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o kmm Sees ADDoed Pefeoft Dim CCireo r i A.;'t,,iiJt ASKS TROOPS Secretary of Uetente beorge u. Marshall (above) asks Congrats for six divisions for European defense as he testifies before joint meet ing of the Senate foreign rela tions and armed service com mittees in Washington. (AP Wirephoto) State Solons Make Strides On Big Issues By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM UP) Oregon's legis lature, in its sixth week, dug deeply into its bit; problems the past week, completing action on the fireworks ban, killing t h e amusement tax and grange gam bling bills, and making real prog ress on legislative reapportion ment. While almost all legislators will tell you that memorials don't mean a thing, the Senate spent hours debating the question of whether the United Nations should be ex panded into a limited world gov ernment. Amustment Tax Killed The proposed 10 percent tax on admissions to places of amusement was killed yesterday by the House. Only its author. Rep. Jos eph E. Harvey, Portland, voted for it. The Grange bill, tabled by the senate alcoholic traffic committee, would revoke licenses of taverns which have pinball games, slot machines or punch boards. The week's biggest surprise was the unanimous vote of the house reapportionment committee to rec ommend reapportioning the legis lature the way the constitution says it should be according to population. That hasn't been done for 41 years. The same committee" also will recommend a proposed constitu tional amendment so that the leg islature wouldn't have to be ap portioned according to population. This one would go to the people. If they didn't like it, then the bill to do it on a population basis would remain in effect. A 22-8 Senate vote killed a reso lution for an interim committee to recommend changes in congres sional district boundaries. First Test of Strength The first test of strength in the biennial fight between commercial (Continued on page Two) In the Day's News ' By FRANK JENKINS From Tokyo this morning: "Allied big guns today broke the back of the massive red manpower drive that was aimed to crack the central Korea front . . . the U.S. 8th army said 10,593 casualties wore inflicted on the communists Wednesday in all Korea . . this raised to nearly 100,000 the mis' losses in killed, wounded and cap tured since January 25." Anyway, here's hopin'. If we can kill enough communists in Korea, we may he able to gain face enough to make a deal with old Mao to get out of Korea with out losing face. That would be something. Cynical thought: We went into Korea (supposedly) to defend the South Koreans against aggression. After eight mont of war, South Korea is about as completely destroyed as it is possible to get and the plight of nei people is about as pitiful as can be imagined. That's war for you. Suppose you lived In Western Eu rope. Suppose you were looking to (Continued on page four) The Weather Cloudy with rain this afternoon and tonight. Sunday partly cloudy with scattered showers. Highest temp, for any Feb. .. Lowest temp, fer any Feb. Highest temp, yesterday Lowest temp, last 24 hours .... Preeip. last 24 hours Procip. from Feb. 1 , Precip. from Sept. 1 . Excess from Jan, I Sunset today, 5:47 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:07 a.m. 7? 55 34 3.6 Estoblishto) 1873 Labors Support Sought Wage Formula! Plan Stalled; Crisis Neared Union Boycott Hurts Economic Mobilization Effort; Unrest Warned By MAX HALL WASHINGTON UP) Govern ment leaders groped today for ways and means of bringing labor leaders back into the wage con trol program from which they walked in a age. Industry leaders accused t h e labor leaders of hurting national unity and seeking a brand-n e w round of waga increases. The labor leaders accused the government of serving big business and ignoring the "plain people," and they predicted "serious un rest in industry." The government's economic mo bilization effort was in something very like a crisis. Johnston Deliberates Eric Johnston, the economic sta bilizer, sat and stared- at a piece of paper on his desk. It was the wage formula adopted 6-3 by the Wage Stabilization board Thnriav night, a formula that would limit group wage and salary increases to 10 percent between Jan. 15, 1950, and next Jiy 1. This would allow auto workers to get a scheduled "cost of living" wage raise March 1, but not thereafter. It, would not permit any raises for most workers in sieet, coal, aluminum, cotton tex tiles, and cotton garments. On the other hand, the great majority of American workers have not re ceived 10 percent since the start of 1950., and government officials said about half of them have not had any raise at all. But Johnston's signature ..w a s needed before the formula could take effect. This was the formula that caused the withdrawal of the union mem bers, Emil Rieve, Elmer E. Wal ker and Harry C. Bates. (Bates