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Oglit iomboBi Wing
Slaved for French Base
WASHINGTON', Oct. 25-,)-America's part in building up Euro
pew defenses brought these developments today: (1) Word that the
U. S. Mediterranean fleet probably is prepared to iise atomic bombs
if necessary, and (2) an announcement that a light bomber wing is
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Thereport of a Portland City
club committee on Oregon's care
of persons mentally ill or mentally
, deficient has provoked sharp re
action in state officialdom. Law
son McCall, the governor's assist
ant, is due to answer the criticisms
made in this report. I think we
can leave to him and to Col. Ryan,
supervisor of institutions for the
board of control to present of
ficials views and defend the ad
ministration. What I think needs
to be presented, to the public is a
report on the strides made in the
last decade by the state in meet
ing its responsibilities in this re
gard. Just prior to the world war pro
fessional advice was sought from
the U. S. public, health service for
the improvement of our omental
hospitals. Dr. Hamilton of the fed
eral service made a careful survey
and his recommendations became
the objectives of the board of
control. Unfortunately the war in
tervened before much of a start
could be made. Then the problem
became one of keeping the Insti
tutions running, as professional
men were called into service and
other employes left for better pay
ing jobs. With the end of the war
the program was tackled prompt
ly by the board of control and the
legislature.
First see how generous the leg
islature has been in providing
funds for these institutions. Here
are comparisons of appropriations
for the bienniunvi 1941-42 and
1931-53: .)
1 941-4 1951-53 Incrs.
Ore. State Hoc. $111.142 $5,650,000 466
E.O. State Ho. 634.691 2.860,000 450
rairview Home . 508.811 2,922,000 594
The enrollment at the state hos
pitals has increased in a
(Continued on Editorial Page, 4)
125 Donate to
Blood Program
Statesman Newt SerYlce
WOODBURN, Oct. 25 The visit
of the mobile blood bank here
Thursday brought 125 donations of
blood, from 151 people who turned
out. '
Mrs. Paul Hooper, chairman of
the blood program, said Thursday's
total was the bestxlay recorded or
a visit. Previous nigh in donation
was 50.-
A quota of 400 pints has been
set for North Marion county, to be
subscribed by July. The blood mo
bile will visit St Paul December
18, and ML .Angel February 1?. It
will return to Woodburn sometime
next spring, Mrs. Hooper said.
Tax Boost Sends
Fag Sales Higher
PORTLAND, Oct 25-;P-Store
managers here today reported a
big Increase in cigarette sales, ap
parently an attempt by smokers to
stock up before a cent-a-pack fed
eral tax boost goes into effect Nov.
1. ,
They said there was no rush
for other items on which taxes
will sa up at the same time.
Animal Crackers
- gy WARREN GOODRICH
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and your fatW's Mine is Frak, but
left not burden .Junior
being sent to France
Secretary! of the Navy Kimball
was asked at a news conference:
"Is the sixth fleet set I to deliver
an A-bomb; if necessary?" He re
plied, "I would guess so.
Kimball's guess was the first
hint that any naval unit is now
prepared to deliver an A-bomb,
although it previously : had been
announced that aircraft i carrier
crews were; being trained to that
end. I i
The air force said the 126th light
bomber wing, made up. of about
1,600 officers and men and 48 con
ventionally powered B-26 bomb
ers, will be stationed at Bordeaux.
It was drawn from Illinois and
Missouri national guard squadrons.
Second Visit Scheduled. 1
- This will be the first wing sent
to France since World War II", but
air force plans call for sending an
other wing t this one probably
composed of jet! fighters to wes
tern Europ by the end of this
year. Other junits are to follow be
fore next June, i !; j
Secretary! Kimball, reporting on
his recent talks With Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, supreme command
er of allied powers in Europe, said
he thought the U. S. never would
have a large percentage of the for
ces combined under Eisenhower
"at no time over 15 or 20 per cent."
Kimball said the U. S. fleet in
the Mediterranean has been built
up to 60 to tO warships; twice the
size it was a; year ago. These ships
carry about 20,000 men.- ? .
