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.. :!. a . . r I t m I SGJHJ08 - When the Duke of Windsor was Prince of Wales he was a veritable globe-trotter. He was Britain' best salesman in the period be tween the wars. He made friends for the home country and the royal house .both in Common wealth countries and colonies but in foreign nations as well. King George has no son to take the title of Prince of Wales, but his daughter, the heir presumptive to the throne, is doing her part both to give peoples in the far-uung outposts of empire a signt ana a touch of royalty and to acquaint herself with the peoples and the lands over which some day she will reign. Last year in company with her Husband tne uuxe 01 rmourg, the princess made the tour of Canada." with a side trip to Wash ington. Now the couple is getting ready to set out on a mucn longer journey. They will fly to Kenya in Africa which Britain is trying to develoD as a military and eco nomic base. Then they will take the ship Gothic at Mombassa and sail for Australia and New z.ea land. Later, if King George is well enough the king and queen and the princess and duke will visit South Africa. The liner Gothic has been pret- ' tied up to serve as the houseboat of royalty. It has been painted all white, and refitted at a cost of nearly half a million dollars. The funnel of the ship was raised six feet the better to keep smoke out of the eyes of the famous per sonages on board. For escort, snips from British, Indian, Ceylon, Pak istan and Australian navies will accompany the Gothic. It will be quite a treat for the Australians and New Zealanders to see their princess. Though these neoDle "down under" some times chafe under the invisible leash that holds them to the Com monwealih, when royalty comes they are all loyalists, lor tne Crown is the symbol that binds the self-governing dominions to the motherland. When Prince Edward was mak ing the rounds he was regarded as something of a drummer to spur the sales of British goods. Princess Elizabeth is on no mer cantile errand. Hers is the mis sion of keeping knit in the Com monwealth the great self-govern ing dominions so that the old empire may suffer no more shrinkage. Judged by the success of her visit to Canada she will be as winning in her way as Edward was in his. Iran Accepts American Offer Of$24MiUion TEHRAN, Iran (JP) Premier Mohammed Mossadegh announced Sunday Iran's acceptance or a million dollar American aid pro ject under President Truman's Point Four program for technical assistance to underdeveloped coun tries. Iranian Cabinet approval of working agreement for the coming year ended more than a month of negotiations marked by Iran's hesitation to accept commitments which might bind it too tightly to the West in the current East-West etrueele. Iran, despite mounting internal troubles arising out of nationaliza tion of oil, has tried to steer a middle course in the divided world. Mossadegh's government is at tacked by both political extremes, the outlawed but active Comma nist Tudeh Party and the terror ist Fedayan Islam. The latter has been blamed for the assassination of the late Premier All Pazmara and other killings. Fedayan Islam's second in com mand, Seid Abdul H ossein; threat ened at a news conference Sunday, "We will kill Mossadegh if our leader, Navab Safavi, is not re leased "from prison immediately .' Safavi was imprisoned early this month by the government on un disclosed charges. His hundreds of followers have been demanding his release. OFFENSIVE PROGRESSES HANOI, Indochina JP) The French High Command reported Sunday a two-pronged offensive against the Communist-led Viet mihn southeast and west of Hanoi was "progressing favorably." Animal Crackers gy WAkREN C00CR1CH rW3 ywt bol rka! prk.1 And wh " Kefauver' s Wife Mints Husband to Seek Presidency WASHINGTON' OP) -Mrs. Esles Kefauver let the cat out of the bag Sunday; She said she and her over and she ''had a feeling" he Senator Kefauver D-Tenn.) nas said he will make his position, known around Feb. 1. - But in a radio Interview Mrs. Kefauver made It clear the Ke- fauvers have their eyes on the White House. She added, however, that "there are so many angles" that if still "hard to say" what might happen. f i Even the four children, ? she said, have been talking about how life would be at the White House, with a swimming pool and a big oacK yara. , Asked in the radio interview what the senator's