Acheson Faced
With Impending
Loss Of Aides
WASHINGTON, UP) Secre
tary of State Acheson is confront
ed with the present or Impend
ing loss of three of his top aides
in the direction of American
foreign policy.
They are: Philip C. Jessup, 52,
who will resign as ambassador
at large and one of Acheson'g
most constant advisers, when he
returns early next year from his
survey mission to the far east. He
is presently helping devise stop
Communism measures for that
part of the world.
George F. Kennan, 45, counse
lor of the state department and
chief of its policy planning staff.
He expects to resign next June
and enter private life as a writer
and scholar. He has had offers
from several educational institu
tions. George V. Allen, 46, who has
already resigned as assistant sec
retary of state in charge of pub
lic affairs, . to become ambassa
dor to Yugoslavia. Allen is ex
changing one top level assign
ment for another, but the shift
creates a vacancy which Ache
spn has so far been unable to fill.
Word of Jessup's intention to
return to his international law
professorship at Columbia uni
versity in New York City was
givehout by the state department
last night. A few hours eaalier,
he had left here on his far east
ern survey mission.
Unlike Allen and Kennan who
have held regular state depart
ment offices, Jessup has filled a
special position in Acheson's of
ficial family and it is not certain
that he will be replaced.
He was named ambassador at
large last March. Acheson felt
that he needed a man of out
standing ability who could re
lieve him of much of the out of
town conference work which
other secretaries of state had
carried on personally at the cost
of long absences from Washing
ton. . Jessup was felt to be particu
larly skillful in dealing, with the
Russians and his state depart
ment associaties say that his
work during the oast vear has
fully justified Acheson's original
confidence in nis amuties. .... -One
of his main early assign
ments, which worked out success
fully, was to undertake the first
tentative negotiations with the
Russians last spring for an end
v to the Berlin blockade.
t" In the case of Kennan, he has
' wanted to leave government ser
vice at least temporarily for sev
eral years. His friends say he
wants to "make some money"
ana to nave more time lor writ
ing and research.
He is credited with having
thought up the "policy of con
tainment" by which the United
States in recent years has sought
to stop the spread of Communism
beyond the countries which itus
sia dominates.
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MADE IN BREWERY?
Star Spangled Banner's
Origin Subject Of Dispute
In Maryland Litigation
ANNAPOLIS, Mr., CSV-Was the Star Spangled Banner made
In a brewery? ,
Maryland's court of appeals heard this version of history in
a dispute over the Star Spangled Banner flag house in Baltimore.
It was there that Mary Plckersglll made the flag that flew over
Fort McHenry In 1813 and inspired Francis Scott Key's national
anthem, historians generally believe.
She completed the huge ban
ner in the roomier confines of
a nearby brewery, argued law
yers for one side in a lawsuit.
mis was aeniea Dy me star
Spangled Banner Flag House as
sociation, which said the flag
was (completed In a warehouse.
The state's highest court heard
arguments In a condemnation
suit by which the city of Balti
more seeks to take over a three
story red-brick rooming house
next door to the flag house, now
operated by the association as a
public shritje.
The property would be convert
ed into office space for the Flag
association as part of a plan to
create a memorial square as "an
inspiration to patriotism.
"Into dates and history will be
instilled a soul," said City Solici
tor Thomas N. Blddlson.
Attorneys for Annie Flaccomlo,
owner of the rooming house, said
the city has no right to take over
the property.
Attorneys Hyman Ginsberg
and Louis R. Millo cast doubt on
the history of the flag house It
self by stating it was "supposed
ly" the house where Mary Plck
ersglll made the flag which "Is
reputed" to nave inspired Key.
Glory Could Bo Shared . -
rney quoted a Maryland guide
book as stating that the flag was
finished in a brewery.
"It could, of course, be areuod
that the brewery In which the
flag was finally completed is en
titled to as much glory as the
so-called flag house," they said.
Blddlson quoted a Flag associ
ation statement that the flag was
so large "that it became neces
sary to obtain permission to
spread the materials out on the
large floor of a neighboring
warehouse for cutting and sew.
ing."
