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I o poo ooo oooo oo oooo b ooo OOOO O DO ooo ooo . NINETY-SEVENTH YEAH 14 Perish as Missouri Workers- Strike To Affect Overseas Cable Messages NEW YORK (Friday)'. Jan. 2 -4Jf- Last-ditch negotiations con tinued early today in an effort to avert a strike of overseas commun ications workers but as the midnight strike deadline passed picket lines were formed here and walkouts were in progress in Washington and San Francisco. There had been no word to indicate the progress of wage nego- OtP SS3D0QB Marion county lost one of its bridges last Tuesday when a log truck went .through bridge on the Little North Fork above Me hama. The bridge was undergo ing reconstruction, but whether this weakened the old structure has not been stated. No charge has been made either that the truck weight exceeded the legal maximum. The accident though has proven costly and has sus pended traffic for the Elkhorn country above. Old bridges over the state are cracking up under the burden of traffic, particularly of logs. Log truckers have been favored with the maximum of concessions un der the law .and yet many truck operators yield to the temptation to overload. There has been running controversy between log ging people and the state highway department over enforcement of the truck restriction laws. scores of arrests are made and fines im- j ZLZrZ a penalty-period. Failure of -a bridge under heavy truck loads is a dramatic illus tration of the damage to highway structures caused by these oper ations. Less apparent is the ef fect on roadway, though the ulti mate cracking up of the surfacing or rutting of gravel roads again proves that the loads were too heavy for the type of road con struction. In shrt there is definite need for enforcing load limits on truck (Continued on editorial page) Cold Cripples Mummers Fete PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-OTV The mummers pranced on Broad .street again today in spectacular 'disregard of biting cold and a soaking rain that washed out much of .the color and one whole section of the Quaker city's an nual New Year's camivaL True to mummers legend that the show goes on if at all possi ble, the fancy clubs and comics swirled gaily through the center of this normally staid city. But long before the last "shoot er" - - rain r ol 1 i n g from his grease-painted face - -passed the judges stand at city hail, most of the 500.000 spectators had sought refuge indoors from the numbing. cold. And, the string bands, 17 gorgeously caparisoned units whose tinkling tunes help make this annual fete unique in Amer ica, agreed to delay their march until Saturday. MUKDEN TIDE TURNING NANKING. Jan. 1 -JPy- Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek told officials of his national govern ment today that communist at tempts to encircle Mukden had been "completely frustrated" and that the situation in Manchuria and in north China was improv ing. Animal Craclters By WARREN GOODRICH "Step mp, pts. IS PAGES I nations or whether negotiators might b nearing a settlement. ILwii estimated that a strike would halt about two-thirds of the overseas transmissions hand led by companies Involved in the1 dispute, but it also was reported that other concerns not affected could take over most of the mat ter. In San Francisco, a union estimated 161 employes struck the offices of Mackay Radio and Tele graph company at midnight (EST). The companies are the cables division of the Western Union Telegraph company. Mackay Ra dio" and Telegraph, Inc., the Com mercial Cable company and All America Cables and Radio, Inc. The unions are the CIO Ameri can Communications association and the Independent All America Cable Employes association. About 3,500 workers are involved. Two Men Held After Holiday Eve Accidents Six charges are facing two automobile drivers today, follow ing their arrests New Years eve by city police. Few traffic mis haps were reported for the holi day. Frank Takayama. Brooks route Qn charfef of failure to gtop 'at the scene of as accident, recfc- less driving with liquor involved and failure to heed a police siren. Police reports said Takayama was involved in a minor accident in the 900 block of North "Capitol street about 5:30 pjn. Wednes day with a car driven by Lester W. Walling, Salem route 1. Dur ing an ensuing lengthy chase north, through the Hollywood district, officers . reported, the Takayama vehicle struck and damaged two parked cars. t John William Stratemeyer, 2505 State st, was held in city jail in lieu of $750 bail on charges of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liq uor, driving with defective head lights " and destruction of city property. After observers report ed a car hose description tallied with that of Stratemeyer's