was out of town and another man walked out on his behalf.) Industry Hits Walkout Last night the industry mem bers, Henry B. Arthur, J. Ward Keener, and Reuben Robertson Jr., issued a statement that said this: "The urgent need for national unity is not well served through the device of 'crisis by walkout.' The Wage Stabilization board can not function if, as the union lead ers seem to desire, it exists only to rubber-stamp hunting licenses for a higher, more inflationary, sixth round of wage increases." Earlier the united labor policy committee, which represents the AFL CIO, and FAIL brotherhoods, made a long and bitter attack an only on the wage formula as "un fair and unworkable," but on the price control and manpower pro grams and the personal leariershio of Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson. Johnston, as he studied the wage formula, had the power to sien or not to sign, or to change the formula and then sign. He was expected to ponder the matter for a few days before acting. Mean time, in order to stay on the job, he cancelled a speech he was to have made tonight n Portland, Ore. Lurid Crime Tale Revealed As Hoax LOS ANGELES P) A lurid story of two gun-toting men driv ing around with the body of a slain girl blew up as a hoax, de tectives report. The girl who told the story and set off a wide police search is held on an intoxication charge. Det. Sgt. E. R. Hargett of Su burban San Pedro quoted the girl: "I got this idea and when I started telling the story I couldn't stop." The girl, found beside a highway early yesterday, gave her name as Rebecca Adams, 28, of Amar illo, Tex. Detectives said she first told this Story: She and a friend, Marjorie Williams, 24, Galveston, Tex., had been traveling with two heavily armed men for several weeks. Thursday night "Miss Williams" and one man got into row. He shot her to death. The men put her body on the floor of the car, covered it with a blanket, and kept driving. Miss Adams escaped when they stopped at a service station. Texas police were unable to find any trace of a Rebecca Adams in Amarillo or "Miss Williams" in Galveston. Sgt. Hargett said a check of FBI fingerprint records showed that Miss Adams really is Caro line Lee Courtney of Marshall. Tex. 35.N(S)He said police of other cities re ... .83 T ported she had told a similar tale at Beaumont and Jefferson, Tex., Shreveport, La., and Terre Haute, I Ind. William MacLean Dies Of Gunshot William Royal MacLean, 45, owner and operator of the Drew store and post office, died of a self-inflicted gun wound Friday evening, Deputy Sheriff W. I. Wor rail reports. The deputy said MacLean shot himself in the head with a .380 automatic pistol after returning to his home from a buying trip to Medford late Friday afternoon. His wife immediately sent word to Tiller to phone for a doctor and the deputy sheriff. Worrall said MacLean died shortly after he and Dr. R. L. Falk of Canyonville arrived at the MacLean home. Mr. and Mrs. MacLean came to Drew from Pasadena, Calif., and have operated the Drew store since their arrival in 1945. He is sur vived by his widow, Lucille Norine, and four children. The body has- been removed to Ganz mortuary at Myrtle Creek. Funeral . services will be announced. Fire Destroys Singleton Cabin A cabin owned by George Single ton was destroyed by fire of un known origin early Friday morn ing, Deputy Sheriff A. A. Eck hardt reports. According to the deputy, there is some evidence indicating the fire was started by "unnatural circumstances." He declined to list specifically the evidence, pend ing further investigation. The cabin was located on the South Umpqua river near the forks. The fire Is believed to have started sometime between 1 and 2 a.m. Friday, Eckhardt said. He reported the blaze apparently be gan on a porch on the north end of the house. Singleton said the electrical power was shut off at the time and the fire could not have started from faulty wiring. He also said the frame cabin was tightly locked up at the time. The loss was partly covered by insurance. Motive In Wool Strike Disputed BOSTON UP) The strike of 70,000-CIO wool and worsted mill workers over a 51-cent an hour pay boost was spiced today with an argument over the price freeze question. A union official said the Amer ican Woolen company "asked for the strike so they -could have a talking point with Washington to relax the price freeze' That argument was advanced yesterday by James J. Ellis, busi ness agent of the Massachusetts joint board of the Textile Workers Union of America (CIO). Robert Montgomery, counsel for the American Woolen company, re plied "the company did not want the strike and we told the union we didn't want it." He said the strike "is not a way of bringing pressure to bear on the price freeze situation." Union chiefs said the strike, which started yesterday and af fected about half of all the woolen and worsted workers in the nation, was "universally