strongest politi cal philosophy was, she said she had anticipated the question and had asKed him lor an answer at breakfast. "It wasn't the right time or place, she said ruefully. "I don't think I received an adequate answer. But i would say his dominant goal is to help establish lasting world peace.' She said the senator undoubtedly would campaign in his famous coonskin cap which he wort in his successful senatorial campaign. "People expect it," she said. "It's an emblem, a good luck piece, a sort of symbol." Hatfield Sees Oregon As GOP Battleground Nearly all the Republican candidates for presidential nomination intend to make Oregon's Primary election in May their battleground, Mark Hatfield, secretary of the Oregon for Eisenhower committee, indicated Sunday upon his return to his Salem home from the GOP leaders' meeting at .San Francisco. . Hatfield said, "Our Eisenhower campaign strategy in Oregon will be planned in preparation for everybody." "Rumors that California Gov. Earl Warren and former Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota may file in Oregon were heard con tinually at the conference," Hatfield said. Seen at the conference were several Douglas MacArthur buttons and leaflets espousing his candidacy, Hatfield said. Backers were ap parently unorganized. But they svauaoie in spite ox ms diuiuuiicuuen is uiai hc is uui b caiiujuaie, Hatfield said. "The campaign spirit was strong at the conference with hot de- bate heard on behalf of various candidates, Hatfield said. He re marked that many fine speeches were given by supporters of all candidates. Hatfield and William L.' Phillips, president of Oregon for Eisen hower campaign, attended the meeting for conferences with Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, and other leaders of the na tional campaign. Phillips had gone to Seattle Sunday morning and was unavailable for comment. miahoney Lays Plans to Keep Ike on Demo Ballot PORTLAND (jPV-State Senator Thomas Mahoney of Portland said legal action might be taken, if necessary, to get the name of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower on the Oregon Democratic presidential primary ballot He told a reporter Sunday it Newbry, secretary of state, would accept petitions with 1,100 signa tures of Democrats entering Eisenhower. The Signatures were collected and filed before Eisenhower said he was a Republican. "In the event legal action may be necessary to on the Oregon Democratic primary ballot," Mahoney said. Newbry said Saturday that Oregon law apparently would not per mit Eisenhower's name to appear on the ballots of both parties in the Oregon primary. That would mean that Elsenhower's name would hot be on the Democratic ballot since the General already has publicly declared himself a Republican. Put 2 Nickel In the Slot, Boy The five cent telephone call joined the nickel cup of coffee in history Sunday. A rate boost authorized Jan. 11 by the Public Utilities Commission to the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Company sent the cost of pay telephone calls to ten cents. Crews from tne company com pleted the minor adjustments early today necessary for the change over to the higher rate, Elmer Berglund, Salem district manager for the firm reports. Fire Destroys Widow's Home SUtesnuui Newt Service ALBANY Fire destroye4 the home and belongings of Mrs. Haz el Jerde and her six children'five miles north of herein Dever Loop Road west of Highway 99-E Satur day night. House and all possessions except clothes worn by the occupants and some -electrical 'appliances and canned fruit were destroyed in the blaze. Firemen said the blaze appar ently started , from a faulty flue about 8 p. m. during Saturday night's snow storm. The property was reported to be partially In sured. Mrs. Jerde' is the widow of El mer Jerde, who died about a year ago in an industrial accident here. Flagstaff Police Station Robbed FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (V Flag staff police x- are wondering if they'll ever bear the last of this one. : A bandit entered their station Saturday night and took $220 at gun point from Deskman Art Nay. tie was tne only man on anty. Nay, somewhat flabbergasted by the incident,- could not give a good description of the man. His only comment was "hewas Firemen Answer False i Alarm at Statehouse I City firemen answered a mid night false alarm at the State Cap ital Bunding Saturday. Faulty me