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SHOWERS (Weather Report, Pan IB) CITY EDITION LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 89th Year, No. 21 TWO SECTIONS 20 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Friday, January 21, 1955 PHONE 5-1551 Price, 5 Cents Portland State Bill Passed 24-2 in Senate Lane Senators Oppose Measure SALEM Ufl The Oregon Senate voted 24 to 2 Friday to make Portland State Col lege independent, with au thority to grant degrees. The Dill goes to the House. Portland State now is an ex tension center of the state di vision of higher education, with 2.300 dav students and 3.100 night students. The only opposition votes were cast by Sens. Truman A. Chase and Donald R. Husband, both of Eugene, which is the location of the University of Oregon. BACKED BY WIMIELM Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., Port land, author of the bill, asked for its passage to supply the ' needs of Portland students who can't afford to go out of town : to college. "We need more trained minds to meet the problems of the world," he said. Answering arguments that the bill might be unconstitutional be- fallen nn incf ttnHiin rati hfl In- cated outside of Marion County . wunoui a vuie ui ine peupie, wu helm cited an attorney general's opinion that it is constitutional. State is not a separate institu tion, but is a branch of the Board of Higher Education. Husband argued that the state can't afford another institution, asserting "there's plenty of room for more students in existing ; schools. The quality of the educa tion would be reduced because the money would be spread too thinly." TAX PROPOSAL The Board of Higher Educa tion, which supports the bill, esti mated that Portland State might , grow larger than cither the Uni ' versity of Oregon or Oregon State College. A proposed constitutional amendment to permit the Legis lature to put emergency clauses Ton tax bills was introduced in the Senate by 33 representatives and 21 senators. That's more than enough to pass it. This measure would make it possmie tor tne Legislature to pass new taxes without having them postponed by a referendum. If the Legislature approves, this resolution would be on the No vember, 1056, election ballot. New House bills would add a sixth member to the Oregon De velopment Commission, and ex empt city transportation systems 1IUIU pdyillg U1I3 gdSUlllIC U1A. Oil Seekers 1 Dnnhlp I. and Under Lease F Applications for oil leases on public lands in Western Oregon totaling approximately 50,000 acres were filed with the Stale Land Office in Portland this week. The lands range from (he Sius law Valley to as far south as .' Elkton. The applications were filed by 'four persons E. P. Hcnson, Pat " Hi,,,., n cnlh ,! t r c Selby, of Portland. Over 100,000 acres of public land are now either under oil lease or filed upon in Western Lane, Lincoln, Coos and Douglas counties. . Additional acreages of private land are also under lease. A spokesman for the land of fice said Friday morning that the latest filings were in large blocks, which may contain some private lands which will be ex cluded before the leases are granted. Whether the latest leases were i filed on behalf of large oil com panics can not be determined wirom the applications since it's a the companies to file under in dividual names. Several major oil companies, including Sinclair and Standard, have been identified as among those interested in Oregon oil leases by Manning Barber, former Eugene realtor who is now spe cializing in oil leases. Commies Blamed SEOUL UP South Korea said Friday the Communists were re sponsible for Thursday's shooting of a light U. S. Army plane near the Korean demilitarized zone in which a soldier was killed and in officer wounded. Pieck Suffers Stroke BERLIN i The West Berlin jiewspapcr Telegraf said Friday TKast German President Wilhelm Pieck, 79, was reported to have suffered a stroke and a severe heart attack. 1 TF Hi I n- ; IsS (AP Wlrepholo) IT'S HAMBURGERS AGAIN Comic Lou Costello and Anne, his wife of 21 years, hold' the hamburger-shaped cake which they and their guests ale at the pair's anni versary party Thursday night in Palm Springs, Calif. Costello, who can afford filet mignon, also served real hamburgers to the guests for sentimental reasons. When the Costellos married in South Attleboro, Mass., in 1934, Lou was a ?50-a-week burlesque comic, and the couple's wedding dinner was hamburger sandwiches with onions. Rebellious Release 11 BOSTON UV Four long-term desperadoes surrendered meekly Friday in ancient Massachusetts State Prison, turning over their weapons to a civic committee, which gave them no "bargain or