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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER FAIR, COOL (Complete Report, Page 1-Bf toam CITY EDITION IANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. No. 264 TWO SECTIONS-20 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1954 FIVE CENTS Phone 5-1551 15 Chaplains Pray While Parachuting "I EIGHTEEN ESCAPED DEATH-Firemen pour water on the still smoTSg ' h of a C-46 plane that crashed near Ncwhall, Calif., after 15 Civil Air Patrol t chaplains and three crewmen had parachuted to safety. rr .'Checked ieKS Ago lief Ted Brown report l afternoon that Eu- I has just been inspect oral official and found nor 10 most oiners in ported this to City iHobert Finlayson sev- after Sheriff Ed Elder f just such a federal ex t of the institution. it man who made the jt weeks ago is the man a-- nended for the job Parker of the Federal Prisons. reported that although 'official report has not released, that Parker Verbally that the jail at is better than last tt year, Brown said, Dried in the Bureau's plication that: lil is well designed for purposes, has good fa ir the care and treat- lealthy inmates and the Iiffords some measure itative opportunity. Of- competent admimstra maintain control and over jail inmates She use of safe, sound lane operational meth- Wh CHECKED firmed on Page 9-A) NEWHALL, Calif. Wl Pray ing as they parachuted in shirt sleeves, 15 chaplains landed safe ly minutes before their disabled Air Force C46 plane crashed and burned Monday. The three crew men also balled out successfully. "You can be sure there was plenty of praying going on," said the Rev. Lcrtis R. Ellett of Lawndale, Calif., Church of Christ, who is an Air Force re serve colonel. 'LORD WITH US' "This was an occasion when, doubly, we were practicing what we preach; namely, prayer, said the Rev. Neville E. Carlson of Fillmore, Calif. - "The Lord was with us in many ways, even to the fact that the fire in one engine was on the right side of the plane and the door through which we jumped was on the left," said the Rev. Bertil Von Norman of the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church. The group of Civil Air Patrol chaplains from Southern Cali fornia left Burbank Monday in the C46, bound for a regional CAP chaplain's conference at Sacramento scheduled for Mon day night and Tuesday. The chaplains and crew were wearing back parachutes and had been briefed before take-off but mood Official bC President rage, general manaepr ted PlvwnnH Mills Inc fant, Monday night was esident of the Eugene i Lommerce, succeert-iKodway. election Was hv llnani. Ice vote of the capacity the Chamber's annual pneeting. pivaas, Eugene attorney, pea as vice-president; j. Hill, manager of the pie Branch of the First Jia..k. was spip tprf and nampH a.: Hicop. I Frprt T-. . iiiaiipgci lSene Farmers Cream- woore of Moore's Steel d L. A. McCormick, M Big Y SuoermarltPts f unopposed and their maae without dissent. fOR SPEAKS SDeakpi at t i j"iunnaae Koom of the Hotel was Dr. 0. Merc n, new president of the of Oregon. of his first major public ices before a Eugene Dr. Wilson jokingly "M published Chamber 'Wee statistics to prove university is an impor Jf m the economy of the turning seriously to his vestment in Your Uni " Good Business," Dr. Wfc .of this nation's ex u? high standard of liv unparalleled guarantees teeSnsCUrUy and comfort CIDENT 'Sh Comparison of the Posscssions of U.S. citi f those of people else- a earth shows Ameri w.s?ven-l-one advan- .""iiubs, motor cars, or "you. a't happened by acci- -yeaMld University Jn,ed 'or by the natural physical advantages of this coun try; nor by the racial background of the American population. It was the demonstration of the worth of the individual man, Dr. Wilson said, that led to the development of this nation's great wealth. In the days of the first American settlers, each man was needed to help in the com mon task of building a new na tion. Thus, "it was discovered early that not only is life im- CHAMBER fConfinued on Page 9 A) none of the ministers had ever jumped before. Minutes after the departure, smoke began trailing from the C-46. Vibration was felt in the ship, then the right engine caught tire. ENGINE FALLS OFF As two crewmen carried the pilot's instructions to the chap lains to bail out at about 3,000 feet the right engine fell away. Mr. Von Norman, a CAP major, was credited by his colleagues with calm heroism as he helped the chaplains adjust their 'chutes and shepherded them out the door. He was the last chaplain to bail out. The crew followed, with the pilot the last to jump when the ship was probably no more than 1,000 feet up. A half dozen of the chaplains suffered cuts or bruises, wrenched legs or shoulders but none was seriously hurt. Too Many Clams Cost Men $673 FLORENCE A box of clams that cost three men $613.50 later sold for $10.50 last week. The three Eugene L. McKin ley, Elvin Harris, and Robert Harris, all of Yachats were each fined $200 plus costs in justice court here Saturday. They were accused of taking and having in their possession 618 razor clams. The legal limit is two dozen each. The trio was arrested on