chanism in the automatic alarm system was blamed. Search' by firemen showed no sign of a blaze and they returned to headquar ten at 12:11 a. m. today. senator-husband had talked things .would seek the Democratic presi- whis being boomed by supporters. claimed that MacArthur would be I was his understanding that Earl T. Newbry has changed his position, determine whether or not 'Ike' goes Start of UMT Said 'Simple' WASHINGTON (JP) Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Armed Services Committee said Sunday it would be "relatively simple" to get universal military training underway on a limited scale. If Congress were to accept the proposal now under study, he said in a statement, the Defense De partment could get the program running within six months. Endorsements of the plan came during hearings held by the com mittee last week. The group will resume the taking of testimony Monday with opponents of UMT on tap. The plan calling for the Army to train 30,000 men yearly, the Navy 14,000, the Air Force 13,250 and the Marines 2,750-has been okayed by members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. FREIGHTER HITS MINE HAMBURG, Germany (JP) The U. S. freighter Thomas Sim Lee, 7,191 tons, hit a mine in the Elbe Estuary Sunday but suffered no visible damage. She is proceed ing to port under her own power. The master radioed that none of his crew of 41 suffered injury. $S3 million Request Pue Dei TfUEiisEi IBiiiilcjjGft Todsiy WASHINGTON OP) President Truman unveils Monday his an nual budget, generally expected to ask Congress to provide about 83 billion dollars in new funds for the fiscal year starting July 1. As is customary, Mr. Truman will not deliver the bulky' mes sage in person. Portions of it will be read by clerks in the i House and Senate. It normally runs to 1,000 pages or so. 1 A reauest for 83 billion, dol lars would s be about 10 billions less than Mr. Truman sought, for the present fiscal year, i Spending., however, .probably will nnv, considerably higher than the budget figure. This is possible because tha . government, partic ularly the armed forces, has some 70 billion dollars on hand which Congress appropriated in previous yean. in general, inese runos were provided for military goods which are under contract but which have not yet started coming oft pro duction lines In Quantity. . 101st YEAH 12 PAGES Woodcutting Provides Temporary Jobs 9 J -w-' -s. - - Clair Harvey, wood crew foreman, ioc iv miies nonn oi &aiem on eia Norm River Road. The wood County courthouse by temporarily unemployed men at $7 a cord. be cut oat of this grove. (Statesman photo). Jobless Men Cut County's Wood Supply Jobless men have cut more than a year's supply of wood for Mar ion County in the past two months, the County Court said Saturday. This program, revived for the first time since depression days, kept more than 50 men off the welfare rolls. The court said that, during the two months of 1951 that the proj ect operated, 172 men applied at the county welfare office for as sistance. Of these, 132 were sent to the county court for referral to the wood lot, and 57 took the Jobs. The men cut, through Dec. 31, about 400 cords of wood, for which they received $7 per cord. The Courthouse and county shops burn approximately 250 cords per year. Supervision is done by men al ready on the county payroll, at slack time for their regular jobs. Generally in charge is Harvey Girod, county road supervisor, with Clair Harvey as foreman. Experience has shown that men who don't take the county up on this "pay for work" deal don't usually return to the welfare of fice to ask for a direct money grant. The County Court also is satisfied with the project, in get ting return of services for expen diture from the budget. Co-ed Acclaimed For Proficiency As Bull Fighter EL PASO. Tex. (JP) Patricia McCormick, who was a co-ed just brief weeks ago, fought her first nrofessional bull fight Sunday. Her skill and courage in killing a fast charging black and white bull brought her the bull s two ears, cheers and "oles" from the crowded Plaza de Toros in Juar ez, across the Rio Grande from here. Working on drenched shortly before by a rainstorm, the blonde tor era passed the bull so closely that her trousers were smeared with blood from the attacking ani mal. The blue-eyed 22-year-old girl left her studies at Texas western College here this fall to devote full time to bull fighting. An 83 billion dollar