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Aerial search for three person
missing on a Salem-Los Angeles
flight, Including a 34 -year -old
woman lumber broker of Port
land, will be broadened over-a
wide area of inland mountains
today.
The plane, a iBeechcraft Bon
anza, left Salem Saturday and
was destined for its first stop- ei
ther at Sacramento or Red Bluff.
It has not been reported at eith
er place. A.
Reported aboard were Ruth
Meyers of the Parilius Lumber
company, Portland; Paul D. Starr,
S2, pilot sand former B-17 pilot in
the 8th air force, and president of
the P. D. Starr Lumber company,
Southgate, Calif., and .R5bf1ft
Starr, 34, former West Point ath
letic director, a brother of Paul
and associated in business with
him.
It was feared mountain storms
had caught them over the Siski-
TOUS.
At Eugene last night, the Asso
ciated Press quoted Lt. Theodore
B. White of the air rescue service,
McChord field, as saying the
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The state budget, will create a
problem for the" legislature to
solve: too "ouch expense, not
enough Income as laws now are
written. The national budget is
living the administration some
tough days before congress meets,
and will provide plenty of staff
for the 81st congress to work oyer.
President Truman wants to how
the budget down to $40 billion,
which is nearly $3 billion from the
current budget. To do this he ha
Instructed Secretary Forrestal to
hold the military budget to $15
billion, up about $4 billion from
the present appropriation. Heads
of the several branches of the serv
ice contend this sum up is quite
inadequate. The air force calls for
more money to set up its 70-group
air power; the army wants more
money to get its new selective
service enrollment into training;
the navy wants money to build
huge carriers (floating air bases).
Add to the demands of the mili
tary establishment the claims of
foreign relief ; and rearmament.
EBP will ask-fot-anotber $5 bil
lion, more or less, for grants and
loans. Western Europe is turning
to the United States for military
supplies, guns, tanks, planes, muni
tions. To be able to repel invasion
these nations need to be rearmed
and look to Uncle Sam to do the
rearming.
Then if the administration makes
good on its promises for federal
aid to education, federal housing,
more money for reclamation and
power plants the requirements for
domestic uses will be gregtly in
creased. All of this adds up to more taxes.
But with business now showing
signs of doubt about the future,
tax increases hardly look like the
right prescription.
The great aanger is inai a re
vival of the big scale government
(Continued on Editorial Page.)
Court Resumes
Considerations
Oh Senate Post
Marion county court will re
convene today at 10 a. m. to again
consider a state senate successor
to Governor-elect Douglas Mc
Kay. The court met briefly Monday
morning and continued the hear
ing jpntil today. Court members
County Judge Grant Murphy and
Commissioners Ed Rogers and Roy
Rice were uncertain Monday as to
whether a choice would be made
today. 4
"Anyone wishing to talk to the
court concerning any candidate
may do so up to the time the ac
tual decision is reached," Judge
Murphy said.
Several new names were added
Monday to the list which already
contains the names of more than
20 aspirants. The newcomers in
clude John Roberts, hop grower
living south of Salem, and Oscar
Xdlund, Silverton appliance dealer.
Animal Crackers
By BARREN GOODRICH
"He keeps arguing with submarines."
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centered at Med-
ford, but the CAP
pilots from Eu-
gene would con
iinue the hunt in
that area.
At the Siskiyou mountain town
of Yreka, Calif.j a mine operator
said he heard a plane circle Mt.
Etna for a halff-hour late Satur
day, then head away in the clouds.
Army search iplanes from Mc
Chord field. Wash., Went over
the southern Otegon-ri d r t h e r n
California area Monday without a
sign of the aingfe-engine red-and-silver
plane. I
Lieutenant tlThite said Paul
Starr flew frojhn California last
Friday to buyf lumber, heading
for Eugene, bi that he became
lost in the overcast and landed at
Salem with onljr 2.6 gallons of gas
remaining in tjpe tank, or about
14 minutes flyiihg time; He went
to Eugene Friday night, leaving
his plane in Sajlem.