effective." Cretan Romeo Sentenced To Two-Year Jail Term CANEA. Crete UP) Crete's modern Romeo, Costa Kephaloy annis, was convicted by a five man court today of carrying arms without a permit and sentenced to two years in jail. The fiery Costa had been ac cused of forming an armed band to kidnap his Juliet, 19-year-old Tassoula Petracogeorgi, daughter of a liberal men-.her of parliament. The couple's families have been feuding for years. Conviction on the charge of leading an armed band would have carried the death penalty. Costa seized Tassoula on a Her akleion street last August and car ried her away to storied Mount Ida. They were married at a lonely monastery and spent a honeymoon in mountain caves. Inspection Of Weapons Planned By President WASHINGTON UP) Presi dent Truman set today aside for a personal inspection of the army's weapons those with which it fights now and other new ones it may use in the future. He left the capital this morning for the Aberdeen, Md., proving grouiM, the army's 75.000-acre ord nance development and test cen ter. There the army had arrayed an arsenal of weapons including new experimental types as well as the ones already being used to pound Communist forces in Korea. Firing ''--'onstrations and laboratory ex hibit were prepared for the com-uid.iucr-in-cmef. ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1M1 TWIRLS BATON Norma Hill Takes Honors In Benefit Amateur Show By LEROY INMAN A pretty little girl in a majorette costume and twirl ing a lighted baton won the acclaim of the audience at the Roseburg Active club's polio benefit amateur show Friday night in the Junior high gymnasium. She was seven-year-old Norma Hill, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill of 641 Short street, Roseburg, and a second grader at Rose school. Norma was awarded a large loving cup as the grand prize. Winner in her own ace sroun of children under 12 years, she won ! out in the finals over a total of 26 contestants. She showed excellent form in her dance and baton twirl ing, and her act was especially ef fective with her lighted baton when all stage lights were turned off. The competition was keen in each age group, and local folks conceded that this was one of the best amateur programs the Activ ians had presented in a total of six performances. Applause Decided Winner! Jacquie Matthews and Ralph Fray both 13, of Roseburg placed first in the 12 and 13-year-old age group, playing electric guitars. Ro land Wagner, 16, Roseburg pianist, was first in the next age group of 14 to 16 year olds, and Marvin Wilson, Roseburg vocalist, took top honors in the adult and over group. The winners were selected on a basis of audience applause, re corded on an applause meter. First and second places were selected in each group. Second place winners won $5 bills, and first place win ners were awarded small loving cups. Taking second and pushing Norma close in the first group were Pat and Carol Lee David son, 7 and 8, respectively, doing a soft shoe tap. They were grand winners in last fall's show. Others in the group were Ray Sleinberger, Tamara Tauscher, Bonnie Sue Holcomb, and Nancy Smith and Stanley Spencer, duet. All are of Roseburg. Competition Stiff Jeannie Long, 14, Roseburg, sing ing "Alice Blue Gown," came a close second in stiff competition for the second group, which in eluded also Frcida Fullmer, Oak land; Carol McLaughlin, and Ar villa Montgomery, Roseburg, and Jo Ann Brown, Canyonville. Lett on Sanders, vocal and gui tar, Roseburg. was second in the third group, winning over Barbara Wilcox, Riddle; Joyce Johnson, Marta Patterson, Mollie Fullerton and Carolee Rutherford, all of Roseburg. Eddie Winter, tap dancer o f Roseburg, took second in the final group, competing against Dorothy and Carol Bringle, duet, and Doris Smith, Sutherlin; Nina Klasscn, Phyllis Plummer and Penny Thomas, Roseburg. City Of Drain To Hold Blackout Tuesday Night The city of Drain will hold a 10-minute practice blackout Tues day, Feb. 10, starting at 8:30 p.m., the Drain Enterprise reports. Drain's Civilian Defense Direc tor H. A. Blyth said that a plane carrying Brig. Gen. J. I. Pierce, county civil defense chief, will fly over the city before and during the blackout. Blyth asks that all lights possible in the city be turned on about 8:10 p.m. to fully illuminate the city. Pictures will be taken from the plane prior to the blackout and again during the blackout for com parison. GOP Leaders Issue; Await By. JACK BELL WASHINGTON UP) Senate Republican leaders appeared on the verge of a three-way split to day over the troops-to-Europe is sue. At the same time, the combined foreign relations and armed serv ices committees awaited answers to their invitations to former Pres ident Hoover and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York to testify when they resume hearings on the issue next week. Dewey, the 1948 Republican pres idential nominee, has urged the