China Creek Beach Friday morning by State Police Officer Thomas Fithian. The men were allowed to keep their legal limits and the box with the remaining clams was sold by the commission for $10.50. Considering the fines as cost, the men paid about 86 cents each for the small clams. A local fish market estimated Tuesday the clams were worth less than 10 cents each. Deadly Power Of H-Bombs Told in Book U. S. Could Level Major Red Cities WASHINGTON W) A new book says the United States could wipe out every city in the Soviet Union with a rain of atomic bombs today ana witnin another year could do the job with hydro gen bombs 30 times as de structive. "The hydrogen bomb," a copy righted book by Time Magazine staffers James R. Shepley and Clay Blair Jr., warns at the same time that "within only a few years or even less" the Red air force "must be conceded the same capability against the Unit ed States." POWER INCREASED Shepley and Blair say that within another year after 1954" most of the bombs (his country could drop in a mass raid would be H-bombs of at least 15 mega tons force that is, the explosive power of 15 million tons of TNT. This compares with the esti mated 500 kiloton force of the biggest existing A-bombs equiva lent to 500,000 tons of TNT. The authors say the potential strength of the H-bomb is 45 megatons 45 million tons of TNT. "It seems doubtful," the book says, "that any people actually could survive the shock of say 1,000 'obsolete' 500-kiloton bombs. It seems more than probable that no people could survive if one substitutes in the equation the po tential 45 megatons of the therm onuclear (hydrogen) bomb. , . . "Any time in the year 1954, the U. S. Strategic Air Command had the capability, if the President of the United States issued such an order, to rain down complete ur ban annihilation on the Soviet Un ion. . . 1,000 TARGETS "Within another year after 1954 most of the bombs in such a raid would be not 500-kiloton bombs but thermonuclear bombs of at least 15 megatons' force. One thousand Soviet targets wiped from the face of the earth would leave little else to hit even in such a vast land." The Shepley-Blair book, an abridgement of which appears in the current U. S. News & World Report magazine, says atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer actively opposed the hydrogen bomb more than a year after President Truman ordered work on the superweapon begun. Oppenheimer, who has since been barred from atomic secrets, has testified before an Atomic Energy Commission panel that he dropped his opposition to all-out H-bomb research once Truman gave the go-ahead on Jan. 31, 1950. (AP Wircp,iol.ii HAPPY REUNION Richard Applegate and his mother embrace as he arrives at the Spokane airport Tuesday. Applegate and two others were held prisoners by the Chinese Reds for 18 months. Mrs. Applegate came from Mcdford to meet her son. Mother Greets Freed Newsman SPOKANE, Wash. WV-Richard Applegate, the radio correspond ent held captive 18 months by the Chinese Reds, came home to America Tuesday and had a tear ful reunion with his doughty, 74- year-old mother. Applegate ran down the steps of his plane after it landed from the Far East and embraced his mother who burst into tears. "Why are you crying, fatty? Applegate said. "We're home." CREDITS PRAYER Donald Dixon of ' the Interna tional News Service was with him. He stood by and beamed. Applegate, 42 -year -old Hong Kong correspondent for the Na tional Broadcasting Co., Dixon Fipps Admits Arson Guilt Argus Lund Fipps, 43, 1600 N 9th St., Springfield, pleaded guilty to second degree arson in circuit court Tuesday. Circuit Judge William G. East will sentence the defendant Mon day at 9:30 a.m. Fipps was accused rff setting fire Sept. 7 to an uninhabited dwelling he owns, located at 2592 Riverview St., Eugene. .The complaint against Fipps was sign ed by H. H. Howard, captain of the Oregon State Police. dwelling, firemen said, was gutted and the frame bad ly damaged. - mm-' ''''y&m - ' , f-'f Jury Convicts Thrill Killer - NEW YORK Wl A 17-year-old Brooklyn youth, Thomas Wyso- kowski, has been convicted of first degree manslaughter and faces a possible 10 to 20 years in prison for the death of a man the prosecution charged was stomped to death. Kings County Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz told Wysokowski that he was lucky to escape the elec tric chair for the slaying of Thomas Condon, 40, World War II veteran and father of four. After the jury brought in the verdict late Monday in Brooklyn, the judge told Wysokowski: "You went up there on that street, Mr. Defendant, and that human being on the ground was like a bug which you crushed out with an intent to kill. "You got a thrill out of it, That was the typical act of a hoodlum today. . . ." The judge did not comment di rectly on the finding of the all male jury which rejected a prosecutor's plea for a first de gree murder verdict. This could have brought a death penalty. Stewart Joins Fact Finders PORTLAND WV-The Oregon Journal said Tuesday it had learned that Douglas fir oper ators had named Martin N. Deg- geller of Hoquiam, Wash., and Loran L. Stewart of Cottage Grove, to the governors' lumber