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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1952)
The Statmtnu om, Qroqo&.' T January X America Pays $39,888,000 to Great Britain ; WASHINGTON (flV-The Unit ed States turned over i39.B88.000 ''to .Britain Wednesday night In a more te-keep intra-European trade flowing. ; The payment is a prelude to re omatlen of large-scale American -financial aid to the hard-pressed British government A-fift of about 300 million dol lars is expected to be announced ahortijr as part of American help to Britain under the mutual se curity defense program.; American said -British officials have been talking over the size of this Amer ican contribution for the past month i Britain -has requested about 800 million tfor the period ending July 1. But, American officials, con fronted with a shortage of foreign aid funds, reportedly believe around 300 million represents as much as the United States can bear at present. The $38,000,000 announced Wed nesday night is to reimburse the British -for a portion of that coun try's -gold payments into the Eu ropean Payments Union. The pay ment, tike MSA said in a state ment, carried out an agreement Friendly Theatre" : NOW SHOWING OPEN 8:45 j r A AUhjONAIftf SECOND FEATURE TBS LOST VOLCANO With Johnny Sheffield U.S. Considering Recognition of Faronk in Sudan a WASHINGTON OF) 1 The State Department acknowledged Wed nesday it has discussed with Brit ain the possibility of recognizing King Farouk of Egypt as ruler of the Sudan. Press Officer Michael J. McDer mott said this idem has been put forward during informal talks on the Egyptian crisis in an effort to solve the West's current differ ences with Egypt. Six Wives Free on Bail MESA;' Ariz. () Six women who claim they are wives of a cultist were freed' on $500 bond each Wednesday when they ap peared before Justice of the Peace Jack Hunsaker on charges of adultery and open and notorious cohabitation. Date for their preliminary hear ing was not set. The purported husband, George Meril Dutson, is being sought by police. He is charged with bigamy. Thief Leaves Trail of Money SAN FRANCISCO (Almost anybody could follow the trail of $400 Wednesday. And just about everybody on the street did. The robber piled his loot In a paper sack which had a hole in the bottom. Passersby were so busy picking up money that nobody thought to call the police. between the United States and Britain made on July 7, 1950. The payments union is a central clearing house set up by Marshall Plan countries. 3 Dead, 2 Lost In Colorado Snow Storm Selective Service Denies Plan To Draft Gold Star Motlier CHICAGO (AV-Selectlve Service made it clear today that it has no plans to draft Joe Willie Riley. One reason Is that Joe Willie Riley Is a gold star mother a woman who describes herself as middle-aged and lets it go at that. . She told newsmen Tuesday she had been classified 1A last spring and recently had received an induction notice. CoL Paul G. Armstrong, Illinois selective service director, stated Wednesday the draft people never had any intention of inducting her. He said the case got started this way: A thief stole a check from Mrs. Riley's mail bos In Acgust, 1949. In order to get identification pa pers so he could cash the check, the thief registered for the draft, using her name. CoL Armstrong said Mrs. Riley went to a Selective Service office Nov. 23, 1950, and told how she had been receiving draft mail and how the check had been stolen. He added: "It was obvious to the clerk that some one had falsely registered, using Mrs. Riley's name. The clerk therefore advised her that we would process the papers in the regular course of Selective Serv ice activity and that, when she re ceived them, she should return them to the local board with the statement that no such person other than she by that name re sided at that address. "Mrs. Riley fully understood the situation and agreed to that pro cess so that the matter could be referred to the U. S. attorney for investigation by the FBI. "Under no condition was It ever expected or planned that we would call upon Mrs. Riley to report for induction." Family Begins, Ends Year With Blaze SPRINGFIELD The Cliff Chamberlains had the first home fire here in 1951. They had the last one, too. Firemen put out a flu fire at their home early on Jan. 1, last year. The same kind of a blaze was put out at the house on New Year's Eve. DENVER VP) - The ton of a storm which spread snow and bit ter cold over most of Colorado stood at three dead and two miss ing Wednesday. Sunshine followed the storm to day and temperatures moderated somewhat. With one exception, all of the high mountain passes were open to cautious travel. Still closed was Wolf Creek Pass in Southwestern Colorado where a slide Sunday night swept a big truck off the highway and appar ently carried two men to their deaths. Two men perished in the bliz zard near Cortex in Southwestern Colorado. Earl Lewis, a mall car rier, and Ernest Sharp fell and froze to death in trying to walk to Rico after their truck stalled seven miles from the town. A four-month-old girl. Sandra Kay Moran, was killed in the crash of a light plane near the top of Monarch Pass during a snowstorm last night. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Moran of Du mas, Texas, were injured. Highways connecting Eastern Utah's Uintah Basin with Salt Lake City were opened, freeing an estimated 1,000 persons who had been marooned in the area since Saturday. Extremely cold weather follow ed the storm. 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FatHerrGirl Die in Suicide Plane Crash VAN NUYS, Calif. (JF)-A father and daughter killed in a plane crash last Sunday died in a strange suicide plan, police said Wednesday after finding a bitter note addressed to his wife. Investigators first thought it was an accident when Jay Wil liam Campbell, 31, and bis daugh ter, Judy, 7, crashed across from their home into the grounds of the school which the girl attended. Campbell, a milkman buzzed bis home and his " wife, Mary, saw the crash. Wednesday the note was found in Campbell's car, which had been parked at the edge of the San Fernando air port. Addressed to bis wife, it read in part: "It seems that the price one has to pay for happiness isn't so easy to pay. I have lost everything so that you may start anew. You have also lost me and every part of me today, including Judy . . . Please pay Mort Kamm about. 1600 for his airplane. Keep tell ing yourself that everyone gets over everything. It may help you, but I doubt it. I have always loved you even if you haven't loved me. Dont ever live a lie again. Your Jay and Judy." The note also referred by the first name to another man and asked the wife if he was "worth it all? Detectives W. L. Stapp and C C Nelson filed the note as evi dence in the case. U.N. Patrols, Reds Skirmish SEOUL (P-Patrol actions step ped up slightly Wednesday as the weather moderated along the 145 mile Korean battle front. Temperatures lifted to 25 de grees as Allied and Communist patrols exchanged fire in several minor clashes. Most of the action was In the East, where in the vicinity of the Punchbowl an arm ored patrol fired tank guns at Communist bunkers. Churchill May Take Plane to Keep Date With Truman ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY (AV Winston Churchill is deter mined to keep a Blair House date on Saturday with President Tru man and if necessary will leave the Queen Mary before she docks and fry to Washington, his aides said Wednesday. The British Prime Minister, to gether with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, would leave the liner about 20 miles off the Amer ican coast to make the trip to Washington by plane if that be comes necessary to keep the luncheon date. Below Normal Temperatures Due in January WASHINGTON (iflP)-The Weath er Bureau : today forecast below seasonal normal temperatures west of the Continental Divide in its 30-day outlook for January. The Bureau report said m part: The Weather Bureau's 30-day outlook for January calls for tem peratures to average below sea sonal - normals west of the Con tinental Divide and in the North ern Plains, with greatest depar tures In the Pacific Northwest. Precipitation Is expected to ex ceed normal over most of the na tion, except for subnormal amounts in the Pacific Northwest and the Southern States from Texas eastward. 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