raising of an army of 100 division! and alT-out help to Western Eu rope to rearm. Hoover has said the United States should not send another man or dollar until Eu rope erects a "sure dam" against communism. Millikin Opposes Limit In the meantime other differ ences of opinion appeared among senate leaders already divided I over the question of whether Coi gress shall limit the number or American troops to srfjr in themiuecs yesterday that Western North Atlantic defense t u p , European nations would double neadea by Oen. UHJht D. Eisen- bower. Kennerly Cited For Bank Theft In Los Angeles LOS ANGELES iPi By ron Kennerly, 42, of Roseburq, Ore., was in jail under 10,000 bond today on a charge of bank robbery. The FBI arrested Kennerly Thursday. He is accused of rob bing a branch of the Security First National bank of MOO that same day. Officers recovered the money. R. B. Hood, head of the FBI office here, -said Kennerly claimed he served at an officer in the U. S. air corps and the RAF in World War II, hat been employed as a mechanic for an airline, and that hit father once wat chief of police at Roseburg. Kennerly wa's arraigned be fore the U. S. commissioner yesterday. He wat ordered to appear for preliminary hearing on March 2. Lumber Walkout Warning Sounded PORTLAND UP) The Pa cific Northwest's 65,000 AFL lum ber workers may go on strike next week for higher wages. That was the warning sounded here last night by Kenneth Davis, executive secretary of the north western council of the AFL Lum ber and Sawmill Workers union. "There is a very strong pos sibility of a strike. . .1 am awfully afraid things will blow sky high next week," Davis said at the break up of a two-day union strat egy meeting. Out of this conference came two points, Davis said: 1. Member unions authorized the northwestern council, repre senting workers in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, to call a strike if wage demands are not met. 2. The union leaders decided to stick by their demands for pay boosts ranging from 30 to 40 cents an hour about a 20 percent in crease. Davis said the union heads scorned the proposed federal ceil ing of 10 percent on wage increases. CLARK ARRIVES TOKYO UP) -Gen. Mark Clark, chief of the army field forces, arrived by plane today and conferred with chief of staff sec tions of General MacArthur's com mand headquarters. Clark plans to visit Korea and talk there With LI. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Eighth army commander. Split On Troops-To-Europe Dewey, Hoover Testimony Colleagues said Senator Millikin of Colorado, head of the confer ence of all GOP senators, had told them he is opposed to any nu merical limitation, but Millikin would not comment publicly. Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the party's senate policy com mittee, has called for a ceiling on ground force transfers abroad, as has Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the GOP floor leader. Taft Wants OK However, Taft said he had no objection to the move announced by Secretary of Defense Marshall to send four more divisions to Eu rope, so long as Congress gets a chance to pass first on the ap portionment of the North Atlantic defense force. Wherry, on the other hand, is author of a resolution pending before the committees to ban the transfer of troops until Congress acts on the policy in volved. He called testimony by Marshall, Secretary of Slate Ache- son and Gen. Omar N. Bradley "only generalities." Viesmi predicted to the com their forces by next year. Wherry ' said this didn't mean much. 41-51 Chamber Address Set By Andrews H. J. Andrews, regional forester of the U. S. Forest service, will ad dress the Roseburg chamber of commerce forum luncheon next Monday noon at the Hotel Ump qua. His subject will be "Access Roads." Tom Pargeter, acting chairman of the forum committee, announces that the need for access roads into federal timber is indicated by the ratio of cut between privately owned and federally owned tim ber lands. It is with a recognition of local need for access roads that the forum committee has asked Andrews to discuss this problem in hope that some solution may be found, Pargeter said. Andrews will also meet with timber operators at a 6:30 dinner Monday evening for the purpose of learning the operators' prob lems and seeking means of adjust ment between the operators and the administration of national for ests. Judgment Made Against U.M.W. RICHMOND, Va. UP) A Richmond construction firm won a $275,437 judgment against the United Mine Workers and two of its affiliates early today on a charge that the unions intimidated workers on a Kentucky project, causing a work stoppage and loss of the building contract. A circuit court jury, afterTMib- erating eight hours, awarded the Laburnum Construction company $175,437 to compensate for the con tract loss and an additional $100, 000 in punitive damages. The damages were assessed against the