struck and damaged three parking met ers at State and Front streets about 1 a.m. Thursday, police sighted the car and commenced, a chase of several blocks. Offi cers' reports said pieces of ra diator grill and bumper found at the . parking meters . matched broken portions of Stratemeyer's car. Marshall Plan Delay Hinted WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 - (JP -Congress action on the Marshall plan may be delayed two months beyond the administrations April 1 deadline. Rep. Eaton (R-NJ) chairman of the house foreign af fairs committee, predicted today. "I wouldn't set any date," Ea ton told reporters. "But if we get it through by June 1 well be for tunate." And he made it clear that he was not speaking of passing the plan in exactly the pattern cut by the administration, but as it finally evolves after careful hear ings and any jiecessary revisions. 700 Jews Break Through British Palestine Blockade JERUSALEM, Jan. 1 - (P) - A mass attempt to break the Pales tine blockade partially succeeded today when between 500 and 700 Jewish immigrants waded ashore from a beached ship while the British were busy herding more than 11,000 passengers from two other vessels into Cyprus deten tion camps. The ship which beat the British naval patrol ran aground at Na hariya at the extreme - northern end of the Palestine coast. Ha gana. the Jewish defense organi zation, said all 700 Jews aboard this ship now were Inside the "promised land. Meanwhile, hundreds of British commandos, garrison troops and civil policemen lined the docks at Famagusta, Cyprus, as more than 11,000 other uncertified Jewish immigrants filed quietly off their converted cargo ships, the Pan Crescent and Pan York. POUNDBD 1651 Th Oragoa Statesman. Salem. Dragon. Holiday Accident Toll 118 OTTERVILLE. Mo Jan. 1-CP) At least 14 holiday travelers, in cluding former ambassador to Spain Alexander W. Weddell and his wife, were killed today in the rear-end collision of two Missouri Pacific passenger trains in a hea vy snowstorm. Weddell's body was identified late tonight by Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Baldwin, SL Louis friends of the family. Weddell'a wife r also was listed among the tentatively identified' dead. Weddell was ambassador to Ar gentina from 1933 to 1939 when he was appointed ambassador to Spain. He served in that capacity until his retirement in 1942. Removal of the bodies in the subfreezing weather was tedious and nightfall added to the diffi culties. State highway patrolmen said two or three more bodies may be found in a Telescoped Pullman car. One of the injured died in a hos pital at nearby Sedalia, making the known toll 13. The locomotive of the second section of the train rammed through, all but four feet of the rear Pullman of the first section, cramming it together like a giant steel accordion. Col. Hugh W. Waggoner of the state highway patrol said the New Year's day tragedy appar ently had been caused by failure of block signals, disrupted by a sleet-snow storm which had rag ed since Wednesday. By the Associated Press An end-on collision of two sec tions of a Missouri Pacific pass enger train during a snowstorm Thursday helped boost the na tion's accidental death toll to 118 within the New Year holi day's first. 24-hour period. Fou rteen 'persona were reported killed tn the wreck -near Otter ville. Mo., and 83 other fatali ties occurred in traffic accidents, many of which were attributable to icy road conditions in many northern parts of the country. Another 23 miscellaneous deaths occurred in such accidents as fires and falls. Oregon had two fatali ties, both Portland traffic deaths. Alaska Winter Veils B-29 Fate ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 1 (JPy The Alaska winter kept a tight veil today over the fate of a B-29 weather plane, which va nished early yesterday morning, and blocked efforts to locate five men who vanished after- earlier superfortress crash. A ground party, traveling by army weasel, probed the snow choked Point McKenzie area west of here in a search for the wea ther observation plane and its nine crewmen. The aircraft disappeared two minutes after its takeoff from Eu!ndorf field and several per sons reported noticing a bright flash in the sky from the plane's line of flight. Five army planes took to the air in an unsuccessful search this morning and civilian aircraft was expected to join the search. LEPEXS ON MISSING SHIP PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad. Jan. 1 -ift- Shipping authorities to day asked the British Guiana and Trinidad governments to start a search for the small island schoon er Missy Wallace, unreported for six days. It has a passenger list of 19 lepers and two attendants besides a crew of seven. Open Bachelor Season Hailed