budget would mean a deficit of some 14 billion dollars for the next fiscal year unless Congress votes the new tax increase Mr. Truman has pro posed. There seems little likelihood that it ; wilL He has asked for about five billions in new revenue, which would do no more than re duce ' the size of tha prospective deficit. Officials have indicated that the budget will include about 51 billion dollars for the armed forces, and perhaps eight billion dollars to continue foreign aid pro grams; with their heavy emphasis on 'building up the military strength of this nation's allies. Senator. McMahoo (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate -House Atomic- Energy Committee, has also said the-President will call for a "real expansion of the na tion's atomic program. About a billion dollars a year is now beins; spent on the atomic program. The Oregon Statesman, Solemn, Orecon. Monday, January 21, 1952 V A -1 stands amonr the hundreds of Wet Snow Adds Hazard To Travel in Mid -Valley Snow fell with rain in Salem enough to slow traffic with slush and make driving hazardous in downtown streets and surrounding highways most of the day Sunday. Chains were required in all mountain Dasses. state rvli. re ported. Similar conditions were .Bureau. The Falls City-Valsetz road was closed by slides most of the day Sunday with three big snow- slides, residents of the area said. Three families in autos were stranded for several hours before rescued by workmen with road clearing equipment. No injuries were reported. Two to three inches of snow were reported in the Aurora Canby areas and at Albany. Dallas reportedly had one to 2 inches. Salem weathermen recorded about one-half inch. Total precipitation figure for Salem in the 24 hours to 10:30 p.m. was .49 inch. State police said Illihee Hill, south of Salem on 99-E, caused trouble for trucks and autos un til sanding operations by State Highway Department crews were completed. No serious accidents were re ported by State or city police in spite of hazardous roads and street conditions. City police said "few more than usual" motorists came to the station to fill out state ac cident report forms. Fender-scraping episodes in dia gonal parking spaces downtown were noted as cars slipped side ways with spinning wheels along side their neighbors. At 7 p.m, during the height of early evening snowfall, one down town service station had crews in stalling chains on two cars jacked up on grease racks, one on a oort able jack and six cars waiting for chains. Most of Portland's two inches of Sunday aiternon snow had melted by nightfall. Sanding oper ations were reported to have kept steeper grades passable. State police reported a blizzard in the Rhododendron area near Mount Wood Sunday. Wind Rolls Up Snoicballs in East Oregon ONTARIO, Ore. (P)-"When resi dents of this Eastern Oregon com munity woke up Sunday morning, they thought snowballs had fallen from the sky during the night. Snowballs, ranging from base ball to basketball size covered the area. L..A. Bailey, CAA weather observer on night duty at the On tario Airport said he saw the snows form. The ground was already cov ered with snow when warm winds, gusting at 40 miles an hour, hit the area. The rising temperature made the snow sticky and the wind rolled up the snowballs, he said. The wind obscured the tracks of the snowballs in most instances. They led many people to think the snowballs had failed from the heavens. Max. -,37 40 - 52 37 Pxedp. .4 J7 M trace J4 Salem Portland Saa Francisco Chicago 33 35 44 19 new York SO 37 Willamette River 1.4 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy with showers of mixed rain and snow today and tonight, tittle change in temperature with the Inch est today near 38 and the lowest to night near 2S. Salem temperature at 12:01 Ajn. today was 33. SAXJEM PKKCIPITATIOir Since Start f Weather - Year SepC 1 This Year last Tear 34.41 Normal SSjM 37ai POUNDOD f65f fV O ricks of cord wood stacked tn wood is beinr cut for use in the Marion About 400 to 500 cords of wood will forecast for today by the Weather U.N. Admits Possibility of Air Violation MUNSAN, Korea (P-The U. N. Command said Monday Allied planes may have hit a Red truce convoy last Friday when they bombed and strafed a highway bridge northwest of Kaesong. The Allied message said four planes roared down in a 20 minute attack Friday afternoon on Com munist crews repairing the bridge and against