Leaves Saturday Noon
Saturday nodn he returned here
and emplaned j with his brother
and Miss Meyers. He was report
ed missing by his wife, who called
McChord field Sunday.
search would be
PGE Given More Time To
Move West Salem Poles
By Winston H. Taylor
Staff Writer, The Statesman
WEST SALEM. Dec; 8 A reprieve for Portland General Electric
company, ordered in August to remove a line of power poles along
Second street, vas voted Monday night by West Salem city council.
The long sessitip reviewed the history of a dispute over the line and
resulted in an exchange of argu
ments between the councilmen and
four representatives of PGE.
On motion oif Councilman Roy
Stevens, the Cftn was given time
to make a suj-vey of relocation
possibilities. j
Fred Starrett, PGE division
manager here, laid the company's
checks had found radio interfer
ence scattered throughout the city
and no noticeable increase along
Second street. j
Mountain. States Power com
pany recently sold the line to PGE.
Feeding from the Bonneville sub
station at Eolajit was. on October
5 cut down from 66,000 to 57,000
volts to tie in Hth the firm's val
ley grid. It serf ices the West Sa
lem substation iand provides PGE
a second line frpm Eola across the
river to Salem.
Starrett's presentation was aided
by Larry Flags', Salem, Willam
ette valley superintendent; Hi S.
Johnson, Portland, general divis
ion manager, nd O, O. James,
Portland, chief joad dispatcher.
The council also:
Tabled for thk-ee months action
on sale of city-wned property at
Seventh and Patterson streets, for
which a bid of $1,000 was received.
Sentiment was expressed that the
lot should not! be sold without
open bids. I
Approved Albert F. Lamb's
audit fo rthe to September
quarter, which allowed nearly one
third of the city's annual budget
already spent 121,098 out of $63,
570. Directed a letter to Southern
Pacific railroad to improve the
Bassett street crossing.
Ordered ditching along Murlark
avenue and across Ninth street to
allow drainage.
Selected Dr. p. A. Olson as Red
Cross disaster chairman for the
West Salem area, succeeding Dr.
A. F. Goffrier.
This Family Tree
Adds Generation
Mr. and Mj-s. Lynn Forrest
Woods of Woiodburn are par
ents of a new daughter, born Sun
day at Salem General hospital.
Neighbors art awaiting anxious
ly to learn the name of the latest
branch of the Woods family.
Incriminating Evidence
WASHINGTON Dee. f Richard Nixon (R-CaL) (right), wbt made
a dramatic night te Washington from Panama-bound steamer
today,, views fmierofilns of state department papers with Robert
Stripling, chief investigator for the house an -American activities
committee. The films were found on the Maryland farm ef Wnittaker
Chambers, admitted former Soviet agent (AP Wlrephote te The
Statesman.)
Lt White said he had five L-9's
waiting at Eugene to go to Med
ford. Oregon state police will do
ground interrogating in the moun
tains, he reported. The state po
lice search plan is under the direc
tion of C. W. Nelson, safety su
pervisor of the state aeronautics
board, who is having civilian
search pilots route-search the air
ways to California and also the
light line (valleys leading to Cal
ifornia). Aiding in the search centered at
Medford will be six L-5's, two
PBY amphibious crafts, a C-47,
and radio trucks and weasels.
Miss Meyer came to Portland to
work after visiting the northwest
in 1939 as secretary to Harold J.
Lasky, British economist on a lec
ture tour. She was an assistant
Portland area director for the war
manpower commission during the
war years and established her
own. lumber brokerage firm in
1947.
The Starr brothers were among
her clients. She was planning a
visit in the Los Angeles area with
relatives. Her father, a retired
physician, has been ill.
Lovers' Lane
Deaths Mount;
Two Men Die
VERNONIA, Ore., Dec. 6 - (PV
The boy friends of two 16-year-old
girls found dead in a gas filled
coupe parked in a lovers' lane near
here died tonight.
Robert J. Phillips, 21, Mayger,
and Allen Jurvakainen, 22, Clat
skanie, succumbed in a Portland
hospital. They had remained un
conscious since the tragedy was
discovered yesterday morning by a
funeral parlor employe. They died
of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The girls, Bernadine King and
Mary Lou Wolf, both of Vemonia,
were found dead in the arms of the
young men. ,
State police said today a piece
of innertube had fallen through a
rear compartment floor hole and
covered the exhaust pipe, forcing
the fumes into the automobile.