fact-finding committee. The committee, set up to con sider issues in the Northwest's lumber dispute, is to have seven members. The CIO named Chester Dusten of Portland and the AFL named Earl Hartley of Seattle. Official announcement has not been made of the operators' se lections, but the Journal said the men were chosen by a committee representing six fir operators, Still to be chosen are the final three men, to be named by the Washington and Oregon gover nors. Dcegcllcr is president of Har- jbor Plywood Corp., and Stewart is president of Bohemia Lumber Co. Russia Asked To Take Part in Day of Prayer DENVER tfv President Ei senhower appealed Tuesday to the people of Russia and other Iron Curtain countries to join Americans Wednesday in a day of prayer for world peace as "the true cure" for war-breeding tensions. In a message beamed to the Soviet Union and its satellites over the powerful radio facili ties of the Voice of America, the President said: "May the world be ringed with an act of faith so strong as to annihilate the cruel, arti ficial barriers erected by little men between the people who seek peace on earth through the Divine Spirit." The National Day of Prayer for Peace being observed in the United States" Wednesday was provided for in a resolu tion passed by Congress and approved by the President. Red China Bid Shelved in U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Wl A Dutch diplomat, Dr. Eclco Nicolaas Van Klcffcns, was elected president of the ninth U. N. General Assembly Tuesday. and the skipper of their yacht were captured by the Communists as they sailed west of Hong Kong. Last week, they were sud denly released. ' It was "unified prayer" that did it, said Mrs. Frank Applegate who came here from Medford, Ore., to meet her son. "You're thinner but we'll fatten you up, she said. "We've saved corn out of the garden. We've butchered some chickens and we've got steaks for you." "You shouldn't have mentioned that corn," Applegate said, That's what I've been dyinc lor." The mother clutched her son as he told newsmen at the airport: 1 Knew she was praying and working for my freedom. I don't owe anyone as much for being back in America as I do mother and dad." LOST 50 POUNDS Applegate, who said he lost 50 pounds in Red prisons, is going on to New York and said he plans to write and lecture to tell the world about "those dirty beasts." I lay blame for being impris oned so long on Allan Winnington, the Communist correspondent, who, I am confident, is a part of the Chinese Communist foreign office." Winnington covered the war in Korea for Communist papers, Dixon, 26, was unshaven and feeling shaky." "I don't think the Chinese held us for propaganda reasons," he said. "They held us just because we were Americans. They told us that we were held so long be cause they wanted to check on whether we were spying. It was piracy." UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. un The General Assembly voted Tuesday to shelve for this year the issue of seating Red China in the United Nations. This was proposed by the Unit ed States after Russia had de manded that the assembly act at once to give the Peiping regime the seat held by the Chinese Na tionalists. The vote was 43-11 with 6 ab staining. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky made his de mand ten minutes after the 60 nation General Assembly opened its ninth session. U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. immediately made his counter-proposal and asked that the Assembly give it priority over the Vishinsky resolution. Secretary of State Dulles fol lowed the exchange from a scat in the American delegation, but did not take part. Group to Seek Dog Racing Permit Again State Commission To Study Request A representative of Grey hound Park of Eugene has indicated the corporation will submit a formal application to the State Racing Commis sion for a permit to operate a race meet in Lane County next year. Sidney Milligan, Eugene attor ney who is handling legal affairs for the organization, said the ap plication will be submitted in time for consideration at the commission's November meeting in Portland, Milligan said the corporation is entering into a contract with Western Greyhound Racing Cir cuit, an organization which handles racing meets in other areas, to conduct the racing meet in the Eugene area. Greyhound Park of Eugene has plans for construction of a mod ern glassed-in plant, Milligan said. The corporation's booth at the Lane County fair advertised that the structure and improve ments would cost an estimated $400,000. Milligan said no definite site has been selected, but that at least two in the Eugene area are receiving consideration. C. A. Huntington, commission vice chairman, said Tuesday the commissions regular meeting will be. sometime in November at the call of the chairman, Dr. Frank R. Menne of Portland. Menne has not yet called the meeting, Huntington said. Baseball By Associated Press ' NATIONAL LEAGUE It H F. New York -. 401) 010 000 5 7 3 Brooklyn - 101 000 000 2 5 0 Gomez. Heart! (6) & Katt; Podrcs. Lnblne (8) & Campanella. (10 Innings) R H E St. Louis 020 010 000 0 3 10 1 Chlcaco . 