Ginsberg and Millo gave the
size of the banner as 42 by 30
feet. BIddison said it was 29 by
36 feet. All agreed it had 15
stripes and 15 stars.
At any rate the owner's at
torneys argues, the house next
door, "all hands admit, had noth
ing to do with the Star Spangled
Banner.
"One does not cease to be pa
triotic in every sense of that
word, nor does he stop loving his
country or the flag of that coun
try" by objecting to the loss of
the rooming house, they said.
The court took the case under
advisement.
Legistafure Of
Cdifornta Csns
Liquor Lobbyist
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 2Z
UP) Arthur H. Samlsh was ban
ished Wednesday from the halls
of the legislature where he earn
ed the reputation as the kingpin
of lobbyists and the "secret doss
of California."
Both houses voted the ban, slap
ping back at published boasts ot
Samish's supposedly vast power.
The legislature acted suddenly
against the 300-pound liquor lobby.
1st in the midst of tumultuous de
bate over Governor Earl War
ren's demand for strict statutes
against corrupt lobbying practice-.
Two sex crime bills one of
which makes the killing of a
child during a sex attack automa
tically first degree murder were
about ready for the governor's
signature.
Passed by both Houses of the
legislature were the first degree
murder bill, which removes the
requirement that proscutors prove
premeditation In chile' sex attack
cases, and a measure which raises
the maximum penalty for sodomy
to 20 years. The present maxi
mum Is 10 years.
The Senate passed a bill which
would empower courts to Impose
the death penalty on sex offend
ers who cause great bodily harm
to children during an attack.
That bill was sent back from
the assembly floor, however.
There were objections to provi
sions which have also made forci
ble rape during which bodily
harm occurred punishable by
death.
Committees of both Houses fail
ed to give approval to a measure
providing $125,000 for a two and
one half year study of sexually
abnormal persons and what can
be done about them.
Once a forest country, Great
Britain now has less than five
percent of its area classed as
woodland.
By PAUL JENKINS
In many countries there Is
snow at Christmas time and bit
ter winds that blow high drifts
across each field and city street;
through all of this Saint Nick
must go, with jingling bells and
voice of cheer, urging on his tir
ed reindeer. He makea his calls,
don't ever fear, for that old boy
knows not defeat
But aren't you sure he breath
es a sigh and relief is in each
beaming eye when his rig and
TRAGEDY EXPLAINED
OREGON CITY, Dec. 22. UP)
A blast that fatally mangled
William S. Zlemer, 63, Sandy,
last Friday came from a work
man's dynamite, stored in a dis
mantled stove.
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Shobe
said Ray Taylor Friend, 26,
Clackamas, told of placing 18
sticks of dynamite in the oven
of a dismantled range. The ex
plosives went off when Ziemer,
who had recently purchased the
ranch and building, ' assembled
the stove and built a fire.
Shobe said no charges were fil
ed or were planned against
Friend.
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AT GROCERS P-xM -Spojhrttf, H.mtyt.
team come drifting by our coun
try here with its mist and rain?
Even the sun may shine again!
The relief in his eye must now
embrace his aching feet.
The kids like snow at Christ
mas time. We all like snow, It's
a Christmas sign; but better than
snow, or so it seems to me, as a
Christmas sign as as well as a
handsome tree is the mighty
oak we know so well and upon
whose spreading limbs there
dwell the exciting clumps of
mistletoe. Oregon mist, or ice or
snow, we always can glory in our
mistletoe!
f We Wish Everyone a Very t :
MhiRn I CnmoTMAo
and a
HAPPY. NEW YEAR
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until January 3.
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Buy Brown 'n Serve Rolls at any local food store.
(Get several doien they stay fresh!)
Here's All You Do:
1. Buy the rolls at any local food store.
2. Preheat your oven to 450'.
3. Remove the cellophane from the package.
4. Place the rolls on an ungreosed baking sheet or flat
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6. Bake 7 to 10 minutes, remove and serve piping hot.
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