nearby anti-aircraft guns. It quoted the pilots as saying no vehicles were sighted in the vi cinity during the attack. If any weer hit, the Allied message said, they must have been stationary or in shadows. The Allies accused the Reds of running more than the one south bound convoy permitted daily. It said a convoy had been sighted three hours earlier near the bridge. The Allies said, however, that if the Red convoy was hit, "the United Nations Command regrets that through mischance a convoy suffered damages as an incidental result of a pre-scheduled attack on fixed targets on and near the highway. "The convoy itself was not at tacked. All pilots of the United Nations Command have been thoroughly briefed that they are to attack and destroy only those venicies on the Pyong-yang-Kae-song Highway which are not in cluded in the authorized daily convoy in each direction. The Communists had protested that an authorized convoy of one Jeep and two trucks was attacked. North Korean Col. Chang Chun San, who received the Allied re ply from a liarson officer, said he was not completely satisfied and asked that witnesses from tne convoy be heard at a meeting Tuesday. The Allied liaison officer agreed to the meeting. The truce talks wound through another session without progress. EGYPT STUDENTS KILLED CAIRO, Egypt (JP) - Two high school students were reported killed and 15 police injured in two separate clashes between students and police Sunday. Detroit, Big Cliff Dams 59 Per Cent Complete The Detroit project including construction of Big Cliff Dam is 59 per cent - complete. Col. T. H. Lipscomb, district engineer far the Army Corps of Engineers, re ports in a bulletin to Ivan Oakes, executive secretary of the Wil lamette River Basin Commission. A progress report for 1S51 from CoL Lipscomb reports that the main dam is 74 per cent complete with a total of 1,120,000, cubic yards of concrete poured by the end of the year. Big Cliff Dam and powerhouse were 11 per cent completed o Jan. 1, he says. Principal features completed durinz 1951 were the Blowout Creek to Idanha Forest Service-( road Including a concrete bridge PRICE l5S(gcSlp.(8; drsishe (5 McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (JP) A B-17 mercy piano homeward bound from a search mission crashed on an Olympic Peninsula peak Saturday night, but five of its crew escaped alive Three were dead or missing. h i The big four-engine search and rescue plane clipped the top of 6,359-foot Mt. Tyler during a blinding snowstorm. . -:, The ship catapulted over the mountain and skidded through the snow down to the 5,000-foot level where it burst into flames. The eight crewmen crawled from the wreckage or were thrown free. None Seriously Hart The five survivors were brought out by Coast Guard helicopter. All were taken to a Port Angeles hospital but none was reported seriously hurt. The wreckage was located by search planes despite foul weath er. The Air Force B-17 crashed while returning to its base here from Sandspit Airport in the Queen Charlotte Islands off Brit ish Columbia where a Korean airlift plane met disaster. Only seven of 43 persons aboard es caped alive from the DC-4 after it pancaked into the sea. Not Carryinr Bodies - First reports were that the B .17 was carrying bodies from the Sandspit accident back to Mc Chord but crewmen said this was not true. Two of the B-17 survivors suf fered cuts and bruises. They were the pilot, Capt. Casimir F. Hybki, 31, Tacoma and the crew chief, Sgt. Carl E. ScargaU, 22, Tillicum, Wash. The other three escaped vir tually unscathed. Capt. Bybki, interviewed in the hospital, said "The air was turbu lent," he said, "tossing the plane up 700 to 800 feet at times. A snowstorm prevented us seeing the mountain. "There was a blinding flash we may have hit some trees first- as the plane crashed. Capt. Hybki, interviewed in the thrown out together, bgt. iwigar Farmer, radar observer. Waynes boro, Ga., and another survivor, Set. Charles Hartke, racuo op erator. Chicaeo. "rode the wreck age all the way down as it slid 1,000 feet down the peak's far side," Farmer said. Had Some Time The plane caught fire after the wreckage came to a stop. But the five men had time to roll out sleeping bags and emergency equipment. As a result they spent the nieht comfortably. The other survivor was Capt. Kenneth Wentner, the co-pUot, Tacoma. The men on the mountain wait ed until morning and then lit flares and smoke