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WARMER CITY EDITION (Weather Report, Page 1-B) LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER, 89th Year, No. Ill FOUR SECTIONS 36 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Thursday, April 21, 1955 PHONE 5-1551 Price, 5 Cents Mission to Formosa To Test Sentiment On Cease-Fire Line f By WARREN ROGERS JR. Of The Associated Press WASHINGTON W) The United States was reported Thursday to have sent a hurry-up mission to Formosa to test Nationalist sentiment for a cease-fire line down the middle of the embattled Formosa Strait. , Another factor credited in top congressional circles with influencing the mission was a reported step-up in Russia's deliveries of late model jet planes to Red China. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Asst. Secretary of State Walter S. Robertson left Wednesday on a 10-day trip to the Nationalist Chinese icapital, Taipei. Their plane Ike May Veto Postal Pay Hike Measure WASHINGTON lB-The likeli hood of a presidential veto Thurs day overhung a House vote to boost the pay of the nation's 500, T 000 postal workers an average of 8.2 per cent. President Eisenhower last year refused to sign a 7 per cent postal pay increase voted by Congress on the ground it was not accom panied by a revenue-raising hike in postal rates. His veto came after Congress adjourned and there was no opportunity to vote on overruling it. The Senate last month flaunted the President's implied threat to veto any postal pay hike of over 7.6 per cent, voting for 10 per cent. The House Wednesday followed suit and approved an 8.2 per cent increase which would cost some 171 million dollars a year. The Senate bill is estimated to cost 220 millions. The 224-189 House vote for the most part followed party lines with Republicans lining up behind the President and the Democrats behind the mailmen. Seventeen Democrats and 22 Republicans split company with their party boctors Urged To Give Kids First Vaccine PORTLAND tfV-Heallh officials are appealing to Oregon residents to see to it that young children and pregnant women get the Saik polio vaccine as it becomes avail able. Letters are going to all Oregon physicians, asking them to help see that the persons most suscep tible ' get the first polio shots. They urged the vaccine be used only for expectant mothers and children 1 to 14 years old. The public was urged to co operate.. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, and Dr. A. O. Pitman, president of the State f)tedical Society, are sending the joint letter. "If sufficient vaccine is avail able by fall, the 15-30 age group should also be given the oppor tunity to have these immuniza tions,' they said. Health officials said no word yet has been received on when to expect shipments of the vac cine for school children. Weathermen See Change for Better Weathermen at Mahlon Sweet Field Thursday crawled far out on their special wateraoaked fore casting limb, and called for a change. There will be some sunshine, it will be warmer, and there probably will be no rain Friday. The language is theirs. Grumblers kept their overshoes handy, however, as they eyed the i statistics: 3.82 inches of rain so far this month compared to a normal of 2.54. But optimists looked at the temperature forecast and felt bet ter. The high Wednesday was 45. The high Friday should be a full 10 degrees warmer, the weary weathermen predicted. Physicist Slates . Second Address J. Robert Oppenheimer, the re nowned theoretical physicist who headed the. first atomic bomb project, will give the second in a series of two related addresses at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Student Union Building. He will speak on K particles, hyperons and the future of nuclear physics. His first Condon talk Tuesday jiight dealt with the fundamen tals of physics. A basic understanding of the language of nuclear physics is re quired of the listener. took off within two hours of the announcement they would go. , It was understood intelligence reports indicate the Soviets re cently have increased shipments of jets to the Chinese Reds. Some of these were said to be of the latest types comparable to the best U.S. planes. 