deal." The convicts at the same time released five guards and six fel low inmates they had held hos tage in the solitary cell block since early last Tuesday, U. S. Living Costs Drop WASHINGTON W-The gov. ernment reported Friday that lower food prices in December brought the nation's living costs to the lowest level since May, 1953. The report showed prices of living cost items at the end of the year 1954 were one-half of one per cent below the level at the year's start. It was the first time since 1948 that the govern men living cost index had show ed an over-thc-ycar decline. Substantially lower prices for eggs, pork chops and poultry led the December decline. The index, kept by the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, dropped three-tenths of one per cent to 114.3 per cent of the 1947-49 base period aver age. While prices declined gen erally during 1954, especially since July, the drop was gradual and moderate. December's 114.3 index was about one per cent be low the record high level of 115.4 in October, 1953. Mrs. Aryncss Joy Wickens, acting1 labor statistics commis sioner, reported that rents have recently been displaying a tend ency to go down. She said mod est declines have been reported in a fairly large number of in stances. Mrs. Wickens declined to pie dict the January price trend butjtional assembly Thursday night said she would guess there would relaxed the state of siege imposed not be "much change." latter the slaying of President Jose Food prices have dropped .3.7 Antonio Remon 19 days ago. But per cent since July. The Decern- it authorized police to continue ber decline was six-tenths of one: making arrests without warrants per cent. luntil Jan. 31. . Girl, 8, Writes Eisenhower, Gets 'Ham' Erased From TV CHICAGO in Eight-year-old Rence Denicola, distressed be cause her favorite television programs were being interrupt ed by a "ham" radio operator, complained directly to Presi dent Eisenhower and got prompt action. In a childish scrawl, Rcnce penciled: "Dear Mr. President: "I am 8 years old and I wish you would help me. I am hav ing so much trouble with a ham station interfering with my TV programs. 1 can't get any picture and all I hear is lCQ, CQ.' He's always on. "You're the best President we ever hai- 1 love you very much. Rence Denicola." q Of course. said Fnee'i Convicts Hostages Edwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and a member of the seven-man committee, said the only thing promised the rebellious convicts was to do "everything in our pow er to work with state officials to get something so that these con victs would have some hope for the future." The civilian committee, formed only Thursday night, met with the convicts early Friday morning and again during the day. The second meeting ended with the commit tee announcing it's "all over." Six fellow inmates, who did not take part in the disturbance but were held captive with the guards. also were let out of the solitary confinement cell block. NO ONE HARMED None of the guards or prison ers was harmed. The four rebels sawed their way out of their cells early Tues day. They seized the guards after failing in an attempt to scale the prison walls by a hastily-fashioned makeshift ladder. In their early demands they asked for an automobile to take them to freedom. Later they re iterated many complaints about the ancient prison which has been condemned many times and soon will be replaced by a modern structure nearly ready for occu pancy in Norfolk, 15 miles from Boston. SERVING LONG TERMS The convicts, all serving long terms are: Theodore "Teddy" Green, 39, bank robber and jail breaker; Walter Balden, 38, robber-gunman; Joseph Flaherty, 32, rapist; and Fritz Swenson, 31, slayer of a Boston policeman. They kept up their stubborn re sistance for nearly 82 hours. This fell short of the 100-hour record for such an uprising, set in 1952 at Jackson, Mich. ' Restrictions Eased PANAMA m Panama's na- mother, Mrs. Girard Denicola, Friday, "we thought nothing would come of it. "But imagine our surprise when a few days later a letter arrived addressed to Renee. It was signed by a secretary of President Eisenhower. It thanked her for reporting the matter and said her letter had been referred to the Federal Communications Commission." The FCC investigated and found that the "ham" was An thony Shragal, an inspection foreman for a radio and tele vision manttfa'tilrintf mmnanu Shragal, informed of Rcnec's trouble, sent his son Robert to adjust the Denicola sctO to eliminate the interference. Rence oenjoyiflj her pro- g.'ums.ain. JUDGE AGREES WITH DEFENDANT DETROIT I "What do you do for a living?" Fed eral Judge Frank A. Picard asked