bombs to attract rescuers. v The five said they never saw their three missing companions and could only speculate on what happened to them. They said the trio may have been thrown out when the plane first hit. It was snowing heavily at the time and the men could have been covered by snow, they said. They also speculated that if the others escaped alive they' may be wan dering on the other side of the mountain. The Coast Guard helicopter, after bringing out the survivors. took four para-medics to the mountain to continue the search for the three missing men. (Story on airlift plane crash on page 10) Thin IceOaims Five Victims ODESSA, N. Y. (JP) A search party of 120 men discovered the bodies of a Cornell University jun ior and four young children Sun day in the waters of ice-covered Cayuga Lake. When last seen Saturday Allen Sibley, 20, the college man, was skating along, towing two sleds bearing the four children. A mitten on the ice led search ers to a hole on the ice about 400 yards offshore. over the North Santiam River, Kinney Creek timber access road, clearing, operations under two con tracts, power house superstructure and ' river -tliversion tunnel and railroad relocation at -Big Cliff and the Salmon egg collecting sta tion at Minto Pool below Big Cliff. Clearing operations in the De troit reservoir area are now M per cent completed, Lipscomb re ported. The French Creek timber access road ; is 63 per cent com pleted. Engineers noted that pour ing of concrete was interrupted twice in January, 1951 by heavy snowfall and clearing operations were delayed during the summer because of restrictions on burning dut to fir hazard. P 5c No. 2S3 - ODD Taf t to Support Eisenhower, If WASHINGTON CSV-Sen. Tafl R-Ohio said Sunday that if : Gen eral Eisenhower is Republican candidate for the presidency. I will support General Eisenhower." He told newsmen on fNBCTs "Meet the Press' television - pro gram that if Eisenhower iwer President and he In the -.Senate-the two could reconcile , : their policies. - .: After saying he wftuld sunr Eisenhower, Taf t turned to the re porters and asked: "I might ask whether you know whether he will support me if I should be nomi nated?" :. U.S.Nun Killed In Egypt, Stirs British Action It ISMATLIA. Eeynt iJPl - Arme British Tommies, backed by a cor - aon oi tanits, cleared out a huge Arab section of this Suez; Canal . city Sunday as the result of the slaying of an American nun, in convent. " - Hundred of Egyptian families, some carrying their belongings, were driven out of the quarter. J Forty-one suspected 'guerrillas were arrested. i i - Gen. Sir George Erskine; Brit- . ish commander in the Canal Zone , and a close friend of the dead nun, called the slaying of Sister Anthony an "atrocity" by. mad terrorists" and declared: I "k "I shall consume as much of . Ismailia as I want. Then if I want I will take more of the town. Blame British Cairo newspapers said she' xvum killed "by British bullets" dttrir - a four-hour battle Saturday in which the British suffered K twa - killed and seven wounded and the Egyptians were reported to hava had 20 wounded. . - - - f . 3 JLsf ' ; - PeaUs: lite Nominated The U. S. Embassy in Cairo said " the nun was Brigitte Ann Tim bers, 52, born in the Bronx, N. Y. She had served in Egypt since 1947, after earlier service in 1930, and listed her home address as - Paris. The Embassy said it was mak ing efforts to determine the facta about her death, and would 'then take "appropriate action. Shot Through Heart The nun was shot through the heart as she stepped outside Saint Vincent de Paul convent to wel come British tanks. t a Only minutes before, other sis ; ters said, she had made a frantia telephone call to her friend Lady Erskine, saying "for. the love of -God send us help., , j British officers said they -sent the tank detachment Saturday -after they were informed a fbomb had been thrown into the convent yard and armed Egyptian . ter rorists were roaming about in the convent grounds." ; f REDS DECLINE INVITATION MOSCOW CtfVThe United States - Embassy said 'Monday it had re, ceived a note from the Soviet for-' eign office declining a recent in- ' yitation to take part in the United -Nations Committee on War Prison- " ers. ' - . Spell-Down! The fellewing wards axe among those which may be Baed-, tn the 1952 Oregva Statesxaae KSLM Spelling Contest aenti fmals and finals. 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