JAMES G. WELCH
Of the Register-Guard
A scholarly man who gave his
reasons for holding a reason-
able optimism" about the future
of the world packed a record
audience into every nook of the
Erb Memorial Union Building
Tuesday night.
He was Dr. Ralph Bunche wno
played football and DasKcioa.i
against Oregon, and lost. He
achieved lame in ma i
(mr,iinn tn solve inc unauiv
able" Israeli-Arab hassle, and
Dr."Bunchc's talk will be
broadcast at 10 p.m. Wednesday
over Station KERG and at 10:30
over KUGN. m
, . la UnnA ftf ttlP
won. uuncne now . ""- -United
Nations trustee division
helping solve the problems of
11 countries masnis
colonialism to inuepcn--
VJI.'I Moral Strengt,
from
ence.
TALKING PAVS
nbilml nf the statements the
gentle-voiced Negroid to sub- .
stantiate his opnm sm - - ivp ,hlultfe talking, luncheon with Gov
far hcttcr than jun a imie un
as a participant in the Failing
Distinguished Lecture Scries,
packed the upstairs ballroom of
the student building with a capa
city crowd of 1120 persons long
before the speech began. Then
the public address system was
plugged in and 150 listeners fill
ed a room across the hall and a
like number took seats in the
downstairs lounge, ln the end,
the coffee shop was used by
several hundred more persons
and the hallways were as crowd
jed as Fire Marshal Lester Bar
ker would allow.
RECORD CROWD
Crowds long after the end of
the talk pressed around the
speaker, waiting to shake his
hand or mention a mutual ac
quaintance. Dick Williams, student union
manager, estimated the crowd at I
"between 1,900 and 2,000," say-;
ing that "We've never had any
thing like it before."
Dr. Bunche flew from U. N.
headquarters in New York Tues
day morning, landed in Port-
Tii inn much talking, land, stopped in Salem for a
f '''''' jL
a
Metropolitan French 19,000,
Native troops 43,000.
Foreign Legion and Colonial
forces 30,000.
Total 92,000.
The comparative figure for
Jan. 1, 1954, was 57,585. Most of
the difference, according to an
official, was due to the French
defeat at Dien Bicn Phu
GENEVA I?) France and
the three associated states of
Indochina signed armistice
agreements with the Commu
nists Wednesday that extend
the Iron Curtain around
north Viet Nam, a land of 13
million. The United States
warned it would view "with
grave concern" any revival
of aggression violating the
agreements.
The warning was delivered by
U.S. Under Secretary of State
Walter Bedell Smith at the clos
ing session of the conference in
the Palace of Nations after other
delegates had taken note of a fi
nal declaration wrapping up the
various pacts to end the 7H-year-old
war.
It was taken as clear notice to
the Asian Communists that the
United States intends to proceed
with its old plans for establish
ment of a security system in
Southeast Asia.
V. N. SUPERVISION
Repeating a declaration made
three days ago that the United
reasons was not available. In
January it was 100,207.
On this basis, the official said
it would now be "safe" to count
some 160,000 wounded or repat
riated. Total toll of the war
would be an estimated 253,000
men on the loyalist side, he said
Midyear figures for wounded ' States would not use force to elis
or those repatriated for health turb the agreements, Smith said
it would regard any fresh ag
gression in the Indochina theater
as "seriously threatening peace
and security." He said the Unit
ed States would still seek United
Nations supervision of elections
to be held in Viet Nam, though
the Communists have rejected
such supervision.
"The United States reiterate!
its traditional position that peo
ples are entitled to determine
their own future and that it will
not join in an arrangement
which would hinder this," Smith
told the conference.
Smith told the conference the
United States was not prepared
to "join in a declaration by the
conference such as is submitted."
The United States, he said, ii
resolved to devote its efforts to
the strengthening of peace "in
accordance with the principles
and purposes of the United Nations."
Pioneer-Day
Siuslaw Ship
Captain Dies
MAPLETON William Robert
Bernhardt, 92, believed to be
captain of the first ship on the
Siuslaw, died at his son's home
here early Wednesday morning.
Bernhardt was born March 3
1862, in Chicago, III., and came to
Rosetturg, Ore., with his parents
in 1883. In 1884, he hiked down
the Umpqua to the coast then up
to Florence and to Cushman.
Bernhardt assisted in building
the Saubert Lumber Mill at Cush
man. He was captain of the
steamboat, Lillian, carrying pas
sengers from Florence to Seaton
then head of tidewater. He later
spent 46 years as a marine en
gineer on the high seas.