by Nation 's Misses By Ed Creagh WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 -jP) Lace up tho?e running shoes, men, and make for the escape hatches. Leap year dawned this morn ing while you were in no condi tion to defend yourself. And the unwillingly unmar ried women of this country seem ed ready to declare an open sea son on all eligible bachelors. Should a girl take advantage of the custom that permits her to pop the question every time the year is divisible by four? The Washington Times-Herald asked bunch, of slick young spinsters andgot a chorus of enthusiastic 'yeses. "I missed last leap year but m not let opportunity slip by again!" averred Antoinette Gar cia, brunette secretary. "If the girl" doesn't come out and ask, she might never find out his intentions, aaid Norma Friday. January 2. 1943 Trains OTTZXYILIX. Ma. Jan. 1 Far. mer U.S. Ambassador to Spain Alexander W. Weddell. wh. with his wife and 12 ether pass engers of a Mi rt raeifla passenger train were killed to night la a train wreck. 7 Babies Born In Salem on January 1st Salem's first 1948 baby, first of seven born here on New Year's day, is the seven-pound son of Mr. and Mrs. David Loewen, 1533 Ruge St., West Salem who greeted the new year at 9:21 a. m. Thurs day. He was named Steven Ray. Hos pital records also indicated that another boy. the nine-pound son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Shuck, Sa lem route 8. born at 11:34 a. m. is the second newcomer this year. Both babies were born at Salem General hospital. Other babies born on the first day of the year in Salem include: A son to Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Kliever. 1190 N. 17th st, and daughters to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Gulvin, Hills boro route 2, and to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Quiring, 1374 Third st. West Salem, all at Salem General hospital. Daughters to Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Farrow, Idanha. and to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Thompson. Sa lem route 4, both at Salem Mem orial hospital. Silverton s first baby of the new year arrived Thursday afternoon at the hospital there. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Orey, Salem route 2. Thursday night Silverton mer chants were still waiting, with prizes, for the first baby to be born there this year of parents residing in the Silverton trading area. Italy Republic Flags Raised ROME. Jan. 1 -CP- Drums of military units throughout Italy rattled today in brief ceremonies heralding the Italian republic which came into legal being at midnight. Throughout the peninsula the Italian flag minus the cross of the royal house of Savoy t was raised and military commanders announced to their men that the constitution of the new republic was now in force. Newspapers gave much space to the burial in Egypt yesterday of Vittorio Emanuele III who for 43 years was king of Italy. The event emphasized for Italians more than anything else the passing of an era. Boxx. who added that she al ready had her man. Even some men the traitors! got into the act. "Everyone is taking advantage of everyone else," said Harold Tremeuan, a philosophical sail or, "so why shouldn't the women take advantage of the men one year out of four?" Short of taking to the tall tim ber, an eligible male has two ways out He could say "No thanks" or he could beat the deadline as cowboy star Roy Rog ers did by getting wed on De cember 31. But there was a time, in Scot land several centuries agoi when it cost a man hard cash to turn down a leap year offer. He was fined, under the law, for spurning "ilk mayden ladye of highe and lowe estait" unless he could, "make it appeare that he is betrothit an. ither woman. Note that he only had to "make it appeare" he was already hook ed. There were loopholes in those days, too. Victim 'Jr'Vi V - . No. 240 Collide War Mars New Year Of Peace' LONDON, Jan. 1 -OP)- The world began a new year of "peace" today with civil war in Greece, and China, bloodshed in Palestine and unsettled conflicts in India and Indonesia. The "little man" everywhere was dogged by shortages and in flation. I- Europe was split between com munists and non-communists, and for everyone on the continent the year 1948 promised to be one of suspense. In most of Europe there was a "cold war" of propaganda and economic and political pressure, but in Greece the shooting was real. A battle-weary garrison at Konitsa was relieved by govern ment troops after fighting off violent attacks by communist-led guerrillas for a week. Markos Vafiades, the guerrilla "general," in a New Year's proclamation de clared 1941 would be a "year of victory" for bis rebel govern ment. Sporadic shooting again punc tuated the day in Palestine. Warfare