Miller D. Summerour, 42, of Detroit after Summer our pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of bootlegging. "I'm a plasterer your honor," replied Summerour. "You certainly are," snap ped Judge Picard. Guatemalan Revolt Fails; Reds Hunted GUATEMALA W The govern ment pushed a roundup of Com. munists and supporters of ex- President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman Friday after beating down an up rising aimed at unseating anti- Red President Carlos Castillo Ar mas. At least 100 persons already were under arrest. Government troops held Guate mala City and other strategic cen ters in an armed grip. Castillo Ar mas announced that 10 persons were killed and an undetermined number wounded in a brief clash Thursday between loyat forces and rebels seeking to capture Aurora Air Force Base, outside the capital. He blamed the Com munists and Arbenz s supporters. STATE OF SIEGE The anti-Red government in office less than seven months promptly declared a state of siege modified martial law. But au thorities announced they were in control throughout the country. Machine gun carrying soldiers mounted tight guard on military posts and strategic points. A 10 p.m. curfew went into effect in the capital. A presidential decree said the state of siege was necessary to snuff out the "subversive groups" which "in connection with Com munist elements disturbed public tranquility and by an armed ac tion tried to overthrow the legally constituted government." MOST SERIOUS Press censorship was ordered but so far no checks were placed on foreign correspondents' dis patches. The outbreak was the most ser ious attempt thus far to unseat the anti-Communist President, who gained power last June when he led a revolt that drove out Ar- benz's Red-supported government. The ousted President recently went from his exile residence in Mexico to Switzerland, where he was granted Swiss citizenship be cause his father had been born in that country. Police Arrest Firebug's Kin PORTLAND Wl A fire was set in the Capitol Theater here Thursday night, and early Friday police jailed Gerald Raymond Kidd, 24, older brother of a con fessed firebug. Last fall three costly blazes were set here and Richard Ray Kidd, 20, admitted setting them: He was found innocent by reason of insanity and was committed to the state hospital. The theater blaze Thursday night was in a pile of clothing ir. a rest room. It was put out by a theater employe and a fire mar shal started an investigation. Kidd was questioned and told he could watch the movie while the investigation was continued. In stead, he left and was picked up later. Bail was set at $10,000 and he was held, ton, for the federal pa role board. His police station file lists many bookings, ranging from traffic offenses to robbery. Britisher Quoted By Peiping Radio TOKYO W Peiping Radio Sat urday quoted the captain nf the sunken Britisher freighter Eden dale as saying Nationalist planes swept down to 200 fect of his ship in Swatow Harbor and "de liberately bombed" it although it carried conspicuous British markings. Britain Friday protested the sinking of the 1,717-ton freighter in Wednesday's raid in Swatow. The Nationalist Defense Minis- try on Formosa said it was in- vestigaling the sinking. INSIDE TODAY Lawyer Sues Bobo Rocke feller for SIOO.OOO Page 2A Markets 6A Women's News . 5A Editorials 8A Local News . IB Sports ..... i 2B Comics .. . . 3B Radio 4B Classified 5-9C Reds Visit Jailed H H ill Jfr & W .... ,k. WUMMm.W ll', t-. m,Hiini i iilit.... OLD MARINERS' CHURCH pied for 108 years, the six-million-pound stone Old Mariners' Church is inched on steel rails and rollers out into Woodward Ave., a Detroit thoroughfare, on its way to a now east side location. The job will take about three weeks and was undertaken to make room for highway and building improvements along the Detroit River. Eisenhower's Evacuation Plan Blow to Hopes of Nationalists TAIPEH, Formosa W Nation alist China, shaken by the loss of Yikiangshan, got another jolt Fri day. Press reports that President Eisenhower was considering ask ing congressional approval for the use of U.S. air and sea power in a possible evacuation of some Nationalist offshore islands came as a real shock. Top Nationalist authorities might have been told in advance the President was turning the matter over in his mind. In any event, they refused comment. But junior officials familiar with the top thinking indicated these views: 1. The Nationalist government might disagree with Eisenhower on the wisdom of a withdrawal, but President Chiang Kai-shek and othec leaders realize the White House is activated by the best of motives. 