100 002 000 1 4 10 0 Raschl, Brnzlo (HI, Staley (0) It Sarnl; Rush & Fanning. R II E Cincinnati 0.13 000 Oil 5 8 0 Milwaukee 000 000 00O 0 0 1 Nuxhall & Scmlnck; Nichols, Buhl (0), Jay (9) & crandall. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (2), post poned. , AMERICAN LEAGUE It II F Washington 000 010 000 1 4 2 New York ... . 000 001 02x 3 5 0 Stone & Fitzgerald; Grim & Rerra. (First) R H E Philadelphia .. 010 001 100 0 3 1 I Boston .. . 011 000 010 0 4 12 2 Wheat, Dixon (7) & Aslroth. Robert son 18); Nixon, Hlirfl (7), Hudson tJ Kcmmcrcr (10) & White. Chicago at Cleveland, night. Detroit at Baltimore, night. Taylor Named Aide to Boals Byron K. Taylor, an employe of the Eugene Water & Electric Board for the past 23 years, was named assistant to Supt. Ray Boals Monday. Taylor, 50, has been chief civil engineer for the board in recent yoarj. He is in charge of the EWEB's hydroelectric plants and planning for future expansion. He fills the vacancy on the board's staff that was created when Byron Price resigned to become assistant administrator of the Bonneville Power Administra tion last summer. Taylor has worked for the board since 1931. Prior to that he was a member of the engineering staff of the Portland Electric Power Co. and the Washington Water Power Co. During World War II, Taylor served with the Army as post engineer for Air Corps installa tions. He held a captain s rating in the Corps of Engineers. A graduate of Oregon State College, Taylor is married and has two children. He lives at 670 W. 10th Ave. POPE DOING BETTER CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy Wl A Vatican source said Tuesday Pope Pius XII, who cancelled a speech Sunday because of a slight indisposition, was a little better. Threats of Racial Violence Close 2 Delaware Schools (Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.) NEW LEADER of Eugene's Chamber of Commerce, John Gragg, general manager of Eusene's Associated Plywood Mill (left), received congratulations on his election from the organization's retiring president, Sam Rodway. Gragg was elevated to the Chamber presidency by unanimous vote. This past year he has serve! as vice president. 2,000 REPORTED KILLED HONG KONG W A Chinese merchant from Amoy estimates Nationalist attacks on that Com munist port have killed 2,000 Red Chinese soldiers. M1LFORD, Del. (ffl This com munity's two public schools were closed again Tuesday in the face of telephoned threats of violence if Negro children were allowed to attend classes in the pre viously all-white high school. Dr. Raymond C. Cobbs, super intendent of the Milford schools, had announced earlier that the schools would open as usual Tuesday after being closed Mon day. INTEREST OF SAFETY However, Dr. Cobbs issued a statement early Tuesday morning in which he said the schools will be closed until further notice "in the interest of the safety of all the children." The statement said: "Members of the board of edu cation since making an earlier announcement have received nu merous calls threatening vio lence in case any Negro children attend school. In the interest of the safety of all the children the board hereby serves notice that the schools are cldscd until fur ther notice." A detail of five policemen ar rived at the school along with several of the schools teachers. The teachers entered the build ing, while the policemen spread around the building to keep watch. Dr. Cobbs declined to elabor ate on his statement as tension mounted in this quiet southeast- cm Delaware community. The situation developed Monday when the Milford school board closed the schools after learning of a protest march planned by anti-scgrcgationists. Although the school board, composed of three businessmen and a housewife, had called for resumption of classes Tuesday, they left unanswered the ques tion of whether 11 Negro pupils would he allowed to take up their high school studies. SEEN A TEST CASE Meanwhile, several hundred miles away in Dayton, Ohio, Atty. Russell L. Carter prepared peti tions on behalf of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People asking the United States District Court to enjoin what Negro leaders call segre gation in the Hillsboro, Ohio, school system. Mrs. Milcy O. Williamson, re gional coordinator in Dayton for the NAACP, said "the Hills- boro action is designed as a test case for racial segregation In Northern schools." School board officials in the southwestern Ohio community of some 5,000 insisted there is no segregation. And city officials said a rczoning of the city's school districts tending to keep most Negroes out of previously all-white Webster and Washing ton grade schools was on a "residential" rather than a racial basis. The rczoning took effect last week. Inside Today Ilarriman favored for gover norship, Page 3A. Giants become 1054 National League champs, Page 2B. Women's News 6-7A Editorials 8A Radio DA News Briefs IB Sports 2-3B Comics 4B Markets - 5B Classified 6-9B RESULTS . . . PERFECT The first person who called bought the range and there were many calls after that. AB ELECTRIC apt. size ranga, 130. Ph. 0-0000. Its easy to use Classi fied., Just dial 5-1551 for expert assistance.