Threatens Threatened with the danger of open warfare in Kashmir, north erly princely state, the Indian government prepared to refer the dispute with the new Dominion of Pakistan to the United Na tions security council. India ac cused Pakistan of sheltering raid ers who continued depredations against Kashmir. The new year brought the re turn of civil law to Siam for the first time since Field Marshal Pibul Son gg ram overthrew the government on November 9. Gov ernment sources said the military phase of the coup was "definite ly ended." Marshall Plan Dae Promise of financial assistance from the United States under the Marshall plan heartened the gov ernments of western Europe and gave them hope that 1948 would mark the turning point in the battle for economic recovery. From eastern Europe, however, came bitter opposition to Ameri can efforts to hasten reconstruc tion. The Russian magazine New Times declared "the first round of the battle for Europe has in fact been lost by the American imperialists. They have aroused the wrath and hatred of the masses of the people who do not want to become slaves of the trans-Atlantic invaders." War Brides Arrive One Day Too Late NEW YORK, Jan. 1-0P)-Eigh-teen European girls arrived by plane today to marry ex-soldiers, but immigration authori ties said the girl were a day too late. The prospective war brides, who came from Austria and Italy, were ordered held on Ellis Island pending a special hearing. Officials said the deadline for them to enter this country, under a special congressional act, was midnight Dec. 31, 1947. Disgruntled ex-GIs, who had gone to meet the girls at La Guardia field, immediately wired an appeal to President Truman for an "extension of the visas." The ex-GIs said the girls had left their homelands in time to arrive before the deadline but that flight delays had made their arrival here late. Fifteen of the girls came by Trans-World Air lines from Italy and three "by Pan-American Airways from Vi enna, Austria. Fare Rise on City Buses Takes Effect Increased fares on city buses took effect Thursday, along with the end of a competitive line for Oregon Motor Stages. Single rides are now 10 cents, compared with the recent 8 -cent price. Tickets, replacing metal tokens, will be sold in multiples at three for a quarter. Prices for student books and for children under 12 did not change. Tokens now held may be used as fare, plus one penny, or may be exchanged for cash at the company's office. Salem Suburban lines ceased operations on Wednesday. Weather Max. - 4 . SI S4 33 Min. Prerip. 3 1.44 4 43 14 SO - Saless Portland San Francisco Chicago New York FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight with occa sional light rains. Highest temperature today. Sa degrees; lowest tonight, Price) Se i i . !Foeir ver State atm Wake IF ale Tornado Toll Raised to 20 as StomsJHit U.S. By the Associated Press A violent Mother Nature hurl ing destructive tornadoes and damaging ice and snow storms marred the New Year's debut in wide sections of the country. Excessive rains accompanied by freezing temperatures brought se vere ice storms and later heavy snows New Year's day to sections of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Michigan, disrupting communica tion and power lines, toppling ra dio transmitter towers and caus ing damage estimated in the mil lions. Ice to C.ver Highways In the east, rain helped clear New York streets of its record 25.8 inch snowfall of last Friday, but freezing - temperatures followed and the weather bureau warned that by midnight highways from Pennsylvania to M a s s a chusetts probably would be covered with ice. At least 20 persons were dead, more than 200 injured and hun- - &m NEW, YOKK. Friday. Jan. t VP) Freesliig rain coating elee trte wires, sidewalks and streets, Tsrtmght new peril te New York ers early today la the wake of last week's .paralysing snow storm. The lee made vehicle travel and cvea walking hasard.aa. dreds mad. homeless in the wake of tornadoes that struck five sou thern states New Year's eve. The widespread disturbance left 10 known dead and an estimated 200 injured at Cotton Valley, La., three near Memphis, and one at Man tee, Term., and one each at leton, Dykesville and Haynes- ville. La., and Altheixner and Vil lage, Ark. Ka41e Towers Tepple Chicago and northern Illinois suffered heavily in the midwest ern area as high winds and freez ing ram toppled at least five ra dio transmitter towers, knocked down telephone lines, shattered windows throughout Chicago and coated the city's streets with an icy sheet that crippled transpor tation facilities. The Illinois Bell Telephone company estimated it had suffer ed at least $1,000,000 damage to its lines and equipment. A com pany spokesman said the entire staff