UMW, district 50 of the UMW, and the United Con struction Workers. Judge Harold W. Sncad agreed to withold enter ing judgment for two weeks to give union counsel time to make dissenting motions. February Court Term To Begin; Jury Called The February term of circuit court is slated to begin Monday with the impaneling of the jury to hear the first case on the docket, State of Oregon vs. William Homer Berry. This incest case is the first of seven criminal actions to be tried by District Attorney Robert G. Davis and Deputy District Attor ney Dudley Walton. These actions will precede 13 civil cases to be heard this session. "Even if they double their forces. what have you got7" wncrry de manded. "How vuuld it compare with what Russia i'as Lawmakers said the chiefs of staff of the army, navy and air force, scheduled to testily Monday before the committees, probably will be asked about a statement by Premier Stalin that Russia has demobilized and that a third world war is not inevitable "at this time." Chances Said Better General Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told the committees yesterday that the transfer of four adriilioikil Ameri can divisions to Europe would "immeasurably improve" the chances of the two already in Ger many to survive a Russian attack. Earlier, Acheson said that the source of the security threat to Western Europe and the United Stoles "is the powerful military force assembled by the Soviet Un ion and its satellites, combined with the hostile intentions which the Soviet Union has demon strated toward the entire non-So viet wujd aiV he willingness it has recwi ntly shown to risk general war, rW 1 5s Aggressor Label On Reds Rapped By THOMAS P. WHITNEY MOSCOW (AP) Prime Minister Stalin said last night that war is not inevitable "at least for the pres ent" but charged the United States with turning tha United Nations into a tool of aggression. In his first major foreign policy statement in two years the 71-year-old Soviet leader predicted the Korean war would end in defeat of American forces, unless Wash ington and London accept peace terms laid down by Com munist China. He denounced the United Nations resolution labelling Communist China an aggressor as "disgraceful" and pre dicted the U.N.'8 downfall. He declared : "The United Nations organize- - nun uierciure lanin? uie ingiur-; ious road of the League of Na-! lions. In this way it is burying , its moral prestige and dooming itself to disintegration." Stalin charged that the U.N. was nui prupuriiuuaiiy representative i of world populations and had be-, come "not as much a world or ganization as an organization for acting on behalf of the require ments of the American aggres sors." He said American GIs fought brilliantly and effectively in de feating Germany and Japan, but that they were losing on Korean battlefields because they had no faith in their cause. Announces Through Interview Stalin used the Communist news paer Pravda as the vehicle for his pronouncements adopting the familar pattern of questions and answers in a newspaper interview. The broadside from the Kremlin was in direct reply to a recent House of Commons statement by British Prime Minister Attlee to the effect that after the end of World War II the Soviet Union did not disarm. Stalin castigated the statement as "a slander against the Soviet Union. Stalin charged that the socialist government of Britain was not in favor of peace "but of unleashing a new aggressive world war" in concert with the United States. Western observers wondered at the timing of the major policy statement which comes one day after the British House of Com' mons gave final approval to a $1,160,000,000 rearmament plan. Motive Studied Thev noted also the Stalin state. mcnt was released in advance of a four-oower deputies meeting in Paris to arrange a conference of foretjn ministers of the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France in an effort to end east-west tensions. Western diplomats are studying the text of the Stalin interview carefully to find any divergence from previous Soviet policy. So far they have found none. The Soviet prime minister's last major announcement on foreign af fairs came in a question and an swer interview with Kinsbury Smith of the International News Service early in 1949. A hint thrown out in that interview and seized upon by American diplo mats, resulted in a meeting of tbe council of foreign ministers and an end of the Berlin blockade. Shortage Of Gas Reported In China NEW DELHI, India UP) The Hindustan Times said today China's Korean adventure has stripped North China of gasoline and strained its hospital facilities. A dispatch from Hong Kong datclincd "At Sea Off The China Coast," and written by Correspon dent Arthur Moore reported a visit to Peiping and said lack of gasoline is Mao Tze-Tung's ma jor headache. "Peiping and Tientsin are gasoline-dry," Moore reported. "Only top priority military trucks and