Fighter Wing in Britain i
With the arrival of the new bom
ber wing in France, the air force
will have iri all; of Europe 43,200
officers , and men. The total is
about evenly divided between the
United Kingdom and the contin
ent i ;
The only jalr i force wing per
manently assigned to Great Britain
is a fighter unit equipped with F-
86 Sabre jets. In addition there are
one wing of fighter escorts and one
of medium B-29 superfort medium
bombers. These two wings are list
ed as training missions and their
personnel are regularly rotated to
the U.S. S
Winds9 Rains
Block A-Test
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LAS VEGAS. Nev., Oct. 25-5V
High winds and rain buffeted 5,000
soldiers at Camp Desert Rock to
day, making- highly uncertain the
next step in the army's atomic
experiments.! !
Nearly 200 large squad tents
were blown down during the night
by winds ranging up to 45 mph.
The weather bureau reported a
half-inch of j rain in the general
area of. the camp and the atomic
energy commission's test kite at
Yucca flat. )
About .04 of an inch of rain fell
this morning in Las Vegas, but
A EC test directors Carroll T. Ty
ler and Dr. Alvin C. Graves left
for the site ! to set up the next
phase of operations.
The AEC has indicated that the
GI's may undergo another stand
ard explosion rehearsal before be
ing given the nuclear works. The
first warm-"up came at dawn yes
terday, with B29 bombers making
what appeared to be a v conven
tional bomb run.
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Red, Egyptian
Envoys Confer
CAIRO, Egypt,' Oct. 25-jp)-A
Soviet-Egyptian meeting in the
midst of the British-Egyptian cri
sis over the .Suez and the Sudan
won the headlines in Cairo news
papers today i
A meeting between King Farouk
and U. S. Ambassador Jefferson
Caffery was reported at thesame
time in the official Gazette. -
The newspapers splashed front
pages with pictures and stories of
the 90-minute talk yesterday at
the foreign office between Russian
Minister Semen Pavlovitch Kozy
rev and Egypt's foreign minister,
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Six persons were injured In the crash of a Trailways bus and a car
at Hood and Winter streets Thursday afternoon. The Portland
bound bus, going east on Hood street, rammed into the left side of
the car driven by Mrs. Walter Johnson of Lebanon, who suffered
shock and other undetermined Injuries.) Although three people
were thrown from the ear by the impact, only Mrs. Johnson and
eight-year-old Johnny Wheeler of Lebanon required hospitaliza
tion. (Statesman photo.) (Story on page 5.)
Federal Mediators Give
Up; Dock Strike Spreads
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 -P)- Federal mediators gave up trying to
end New York's 11-day-old waterfront strike tonight and rebel dock
workers said it was bound to spread to Philadelphia and Baltimore.
"We're giving up," said Clyde M. Mills, the nation's. top labor
trouble shooter for the VJS. medi
ation service.
He quit with one final plea for
the men to go back to work ,and
end the crippling tieup which has
clamped an economic vise on ftew
York, the greatest port in the
world.
The mediators withdrew after
non-strikers led by President Jos
eph P. Ryan of the AFL Interna
tional Longshoremen s associa
tion, bolted peace talks.
"We're not getting anywhere,"
Ryan said. "We're leaving." -
As peace talks collapsed. Strike
Leader John (Gene) Sampson
told newsmen:
"That means Philly and Balti
more will be tied up too."
He said dock workers in those
two big ports are meeting now to
decide whether to quit their piers.
The rebel' wildcat strikers in
New York have insisted that a
new work contract be junked and
another one with large pay scales
be negotiated.
Ryan has refused to honor this
demand. He said to do so would
be to renege on a signed and seal
ed agreement with shipping firms.
The shippers themselves flatly
refused to reopen wage talks with
the wildcat stevedores. '
Senate Probes
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Marine Gripes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25-()-A
senate in vestigatmg committee to
day criticized home-front train
ing conditions at some U. S. ma
rine bases as contributing to low
morale among the leathernecks
and wasting the taxpayers' mon
ey. Citing widespread complaints,
the committee's report singled out
a variety of cases ranging from
poor food and flimsily protected
open-air showers to overstaffing
in "chair corns" positions.
The report recommended that
women replace some oi tne aDie'
bodied desk men.
- At the Pentagon, a marine
SDokesman told reporters:
"The marine corps is studying
the report with , a view of taking
corrective action where indicated.
Several camp commandants crit
icized in the report promised sim
ilar "corrective" steps.
The report was issued by Sen
ator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) as
chairman of a preparedness sub
committee of the senate armed
services committee. It was the 31st
report of the subcommittee since
it was set Up as a "watchdog"
over the nation's mobilization pro
gram. !