Bernhardt married Louclla
Mae Owens of Florence in 1895.
She died in 1942. Survivors are
six children, Lee and Kintzlaw
at Recdsport, Ray ot Bremerton
Wash., Howard of Bcaverton, Ed
ward of Gardiner, Robert of
Mapleton, and Mrs. Louclla Wil
son of North Bend; brothers Paul
of Recdsport, Edwin of Cushman,
John of Florence; sisters, Mrs.
Fennic Simpkins, Cushman, and
Mrs. Lillian Christy of Eugene;
fourteen grandchildren and six
great grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Satur
day at the Evangelical United
Brethren Church, Mapleton, with
interment in the Odd Fellows
Cemetery, Mapleton. The Itcv.
George K. Millcn will officiate
and Davidson's Riverside Chapel,
Florence, will be in charge.
'Citizenship' Bill
WASHINGTON The House
shouted approval Wednesday of a
bill to strip citizenship from
3-PAGE DOCUMENT
The final declaration of the
conference was a three-page docu
ment, listing in 13 paragraphs
the various agreements reached
here for establishing peace.
Concerning the partition line
of Viet Nam, roughly along the
17lh Parallel, the final declara
tion said the essential purpose of
the Vietnamese agreement was
"to settle military questions with
a view to ending hostilities and
the military demarcation line
TRUCE AGREEMENT
( Continued on Page 3-A)
U.S. Military .
Supplies Halted
WASHINGTON Ifl All ship
ments of U. S. military goods to
Indochina have been halted as
result of the armistice agreement.
Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill) and Maj.
Gen. George Stewart, in charge of
military aid programs for the De
fense Department, told newsmen
Wednesday orders have gone out
to halt any cargoes ready for
shipment and divert ships already
at sea.
Dirksen said ships bearing mili
tary cargoes have been ordered to
put in at the nearest U. S. con
trolled or friendly port.
the hill to the Senate, was taken I He added that no decision has
without a record vote. been made on shipments not
strictly military in character, but
chapter for civilization," he said.
But he stated that "If reason pre
vails the hydrogen bomb might
become the decisive deterent to
war."
BLUNT CHALLENGE
"It is a blunt challenge and
also a very clear challenge. We
must learn lo live together or . Americans convicted of advocat-
perish together. But I believe jng the overthrow of the govern
that man through his essentially1 mont by force or violence,
good heart will meet that chal-: The House action, which sends
lenge. "
And because it is a shrinking
world, "an international world,"
some organization is needed lo
keep the peoples who live so close
tn(TMhrr frnm nhncinf Ihnir
neighbors. Chlcaco WO 310 805 19 1
Dr. Bunche said he asks critics iNrw York 2im oio ooo- a o i
of the U. N. "What else will do! . "?".. ","J ' m " has annrnnrialed
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, fins Prevented War
he understands Foreign Aid Di
rector Harold Stassen is now
studying this problem in the light
of the armistice terms.
Since 1951 the United Stales
about $2,300,
i rnodik- admit there
u i.iu. ) a m.iior product is
muui "". iphmi. shunting."
M mrch talk I hesitate to say Dr. Bunche, at the university, ence
had World War HI, had not somcl'B n(l nn; Brwr, cievonucr ism
organization backed "by moral ( I)plr0t ,t Ph,artr,phi. ,,.
strength" arbitrated the disputes! naiiimnrr- at waahinatno, nijtht.
- since 1945. He listed a number national league
In his evening talk he said , L , .. .. . J?" Vnrk l ? ' 2 war costs to this country, these
Paul Patter- that the H-bomb is only the log.. . ''"eece. rvasn , K.? . w? ' ""i" i U officials estimated about S1.900,
and motored on to Eugene cal conclusion of a search for'"'"' Tappc, o.oprr is. 1000,000 to $2,000,000,000 of me-
000,000 to help finance France
ad Vict Nam to fight the war
against the Reds in Indochina.
At the Pentagon, defense olfi-
cials said not all of the money
voted by Congress had actually
been spent before the cease-fire
agreement was signed at Geneva.
r. Making a quirk check of the
for an afternoon press confer- weapons of mass destruction.
Now war might well be the linal
BUNCHE
(Continued on Pqqc 3 A)
Rrooklyn at Cincinnati, nlitht.
Philadelphia at Milwaukee, night.
Plttiburfh at 8L LoffM, alfht.
terials have been shipped to Indo-