Teamster Union
Expels Members
For Line Passing
Seventeen Pacific Fruit & Pro
duce Co. employes in Salem, Al
bany and Corvallis have been ex
pelled from the striking Salem lo
cal 324 of the teamster union for
crossing picket lines, it was report
ed Monday by Ward Graham, secretary-treasurer
of the union.
He said the union's executive
board confirmed the expulsion as
approved earlier by vote of the lo
cal members. The union is seeking
to retain a five-day work week
contract clause which the company
has indicated is impractical be
cause of the perishable nature of
goods handled.
The men who went back to
work, about half the membership
involved in the strike, last week
had asked the union to sign the
offered contract with the company
and had denied the union's charge
that the company violated fair la-
bor practice by dealing individual
ly with some employes.
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Carrier
Four Still
Missing
In Pacific
HONOLULU. Dec. 6 -JPf- The
aircraft carrier Rendova radioed
tonight it has picked up 33 sur
vivors of a ditched C54 transport
plane which went down in the Pa
cific yesterday with 37 men aboard.
(Word received at Johnston isl
and, 715 miles southwest of Hono
lulu and search headquarters,
gave the position of the survivor
rafts as 520 miles southwest of
Johnston.
(This is approximately the same
position in which an empty air
dropped rescue boat was reported
sighted earlier today.)
The Rendova was ordered to
proceed to Kwajalein island after
a check on whether it would be
necessary to search for four men
still missing. The aircraft carrier
was about 900 miles from Kwaja
lein, a 2 day run to Oahu.
First word on the dramatic
pickup of the 33 survivors gave
no information on their condition
after a day and a half on rafts.
The navy arranged for a voice in
terview with survivors at 11 p.m.
Hawaii time.
The Rendova messaged that all
33 survivors were "well and hap
py" after spending a day and a
half on rafts 1.200 miles south
west of Honolulu. The ditched
C54 carried 30 airforce personnel
and seven crewmen.
The aircraft carrier said there
appearer to be little hope of re
covering the four missing men. The
Hawaiian sea frontier still was
studying whether a further search
will be made.
The plane went down Sunday,
after radioing that two engines
had failed. The C-54 is a four-en-gined
land plane, the military
counterpart of the civilian DC -4.
It was one of five carrying
ground personnel of the 98th bomb
group home to their Spokane.
Wash., base after three months cf
training in Okinawa. The other
four landed safely and then par
ticioated in the hunt.
The lost plane's . automatic radio
signal was heard for eight min
utes after it was ditched at sea.
This led to hopes that the 30 pas
sengers and seven crew members
had a good chance to escape in
the adequate life rafts the plane
carried.
Silverton City Manager
Quits; Council Accepts
SILVERTON, Dec. 6 Resigna
tion of R. E. Borland, city manager
of Silverton for the past four
years, was accepted at the city
council meeting Monday night.
Borland had resigned earlier in No
vember but upon urging of the
council members had withdrawn
the resignation at a special meet
ing on November 26.
TURKEY PRICES UP
PORTLAND. Dec. 6 -JP- Tur
key prices bounced up 4- cents
a pound above Thanksgiving lev
els. Willamette valley producers
were offered 64-65 cents a pound
on grade A hens. New York style
dressed. Grade A toms were 49
50 cents.
Weather
Max. Min. Precip.
SALEM 44 37 .19
Portland 44 39 .43
San Franci!co 55 40 .21
Chicago 55 31 .18
Npw York 52 48 .00
Willamette liver 8.2 feet.
Forecast (from U. S. weather bureau.
McNary field. Sa'.em) : Cloudy with oc
casional light rains this morning, be
coming partly cloudy with shower
tonight. High todav 45. low tonight 37.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Front sept. I t Dec. 7)
This Year Lat Year Average
15.19 15 M 11.82
Santa and the
Snoiv Man . . .
This delightful Christmas
aerial fa about a little lame bey.
Danny, who with the aid ef
his Snow Man comes te Santa
In search ef a new leg.
The first chapter appears est
page 7 of ' The Oregoa States
man today.
The story Is by Lnereee
Hedging, one ef the meet popu
lar aethers ef children's stories.