of more than 1,000 mainten ance men had been summoned to emergency duty. Prof, lnlow of OCE Stricken Prof. Harvey E. Inlow, staff member of the Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, remained in critical condition at Salem General hospital Thursday night following a heart attack at his home in Monmouth Wednesday. Prof. Inlow, an acknowledged authority on Oregon history, and former -president of the Eastern Oregon College of Education at LaGrande. was stricken as he was about to enter his car. He is also a former superin tendent of schools at Forest Grove and at Pendleton and for a num ber of years has conducted classes in Salem in connection with the Oregon system of higher education extension service. Air Freight Jumps 600 at Salem Over 1946 Figure A 600 per cent gain in the am ount of air freight shipments dur ing 1947 over 194C was announ ced this week by the local United Airlines company. - The company flew 50,939 pounds of freight out of Salem in the year just ended. The bulk of these shipments were made by the West Mushroom company, the airline reported. Salem ranks ninth in the amount of air freight shipments eriginating at 39 west ern United Airlines stations, it was reported. Air express from Salem increas ed 90 per cent over the previous year and one-third more airmail was boarded at the local port in 1947. Airline ticket sales here ap proximated: $197,000, 63 percent more than in 1946. Defeat; Inflicted on Giteek Guerrillas AT HENS. Jan. 1 rVThe Greek, general staff aaid tonight the army had inflicted a "crush ing defeat on "communist forces" in the battle of Konitsa, where a seven-day guerrilla siege of the local government garrison was lifted today. -This' is the first fruit which has, been i reaped by the bogus government of Slavo-Commun-Ists, said a communique review ing the week-long battle. The general staff communique said one column of troops, bent on relieving f the Konitsa - garrison, entered the town yesterday. WW LasBnes !.K$r FaSlaoires Kepoirfted " Football Scores Rose Bowl Michigan 49, USC 0, Shrine Game East 40, West 9. Cotton Bowl So. Methodist 13, Penn State 13. Ssurar Bowl Texas 27, Alabama 7. Orange Bawl Georgia Tech 20, Kansas 14. Delta Bowl Mississippi 13, TCU 9. 'Gator Bawl Maryland 20, Georgia 20. Dixie Bowl Arkansas 21, William & Mary 19. San Bowl Miami (Ohio) 13, Texas Tech 13. Raisin Bowl ' Coll. Pacific 26, Wichita 14. Salad Bawl Nevada 13, N. Texas State 6. Pineapple Bowl Hawaii $3, Jtedlanda .32. , , Salem Junior First Citizen SelectionDue Salem's Junior First Citizen for 1947 will be named at the Junior Chamber of Commerce annual Founder's day banquet, Wednes day, January 21, Jaycee President ; Howard Walker announced Thurs-' day. The Junior First Citizen is se lected yearly by a group of local businessmen on the basis of civic activities and accomplishments, and is announced at the Jaycee banquet. . The selectee must be between the ages of 21 and 35. Last year's Junior First Citizen was the Rev. Clay Pomeroy, for mer assistant pastor of the First Christian church who has since moved to .Portland to accept a similar post at the First Christian church there. This year's principal speaker at the dinner, which will start at 7 pm. In the Mirror room of the Marion hotel will be Rex Kim- melL deputy state attorney gen eral, who. will leave shortly for San Diego where he has been In vited by the navy to take an 11- day cruise aboard a destroyer. The Jaycee banquet to which the public is also Invited, will be held In connection with National Junior Chamber of Commerce week. January 14-21, celebrating the 27th anniversary of the or ganization. A state Junior First Citizen will also be selected during the week Regal Miss Admits Love For Ex-King COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 1 Princess Anne of Boubon Parma said in an interview today that she was completely in love with Mihai, the abdicated king of Romania,- and "wherever he goes I will follow him." The Danish princess is at the residence of her uncle, Prince Axel, in a Copenhagen suburb. anxiously awaiting word from Mihai. She said the abdication was a complete surprise to her. "Mihai and I met for the first time In London at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth. It was love at first sight I did not think it could happen to me," said the 24-year-old princess. "When Mihai and I parted in Lausanne we had no definite plans for the future, she continued. "It seemed so uncertain, but I hoped to see him again tn April. If Mihai weds the princess he will not marry Into a wealthy family. She Is heir, however, to a small fortune left her mother in the will of a Danish millionaire who died last summer. Parachutes for Use on Airlines Held Impractical WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 -UP) Parachutes for airline passengers are not feasible, in the opinion of President Truman s air safety inquiry board. The board, set up by President Truman last summer afteirXsJrr ies of airplane accidents wmch cost nearly ISO lives, has sehi a report to the White House but it has not yet been made public. The board said that nothing had been presented to it to jus tify, any change in the "fairly unanimous" opinion that the use of parachutes is impracticable. The main reasons against the use of 'chutes, the board said, are the nature of air accidents, that is, the lack of warning; the neces sity of knowing the technique for jumping, and the faster speeds and higher altitudes at which transports fly. BKITISH LIKE BLNO LONDON, Jen. 1 -iP- British motion picture exhibitors have named Ding Crosby as the big- box tOea attraction la 1947. ' ! : ..r,t? 1.46 Inches of Rain Brought Rainy blasts of wind roared into the Salem area on the' wings of the New Year cau$in soma damage, but by late I Thursday night had abated enough to allovr the weatherman to forecast show- -era and warmer temperatures for today and Saturday. '") . J . The wind, which took tip wheit 1947 left off, was strongest be tween 6:30 a.m. and '6 p.nT. Thurs day and reached gale strength 6 f 50 miles per hour at ! 3:30 p mt the U. S. weather bureau at Mc Nary field reported, i s f A total of 1.48 Inch Of rtin lashed down ' with the ; gale. Yujetide decorations' stretched across downtown streets were be-' Ing ripped apart 1 by the' blasts, ahd by late last night were near ly all removed by the I United Artists company t Portland and the Denison-Stone electrical firm of Salem. !: i i , j s Portland General Electric com pany reported that the only ma)o power interruption occurred in the) general area from Trade to Mis sion streets and from 14th! to High streets for about an hourf at noon Thursday. Power was re- f stored through other circuit con- ' nections. . , ; U Many Minor Ttaables j I 4 A PGE crew of about TO men. however, worked throughout jthe) day taking care of other; minor troubles. Some lines were , down and in several areas Snapped-ofg tree limbs had toppled onto line. Street lights in several areas! in south Salem were out for, a sborf period Thursday evening, j j -i Pacific Telephone St Telegraph!' company reported "the usual hard wind trouble". Some lines In scattered sections of the city were) down but were quickly repaired. The company reported an openf wire toll failure south of Salem, which isolated Salem from south- ero contact i or a snort white early; anursuay aiiernoon. , t , Flight. Held 17 " f;' : Local United Air Lines terminal reported that Thursday flights were not hampered because th extremely heavy wind was blow- ing in the direction of the runway; instead of counter to it. i Because of bad storming In the) mid-west, the Salem air lines of fice aaid that as of Thursday ht-4 ternoon, flights between Desj Moines, Iowa, ahd Chicago, 111' wera beinf held up. j j Salem city police reported sr quiet New Year day and indi cated that the foul weather held most people at home.: State police reported no instances of wind of rain Arrm mm In M mrmm Tlmru By Local Storm day night. The weather ' bureaia N reported that the Willamette riv er waa not affected to any con siderable extent by Thursday' Reports f Roach Weather j , i Meanwhile reports of wind and rough weather in other areas in th. northwest part Of th. state) were received here early this mor ning. ; . , f The ferry between AsWisi and Megler, Wash., stopped' runninflf' Thursday in the face of a wind' blowing gusts up to 38 miles peg hour. Ships stood by In port and? outside th. bar, awaiting subsid ing of th. storm, th Associated Press reported, i .-),.-. . j Falling trees blocked th. Tilla mook-Otis highway i lata Thurs--day night. Throughout western Oregon and coastal Washington ' branches crashed from trees and temporary power breaks occur-, red. Repair crews sptyit the holUJ days at work on fallen pole and broken power lines,! Although it? serious damage was reported. Fainting Spell Foils Hostage! Plan Of Portland Thief PORTLAND Janlf 1VA gunman robbed a service station ' of $210 in "cash early today, but his attempt to kidnap a woman hostage was foiled by faintin ' spell. .- The man pointed a gun at Ho- 1 mer E. Butler, service station at tendant, early this morning, say ing "come on, I mean business,' and - - after getting the $210 - "so long, sucker." i ; ! I Then he pointed his gun at Mrs. Jill Harming, who was .leaving m nearby cafe, and said , the, enpa are after me, and I can use you." But she fainted with ! fright - - and the holdup man fled, j Of curse jr. a 4a mora baainesa than 1 bat t. ns. a States- aam Was A4 ft. ste UT : ; quickies I I ' : , t