'NO CRISIS INVOLVED It is the understanding in Con gress that none of these planes yet has shown up at a scries of air bases being rushed to com pletion by the Communists along the coast opposite Formosa and the island groups of Quemoy and Matsu. "No crisis is involved," Secre tary of State Dulles said as he left for a weekend vacation. He said the Radford-Robertson trip to see Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek involved ' normal main tenance of contact in a situation that is admittedly serious. Assignment of Robertson and Radford to the Formosa mission was considered to be significant. It gave rise immediately to spec ulation that the United States had a bitter pill it wanted Chiang to swallow. FRIENDLY WITH CHIANG Both Robertson and Radford are tough-minded anti-Communist battlers. They also are friendly with Chiang. Any proposition they might present would get a more significant hearing from Chiang, perhaps, than if it came from some others, The Robertson-Radford mission appeared to diplomats as an in herent concession to British calls for a less rigid U. S. policy 'to ward Formosa, although the Bri tish were reportedly not notified of its precise purposes. The British are understood to be reluctantly ready to join with the United States in a guarantee that Formosa will be protected against any Communist attempt to take it by force. However, the British are said to want in return evacuation of the coastal islands of Quemoy and Matsu by Chiang's forces and an agreement to lei the U.N. decide the future of For mosa. v ELECTION AWAITED With tension over the coastal is lands thus eaed and the U.N. studying Formosa's fate, the Chi nese Reds would thus be faced with a potential cease-fire line halfway between Formosa and the mainland. The British obviously will move Slowly in any proposed joint ac tion until after May 26. That is the date .of the British election. Nobody here was speculating on how willing Chiang might be to swap Quemoy and Matsu for Anglo-American assurances, of support on Formosa. (AP Wlrephoto) CORNEA TRANSPLANTED ON FISH Operating under 22 feet of water Wednes day, Dr. H. George Blasdel transplants the cornea from a donor bat ray fish (fore ground) into the eye of Charlie, a blind pet bat ray at Marineland-of-thePacific aquarium in Portuguese Bend, Calif. The donor bat ray was captured at sea, and the gift of its cornea cost its life. Photographer Paul Calvert of the Los Angeles Times made this picture with an underwater camera. Story, Page 9A. ' V t Ceylon Envoy Lashes Red 'Colonialism' Chou Demands Time for Reply BANDUNG, Indonesia M) Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon de nounced "Communist colo nialism" at the Asian-African Conference Thursday. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai, obviously disturbed, immedi ately demanded time to make a reply. Sir John, appearing before a closed session of the political committee, demanded that the conference declare .itself against all forms of colonialism, includ ing Communist domination of satellite states in central and eastern Europe. Delegates said that as Sir John finished Chou leaped to his feet and demanded that the Ceylon premier's statement be circular ized to all delegates of the 29- nation conference so Chou could reply to it at Thursday's commit tee session. In earlier debate the commit tee heard Chou express the opinion that peaceful coexistence between nations of different sys tems was possible. Sir John, who already had tak en the spotlight with a proposal made outside the conference for creation of an independent For mosa, told the committee there were two forms of colonialism and the Asian-African nations should oppose both equally. He demanded Russia and Red China dissolve the Cominform as proof of their good intentions in proposing the peaceful coexist ence program supported by In dia's Prime Minister Nehru. Another attack on colonialism came from Prime Minister Saif El Islam el Hassan of Yemen, who questioned the right sit Britain to maintain her colony of Aden, which adjoins Yemen He raised also the question of colonialism in Africa and hit out at support given by the United States and European countries to the creation of Israel. The political committee adopted an anti-Israeli resolution on Pal estine and one on the Dutch New Guinea question but hit snags in debate over colonialism and peaceful coexistence with com munism. Sir John proposed that the con ference call upon all powers still possessing dependencies to set a 10-year target for granting them all full independence. Baseball By United Press AMERICAN LEAGUE n h e Boston 000 000 000 0 3 2 WashniRton - 000 000 001 1 5 0 Brewer & White; Porterfield & Ed wards. RUE Chicago 005 013 000 9 10 0 Detroit oou win uuu l a z Forieles & Lollar; Garver, Zuverlnk (6), Miller 16), Maas (8) & House. RUE Baltimore 000 100 001 2 5 New York - 400 610 12x 14 16 Kretlow, Kuzava (4), Alexander (8) & Moss; Turley & Berra. Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE It H E Philadelphia 101 002 000 4 9 2 Brooklyn 021 713 OOx 14 17 0 Roberts, Greenwood (4, Mrozlnskl H) 4t Burgess; Meyer, Black. (3) & Campanula. New York at Pittsburgh, postponed. Only games scheduled. k .. ft - a ' a m m CAN THIS HAPPEN HERE? Three-year-old Mike Clements seems to be asking this question of Cpl. Joe Booth as Booth stood guard outside the Lincoln, Neb., power plant Wednesday night during "Operation Minuteman." Vote Recount Bill Goes to Governor SALEM IT) Legislation to pro vide a simple method of getting recounts of election results was approved by the Oregon House of Representatives Wednesday and sent to the governor. , . . The bill, with support from both parlies, is the aftermath of last fall's close election in which U. S. Senator Richard L. Neu- berger, Democrat, barely de- Home, Sports Shows Start 3-Day Run The Eugene Lions Club 1955 Home and Sports Shows will open Thursday at 6 p.m. at .Pioneer Park (Lane County fairgrounds). No admission will be charged for the show which will run through Saturday. The "show will be open Friday from 6 to 10 p.m., and Saturday from 1 to 10 p.m. The home show, an annual production by the Lions Club, will be located in the Arena Bldg. at the fairgrounds, and the sports show in the nearby Auditorium Bldg. More than 70 exhibitors at the home show will display the latest in home furnishings, appliances, building materials and other ' items of interest to home owners. In' the sports show, more than 565,000 will be represented in displays of sports and outdoor gear. Each evening, Thursday through Saturday, an hour's public enter tainment program will be pre sented, and refreshments will be available at the home and sports shows. (AP Wlrcphoto) feated then-Sen. Guy Cordon, Re publican. Cordon supporters wanted a re count, which could be obtained only uy unliving sun ill tatu county and proving fraud. The bill would let any candi date or party official obtain a re count within seven days after the election. A bond of $10 for each precinct to be recounted would have to be posted, with a limit of $8,000 for the state. The highly controversial reso lution to have one senator from each county was killed 6-5 by the House Elections and Re-apportionment Comhiittce. It was a reversal of the earlier vote by which the committee had favored it 6-5. Rep. Earl Hill. Cushman, Lane County, switched his vote, joining the five Multno mah County members who oppose the measure. BASIC SCHOOL AID A battle over distribution of basic school aid to districts shaped up as the Senate Educa tion Committee voted 4-3 to change the formula. It would freeze grants at pres ent levels, but use expected in creases for equalization of educa tion. The effect would be a loss in state aid for Multnomah and Eastern Oregon counties. A bill to allow sale of fortified wine in grocery stores was killed by the House Alcoholic Control Committee. Both houses scheduled a caucus for 7:30 p.m. Friday to hear an explanation of the state building program by Sen. John P. Houn sell, Hood River, chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on buildings. OTHER MEASURES Bills approved by the House and sent to the governor would create an Oregon Centennial Com mission to plan the celebration of Oregon's 100(h birthday in 1050, and would permit the governor to evacuate civilians, distribute food and medicine, and regulate utilities in the case of enemy at tack. The Senate sent to the governor bills to restrict prizes in fishing derbies to $25 in value, and to make civil defense workers swear they never have believed in vio lent overthrow of the government. Committee Rejects (Primary Date Change SALEM ifl The House Elec tions Committee refused Wednes day to go along with the Senate's plan to change the primary elec tion date from May to lale June. The committee voted 7-3 to leave it in May. But it did ap- ! prove a provision that would have precinct committeemen elected at the general election, instead of the primary, as at present. INSIDE TODAY Montgomery Ward election set for Friday. Page 2B. Brooklyn wins ninth straight game. Page ID. Women's News 6A, 7A Editorials 8A t0"' Ncw -,n- If, Comics 4B Theatres 5B Radio, TV 8B Foods Section C Markets 3D Classified 3D-7D - - ' - - RcKlstor-Guard photoi, Wlltnhlre Eng. READY FOR DUTY Sgt. 1c M. D. Edmunson (top center) issues a rifle to Pfc. Del Mayhugh while Pfc. Orville Holmes stands by with his weapon during Eugene Na tional Guard mobilization Wednesday evening. In lower photograph, Pvt. Gary Coch ran gets a cup of coffee from Pfc. Earl Everett in the basement mess hall of the : Eugene Armory. 