The group said It found dis
satisfaction and low morale par
ticularly among reservists recent
ly called to duty at three marine
bases: El Toro and Camp Pendle
ton in California and Camp Le-
jeuene in North Carolina.
HOPE WANES FOR HUNTER
PORTLAND, Oct 25-Search-
ers held little hope today they
would find alive a deer hunter
missing since Sunday. Elderly Os
car Williams failed to meet his
son at an agreed spot -on the shoul
der of Mount Hood Sunday and
no clue has been found since..
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County Court
Won't Endorse
Cutoff Route
Approval of the proposed 4.4
mile Rickreall-Dolph corner cut
off was; withheld Wednesday by
the Polk county court which told
the state highway commission that
it thought two other highway pro
jects deserved prior consideration.
The statement came in answer
to a letter from the highway
commission which sought the
court's approval of the project The
letter said that such action is es
sential under a federal aid act of
1950. Cost of the project is esti
mated at $275,000.
The court told the commission
that it feels the Salem-Dallas high
way should be widened and that
the Kings Valley highway from
Fern's corner to Bunny Burns cor
ner be completed before any new
project Is undertaken.
County Judge C. F. Hayes said
that he ) does not believe failure
of the court to concur in the pro
ject would prevent its construc
tion. Asked directly if the court
would give such consent to the pro
ject, Hayes said, "No, not at this
time." i
Usual Ad, Nothing;
Unusual, Results
ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 25 -;P)-
aii Anderson house seeker who
said routine advertising produced
no results said today she got sev
eral offers with this classified ad:
"Three drunken adults, i three
vicious children need rental. Rent
no object We never pay our bills.1
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Leaf Rake, Rally to Open
Willamette Homecoming
' Willamette university's annual
Homecoming Week end begins to
day with traditional festivities to
continue through Saturday.;
Featured today will be signs dis
played by living organizations,
downtown noise parade and pre
game rally. Tomorrow will - be
highlighted by a Willamette-College
of Puget Sound football game
and Homecoming dance.
Today's activities begin at 5 a.
m. for freshmen and supervising
sophs who clean up the campus
in the annual Leaf Rake. -
Billboard signs on the theme:
"Bearcats Pound Puget Sound" are
to be' finished for display at 9
a. m. by campus living organiza
tions. Judging wfil begin at 4
p. m. . and winners will be an
nounced at Saturday night's dance.
The noise parade will form at
Lausanne hall and proceed north
on Winter 'street to State street,
west on State to Liberty street,
north on Liberty to Court street,
east on Court to Church street,
thence south to Mission and Mc-
1951
PRICE
, HleaviesiAir lloiv of War
Hits Ked Kail Transport
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Friday, Oct. 26
-(-Allied planes smashed the Korean war's record blow at commun
ist rail transport Thursday. Pilots estimated they destroyed or datn-
aged 36 locomotives and 289 rail cars
ing attacxs centerea in xne norm-
west
The old mark; set Sept. 19, was
20 locomotives and 272 rail cars
Superforts bofnbed the new
communist airfields at Namsi and
Saamcham in - northwest Korea
Thursday night, a general head
quarters communique said.
Switch to Night Attacks
The switch to night attacks was
made after day raids earlier this
week drew out scores of commun
ist jets and provoked the biggest
jet battles of the war. In a day
light strike - Tuesday ! against the
Namsi field, one-third of the at
tacking force of nine superforts
was shot down and the others
were damaged.
For the fifth straight day, Russian-built
MIGS made 'determined
efforts to break up the allied day
time raids. A total of 80 enemy
jets pressed three aggressive at
tacks against 63 or more allied
planes.
The U. S. Fifth air force claim
ed one MIG was damaged in a 10
minute clash between 31 Sabre
jets and an estimated 50 MIGS.
Crashes Behind Lines
The air force reported one marine-piloted
Corsair fighter, "hit by
ground fire, crashed behind ene
my lines. It said there i was no
chance that the pilot survived.
The North Korean ! army com
munique, broadcast i by Pyong
yang radio, claimed a bag of six
allied planes without specifying
the date. It said one B-29 super
fort was shot down in the Sonsan
area and two others were dam
aged. Twelve allied fliers the
normal complement of a B-29
were captured, the enemy claimed.