2. If there is a withdrawal, much as the Nationalists oppose it, it will be the result of a friendly understanding and not through American pressure. The idea of pulling out from the threatened Tachcns, 200 miles north of Formosa and now with in artillery range of the Reds on Yikiangshan is extremely dis tasteful to the Nationalists. A Defense Ministry spokesman declared, "So far we have no plan A-Sub Makes Second Dive GROTON, Conn. (U1 The nu clear-powered submarine Nauti lus, which made its first dive Thursday, repeated the history making performance Friday, this time for Navy photographers who were prevented bv rouch weather from filming the first event. The Nautilus went under, Thursday at 1:30 p.m., and re - mained submerged for one hour, according to a Navy announce ment. Lt. William H. Layman, San Diego, the diving officer, took it down. The submarine rescue vessel, Skylark, which has attended the Nautilus at all nf its trial opera tions, circled nearby. A Navy helicopter hovered overhead. The sea trials began Monday. C'L r 1 nLt rrench Delay Debate Qn African Problems PARIS MWThe National Assem bly voted by S19 to 100 Commu nists Friday to postpone immed iate debate on France's North African problems and get back to work, as urged by Premier Pierre Mendes France, on the national budget. Mendes France promised there would be a full debate on North African questions Feb. 2 and 3. chow. That would put it out of the way I Damaged three 250-ton gun before discussion of the contro--boats, (gie ofvhich possibly sank, versial Paris accords to rearm: near Nanjih Island in Formosa West Germany opens is the upper nouse oi paruament. to Let MOVES Leaving the site on to evacuate any of our island outposts. AH of them will be de fended at all costs." But even if the Nationalists agree to give up the Tachcns, they might insist on holding at least some of the more important of their other offshore outposts as a prestige factor. Unofficial quarters here are afraid a pullout from the Tachens without a fight might touch off a chain reaction in the United States. It might lead, they fear, to U.S. efforts to put Formosa under a United Nations trustee ship, possible admission of Red China to the United Nations and Cease Fire Plan Mulled LONDON WV-Britain and the United Stfctcs kept in close touch Friday on possible moves to bring about a cease firo in the China war. A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain has the explosive Formosa situation "under very active review and with the Ameri can government in particular." The spokesman said Britain, the United States and New Zea land still are discussing their plan to ask the United Nations Security Council to try to bring about a halt to the fighting be tween Red China and Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists. Nationalists Attack Communist Shipping TAIPEH, Formosa Wl The Chinese Nationalists, fearful of new Red invasion moves after the fall of Yikiangshan, attacked ship- ping along the China coast with waves of planes Fridt.y, claiming at least 21 small craft sunk, an other possibly sunk and more than 12 damaged. Report by Nat' nalist air force headquarters of the new blows came after the defense ministry conceded that all resistance by 720 Nationalist guerrillas on Yikiangshan had been wiped out. TACHENS NEARBY This opened the way for the Reds to possibly strike at the nearby Tachens 200 miles north of Formosa. Air force headquarters said fighters and bombers Friday: Destroyed more than 20 of 80 motorized junks near Wcnchow Bay southw t of the Tachcns, and set fire to three others. Sank a 250-ton supply ship off Pingtan island southeast of Foo- Strait, and heavily damaged eight i motorize a junKS.. ' 7. Relatives Americans (AP Wlrepholo) the waterfront it has occu eventual U.S. recognition of the Peiping regine. In Washington, intelligence re ports that at least two Commu nist submarines may be operating in the B'ormosa Straits was re ported Friday to be involved in high level discussions of possible U. S. moves in the Chinese fight ing. This was reported by a Con gress member who attended Thursday's briefing by Secretary of State Dulles and Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The legislator de clined to be quoted by name. His information was that the submarines had been turned over to the Chinese Communists by Russia. The report as to Communist subs was said to he a factor weighing heavily . on congres sional leaders sounded out as to how they would view a possible special request by tho President for authority if such a step be came necessary to use U.S. air and sea power to aid evacuation of Chinese Nationalist troops from some nf the islands