the diplomatic corps get gas. In both cities there are stray char coal taxis and buses but men har nessed with ropes ponies, donkics and oxen, do all the haulage." He said the shortage of motor fuel raised for the Chinese "an urgent practical question of sup ply. Without gas, communications will fail and neither ammunition nor food can reach the Korean front line with regularity." Two Persons Arraigned On Charges Of Assault Three persons alleged to have been involved in a knife and whis key bottle fight Thursday night at Sawyer rapids were arraigned in district court Friday. Breece Owens Moody, 39, an Oakland plasterer, and Benjamin Otis Lobdell, 44, a Sutherlin log ger, were placed on $1,000 bail for assault, armed with a dangerous weapon, reports District Judge A. J. Geddes. The third party, Alice Smith, 52, a Sutherlin housewife, was sentenced to serve 30 days in the Douglas County jail and fined $75 for vagrancy, said Geddes. According to the report received from Deputy Sheriffs Verne Poun cey and Cecil Bever, the arresting officers, Lobdell allegedly at tacked both the woman and Moody with a whiskey bottle. Moody, in turn, stabbed Lnhdell rcDeatedlv with a pocket knife, said the of ficers. Army Sgt. Melvin Brant Killed In Korea Fighting Army Sgt. Melvin L. Brant, ton of Olive A. Hill, route 2, box 301 E, Roseburg, has been killed in action in Korea, according to an official department of defense reoort of Kareen area casualties. Brant previously had been re ported at missing In action, the report stated, . Red Assault On East Flank Fails Purpose Counterattack, Shell Fire Blunt Thrust; ROK Forces Withdraw By OLEN CLEMENTS TOKYO UP) Elements of three North Korean divisions In. day dented the allied east flank in central Korea but failed to turn it. Accurate artillery fire and coun terattacks blunted the force of the enemy punch, shifted eastward from bloodily repulsed onslaughts at Chipyong and Wonju. The smash at the east flank near the transport hub of Checbon, a mountain gateway to South Korea, was the only serious enemy effort. The Reds massed 15,000 or more men in the area but a late field report said only spearheads had been committed. Eastward on the coast, South Korean troops made a deep pull back from the 38th parallel to a new defense line but under no enemy pressure. Redt Pull Back Westward for 70 miles to Seoul, there was scattered, small-scale fighting. Around Wonju and Chipyong, where Chinese Reds suffered 22,128 casualties in four days but failed to break through, allied patrols ranged one to more than two miles north without finding Reds. The chewed-up Chinese 41st corps had pulled back the rem nants of four divisions for regroup ing. But there were signs that up wards of 150,000 Chinese Reds still might try to smash the allied center and imperil 100,000 United Nations troops around Seoul. Three separate battles flared Friday night and Saturday around Chcchon, 14 miles southeast of Wonju. Accurate U. N. artillery quickly broke up a Red attack at 11:40 Friday night six miles north east of Chcchon. At about the same hour, a Red regiment assaulted South Korean units 10 miles northeast of the town. By 2 a.m. Saturday, the at- uck suDsiaea. The third action was initiated nine miles northeast of Chechon by South Koreans against a south bound North Korean column. Reporting from the central front, AP Correspondent John Randolph said: "While the North Koreans pene trated the line, it was in no sense a breakthrough. Rather the allied forces rolled with the punch. "The enemy north of Chechon was believed to be the Fifth North Korean corps. It seemed to be trying to slip into Pyongchang-Yongwol-Tanyang mountain route to the south. Proof Of Peace Desire Requested LONDON UP) -Western Euro pean nations agreed with Joseph Stalin today that war is not yet inevitable but they asked him to prove he means it, Italian Premier Alcide De Gas- Keri said Stalin's statement would e more assuring "if Russia would demonstrate with facts contribut ing to a true peace." The Russian prime minister, in a newspaper interview broadcast by Moscow radio last night, charged the United Nations was a total of the United States but added that war was not yet in evitable. A British foreign office spokes man said: "We do not regard war as in evitable at all.. In our view there is no problem which cannot be solved by peaceful negotiation, given good will. Certainly on our side, such good will always has been, and always will be, forth coming." U. S. APOLOGIZES PRAGUE UP) The United States apologized to Czechoslov akia today because American jet fighter planes inadvertently flew over Prague 10 days ago. The Czech foreign minister protested on Feb. 8 that the planes had done so. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstcin Word from the automobile industry is that ear models of 19S0 will not be changed In 1951, thus making it easier for a lot of folks to catch up with the Joneses,