Hit Kumsong Again i
, In the ground war, U. S. Patton
tanks speared to the western out
skirts of Kumsong and shot up the
former, red supply base, setting
new fires. The rampaging tankers
cut through Chinese mortar fire to
approach the city, 30 miles north
of parallel 38. I
Long-range allied artillery kill
ed an estimated 500 Chinese troops
who had withdrawn north of
Kumsong. But rear-guard reds,
continued to put up a fierce fight
on ridges southeast and southwest
of the city. j
Allied infantry battered at Com
munist hill positions southeast of
Kumsong for the second day in a
row Thursday and was stopped
cold- In all, there were three al
lied attacks.
Tax-Paying
Line Starts
The tax-paying line returned to
Marion county Thursday, but many
persons still made a useless trip
to the courthouse to discover that
the collection office has moved to
475 N. Church st. First tax bills
were delivered by mail Thursday.
The line was never long, but
was steady most of the day with
about 300 persons paying over the
counter. !
Sheriff Denver Young pointed
out that his office cannot accept
payments. He reminded that tax
payers can avoid long lines by
paying now, rather than waiting
until near the discount deadline
of November 15.
RECORD FOR TOURISTS
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 -Tourists
set an a 11 time travel rec
ord in the national parks this year.
There were 36,679,316 visitors to
the 28 national parks and 175 na
tional monuments, historical sites,
battle fields and memorials.
Culloch field for a pregame rally
and bonfire at 8 p. m.
. Saturday at 11 a. m,! Willamette
graduates will register and hold
an informal reception; at Marion
hotel followed by luncheon at 11:45
a. m. The football gamestarts at
z p. m.
Homecoming Hostess Dona
Mears will officiate during half-
time festivities. During the pro
gram Willamette's first Northwest
conference football championship
team from 1929 and 10 Willamette
"Little Ail-American" ball players
will be - introduced by Alumni
President Walter Erickson.
In postgame tussle, ' sophs and
frosh will vie in the annual push
ball contest to decide if frosh can
discard their rook caps;
The Homecoming dance at
p. m. in the gymnasium will be
scene of unveiling for the annual
"ugliest man" contest Winners of
the sign and noise parade also will
be announced at the dance.
Closing hour for students has
been extended to 1 a. m. for the
occasion.
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in a series of bombing and straf
Red Proposal
Rejected by
Allied Group
MUNSAN, Korea, Oct. 26-(JP)
The communists today proposed a
cease-fire line up to 15 miles south
of the battle front but a United
Nations command spokesman said
the-plan was not acceptable.
The . spokesman said allied
forces would have to pull back
from- such hard-won ground as
the Iron Triangle, Heartbreak
Ridge and the Punchbowl.
The allies yesterday proposed
a buffer line roughly along the
battle line, with the reds giving
up ground n the west and the al
lies in the east.
Subcommittees threshed over
the matter for one and a half
hours today at Panmunjom. A red
correspondent said "things look
better than ever before."
The communist nwesmen fre
quently foreshadow the official
red attitude.
The communist newsmen fre
asserted that there was a big dif.
ference between the new and old
allied buffer, zone proposals. Un
der the old proposal, he insisted,
the reds were asked to give up
vast areas of communst-held ter
ritory in North Korea.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols
disclosed the allies had dropped
their demand for red territory in
compensation for halting air and
sea attacks during an armistice.
Nuckols said allied forces have
taken the territory that the U. N.
truce delegation had asked for last
July.
Fat Ex-Convict
Held as Mixer
Of Moonshine
ATLANTA. Oct. 25-(V-Fulton I
County Solicitor Paul Webb said!
tonight a north Georgia farmer!
had identified 360-pound ex-con-
vict John R. , (Fat) Hardy as a
mixer of the deadly batch of moon
shine which killed 31 Atlantans.
Hardy has been charged with
murder. Webb said the huge. 44-
year-old bootlegger had a criminal
record three pages long.
The solicitor identified the farm
er as Luke Franklin Turner, 52.
He said Turner told him of watch
ing Hardy and an unidentified
negro blend well water with wood
alcohol in a 50-gallon drum last
Friday at an abandoned farm
house about 25 miles northeast of
Atlanta.
The lethal liquor began taking
its toll late Sunday jiight.
bince men z negroes and two
white persons have died. In addi
tion, the city hospital has been
swamped with 301 other victims
whose symptons ranged from nau
sea to blindness.