Its 17 Installments, one each
day, will appear In YOUR
DOME NEWSPAPER.
The Oregon
Rescues
Victims
GRANTS PASS, Dec. Sterling
Heater, IS (top), star end, and
AI Newman, IS (lower), reserve
halfback, were killed In the
tragie crash of a bos loaded with
home-bound football players
Sunday night, five miles north of
here. The boys had played for
Grants Pass Saturday when they
beat Jefferson high school In
Portland for the state high school
football title. (AP wlrepboU te
the Statesman.)
Highway Crash
Kills Two Prep
Grid Titlists
GRANTS PASS. Ore., Dec. 9 -(JPy
Five miles from a victory cel
ebration, the state champion
Grants Pass high school football
team crashed into the flames of a
highway accident last night. Two
were killed, 26 injured.
Their special bus. nearing the
end of a long trip from the title
game at Portland, skidded off the
Pacific highway north of here and
burst into fire.
End Sterlin Heater, a star of the
chamDionship game won bv
Grants Pas over Jefferson of
Portland. 6-0 and Reserve Half
back Al Newman were killed.' Five
of the injured reouired hospital
ization, but none was in serious
condition.
Celebrants Wait
About 1.000 parents and fans
were awaiting the team's arrival
here, when word of the crash
came. Many rushed to the scene.
There they found the wreckage,
still flaming, on a sharp slope this
side of the Sexton mountain sum
mit. The rear end of the bus had
broken off and tumbled into a
gully, 75 feet below the road.
The body of one boy was found
in the wreckage, the other at the
bottom of the gully.
Jesse Lofer. athletic director
who was aboard, said the driver,
Arthur Coale of Portland, began
"fighting the wheel" on the slip
pery road after passing the sum
mit.
Helped Others
Loffer said the bus veered off
the road, and just as Coale seemed
about to get the vehicle back on
the highway, the bus skidded, spun
around and overturned.
Flames broke out at once, and
Loffer shouted for the boys to re
main calm and break panes and
crawl out the. windows.
They did bo all except New
man and Heater.
Ray Alpeter, one of the players,
said Heater lost his life helping
others. The uninjured Heater re
fused to crawl out. and stayed to
help Alpeter escape. The flames
apparently trapped him.
Joint funeral services for the
two boys will be held at the high
school auditorium at 2:00 pjn.
Wednesday. Business firms will
close during the hours of the fun
eral. Attempts Reseae
Loffer said he was the last out
of the bus. He said he looked
Around, could see no one else re
maining and then crawled. He
ran to the rear and found Keith
Bertrand, one of the players, at
tempting to crawl back in through
the flames to remove Newman.
Loffer said he had to pull Bert
rand away to save his life.
(Bus pictured on page 12)
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Chinese Reds
Claim More
Gains in War
By Seymour Topping f
NANKING,; Dec. 6 - (yp) - The
Chinese communists announced to
night they had trapped and were
rapidly destroying three govern
ment army groups which abandon
ed Suchow to try to aid another
encircled group 60 miles southwest.
This was the force which had
been "the government's main reli
ance to stave the communists off
from Nanking less than 200 miles
to the southeast.
Comprising the second. 13th and
16th army groups, it was estimated
to total 250,000 men, of whom 110,
000 were combat troops.
The communist broadcast, heard
in Nanking, said 20,000 already had
been "annihilated" in fighting from
Dec. 2 through Dec. 4.
It said all the others, including
many civilian officials from Su
chow, were locked in a "manifold"
encirclment and soon would be
wiped out if they refused to sur
render. It said the whole force to
talled 22 divisions.
There was no confirmation from
government circles of such a stag
gering blow, but generalized re
ports from the front let strong col
or to the communist claims.
The Red broadcast said the trap
was in an area bounded by Hsiaoh
sien, Tangshan , Yungshan and
Yungcheng. These towns, 15 to 50
miles southwest and west of Su
chow, define an equilateral trian
gle 35 miles on each side. They are
190 to 225 miles northwest of Nan
king. Previous government dispatches
have depicted the army groups
fighting due south from Suchow.
Just before; the communist an
nouncement, however, authorita
tive government sources said the
groups actually had veered west
ward when a Red holding force
blocked them on the south.