'Operation Minuteman9 Proves Guard Ready for Emergency By DAVE AVERILL or The neglstct'Guard , More than 200 Lane County National Guardsmen were assem bled and ready for duty within 00 minutes of a surprise mobil ization notice Wednesday night as Guardsmen throughout the U.S. - responded to a test alert from the Pentagon. Eugene's two National Guard companies had sentries on duty at strategic points throughout the Eugene-Springfield area less than an hour after official notification of the alert was received at 5:35 p.m. The mobilization also sent Cottage Grove guradsmen to special duties. In Washington, the National Guard Bureau estimated Thurs day morning that 280,000 men were at their stations or assem bly points within two hours of the zero hour, which was known in advance to only a few high ranking officers. .; Maj. Gen. Edgar C. Erickson, Final Arguments Scheduled At Former The Marrill Parke embczzlc-l receipts to convert money to hislOf 205 missing receipts, I was ment trial moved rapidly towardlown use. able to reconstruct m frnm nihor a conclusion Thursday and pre- sentanon ot an evidence was completed at press lime. Prosecu-i owned by the City of Springfield tion and defense were to present! to his own use, the state is rely final arguments Thursday. j ing heavily on police department Parke, accused of converting records. $80 owned by. the City of Spring- A special audit revealing a field to his own use, was the ' shortage ot $22,234 In Springfield first defense witness called. j police department and municipal Defense Attorney William I court funds was introduced by Huey brought out the fact that ,hc statc as evidence Wednesday Parke was a World War II Vctatcrnoon- Prepared by State eran u hn n ininrH fr,iiA,:n I Auditor F. J. Gould, the audit a bombing raid on the Ploesti oiHc,"verelJ the Period April 1, 1952 f e e s n Ruman . ! Parke testified he still wears' a steel plate in his chest andi that his hearing is impaired be-1 cause of injuries sustained when : ",e.u"lT r""cu re,un The statc. in its rebuttal, bore! al financial affairs. About a doz- ,i ti. i i it. en merchants testified they re- ceiv,cd . cash, PayfmontsB uri"R!in making the financial survey. In September. 1954, from Parke for: total paid that month by Parke was more than $800, according to testimony. During Wednesday's testi mony, thg state contended that Parke altered police department chief of the National Guard Bu reau, said reports from Guard officials provided "conclusive proof" that the Army and Air Guard can be assembled by the state governors In "a rapid and efficient manner." The governors received word of the alert from the Pentagon. In Oregon, the information wa3 relayed to the state adjutant gen eral's office, which notified local units, The first Eugene guardsman to learn officially of the alert was Sgt. Joseph Doyle, who was on duty at the Eugene Armory when the adjutant general's office called. Doyle notified Capt. Ralph W. Palmer and Lt. Gerald Capps, company commanders of the two Eugene companies, and then called local radio'stations to pass the word to members of the com panies. ' Radio announcements of the mobilization supplemented a sys Policeman's Trial To buttress Its contention that Pnrke last .inW ) nt,uni-int an """" -' Discussion about the special . " ' "ur. l- u"L ,.',a ?.ue,uon5? 7 ' ,"le""l'u'at Could said II was not uncom- f?T c'Ue" !he "ize of.SPrin:! Bookkeeping system. The auditor, however, said he f,i "mr' ;',. i' ,:7iJ.- addition to the $22,234.50 short- age of funds, Gould said he could not locate 486 receipts represent ing an unknown amount of money. I found whole blocks of re- iccipts missing for certain periods, especially the first half of 1953. tem of direct telephone calls which notified most of the guards men. Motion picture theaters were also informed of the alert, and Eugene and Springfield po lice were called so that they could answer questions from resi dents who wondered what was happening. The guardsmen were .rapidly dispatched to strategic points after they changed into uniform and were mustered at the Eugene Armory. Eugene Company K posted guards at the Glenwood highway junction and at Western Union and telephone company offices in Springfield. Company L had sentries at the Ferry St. Bridge, the police radio tower on Spencer's Butler, telephone and electrical company offices and ra dio station KORE. In Cottage Grove, guardsmen were dispatched to the Dorena and Cottage Grove dams, tele- CUARDS (Continued on Page 9 A) documents. These 83 represented $1,043," the auditor said. Gould testified the City of Springfield's bookkeeping system did not have adequate "internal control." Internal control, he said, is a system which permits "checks and counter checks." In response to questions by Deputy District Attorney Edward Leavy, Gould asserted there would have been more internal control in Springfield if the per son who turned over police de partment receipts to the city re STATE SAYS (Continued on Page O A) W WmtiM IVWt WASHINGTON Mi-President Eisenhower discussed Republican party activities with 19 GOP women leaders from throughout the nation Thursday in the sixth of a series of breakfast meetings. Typhoon Spotted MANILA tfv-A pre-seasonal ty phoon with winds up to 75 miles per hour is grinding slowly across the Philippine Set toward For mosa. V