off the Red China coast. Secretary of State Dulles re portedly advanced tho possibility of such a request at the State De partment briefing Thursday. There are reported to be 20,000 Nationalist Chinese regulars in the Tachen Islands. There arc also Nationalist regulars on other islands close to the mainland. The defense ministry said Na tionalist defenders of Yikiang shan fought until the last man died. Resistance ceased on the land, the ministry said, at 0:12 p.m. Thursday night, 61 hours 12 minutes after Chinese Red invad ers landed behind pulverizing naval and air bombardment. Peiping radio, however, insist ed that all fighting had ended Tuesday, the same day its amphi bious invaders struck in over whelming force. 'LIBERATION' IIAiI.EI) The broadcast, heard in Tokyo. said the Communists had killed about 500 Nationalist troops, cap tured more than 550 and seized stores of guns and ammunition. Another Peiping broadcast hailed the "liberation" of Yiki angshan as a victory which has inspired the nation in Its Strug gles ttP liberate Taiwan (For mosa. The bristling broadcast, heard in Tokyo, stressed the importance of the Yikiangshan action in Red China s "campaign to liberate the coastal islands and ultimately Taiwan Itself." Most Families Undecided On Invitation UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Wl Red China, in a surprise move wun overtones of prop aganda, announced Friday the relatives of 17 Americans jailed there are welcome to visit the prisoners. The Americans were associated with U.S. armed forces in the United Nations command that spearheaded the Korean fighting against Red China. . - - The u.N. also announced the . offer, saying it grew out of the recent Dag Hammarskjold mis sion to Peiping. The U.N. secre tary general sought to free Amer ican prisoners held in China. TO VISIT JET ACE ' Most of the relatives interviewed immediately after the announce ment said they were undecided or did not intend to accept the invitation. However, the Iowa parents of a jet ace said they will leave as soon as arrange ments can be made. The announcement made by Peiping and at the United Na tions here said: "Premier Chou En-lai, ' during his talks with Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, indicated that tho government of the Peo ple's Republic of China would provide facilities for relatives to visit those United States person nel who have been convicted and those whose . cases . were under investigation, if they should wish to do so, and that the Red Cross Society of China would make all the arrangements necessary." NO SAFETY GUARANTEE ' Later, a U.N. spokesman said Hammarskjold "has no doubt that those members of the families wishing to visit China to see their en . . . will be safe. This statement evidently was made because the United States cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens traveling in countries with which it has no diplomatic relations. American passports ban any travel to Communist countries (except. Yugoslavia). This ban is VISITING OFFER ( Continued on Page 4 A) Solon Thinks 800 GIs Held CHICAGO UV-Sen. Knowland ( It-Calif) says-he believes Red China holds "something over 800 other GIs" in prison besides the IS American airmen they ac knowledge holding. In a speech to the Cicero Man ufacturers' Assn., Thursday night. me senate minority leader said: "We have strong reason to be lieve they hold more than the 15 they acknowledge of holding." The men showed up neither in the Little or Big Switch prisoner exchanges following the Korean truce in 1953, Knowland said. Names of the imprisoned Ameri cans, he said, were learned from Red propaganda broadcasts, other released POWs and Pentagon re ports. Knowland said a compilation of the various reports led him to the strong belief the Red Chinese held "several hundred other GIs in prison enclosures." He later set (he figure at "something over 800 other GIs." ''iRebel Force Said Trapped (Earlier Story, Page 2A) SAN JOSE, Costa Rica W The Costa Rican general staff an nounced Friday the capture of the rebel stronghold of La Cruz and the nearby town of Puerto Soley on the Pacific Coast. It added that the rebels were now caught in a Irap, with loyalist troops closing a pincers from the north and south. The announcement came on the heels of unofficial reports that the rebels were withdrawing toward the Nicaraguan frontier. The acUon was at the edge of the newly proclaimed buffer zone between Costa Rica and Nicara gua. Neutral ground and air ob servers of the Inter -American Peace Commission were patrol ling a belt 18 miles long in the area to keep the rebellion from touching off a war between the two neighboring countries. 1-