It also was conceded that, havr
ing destroyed the huge Suchow
supply depots, the groups had only
very limited food and munitions.
v Foreign military observers said
these groups were the principal
government Strength remaining in
all east China. They agreed that a
desperate break-through was the
only alternative to defeat.
Midwest Blanketed
By Snow Storms
CHICAGO. Dec. 6-(fVThe
wind-whipped snowstorm which
piled drifts from Kansas to nor
thern Minnesota moved north
eastward into Canada tonight.
A masr of cold air stirred up in
the storm's wake, spread over the
upper Mississippi valley and the
Great Lakes region to the Appa
lachians. Meanwhile, heavy snows in the
northern California mountains
lessened and most of the nation
had clear weather. Temperatures
were rising today in the chill nor
thern Rockies.
Lloyd Slet to Elected President
Of County's Livestock Group
Br Utile L. Madsen
Farm Editor. Th Statesman
Lloyd Sletto of Lyons was elec
ted president of the Marion Coun
ty Livestock association at its an
nual meeting held Monday night
at the Golden Pheasant with more
than 50 present. Mr. Sletto re
places Claude Steusloff. Salem,
who has served for the past two
years.
Other officers named were Lou
is Hennies, Turner, vice president;
Ben Newell, Salem, secretary -treasurer;
and Robert Sears, also
of Salem, director. Adam Hersch
is the hold-over director.
C. A. Sprague, editor of The
Oregon Statesman, speaker of the
evening, talked on "Stack Rais
ing a Speculation or a Busi
ness?" as he urged his listeners
not to be "ih-and-outers." '
"Yours," said Mr. Sprague. "is
an essential ' industry which has
survived through centuries and
has been in; the Willamette valley
since its very beginning. Don't
think of it 'as a speculation in
which today you will make a kil
ling and tomorrow you will be out
of. Treat it as a continuing busi
ness. Yours is such an important
one that you can look at it as a
safe business in which to stay. You
can go over the country from
coast to coast and see the wrecks
of farm speculation the in-and-outers
in agriculture."
Mr. Sprague stated he believed
the livestock business was a "bet
ter one than specialty crops where
the markets are limited and pro
hocked by Cowrt's.-
Woman Sues for
Injuries Incurred
By Falling Bicycle
When a bicycle fell on her last
March it caused a total of $3,880
worth of damages, according to a
complaint filed in Marion county
circuit court Monday by a Wood
burn woman.
Ellen Swofford stated In her
complaint that the bicycle fell on
her from a shelf while she was
working in the Woodburn store of
C. H. Ahrens. She is suing Ahrens
for $380 special damages and $3,500
general damages.
Spy Probers
Quiz Chambers
For Methods
NEW YORK, Tuesday,, Dec. 7
(VP)Whittaker Chambers, admitted
former Soviet courier, was ques
tioned last night by a congression
al subcommittee, here for the an
nounced purpose of finding out
how top-secret State department
information reached his hands.
At the end of the sub-committee's
session early today. Rep.
Richard M. Nixon (R-Calif.). said:
"We have accomplished our mis
sion." No further disclosure was made
of what happened while Chambers
was closeted with the House spy
probers.
. At that time Nixon and Rep.
John R. McDowell (R-Pa.). the
nthr mmrter of the SUb-COmmit-
t aent mit word that thev were
hearing a witness, but they did not
Identify the witness.
A second witness who the sub
committee said had been schedul
ed for questioning did not appear.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6- (P -Sworn
testimony that Alrer Hiss,
as a State department official, ob
tained government documents for
a Russian agent was spread today
on the records of the House un
American activities committee.
Th& testimony was by Whittaker
Chambers, admitted onetime Rd
courier whom Hiss is suing for
libel; it came from preliminary
proceedings in the libel suit and
named a "Colonel Bykov" as the
Russian agent.
In New York Hiss said In a
statement:
"I deny without qualification
the accusations made in that
testimony."