Hardy was found in bed in a
private Atlanta hospital today.
where he was being treated for
a broken arm which he said he
suffered in a car accident near
Athens, Ga yesterday.
He was placed under police
guard in the hospital.
Webb said Hardy admitted he
supplied 99 gallons of liquor to
negro distributors here last Fri
day. 'Forgotten Queen'
Succumbs in Exile
VERSAILLES, France, Oct 25-CP)-Ex-queen
Marie Amelie of
PortogaL who spent 41 of her 86
years in exile, died at her chateau
here today after a long illness.
Her neighbors in the quiet
Chesnay suburb, of Versailles
spoke of her as "the forgotten
queen," though she was received
with -almost roya honors on a
visit to Portugal in 1945 and was
on good terms with Premier An
tonio de Oliveira Salazar's gov.
ernment
Marie Amelie was a grand
daughter . of the last king of
France, Louis-Philippe I, and
mother of the last king of Portu
gaL Manoel IL
GOVERNOR AT BEND
BEND, Oct. 25-(iPH5overnor
McKay will attend a meeting of
his committee on natural resourc
es here tomorrow in the Deschutes
county court house.
HOW IS COUNTY'S
TAX DOLLAR SPLIT?
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Socialists
i LONDON, Friday, Oct. 26-VHandful of hard-won gains in
the British national election gave Winston Churchill and the con
servative party every promise of victory over the labor govern
ment today.: . -, '- '-;. r - . , n 'i
jj With less than half the nation's 625 districts still to report
returns from yesterday's voting, the conservatives had-wrested 11
house of commons seats from the socialists. A twelfth govern
ment seat was captured by a member of the liberal party.
: .Meanwhile, the conservatives suffered only one setback, when
a member of their Allied Ulster Unionist party was ousted by a
members of the Irish labor party in Belfast. '
I- Gerald O'Brien, the conservatives' press spokesman, predict-"
njsh with a majority of 30 to 35
seats in the commons. Some labor
opinion privately agreed.
: When counting stopped for the
night, the labor party had clinched
175 seats against 145 for the con
servatives and their allied groups,
two for the liberals and one for
the Irish labor party. The count
included most of the big city areas,
where the socialists have their
strength, t
Power in Rural Area
But the bulk of conservative
power lay in agricultural and oth
er outlying districts which count
their votes today.. In these 302 dis
tricts, the conservatives "won 163
seats last year against 129 for the
socialists and have every hope of
doing better this time.
If the conservative prediction of
a 30 to 35 seat majority ' in the
house comes true, it will enable the
76-year-old Churchill to take over
as prime minister with a reason
able expectation that his govern
ment can stay in office for a full
five-year term. " ' i 4 ,
In Britain, a government can re
main in office only as long as it
controls the commons.
Labor Wins Narrow
Prime Minister Attlee had kept
his socialist regime going with a
shaky six-seat majority ever since
the national election of February,
1950. The socialists went into pow
er in July, 1945. v
Despite the laborites net losses,
they retained many districts : the
conservatives had counted on win
ning. Often labor won by only a
few hundred votes, but there was
no big swing to the conservatives
in the popular vote, as some of the
public opinion polls had forecast
Both major parties increased
their total vote. The major parties
took their gains from liberal party
losses, mainly in areas where the
liberals had no candidates. About
82 per cent of the electorate seem
ed to have voted, against 84 per
cent last time.
Sees Narrow Margin
Just before the night's final tab
ulations were posted,' a commenta
tor for the British Broadcasting
corp. estimated Churchill might
scrape through with a majority no
greater than Attlee had in 1950
315 of ' the 625 commons seats.
Churchill could, however, take a
number of liberal leaders into his
government if necessary to keep
controls of commons. This ii?ht
give hjpi an extra dozen backers.
Voters turned out in possible
record numbers for the election.
Some observers figured 30,000,000
of the 35,000,000 eligible voters
cast ballots. About 29,000,000 vot
ed in the 1950 election.
Finals Due Tonight
Final returns from yesterday's
elections are not due until tonight,
but labor party leaders privately
conceded the early trend meant the
end of Britain's era of socialism,
One predicted Churchill might
have a majority of 35 seats or so
in the house of commons.
A swing of liberal party strength
to Churchill's tories was a decisive
factor.
In the last election the liberals
entered 475 candidates. This time
they put up only 108. The "orphan"
vote went conservative in districts
where it hurt labor most.
Attlee Wins Seat
Attlee himself was re-elected to
parliament' in the London suburb
of West Walthamston, poling 23,-
021 votes for an 11,574 vote margin
over a comparatively unknown
conservative, E. D. L. Duncann.
Last year Attlee rart up a margin
of 12,107. With a Churchill victory,
Attlee would go back to parliament
only as "leader of the opposition;
the post Churchill has held the last
six years.
The party winning the most seats
in commons chooses the prime
minister and runs the' government
Price of Clothing Boosts
Living Costs to New High
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25
Higher prices for clothing, partic
ularly fall and winter apparel,
helped today to push the govern
ment's cost of living index to a
new record high. .
The bureau of labor statistics,
announcing its figures for Sept
15, said the latest survey shows
living costs were 186.06 per cent
of the 1935-39 level. This was, a
gain of 0.6 per cent as compared
with September, 1950.
Aj5parel costs went up 2.7 per
cent in the month, to a record high
of 209 per cent of the 1935-39 av
erage. Fall and winter clothing
had not been fgured in the index
since the end of last winter, when
there were many clearance sales.
Also the cost of wool has climbed
during the: last year.
Food prices edged up during
the Aug. 15-Sept 15 month to
227 J per cent 'of the 1935-39 av
erage, a gain of 8.2 per. cent In a
year. In the 56 cities surveyed,
food prices gained in 33, dropped
in 21 and were unchanged in two.
The overall gain in living costs
Rule
Victor?
Ejirly returns Thursday Indicate
that Winston Churchill's Con
servative party had regahwi
power in Britain.:
Throngs Jam
uare to Hear
t LONDON, Oct. 25 -(TV Cheer- ,
ful thousands thronged Trafalgar
square in the very heart of Lon
don i tonight and sang "Home on
the Range" in between equally -fervent
cheers for conservative
and labor election winners, j
I Results were flashed on a I big
screen high above the vast crowd.
When a conservative victory was
announced the next slide showed
a sketch of Winston Churchill
and his cigar. A labor ;victory was
followed by picture ot Clement
Attlee. j
Before midnight Trafalgar
square and Piccadilly Circus near
by were closed to traffic and all
movement was at a snail's pace
in the dence crowd. i
Hundreds of tall bobbies kept
order. They had their only trou
ble with youngsters throwing fire
crackers, j
The spirit of the crowds seemed
to be one of happy impartiality.
If Britain's destiny was at stake,
no one in Trafalgar square i or
Piccadilly circus seemed to feel
it. . I
(London pubs were quiet bu
packed with people drinking beer
and gin mixed with various sweet
concoctions. As usual, whisky,
could not be easily found.
i Despite its international signifi
cance, this has been one of Eng
land's most quiet elections. Scot
land Yard reported no extra po
lice were called out tonight, but
the force was a full strength and
officers normally off duty stood
ready to be called in event j f
emergency. : I
Huks Blamed for Killing
Of Two American Men
MANILA. Friday, Oct. 26-UP-Two
; Americans were killed last
night In an ambush sprung on the
U. S. naval reservation at Olong
apo, 50 miles northwest of Manila.
Two Filipino women were wound
ed seriously. '
;The Philippines army, which
aided In the hunt blamed communist-led
huks. The navy iden
tified the dead as John Grant,
auto supply dealer at Alongapo,
and John S. Alden, a labor con
tractor. will mean a small pay boost fer
more, than 100,000 workers", whose
pay rate, is hitched to changes in
tne government index. The 100.000 '
included 70,000 employes of Gen
eral Electric. -.-j
Other items reacted as follows
during the month: ; -
House furnishings, up 0.1 ..per
cent Gas, electric and ice bills un
changed. Other fuels, up 0.3 per
cent i -!
Rents, up an average of 1.3 pes
cent j .. .
Miscellaneous, including auto
mobiles, medical and dental fees
and transit fares, up 0.4 per cent.
The CIO Electrical Workers u
ion announced that the cost of liv
ing rise, together with a 2 per
cent negotiated wage increase ef
fective on the same Sept 15 date,
would mean a wage increase -of
nearly 7 cents an hour for General
Electric production workers.
It said a similar increase prob
aby would.be extended to office
workers and other employes of
G.E. . -
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