He added "inasmuch as this
matter is now before the Grand
Jury, I do not feel it appropriate
to comment further at this time
Hiss said he was making the
statement because "I am advised
that the committee on un-Ameri
can activities has released to the
press crtain portions of the testi
mony given by Mr. Chambers in
depositions taken in my libel ac
tion against him In Baltimore."
duction often uncertain." He sight
ed the rapid increase In straw
berry acreage in ;the valley, and
expressed the fear that ihis might
soon be overdone. He added that
while the prices have been high
in specialty crops "we reach the
saturation point earlier than in
such as livestock.
He expressed hope that milk
control would not be withdrawn
from the producer, and belief that
the livestock men could look for'
ward to expanding production
with i expanding population. The
speaker pointed out the "extra
dividend" which the livestock pro
ducer receives through building
up of soil. He admitted that ex
pert management would be called
for in the next few years and that
livestockmen would have to be
ready themselves for competition
again.
Marjorie Jordan appeared In
whistling solos, accompanied by
Murial Steusloff who also gave a
group of piano numbers in a brief
entertainment during the dinner.
Introduced were W. P. Emery,
Silverton, and Ed Taylor. Me
hama, two of Marion county's ear
ly livestockmen: Robert Sears, pre
sident of the Polled Hereford as
sociation; A. H. Hanson, district
aeent of wild life; Elton Watts,
Silverton. president of Marion
County Dairy Breeders associa
tion: Charles Evans, president of
the Western Oregon Livestock as
sociation and Victor Howard, Mar
ion county tapper. I
No. 223
Executions
Delayed by
Surprise Move
By Russell Brines
TOKYO. Tuesday. Dec. ,1 -Vtl
Tokyo was startled today by a sur-1
prise twist to its death watch on!
condemned Japanese warlords. ; f
A second extension of life for1,,
Hideki Tojo and his six associates
appeared inevitable as result of
the United States supreme court
decision to hear appeals In Jap
anese war crimes cases.
The average Japanese was' am
azed by this decision. Allied legal
officers showed frank surprise.
Many had Jhought the court would
refuse to consider the appeals, ss
lt did In the cases of German war
criminals.
General MacArthur could not be
reached for comment. He has said,
hnwetrer that irmttititmm et all
seven condemned warlords would 1
be delayed until the supreme court
acted.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 HffV
The supreme court decided today
to go into a question of interna
tional import: whether it has pow
er to interfere with an allied trib
unal which sentenced seven Jap
anese leaders to hang as war crim
inals. : ;
The vote to entertain arguments
in the case was 5 to 4. Justice
Jackson, who was the chief pro
secutor at the first war crimes
trial in Germany, cast the decid
ing vote.
He did so although he said the
decision is "bound to embarrass
the United States." This is because
President Truman, as commander-in-chief,
invited this country's Pa
cific allies to take part in the Jap
anese war crimes tribunal. t
Hearings were set for Dec. 16.
Directly involved in the case are
Gen. Kenji Doihara, 64, and For
mer Premier Koku Hirota, 70, who
were sentenced to die. and five
others given prison sentences.
Their American attorneys attack
ed legality of the Tokyo trials.
Wartime Premier Jiideki Tojo
and four others doomed to death
filed no appeals. But they have, of
course, a vital indirect interest in
the case. For example, if the su
preme court should declare the
allied tribunal invalid, it is con
sidered highly questionable whe
ther the sentences the tribunal
imposed would be carried out by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Berlin Election
Ups Tension j
Of East, West ;
BERLIN, Dec. 8-P)-The smash
ing municipal election triumph of
the bitterly anti-Russian Social
Democratic party intensified to
day the East-West struggle over
Berlin.
Completed now was the politi
cal division of this German metro
polis 100 miles behind the Iron
Curtain.
Blockaded Berlin wondered
what the Russians might do next
to counter the rebuff they receiv
ed at the polls yesterday. In de
fiance of communist threats the
Germans of western Berlin turned
out a near record vote of 80.2 per
cent of the electorate. The act of
voting itself was a protest against
Soviet occupation policies.
From the Russian point of view,
the voters added insult to injury
by giving a majority to the Social
Democrats, a militantly anti-communist
organization. The other
two parties which participated,
the Christian Democrats and the
Liberal Democrats, also are anti
communist. Although the communists boy
cotted the election, persons who
analyzed the returns said the size
of the turnout gave direct evi
dence that communist strength in
western Berlin had been cut In
half in two years. .
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